Bumi's face changed when she saw the destroyed flower garden, and she quickly ran to the flower garden and looked anxiously at the flowers that had been pulled out of the flower garden.
Mitsuhiko ran to the side and frowned, "Did that bad guy come again last night? It's really hateful!"
"It looks really serious," Haiyuan Ai followed Chi Feichi to the flower garden, saying 'serious', but the expression on his face didn't change much. Seeing Bumi looking at the flowers in the flower garden, he asked aloud
, "Have the flowers you planted been pulled out again?"
Ayumi shook her head and pointed to a cluster of flowers in the corner, "My flowers were plucked once. Miss Kosaki who works here said that they can be planted where strong winds will not easily blow them and where there is good lighting."
This will help it rejuvenate, so when I replanted it, I planted the flowers there. But the flowers here were planted by many children in Miwa Town. I remember this bunch of yellow-flowered plants that were pulled out,
These are the daylilies that Xiaohui transplanted from home. She is Ito Megumi from Class C, Grade 1 of our school. Her brother is the leader of the traveling theater troupe. These daylilies were from when she followed her brother to perform in Hyogo Prefecture during the holidays.
All the things I brought back from there were already planted, and the white-flowered plants over there were transplanted from home by a sister who had just entered junior high school. They grew very well before..."
"Everyone happily planted these. Everyone came over to take care of it and water it when they had time. It took a lot of effort to arrange this flower bed so beautifully," Guangyan raised his head and complained to Chi Feichi, "But we have been here these two days.
When I looked at it, the flowerbeds had been damaged. We came here last night when we came home from school. The damaged flowerbeds were just cleaned up by the staff working here last night. Unexpectedly, they became messy again this morning."
"And it's very strange..." Yuantai stood in the corner of the flower garden, looking at the bricks beside the flower garden in confusion, "The brick I made myself is missing. It was clearly placed here a few days ago!"
"Could it be that the person who destroyed the flower garden accidentally stepped on it and broke the bricks?" Conan walked towards Yuantai, looking at the different patterns on the bricks, "Did everyone do this together?
Each brick has a different pattern."
"Yes, these bricks are also made by everyone. Of course I designed and fired mine myself," Yuantai looked around again, but still didn't find the bricks he made. The more he thought about it, the more angry he became.
"Damn it! We must catch him!"
"You said before that the flowerbeds were destroyed at night," Haiyuan Ai paid attention to the traces near the flowerbeds. He didn't see any particularly suspicious footprints and looked back. "Are you planning to come here tonight to guard?
"
"Of course I'm coming," Mitsuhiko affirmed, "I won't go back until I catch that bad guy!"
At the side entrance of the building next door, two women went out with their things and walked into the yard.
The older woman was probably in her forties, with short black shoulder-length hair, a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and a gray-purple long-sleeved shirt and suit skirt.
Not being pretentious, she was holding the half-meter-high solid wood shelf firmly in her hands. In order to facilitate moving things, she was also wearing a pair of lace-up flat shoes.
The younger woman next to her looks to be in her early twenties, holding a shovel in her hand. She is also wearing a loose T-shirt, jeans and flat shoes that are convenient for work. She is wearing an apron and has long light brown hair tied behind her head.
She had a high ponytail, a few strands of hair hanging in front of her forehead, and a sweet and lovely face that looked exactly like Okino Yoko with a smile on her face. She greeted the children from a distance, "Everyone, you are already here!"
The three children turned around and saw the two approaching people, and greeted them in unison.
"Good morning both of you, Miss Yamazaki! Miss Kosaki!
The older woman nodded to the children, looked at the messy flowerbed, and sighed helplessly, "It's so messy every morning. It's really annoying."
"This is Miss Yamazaki Toshiko. She is a staff member of this regional center." Mitsuhiko stood next to Chi Feichi and introduced the two of them. "The younger one next to her is Miss Okamura Saki, who is also here.
We are staff members, and it was the two of them who took us to make bricks and plant flowers."
"Um..." Okamura Saki noticed Chi Feichi, heard Mitsuhiko's introduction, and cast a curious look at Chi Feichi, "You haven't been here before, have you? I don't think I've seen you here. Excuse me.
You are here..."
"We asked Brother Chi to investigate the destruction of the flower garden." Ayumi took the initiative to take two steps forward, then looked back at Chi Feichi, and introduced to Okamura Saki seriously, "Brother Chi is a disciple of the famous detective Mouri Kogoro.
He is also a very powerful detective..."
"He has helped the police catch many criminals!" Genta confidently told Okamura Saki, "As long as he helps with the investigation, we will soon be able to catch the criminal who destroyed the flower garden!"
"Hello, you two, I am Chi Feichi," Chi Feichi introduced himself to Okamura Saki and Yamazaki Toshiko with a calm face, then looked down at the children standing in front of him and said politely, "Children, please follow
I told you about the destruction of the flower garden and asked me to come over to help with the investigation. Please bear with me if it causes you any trouble."
"Where..." Yamazaki Toshiko softened her originally resentful expression and said calmly to Chi Feichi, "This is a place for everyone to have activities. As long as they don't come here to cause trouble, we are all welcome."
"When you get here, just be casual." Okamura Saki smiled at Chi Feichi and looked at the messed up flower bed. "We need to repair the flower bed as soon as possible. If the flowers are not replanted, they may die.
It fell off, so we can’t receive you for the time being, I hope you can forgive me!”
Chi Feichi stepped aside and said, "You are busy, I can just take a look for myself."
"Yes, let's wait until we're done, and then we'll hear about the detective stuff from you!" Okamura Saki responded with a smile.
While Saki Okamura was talking to Chi Feichi, Toshiko Yamazaki had already moved the wooden frame in her hand to the flower bed and placed it in front of a small tree.
After the exchange between Okamura Saki and Chi Feichi, he walked to the side with a shovel and helped set up the wooden frame.
The sound of the car's engine and brakes came from outside the courtyard, attracting the children's attention.
A man with gray hair and a sturdy build got out of the car, wearing a simple gray T-shirt. He entered the yard with a bag of flower fertilizer and a box of small flower pots in his hands. He said hello, walked to the flower bed, and looked at the flower bed.
Yamazaki Toshiko and Okamura Saki supported the wooden frame, with a hint of disgust on their faces, "The methods of erecting the pillars are all wrong. Let laymen take care of it, but it will make the flower garden more and more messy!"
Yamazaki Toshiko stopped what she was doing and said to the man with a straight face, "Although I asked you to deliver the goods, I hope you won't say any unnecessary words!"
"Just leave the repair work to professionals like me." The man squatted down, put the things in his hands on the ground, took out a calculator from his pants pocket, and counted the numbers, "I will
Counting the cheaper ones for you... saplings, fertilizers and repair projects, all calculated..."
Chi Feichi couldn't recall the truth of this incident for a while. Watching the man use a calculator to carefully calculate his income, he remembered the difficulty he had in calculating the bounty.
He has calculated bounties many times in his past life, but compared to people who carry calculators with them, he is still not dedicated enough...
"I've already said, I don't plan to entrust you with the repair!" Toshiko Yamazaki scolded the man impatiently, "Whether it's you or anyone else, they are all opportunistic guys!"
Conan was confused.
‘Whether it’s you or anyone else’?
Chi Feichi also noticed Yamazaki Toshiko's words.
Who is this ‘other person’? Could it be related to this incident?
"How about I give you a little discount?" The man stood up with a calculator and actively showed the calculated numbers to Toshiko Yamazaki.
Yamazaki Toshiko was so angry that she gritted her teeth and glared at the man.
Okamura Saki stepped forward, stood between the two of them, and said to the man helplessly, "I'm sorry, Miss Yamazaki just rejected you..."
"Get out of the way!" The man roughly pushed Okamura Saki away.
Okamura Saki was pushed hard, unable to stand firm on his feet, and fell to the edge of the flower bed.
Chi Fei saw that Okamura Saki fell in front of him. He weighed the two options of 'dodge to avoid' and 'reach out to help'. He saw that there was a protruding edge of the flower bed where Okamura Saki fell.
Brick still stretched out his hand to support Okamura Saki. After Okamura Saki stood firm, he released his hand and moved his eyes to the soil where Okamura Saki was standing just now.
The angle in which Okamura Saki was turned upside down just now seemed a bit strange.
The soil can record many traces, including detailed traces of the shift of the human body's center of gravity and the twist of the footsteps.
Looking at the footprints on the soil, it is true that Okamura Saki was pushed out of balance just now, but looking at the narrow 'bend marks' on the footprints, Okamura Saki deliberately controlled the angle when he fell and tried his best to reach them.
This way...
Okamura Saki was helped by Chi Feichi in time and stood firm, his face still a little pale, "Thank you, thank you..."
"You're welcome." Chi Feichi responded, looking at the flowerbed tiles in front of him again.
Just now, Okamura Saki intentionally fell in front of them. Did he subconsciously choose to fall where there were people in a critical moment, hoping that someone could help him? Or did he suddenly find any suspicious traces on their side and wanted to take the opportunity to clean up the traces?
He still couldn't remember what this incident was about, and now he had to suspect anyone of being the evil person who destroyed the flower garden.
Yamazaki Toshiko breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Okamura Saki didn't fall to the ground, and soon asked the man angrily, "How could you do this?"
"Stop being so nagging!" The man glared at Toshiko Yamazaki without giving in, "The land here is originally my property, and I am free to do whatever I want here!"
"Then you can't do it rudely, right?" Mitsuhiko took a step forward and met the man's gaze fearlessly, "Not to mention pushing a girl so hard that he almost pushed her to the ground. It was too much.