"That is to say," Yuantai also stood up and glanced at the man with half-moon eyes, "Uncle, you are too bad to do something to a girl!"
The man looked ugly, "You little brats..."
"Please don't act in a way that scares children." Chi Feichi warned.
If you scare the children around him in front of him, do you really think that he is a scarecrow who can't speak or move?
The man looked at Chi Feichi, and when he met Chi Feichi's gaze, he always felt that the gaze was very quiet and deep, not like what a normal person would have. He frowned, withdrew his gaze, turned around and left without saying a word.
Out of the yard.
Soon, the sounds of car doors opening and closing, and the car engine starting were heard outside the courtyard.
The man just left. This behavior of leaving without even saying hello made the five children of the Youth Detective Team a little confused.
After Yamazaki Toshiko and Okamura Saki came to their senses, they once again thanked Chi Feichi, speeded up and fixed the saplings with wooden frames, and covered the pulled out flowers with nutritious soil. After that, the two of them did not rush to continue.
To get started, we first welcomed Chi Feichi and his group to the lounge.
"That person is the owner of a nearby flower shop, his name is Okuda Ryunosuke. The flower garden in the yard was originally rented to him as a place to grow flowers. Later, our regional center was established here. After the lease contract expired, the land owner
The land was rented to the regional center." Yamazaki Toshiko didn't want to be misunderstood. She sat on the sofa and explained to Chi Feichi seriously, "I'm just an employee here. I don't know about the previous relationship between him and the land owner and the person in charge of the regional center.
Is there any other conflict, but I can be sure that the regional center did not lease this land unfairly, and only negotiated and signed the contract with the land owner after the lease contract expired."
"I heard before that he originally wanted to manage the flower garden for the regional center, but I don't know why he was rejected." Okamura Saki added.
Mitsuhiko had already taken out his notepad and pen, and asked seriously, "Is it possible that Mr. Okuda is the one who destroyed the flower garden? His motive for destroying the flower garden may be to earn money for repairing the flower garden.
, or maybe he wants to prove that you are not capable of managing the flower garden. After you are kicked out, he may be hired here to manage the flower garden."
"Well..." Okamura Saki turned to look at Yamazaki Toshiko with some hesitation.
"I don't know if he did it," Toshiko Yamazaki said without mincing words, stating her suspicions directly, "But maybe it's really the case. After the flower garden was destroyed these days, the man always came over and taunted her.
He was happy about it!"
Mitsuhiko nodded seriously and wrote on his notepad, "In other words, he had a motive for committing the crime..."
Genta and Ayumi also held notepads like Mitsuhiko and took notes carefully.
"Are the flowerbeds destroyed all at night?" Conan asked.
"Yes," Okamura Saki looked at the three children who were writing notes with curious eyes, and answered seriously, "We get off work after six o'clock every evening. If there are still people here in the activity room, we will stay a little longer. We left at around eight o'clock. Before leaving every day, we would check and tidy up the rooms and the flower gardens outside. When we went back from get off work these days, the flower gardens were still in good condition. When we came here to work the next morning , the flower garden will be in a mess."
"So, the person who destroyed the flower garden did it in the evening after all the staff went back, and until the morning..." Mitsuhiko started to write down, and then asked, "This has been going on for several days, right?"
"It's been three days in a row," Yamazaki Toshiko stood up and explained with a serious look when others looked at her, "There are a lot of things in the morning. Although there was an accident just now, we can't delay our normal work. I want to
Plant the flowers again as soon as possible, Mr. Chi, and then let Miss Kosaki receive you."
Chi Feichi nodded and said he understood, "Please do."
"I'm really sorry, I'm sorry," Yamazaki Toshiko bowed slightly to Chi Feichi, took two steps, then turned back to Okamura Saki and said, "Miss Kosaki, you can take Mr. Chi to take a look at the regional center.
, but I hope you can arrange your time and come to help me as soon as possible."
"Ah, okay," Okamura Saki responded quickly, "After I show them around here and answer their questions, I will go and help you right away!"
Mitsuhiko watched Yamazaki Toshiko go out, "Miss Yamazaki is the kind of person who takes her work very seriously, right? Every time we come here, she is very serious..."
"Yes, Miss Yamazaki is like this, she is extremely serious when it comes to work," Okamura Saki laughed, looked at the children and asked, "Do you have any more questions? Little detectives."
When Mitsuhiko heard the words 'little detective', he felt a burst of joy of being recognized. He also felt that he could not act too complacent, so he tried to keep a straight face and look more serious, "I have one more question, Miss Kosaki.
, do you have any other suspects about the person who destroyed the flower garden? "
"Anyone else?" Okamura Saki thought back with a serious face, "This regional center has only been established not long ago. Apart from Mr. Okuda, I really can't think of anyone who would be more suspicious... Although Ms. Yamazaki is very serious at work and will
Some people think she is not enthusiastic enough and is too rigid in her work, but everyone understands and has never complained about her. Of course, no one has had any conflicts with us recently."
"So Mr. Okuda is the most suspicious person at present, right..." Mitsuhiko finished recording and looked up at Chi Feichi, "Brother Chi, do you have any questions for Miss Kosaki?"
Okamura Sakuya turned to look at Chi Feichi with a kind smile on his face, "Do you have anything to ask?"
"Not yet," Chi Feichi looked at the three children taking notes on notepads and said calmly, "but I would like to supplement your notes. First of all, among the bricks taken out from the edge of the flower bed, there are two
There are scratches on the cross-section of the brick. The scratches are very new. They were probably left last night. In addition, the pit left after the brick was taken out has a smooth inside, indicating that the prisoner used tools to dig the brick out of the soil.
came out, so we can rule out the possibility of animals causing trouble and some coincidence causing the flower bed to be destroyed. The flower bed was destroyed deliberately by someone. Looking at the pattern of smooth marks on the inside, it is very likely that the one used by the prisoner was a shovel with an inconsistent length and width.
Small flower shovel over fifteen centimeters."
Mitsuhiko lowered his head and recorded in his notebook, with a serious look on his face, "A small flower shovel..."
Chi Feichi waited until the three children had almost finished recording, then turned to ask Okamura Saki, "There should be a flower shovel in the center of this area, right?"
Okamura Saki was a little stunned when he heard it. When asked by Chi Feichi, he nodded quickly and said, "Ah, yes... there are many different types of shovels in our tool room, and some have shovels with a length and width of no more than fifteen centimeters.
Small shovels are usually provided for children to use."
"Can you take me to have a look later?" Chi Feichi asked in a very polite tone, but there was still a hint that he could not refuse.
"No problem!" Okamura Saki agreed simply.
"Sorry to trouble you," Chi Feichi said politely to Okamura Saki again before continuing to talk about his analysis to the three children, "There is a flower garden here, and the staff will lead the children to plant plants. We must consider that there will be
There is a small flower shovel, and the prisoner may be looking for tools for committing crimes here, so the flower shovel here is a priority investigation target, and the other ones are..."
"Mr. Okuda's small flower shovel, right?" Conan looked directly at Chi Feichi with a confident smile on his face, "We can go to Mr. Okuda's flower shop and have a look. He used to plant and cultivate
For flowering plants, there should be common types of flower shovels in flower shops or at home, including small ones. If he is the one who destroys the flower garden, he may bring the tools from his home or store.
The flower shovel there is also worth investigating."
Chi Feichi nodded to Conan, waited for the three children to take notes, and then said, "The next thing I want to add is the second point I want to add. The prisoner dug out the bricks on the edge of the flower bed last night and pulled out the bricks on the edge of the flower bed.
plants in the area, but there were no muddy footprints left on the cement floor around the flowerbed, and there were no messy trampling marks inside. We can preliminarily speculate that the criminal was very careful when destroying the flowerbed, paying attention not to leave obvious footprints, only leaving obvious footprints in the flowerbed.
Walking around on the cement ground outside, but if the prisoner wants to pull out the plants in the flower garden, he needs to squat outside the flower garden and reach out to pull out the plants. In this way, the prisoner exposes his arm length. According to the plants to be pulled out in the flower garden, we can determine the furthest distance from the edge of the flower garden based on the plants to be pulled out.
To estimate the length of the prisoner's arm, I visually estimated it to be about 65 centimeters. In other words, the length from the middle of the prisoner's palm to the middle of the shoulder blade is almost 65 centimeters."
Mitsuhiko stopped writing in confusion, "The middle of the palm?"
"If a prisoner wants to reach out and pull out a plant, he needs to grasp the stem of the plant with his hand, right?" Conan smiled and stretched out his right hand, making a gesture of grabbing the plant and pulling it out, demonstrating it to the three children, explaining by the way.
Said, "Because the prisoner needs to bend his fingers to hold the plant, Chi Feichi starts from the middle of the prisoner's palm. Similarly, because the prisoner can lean out to pull out the plant, he needs to count the position of the shoulder blade. However, if the prisoner's palm
There are 65 centimeters from the midsection to the midsection of the shoulder blade, so the prisoner’s arm length will be about the same number, that is, the length of an arm from fingertips to shoulder is 65 centimeters.”
"The length of one arm..." Mitsuhiko started writing and recorded it, and imagined the picture of measuring the arm.
The figure of the little man "reaching out his hand and waiting for measurement" also appeared in Yuantai's mind, "Are we going to measure all the suspect's arms?"
"It doesn't have to be so troublesome," Haiyuan Ai said calmly, "People open their arms to both sides and measure the distance from the left fingertip to the right fingertip. The data obtained is called arm span. Normally,
The length of a person's arm span will not differ much from the height. Although there are cases where the arm span is longer or shorter than the height, we can first calculate based on the situation of most people. If the prisoner's single arm length is approximately 65 cm
, then, the prisoner's height will be between 160 cm and 170 cm. There will be many men and women with heights in this range. In other words, there will be many people with a single arm length of 65 cm. There is no way to find out by measuring the arm length.
Even if the prisoner comes, it cannot be used as evidence to determine who the prisoner is..."