My daughter-in-law had just broken a cabinet of crockery and felt quite guilty, so she prepared dinner with extra effort.
The guests were still praising the young lady for being calm and capable, but in the evening, after a few glasses of wine, the young lady’s image was shattered.
She looked at Jiang Xia and sighed exaggeratedly: "You are really lucky. My father-in-law only has a few years to live. Recently, his hands have started to shake. I'm afraid it will be difficult to create a masterpiece like 'Feng Shui Pill' again in the future. Your father-in-law has only a few years to live."
A clay pot will definitely appreciate in value soon."
The apprentice heard that something was not right and wanted to persuade her to wake up. However, Kikuemon stopped her and the old man said helplessly: "She is right. I can only produce two or three decent works a year now. It is indeed the same as before."
There’s no comparison.”
Toru Amuro was chatting with another apprentice. When he heard Kikuemon say this, he was suddenly startled: "Two or three pieces? But didn't they launch more than ten last year..."
The drunk young lady suddenly approached Toru Amuro and interrupted: "Don't mention the pottery! Tell us more about the cases you have solved. The detectives are the protagonists today."
Toru Amuro glanced at her thoughtfully. After a moment, he dragged Jiang Xia, who was sitting next to him playing with a clay pot, and handed it to the young lady: "He broke it all, let him tell the story."
Then he turned his head and continued talking.
Jiang Xia stared at the young lady who almost touched his face: "..."
The young lady drank happily and did not mind that there was another person in front of her.
She stretched out her hand to fish Jiang Xia and laughed loudly: "Tell me more! Although you have solved very few cases, I have long been tired of hearing it over and over again, but I have nothing to do anyway, so it's okay to listen to you again."
He touched his face.
Suzuki Sonoko accidentally glanced this way, and happened to see the young lady's movements. Her eyes suddenly became fierce, and she turned around and wanted to pounce on her, but Mao Lilan hugged her from behind.
Mao Lilan whispered: "Calm down. Auntie should just express her closeness and not take advantage of her!"
On the other side, Jiang Xia looked at the young lady speechlessly. With such a drinking capacity, she actually dared to drink...
But at the same time, he also knew that the young lady was actually not too drunk. She did it deliberately when she suddenly interrupted Toru Amuro's question - she didn't want to mention the number of pottery.
In recent years, Kikuemon has only had a few works, but the number of "Kikuemon Masterpieces" sold is much higher than this number. This is actually because the young lady colluded with an apprentice to disguise the apprentice's works.
Kikuemon's works are for sale.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia glanced at the apprentice not far away who was full of murderous intent. He remembered that this man was also the son-in-law of the grandfather named Mino Muneyuki in the ceramics classroom.
Judging from the flag-covered appearance of the young lady, she was probably the target of the apprentice’s killing.
The relationship between this family is really messy, but it is exactly this that can breed more ghosts.
Jiang Xia took a sip of juice with emotion.
The party lasted until late at night, and the young lady was sent back to the room early because she fell drunk too quickly.
Others continued to eat and drink, and when they got sleepy, they took the opportunity to sleep in the restaurant. It was covered with tatami mats and there were many blankets, so you could sleep on the spot, making the environment comfortable.
…
The next morning, Jiang Xia woke up in chaos.
He inquired politely and learned that the young lady was dead - she "hanged herself" in the warehouse this morning. She had just left and was still warm.
Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko leaned together, with complicated expressions, but their reactions were much smaller than before. They were actually somewhat accustomed to frequent murders. And this time, the young lady walked away more peacefully, at least leaving behind a whole body.
When Jiang Xia arrived at the warehouse, the police had already arrived.
This time, it was finally no longer an old acquaintance, but a strange male police officer with hair that looked like coral and a square face.
After Henggou Police Department saw Jiang Xia, his expression changed slightly, and he was ready to get close to him, but in the end, he still retained his dignity as a police officer and stopped where he was.
——In this world, detectives are generally well-known. Privately, the Henggou Police Department is actually chasing famous detectives like a star.
However, the island country pays more attention to qualifications. Faced with a strange detective who is much younger than him, the Henggou Police Department is still a bit arrogant and embarrassed to go directly to ask for an autograph.
Jiang Xia didn’t know why the policeman was always staring at him. He looked at the coral head of the Henggou Police Department, and soon lost interest in this strange hairstyle, and turned to look at the crime scene.
Before Jiang Xia arrived, others had already arrived, and the detectives conducted a brief search of the scene.
Toru Amuro saw him entering the door, walked over and whispered: "It's a bit strange - her cervical vertebrae are broken."
Those who commit suicide by hanging usually die from cerebral hypoxia, and a small number of them die tragically from broken cervical vertebrae. However, judging from the young lady’s body shape and the position of hanging, her cervical vertebrae was broken unnaturally.
Jiang Xia was now very proficient in "reasoning". He nodded and said in a normal voice: "Maybe the young lady did not hang herself by stepping on the pottery pot, but first had a rope around her neck, and then fell from the top of the cabinet next to her.
Come down.
"If it's suicide, there's no need to make it so fancy, so maybe it's a murder - for example, someone moved her to the top of the cabinet while she was drunk, and then put a rope around her neck to hang herself.
This morning, when the young lady woke up and turned over, she accidentally fell from the top of the cabinet and broke her cervical vertebrae.
"In this case, the murderer is probably Mr. Minosufo. When he turned around just now, I saw a lipstick mark on the back of the clothes he was wearing. And at the dinner party last night, the young lady was sitting next to me. Mei
Mr. Nong was opposite me, and then the young lady was sent back to the room by Mr. Otani. There should have been no contact between the two people. Therefore, the lipstick mark should have been made in a more concealed situation - such as in the middle of the night, Mei
When Mr. Nong carried the drunk young lady onto the top of the cabinet.
"Ah, look, there is a protruding iron nail on the top of the cabinet, and there is a cut on the young lady's calf. Maybe she was scratched by the nail when she fell."
Henggou Police Department had been listening to Jiang Xia's reasoning with open ears. At this time, he reacted quickly and ran to the nail to look at it. Then he said excitedly: "There is really a little skin here!"
Toru Amuro: “……”
Conan also discovered something suspicious and sneaked over to discuss with Jiang Xia: "..."
other people:"……"
…This reasoning speed is unscientific!
One of the disciples looked at Jiang Xia blankly: "Did you get up in the middle of the night and see the murder..."
"He didn't!" Suzuki Sonoko interrupted, "I was afraid that the young lady would come to look for him in the middle of the night yesterday, so I kept holding his arm. If Jiang Xia went out in the middle of the night, I would definitely find out!"
Apprentice: "..." What image does the young lady have in your eyes?
Although Suzuki Sonoko's testimony sounds very unreliable, in fact, even if there is not a single witness, everyone else feels that Jiang Xia will not save the young lady in order to solve the case - after all, this is a woman who looks full of justice.
A sexy high school detective.
Only Toru Amuro doesn't quite believe in Jiang Xia's conscience in this regard.
However, Tohru Amuro didn't actually sleep much last night - in his concept, there might be a "dangerous person trying to eavesdrop on the organization's secrets" hiding nearby.
So Toru Amuro is the most certain that Jiang Xia has never followed Mino Sofu out - it can be seen that the reasoning Jiang Xia just mentioned is not a simple retelling of what he saw as his apprentice said. It is really Jiang Xia's
Reasoning made one minute after entering the warehouse.
In the past, Toru Amuro had no real sense of reality after reading the reports about Jiang Xia's case. After all, the murderer was written in bold letters in the title, so there was no suspense in reading it.
But now, he and Jiang Xia have the same information, and they even arrived at the scene earlier than Jiang Xia. However, when he just judged that "it doesn't look like suicide," Jiang Xia had already pushed the murderer out...
It was the first time that Toru Amuro truly understood the talent of this apprentice.
…It was a wise decision to let Jiang Xia work part-time here before.
And such a talent was almost shot to death by the organization as cannon fodder...
Another account has been added to the thick grudge book in Toru Amuro's heart.