"Eh? Are you going to Takeda's house in Puppet Ridge?" The three of them waited for a long time and there was no taxi. Hattori Heiji used his detective passive skill and waved to stop.
Hattori Heiji waved, and soon a taxi came from the corner and stopped in front of them. After getting on the bus, Ehara told the driver the address and the driver asked in surprise.
"Uncle, do you know the Takeda family?" Hattori Heiji noticed that the taxi driver immediately realized that it was the Takeda family when he heard the address Ehara said and couldn't help but be curious:
"Is the Takeda family famous in that area?"
"How should I say..." The driver was hesitant to speak, but the driver was obviously a talkative person, so he told the three of them the story of the Takeda family while driving.
"The Takeda family is the largest family in Puppet Ridge. They have been making handmade puppets for a long time, and the Takeda family's puppets were still very popular in the past."
"It's just that the number of people buying puppets gradually decreased, and the Takeda family's life was getting worse day by day. Until the current head of the Takeda family (probably the head of the household, right?) Takeda Shinichi took charge of the Takeda family, they gradually began to become prosperous..."
Hearing this, Hattori Heiji asked the driver's uncle in confusion: "Suddenly he started to become rich? Has Takeda Shinichi led the Takeda family to engage in other industries?"
If what the driver uncle said is true, then what he said seems to be a little different from what Jiang Yuan heard.
"No, as far as I know, the Takeda family still makes a living selling handmade puppets. It's just that the puppets made by Takeda Shinichi are very popular and are always in short supply."
"It's not impossible that Takeda Shinichi's craftsmanship is particularly good. Why do you look so puzzled, uncle?"
"The problem lies in the craftsmanship..." The driver noticed that the traffic light turned red and slowly stepped on the brakes, then looked back at Hattori Heiji in the back seat:
"My family happens to live near Takeda's house in Puppet Ridge. We also collected several puppets made by Takeda Shinichi and his father."
"Originally, after the Takeda family's business gradually improved, I felt the same way, so I went to the Takeda family specifically to purchase."
"To tell you the truth, if Takeda Shinichi really becomes famous one day, then the puppets I collect at home may also be very valuable~"
The uncle driver chuckled twice, although he himself didn't really believe that this kind of thing happened. After all, there seems to be no such artist as a master puppet maker in this world...
After laughing, the uncle driver returned to his original puzzled look and continued: "But when I took the custom-made puppets home, I compared them with those in my previous collection and found that the puppets made by Takeda Shinichi were the same as those made by Takeda Shinichi's father and grandfather.
The level of performance is even worse..."
The traffic light turned green, and the driver scratched his head and continued driving to Takeda's house: "And it's not just me who thinks so, my family all thought the same after seeing three puppets put together..."
"And I heard that all the puppets made by Takeda Shinichi are now worth a lot of money..."
"Of course, these are nothing. The most important thing is that several strange things have happened to the Takeda family in recent years, which has made their family very famous in Puppet Ridge."
"Of course I don't think this reputation is really a good thing."
"A strange thing? What kind of strange thing happened?" Hattori Heiji asked, thinking of the inexplicable invitation letter, he vaguely felt as if he had found the purpose of the client sending him the invitation letter.
"Yes, in recent days, someone in the Takeda family has died unexpectedly or committed suicide at home every year..."
"It's just that this can't be said to be a strange thing. At most, it's just that the Takeda family is relatively unlucky..." Hattori Heiji, as a detective, has seen many murder cases over the years.
Therefore, simple death cannot be called a strange thing to him, and there is no problem in calling it unlucky.
"No, the main reason is that people around Puppet Ridge have rumors that the death of these people is very strange. As for the strange method, I haven't mentioned it in detail."
"But the neighbors now call the Takeda family - the Spider House on Puppet Ridge!"
"Spider House in Puppet Ridge?"
"Spider House in Puppet Ridge?!"
Hattori Heiji and Toyama Kazuha in the back seat repeated the nickname in unison, but Hattori Heiji's tone was questioning and a little probing, while Toyama Kazuha's tone was filled with fear.
Yes, this shameless little girl with high fighting ability is as afraid of those ghosts and ghosts as her best friend Mao Lilan.
A fighter who is obviously unable to get close to three or five strong men is always afraid of these inexplicable things...
If the prisoners who were arrested and imprisoned after being beaten by them knew about it, they would cry in prison!
Ehara, who was sitting in the front, always felt that Hattori Heiji's focus seemed to be a little off track. This kind of strange nickname was in line with the characteristics of the island country, but didn't the driver just tell a more important clue...
"Instead of caring about this Spider House on Puppet Ridge, why don't you get curious about why Takeda Shinichi's business is getting better and better even though his craftsmanship is far inferior to that of the previous generation?"
"And the puppets he made by himself are even in short supply? But if the puppets made by Takeda Shinichi are so expensive, uncle, you still bought them and took them home?"
Jiang Yuan looked curiously at the uncle driver who was driving. Jiang Yuan knew very well what was in Takeda Shinichi's puppet. The puppet was just a tool used by Takeda Shinichi to sell anesthetics, so the puppets he made were bound to have a sky-high price.
Now this uncle seems to be so proud that he bought it without any hesitation. Could it be that this uncle driver is also a hidden tycoon?
I heard that the farmers in the island country seem to be very rich...I mean the big landowners.
"Of course it's impossible. Think about it, I can't be that rich." The driver's uncle shook his head and said, "To be honest, the puppets made by Takeda Shinichi are even cheaper than those made by his father.
"
"After all, his craftsmanship is indeed not as good as his father's. This is also true. I always felt that this news seemed to be a rumor..."
"Ha...I'm starting to be interested in the Takeda family's affairs. Jiang Yuan, let's have a good competition! Let's compete with who can solve the mystery of the Takeda family first!"
Hattori Heiji suddenly became very motivated, sat up in the back seat and challenged Ewara impassionedly!
???
Ehara was completely fascinated... Hattori Heiji seemed to be very keen on competing with others in reasoning. He had previously traveled all the way from Osaka to Tokyo just to compete with Kudo Shinichi in reasoning?
Just because I want to see if Kudo Shinichi, who is named after me, is just fake... This person is really very motivated...