Conan’s Corpse Picker

The daughter-in-law had just broken a cabinet of pottery, and she was very guilty, so she put all her heart into preparing dinner.

The guests were still praising the young lady for being calm and capable.

Unexpectedly, at night, after the young lady drank a few glasses of wine, her image would be shattered.

She patted Jiang Xia and sighed exaggeratedly: "You are so lucky—my father-in-law has only a few years to live, and his hands have started to shake recently. I am afraid it will be difficult to make a masterpiece like 'Feng Shui Wan' again in the future. A clay pot will definitely appreciate in value soon."

The apprentice heard that something was wrong, and wanted to persuade her to wake up, but was stopped by Kikuemon.

The old man said helplessly: "She is right, I can only produce two or three decent works a year now, and it is indeed incomparable to before."

Toru Amuro was talking to another apprentice.

Hearing what Kikuemon said, he was startled suddenly: "Two or three? But didn't they launch more than ten last year..."

The drunken 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."

An Shitou glanced at her thoughtfully, and after a while, he dragged Jiang Xia who was sitting next to him playing with clay pots, and handed it to the young lady: "He broke it all, let him tell."

Then he turned his head and continued to speak ruthlessly.

Jiang Xia stared at the young lady who almost stuck to his face: "..."

The young lady had a good time drinking, and she didn't mind that there was another person in front of her.

She stretched out her hand to catch Jiang Xia, laughed and said, "Tell me more! Although you have solved very few cases, I am already tired of listening to it over and over again, but I am idle anyway, and it will be fine to listen to you again." Said Then he touched his face.

Suzuki Sonoko glanced this way inadvertently, just in time to see the young lady's movements. Her eyes were fierce, she turned around and wanted to pounce, but was hugged by Mao Lilan from behind.

Mao Lilan persuaded in a low voice: "Calm down, Auntie should just express her intimacy, and she doesn't mean to take advantage of it!"

...

On the other side, Jiang Xia looked at the young lady speechlessly. With this amount of alcohol, he dared to drink...

But at the same time, he also knew that the young lady was not overdrunk.

Just now she suddenly interrupted Toru Amuro's question, but she did it deliberately by playing drunk.

—she didn't want to mention the quantity of pottery.

In recent years, there are only a few works of Kikuemon, but the number of "Masterpieces of Kikuemon" sold is much higher than this number.

This is actually because the young lady colluded with a certain apprentice to sell the apprentice's work disguised as Kikuemon's work.

Thinking of this, Jiang Xia glanced at the apprentice who was full of murderous intent not far away.

... No wonder the murderous intent is so strong - the internal strife among outlaws is often one of the motives for murder.

Jiang Xia took a sip of juice with emotion.

...

The party went on into the night.

The young lady was sent back to the room early because she passed out too quickly.

Others continued to eat and drink, and fell asleep in the dining room when they were sleepy.

——The place is covered with tatami mats, and there are many blankets. You can sleep on the spot, and the environment is comfortable.

...

The next morning, Jiang Xia woke up in chaos. The sound of running, screaming, and the squeaking of a police car came faintly from my ears.

He sat up, rubbed his eyes, asked politely, and learned that the young lady died suddenly.

—she "hanged herself" in the pottery warehouse this morning. Those who have just left are still warm.

Beside them, Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko were close together, with complicated expressions on their faces, but their fear was much less than before—they were actually a little used to frequent murders. And this time, the young lady left relatively peacefully, at least the whole body was left behind.

...

When Jiang Xia came to the warehouse, the police had already arrived.

This time, it was finally no longer the old acquaintance Mumu Police Department.

It was a strange male police department with coral-like hair and a square face.

After the Henggou Police Department saw Jiang Xia, their expression changed slightly, and they were eager to come over and ask for an autograph—in this world, detectives are generally well-known. In private, the Henggou Police Department is actually chasing all kinds of famous detectives like star chasing. It also includes Jiang Xia.

But after struggling for a long time, remembering that he was still dealing with the case, he managed to retain his majesty as a police officer and stopped where he was.

"..." Let's wait until the case is closed.

...

Jiang Xia didn't know why the policeman was always staring at him.

He looked curiously at the coral head of the Henggou Police Department, and soon lost interest in this peculiar hairstyle, and turned to look at the scene of the crime.

——Before Jiang Xia arrived, other people had already arrived and conducted a simple search of the scene.

Toru Amuro saw him enter the door, walked over and said in a low voice, "It's a bit strange—her cervical spine is broken."

People who hang themselves usually die from cerebral hypoxia, and a small number will die tragically from cervical spine rupture.

But this time, judging from the young lady's body shape and hanging position, her cervical spine was broken unnaturally.

Jiang Xia's "reasoning" is already very proficient. He nodded, and said in a normal voice: "The young lady probably didn't hang herself by stepping on a clay pot, but was first wrapped around her neck by a rope, and then fell off the top of the cabinet next to her.

"If it's a suicide, there's no need to make it so fancy, so it could be a murder - like someone put her on top of a cabinet while she was drunk, and put a noose around her neck. This morning, when the young lady woke up, she turned over and accidentally fell from the top of the cabinet, breaking her cervical spine.

"In this case, the murderer is probably Mr. Sufu. When he turned around just now, I saw a lipstick mark on the back of his inner shirt. At the dinner last night, the young lady was sitting next to me, and Mr. Sufu I was opposite, and the young lady was sent back to the room by Mr. Otani. There should have been no contact between the two of them. The lipstick mark should have been printed in a more concealed situation—for example, in the middle of the night, Mr. Mino put the drunken When the young lady carried it on top of the cabinet.

"Ah, look, there is a protruding iron nail on the top of the cabinet, and there is a wound on the young lady's calf, maybe she was scratched by the nail when she fell."

...

The Henggou Police Department has been listening to Jiang Xia's high-speed reasoning.

At this time, he reacted quickly, ran to the nail and looked at it, and said excitedly: "There is really a little skin here!"

Toru Amuro: "..."

Also found doubts, Conan sneaked over and was about to discuss with Jiang Xia: "..."

other people:"……"

... This reasoning speed is unscientific!

Another apprentice looked at Jiang Xia blankly: "Did you wake up in the middle of the night and saw the scene of the murder..."

"He didn't!" Suzuki Sonoko interrupted, "I was afraid that the young lady would go back to the restaurant in the middle of the night to look for him, and kept holding his arm. If Jiang Xia went out in the middle of the night, I would definitely find out!"

Apprentice: "..." What kind of image does Young Madam look to you!

...

Although the testimony of Suzuki Sonoko sounds very unreliable.

But in fact, even if there were no witnesses, no one doubted that a high school student detective would get up in the middle of the night and leisurely watch the murder scene.

Only Toru Amuro doesn't quite trust Jiang Xia's conscience in this regard.

However, Toru Amuro didn't fall asleep much last night - in his conception, there might be some "dangerous person trying to eavesdrop on the organization's secrets" hiding nearby.

In addition, after dinner yesterday, a group of people slept on the spot in the restaurant covered with tatami mats.

Therefore, Amuro Toru is the most certain that Jiang Xia has not followed the murderer out.

That is to say, the information Jiang Xia just said was really deduced by him one minute after he entered the warehouse.

...

In the past, Amuro looked at the reports of Jiang Xia's case-solving and didn't have much sense.

After all, the murderer is written in bold in the title, so there is no suspense in reading it.

But now, he and Jiang Xia have the same information, and even arrived at the scene earlier than Jiang Xia.

However, just when he judged that "this is not like suicide", Jiang Xia actually pushed the murderer out...

It was the first time that Toru Amuro realized the talent of this apprentice so clearly.

"..." It was a wise decision to agree to Jiang Xia's part-time job.

And such a talent was almost used as cannon fodder by the organization and shot to death...

In the thick notebook in Toru Amuro's heart, there was another account.