Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 249 The way to confuse Jiang Xia

the other side.

   Jiang Xia's brain supplement to Hijikata Kosaburo, not to mention a complete understanding, at least can guess some.

   To be honest, he was really worried before, because he was afraid that this person was too cautious, and the cheating incident last time could not scare him.

   But fortunately, probably there are not many famous detectives in this world, so Hijikata Kosaburo doesn't have so many options, and in the end, this incident was caught by him.

   Jiang Xia finished replying to the text message, put down the phone, and remembered the order "Don't bring strange people into the mix".

   He then silently looked at Maorilan, who happened to be charging the skateboard at the Doctor's house and who happened to pick Conan home.

  ... Such a polite and sensible elementary school student, such a delicate and lovely high school girl, must not be considered a strange person, right?

   And Mao Lilan seems to be an omnivore groupie, but anyone who is a little famous, she wants to chase after him, ask for an autograph or something. This invitation should not be declined.

  …

   The next day, Hijikata Kosaburo came to a cafe near his home and found Jiangxia.

   Then, slightly unexpectedly, he found that there was a beautiful girl of the same age as him, and a little boy next to Jiang Xia.

  ...Inexplicably, it gives people a feeling of dragging one's family with one's mouth.

   Hijikata Kozaburo was still secretly complaining that Jiang Xia did not listen to advice and brought people casually.

   But when he and the high school girl looked at each other and saw each other's glittering admiration eyes, he silently swallowed his complaints.

  ... After all, they are still a group of children, unable to resist the temptation to meet veteran actors in person. Moreover, if Jiang Xia is really a scumbag, then maybe he didn't understand the hint in his invitation text message at all, but he really thought that he was here to give him detective guidance today, so he couldn't help showing him off to his classmates. He was invited by a star, and then he showed off his classmates with him.

  As an actor who has been walking on the road of passing gas, Hijikata Kozaburo is actually not disgusted by this kind of behavior, and even a little bit happy.

   He calmed down and thought, when the case is over, send a signed group photo to each of these students.

  After a brief self-introduction, Hijikata Kosaburo stood up with a gracious expression and lifted the sunglasses on his face: "It's not convenient to talk here, come to my house."

   Jiang Xia nodded and got up.

  Mao Lilan excitedly touched the autograph book in his bag and followed happily.

  Conan finished drinking the coffee in the cup and put down the cup, and he was also a little curious - it is said that Hijikata Kozaburo invited Jiang Xia to come over, so that Jiang Xia could teach him some detective skills, so that he could show a more realistic reaction when he made a detective drama in the future.

  Conan is thinking, in this regard, what can Jiang Xia teach? After all, Jiang Xia is only a very junior detective in terms of length of time, so he should have no experience... Could he teach that kind of high-speed case-solving skills?

   In that case, he also wanted to learn... Conan touched the camera in his bag—if he couldn't learn it on the spot, he would take a picture and try to figure it out.

  …

   Kozaburo Hijikata's home, in a high-end apartment.

  The apartment faces the river with a beautiful view.

   To avoid possible reporters, Hijikata Kozaburo slipped them into the apartment through the back door and pressed the elevator.

  The elevator quickly came to the first floor, and as soon as the door opened, a person came down—a young handsome guy with a turban and dyed yellow hair.

   Jiang Xia had never seen this person, but with the help of spoilers and clothes, he vaguely guessed his identity.

  Mao Lilan knew it. She lowered her voice and whispered to Jiang Xia excitedly: "It's Okitaichi! That very popular actor, he actually lives here!"

   Hijikata Kozaburo suddenly met this handsome boy who had turned green, his face twisted.

   But as an old actor, he quickly adjusted his mentality and said hello friendly: "Go out."

   "Well, let's go to a convenience store." Okitaichi didn't mean to act in front of the guests. He knew exactly what Kozaburo Hijikata wanted to ask, and said bluntly, "Don't think too much, I'll be back at the appointed time."

   When Jiang Xia heard this, he thoughtfully stopped the beginning and pretended not to be interested.

   was finally invited by Hijikata Kozaburo. Before getting what he wanted to pick up, he decided to avoid all topics that might cause Hijikata to be alert.

  Mao Lilan didn't have so many concerns, and asked in confusion: "An appointment?" But this afternoon, didn't Mr. Tufang make an appointment with Jiang Xia?

"Haha, yes." Hijikata Kosaburo was a little embarrassed, and as soon as Okita left, he explained, "It's... I plan to discuss with him about him and my wife-the two neighbors said a few words, and they were caught by those The reporter wrote it as cheating, and we can’t let it go. After all, we have been neighbors for so many years. If this matter is handed over to the company, it will always hurt feelings, so I want to negotiate in private first – our appointment time is at night, so it will not delay me Ask Jiang Xia to teach detective skills."

  Mao Lilan only later remembered the gossip about "Mrs. Tufang is suspected of cheating on Okitaichi", realized that he had asked a bad question, smiled apologetically, and then said nothing.

   Several people entered the elevator silently.

  Silence is tonight's apartment. Green always makes people feel peaceful.

   Hijikata Kozaburo wanted to keep silent, but he couldn't.

   He could only exert himself, first blocking the elevator button with his body, pressing the button, then turning around and handing out business cards to a few people.

   Although Jiang Xia didn't take Jiang Xia seriously, after all, this was a method he carefully planned, and the preparations that should be made should be done well.

   Jiang Xia glanced at the electronic screen showing the floor while Kozaburō Hijikata lowered his head.

  The electronic screen is the size of two palms, with a black bottom surface and three horizontal, four vertical and seven bars on it, which can be used to display numbers from 0 to 9.

   At this time, the vertical bar in the lower left corner was temporarily blacked out by Hijikata Kozaburo with a black pen, blending with the background.

   In this way, when the electronic screen wants to display "6", humans can only read the number "5".

   Hijikata Kozaburo is a rich man, and the two houses on the six floors of this apartment are all his.

  501 is also his.

   502, surrounded by three houses, is the home of Okitaichi I met just now.

  Fuduo can do whatever he wants, and Hijikata Kosaburo's murder plan is related to his three houses.

  ——He made the 601 and 501 that he owned in advance into the exact same decoration.

   When I got into the elevator just now, Hijikata Kozaburo pressed the elevator button on the sixth floor.

   But he did tricks on the elevator and the house number in advance, trying to make Jiang Xia and the others think that a group of people came to 501.

After    confuses the guests, Hijikata Kozaburo will strangle his wife to death and use a timer device to make her fall backward from the balcony of 602 at a specific time.

   Next, as long as you calculate the time when the wife's body fell, and invite Jiang Xia to watch the scenery, the guests will be able to witness the scene of the body falling.

   In this way, in the eyes of the bewildered guests, the next door is not 602 owned by him Hijikata Kozaburo, but 502 where Okita lives. Under the watchful eyes of the public, the body was poured out from the Okita's house.

   (end of this chapter)