Conan’s Corpse Picker

  Chapter 311 The Boss' Status (Character Star Value Plus)

   Hattori Shizuka pretended to be an ordinary client. After she finished speaking the lines she had planned in advance, she gave a shallow bow.

   She didn't know that An Shitou and Jiang Xia had recognized her identity, and she didn't realize that in the space between her bowing her head and bowing, the two took the opportunity to exchange a suspicious look.

As Hattori Heiji's mother, Hattori Shizuka has always been very curious about the "Jiangxia" that her son and her husband called Jiangxia. The son always described Jiangxia as a monster, but her husband admired it very much. In addition, Yuanshan and Ye also seemed to have an impression of Jiangxia. Pretty good.

   The polarized evaluations given by people around him undoubtedly aroused the interest of Shizuka Hattori. So she adjusted her trip to Tokyo slightly.

   - Originally, she only needed to arrive tomorrow to attend the wedding of her friend's son.

   But now, Hattori Shizuka decided to come a day earlier to see Jiang Xia first. In the process, he tested his ability, observed his character, and then looked at his son, husband, and promising future daughter-in-law, who was wearing tinted glasses.

  …

   In order to achieve this goal, when Shizuka Hattori spoke, he used Tokyo dialect that sounded very authentic at first glance. And he specially hid the surname "Hattobu", a surname that easily reminded Jiang Xia of Hattori Heiji, and only said his surname was "Chibo".

In addition, she also used a band-aid to cover up the scar on the wedding ring on the ring finger of her left hand under the pretext of poor cooking skills, and pretended that her mother was single-this was not only a cover up of her identity as "Hitto Heiji's mother", but also a cover for Jiang Xia. One of the little tests of ability.

   Hattori Shizuka came to this office for the first time. And her son Hattori Heiji had never seen Jiang Xia in the detective office.

  So Hattori Shizuka didn't know the usual state of the office, and she didn't feel that there was anything wrong with Amuro after hearing that she wanted to find Jiang Xia, and immediately called to help her find Jiang Xia. I just feel that this firm is very service-minded, or the boss thinks she is a big rich client after seeing her outfit, and privately offers potential VIP treatment... Similar things, Hattori Jinghua has encountered before. Not a lot.

   In short, at present, Hattori Shizuka has no idea that his true identity has been recognized.

   Jiang Xia silently watched the elder who had fallen off the horse before meeting but was still concentrating on performing, so he had to pretend that he didn't find anything and accompany her to perform according to the normal procedure.

  Amuro saw Jiang Xia coming, got up and gave him the seat opposite Shizuka Hattori.

After   , the boss of the detective agency did not leave the office, but began to pretend to find tea to make tea, and stayed in the shop for this reason-he was a little curious about why Hattori Shizuka came.

  …

   Hattori Shizuka sat down gracefully, chatted for a while, and then began to tell about his pre-rehearsed commission.

   She took out a well-preserved old photo from her bag, placed it on the table, and turned it to an angle suitable for Jiang Xia to watch.

   Jiang Xia looked down for a moment and found that this was a group photo of members of the Kendo Club. The members don't look very young, they probably haven't even gone to high school. In the middle, a boy with thick eyebrows held a trophy and grinned happily, and beside him was a circle of six members.

   "I want to ask you to help find the man in the middle."

Hattori Shizuka stretched out her hand, and her pale fingertips fumbled a little on the person holding the trophy: "His name is Shibata Shiro." After she finished, she thought about it and added, "This photo was taken in the second year of junior high school— That is thirty years ago. His appearance and height may have changed a lot."

   Jiang Xia nodded and began to ask some routine questions, pretending that he was seriously collecting clues.

   When two people communicate.

Beside   , Amuro Tou put his movements lightly, reducing the noise, so that he could hear every sentence of the conversation between the two in the room.

  ...not interested in the gossip about the wives of high-ranking police officers. Mainly as an intelligence officer, he felt that he should maintain a high degree of sensitivity and vigilance against various abnormal information.

Amuro thought carefully while listening: Shibata Shiro, this is a man's name... Speaking of which, Mrs. Hattori suddenly came to Jiang Xia anonymously, perhaps not because she heard Jiang Xia from Hattori Heiji, but It really came for Jiang Xia's reputation as a detective.

   This actually makes sense. First of all, judging from the performance of Hattori Heiji at the door of the detective agency last time, although he knew Jiang Xia, he was obviously not familiar with Jiang Xia. In addition, many high school students of this age are still at the end of their rebellious period and may not necessarily tell their parents about their situation.

   In other words, there is such a possibility - Hattori Shizuka didn't even know that Hattori Heiji knew Jiang Xia. To her, Jiang Xia was just a strange Tokyo detective.

If this is the case, then Mrs. Hattori did not call the police in Osaka to find a detective, but went to Tokyo on purpose, and deliberately released the commission under anonymity. , to cover the traces of the wedding ring?

……interesting.

   Amuro Toru took a sip of black tea with a sense of fun.

   After a second, he looked down at the water stains on the rim of the glass and was slightly startled.

  ... This tea seems to be specially made for guests.

   Amuro Toru paused for a moment, put the teacup aside calmly, and washed the cup for the guest again.

   He hasn't been in his office for a long time, and he's not very skilled in business.

   Having said that, these chores should be done by a theoretical employee like Jiang Xia, but he is doing it instead...

  Amuro looked at Hattori Jinghua, who was chatting happily with Jiang Xia, and thought about her cherishing words before Jiang Xia appeared, and sighed inwardly. The bosses these days are really getting less and less human rights.

  …

   "A while ago, I accidentally lost the medal I won in the summer kendo competition in the third year of junior high school. For me, apart from the medal, the only souvenir that can record that time is a photo.

   "Before I graduated from junior high school, I accidentally took that photo as a bookmark and put it in the book I borrowed from Mr. Shibata. When I returned the book, I forgot to take the photo out.

"When I think about this again, Mr. Shibata has moved house, and the connection between us has also been broken." Hattori Shizuka lowered his head slightly, looking a little embarrassed, and acting very focused, "So I want to invite You find Mr. Shibata and help me get that picture back."

   Amuro Toru, not far away, heard this and came up with a new guess with great interest:

   Compared to this photo, Mrs. Hattori may have used the photo as an excuse to find her first love.

  ——Looking for the first love decades ago is actually a prosperous business for private investigators here, second only to finding cats and dogs to catch mistresses.

   (end of this chapter)