Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 85 Are you hanging up?

  My daughter-in-law had just broken a cabinet of pottery, and she felt guilty. She prepared dinner with extra effort.

   The guests were still praising this young lady for her calm and capable ability, but I didn't expect that in the evening, after a few glasses of wine, the young lady's image would be shattered.

She looked at Jiang Xia and sighed exaggeratedly: "You are so lucky, my father-in-law will not live for a few years, and his hands are shaking recently. I'm afraid it will be difficult to make masterpieces like 'Feng Shui Pills' in the future. Clay pots are sure to appreciate in value soon.”

The apprentice didn't sound right, and wanted to persuade her to wake up, but was stopped by Kikuemon, the old man said helplessly: "She is right, I can only make two or three decent works a year now, which is indeed the same as before. There's no comparison."

   Amuro Toru was originally talking to another apprentice, and when he heard Kikuemon say this, he was suddenly startled: "Two or three? But it wasn't more than ten last year..."

  The drunk young lady suddenly came up to Amuro and interrupted: "Don't mention the pottery thing! Tell us more about the cases you solved. Today's detectives are the protagonists."

  Anshi gave her a thoughtful look. After a while, he dragged Jiang Xia, who was sitting beside him playing with a clay pot, and handed it to the young lady: "He broke it all, let him tell."

   Then he turned his head and continued the cliché.

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

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

She reached out to grab Jiang Xia and laughed, "Tell me more! Although you have solved very few cases, I've been tired of hearing it over and over again, but I'm still idle anyway, and it's fine to listen to you again." Said touched his face.

  Suzuki Sonoko glanced here inadvertently, just in time to see the young lady's movements, her eyes suddenly became fierce, she turned around and wanted to pounce, but was hugged by Ma Lilan from behind.

  Mao Lilan persuaded in a low voice: "Calm down, Auntie should just express her closeness, not to rub oil!"

   On the other side, Jiang Xia looked at the young lady speechlessly. Even with this amount of alcohol, I dare to drink...

   But at the same time, he also knew that the young lady was actually not overly drunk. She suddenly interrupted Amuro Toru's question just now, deliberately - she didn't want to mention the number of pottery.

   In recent years, Kikuemon has only a few works, but the number of "Masterpieces of Kikuemon" sold is far higher than this number. This is actually because the young lady colluded with a certain apprentice, disguising the apprentice's works as Kikuemon's works for sale.

   Thinking of this, Jiang Xia glanced at the murderous apprentice not far away. He remembered that this person was also the son-in-law of the old grandfather named Meinong Zongzhi in the pottery classroom.

   Judging from the appearance of the young lady's body covered in flags, the target of the apprentice's killing was probably her.

   The relationship of this family is really chaotic, but this is how more ghosts can be brewed.

   Jiang Xia took a sip of juice with emotion.

  The party continued until late at night, and the young lady was sent back to her room early because she fell too drunk.

  Others continued to eat and drink. When they were tired, they slept in the dining room. The place was covered with tatami mats and there were many blankets. They could sleep on the spot, and the environment was comfortable.

  …

   The next morning, Jiang Xia woke up in chaos.

   He politely inquired and learned that the young lady was dead - she "hanged herself" in the warehouse this morning, and she was still warm when she left.

  Maurilan and Suzuki Sonoko leaned together with complicated expressions, but their reactions were much smaller than before. They were actually a little used to frequent murders. And this time, the young lady walked more peacefully, leaving behind at least the whole body.

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

   This time, it was finally no longer an old acquaintance from the Mumu Police Department, but an unfamiliar male police department with coral-like hair and a square face.

   After the Henggou Police Department saw Jiang Xia, his expression changed slightly, and he wanted to move closer, but in the end, he still retained his majesty as a police officer and stayed where he was.

  ——In this world, the popularity of detectives is generally high. In private, the Henggou Police Department is actually chasing famous detectives like chasing stars.

   But the island country is more concerned about qualifications. In the face of a strange detective who is much younger than him, the Henggou police department is still a bit pretentious.

   Jiang Xia didn't know why the policeman kept staring at him. He looked at the coral head of the Henggou Police Department, and soon lost interest in this peculiar hairstyle, and turned to the crime scene.

   Before Jiang Xia arrived, the others had already arrived, and the detectives conducted a simple search of the scene.

  Amuro saw him entering the door, came over and whispered, "It's a bit strange - her cervical vertebra is broken."

  People who commit suicide by hanging usually die of cerebral hypoxia, and a small number of them will die of cervical vertebra fracture, but judging from the young lady's body shape and hanging position, her cervical vertebra fracture is not natural.

Jiang Xia's "reasoning" is now very skilled, he nodded and said in a normal voice: "Maybe the young lady did not step on the clay pot to hang herself, but was first wrapped around her neck by a rope ring, and then fell from the top of the cabinet next to it. down.

"If it's suicide, there's no need to be so fancy, so it's probably a murder - like someone took her to the top of a closet while she was drunk, and put a hanging noose around her neck, After waking up this morning, the young lady turned over and accidentally fell from the top of the cabinet, breaking her cervical vertebra.

"In this case, the murderer is probably Mr. Minosufu. When he turned around just now, I saw a lipstick print on the back of his inner clothes. At the dinner last night, the young lady had been sitting next to me, beautiful. Mr. Nong was on the opposite side of me. After that, Mrs. Otani was sent back to the room by Mrs. Otani. There should be no contact between the two of them. So the lipstick print should have been printed in a more concealed situation - such as the middle of the night, the United States When Mr. Nong carried the drunk young lady to the 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 reasoning with his ears erect. At this time, he reacted quickly, ran to the nail to look at it, and said excitedly: "There is really a little skin here!"

   Amuro Toru: "..."

   also found something suspicious and slipped over to Conan, who was looking for Jiang Xia to discuss: "..."

other people:"……"

  ... This reasoning speed is unscientific!

   One of the apprentices looked at Jiang Xia dully: "Did you get up in the middle of the night and saw the murderer..."

   "He didn't!" Suzuki Sonoko interrupted, "I was afraid that the young lady would touch him in the middle of the night to look for him and hold his arm all the time. If Jiang Xia goes out in the middle of the night, I will definitely find out!"

   Apprentice: "..." What kind of image does the young lady look like in your eyes!

Although Sonoko Suzuki's testimony sounds unreliable, in fact, even if there are no witnesses, everyone else thinks that Jiang Xia will not die for the young lady in order to solve the case - after all, this is a justice that seems to be full of justice. Sensual high school student detective.

   Only Amuro Toru didn't quite believe Jiang Xia's conscience in this regard.

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

After dinner yesterday, a group of people slept on the spot in the living room, so An Shitou was most sure that Jiang Xia never went out with Meinong Sufu - it can be seen that the reasoning Jiang Xia just said was not like what the apprentice said. He simply recounted what he saw, and it was really Jiang Xia's reasoning a minute after entering the warehouse.

   In the past, Anshi had seen through the reports of Jiang Xia's case, and it didn't feel real. After all, the murderer was written in bold characters in the title, and there was no suspense when reading it.

   But now, he and Jiang Xia have the same information, and even arrived at the scene earlier than Jiang Xia, but when he just judged that "this is not like suicide", Jiang Xia has already pushed the murderer out...

   Amuro Toru was the first to experience the talent of this apprentice.

  ... It was a wise decision to let Jiang Xia come here for a part-time job.

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

  Amuro had another account in the thick vengeance book in his heart.

   (end of this chapter)