Saturday, December 23, afternoon, Gunma Prefecture, Yamanaka.

The garden found her red handkerchief, but the question arose again, where to tie it? What should I do in this place where red handkerchiefs are hung all over the forest?

Yuan Zi realized a more serious problem, "If, if all the trees in this forest have red handkerchiefs on them, Ah Zhen, Ah Zhen where will he wait!"

The three sisters, Yamazaki, Midako, Tarhan, Ran, Eiyu Hondo, and Conan, looked at each other and shrugged their shoulders together.

However, the garden made a decision and immediately dragged everyone into the water.

"Help me, I'm going to take down all the red handkerchiefs from this mountain. ”

"Huh, isn't it?"

"Please, because this is the fate of me and Ah Zhen!"

“……”

Ignoring the speechless crowd, the garden ran first to a slightly lower branch and tried to reach for the red handkerchief on it.

At this moment, a middle-aged strong man appeared, "Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's all my bad to become like this, do you want to take off these red handkerchiefs? ”

"Uh......" Sonoko stopped awkwardly, hiding her red handkerchief behind her back, and sneered dryly to divert the subject, "Ah, that, you just said, 'It's all my fault', are you the original author of Winter Autumn Leaves?" ”

The middle-aged man said, "Ah no, I'm the production staff of the TV series, and I'm the assistant director. ”

Yuan Zi was deflated, "It turned out to be an assistant director." ”

The middle-aged man smiled: "I'm sorry to disappoint you." ”

Yuan Zi smiled dryly: "Where, how can it be." ”

"But when the playwright asked me if there was a mountain with beautiful autumn leaves that I could use in a TV series, I was the one who introduced the mountain. The middle-aged man laughed, "Because this is my hometown, I used to play here when I was a child, and when I was looking for a location, I saw a red handkerchief tied to the branches of a maple tree, and after telling the playwright about this, he thought it could be adopted and rewrote the story like that." ”

Yuan Zi said clearly: "I see. ”

"After the TV series aired, there was a craze, and many people came to tie red handkerchiefs on the branches. The middle-aged man laughed, "Maybe the mountain gods will be angry, do you want to wrap my mountain in a handkerchief?"

The sweat of the garden came down, and the red handkerchief in his hand behind his back was crumpled into a ball.

The crowd of onlookers held back their laughter, trying not to laugh out loud.

"However, because of the large number of customers, the people in the shopping street and the inns are happy because it is located in the middle of nowhere, and it is not very competitive whether it is forest bathing or hot springs. The middle-aged man smiled, "But the TV station and the village office have transferred all the inquiries they received to me, I'm really tired, where is that mountain, please take me to the place of the first few episodes, today is also because of a fan's special request, I ran all morning, and I was almost exhausted." ”

"It's really popular. Yuan Zi laughed dryly.

"That's it. The middle-aged man smiled, and then said with some embarrassment, "So, then, can you borrow a mobile phone to use it? My mobile phone is out of battery." ”

Everyone laughed, and after a long time, it turned out that they came to borrow their mobile phones.

"I just called the Akashu Onsen Ryokan and asked the owner to leave a message in the guest book in the lobby, the tree you are looking for has been found, please come to the rock used in the last scene of the TV series. The middle-aged man said, "I made an appointment with that fan to meet in the hotel today, but I really don't want to run down and come back now." ”

"Give. "The garden lent out his phone.

"Thank you. The middle-aged man took the phone and called the Akaki Onsen Hotel and asked the owner to help write a message, and the name of the person who left the message was Katakana HOZUMI.

"Thank you. The middle-aged man returned his phone, "It's really helped me a lot." ”

"You're welcome," Yuan Zi asked casually, "Anyway, why don't you just call the other party?"

"I don't know the other party's phone number, but I know that he will stay in that hotel today and wait for my news, and I said okay, and when the matter is resolved, I will leave a message to him. The middle-aged man smiled, then thanked him again and took his leave.

"Whew. The garden breathed a sigh of relief.

Lan quipped: "If you hear it, the mountain gods are going to be angry." ”

Midaiko asked, "What are you going to do next?"

"Go back. The garden said weakly. ……

Akaki Onsen Inn.

Everyone wanted to have afternoon tea in the restaurant, but there was no suitable seat, so they simply called afternoon tea to the room.

It's not that there are no seats, it's just that there is a fat man and some people drinking and chatting as if no one is around, and the atmosphere around them is terrible, so no one is sitting, and it is all empty.

The garden was sullenly drinking afternoon tea, and everyone else was watching the show.

"Smack!"

Yuan Zi put down the teacup, "I still have to go, I have to go and tie this red handkerchief." ”

"Isn't it?" said Mei Daiko with a smile, "I don't believe that Mr. Kyogoku can find your red handkerchief among so many red handkerchiefs." ”

Yuan Zi said proudly: "Hmph, just write your name." ”

Lan said: "However, there are so many red handkerchiefs, even if you want to confirm it, you will have to look for it for a long time." ”

"Ran, if it were you, would you not care?" said Yuanzi, "For example, Lan, if you use red clothes as a symbol and make an appointment to meet Shinichi, but he is attracted to another lovely beauty in red, although in the end Xiaolan you found Shinichi, but you forgot to wear red clothes, that's it, isn't it very similar to my current situation." ”

Conan raised his triangular eyes, what is this guy in the garden talking nonsense, how could I recognize the wrong person.

The third sister Maylis smiled: "There is indeed a problem, he can make an excuse and say that because he saw the person in red, he recognized the wrong person." ”

The eldest sister Delya smiled: "And you are not wearing red clothes, even if you are angry, even if you know that he is lying, you are at fault first, and there is no way to be angry with him." ”

The second sister, Apollako, nodded: "That feeling is really uncomfortable. ”

"So, there's a problem," Eiyu Hondo pondered, "Kudo is a high school detective, so he won't recognize the wrong person, but if he does, ...... person."

"That must have been intentional. Lan angrily slapped the case, "Go, Garden." ”

Conan was dumbfounded, he was so wronged that he wanted to cry, hey, that's just a hypothesis, a hypothesis, I didn't do anything, why did this anger come at me!

Yamazaki patted Conan on the shoulder, clearly signaling that he could go, secretly to show comfort, there was no expression on his face, but secretly laughed a little stomachache, it was so funny. ……

The garden tied a red handkerchief to a wooden stick to make a flag, and wrote the name of the garden, and almost wrote the mobile phone number.

After that, everyone returned to the woods again, accompanied the garden to the rock in the last scene of "Winter Red Leaves", and found a place to tie the flag among the red handkerchiefs full of trees.

A gust of mountain wind blew, and the garden flag fluttered, and the garden was very satisfied.

Yamazaki, Midaiko, and Conan frowned, and there was a smell of blood in the mountain wind.

Conan immediately wanted to run, but was caught by Yamazaki.

"Let go, it smells of blood. ”

Yamazaki said: "Quiet, wild mountains and forests, the smell of blood does not mean that there is an incident, in case it is a fierce beast, you will die." ”

"What smells of blood?" asked Eiyu Hondo.

"It's right ahead. Mei Daizi was eager to try, "Let's go and see, don't worry, I will protect you." ”

Although it was about four o'clock in the afternoon, it was already dark in the woods in the middle of winter, and it was the time when the beasts came out to feed, so Yamazaki and Midaiko led the group to walk slowly so as not to encounter something unprepared, such as beasts foraging in groups.

After walking about eighty meters, Yamazaki put down Conan, because he could clearly see that it was not a beast eating, but a man with an unsightly face lying under a tree, about twenty meters away.

I can't see the blood, but I can smell it.

Conan and Hondo Eiyu ran over first, and Yamazaki took out his mobile phone to call the police, such a smell of blood showed that he was bleeding profusely, and in such a remote place, he was hopeless.

Mei Daizi said weakly: "It's another incident, let's go back first, I don't want to delay dinner." ”

"That's right. Yuan Zi echoed, "It's better not to look at it." ”

"You can't go to the garden, it's the gentleman just now. Conan shouted.

"Isn't it?" called the garden.

"That's him. Eiyu Hondo said, "I wonder if that fan killed him when he met him." ”

Lan said: "Then Mei Daizi, you go back, I will stay with the garden." ”

"That's fine. Yamazaki said, "Also, don't let Dr. Asasa and them come, especially the children." ”

"Got it, then we'll go first. "The three sisters, Mei Daizi and Tarhan, have gone back.

Yamazaki went to see the remains, taking advantage of the afterglow of the sun in the woods.

THE DECEASED WAS THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR HOZUMI, WHO HAD BEEN STABBED TWICE, ONE IN THE ABDOMEN AND A FATAL WOUND IN THE CHEST, AND THE BLOOD STAINED THE WINTER COAT RED, AND IT EXTENDED TO THE TROUSER LEGS. ……