Chapter 805: An Unexpected Detective
After knowing that Gao Cheng is also a famous detective in the world, the guests at the venue have been talking in a whisper, probably talking about Gao Cheng's age.
said that he is famous all over the world, but it seems that many people don't know him as a detective, or they need someone to remind him, although he deliberately tied a ponytail with a prominent detective temperament, and he almost wrote on his face.
In this way, it seems that he is not famous enough.
Gao Cheng is also quite helpless, in fact, he doesn't know the stars who often appear on TV, let alone meet them in reality.
Of course, there are advantages to not being easy to recognize, that is, the investigation will not arouse the prisoner's defense too much, and it can make a lot of money by muffling, but the disadvantage is that it is difficult to establish the prestige of the scene, especially when there are many elderly people on the scene.
"Police Department!" Forensic personnel reported to Twilight, "We brought it back and investigated it carefully, and no poison was found in the drinks or food on this table. ”
"Is it still suicide?"
Twilight frowned, and before Gao Cheng could speak, Mori Kogoro suddenly lit a cigarette and said, "I think it should be close to killing." ”
"Close to killing?"
"Yes, as far as I know, every year the president will surprise the guests with performances at this party, such as magic, disguises, and sketches......"
The uncle paused, and confidently puffed out a cigarette and smiled in the face of the puzzled eyes of Twilight and his party: "In other words, at the beginning, the president screamed and fell down to perform a sketch, I am afraid that I was planning to let me, a detective, cooperate with him to perform reasoning, and he himself did not expect to be killed later." ”
"In that case, the prisoner is Mrs. Urai who was the first to approach the president?" Twilight's faces were solemn, "If you put poison directly into the president's mouth at that time......
"That's right," said the uncle, nodding, "this is a crime that only a lady who knows the content of the sketch beforehand can do." ”
"I said," said Mrs. Urai, who had come back from inspecting the back room with Sato, and said dissatisfied, "how can a detective say such unreliable things?" Maybe you didn't see it on stage at that time, but after my husband fell, his body didn't move at all, and he didn't make any sound in his mouth, if it was really me who fed him poison, he must have been in great pain, at least he would have made a little noise, right? ”
"Yes, yes?" The uncle turned to his daughter Xiaolan in a daze, "Xiaolan, you were on the side at the time, right?" ”
"Yes," Xiaolan said without looking down, "Madame is right, completely motionless, as if she was really dead......"
"So didn't I say that? President Urai is not performing at all. ”
Gao Cheng looked at Sato, who had come back with Mrs. Urai, and it looked like he shouldn't have gained much.
"Madame didn't find any traces of poison, did she?"
Mrs. Urai glanced at Gao Cheng and snorted, "Of course, how could I poison my husband?" ”
"It's too early to say that, ma'am."
Gao Cheng passed by Mrs. Urai and walked to the round table where President Urai fell to the ground, and his eyes fell on the lemon tea that Mrs. Urai was drinking.
As with other lemon teas, there is a slice of lemon stuck in the rim.
At that time, the only thing on the table was the lemon tea she was holding, but the woman had drunk it herself, and no poison reaction was detected in the drink, including the lemon slices on the mouth of the cup.
"What do you mean?" Mrs. Urai's face changed slightly.
"I just think it's a little strange," Gao Cheng asked, "After the party started, President Urai and his wife only drank drinks and didn't eat anything, could it be that they made a reservation at some restaurant and planned to eat after it was over?" ”
"How is that possible?" Mrs. Urai snorted, "For the sake of my husband's health, I am strictly forbidden to go out for supper, and I cook healthy ......food for him every day when I get home."
"So what's the menu tonight?" Gao Cheng asked, "The end of this party is about 9 o'clock in the evening, and it will be even later after the entertainment such as sending guests, you should have already bought the ingredients for dinner, right?" ”
Looking at Mrs. Urajing, who looked stiff and broke out in a cold sweat, Gao Cheng smiled and said, "There is no menu and no ingredients prepared, you probably knew from the beginning that things would turn out like this, right?" ”
"You ......"
Mrs. Urai's face changed completely, and her fingers trembled slightly as she stared at Gao Cheng, feeling that the blood flow suddenly accelerated.
"I'm just too busy today...... So I forgot to prepare ......."
"From my personal experience, President Urai didn't commit suicide, the key is how the prisoner was poisoned," Gao Cheng didn't care about Mrs. Urai's pale defense, and said calmly, "But if you want to commit a crime without leaving a trace, especially if you don't have time to deal with it, it's basically very difficult to do, thanks to you, I found some clues." ”
"Clues?" Twilight also looked at Gao Cheng.
"It's that Mrs. squatted to the side as soon as the president fell, and took the initiative to remind everyone that it was the reason for the sketch performance," Gao Cheng said with bright eyes, "This is to temporarily draw everyone's attention to the uncle who is a detective and on the stage, so that he can deal with the evidence ......"
"No kidding!" Mrs. Urai said angrily, "When my husband fell, I held Miss Xiaolan's hand with both hands, and it was impossible to poison ......"
"What if President Urai put the poison in his mouth himself?"
"What?"
"That's when you said that," Gao Cheng said in a deep voice, "President Urai really didn't take anything to eat, he took an ordinary drink, and there was no poison in it, why did you fall to the ground after you said that......
Mrs. Urai laughed angrily: "Do you want to say that my words are poisonous? ”
"It works," Gao Cheng said with the same expression, "What you said was not 'listening', but 'working', which means that the meaning of President Urai's answer at that time should be 'probably effective', and what made the president absent-minded was not a divorce, but a surprise that was originally intended to give the guests, if I guessed correctly, it should be that the president wants to challenge the sour taste that he has always disliked, right?"
"The president probably took some kind of medicine that temporarily changed the taste buds, and after hearing your question before the official performance, the president secretly put something sour in his mouth behind everyone's back, and at that time, among all the things on the table, the most suitable thing that could be used to confirm the effect was the lemon slice on the iced lemon teacup that Mrs. d'......"
Mrs. Urai smiled: "It's complete nonsense, the lemon slices on my cup are fine......"
"There are two lemon slices, and Madame prepared the poisonous lemon slices to bring into the venue at the beginning, so when you take the lemon tea, you specially take the middle cup, don't you? Probably because the lemon slices on the cup were about the same size as the ones I had prepared......"
Gao Cheng looked directly at Mrs. Urajing, who had a cold face and was about to speak.
"Of course, these are still just speculations, but among the drinks that were knocked over by Mrs. Urai, there was a piece of lemon that was very special, missing a petal of pulp, and I was sure that at the beginning of the party, there was absolutely no such lemon on the table, and no one could be so bored to dig up a petal on the spot, so there was only one reason, Mrs. deliberately knocked over the lemon tea when she passed by just now, pretending to take the opportunity to mix the lemon hidden on her body into it......"
Gao Cheng explained, and Mrs. Urai, who looked at her pupils dilated, continued: "I'm afraid it was hidden in my shoes when I squatted next to President Urai, and I already asked Officer Takagi to take it for inspection." ”
"Huh?" Twilight realizes that Takagi doesn't know when he's gone.
"As for the method of hiding lemon slices before the incident, the investigation should have a result soon," Gao Cheng looked at the paper coaster under the cup on the table, "Probably only this paper coaster, I have been strange since just now, there are two layers of paper coasters......"
"Police Department!"
Chiba and Takagi ran into the venue together: "I found potassium cyanide in a bottle from the glove box in the president's car, and there was also glutinous rice paper in a box, and the identification department also said that a half-melted glutinous rice paper was found between the president's teeth......"
Twilight was surprised, "I see, wrap the powder in glutinous rice paper and put it in your mouth and it will quickly melt and poison." ”
"And this," Takagi continued, carrying the encapsulated lemon slices, "Just like what Joto said, the lemon slices with a piece of flesh missing have a trace of cyanidation, as long as the president's saliva and the lady's fingerprints are detected......"
"Hmph."
Mrs. Urai closed her eyes and laughed out loud in disappointment: "I didn't expect it to fail, because of his resentment of the sour taste, I chose lemons, and sure enough, it was still too difficult to hide......"
Saying that, Mrs. Urai glanced at Gao Cheng.
"Actually, Mr. Maori was specially invited by me, and it turned out that he actually found another detective, if only he recognized you in the first place."
Gao Cheng was about to leave, when he heard the words and stopped, "If you recognize it, will you still do it?" ”
"Probably, but I'm afraid I'll have to find another opportunity," Mrs. Urai said as if she didn't care about anything, no longer hiding, "after all, I can't forgive him." ”
"Why?"
"When I was at Dim Sum School, my school selected two students to participate in the Dim Sum Competition, and I was one of them......
Mrs. Urai recalled with a little nostalgia: "The winner was already known before the competition, and the winner must have been another person selected by the school, and the sour dessert he made was so delicious that he was even invited by a famous overseas restaurant, but he didn't expect to commit suicide the day before the competition......
"That's how I got the first place, and then a few years later I married my husband......"
Hatred welled up in Lady Urai's eyes.
"The last time my husband ate a sour cake and lay on the bed, he confessed, and he hated the sour taste because he remembered the student, who ate the dim sum pie prepared by the other party before the competition, and said, 'This is too sour, is there anything wrong with your tongue?'" The student completely believed my husband's words and committed suicide due to depression......"
Mrs. Urai closed her eyes and couldn't hold back her tears: "My husband said while crying that he was just trying to let the students win the competition, and he didn't expect the other party to commit suicide...... My husband had no idea how much he and I used to love each other......"
Gao Cheng listened quietly and didn't speak again, just shook his head and went to the back room to bring the gift that President Urai had helped prepare.
This White Day is really an unpleasant memory, not only the death of President Urai, but also Mrs. Urai's attitude towards her husband.
Regardless of whether it is right or wrong, is the relationship that has been together for decades really so fragile?
Back at the office, Xiao Ai happily went upstairs with a gift, and Gao Cheng leaned against the desk with a heavy heart.
Did President Urai finally notice his wife's murderous intent?
"Didi!"
turned on the computer, Gao Cheng suddenly found that there were a few more unread emails, all of which were from friends and acquaintances.
Koshisui Nanatsuki, new name Kahori, Hasamizu Reika...... Well, even the math girl of Didan High School, who has never met a few times in total, also sent an email, all of which are thanks for the White Day gifts.
Gao Cheng was a little stunned, looking at the gift picture, it seemed that Xiao Ai gave it back to the fans, and hurriedly shouted to Xiao Ai upstairs: "Did they also give chocolates on Valentine's Day?" ”
"I don't know, it's probably mixed in with the fan gifts."
Xiao Ai was locked in the bedroom alone, and he didn't care about Gao Cheng downstairs, carefully unwrapped the package, and found that it was indeed a product of Pujing Food Company.
Unexpectedly, even fools can see that the only thing that seems to be Gao Cheng's handwriting is a pink message card.
"Huh?!"