Chapter 123: The Conan Family
"Hey, Castle," Conan said, kneeling on the futon, looking around in confusion, "Did you hear any strange noises?" ”
"Voice?"
Gao Cheng was not used to kneeling here since before, but he didn't care about being uncomfortable when he saw Conan's appearance, and listened left and right, when suddenly a faint voice came into his ears.
"Tick!" As everyone in the hall quieted down, the voices in the dark became clearer and clearer......
"What is this?" Gao Cheng's eyes tightened slightly.
The sound is so familiar, if it's true, it's the sound of a clock moving......
The old lawyer wearing reading glasses put a tape recorder on the table, coughed lightly, and said, "Then let's start reading it, Mr. Yauchi has prepared an additional tape of the will in advance......
"Wait a minute!" Gao Cheng stood up in the surprised gaze of everyone, and looked around the long table with a serious face.
"What's wrong, Detective Joto?"
Mrs. Guangmei and the others looked at Gao Cheng unclearly, and Yoshiyuki Yamanuchi said impatiently: "What the hell are you doing?" At times like this......"
"Shut up!" The old man scolded, and his sharp eyes looked at Gao Cheng tightly, "Don't disturb the city detective!" ”
"What......" Yoshiyuki Yamanai looked away dissatisfied, he felt that Gao Cheng seemed to have been bought by the old man, and he didn't make any effort to investigate the old man, but he kept helping the old man.
Gao Cheng stopped in front of the tea cabinet at the door, and suddenly said, "Did you hear this voice?" ”
"What?" Everyone didn't know why, and said in confusion, "What sound?" ”
Gao Cheng didn't explain, just opened the tea cabinet carefully, and suddenly a crossbow with a fixed clock appeared in front of him, the bowstring was tight, and the crossbow arrows were also ready to fire, followed by a timing device arranged by the clock, and the ticking sound came from here.
Gao Cheng quickly removed the crossbow arrow to disarm the mechanism, but did not move the crossbow.
This device is more sophisticated than the last time the opera house was used, and there are circuits, and I am afraid that it has been set up for a long time......
"What's going on?" Seeing Gao Cheng take out the crossbow arrow, everyone at the scene was shocked.
"Who did it? There's even a timer device! ”
"It must be that guy!" Yoshiyuki Yamanuchi had palpitations, "It must be the guy who wore sunglasses yesterday, he must still hate our Yamani family, so ......"
"Strange," Conan's crisp childlike voice sounded in the booth and interrupted the discussion, "There are a lot of small holes in the tatami mats over here!" ”
"Little hole?"
The compartments are separated by traditional Japanese paper doors, and the tatami mats with small holes are facing the crossbow of the tea cabinet.
"Did that guy test shoot?"
"That's right," Gao Cheng inserted the crossbow arrow into the small hole, just enough to match, "The murderer who set up the crossbow was the righteous uncle sitting on the upper seat from the beginning. ”
"Hmph," the old man sneered, "and sure enough, there are still people who want my life!" ”
"But there's no reason," Mrs. Hiromi wondered, "Uncle Yifang wasn't here at all 15 years ago, how could that person be ......?"
"Because he's not your mother's brother at all!"
Gao Cheng took out a cigarette butt wrapped in a handkerchief and put it on the table, and his eyes inadvertently turned to the door.
"Am I right, Mr. Detective who spent the day in the warehouse beam?"
"It's ......," Yukiko picked up the cigarette butt and looked at it unexpectedly.
"You're mistaken, I'm not a detective," the door of the temple was pulled open, and the man with his face covered appeared in the doorway, taking off his sunglasses and hat in a hoarse voice, "I'm just a family." ”
"Small, home?"
"Daddy?!" Conan looked at the visitor in surprise, and like Takatari, he didn't expect it to be Yusaku Kudo.
Gao Cheng'er looked at the handsome middle-aged version of "Shinichi" in front of him painfully, and didn't know what to say.
He said he wasn't a detective when he made it like this......
"Mr. Kudo, why are you here?"
"I have something to ......do," Yusaku Kudo glanced at Yukiko next to him with his glasses, and smiled at Takasei, "Originally, I wanted to help investigate, but now it seems to be a little redundant, Mr. Tanaka has hired a good private detective." ”
"Mr. Tanaka?" and the rest of the room, including Conan, looked at Yusaku Kudo suspiciously.
"Joto should know this much better than I do, and you'll know what's going on if you've listened to the tape of the will," Yusaku Kudo nodded at the old lawyer, "Please release it for everyone." ”
"Oh, good." The old lawyer looked dazed, and finally came back to his senses, and pressed the play button in the anxious eyes of everyone, but found that there was no sound.
"Ah, it turned out to be reversed...... Sorry sorry, wait for me. ”
“……”
It took a while for the old lawyer to adjust and re-play, and the confused look made people anxious, Gao Chengzhen was worried that the old man would press the playback into a recording, so that the last words in the tape would be completely destroyed.
"My inheritance is inherited by the following six people," the tape went without problems, and the voice of an old man resounded in the Japanese room, "Machiko Neijin, daughter Hiromi, son-in-law Hidekazu, son Yoshiyuki, daughter-in-law Keiko...... and Carlos...... The estate is divided equally among the above six people......"
"Carlos?!"
The crowd looked at Carlos, a young Brazilian in disbelief.
"Why don't you have an uncle's name? Isn't Carlos an uncle bodyguard? ”
"In fact, the opposite is true, because this old gentleman is the bodyguard who came from Brazil for Carlos," Yusaku Kudo took out the air letters from his arms, "Mr. Yauchi Yoshibo died of illness half a year ago, leaving only his only son, Carlos, and this old gentleman is actually a friend who runs the farm with Mr. Yanuchi. ”
Yusaku Kudo looked at Uncle Mo Ran in the shock of the group: "A tornado destroyed the farm 10 years ago, and this old gentleman also injured his right leg, and Mr. Yoshibo lost his left hand, so he has been asking the old gentleman to write letters...... It's all very clear in these letters, am I right? Mr. Tanaka. ”
"He's Tanaka? Could it be that this detective was hired by him in the first place? Yoshiyuki turned to Gao Cheng angrily, "Damn! Did you know everything from the beginning? ”
Gao Cheng's expression was calm: "It doesn't matter if these are any longer, now let's see who the murderer who set up the crossbow is." ”
Yoshiyuki Yamanai's expression froze, and he said in a deep voice: "Do you already know who the murderer is?" ”
"yes, it can't be Mr. Yusaku, right?"
"On this point," Gao Cheng paused, his gaze swept over the people present, "almost all the people who knew in advance that the will was published here in the Buddha Hall are here, as long as the police investigate, they can find out the source of the cross bow and the timing device, these things are so special, it is not difficult to find out in the case of a suspect." ”
"Yes, it's me," Keiko Yauchi suddenly collapsed to the ground in a cold sweat, "I installed the crossbow, I just wanted to scare his ......"
In the end, the matter was not too complicated, the police came again to take away Keiko Yauchi, and the will was officially legally valid, and there would be no more chaos.
After a night's rest, Conan's family planned to leave early the next morning, and Gao Cheng had no intention of staying, and he couldn't stay long without a change of clothes.
At the door of the Yamanai Mansion, Gao Cheng said goodbye to Uncle Tanaka and Carlos, the big Brazilian young man didn't seem to know anything yet, just said goodbye to Gao Cheng with a big boyish smile.
Gao Cheng didn't understand Portuguese, so he turned to Conan and asked in a low voice, "Do you speak Portuguese?" ”
Conan rolled his eyes angrily: "Please, how could I?" ”
"Really?" Gao Cheng smiled dryly, and could only wave his hand at Carlos and the old man, "Goodbye, Carlos, old man, I will come to Tokyo to play when I have time in the future." ”
The departure is imminent.,On the other side of the door, Kudo and his wife are also saying goodbye to the Yauchi family.,The awkward Yukiko seems to be coquettish to Kudo Yusaku.,Finally, I'm unhappy and happy to get on a motorcycle with Kudo Yusaku.。
"Shinichi, what are you doing?" Yukiko waved at Conan beside Gao Cheng and shouted, "If we don't hurry up, we're going to leave you!" ”
"It's coming!"
Conan looked at his mother Yukiko speechlessly, hurriedly got on the motorcycle, and the family of three left along the field path.
"Let's go first, Joto!"
Gao Chengmu sent a few people away, shook his head and smiled, and silently put on his helmet and rode to keep up.