After Aunt Yingli's explanation, the client's Su Hua finally understood the fact that her mother was not her husband's lover, and later, the younger brother of the master's family we had met before also came forward to explain, and we learned that he was a mystery novelist like his father, and he met his father at a writer's party, and became friends with his father.

Although it is very troublesome to say, in short, my mother is investigating the case with Aunt Yingli instead of my father. On the way to check the notes as evidence, my mother also learned from Aunt Yingli that Uncle Maori owed a huge debt.

"Eh??!! won't you?!Eight million have already been used?!! "Even after understanding Uncle Maori's profligate nature, after hearing such a large amount, my mother couldn't help but exclaim.

"Shhhhhhh......h

"And what about the person?"

"Lying drunk in the detective office!" Aunt Yingli first gritted her teeth, and then a gloating expression appeared on her face: "However, even if you think about it, you can't get up." "I guess I'm still holding a grudge against Uncle Maori for calling Miss Yoko's name, jealous women are terrible......

"Huh?" Mom tilted her head for some reason, and Conan and I sighed at the same time, Speaking of which, we are the ones who do it directly......

Soon, my mother also followed us to the study and saw the notes and the used bullet casings.

"I see, these ah......" Looking at these abstract things, my mother nodded clearly: "It seems that it is indeed not a simple prank......

"However, there are only these three kinds of evidence, and it is a miracle that Ping can catch the prisoner in this way. "Aunt Yingli is a little at a loss.

"But, as long as this kid is here, maybe a miracle will happen!" Mom took Conan into her arms, rubbing, rubbing, rubbing......

In other words, it was actually the elder brother who actually played in place of my father this time......

"Speaking of which, I heard that you were with Conan in the previous incident. Aunt Yingli said with some curiosity.

"Yes, this child's reasoning is perfect!" said the old mother cheerfully, as if to show off her wealth to the poor: "It is worthy of my ......."

"Mine?" Aunt Yingli and Xiaolan both looked at their mother questioningly, wondering what kind of nouns could be followed by their mother's "mine".

My heart is tight! Mom won't be happy and say leaky again......

"My ......" my mother first dragged out the voice, which scared my heart and liver out, and even Conan in her arms was in a cold sweat, and then said slowly and quickly: "My ...... Grandfather's brother's daughter's cousin's uncle's grandson!"

My day! Grandfather's ...... Brother...... What else is there...... No, I'm going to faint! What kind of age is this......

I quickly shook my head and sobered up my head, no longer thinking about these things, damn, my eyes almost turned into mosquito coil eyes, and my mother can come up with this kind of foolish statement, obviously I know it's fake when I hear it...... Not to mention......

I looked at Aunt Yingli with some weakness, this great god is not as easy to fool as Uncle Maori......

"Huh...... Is that so?"

Hey, what do you mean by such a flat tone? Shouldn't you be a little more surprised? Isn't this something to be suspicious? Am I the only one who doesn't feel normal?! Why do all the people present have understanding expressions on their faces!!

"Xiaohui, what are you thinking? ”

"Ahh

"That's true, just now everyone said that they were going to the monitoring room to see Mr. Ganxiong's situation, you kid, are you distracted again?" My mother pinched my nose a little angrily: "I've been like this since I was a child, and I always look absent-minded." ”

"Ah, yes. I was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly followed the steps of my mother and everyone outside. My mother kept holding my hand, very tightly.

"Yukiko, you just said that it was very small, isn't Xiaohui just a child now?" Aunt Yingli asked casually as she walked.

“...... Well, it's just relative, after all, I watched Xiaohui grow up when he was one or two years old. Mom was stunned for a moment, and smiled a little far-fetched.

"Oh, I see. ”

Aunt Yingli just asked casually, and she didn't care, but my heart was chuckling!

I cautiously turned my head to see Conan's reaction, and sure enough, Conan looked at me and my mother with some suspicion, and I couldn't help but cry out in my heart.

The monitoring room is a very large house, and there are more than a dozen monitoring interfaces distributed on a large operating table, which show all corners of the villa, and everyone was amazed at first, and then carefully observed. In the monitor located in Fujieda's study, Fujieda is sitting there reading a book, and everything seems to be normal.

The wordless dull atmosphere lasted for a while, and Xiaolan, who was a little bored, couldn't help but recall the topic just now: "Alas, what a pity. ”

"What?" I looked at Lan.

"Because didn't Mom and Aunt Yukiko face off in Miss Didan's beauty pageant?" the result was suspended before it came out......" Xiaolan said a little unwillingly.

"Ah, is that so?"

"It's out!" Aunt Yingli said to her mother.

"Two people just got 10,000 votes each, and they didn't know who they were. Aunt Yingli recalled.

"But, it's strange, isn't it? Twenty-ten thousand and one ballots were specially prepared to determine the winner, but one was missing...... In order to find this ballot, there was a big commotion!" Thinking of the past, my mother smiled heartily and seemed very happy.

"So the beauty pageant awards party has been cancelled!But if you find this vote, you must have won it!" Aunt Yingli changed her words and began to hold her mother.

"No, I'm sure I'll lose to Yingli~~"

In other words, if two beautiful women get together, it will probably be two results, one is to praise each other, and the other is to repel each other. I rubbed my chin and looked at the two people who complimented each other, and laughed, in fact, these two still care a lot about where the votes go, right? Although they both seem to be very generous......

Poke, poke.

"Huh?"

"Don't laugh so (lewdly) and disgustingly. Conan rolled his eyes.

"Is there one?" I was a little confused.

"Now, I'll ask you something. Conan leaned over to me and whispered.

Say. ”

"You used to ...... Acquaintance, no, have you seen Mom?" Conan asked me, hesitating.

Conan was a little suspicious.

"I've seen it!" I grinned, "I used to pretend to be a fan and ask my mom for an autograph when I was in the United States!"

"Is that all?" Conan looked at me suspiciously.

"So what do you think?" I rolled my eyes and said, "Well, my target that time was not my mother, but I had to pretend to be a fan in order to get close to the target, and I didn't mean to hurt my mother, so don't worry." "Of course, this is just my nonsense, but I don't think Conan will delve into it.

"I didn't mean that!" Conan waved his hand.

"yes, it doesn't matter, I'm just telling you. I pretended not to care, but I was secretly relieved. Finally prevaricated Conan. If I deny it directly just now, it will deepen Conan's suspicions, and it is better to admit it in a calculated manner, as I expected, although Conan has some doubts, he can't imagine that I am Kudo Yuichi, because he knows that if I don't want to say it, I won't let go anyway, so even if there is doubt, Conan will not let go.

"That...... Is that ballot paper stamped with a gold stamp?" Listening to the mothers' discussions, Xiaolan asked in a low voice.

"Huh? yes. ”

"It's the school seal of Didan High School. ”

"Well, I have one in my father's uniform pocket. Xiaolan breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile.

"Huh?" the two mothers turned their heads at the same time, and the atmosphere changed subtly for a moment.

"It fell out when I was sorting out the old clothes, so it turned out to be like this, that was the beauty pageant......" With Xiaolan's words, the smiles on the faces of the two mothers slowly disappeared, and their eyes shone like a beam of light, staring at Xiaolan tightly, and the words that kept praising each other didn't know when they stopped. Xiao Lan, who was very nervous, didn't feel the atmosphere that had quietly become strange at some point, and still maintained a relaxed tone.

"Who?!Whose name is written?!" Aunt Yingli couldn't wait for Xiaolan to finish speaking, so she asked loudly!

"Yingli?!or me?!Who the hell?!" Although my mother's aura is as soft as water, don't forget that the water pressure in the deep water can also press people into meatloaf......

Obviously, the two who were as close as sisters just now "turned against each other" in an instant and refused to let each other go!

It's scary...... I took a step back without a trace.

"Ah," Xiaolan, who reacted, couldn't help but take a step back from the momentum of the two mothers, and said in a cold sweat: "Dad seems to have washed the clothes like this, and the paper has become a mess......"

"Is it true~~?You have to be honest~~!!"

"Say it, Xiaolan, don't worry about your mother's mood~!" The two of them had dark faces, and the coercion became even stronger......

"That, no, really......" God pitied, a karate master like Xiang Xiaolan was so frightened that he stammered...... Poor child.

"Hand, hand ......" The old butler Ueki's somewhat panicked voice suddenly attracted our attention, and we saw the old butler staring closely at Fujieda Mikio in the monitor: "The old man's hand is raised!"

I saw that Fujieda Mikio in the picture first stood up and raised his hands, and then, in front of our eyes, fell to the ground in a daze! The murderer actually did it right under our noses!

Could it be that someone used a pistol?!

Everyone was shocked, except for the housekeeper Ueki to get the room key, we all hurried to the place of the crime, just when we were waiting for the key of the housekeeper Ueki, suddenly two more gunshots rang out in the room! Because we couldn't wait for the housekeeper to take the key to open the door, Xiaolan kicked the locked door open, and everyone immediately poured in, but unfortunately, it was too late, Fujieda Mikio was already dead.

Soon, a police team led by Officer Twilight arrived at the scene and quickly cordoned off and explored the scene. Conan was secretly thinking about something, his mother was looking at Conan who was thinking with anticipation, and Aunt Yingli was seriously organizing the police to do all kinds of work for Uncle Maori's 10 million, which made the police officer who led the team smile bitterly. Everything is going on in an orderly manner.

I didn't interject, just quietly watched the crowd move, and Conan's presence was enough. Tonight, since I was in the monitoring room, the swelling pain in my head began again, and although it was already a routine, I still couldn't get used to this discomfort.

He reached out and rubbed his temples, but showed no signs of abating.

Alas, it seems that in the future, analgesics will have to be carried with you. I sighed.

"Xiaohui, what's wrong with you?" I just sighed when my mother's gaze swept over.

"It's okay, just sorry, I can't help much. I laughed.

"It's okay, you just have to be there and watch. Mom squatted down and looked at my face.

"Hmm. Seeing me nodding, my mother was relieved and refocused on the case.

Mom came back this time, and eighty percent of it was to see me, right? I looked at my mother's delicate back and thought to myself.

In fact, with Dad's ability, as long as you say a few words on the phone, it can be completely solved, if my brother's reasoning ability is one hundred, my father will at least break through two hundred, there is no need to let my mother come over, my mother will come back, it must be because I don't worry about me and Conan, but it's no wonder, after all, one has been missing for ten years, one has been plotted, which mother has been changed, I'm afraid there will be a snake bite, ten years afraid of the feeling of the well rope, right?

I hid a lot of things from my mother and father, since I was a child, and now it is, Xiao Wai's words made me understand that my silence is not to bear the pain alone, but to make the pain magnified and then imposed on the people around me, but Xiao Wai doesn't know that I am hiding far more than she thinks.

I had to hide it, otherwise what else? Tell Conan that this sinful man is his younger brother who has been deified in his impression? Tell my mother that the son she managed to find is actually less than a year to live? Tell Xiao Wai that my body is actually about to collapse? Can they accept it? No, they can't, I know, they love me, but it's that that will make them suffer more than I do!

They now know that I have something on my mind, and at most they are worried, or at worst, but if I do tell them everything, they will break down! They won't accept the fact that Conan, Mom and Dad, or Little Mourning. I don't want to see them cry for me, I don't want them to see my ugly appearance, I'd rather never recognize Conan, so that he will always remember that he has a perfect brother! I would rather endure ten times more torment than let my mother see a healthy and happy son! I would rather always maintain such a faint and warm relationship with Xiao Ai, than let her suffer from gains and losses because I get too close to her!

So, I'd rather hide it from them for the rest of my life!

If I really had that day, hopefully, they wouldn't hate me, no, I should say, if they did. How long can a person's hatred last? Ten years, twenty years? A person's life cannot be filled by one person forever, one day, they will gradually forget themselves, just like Xiaolan.

Yes, that's the case, it's good for everyone, and in the words of the game, it should be called HappyEnd, right?

The investigation of the case is proceeding in an orderly manner, with the full cooperation of Aunt Yingli, my mother and Conan, the truth of the case is like being stripped away, and it soon surfaces, and all the mysteries are played by my mother and voiced by Conan in front of the "Baroness of the Night".

In the end, the culprit was found out that the old butler Ueki Kuhachi was very simple, that is, he first put the trance-causing drug isopropyl epinephrine into Fujieda's coffee, so that Fujieda Mikio collapsed due to trance when he stretched his waist after reading the book, and misled us into thinking that Fujieda Mikio had been shot, made his own alibi, and then took the opportunity to get the key, went around to the floor-to-ceiling window of Fujieda Mikio's room and shot him, and then returned, that's all.

The fact that the old butler was the murderer both surprised me and surprised me. Because I heard it in the maid's conversation before, because of Suhua's relationship, the owner of this villa, Mikio Fujieda, is preparing to convert the garden carefully raised by his ex-wife into a swimming pool.

The old housekeeper Ueki Kuhachi has no relatives, and since he was a child, he has watched the eldest lady here, that is, Fujieda Mikio's ex-wife, grow up, and treat the eldest lady as his own, and he is already dissatisfied with Fujieda Mikio's remarriage, and it is not surprising that Fujieda Mikio wants to destroy this garden.

This steward was very appetizing, loyal and prudent, tactful, and especially courageous, and would not hesitate to kill for the sake of his master. If we hadn't happened to encounter us this time, the police might have identified it as an outsider.

I've always wanted to find someone who can be my butler, or spokesperson, who can handle things on my behalf that are inconvenient for me, such as buying arms. If it's this person, I think he's good enough to do it.

But there are two problems, one is how I can save him, and the other is that even if I save him, he will not necessarily be there for me to drive, after all, I am not doing a serious job.

Forget it, I don't want to do so much, save him first, anyway, he is also on my appetite, if he is not willing to be used by me, let him retire. Thinking of this, while the old butler explained the motive to everyone and everyone's attention was focused on him, I quietly walked out of the villa and went around to a clearing at the back of the room.

Looking at the empty meadow, I clapped my hands.

"Bang bang. "The crisp sound was loud in this silent environment.

The wind gently blows through the trees not far away, making a "rustling" sound.

"Tell Fidel that I want this planting grass eight to keep him, I owe him a favor. I said faintly into the empty meadow.

No one responded to my voice, nor did there be any unusual noise or change, and from the outside, I was talking to myself as if I was on a nervous head. But I know that this sentence will definitely reach his ears.

I found Fidel's two ears next to me that day, and I was in a hurry and didn't want to tear my face with Fidel, so I let them go, but that didn't mean that Fidel let me go. I know that he has more than these two ears around me, and the proof is that when I pulled out his ear, he did not react at all, and if he did give up, Fidel would definitely come to me again, and the reason why he did not do this was just to show me his attitude, and he would not let me go easily.

Even if I let go of the cruel words of killing everything, Fidel didn't care, or rather, the lives of these ants were too humble in his eyes, not worth his attention, whether it was life or death, he would not worry, his only concern was profit. It should be said that this is a common problem of the Rothschilds, where interests come first. For the sake of profit, they have no one who would not dare to betray.

"What are you doing here? Everybody is looking for you. Conan's voice suddenly came from behind.

"It's a little stuffy, come out and blow the air. I smiled with my back to Conan and asked, "Uncle Maori's contract money is coming?"

"Well, because the murderer is not Mr. Fujieda, and Fujieda Mikio left a will saying that all his property will be donated to the state, so that Miss Suhua can only pay 10 million from her own savings, and now she is very depressed. Hehe. ”

"yes, well, it's a little lesson for that woman. ”

"yes. Let's go back, everyone should be ready to go back. ”

"Hmm. I nodded, and was about to follow Conan back when Conan's steps suddenly paused.

"What's wrong?"

"Now, although you are just my mother's righteous son, you should really treat your mother as a mother, right?"

"What's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing, it just feels like you and your mother are hiding something from me, but since you say that, I'll believe you once, just say it when you want to. Conan looked up at me and smiled.

"Thank you. I smiled implicitly at Conan. Conan really couldn't rub the sand in his eyes.

Because it was already late when I went back, Aunt Yingli went directly to her residence, while Conan and I were dragged back to Kudo House by my mother, and only Xiaolan returned to the office, and we made an appointment to meet at the office the next day.

The next day.

Sniff, sniff, sniff.

"Conan, do you smell a strange smell?" I asked Conan with some humility as I entered the room.

"Ah," Conan nodded with a smile, "very, intensely." ”

"Hehe, uncle won't beat us, right?"

"Hopefully. ”

"Take it, husband, this is the 1,943,000 yuan left after deducting the debt, you must be grateful!" In the office, Aunt Yingli handed an envelope containing money to Uncle Maori who was sitting in a chair, and then asked the people around her a little strangely, "Do you smell any strange smell?"

"Do you have pets?" said Mom, looking around.

"Ah......h

Conan and I looked speechlessly at the smiling Maori uncle in his suit, who was sitting in a precarious position...... Sweatpants. I knew that I should have been afraid of power and insisted on bringing diapers to my uncle, uncle, I'm sorry for you.

"Speaking of which, Yukiko, it's been a long time since I've seen you......" Uncle Maori diverted the topic with an awkward smile on his face and said hello to his mother.

"Ah, well, there are some things I want to ask Kogoro about you......" The old mother suddenly twisted, and said to Aunt Yingli in a greasy voice: "Na, Yingli, you asked~~"

"I hate it, didn't there be a Kiko who said she wanted to ask~~" Aunt Yingli also looked twisted.

I instantly understood what these two people wanted to ask, turned to Uncle Maori and smiled: "Uncle, they want to ask, who did you vote for in the Miss Didan beauty pageant back then?" and

The two of them, who were still humbling each other just now, suddenly became nervous, and stared at Uncle Maori with complicated expressions.

"Ah, it's the one from twenty years ago......" As soon as I said this, Uncle Maori immediately remembered it and smiled at me, "I voted for Yingli!"

"Husband!" Aunt Yingli suddenly became excited, her face was peachy, her eyes were like autumn water, and she looked at Uncle Maori with affection, and even Xiaolan looked at Uncle Maori with an excited expression.

Uncle Maori, you should be considerate of your daughter, say a few good words, say a few words and your wife will come back, as soon as Xiaolan is happy, we can improve...... I looked at Uncle Maori with great anticipation.

"I didn't understand any of these things at the time, and I thought miss meant misstake, so I wrote the name of the terrible woman. ”

Uncle, I misread you...... ＯＴＺ

"What?!" Listening to Uncle Maori's words, Xiaolan suddenly became anxious, and asked Uncle Maori as if hinting: "Then who will you choose in the future after you know the meaning of the beauty pageant?"

"Of course I'm going to choose a very, very cute Arikiko!" Uncle Maori replied almost without even thinking about it. Mom's face was suddenly sunny. Aunt Ke Yingli......

Although I am very happy that you praise my wife so much, uncle, but ...... I looked at Aunt Yingli with trepidation, Oh!MyGod!Zeus or something was weak in front of Aunt Yingli!

"Ah, no! Yingli didn't expect it to be so popular while holding books......" Seeing the lightning and thunder from Aunt Yingli, Uncle Maori finally sobered up a little, and hurriedly remedied it, but unfortunately it was too late.

"Ah, that's right," Aunt Yingli picked up the envelope on the table with a gloomy face, pulled out a wad of money and said, "The reward for this help, Yukiko and I will take one million into one million." He put the money in his pocket.

"Then, I also want to take credit from the izakaya and the bar and the café downstairs, as well as the pocket money advanced by my father and the living expenses for this month and next month......" Uncle Maori just wanted to speak, but was blocked back by Xiaolan with a dissatisfied expression: "And the dry cleaning fee for the pants!"

Not only this month, but also next month? Xiaolan's resentment towards Uncle Maori is really not small. Thinking about it, I obviously reminded me like that, but Uncle Maori still doesn't open his mind, should he say that he deserves it?

"Take it, get change. With that, Ran handed over a few banknotes and a bunch of coins to Uncle Maori.

"Hey...... Hey, is there only $4,382 left?!" His eyes were fixed on a pile of coins, large and small, and Uncle Maori's screams lingered in the office room.

Is...... Hell it. But you did it yourself, uncle.

Shrugged helplessly, smiling a little schadenfreude, I turned on the TV and watched the morning news.

"There was a murder case in the XX area last night, the deceased was Mr. Mikio Fujieda, 58 years old, the police have solved the case last night, the murderer is the deceased's housekeeper, Mr. Ueki Kuhachi, according to the police, although Mr. Ueki Kuhachi committed intentional homicide, but because he has severe asthma and is older, he may be sentenced to suspended imprisonment and released on medical parole. XXX TV XX reports for you. ”

Is it medical parole? It's pretty fast. The corners of my mouth curled slightly.

"Probation, I've never heard of a probation because you're old?" said Conan, looking at the TV with some confusion.

"Maybe it's not easy for the court to be considerate of the elderly. I laughed.

After a while, my phone rang suddenly, and it was a phone number I knew.

I said a word to Xiaolan and ran out, found a corner where no one was around, and connected the phone.

"Hello, under the planting of grass eight. Do you have time?" came the familiar old voice on the phone. Fidel must have told him.

"Meet at the XX Cafe at three o'clock this afternoon. I said in a young man's voice.

"Okay, waiting for you. ”