Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 1212 1212 [Arrears of detective wages]

Outside the villa, in the beautiful banquet hall.

After Jiang Xia got the doctors' business cards and memorized the addresses, phone numbers, and names on them, she stopped hanging out with this group of aloof party guests.

He went to pick up a glass of Coke with a goblet, and then continued to stop at the corner of the venue, carrying out his commission.

——President Ichikawa's attitude is a little weird, the riddleman seems to prefer to let the detective stay in the corner of the party.Jiang Xia tried to sneak into the villa, but was stopped by the housekeeper.

So Jiang Xia followed suit, took out his notebook, recalled the conversation between the two Miss Ichikawa just now, recorded it one by one, and handed it to the client after preparation.

……

Not long after, the servants set up the outdoor stage.

President Ichikawa quickly stepped onto the stage and picked up the microphone:
"Thank you for taking the time to come to my birthday party. This time, there is mainly one thing to inform you - I plan to step down as president in the near future, that is to say, I will retire.

"Next, I will resell all the stocks under my name and the right to operate the company to Asahi Industrial."

"..."

There was a dead silence in the hall.

After a while, whispers exploded, and amidst the noisy voices, someone couldn't help asking loudly: "Then what should we do?"

——A large part of the people who came to the party today are relatives of President Ichikawa.Originally, some of them could also get a share of the inheritance.

"What are you going to do?" President Ichikawa repeated what they said, and laughed mockingly, "Well, it's hard to say the details, but one thing is certain - I won't let everyone present, from me Get a penny here."

"..."

Among the silent crowd, Jiang Xia couldn't help being infected with a bit of the detective's savvy attributes: "..." You said just now that you will give me another 100 million after everything is done...

Mao Lilan felt the restlessness of the crowd, and suddenly remembered something.

She looked around and whispered worriedly to Jiang Xia and Suzuki Sonoko: "Have you seen Conan?"

"No." Suzuki Sonoko was used to this brat's getting lost, "I must have found something interesting again, so I slipped away to play secretly."

……

Conan did find something interesting.

But I couldn't steal it, but was played by someone else.

——By the time he broke free from the anesthesia, a long time had passed.

Conan sat up abruptly from the ground, pressed his forehead, looked around, and found that he was locked in the basement.

He was dazed for a while, and suddenly remembered what happened before he fainted, and hurried to the door, trying to open it, but the door was locked firmly, it was impossible for him to open it.

Conan always felt that something was going to happen tonight.

He took out his mobile phone and wanted to contact a few classmates outside, but after a closer look, there was no signal here.

"Oops, that bottle of poisoned wine..."

……

In the banquet hall.

After Kotaro Ichikawa announced that he was resigning from office, he returned to the villa with different looks from everyone.

Thinking about the faces of those guys who ate a fly after hearing that "the inheritance cannot be obtained", Kotaro Ichikawa couldn't help but be very happy-he abandoned the property he had worked hard on health and integrity by any means, why should he be easily taken by these people Walk?

With his departure, the atmosphere in the banquet hall completely calmed down.

Jiang Xia thought of something and looked at the butler: "I remember when Mr. Ichikawa gave the commission, he said to observe his two daughters at the banquet tonight. If this is the case, is the commission over?"

"Of course." The butler nodded, "Please follow me."

He led several people to the villa.

This time, instead of going to the study, he went to the living room.

When he arrived at the door, Jiang Xia glanced around and saw several familiar people standing in the room - Kotaro Ichikawa, his two daughters, and the personal doctor.

He was about to go in, but was stopped by Kotaro Ichikawa:
"Next is the time for our family to talk. Just give me the results of your investigation. You wait next door, and the housekeeper will give you the remaining 100 million."

Jiang Xia didn't have any objection to this, so he agreed, and put the notebook that didn't record much in his hand.

Afterwards, the old butler also entered the waiting room, and the door was closed from the inside.

"Weird." Suzuki Sonoko pouted dissatisfiedly, trying to peek through the crack of the door, but unfortunately failed.

"Okay, let's look for Conan." After all, Mao Lilan lived in a detective agency, and his resistance to Riddler was much higher than that of Suzuki Sonoko.

Compared with other people's personal affairs, she still cares more about the whereabouts of the missing Conan: "Conan won't be captured by someone with a dark mind to vent his anger, such as being a humanoid sandbag or something... the guests at the banquet have terrible faces .”

"Maybe I went to the bathroom." Jiang Xia looked around and pointed in a direction, "Go over there and look for it."

……

At the same time, stay in the living room.

Different from the horrific atmosphere at the banquet just now, at this moment, several people in the room were enjoying themselves—at least it seemed so on the surface.

The second daughter, Mizue Ichikawa, was sitting on the sofa, looking at her father who was in the lead, and squeezed out a little smile:
"To be honest, I don't object to Dad's decision. Wealth is the sweetest thing if you get it through your own hard work." ——Hmph, old man, when you die, even if you don't want to, I can also get a retained inheritance, which is enough for me to live happily for decades.

and……

Ichikawa Mizue stroked her hair, gloating in her heart: there must be someone more anxious than her.

Just thinking about it, the eldest daughter Ichikawa also smiled and said: "Me too."

She held a wine box in her hand.

While speaking, Ichikawa opened it gracefully, took out the red wine, and poured it out:
"In order to celebrate my father's birthday, I brought this bottle of famous wine from [-] to me. I have kept this wine for a long time and I am reluctant to open it. Now it seems that only in the hands of a person with taste like my father will it be safe. underestimate its value."

She poured out a glass of wine calmly, put it in a clear goblet, and handed it to Kotaro Ichikawa.

Ichikawa Kotaro took it casually, without commenting on what they said, but just picked up the wine, looked at it, and sniffed it like a usual wine tasting.

……

the other side.

Jiang Xia took two classmates and walked around the villa for half a circle, and stopped at the door of a basement not long after.

"There seems to be movement in here."

After Jiang Xia finished speaking, she was about to stretch out her hand and twist the locked doorknob, and then give way to Mao Lilan.

But at this moment, he suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

Jiang Xia suddenly raised her hand and pushed Suzuki Yuanzi aside. Almost at the same time, Mao Lilan also stepped back half a step away from the gate.

There was a loud bang.A tin can smashed through the basement door, and, covered in debris, passed between them and slammed hard against the opposite wall.

(End of this chapter)