Conan, My Neighbor Kurosawa Jin

“The murderer doesn’t need to be seen, he just needs to take advantage of the crowd and run down from the third floor to bring the wood sculpture back to the third floor.

The doctors and nurses didn't know how many people were there, but we all ran downstairs and there was no one on the third floor. Even if someone saw it, they would think it was someone who was already there or a plainclothes doctor.

As for the murderer, isn't he here? "Dr. Ali pointed to the statues standing or sitting.

Everyone looked in the direction of his finger, with some astonishment on their faces.

Officer Memu calmed down and waved, and several police officers walked towards the group of statues, and soon found a living person with color on his body and a decorative stick in his hand.

When the other party saw that he had been found, he lowered his head and couldn't see his face clearly, and the chair he was sitting on was the stolen wood carving.

"How did you discover me?" The other party looked at Dr. Ali in confusion, wondering why the other party could discover him.

"There are no traces of ropes outside the wall, so you can only be inside this house. And this house is too big. Even if you want to escape, the target is too obvious, so I guess you will hide in this house until the police leave." .

And when we first arrived, I noticed the smell of tea in the house. It was obvious that someone had drunk tea before, but there was no Qiu Shui's teacup on the table, even though she had drunk it with others before and had already put it away.

And..." Conan told everything he discovered one by one.

After hearing this reasoning, the murderer, the agent who helped Akita Qiushui sell the goods, was completely convinced, and finally admitted the fact that he had committed the theft.

"So, why did you steal this wood carving and hurt Aunt Qiushui? Auntie Qiu Shui is obviously such a nice person. She will give us any wood carving we want."

"If you like it, maybe aunt will give it to you?" Looking at the angry Ayumi and Mitsuhiko in front of them, the murderer sneered.

"It's possible for her to give away the others, but this one is impossible."

Looking at their disbelieving and puzzled looks, the murderer asked a question.

"How much do you think this piece of wood is worth?"

"..." Several children looked at each other without saying a word. They didn't think this wooden block was very valuable, and they didn't even think it was as valuable as the mask in their hands.

"Golden nanmu, such a large piece costs more than 100 million yen. If it is hundreds of years old, it should be worth 200 to 300 million yen." Haibara Ai stood aside to do some science. This time she also recognized the nature of the wood. Material.

"This is just the price of the simple wood, plus the value of the carvings, the price has increased more than ten times. If it were just like this, it would be easy to say, but there is a secret in this wood carving, and this secret can make the price of this wood carving double. More than 50 times."

"What, 50 times!" Ayumi and the others were shocked and hurriedly calculated how much 50 times was, but their mouths opened wide when they found out.

Just an ordinary piece of wood can be sold for hundreds of millions? This is not an antique.

"What's the secret behind wood carving?"

At this time, Dr. Ali was also a little curious. He thought of Akita Qiushui who had changed a lot during this period, and he didn't know if it was related to the secret.

"It should be that the wood carving has been carved." Imaguchi was standing quietly aside, but now he said, "If I guessed correctly, the wood carving should be openable, just like opening a door. There should be something special inside the wood carving. landscape."

When Imaguchi looked carefully before, he suddenly saw the wrinkles on the wooden sculpture, which looked very similar to the wooden sculpture on the courtyard door he had seen before, so he tried to push it. The results were really promising, but before he could take a closer look, Akita Qiushui called him to eat.

"You guessed it right, the two of us discovered it by accident. The scenery inside is very beautiful. I didn't think anything of it at first. I just thought that the carving skills were very good.

But later I showed the photos I took to others, and a wealthy man immediately agreed that he wanted it and was willing to pay more than 1 million.

So I wanted Akita Qiushui to sell this wood carving, but she was not willing. I don't agree with selling this wood carving at all, but I have already made an agreement with the rich man and even publicized it, so I have no choice but to do this. "

Seeing that the other party had finished explaining, Officer Megure asked the police to take him away.

The wooden block-like wood carving was also taken away by the police because it was one of the physical evidence in the case. Akita Qiushui had to wait for the police to collect the evidence before taking it away.

Bumi and the others also took this opportunity to finally see the secret hidden in this wood carving.

The appearance of the wood carving is like a tree trunk, and the outside is covered with the texture of the tree, but the texture of the tree can be opened. After being separated into two halves, there are hollow sculptures inside, including houses, courtyards, landscapes, and figures, flowers and birds. Wait, the sculptures in the courtyard are much more exquisite than the one Imaguchi saw before.

"So beautiful!"

"This is?"

Ayumi looked at the inside of the wood carving in surprise. She didn't expect that the ugly wood carving could be so beautiful inside.

"That's not right. I remember hearing Aunt Qiushui say before that this was something she carved herself and then eliminated. How could it be so exquisite inside? It's more beautiful than some of the collections above." Mitsuhiko asked doubtfully, Logically speaking, he was too young at the time to carve such exquisite items.

"Because this was not carved by her, or it was not just carved by her." Imaguchi looked at the wood carving in front of him.

"?" Faced with their doubtful looks, Imaguchi said in his heart, "I guess the tree pattern on the outside of this wood carving was carved by Aunt Qiushui, and the things inside should have been made by her father or elders, who wanted to give her a surprise.

It's just that the accident came too suddenly. Later, Aunt Qiushui found this wood carving by chance and discovered the secret inside. I guess the time when the carving was made was her childhood home, so she didn't plan to sell it. "

"That should be it, that's right!" Ayumi and the others looked at each other, then nodded. Imaguchi's guess made sense.

"Imaguchi, you guessed it right, things should be just like what he said. This is a photo I found, a photo of the Akita family, a woodcarver from decades ago."

Dr. A Li held the mobile phone in his hand, nodded, and put the mobile phone in front of them as he spoke.

The photo showed a family. They were standing in front of a courtyard, smiling very happily. The appearance of the courtyard was almost the same as the one in the wood carving. The most important thing was that the little girl in it looked very much like Akita Shusui.

"It's exactly the same." Mitsuhiko compared the picture and the wood carving and nodded.

"It seems that her father really loves her." Haiyuan Ai said while looking at the wooden sculpture.

"So, Qiu Shui is very happy to get this belated surprise." Dr. A Li nodded with a smile on his face.

……

A few weeks later, Conan and the others saw Akita Akishui in the newspaper again. This time she was holding a work conference, introducing her father Akita Ichiro's last work-Happy Home, and what was on the side was That wooden pillar.

However, this time the works are not for sale, they are only for display.

In the audience next to Akita Qiushui, a strong and somewhat chubby man looked at Akita Qiushui gently, his eyes never leaving her body from beginning to end.

At the end of the press conference, Akita Qiushui and the man were holding hands. The two looked at each other, with a tacit understanding written on their bodies, and a trace of shyness in their eyes.

"It looks like we can have wedding drinks again." Dr. Ali said with a smile while looking at the two people on TV.

"Doctor, do you know the man that Aunt Qiushui is holding?" Mitsuhiko asked curiously, sitting aside and playing a game.

"That's Uemura, the friend I mentioned who has been secretly in love with Qiu Shui for many years. It seems that this time Qiu Shui fell ill, the two of them finally talked about it." Dr. A Li said with a smile.

"Wow! Aunt Qiushui must be very happy!" Bumi nodded, her eyes full of envy and blessings.