Not too many out of four

The fight of the body's immune system caused by a cold in the rain was suspended on the second day of the fever, and the body temperature of Kudo Shinichi gradually subsided to a low-grade fever.

Last night they ate a lot of beef sukiyaki. The four Nakaya cats in the family worked together to kill the double portion of beef. The Kudo couple even drank some wine. Only Kudo Shinichi couldn’t eat anything because he was sick and had a fever. Silently drinking porridge aside.

It is cruel to smell the aroma of beef sukiyaki without eating it.

Kudo Shinichi thought to himself that it was just sukiyaki pot, and he could eat it when he recovered from his illness, so he filled his stomach with porridge and side dishes with the fragrance.

"The forehead is not very hot anymore," Li Jia touched Kudo Shinichi's forehead. Although his face was still a little flushed, his physical condition was obviously much better: "Take another medicine after breakfast, and the fever should be completely reduced tomorrow."

My brother's physique is much better than hers, and he is the main force of the football club, so he can recover quickly even if he gets sick.

However, Kudo Shinichi always relied on his strong physical fitness to act recklessly. It was not the first time that he caught a cold and fell ill due to the rain, but he didn't have a fever before, just a simple cough and runny nose.

"Hmm, can I eat now?" He nodded perfunctorily, pointing to the dishes on the table.

Yesterday he was sick and didn't eat beef. This morning Yukiko Kudo cooked beef porridge for him with the leftover beef as a menu for patients who were sick to supplement their physical strength and energy.

"Of course." Li Jia smiled helplessly, and took a step back: "It was originally the breakfast that Aunt Youxizi prepared for my brother."

Kudo Shinichi picked up the spoon and blew a few mouthfuls, but before he could eat it, his hands froze due to the strong sense of oppression around him: "Li Jia, did you forget to feed the cat this morning?"

The orange cat dumpling was sitting on the dining table with its tail crossed, its cat's eyes fixed on him and Li Jia, making it hard for people to eat porridge with peace of mind.

The soft-looking cat ears stood up and trembled, and the orange cat dumpling stepped on the ground under its feet, and let out a low voice: "Meow."

Li Jia sat next to her, held the orange cat dumpling's head in both hands and rubbed it, and asked strangely, "Why does brother think so?"

The cats in the family eat breakfast earlier than them. She always prepares the cat rice first and let it cool before preparing their own breakfast. Let it cool for cats to eat.

Holding the furry cat's head in both hands, rubbing it like a massage, rubbing the side of the face and cheeks, stroking the ears and neck, stroking along the texture of the cat's body like a tiger, the orange cat dumpling lowered its head and restrainedly wiggled the tip of its tail.

"Mr. Nakaya" is the most stable kitten in the house. He walks, sits and stands with self-restraint and restraint. He has the free and easy elegance of a cat and the stability and consideration of a mature adult. He often sits silently in a certain place and observes the cat at home. Cats and people.

The person it pays the most attention to is Li Jia, and it often stays in Li Jia's room. Since Kudo Shinichi fell ill, it stays where it can see him from time to time, as if urging him to take a serious rest and not to sneak around again.

"It's not that I forgot to feed, why did it keep staring at me just now?" Kudo Shinichi said vaguely while eating the porridge, the beef porridge that had not been completely cooled down made him breathe out with his mouth open.

When Li Jia didn't turn the head of "Mr. Chuya", it kept staring at him.

The black pupils in the large cobalt blue are like small olive kernels in the cat's eyes, watching him silently.

When the Kudou and his wife came back yesterday, it also observed them silently for a while, until Li Jia and Kudo Yukiko returned from the shopping street before withdrawing their attention and re-imposing tight man-marking on him.

Moreover, as long as he leaves his room, he will be stared at directly, and he has no idea what these Chuya cats are thinking.

"I'm worried about my brother." Li Jia pinched the cat's ears, pursed her lips and said with a smile: "My brother is the only patient in the family now, Mr. Nakaya is also worried about my brother leaving the room alone."

Tangerine Cat Tuanzi's pinched ears trembled between Li Jia's fingers, and it was so soft that it fluttered and rubbed against his fingers a few times, and the tail that landed on the table swayed: "Meow."

The cat's paw lifted and pressed Lijia's wrist veins, and the flesh pad squeezed and stopped for a while, and the orange cat dumpling yelled again: "Meow ow ow."

Li Jia took back her hand knowingly, and nodded the furry kitten's paw with her face: "Brother, get well soon, Maomao and us won't worry."

Kudo Shinichi swallowed the porridge and said depressedly, "Got it."

It wasn't that he wanted to get sick, it was just bad luck that it happened to be raining when the case happened, so he hurried back to solve the case before the evidence was completely washed away by the rain.

"By the way, where are Dad and the others?" He didn't see them when he got up early in the morning.

Didn't you come back specifically to visit them?Why did he go out again the next day?

Li Jia holds the front paw of the orange cat dumpling to play handshake games, and does not get tired of switching from the left front paw to the right front paw several times: "Uncle Kudo and the others seem to be visiting old friends. I heard that they are cartoonist friends in Toriya Town." , Mr. Kawami who once wrote the manga for the Baron of the Night series."

The orange cat dumpling had no choice but to indulge in playing the handshake game with Li Jia. Following her instructions, he put the cat's paw in her palm, and waggled the tail around his side relaxedly.

Shinichi Kudo was thoughtful, and slowly said: "Mr. Kawami, I remember that he also drew the illustrations for the Dark Night Baron series novels, right?"

The famous mystery novelist Kudo Yusaku's masterpiece The Night Baron series, in which three or five illustrations of classic scenes are all drawn by this Kawami manga artist.

"Be good, be good," Li Jia touched the cat's head, and handed a piece of freeze-dried orange cat dumpling to the orange cat dumpling. The pink and moist cat's nose sniffed. Swallow it.

"Yes, Mr. Kawami seems to have won an award for the manga he drew for the Baron of the Night..." The freeze-dried residue on his finger was licked softly by the cat, and Li Jia tapped the orange cat dumpling's mouth: "There are more here and here .”

The orange cat dumpling moved its mouth, its whiskers trembled, and licked its mouth: "Meow ouch."

The handshake game is easy to learn with the smartness of the cats at home, even without the temptation of freeze-dried and canned cat strips, Li Jia taps the left front paw of the orange cat dumpling: "Mr. Nakaya, let's high-five."

Slap one to the left, one to the right, and clap both hands and claws together.

Although the cats and cats in the family are very well-behaved, only "Mr. Nakaya" is willing to play handshake games and high-five games with Li Jia all the time. He can patiently play with her all afternoon until Li Jia gives up and turns around to do other things.

It's not that the other cats can't learn or don't want to play, it's just that they lose their attention after playing for a long time, dozing off, looking around, and even pretending to be dead pillows to sleep on Li Jia's hands.

Only the most calm orange cat dumpling is willing to play such games with Li Jia all the time.

"Meow." The tail swayed slowly behind it, and it suddenly shook its ears and looked in the direction of the entrance. The cat's paw maintained a high-five posture with Li Jia: "...Meow."

Li Jia blinked in doubt: "Are there any guests coming?"

Kudo Shinichi asked in confusion, "How did you guess that there are guests coming?"

This Zhongye cat is not just like other Zhongye cats, just playing around and distractedly looking around.

"No..." Li Jia shook her head, but before she could explain, the sound of the doorbell came from the entrance.

She hurried to the entrance, and the orange cat dumpling jumped onto Li Jia's shoulders and squatted, stepping on the cat's claws and adjusting her posture to sit upright.

As soon as the door opened, Li Jia was surprised when someone came in: "Police Department Mugure and Officer Takagi...?"

The face of the Mumu Police Department was a little dignified, and he said in a deep voice: "Excuse me, are brother Kudo and Miss Yukiko there?"

Li Jia was a little nervous, and asked hesitantly: "...Uncle Kudo and the others have gone out, is there anything important?"

When the Kudou couple returned to China, they didn't make a big announcement to inform their relatives and friends. It should be said that the Megure Police Department and the others knew about the return to China and they shouldn't come to visit with such a serious look.

They looked like Uncle Kudo and the others were involved in some troublesome case, and now they had to come to find someone to investigate.

Next, the words of Mumu Police Department and the others confirmed Li Jia's uneasy conjecture——

Kudo Yukiko was involved in a brutal murder case as a criminal suspect. The scene of the crime was at the wine cellar where Li Jia and the others went to the shopping street to buy white wine yesterday. Entering through the small door in the store leads directly to a small wine cellar that has been transformed. cellar.

It is full of famous wines and wine barrels of various sizes collected by the store.

Just this morning, the helper in the store found the store manager drowned in the wine barrel, his hands and feet were firmly tied together with sailor knots, and the wine was continuously poured into his throat from the hose inserted above the wine barrel. The abdomen of the deceased was so full that he could not drink any more, and the wine that leaked from his mouth would moisten the adhesive tape that was tightly attached to his mouth and fill the barrel.

The liquor poured into the hose from two or three large wine barrels eventually broke the barrel and leaked a large amount of wine, which was discovered by the clerk who went to work on time the next day and called the police.

The store manager experienced a long and painful struggle before his death. The time of death is estimated to be from [-]:[-] to [-]:[-] pm yesterday. The more accurate time can only be determined after a forensic autopsy. However, the police verified that Yukiko Kudo entered the store yesterday afternoon, and even I went into the wine cellar under the guidance of the clerk.

The surveillance video in the store only captured the situation inside the store, and there was no surveillance camera installed in the wine cellar. According to the video, the police identified the suspects as four people who entered the wine cellar yesterday afternoon, and one of them was Yukiko Kudo.

Li Jia contacted Yukiko Kudo with their landline at home and they gave a general explanation of the situation, and waited for a reassuring reply before hanging up the phone with a sigh of relief.

"Uncle Kudo and the others said to come back now," she walked over and whispered, her eyes fell on Kudo Shinichi's dignified expression, and she muttered to herself, "Is it going to be all right?"

The orange cat dumpling tilted its head and rubbed against Li Jia: "Meow ouch."

She silently took the cat into her arms for comfort: "It will be fine..."

Compared to the other three suspects, Yukiko Kudo didn't know the store manager, and it was the first time she went to the store to buy wine yesterday, but she was listed as one of the suspects only because she happened to enter the wine cellar yesterday afternoon.

She didn't have any motive to kill the store manager, and she was invited into the wine cellar because the store manager recognized her identity and took the initiative to invite her. Kudo Yukiko's suspicion was the youngest of the four.

However, the investigation cannot rely solely on subjective judgments. On the one hand, the Megure Police Department brought Officer Takagi to the door to take notes, and on the other hand, they also wanted to ask Yusaku Kudo to help solve the case.

This abominable murder case has been publicized in the shopping street. The famous actress and employee Fuji Yukiko will be a suspect and will be covered by reporters. They dare to write anything in order to attract the attention of the public.

As long as you add suspicious and possible words, you can guide public opinion and people's thinking, and at the same time, you can be exempted from responsibility.

After all, the news that a famous actress was involved in a murder incident is more interesting than the news that the shopkeeper in the shopping street was suspected of being killed by a classmate, old friend or subordinate.

"Meow, meow, meow." The orange cat dumpling rolled up her body docilely, hooked her tail around Li Jia's wrist, put her head on her hand, and looked up at her quietly.

The deep cobalt blue cat's eyes looked over, a large piece of magnificent blue cat's eyes covered with glass balls, the cat's paws relaxed and stepped on Li Jia's arms, protracted and slowed down the voice: "Meow..."

The tense mood got a little relaxation, and Li Jia let out a breath slowly: "With Uncle Kudo and brother here, I will be fine."

Aunt Youxiko had no motive for the murder, and she was not familiar enough with the wine cellar she had come to for the first time, so it was impossible to arrange such a cruel and tortured murder method in a short period of time.

The orange cat dumpling licked her hand, and the barbed cat tongue brought a rough and itchy feeling like scrub, and Li Jia smoothed the orange back hair: "It takes about 10 minutes to drive back from Toriya Town , let’s prepare some tea for Megure Police Department and the others first.”

Mumu Police Department and the others came to the door suddenly, she was frightened for a moment and didn't think about making tea.

When she called just now, Uncle Kudo and the others had calm and calm voices, and she had to calm down as soon as possible.

……

The speed with which Yusaku Kudo reasoned and solved the case shocked Li Jia and the cats and cats in Nakaya at home.

Sharp and precise to see the suspicious points at the scene of the crime, but after a little questioning, it was clear which of the remaining three suspects was the real murderer, and the time to solve the case only took four to ten minutes.

It also included the time for Kudo Yusaku to explain the prisoner's method unhurriedly. If Kudo Yukiko didn't rush to know the answer, he could have explained it in more detail.

Li Jia listened to Kudo Yusaku's reasoning in a trance, and muttered to himself: "It's amazing..."

The suspicion on Aunt Yukiko was immediately cleared.

She only knew that Uncle Kudo's reasoning ability was very strong, maybe even higher than that of her brother.

But this reasoning ability is invisible and incomparable. She only thought that Uncle Kudo would find the criminal faster than her brother, but it doesn't seem to be the case...

Or it's not exactly that the speed of finding the prisoner is faster.

Uncle Kudo is more sensitive to the case than his elder brother. It is difficult for anyone to match the storm of his thinking when solving the case and reasoning.

Kudo Shinichi knew the culprit of the case clearly when he understood the key points, and they only understood the truth when Kudo Yusaku explained everything.

"Amazing, isn't it?" Kudo Yukiko smiled at her relaxedly and confidently, with no nervous or worried expression on her face.

She knows her lover better than anyone else, and she believes that Yusaku Kudo will clear her suspicions.

She was not nervous when she received a call from Li Jia, and she was able to comfort him when she received a worried call from a former fan reporter. Yukiko Kudo has such confidence.

What she didn't do, her husband will find out the truth and make her innocent.

"Hmm..." Li Jia nodded slightly, and couldn't help but relax her tight lips: "It's really amazing."

Fingers scratched the orange cat dumpling who unconsciously raised its head and pricked its ears. When Li Jia scratched the round cute cat with a focused face, it meowed slightly and pressed her hand down.

"Can Mr. Nakaya understand Uncle Kudo's reasoning?" Li Jia asked in a low voice, holding up Mao Mao's head and kissing it.

The orange cat dumpling who was comforting her just now returned to her usual appearance, holding her paw up against her face and pushing, "Meow ow ow."

"I also think that Uncle Kudo is very powerful," Li Jia smiled shyly, "I always feel that it is difficult to hide any secret from Uncle Kudo."

Even if a person who is good at observation and reasoning does not deliberately think about it, information will continue to flow into his mind, telling him the truth and everything.

The orange cat dumpling in her arms froze for a moment, jumped onto Li Jia's shoulders and sat upright amidst Li Jia's puzzled look: "...Meow."