Chapter 98 Withered Flowers
"Who locked that door?" asked Qiu Benqiujiang.
"Ah? Lock the door? This..." Kogoro was speechless for a moment, rubbed his hair, hesitated for a long time, and finally turned his eyes slowly to Summer as if he asked for help.
The watery little eyes of Kogoro were staring at him so hard that he had goose bumps all over the floor. Xia Ri couldn't stand it anymore, so he turned his head and coughed gently.
"The door was indeed locked by Mr. Haozang, but I think he must have been stabbed outside the room and escaped back to the room and locked the door from the inside in order to avoid further pursuit by the murderer!"
"But it's a pity that even so, he unfortunately died of excessive blood loss."
Kogoro nodded with a smile and took over the topic: "That's right! That's right! In this way, the room is sealed, and all the doubts that the weapon is not on the scene and the blood on the threshold are all reasonable explanations!!"
The members of the Tsube family looked at each other and thought about it carefully, and they all felt that what Kogoro said was very reasonable.
"Well... Even if I said it once, I have to say it again. I am really a detective. It's true that I have some skills!" Qiu Ben Qiujiang praised.
This is the second time that Akie Hakka has flattered him. However, I don’t know if he is too sensitive, but Xia Ri always feels that Akie Hakka Hakka’s words seem to be not what he said to Kogoro, but are aimed at himself!
"Hahahaha... there is no case, it is impossible for my famous detective Kogoro Mori!" Kogoro laughed, not realizing that the meaning in the Akie-chan dialect was pointed.
Seeing that Kogoro was only scrupulously laughing, Xia Ri coughed lightly and added: "But in this way, everyone present, except for Miss Xia Jiang and Butler Suzuki, are suspected of murder!"
"What did you say!" Everyone was shocked.
Xia Ri glanced over these people and said slowly: "The incident happened at about 8 o'clock in the evening, which was the time before you entered the restaurant. Uncle Kogoro, Xiaolan, Xia Jiang and Conan, and I, have been staying in the restaurant since 7:30, and it is impossible for us to go out to commit crimes."
"At the same time, butler Suzuki also arranged tableware at the dining tables in the restaurant and did not leave the restaurant, so... after thinking about it, only you can commit a secret crime!"
"So..." Kogoro's eyes lit up, and his eyes also looked at the people from the Ume family outside the door, "The murderer must be one of you who were not in the restaurant at that time!?"
Xia Ri nodded, but added: "Of course, if you include the crew on the cruise ship, they may also commit crimes."
The people from the Umeen family looked at each other, and they all saw a trace of gloom on each other's faces.
"You mean? The murderer is among us!?"
"That's right!" Xia Ri half-squinted her eyes, trying to find something from these people's faces, but after looking at them for a long time, she could not see anything.
Kogoro asked Suzuki butler again: "Mr. Suzuki, have you noticed anything unusual before entering this room?"
"No... After I found the master's body and shouted, everyone rushed over." Butler Suzuki shook his head, but before he finished speaking, he suddenly seemed to remember something again, "Oh, by the way... I picked up this thing at the door..."
Butler Suzuki said, reaching out to take out a slightly withered red flower from his pants pocket.
"Ah! This flower..." Yumoto Xia Jiang covered his little mouth and said in surprise, "Isn't it the corsage that I helped Xiao Wu off before!?"
Looking at this flower, Xia Ri also remembered when he saw the belated silhouette of Yumotobu in the restaurant just now. He also mentioned that his corsage was accidentally lost. He didn't expect it to appear here. Wouldn't that be...
Everyone turned their eyes suddenly to Yumotobu, and Yumotobu's face became extremely unnatural because of the flower.
Yumoto Akie looked at Yumoto Take in surprise and said, "So that's it. No wonder you arrived at the restaurant so late. It turned out that you killed grandpa!"
Take Yumoto shook his head quickly and explained, "Sister, you misunderstood. I was thinking about something in the room, so I went so late..."
"Don't lie!" Yumoto Ichiro lowered his head slightly and said with a gloomy face, "When you arrived at the restaurant, your face was a little wrong. Grandpa must have been the one you killed!"
Takeru Omoto's cold sweat was left, and he smiled bitterly: "Ichiro, don't..."
Seeing that Yumoto was still quibbling, Mariko Yumoto's lips sneered, interrupting Yumoto's words, and snorted coldly: "You are still not giving up! Xiaowu..."
"I accidentally heard your conversation outside my dad's room just now. At that time, you and dad were actually arguing, right??"
Xia Ri clearly saw that the face of Yumoto Take's face changed, and his pupils also dilated instantly. Obviously, Yumoto's words directly hit some secrets in Yumoto Take's heart.
"Arguing?" Kogoro was also stunned.
"Yes... it's just an argument..." Mariko Yumoto suddenly pointed to Yumoto and shouted loudly, "And I also heard that Xiaowu, you are actually the son of Yufu Caicheng!!"
Xia Ri didn't know who the Yongfu of Caicheng was, but when he saw these members of the Yuben family, after hearing this name, all of them showed horror on their faces. He knew that this person must have many connections with the Yuben family.
On the side, Kogoro was confused when he heard this. He couldn't help asking, "Sorry, who is Caicheng Yongfu?"
The bald man, Omoto Kitaro, glanced at his wife Mariko, and saw that she didn't respond, he explained to Xia Ri and others: "Caicheng Yongfu is the president of Caicheng Industrial who was taken away by his father more than ten years ago and therefore committed suicide."
"But I heard that a year after the man Yongfu of Caicheng committed suicide, his wife died of illness, and his only son was sent to a foster care home. I didn't expect that the child was Xiao Wu."
Yumoto Xia Jiang shook his head with tears in his eyes and asked in disbelief: "Xiao Wu...is this true?"
Yumoto Take down his head and clenched his fists.
"That's right! I am the son of Caicheng Yufu, Caicheng Takehiko!!"
When he heard that Wu Benwu personally admitted his identity, the corridor fell into silence for a moment. The people from Wu Ben's family looked at Xiao Wu and didn't know what to say.
Kogoro put his hands in his pants pockets and said as if he suddenly realized: "It turns out that you approached Miss Xia Jiang for revenge, and took the opportunity to sneak into the siege's house and waited for the opportunity to start..."
"It seems that you have planned this murder case in fact!!"
Chapter completed!