Conan's self-cultivation of fake wine

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  "The deceased's name is Mysama Ryuzou, 43 years old, and his occupation is...food writer?"

"It is said that this person will write some food-related articles in newspapers and magazines. The business of restaurants praised by him will instantly improve a lot, while the business of shops criticized by him will plummet in an instant."

Hui Yuan Ai walked up to Lu Ren with his hands behind his back, "By the way, his writing style is similar to yours, Brother Ren, and both are more vicious. But in terms of literary attainments, he is far behind you, Brother Ren."

Hearing this, Lu Ren couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth slightly, and temporarily suspended the investigation of the deceased, "Xiao Ai, are you praising me?"

"Yes? I also hope that Brother Ren will be more careful. After all, you are writing an article and you will offend many more people than him."

Then your way of caring is really unique.

These words went around in Lu Ren's mind, but in the end he didn't say them out.

He was actually more inclined to think that the conversation just now was Haiyuan's small revenge.

The reason was that he entered the sushi restaurant and reached out his hand to rub Haibara's head. As a result, the two of them received an electric shock.

The latter's originally bright little face turned gloomy visibly to the naked eye.

Then I found an opportunity to say something secretly to him like before.

Alas, this little guy is so vindictive.

Lu Ren put away his emotions and returned his attention to the case itself.

"The deceased died of poisoning."

This is also an old friend. The poison is potassium cyanide that appears frequently.

In the science world, poison is basically equivalent to potassium cyanide.

"Time of death, 12:45 noon."

The time of death of this person is more precise than that of the usual dead. After all, he suddenly fell to the ground and died in full public view.

At noon today, Lu Ren, who had just finished lunch in the newspaper cafeteria, was chatting with Bei Dao while he was eating, when he suddenly received a call from Haiyuan.

Then he came to this conveyor belt sushi restaurant called Tornado Sword.

Conveyor belt sushi, as the name suggests, is a conveyor belt with plates containing various sushis placed on it. Which kind of sushi the diners want to eat, they just wait for the plate to be turned in front of them, then reach out and take it off.

There are similar ways of eating in China, but most of them are not sushi, but self-service revolving hotpots.

The same goes for conveyor belt sushi. This thing can actually be regarded as a buffet in the sushi category.

The price is also much cheaper than ordinary sushi, let alone compared to premium sushi.

However, considering the doctor's income level and the appetite of the Five Hundred Words people, Dr. Ali's willingness to drive them over to eat this is already considered a very generous act.

And the conveyor belt sushi restaurant in front of you is actually not that small.

It has two independent conveyor belts, and the store can accommodate up to 40 people to dine here.

Considering the size of a small restaurant, it is already quite large, at least it cannot be called a fly restaurant.

"Poisoned to death, food poisoning?"

"Sir, please be careful with your words. Our sushi restaurant always puts the safety of customers' lives first and will never poison food!"

A tall, middle-aged man wearing a white chef's uniform and a chef's hat appeared in front of Lu Ren.

"Are you the manager of this store?"

"That's right, Namiki Dan'er, I'm already engaged in the sushi industry..."

"Wait a moment." Lu Ren handed over his business card, "You can talk after reading it."

Dongbao reporter...Lu Ren!
  Manager Namigi's pupils tightened. He quickly put away his business card, nodded and said, "You are welcome to come and give us guidance despite your busy schedule. If you have any questions, please be sure to ask them. I will tell you everything I know."

Compared with the notoriety of this pen of God, the photo of my wife lying dead next to her can only be regarded as a small shrimp.

If you really piss off this evil star, you don't even need to write a special article. His store will definitely be gone with just one sentence.

"Did any customers leave the scene after the incident?"

"No." The store manager pointed at Conan, "That kid asked us to seal off the scene and never allow anyone to leave until the police arrive."

"Ah."

With Conan here, there is basically no need to worry about this.

After routine inquiries, Lu Ren took stock of the people in the store.

Excluding the deceased and the doctor's group, there were a total of twenty-one people in the store, including the customers and the chef.

Sixteen diners, five cooks.

There are a lot of suspects this time.

No, not right.

If the murderer used the conveyor track of conveyor sushi to poison, then the only people who were most likely to poison him were the diners sitting in front of the same track as him.

Lu Ren took out the fake certificate from his arms, glanced at the whispering crowd, then put away the fake certificate and loudly said: "I am a policeman, please cooperate with the investigation."

"At the time of the incident, diners who were sitting on the same conveyor belt as the deceased, please raise your right hand."

The doctor and his group were the first to respond to the call and raised their right hands.

Well, these people can be excluded directly.

In addition to them, four other people raised their right hands.

The scope was suddenly reduced a lot.

Four diners plus five chefs, for a total of nine people.

But how did the murderer poison him?
  If poison is put in the sushi, conveyor belt sushi is a self-service mode. The deceased has to pick up a certain plate of sushi in advance, and even he may not know it.

On this conveyor track, including the doctor and his party, there were a total of eleven people dining.

what is this? Indiscriminate killing?
  No, it shouldn't be.

After all, there were five children at this table, and there was a particularly cute little girl among them.

If it was really to retaliate against society for indiscriminately poisoning and killing people, why should the poison be thrown at another table?

Or was it that when the murderer poisoned him, Huiyuan and the others hadn't come over yet. After the poison was administered, it was already too late, and then Haiyuan and the others happened to escape?
  Lu Ren looked at the store manager, "Do you still remember the dining time of this table of diners? What time did they come to the sushi restaurant, and how long did they eat here?"

The store manager replied: "My wife was the first to come, then the gentleman sitting on his left, and then the group of children sat on my wife's right, followed closely by the woman in pink clothes. She sat next to the grandfather of these children."

"The two gentlemen came together last, and they sat directly opposite my wife. I can't remember the exact meal time, but it was definitely more than half an hour."

He was poisoned and died half an hour after eating?
  Why leave such a long gap? Could it be...

"Are there any customers at this table who have already checked out and left at noon today? If so, at what time did they leave? Where were they sitting at that time?"

"A couple came here with their children. They were also sitting across from my wife. As for the departure time, there should be a record at the cashier at the front desk."

With the help of the store manager, Lu Ren looked at the time recorded at the front desk. I found that the family of three left the conveyor belt sushi restaurant at 12:25.

The time of death from poisoning shown on my wife's photo is twelve forty-five.

There was a full twenty minutes interval.

If it was really their fault, wouldn't it mean that a plate of sushi had been sitting on the conveyor belt for at least twenty minutes.

Due to the unexpected death of a guest, the conveyor belt in the sushi restaurant has stopped running. Lu Ren is not sure how fast the conveyor belt is.

So he asked directly, "With the deceased as the starting point, how long will it take for the same plate of sushi to be transferred to him again?" "About five minutes."

five minutes……

If the couple poisoned them, within twenty minutes, that meant that the poisoned plate of sushi had appeared in front of all the diners at least three times.

If it were true that people were poisoned and killed indiscriminately, this time would be a bit too long.

The suspicion of that family of three can basically be ruled out.

And since they brought their children over to dine, it was really unreasonable to poison the table where most of the children occupied the table.

Therefore, the poisoning time should be controlled within ten minutes, that is, a plate of sushi rotates twice on the conveyor belt.

Once the time of the crime is determined, the next step is to look at the modus operandi and motive.

Lu Ren didn't quite believe that this was an indiscriminate poisoning and murder case.

Again, there are so many children at this table. If you really want to take revenge on society, you should go to the table next door.

But if it was a premeditated murder with a clear target, how did the murderer achieve precise poisoning?
  From this point of view, the middle-aged man wearing a hat sitting next to the deceased is most likely to do this.

As long as the deceased's attention is attracted by other things within ten minutes, he can take the opportunity to poison.

Apply it on sushi, dinner plates, or even directly on the table surface.

But correspondingly, just because he is the most likely to poison, the possibility of him poisoning is the least.

Because he also knew that the first person the police would suspect must be him. If he really did it, he would definitely clean up his hands and tail, at least he would not let the police find a bottle containing poison from him.

Of course, the likelihood of finding potassium cyanide in anyone else is also slim. Otherwise, the difficulty of solving this case would be a bit too low.

As for the search, it is better to wait for the real police to arrive and leave it to them.

What Lu Ren has to do now is to complete some preparations in advance.

The current suspects are still the four people at the same table plus the five cooks.

If it was a deliberate murder, the two middle-aged men who came together at the end were the least likely to kill.

There is no similarity in appearance between the two of them, so it can be initially determined that they are not related by blood. They should be employees of the same company, and come here to have dinner together during get off work time at noon.

With this kind of relationship, it's hard to believe that they would join forces to commit a crime.

But if it was a single person committing the crime, he would have to be careful not to let his colleagues sitting next to him find out that he had poisoned him.

This difficulty is indeed a bit high.

If you exclude the two of them, there are only two diners sitting at the same table.

The middle-aged man in the hat and the aunt in pink sitting next to Dr. Ali.

In addition, there are four chefs plus the store manager and chef standing in front of Lu Ren.

"Did anything happen in the store between twelve thirty-five and twelve forty-five?"

"Yes." The store manager pointed at Conan and the others, "Those children accidentally knocked the plastic dinner plates on the table to the ground. Then my wife and husband got into an argument with them."

"Dispute? What exactly did you say?"

"He said that Yuantai knocked the dinner plate to the ground on purpose, so that when the money was finally calculated, there would be less money." Haiyuan Ai replied.

"Counting money, does this sushi restaurant calculate money by the number of plates?"

"That's right, Brother Ren, don't you know?" Haiyuan Ai felt a little strange about this.

"I don't know, I've only been to premium sushi restaurants."

"Ok."

This reason is simply impeccable.

Seeing that he really didn't understand, Haiyuan Ai started to popularize science from the beginning.

"Conveyor belt sushi restaurants all calculate money based on the number of plates. Sushi at different prices will use different plate colors. Customers can take their meals at will. Once they take it off, they cannot put it away whether they eat it or not. put it back."

"In addition to self-pickup, you can also order through the electronic screen in front of you. When the sushi you ordered is transferred to the front, a 'beep' sound will sound to remind the customer that this is the sushi he ordered before."

"That's it, thank you."

The deceased had a dispute with Yuanta and his group on the right, and his attention was distracted.

The middle-aged hat man on the left can take advantage of this time to poison.

Was it really him?
  No, we can't be sure yet. We can only say that he is the most suspicious.

"My wife left a photo and had a fight with you. What happened next? How to deal with it?"

"After he scolded us, he turned around and started scolding the uncle next to him," Yuantai shouted back, "and called him Brother Flounder."

Flounder bro?

Lu Ren took a look at the man's appearance. Although he had an unshaven beard, a haggard face, and was unkempt. But even so, his appearance has nothing to do with Flounder.

"What is your name? Do you know the deceased?"

Brother Flounder nodded, "My name is Xiang Yuanxiu, and I had a relationship with my wife."

"Please tell me more specifically, like why he gave you the nickname Flounder."

To be honest, the flounder is a bit ugly. This title is obviously insulting.

Osamu Aiono hesitated for a moment, and finally replied truthfully: "I once brought my wife to this restaurant to eat sushi. I mistakenly identified the sea bass as a halibut, and then my wife's husband laughed at me."

"Just like that?"

If it's just a simple bad breath, it won't be a killer, right? This guy doesn't look like a grumpy old man.

"Also, he continued to ridicule me online. I like to share delicious food on my blog, but somehow he saw it, and then he left sarcastic comments under each of my blogs."

It turned out to be the case.

This is enough motive for murder...a hammer.

Killing people for this kind of thing is a bit nonsense, right?
  No, you can't have this idea.

There are even more ridiculous reasons for killing people in Ke Xue's world. And this person may not be telling the truth.

Lu Ren decided to continue testing, "Since you have an old grudge with him, why are you still sitting next to him? Of course, these children haven't come yet, and there are still seats opposite."

"Mr. Police, are you doubting me?"

Xiang Yuanxiu suddenly became very excited.

"I had a bit of a feud with him! But I wouldn't kill him just because of this, right? And it's been several months. As for why I sat next to him, it's not that I deliberately sat next to him. , but I usually sit in that place when I have meals."

"And my wife was poisoned to death, right? If I really killed him, then you should be able to find poison-filled potions or handkerchiefs on me, right? I definitely don't have these things on me!"

As soon as these words came out, not only Lu Ren, but also Conan also focused on Xiang Yuanxiu.

The long-term experience in solving crimes tells them.

The more confident someone appears, the more suspicious that person is.

ps: The title of this chapter is wrong. It should be Chapter 536, but it was changed to Chapter 356. The title cannot be changed, this is the only way. Cover your face.

(End of this chapter)