Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 313 Hattori's Murderer

   Jiang Xia turned around and saw a middle-aged man with a high hairline.

   The man had a short nose, a mustache under his lips, and was dressed in homely clothes. He looked like a neighbor who came to visit from the same building.

   Hattori Shizuka looked at him secretly and nodded: "We really came to Mr. Shibata, are you his neighbor?"

"Yeah." The middle-aged man also had something to look for Chai Tian. He crossed Jiang Xia and the three to the door of Chai Tian's house. While ringing the doorbell, he said unceremoniously, "We made an appointment to go to my house for a while to play mahjong, what are you looking for? If he says, hurry up."

   Jiang Xia also hoped that he would act quickly, and quietly hinted: "Mr. Shibata doesn't seem to be at home. We rang the doorbell just now, but no one has opened the door."

   Neighbor Yoshikawa Takezo shook his head: "I must have fallen asleep and didn't hear it, after all last night we..." He was halfway through when he suddenly remembered something, cleared his throat, and swallowed the rest.

   Amuro Toru smelled a suspicious aura and gave him a careful look.

   Jiang Xia is not very interested in Yoshikawa bamboo. After all, this person has no ghosts on his legs, and there is no murderous intent on his body at present-he knew that the reason why Yoshikawa Takezo was dodging when he spoke was because Shiro Shibata and several others often gambled at Yoshikawa's house. Yesterday, Shibata Shiro also played mahjong all night at his house, so Yoshikawa Takezo thought that Shibata might have fallen asleep because of drowsiness and did not hear the doorbell.

   This group of fox friends and dogs are very familiar with each other. After Yoshikawa Takezo rang the doorbell, he found that no one answered, so he simply reached out and twisted the doorknob.

  The door is just closed, not locked.

  Yoshikawa Takezo immediately showed an expression of "as expected". As he pushed the door into the room, he looked at the three audience members next to him with a little show off: "Look, I'll say he's at home."

  Yoshikawa Takezo stepped into the entrance and walked in calling Shibata's name.

   Jiang Xia followed him naturally.

   Amuro Turbine often broke into private houses, and entered the door naturally.

   Hattori Shizuka just hesitated for a moment, but there was no one around.

   She looked at the wide open door and remembered that she had made an appointment with her to wait at home to give her the photo today, but Shiro Shibata, who did not answer the phone and did not answer the doorbell, thought for a moment and followed the room cautiously.

   The atmosphere of life in the house is quite strong. When passing by the living room, Jiang Xia saw that the TV in the living room was on, half-eaten meals were placed on the table, and there was a copy of today's evening paper.

   Jiang Xia withdrew his gaze and planned to go to the room in front of him again to collect clues so that he could "reason" later.

   At this moment, the door at the entrance was suddenly pushed open.

   A shrill, trembling shout came from the door: "What are you doing?! Why did you break into other people's homes? I'm going to call the police!"

   Amuro was startled, turned around, and saw a short-haired woman with a shopping bag standing at the door.

   Judging from the woman's tone of voice and age, she looks like Shiro Shibata's wife. Probably as soon as I got home, I suddenly saw a few more strangers and was frightened.

   Amuro Toru is about to apologize for breaking into the house. But when he opened his mouth, he looked at Hattori Jinghua, who was dressed in a kimono and dressed elegantly, and looked at Jiang Xia, who seemed to be apologizing for being arrested for breaking into someone else's house, and suddenly felt that something was wrong.

  ... It's not early morning or late night, and Mrs. Shibata doesn't live alone. In this case, when you suddenly see a few well-dressed strangers in the house after returning home, wouldn't most people first guess that this is a guest brought back by her husband.

   But why did Mrs. Shibata react so fiercely? Their home has been burglarized before, leaving a psychological shadow?

   He was just about to ask politely about the situation, but at this moment, there was another exclamation from the corridor in the opposite direction.

  ——This time, it was the middle-aged man who opened the door and brought them in just now.

  Yoshikawa Takezo's voice sounded very anxious: "Shita?! What's wrong with you? Cheer up, Shibata!!"

   Sounds like Shibata Shiro seems to be in some trouble.

   Amuro Toru and Hattori Shizuka just turned his head to look at the source of the sound with vigilance and doubt, and suddenly saw a figure passing by—Jiang Xia reacted quickly and rushed over, as if he wanted to provide support there as soon as possible.

   Hattori Shizuka also quickly walked towards the direction of the scream, and nodded secretly at the same time: This child is very enthusiastic.

  …

   After half a minute, everyone came to the study, including Mrs. Shibata, who was carrying a bunch of shopping bags and looked vigilant.

   Looking inward from the door, I could see Shibata Shiro lying on the ground, the hair on the top of his head sticking together, as if soaked in blood.

   Jiang Xia squatted on the ground, poked Shibata Shiro, who was starting to stiffen, and withdrew his hand slightly heavy: "It will be difficult to rescue."

   This is a euphemism for someone who is dead.

   Neighbor Takezo Yoshikawa stared blankly at the corpse, while Mrs. Shibata covered her mouth and began to sob sadly.

   In addition, Hattori Shizuka, who looked dignified next to him. Another standard three-choice.

  …

  The police arrived quickly, and when there were too many people, the scene became chaotic.

   Jiang Xia walked to the body and found Shibata Shiro's right hand slightly stretched forward, holding a rolled up photo in his hand.

   - Just look at the photo again, and the hand holding the photo with the corpse will almost start fast-forwarding the collected clues.

   As a detective who usually cooperates happily with the police, Jiang Xia didn't go directly to wrench the corpse's hand, but lingered by the corpse's hand for a while, waiting for the witty police officer to notice this, and then came over to be a hard-working wrench tool.

   Not long after, the police came, but it was a special policeman.

  ——Amuro came over while no one was paying attention. He took a few pictures with a camera he didn't know who had taken him, then crouched down, took out the picture in the corpse's hand, and took a look.

   In the photo is a girl with a single ponytail, a sad face, and stroking the medal in tears.

Her face is somewhat familiar. Combined with the group photo of the junior high school kendo club that Hattori Jinghua took out before, the identity of the person in the photo is very clear - she is Hattori Jinghua nearly thirty years ago, the deceased Shiro Shibata classmates.

  Amuro took a deep look, then silently rolled up the photo as it was and stuffed it back for the deceased.

   Then he stood up, saw Jiang Xia who seemed equally surprised next to him, and whispered, "Don't let the identity of the suspect affect your judgment."

   A murder case can happen to anyone at any time, anyone can be killed, and anyone can be a murderer, and the wives of senior officials are no exception...

   However, after recovering from the excitement of eating melons, Toru Amuro always felt that something was not right.

  He was silent for a moment, and his eyes fell back to the corpse's hand holding the photo.

   (end of this chapter)