I, Zhongli, Wander the World

People in Yokohama have rich experience in dealing with murder cases. The clerk explained the situation to the customers in the store in a few words, and made it clear that they would compensate the customers stranded in the store, and the customers calmed down. Waiting quietly for the dessert shop's solution.

The postman boy naturally sat at a table with Zhong Li, and took the seat next to Zhong Li unceremoniously.

When strangers are fighting at the table, just sit on the other side!

The postman boy didn't seem to regard himself as an outsider at all. He pointed to the only sparkling water in front of Zhongyuan Zhongyao and said, "I want to drink that."

Zhongyuan Zhong also had no appetite. At this time, in order to contradict the young man, he hurriedly took the cup and said in a vicious voice: "This is what Mr. ordered for me, and I want to drink it! If you want to drink it, order it yourself!"

"Hey—" The postman boy dragged his voice and said, "You obviously don't want to drink anymore. If I don't speak, you won't touch that glass of sparkling water until you leave here!"

"I..." Zhongyuan Zhong, an honest boy who can't lie, was at a loss for words. He had indeed completely forgotten about this drink with a low sense of existence just now.

"And I'm very hungry." The boy took off the peaked cap that came with the postman's uniform and lay down on the table softly, "The rice **** I brought in spare were finished last night, and I haven't eaten anything since morning until now. , the wages have not been paid, and now my stomach is as empty as a dry riverbed in the dry season..."

Zhongyuan Zhongye is not a hard-hearted person at heart. Looking at the pitiful appearance of the young man at the moment, he didn't think about why he wanted a drink when he was hungry, and hesitantly pushed the cup over: "Then this cup is for me. You drink, say it first, you are not allowed to grab anything else from me."

"Oh!" The boy who succeeded in his strategy immediately jumped up and took the cup with a big smile on his face, "Don't worry, there won't be anything to send after anyway—"

Before the boy's fingers touched the wall of the cup, a hand reached over and took the cup away.

"Hey?"

Zhong Li put the cup on the corner of the table out of the boy's reach, and looked at him disapprovingly, "Cold drinks on an empty stomach will cause abdominal pain, don't toss yourself so much for a temporary appetite."

Then, without waiting for the boy to make a fuss, he said directly: "If you are really hungry, why not make a contract with me?"

The boy's attention was immediately drawn away, "What contract?"

Zhong Li: "Help the shopkeeper and others solve this case, and I will invite you to eat what you want until you are full."

A murder case that is difficult for ordinary people to solve is not a big deal for the teenager, but he did not show any expression of taking advantage of it, but showed an incomprehensible confusion.

"Why?" the boy asked suspiciously, "There is no case to investigate here, okay?"

Zhongyuan Zhong also frowned slightly, "What are you talking about? Isn't that the one in the middle?"

Zhong Li didn't say anything more, just changed his words calmly: "Then, go and tell everything you see."

He looked at the hesitant boy and said, "You don't have to worry about other people's fears and hatreds, you don't have to think about expulsion or bad words. It doesn't matter whether others know it or not, you just need to say it."

"I am there for everything."

inside.

The young female corpse in the uniform of the cook was lying crookedly on the floor of the lounge, her eyes were closed but her face was distorted, her lips were blue and purple, and it was obvious that she had suffered great pain before her death. She grabbed her throat with one hand and clasped the floor with the other, her fingertips made deep and shallow scratches on the wooden board, and blood was seeping between her fingers.

"What's going on here?" The store manager calmly asked several people standing at the scene.

"Store manager, A He and I were the first to find out." One of the store clerks looked at the girl next to each other and said, "When we entered the lounge, Ayako was silent. Apart from testing Ayako's breath, I didn't do anything extra, I notified you as soon as possible."

The girl named Ahe also nodded, "You know, Haruna and I are just nodding acquaintances, and we can testify to each other." After speaking, she looked at the girl next to her who was a little bit broken, and said, "Where's Haruka? You and Ayako have the best relationship, when Ayako asked for leave a few days ago, I saw you chatting with her on the line, do you have any clues?"

Haruka's eyes were red from crying, she shook her head and nodded again, sobbing and said: "I know, I know, Ayako was a little uncomfortable in the morning, she told me to go in and lie down for a while, she had already taken leave because of inflammation, I just came back today, I thought she had a recurrence of symptoms, so I let her go, and I just thought she was asleep when she didn't come out at noon, who knows..."

"It's all because of me, because I don't care..."

The clerk next to him quickly comforted Haruka, who was sobbing, and someone whispered, "Is this face poisoned? Ordinary inflammation can't do this level."

The store manager asked, "Haruka, did Ayako have anything to eat before her break?"

The girl sniffed and nodded randomly, "Yes, she ate a piece of red wine cake."

The store manager immediately said to another store clerk: "Go and take back all the customers' red wine cakes, and then ask them about their conditions. If necessary, you need to ask me, and call an ambulance immediately."

The clerk who got the order hurried out.

Yumi stood uneasily watching the development, and when she heard that there was a problem with the red wine cake, she subconsciously glanced at the red wine cake placed at the kitchen door, but saw a familiar teenager picking up a cake and preparing to stuff it into her mouth.

"Ahhhh, put down that can't eat it!"

Yumi hurriedly stepped forward to stop it, but was flexibly ducked by the young man, "Anyway, there's no poison in it, you guys won't use this as a commodity for insurance purposes, it's okay to eat one for me instead of wasting it!"

After speaking, he took a big bite on it again, "Well, as expected of a hit, is the jam in the sandwich also mixed with red wine? The chocolate **** on top are also red wine sandwiches..."

"What did you say? No poison?" Yumi was startled.

The store manager had already noticed the commotion here and came over. She didn't even care about the young man sneaking into the room, she frowned and said, "How do you know it's not poisonous?"

The teenager tilted his head suspiciously, "Huh? Isn't this something you can tell just by looking at it?"

"Dying from a disulfiram-like reaction has nothing to do with the poison in the cake, right?"

The unfamiliar words made the store manager a little confused, "Disulfide...what?"

"Disulfiram-like reaction, a drug reaction caused by mixing drugs and alcohol in a short period of time. In severe cases, shock or even death." Zhong Li walked over from the outside with Zhongyuan Zhong also, and said lightly, "Ruo Yan is about this matter. , the most well-known are cephalosporins and alcohol, but of course other drugs are not without them.”

Zhongyuan Zhong also followed behind him, trying to hold his head high to make himself appear more imposing.

"Miss Ayako recently took metronidazole because of inflammation, one of the reaction drugs." The young hamster chewed the cake and said vaguely, "And the red wine cake she ate was the incentive. "

He was too sure, and the store manager was a little shocked by him, and he blurted out the question involuntarily: "Who the **** are you?"

"Me? My name is Edogawa Ranbu." Edogawa Ranbu swallowed the cake three or two times, clapped his hands and pointed forward, "Anyway, ignore these preset conditions, isn't the murderer you? Name Haruka's sister."

The intermittent sobbing suddenly stopped, and Haruka stared blankly at Edogawa who was pointing at him, and uttered a single syllable that didn't respond: "...Hey?"

"Lanbu-kun." The store manager said with some disapproval, "Xiaoyao is already very uncomfortable, please don't make such a joke that is not funny."

"Ah, so it's her!" Edogawa Ranbu scratched his uneven hair in distress, "Is this also a so-called confidential matter? Or is it a well-intentioned cross-examination like the final exam? I just don't understand, the world of adults is really complicated..."

It's always been that way.

Obviously he just said what everyone knew, but he was always reprimanded and driven away. The eyes of adults looking at him made him incomprehensible, like looking at a black goat in a sheepfold.

"It may be complicated, but as long as you learn with sincerity, one day you will be able to learn how to do things." The steady voice in his ear seemed to have some kind of reassuring magic, which strangely calmed Edogawa Ranbu's heart. Reluctance and a little bit of fear, he involuntarily raised his head to look at Zhongli, and hurriedly looked away when the man was about to meet his gaze.

"Okay, I see, after all, we still have a contract..." Edogawa Ranbu muttered in a low voice, then raised his voice to cover up, and said loudly: "There is no need to play stupid when everyone knows things. After all, you were the one who proposed to move the red wine cake that was only served on Monday to Sunday! When I just delivered the letter, I heard the clerk's sister chatting."

"'Xiaoyao really has a set. It seems that we can consider changing the supply time of the red wine cake to Sunday' or something."

"Well, what does that prove!" Yao said loudly, sobbing, "I just think that the red wine cake that sells very well will definitely become a hit on Sunday, but I'm just giving my opinion for the consideration of the dessert shop! Besides, Besides, the desserts in the store are all commodities, it is against the rules to eat them secretly, how can I guarantee that Ayako will be able to eat the cake!"

"Of course you can guarantee it." Edogawa Ranbu pointed to his cheek, and then pointed to Ayako's pocket, where a small section of colorful candy paper was exposed, "Miss Ayako's cheek is a little swollen, and her inflammation is in the Oral, right? It’s rare to have candy in her pocket when her mouth is inflamed, she must be very fond of sweets.”

"Besides, Miss Ayako doesn't need to steal food at all. As a helper in the kitchen, it's understandable for her to try some finished products. Now that she has finally improved a little, she comes to work. She has been holding back for a few days and she will definitely try it even if she suffers from oral inflammation. "

"So—" Edogawa Ranpo concluded, "If you understand Miss Ayako's behavior, you can definitely guarantee that Miss Ayako will eat a red wine cake with alcohol on the first Sunday of her return."

The eyes of the store manager next to him were full of suspicion, and Yao couldn't even care to cry, and retorted anxiously: "These suspicions of yours do not constitute evidence at all! What guarantee is not guaranteed, I have no idea that metronidazole cannot be combined with Take it with alcohol!"

Although suspicions were rising, the store manager still said, "Yes, this can only mean that Ayako's death was an accident."

Edogawa waved his fingers in a chaotic step, "Of course this matter alone can be regarded as an accident, but what if Miss Haruka gave even the metronidazole?"

"what?"

Edogawa Ranpo said: "Metronidazole is a prescription drug and is very effective in treating oral inflammation, but few people know that it can cause a disulfiram-like reaction like cephalosporins. If it is prescribed by a regular hospital , I will definitely write a doctor's order, emphasizing that this drug should not be mixed with alcohol for a period of time, and the patient will also pay attention to this aspect."

"But Miss Ayako doesn't."

"Even in a city like Yokohama, there is no need for ordinary people to bypass the convenient and fast formal channel of the hospital to get a symptomatic prescription drug. If you want to get metronidazole without a doctor's order or even a box marked with contraindication instructions, Then there is only one way that acquaintances give."

"Checking Miss Ayako's line account now, you may be able to get a message that Miss Haruka hasn't had time to deal with, recommending and giving yourself 'excess' metronidazole to Miss Ayako who is in pain. Three unpackaged bags of nidazole tablets with Ms. Haruka's fingerprints."

"You know it yourself, don't you? After all, a disguised accident, no matter how it looks like an accident, is a well-prepared and downright murder."

The author has something to say:

Zhongli: How did you know that metronidazole can treat oral inflammation?

Huanbu (breathing): It's not because of the swollen gums that I ate too much sweets in the past!