I'm Not a Detective

In the bedroom of the villa, Qingjian Liuli was puzzled, and Takeshi Nanahara casually ordered: "Go and look through the records of the maids and cooks to see what Jin Manxiu and the others had for dinner last night, and whether they drank alcohol."

"Isn't the poisoning related to dinner?" Qing Jian Liuli came back to her senses and became even more puzzled.

"So I didn't ask just now, but now I want to know, go take a look!" Takeshi Nanahara urged again.

Qingmi Ruri hurried downstairs to check the transcript, then trotted back all the way to report: "The simple meal they had last night included braised eggplant with soy sauce, beef and vegetable salad, tomato mackerel cubes, vegetarian fried tempura, nakako Vegetable tofu soup, some pickles and rice.”

"Where's the wine?"

"I didn't drink." Qingjian Liuli replied, "I asked the cook, Ms. Wenban, and she said that Lawyer Jin Man had been asked by doctors to stop drinking for five or six years due to cardiovascular problems, and he also agreed not to drink anymore. So everyone doesn’t drink at dinner so as not to affect him.”

Qin Yuanwu smiled and said: "Another one..."

Qingjian Liuli asked curiously: "What is it again?"

"Another loser in quitting drinking." Takeshi Nanahara was thinking of his old man. Even though he had cancer, he still thought about drinking a few sips all day long. Before he died, he was still competing with him in a battle of wits and courage!

Of course, at that time, he was already better than the old man. The old man was completely defeated and never succeeded until his death.

Now that I think about it, I feel a little regretful. Anyway, I couldn't save him in the end, so I might as well let the old man fulfill his wish and drink half a catty of sweet potato cake before he died.

"A loser in quitting drinking?" Qingjian Liuli said unhappily, "What on earth are you talking about? Can't you talk to me properly?"

"Wait a minute, let's find the private goods he hid first." Takeshi Nanahara stood in the middle of the bedroom, touched his chin and muttered, "Failure to quit drinking is not a glorious thing. His personality is more serious and old-fashioned, and he is more worried. Others know that there should be a small safe, but this villa is old, and it doesn't look like there is a safe space reserved in the wall. Maybe it is a small safe. He has to open it frequently, so it is best to take the inside Just sit aside and take a sip to let out a long breath..."

As he spoke, Takeshi Nanahara walked to the sofa, looked at the easy chair next to him, and then at the set of fabric sofas. He gently pushed each one and lifted up the cushion of one of them.

He took another look, then reached into the gap between the backrest and the base of the sofa, touched a button, and pulled off a piece of wood covered with cloth, revealing a groove with a flat inlay inside. An iron box with a code disk.

"Hey, is there really a... fuse box?" Qing Jian Liuli's eyes widened, and several staff members of the forensics department who were still taking samples everywhere also gathered around in surprise. They did not expect that there was a mechanism in the sofa. Can also hide things.

"Can you open it?" Takeshi Nanahara looked at the staff of the forensics department. Although he could open it, he would look like a thief, so it was best to let others do it for him.

A staff member came out of the forensics class. He raised his camera and took a few close-ups of the iron box and the sofa. Then he looked at the code disk and nodded: "It should be fine."

This is a crime scene. It is currently under the control of the police. Everything must be searched. The people in the forensics department do not need to apply or notify the victim. They just took out the iron box, put on the stethoscope and started playing with it.

It was a very simple combination lock, probably mainly to protect against the maid who was cleaning the room. The box was quickly opened, revealing several brown and black square wine bottles and a white porcelain rice bowl inside.

The staff in the Forensics Section immediately took pictures again, then took out the wine bottle and bowl with gloves on, took several close-ups from various angles, extracted fingerprints, and finally handed them over to Takeshi Nanabahara.

Wearing gloves, Takeshi Nanahara first looked at the labels on the bottles, then unscrewed the bottle caps one by one, fanned the mouth of the bottles and took a sniff, then poured some of one of the bottles out and let the forensics class work. The personnel took it for testing.

Qing Jian Liuli quickly asked: "Is the wine poisonous?"

Takeshi Nanahara tightened the bottle caps again and prepared to take the other non-poisonous selves back for testing. He said happily: "Of course, the first murderer poisoned a bottle of wine in advance, and then waited for Jin Manxiu to poison himself one day. Just poison him to death, but I didn’t expect that Jin Manxiu was so unlucky that someone wanted to kill him on the night of the poisoning, so we rushed together."

Qing Jian Liuli was speechless. What kind of rubbish secret room poisoning and murder case it was. It turned out that the victim was just secretly drinking. The method was not worth mentioning. As long as he could find out that the victim was addicted to alcohol, similar cases would happen in the future. You can also catch it yourself.

Thinking of this, she quickly took out her notebook and asked Nanabaru Takeshi: "Why did you begin to suspect that Lawyer Jin Man was drinking? No one mentioned that he liked drinking before."

Takeshi Nanahara pointed to the bedside table, "Just look at the fixed socket on the wall."

Qingjian Liuli immediately ran over to observe and stared at the socket on the wall for a long time. Then he came back to Nanabahara Wu and said thoughtfully: "It looks quite normal. There are just a lot of scratches next to the socket. It's because of these scratches." The reason for the marks?”

Takeshi Nanahara nodded: "Yes, maybe Jin Manxiu sometimes wanted to listen to records before going to bed. In order to turn it off easily, he moved the small record player to the bedside table. It needed to share the same power supply with the small desk lamp, but his hands often shook and he couldn't do it all at once. He inserted the plug into the socket accurately, so I suspected that he had been drinking for a long time."

"That makes sense, but it's also possible that he is older, right? He must be in his fifties. Older people may have bad eyesight or shaky hands!" Qingjian Liuli said after thinking for a while.

"He doesn't wear glasses. I don't see any traces on his face from wearing glasses for a long time. His eyesight should be okay." Takeshi Nanabaru said casually, "And he is still working normally. He even went out by himself during the day. It doesn't look like that. He looks like he's having a stroke or Parkinson's disease. Hyperthyroidism is even less likely. He's relatively fat, so he probably doesn't have hyperthyroidism. In comparison, long-term drinking is the most likely possibility, so of course, suspicion should be given priority."

After a pause, he squinted at Liuli again, "It turns out that I have found the wine he secretly hid, why do you still talk so much nonsense!"

Qing Jian Liuli stopped talking, and there was nothing she could do. As a heroine, she had to compete with the male protagonist. How could she learn anything if she didn't compete with him.

She didn't care if she was scolded. Anyway, she had learned something. Next time there is a similar case, she would know what to pay attention to, and she would be able to push Takeshi Nanabahara aside. She is here to steal the spotlight... No, it is She came to help the victims get their justice.

She quickly wrote down all the key points in her notebook to clear her mind about this "secret room poisoning case".

Jin Manxiu agreed to quit drinking, but he actually didn’t quit, or his alcohol addiction relapsed after quitting for a while. He often drank secretly in the bedroom at night, and didn’t want to be discovered. He said he liked to be quiet, and asked the housekeeper and maid not to drink alcohol at night. On the second floor, Ji was probably afraid of being discovered smelling of alcohol, which gave Murderer No. 1 an opportunity to secretly poison a bottle of wine, hoping that he would die inexplicably in his sleep one day.

It makes sense that the murderer No. 1 chose ricin. Jin Manxiu drank so much that he went to bed, and most likely he would have slept to death. He would not have been able to react after being poisoned, and the police could not trace the source of ricin. Murderer No. 1 chose this poison to be safer.

But who is the number one murderer?

It's unlikely that the maid, cook and housekeeper are the ones Jin Manxiu has been trying to hide from, so is he one of the students, secretary and assistant? Only one of them must know this secret, otherwise Murderer No. 1 would not use this trick!

Thinking about it carefully, the success rate of this trick is really high. If Jin Manxiu was poisoned to death in a "secret room" for no reason, and the poisoned wine was hidden by Jin Manxiu himself, the police would most likely suspect the cook, housekeeper, and female The servant went away, but the suspicion of the real murderer was very low. Then he would find an opportunity to secretly take away the small safe and destroy it directly. It would probably become an unsolved case that is difficult to explain.

Damn it, this time it’s a little bit closer. I obviously found that Jin Manxiu’s smell is a bit like that of his father. I should think that they are both drunkards!

Qingjian Liuli was very regretful after clarifying the truth. She looked up at Takeshi Nanabaru unwillingly, but found that Takeshi Nanabahara was wearing gloves and observing the bowl from various angles. Then he realized and said in surprise: "This is what happened after dinner." The missing bowl, the bowl Yasuda-san mentioned?”

"Ninety-nine percent of the time, that's the case." Takeshi Nanahara handed the bowl back to the staff in the forensics department. "Otherwise, is it for drinking malt whiskey?"

Qingjian Liuli followed the forensics officer and looked at the bowl a few more times, and asked curiously: "Lawyer Jin Man stole his own bowl and then hid it. What does this mean?"

Takeshi Nanahara pondered: "I don't know yet, but it is indeed an ordinary rice bowl. It is produced in Saga Prefecture. The technique is to imitate the Banri-yaki. It is scratched and glazed, and the pattern is insignificant. It is a mass product. Which supermarket can do this? There are a lot of planting bowls.”

"Did he already suspect that someone wanted to kill him and wanted to use the bowl to refer to someone and leave clues?" Qingjian Liuli also began to think hard, suspecting that the bowl was related to murderer No. 2 and No. 3.

Qi Yuanwu shook his head, picked up the bottle of poisoned wine and left: "Let's wait for the forensics class to see who used this bowl. Then we will analyze why Jin Manxiu did such a strange thing. Now let's go and kill the first murderer. find out."

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Takeshi Nanahara led Qingmi Ruri downstairs. As soon as he reached the living room on the first floor, he met Eri Nakano coming out from behind the villa. As soon as Nakano Eri saw them, he said: "Just in time, Nanahara, find where the arrow came from." Yes, do you want to go and have a look?"

Takeshi Nanahara handed her the poisoned wine and said with a smile: "What a coincidence, I also found the evidence, a bottle of poisoned wine."

Nakano Eri adjusted her glasses, flashed a white light of "surprise", and quickly took the bottle and took a closer look, "Lawyer Jin Man drank the poison in this bottle of wine. Where did you find it?"

"In the bedroom." Takeshi Nanahara randomly made up the process of "perceiving" the "ominous smell" of the poisonous wine, and regardless of whether Nakano Eri believed it or not, he smiled and said, "Let's show it to the suspects first. The murderer will be found one by one. "

Nakano Eri really didn't care how he found him. Anyway, it would be a good Nanabahara who could solve the case. It could be a detective or a psychic. He immediately agreed: "This is the best."

She is now very fortunate to have called Takeshi Nanabahara right away. Otherwise, she would not have known how long the bottle of poisonous wine would have been hidden, and at least the first murderer would not have been found. Now it is very good, at least the second murderer can be formally arrested. When a criminal suspect at least has a guaranteed explanation, she can breathe a little easier.

The three people immediately set off to the side building of the villa. Takeshi Nanabahara wanted to meet the three suspects, Yoshimi Koze, Asuka Nagaho, and Rizuki Ginori, while Ruri Qingmi asked strangely to Eri Nakano while walking: "Where is the police officer Takano? Why haven’t I seen him yet?”

She thought the two people were together, but Nakano Eri said with an ugly face: "I have been looking for him just now. The first time he appeared on the scene, he vomited. After vomiting, he ran away without knowing where. This guy..." She didn't continue what she said, probably because she didn't mean anything nice, or she didn't want to scold the incompetent bastard from the professional team in front of two college students.

As they were talking, they left the main building of the villa and went to the courtyard. At a glance, they saw Yingwu Luck, who had not been found just now, leading a curly-haired girl in an exquisite little dress to stroll around, winking and joking while strolling.

Nakano Eri's face became even more ugly, and she shouted directly: "You... Takamu-san, what are you doing?"