Women only affect the speed of my reasoning!

When Yamamura Soko heard someone calling him, he subconsciously turned around, but he happened to catch a glimpse of the dead figure of Machiko Yabuuchi on the ground. He screamed and collapsed on the ground with a scream, and even the police manual in his hand flew away.

Seeing the repeated embarrassing actions of this Gunma detective, Qin Ushu raised his forehead slightly helplessly.

Is this guy... okay?

Chapter 294: Husband and wife cooperation time

"Officer Yamamura, are you okay?"

Qin Sanshu was speechless.

It's normal for ordinary people to be frightened by corpses.

But it’s so embarrassing for a professional criminal policeman to be so frightened when he saw a corpse!

"me……"

Yamamura Soo, who was so frightened by Yabuuchi Machiko's death that he almost pissed himself, sat on the ground for a while before he recovered.

His face was covered in cold sweat and he was panting heavily. After swallowing hard, he barely regained his ability to speak. He looked away and looked away, his voice still trembling.

"Actually, today is my first time at the scene of a crime. Our section chief has been on leave for the past few days because of a cold, and I am the only police officer on duty tonight, so...ah ha ha ha~"

At the end of the story, even Yamamura himself laughed sheepishly.

Probably feeling that he was too embarrassed like this, he quickly stood up and picked up the police manual from the ground.

"In short, in order to determine the correct time when the deceased arrived home, we plan to start investigating from when the victim took a taxi home in front of the hotel..."

"taxi?"

Yabuchi Yoshiyuki heard this and narrowed his eyes and asked.

"But the second mother drove our own car out today. The car was parked in the front yard. Didn't you see it?"

"No, no wow..."

In order to find out the truth, everyone went from the backyard to the front yard.

But what is surprising is that the parking space where the parking space should be parked is now empty. Not to mention the car, there is not even the shadow of the tire.

Yamamura spread his hands innocently.

"Look, there's no such thing."

"This is strange, where did the second mother park the car..." Guangmei frowned.

"Is it possible that Mrs. Yabuchi left her car in the hotel parking lot and took a taxi back because she drank at the banquet?" A new detective asked a rather constructive question.

Don't tell me, it's really possible. After all, someone was inviting her to drink on the phone at that time.

However, in this case, the whole process of the case is very likely to be that Yabuuchi Machiko chose to take someone else's car home because she drank at the banquet. It may be a taxi or another car, but after taking the car back Someone stabbed him on the road home for some reason, and the culprit was most likely the person driving the car.

In the end, we still have to figure out the specific method of Machiko Yabuuchi's return...

Qin Sanshu's thoughts here gradually calmed down, while Shan Cuncao began to analyze randomly based on the existing clues.

Suddenly, a search department officer carrying a flashlight walked in from the door and reported.

"Police Officer Yamamura, we just found a car in the nearby forest. I don't know if it belongs to their family."

"Eh? The car is in the forest? Why is it there?"

"You'll know if you look at it in the past."

While Yamamura Cao was still slow to react, Qin Sanshu had already walked around him and walked out the door, waving his hand to the search department police officers to lead the way.

So a large group of people set off from Yabuuchi House, walked along the main road for a short distance under the leadership of the search section police officers, and then turned into a narrow side road.

There, a dark blue car parked quietly.

"This is indeed our family's car." Guangmei recognized it at the first sight, "But why is it here..."

"Is it possible that the prisoner originally wanted to drive away, but after thinking about it, he decided not to do it, so he just left the car here." Yoshiyuki Yabuuchi guessed.

"In this case, I think it may be that when your stepmother drove here, the car's engine suddenly had a problem or ran out of gas, so she wanted to get out of the car and walk home, but in the process she was brutally murdered by the prisoner..."

Yamamura Cao bent over and put one hand on the roof of the car while looking in through the window from the driver's door and analyzing.

But the next second a hand fell on his shoulder.

"Excuse me, please, let me take a look."

Qin Xianshu pulled it open, then put on his gloves and reached out to open the door.

He first put his head in and smelled it, and then got in with his whole body.

Yukiko on the passenger side was doing the same thing.

The key was still inserted under the steering wheel and hung in the OFF position. Qin Mianshu stepped on the clutch and turned the key, and started the car amid a low roar of the engine.

For a moment, the car lights and dashboard were all on.

Qin Xianshu glanced at the fuel gauge and saw that there was at least 60.00% of the gasoline remaining in the tank.

The engine is fine, but where is the clutch...

He tried shifting the gear to first gear and then slowly released the clutch and released the handbrake. The car immediately began to move forward a little bit.

Well, the clutch is no problem either.

After confirming these two points, Qin Mianshu put the handbrake back on and put it back into neutral to turn off the car.

He rolled down the window and looked at Yamamura Cao who retracted his hand in fright because the car suddenly started to move outside the window.

"It's certain that Mrs. Yabui drove back by herself, and she parked the car here and got out of the car of her own volition. The basis is that the performance of the car is intact, and...do you smell it? "

"What is the taste……"

Yamamura Cao subconsciously put his head in and sniffed, and then his face gradually became tangled.

It was difficult for him to describe this taste in words. To put it simply, it was the smell of a banquet, a mixture of wine, food, cigarettes, etc. It was very iconic.

And this smell is only felt by the driver, and it is very weak near the co-pilot.

In other words, Machiko Yabuuchi drove the car back by herself. For some reasons, she did not come back at [-] o'clock as she said on the phone. Instead, she left the party early, drove the car here, and got off the car from here and walked there. I was going to do something, but someone stabbed me in the middle.

As for what exactly this is to be done, it remains to be verified.

Qin Mianshu touched his chin and thought for a while, as if he thought of something, his cheeks twitched twice without any warning, and he suppressed a burst of laughter.

"What's wrong?" Shan Cuncao was shocked outside the car.

"No no no, nothing."

Qin Xianshu didn't bother to explain anything to him because it was too much trouble. He simply turned to look at Yukiko on the left passenger seat.

"How is it, did you find anything?"

"Let's leave it at that. Take a look at Xia Shu..."

Yukiko nodded and opened the two storage boxes in front of the passenger seat and on the right side behind the shift lever.

I saw a mobile phone lying quietly in the storage box in front of the passenger seat.

In the storage box behind the shift lever is an empty audio tape box.

"Well, then the question is, where did the tape inside go?"

Chapter 295 Just taking a bath

"Then everyone will go back to your room to rest today. Please be sure to close the windows because the murderer may still be around here. I and other police officers will lay the floor in the corridor outside your room. If there is any disturbance, we will notify you immediately. .”

In the corridor outside the entrance of Yabuuchi Residence, Yamamura Sosa was making arrangements seriously.

I have to say that although this guy has very poor professional skills, has no on-site experience and is very timid, he is surprisingly quite good in terms of responsibility.

After the arrangement was over, everyone who had taken a bath before naturally went back to their respective rooms to wash up and rest when needed.

The Yabuchi brothers and sisters were busy preparing bedding for the temporarily arrived police officers, while Qin Ushu, Yukiko and Mashiro continued to boil water for bathing.

Of course, it was impossible to continue washing with the water in the well. Someone had just died there, and there might still be a lot of blood left. It would be too uncomfortable to bathe in that kind of water.

It seems that except for a few people with special quirks, most people can't stand it.

Fortunately, this Yabuuchi ancestral house had been successfully modernized decades ago, and it had other sources of domestic water besides well water.

That's right, we're talking about tap water.

Calculating a little, it has been almost two hours since the incident, and the firewood in the stove has long been burned out.

After scooping out all the bath water that had been used by others in the bath bucket and pouring new clean water into it, Qin Mianshu went to the stove opening outside the house and added new firewood to light it.

The orange-red flames jumped up again, bringing the slightest warmth to the desolate and cold backyard.

Yukiko was standing on the edge, with her arms folded in front of her chest, and she couldn't help but be a little surprised when she looked at the high school detective who was squatting at the mouth of the stove and hunched over as he skillfully manipulated the pyre.

"You can even do this kind of thing..."

"Well, because my home used to be a big house like this, and the bathroom was almost like this, but instead of a thick wooden barrel, it was a big iron pot." Qin Shanshu said casually.

"understood."

Yukiko knew that he was reluctant to mention the past, so she nodded and said nothing more.

"That should be fine."

Using fire tongs, he built the firewood pile in the stove into a relatively stable shape that could constantly transmit heat to the wooden barrel above. Qin Ushu stood up and patted the Schrödinger's firewood ash on his body, then turned to look at the girl.

"Would you wash it first or Mashiro?"

"Um--"

Yukiko thought seriously for about five seconds, then suddenly her eyes lit up and her hands snapped together.

"Let Shiina wash up first!"

"..."

Qin Xianshu looked at her speechlessly.

"……What's wrong?"

"It's nothing, I just feel like the emotion you showed just now and what you said don't match up a bit."

"It's disgusting, how could it be~"

Ten minutes later, the hot steam was steaming in the bathing room.

The door was pushed open from the outside, and Shiina Mashiro, with her hair tied up, walked in first, holding nothing in her hand.

Qin Sanshu followed closely behind, holding in his hands the two's changing clothes and towels for bathing.

He originally wanted to let Mashiro and Yukiko wash first, and it didn't matter if he was the last one, but Yukiko let Mashiro wash first.

Don’t forget, Mashiro doesn’t know how to take a bath by himself, so the end result is that he and Mashiro get into the water together.

In this case, it is better to just wash them together.

After reaching out and touching the water to make sure it was at the right temperature, Qin Ushu began to help Mashiro take off his clothes, and by the way, he also took off his own clothes.

After a while, through the white mist of weapons, two figures appeared in the bathtub, looking at each other candidly.

Perhaps it’s because she doesn’t exercise much in normal times. Shiina Mashiro is actually not the kind of person with full blood. In winter, it’s easier for her hands and feet to get cold. She soaked in the warm bath water all of a sudden, and there was a steady stream of heat under her feet. The thick wooden board came up, and she couldn't help but make a sound of enjoyment.

"So comfortable..."

"right?"

Using his solid chest to support the girl's fair and smooth back, so that she could relax in his arms, Qin Ushu got straight to the point and started the cleaning work.

But this straight to the point made Shiina Mashiro somewhat puzzled.

She turned her head and put her face against Qin Ushu's collarbone and rubbed it gently.

"Today...no?"

"Emmm, forget it. After all, this is someone else's house." Qin Sanshu wiped the girl's shoulder with a soaked towel and said, "And Yukiko is still waiting to take a bath."

"Oh……"

Why do you sound a little disappointed?

Just as this idea came to Qin Xianshu's head, the next second, along with the sound of opening and closing the door in the bathing room, someone's voice came through the curtain of the partition.