Conan's Corpse Picker

In the morning, Jiang Xia routinely came to the detective agency, lined up the newly received cat bags and dog cages, and counted them.

In addition, the previous entrustment on the loan collateral has also expired.

Jiang Xia checked the register and called the clients one by one.

……

After distributing cats and dogs, someone came to the door again.

Jiang Xia looked up and found that it was the client who asked him to keep an eye on the collateral.

The client just went to Mrs. Maru to pay back the money and got back the mortgaged pottery. Now she stopped by the detective agency to make up the balance.

She was clearly delighted to have gotten the pottery back without a hitch.

After paying the remuneration, Jiang Xia was given a beautiful small card with bronzing words:

"This is the store where my friend is working. Recently his store moved and gave us some experience coupons, but I really don't have time to go. If you are interested, you can go and have a look."

……

After Jiang Xia sent her away, she looked at the experience coupon in her hand.

It is not uncommon for clients to give away coupons at random - this is actually a reverse advertisement by the clients, and they will share one when they meet a suitable occasion.

At this time, a lot of experience coupons for the opening of new stores have been stuffed in the business card box of the office.

Most of them were restaurants, and there were also a few game halls, all of which were distributed by Jiang Xia to his hard-working younger brother.

But this time is special.

——This is an experience coupon for a pottery classroom.

Jiang Xia originally planned to put it in the business card box after glancing at it.

However, when he saw the words "Izu" on the address, Jiang Xia paused.

……

Izu is a famous seaside resort, about two or three hours' drive from Tokyo, not too far away.

Jiang Xia has no interest in looking at the sea.But he remembered that in this world, Izu is also a place with frequent accidents. Every time Conan and the others go to the beach of Izu to play, they will encounter some ghostly cases.

Jiang Xia: "..." Why don't you go to school tomorrow and try to drop this experience coupon at Mao Lilan or Suzuki Sonoko's feet to see the reaction?

Just as he was thinking, Xiaobai suddenly floated over and poked him, pointing behind him.

Jiang Xia turned around and saw Toru Amuro standing at the entrance of the office elusively, looking at the experience coupon in his hand: "Kikuemon's pottery studio?"

Jiang Xia was startled.

After a while, he thought for a while, and remembered that Toru Amuro could barely be regarded as a member of the protagonist group, and he should have some event physique.

So he handed over the experience coupon and asked expectantly, "Have you heard of this store?"

"Well, this is a shop advertised by 'Kikuemon'." Amuro Toru took the card and looked it over carefully.

Seeing Jiang Xia's very interested look, he said by the way:

"'Kikuemon' is not a name, but a title. Anyone who can get it is a national treasure-level pottery master.

"Now the 'Kikuemon' has been passed down to the fifth generation, and its owner, Tsuchiya Wanji, is almost 80. At this age, the pottery workshop is suddenly renovated...Maybe there are fewer and fewer people learning this craft , I want to build a famous store to attract apprentices to his apprentices."

"..." Jiang Xia didn't expect that an experience coupon received casually would have so many backgrounds.

Also, there's one more thing that's a little weird.

——Toru Amuro knows too much, pottery is not a hobby of the public.Even if Bourbon is good at gathering intelligence, does he even remember the real name of the fifth generation "Kikuemon" clearly?

Jiang Xia: "..." It's tricky.

And if there is something tricky, it usually means... There is hope to pick up ghosts?

Amuro found that the way Jiang Xia looked at him gradually became strange.

He remembered Jiang Xia's spoiler-like reasoning ability, and he didn't hide it: "There is indeed a related task recently." As he spoke, Amuro shook the experience coupon in his hand, "I'll use this."

Jiang Xia nodded hesitantly.

Then he took out his phone and turned on the search.

——"Kikuemon" is really a celebrity, and you can find a lot of information about him on the Internet.

Recently, under this person's name, there is indeed an additional pottery experience classroom, but it is not opened by him himself, but by his younger brother, a person named Mino Zongyuki.

In fact, Mino Zongzhi has opened a store more than ten years ago, but it has always been very low-key.

But recently, Kikuemon urged his younger brother to renovate the store and put forward many improvement requirements.

So at present, this store is still in trial operation.

And just now, the experience voucher given to Jiang Xia by the client was not an advertisement, but a veritable "experience voucher", with limited distribution and not for sale.

……

Jiang Xia looked at the news, then looked at the two impressive names, and suddenly regretted it.

...If I had known this, I shouldn't have agreed so quickly when the boss asked for a coupon just now.

Chapter 71 A New Ghost Embryo Appears

Fortunately, Toru Amuro hasn't gone far.

Jiang Xia chased him out and stopped him: "Why don't I go together?"

Toru Amuro was puzzled: "What are you going to do?"

Jiang Xia thoughtfully said like a serious apprentice: "I will help you."

Toru Amuro resolutely refused: "No, you work hard."

"..."

The official reason didn't work, Jiang Xia thought about it, and changed a route: "This is my coupon."

"..." Toru Amuro was silent for a moment, then took out his wallet, "Sell it to me."

"No, this is not for sale." Jiang Xia also felt that he was suspicious, but he thought about the ghost in the distance, and said firmly, "What the customer sends is his heart, how can he use it for profit."

Toru Amuro: "..."

He originally wondered if Jiang Xia had an ulterior purpose—such as Qin Jiu or some suspicious person asking Jiang Xia to pay attention to his movements.

But soon, Toru Amuro thought again: at the beginning, Jiang Xia gave him the coupon easily, but then suddenly...

……

He recalled the action of Jiang Xia taking out his mobile phone to search before he went out, as if he understood—Jiang Xia may have suddenly discovered that this is a shop opened by a celebrity, and the experience coupons are still limited, so he wanted to join in the fun with the past.

Seeing Amuro Toru's sudden silence, Jiang Xia felt something was going on.

He continued to secretly comfort himself: "If you go alone, it is easy to arouse suspicion, but it is different if you bring a student. The target will relax his vigilance, and I can help you look out."

"Hmm..." Toru Amuro looked at Jiang Xia.This apprentice is occasionally annoying, but when he's quiet and doesn't speak, it's easy for people to let their guard down...

……

Although Toru Amuro prays for the collapse of the organization every day, he will still do the tasks of the organization seriously.

One is that the boss and colleagues are not all fools. The paddling is too obvious and easy to be seen.

The second is what the organization is going to do, which is usually valuable information for their public security.

In addition, in addition to selling organizations on a daily basis, undercover agents actually have one more thing to do—instigating new undercover agents.

It is much more convenient to instigate a known member than to send another undercover agent.Although this also has disadvantages, such as being easily backstabbed by a new undercover agent who jumps repeatedly, or even exposing the original undercover agent, but...

……

Toru Amuro looked at Jiang Xia silently.

...Speaking of this, in fact, he has always felt that Jiang Xia is quite suitable to be instigated.

Although in principle, it is necessary to care for minors and the future of the island country.

But if Jiang Xia insists on getting involved in his mission, he can also get in touch with him more and gradually train him in this direction.

After all, Jiang Xia is not the same as other minors. He seems to have been brought by his parents to hang around in the organization since he was a child. He must have done many illegal things. It is too difficult to clean up. It is better to be a gray undercover.

……

Jiang Xia saw Anshi Toru thought for a long time, and finally nodded his head.

"I'll give you 10 minutes to pack your luggage and then go." After making a decision, Toru Amuro turned and went out, "If you're late, just stay and look at the store."

10 minutes is almost the time it takes Amuro Toru to walk to the nearby parking lot and drive the car from there.

Any more, and his car could be ticketed.After all, it is very close to the Police Department, and many law enforcement officers pass by on a daily basis.

……

Jiang Xia had nothing to clean up, so he went to the convenience store nearby to buy some daily necessities.

When he returned to the office, he happened to see Toru Amuro's car parked at the door.

……

On the way to Izu.

Toru Amuro handed Jiang Xia a photo. In the photo was a broken pottery:

“A while back, when we were having a meeting at one of our usual locations, someone knocked off a piece of pottery on the cabinet—the pottery had a strange structure in it, and it seemed to be just right to hold a recording device that had been on standby for a long time.

"We suspect that someone wants to use it to eavesdrop on the organization's information. According to the investigation, this pottery is the work of Kikuemon, but the style inside it is very different from Kikuemon. I suspected it was a fake, but Follow the path to find out...it really came from Kikuemon's pottery workshop."

Kikuemon is very old and has recently been making pottery and porcelain. He is no longer in shape and has always refused to receive visitors.

Toru Amuro was still thinking about how to contact him as naturally as possible.

Unexpectedly, when she entered the office just now, she happened to see Jiang Xia holding an experience coupon related to Kikuemon.

...This apprentice, not to mention anything else, is really lucky.

In the car, Jiang Xia looked at the photos for a while, and vaguely understood what was going on.

——This unique pottery can match up with a certain case he knows.