Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 806 The Unexpected Detective
After knowing that Gao Cheng is also a world-renowned great detective, the guests at the venue kept talking in low voices, probably because of Gao Cheng's age.

It is said that he is famous all over the world, but it seems that many people don't know him as a famous detective, or they need someone to remind him, even though he deliberately puts on a ponytail with a prominent detective temperament, which is short of writing on his face.

It seems that his reputation is not big enough.

Gao Cheng is also quite helpless. In fact, he doesn't know the stars who often appear on TV, let alone meet them in reality.

Not being easily recognized is of course an advantage, that is, the investigation will not cause the prisoners to be too defensive, and you can make a lot of money in silence. The disadvantage is that it is difficult to establish the prestige of the scene, especially when there are many elderly people on the scene.

"Police!" The forensic personnel reported to Mumuhui, "We took it back and investigated it carefully. No poison was found in the drinks and food on this table."

"Is it really suicide?"

Mu Mu frowned, and before Gao Cheng could speak, Mori Kogoro suddenly lit a cigarette and said, "I think it's close to murder."

"Close to murder?"

"Yes, as far as I know, the president will surprise the guests with performances at this party every year, such as magic, disguise and skits..."

The uncle paused, and faced the suspicious eyes of Mu Mu and his group, he breathed out smoke and smiled confidently: "That is to say, at the beginning, the president screamed and fell down in order to perform a sketch, and I am afraid that he planned to let me, a famous detective, Cooperating with him to perform reasoning, he himself did not expect to be killed for real afterwards."

"In this case, the prisoner is Mrs. Urai, who was the first to approach the president?" The eyes of the others looked solemn, "If the poison was put directly into the president's mouth at that time..."

"That's right," the uncle nodded and said, "This is a crime that only a wife who knows the content of the sketch in advance can do."

"I said," Mrs. Urai, who came back from the inspection in the back room with Sato, just heard the conversation, and said dissatisfiedly, "How can a famous detective say such unreliable words? Maybe you didn't see it on stage at that time." I realized that after my husband fell down, his body didn’t move at all, and he didn’t make any sound from his mouth. If I really fed him poison, he must be in great pain, at least he would make a little sound, right?”

"Yes, is it?" The uncle turned to his daughter Xiaolan in a daze, "Xiaolan, you were right there at that time, right?"

"That's right," Xiaolan couldn't stand it anymore, "Ma'am is right, she didn't move at all, as if she was really dead..."

"So didn't I say that? President Urai is not performing at all."

Gao Cheng looked at Sato, who came back with Mrs. Urai, and it seemed that there should be nothing to gain.

"No trace of poison was found on Madam, right?"

Mrs. Pujing glanced at Gao Cheng, and snorted, "Of course, how could I poison my husband?"

"It's too early to say such things, ma'am."

Gao Cheng passed by Mrs. Urai, walked to the round table where President Urai fell to the ground, and his eyes fell on the lemon tea that Mrs. Urai was drinking.

Like other lemon teas, there is a sliced ​​lemon stuck in the rim of the cup.

At that time, the only thing on the table that could be manipulated was the cup of lemon tea she was holding, but this woman had drunk it herself, and no toxic reactions were detected in the drink, including the lemon slices on the cup.

"What do you mean?" Mrs. Urai's complexion changed slightly.

"I just feel a little strange," Gao Cheng turned around and asked, "After the party started, President Urai and his wife only drank drinks and didn't eat anything. Could it be that they made an appointment at some restaurant and planned to eat after the party?"

"How is it possible?" Mrs. Urai snorted, "For the sake of my husband's health, I am strictly forbidden to go out for supper. Every day when I get home, I cook healthy dishes for him..."

"So what's the menu for tonight?" Gao Cheng asked along, "The end of the party is about 9 pm, and it will be later after the entertainment such as seeing off guests. You should have already bought the ingredients for dinner, right?"

Looking at Mrs. Urai with a stiff expression and sweating coldly, Gao Cheng smiled and said, "There is no menu and no ingredients prepared, so you knew from the beginning that things would turn out like this?"

"you……"

Mrs. Pujing's expression changed completely, she stared at Gao Cheng with slightly trembling fingers, and felt the blood flow suddenly accelerated.

"I'm just too busy today... so I forgot to prepare..."

"Based on my personal experience, President Urai didn't commit suicide, the key is how the prisoner poisoned him," Gao Cheng didn't care about Mrs. It is basically difficult to deal with the time, but thanks to you, I found some clues."

"Clue?" Mu Mu also looked at Gao Cheng.

"That's why Madam squatted to the side as soon as the president fell down, and took the initiative to remind everyone that it was the reason for the sketch performance," Gao Cheng said with bright eyes, "this is to temporarily draw everyone's attention to the famous The detective is on the uncle on the stage again, so that he can handle the evidence by himself..."

"Stop joking!" Mrs. Urai said angrily, "When my husband fell down, I held Miss Xiaolan's hand with both hands. It is impossible to poison..."

"What if President Urai put the poison in his mouth?"

"what?"

"It was when you said that sentence," Gao Cheng said in a deep voice, "President Urai did not take anything to eat, but took a glass of ordinary drink, and there was no poison in it. Why did you say that after you said that sentence?" Poisoned and fell to the ground..."

Mrs. Pujing laughed back in anger: "Are you trying to say that my words are poisonous?"

"It works," Gao Cheng said with an unchanged expression, "You didn't say 'listening', but 'effective', that is to say, the meaning of President Urai's answer at that time should be 'probably effective', so that What the president is absent-minded about is not the divorce, but the surprise that was originally planned for the guests. If I guess correctly, it should be the president who wants to challenge the sour taste that he has always disliked, right?
"The president probably took some kind of medicine that temporarily changes the taste buds. After hearing your question before the official performance, the president secretly put something sour in his mouth behind everyone's back. At that time, among all the things on the table, The most suitable thing that can be used to confirm the effect is the lemon slice on the ice lemon tea cup that Madam drinks..."

Mrs. Urai laughed and said, "It's total nonsense, the lemon slices on my glass are still fine..."

"There are two lemon slices. My wife prepared poisonous lemon slices and brought them into the venue, so when I got lemon tea, I took the middle cup, didn't I? Probably because the size of the lemon slices on the cup is different from your own. Almost ready..."

Gao Cheng looked directly at Mrs. Urai who was still talking with a cold face.

"Of course, these are still just speculations, but in the drink that was overturned by Mrs. Urai, there was a piece of lemon that was very special, and a piece of pulp was missing. I am sure that there was absolutely no such lemon on the table when the party started. No one can dig out a petal out of boredom, so there is only one reason, just now when the lady passed by, she intentionally knocked over the lemon tea, and pretended to be sprained to take the opportunity to mix the lemon hidden on her body..."

Gao Cheng explained, and seeing Mrs. Urai's pupils dilated, she continued, "I'm afraid it was hidden in the shoe when she squatted next to President Urai, and I have asked Officer Takagi to check it."

"Huh?" Meguro realized that Takagi had left at some point.

"About the way Madam hid the lemon slices before the incident, the investigation should have results soon," Gao Cheng looked at the paper coaster under the cup on the table, "Probably only this paper coaster, I've been wondering since just now , there are two layers of paper coasters..."

"Police!"

Chiba and Takagi ran into the venue together: "I found potassium cyanide in a bottle and glutinous rice paper in a box from the glove box on the president's car. Half-melted glutinous rice paper was found in it..."

Mu Mu was surprised and said: "So that's how it is. Wrap the medicinal powder with glutinous rice paper and put it in your mouth, it will quickly melt and poison you."

"And this," Takagi continued holding the packaged lemon slices, "just like what Kido said, a lemon slice missing a piece of pulp has a slight cyanide reaction, as long as the president's saliva and wife's fingerprints are detected... ..."

"Humph."

Mrs. Urai closed her eyes and let out a disappointed laugh: "Unexpectedly, I still failed, because of his resentment for the sour taste, I chose lemon, and it was really too difficult to hide..."

Speaking of which, Mrs. Pujing glanced at Gao Cheng.

"Actually, Mr. Maori was specially invited by me, but he actually found another detective. It would be great if he recognized you at the beginning."

Gao Cheng was about to leave when he heard the words and stopped and asked, "If you recognize him, will you still attack?"

"Probably, but I'm afraid we'll have to find other opportunities," Mrs. Pui said as if she didn't care about anything anymore, "After all, I can't forgive him."

"why?"

"When I was in the dim sum school, our school selected two students to participate in the dim sum competition, and I was one of them..."

Mrs. Urai recalled with nostalgia: "The winner is known before the competition, and the winner must be another person selected by the school. The sour desserts he made are very delicious, and there are even famous shops overseas. I came to invite him, but I didn't expect that he committed suicide the day before the competition...

"That's how I got No.1 and married my husband after a few years..."

Hatred appeared in Mrs. Urai's eyes.

"The last time my husband ate a sour cake and lay on the bed, he confessed that he hated sour taste because he remembered the student who ate the dessert pie prepared by the other party before the competition and said, 'This is too sour, your tongue is not good. Question, right?’, the student believed my husband’s words completely, got depressed and committed suicide…”

Mrs. Urai closed her eyes and still couldn't help shedding tears: "My husband said while crying that he just wanted the students to win the competition, but he didn't expect the other party to commit suicide... My husband didn't even know how much the other party and I used to love each other ..."

After Gao Cheng listened quietly, he didn't say anything more, just shook his head and went to the back room to bring the gift that President Urai helped to prepare.

This White Day is really an unpleasant memory, not only the death of President Urai, but also Mrs. Urai's attitude towards her husband.

Not to mention right or wrong, is the relationship that has been with you for decades really so fragile?
Back at the office, Xiao Ai happily went upstairs with the gift, while Gao Cheng still leaned against the desk with a heavy heart.

Did President Urai notice his wife's murderous intent in the end?

"Di Di!"

Turning on the computer, Gao Cheng suddenly found that there were a few more unread emails, and they were all from friends and acquaintances.

Koshimizu Nanatsuki, Shinna Kayori, Hayamizu Reika... well, even Teitan High School Mathematics girl who has never met a few times also sent an email, all of which are thanks for the white day gift.

Gao Cheng was a little dazed, looking at the picture of the gift, it seemed that Xiao Ai uniformly gave back to fans, so he hurriedly shouted to Xiao Ai upstairs: "Did Yue Shui and the others send chocolates on Valentine's Day?"

"I don't know, it's probably mixed in with fan gifts."

Xiao Ai was locked in the bedroom alone, and did not bother Gao Cheng downstairs. She carefully opened the package and found that it was indeed a product of Pujing Food Company.

As expected, even a fool could see that the only thing that seemed to be written by Gao Cheng was a pink message card.

"Um?!"

(End of this chapter)