Conan reborn as a detective

Chapter 880

It was already evening when we arrived at the Western Mansion, and Gao Cheng wasted a lot of time because he didn't know the way.

"You are finally here, Master Ah Cheng." A white-bearded butler wearing glasses was waiting in front of the castle-like villa, as if he had been waiting for a long time.

"Ah, Master Ah Cheng?" Xiao Ai, who got out of the car together, looked suspiciously at Gao Cheng.

"Please forgive me," the white-bearded butler walked straight forward, "This is the housekeeper of the Tokura family, Koga Rikushige, and the father of the head of Hattori who recommended you here is a police officer of the same period. For the sake of convenience, I say to the master You are the master of a friend of mine."

Gao Cheng didn't care much about the address, looked at the old castle-like building, and asked the white-bearded butler, "It's true that Mr. Hattori recommended me, but he didn't explain some things clearly to me, may I ask?" What happened to the vampire murder incident?"

"Vampires are just legends," the white-bearded housekeeper squinted his eyes and explained, "About six months ago, the body of the maid Miss Shimizu was found in the forest next to this mansion. It happened to be raining that day, and Miss Shimizu was hung upside down and tied to the There are two small holes in the neck on a wooden stake inserted into the ground, and the blood in the whole body seems to be sucked dry...

"The one who found the body was an old couple picking wild vegetables. They said that because the skin of the body was so white, they thought it was a scarecrow driving bears at first."

"It does sound like a vampire murdered, but someone must have committed the crime?" Gao Cheng thought.

"It happened to be raining that day, the ground was muddy, and no one saw any suspicious people, so the police found nothing after investigation." The old butler led Gao Cheng into the house. "At first, the police suspected that Master, because Miss Shimizu once complained to the chef, saying that the master has been very scary recently, afraid that he would be in danger, and wanted to quit his job as a maid, and then that kind of thing happened..."

"Your master?"

"Yes, but the master has an alibi. During the presumed time of Miss Shimizu's death, the master stayed in the room and slept. Ironically, it happened to be the chef who proved this."

The old housekeeper said as he walked.

"It's natural for Miss Shimizu to be afraid, because the master has been a little strange since then. In order to avoid the sun, he has been sleeping in the room during the day. Recently, he even threw away all the silverware that he loved before, saying that he is right. Silver allergies or something...

"Just two days ago, the master smashed a soup bowl, which contained garlic soup that he used to like very much, and said angrily that it would make the blood rot, and don't let him see this again."

Xiao Ai grabbed Gao Cheng's trouser legs, staring straight at the old housekeeper in a black suit walking in front: "Vampire?"

"In the eyes of the maid, Ms. Shimizu, it probably looks like this, almost like the behavior of a vampire."

Passing through the courtyard, the old housekeeper paused and turned his head.

"The sun is about to set, and the master should be getting up soon at this time. Then, before the dinner is ready, Master Ah Cheng and Miss Xiao Ai will stroll around the museum casually. The matter about the inheritance will be in the Discuss after dinner."

Although the old housekeeper said so, Gao Cheng didn't want to wander around casually, it would be fine if someone led the way.

And if you meet someone in the villa, you have to trouble to explain.

"Mr. Housekeeper, if possible," Gao Cheng offered, "Can you take me to meet the chef first?"

"Yes, yes, but the kitchen is very busy now..."

There are three chefs in Yincang's house, but there is only one chef, and the other two are young helpers. When the old butler brought Gao Cheng to the kitchen, the scene was really busy.

It can be seen that there are quite a few guests in the Yincang family this time, and I heard that they are all relatives of the same generation who have the right to inherit the inheritance, because the owner here has neither spouse nor children.

"Ah? Yes, I was the chef who testified for the master half a year ago," the somewhat fat chef took the time to respond when Gao Cheng questioned him, "that day the master wanted to taste the soup immediately after waking up, so let me The chef sent him the soup directly, and woke him up by the way...

"Although I haven't been watching all the time, the master must have never left the coffin, because before he closed the coffin lid, he told me that recently someone seemed to lift the coffin lid while he was sleeping to see how he was sleeping, and let me in put something on the lid..."

"Wait, wait," Gao Cheng frowned, "Did you just say a coffin?"

"That's right," the chef stopped his work and looked at Gao Chengdao, "Master likes to sleep in a coffin, so that time I put three sesame seeds on the coffin lid, and when I woke him up, the sesame seeds were still there." The same location, indicating that the coffin has never been opened."

"excuse me……"

Gao Cheng walked out of the kitchen with his chin in his hands.

There are still such people, no wonder there are legends of vampires.

Among the cases he has handled, this time can be regarded as a strange story, and he may need to meet with the master in person.

"Kinghu," Xiao Ai still clung to Gao Cheng, "Do vampires really exist?"

"Please, why are you afraid of such things?"

Gao Cheng walked in the aisle with his hands in his hands, and unknowingly arrived outside the restaurant not far from the kitchen, and found that many people had already arrived inside. While hesitating, a young maid suddenly bumped into him clumsily from behind.

"No, I'm very sorry," the maid cried out in pain, and hurriedly stepped back and apologized, "Well, you are the young master Ah Cheng that Mr. Steward said, right?"

"Ok?"

Everyone in the restaurant noticed the movement at the door and looked over one after another.

"Master?" A light-colored, long-haired woman saw Gao Cheng's expression turned ugly, "What's going on? Does my elder brother have an illegitimate child?! It's too much..."

"How is this possible?" An old man with a square face wearing glasses explained with a smile, "If there was an illegitimate child, my brother would not have asked us to come here."

"That is to say, if there is an illegitimate child, Yami's inheritance will definitely not be given to us brothers and sisters, but will be inherited directly by the children."

It was the parents and daughter of Tonkura who were talking, the 60-year-old Tonkura Shouyu, dressed in a very elegant and luxurious way, seemed to cover wrinkles with thick foundation, but the slightly sagging skin still showed some aging.

The uncle with a square face and the woman with light-colored long hair in front are Toakura Mashin, the second son of the Tonkura family, and his wife, Torkura Ruri.

"That's not certain, Shouyu," a fair-faced boy with long blond hair smiled at everyone, "Didn't he suddenly bring one back a few years ago? A beautiful fiancée with a child who is very different in age, like this It seems that there is nothing strange even if there are two or three illegitimate children, right?"

The little boy joked to everyone: "However, that fiancée was not very lucky and died soon after. Oh, yes, this should be a good thing for you..."

"You bastard!" The third son of the Yincang family, a straight-inch man who looks like a physical education teacher or coach, lifted up the collar of the little white face and said angrily, "Let me hear you say this next time. If so, I can't forgive you!"

"What, what?" Xiaobailian said with a dry smile, "Don't you actually feel very lucky? If you are really married and she is still alive, you won't be able to share the inheritance... Or, You didn't secretly fall in love with the lover with the child, did you?"

"you……"

"Okay, everyone," the old butler with a white beard suddenly appeared at the door of the restaurant, interrupting everyone, "Master Ah Cheng is not the master's illegitimate son, the master's net worth is much greater than the master's, this time I just invited him Come to be a guest..."

As he said that, the old butler looked at the maid who was standing aside: "Miss Xiaoguang, is dinner ready?"

"Ah, yes!" The young maid came back to her senses and hurriedly responded, "The chef asked me to ask if it's time to serve."

"Let's serve the dishes," the old butler nodded with his eyes narrowed. "I think everyone has been waiting for a long time."

The faces of everyone in the restaurant were somewhat unnatural, and some of them were curious and had a child's high success.

With much more net worth than their elder brothers, and being so young, he should be the young master of that big consortium, right?

It does look very dignified.

Xiao Ai pushed Gao Cheng away from behind, and sat down together.

Because of someone, she hasn't eaten since noon, even if there are really vampires, she can't stop her from filling her stomach.

The layout of the restaurant is quite gorgeous, in a typical western aristocratic style. Xiao Ai didn't care about it at all, but Gao Cheng was used to it, so he naturally found a place to sit down, and at the same time, he never left the Yincang family.

The name of the eccentric little white face is Hanekawa Johei, who is the best friend of the Toakura parents and daughters, but he is only 29 years old, and the age difference is 31 years old. When talking about it, it seems that he is the second daughter of the Toakura family, an old-fashioned woman who wears glasses. Ex-boyfriend.

Gao Cheng secretly slandered.

The butler was right to be worried. A large group of heirs were in a mess, and their relationship with each other didn't seem to be very good.

"Is the owner of this house, Mr. Tokura, suffering from an incurable disease?" Gao Cheng asked during the meal.

"Yeah, it is said that there is only about half a year left, so we came to this dinner party..."

"Because it's written on the invitation that absentees will not inherit the inheritance." The little white face drank red wine, looked at Gao Cheng, who had a noble halo, and laughed at himself, "We are not like you, young master, everyone is short of money, what's the matter?" Not bad, I can’t live without inheritance, maybe..."

"Hey! Are you enough?"

The sons of Yincang's family didn't like the handsome face of this rich woman, and now they look even more ugly.

The little boy smiled nonchalantly, it was all for the inheritance, and he was all pretending.

"But having said that," the little boy put down his wine glass, turned to the vacant seat and asked, "Why hasn't Mr. Sumi come here yet?"

"That's right," said Toakura Mina, the old-fashioned bespectacled woman, "At this time before, he had already started complaining about the cooking."

"That..." Ah Guang, the maid who was standing quietly next to her, said, "I'll go to the master's room to have a look, the master may still be asleep."

"Really."

Yin Cang's parents watched the maid leave the restaurant.

"Why do you want to keep this oil bottle? Is it possible that Sumi is planning to give her an inheritance?"

"Maybe it's like this," the little boy continued drinking, "after all, she is also the child of that fiancée."

Gao Cheng silently frowned and put down the knife and fork.

Compared with the issue of inheritance, he actually wanted to find out more about the murder of the maid half a year ago. Despite the chef's testimony, Mr. Torkura Sakiya was still quite suspicious.

No matter how you look at it, it seems that he deliberately created an alibi for himself.

The key is the coffin, but if there is a secret passage underground, the police should find it...

Alas, he is not destined to be a young master at all, he has to think about these things every meal.

"what--!"

After a while, the maid Xiaoguang's scream suddenly broke the silence, even Gao Cheng was taken aback.

"What happened?!"

"No, it's not good!" Xiaoguang shouted loudly, "Master, he..."

Yincang Yami's room is the innermost room after turning right in the corridor from the restaurant. When Gao Cheng approached with Xiao Ai at the first time, the maid sat slumped at the door, pointing into the room with a terrified expression.

"Master, he seems to be dead!"

"Please," the members of the Yincang family who came behind said dissatisfiedly, "Don't talk nonsense, okay? It's not like you don't know that elder brother has recently slept in a coffin as a bed..."

"No, it's not!" the maid said, still unsure, "When I opened the lid, a wooden stake was stuck in the master's chest bloody!"

"Stake?" The glasses uncle was shocked, "Brother, this joke is a bit too much, right?"

Gao Cheng approached the closed Western-style Christian coffin, but the lid could not be opened for a while, as if it was firmly fixed from the inside.

"Is the lid locked?"

"No," the maid said with tears in her eyes, "I opened it just now, the master is wearing a black cloak, and his sharp teeth are exposed, and there is a wooden stake in his chest, blood is flowing everywhere... How could this be? "

Gao Cheng frowned and tried again, but this time he easily lifted the lid, but there was nothing inside the coffin, and there was no trace of blood on the flannelette.

Gao Cheng took a closer look and found blood stains on the other side.

"How could this be?" The maid asked in disbelief when she saw the empty coffin, "Master disappeared!"

"Hey, hey," Yin Cang's parents doubted, "Did you really see the master? Everyone doesn't have time to joke around with you..."

"I think what she said should be true. There is indeed blood here. The question is, where did the body go?"

Gao Cheng looked back at the maid.

"Have you been here?"

"Yes," the maid nodded repeatedly, "Master is really inside, and no one came out!"

"How could this be?" The members of Yincang's family couldn't help but panicked, "Did brother really become a vampire?"

"It's not impossible." The eldest daughter of Yincang glanced at the coffin and said, "Our Yincang family ancestors had rumors of being possessed by vampires, and with the recent strange behavior of Yami, maybe he... Possessed by a vampire too."

"Haha, are you kidding me? Just kidding..."

The people at the scene were panicked, and the atmosphere became a little weird.

"That's right, brother must be joking, maybe he wants to test us, because the invitation only says to discuss the issue of inheritance after dinner, he should come out soon, right?"

"Maybe……"

Everyone in Yincang's family talked about returning to the restaurant, but Gao Cheng still stayed on the spot to study.

The script is wrong, why did something happen to the key owner of the villa at this time?

Could it be that he, a famous detective, came to investigate?
Dodge yourself or be silenced...

Xiao Ai looked into the coffin from behind: "Is there any mechanism?"

"I don't know yet, but that's for sure."

Gao Cheng reached out and touched the bottom of the coffin, and finally lifted the flannelette directly to reveal a sliding door underneath, and there was also a tunnel entrance that could be opened on the ground under the coffin.

After the floor tiles are pulled apart, a narrow staircase can be seen by the light.

"The case half a year ago is really problematic."

"Well, Master Ah Cheng," the maid Xiao Guang who ran back saw Gao Cheng who was inspecting the coffin, and said in a daze outside, "D-the dinner is already cold...do you want me to heat it up again?"

(End of this chapter)