Conan kissed me again and again, and Huiyuan was stunned

Yukiko Kudo ignored Detective Yamamura.

She leaned forward slightly, put her hands on her hips, stared at the sturdy police officer squatting next to the stove in front of her, and asked calmly:

"Then what?

Where did you find the tapes?"

"Oh, it was in these woods."

The burly police officer turned to look at Kudo Yukiko, holding the document paper from the police investigation in his left hand and pointing to the neatly stacked firewood in front of him with his right hand.

Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi stood side by side on Yukiko's right, with their hands in their pockets, looking calmly at the firewood, and made a rigorous judgment in their hearts:

"The tape... obviously, it's one of the key clues to solving this murder case."

"Something's wrong."

Kudo Yukiko straightened up, clenched her right fist, put the side of her index finger against her chin, let her left hand hang to the left, looked down at the open-air corridor, and recalled rationally:

"Hiromi was in charge of boiling water but she didn't mention the tape she found..."

"Detective Yamamura!"

The thinner police officer came hurriedly.

He stopped to the left of the village detective and reported calmly:

"Not long ago, forensic personnel said they found something strange."

"strange things?"

Detective Yamamura looked at the thinner police officer in confusion.

The police officer reported everything in detail:

"The murder knife only had fingerprints and blood from the victim, Ms. Machiko, and what is incomprehensible is that..."

The thinner police officer hesitated for a moment and said calmly:

"The fingerprints on the knife handle showed that the victim was holding the knife smoothly."

When Kudo Shinichi heard this, his pupils flashed with a trace of surprise, and he analyzed in his heart:

"Holding a knife?

It is indeed incomprehensible...If the victim was stabbed and could not help but hold the knife handle, the fingerprints on the knife handle would inevitably show that she was holding the knife in the backhand.

If the perpetrator wanted to fake the victim's suicide, the victim's fingerprints should show signs of holding a knife in the backhand. "

Dongfang Haoyue quietly and carefully observed Kudo Shinichi's facial expression, and thought blankly in his heart:

"So the fingerprint showing signs of holding a knife is also one of the key clues... However...

What's wrong with holding a knife...?"

“Oh, that’s right!”

The thinner police officer suddenly remembered something and confessed meticulously:

"I called the hotel that the victim had entered before he was brutally murdered."

"What did the other party say?"

Detective Yamamura looked at the thinner police officer calmly.

The police officer repeated in a serious tone:

"Although the victim had been to the banquet at the hotel, no one knew when the victim left the hotel."

"correct!"

Dongfang Haoyue suddenly remembered something that should be very important. He turned to look at Kudo Shinichi decisively and reported seriously:

"When Sister Hiromi was on the phone with Ms. Machiko, Machiko said she wouldn't be home until 11 o'clock tonight!"

"what?"

Kudo Shinichi was startled, looked at Dongfang Haoyue in surprise, and asked cautiously in a low voice:

"Haoyue, tell me what the two phone calls between Aunt Hiromi and Ms. Machiko were about."

"it is good."

Dongfang Haoyue nodded without hesitation, and quickly and quietly repeated the contents of the two conversations between Hiromi Yuuchi and Machiko Yuuchi.

During this period.

"I've also heard Hiromi mention this matter."

Kudo Yukiko held her chin with her right hand, and thought in confusion:

"Strange... Machiko, who was brutally murdered, said she would be home at eleven, so why did she come back after ten?"

At this moment.

Kudo Shinichi looked around silently, his eyes fixed on the ancient well not far from the stove, and analyzed calmly in his mind:

"The stove is under the bathroom... The ancient well where the body was hidden is quite close to the stove...

If you think about it differently, the purpose of the tape is... No way."

As Kudo Shinichi thought about it, his expression became more and more solemn, until the next second.

"I'm leaving."

Dongfang Haoyue dragged Kudo Shinichi towards the mountain village detectives and police officers who had already returned to the long row of bungalows. She put her red lips close to Shinichi's ear and whispered a serious reminder:

"Detective Yamamura said he wanted to listen to the tape that was found in the firewood."

"Oh, okay."

Kudo Shinichi quickly came back to his senses, turned his head to look at Dongfang Haoyue, let his fair face rub against Haoyue's red lips, responded gently, and suddenly realized...

Kudo Yukiko, who was supposed to be on Haoyue's left, disappeared.

Kudo Shinichi was confused.

He quickly turned around with Dongfang Haoyue in his hand and found out at a glance...

Farther ahead, Kudo Yukiko was standing at the back door of the courtyard, with her back to Kudo Shinichi. She bent over slightly, supporting her legs with her hands, and stared at the mud ground uncertainly.

"Mother!!"

Kudo Shinichi held Dongfang Haoyue's soft little hand with his left hand, and made a megaphone gesture at his mouth with his right hand, asking loudly in an incomprehensible voice:

"what are you doing?"

"Hey."

Kudo Yukiko never looked away.

She half-knelt on the ground, and slowly picked up the half-burned, extinguished, slightly broken white cigarette, and confirmed elegantly:

"That man in sunglasses was spying on us from outside the back door, wasn't he?"

"Ah... yes, Aunt Hiromi also saw the man running out the back door."

Kudo Shinichi vaguely sensed that something was wrong, and as usual, he held Dongfang Haoyue's soft little hand tightly, feeling the warmth transmitted by Haoyue meticulously, and calmed his mind perfectly.

Haoyue was also a little panicked.

Her perspective is just right to see...

Yukiko Kudo held the cigarette on the ground and held it in front of her chest. She lowered her head slightly and stared at the cigarette for a moment. The corner of her mouth curled up with a hint of joy that I finally caught your flaw.

Dongfang Haoyue was very nervous.

She held Kudo Shinichi's soft little hand tightly, and thought worriedly:

"Sister Yukiko stared at the cigarette for such a long time and smiled so happily...

No way...it can't be Uncle Yusaku's cigarette...!

It's a headache. Yukiko has been with Yusaku for so many years, and it's only reasonable for her to conclude that Yusaku is nearby based on the cigarette on the ground!

Alas, it seems that our plan to help Yusaku hide his identity has completely failed.

Although Yukiko had observed our reactions and guessed that Yusaku was nearby, but...

When your loved one suddenly appears in front of you, knowing that the other person will come to see you and guessing that the other person will come to see you are two different psychological activities.

I think... the feeling of guessing the answer correctly should be even more surprising~"

The thought just fell.

Yukiko Kudo held the cigarette neither lightly nor heavily, stood up with a smile on her face, put her hands upright behind her back with her wrists crossed, and turned 180 degrees.

She walked towards Dongfang Haoyue and Kudo Shinichi with a joyful step, her delicate face filled with a happy smile.

Haoyue quickly collected his thoughts and called out politely:

"Y-Yukiko-sister."