I, Zhongli, wander the world

People in Yokohama have rich experience in dealing with murder cases. The clerk explained the situation to the customers in the store in a few words and made it clear that they would compensate the customers who stayed in the store. After that, the customers calmed down. Waiting quietly for the dessert shop's solution.

The postman boy naturally sat at the table with Zhong Li, and unceremoniously took the seat next to Zhong Li, so angry that he had to sit opposite Zhong Yuan and stared at him.

If strangers share a table, sit on the other side!

The postman boy didn't seem to regard himself as an outsider at all, pointing to the only sparkling water served in front of Nakahara Chuya and said: "I want to drink that."

Zhongyuan Zhong also had no appetite at first, so in order to contradict the young man, he quickly took the cup over and said in a nasty voice, "Mister ordered this for me, and I want to drink it! If you want to drink, go and order it yourself!"

"Hey——" the postman boy dragged his voice, "You obviously don't want to drink it anymore, if I don't ask, you won't drink that glass of sparkling water until you leave here!"

"I..." Zhong Yuan, an honest boy who can't lie, was speechless for a while. He had indeed completely forgotten about this low-profile drink just now.

"Besides, I'm very hungry." The boy took off the peaked cap that came with the postman's uniform, and limply lay on the table, "The rice balls I took as a spare were eaten last night, and I haven't eaten for most of the day since morning. , the salary has not been paid, and now my stomach is as empty as a dry riverbed in the dry season..."

Zhongyuan Zhongye is not a hard-hearted person in essence. Looking at the pitiful appearance of the young man at this moment, he didn't think about why he was hungry and wanted to drink. He hesitated and pushed the cup over: "Then I give this cup to you." You drink, say yes first, and you are not allowed to rob me of anything else."

"Oh!" The young man who had succeeded in his plan immediately jumped up, and was about to take the cup with a smile on his face, "Don't worry, there won't be anything coming over anyway—"

Before the teenager's fingers touched the wall of the cup, a hand reached out from the side and took the cup away.

"Hey?"

Zhongli put the cup on the corner of the table where the young man couldn't reach, and looked at him disapprovingly, "Eating cold drinks on an empty stomach will cause abdominal pain, don't torment yourself like this for a momentary appetite."

Then, without waiting for the young man to make a fuss, he said directly: "If you are really hungry, why don't you sign a contract with me?"

The boy's attention was immediately attracted, "What contract?"

Zhongli: "Help the owner and others solve this case, and I'll invite you to eat whatever you want until you're full."

A murder case that is difficult for ordinary people to solve is not a big deal to the young man, but he did not show any expression of taking advantage of it, but showed an incomprehensible confusion.

"Why?" The boy asked suspiciously, "There is no case that needs to be investigated here?"

Zhong Yuanzhong also frowned slightly, "What are you talking about? Isn't that the one in the middle?"

Zhong Li didn't say anything more about it, but changed his words calmly: "Then, go and tell what you saw."

He looked at the hesitant young man and said, "Don't worry about other people's fear and loathing, don't think about expulsion or bad words, it doesn't matter whether others know it or not, just speak out."

"Everything is with me."

inside.

The corpse of a young woman in a kitchen assistant's uniform lay crookedly on the floor of the living room, her eyes were closed but her face was distorted, her lips were blue and purple. It was obvious that she had suffered a great deal of pain before she died.She pinched her own throat with one hand, and pressed the floor tightly with the other hand. Her fingertips made deep and shallow scratches on the wooden board, and blood oozes even between her fingers.

"What's going on?" the store manager calmly asked the people standing at the scene.

"Shop Manager, Ah He and I were the first to find out." One of the clerks exchanged glances with the girl next to him, and said, "When we entered the lounge, Ayako was silent. Apart from testing Ayako's breath, I didn't take any unnecessary actions, and I went to notify you as soon as possible."

The girl named Ah He also nodded, "You know, Haruna and I are just acquaintances who nod each other, and we can testify to each other." Then, she looked at the emotionally broken girl next to her, and said, "Where's Haruka? You and Ayako have the best relationship, when Ayako asked for leave a few days ago, I saw you chatting with her on the line, do you have any clues?"

Yao's eyes were red from crying, she shook her head and nodded again, sobbing and said: "I know, I know, Ayako was a little uncomfortable in the morning, and she told me to go in and lie down for a while, she had already asked for leave because of inflammation, I just came back today, I thought she had a relapse of symptoms, so I let her go, I didn't come out at noon, I just thought she was asleep, who knows..."

"It's all because of me, because I didn't care..."

The clerk next to him hurriedly comforted the weeping Haruka, and someone whispered, "This complexion is poisoned, right? Ordinary inflammation attacks can't reach this level."

The store manager asked, "Haruka, did Ayako eat anything before her break?"

The girl sniffed and nodded wildly, "Yes, she ate a piece of red wine cake."

The store manager immediately said to another clerk: "Go and take back all the wine cakes from the customers, and then ask them about their situation. If necessary, you need to ask me, and call an ambulance immediately."

The clerk who got the order ran out quickly.

Yumi stood aside anxiously watching the development of the situation. When she heard that there was something wrong with the wine cake, she subconsciously glanced at the wine cake placed by the kitchen door, but saw a familiar teenager picking up a piece of cake and preparing to stuff it into her mouth.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I can't eat that!"

Yumi hurriedly stepped forward to stop her, but the young man nimbly lowered his head and dodged it, "Anyway, it's not poisonous, so you won't use this as a commodity again just to be on the safe side, instead of wasting it and giving me one to eat, it's okay!"

As he spoke, he took another big bite on it, "Hmm, it's indeed a hot item, is the jam in the interlayer also mixed with red wine? The chocolate balls on top are also filled with red wine..."

"What did you say? No poison?" Yumi was taken aback.

The store manager has already noticed the commotion coming from here, she didn't even care about the boy sneaking into the room, she frowned and said, "How do you know there is no poison?"

The young man tilted his head in doubt, "Huh? Isn't this something you can tell just by looking at it?"

"Dying from a disulfiram-like reaction has nothing to do with whether there is poison in the cake?"

The uncommon words made the store manager a little confused, "Double sulfur... what?"

"Disulfiram-like reaction is a drug reaction caused by mixing drugs and alcohol in a short period of time. In severe cases, it will go into shock or even die." Zhong Li walked over with Zhong Yuanzhong also, and said calmly, "If you talk about this matter , the most well-known ones are cephalosporins and alcohol, of course, other drugs are not absent.”

Zhong Yuanzhong also followed behind him, trying to hold his head high to make himself appear more imposing.

"Miss Ayako recently took metronidazole because of inflammation, one of the reaction drugs." Chewing the cake like a young hamster, said vaguely, "The piece of red wine cake she ate was the incentive. "

He spoke so naturally and affirmatively that the store manager was already a little shocked by him, and the question blurted out involuntarily: "Who the hell are you?"

"Me? My name is Edogawa Ranpo." Edogawa Ranpo swallowed the cake two or three times, clapped his hands and pointed forward, "In short, skipping these preconditions, isn't it you who is the murderer? Name It's Yao's sister."

The intermittent sobbing stopped suddenly, Yao looked at Edogawa Ranbu who was pointing at him in a daze, and uttered a monosyllable unresponsive: "...huh?"

"Ranbu-kun." The store manager said with some disapproval, "Xiaoyao is already feeling very uncomfortable, please don't make such unfunny jokes."

"Ah, so it's her!" Edogawa Ranpo scratched his uneven hair in distress, "Is this also a so-called confidential matter? Or is it another questioning like a final exam knowingly? I just don’t get it, the adult’s world is really complicated..."

It has always been like this.

Obviously he just said something that everyone knew, but he was always reprimanded and driven away. The way adults looked at him made him hard to understand, just like looking at a black goat that existed in a sheep pen.

"It may be complicated, but as long as you learn from your heart, you will learn how to deal with things one day." The steady voice in his ear seemed to have some kind of reassuring magic power, which miraculously soothed Edogawa Ranpo's heart Reluctant and with a little fear, he involuntarily raised his head to look at Zhongli, and hurriedly looked away when the man was about to meet his gaze.

"Well, I get it. After all, we still have a contract..." Edogawa Ranpo murmured in a low voice, then raised his voice as if to cover up, and said loudly: "There is no need to pretend to be stupid for what everyone knows. Right! After all, you were the one who proposed to change the red wine cake that was only served on Monday to Sunday! When I just delivered the letter, I heard the clerk chatting."

"'Xiaoyao really has a way, it seems that we can consider changing the serving time of red wine cake to Sunday' or something."

"Then, what can that prove!" Haruka sobbed loudly, "I just think that the red wine cake that sells well will definitely become a hot item on Sunday, and I just want to express my opinion on the consideration of dessert shops! Besides, Besides, the snacks in the store are commodities, and it is against the rules to steal them without permission, how can I guarantee that Ayako will be able to eat the cakes!"

"Of course you can guarantee it." Edogawa Ranbu pointed to his cheek, then pointed to Ayako's pocket, where a section of colorful candy paper was exposed, "Miss Ayako's cheek is a bit swollen, her inflammation is caused by Mouth, right? It’s not uncommon to have candy in her pocket when her mouth is inflamed, she must have a sweet tooth.”

"Besides, Ms. Ayako doesn't need to steal food at all. As a helper in the kitchen, it's understandable for her to try some finished products. Now that she finally got better and came to work, she has been holding back for a few days, even if she has a mouth infection, she will definitely try it. "

"So—" Edogawa Ranpo concluded, "You who understand Ms. Ayako's behavior and habits will definitely ensure that Ms. Ayako eats wine cakes with alcohol on Sunday, the first day of her comeback."

The store manager next to him looked over with suspicion, and Yao couldn't even bother to cry, and retorted anxiously: "Your doubts do not constitute evidence at all! What guarantee is not guaranteed, I don't know that metronidazole can't be compared with Take it with alcohol!"

Although suspicions gradually arose, but based on the principle of fairness, the store manager still said: "That's right, these can only show that Ayako's death was an accident."

Edogawa shook his fingers in disorder, "Of course this incident alone can be judged as an accident, but what if even the metronidazole was given by Miss Haruka?"

"what?"

Edogawa Rampo said: "Metronidazole is a prescription drug, which is very effective in treating oral inflammation, but few people know that it can cause disulfiram-like reactions like cephalosporins. If it is prescribed by a regular hospital , will definitely write a doctor's order, emphasizing that this drug is not allowed to be mixed with alcohol for a period of time, and the patient himself will pay attention to this aspect."

"But Miss Ayako didn't."

"Even in a city like Yokohama, there is no need for ordinary people to bypass the convenient and fast regular channel of the hospital to get a symptomatic prescription drug. If you want to get metronidazole without a doctor's order or even a box with no contraindications, Then there is only one way to be gifted by acquaintances."

"Check Ms. Ayako's line account now, and you can probably get a message that Ms. Haruka hasn't had time to deal with, recommending and gifting 'excess' metronidazole to Ms. Ayako who is suffering from illness. Ms. The three-none packaging bag with Miss Haruka's fingerprints on the nidazole tablets."

"You yourself are very clear, right? In the final analysis, no matter how a disguised accident looks like an accident, it is also a well-prepared and outright murder."

The author has something to say:

Zhongli: How did you know that metronidazole can treat oral inflammation?

Ranbu (angry): It's not because the gums are swollen and sore from eating too much sweets!