Conan: The Self-cultivation of Fake Wine

"Is this the cat named Nobel?"

"Well." Lu Ren bent down and put Nobel on the ground, and said with a helpless smile, "I can't help it, this cat only..."

"Nobel, come here." When Bei Dao waved, Nobel took three steps and two steps at a time and jumped directly into Bei Dao's arms.

"Good boy." Bei Dao reached out and scratched its chin.

Lu Ren's smile froze on his face. He raised his hand and looked at Wan Jie, then looked up at Bei Dao who was petting his cat.

Little sister, there's something wrong with you!

"Brother Ren, what's wrong with you?" Seeing Lu Ren's sudden silence, Bei Dao couldn't help but feel a little strange.

"Nothing. Just do you want to consider adopting Nobel? As you know, I already have a cat at home."

"Well... I'll ask for its opinion."

Bei Dao held the cat in front of him and looked directly into its icy blue eyes: "I am very busy at work every day, and I often work overtime until around ten o'clock in the evening, so I don't have time to take care of you.

I can leave you in the office during the day and take you home at night. And I have never raised a cat before, so I have no experience. If you think this is okay, please reply to me as soon as possible. "

Nobel let out a long "meow".

"That's good. Please give me more advice in the future." Bei Dao nodded and looked at Lu Ren, "Brother Ren, it agrees."

"..."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 471 Case review

Looking at Bei Dao with a serious look on his face, Lu Ren forced himself to swallow "Do you believe in the light?"

What the hell is talking to a cat...

He, the owner of Ten Thousand Rings, a person who senses the emotions of animals and can initially communicate with them, has never thought of talking to cats and dogs.

Wait, Bei Dao's attraction to cats seems to be even stronger than Wan Jie's. So what does this mean to her? Humanoid druid?

Is it possible that she can really communicate with small animals without any barriers?

Lu Ren fell into deep thought for a while.

"Brother Ren, Brother Ren?"

"Ok?"

"What's wrong with you? Why are you suddenly silent?"

"Nothing." Lu Ren shook his head and pointed at the clock on the wall, "It's o'clock. Let's go to dinner and buy some pet supplies for Nobel after dinner."

"Why don't you go to the pet store first?" Bei Dao had a different view on this. She was worried that the store would close after dinner.

"It's okay. I have a friend who does this. I just give him a call."

"Ah."

The friend Lu Ren mentioned was Bai Ji Daoxing, the very tall veterinarian.

He was the one who picked the bells for the oranges at first. Later, during routine physical examinations, Lu Ren gradually became familiar with him. It’s a level where you can say hello to each other when you meet on the street.

After calling him, Lu Ren put down his phone and looked at Bei Dao, "Shall we go have something to eat?"

"There is a premium sushi restaurant near here. I happen to have a coupon there, let's go eat there."

"It can work." Lu Ren nodded and agreed. Sushi tastes good when it's done, so it's okay to eat it once in a while.

"This is mainly about the taste, and the portion size is a bit small. The restaurant next to his house has good pork chop rice and fried food. Then you can order a set of pork chop rice and fried chicken cutlet, and a bowl of hot bone soup will also be given. ."

"Uh-huh."

This is good, this is good.

Lu Ren put Nobel into the cat bag, and Bei Dao packed up the documents on the table. After finishing, the two of them left the newspaper office and went straight to the sushi restaurant.

This store is indeed not far from the newspaper office, about a five-minute walk. There is a white curtain hanging in front of the store, and the signboard reads "Takara Sushi" in italics.

After pushing the door and entering, the store was very clean, but there were not many tables of customers. Business seems to be ordinary.

After Bei Dao finished ordering, Lu Ren looked at the busy chef and whispered: "There don't seem to be many people in this store. We should be here soon."

"I guess it will take a while."

While talking, a young man in a blue uniform walked into the store, picked up the food box on the dining table, turned around and left.

"You see, they also deliver food. Sometimes I work overtime and don't have time to eat, so I call and ask them to deliver one."

"in this way."

The fact is exactly what Bei Dao said. There were no people in this store, but the takeout business was surprisingly good. The errand boys were coming in and out, and the master was too busy to keep his feet on the ground.

The meal was not served for a while, so Lu Ren and Bei Dao chatted. The focus of the chat was the case that happened this afternoon. Bei Dao had an impression of Wanda, a great author, and she still had Wanda's previous works in her home.

So Lu Ren told the whole story from the beginning, and Bei Dao listened attentively, raising his own questions from time to time.

"The evidence to solve the case is the two disks. The first disk contains the manuscript that Wantian is going to submit to the editorial department.

He has been locked in the room writing since the past few days, and even during this morning's dental appointment, the editor accompanied him throughout.

The disk should theoretically only have his own fingerprints and that of the editor. But the deceased's original fingerprints were found on it. "

Lu Ren paused, "But Wan Tian himself also noticed this. So after the police arrived, he made an excuse, saying that he was his assistant originally, and his manuscripts were all stored here. In this case, on the disk It’s not surprising that there are original fingerprints.”

Bei Dao thought for a moment, "If it were me, I would wipe off the fingerprints on the disk after taking it away."

"It's a method, but it's not very useful. Because the original computer contains Wanda's original manuscript. Wanda still has to explain it."

Lu Ren smiled and said: "As I said before, this disk is not enough to convict Wanda. The real key is the second disk he took away from the original hand. There were original blood stains on it. The police found it from his home ."

"Ah?" Bei Dao said he couldn't understand this operation. "Why didn't he get rid of the disk box? I remember there is a river over there at his house. Take out the disk and throw the box into the river."

"Maybe it's because there is not enough time." Lu Ren pointed to the cat bag, "As I said before, Wanda will take Nobel with him wherever he goes, and this time too. After he killed Yuan, Nobel ran away, and he was in the house I've been looking for it for a long time, which wasted time."

"Another possibility is that he was too confident. He felt that he was committing a perfect crime and a few mistakes were not a big problem."

Bei Dao: "What a perfect crime."

"That's not bad. Wanda originally thought of sneaking out of the hotel, so that Editor Shimaki could provide him with an alibi. After killing Yuan Yuan, he would talk to Shimaki all night long, which was a good trick."

"Originally, this person was extremely unsociable and rarely went out. Apart from Wanda, the only person who had contact with him was a cleaning lady who came to clean the house regularly."

"Wanda also knew this. He closed the door of the study room where the crime occurred and put a sign saying "Do not disturb me while I am writing." It is very likely that the cleaning lady would not go in. "

"This way Wanda will have enough time to dispose of the disc. Whether you pack it and wait for the garbage truck to pick it up, or drive to a far away place to dispose of it yourself. Once this evidence is disposed of and there is an alibi, the police It would be very difficult to convict.”

Kitajima: "Then Wanda is really unlucky. He was discovered by Conan and the others too early, so he didn't have time to deal with the disk."

"Not only that. Because of my arrival, Editor Shimaki came out of the hotel to pick me up, and was not in the hotel for a period of time. As a result, he was unable to provide an alibi for Wanda."

Lu Ren smiled and said: "Of course, Wan Tian left more loopholes than these. Even if I don't go, there is still a risk that his plan will be discovered."

"The easy way for him to slip out of the hotel without Shimaki's sight is to pretend to be a hotel staff member who cleans the room. The work clothes he wears will have his fingerprints and skin flakes on them. Wanda can't do this. explain."

"And as he said himself, he was so old that he was abandoned by the times. He only wanted to hide from Shimaki's sight, but did not consider surveillance."

"The New Rice Flower Hotel is under surveillance. Even if he may have made some disguises, his figure cannot be disguised. Visitors to the hotel will be registered, including those of us who come in temporarily to find people like us."

"As long as we check where the tenants who were similar to Wanda were at that time, plus the work clothes stained with his fingerprints and skin flakes, we can lock his identity."

"Now there are surveillance cameras installed on main streets and some stores. Follow the surveillance cameras to check. Even if you can't find out his specific path, you can still know the general direction. This is enough for the police to list him as the first suspect."

"There are also computer traces. The entire book "The Story of Manda" was ghostwritten by Yuan. Comparing the original and Wanda's computer data, you can find that this book was mainly written on Yuan's computer."

"Not to mention the new work Wanda said, there are various traces of creative data that only exist in the original computer. This is simply sending evidence to the police. In addition, the fingerprints on the first disk and the drawer Something that is missing."

"With so much evidence, even if it takes some time, Manda can still be brought to justice. However, the capabilities of the Tokyo police are probably not enough to do this."

"That's it."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 448 Caught off guard

Lu Ren and the others didn't have any objections to the Tokyo police, they deliberately teased them.

He actually has a very good relationship with the Tokyo police, and some of the police even left a good impression on him.

The Tokyo police just...simply have limited abilities. In addition, homicides are too frequent, one or even two a day. So many cases need to be solved, leaving them with a serious shortage of police personnel.

But even so, exposing someone's behind is not something worth boasting about. After a brief chat, Lu Ren casually dismissed the topic.

"Please use your sushi slowly."

The chef, who was busy in the kitchen earlier, personally brought Lu Ren's sushi. This is a treatment that no other table has.

The reason why the chef did this was definitely not because of him. Lu Ren looked at Bei Dao who was smiling and talking to the chef, and secretly admired him. No matter how many times he saw it, he would always say that Bei Dao's communication skills were really strong.

After a few brief chats, the chef brought the topic to Lu Ren.

"I wonder who this is?" The sushi chef first smiled politely at Lu Ren, and then moved his eyes back to Bei Dao's face. He pursed his lips to show his seriousness, but he couldn't hide the narrow-mindedness in his eyes. , and even crow’s feet formed in the corners of his eyes.

"He is my senior."

"Huh?" The sushi chef was confused by this expression.

Although there is nothing wrong with this relationship, Lu Ren always feels something is weird when expressed in this way. He took over the topic, briefly introduced himself and exchanged business cards with the master.

The sushi chef's name is Mizushima Tetsuo, who is also the owner of this treasure sushi restaurant. After Mizushima learned that Lu Ren was a colleague of the same newspaper as Bei Dao, he became more enthusiastic and said that he would get a 10% discount for future visits.

After watching the owner return to the kitchen, Lu Ren sighed: "This Mr. Mizushima is really enthusiastic."

He has never been good at dealing with overly enthusiastic people. He always felt that after being treated warmly by someone, he had to respond accordingly.

But this will be very tiring.

"Mr. Mizushima has always been like this. He also often says that as long as you eat the sushi he makes, you can write good articles."

"..." After Lu Ren finished the game in silence, he finally couldn't help but ask, "Is this true?"

"Who knows? But there is indeed a great author who is a regular customer of his store. He writes mystery novels, but I can't remember his name."

First excluding Kudo Yusaku, Riku Ren thought for a moment, "New name Kaho Ri?"

He only knew a few authors.

"No, it is indeed a female author, but she is already quite old. Ask Mr. Mizushima later."

After Bei Dao finished the sushi on the plate, Mizushima happened to run over again, and she took advantage of the situation to ask the previous question.

"You are talking about Ms. Qichuan, she used to be a frequent visitor to my store, and she is a very good mystery novelist. It is just that she has not been in good health in the past two years and has to recuperate at home, so she comes less often. But even so , and she often orders takeout from my house.”

After a few more brief conversations, Lu Ren and the others moved on to the pork chop rice restaurant next to them. This time I only ordered one portion, and Bei Dao said he was full.

"Why don't you order some fried vegetables? If you can't eat them, I'll eat them." Lu Ren asked.

Bei Dao shook his head and refused. Seeing this, Lu Ren stopped insisting.

This time the pork chop rice came out very quickly, and everything was ready-made, except for the fried chicken cutlet, which had to wait a little longer.

The restaurant I ordered from Bei Dao is also interesting. Their chicken chops are not marinated and semi-finished, but freshly fried. This takes more work, but it ensures the freshness of the ingredients.

Precisely because the chicken chops were not ready yet, Lu Ren deliberately controlled the speed of eating, wanting to wait for the chicken chops to come up and eat them with the pork chops. Anyway, he had just eaten a plate of sushi to fill his stomach.

In addition, Bei Dao was just sitting there watching him eat, so he had to devote some of his energy to chatting with Bei Dao and not let her feel bored or left out.

The two talked about the follow-up of the Man Tian case and the handling of the original posthumous works.

"Brother Ren, do you want to polish it?"

"Yes." Lu Ren nodded, "He is no longer here, so it is a good thing to let his works and ideas be passed down. But I have never written novels before, and I have no experience with these things."

"Brother Ren, there is nothing wrong with your writing. As for experience, you can ask the author we talked about tonight. She also writes mystery novels."

"That's not good, I don't know them either."

Bei Dao: "I will contact you tomorrow and we will go there together. We will get to know each other when we go there."

Ah...this.

"Actually, this is also a good thing for her." Seeing that Lu Ren was still hesitant, Bei Dao simply said it.