Conan: The Self-cultivation of Fake Wine

"The two gentlemen came together last, and they sat directly opposite my wife. I can't remember the exact meal time, but it was definitely more than half an hour."

He was poisoned and died half an hour after eating?

Why leave such a long gap? Could it be...

"Are there any customers at this table who have already checked out and left at noon today? If so, at what time did they leave? Where were they sitting at that time?"

"A couple came here with their children. They were also sitting across from my wife. As for the departure time, there should be a record at the cashier at the front desk."

With the help of the store manager, Lu Ren looked at the time recorded at the front desk. I found that the family of three left the conveyor belt sushi restaurant at 12:25.

The time of death from poisoning shown on my wife's photo is twelve forty-five.

There was a full twenty minutes interval.

If it was really their fault, wouldn't it mean that a plate of sushi had been sitting on the conveyor belt for at least twenty minutes.

Due to the unexpected death of a guest, the conveyor belt in the sushi restaurant has stopped running. Lu Ren is not sure how fast the conveyor belt is.

So he asked directly, "Starting from the dead man's place, how long does it take for the same plate of sushi to be transferred back to his front?"

"About five minutes."

five minutes……

If the couple poisoned them, within twenty minutes, that meant that the poisoned plate of sushi had appeared in front of all the diners at least three times.

If it were true that people were poisoned and killed indiscriminately, this time would be a bit too long.

The suspicion of that family of three can basically be ruled out.

And since they brought their children over to dine, it was really unreasonable to poison the table where most of the children occupied the table.

Therefore, the poisoning time should be controlled within ten minutes, that is, a plate of sushi rotates twice on the conveyor belt.

Once the time of the crime is determined, the next step is to look at the modus operandi and motive.

Lu Ren didn't quite believe that this was an indiscriminate poisoning and murder case.

Again, there are so many children at this table. If you really want to take revenge on society, you should go to the table next door.

But if it was a premeditated murder with a clear target, how did the murderer achieve precise poisoning?

From this point of view, the middle-aged man wearing a hat sitting next to the deceased is most likely to do this.

As long as the deceased's attention is attracted by other things within ten minutes, he can take the opportunity to poison.

Apply it on sushi, dinner plates, or even directly on the table surface.

But correspondingly, just because he is the most likely to poison, the possibility of him poisoning is the least.

Because he also knew that the first person the police would suspect must be him. If he really did it, he would definitely clean up his hands and tail, at least he would not let the police find a bottle containing poison from him.

Of course, the likelihood of finding potassium cyanide in anyone else is also slim. Otherwise, the difficulty of solving this case would be a bit too low.

As for the search, it is better to wait for the real police to arrive and leave it to them.

What Lu Ren has to do now is to complete some preparations in advance.

The current suspects are still the four people at the same table plus the five cooks.

If it was a deliberate murder, the two middle-aged men who came together at the end were the least likely to kill.

There is no similarity in appearance between the two of them, so it can be initially determined that they are not related by blood. They should be employees of the same company, and come here to have dinner together during get off work time at noon.

With this kind of relationship, it's hard to believe that they would join forces to commit a crime.

But if it was a single person committing the crime, he would have to be careful not to let his colleagues sitting next to him find out that he had poisoned him.

This difficulty is indeed a bit high.

If you exclude the two of them, there are only two diners sitting at the same table.

The middle-aged man in the hat and the aunt in pink sitting next to Dr. Ali.

In addition, there are four chefs plus the store manager and chef standing in front of Lu Ren.

"Did anything happen in the store between twelve thirty-five and twelve forty-five?"

"Yes." The store manager pointed at Conan and the others, "Those children accidentally knocked the plastic dinner plates on the table to the ground. Then my wife and husband got into an argument with them."

"Dispute? What exactly did you say?"

"He said that Yuantai knocked the dinner plate to the ground on purpose, so that when the money was finally calculated, there would be less money." Haiyuan Ai replied.

"Counting money, does this sushi restaurant calculate money by the number of plates?"

"That's right, Brother Ren, don't you know?" Haiyuan Ai felt a little strange about this.

"I don't know, I've only been to premium sushi restaurants."

"Ok."

This reason is simply impeccable.

Seeing that he really didn't understand, Haiyuan Ai started to popularize science from the beginning.

"Conveyor belt sushi restaurants all calculate money based on the number of plates. Sushi at different prices will use different plate colors. Customers can take their meals at will. Once they take it off, they cannot put it away whether they eat it or not. put it back."

"In addition to self-pickup, you can also order through the electronic screen in front of you. When the sushi you ordered is transferred to the front, a 'beep' sound will sound to remind the customer that this is the sushi he ordered before."

"That's it, thank you."

The deceased had a dispute with Yuanta and his group on the right, and his attention was distracted.

The middle-aged hat man on the left can take advantage of this time to poison.

Was it really him?

No, we can't be sure yet. We can only say that he is the most suspicious.

"My wife left a photo and had a fight with you. What happened next? How to deal with it?"

"After he scolded us, he turned around and started scolding the uncle next to him," Yuantai shouted back, "and called him Brother Flounder."

Flounder bro?

Lu Ren took a look at the man's appearance. Although he had an unshaven beard, a haggard face, and was unkempt. But even so, his appearance has nothing to do with Flounder.

"What is your name? Do you know the deceased?"

Brother Flounder nodded, "My name is Xiang Yuanxiu, and I had a relationship with my wife."

"Please tell me more specifically, like why he gave you the nickname Flounder."

To be honest, the flounder is a bit ugly. This title is obviously insulting.

Osamu Aiono hesitated for a moment, and finally replied truthfully: "I once brought my wife to this restaurant to eat sushi. I mistakenly identified the sea bass as a halibut, and then my wife's husband laughed at me."

"Just that?"

If it's just a simple bad breath, it won't be a killer, right? This guy doesn't look like a grumpy old man.

"Also, he continued to ridicule me online. I like to share delicious food on my blog, but somehow he saw it, and then he left sarcastic comments under each of my blogs."

It turned out to be the case.

This is enough motive for murder...a hammer.

Killing people for this kind of thing is a bit nonsense, right?

No, you can't have this idea.

There are even more ridiculous reasons for killing people in Ke Xue's world. And this person may not be telling the truth.

Lu Ren decided to continue testing, "Since you have an old grudge with him, why are you still sitting next to him? Of course, these children haven't come yet, and there are still seats opposite."

"Mr. Police, are you doubting me?"

Xiang Yuanxiu suddenly became very excited.

"I had a bit of a feud with him! But I wouldn't kill him just because of this, right? And it's been several months. As for why I sat next to him, it's not that I deliberately sat next to him. , but I usually sit in that place when I have meals."

"And my wife was poisoned to death, right? If I really killed him, then you should be able to find poison-filled potions or handkerchiefs on me, right? I definitely don't have these things on me!"

As soon as these words came out, not only Lu Ren, but also Conan also focused on Xiang Yuanxiu.

The long-term experience in solving crimes tells them.

The more confident someone appears, the more suspicious that person is.

ps: The title of this chapter is wrong. It should be Chapter 536, but it was changed to Chapter 356. The title cannot be changed, this is the only way. Cover your face.

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 506 Another reason

Lu Ren temporarily stopped Brother Flounder, now Suspect No. 1, from continuing to ask questions.

Since he confidently stated that he did not have any poison in his body.

Either that or he designed a special crime method and was sure that the police would not be able to detect it. Furthermore, he is indeed innocent.

"The deceased had a dispute with Mr. Aizono Osamu, and what happened after that?"

"The store manager walked up to the deceased and persuaded him to keep quiet and not to affect the normal dining of other customers."

Haihara Ai pointed to where the store manager was at that time, which was directly behind my wife’s photo. “The deceased first sat down and taunted the store manager. Then he turned around, stood up from his chair, and talked to the store manager. Start threatening him face to face."

"Threat? What exactly did you say?"

"When I was sitting down, I said, 'You are willing to be a small store manager here, so what qualifications do you have to criticize me?'. After I stood up, I said, 'I am a food writer. As long as I write an article, your store will not produce one. It's going to go out of business within a week.'"

As Haiyuan spoke, he also imitated the tone and expression of the deceased.

But how can I put it, these rude and arrogant words coming out of her mouth will not offend people at all, but will make people think that this child is too cute.

At least that's what Lu Ren thinks.

But if these words were spoken from the mouth of the person lying dead on the ground, the photo of my wife who looked unworthy of the audience, Lu Ren would feel his fists getting hard just thinking about it.

If he eats conveyor belt sushi here with Haibara and the others at noon today, he will definitely let my wife take a photo to know what it feels like to kick an iron plate.

You like to bully others, right?

It's a coincidence that someone like him, Lu, also likes him.

Starting today, if the industry had not eliminated this so-called food writer, there would still be a place for him.

The words "God's Pen" are written directly upside down.

But it's too late to say that now.

After all, the man who kept my wife’s photo has been removed from this world.

"After threatening the store manager, the deceased looked at the pink-clad Obasan sitting near the door and said that he had previously written articles to close Obasan's sushi restaurant."

Oh?

Did the lady in pink also have a relationship with the deceased?

Bringing other people's restaurants to bankruptcy is a much more powerful motive than Flounder Brother.

As for whether it is yes or no, I will go over and ask her in detail later.

Now we must first find out the relationship between the store manager and the deceased.

"I would rather be a small store manager here." Lu Ren repeated what Huiyuan said before, "Have you known my wife before?"

"Yes. Then I was working as a chef in another restaurant. He also had a dispute with a customer. The quarrel was quite intense and it escalated into a physical conflict. I ran forward to break up the fight just like today."

"Is it just that?" Lu Ren asked further, "Why didn't you continue working in that store? Was it because he wrote bad manuscripts that led to the closure of that store?"

"No, no, that store is still running well. The reason why I don't continue working there is because of my own problems."

The store manager touched his wrist, his face a bit bitter and lonely, "When I stepped forward to break up the fight, my wife pushed me. I lost my balance and fell onto the glass cabinet. The broken glass cut off my arm. Tetsuji.”

"Since then, I can no longer make sushi like before. But I still can't forget the taste of sushi, so I opened my own conveyor belt sushi restaurant."

"..."

His hand tendons were severed and he was forced to leave the job he loved.

Why is this plot so familiar...