Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

Looking at Conan who was looking around with a serious look on his face, Maori couldn't help but smile.

"What's wrong?" Xiaolan asked curiously, "Dad, you just laughed..."

"No... I think it's necessary to investigate it more carefully..."

Maori coughed lightly and turned to the vase on the shoe cabinet.

"Officer Gong Chang, please check the origin of this vase first."

"Found it!" Conan shouted from the back room, "It's on the shelf next to the trash can, and also in the small cushion under the crystal ball!"

"This is a lucky crystal ball sold by a female fortune teller in the building in front of Beihu Station," Xiaolan said in surprise, "Everyone says that the fortune teller's predictions are very accurate..."

"So it's that fortune teller Gondo?"

"I'm afraid it's not just her."

Mao Li leaned against the door, his eyes running over the small crystal ball cushion that Hattori and the others had found.

"Whether it's the bug in the vase or the bug in the cushion, they all use batteries and have a limited reception range. They must have been installed recently. The murderer would not use such an unstable eavesdropping method."

Hattori looked at Maori in a daze: "Uncle, what you mean is..."

"Generally speaking, the phone bill would not be as high as 3 yuan. Especially for someone like Xuantian who doesn't have many friends, the number of calls from home should be very small," Mao Li said with a smile, "Then the real reason is only one. The criminal is using the phone line to eavesdrop, so he keeps the phone connected..."

Hattori frowned and said, "So this person is very likely the real murderer, but in the end we still don't know who it is..."

"I think I already know who it is."

"If you don't know... what?! Already know?!"

Hattori almost choked. He pointed at several eavesdropping devices and looked at Mori with wide eyes, as if to say, "You're kidding me."

“That’s how you know?!”

"It was actually very strange from the beginning, wasn't it?" Maori analyzed, "Mrs. Ryoko said she saw a suspicious person and asked a detective to investigate, but she suddenly changed her words... Either she was really suspicious, or... she already knew who the suspicious person was?"

Hattori's face changed slightly.

"I'm sure what she said to us was false, but if we know the identity of the suspicious person..."

"Now let's review the motives of the three suspects," Maori continued. "Fortune teller Gondo had a motive to fight for the inheritance. Feng Shui master Soga's motive was that Ryoko's wife threatened him with the affair videotape. Then, Ryoko's husband, psychiatrist Morokaku Akira's motive was that his plan to demolish the house to build a hospital was rejected. In addition, he may have known that Ryoko's wife and Soga were having an affair..."

"There's nothing wrong with the motives of the other two. Only Zhu Jiaoming's is problematic, and that's the inheritance. Mrs. Liangzi's father passed away, and it was just the time to inherit the inheritance. Once Mrs. Liangzi was killed, Zhu Jiaoming would get nothing. He could have waited until the inheritance was inherited before taking action. So his motive is actually very problematic. If he is the real murderer, it could only be because of some unexpected situation..."

Mao Li paused, then raised his lips and said, "For example, if Mrs. Liangzi caught me and threatened me..."

"Brother Maori, are you saying that the suspicious person that Mrs. Ryoko saw was Morokaku Akira?" Officer Yuminaga asked in confusion, "Even if that's possible, we can't rule out the other two, right? You're talking about the situation where Morokaku Akira is the murderer. In my opinion, the other two are more likely to be the murderer."

"What if we add this?"

Maori took out a small cushion as evidence, and under the gaze of the archer's wide eyes, he pulled out a small plastic bag from inside the cushion.

"Hello, hello... This is evidence..." Officer Gong Chang stretched out his hand with sweat on his forehead, but was stunned when he saw the small plastic bag inside the seat cushion.

"This is?"

"This is the message Mrs. Liangzi left before her death."

Hattori snatched the plastic bag and looked closely at the base of the "Red Hare" packaged inside: "So that's what it is..."

"What's going on?" Officer Gong Chang was still confused.

"Don't you understand, officer?" Hattori said excitedly while looking at the base. "Mr. Soga had found the love videotape that he used to threaten him at Morokaku's house, but Mrs. Ryoko had hidden it secretly beforehand as a guarantee... Similarly, if this base was used to threaten someone, Mrs. Ryoko would have hidden it too. That person probably didn't expect that the base would be hidden in the cushion and taken out of the fire scene together with Mrs. Ryoko, right?

"The suspicious figure that Mrs. Ryoko thought of before should be Morikaku Akira who was testing the ignition device to check the situation of the children next door. Maybe Mrs. Ryoko found Morikaku Akira to be the suspicious person and checked the room. After discovering that her husband was a serial arsonist, she used this base as evidence... Since it was a guarantee used by Mrs. Ryoko to threaten the other party, it means that there should be fingerprints of the real murderer on it."

Maori looked at Hattori helping to explain, nodded, turned to Yumio and said: "Officer, if you still want more evidence, you can test Morokaku Akira. If you find a chance to tell them that you will search this place carefully tomorrow, they will definitely come here secretly. Maybe they will use the same mechanism to set the fire again in order to lose time and completely destroy the evidence..."

"The vases and porcelain placed at the entrance should be the products sold to Xuantian by the Feng Shui master. The lucky crystal should also be sold to Xuantian by the female fortune teller... They hid the bug probably to fool Xuantian and make him believe in Feng Shui and fortune telling. This is an old trick used by these guys. The key is the bug installed in the phone. To install a bug on the phone, they have to sneak into Xuantian's house. If it were the two of them, they would not leave a bug in their products..."

Mao Li thought of Genda who was being used. "Anyway, no matter whether it's true or not, we can find out tonight. It won't take much time to arrest Morokaku Akira."

……

It was already 1 p.m. when they left the Genda family. Mori finally decided to plan with Yuminaga to test Morokaku Akira, while Hattori was hurriedly pulled away by Kazuha.

"Oh no, it's already this late," He Ye checked the time outside the Genda family's home and said impatiently, "Hurry up, the case has been solved anyway, we should still have time to go to the tropical park..."

"Are you still going?" Hattori looked helpless.

He actually wanted to see what the situation was like at night, and he felt like something was missing if he left like this...

"What do you mean you're still going?" Kazuha grabbed Hattori, "We have to go back tomorrow, and today is the only day we have time to go to Tropical Paradise. Besides, didn't we make an appointment a long time ago?"

"Okay," Hattori looked at Conan gloomily, "Just consider it as keeping this kid company."

……

In the evening at the Maori Detective Agency, Maori was still sorting out the documents in the office with a sad face.

After the arson incident a few days ago, Hattori and Kazuha returned to Osaka, and Tokyo finally calmed down. Although sirens were still heard from time to time, they were all petty theft cases. However, the detective agency suddenly received a lot of commissions.

They are all small commissions, which are quite troublesome. Fortunately, the commission fees are not small...

Maori Toudadi rubbed his temple.

There’s nothing else to worry about, the key is that I have to take Ayumi and her gang of little ones camping this weekend, and I feel exhausted just thinking about taking care of these naughty kids.

"Yes, yes, I will pay attention... Doctor, you really are not going? Okay..."

……

"Really? Since he goes camping so often, why doesn't the doctor buy a few more tents?"

On Friday, Maori got up early and went out, taking a list to prepare for the weekend camping. Some things were also at the Doctor's house, so it wouldn't be too late to get them tomorrow. Anyway, Xiao Ai had the key to the Doctor's house, but the tent and the car still had to be rented.

In Haido Town, Maori drove away from the pharmacy in a rented car. He was thinking about what else he wanted to buy when he noticed a Genda antique shop on the side of the road. When he saw Genda's figure appear at the door of the shop, Maori couldn't help but slow down.

When the real arsonist Zhu Jiaoming was arrested, Xuan Tian was released. Although he still looked a little cowardly, he was in much better spirits, with a relieved smile on his face, and it seemed that he had come over the knot of his father's death.

Speaking of this case, only the first fire was an accident. The red horse appeared because the owner of the house was a frequent customer of Genda Antique Shop. Perhaps the key chain given as a gift caught fire along with the box before it was opened, and in the end only the red horse with the base was left, which caused the misunderstanding.

Later, Genda suspected that his sleepwalking disorder from childhood had recurred, so he went to see psychiatrist Zhu Jiaoming on the recommendation of the Feng Shui master. It was at that time that Zhu Jiao had an idea in his mind...

Looking at Genda, who was sweating profusely and communicating with the customer who was bargaining, Maori smiled and continued driving away.

Compared to others, although Xuantian also has his own career, he has significant flaws in his character. He is cowardly, kind, honest and even a little stupid, so it is not surprising that he is exploited by Zhujiao.

But maybe this is the meaning of the existence of a detective like him?

Chapter 160 True Friendship and False Friendship

On the mountain road, Maori followed the route marked on the map and entered the camping forest. He glanced at Yuantai and the others who were excited in the car.

I knew it would be like this. It’s just camping, but they kept chirping and singing for a long time. Are all kids so energetic?

"Uncle Maori," Yuan Tai touched his stomach, "I'm hungry..."

"We're almost at the camping site... Hmm, it looks like we're heading this way..."

Maori took a last look at the map, drove into a fork in the road, and suddenly saw a large truck parked in the middle of the road.

"Come on, who parks here?"

Maori stopped the car and walked forward, but he didn't see the truck driver, and there seemed to be no one around.

"It looks like a camper!" Several children ran to the big car and looked inside through the window. "Great! It would be fun to go camping in a car like this!"

"Uncle Maori," Yuan Tai said enviously, "Why don't we rent a car like this?"

"Stop talking nonsense. It's good enough to have a car."

Maori's eyelids drooped. Doesn't this guy know how expensive this kind of camper is?

It looks like a big RV inside...

"You guys," a young man with dyed hair and wearing a blue T-shirt walked out of the woods, "Don't touch this with your dirty hands, this is my friend's car!"

"You can't afford to pay for it if it breaks, right, Qinghua?"

"Uh……"

Two girls followed behind, one had curly bangs and was wearing a vest, and the other called Qinghua had long straight black hair and looked very elegant.

"If it's just a touch," Tiantang Qinghua said with a smile, "I don't think my uncle who borrowed my car will be angry..."

The dyed-haired young man said in surprise: "You are quite polite to these little brats. If I smoke in the car, you will scold me immediately, right?"

"Because you smoke too much, Reiji!"

"Yo yo," the curly-haired girl teased, "Reiji, have you fallen in love with the gentle and kind Haruka?"

"Stop talking so much..."

Mao Li looked at the young men and women who were gradually ignoring him, and his eyelids drooped: "Are you guys here to camp too?"

"Ah? Yes, we are both students of the same university."

"Can you please drive out of the way? We can't get through..."

"Hey, Taimei!" A shout from the woods interrupted Mao Li, "Can you come over here? It's almost ready..."

"coming!"

The permed-haired girl walked back to the campsite, and the remaining Heaven Haruka smiled apologetically at Mao Li: "Sorry, we will drive the car to the side right away, Reiji..."

"I know, I know. Who knew there would be people walking this way today?"

The dyed-haired young man named Lingzhi opened the car door reluctantly. When he looked at Maori, he paused with some confusion. He felt that he looked familiar, but for a moment he couldn't remember where he had seen him. He had to shake his head and try to drive the camper to the side of the road.

"What a nice smell!" A scent of barbecue wafted over. Yuantai sniffed and stared at the camping site of the young people with his eyes wide open. Before Maori could say anything, he ran over with drooling.

"Hello..."

Maori looked at several children who were enviously surrounding the barbecue stall with a headache. It was called a barbecue stall, but in fact it was just an iron rack on a stone stove, and the rack was full of grilled food.

It smells really good, but they are other people's things, so there is no need to look so pitiful, as if he is useless.

Although we didn’t prepare any barbecue, we did have some delicious curry…

"These look like very expensive meats." Mitsuhiko looked at the sizzling barbecued meat reluctantly and swallowed his saliva like Yuantai.

"It seems delicious..."

"Do you want to eat together?" Tai Mei, the permed-haired girl, said generously, "There's meat anyway..."

"Ah?" The fat young man wearing a hat beside him smiled bitterly, "But that was at night..."

"What's the matter? Don't say such mean things. If it's not enough, you can ask Qinghua for more money and go to the supermarket at the foot of the mountain to buy some, right, Qinghua?"

"Yeah," Tiantang Qinghua said with a smile, "Everyone, you're welcome. Let's eat together."

"Great!"

"Hey!"

Maori glared at the rebellious Ayumi and the others and opened his mouth. Ai beside him chuckled and walked over with her hands behind her back.

"I'm so sorry," Mao Li looked at the college students helplessly, "I won't eat it..."

……

“It tastes pretty good.”

Maori picked up a grilled steak from the grill and stuffed a piece of toast into his mouth.

"I should have prepared some barbecue ingredients earlier. Your cooking skills are really good... I'll treat you to curry for dinner."

"Uncle Maori!" Yuan Tai protected his barbecue, "You ate too much!"

Mao Li ignored the fat boy and turned to the college students who were in a good mood: "Are you all members of a club in the same university?"

"Yes, it's an outdoor club. We go hiking and playing in the sea together. We've even been to Hawaii..."

"That's a lot of money, isn't it?"

"We have to thank Qinghua for the sponsorship," Taimei, the permed-haired girl, said with a smile, "otherwise we wouldn't have the money to play..."

"That's not true," Tenjo Haruka looked at everyone embarrassedly, "Taimei's cooking is great, Reiji is good at sports, and Fanhe is good at picking wild vegetables and fishing. Compared to them, I'm the only one who doesn't have any special skills, so I had to pay..."

"Qinghua is Qinghua. 'I'm a young lady who can't do anything, but I can make money'... I really want to say this once," Taimei sighed, "But it's not bad to have a good friend like Qinghua..."

Mao Li put down his chopsticks and silently glanced at the quiet Tiantang Qinghua.