Conan's First Love is a Profiler

Chapter 139 Be Careful of White Clothes
"Especially Naoko, you should hate her so much that you want to kill her right?"

Tian Ling said this and looked towards where the other person was.

"For the past three years, I have been treated like a servant by the boss lady and have been bullied in various ways."

"how come."

Chiharu turned back to look at her: "Are you trying to quibble?"

Naoko immediately lowered her head again.

"Sorry, I do not have it."

"Everyone, come and have some tea and take a rest."

At this time, Wen Yue, a hotel employee, happened to come over with a tray.

"Hey, Sister Xiaotang."

"what happened?"

Conan waved his hand, motioning her to go to the side for discussion.

He whispered, "Sister Xiaotang, ask them later if they have an alibi."

"Ask yourself."

Conan was confused: According to the script, shouldn't you do what I say?

Qinghai Chuantang couldn't help but hold his forehead.

As a hotel employee, it would be strange if I had an alibi, right?

People who have no alibi may appear to be the most suspicious, but in reality this may not be the case.

The truth is sometimes quite the opposite.

Criminals usually prepare an alibi in advance, which means that the more complete the alibi is, the more suspicious they are.

"Well, let's go back to the crime scene and take a look. Maybe we'll find something."

Arriving in the warehouse, Chiharu and Tian Ling looked around, then went to the cabinet together and opened the bottom drawer, which was full of belts.

After searching, they found nothing and looked to the side.

"this is?"

I saw an open wooden box containing an exquisite belt embroidered with a camellia pattern.

At this time, Yoshikawa picked up a small piece of gold from under the wooden rack. It was a kind of gold coin commonly used in Japan during the Edo period.

"Minister, this is bad!"

A forensic officer ran in in a panic, "We found a suicide note in the boss's room."

"Suicide note?"

Ji He took it and looked at it, then said with certainty, "This is indeed the boss lady's handwriting."

The will stated that all property, including Hirano Hot Spring, would be inherited by chef Samura Yamao.

Chiharu and Tian Ling both showed shocked expressions and expressed deep doubt: "How is it possible?"

Samura, who was leaning against the door frame, was also stunned after hearing the contents of the suicide note.

He showed a puzzled expression: "Why would you let me inherit it?"

At this time, the chef did not know that he had become Conan's focus.

After comparing the handwriting, it was found to be consistent with the handwriting in the hotel guide written by the proprietress, and also consistent with the menu that the proprietress compiled and wrote every week.

These evidences fully demonstrate that this suicide note was written by the boss lady herself.

Could this really be what the boss lady meant?

Conan, who lost the bet with Qinghai Chuantang, ordered a radish for the meeting.

In layman's terms, it means stewing radish.

Two plates of stewed radishes were brought to the table, which made Conan choke up.

He swore that he would never bet with Qinghai Chuantang again.

A small plate of pickled vegetables was placed in front of Qinghai Chuantang.

"Is this Yamakawa pickles?"

Naoko nodded and smiled, "Yes, you know a lot."

At this moment, the sharp-eyed Wen Yue noticed something and looked at the white coat hanging on the wall.

"Sir, is there blood on the sleeve of your coat?"

Qinghai Chuantang took a look and said, "Maybe he got it accidentally while collecting evidence at the crime scene."

Fumitsuki took off her coat and handed it to Naoko, "I'll leave it to you."

Naoko nodded and walked out with her coat.

"I'll take my leave now."

Conan blinked his eyes and pretended to be ignorant and asked: "Speaking of blood, isn't it difficult to wash it off?"

"It's okay. Under the strict training of the boss lady, Naoko is very professional in removing stains."

Yuanzi was a little surprised, "You even care about things like this?"

"Yes, the boss lady always gives Naoko all kinds of problems."

Then, as if remembering something, he said, "Oh, yeah, that pickle too."

Once, Naoko forgot to bring the pickles to the guest room and was scolded by the landlady, who asked her to be responsible for all the pickles in the future.

Naoko didn't know how to make pickles, and the boss lady told her to figure it out herself and then stopped caring about her.

So from then on, Naoko was responsible for all the pickles in the guest rooms.

"So, this pickle was also made by Miss Naoko?"

"Yes. I don't know whether to regard this as discipline or bullying. Sorry, she is dead, and I still said bad things about her."

Wen Yue lowered her voice and said, "It may not be nice to say this, but ever since Naoko became her servant, the boss lady has been targeting that child. We waitresses have had our work cut out for us."

So there was a rumor among them that the proprietress was actually killed by that kid.

That night was the time when Conan ate the most radish.

In the end, if Xiaolan hadn't been unable to bear it and helped him kill a few of them, he would probably be lying down and unable to walk.

Conan, who was bloated by the radish, leaned against the wall and walked slowly, trying to digest the food.

He slowly walked into the corridor and happened to meet Subaru Okiya, one of the culprits.

"Mr. Subaru."

"kindness?"

Okiya Subaru stopped and looked at him in confusion.

Conan slowly raised his head and said very sincerely: "Next time, can you not help Sister Xiaotang cheat?"

Otherwise, the next bet might be to let him play football and change the trajectory of the return capsule.

Okiya Subaru finally opened his eyes.

He said very seriously: "I didn't help cheat."

Conan's eyelids twitched. Why didn't he believe it?
He was trembling like an old man. He slowly moved forward a few steps and found a blocked wooden door on the side.

There was a sign nailed to the door that read: DO NOT OPEN.

"Oh, what is this?"

"Down below is the basement, which the old lady uses as a confinement room."

Conan turned around and looked at Jihe who happened to hear the voice and rushed over, showing a puzzled expression: "Old lady?"

Jihe became hesitant for a moment.

"this and that"

"Could it be that there is some hidden story?"

Okiya Subaru, who was about to leave, seemed to be interested.

Under Conan's persistent cuteness, Yoshikawa brought the two of them to the beverage shop in Ryugu Castle.

Perhaps because it was getting late at night, the proprietress here had fallen asleep sitting on a stool, leaning against the wall.

In addition, there was a middle-aged man in the store who looked a bit weird, wearing a gray knitted hat and a black mask on his nose.

“This hotel was originally run by another family.”

"Another family?"

"Yes, the Akiyoshi family."

They are a prominent local family that has been guarding the hot springs here since the Tokugawa period.

The murdered Iya Miki was originally the old lady of the Akiyoshi family and a hired waitress.

However, the young master Akiyoshino Taku, who already has a family, still repeatedly assaults the waitresses, and Iya Miki is no exception.

After the old lady found out about this, Iya Miki was kicked out of the hot spring.

"Then how did she become the boss lady?" Conan's tone had a hint of curiosity.

"After the boss lady Meiji left, the Qiuji family gave birth to a girl named Zhuhui, and things were quiet for a while."

There was a turtle-shaped birthmark on Zhuhui's shoulder, which made the old lady very happy.

But since then, as if something was at work, unfortunate things happened one after another.

Conan was startled: "Something is causing trouble?"

Ji He nodded and sighed slightly: "Just now in the basement. The young master died mysteriously there, which was the beginning of all the strange events."

Just like tracking down the young master, the young mistress then committed suicide in the same place.

Perhaps because of the successive losses of her son and daughter-in-law, the old lady suffered a great blow and fell ill due to poor health.

The hotel's business took a sharp turn for the worse and the debt was growing.

Finally, he was at his wit's end and had to sell the hotel.

"And the person who bought this place is the owner, Meiji."

The hotel that he ran by himself became the property of the waitress he had hired before.

Perhaps because she felt unwilling, the old lady fled and took her granddaughter Zhuhui back to her hometown Kagoshima.

"But when I saw the proprietress Meiji who had returned here, I was really shocked. She looked much more Westernized. It seemed that she had married a capitalist, inherited his property, and used the money to buy this hotel."

At that time, everyone said that Iya Miki had completed her revenge on the Akiyoshi family.

“Women are so scary.”

Conan muttered softly after taking a sip of juice.

"By the way, what is that gold coin that fell at the crime scene?"

After hearing Okiya Subaru's question, Yoshikawa couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and his eyes seemed to drift in the direction of the middle-aged man.

"actually."

Yoshikawa finally retracted his gaze. "The downfall of the Akiyoshi family is related to the work of ghosts. According to legend, there is a treasure buried in the Ryugu Hot Springs by Oguri Tadatsune, the shogunate's Kanjo Bugyo."

Kanjo Bugyo was an official title of the Edo shogunate, the head of the Kanjo party, in charge of the shogunate's finances and the control of the tenryo.

"I heard that when Edo Castle was opened without bloodshed, Oguri secretly transferred the gold coins held by the shogunate and hid them in this territory. This is what we often call 'Kobankin'."

Two of them are kept by the Akiyoshi family, who guard this land.

One was forcibly taken away by the old lady when she left; the remaining one fell into the hands of Igumi Miki.

Conan blinked.

"In that case, the one found at the crime scene belongs to the boss lady?"

"That's right. Although it is rumored that there are more than two, none have been found so far."

In the past, many groups came here for gold coins.

During the mining process, he was poisoned to death by the hydrogen sulfide unique to the hot springs here.

"In fact, the death of the young master may also be due to this gold coin."

"how do I say this?"

"That basement is there, and a mysterious ancient map was found."

At that time, the young master was obsessed with finding gold coins and ran to the basement every night.

In the end, he committed suicide in front of the map.

Moreover, he was wearing a white shirt at the time.

The young lady who committed suicide was also wearing a white kimono.

After that, there were rumors that the Akiyoshi family might have been killed by a white ghost because they wanted to find the gold coins.

"White ghost, causing trouble?"

For some reason, Conan suddenly thought of someone who liked to wear white clothes. He shuddered all over and even felt a little scared.

"Do you still remember the kimono of the deceased lady boss Miki?"

After thinking about it carefully, Conan was shocked: "White!"

"So, when the gold coins were found, everyone thought that maybe the boss lady also died from the haunting of the white ghost."

Conan hugged himself and trembled.

At this moment, the sound of a glass bottle falling on the table suddenly came from behind.

When they turned around, they saw the man in sunglasses glanced at them and then left the store.

"Who is that suspicious man?"

"That's Mr. Costin, an artist. He seems to be in a small house in the distance, working on something, but I don't know what it is."

(End of this chapter)