Chapter 12 Section 12

Tatsuhiko Inogai stood there, holding the mobile phone in his left hand, regardless of whether he was still talking with the other party, he picked up the receiver of the landline with the other hand, and talked to this person here. "So, I'll trouble you to deal with this matter. The second clause of the contract should be written very clearly... Well, of course, we will find a way about this...I see. Then Please." Putting down the receiver, he put the mobile phone in his left hand to his ear again, "I'm sorry. I had already negotiated with the other party just now... Well, then I would trouble you to do as we talked about before... …Understood."

As soon as he finished talking on the phone, Zhu Xi didn't even have time to sit down, so he started to record on the desk.The desk used by the president was Mashiba Yoshitaka's desk not long ago. After putting the written note into his pocket, Inokai looked up at Kusanagi and said, "Sorry for keeping you waiting." "You are very busy." "It turned out to be some miscellaneous things. The president passed away suddenly, and the heads of various departments were in a mess. I was worried about the monopoly system like Mashiba before. It would be great if I could adjust it earlier." While complaining, Inokai sat down opposite Kusanagi.

"Currently, Mr. Inokai will take over the position of the president temporarily?" After hearing Kusanagi's question, Zhu Kai raised his hand in front of his face, waved his hand repeatedly and said, "Where is that?" "The operator is not an empty name. Some people are suitable for being an operator, and some are not. And I am still better at being a lawyer. Sooner or later, I will hand over the management of this company to someone else. So— Inokai looked at Kusanagi and continued, "The inference that I will kill Mashiba in order to seize the power of the company is untenable."

Seeing Kusanagi's eyes widen, he smiled wryly and said, "Sorry, I'm just kidding. And I can joke too much. My friend passed away, but I don't even have time to mourn him, and I'm tired of work all day long. I also know that I have been quite anxious recently." "I'm really sorry to waste your precious time at this time." "No, I am also quite concerned about the progress of your search. Has there been any new progress recently?" "The facts of the case are gradually becoming clear. For example, the method of the murderer's poisoning has been found out."

"interesting." "Mr. Mashiba paid great attention to health during his lifetime and never drank tap water, do you know that?" After listening to Kusanagi's question, Zhu Kai tilted his head and said, "Does he care about health? I am the same about this. I haven't drunk raw water in recent years." Kusanagi was disappointed to see him speak so lightly.This seems to be a matter of course for rich people. "yes?" "When did it become like this, even I find it incredible. It's not that the tap water is so bad, maybe it's just encouraged by the bottled water manufacturer. Well, it can also be said to be a habit." Zhu Fei seemed to realize something, and raised his chin, "Could it be that the water is poisonous?"

"It's not sure yet, I can only say that there is such a possibility. Did you drink mineral water at the house party?" "Of course I drank it, and I drank a lot of... um... water." "It is said that Mr. Mashiba also uses bottled water when making coffee. Do you know this?" "I've heard of this too." Zhu Kai nodded and said, "So that's it, you have detected toxic substances from coffee." "The question is, when did the murderer put the poison. So I would like to ask, do you know if anyone has ever secretly visited Mr. Mashiba's house on the rest day?"

Inokai stared straight at Kusanagi.Looking at his expression, it seems that he has already smelled the subtleties in his words. "You mean secretly?" "Yes. We are still unable to deduce the identity of the visitor. But as long as Mr. Mashiba is willing to assist, that person can enter the door secretly without anyone knowing." "For example, when his wife is not at home, taking women home or something?" "That possibility is not ruled out." Zhu Jin put down his upturned Erlang legs, leaned forward slightly, and said, "Can you please open the skylight and speak frankly? Although this may need to be kept secret during the investigation, I am not an amateur either. I won't give it away. Correspondingly, I will be open and honest with you."

Seeing that Kusanagi didn't understand and was noncommittal, Zhu Kai leaned back on the sofa again and said, "Didn't your police already find out that Zhenchai has a mistress?" Kusanagi didn't know how to respond, he never expected that Zhu Kai would bring up this topic with him. "What do you know?" he inquired cautiously. "A month ago, Zhen Chai told me that he almost wanted to change someone." Zhu Kai rolled his eyes and said, "It's impossible for your police to not even find out such a thing. It's because of the investigation. What happened, you came to me, didn't you?"

Kusanagi plucked his eyebrows, smiled wryly and said, "As you said, Mr. Mashiba does have a special woman." "I won't ask you who that person is anymore, I have a rough idea." "Actually, have you noticed it?" "Just use the method of elimination. Zhen Chai won't attack right women, and it's the same for company employees and women related to work. In this case, there will be only one person left by his side." Sighing, "Speaking of which, I didn't expect it to be so. I can't let my wife know about it." "We have verified from his own statement that she had been to Mr. Mashiba's house on that Saturday and Sunday. What we want to know is, besides her, is there anyone else who has the same relationship with Mr. Mashiba?" ?”

"Bringing two mistresses home while the wife is not at home? That's quite heroic." Zhu Kai said, shaking his body, "But it's impossible. Although Zhenchai is an old smoker, he He doesn't have two cigarettes in his mouth at the same time." "What do you mean by that?" "That is to say, although that guy changes women all day long, he won't be with two women at the same time. I guess he hasn't lived with his wife since he got a new love. It's the so-called married life. Because he said before However, if you want to have sex purely to satisfy your desires, let's wait until you are older."

"In other words, the purpose is to have children." "In a sense, it's right in the heart." Zhu Kai grinned. Kusanagi remembered Wakayama Hiromi's pregnancy. "Listen to what you just said, the biggest purpose of his marriage with his wife is to have children?" Hearing what Kusanagi said, Inokai leaned back heavily, leaned heavily on the sofa, and said, "It's not the biggest purpose, but the only purpose. When he was a single nobleman, he often clamored to get married sooner." He has been passionately looking for a suitable partner for this, and he has been with many women. Maybe he is a playboy in the eyes of the world, but in fact he is just persistently looking for a suitable woman, a A woman fit to be the mother of her own child." "In other words, he doesn't really care whether this woman is suitable to be his wife?" Zhu Zi shrugged and said: "Zhen Chai doesn't want any wife at all. Didn't I just say that he told me before that he wanted to change someone? He also told me at that time that what he wanted was a A woman who can bear his children, not a babysitter or a fancy dress." Kusanagi couldn't help but widen his eyes: "If women all over the world hear this, it will cause public outrage. It's okay to talk about nanny, but the decoration is a bit..." "This can be regarded as my personal praise for Mrs. Ayane's selfless dedication. She quit all the outside jobs and devoted herself to housework all day. As a housewife, she can be said to be perfect. When Mashiba was at home , she also sat on the sofa in the living room all day, sewing quilts, and waiting for her husband at any time. But he never valued this. In his opinion, a woman who can't bear children seems to be sitting On the sofa, it's just a decoration, getting in the way." "...That's really too much to say. Why does he want children so much?" "Well... Although it's not that I don't want a child myself, I haven't reached his level yet. But after the child is born, I feel really cute." The pig who just became a father revealed in his speech A doting smile.After putting away his smile, he continued, "However, this must have been influenced by his personal growth experience." "You mean to say..." "It is estimated that your police have already found out that Zhenchai has no other relatives or family members, right?" "I heard so." Zhu Kai nodded and said: "I heard that Zhenchai's parents divorced when he was young. At that time, he lived with his father, but his father was a workaholic and almost never came home, so he had to be raised by his grandparents. But later his grandparents passed away one after another, and his father died suddenly due to subarachnoid hemorrhage when he was only in his twenties, so he became a lonely Tianya early. Although relying on his grandparents With the money his father left him, he lived a carefree life and even started a career, but he has no relationship with his family ever since." "That's why he is so attached to the child..." "I think he hopes someone can continue his bloodline. No matter how much they don't love each other, lovers and wives are still outsiders at this point." Zhu Kai's tone was indifferent.Perhaps he himself had similar thoughts in his heart.Perhaps because of this reason, these words are quite convincing to Kusanagi's ears. "I heard from you a few days ago that you were there when Mr. Mashiba and Mrs. Ayane met. Do you remember what kind of party it was?" "You're right. That party is nominally a social party that brings together all walks of life in society, but in fact it's a blind date party where people with various titles are looking for a match. I was invited to accompany him. At that time, he said that he had to attend in order to change the favor of a client. In the end, he married a woman he met there. Life is really unpredictable. Well, this is just a coincidence. " "The 'opportunity' you mentioned is..." Hearing Kusanagi's question, there was a hint of displeasure on Inokai's expression, as if he was regretting what he shouldn't have said. "Before he started dating Mrs. Ayane, he had dated a woman, and it happened that after he broke up with that woman, he held the party just mentioned. I guess it was because Mashiba couldn't get along with him before. I'm getting along with the woman I'm with, so I'm a little anxious." Zhu Kai put his index finger on his lips and said, "Please don't tell Mrs. Ayane about this, because Mashiba told me before he was alive." "Then why did he break up with that woman?" Zhu Kai tilted his head and said, "I don't know. Non-interference in this kind of matter is the default rule of the game between us. According to my guess, it's probably because we can't have children." "Weren't they married at the time?" "How many times have I said that to him, this matter is the most important thing. Perhaps to him, the so-called marriage with children that is popular in the world today is his ideal marriage." That's why he chose Hiromi Wakayama? There are all kinds of men in this world, and Kusanagi originally thought that he had already gotten used to it, but he really couldn't understand Mashiba Yoshitaka's thoughts.Even if there is no child, as long as you can live with a woman like Ayane for a lifetime, isn't it a kind of happiness? "What kind of people are the women you mentioned that Mr. Mashiba once dated?" Zhu Kai recalled: "I don't know too well. I just heard that there is such a person from Mashiba, but he didn't introduce him to me. He is sometimes mysterious. Maybe he decided not to make it public before he got engaged. Relationship." "Then he and that woman were easy to talk and break up at that time?" "I think it should be. He didn't talk to me about it." After finishing speaking, Inoko stared at Kusanagi as if realizing something and said, "You don't think that woman may be related to this case Bar?" "That's not what it means. We just want to know as much about the victim as possible." Zhu Kai waved his hand with a wry smile and said, "If you are guessing that Zhen Chai called that girl home, then you are very wrong. That guy would not do such a thing, absolute." "Because...Mr. Mashiba doesn't have two cigarettes in his mouth at the same time, does he?" "That's right." Pig feed nodded. "I understand. I will refer to it." Kusanagi looked at the clock and stood up. "You helped us in spite of your busy schedule. Thank you very much." As soon as he turned around and walked towards the exit, Pig Feed rushed to him and opened the door for him. "This is... really unbearable." "Mr. Kusanagi," said Zhu Kai, casting a serious look at him, "I have no intention of interfering with your search operations. I only have one request." "What request?" "Mashiba is not a gentleman. As long as he investigates, it is estimated that many things about him in the past can be found out, but I personally think that there is no connection between his past and this case. Now that the company is in an extraordinary period, I hope you Try not to bring it up again." It seems that he is worried about the impact on the company's reputation. "Even if we find something, we will not leak it to the media, please rest assured." After saying that, Kusanagi walked out of the room. There was still unhappiness in his heart, of course, it was aimed at Zhen Chai Yixiao.He was deeply angry at the fact that Mashiba Yoshitaka simply regarded women as tools for childbearing.Presumably someone like him has an equally distorted outlook on life in other respects.For example, in his eyes, employees are just parts to make the whole company run, and consumers are just objects for him to squeeze money from. It is not difficult to imagine that many people must have been hurt by his views before.That being the case, it is not surprising that there are one or two people who hate him so much that they want to get rid of him and then quickly. Wakayama Hiromi's suspicion cannot be completely cleared.Although Nei Haixun thought that she would not kill the father of the fetus in her womb, but after hearing what Zhu Kai said, he felt that it was too early to make such a judgment.Although Mashiba Yoshitaka originally seemed to plan to marry Hiromi after breaking up with Ayane, but it was because she was pregnant with his flesh and blood, not because he really loved her.Therefore, it is entirely possible that he made some selfish demands on Hongmei at that time, which caused her to hold a grudge. Having said that, in the face of Utsumi Kaoru's point of view, it is very illogical to say that although Hiromi was the first discoverer, he did not erase the residual traces of toxic substances.Kusanagi didn't know how to refute.Accidentally forgot?This kind of thinking is somewhat unreasonable. Kusanagi thought, all in all, let's find out the woman Mashiba Yoshitaka dated before meeting Ayane.He walked out of Mashiba's company while thinking about the order of finding people. Mashiba Ayane seemed to be caught off guard, her eyes widened, and Kusanagi noticed that her black eyeballs were shaking slightly.This really made her feel overwhelmed. "Are you asking... my husband's former lover?" "I'm really sorry to ask you such an unpleasant question." He apologized as he sat down and bowed his head. At this moment, the two of them were sitting in the teahouse of the hotel where Ayane was temporarily staying.Kusanagi called to ask her about something and asked her to meet. "What does this have to do with the case?" Hearing her question, Kusanagi shook his head and said, "It's hard to tell now. But since your husband is likely to be killed, then we have to give all the people with motives to kill Find it out, so I want to check the past situation." Ayane raised the corners of her mouth slightly, and looked at Kusanagi.wistful smile. "You think that he won't talk to each other at all, just like breaking up with me, right?" "No..." He really wanted to say that he didn't mean that, but he stopped.He looked at Ayane again and said, "We got news that your husband was looking for a woman who could give birth to him. If a man with this idea goes too far, he will hurt the other party." So the person who was hurt at that time is very likely to have resentment towards him." "Just like me?" "No, you..." "It's okay." She nodded, "That police officer's surname is Utsumi, I guess you should have heard her say that Hiromi finally succeeded in fulfilling Mashiba's wish. So he chose her and decided to abandon me. To It is also a lie to say that I really don't blame her at all in my heart." "It is impossible for you to commit murder." "Is that true?" "As far as the current situation is concerned, we haven't detected any toxic substances from the plastic bottles. The safest view is still that the poison is on the kettle, and you can't do this." Kusanagi breathed out After talking a lot, he took a breath and said again, "Now we can only think that someone visited Zhenchai's house on Sunday to poison him. It is estimated that the possibility of others trespassing is very small, so your husband invited him in on his own initiative. However From the point of view of working relationship, we can't find out the names of the relevant people. From the point of view of his extremely personal relationship, there are naturally very limited people he will invite to the house quietly while you are not at home. " "That is to say, it's either a mistress or an ex-girlfriend, isn't it?" She said, pulling her bangs together, "but I can't help you either. Zhenchai never mentioned this kind of thing to me." "It doesn't matter how trivial it is. Hasn't he happened to mention it in conversation with you before?" She tilted her head and said: "This...he hardly mentions the past. In this sense, he can be regarded as a cautious person. It seems that he will not go to those who have broken up with those who have broken up. past restaurants or bars.” "Really?" Kusanagi was disappointed.Originally, he planned to try his luck at the shop where Mashiba used to date. Perhaps Mashiba Yoshitaka was indeed a cautious person during his lifetime. Among the personal items in his home and office, he could not find any clues about his mistress other than Hiromi Wakayama.The phone numbers saved on his mobile phone, except for work-related women, are all men's numbers.In fact, even Wakayama Hiromi's number was not saved. "I'm so sorry I couldn't help you." "No, you don't have to apologize." Just when Ayane was about to apologize a little more, the phone rang from the bag beside her.She quickly took out her cell phone and asked "Can I answer the call?" Kusanagi replied "Of course." "Yes, I am Zhenchai." When Ayane first answered the phone, her expression was calm, but in an instant, her eyelashes began to tremble, and she looked at Kusanagi nervously. "Well, it's nothing. Is there anything else?...Ah, is it like this? Okay, I get it. Then please." After hanging up the phone, she covered her mouth as if to say " Oops", "Maybe I should have told her Mr. Kusanagi you were here?" "Excuse me, who is calling?" "Miss Utsumi." "That guy? What did she say?" "She said she wanted to check the kitchen again now and asked if I could come over to my house, and she said it wouldn't be a big deal." "Investigate again...what is that guy trying to do?" Kusanagi said while touching the tip of his chin and looking at the ground in front of him. "Probably want to investigate how the poison was administered." "Perhaps." Kusanagi looked at his watch, picked up the bill on the table, "I'll go and have a look, too, can you see it?" "Of course." Ayane nodded, and then said as if she suddenly remembered something, "That... I have a request." "What request?" "I also think it's really rude to ask you to help me with this kind of thing..." "What's the matter? Just say it." "Actually," she raised her head and said, "I want to ask you to help water the flowers. Because at the beginning, I thought I would only stay in this hotel for a day or two..." Kusanagi gave a "hmm", nodded and said: "We are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. But now that the forensic work is over, you should be able to go home and live. Wait until the investigation of her is over. , and I'll let you know." "No, I'm fine. I decided to live here for a while longer on my own accord. Besides, it hurts to think about living alone in such a big home." "That's true." "I also know that I can't always escape like this, but I think it's better to live here for the time being until my husband's funeral is scheduled." "I guess it won't be long before your husband's body can be returned to you." "Really? Then I have to prepare..." Ayane blinked as she said that, "I originally planned to water those things tomorrow when I go home to pick up my luggage, but in fact, I also want to water them as soon as possible." They are watering and have been quite worried." Kusanagi understood what she meant, patted his chest and said, "I know. If that's the case, leave this matter to me. Are those in the courtyard and on the balcony?" "Is it really possible? Even I think my request is a little too much." "You cooperate with our search operation so much, of course we are willing to help a little. Anyway, there are people who have nothing to do over there, so you can rest assured and let me do it." As soon as Kusanagi stood up, Ayane also stood up, looked directly at Kusanagi's face and said, "I don't want those flowers and plants at home to wither." Her tone was full of sincerity. "You seem to cherish them very much." Kusanagi recalled the day she had just returned from Sapporo and watered those flowers. "The flowers on the balcony were planted when I was still single. Each plant contains various memories, so I don't want to lose them because of this incident." For a moment, Ayane's eyes stared into the distance, but then returned to Kusanagi.Her eyes radiated a heart-wrenching light, which made him unable to look directly at her. "I will definitely help you water those flowers, so don't worry." After saying that, Kusanagi walked towards the cashier. He took a taxi in front of the hotel and went to Mashiba's house.The expression that Ayane showed at the end was deeply etched in his mind, and he couldn't get rid of it. Kusanagi stared blankly out of the car window and caught a signboard on a building.It is a signboard of a general merchandise supermarket.He suddenly thought of one thing. "Excuse me, I'll just get off here." He quickly said to the driver. After a quick shopping in the general merchandise supermarket, he stopped the car again.Because he successfully bought what he wanted to buy, he felt a little elated. When I came near Zhenchai's house, I saw several patrol cars parked in front of the door.Kusanagi thought to himself, it was really serious.If things go on like this, this family will continue to suffer from the curiosity of the world for a long time. A uniformed police officer stood by the gate, the same police officer who stood guard at the gate when the incident happened last time.The other party seemed to still remember Kusanagi, and when he saw him coming, he nodded silently. As soon as he entered the house, he saw three pairs of shoes in the shoe changing place, among which he had seen Nei Haixun wear the pair of sneakers.The other two were men's shoes, one cheap with floppy leather and the other shiny new with "Armani" on it. Kusanagi walked along the corridor to the living room.The door was open, and when I went in, there was no one in sight.Not long after, a man's voice came from the kitchen. "It's true that there is no trace of touching it with your hand." "Right? The forensics department also believes that this thing has not been touched for at least a year." Nei Haixun's voice responded. Kusanagi looked into the kitchen, and saw Kaoru Utsumi and a man squatting by the pool, the door under the pool was open, blocking the man's face, Kishitani was standing beside them. It was this Kishitani who noticed someone coming: "Ah, Kusanagi-senpai." Nei Haixun turned his head when he heard the sound, with a look of embarrassment on his face. "What are you doing?" Kusanagi asked. She blinked and said, "How did you come here..." "Answer my question first. I ask what are you doing here?" "Why do you have to talk like this to your enthusiastic junior?" He only heard his voice again.After the man stretched his head to look under the pool, he revealed his face from above the pool door. Kusanagi was taken aback and felt at a loss for a while, because the other party was someone he knew very well. "Yu Chuan, why are you here..." After asking, he shifted his gaze to Xun Neihai and said, "You went to this guy to give you advice without telling me, right?" She bit her lip and said nothing. "Your words are really strange. Utsumi-kun, who does she want to see, must she ask you for instructions one by one?" Tang Chuan stood up and smiled at Kusanagi, "Long time no see. You look good, then It's stronger than anything." "Don't you no longer want to assist the police in their searches?" "Fundamentally, my thinking has not changed, except that there are exceptions. For example, when a mystery of interest to scientists arises. Well, in this case, it is not It's not without other reasons, but I don't need to report to you, right?" Tang Chuan cast an intriguing look at Nei Haixun. Kusanagi also turned to look at her and said, "Is this what you mean by further investigation?" Nei Haixun was taken aback and didn't close his mouth for a long time. "Did you hear what Mrs. Ayane said?" "I was talking to Mrs. Ayane at the time, but you called her. By the way, I almost forgot one important thing—Kishitani, you seem to be empty-handed now." Suddenly hearing his name being called, his junior detective straightened his back and said, "I am now ordered to observe Mr. Tang Chuan's on-site investigation, because what she said by Utsumi alone may be missed. certain information." "Let me listen for you. Go and water the flowers in the yard." Kishitani kept blinking: "Are you talking about watering the flowers?" "To make it easier for us to search, Mrs. Ayane vacated the house. Go water it and it won't kill anyone. You just need to water the ones in the yard. I'll come to the ones on the balcony on the second floor." Boss Kishitani frowned unwillingly, said "Understood", and walked out of the kitchen. "Okay, sorry, please tell me the content of your re-investigation from the beginning." Kusanagi put the bag in his hand on the ground and said. "What is that?" Nei Haixun asked. "This has nothing to do with your re-investigation, so you don't need to worry about it. Alright, let's talk about it." Kusanagi looked at Yu Chuan and folded his hands on his chest. He has gloves on his hands.Tang Chuan hooked the thumbs of both hands on the two trouser pockets of "Armani", who was presumably, and leaned against the pool. "The young female detective of yours came to me and asked me the following question: Is it possible to mix poison in the drink of a certain person at a distance? Alas, such a problem is hard to come across even in the world of physics." He shrugged as he said. "Separate a certain distance..." Kusanagi glared at Utsumi Kaoru, "Are you still suspicious of Mrs. Ayane? You insisted that she was the murderer, and ran to Yu Chuan to ask what kind of magic was used to poison him, right? " "It's all about doubting Mrs. Ayane. I'm just confirming that those who have an alibi on Saturday and Sunday are really impossible to commit murder." "What's the difference? Aren't you here for Mrs. Ayane?" Kusanagi turned his gaze back to Yukawa, "Okay, why are you looking under the pool?" "I heard from Utsumi-kun that you found toxic substances in three places." Tang Chuan raised up three gloved fingers and said, "First, it was in the coffee the victim drank, and second, it was in the coffee used to make the coffee. powder and filter paper, and finally the kettle used for watering, but you don’t know what happened after that. There are two possibilities, one is to poison directly in the kettle, but to poison in the water. If it is Water, where is the water? There are two possibilities, either bottled water or tap water.” "Tap water? You mean, put poison in the water pipe?" Kusanagi snorted. Tang Chuan continued without changing his expression: "When there are multiple possibilities, it is most reasonable to use the method of elimination. Although I heard that the forensics department has determined that the water pipes and water purifiers are not abnormal, but I am not in the character to see them with my own eyes. It seemed that he was unwilling to give up, so I investigated the underside of the pool. If you want to tamper with the water pipe, you can only do it here." "Then what's the result?" Tang Chuan shook his head slowly and said: "There are no traces of tampering on the water pipes, the diversion pipes of the water purifier, and the filter. Although it is possible to remove all these things for investigation, I don't think there will be any traces of tampering." Any results. In this way, assuming the poison was dropped in the water, it can be concluded that the water is bottled water." "No toxic substances were detected on the plastic bottle." "Kesouyan's report hasn't come out yet," Nei Haixun said. "No, our forensics department is not just for nothing." Kusanagi let go of his hands on his chest, looked at Yuchuan with his hands on his hips and said, "Is this the conclusion you came to? You came here to intervene, Didn't it make sense in the end?" "The conclusion about the water is what I said just now, but the investigation about the kettle will start later. Didn't I just say that the poison may also be directly poured into the kettle." "This is my point of view. But let me state first, there is no poison in the kettle on Sunday morning, but the premise is to believe what Hiromi Wakayama said." Yu Chuan didn't answer, but picked up a kettle placed by the pool. "What's that?" Kusanagi asked. "A kettle that is exactly the same as the one used in this case was prepared by Utsumi-kun." Tang Chuan turned on the faucet, filled the kettle with warm water, and then poured the water into the sink to flow away. "This kettle hasn't been tampered with, it's just an ordinary kettle." After that, he refilled the teapot with water, put it on the gas stove beside it, and turned on the fire. "What's the point of doing this?" "Okay, just wait and see." Tang Chuan leaned against the pool again and said, "Do you think the murderer came to this family on Sunday and poured poison into the kettle?" "Isn't that the only possibility?" "If this is the case, the murderer chose an extremely risky method. Didn't the murderer ever think that Mr. Mashiba would reveal to others that he had been at home? Or, do you think the murderer took advantage of Mr. Did you sneak into the house while you were out?" "I don't think it's possible to infiltrate. According to my inference, the murderer should be a person that Zhen Chai cannot mention in front of others." "So that's it. You think the other party is someone the victim doesn't want others to know." Tang Chuan nodded, then turned and said to Utsumi Kaoru, "It seems that your senior has not completely lost his mind, I am relieved." "What do you mean?" Kusanagi looked back and forth between the two of them. "It doesn't mean anything too deep. I just want to say that since both of you are still sensible, it's definitely not a bad thing to have differences of opinion." Seeing that Yu Chuan's tone of voice was still somewhat contemptuous, Kusanagi gave him a look, but Yu Chuan didn't care about his gaze, and still had a smile on his face. After a while, the water in the kettle boiled. Tang Chuan turned off the fire, lifted the lid and looked inside. "Looks like it turned out well." With that, he started pouring water from the kettle into the sink. Seeing the liquid flowing out of the spout, Kusanagi was startled, because Yukawa filled it with ordinary tap water before, but now it turned bright red. "What happened to the water?" Tang Chuan put the kettle into the sink, and said with a smile to Kusanagi: "I told you that there was no tampering on the kettle, but I lied to you. In fact, I painted a layer of red powder on the inside of the kettle, and used gelatin to cover it. The powder is covered. As soon as the water boils, the gelatin will gradually dissolve, and finally the powder will dissolve into the water." After speaking, he changed back to a serious expression, and nodded to Nei Haixun, "In this case , used the jug at least twice before the victim died, didn't he?" "Yes. I used it on Saturday night and Sunday morning." Utsumi replied. "Depending on the quality and quantity of gelatin used, there is also the possibility that toxic substances will not be dissolved in the second use, but will be dissolved in the third time. Why don't you go to the forensics department to confirm? At the same time, you should also consider Where the poison will be applied to the kettle, and if necessary, to find out the material other than gelatin." She replied "OK" and wrote Yu Chuan's instructions in the handbook. “怎么了，草薙君？干吗一脸沮丧的样子啊？”汤川用揶揄的语气说道。 “我可没沮丧。话说回来，这么特殊的毒杀手法，一般人能想得到吗？” “你说方法特殊？根本不。对一个平日用惯了明胶的人来说，这根本就算不上什么难事，比方说擅长做菜的太太们。” 汤川的话令草薙不由得咬牙切齿。这位物理学家显然已经把绫音太太认作是凶手了，恐怕是内海熏给他灌输的这想法吧。 就在这时，内海熏的手机响了。她接起电话，说了两三句之后，望着草薙的脸说道：“科搜研那边的报告出来了，说是最终没能从塑料瓶上检测出任何有毒物质来。”