Chapter 1044: Granny Jing's Crossword Puzzle

Saturday, February 23, afternoon.

Ayumi took Conan, Genta, and Mitsuhiko to find Grandma Jing and helped her feed the cats, but Grandma Jing still didn't show up after all the cats were fed.

Although Grandma Shizu had said that she was going to Izu, Ayumi still had something, so she decided to go to Grandma Shizu's house, which was located in a tenement nearby. ...

Jing mother-in-law's house.

After Ayumi knocked on the door, she found that no one was at home. An old woman happened to be passing by, so she inquired and learned that Grandma Jing did not come back at noon.

Guessing that Grandma Jing went to Izu in the morning, Ayumi and the others returned to the cat park and found a cat wearing a scarf.

"It seems to be Grandma Jing's scarf." Ayumi hurriedly stepped forward to take off the scarf, only to find that there were many Japanese characters on the scarf, and there was a dark red mark beside it.

"This is..." Conan buttoned a little on the mark, rubbed it under his nose, and his face changed drastically when he smelled it, "This is blood!"

"What!" Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta were shocked.

Conan said heavily: "The mother-in-law may be locked up somewhere, so I can only use a scarf to convey the distress message."

Yuan Tai asked: "A message for help?"

Mitsuhiko asked in surprise: "Could it be that these Japanese characters are codes?"

Ayumi asked: "Then, could it be that you can't move after being injured?"

Conan said: "In that case, you should write your location and write it like this, just thinking that if the prisoner sees it, they won't be able to understand it."

"Understandable or not, the prisoner will take this scarf when he sees it, right?" Yuan Tai smiled, "If the prisoner doesn't know that this is a message for help, then he is really stupid."

Mitsuhiko said: "That is to say, what kind of code should be written, it would be better to just write the address."

Conan said: "If I'm not mistaken, this code was written to Ayumi."

"Me?" Ayumi asked.

"That's right, didn't you say that Grandma Jing gave you a booklet of crossword puzzles? Just use that translator." Conan said.

"So that's how it is." Ayumi said, "Speaking of which, Grandma Jing once asked me to guess the anagrams of Japanese characters and one stroke into other characters." Then she took out the booklet and flipped through it.

Mu, Bai, Tian, ​​Jiu, You, Jia, Dan, Shen, Ayumi found eight characters and wrote them down on the paper one by one, but the four of them couldn't understand their meanings for a while, and Ayumi told Grandma Jing I didn't know much about it, and the four of them broke the clue at once.

At this time, the young man in the van passed by, and Conan stepped forward and asked him, "Hey, do you know about Grandma Jing?"

The young man said angrily: "Go and play, kid, I don't have time to talk to you."

Yuan Tai said: "Hey, something happened to Grandma Jing now."

Mitsuhiko said, "If you know, tell us."

"What does it have to do with me if the old woman has an accident." The young man gloated and said with a smile, "It would be better if she doesn't show up in the future."

"How could you do this?" Ayumi burst into tears.

The young man was stunned for a moment, and then noticed that everyone around him was looking at him, and hurriedly said, "Hey, don't cry, it's like I've done something to you."

"Then tell me quickly." Ayumi said, wiping her tears.

"It's unlucky, you guys come with me." The young man said, and then brought the four of Ayumi to his RV.

The caravan is trailer-type, with a length of about eight meters. It is equipped with satellite TV, refrigerator, kitchen utensils and other electrical equipment, as well as bathrooms. It is maintained by using the park's water and electricity. Although the inside is messy, it is still clean.

Seeing Yuantai and Mitsuhiko looking around, the young man smiled proudly: "How about it, my caravan is not bad, let me tell you, it is much cheaper than living in an apartment."

Conan said angrily: "Say it quickly, we have to save people."

"Really, don't be in a hurry." The young man said, and then asked, "I heard from you in the morning that you are a boy detective team, isn't that true?"

Yuan Tai said proudly: "That's right, we are the Boys' Detective Team."

"Very good." The young man smiled, "For the detective, this..." He rubbed his fingers together.

Conan straightened his triangular eyes, please, we are children.

"What do you mean?" Mitsuhiko asked.

"You don't understand this?" The young man said helplessly, "You don't understand this, what kind of detectives are you?" He continued, "Okay, let me tell you, what you are asking is information, Of course you have to pay for the information.”

"Huh?" Genta, Ayumi, and Mitsuhiko were taken aback.

"Ah what, I won't tell you what I know for nothing." The young man said, "In short, you should either pay the money, or leave and find someone else."

"Look at this," Guangyan said, showing off the scarf, "Grandma Jing left a code on it, and there are bloodstains, she must be trapped somewhere, we are going to rescue her."

The young man smiled and said, "Then you can take it to the police and see what they say."

Conan asked: "Grandma Jing didn't come home at noon, do you know where else she can go?"

The young man said: "How do I know this? It will take a day to calculate the disappearance. Maybe go for a walk somewhere."

"Mother-in-law, maybe, maybe..." Ayumi cried again.

"No one is watching now, so you can cry slowly," the young man said, "Anyway, what happens to her is her problem, and it has nothing to do with me. No matter what happens to her, I still have to live my life."

"Ayumi, let's go." Mitsuhiko said angrily, "Let's not ask this cold-blooded guy, let's go find someone else."

Yuan Tai was angry and said: "Yes, there must be other people who know about Grandma Jing."

"Then you go and look for it slowly, don't know if you have enough time?" The young man said, "Also, let me tell you another fact, during the time we are talking, there are probably not many people in the world Someone died because of being killed, you are neither Superman nor Saiyan, no matter how hot your blood is, you can't save them."

Conan said: "You are right, but we will save the people we save."

"Then save me first," the young man said, "Look, you gave me the money, you saved me, and you got the information, so you can save Granny Jing, so you are satisfied , counts in one fell swoop."

Conan was speechless, and then calmed down, "Okay, how much do you want?"

The young man smiled and said, "That's right."

Conan said: "Let me declare first, we are children, we don't have much money."

The young man smiled and said, "I know you are children, so I won't make it difficult for you. I only want 90% of the cash you have now. Isn't that too much? I'm just making some beer money."

Conan, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta reluctantly took out their respective wallets, poured out the money inside, and then counted out 90%, a total of more than 5,000 yen was placed on the table.

The young man smiled and said, "Detectives are all rich, even children."

Ayumi said: "I will give it to you after you tell me."

Yuan Tai said: "We need to know everything about Granny Jing."

"All? Then you don't have enough." The young man laughed.

Mitsuhiko said, "Then tell what you know."

The young man said, "That's all right, I'll tell you what I know."

Yuan Tai said: "Then tell me quickly."

The young man said: "Grandma Jing's wife lived alone after her death, and then she took care of each other with an old man named Ezaki who lived alone. I heard that the old man Ezaki is quite rich, and the two often travel. After calling, I don’t feel nauseous, really.”

"By the way, the word Dan." Ayumi said, "Dan may refer to her husband, Mr. Ezaki."

Mitsuhiko said: "It seems that this matter has something to do with Mr. Ezaki."

The young man said: "Old man Jiang Qi, about a month ago, he slipped and fell while taking a bath at home, and he just disappeared. The police who heard the investigation said that his head just hit the faucet. It doesn't matter if he was unlucky, but he Dead, Grandma Jing has nothing to do, so she got a lot of cats to pass the time, but it hurt me."

Yuan Tai said: "The clue is broken again."

The young man said: "That's all I know. If you want to know anything else, just ask. As long as I know, I will tell you."

Ayumi said: "Everyone, let's go to Mr. Ezaki's house to see, maybe Grandma Jing went there."

The young man said: "Old man Jiang Qi's house, that place is occupied by old man Jiang Qi's nephew, that guy is very cunning, Grandma Jing probably wouldn't go there."

"Treacherous?" Yuan Tai asked.

The young man said: "Yes, that guy often pretends to visit old man Ezaki, but in fact he has been coveting old man Ezaki's property, especially his valuable antiques, early Edo wood carvings, and the white-eyed Gengshin three monkeys."

"White-eyed Gengshen Three Apes." Conan read.

"Ah, there is a white character and a Shen character in it." Yuan Tai shouted, "Is it what you are talking about?"

"It's not just these two. The Gengshen Three Apes don't speak, read or listen." Guangyan said, "there are also the characters for Mu and Tian."

"Tianzi?" Ayumi asked.

Guangyan smiled and said: "The word Tian can be regarded as a fork in the mouth, just don't say it."

"So that's the case." Yuan Tai said.

"Mitsuhiko, you are amazing." Ayumi praised.

"It's okay." Mitsuhiko was a little embarrassed.

"No, the character A is not talking about ape." Conan said with a frown, "The word "maybe" means to silence the mouth."

"Silence?" Ayumi and the others were taken aback.

"That's right," Conan said, "I think these eight characters should be spelled like this."

Jiu, Dan, You, Shen, Mu, Jia, Bai, Tian, ​​Conan spelled it out and explained that the death of my former husband was because of the white-eyed Gengshen three apes.

Yuan Tai asked: "Something? What is it?"

Conan said, "It's the thing on the scarf, the blood."

Mitsuhiko asked: "The murderer is Mr. Ezaki's nephew?"

"Then let's call the police." Ayumi said.

Mitsuhiko asked: "But what we said, will the police believe us?"

Yuan Tai asked: "Then what should we do?"

"It seems that what you said seems to be true." The young man said, "Well, I will take you to Jiang Qi's house for free."

"Thank you then," Conan said. ...