Chapter 114: The Missing Daughter

April 20, Saturday, afternoon, Tokyo Metropolitan Racecourse.

After leaving the Maori Detective Agency, Lan directly hailed a taxi and came here, where the powerful imperial horse was.

"A lot of people, this is the first time I've come to the racetrack." Walking out of the aisle and standing on the platform, Lan said with a smile, "I need to find Miss Yami's father as soon as possible."

Dejectedly, he walked behind Lan and stood still, recalling what he heard just now, the news broadcast in the racecourse, that the powerful emperor horse won, and recalling his hard work, the homework that he spent a week doing, in the end he actually There was no time to bet, and Mao Li felt his nose was a little sore.

Standing on Lan's right hand side, looking at the almost full seats, Conan thought to himself, how can there be such a simple reason to find out, how underestimated detective work.

"There are so many people, how do I find them?" Standing on Lan's left, Yamazaki said helplessly, "Otherwise...uh..." At this point, he looked to the left inadvertently, and suddenly stood up from his seat, holding Holding the betting ticket and the horse newspaper, he walked to the platform and looked down at a middle-aged man. Yamazaki really didn't know what to say.

Hearing the strangeness in Yamazaki's words, following Yamazaki's gaze, he immediately found the middle-aged man, and he was Mr. Hirota Kenzo in the photo, who was the father of Ms. Masami they were looking for, so Lan exclaimed in surprise: "I found it." Then she turned her head and said to the three of Mao Li, "Let me just say I can find it. I'm also a detective."

Yamazaki murmured in a low voice: "It has nothing to do with being a detective or not." I thought, this luck is really...

Came back to his senses, Maori asked, "What?" Then he looked at Mr. Hirota, and exclaimed in surprise, "No, no way."

"This, how is this possible?" Conan asked in surprise as he took two steps forward and looked at Mr. Hirota.

"I'll ask him to come over." Lan said happily, thinking about going there.

"Wait a minute," Maori explained, grabbing Lan's arm, "The other party is a missing person. If you try to scare the snake away, it will be troublesome to let him escape."

Looking at Mr. Hirota who threw the betting ticket and turned to leave, Lan said, "But..."

"We can just follow him." Yamazaki said with a smile.

Mao Li said with a smile: "We need to find out where he lives."...

The four of Mao Li followed the unsuspecting Mr. Hirota all the way to his apartment, a small two-story building with a yard on the side of the road. They confirmed where he was staying, and Lan immediately called Miss Yamei.

About a quarter of an hour later, Mr. Hirota came out of the room again, went down the stairs on the right side of the small building, and left out of the yard. So the four of Maori separated, and Lan and Yamazaki stayed where they were, waiting for Ms. Masami. Maori took Conan along with him, and took Conan because it looked more natural this way.

About a quarter of an hour later, Mr. Hirota came back with a few plastic bags, apparently to buy dinner materials. At this time, Miss Yami also came to the place agreed with Lan. After getting off the taxi, Ms. Masami immediately saw Mr. Hirota who was about to climb the stairs to go home, and rushed over without saying anything to Lando.

When Mr. Hirota saw Ms. Masami, he was taken aback immediately. In a daze, all the bags in his hand fell to the ground.

At this time, Ms. Masami was crying with tears, "Dad, I have been looking for you all the time." Then she threw herself into Mr. Hirota's arms and began to cry.

see this,

Lan sighed with emotion, "It's really great."

"Don't you think that sister is different from yesterday?" Conan walked over and said, "The dress is much more mature, and she seems to have makeup on."

"That's because we've been separated from Dad for too long," Lan said with a smile, "When we meet again, of course we have to dress up."

"Maybe it's because her father is worried," Yamazaki said with a smile, "It looks a lot more energetic this way." But I was thinking in my heart that this Mr. Hirota Kenzo's expression is very interesting, and there is surprise, but this is joy, really Did not see it. Is there any problem here?

At this time, Ms. Masami hugged Mr. Hirota's arm tightly, then faced Ran, Mori, Conan and Yamazaki, smiled sweetly, and then bowed ninety degrees with her father, Mr. Hirota, He bowed to the four of them, then picked up the things on the ground and went upstairs.

Seeing their father and daughter go home, Yamazaki thought to himself, forget it, other people's family affairs...

"Dad," Lan said with a smile, hugging Mao Li's arm, "that's great."

"As long as I, Kogoro Mori, handles this kind of case, it's just a trivial matter." Mao Li laughed, but he was thinking in his heart, this, I forgot to sign the contract yesterday, and now this matter is done so quickly, I don't know , Ms. Yamei, did she send the commission fee? If she forgets, the loss will be even greater.

"Okay," Yamazaki said with a smile, "their father and daughter have gone back to eat, let's go back too."

"Huh?" Just after walking a few steps, Conan found a tall man, wearing a long yellow windbreaker with the collar turned up, and sunglasses, standing behind a telephone pole.

"Who is that guy?" Molly asked casually.

The man saw that Maori and the others were looking at him, immediately tugged on the collar that stood up, turned and left.

"Maybe he was passing by." Yamazaki said, but he was thinking in his heart, isn't this attire the work clothes that Uncle Maori often wears when he stays? Who is this staring at, it can't be that Mr. Hirota, right? However, if he was really staring at Mr. Hirota, it means that there are other people looking for him, then this matter has a little meaning. Hmm... Nothing will happen at this time, well, come and have a look at night, thinking of this, Yamazaki turned to look at Mr. Hirota's apartment, it depends on your own luck whether you live or die. ...

After returning home, Yamazaki and Miyamoto Miko talked about it, and Miyamoto Miko asked him to figure it out.

At night, the four of Conan ate supper, packed up their things and went back.

Seeing them go, Yamazaki said, "Mom, I'll go and have a look."

Mei Daizi who just ate something good said, "Brother, I want to go too."

So, the two went together. The two of them took a taxi, and just approached the small building where Mr. Hirota's apartment was located. Before the car arrived, a black car drove away from the side of the road there.

Looking at the taillights of the car going away, Mei Daizi asked, "Brother, can't it be such a coincidence?"

Yamazaki said: "Anyway, it's not wrong to call an ambulance first." He went down without waiting for the car to stop.

Yamazaki rushed up to the second floor where Mr. Hirota lived, and rushed into Mr. Hirota's unlocked apartment amid the increasingly clear meowing.

Turning on the light, looking at Mr. Hirota lying in the room, Yamazaki squatted down to check.

At this time, Mei Daizi walked in and asked, "Brother, how is it? Is he dead?"

"Not dead," Yamazaki replied with a smile, standing up, "but if we don't come, he will definitely die."

"What an unlucky fellow, this kind of thing happened just after meeting his daughter." Looking around the room, Mei Daizi asked again, "What about his daughter? Didn't you say that her daughter was looking for him? His daughter wants to kill him?"

"I don't know," Yamazaki said with a smile when he walked to the door, "However, the door is not broken, so it must be someone I know. As for whether it is his daughter, it is difficult to judge."

Looking at the bloody iron water pipe on the ground and Mr. Hirota's position, Mei Daizi said: "This is when the man came in, when he turned around, he suddenly jumped up and hid it in the sleeve of his clothes. Or the iron water pipe behind him, hitting him directly on the head."

"That's right," said Yamazaki. "It's not weak, and it knocked him down with one blow."

"What about his daughter?" Mei Daizi asked again, "Could it be in the car just now?"

"How would I know that?" Yamazaki asked with a wry smile.

"By the way," Mei Daizi said, "I'm going to call my mother and we're going to make a statement."

"Forget it," Yamazaki said with a smile, "I can go alone, you should go back to sleep."

"Hmm..." After thinking for a while, Mei Daizi replied, "Okay then." Then she complained, "It's so boring, I thought I could beat bad guys."...

A few minutes later, an ambulance came to pick up Mr. Hirota, and about half an hour later, the Megure Police Department came.

"At this time," Megure Police Department asked, "Why are you in this place?"

"Oh, this is Uncle Mouri in the afternoon, and he found someone watching here," Yamazaki explained, "So let me take a look, he looked like this when I came."

"Afternoon?" Mumu Police Department asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Uncle Mori accepted a commission." As Yamazaki said, he told the Megure Police Department what happened.

Megure Police Department asked: "So, what about this Mr. Hirota's daughter?"

"I didn't see it," Yamazaki said, "However, when I came, a car that should be black left, and I didn't see the license plate clearly."

"By the way, where is Maori?" Megure Police Department asked again, "What is he doing now?"

"Well, he should be sleeping," Yamazaki said, "it's already so late after all."

Looking at his watch, Megure Police Department said, "Okay, you can go back too, and call Maori to come with you tomorrow."

"Oh, thank you very much." Yamazaki said with a smile, "Then I will go back."...