Chapter 544: The Snow Maiden Under the Snow

February 14th, Saturday night, Nagano Prefecture, Mikamachi Ski Resort, Genbei Onsen B&B, Mori’s room.

At around seven o'clock in the evening, Lan, Mei Daizi, and Yuanzi came back from the hot spring. Yamazaki stayed behind to play poker with them, and Mao Li and Conan went to the hot spring. After about an hour, Mori and Conan replaced Yamazaki.

At around ten o'clock in the evening, Yuanzi yawned a lot, "I can't do it anymore, let's stop here."

"Then pack up and go back to the room to sleep." Maori said.

Lan stood up and stretched, opened the curtains and looked out, "It's snowing, it's not too young." Then she found a white figure on the mountain road in the distance, and shouted in surprise, "Snow, Snow Girl !"

"What?" Mei Daizi came over and opened the curtain, "Where is it?"

Yamazaki, Mori, Conan, and Sonoko also surrounded them.

"Just, I was on that mountain path just now." Lan said with some fear, "A white figure is moving."

Maori didn't notice, "Did you read it wrong?"

Conan said, "Is it reflective?"

"No, I don't know." Lan said, "Maybe."

"It doesn't matter, I'll go and have a look." Mei Daizi said. "Brother, you can go with me."

"What?" Yuanzi said, "It's snowing outside, and it's so late."

Yamazaki asked with a smile: "How about it, do you want to go find Yuki with us?"

"I'm not going," Sonoko said.

"Be careful." Maori said, "Bring your phone."

Yamazaki said: "No need, Uncle, we will definitely be back before twelve o'clock."...

More than 20 minutes later, Yamazaki and Mei Daizi came to the mountain road that Lan said.

"There are footprints here, brother." Mei Daizi said, "It's a pity that it was covered by snow. I can only tell from the depth that this person is no more than 100 kilograms, and I can't tell anything else."

"Then let's go after it." Yamazaki said.

Ten minutes later, Yamazaki and Mei Daizi followed their footsteps to a forest, and found a small piece of messy footsteps around an open space, and a slender breathing sound, although it was very faint, but in this snowy night in the dead of night, Both Yamazaki and Mei Daizi heard it.

"This breathing sound," Mei Daizi said in surprise, "it's underground," then said excitedly, "It's really a monster."

"If it's a monster, you won't be able to hear your breath." Yamazaki said with a smile, "Help dig it, it's a person buried in the snow."

"No way?" Mei Daizi asked in surprise.

After a while, the shallow floating snow was removed, and a woman in a white kimono was dug out. At the same time, a bottle of sleeping pills beside her hand came out of the snow.

"Couldn't this be Snow Girl?" Mei Daizi asked.

Yamazaki took out a cotton bag, took out the small charcoal stove inside, opened the lid to ignite the charcoal inside, then closed the lid and put it in the bag and handed it to Mei Daizi. People in kimonos."

"No, brother," Mei Daizi smiled, "I mean the snow girl on TV, Ms. Kinoshita Akiko." As she spoke, she stuffed the charcoal stove into Kinoshita Akiko's arms, then picked her up, and took her Yamazaki took the sleeping pills and walked back.

"Oh?" Yamazaki thought for a while,

Then he touched the woman's kimono and asked with a smile, "So, what do you think is going on?"

Mei Daizi said: "Well, this kimono is not soaked yet, if it wasn't brought to wear, it was just changed by someone else."

"That's right," Yamazaki said with a smile, "Go on." He said and shook the sleeping pill in his hand.

"If you committed suicide by taking medicine, it is impossible to bury yourself. It is probably given sleeping pills and then buried there." Mei Daizi said.

"Note that if it is a large object such as a wooden board or a stone slab, it can be covered by itself." Yamazaki said.

"That's right, I know." Mei Daizi said, and then said, "Generally speaking, two adults should weigh more than one hundred kilograms, so that person came here alone. He was given sleeping pills and buried there." Then he asked, "By the way, this is very strange, sleeping directly in the snow, because the snow is not thick, it is normal to not be smothered to death, but why didn't you freeze to death? ?”

Yamazaki asked with a smile, "What did you just do?"

"By the way, it's a hand warmer or a warm water bag. The prisoner used it to protect Miss Akiko from freezing to death due to hypothermia. Then the prisoner took it away when he came to change the kimono for Miss Akiko." Mei Daizi said.

"That's right." Yamazaki asked, "Why did the prisoner do these things?"

"It's simple, to create an alibi." Mei Daizi laughed.

Yamazaki said, "Be clear."

"Ms. Akiko was probably buried there in the afternoon, that is, she disappeared in the afternoon. The prisoner was probably with Ms. Akiko at the time, and so on," Mei Daizi asked, "Could the prisoner be Miss Asanuma Yoko?"

"It can only be said that there is a lot of suspicion." Yamazaki said.

"It must be her. She entered the homestay, turned out, and then came in through the front door, playing two roles by herself," Mei Daizi said.

"Didn't Lan say that she saw this lady staying at the hotel?" Yamazaki asked, "Miss Yoko's alibi is very good, and her people have been staying in the hotel."

"But I didn't see the face." Mei Daizi said, "No one saw Miss Yoko and Miss Akiko present at the same time."

"Where's the evidence?" Yamazaki asked.

"Uh, this," Mei Daizi said after thinking for a while, "By the way, if you check the composition of the sleeping pills in your body, you will know that Miss Mingzi has been taking it for a long time."

"One or two pills may be detected, but Ms. Akiko may have taken half of the bottle, which is very difficult." Yamazaki said, "And even if you know what happened to her in the afternoon, then the person who appeared at the hotel cannot be sure. It's Miss Yoko." Then he continued, "Continue with the alibi."

"Okay," Mei Daizi said, "the prisoner didn't have an alibi in the afternoon, so he didn't kill Ms. Mingzi. Now that she has an alibi, the prisoner can do it when Miss Mingzi returns to the hotel in the evening." "Brother, Miss Yoko looks more and more like a murderer. There are only two groups of us and them in the homestay, it can't be the old couple. Moreover, only Miss Yoko who is with Miss Akiko needs such an alibi Bar."

"That's not okay, unless it is exposed on the spot, it can only be said to be a strong evidence." Yamazaki said.

"Really, then tell me." Mei Daizi said.

"First of all, it can be determined that this is a murder." Yamazaki said.

"Of course." Mei Daizi said.

"It's true that I can't bury myself with snow, but if it weren't for us, judging from the current snow conditions, we can say that she committed suicide there after taking medicine, and it will be useless to say what then." Yamazaki said, "And now we can prove that Miss Akiko was buried under the snow, which is homicide."

"That's true." Mei Daizi said, "Okay, you continue."

"When there is an incident, there must be a prisoner." Yamazaki said, "Except for the enemy who has been eyeing Miss Akiko, the remaining major suspects are..."

Mei Daizi said, "Miss Yoko Asanuma."

"But to prove that she is the murderer and to convict Ms. Yoko, only one of the following conditions can be met." Yamazaki said, "First, to prove that Ms. Akiko who returned to the hotel is Ms. Yoko. It’s impossible. Second, it’s too late to prove that Miss Yoko was not in the room after ten o’clock in the evening. Third, it’s basically impossible to prove that Miss Yoko knew the place where Miss Akiko was buried just now.”

"Then there is no way to catch her now?" Mei Daizi asked.

"I didn't say that." Yamazaki laughed. "In the current situation, if you want to file a lawsuit, take what you just said 'Only Miss Yoko who is with Miss Akiko needs such an alibi' as a breakthrough , Miss Yoko will lose."

"What, really." Mei Daizi complained with a smile.

"Actually, there is another one, that is, Ms. Akiko personally said who the murderer is." Yamazaki said, "But whether you can wake up depends on Ms. Akiko's luck. It will be almost eleven o'clock soon, and it has been at least six hours. "

"Oh, by the way, brother, I almost forgot." Mei Daizi changed from holding to carrying, put Miss Akiko on her shoulders, and freed up her hand to take out a paper bag from her pocket and handed it to Yamazaki, "Here, this year's chocolate .”

Yamazaki opened the paper bag, looked at the chocolate with the thickness of a fist, and said with a smile, "I've already brushed my teeth, how about this, we are half of each other, and if we have decayed teeth, we will grow them together." He broke the chocolate into two Half.

"Alright then." Mei Daizi smiled and took the chocolate handed over by Yamazaki, and ate it with Yamazaki. ...

At about eleven o'clock in the evening, Genbei Hot Spring B&B.

Mei Daizi came back here with Kinoshita Akiko and Yamazaki in her arms, and let them come out to welcome Kitamura Genhei, Mori, Ran, Conan, and Sonoko, as well as Asanuma Yoko and Kitamura Kayo who came after hearing the voice. shock.

"Uncle, drive Miss Akiko to the hospital first, she should have taken sleeping pills for a long time, I don't know if she overdose." Yamazaki said, "But there is only about half of this bottle of sleeping pills left."

"Okay, I'm going to change clothes." Maori turned and left, and Sonoko, Lan, and Conan also went.

Yoko Asanuma said, "I'm going to change clothes too." Then he left.

"Mei Daizi, you go with her." Yamazaki said, and then said, "Boss, please come with us and show us the way to the hospital, lady boss, please call and tell the hospital that our patients have taken a lot of sleeping pills .”…

Outside Yoko Asanuma's room.

"What do you want to do?" Yoko Asanuma asked Mei Daiko who wanted to go in.

"Look at you." Mei Daizi said, "You are an important criminal in this murder case, oh, a suspect."

"What are you talking about?" Yoko Asanuma said in surprise.

"We're in a hurry, you go and change first, and I'll tell you." Mei Daizi said, "Or you want to go out like this in a bathrobe."

In Yoko Asanuma's room.

Mei Daizi said: "We found Miss Mingzi in the snow, and she was buried under the snow."

Yoko Asanuma said while changing her clothes: "How is this possible, Akiko should be in her room."

Mei Daizi said: "You are the only one who comes back tonight. You will go out after you come in, and then come in dressed as Miss Mingzi."

Yoko Asanuma said, "What nonsense are you talking about? I also had dinner with Ms. Akiko."

"I said, Miss Yoko, don't hold on any longer." Mei Daizi said, "Brother said that although the evidence is insufficient now, you will definitely lose the lawsuit, and my uncle Maoli is a famous detective Mouri Kogoro, he will definitely Find your flaw, so it's too late for you to surrender now."

"Mo, Mori Kogoro!" Yoko Asanuma was taken aback.

"That's right," Mei Daizi said with a smile, "Uncle Mao Li is very powerful, so if you don't want to be imprisoned for a few more years, you should hurry up and surrender."...

Not long after, two cars set off from Genbei Hot Spring Hotel to the hospital. Kitamura Genhei drove Yamazaki and Conan in front of the van he purchased. Since there were no seats, Yamazaki and Conan sat on stools. Mao Li drove Lan, Sonoko, Mei Daiko, Yoko Asanuma, and Akiko Kinoshita in the SUV he rented. Akiko Kinoshita was lying on the back seat with her head resting on Lan's lap.

On the way, Conan whispered to Yamazaki about this matter, Yamazaki told him in a low voice, and asked his opinion.

"There is one more, fingerprints." Conan whispered, "The items in Miss Mingzi's room, teacups and tableware."

"It was left yesterday." Yamazaki whispered, "It can also be said that it has been wiped."

"Then I can only let Miss Akiko speak for herself," Conan said.

Yamazaki said with a smile: "I asked Mei Daizi to talk to her."

"What?" Conan asked.

"Uncle's identity as a famous detective." Yamazaki said with a smile, "Do you think she will surrender herself?"

"I hope so." Conan smiled. ...

Emergency room outside.

At around 11:30 in the evening, the two cars of Genbei Kitamura and Mori arrived at the hospital. While waiting for the preliminary results, Yamazaki told Mori about the matter.

"I see." Mori said, and then to Yoko Asanuma, "Miss Yoko, you..."

Yoko Asanuma said: "Stop talking, Detective Maori, I will surrender myself with you."

"Surrender yourself?" Mao Li smiled, "That's also good."

Lan smiled and said, "Father, you are so powerful, you caught the prisoner without saying a word."

"Of course, I'm a world-renowned detective." Mao Li laughed triumphantly.

At this time, a nurse came over, "Sir, please be quiet, this is a hospital."

"Hold, I'm sorry." Mao Li said with a dry smile.

After the nurse left, Mori breathed a sigh of relief, and then asked Yoko Asanuma, "Can I ask your motive?"

"Because," Yoko Asanuma sighed, "it should be because of jealousy." Then she continued, "Akiko has nothing to criticize, and she is good to me, but all the time, since the first time we met in the selection competition, She is always ahead of me. We are almost the same in every aspect, such as figure, appearance, age, and even family background, but along the way, she always wins. I am just her substitute, her shadow, and now Mingzi has become You are a big star, many people have said this to me, you really look like Akiko Kinoshita. I don’t want to be her shadow for the rest of my life, so I choose to kill her.”

"Perhaps," Yamazaki said, "Miss Yoko, you are in the same place as Miss Akiko."

"What?" Yoko Asanuma asked, "Please enlighten me."

"Yeah, what is it?" Yuanzi said, "I think they are similar."

"Surname." Yamazaki said with a smile, "Kinoshita and Asanuma, if your surname is Asai, you have a greater chance of winning."

"So that's the case." Yoko Asanuma said, "If you say that, there is indeed a problem."

"What does it matter?" Ran asked.

"Of course there is." Maori smiled, "Just like our family's Maori, Maori Yuan is Maori."

"Really?" Sonoko asked.

"What are you talking about? Of course it's true." Mori said, and then asked, "By the way, Miss Yoko, how much sleeping pills did you feed Miss Akiko?"

"A dozen or so," said Yoko Asanuma. "I really hope she's okay right now."

At this time, the light on the door went out, and everyone stopped talking.

After a while, the doctor came out, "The patient didn't take much sleeping pills, and he has woken up."

"Thank goodness." Yoko Asanuma burst into tears.

Not long after, the pale Akiko Kinoshita was pushed out by the nurse while lying on the hospital bed. After seeing Yoko Asanuma, she reached out to her.

"No..." Yoko Asanuma covered her mouth and began to cry, then seeing Akiko Kinoshita shaking her hand, she had no choice but to hold it, and followed to the ward.

"Uh, what does that mean?" Maori asked.

"It means that you, a great detective, don't need to go out." Yuanzi laughed.

Mei Daizi said: "It seems that Miss Mingzi forgave Miss Yoko."

"Isn't that great?" Lan asked with a smile.

"Jealousy is the original sin, and forgiveness is the virtue," Kitamura Genbei said, "This is really a happy thing." Then he asked, "By the way, Maori Detective, I have a jar of good sake, we How about going back for a drink?"

"Really? Then what are you waiting for?" Maori laughed, "Let's go back quickly."

"It's really good." Yamazaki smiled at Conan.

"At least I don't have to sit on the bench." Conan laughed. ...