Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

"If the curator is willing, I can buy them at the market price and a premium of 15%," Chi Feichi paused, looked at Izumi Jisaburo seriously, and said, "But I will buy them all."

"This..." Izumi Jizaburo looked embarrassed, "Kudo, who made the masks, just entrusted those masks to me and asked me to help keep and display them. If you really think about it, they not only belong to me, but also belong to his heirs. share……"

As he said that, Izumi Jizaburo turned to look at Miyoshi Miyoshi who was sitting next to him, "In fact, Mibu is Kyūdo's daughter, but her mother had divorced Kyūdo many years ago, and her surname was changed to Mishima after her mother. …”

"Director!" Miyu Momoyono seemed not to want to mention this and frowned.

"What does this have to do with it? When the police come, this kind of question may be asked," Izumi Jisaburo said disapprovingly, his eyes moved to the workbench not far away, with a little nostalgia in his tone, "Xu Tang still When he was still alive, the Noh noodles were carved there, and that area was your playground."

"Sorry, I'll go over there and have a look."

Miyu Momono lowered his head and sighed, stood up and left the hearth, walking towards the workbench.

Chi Feichi looked at Mibu Momono's back and thought of one thing mentioned in the original plot - Mibu Momono was the mistress of the curator Izumi Jisaburo.

In this way, he could also sort out the relationship between Matsumoto Kyūdou, Mibu Yuno, and Izumi Jisaburo.

The noodle maker, Matsumoto Kyūdo, was married and divorced many times during his lifetime, and the alimony he had to pay to his successive wives was a large amount. Therefore, Matsumoto Kyūdo probably didn’t have much money left during his illness.

Later, Matsumoto Kyondo moved into Izumi Jisaburo's house, borrowing Izumi Jisaburo's supplies to live and recuperate, and at the same time promised to hand over the masks he made to Izumi Jisaburo for safekeeping and exhibition.

The two parties may be considered friends, but to maintain the relationship in the later stage, there is also an exchange of interests. One party provides money as an investment, and the other party gives back something created with its own talents.

Judging from what Izumi Jizaburo just said, when Matsumoto Kyūdo moved in here, he had frequent contacts with Mibu Momoyono, his daughter.

Maybe something happened to Mibu Momoyono's mother. Mibu Momoyono, who had taken her mother's surname and was still a little girl at the time, should have been taken by her father to live with him.

After Matsumoto Kyūdo passed away, Izumi Jisaburo did not get the ownership of the mask, but only the right to manage and display it. Therefore, part of the proceeds from the mask exhibition should belong to Matsumoto Kyūdo's children. The agreement between the two was probably Izumi Jisaburo. Earn some money through Nomian exhibitions, and distribute part of it to Matsumoto Kyondo's minor children to provide them with some financial assistance.

But Matsumoto Kyūdo certainly didn’t expect that the mask he left behind could not satisfy Izumi Jizaburo’s appetite, and in the end, his daughter was involved in it.

Some enemies may not necessarily strip a person's skin and bones, but some "friends" may devour a person's flesh and blood.

Izumi Jisaburo made a move on the girl he watched grow up, letting her work in an art gallery while secretly being his mistress... The old man was really not a good person. He said that Matsumoto Kyūdo was his good friend, but in fact I don’t really regard Matsumoto Kyūdo as a friend.

Jisaburo Izumi also looked at the back of Momoyuno Mibu. When Momoyuno Mibu arrived at the workbench, he withdrew his gaze and whispered to Kogoro Mouri, "Mr. Mouri asked me before, who would care about Akaza?" She has a grudge... I think she is one of them, Mibu. Akaza is always trying to flatter me, and seems to be doing some shady business. She heard that Akaza wants to use my relationship to sell her father's works at low prices. I’m so angry!”

"If she had a good relationship with her father and admired her father very much, then she would have the motive to kill Mr. Akaza," Mouri Kogoro said, looking at Miyu Momoyono who was sitting on the workbench arranging carving tools, and also lowered his voice. "However, as Mr. Kyūdo's daughter, if she doesn't agree to let Mr. Akaza sell the mask, you can't sell the mask, right? As long as she objects to selling the mask, she doesn't have to worry about her father's work." She was sold at a low price, so there should be no need to kill Mr. Akaza. If it was because Mr. Akaza looked down on her father's works, and she directly killed him, that would be too extreme..."

"Sorry..." Over at the workbench, Mibu Momono put away the carving tools on the workbench, stood up, and bowed, "I'll leave for a moment and make tea again and bring it over!"

Mouri Kogoro quickly put away the suspicion on his face and said with a smile, "Ah, I'm really sorry to trouble you."

Feichi climbed out of Chi Feichi's collar, put his head in front of Chi Feichi's ear, and whispered, "Master, since just now, the big statue next to the fireplace has been shaking gently, and the rope has been tightened and taken out. The squeaking sound... I observed it with my hot eyes. It seems that someone deliberately tied a rope to the statue. The rope was pulled from the skylight to the outside. It tightened and relaxed again, causing the statue to rock back and forth. It was very dangerous. Yeah, if the statue falls down, everyone sitting in front of the fireplace will be hit..."

"Speaking of which, the police were really slow to arrive." Mouri Kogoro muttered to the side.

"In that case, why don't I go to the entrance to check on the situation." Hatsuho Toba said with a smile, got up and walked towards the door.

Izumi Jizaburo watched Toba Hatsuho leave, and smiled at Moori Kogoro and said with emotion, "She is really a girl who knows how to watch people's emotions... She is someone I cherish very much. By the way, she is actually Kyūdo's daughter, but she is not the same as Mibu. Born to her mother, of course, her mother has already divorced Xutang, and she now also takes her mother's surname."

Chi Feichi: "..."

He remembered that it was indeed mentioned in the original plot that Hatsuho Toba and Momo Mibu were half-sisters.

It's not enough for Izumi Jisaburo to bring trouble to one person. Does he want to kill all his daughters in one fell swoop?

It is hard not to suspect that Matsumoto Kyūdo had offended Izumi Jizaburo, and the hatred of killing his father and seizing his wife was nothing more than this.

"That is to say, if you want to sell masks, curator, do you need Miss Hatsumi's consent?" Mouri Kogoro asked curiously.

"That's right," Izumi Jizaburo nodded, "but when Kyūdo passed away, she was still young, had no impression of her father, and was not very interested in meeting him."

On the side, Feichi quietly stared at the statue standing against the wall, and whispered to Chi Feichi, "Master, the statue shook again just now, and the shaking was larger than before. As long as the shaking is any bigger, this big statue will fall down." ”

"Sorry, teacher, Director Izumi," Chi Feichi stood up from the stove with a calm face, "I want to go outside to smoke a cigarette and find out where Conan and Xiaolan went."

Feichi watched Chi Feichi leave immediately, and couldn't help but crane his neck and look back.

Didn't his master remind those two people to stay away? Why are you leaving alone?

Wait, Miss Mibu and Miss Toba left here one after another just now. It’s hard not to make Snake wonder whether those two people already knew that the statue was shaking and found excuses to leave...

Looking at Mr. Mori and Director Izumi sitting in front of the irori, Snake felt that there was a lot of malice around them.

Just when Chi Feichi walked to the door, the large statue, which was more than three meters tall, finally hit the furnace in front of him.

When Kogoro Mouri saw the statue smashed down, he rushed towards Izumi Jisaburo. After pushing him away, he rolled to the bottom of the wooden steps with Izumi Jisaburo in his arms.

"boom!"

The head of the statue was placed in the sunken pit of the hearth, and it quickly burst into flames.

"What's going on?" Hatsuho Toba ran in from the outside and saw the fallen statue and Izumi Jisaburo who had just climbed up. He quickly ran past Chi Feichi and stepped forward to help help him up. "This ,How is this going?"

"Don't ask! Hurry up and push the wheelchair over!" Kogoro Mouri set up Jizaburo Izumi and directed Hatsuko Toba to get the wheelchair. He anxiously turned his head to look at the humanoid statue whose entire head was set on fire, and looked up. Heading towards the door, he found Chi Feichi standing at the door looking out, and quickly shouted, "Feichi! Is there a fire extinguisher outside?"

Chi Feichi was indeed standing at the door to see if there was a fire extinguisher outside. When Mouri Kogoro asked, he immediately replied, "I didn't see it."

"In the corridor over there!" Izumi Jizaburo pointed to the corridor leading to the back room and reminded loudly. He was choked by the smell of fire smoke and coughed, "Cough cough cough..."

When Mouri Kogoro saw Toba Hatsuho pushing the wheelchair in front of him, he helped Izumi Jizaburo into the wheelchair and sat down. "Miss Hatsuho, please take the curator and leave from the back door quickly! Fei Chi, follow me to get the fire extinguisher." Come here! Move faster, maybe the fire can be controlled!"