Ke Xue: I picked up a bottle of sherry at the beginning.

"It was a tornado. My son was swept up into the air by the tornado, and then fell onto the rocks and died. Several people saw him being swept up by the wind, but my son's body was not found until a day later..."

Torada Naoki's expression turned fierce.

"Of course the police also believe it was an accidental death, but if you look closely at the photo, you can see in the pool of blood next to my son's ear that there's something that shouldn't be there..."

"Centipede?" Quan Yi had already noticed the dead centipede in the pool of blood.

Torada Naoki snorted coldly, "This dead centipede was stepped on to death, and it was placed there before the blood coagulated..."

"So," the door opened, and a woman in a kimono walked in, "someone saw my son starving and didn't call for help. Instead, they left a horrible insect in a pool of blood and watched him die! They almost said my son deserved it!"

Quan Yi looked up at the woman with a thin neck and a pointed chin. "Could it be just a coincidence? Perhaps the centipede that was stepped on was also accidentally blown there by the wind..."

"Impossible!" Torada Naobu said firmly, "It was Hanji who found the body. He said there were no centipedes in that area. Someone must have put them there on purpose..."

"Manji?"

"He's Yoshiro's younger brother, that fool who's addicted to treasure hunting every day. Humph, I don't consider him my son anymore!"

When he heard the word "treasure hunting", Quan Yi's eyelids twitched slightly, but he didn't ask any more questions. He just checked the photos again.

The facts are obvious. There is no mystery of death at all. It was all an accident caused by the tornado. It was just because of an extra dead centipede...

I don't quite understand the intention of releasing the dead centipede. Is it just to provoke Naonobu Torada?

"So," Izumi continued, "what do you think? You who hold a grudge against the Torada family?"

"It must be the Longwei family," the woman said with a gloomy face, "The Longwei family has been entangled with our Hutian family for many years. The devil who did not save my son must be from their family!"

"Does the centipede have any special significance?"

"Who knows?" Torada Naoki snorted, "But their son died not long ago as a result of divine punishment. He really deserved it. They even arbitrarily attributed it to someone from our Torada family. So, in order to fight them, I troubled your father to invite you here..."

"I heard they've invited a very capable detective to solve the mystery of their son's death, which the police have been unable to solve despite their great efforts..."

"Huh?" Quan Yi and Xiao Ai looked at each other.

Another mystery of his son's death...

"Is it because of a tornado over there as well?"

"That's not the case. I heard he was beaten to death." Torada Naobu sat up straight and leaned forward slightly, frowning as he looked at Izumi closely. "Anyway, we're leaving the Torada family here in your care. The commission fee won't be small..."

"Okay..." Quan Yi sighed inwardly. The commission was secondary; the main issue was that he seemed to be embroiled in trouble again.

"Can I meet Mr. Hanji?"

"That unfilial son happens to be at home, huh," said Torada Naotobu angrily, "instead of working properly, he spends all day imitating others' treasure hunting!"

"Well, sir," the lady advised, "now this family can only rely on Fanci."

The woman is Torada Tatsuei, the wife of Torada Naonobu. For some reason, her eyes always look weird.

Quan Yi took his eyes off the woman, stood up and left with Xiao Ai, then found the inner room. After seeing the second son, Torada Shigeji, he understood why Torada Naoki looked so disappointed in his son.

The unkempt, decadent-looking fat man looked like he had no future. Torada Naoki, who had just calmed down, was furious again: "What do you look like all day?! Sooner or later, you're going to piss me off to death!"

The woman beside him also said: "Just show some courage, Fanci..."

"understood."

Torada Shigeji lowered his head in response, looking helpless. After the Toradas left, he let out a long sigh and asked Izumi, "Are you the detective Dad hired?"

"Yes," Izumi nodded, "Mr. Torada said that the one who released the centipede might be the Ryuo family..."

"At first, I also thought it was done intentionally by the Ryuo family, who held a grudge against the Torada family," said Torada Shigeji, frowning. "But I didn't expect their family's Koji to die in a similar way..."

"Similar death?"

"Yeah, Kang Si was tied up and buried in the ground. The exposed part of his head was beaten until it bled profusely. It looked like he was beaten until he died. And before the blood dried up, they placed a dead centipede on it..."

Torada Shigeji said with a headache: "Now they suspect our family, thinking that we are angry with the Longwei family because of my brother's death, so they killed Kang Si like this..."

"By the way," Izumi interrupted, "what is the hatred between the Torada family and the Ryuo family?"

"Well," Torada Shigeji was stunned for a moment, "I don't really know what it is, but there's an ancestral motto of 'hating the Torada family'. No one knows the specific reason. Actually, our generation doesn't particularly care about it anymore. We're all having a great time..."

"What about the centipede?" Quan Yi continued to ask, "Is there any connection between the centipede and your two families?"

Torada Shigeji scratched his messy hair and thought for a moment before responding, "It doesn't seem to be related. However, if it's a centipede pattern, I've seen it at a festival..."

"celebration?"

"It was during the festival where they performed horseback archery. All the men in the village had to wear ancient armor to imitate war. It was during that time that I saw a picture of a centipede somewhere..."

Shigeji Torada looked back at the ancient armor displayed in the room. There was a real warrior sitting in the mighty armor.

As if noticing Izumi's gaze, Torada Shigeji quickly explained, "This armor is just a plastic imitation given by the village. It's cheap stuff, and it's actually very light..."

"Pattern?" Quan Yi was indifferent to the armor.

But speaking of the centipede portrait...

"Takeda Shingen," Xiao Ai suddenly said, "There will be a centipede pattern at the celebration. It should be the centipede banner carried by the messenger that Takeda Shingen called 'the centipede crowd'..."

"Oh right," Torada Shigeji looked at Ai in surprise, "During the battle at the festival, someone was flying a centipede flag! It turned out to be Takeda Shingen..."

As he spoke, Torada Shigeji's expression suddenly changed, and he hesitated and fell silent.

"Is there something wrong with Takeda Shingen?" Izumi didn't have any feelings about the ancient Warring States daimyo, but he felt that Torada Shigeji seemed to be hiding something.

"No, nothing," Shigeji Torada woke up with a start. "If you want to know what happened, you should ask Ajing, Koushi's brother. He should still be practicing horseback archery in the woods on the mountain, because the celebration is coming soon..."

"What a rare visitor, Izumi-san," Hattori said, his hands folded as he walked towards the Torada family's wing with Kazuha. Upon seeing Izumi-san, he smiled subtly, "You're everywhere, aren't you?"

"Hattori and Kazuha?" Izumi looked at the courtyard in a daze.

"Are you the powerful detective hired by the Longwei family?"

"I smell something happening," Hattori said, looking around calmly, "So, where's Conan? Didn't he come with us?"

"No……"

Quan Yi thought about the situation in Tokyo. When Conan came here, it seemed that Xiaolan dragged him to buy groceries, otherwise he would have followed him.

These guys have dog noses...

"Did you come here to ask about the centipede?"

"Of course," Hattori said with an excited and inquiring look on his face, "I don't think it's just a feud between two families. It just so happens that someone died in a strange accident six years ago. Maybe it has something to do with the two incidents happening now..."

"6 years ago?"

"It was Patrolman Kai Gento, who had been in charge of the mounted archery at the festival," explained Torada Shigeji. "I heard he fell off a cliff during a practice session. It was only after that that Jing became the mounted archery officer at the festival..."

Quan Yi suddenly wanted to meet Long Wei Jing.

Just as Hattori said, what happened six years ago seems to be really complicated. In order to solve the mystery, it is necessary to straighten out the invisible network of clues between the Torada family and the Ryuo family.

"Were there also centipedes beside the patrolman's body six years ago?" Quan Yi asked.

"I don't know about this either..." Shigeji Torada shook his head.

Hattori followed up with a question: "Who knows more details?"

"My brother's widow, Yui, because she was the one who found the body..."

"¨"Where is she now?"

"In the stable across from the courtyard wall, she should be feeding the horses there at this time..."

Quan Yi looked towards the courtyard wall and could see the roof of the stable. Outside was the forest. It seemed that Longwei's house was just opposite the mountain.

The situation of the Ryuo family is still unclear, but we have a rough idea of ​​the situation of the Torada family.

The Torada couple, and then their two sons. One of them is the focus of this case, Yoshiro Torada, and Shigeji Torada is the person who discovered the body.

Next up is Torada Yui, the widow of Yoshiro Torada, who discovered the body of patrolman Gento Kai six years ago...

It can already be linked.

There was indeed something hidden in this incident, including the Warring States daimyo Takeda Shingen who made Torada Shigeji suddenly change his expression.

After saying goodbye to Torada Shigeji, Izumi and Hattori left the courtyard together and went to the stable outside. Kazuha followed behind, wanting to talk to the cold Ai, but got no response.

"Um," He Ye looked at Quan Yi and the other two in front of him with a little embarrassment, "You said those two..."

"You can actually talk to me about whatever you want to talk about. You don't have to find things to talk about."

"Uh……"

"Please let me go!" A woman's voice rang out from the stable. "My husband passed away not long ago. Please don't make me recall the corpse from six years ago. Please go back."

"I'll ask again..."

"I said I'm not in the mood to answer..."

"Are you kidding me?! This is a matter of life and death!" Inside the stable, a man with a cane suddenly grabbed the woman by the collar, "Stop talking nonsense and answer me!"

"Sorry..." Quan Yi stopped at the door of the stable.

Crutches, ponytails, and this familiar voice...

"Yamato dares to help the police officer?"

"Hmm?" Yamato Ganzhu let go of the woman and turned to look at Quan Yi, his expression slightly softened. "It's you, Consultant Bai."

The last incident happened at a ski resort in Nagano Prefecture. He happened to be working nearby at the time and took over the case after receiving the report. He was deeply impressed by Izumi's reasoning.

"Officer?" Hattori looked at Yamato Gansuke, who was blind in his left eye, with dark skin, a stubbled face and a ferocious look, in surprise. "Who is this fierce uncle..."

"Hmph," Yamato Gansuke took out his ID, "I'm Yamato Gansuke, the Nagano Prefecture police officer in charge of this case. I have something to ask this lady..."

Yamato Gansuke said, looking at the woman in a deep voice: "You should know that if you don't stop it quickly, there will definitely be corpses all over the ground, just like the battlefields in the Warring States Period..."

"I, I understand," the woman said, looking at Quan Yi and the others, then lowered her head. "There aren't many centipedes around the body... The body is very thin, and it looks like it fell to death with the horse..."

"Really?" Yamato Gansuke got the information he wanted, turned around and left with his crutches, "Sorry to bother you..."

Looking at the weird Yamato Gansuke, Hattori couldn't help but whispered to Izumi: "Hey, Izumi, do you know him? Why does he look like a gangster...Shin"

"Yes, I met him in a case before," Izumi said with a smile when he saw Hattori's cautious look. "Officer Yamato Kansuke may look a little fierce, but he's actually a good person. Especially his sense of responsibility and ability to handle cases are among the best police officers I've ever met."

"Hey^ you think so highly of him, Izumi-hyung."

The countryside village does not have the hustle and bustle of the city, but the tranquility of the mountains and the natural sense of heaviness brought by the large mansions make it feel a bit more lonely, and the series of murders seem to be shrouded in layers of dark clouds.

Yamato Gansuke appeared once and then disappeared, leaving Izumi Masu to continue staying at the Torada family with Hattori and his group. Taking this opportunity, Izumi Masu also carefully inquired about the situation of the Ryuo family across the mountain.

Pretty Widow Yui

The Longwei family has an elderly lady, Longwei Shengdai. The head of the family is the old lady’s son Longwei Weishi, followed by grandson Longwei Jing and granddaughter-in-law Longwei Linghua. Another grandson, Longwei Kangji, has been killed.

Like the patrolman Kai Gento who passed away 6 years ago, Ryuo Kei was also a master of horseback archery. He has been winning horseback archery competitions for the past 5 years and has won the role of ceremonial horseback archery. His skills have been getting better and better in recent years, and he should be responsible for the horseback archery performance this time.

In addition, it was Ryuo Kei who discovered Ryuo Koji's body...

Quan Yi stood under the eaves at the door of the reception room, thinking, and looked up at the gloomy and dark sky.

Things have changed...

"In other words," Hattori continued to analyze with everyone in the room, "this is the first case where Mr. Yoshiro Torada was found and then left unattended after being swept up into the sky by a tornado and falling onto rocks, suffering serious injuries..."

"Mr. Tatsuo Koji was tied up and buried in the ground, and died from multiple blunt force blows to the head. This is the second incident."

There were two photos on the tea table, one of which was the murder of Yoshiro Torada and Koji Ryuo. They were chilling to look at at any time. The way they died was not particularly scary, but the important thing was the murderer behind it and the dead centipede left in the pool of blood.

"The common thread between these two incidents is that the bodies were discovered by the victims' relatives. And for some reason, a centipede, already crushed to death, was placed next to the bodies..."

Hattori turned to look at Torada Yui, who was standing with her back against the door. "Then there was Mr. Gento Kai, who fell off a cliff and died during horseback archery practice six years ago. Is it true that there was no centipede next to his body?"

Torada Yui looked at Quan Yi outside, and came to her senses and said, "Yeah, there's no centipede..."

"Mrs. Torada," Izumi asked, "you said before that the body was very thin, right?"

"Yes, because he died of starvation."

"Hungry, starving to death?" Hattori and others glared.

"Didn't he fall to his death?"

"Well, sort of. He did hit trees and rocks when he fell off the cliff and was seriously injured. His white riding clothes were stained with blood, but the cause of death was definitely starvation," Torada Yui recalled quietly. "It seems his waist was broken and he couldn't stand. He fell right below the cliff where there was no sunlight all day and few people would pass by on weekdays. We found him a week later..."

"A week?" Hattori frowned. "Not only the man, but the horse also fell in that place. Didn't anyone notice?"

"Of course we searched desperately, because everyone in the village trusted Patrolman Kai so much that the police and villagers went out in full force, not even caring about sleep. We searched for a week... But it was leaf fall season, and the cliff was buried under fallen leaves. No one could see it until the leaves blew away in the wind..."

Torada Yui's face was heavy. Seeing this, Torada Shigeji beside him sighed, "Patrolman Kai is the local police officer stationed in our village. He's a very good person. No one in the village has ever said a bad word about him. It's a pity... my brother Yoshiro landed on a rock with a good view, so he was easily discovered..."