Chapter 991: The whole family can't get together to play mahjongFujino is not afraid of fire at all.
The suit he was wearing now was the same suit that he had pulled out.
In addition to being able to defend against light weapons, it naturally also has certain fire and water resistance capabilities.
Plus his own physique.
I can only say that it was just a small fire, which really wasn't a big problem for him.
But it's quite uncomfortable to be burned by flames all the time.
Immediately, Fujino swung the two knives in his hands and slashed towards the sea of fire.
"boom!"
The loud sound of the sword blade hitting the air echoed all around. The air was quickly stirred and split by the blade, and without air oxygen, the flames in the cut area quickly extinguished and soon became a road.
Fujino locked his eyes on the target and continuously used the Air Breaking Slash. He rushed directly to the innermost room on the third floor and kicked the door open.
In the room, a fat old woman was lying on the bed, gasping for breath, looking dying.
Fujino didn't think much, he swung out the Air-Breaking Slash and put out the fire in the room. Then he put away his two swords, took a step forward and picked up the old woman.
Then he rushed towards the window of the room.
"Crack!"
Fujino's back was facing the edge, and he smashed the wooden wall into pieces with a collision. Then he adjusted his body in mid-air and landed perfectly on the grass outside the villa with his feet.
"call……"
Fujino put the old woman on the grass, breathing in the fresh air, lowered his eyes to glance at the old woman, and couldn't help but complain: "This old lady is too fat..."
If you don’t know, you might think he is running with a fat pig on his back.
If it were someone else, they would probably be crushed to death if they jumped down from a height of six or seven meters carrying this lump of debris.
The fire in the house grew bigger and bigger, and the Shitara family who had broken into the house retreated out.
"grandmother!"
When Renxi Shitara saw Fujino and the old woman, she ran over anxiously and helped the old woman up.
Compared to detectives, from a normal person's perspective, the safety of their loved ones is more important.
Fujino glanced at the old woman and said, "The old lady is fine. She just has some burns on her body. She might have been choked by the smoke in the room."
He turned around and looked at the house engulfed in flames: "Compared to this, have you called the police?"
"The fire brigade is on the way now." The housekeeper Jin Qu Hongsheng came over at this time: "But compared to these, have you seen Stella Andy Vary?"
"You mean the violin?" Fujino had no intention of keeping the violin for himself. After all, he was not interested in this kind of violin. He took out the violin from behind and said, "I just saw Miss Lianxi leave in a hurry, so I helped to put it away."
"...?"
The people present were all stunned when they saw the violin being taken out suddenly.
"You actually took Stella Andyvari into a fire?! What on earth were you thinking?!"
Shitara Choichiro's hunched figure seemed to have unleashed some potential. He snatched the violin from Fujino's hand, held it in his arms, and nervously touched it while coughing and muttering, "My Stella Antivari... cough cough, my dear, you are not hurt..."
Jinqu Hongsheng first glanced at the nervous old man, then said to Fujino: "It is indeed inappropriate for you to do this. It is really too risky to take the Stella Andyvari away without saying a word and bring it into the fire scene. If it is damaged by accident..."
"Really?" Fujino looked at the people in front of him and narrowed his eyes slightly: "So, Stella Andyvalli is just a violin after all, right?"
As he spoke, his tone became deeper: "Do you think the violin is more important than human life?"
"This..." Jin Qu Hongsheng was speechless for a moment.
"Mr. Fujino is right." Yuga Kyosuke also came over at this time and echoed, "Violins are just dead objects after all. Stella and Divali are still in this world, but human lives are really gone. Mr. Fujino rushed into the fire regardless of the danger. He blamed his savior for a violin. It's really too much."
"Master Xiangsuke..."
Yuga Kyosuke was obviously not satisfied with this title and shook his head slightly: "Don't call me Master. I am no longer the Master you served thirty years ago."
Jinqu Hongsheng didn't say anything. He looked at Fujino and realized that in the eyes of normal people, human life is more important than the violin. At the same time, the other party was the one who rescued his wife. He immediately bowed slightly and said, "I'm very sorry."
"Anyway, I am only serving my client."
Fujino turned around and waved his hand: "It was too hot at the fire scene just now, and I was sweating while saving people. Can I at least use your bathroom for a while?"
Shitele Lianxi quickly followed: "I'll take you there!"
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"I'm so sorry just now..." Although Shitara Renxi was confused, she also understood the ways of the world. She knew that she was impolite just now, so she explained: "Butler Jinqu is not so much our housekeeper as Uncle Yuga's housekeeper. After the incident thirty years ago, Uncle Yuga inherited the Yuga family, and Butler Jinqu came to our house as a housekeeper at that time."
"In other words, she is actually in charge of the Yuga family?" Fujino asked.
"That's right. Now the Yuga family and the Shitara family have almost merged together." Shitara Renxi nodded: "Because of this, housekeeper Jinqu has done her job in our family very diligently and responsibly. Of course, she is also very nice to us. However, compared to the people in our Shitara family, she is closer to Uncle Yuga."
After hearing this, Fujino understood the relationship between the two.
To put it simply, the other party is not the butler of the Shitara family, but the butler of the Haga family.
It’s just that the heir of the Haga family is also the heir of the Shitara family, so she comes to take care of the Shitara family.
Fujino then asked her, "But I still don't understand why you take that violin so seriously."
"That's because Stella Antiva is very important to our family." Shitara Renxi explained, "Although housekeeper Jinqu doesn't know how much the violin is worth, she knows that the violin is very expensive. After all, if Stella Antiva is auctioned, it can be sold for at least millions of dollars, and there may even be no demand for it."
"Is that so?" Fujino thought about it after hearing this.
Millions of dollars. If the current exchange rate between Japan and the United States is around 1-115, then the starting price of this guitar will be hundreds of millions of yen, and it is not impossible that it will even be more expensive and exceed billion yen.
For him, 100 million is nothing. It may be enough to save it for a period of time.
But for ordinary people, this is absolutely an astronomical figure.
Not to mention that there is no demand for it. After thinking for a while, he continued to ask: "By the way, I heard about your father, but your mother..."
Shitara Renxi whispered, "My mother divorced my father two years ago. I heard that she fell in love with someone else or something."
"Sorry."
"It's nothing, I'm not a child anymore!"
Shitara Renki smiled and then sighed, "But because of this incident, Grandma Yongmei was cursed... Actually, Grandma Yongmei was going to play with an ordinary violin, but when she thought about commemorating Grandpa's 70th birthday and also to comfort her father, she invited the Stradivarius that had been sealed for 30 years out... Detective Fujino, you know what happened afterwards."
Fujino pursed his chin and said, "Since you have sealed it up, you must have discovered something strange about it, right?"
"Yes, that's right. There were signs of the curse at that time."
Shitara Renxi lowered her eyes and explained, "When my father was eighteen years old, he borrowed this guitar to participate in a competition. The strings broke several times. Grandma Yongmei, who demonstrated the tone of this guitar on TV, also fell ill before the show started. Grandpa Gensaburo, who was preparing to take an exam abroad, also got tendonitis because of this guitar..."
Fujino then asked: "Then why don't you continue to seal it?"
"Of course, it's because everyone wants to try it out!" Shitara Renxi said with some helplessness, "Grandma Yongmei died, and everyone thought it was an accident. After what happened with my father, everyone was a little scared and wanted to seal the zither again, but grandpa seemed to have Alzheimer's disease and has been guarding the zither..."
"It's okay if the piano isn't here, but here, as a musician, even if there's a curse, I can't resist the temptation to play..."
Fujino looked at her with dead eyes: "Do you still want to poop now?"
Upon hearing this, Renxi Shitara thought of Genzaburo's death and shook her head and waved her hands, saying, "I don't want to think about it anymore! Even if you put a knife to my neck now, I won't think about it anymore!"
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In the bathroom, Fujino was soaking in the bathtub, quietly looking at the system task interface that appeared in front of him:
【System Task: Cursed Violin
Mission summary: A series of murders, is it the curse of the violin or is it human error?
Mission details: You were commissioned to investigate a violin that was suspected to be cursed. Just as you learned of the commission, you encountered a fire, and then someone in the Shitara family was burned to death in the fire. Is this really such a coincidence?
And what is hidden behind the cursed violin?
But was the accident thirty years ago really an accident?
Mission objective: Solve the mystery of a robbery case thirty years ago and find out the curse of the violin that caused a series of accidental deaths.
Mission Reward: 10 million yen, 1,000 detective reputation points, 5 detective coins (find out the truth from 30 years ago, and get an additional 1,000 free experience points)]
“Is it up to human beings?”
Fujino withdrew his gaze, placed his hands on both sides of the bathtub, raised his eyes and began to sort out the information he had obtained.
Now, the Shitara family has three branches.
They are the eldest, Tiaoyilang, the second, Tanjilang, and the third, Xiansanlang.
Lianxi is the only one left in Tiaoyilang's family. Her father died a year ago and her mother returned to her parents' home.
As for the second brother, Danjiro's family, all of them died, leaving only Haga Kyosuke.
As for the old Sanxian Sanlang, he just died, and his wife also died. I don’t know if he has any descendants.
In order, first comes Tanjiro and his wife, then Gensaburo's wife, then Chyouichiro's only son, and then Gensaburo.
Of this family, only Choichiro and his wife, their granddaughter Renki, and the second oldest child, Yuga Kyosuke, are left...
"Shitara Choichiro has cancer. From now on, the only ones left in this family are probably the old lady who looks mentally ill, Renki, and Yuga Kyosuke..." Fujino thought about it carefully and couldn't help but secretly complain in his heart: "The whole family can't get together to play mahjong."
But then Fujino started to think about the reason why the Shitara family was wiped out.
He didn't believe it was an accident or a curse.
If it was a coincidence, one person would still be considered a coincidence, but the death of three people is not a coincidence. After all, is it possible that the old man of the Shitara family died on his birthday?
If we consider the murderer, then the murderer is among these four existing people.
If you include the housekeeper, there are five of them.
Does not comply with the four-choice process.
Will there be another one that dies next?
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When they came out, the fire truck had already arrived at the scene and put out the fire, and Shitara Gensaburo had been taken away by an ambulance.
Of course, it was the corpse that was taken away.
Shitara Renki and Haga Kyosuke came to a living room in the main house and invited Fujino to come over.
The housekeeper Tsukuro Hongsheng explained the fire brigade's investigation results: "The results of the investigation are out. The fire broke out in the first room on the second floor, which is Mr. Gensaburo's room. The cause of the fire was a cigarette butt..."
"Another accident..."
Shitara Renxi's face turned pale: "Sure enough, this is a curse, right?"
"Curse?" It was obvious that Yuga Kyosuke was unaware of Shitara Renki's commission and was a little confused.
"Ms. Lian Xi, I should be able to tell you the content of your commission, right?"
"It doesn't matter... After all, there are no outsiders here."
Fujino followed professional standards and asked for the client's opinion. Then he said, "Ms. Lian Xi invited me here to investigate these things, a series of unexpected events related to Stella Andyvali."
Shitara Renxi nodded and agreed, "Just two years ago when it was taken out, something happened to Grandma Yongmei. Last year, my dad also had an accident. This year, it's Grandpa Genzaburo's turn..."
Yuga Kyosuke nodded deeply when he heard this: "If that's the case, this guitar does feel a bit cursed."
"Is that so?" Shitara Renxi continued, "Mr. Fujino suggested that I wrap this zither in red cloth and send it to the bank for safekeeping. Just as I finished saying that, Grandpa Gensaburo..."
"I'm afraid it won't be that easy." Yuga Kyosuke sighed, "Uncle Choichiro will never give this guitar away. After all, he protects this guitar like a treasure."
Shitara Renxi looked at Fujino again: "Is there any other way now?"
"I don't have that yet. The best way to deal with this kind of thing is not to keep it around." Fujino thought for a while and said, "If you want to suppress it, you can plant some peach trees in the yard, or find some things in the house according to the Feng Shui layout to suppress it. It can suppress it to some extent."
As Fujino spoke, he felt like a charlatan.
But these were all made up by him according to normal Feng Shui.
Now Sister Tongzi has jumped out.
It is hard to justify that it was not a murder case.
(End of this chapter)
