Chapter 991: One family can’t get together to play mahjong

Fujino is not afraid of fire at all.

The suit he is wearing now is the same suit he had just taken out.

In addition to being able to defend against light weapons, it also has a certain ability to set off fire and prevent water.

Plus his own physique.

It can only be said that a small fire is really not a big problem for him.

However, it is also quite uncomfortable to be burned by the flames all the time.

Immediately, Fujino swung the two knives in his hands and slashed at the sea of ​​fire.

"Boom!"

The loud sound of the sword blade hitting the air resounded all around, and the air was quickly stirred and split by the blade. Without air and oxygen, the flames in the cut area quickly extinguished and soon became a road.

Fujino locked his eyes on the target, and kept using the air-breaking slash, rushing directly to the innermost room on the third floor and kicking the door open.

In the room, the fat old woman was lying on the edge of the bed, gasping for breath with a dying look.

Without thinking too much, Fujino swung out the air-breaking slash, extinguishing the fire in the room. Then he put away his two swords, stepped 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 with a collision. Then he adjusted his body in mid-air and landed on the grass outside the villa with his feet perfectly.

"Huh..."

Fujino put the old woman on the grass, breathing fresh oxygen, lowered his eyes to look at the old woman, and couldn't help complaining: "This old lady is too fat..."

If you don't know, you might think she is carrying a fat pig and running.

If it were someone else, he would probably be crushed to death if he jumped down from six or seven meters carrying this pile.

The fire in the house was getting bigger and bigger, and the Shitara family who broke into the house retreated from inside.

"Grandma!"

Shitara Renxi saw Fujino and the old woman, ran over anxiously, and helped the old woman up.

Compared to detectives, from the perspective of normal people, 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, and she may have been choked by the smoke in the house."

He turned his head and looked at the house engulfed in flames: "Compared to these, have you called the police?"

"The fire brigade is on the way now." The housekeeper Jinqu Hongsheng came over at this time: "But compared to these, have you seen Stella Andyvari?"

"You mean the violin." Fujino did not intend to take the violin for himself. After all, he was not interested in this kind of violin itself. He took out the violin from behind: "I just saw Miss Lian Xi hurried away, and I helped to put it away."

"......?"

The people present were stunned when they saw the violin suddenly taken out.

"You actually brought Stella Andy Vary into the fire?! What on earth were you thinking?!"

The hunched figure of Shitara Choichiro next to him seemed to have burst out with some potential. He snatched the violin from Fujino's hand, held it in his arms, and touched it nervously, coughing and muttering: "My Stella Andy Vary... cough cough, my dear, you are not hurt..."

Tsukuro Hongsheng first glanced at the nervous old man, and then said to Fujino: "It is indeed a bit inappropriate for you to do this. You took Stella Andy Vary without saying a word, and brought it into the fire. It is indeed too risky. If it is damaged by accident..."

"Really?" Fujino looked at the people in front of him, and his eyes narrowed slightly: "So, Stella Andy Vary is just a violin after all?"

As he said, his tone became deeper: "Do you think the violin is more important than human life?"

"This..." Tsukuro Hongsheng was speechless for a moment.

"Mr. Fujino is right." Yuga Kyosuke also followed and agreed: "Violins are just dead things after all. Stella and Divali still exist in this world, but human lives are really gone. Mr. Fujino rushed into the fire regardless of the danger. It's too much to blame the savior for a violin."

"Master Kyosuke..."

Yuga Kyosuke was obviously not satisfied with this title and shook his head slightly: "Don't call me Master. I'm not the Master you served thirty years ago."

Tsukune Hongsheng didn't say anything. He looked at Fujino and realized that compared to the violin, human life is more important to normal people. At the same time, the other party was the one who saved his wife. He bowed slightly and said : "I'm so sorry."

"Anyway, I'm just serving my client."

Fujino turned around and waved his hand: "It was too hot in the fire just now, and I was sweating while saving people. Can I at least use your bathroom for a while?"

Shitara Renxi hurriedly 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 and knew that she was impolite just now. She explained: "Restaurant Jinqu is not so much our housekeeper as Uncle Yuga's housekeeper. Since the incident thirty years ago, Uncle Yuga inherited the Yuga family, and Restaurant Jinqu came to our house as a housekeeper at that time."

"In other words, she actually manages the Yuga family?" Fujino asked.

"That's right, now the Haga family and the Shitara family have almost merged into one." Shitara Renxi nodded: "Because of this, Housekeeper Tsuqu has done a very conscientious job in our family, and she is very important to us." Of course it’s not bad, but she is closer to Uncle Haga than to us Shitara family members.”

Hearing this, Fujino understood the relationship.

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 to the Haga family is also the heir to 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 Andiva is very important to our family." Renki Shitara explained: "Although the housekeeper Tsugu didn't know how much that violin cost, she also knew that the violin was very expensive. , After all, if Stella Andiva were put up for auction, it would be able to sell for millions of dollars, or even be priceless.”

"Is that so?" Fujino thought for a while 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 piano is hundreds of millions of yen, and it is not impossible to even exceed the billion yen mark if it is more expensive.

For him, saving up something like 100 million for a period of time may be enough.

But for ordinary people, this is absolutely an astronomical figure.

Not to mention having a price but no market.

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 it was because of a love affair or something."

"Sorry."

"It's nothing, he's not a kid anymore!"

Shitara Renxi smiled, and then sighed: "But because of this incident, Grandma Yongmei was cursed... Actually, Grandma Yongmei originally wanted to play with an ordinary violin, but when I thought about it... In order to commemorate my grandfather's seventieth birthday, and also to comfort my father, I invited Stradivar, who had been sealed for thirty years... You know what happened next, Detective Fujino."

Fujino frowned: "Since you have sealed it, you must have discovered something strange about it, right?"

"Well, yes, there were signs of a curse at that time."

Renki Shitara lowered her eyes and explained: "When my father was eighteen years old, he borrowed this piano to participate in competitions. The strings alone broke several times. Grandma Nagami who showed off the sound of this piano in front of the TV was also on the show. He fell ill before the start, and Grandpa Gensaburo, who was preparing to take the exam abroad, also got tenosynovitis because of this piano..."

Fujino then asked: "Then why don't you continue to seal it?"

"Of course it's because everyone wants to watch it!" Renxi Shitara said helplessly, "Grandma Yongmei died, and everyone thought it was an accident. After my father's incident, everyone was a little scared and wanted to kill Qin. It was re-sealed, but Grandpa seems to be suffering from Alzheimer's disease and has been guarding the piano..."

"It's okay that the piano is not here, but here, as a musician, even if you are cursed, you can't help but be tempted to have sex..."

Fujino looked at her with dead fish eyes: "Then do you still want to do it now?"

Hearing this, Shitara Renxi thought about the death of Gensaburo, shook his head and waved his hands: "I don't want to! Now I don't want to even put a knife on my neck!"

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In the bathroom, Fujino soaked in the bathtub and quietly looked 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 'man-made'?

Mission details: You were entrusted to investigate a violin that was suspected of being cursed, and there was a fire just after you learned about the assignment. Then someone in Shitaku's house was burned to death because of the fire. Is it really such a coincidence?

And what is hidden behind the cursed violin?

And was the accident thirty years ago really an accident?

Mission goal: Solve the mystery of the robbery case thirty years ago and discover 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 thirty years ago, and get an additional 1,000 free experience points to add orders)]

"Does it depend on human effort?"

Fujino retracted his gaze, put his hands on both sides of the tub, raised his eyes and began to sort out the information he had now obtained.

Currently, Shilok has three branches.

They are the eldest, Tiao Yilang, the second, Tiao Erlang, and the old sanxian, Sanlang.

Lianxi is the only one left in Tiaoyilang's family. Her father passed away a year ago, and her mother returned to her parents' home.

As for the second eldest son Danjiro's family, the whole family is dead, except for Haga Kyosuke.

As for the old Sanxian Saburo, he died just now, and his wife also died, but I don’t know if there are any descendants.

According to the order, first it is Tan Erlang and his wife, then it is Gensaburo's wife, then it is the only son of Tiaoichiro's family, and then it is Gensaburo.

So far, only Tiaoichiro and his wife, his granddaughter Renxi, and Kyosuke Haga from the second family are left in this large family...

"Shitara Choichiro has cancer. From now on, the only ones left in this big family will be the old lady who seems to be suffering from mental illness, Renki and Haga Kyosuke..." Fujino thought carefully and couldn't help it. Zhu Zhu secretly complained in his heart: "It's okay if a big family can't put together a mahjong table."

But then, Fujino thought again about the reason why the Shitara family died.

He didn't believe it if it was an accident or a curse.

If it was a coincidence, one would be considered a coincidence, but the death of three people was no longer a coincidence. After all, how could it just happen that the old man from the Shitaku family would die every time he celebrated his birthday?

If we consider the murderer, then the murderer is among the four existing people.

If you add the housekeeper, that's five.

Does not comply with the four-choice-one process.

Will there be another braid next?

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When they came out, the fire truck had arrived at the scene to put out the fire, and Shitara Gensaburo was also taken away by the 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 over by the way.

Housekeeper Jinqu Hongsheng explained the fire brigade's investigation results: "The investigation results have come 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?" Haga Kyosuke obviously didn't know about Shitara Renki's commission and was a little confused.

"Miss Lianxi, can I tell you the contents of your commission?"

"It doesn't matter...after all, there are no outsiders here."

In accordance with professional norms, Fujino asked for the client's opinion, and then said: "Miss Renxi invited me here this time to investigate these matters, a series of unexpected incidents related to Stella Andivali."

Shitara Renxi nodded and echoed: "I just took it out two years ago, and something happened to Grandma Yongmei. Last year, my father also had an accident. This year, it's Grandpa Gensaburo's turn..."

Hearing this, Haga Kyosuke nodded deeply: "In that case, this piano does feel like it has been cursed."

"Really?" Shitara Renxi continued: "Mr. Fujino suggested that I wrap this piano in red cloth and send it to the bank for safekeeping. Just after I finished speaking, Grandpa Gensaburo..."

"I'm afraid it's not that easy." Haga Kyosuke sighed: "Uncle Tiaoichiro can't give away this piano. After all, he protects this piano like a treasure."

Shitara Renxi looked at Fujino again: "Is there any other way now?"

"I don't have this for the time being. The best way to deal with this kind of thing is not to keep the other person around." Fujino thought for a while: "If it is to suppress, you can plant some peach trees in the yard, or in the house Find some things inside according to the Feng Shui layout to suppress the tiredness, as much as you can.”

Fujino said, feeling as if he had become a magic stick.

But this was all made up by him based on normal Feng Shui theory.

Now Sister Tongzi has popped out.

It cannot be justified if it is not a murder case.