The famous criminal in the world of Conan

Chapter 658: The Replaced Storativarios

"Ah."

Bai Masong nodded, his face cold as frost.

He looked at the housekeeper Jinqu Hongsheng and said to her,

"Butler Jinqu, please help Mr. Tiaoyilang upstairs to rest first."

"OK,"

Tsukuro Hongsheng responded, then turned to Shitara Choichirō and said,

"Master, let's go up first."

"Yes, Grandpa, you go upstairs and have a rest first."

Renxi Shitara also echoed.

Shitara Choichiro looked at Baiba Song deeply, nodded with difficulty, and then said softly to Baiba Song,

"A Song, can you come over later? Uncle has something to ask of you."

"Um,"

Bai Masong nodded slightly and said calmly,

"Sure, Uncle Tiaoichiro."

"call--"

Shitara Choichiro took a deep breath and said to Tsugaku Hongsheng,

"Come on, help me up."

"Okay sir."

Tsugaku Hongsheng responded, then supported Shitara Choichiro and slowly returned to his room.

After seeing Shitara Choichiro walking upstairs, Hakuba Song asked Shitara Renki,

"Aunt Ayane fell from the floor above our room. Whose room is above ours?"

"The room up there is grandma's room."

Shitara Renxi said softly,

"Directly above our living room is grandma's room. Next to her is the storage room where Storativarius is kept. Beyond that is grandpa's room."

"Grandma hated Grandpa's heavy cigarette smell because he smoked too much, so she didn't want to sleep with him when she got old."

"Ah."

Bai Masong nodded and said to Bai Niao Renzabulang,

"Shiratori, have some of your men search downstairs to see if there are any clues, and have the rest of your men go upstairs to search the room of the deceased, Shitara Ayane."

"Yes."

Shiratori Renzaburo nodded and began to deploy manpower.

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Upstairs, Shitara Ayane's room

Bai Masong and others arrived at the room but were unable to go in directly because the door of the room was locked.

"This is......"

“It’s actually a secret room!”

Everyone couldn't help but exclaimed.

The door of the room was locked, which meant it was a closed room. If the deceased was murdered, it would be another closed-room murder case.

"Lianxi, go ask housekeeper Jinqu for the key to the room. Ask her how many keys she has and whether she is the one who locked the room."

"Okay, Brother Song."

Shitara Renxi nodded, then turned and walked towards the second room next to it, which was Shitara Choichiro's room.

After a moment, she came back.

"Brother Song, housekeeper Jinqu said that she didn't lock the door of the room, and there are only two keys to the room, one is with her and the other is in grandma's hand."

"Um,"

Bai Masong nodded slightly,

"Open the door first."

Shitara Renxi also nodded and immediately used the key to open the door of Shitara Ayane's room.

The door opened and everyone walked in one by one.

The old lady's room is decorated quite warmly. On the right side is a large bed covered with curtains, and on the left side are the sofa, table and chairs.

And there was a chair next to the window facing the door, and it seemed that Shitara Ayane jumped off from this chair.

However, these only caught everyone's attention, as everyone's attention was focused on something on the ground in the middle of the room.

"That is......"

"Storativarios?!"

Sato Miwako and Shitara Renki who followed her couldn't help but exclaimed.

At this moment, in everyone's sight, in the center of the room, a broken violin was lying there.

Seeing this, Bai Masong immediately took two steps forward, squatted down, and looked down at the violin that had been completely cracked.

"Storativarios?"

Shiratori Renzaburo muttered this word in his mouth, with a hint of surprise in his eyes, and looked at the people around him.

"Could this harp be the priceless Storativarius?"

"Um,"

Sato Miwako nodded and said in a deep voice,

"That's the one."

"I didn't expect that the Shitara family actually had such an instrument,"

Shiratori Renzaburo was very surprised and praised unconsciously.

"This guitar is worthy of being passed down from generation to generation as a family heirloom."

"But......"

Shitara Renxi looked at the zither on the ground and shook her head slightly.

"It's no use saying anything now."

"That's true."

Shiratori Renzaburo said with some regret.

Maori Kogoro, who came over to help, looked at the broken zither and said as he thought,

"If that's the case, could it be that Mrs. Ayane fell from the building because another criminal wanted to break into the house and steal this valuable piano?"

"And Mrs. Ayane was fighting with the criminals, which led to the damage of the Storativarius and her own fall from the building?"

"There is a possibility."

Shiratori Renzaburo thought about it carefully and nodded.

"Not too possible."

Bai Ma Song denied their idea lightly.

"Not to mention that there are no signs of a struggle in this room, this violin is not the Storativarius."

"You mean... this guitar is fake?"

Kogoro Maori said in surprise.

"Yes, this guitar is fake,"

Conan, who had come to Bai Ma Song's side at some point, also smiled and replied,

"Uncle, look, the label inside this guitar says GA, but logically, it should say AS."

"AS?"

Mouri Kogoro was slightly startled.

Conan wanted to continue showing off, but Bai Ma Song pulled him aside and answered first.

"That's short for Antonio Storativari."

"The person who copied it was very proud of his craftsmanship, so he gave himself a similar label."

"I see."

Kogoro Maori nodded in understanding.

"But,"

Sato Miwako asked again,

"Since this instrument is fake, who would go to the trouble of destroying a replica?"

"I think... maybe it was grandma herself."

Shitara Renxi said in a low voice at this time.

"this......"

Maori Kogoro was a little dumbfounded.

"Mrs. Ayane, is she so... uh... hateful of the violin?"

puff!

Xiaolan and Haibara Ai were listening to what Kogoro Mouri said, and they couldn't help but laugh out loud despite their heavy hearts.

Conan rolled his eyes speechlessly and complained in his heart, "Uncle Maori, you are uneducated, can you please stop using idioms randomly?"

Shitara Renki also looked at Maori Kogoro in confusion, then adjusted herself and continued to speak slowly,

"Because my father often played the Storativarios in front of my grandma and grandpa when he was alive. So after my father died, my grandma seemed to regard the Storativarios as the incarnation of my father."

"I think she must have finished her treatment and came back to this room to touch the piano, but she found it was fake. In this case, she might have smashed the replica in anger."