Stay away from Conan

Chapter 52 Champagne

"Hey? What's the matter?"

Yukiko said with some confusion.

"Something that can affect Miss Yamahara's career."

Gao Yuan explained, "After all, for an idol artist who used to be active in many activities, now even the makeup artist is hired from an external studio to do the job. It doesn't look normal."

"You're saying that Miss Yamahara has received very few activities recently?"

Yukiko understood what Takato meant.

"Well. If I'm not wrong, maybe Ms. Yamahara only has the business order of 'Fushae' spokesperson now, so she can't let go of this opportunity no matter what. Then, Yukiko...sister, where are you? Did you find anything?"

Gao Yuan asked about Yukiko and planned to synthesize the information.

"Oh, because Miss Yamahara is right next to me, I have been asking around for a long time and I still can't get anything useful from Ashili. But if I have to say something, I feel that the threatening letter should only belong to someone. Just a prank."

Yukiko said this, which made Gao Yuan a little confused, "Why do you think so?"

"If I have to say it, it should be intuition."

Yukiko said.

"Then what did Ms. Ashiki say?"

"That's right, ever since Ms. Yamahara became the spokesperson of 'Fusa Painting', she has received threatening letters like this from time to time, but nothing strange has happened afterwards. Moreover, I can probably guess who sent it. Threatening letter."

Saying that, Yukiko showed a hearty smile and looked at Gao Yuan proudly.

"Why?"

Gao Yuan was a little surprised.

"How's it going? Do you want to ask me how I figured it out?"

Yukiko narrowed her eyes and smiled, waiting for Takato to ask.

"Uh... tell me, Yukiko-sama!"

Struggling, Takato asked in a tone that could satisfy Yukiko's desire for expression at the moment.

"Ah, you went out just now and didn't check the threatening letter carefully. Did you know that there was a faint smell of cheap tobacco on the paper?"

Seemingly satisfied with Gao Yuan's response, Yukiko immediately gave the answer, but Gao Yuan still looked confused and couldn't help teasing her.

"Ah, Mr. Detective, didn't you notice?"

Gao Yuan could only helplessly express that he did not understand, so Yukiko laughed and said: "It seems that little Gao Yuan still has too little experience. As for the young man we met when we just entered the door, he had this smell of tobacco. !”

Regarding this answer, Gao Yuan could only express his helplessness, because he had never had close contact with the man named "Da Shan", so how could he notice this.

"In other words, the threatening letter may have been sent by that person?"

"That's right. Moreover, the date when the threatening letter was received this time was before the new product launch was announced. The only people who could know the news in advance and send out the threatening letter were the relevant staff."

Yukiko added.

"Looking at it this way, it does make sense."

Gao Yuan said thoughtfully, but - is it really that simple?

Last night, Gao Yuan specifically investigated the information about Yamahara Qiu Xi on the Internet. Although he couldn't find any negative news, one thing is that the exposure of Yamahara Qiu Xi has dropped significantly in the past six months. This is due to the fact that he obtained it through the makeup artist. The judgment made can be explained, but does this have anything to do with the recent threatening letters?

At the same time, Hirota Masami and the girl with short brown hair, who had just finished shopping, were carrying large and small bags of items and came to the booth of the "Fusa Painting" new product sales fair. They saw that there were already Many people were there, so the two of them quickly walked up and grabbed two seats in the fourth row.

It was almost ten o'clock now, and there were already journalists from several fashion magazines standing by, holding cameras, waiting to capture first-hand information.

Looking at the people slowly filling up around him, Hirota Masami exclaimed: "Fortunately, we got a seat. If we had come a little later, we would have had to stand outside."

"It doesn't matter, as long as I can buy new bags."

The girl with short brown hair said.

"Don't worry. Although there are so many people at the scene, not many will actually buy it."

Masami Hirota said.

At this time, at ten o'clock, the new product meeting started. As the person in charge of the event, Hori Ryosuke took the stage first, took the microphone and began to give a brief introduction to the product, and explained that after the store opens at half past ten, you can go in and buy it. The latest product, and then appealed to the crowd at the scene, with grand applause, and invited the brand spokesperson, Ms. Yamahara Akihiro, to explain the product in detail.

In the audience, the brown-haired girl showed no interest after hearing Yamahara Qiuxi's name.

"Why hasn't Fusa Paint changed this spokesperson?"

The girl said this grumblingly.

"What's wrong?"

Masami Hirota asked in confusion.

"After all, they have all been exposed to scandals involving personal indiscretions."

The girl said this with an expressionless face.

"Shiho, what kind of random fashion magazines are you reading again? Just listen to this kind of gossip."

Masami Hirota said helplessly.

The girl did not continue, but she still murmured in her heart: Although someone helped her suppress the news, the sharp decrease in her business orders in the past six months speaks volumes.

On the stage, Yamahara Qiuxi was introducing the design concept of the new "Fusae" products, explaining how the designer got inspiration from champagne, as well as the design concept of the entire new series of products.

Then, under the auspices of Hori Ryosuke, several audience members were called up to share their impressions of the new products. At the end, Hori Ryosuke suggested that everyone drink a glass of champagne together.

So, under the instructions, the young man named "Da Shan" walked up to the booth carrying a silver round tray. There were about five glasses of champagne on the tray. The glasses were placed in no particular order.

Several people at the booth took a glass each, and under the command of Hori Ryosuke, several people drank it at the same time.

Yamahara Qiuxi did not finish the wine in the glass. After drinking about one-third of the wine, she walked forward a few steps, stood at the most conspicuous position of the booth, posed a good-looking posture, and started As a summary of the exhibition, the reporters present filmed the scene in the audience.

Suddenly, the wine glass slipped from Yamahara Qiuxi's hand, fell to the booth, and broke into pieces. Then Yamahara Qiuxi suddenly fell to the ground. She seemed to struggle for a few times, and then there was no more movement.

For a moment, the scene fell into panic. Several spectators who were called up on the booth, their faces turned pale with fright at this moment, looked at the wine glasses in their hands, and stood blankly on the spot.

Dashan, who came up with the wine, was at a loss at this moment. Only Hori Ryosuke quickly recovered from the shock and asked everyone at the scene not to panic.

But after the reporters at the scene saw this scene happening, they started taking pictures at the booth.

Seeing this scene, Gao Yuan and Yukiko immediately rushed to the stage.

Takato checked Yamahara Qiuyu, while Yukiko maintained order at the scene and asked Hori Ryosuke to call the police quickly.

In the audience, the girl with short brown hair saw the man in a blue trench coat who rushed to the stage. After feeling the pulse of Yamahara Qiuxi, she shook her head helplessly and understood that Yamahara Qiuxi was really dead.

Regarding this result, the girl showed a solemn expression - the time from when she drank the champagne to her death was not long. It takes time for a general poison to enter the blood circulation after being consumed, but if it is cyanide, If so, the onset time is too long.

Moreover, it was obvious that she just randomly chose a drink!