After informing the Yamato Police Officer, Conan and Xiaolan walked out of the village chief's house, and he had roughly locked in the murderer.

There is not so much reasoning for this case, and the whole story of the case has surfaced.

"Sister Xiaolan, let's go to Mr. Mino's house to see if there are any clues!"

"Don't we go to the old village chief's house?"

"Brother Uchikawa should have gone there. Let's go to Mr. Mino's house first, and then go and meet them."

"Okay." Xiaolan had no objection, and Conan said he would go wherever he went.

After asking a policeman to lead them, she followed Conan with her.

Holding hands, the two were silent all the way.

The two have different thoughts, but one thing is the same.

They all noticed something strange about each other.

Xiaolan sighed in her heart. Some things are easily ignored when they didn't pay attention to them, but when they noticed them all at once, they were so similar and so conspicuous.

Sometimes, getting an answer is not that important.

Since the other party didn't want to tell her the truth, she should pretend that she didn't find out.

Just know that he is by your side...

The Sanno family is not far from the village chief’s house. There is no one at Sanno’s house and the door is not locked. Conan pushed the door open and entered the house.

"Conan, isn't it good for us to break into other people's houses like this?"

"It's okay, we just come in and take a look. We won't move things around."

Xiaolan doesn't believe Conan's words very much. It's common for him to go through other people's things when he goes to investigate the case, but she still doesn't say anything.

The living room of Mino's house is quite simple, and there is a very conspicuous landscape painting hanging on the wall in the middle of the living room. The color of this painting is bright and incompatible with the wooden quaint style living room.

The landscape paints a lady, holding a bamboo basket, standing under a dense tree. She seems a little shy, with one hand covering her face and the other hand hanging on her abdomen.

The hand hanging down was close together with four fingers, leaving only one index finger slowly hanging, as if pointing to something.

Conan looked at the painting steadily and felt that there were some key clues hidden in this painting.

This feeling came for no reason, but it was particularly strong. He moved a stool and groped through the canvas, but found nothing.

There was no abnormality in the canvas, and his little face was close to the wall, trying to see if there was anything hidden behind the painting.

"Conan, what are you doing?"

"I want to see if there is anything hidden behind the painting."

Since Daro Mino knew that he would die, he took the initiative to say that passage to the village chief, and he must have left something behind.

If you want to hide something, you will definitely not know it, nor will you find it easily, otherwise it will be meaningless for him to hide something.

"It shouldn't be there?" Xiaolan also looked over her head, but the frame was covered very tightly and she could not see anything. She tried to take down the frame, but the frame was quite large and she probably couldn't take it off alone.

"Do you want to take down the painting? Let me help." The one who came over at Kazukawa was just right, so he took off the frame with his hand.

Since the people who appeared on the mountain were roughly locked in, they naturally no longer had to check from house to house. The police had arranged for people to look for them, so they simply came to the residence of the Mino family.

Behind the frame was an empty wall. Kamikawa Shin reached out and knocked it, but found nothing unusual.

"Nothing."

"What are you looking for?" Ryosuke Mino was confused.

"Have your father left anything? Things like diaries that you want to keep well."

Ryosuke Mino shook his head, "My father does have the habit of writing diaries, but I have never found his diary since I came back."

If he could find the diary, he might have known what had happened long ago, instead of searching for three years before finding the corpse today.

"Then has this painting been hanging here all the time?"

Conan was resentful of this painting.

This painting has been hanging for many years and is my father's favorite painting during his lifetime.

Haibara looked at the painting they took off, and her eyes were on the fingers of the lady in the painting. The fingers of the lady really seemed to be pointing to somewhere.

"Is there any story about this painting? Or does the tree in the painting have a prototype?"

Ryosuke Mino thought for a while and said, "Yes, this tree is a very famous old tree in the village. My father saw that the tree in the painting looks very similar to the tree in the village, so he bought it."

Conan and Kamikawa Shin looked at each other and both understood what each other meant.

If you guess correctly, the things hidden by the deceased Ryosuke Mino should be buried under the tree.

"Then please take us to see."

"Okay, I'll get a shovel." Ryosuke Mino obviously understood what they meant. It's ridiculous. This painting has been hanging here for so many years, but he has no doubt about it at all.

When you get used to something you are used to, only newcomers can realize that something is wrong with it.

This is probably the reason why this painting has been preserved to this day.

Because not only Ryosuke Mino was used to this painting, the murderer was also used to this painting.

"Xiaolan, are we going to dig something?"

The garden that followed me didn't understand at all. Xiaolan didn't understand it very much, but it didn't matter whether she understood it or not. She would always know the result.

"Mr. Mino has hidden something."

The group came to the tree. The tree was really a bit similar to the one on the painting. Not only were the tree species similar, but the open branches also looked very similar. It was just because in winter, the leaves fell and looked quite desolate.

Conan stood on the ground where the ladies stood in the painting, pointing a place in the direction of his finger, "It should be here, dig and see."

Ryosuke Mino nodded, picked up the shovel and started digging the soil. After a while, the shovel touched an object and made a muffled sound.

"Digged it!" Ryosuke Mino hurriedly dug out the things.

This is a locked metal box, which is completely rusted because it is buried underground all year round.

"Do you have a key? Or use a chainsaw to cut the lock open?"

"I have a chainsaw at home." The key must not be found, but it doesn't matter. The way to open the box is not just the key.

Several people walked back with boxes, attracting many passers-by in the village.

Seeing this, Conan whispered instructing the police who came over with him to send someone to surround the old village chief’s house to prevent the other party from running away.

The box was opened, and as expected, it contained a diary and some correspondence.

The letters were sent from Tokyo, starting ten years ago and until three years ago, a thick stack of letters accumulated over the years.
Chapter completed!