Chapter 807: The Missing Piano Prodigy

"me?"

Gao Chengcai was just about to get a piece of chicken drumsticks, but when he found that everyone was staring at him, he couldn't help withdrawing his hand in embarrassment. Seeing that the host seemed to want to invite him to play, he quickly said with a dry smile, "Actually, I'm not very good at the piano, because I only learned a little when I encountered a piano-related case..."

"Oh, I see."

"The first time Detective Kido came across a piano-related case was Tsukage Island, right? I still remember using the piano score to leave the code."

"Yes, I also remember that Doctor Chengshi is really impressive."

"Phew." Gao Cheng watched everyone turn their eyes and chat about the previous case, heaved a sigh of relief, and hurried to the side to wipe off the oil stains and food residues on his mouth.

It's so risky, I'm almost going to lose face...

Xiao Ai teased at the side: "I didn't expect you to be very famous in the music industry, great detective."

"This kind of view is not scientific at all, and the musicians present are only a small group of people, and they cannot reach the level of the entire music industry."

Gao Cheng retorted and returned to the dining table, suddenly felt that someone was still looking at him, and when he turned around, he saw the innocent eyes of the little boy.

Known as a piano prodigy, Keita Onoda had been looking at this side curiously since just now, and seemed interested in the case everyone was talking about, but she was quickly dragged away by her mother to leave the hall.

"What's wrong?" Gao Cheng asked strangely, "Did you leave so early?"

"Yeah," Shile Lianxi said habitually, "because I have to continue to practice the piano."

Yuanzi watched the little boy and mother leave through the aisle window: "It's so pitiful, if I live like this every day, I will definitely go crazy..."

"yes."

There was a touch of sadness in Shile Lianxi's eyes.

"Although I am not a genius, I am a child born in a musical family. I can actually feel that feeling. Perhaps the reputation of a piano prodigy has become a heavy mountain for this child. Since moving here, it seems I haven't laughed much."

"I can quite understand," Xiao Ai walked over with her arms folded, also looked outside and said in a low voice, "That mother's mood..."

"Hey..."

Seeing that Shile Lianxi was a little dazed, Gao Cheng hurriedly pulled Xiao Ai.

At least pay attention to your child status outside...

"This kid likes to pretend to be an adult, haha."

"Yes, is it?" Seeing Xiao Ai's unhappy face, Shile Lianxi sweated slightly on her forehead.

Sure enough, the detective's child is not easy.

From the beginning to the end of the party, there were people playing the piano, sometimes it was light and sometimes it was low, it was like attending a concert, but the atmosphere was much more casual, except for the first time when Gao Cheng listened to the little boy's performance, Gao Cheng was very quiet most of the time. It was eating and drinking, but Yuanzi was very happy to hear it, and at the end, he said that he wanted to practice the piano well.

Gao Cheng sighed lightly.

Playing the piano in Jiaoyuan is actually okay, but the thought of dealing with Tomoko Suzuki gives me headaches.

"I think I will find a chance to teach you later..."

...

When I saw Keita Onoda's mother again, a few days after the banquet, she suddenly ran to the Kido Detective Agency haggard, and seemed to be on the verge of collapse.

"please,

Detective Kido! Mrs. Onoda's eyes were red and swollen, and she saw Gao Chenggong and begged, "Please help me..."

Gao Cheng and Xiao Ai looked at each other and asked, "Calm down, ma'am, what happened?"

"Hui Tai is gone," the woman choked up, "Since the 20th, I can't find it anywhere. At first I thought it was just for fun, but it's been a few days, and the competition is about to start... "

"Missing?"

The figure of the piano prodigy on the day of the banquet appeared in Gao Cheng's mind.

"That means something happened on the second day of the banquet... Have you already called the police?"

"I reported it, but the police couldn't find any clues. If Hui Tai can't be found again..."

"Can you tell me the details?"

Gao Cheng's face became serious.

If a child runs away from home just because they are forced too hard, they generally won't last long. Since even the police can't find any clues, the possibility of being kidnapped is very high.

But if this is the case, the kidnappers should contact their family members, whether it is asking for a ransom or something...

Need to investigate again carefully to see if there are any clues that have not been noticed.

On the weekend, Dr. A Li is going to take a group of children to dig bamboo shoots in the mountains. Only Xiao Ai stays because she has to work with Gao Cheng.

"Actually, I'm enough alone, why don't we go dig bamboo shoots together..."

"Obviously knowing that someone has been kidnapped," Xiao Ai glanced at Gao Cheng, "How could he still be in the mood to play? Of course, we must hurry up and help find that child."

"Won't they find it strange? You didn't say anything about it..."

"Don't worry, I said I will take care of you, they all understand."

"What the hell reason is this..."

Gao Cheng lowered his eyelids, and after taking Xiao Ai into a rented car, he checked the time on his watch and said, "It's getting late, let's go there quickly, and hope nothing happens to that child."

Although Xiao Ai is worried, she doesn't have too much expectation: "Counting it has been missing for almost 4 days today, and there has been no contact from the prisoner, the chance of surviving in this situation is almost zero..."

"There is still hope, if my judgment is correct." Gao Cheng focused on driving.

He has done his best to investigate, and finally locked the suspicion on another gifted child who will also participate in the piano competition.

Judging from all the signs, it should have something to do with the little girl. After screening, the little girl's divorced father is very suspicious. After the Shilejia music banquet, he didn't participate in any activities these days. Villa in the mountains.

The car drove into the mountains along the highway, and suddenly it rained heavily. Fortunately, the road was built in the mountains, so it would not cause any trouble, but the gray and gloomy sky was not in a good mood.

Gao Cheng's destination is in the villa area in this mountain area. From the map, it can be passed directly along the road. Fortunately, he is not the kind of rich man who likes to build a big villa in any place, otherwise it would be really embarrassing.

After a while, the villa area appeared in the field of vision. At this moment, a burst of piano sound came from the rain, and the clear tone was not drowned by the sound of the rain.

"This is..." Gao Cheng was slightly taken aback, looking along the rows of villas in the rain

Xiao Ai was also attracted by the sound of the piano, and subconsciously said: "The melody on the G line... is the third orchestral suite composed by Johann Sebastian Bach..."

"I know."

Gao Cheng's cheeks twitched.

At this time, there is no need to give him a special science introduction...

"It seems that we have arrived at the place," Xiao Ai said calmly looking at the villa area, "I can play the piano in this kind of place, and the player is probably a professional pianist. The girl's father does live here."

"It's hard to say now."

The car stopped in front of the villa where the sound of the piano came out. According to the address, it was indeed the father's villa. Gao Cheng opened the car door and accidentally saw some children's backpacks at the entrance of the villa.

"Wait," Gao Cheng frowned, turned back and asked Xiao Ai, "The place where the doctor and the others dug bamboo shoots, shouldn't this be the mountain?"

"possible."

"It shouldn't be such a coincidence..."

"I think that's it," Xiao Ai checked the backpack and said, "The bamboo shoots and their things are here, and the mobile phone is also..."

"Really."

Gao Cheng opened the concealed door and walked slowly into the hallway.

The room was dark, as if the electricity had been cut off, only the sound of the piano was still playing, and the room where the piano was played was on the right side of the corridor. Gao Cheng followed the sound to the door of the piano room and looked inside.

"Strange," inside the villa, Ayumi hid nervously behind Conan, looking towards the dark corridor, "Is there someone coming in from the front?"

"How is it possible?" Conan said speechlessly, "The prisoner should still be playing the piano in that room, and it's impossible for the doctor to come here so quickly..."

"However, there may be more than one prisoner."

"Probably alone, the diary is written in the first person, and there is no trace of accomplices in the text, and there is only one red wine glass..."

Conan was holding a notepad with certainty, but when he wanted to say something, he suddenly heard the sound of the piano stop, and it took a while for it to start again.

"Huh? It seems a little different this time..."

"How, how?" Yuan Tai said in fear, "Could it be that the criminals are coming to arrest us?"

"Idiot, you can catch us just now," Conan frowned and thought, "And he probably doesn't want us to see his face, in case someone escapes and tells the police, that's why he played the piano in the dark to scare us away... ..."

"But as long as we investigate the owner of this villa, we can also know who the prisoner is?" Mitsuhiko asked doubtfully.

"Maybe it's not the owner of this villa," Conan judged. "It's also possible that he opened the villa and sneaked in. After all, it's the off-season for vacation, and the surrounding villas are empty, right?"

Ayumi still looked at the dark corridor in front of her in fear. After the piano sound stopped, she held Conan in a trembling voice and said, "No, no, it seems that someone is coming..."

"Da da."

Footsteps sounded clearly on the wooden floor in the darkness, and Conan also changed his expression, his eyes trembling.

There are 3 footsteps, and 3 people are coming.

Damn, what is going on? The doctor should still be on his way... Could it be the owner of this villa?

"I say……"

A flashlight shone on the faces of Conan and the others, and Gao Cheng's scolding voice sounded: "What the hell are you doing? Where's Dr. Ali?"

"what?"

Conan blinked stupidly, and glanced at Xiao Ai and a little boy beside Gao Cheng.

"You, why did you come here? This child is..."

"I came here just for this child. I have been staying here for the past few days, causing his mother to worry to death..."

"Holding, I'm sorry." Onoda Keita lowered her head in embarrassment.

"Okay," Gao Cheng shook his head, "Where is the person who brought you here? Do you remember?"

"Ah? It's Qianming's father, because Qianming showed me the photos," Onoda Keita explained, "But I was not arrested, it was Qianming's father who helped me, because I was going to participate in the competition soon, so my mother kept Forcing me to practice the piano, there is no joy at all..."

It took Conan a while to recover, looking at Keita Onoda who was doing nothing, the corners of his mouth twitched slightly: "So you just walk in the corridor while eating snacks, pushing the trolley, playing games... you make things everywhere... Is it a mess?"

"Because my mother usually doesn't allow me to do this, but no one here will scold me." Onoda Hui said happily.

"So that's how it is," Conan wondered at the flashlight, "Then what's going on with this diary? It says 'I have to kill him', and 'I'm sorry, kid, please forgive me'..."

"journal?"

Gao Cheng took the notepad and found that he started writing on March 20, the time when Keita Onoda was taken away.

"On March 20th, Qing, I tried to talk to him. He was such a kid. He laughed a lot and played by himself all the time... I don't know if he understands the situation he is in now. This kid's life is quite depressing too. Well... In short, there are still two days left, just be patient..."

"March 22, overcast, Bach, Mozart, Chopin, Beethoven... one more day, let's pass safely..."

"March 23rd, rain, oops, this brat seems to know who I am, if he tells this, it will become an obstacle in the future, although it is very pitiful, I can only kill him..."

"March 24th, rain, kid, I'm sorry, please forgive me..."

There is a date page on the left and a diary page on the right. Finally, the diary on March 24 has red wine stains on both sides...

What is very problematic is that the diary for March 21 is missing.

And the problem wasn't limited to this, after the diary was closed, two side edges of the pages were exposed.

In addition, the diary on March 24th seems to have been wet with red wine stains twice, and the second time it was still very new...

Gao Cheng flipped through the diary again.

The book does not use any glue, but folds a stack of paper in half, staples the middle, and then trims the inner pages along the edge. The reason why two pages protrude is because someone has opened it The staples have changed the position of the paper inside, and there are traces of being pushed back from the staples in the middle.

Gao Cheng looked back at Keita Onoda.

"This diary has been tampered with, and it's not long ago. I think it must be a child's prank. There is a blank page with pen marks on the back of the diary, that is to say, the one where something was written on the previous page. The paper was taken away, so there should have been a diary on March 21, and the piece of paper that was taken away was actually replaced, so the edges are not aligned...

"I think, March 21st should be changed to March 24th, so the content of the diary on the previous page is actually March 20th..."

Gao Cheng returned the notebook to Conan and said, "Yes, the diary on March 23 said 'I can only kill him', but it was actually March 20, because Hui Tai recognized it immediately, and 'try to talk' is The diary on March 21, changing the order in this way becomes that I wanted to kill someone at the beginning, but gradually changed my mind."

The little boy drove Gaocheng in a daze, scratched his hair and laughed, "Because I accidentally drew a map on it while playing the game, so I had to remove it..."

"Really, what are you thinking?" Gao Cheng looked at the little boy who didn't seem worried at all, and asked speechlessly, "Is the page you removed still there?"

"Well, it's still there," the little boy took out a piece of origami paper from his bib pocket and handed it to Gao Cheng, admiringly said, "It's the same as everyone said, big brother, you are amazing!"

"hehe……"