04. A sumptuous dinner
"I'm back." It was already about five o'clock, and Conan opened the door on the second floor after school and shouted inside.
"Kid, it's school." Then I saw Mori Kogoro, whose face was slightly red, drinking beer while talking.
Scold... Scold... Uncle can really drink... Conan in the twitching corners of his mouth...
"Uncle, is Sister Xiaolan cooking upstairs?" Conan looked around, walked to the couch, then put down his bag and asked Kogoro Mori, who was sitting in front of the TV drinking beer.
"Yes, in order to celebrate Xiaobai's discharge from the hospital, Xiaolan bought a lot of vegetables, and it should be almost finished by now." Maori replied as he sipped his beer.
"Then I'll go up first, uncle," Conan said to Mori Kogoro, who was drinking.
"Let's go, little ghost, let's go up together..."Mori Kogoro heard Conan ask to go up, picked up the rest of the beer, and walked towards the door.
"Hi~" Conan replied as he looked at Maori who was walking towards the door.
With the sound of the staircase, Mori Kogoro and Conan came to the third floor, and as soon as they opened the door, they smelled the aroma coming from inside.
Then with the nose whirring and smelling, it goes to the source of the aroma.
I saw Mao Lilan holding a plate of sushi, the sushi is wrapped in seaweed, sandwiched in the middle, you can see carrots and ham, if you pay attention, you can also see part of the meat floss...
In addition to this plate of sushi, there is also a rice ball that has been served on the table, and the rice ball is in the shape of a triangle with seaweed on the outside, and the white rice ball has black sesame seeds in the center.
However, apart from these, many of the other dishes seem to be rarely seen.
For example, next to the sushi, there is a plate of red-hot dishes... Bean curd....
It's a rare plate of home-cooked tofu topped with a dash of peppercorns, garlic, etc., and it's also served with shredded meat.
No, it's not homemade tofu anymore, it's... This is the magical country of China, the famous mapo tofu in Sichuan...
And catch, the rest are also unique dishes of China.
For example, fried beans with bean drum and eggplant, chili peppers, stir-fried sweet potatoes, etc.
Especially the stir-fried sweet potatoes, the sweet potatoes feel like they are fried fat one by one, with a little red pepper.
"Ah, Xiaolan, today's dishes are really rich." Mori Kogoro picked up the spoon placed on the table, took a little mapo tofu, and ate it.
"Well, this is...."Mori Kogoro took a bite and seemed to froze...
"Well, this is..."Conan saw Mori Kogoro's shocked expression, and also took the soup spoon and filled it with a little mapo tofu...
"This feeling of crispiness, and this spicy, is incredible, eating into the stomach not only gently enters the stomach, but also this wonderful taste, even reminding yourself, eat again, eat again... Conan and Maori had these words ringing in their hearts at the same time.
Then, I saw Conan and Mori start to serve the second spoonful, the second bite, the third bite...
"Smack... Smack..."Maoriran seemed to be dissatisfied, and knocked on the hands of Conan and Maori who continued to prepare the spoon of tofu.
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts..."
"Dad, Conan, why are you starting to gobble up before you start eating?" Xiaolan looked at the two people who were screaming in pain in front of her, looked at the mapo tofu that had been missing nearly half, and pinched her waist and looked at the two people in front of her.
"Ah, Xiaolan, how do you make this? It's so delicious, it feels like I can eat tofu as a meal, and I feel so mild now, I've woken up a lot from the wine." Maori Kogoro seemed to directly ignore Xiaolan's blame and directly asked the question in his heart.
"Well, yes, Sister Xiaolan, this dish should be called mapo tofu, I remember that this is a dish that only the mysterious Huaxia Kingdom can have, Sister Xiaolan, how do you make it?" Conan also ignored the pain and looked at Maoliran expectantly.
"Hmm... This one... I didn't do this..."Xiaolan replied with a look of embarrassment.
"You didn't do it?" Mori Kogoro and Conan seemed to hear something unbelievable and looked at Mori Ran.
"Well, these are all made by Xiaobai, and I'm just in charge of serving the dishes today." Maoliran seemed embarrassed to say this.
"Huh, that little ghost?" Mori Kogoro looked at Mori Ran as if he didn't believe it, and then saw Mori Ran nodding.
Conan didn't seem to believe much of this result either, and watched as Maoriran nodded and fell into a stupor.
"Alright, the last dish of the day, white fungus soup." At this time, the voice of Maori white came from the kitchen.
Then, Conan, Kogoro Mori, Mori Ran, and the others all looked in the direction of the kitchen.
I saw Maori Bai holding a large bowl of soup, in which you can vaguely see spinach, snow fungus, green onions, ginger, etc.
And the aroma reached the noses of several people present...
"It's so fragrant..."Mori Kogoro closed his eyes and sniffed, as if he was very intoxicated...
"Alright, let's start eating..."I saw Maori Bai put the white fungus cabbage soup on the table and sat cross-legged on the mat on the floor...
"Well, you did all this?" Mori Kogoro heard Mori Haku's words, then opened his eyes and knelt cross-legged, and asked Mori Hakuro in front of him.
"Yes, uncle, I did it all by myself." Maori Shiro looked at Maori Kogoro, and then said as a matter of course.
"Then you also made this delicious mapo tofu?" Maori Kogoro pointed to the mapo tofu that was still bubbling with aroma and said.
"Uncle, this is not ordinary mapo tofu.This dish is called magic mapo tofu, the shredded meat in it, although it looks like shredded meat at first glance, but he is not shredded meat, I also saw the soybeans that Sister Xiaolan bought, these shredded meat are made of soybeans, general mapo tofu, is a five-flavor one, but the magic mapo tofu I made, but six flavors in one." Maori Bai replied to Maori Kogoro flatly.
"Six flavors in one?" At this time, everyone knelt cross-legged, and saw Conan, Mori Kogoro, and Mori Lan in astonishment.
"Yes, the six flavors are one.Ordinary mapo tofu only includes color, fragrance, spicy, numbness, and hot.But that's only five flavors, and these six-in-one magic mapo tofu also includes soybeans like ground meat, that is, the sixth flavor, crispy..."Maori Bai looked at Conan and the others and said.
"What, this meat, it's not meat, it's soybeans, no, I feel like meat when I eat it..."
"Alright, let's eat." Maori Bai smiled.
"By the way, Xiaobai, how did you know this?" Kogoro seemed to reminisce from the delicious taste and looked at Maori Shiro.
"It's all in my head, and it seems like I've seen it somewhere before, like I've been doing it before." Maori Bai looked at Maori Kogoro, and said without blushing and heartbeat.
"Looks like Sakurako has taught you a lot." Mori Kogoro seems to think of his sister-in-law, maybe his sister-in-law taught him everything.
"Yes, at that time, Xiaobai's movements when he was chopping vegetables and stir-frying made me feel like a master who has learned to cook for decades." Mao Lilan also said on the side.
"Oh, yes? It seems that Xiaobai has a great talent for cooking, it seems that the Maori family is going to have a kitchen god, hahaha..."
"Daddy." Mao Lilan didn't seem to be satisfied with what her father said, Xiaobai is still young, how can he become a chef or something, but his speed of chopping vegetables, as well as the action of stir-frying, especially the aroma of the dishes, are rare in Japan.
"Sister Xiaolan, there is even minced meat in this rice ball, it's so delicious, you can eat it too." Conan picked up the triangular rice ball and ate it, and when he reached the middle, he seemed to have eaten some spicy minced meat.
"That's the meat floss, and that's the rice ball I made out of the leftover meat floss." Maori Bai looked at Conan, who was eating with relish, and said.
"Yes, it's delicious... It's delicious..."Conan finished speaking, picked up the sushi and ate it again...
"Sister Xiaolan, you can eat too." Maori Bai smiled and looked at Maorilan.
"Hi..."
"I'm full, I'm full, I'm full." After dinner, Maori Kogoro patted his belly and said contentedly.
"Me too." At this time, Conan on the side also lay down and patted his belly.
"Well, it's the best dinner I've ever had." Maoriland also seems to agree with the general.
Looking at Conan and the others, who were satisfied with eating in front of him, Mao Libai smiled.
Then he looked at the plates that had all been swept away in front of him, stood up, and prepared to clean up.
"Xiaobai, leave these to Sister Xiaolan.Dad, Conan, you also come over to help." Mori said to Mori Shiro, who was about to clean up the dishes, and then looked at Mori Kogoro and Conan with a smile.
"Xiaolan, you can't just clean up these things, why do you want us to clean them up..."Maori Kogoro replied indifferently with one hand on his head.
"Hmm..."Mori Rand frowned and looked at Mori Kogoro.
"Uh... Imp, hurry up and clean up the dishes." At this time, Maori Kogoro seemed to sense something, glanced at Xiaolan, and said to Conan who was lying down.
"Ahh Hey..."Conan, who was lying down, heard Mori Kogoro call him, got up, and seemed to feel something.
I saw Mao Lilan clenching his right fist tightly and looking at them with a smile... It seems that you can still see a fire burning behind her...
This momentum... It's huge...
Maori Bai looked at Maori Lan and smiled... Didn't say much... I also started to clean up the dishes...
"Whew, it's finally finished..."Looking at the washed and shiny plates, neatly arranged chopsticks, etc., Mori Kogoro and Conan breathed a sigh of relief...
"By the way, Xiaobai, I'll take you to your room now." Maorilan seemed to think of something, and said to Maoribai, who had already left the kitchen.
"I'm sorry for you, Sister Lan." Mao Libai smiled at Xiao Lan, and then followed Mao Lilan to the door of a room.
"Oh, Xiaobai, this is your room, I like it, I put a lot of effort into decorating it." Xiaolan opened the door and turned on the light inside, and the light illuminated the inside, showing all the situation inside in Maori's white eyes.
Mao Libai looked at this girl's room, the bed sheets were red, the sheets were red, and he even saw that there were dolls on the bed...
"Well, Sister Xiaolan, I prefer the color blue, and besides, this room seems to be for girls." Maori White looked at Maori Lan bitterly.
"Please, how do you say that people are boys, and it is taken for granted that it is a girl's room, and it is really Xiaolan." Conan leaned against the door and looked at the room inside, and he only felt speechless.
"However, thank you, Sister Xiaolan, I will trouble you to take this doll." Mao Libai walked to the bedside, then picked up the doll, walked to the door and gave the doll to Xiaolan.
"Okay, okay... Hehe..."Xiaolan scratched her head in embarrassment, and then rushed out of the room with the doll in her arms, while Mao Libai sat on the bed and looked around the room, it seems that she has really put a lot of thought into it.
Thinking of this, Mori Shiro walked out of the room and came to Mori Kogoro, who was lying on the floor.
"What is he going to do?" Conan looked at Maori Bai and walked out as well.
"Uncle Maori, I've probably been living with you all these years, so half of that insurance money will be used as my child support, so that you can drink that horse-urine flavor every day...", Maori Bai said to Maori, who was drinking beer.
"Poof~~ Damn imp, what are you talking about." Hearing the Maori vernacular's astonishing sentences, Maori Kogoro squirted out all the beer he had just poured into his mouth, and then waved his fist.
"But no, little ghost, your uncle doesn't need that money yet, I'm a famous detective, not to mention, you're my brother's only son, my own nephew." Mori Kogoro laughed and said to Mori Haku, but when he said the back, his voice became quieter and quieter, and the smile on his face disappeared.
"Thank you, uncle." Maori Bai looked at Maori Kogoro and seemed to sense Maori Kogoro's determination, and said to him with a smile.
"You're my own nephew, why do you want to say thank you to me?" Maori Kogoro looked at Maori Bai and said seriously.
"Hi~~~" seemed to feel something, Maori Bai nodded seriously.
"However, there is another little imp who seems to have never called his parents until now." Thinking silently in his heart, Maori Kogoro looked at Conan on the side.
"Hehe, uncle, I'll go take a shower first." It seems that he sensed something, and Conan flashed directly...
"Uncle, then I'll go back to the room first..."Mao Libai finished speaking, and also got up and walked towards the room.
Looking at the back of Mori Shiro, who was back in the room, Mori Kogoro smiled, and then, in a voice that he could only hear.
"You're my nephew."
And Maori Shiro, who walked into the room, seemed to pause at the moment when he closed the door...
Thank you... Uncle Maori...