Chapter 26: Cream Stew
Cream stew is a common home-cooked dish in RB, the main ingredients include chicken thighs, carrots, shiitake mushrooms, potatoes, shallots, butter, wheat flour, milk, etc., in addition to adding some other ingredients according to personal preferences, which is very in line with RB people's health philosophy of eating 30 foods a day.
However, this kind of dish is not something that can be eaten in an izakaya, and if you cook it yourself, it is a bit of a waste to make such a dish, because you can't eat it all.
It doesn't take much time to make a cream stew, just wash and cut the ingredients and put them in a pot to simmer. After the stew was ready, Miko first put the rice on the plate, then scooped up a large spoonful of cream stew from the saucepan and poured it on top of the rice, handing it to Lin Xiuyi.
Lin Xiuyi sat quietly on the tatami mat, took the plate handed over by the prince with both hands, and then the prince also prepared his own portion, because the soup was not prepared, so the two of them replaced it with oolong tea.
"I'm moving!" Lin Xiuyi and Miko picked up the spoons and read with their hands folded.
Lin Xiuyi scooped a small piece with a spoon from the place where rice and stew met, and then blew it and put it in his mouth. On a cold winter night, it is a blissful thing to eat a hot stew with rice, and it seems that everything that makes people feel distressed is no longer important at this moment.
"How does it taste!" Yuzi asked with some apprehension after Lin Xiuyi had finished tasting the first bite.
"It's delicious!It's really delicious, it has the feeling of a stew made at home when I was a child!" Lin Xiuyi praised from the bottom of his heart.
"Then I'm relieved, it's the first time I've made it for someone other than my family, and I'm worried about whether the taste will be unacceptable!" Miko said with satisfaction.
"Thank you!" Lin Xiuyi suddenly stopped the spoon and said to Yuzi sincerely.
"Why do you say thank you?" asked Miko curiously.
"Originally, I thought that the whole person was going to freeze today, but now I feel very warm, I haven't eaten such a delicious thing for a long time!" Lin Xiuyi said sincerely.
"Then I also want to say thank you, I haven't had a friend to have dinner with me for a long time!" Yuzi bowed his head and thanked Lin Xiuyi in the same way, and then laughed happily.
"It's hard to draw manga alone in Tokyo, isn't it?" asked Lin Xiuyi casually.
"It's been hard work, but since I got to know you, I've finally picked up a bit!" Miko said in a slurred voice as she put the food in her mouth, covering her mouth.
"Oh, do you say me, what does it have to do with me?" Lin Xiuyi asked curiously.
"Since I met you, I know a lot about the police, and the editor and readers feel that my story is very immersive now, and the editor told me that if my current grades can be maintained, I can start thinking about releasing a single book for "Girl Criminal"!" Miko said proudly.
"Isn't that great, Miko-chan's efforts are finally about to pay off!" Lin Xiuyi congratulated Miko in surprise.
Lin Xiuyi has been relatively close to Jingzi during this time, but he has not met Yuzi who first met. However, compared to the strong background of Jingzi, Lin Xiuyi knows a little more about Yuko, Miko's family is a big cattle breeder in Matsusaka City, Mie Prefecture, and his family is superior, if it weren't for the ideal of becoming a cartoonist, Miko should have a good life in his hometown!
Unfortunately, the most well-known publishing houses in all of RB are located in Tokyo, so if you want to become a manga artist, the only way to do it is to come to Tokyo. It was with this dream that Miko left her hometown and went from a wealthy peasant girl (happy to be a farmer in RB) to a down-and-out manga artist in Tokyo. However, Miko is also lucky, and her work as soon as she debuted was favored by the manga serial magazine JUMP, and she debuted as a rookie manga artist.
"Girl Criminal" was originally a work aimed at the girl market, since Lin Xiuyi moved next door to Yuzi, Yuzi slowly added some elements of Ben and declension reasoning to this comic under the subtle influence of Lin Xiuyi, and also added a male character based on Lin Xiuyi, since then it has also begun to attract the interest of some male readers and adult readers, so the original sales of "Girl Criminal" Finally, it received more and more praise, but Lin Xiuyi didn't know that the help he brought to Yuzi would be so great.
After unexpectedly learning of the achievements of the imperial son, Lin Xiuyi was sincerely happy for the imperial prince. He doesn't have many friends in Tokyo, and in the Metropolitan Police Department, Lin Xiuyi only made friends with subordinates and seniors who respected him, and in addition to that, he had more frequent contacts with his neighbors. As a civil servant with a stable income and good salary, Lin Xiuyi sometimes envies the lives of other people, such as Miko, who dreams of becoming a cartoonist, and seeing that Miko is one step closer to his dream, Lin Xiuyi is indeed happy for his friend in his heart.
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After saying goodbye to Miko's house, Lin Shuichi's mood was much better, and the negative emotions caused by being blamed by his boss and being teased by Shoji Kuroda today were dismantled by a night of hot cream stew. What's more, Lin Xiuyi also seems to be encouraged by Miko's success and finally regained his strength.
"Alright, it's time to refuel at night!"
After returning home, Lin Xiuyi took off his coat, immediately flashed a sticker, turned on the computer, and began to re-analyze the case of Shoji Kuroda!
Shoji Kuroda, a veteran blasting engineer at Shimizu Construction, the former largest construction contractor at RB, has worked in the blasting industry for many years and has a wealth of knowledge about explosives. In the Tokyo subway bombing, Kuroda is believed to have masterminded the entire bombing. After that, he moved to the Republic of Colombia in South America and became a senior member of the ultra-left organization of the Colombian Liberation Army.
Kazuaki Yoshii, the person responsible for the Tokyo bombing, did not have enough knowledge to make a semting bomb, and under the direction of Shoji Kuroda, he made the bomb that exploded in a subway car. However, there is an unnatural gap between Yoshii's interrogation transcript and the testimony at trial, and it is likely that the testimony was modified because of the influence of the police.
If this is the case, could the explosives used in the Tokyo subway bombing back then be the same as the explosives used in the Sakurada Gate bombing today......?
"The source of the explosives!"