Chapter 105: Kyoto

On the weekend, everything was still normal, Uncle Maori was drunk and sitting on the sofa and singing Miss Yoko's songs in a broken voice, Xiaolan was talking to Conan, oh no, it was Kudo Shinichi, making porridge on the phone, and I was sitting on the side reading manga, uh, reading Kamen Superman manga, because Motota They said that as a child with righteous ideals, especially as a member of the junior detective team, he didn't even read Kamen Superman, which was too inferior......

Well, although I don't have any so-called ideals of justice......

“...... So you still can't come back?" At the end of the call, Xiaolan asked about the return date of her brother according to the usual practice, and the answer was, of course, self-evident......

"Yes, I'm busy investigating the case...... "Even after a few steps away, I can hear my brother's apologetic voice clearly.

"That's it......" Xiaolan's eyes flashed a trace of gloom, but she didn't continue, but started a different topic, caring about her brother's body: "It's been cold recently, you have to be careful of your body......" Xiaolan is like this, always thinking about others, not embarrassing anyone, her empathy is painful, this feeling, presumably my brother should know better than me.

"Don't sleep with your belly exposed~" seemed to be aware of Xiaolan's intentions, and the old brother didn't break it, and joked with Xiaolan in the direction of the topic.

"Wow!" Startled by the old brother's words, Xiaolan's face flashed a trace of blush, and then she shouted at the phone a little shyly: "How can I show my belly!

At this time, Uncle Maori began to start a drunken madness, which was very noisy, and it was Xiaolan, who was a little embarrassed, who hung up the phone. But Xiaolan, who hung up the phone, turned gloomy again, completely opposite to the vitality just now, looking at the phone in a daze, and didn't move for a long time.

"Haah......" Seeing Xiaolan's dejected appearance, I couldn't help but let out a long sigh, and I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart. The pain of lovesickness is really harmful, and I want to be the same sad when I come to my brother's side, obviously close at hand, but I can't talk about it...... But then again, these two people are really eunuchs who are not in a hurry for the emperor to die, they are obviously such a good pair, but they always can't break through the last wall, and even those of us who are onlookers can't stand it, when will these two achieve positive results......

"Na, Xiaohui ......" Just as I was bored reading the comics, Xiaolan, who was still in a daze just now, suddenly opened her mouth to me.

"Well, Sister Lan?" I looked up.

"You say, what does Shinichi think of me? He won't come for such a long time, has he completely forgotten about me......" Xiaolan's smile did not have the warmth of the past, but a little more confused, her hand was still holding the phone until this moment, her body trembled slightly, and her face looked very pale.

"No, that's not the case......! Brother Shinichi, he is definitely thinking about you all the time!" "Seeing Xiaolan, who was still very energetic just now, became like this, I was suddenly shocked, and I opened my mouth to defend my brother with some trepidation, I am used to Xiaolan's gentleness, I can't stand Xiaolan's painful expression at all, and the uncomfortable feeling is like a tide that floods my heart, and the mood that was relaxed just now suddenly became bad, and even my thinking became confused, and my speech was a little incoherent.

For me, Xiaolan is an angel, and she must be an angel! The expression of melancholy and pain should never appear on her face! It is impossible to forgive Xiaolan who is as pure as an angel to feel pain!

"How do you know?"

"Because...... Because ......" my anxious head was about to sweat, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind: "Do you think, if the new brother doesn't think about you all the time, how can he call you whenever he is free? How can he know your situation well? Doesn't this mean that even if he is too busy to go home, he is still paying attention to you all the time in a foreign place? Besides, he has handed over all the keys to his house to you for safekeeping? Doesn't this mean that he already regards you as a housekeeper and other kind of person?"

"Lady housekeeper?" Xiaolan was stunned by my words, then her pale face flushed slightly, and she smiled embarrassedly: "I hate Xiaohui, housekeeper or something, do I look that old?"

"No, no, Sister Xiaolan is so young, beautiful, smart and capable, whoever can marry you will live for twenty years!" I said, my thinking becoming more and more confused.

"Wow!what, that's!" Xiaolan couldn't help but laugh out loud all of a sudden: "What do you say that I seem to be Kefu's life?"

"No, no, no, you misunderstood what I meant, sister, I mean to say that you are so good, no matter who gets such a treasure, you have to pay the price, not to curse you...... Uh!" I explained in a panic, but suddenly I was enveloped by a warm body temperature, which made my mind go blank and the nonsense in my mouth came to an abrupt end.

"Thank you, Xiaohui," Xiaolan squatted in front of me, quietly hugged me into her arms, and said softly: "I understand what you mean, it's enough, thank you, thank you really ......"

"That...... The ...... "I had a knot in my tongue, and I didn't know what to say." My nose is now filled with the fragrance of Xiaolan, Xiaolan's body has a faint floral fragrance, fresh and elegant, mixed with the body fragrance of a girl, with a gentle taste, intoxicating, and now I am hugged tightly by her, the bodies of the two are tightly pressed together, from all angles, it is very bad, so that my face is hot for a while.

"Ahla, are you actually shy?" Xiaolan glanced at me in surprise, and then hugged me into her arms again: "Blushing, so cute, chirp." ”

The soft lips pressed against my cheeks, and the moist touch made me lose my mind.

Brother, I'll help you persuade your girlfriend back, and it's not too much to charge some interest......

......

"What?Kyoto?" I turned to look at Conan, "What are you doing in Kyoto?"

"Uncle Maori received a call from Yamanoji Temple in Kyoto a few days ago, entrusting him to solve a puzzle, let's go with him, we can solve the case again, and we can play, how good!" Conan looked at me attentively.

"It's troublesome not to go. A rare holiday, I'm about to get a good night's sleep, don't disturb my dreams, you and Xiaolan and them go together, just think it's a honeymoon...... Ah~~owed~~ Well, good night......" said as I lay on the tatami mat in the office room and turned over to stop looking at Conan.

"Bah!What a good night!!Hey!Don't sleep~~~ You've slept for more than ten hours today!Are you still sleepy!!Get up and pack your things, and let's go to Kyoto tomorrow!!" Conan shook my shoulder vigorously.

"Spare me...... It's troublesome, you guys go ahead, I'll just stay at home and watch TV and sleep......"

"Don't stay at home!!You're going to be a waster!!Hurry up!!There's a lot of beautiful women in Kyoto!!"

"Please, I'm only seven years old now, no, if it's a real age, I'm only six years old, you tell me about beauty?"

"There are so many delicious things to eat in Kyoto!!"

"Then please, bring me some delicious specialties......"

"You, just let me ask you, okay?let's go together~~Na~~"

"You're disgusting, you, are you a child?" Conan's greasy voice gave me goosebumps all over my body.

"If you don't promise, I'll keep pestering you!"

"Okay, I promised! I'll go! I'll go!" I hurriedly replied.

"Really?!It's decided?!" Conan's eyes lit up.

"It's decided, it's decided, and I will never regret it!" I nodded again and again: "So Lord Conan, can you let me sleep now?"

"Oh yes, no problem, go to sleep, I'll help you sort out your things!" Conan said with some excitement.

"I'm sorry for you, then I'll sleep...... ZZZ......”

"I actually said that you can sleep, you are really a talent...... Alas, forget it, you can sleep if you want, who made you my brother, always worry about you, is it easy for me to be an older brother......" Conan muttered in his ears.

Early the next morning, before I woke up, I was dragged onto the train by Conan in a daze, accompanied by Uncle Maori, Xiaolan, and the garden.

"Hey, obviously Ayumi and they want to go so much, you don't take it, I don't want to go so much, but you must take me, you mean it, right?" Sitting on the train, I said to Conan dissatisfied.

"You're different from them, it doesn't matter if they come or not, you have to come, otherwise there's no point. Conan said with a smile.

"What do you mean?" I looked at Conan suspiciously, what the hell was this guy doing.

"You'll know when you get there. Conan smiled mysteriously.

"Well, since you're here, come with us in peace, Xiaohui. Xiaolan picked me up, put me on her lap, and hugged me from behind. The familiar touch came again.

"Uh...... All right. ”

"That...... Sister Xiaolan, it's not good for you to be used to being a child like this, put him down quickly, this kid will get carried away......" Conan said to Xiaolan cautiously while looking at me with a "murderous" eye.

"How could it be? Xiaohui wouldn't be like that, and holding Xiaohui warm, soft, so comfortable......" Xiaolan said as she rested her chin on my shoulder, squinting her eyes and saying as if intoxicated.

"Na, Lan, isn't it like hugging a pet, let me experience it too......" Yuan Zi said to Xiaolan with envy.

"Don't~" Xiaolan shook her head quite simply and refused.

Conan's face darkened.

"Cut, what's so good about this little ghost!" the Maori uncle on the side muttered indignantly, not knowing whether he was dissatisfied or jealous.

The train was fast and speeding all the way, and soon we were in Kyoto, the source of Japanese culture and the spiritual homeland of the Japanese people.

"Kyoto is the hometown of us Japanese!!" Sonoko shouted as soon as he got out of the car.

"Listen, this time I have a special favor for you, don't get in the way of my work!" Uncle Maori said to us with a serious face.

"Yes!!" everyone responded obediently.

I took a taxi all the way to the Shanneng Temple mentioned by the victim on the phone, and as soon as I entered the door, a sturdy middle-aged monk greeted me.

"Mr. Maori, welcome from afar!" As far away, the middle-aged monk stretched out his hands to Uncle Maori, looking extremely respectful: "I am Long Yuan who called you." At this time, a few people who were originally talking in the temple also walked up, and Long Yuan hurriedly introduced to us: "This is the presiding officer Yuanhai." He pointed to a charity-looking old monk. The old monk calmly saluted us.

Immediately afterward, he introduced us to the people behind the host, namely Sakura Masazo, an antique art dealer, Harutaro Mizuo, a Noh actor, and Taiga Saijo, who opened an antique bookstore.

With Long Yuan's introduction, several people signaled to us, and we also knew from the host's words that the few people present were actually kendo fans, which surprised us a lot, because there were a few people who didn't look like people who practiced kendo.

But I noticed that the person named Saijo Taiga, his aura is much sharper than the others, of course, this is not to say that he is the most powerful, at least, I am sure that the old monk Yuanhai who is the presiding officer is definitely a cut above the Saijo Taihe, but in terms of sharp feelings, the person named Saijo Taiga is indeed the strongest.

"I heard that there is a secret treasure in the temple that is only exhibited once every 12 years...... After the introduction, Uncle Maori began to ask the host about the cultural relics and monuments in the temple.

"Yes, it's the Medicine Buddha. Yuan Hai replied.

"The day after tomorrow is the day after tomorrow, it's the day of the open visit, right?" Xiaolan said with great interest: "We also want to see it, so we came here." ”

"In this case, the Medicine Master Buddha will also be very happy!" The old monk's expression did not change at all with a smile, but after listening to Xiaolan's words, the expression of the Long Yuan monk at the beginning was a little unnatural.

Soon, in the course of our conversation with Monk Long Yuan, we learned the reason why Long Yuan had that expression before - the Buddha statue had been stolen.

Because the host was still receiving the pilgrims just now, it was Monk Long Yuan who received us alone.

"What?!!The main Buddha statue has been stolen!!" Uncle Maori exclaimed in surprise, you know, in three days, the temple will be on display to the public, if the temple does not invite the Buddha statue in the face of a large number of pilgrims, then the joke will be bigger!

"Yes, that was eight years ago. As Long Yuan spoke, he opened a large quaint cabinet, which looked like it should be red sandalwood, and the slight mottled marks showed that the idea of this cabinet was not small.

When I opened the cabinet, there were two Bodhisattvas enshrined on the left and the right, but the middle position was vacant, and it should be the place where the original Medicine Buddha was located.

"The one on the right is the Sunlight Bodhisattva, and the one on the left is the Moonlight Bodhisattva," Long Yuan introduced us, and then said in a regretful tone: "But the Buddha statue in the middle is missing, I wanted to go to the police immediately, but I was stopped by the host, he said that if there is a fate, maybe he will come back......" Saying that, Long Yuan slowly closed the door of the cabinet, and everyone returned to their seats again.

O monk...... It seems that I am not destined to become a Buddha......

"Why do you think so much...... Uncle Maori sighed deeply.

"Then eight years passed, and just five or six days ago, this letter was found in the mailbox of the temple," Long Yuan reached into his arms, took out an envelope and handed it to Uncle Maori, the envelope was neither stamped nor written with the sender's name, and it seemed to be placed directly in the temple's mailbox.

When I opened the envelope, there was a text message and a picture that looked like a code. The letter reads: "Just solve the mystery of this painting to know the location of the Buddha statue." And the so-called code picture, the right half is a picture of the Medicine Buddha Nyorai, and the left side is a picture of a cabinet-like thing, with some cicadas, tengus, goldfish, roosters and other things on it, and we are confused when we look at it.

After finishing the conversation about business, Monk Longyuan politely arranged a place for us to stay in the guest room of the temple, and then arranged a bath and a vegetarian meal afterwards.

"Hey, this is an incident, you have to do a good job, don't let people down. "When the host of Yuanhai took our two children to watch the scenery in the temple, I poked Conan with my elbow and whispered.

"I know, don't talk about you as if you're an unrelated person, you also ate a lot of vegetarian food just now, okay......" Conan said to me in the same whisper with a helpless expression on his face.

"Yes, I'll do my best to help you......" I nodded reluctantly. Alas, I've been busy again these days, it's really a soft mouth, and that person's hands are short......

"Hmm, are the two children talking about something?" asked the Yuanhai monk in front of him, who suddenly turned his head to Conan and me, who were muttering.

"It's nothing, we're just saying, this temple looks really ancient, haha......" I quickly put on a smiling face.

"Yes, yes, Tokyo has been rebuilt over the years, and many Edo period buildings have been demolished, but I don't want Kyoto to be so well preserved, Kyoto is really the hometown of the Japanese, haha......" Conan also smiled a little embarrassedly.

"Really?" the old monk glanced at us, raised his long eyebrows slightly, and then smiled: "Although it looks very ancient, but this temple is only two hundred years old, and the popularity is not very high, only when the Medicine Buddha is exhibited, some people can come to watch, whether it is history or incense, it is not as good as some famous shrines......"

"Is that so? I see, hahaha......" Conan and I laughed in unison.

"So, let's go to the next place, children, hehehehe......" Yuanhai's voice was still unhurried and peaceful.

"Good!"

"Hey, do you feel that this old monk is a bit not simple?" I stared at the old monk's back and said to Conan secretly, "How do I feel that I have been seen through by him?" Although the old monk doesn't talk much, his movements are not fast, and he always smiles, with a kind eyebrow, I always feel that he is a bit unfathomable, and his every move is always orderly, as if there is a special rhythm, which makes people can't help but feel pleasing to the eye, and occasionally the eyes that open inadvertently flash a trace of wisdom, and the gaze that seems to be insightful of the world, makes me have a feeling that there is nothing to hide in front of him.

"What a coincidence, I'm ...... too," Conan said, and secretly wiped his sweat and smiled bitterly.

After a tour of the temple, Conan and I finally returned to Uncle Maori's wing, and Conan and I felt a sense of relief.

"Whew~~" Conan and I exhaled a long breath in unison, then looked at each other and said in unison: "Master, ......"

"We're back!" Conan and I said as we pushed open the door and said to Uncle Maori and the others.

"Ah, you're back, Conan, Hui," Lan raised her head and beckoned to us with a smile, "Come and sit here." ”

"Okay—"

"Is it fun in the temple? Have you listened to the master in charge? Can't be naughty!" Xiaolan pulled Conan and me one by one, and talked to us like a big sister educating her younger brother.

"What's wrong with Uncle Maori?" I asked, pointing to Uncle Maori on the other side with a constipated expression.

"Ah, he's working on the code, but he doesn't seem to be making any progress. Sonoko said with a smile, "It seems that sleeping is like Popeye's spinach to 'Sleeping Kogoro'......"

"Long-winded!" Uncle Maori retorted unhappily, and then muttered bitterly, "What the hell does this picture mean......?"

"On the top fifth floor, there are cicadas, tengus, and goldfish...... Conan said, leaning over to look at the picture.

"The fourth floor down is the rooster and the loach?" Xiaolan was also interested.

"The yellow loaches are disgusting...... "The garden also came over.

"There's a black dot in the middle. I pointed to the black dot between the fifth and fourth floors.

"It's just dirty, isn't it?" said the garden, smiling absently.

"Between the second and third layers are Violet, Tengu, and Mt. Fuji...... "Ran identified them one by one.

"Now, there's an acorn next to it!" Conan interjected.

"Dad, can you find it before the day after tomorrow?" Seeing such a messy code, Xiaolan, who had no clue, was out of line, and asked Uncle Maori with some anxiety.

"No, don't worry, this kind of painting isn't even a puzzle to me......"

Uncle, to be honest, if you hadn't sweated so much, I think your words would have been much more convincing......

"I'll leave the matter of finding the Buddha statue to the experts, let's go visit Kyoto, shall we?" Sonoko suggested to Xiaolan with a smile.

"That's all," Before Xiaolan could answer, Uncle Maori interjected first, making a gesture to push us out, "You're only going to disturb me here......"

Actually, you don't want us to see you embarrassed, uncle......

"Actually, I've already contacted Kazuha and asked her to be our guide tomorrow to go to Kyoto to play, but Hattori doesn't seem to ......be able to come because of something," Xiaolan didn't expose Uncle Maori's lies, and took over the topic of the garden and said to the garden.

"It doesn't matter if a boy who already has a girlfriend comes here or not......" Sonoko shrugged indifferently.

"Conan and Xiaohui are going together, right?" asked Xiaolan.

"I'm not going, I want to sleep ......"

"Ahh

"Ahra, you've made friends so quickly, be careful when you go out to play!" Xiaolan looked at us with some surprise and smiled.

"No, I...... Sizzle!" Before I could refute, a sharp pain hit my back.

"What's wrong, Xiaohui?" Xiaolan looked at me strangely.

"No, nothing...... Fishing...... True, expectation, wait, wait......" I looked viciously at Conan, who was whistling as if nothing had happened.

"Yes, that's great, then you guys can go play, but it's a pity that Kazuye still asked me to take you over. "Although there are some regrets, Xiaolan still didn't say anything, but I suddenly remembered the previous procurement turmoil, and I couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief, forget it, let's fish and fish, although I don't know what Conan's idea is, but it's better than being a doll......