Because we wanted to avoid Hattori, Xiao Ai and I deliberately made a small circle, and after Hattori and Kazuha returned, we returned to the villa unhurriedly.

When we got back to the villa, today's main course of the day, French roast lamb shoulder, had been served on the table, Officer Shiratori was talking and laughing with everyone, and Officer Takagi was just as before, ah, no, more depressed than just now. It seems that eighty percent was hit by Officer Shiratori again.

After a while, Xiaolan and Conan also walked into the hall of the villa.

"We're back. ”

"Ah, Xiaolan, you're back. ”

"Welcome back, Sister Lan. ”

I and Ye answered at the same time.

"Ah, you did come back first......" Xiaolan said as if relieved to see that we were all here.

"I'm sorry, Pingji suddenly said that he was coming back......" Kazuha apologized to Xiaolan a little embarrassed.

"I walked away when I suddenly wanted to go to the bathroom, I'm sorry, Sister Xiaolan, I'll say it next time. "I've also given the reasons I've thought of beforehand.

Xiao Ai gave me a dark look at my side and pinched my waist fiercely. It hurt so much that I took a breath of cold air. I forgot that this little girl has always had some cleanliness habits, and she is dissatisfied with my reasons for being too "unclean......

"Are you okay, Xiaohui?Is it because you are not feeling well?Is there still any sequelae in the last hospitalization?" Seeing me inhale, Xiaolan suddenly became nervous.

"It's okay, it's just that I suddenly have a toothache......" I smiled dryly and glanced at Xiao Ai beside me, who was eating fruit gracefully on the edge of the table as if she were an unrelated person.

"That's right...... What about Hattori? Are you alright?" Hearing me say this, Xiaolan relieved her mind and shifted her attention to Hattori again. Conan is right, Xiaolan is such a bad person who can cry and cry about other people's affairs, always caring about others, but ignoring herself.

"Hmmm!ahhh......hhhh

I took a closer look at Conan's expression, and the brow that had been frowning had somehow been relaxed, and the expression on his face seemed very peaceful. I couldn't help but be happy to see him like this, Conan seems to have been putting too much pressure on himself lately, and his eyebrows are always wrinkled.

I was relieved and immediately joined the team of detectives who were quietly eating the hays on the other side.

"So, I'm going to get today's protagonist wine. Seeing that everyone had arrived, Officer Shiratori said a word and walked towards the cellar. I heard Kazuha say that when we left just now, Officer Shiratori had already taken everyone to visit the wine cellar, which was a very large and beautiful place, and there were a lot of high-end red wines in it.

Hearing this, Sonoko couldn't help but look in the direction of Officer Shiratori, and didn't turn back after a while.

"What are you looking at, Sister Yuanzi. Seeing that Sonoko had been staring in the direction in which Officer Shiratori had left, Conan asked a little strangely.

"Ahh

Diverting the topic, the corners of my mouth twitched slightly. Somehow, I always feel that there is something out of place in the garden today. Maybe it's my delusion.

"Huh?" Xiaolan looked in the direction of the garden, and saw Uncle Maori sleeping on the sofa with a bottle of champagne in his hand.

"Dad——! is really ......" Seeing that Uncle Maori was sleeping very sweetly, Xiaolan let out a helpless sigh.

"Let him go, he's tired of driving. Kazuha smiled and played a round for Uncle Maori.

"Click!"

At this moment, Officer Shiratori, who had always been known for his calmness, opened the door and broke into the hall of the villa with an extremely rare look of panic.

"No, no! my Chateaulatour was broken!"

"Eh, eh, ???" Everyone was stunned.

......

The shattered bottles lay across the floor, the dark red liquor forming a pool of dark red water on the solid wood floor, reflecting a faint glow in the light.

Everyone's attention was focused on the broken wine bottle, and I leisurely looked at the layout of the wine cellar, such a small incident, let Conan do it, I don't bother to use my brain.

The whole wood decoration gives the place a classical charm, and rows of red wines are quietly placed on the shelves, with a wide variety of types, such as Lafite, Bordeaux, whiskey, vodka...... It's dazzling and dazzling. Next to the wine shelf are thermometers and hygrometers. I inhaled softly, a slightly moist cool breath in my heart.

Well, the temperature should be above 10 degrees and not more than 15 degrees, which is exactly the best temperature for storing red wine. I looked up at the thermometer, and sure enough, the thermometer needle was at thirteen degrees, and the humidity was seventy-five percent. The technique is very professional, the white bird family, it is really a very rich family.

"Shiratori, how much does this bottle of wine mean?" asked Officer Twilight on the other side, looking at Shiratori, who looked very sad.

"I'm afraid it's going to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to get this kind of wine now. ”

"How many, hundreds of thousands?"

"That's too bad...... everyone was horrified by its price.

"Ahem," in the midst of everyone's panic, Hattori coughed, squeezed over from behind, walked to the broken wine bottle, squatted down and muttered, "It should be one of the two situations that someone slipped and fell off when they tried to take the bottle, or deliberately broke it." ”

"Really, it's not nonsense!" exclaimed Uncle Maori, dissatisfied.

"This, this is also true, hahaha......" Hattori smiled awkwardly.

I don't know if it's something wrong with my feelings, but I always feel that Hattori's demeanor and tone at the moment are a little wrong, like a feeling of pretending.

Everyone discussed for a while, and felt that one of the people present should have broken the bottle, but they didn't have any idea who it was, so they returned to the living room in twos and threes, wanting to think about it in the long run.

Hattori didn't know why, his expression was a little low, but he was patted on the shoulder by Yingli and went out with everyone. When the crowd had dispersed, I slowly walked over to the broken bottle and crouched down to check on the situation.

I'm not trying to solve the case, it's enough to have Conan for this kind of thing, I just feel that it's a pity that a bottle of Latour from 61 years was ruined like this.

However, since it has been broken, there is no way to do it. I smiled a little sadly.

Just as I was thinking this, I suddenly realized that something was wrong with the wine.

"Did you find it?" Conan asked, not following the crowd away, as he walked over to me.

I picked up half of the bottle, looked at it carefully, sniffed it from time to time, and then, to prove what I was thinking, I dipped my finger in a little of the wine on the floor and put it in my mouth, and tasted it carefully, and soon the subtle touch of my tongue told me the correct answer, and my eyes narrowed slightly.

"How's that?" Conan asked me a little impatiently, seeing that I didn't speak.

"Even if I don't tell you the taste of this wine, you just have to look at the bottle, right?" I showed Conan the bottle in my hand.

"Hey, the bottle is new, you mean this bottle is a fake?" Conan, who had settled down, also saw the flaw at a glance.

“bingo！”

"Huh~~ That should really be intact, but fortunately, it's not true that it's broken, otherwise it's really difficult to do. Conan breathed a sigh of relief and smiled slightly wryly. No matter who did this kind of thing, if you want to claim hundreds of thousands, you will probably feel a little awkward in your heart.

"No, even if it's really broken, it's not a big deal. I said with a smile.

"Isn't it a big deal?! That's Latour in '61! Something worth hundreds of thousands!" Conan couldn't agree with my values.

"No, no, no, there is a mistake in your understanding," I shook my head and said to Conan: "Red wine, unlike Chinese aging, not the longer the better, as far as Latour is concerned, if it is stored for fifteen years, it will become a peerless treasure, and it is hard to find, but once this period is exceeded, its quality and taste will decline, Officer Shiratori just said that it is worth hundreds of thousands, in fact, it is not its tasting value, but the collection value, in fact, let me drink this kind of thing, I am really afraid that I will have diarrhea when I go back." ......”

"What kind of life did you live as a young master before," Conan glanced at me in some surprise, and then waved his hand again: "Okay, okay, I can't talk about you, but anyway, this is a very valuable thing after all, Gray Plains, have you found anything?"

"It's nothing, it's just that someone has gone out with a handbag in his hand for some reason. That big lady. Xiao Ai said lightly.

"Huh, the garden?" Conan was a little surprised.

"Well, we've told you everything we know, and it's up to you, Detective. I smiled and patted Conan on the shoulder, and walked out with Xiao Ai, leaving Conan alone still there pondering.

When Xiao Ai and I returned to the living room, it was the time of questioning by everyone present, and Officer Shiratori was staring at Takagi with a suspicious expression, no wonder, in terms of motivation, Takagi's motivation should be the greatest, poor Officer Shiratori's hard-working plan to buy in front of Officer Sato was completely destroyed, and it would be very annoying to change any man.

"What boring adults, do you say, Xiao Ai?" I casually joked to Xiao Ai.

"Don't say that you seem to be a child, has your body become smaller, and your mind has also become childish?"

"Hehe, you just think I'm becoming infantilized, let's go, accompany my brother to count the stars. I took Xiao Ai's hand and walked out.

"Wait, you...... Let go, who wants to count the stars with you......" Xiao Ai blushed a little and struggled in a whisper, but couldn't struggle.

"Sister Xiaolan, let's go out for a walk and come back in a while. I greeted Lan, who was sitting on the side.

"Wait, what are you going to do for dinner?"

"We've eaten a lot before, so it's okay. ”

"Come back early. ”

"Good. ”

Walking to the lawn not far from the villa, I pulled Xiao Ai to sit down, from here, I can just see the water light reflected in the moonlight of the cloud field pool not far away, the lights of the villa are also not far behind us in the halo of yellow, the wind at night is very comfortable on the body, but because it is autumn, it is slightly cool.

"It's very comfortable here, I saw it during the day and wanted to come with you at night. I lay on the lawn in a large pattern, tilting my head to look at the little mourning who was sitting on his knees on the side, and smiled.

"You...... Hum. Xiao Ai snorted softly, turned her head away from me, and looked a little awkward.

"Okay, now that we're here, don't be angry, let's talk about it, we haven't dated yet, so let's take it as our first date. I said with a smile.

"Whoever wants to date you is not ashamed. ”

"Okay, okay, it's not you and me, it's me and you, okay, come over here, I'll tell you a secret. I winked mysteriously at Xiao Ai.

Xiao Ai looked at me suspiciously, trying to see something in my expression, however, my smiling expression, no matter from any angle, was impeccable, and although my poker face was not as brilliant as Uncle Thief, at least it was no worse than Kaidou. After hesitating slightly, Xiao Wai was still attracted by the "secret" in my mouth, and rubbed it in my direction.

"If you lie to me, I'll kill you. ”

"Haha, that's horrible......"

Just when Xiao Ai rubbed against my side one by one, as soon as I stretched out my hand, I grabbed Xiao Ai's arm, and before Xiao Ai could react, he pulled it to my side.

Before he could scream, he was pulled out of balance by me, and he fell to my side at once, and was hugged into my arms.

"You're a man...... You!" Some angry little mourning clenched his little fists and was about to hit me.

"I'll tell you a secret, sitting and watching the stars and lying down and looking at the stars are completely two worlds!" I said in a calm tone

Hearing my calm tone, Xiao Ai stood up in some surprise, looked at my face and was stunned for a while, before he let out a long sigh of relief, and quietly lay down in the same position as me on my body: "You are a person...... How can you always disrupt my rhythm?"

"That's because I want my rhythm to fit into yours," I chuckled, "It's not a good thing to always be alone." ”

"Hmph, you're going to say nice things anyway. ”

"Look closely at the sky in front of you, you've probably never seen the stars at this angle, have you?"

Autumn night, autumn is high and refreshing, the clear night sky is like a huge inky silk, obviously black and bottomless, but exudes an invisible deep charm, as if to contain half of us, broad and mysterious. Even the brightest diamonds in the world can't match their dazzling brilliance in the night. Looking at the starry sky like this, I feel that my whole mind has become ethereal, no matter how I look at it, I can't get tired of looking at it, and I feel that the endless starry sky seems to have a mysterious suction, and people can't help but be fascinated by its beauty, and after a long time, there will even be a feeling of "Ah, it's not bad to be sucked in by such a beautiful starry sky".

"It's so beautiful......" Xiao Ai's somewhat confused voice came from the side. Xiao Ai's beautiful amber pupils had been completely absorbed by the stars in the sky, covering her with a dreamlike fog that made it difficult to divert her gaze.

"Am I right?"

"You've always ...... Do you have such beautiful things?"

"When I was younger, before I joined the organization, I used to look at the stars like this on my lawn. ”

"Do your parents ignore you?"

"They don't know, I always come out late at night," I laughed, "Even Conan didn't know I had such behavior." ”

"You...... Lonely?" As if feeling something, Xiao Ai turned her head and looked directly at me, her amber eyes flashing with mixed emotions.

"Loneliness, no," I shook my head, "Mom, Dad, my brother, and the neighbors are all very nice to me......"

"Whether you are lonely or not is not determined by the number of people around you," Xiao Ai turned his head, looked at the bright night sky, and said lightly: "If no one understands your heart, even if the whole world is by your side, your side is still empty." ”

Xiao Wai's words were like a sharp sword, which suddenly split the barriers in my heart and pierced the softest place in my heart. It was a forbidden area that I had carefully guarded for many years, a place that even I did not dare to set foot in. For a moment, I couldn't help but be stunned.

Xiao Wai, she really saw through me......

For a moment, it was hard for me to understand what my mood was like.

Happy, bitter, happy, wronged, painful, melancholy?

Maybe both. The mixed sensation flooded through my heart, and my throat choked up for a moment.

"It seems...... I got it. Xiao Ai looked at me, a faint smile appeared on the corner of her mouth, and her eyes softened. Her face glowed with a motherly glow: "Don't mind if you want to cry, I won't tell anyone." ”

"How, how, how can it be ......" I choked up and finished speaking, and I struggled to hold back the tears that were about to well. I don't shed tears easily.

"Alas, I don't have to ......work so hard," the little lamented and stretched out his hand to rub my face, with a hint of heartache and pity in his eyes.

"I ...... Not bitter. ”

"Yes," Xiao Ai took his hand back, and his tone returned to indifference: "Do you know that you are very selfish?"

"Huh?"

"You're hiding something from me, no, I should say, it's hiding from everyone around you, and you're doing it yourself, right?"

I was choking.

"Do you think that if you don't say it, people won't know? You think that if you don't say it, the people around you will be happy, and you are the only one who suffers?"

"I ......"

"Self-righteous ideas, childish and ridiculous. You don't say it, but your movements and expressions completely expose your painful heart, do you think that the people around you will not worry about you and feel sorry for you? You do this, you are just selfishly magnifying your pain several times with a magnifying glass, and then let your relatives bear it! Because of your silence, on the contrary, everyone around you is suffering because of your pain alone, don't you think you are very selfish?!" Xiao Wai's voice was a little cold.

"I'm ......!" I opened my mouth, but I was stunned to find that I couldn't refute Xiao Ai's words! Xiao Ai's words reminded me of my mother's expression when she looked at me when she was a child, and also reminded me of my father's silent gaze at me. That scene was like a movie, and it was constantly replaying in front of my eyes!

In the past, I only noticed the worry and doting in their eyes for me, but now that I think about it, the depths of those eyes are clearly hidden in pain!

yes, I see...... Got it, finally got it......

It turns out that after so many years, I am the source of the family's pain?......

It's ridiculous that I always thought that if I was the only one who could bear the pain, there would be no problem......

Xiao Ai is not wrong at all, I personally magnified my pain several times and placed it on my own parents!

What a bastard I am!!

"I ...... I ...... "I opened my mouth to roar, but I couldn't make a sound, the feeling of tightness in my chest was so uncomfortable, all the blood rushed towards my chest, and it almost made my eyes burst!"

"Alas......" a faint sigh seemed to come from nine heavens away. A delicate little hand gently pressed on my neck, and the cold touch made the hot blood rushing in my chest slightly restrained.

Immediately, the world before me went dark.

When I woke up, it was already early the next morning. Bright sunlight shines into the room through the half-open windows, like a ribbon of light, bringing a breath of life to the whole room.

I sat up and looked around, and I was greeted by a small, but well-organized room. Next to me, Conan was still quietly asleep.

Was it taken back to the villa by Xiao Ai? I knocked on my head, which was still a little painful, and smiled bitterly: This time, it's really a shame. I was actually stunned by a few words from Xiao Wai......

But after what happened last night, I finally made up my mind and decided to really make a break with my past self.

Knock, knock, knock.

"Please come in. When I heard a knock on the door, I replied in a loud voice.

Opening the door and coming in was Xiao Ai, who glanced in the direction of me and Conan, and said lightly: "If you wake up, get up and wash up and have breakfast, and call Edogawa too, we will rush back to Tokyo in a while." ”

"Okay, right away. I answered, and when Xiao Ai left, I dragged Conan out of bed.

"Hmm...... What are you doing......" Conan cried indistinctly.

"If you don't get up again, Xiaolan will marry the new doctor!" I shouted.

"Marry...... New ...... Doctor???!! Lan!!" Conan was immediately refreshed, and he broke free of my hand, and with a little astonishment to my agility, a carp straightened up.

"You're lying to me!" Conan, who saw the object in front of him, reacted immediately and gave me a fierce look.

"Haha, I don't lie to you, how are you going to get up, okay, let's wash up, we're going back to Tokyo after eating." I laughed.

"Huh?" Conan looked at me with some confusion.

"What's wrong?"

"I always feel ...... You don't seem to be the same as before, but you can't tell you what the difference......"

"yes, then wait until you can tell. ”

......

"Go out for a walk?" After breakfast, Xiao Ai rarely took the initiative to invite me out for a walk.

"Good. I readily agreed.

"Nothing you want to say to me?" After walking together for a while, Xiao Ai, who was walking in front, suddenly turned around and asked me.

"Huh?" I was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "Yes, I've already made up my mind to tell you anyway." Let's find a place to sit for a while. ”

"Good. Xiao Ai smiled and nodded.

"Let me tell you a story. "Sitting on the stone bench by the cloud field, I looked at the calm surface of the lake and slowly opened my mouth.

"Once upon a time, in China, there was a young master with a prominent family, because the family was a black (Dao) family, he also took over the family business very early, on the surface, he was a young pianist in the music industry, the future heir of the family, secretly, he was an agent of the state, a terrifying hero, appearance, status, money, talent...... This young man easily has something that others may not be able to obtain in their lifetimes, and then, one day, he meets a girl named Yun...... "I slowly, word by word, told Xiao Ai the memories of my past life that I remembered, and Xiao Ai listened quietly and did not interject.

“...... At their happiest moment, the young man had an accident while on a mission and was infected with a radioactive substance, which caused a sharp deterioration in his body, and as a last resort, he thought of a way to make the girl find happiness again......"

“...... The girl wants revenge, and the boy laughs and eats the poisonous chocolate. It was in that Golden Hall, when the boy reached his final peak, that his life came to an end at the same time......"

“...... Perhaps it was the heavens who realized the unwillingness in his heart, or the resentment that God was terrified of and rushed against him, but after a long time, the boy opened his eyes again, and he was stunned to find that he had been reborn in another time and space! However, the regained life did not bring him much joy, and the pain was destined to ...... at the beginning of his rebirth."

As the narration deepened step by step, my language became more and more fluent, and I felt that my body was getting lighter and lighter, and my heart was getting lighter and lighter with every word I spoke, like the shackles of my heart were being released layer by layer.

"That's the story, how about it?It's boring, it's bloody, isn't it?Rebirth or something......" I told my story as it was, my body and mind were never more relaxed, I looked at Xiao Ai's surprised expression, and couldn't help but laugh.

"No, I'm really surprised," Xiao Ai put away his surprised expression and turned his gaze to the water again: "Then how many memories of those memories are left of the boy?"

"No, except for a few bits and pieces, it's all gone, and he can't even remember her name, let alone her looks......" I said as if I was remembering, as if in a dream.

"Well, after all these years, hasn't that boy ever thought about going back to China?"

"What can he do when he goes back? The family is gone, and the country is no longer the country he knows, everything there has nothing to do with him, he is just a wanderer in this plane......" I said with some melancholy.

"Not a wanderer," Xiao Ai turned to me and smiled, "Doesn't that boy already have his own bonds in this plane now? ”

"Is that so?" I smiled calmly. It's been a long time since I've tried to laugh so pleasantly. It turns out that it is such a happy thing to release the pressure in my heart......

"Don't worry, I won't tell anyone else about these things, the boy doesn't have to think about the past, forget it, forget it, don't the Chinese say that after death, people should forget the front edge with Meng Po Tang, this may just be the role of Meng Po Tang, the past life is the past life, everything in the past is false, only this life is true." Xiao Wai said lightly.

"yes, thank you for listening to me. I looked at Xiao Ai with some surprise: "But you don't seem to be very surprised, it's obviously such a ridiculous thing as being reborn......"

"There are surprises, but I think I'm much better than normal people, and no matter how bizarre it is, I think I'll accept it. Not everything in the world can be explained by science, and don't forget, I am also a person who can control time!" Xiao Ai smiled at me playfully.

"Uh...... Haha, that's what I'm talking about......" I was stunned for a moment, and then couldn't help laughing: "The two of us are bizarre people!"

"Xiaohui...... Little Mourning...... Where are you?...... We're going back......"

In the distance, Xiaolan's voice came from afar.

Xiao Ai and I looked at each other and smiled, and a sense of intimacy arose from the bottom of our hearts.

"Let's go. ”

"Hmm. ”