My dad looked at me with his usual wise gaze, and at first I could still look at him, but gradually, my dad's gaze seemed to be able to perceive a qiē made me more and more uncomfortable, and I couldn't help but tilt my head to the side, not daring to look at him directly.

"Excuse me, what's the matter with you?" After a long time, I finally couldn't stand this awkward atmosphere and spoke first.

Dad didn't answer my words, but turned to my mother who was standing aside and said, "I'm sorry for Kiko, the tea is a little cold, can you please change it?"

"Hmm...... Good. My mother hesitated, looked at me reluctantly, and walked away step by step.

"Come with me. Dad looked at me with his head down and didn't squeak, and sighed.

"Good. I answered and followed my father. After a while, I followed my father's footsteps to the study.

It's been 10 years...... I looked at my father's study and didn't know what it was like. When I was a child, my father's study was my favorite place to come, at that time, my father's house did not have so many big bookshelves, and most of my father's beloved detective books were placed here, and at that time, my father had just changed from a detective to a mystery novelist, and most of the manuscripts were also here, so it can be said that all my father's lifeblood was here, so my favorite thing to do at that time was to come here to play pranks, and then hide to the side and watch my father wail and laugh in pain.

Really...... It hasn't changed at all. Speaking of the last time I came, because I was in a hurry, so I didn't bother to come up to the study to see, the study was very clean, there was no feeling of being uninhabited for a long time, only the bookshelves became old colors to show the passage of time. I couldn't help but step forward and touch the texture on the bookshelf with my hand little by little, imagining what it was like back then.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I was rude, hehe, it's the first time I've seen so many books?" Suddenly, I woke up, took two steps back, and turned to my dad and smiled awkwardly.

"Ah, it doesn't matter, when I was a child, Yuichi was just like you, always lying on the bookshelf and screaming. Dad smiled, sat down on a wooden chair and said, "I thought this kid was thirsty for knowledge, but then I learned that this kid wanted to play a prank but couldn't reach it." Hehe, you don't have to be restrained, just find a chair and sit down. I don't mean anything else, I just want to talk to you, you don't have to be nervous. ”

"Ah, yes......"

"I don't know why, but when I see you, I feel very close to you, as if we have a special fate, you are very much like my youngest son who ran away from home many years ago. "Dad sat in his chair and looked at me with a smile in his eyes that seemed to penetrate my body. I know that he is not looking at Edogawa Akiki, but at Kudo Yuichi.

"Running away from home...... Is that really bad, hasn't he been in touch with you in years?" I smiled unnaturally.

"yes, we haven't been in touch for years, but his mom and I have always been convinced that he did it for a reason, and we've been waiting for him to come back......"

"I'm sorry to say that, but maybe something has happened to your son, and it's better not to expect that much from him. Dad's gentle and expectant voice made me feel guilty, but for their safety, I had no choice but to say this to him.

"Yoichi he, he has been a particularly worry-free child since he was a child......" Dad didn't answer my words, but raised his head to look at the ceiling and recalled: "He was born different from ordinary children, he never cried, and never cried, when other parents were disturbed by their own children, he slept when he should sleep, ate when he should eat, and even shouted when he went to the toilet, never wetting the bed......" Dad's eyes seemed to pass through the ceiling, looking at the sky of distant memories.

"When I'm a little older, when Shinichi is still playing with the children in kindergarten every day, and going home with mud every day, Yuichi stays at home quietly every day and reads, so calm that he doesn't look like a child, and the liveliness of a child is almost completely invisible in his body, and my stable personality is like an adult's soul being stuffed into his body......"

"He hates going to school, but his mind is not stupid, no, not only is he not stupid, but he is intelligent by common sense, and before he is ten years old, he is already proficient in several foreign languages and musical instruments, and he has also obtained a master's degree from the University of Tokyo, he is simply perfect, so perfect that it feels unrealistic......"

"As he gets better and better, the fear of me and Yukiko is increasing day by day, he is not as good as a human being, like an angel, like a dream given to us by God, I and Yukiko carefully take care of him, like holding a crystal carefully with both hands, for fear that if he is not careful, he will break ......"

"We took great care of him and did our best to respond to his every request and wish, but he always kept something deep in his heart and didn't let us know. Every evening, when we see the child sitting alone in the yard watching the sunset, our hearts ache, but we are powerless, and sometimes we even have the illusion that the child may not be watching the sunset that day, and the soul will leave the world with the sunset and fly to the dim sky......"

Dad sat back in his chair, his voice like a dream, and the narration became more and more ethereal, as if he was immersed in that period of time. And I, too, was stuck in my memory with his words.

Originally...... They already knew, I didn't want them to worry about me, but I didn't know that it was because of this that they became even more worried, and I was such a bastard...... I lowered my head and clenched my fists.

"At last, just as we had feared, the boy was gone, and left us on a very ordinary evening, without even saying a good word to us. A small shop on Rice Flower Street caught fire, and although the fire was quickly extinguished, a small child was burned to death inside, and in his hand, he was still holding a small jade pendant that we bought for him......"

My heart couldn't help but shake, was it the ghost who died back then?

"After Yukiko learned the news, she fainted at the time......"

"How is she?!" I couldn't help but stand up excitedly and ask aloud when I heard my mother faint.

My dad didn't seem to hear my yelling, and still said in an orderly manner: "After I took her to the hospital, I knew that a day and a night had passed, and she came to her senses, and then she began to vomit blood......"

"What?!!!" I said. Thinking of my mother lying on the hospital bed and vomiting blood, I couldn't help but sit back in the chair, lowered my head and gasped for breath, the sharp pain in my heart made my eyes blood-red, and my whole body couldn't stop trembling, and my clenched fists didn't even feel my nails digging deep into the flesh......

"She didn't shed tears, just vomited blood in despair, and after three days, she was already breathless......"

"Mom...... Mom ......" I said with a trembling mouth.

"A week later, she was discharged from the hospital because she knew she had a son to take care of, and she couldn't go down now, but when she got home, she couldn't help but be in a trance, and sometimes couldn't help but giggle......"

"Don't say it......" I whispered.

"She always unconsciously treats the children playing on the street as Yuichi, and greets them with a happy face, but retreats with a gloomy face......"

"Don't say it......"

"Usually when I prepare dishes and chopsticks, I always prepare four pairs, and when I eat, I must let Shinichi call Youyi, and when she gets up and goes to school, otherwise she will be thunder......ing."

"Don't say it!!! I'll tell you to stop it!!" I stood up and shouted at my dad in a frenzy, tears streaming freely across my face......

"Yusaku! Don't say it! Don't force him anymore! He can do whatever he wants, it doesn't matter if he doesn't recognize us, it's enough for me to just look at him, I just need to watch him grow up healthy and healthy, that's it......" There was a "crackling" sound of broken glass outside the house, and the door of the study was suddenly opened, and a figure flashed, and my head was tightly hugged by my mother. Mom's tears fell down my face, so cold......

"Kudo Yuichi, aren't you going to recognize us, how long are you going to make us miserable?!, you unfilial son!!" Dad suddenly stared at me and shouted.

"I admit it...... I admit it!! I'm Yuichi Kudo! I'm Yuichi! Mom and Dad, I'm not dead yet!!I'm sorry, I'm sorry...... It's all my fault...... I'm not filial!!" My spirit was suddenly broken by my father's drinking, and I cried in my mother's arms. What organization, what danger, what killer, all of them were thrown aside by me at this moment! At this moment, I am just a child, just their son, and everything else has nothing to do with me!

"You've finally admitted it, Yuichi. Dad let out a long sigh of relief, looked at me and smiled gently, his mellow gaze as when he was a child.

......

After a long time, my relationship with my mother finally calmed down.

"Dad, Mom, my son is back, I have been wandering for so many years and have never come home, which makes you worried. "In the hall, I formally faced my parents and sat down and kowtowed to my parents.

"Well, welcome back. Dad smiled and nodded at me, his eyes twinkling faintly.

"Hmm!" Mom covered her mouth at once, but the tears in her eyes couldn't stop flowing outward: "Welcome, welcome...... Come back...... You ......" and then stepped forward and hugged me into his arms: "My child, you are finally back, my mother misses you so much......"

I lay quietly in my mother's arms, feeling the faint warmth, smelling the familiar fragrance, and my heart was unusually peaceful.

While my mother went to clean up the broken tea set, my father and I sat face to face in the study.

"Mom's mental state at that time...... Not really, okay?" I hesitated for a long time, but I asked my dad my question.

"Well, the doctor told me that if there was any more stimulation, her spirit would break down completely, and her physical condition would start to get worse and worse, and in her condition at that time, the medicine could not stop her condition from worsening......" Dad sighed.

"But, Mom looks ...... now"

"Well, she's completely well now, do you know why she became normal later?" Dad smiled and said, "Because, I told her a secret ...... that I didn't intend for her to know."

"What's that?"

"Yuichi Kudo is still alive and well in the world!" my father said as he looked at me.

"Ahh The disguise of the organization is quite perfect, and there are no omissions.

"Yes, although the mysterious organization that kidnapped you did everything perfectly, the stand-in you found was the same as yours, whether it was height, weight, gender, blood type, or even a Japanese boy from abroad who was specially found in order to prevent the case of missing persons, but there was one thing they didn't know......

"Huh?" I looked at my dad suspiciously, I couldn't think of any flaws in it.

"Age!" Dad said word by word, looking at me.

"What? Wasn't I eight years old?" I was surprised. This bit of information will definitely be found out by the organization.

"You were indeed eight years old at the time, but that was only the age registered on the family register......"

"What do you mean?" I was a little puzzled.

"Actually, you are one year younger than Shinichi, in order for you and Shinichi to go to school together and have a companion for each other, your mother and I falsely reported your age up by one year. Speaking of which, this is also a fixed number in the dark. Dad smiled.

"What?!" I wondered. I never knew I had this kind of thing in me, and when I was a kid, I was always messing around, and I really didn't care if I had been seven or eight years. "Then, you were the one who used to determine the bone age of the corpse in the first place......"

Of course, I actually buried your 'corpse' before I took a small piece of bone and secretly asked a friend to identify it. ”

"However, isn't bone age testing only an approximate upper and lower limit of age?"

"My friend is an expert in this area, and he can be accurate to three months, which is enough. "Dad's eyes sparkled with wisdom.

"I see. I let out a sigh of relief. The world is so wonderful, my parents' unintentional actions actually laid the foundation for later judging my life and death, who could have imagined such a thing?

"Your disappearance is strange everywhere, I didn't intend to sue your mother, but if I hadn't told her at that time, she wouldn't have lived for a year......," Dad sighed.

"But how did you know who I am, you knew my identity before you called me. I asked my dad curiously.

"Yes, when I first knew about you, I heard Shinichi mention it on the phone, saying that there was a suspicious person who also came out of the organization and became smaller after taking medicine, and we were a little worried, afraid that Shinichi would repeat your mistakes back then, so we took advantage of the Big Dipper incident, and we came back to take the opportunity to observe your situation......" Dad took a sip of tea and said.

"So I was recognized by my mother?" I laughed.

"Yes, at that time, your mother said that she saw you, and I was still a little suspicious, and I thought it was her hallucination again. ”

"But you didn't have any evidence at the time, did you?"

"Yes, but I can't stand your mother's repeated affirmations, and I finally can't help it, and I want to come back to make sure. So after we posted the news of returning to China, we simply dealt with the things around us and flew back by plane. ”

"So you can't help but want to come to me to test it?" I said as my father followed.

"Well, I wasn't sure at first, but after you entered the house, a series of tables made me feel that you were very likely to be Yuichi. "Daddy is definitely authentic.

"Really, have I had so many flaws?" I would have believed.

"First of all, when you sit on the sand, your legs are crossed, which is what you used to do when you were a child, and look, you are now. Dad pointed to my legs.

When I saw it, it was really true! Alas, the habits I had developed since childhood had forgotten about it.

"Also, when you drink tea, you add salt to it. Dad smiled and said, "I haven't seen a second person except you for the quirk of adding salt to tea." ”

Listening to my father, I suddenly remembered that when I was drinking tea, I added something to it, but I was thinking about it at the time and didn't care. "However, children think matcha is too bitter to drink, so there are also people who add sugar to it. I quibbled.

"Yes, but we deliberately put salt in front of you, and you drank it naturally, and there was no special reaction. Looking at my hard mouth, my father smiled again: "And after you enter the house, you look at everything with a very thoughtful look, especially when you see family photos and Chinese pastries, you are obviously stunned for a moment, if such evidence is not enough......"

"Anything else?" I wondered.

"Do you remember that girl named Gray Plains once helped you sort out your clothes?"

"Remember, what's wrong?"

"She once lifted your clothes up subtly, and let me see the fleeting 'mountain' birthmark without a trace. This is already evidence of absoluteness. Probably that little girl also wanted to know if you were Yuichi, but she was staring at the family photo for a long time. Dad laughed.

Huh? Do I have a birthmark on my back? Why don't I know? It turns out that I was unknowingly sold by my own people! I smiled wryly.

"Speaking of which, what have you been through for so many years, can you tell me about it?" After gossiping, my father suddenly said to me.

"Back then, I saw a suspicious car, and I went in to check it out out of curiosity, but I was knocked unconscious and abducted by the organization......" I sighed and said slowly. Now that the identity has been revealed, there is no point in hiding it.

"The organization?!Is it the same organization that Shinichi encountered?" Dad interrupted me with a sudden tightening face.

"yes......"

"Do you know any more information about the organization?" asked my father.

"Unfortunately, I don't know anything. I shook my head and said, "Although I have been trained by the organization for ten years, the organization has always been wary of me, and I have always been only a peripheral person. ”

"That's right......" Dad touched his chin and pondered.

"You two, come and eat!" said my mother's voice outside.

"Ah, I haven't tasted my mother's craft for a long time, I really miss it!" I stood up and stretched my waist, turned to my father and said, "By the way, my business, just tell my mother that I was taken captive by human traffickers, and then escaped while the gang was smashed by the police, don't let her know about the organization, so as not to worry her." ”

"I know. Dad nodded.

"Also, don't say it to my brother. ”

"Why?" Dad was a little puzzled.

"My brother and I are more convenient to move in the light and dark, and besides, it's quite fun to tease him when there's nothing to do. I smiled.

"That'...... Well, you've grown up, make your own decisions about what to do, but be sure to stay safe and don't take risks. Dad hesitated for a moment and said.

"By the way, Yusaku, you go and call Shinichi to come over and eat together, our family hasn't eaten together for a long time. Sitting at the dinner table, my mother suddenly said to my father.

"I see. Dad nodded and dialed the phone, and in a few moments, Conan arrived.

"Why are you still here?" Conan's face darkened as he entered the room and saw me sitting there.

"Ah, Xiaohui is going to live here for a while in the future, so Conan, please go back and tell Sù Xiaolan. My mother smiled and said, "Come, sit down and eat together." ”

Hey?!!! when did I say I was going to live here?! I turned my head to look at my mother in amazement, but now my mother glared at me "viciously"!

"Oh, yes, I don't care where he lives, I mean why did he sit in that position?" Conan said, pointing at me with a gloomy face.

I looked at where I was sitting, where I used to sit when I was a kid. Could it be ......

"Shinichi, what are you talking about? He's ......"

Before my mother could finish speaking, my father interrupted her: "Everyone sits down to eat together, isn't it the same where you sit? ”

No matter what you think, I absolutely ~~ can't accept it!!" Conan snorted, glared at me fiercely, and turned away.

"Wait, Shinichi ......" Mom's voice didn't stop Conan from leaving.

Sure enough, that's the case. Should I be happy, or should I be angry?" I smiled wryly.

"Looks like you're not on good terms. Dad smiled at me.

"yes. ”

"Why is this happening, obviously when I was a child, the relationship was so good. The old mother said puzzledly: "You brothers must get along well." ”

"My brother is quite dissatisfied with me right now," I smiled wryly and touched my nose, after all, I had just killed someone in front of him.

"But don't worry, I'll get on good terms with him. Come, let's eat, I can't wait, wow! Is it Chinese style today? Sweet and sour tenderloin, braised sea cucumber with green onions, eight-treasure cloth bag chicken, and fried cashew nuts with celery are all my favorite dishes!" I wiped my saliva.

"Don't worry, it's all yours, hehe. "Mom and dad all looked at me lovingly.

How does it feel to be home...... That's nice.

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ps: Explain the reader's question, about Xiao Ai's consumption, have you forgotten that now all the money of the protagonist is in Xiao Ai's hands? So, although Xiao Ai likes luxury goods and likes shopping, he has a certain degree of moderation, but the protagonist himself is afraid that the money will not be enough to spend, and the protagonist has only taken a small task so far, and he has failed...... Alas, the protagonist of the tragedy.

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