Chapter Seventy-One: The Girl
In the blink of an eye, it has been a week since the last time I went to the beach. Probably because of the last time I mustered up the courage to be honest with Xiaolan, Xiao Ai has changed a lot recently, and when facing Xiaolan, she no longer escapes as before, but learns to face it calmly, and her temperament has become a lot more cheerful, and she will occasionally laugh with Xiaolan.
Looking at Xiao Ai's relaxed smile, although it was still cold, it was a little lively, and I couldn't say what mood it was. It's really a complicated and incomprehensible relationship, how to say it, it's like watching her daughter who used to only pester herself, and suddenly one day she came back with a boyfriend, both a little relieved and a little lost.
Xiao Ai's smile is no longer exclusive to me, and when I think of this, I have a faint pain in my heart. This feeling ...... On the one hand, I hope that Xiao Ai can let go of herself, get along with others, and make her own bosom friends, but on the other hand, I hope that her smile will always belong to her...... It's a paradoxical and nasty feeling.
"I'm back!" In the evening, with a cheerful cry, Xiaolan rarely jumped into the door, with a happy smile on her face, which was very different from her usual dignified and demure image.
"Really, come back, come back, what do you look like? You're not a child anymore, are you?" Uncle Maori, who was sitting in the boss's chair with Erlang's legs crossed and reading the newspaper, raised his head a little unpleasantly, looked at Xiaolan, who was as cheerful as a bird, and pouted.
"Uh......h What, are you just welcoming your lovely daughter who has returned from school after a hard day?" Xiaolan puffed out her cheeks very cutely: "It's obviously the weekend, and we have to make up classes, can't you comfort me?"
"Ignore him, Sister Xiaolan, he just lost a bet on a horse, and now he doesn't like anything. I glanced at Uncle Maori and unmasked him mercilessly.
"Huh...... That's right...... You are still so arrogant when you lose money in betting......" Xiaolan looked gloomy with half-open eyes, staring at Uncle Maori condescendingly, and the huge coercion could be clearly felt even by me and Conan on the side.
"Ha, haha, don't talk about this, Xiaolan, you better hurry up and cook, I'm already hungry......" Uncle Maori was in a cold sweat, his eyes flew around, he didn't dare to look at Xiaolan, and changed the topic with an embarrassed face.
"Yes, yes, Sister Xiaolan should hurry up and cook, our stomachs are almost hungry!" Conan smiled and coquettishly said to Xiaolan, his face was full of flattery, like a puppy begging for food.
"Well, forget it, I'm in a good mood today, and I don't have the same knowledge as you. Xiaolan stared at Uncle Maori for a while, suddenly lost her momentum, and said with a smile.
Seeing this scene, Conan and I couldn't help but look at each other. This is not Xiaolan's style. According to the past practice, Xiaolan has to educate Uncle Maori for at least half an hour, and if she is unlucky, she will not even have anything good to eat for dinner. Today's Xiaolan is in a really good mood that makes people feel weird.
"Sister Xiaolan, you ...... Did you encounter anything good?" Conan asked cautiously to Ran, who was humming a song.
"Can you see it, can you see it?" Okay, it looks like Conan's question just touched on Lan's itch.
"Since you can see it, then there is no way, then I will sue you!" obviously with a look of "I really want to say", but he insisted on pretending to have an expression of "I was forced to do nothing": "Actually, I was lucky today! Look at this !! !!!" Xiaolan twisted four small paper tickets from her hand to show us as if she was playing a trick.
"It's ...... Chinatown Conan Doyle House Meal Coupon?" I leaned closer to the paper ticket and looked at it carefully, and read out the words on it.
"En, it's said that you can enjoy a 50% discount! This is what I won by lottery when I was out of school!" Xiaolan nodded proudly.
"Wow, Sister Xiaolan's luck is so good! she doesn't look like someone at all......" Conan said, glancing at Uncle Maori with disdain.
"What?!Discount meal coupon?!I'll take a look!!" Uncle Maori, who had just lost money and had a "loveless" expression, immediately jumped in front of Xiaolan and snatched the meal coupon in Xiaolan's hand as soon as he heard that there was a cheap advantage!
"Wait, be careful, what if you accidentally break it?!" Xiaolan raised her delicate eyebrows at Uncle Maori in dissatisfaction.
"Hahaha!! my Maori Kogoro is really not an ordinary person!!" Uncle Maori, who confirmed that the meal ticket was correct, couldn't care about the words of others, and laughed out loud with his hands crossed on his hips without any grace, and his thick tongue was still sticking out. In other words, this meal coupon has nothing to do with Uncle Maori, do you have half a dime for ordinary people? I really don't know what kind of thinking you can use to come to such a conclusion.
"Alas!" Facing the hopeless Uncle Maori, Conan and Xiaolan and I covered our foreheads and sighed in a tacit understanding.
"Well, then, let's go to Chinatown for dinner tonight!!" said Uncle Maori, in a "great man" manner, aloud to us.
"Oh oh oh oh !!!" In the face of the call to chew a meal, of course, we responded with a strong wave of our arms!
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"But is it really okay? Looking at the weather doesn't seem to be very good, it is estimated that it will rain for a while......" On the way to Chinatown, I leaned in front of the car window, looking at the gloomy sky outside, and was a little worried. It's going to rain again, this stuffy, sticky feeling makes me very unhappy, the smell of killing last time hasn't dissipated yet, is there something going to happen again?
"What does it matter if it's raining, we have cars anyway. "Uncle Maori was driving the car, but he didn't care about the tunnel.
"Who is the one who gave Emperor Daigo the Twelve Points? What is the name of the Pure Land painting that depicts the coming of the Buddha......? It was the saints who came to greet the picture...... "Ran Xiaolan, who was sitting next to me and Conan, held a Japanese history workbook in her hand, and muttered as she wrote and drew with a pen on the book.
"Hey, can't you be quiet? Uncle Maori, who was smoking, looked back and said dissatisfied.
"There's no way around that, right? Tomorrow I'll take the Japanese History exam, and there's a lot of extracurricular group activities these days, so I don't have time to study......" Xiaolan reluctantly coped with Uncle Maori.
"Wouldn't it be nice to go home and read it again?"
"What's it?, but the Chinatown meal voucher I got in the lottery, do you want me to stay at home?" Uncle Maori's words made Xiaolan's dissatisfaction explode at once, and she leaned to the front seat and questioned Uncle Maori.
"I just told you to review it when you get home. "Hawkers, because I lost money betting on horses before, and now I have to eat with the meal coupons in Xiaolan's lottery, Uncle Maori at this moment is extremely weak in front of Xiaolan, and there is no so-called "majesty of my father" at all.
"I won't be able to catch up with that, and there's a lot of TV I want to watch tonight." Xiaolan sat back in her seat and pressed the ballpoint pen and said.
"However, it's better to combine work and rest, if you are overtired, it will outweigh the losses!" I looked at Xiaolan's face with some worry, recently because of the approaching exam, Xiaolan is very busy with her studies, and often stays up late, and her originally ruddy face has become a little gray.
"Thank you, Xiaohui, but you have to believe Sister Xiaolan, but this kind of Cheng dΓΉ is just a problem, no problem at all!" Xiaolan smiled at me.
"But reading in the car is a motion sickness. Conan said uncomfortably.
"No problem, my balance system is functioning well. β
After a while, it really started to rain outside, and the rain was not small, and the raindrops hit the glass of the car window, making a "popping" sound, which could be heard clearly even in the car.
"It's raining. Uncle Maori looked at the rain-soaked windshield road.
"Really, it's pretty big. Conan leaned in front of the window and looked at the rain road. Xiaolan also looked at the rain, looking thoughtful, her brows tightly locked, and her expression was very strict.
"What's the matter, Sister Xiaolan, she is frowning here, her expression is terrifying!" Conan, who had been secretly paying attention to Xiaolan, immediately noticed Xiaolan's abnormality, and pointed to his eyebrows and asked Xiaolan. Xiaolan's eyebrows are tightly locked, which makes people feel a little distressed.
"Ah, there's a question I can't think of. Xiaolan pretended to smile at Conan easily, and continued to read the book as she spoke, but her body shook slightly, and her face became a little pale.
Conan and I looked at each other, both with the same worry in our eyes, we knew that Xiaolan had something hidden in her heart, but Xiaolan didn't say it, and we couldn't help it.
Putting aside the faint worry about Xiaolan, we finally arrived at the restaurant mentioned on the meal voucher - Conan Doyle Building. It's hard to imagine why a Chinese restaurant in Chinatown is called a Western-style name like Conan Doyle, but when it comes to Chinatown, it's been a long time, when was the last time you visited?
After getting out of the car, the rain has become much lighter. I looked around at the vaguely familiar surroundings and felt a little emotional. I remember when I was a child, I had to pester my parents to come here almost every weekend to have a luxury. Chinese food is not expensive in China, but it is staggeringly expensive in foreign countries, and I remember when I was in England, it cost 25 pounds to order a serving of fish-flavored shredded pork!
Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw a Sichuan restaurant called Chuanxianghong across the street, and next to it there was a hot pot city called Honghong. I was stunned for a moment, because it was a little different from what I remember when I was a child, and I remember that the location of the hot pot restaurant should have been......
"What's wrong?" Conan asked me in a whisper, seeing that I was a little stunned.
"That shop ......," I pointed in the direction of the hot pot restaurant and asked Conan, "Wasn't it supposed to be a jade shop called Fenghualou before?" "Because I went there a few times when I was a child, I had a deep impression of it, and the owner of that shop was a very nice person who was always smiling.
"Huh, you've been here before?" Conan's eyes froze, looking at me questioningly.
"Ah...... Well, I've been here a few times before. I turned my head a little uncomfortably.
"So the last time you came here was at least ten years ago, right?"
"yes. β
"There was a fire here ten years ago, the jade shop is no longer there, and the owner died of a myocardial infarction, because the owner of the shop has no relatives, so the land was auctioned off by the government. Conan sighed and said the fire, a hint of gloom flashed in his eyes.
As soon as Conan said that, I remembered that when he was at the docks, Conan had also said this to Belmode. Speaking of which, the owner of that shop died because of me, and I'm really guilty.
"Hey, you two little ghosts come in quickly, you'll get wet for a while, but I don't care about you!" Conan and I were not in a good mood when it came to talking about the old things, and Uncle Maori's voice interrupted our somewhat sad thoughts just right.
"Conan, Hui, come over here!" Lan greeted us as she stood at the door of the restaurant.
"Good!"
As the saying goes, the greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. When we arrived at our destination after a bumpy ride with hope and handed the meal voucher to the waiter for inspection, the answer we got was - no!
"What's the matter? I can't use this meal coupon?" Xiaolan asked the waiter, pointing to the meal coupon in her hand.
"Ah, that's ......," the waiter said.
"But, you see, isn't it very clearly written here? Xiaolan was a little dissatisfied with the clerk's hesitation and asked.
"Eh, yes, this is a meal ticket from our store, this ......"
"Then why can't it be used?"
"Tell me clearly, make it clear!" Uncle Maori, who had lost the money, was in a bad mood, and now his face was already full of unhappy expressions.
"Ah, that's ......"
"Hey, little ghost," suddenly a young man in sunglasses who looked to be in his twenties tapped my shoulder lightly with his finger, bent down and pointed at Xiaolan, who was arguing with the clerk in front of me, and asked me sneakily, "What's your sister's name?"
"Hmm, brother, who are you?" I looked at this young man who didn't look like a good guy at first glance, and Conan's face wasn't very good-looking.
"Who...... Well, kid, my name is ......"
"What kind of shop is this!" The young man with a frustrated expression was about to say his name to me, when he was suddenly interrupted by Uncle Maori's voice: "It can't be to watch people cook!"
"How could it be?!!no!" The waiter became a little flustered in the face of the somewhat aggressive Maori uncle.
"Wait, guest!" Just as Uncle Maori wanted to step forward to further theorize, a waiter who looked like he had big shoulders and a round waist stepped forward and pressed Uncle Maori's shoulder, and said with a terrifying expression: "Let's go out and talk." β
Looking at the waiter's fierce expression, I secretly complained in my heart: Well, when it comes to horror, you are far worse than Xiaolan, we are not afraid of you.
"Huh, ha!" Sure enough, before everyone could react, Xiaolan had already kicked straight towards the waiter, and narrowly stopped in front of him! A wisp of strong wind whistled by! Facing the small feet that were close at hand, the fierce-looking waiter swallowed in horror. Although that little foot looked attractive, judging from the momentum just now, no one dared to doubt the power of this foot.
"If you want to use force to drive us out, you can't do it! I won't leave until I make it clear!" Xiaolan said with a fierce face.
Girls really can't be offended! I secretly wiped a cold sweat.
"Hah...... Your sister is amazing......" The young man who accosted me was so frightened that his sunglasses were crooked, probably because Xiaolan's movements were shocked by the huge contrast between her gentle appearance.
"Yes...... This. I tugged at the corners of my mouth in dismay.
"This, that meal ticket clearly says that it cannot be used on Sundays and holidays. Faced with Xiaolan's threat, the big waiter explained in a cold sweat.
"Huh?" Hearing the waiter's explanation, Uncle Maori and Xiaolan hurriedly looked at the meal coupon in their hands.
"Ah, really, it's written in small print. Conan said as he looked at the meal ticket in his hand.
"Uh!" "Embarrassing! How embarrassing it is! I almost smashed someone's store, and in the end it was I who realized the loss. Uncle Maori and Xiaolan hurriedly apologized to the clerk.
"Really, it's all because you didn't figure it out!"
"What! It's Dad, you said hurry up and pull me out!"
"What?!"
Well, the two who got into trouble are now trying to shift their blame and try to divert everyone's attention.
"Good kick, miss," the young man interjected while Xiaolan was arguing with Uncle Maori, clapping his hands, "Can you go to the cinema with me next time to see Bruce Lee?"
Is this just ...... The faces of the men present became unsightly.
"Who are you?" asked Uncle Maori, unhappily.
"My name is Hamamike, my real name. The young man said with a stinky expression as he took off his glasses. With a raised head, dyed nails, shiny studs, and a nondescript checkered shirt inside a black trench coat, I felt a flamboyant aura coming to my face before I got close!
"Hama Mike? That's right, the kid detective who runs an office on top of the movie theater. Uncle Maori pondered for a moment, and then suddenly realized.
Hama Mike? It's disgusting to say that this nondescript name is really disgusting. I turned my head to look at Conan, only to see Conan pouting disdainfully. He doesn't look like a great character.
"Huh?" Hearing Uncle Maori's slightly contemptuous comment, Hamamike's expression instantly became hideous, but then eased up, probably remembering Xiaolan just now.
"Then Miss, call me whenever you want. See you later. Hamamike waved his hand, and went in again to find a table and sit down. Thinking of this, I felt even more unhappy, and when I looked at Conan and Uncle Maori, I suddenly saw that the expressions of the two of them were the same as mine, and it seemed that we were thinking of going together.
"What is that person going to do?" only Xiaolan still looked natural.
"Guest," the waiter's voice pulled our attention back, "are you still dining here?"
"Ah, that...... Actually, the ......" faced with the waiter's inquiry, Uncle Maori sweated all over his face. In fact, we only brought a little money with us this time, after all, Uncle Maori had just lost money, and the family's savings were not much, so we really couldn't squander them at will. If it weren't for the fact that the meal voucher said it could be discounted by 50%, we wouldn't have come at all.
"That...... Come with us if you can, but of course, I'm in for a treat. "Just when Uncle Maori was so embarrassed that he didn't know what to say, a chubby middle-aged man stepped up to us and let us go.
Since we have already come in, it is really embarrassing to go out like this without doing anything, so in the face of this man who obviously has a plan, although we are not very reluctant, we still borrow the slope to get off the donkey and follow the fat man into the table.
There are also three people at the table with the fat man, and after introduction, those three people are Isokai Zo who is the director, Ito Kibiography who is the assistant director, and Kyogo Kitura, the original author of the novel. We were invited to sit by producer Shiro Kawabata. These people are all from the same crew, and they are having a headache choosing the heroine of the movie, and the reason why they invited us to the table is because they took a fancy to Xiaolan and wanted Xiaolan to be the heroine of their movie.
Faced with a lot of temptations such as "you can be a star", "you can be friends with stars in the entertainment industry", "you can travel the world" and so on, not only Xiaolan, but even Uncle Maori and Conan are moved.
"But is it really okay, for example, if there is a kiss scene or a bed scene or something......" I took a sip of soup and looked at Little Landau with a smirk.
"Bed...... Bed play?" Xiaolan was obviously shocked.
"Yes, in order to become famous, ignoring the original, that kind of fool producer also has zΓ i. The original author, Beipu, said.
"Mr. Kitaura, didn't this fool producer mean me?" asked Kawabata with a dry smile as he asked Kitaura.
"Don't go, Lan. β
"Yes...... yes, you're not suitable. Hearing that there was a bed scene, Conan and Uncle Maori wilted.
"Hey!! clerk, isn't my braised pork !! okay yet?!!!" Just as I was watching the play with relish on the side, a coquettish cheer from the table not far away attracted my attention.
It is a girl who broke into my sight, it is said that she is a girl and not a woman, because although she is dressed very fashionably, she is obviously only at the level of young (teeth), slender figure, ordinary airport, delicate facial features, fair skin, small cherry lips are not angry, not smiling, revealing a mixture of innocence and coquettishness, a pair of big eyes full of naughty and cunning, like a pair of spiritual gems...... Although she has a lot of accessories worn by adults similar to earrings brooches, it seems that she wants to make an adult look, but these things are placed on her body, but they highlight the petite cuteness of the girl, even her deliberately pretended angry expression, thick voice, can only give people a coquettish illusion, but can not make people feel her anger. Just look at the expression of the big waiter just now who was smiling in front of her, and then look at the intoxicated expressions of the people around her, you can know how charming she is.
It is true that no matter where this girl is placed, she is a family pet or a mascot, but I can't be happy when I see her deliberately sitting there with her legs crossed with her legs crossed with rude movements, and that puffing cute expression.
"Fortunately, I didn't bring Xiao Wai over. I whispered to myself.
"What?" Conan, who was beside me, didn't hear for a moment, and asked me with his head down.
"No, it's nothing, let's eat quickly, and go home as soon as we're done. I lowered my head and picked up the soup bowl, pretending to drink the soup to hide my somewhat unnatural expression.
"Huh?" Conan looked at my awkward expression suspiciously, and then looked up in the direction of the girl, revealing an expression of "men understand": "Hmph~ It turns out that you are not a good thing, obviously you have ...... with Gray Plains"
"Yes, yes, so let's hurry up. "I perfunctorily Conan, urging the authentic. I'm really afraid that something will happen if I leave late.
"That's right, I guess Xiaolan doesn't have any intention of being a star, and the director just now said that an actor died during a rehearsal. Conan responded, and then glanced at the girl who was angry with the waiter: "Hurry up and drag you back, and Gray Yuan will thank me." β
Yes, she'll be grateful to you, but it's probably not the reason you think. I sneered in my heart as I kept an eye on the girl from time to time. That innocent-looking smile is a demon's grin in my opinion!
Although everyone at the dinner table was talking and laughing, and they were staggering, I didn't pay attention, and all my thoughts were on the girl.
"Eh?!What are you talking about?!Sorry I didn't hear clearly, please talk about it!" Mr. Hamamike, who had just accosted Xiaolan, stuck to it again as if he had seen a fly between the eggs, and said something to the girl, who looked at him innocently and said.
"I mean, I'm Hama Mike who is a detective! It's the first time I've seen such a cute girl as you, if I can, can I go to the movies with you?! Even the attention of the people at my table was drawn to it.
"What a lovely girl...... everyone sighed.
"Damn, why didn't you notice this girl just now!" Kawabata was a little remorseful, but since he had already let us into the table, he couldn't go to the other to find the girl, so he could only watch from the sidelines.
"But, but people are very busy...... "The girl wrung her fingers in embarrassment.
"It's okay, I'll wait until you're free!"
"Please don't do this, you're bothering me like this......"
"Please be sure to grant my request!" may have been the persecution of Hamamike, who thought he was very strong, seeing the girl's soft and weak appearance.
"But, but I'm really troubled, please don't ...... like this" The girl looked like she was about to cry, and it felt like she would agree if she pressed one more step. Many men were already beating their feet on the sidelines, regretting that they hadn't taken the first step.
"Please agree! I must agree! This is my request!"
"You're enough, isn't it!Mr. Hamma!Don't you see that this kid is unwilling?!" Before the girl could speak, Xiaolan, who couldn't stand it, had already rushed over and took the girl behind her, like protecting a chicken!
"Oh, isn't that the young lady just now, I'm glad to see you again so soon, but it seems to be just a matter between me and the young lady behind you, please don't meddle with it. Unlike the politeness just now, Hamamike at this time has already begun to have thorns in his words. It seems that the girl is his own strategy target to replace Xiaolan.
"Please respect yourself, or I'm welcome!" Xiaolan said in a deep voice.
"You...... Cut!" The momentary hideous expression just now reappeared, but it was also fleeting, and Hamamike stared at Xiaolan's face for a while, then "cut" and walked away boringly.
"Xiaolan's love is so overflowing......" Conan smiled helplessly and walked in the direction of Xiaolan, as for the Maori uncle at the table, they came back to their senses and continued to drink.
"Yes, love is true...... It's too flooded...... "Although the girl behind Xiaolan still looks harmless at this time, the violent killing intent that flashed in her eyes just now was clearly captured by me! If it wasn't for Xiaolan just right in the middle of the two just now, there would be no more private detective named "Hamamike" in this world tomorrow. I was thinking about how to distance myself from her, but Xiaolan actually took the initiative to lean over! I really want to drag the two people who came over, call Uncle Maori and go home, but looking at Xiaolan's sideways eyebrows, and then looking back at Uncle Maori who has begun to get carried away at the wine table, I really have no tricks.
Forget it, take it one step at a time. I shook my head and followed Conan.
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ps: Finally passed up.,I've been on the starting point since more than ten o'clock yesterday.,But the little mother just doesn't give face.,Dead or alive can't open the page.,I'm sorry for waiting for a long time.,I'm sorry.,Although it's a pity.,But it's a natural disaster.,Xiaoyu is also very depressed.,I hope you understand one or two......
I'm really helpless about the book "Whose Name is Conan", and I really don't know what the meaning of the so-called "mourning" is. Just copy and paste it all over again, and don't change anything, even my typos...... Is it to help me earn clicks and recommendations and gain popularity? (laughs), just report it or something, and you have to write a letter and give evidence, which is very troublesome. Anyway, everyone knows this matter tacitly, and it is a rare talent to be able to persist in copying in the midst of many accusations, and to have this outstanding mental endurance. I'm hoping that he will make it all the way to the end, and then it will be a happy ending (laughs).
In the case of the theatrical version, you don't have to worry, I will definitely write it, probably not too long, of course, in terms of chapters.
It's really unpleasant to say that there is no VIP.,I can only look at everyone's words.,But I can't reply to the post.,I can't speak.,How a depressed!The QQ number of the previous group,I don't know why it's gone.,Say it again here.,It's 15872o998,Friends who can see this group number.,It means that you are indeed a loyal book friend of Xiaoyu.,Welcome everyone to join the group to discuss questions about the plot.γ
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