Chapter 3189 3201 [Apple and Matsutake]
The hotel staff explained the precautions and then reminded: "By the way, there is one thing everyone should pay attention to. Although you can pick matsutake mushrooms for free, in order to avoid waste, the number of pickings is limited - adults can only pick three, and children can only pick two."
"Once you have picked all the matsutake mushrooms you want, the hotel will prepare them for you tonight's dinner. So, I wish you all a fruitful return!"
The three children cheered excitedly: "Okay!"
"Oh, by the way, there is one more thing." The staff member was about to turn around and go back to the car, but suddenly remembered something and hurried back to remind him.
He pointed to the woods not far away, where there were two barbed wire fences, one in front and one behind. "Opposite these two barbed wire fences is the hunting area in this area. Everyone, please don't go in."
"Hunting area?" Jiang Xia looked over there, seeming very interested.
Huibara Ai looked up at him and tugged at his clothes: "..." Forget it. You can't get a hunting license if you are under the age of twenty, and you can't go in to hunt even if there is a hunting ground.
The staff misunderstood his meaning and further explained: "I heard that black bears occasionally appear there."
Dr. Agasa was shocked: "Black bear?!"
The staff nodded and said, "But don't worry, there is no bear on this side of the wire fence. Just don't cross the wire fence."
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Since any black bear that might appear has been isolated on the other side of the barbed wire, we can just pretend it doesn't exist.
The children soon forgot about the incident and started looking for Matsutake mushrooms happily.
However, after 10 minutes, the enthusiastic primary school students gradually became listless.
"The uncle at the inn strictly limited the number of mushrooms that could be picked. I thought there were a lot of them here, but..."
Kojima Genta squatted beside the tree roots and dug through a few piles of fallen leaves with the same vigor as a dog digging at the soil. "But there's not even half a leaf! Are there really matsutake mushrooms here? Doctor, you're not being fooled by the advertisement, are you?"
Yoshida Ayumi secretly glanced at Jiang Xia who was standing by the wire fence in the distance and looking at the hunting area. She turned around and shushed Kojima Genta, then lowered her voice and retorted:
"Didn't you insist on coming here to pick matsutake? There was an apple picking area where we had a flat tire. If you had listened to me and picked apples with me, we wouldn't have so much trouble now."
Kojima scratched his head. "What's so special about apples? They're everywhere, but matsutake is the number one ingredient in autumn—and it's much more expensive than apples."
Huihara Ai raised an eyebrow and touched Yoshida Ayumi's head: "Apple is not an ordinary fruit, it is a forbidden fruit. It is said that Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden of Eden to the human world by God because they ate a bite of apple. It is the crystallization of knowledge that allows people to distinguish right from wrong. It is much more mysterious than Matsutake."
Although Yoshida Ayumi didn't understand anything, she could tell that Ai was speaking for her, so she nodded quickly like a chicken pecking at rice: "Yes, apples are very powerful fruits, not as cheap as you say!"
Kojima Genta was even more confused: "No matter how great it is, it's still so cheap."
Yoshida Ayumi was so anxious that she kept waving her hands: "Knowledge! Knowledge is powerful!"
The two of them were chattering in a mess. Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, the only one who understood what was going on, was staring blankly at Haibara Ai who spoke such a long string of words so easily, his heart starting to pound.
——How can there be such a knowledgeable and cute female classmate in the world? This is too unfair!
Conan was originally talking to Jiang Xia, but when he turned around, he saw the chaotic scene here.
He came closer and looked at Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya in confusion: "Why is your face so red? Do you have a fever?"
"What fever?" Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko snorted, discontentedly refuting this not-at-all-romantic remark. He turned to look at Huihara Ai, his expression becoming sweet again, "I was just looking at her."
"?" Conan was puzzled. He followed his gaze and asked in confusion, "The 'she' you are talking about, is it Huibara?"
"Yes." Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya folded his hands, looking longing, "Although she always seems cold and indifferent at first glance, in fact, Ai is knowledgeable and has a steady demeanor - don't you think she always gives people a very mysterious feeling?"
Conan: "..." For an elementary school student, it's not wrong to say so. After all, under the cute appearance of Huiyuan Ai, she is actually a boring adult... Come to think of it, I am in the same situation. Why don't you show such admiration to me? ——You kid is just attracted by beauty.
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya was immersed in talking for a long time, but suddenly came to his senses and hurriedly said, "I, I said all this just because I think she is amazing, I don't mean anything else!"
Conan was silent for a moment, thinking of the current situation between himself and Mao Lilan, and patted his shoulder sadly: "Although it's too early to say this to a first-grade elementary school student, you should forget it - there is an insurmountable gap between you and Huibara."
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya: "...?"
He always felt that the words of this classmate with reflective glasses seemed to have deeper meaning. He was trying his best to figure it out. At this moment, Ayumi Yoshida who was not far away suddenly discovered something.
She stood by the tree root and waved to the others: "Look, there is a big mushroom here! Is it a mature matsutake?"
Jiang Xia walked over and looked down at the big mushroom with a dark red, umbrella-shaped cap and white spots on its surface: "..."
How do you find this textbook-like standard poisonous mushroom so accurately?
This little girl who is good at being a hostage does not seem to be weak in resilience.
Conan was also attracted by the movement here and moved closer curiously. He looked at the mushrooms on the ground and was also silent for a while: "This is a Tengu mushroom, it is highly poisonous."
Yoshida Ayumi, who was eager to pick it, said: "!"
The Mist Tengu, who was flapping his transparent wings to help find matsutake nearby: "!"
He turned around and flew over here, stopping next to a mushroom that was almost the same size as him. He circled around the "Tengu Mushroom" twice with a pensive expression on his face, as if he didn't know why this thing was also called Tengu.
Jiang Xia: "The red cap of this fly agaric is very similar to the Tengu mask in mythology. In addition, it contains a lot of hallucinogenic neurotoxins, so it has this mythical nickname."
Kiri Tengu suddenly realized what was going on and slammed his palm with his little fist.
Yoshida Ayumi also made the same move, and at the same time she looked at Jiang Xia with flattery: "..." Xiao Ai was right, Brother Jiang Xia really looked like a good person sometimes!
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