Chapter 3354 3366 [Miyano Akemi's Porridge]
In the warehouse, neither Nanakawa Aya nor the store manager noticed that a few more onlookers had quietly appeared around them.
Nanakawa Xuan had originally just lowered her head quietly to take the scolding, but now, when she heard the store manager say he was going to fire her, she finally lost her composure and argued, "But I didn't do those things at all!"
"You still don't admit it!" The store manager frowned and was about to scold again, but Mao Lilan saw this and quickly interrupted, "Xiao Xuan? What's wrong with you?"
"Xiao Lan..." Nanakawa Xuan didn't expect to suddenly meet her friend at this time, and she was a very reliable friend.
She tried to hold it back, but finally couldn't hold it back anymore. The calm demeanor she had just shown while lowering her head to receive the scolding completely disappeared. Nanakawa Aya burst into tears, ran towards Mao Lilan, and hugged her.
Judy: “……?”
She looked at the female student who was being scolded for some unknown reason, and then looked at Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Li Ran who were comforting each other, and felt that this start was a little strange.
Where is the body?
What about screaming?
...What's going on today?
Similar to Judy, the store manager who was scolding someone next to her also looked confused.
He looked at the three strangers who suddenly appeared at the door of his warehouse, somewhat confused: "Who are you?"
Suzuki Sonoko snorted. Although she didn't know the situation, she immediately supported Nanakawa Xuan: "We are Xiao Xuan's friends!"
Store Manager: "..." Nonsense! Who can't see that? I'm asking why you're meddling in my business!
It was a mess, but Judy finally brought the conversation back to the point. She smiled, eager to get to the bottom of the situation immediately: "What's going on here?"
"...It's nothing serious." The store manager looked at the blond, blue-eyed foreign friend, his anger slightly subsiding. "It's just that our store's sales often don't match our inventory, and every time this happens, it happens when Nanakawa is on duty."
The two high school girls reacted and understood: the sales volume and inventory did not match... Was the store manager trying to say that someone stole something when Nanakawa Aya was on duty?
"Xiao Xuan wouldn't steal anything!" Suzuki Sonoko still had great faith in her friend's character. "It must have been stolen by a customer!"
Mao Lilan also nodded. "I've heard from Xiao Xuan before that your store has a lot of customers, especially in the morning and evening. With so many people, Xiao Xuan, who is guarding the cash register, will definitely not be able to keep track of them all. Why don't you add a few more surveillance cameras?"
"How do you know I didn't install them?" the store manager walked out of the warehouse and pointed at four spots on the ceiling. "After two incidents of missing items, I immediately installed surveillance cameras. Four in total!"
"When something was lost again, I carefully reviewed the surveillance footage, but there was no suspicious customer at all. Those items were all lost after get off work, after the store closed!"
Judy: “…” Indeed, in this case, the possibility of an insider committing the crime is very high.
"But on the other hand, how many people are there on the inside? A single theft like this might be okay, but if it happens too often, it's like the word 'suspicious' is written all over their faces." Judy felt like things weren't that simple.
"People in Tokyo shouldn't be so stupid, right? Besides, since this female clerk is a classmate of Xiaolan and Sonoko, she should also be a classmate of Jiang Xia. If she really has a habit of stealing, she should have been caught by that sharp detective long ago..."
…
"A-choo!"
far away.
At Dr. Agasa's house.
Jiang Xia turned his head away and sneezed. He looked out the window and thought about who was talking about him. Then he found that there were too many suspects, so he decisively gave up thinking.
He took off his apron and put it aside, took out a bowl of fresh hot egg porridge from the pot, scooped out a spoonful and tasted it.
The rice grains are soft and golden, and the egg custard is as soft as a cloud. Although not much seasoning is used, the taste is not bland, and the freshness and sweetness of the ingredients are perfectly presented.
Such delicious porridge... Of course, he didn't make it himself, but he closed the door and let Miyano Akemi crawl into the puppet clay.
He stands here mainly to maintain Conan and the doctor's worldview.
After confirming the taste of the porridge, Jiang Xia put on heat-insulating gloves and served the porridge out with satisfaction.
Conan was sitting on the sofa with his chin in his hand, thinking about something, when he suddenly smelled a tempting aroma of food. He was stunned at first, then he remembered something and turned his head to look at the pot of porridge that Jiang Xia brought out.
He ran over and sniffed suspiciously for a while, then asked uncertainly, "Why does it smell so good?"
Dr. Agasa was not as cautious as him. The old man scooped out a bowl for Huibara Ai and placed it next to her. Then he scooped a bowl for himself and drank two spoonfuls with a chuckle: "It tastes delicious too!"
"..." Conan scooped a little for himself, not believing it, and stared at it for a long time before carefully filling his mouth with the solemn expression of a chemical experiment.
After a moment, he looked at Jiang Xia in shock: You can't judge a person by appearance. He thought that even if Jiang Xia could cook, the food he made would only be ordinary food that could only fill his stomach. But the porridge in front of him... Even Xiaolan's porridge was not as delicious as this!
Jiang Xia caught a glimpse of his shocked look from the corner of his eye, put away his phone, and said casually, "The recipe is quite useful."
Conan muttered, "But when I made dishes according to recipes before, I couldn't even reproduce the original taste. How come you can..."
He muttered halfway before silently shutting up: Forget it. He couldn't do what Jiang Xia could do, so wasn't that enough?
"But you have to close the door when cooking so that others can't see you. You're too obsessed with being an idol. Actually, there's nothing wrong with a man cooking." Conan had been hungry for a long time. Now that he was sure that the porridge tasted good, he immediately started to eat it, mumbling:
"To be honest, if no one had been outside just now, I would have suspected that you had ordered a takeout from Zun Ya Ting and had them pass it in through the window."
Jiang Xia felt a little guilty, so he didn't say anything and just drank his porridge. When the porridge on the table had cooled down, he picked it up and took it to Huihara Ai's bedroom.
As soon as Jiang Xia left, Conan immediately raised his head from the bowl of porridge.
He glanced at the closed bedroom door, then asked Dr. Agasa stealthily in a low voice, "Why did Jiang Xia come to your place?"
Dr. Agasa scratched his head and thought for a while: "Maybe you and Xiao Ai have been too nervous these days, and Jiang Xia noticed it. Speaking of which, Jiang Xia is really a good kid. When he found something unusual, he didn't ask too many questions, but just took practical actions to help."
Conan felt a headache: "But this will involve him as well, and if he stays here all the time, how can I discuss the organization's affairs with you and Huibara? - Or you can find an excuse to let him go back."
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