Chapter 412: Valentine's Day Aftermath
As he was speaking, the door of "Dashanjiang"'s house clicked open.
Jiang Xia looked in the direction he was looking and saw a fat man with a triangular head walking out. He looked like a magnified version of Kojima Genta.
Jiang Xia was silent for a moment, and couldn't help but take another quick look at the door number.
Well, his last name is indeed Dashan, not Xiaodao...
The "adult version of Yuan Tai" looked up at the gate of the courtyard and put on a warm smile.
He pushed open the gate, shook hands with Dr. Agasa, then looked at Jiang Xia and said enthusiastically:
"I really like reading your crime reports. They are concise and sophisticated, without any nonsense, and you see the big picture from the small details. You are a talent in scientific research! - I heard that you have very good grades. If you are interested in medicine, please come to study under me in the future. Once you have mastered more medical knowledge, you will be more successful in solving cases, hahahaha."
After that, Oyama held his partner, Dr. Agasa, in one hand and the young man he favored in the other hand, and said sincerely, "By the way, our laboratory plans to go to the mountains for a training camp in a while. You can come with us when you are free."
His invitation was indeed sincere.
——Jiang Xia was already so famous when he was a high school student. When it comes time to choose a research laboratory in the future, his reputation will only be higher.
...If he could recruit such a famous detective under his command, his reputation as General Dashan would surely become even more famous.
As a scholar, you either have to have solid skills or you have to use your network well: find a great mentor, make the mentor happy, get to a high enough position, and then deceive a group of capable and enthusiastic subordinates, sit above them and become a happy academic capitalist... Dashan will think of his bright future and smile.
When Jiang Xia heard Professor Dashan's invitation, he nodded with the same sincerity.
——He not only plans to keep the appointment when he is free, but also plans to make time to keep the appointment even if he is not free.
After all, in Jiang Xia's impression, Mr. Dashan had been targeted by the angry teaching assistant for stealing his teaching assistant's paper, and he was not far from turning into a ghost...
Thinking of this, Jiang Xia couldn't help but glance at Dr. Agasa.
I didn't expect that Professor Agasa could just save a cat and it would be saved at the home of the person involved in the case.
The neighbors are indeed gifted. When they help Dr. Agasa avoid the explosion of the experiment in the future, they must be more dedicated. This kind of treasure old man must not be sacrificed in some weird experiment...
…
Dashan will have a cocktail party today.
After handing over the cat, he enthusiastically took Dr. Agasa out for a drink.
Jiang Xia borrowed Dr. Agasa's car and brought the cats he had collected over the past few days to the detective agency.
He parked the car in the back parking lot and walked around to the street where the office was located with the cat cage in his hand. When he looked up, Jiang Xia stopped in his tracks.
…I saw a man standing at the door of the office from afar.
——Toru Amuro stopped two meters away from the gate and did not go in. Instead, he faced the door and fell into deep thought.
Jiang Xia: “……?”
What's wrong?
There's a body at the door?
A murder occurred?
He calmly quickened his pace: "What happened...?"
As Jiang Xia continued to move forward, he soon passed the billboard next door that blocked his view.
After seeing the scene clearly, Jiang Xia was also stunned and stopped talking midway.
——At the entrance of the detective agency, there is a pile of handmade or custom-made chocolates, all packed in large gift boxes, each more eye-catching and luxurious than the other.
Hearing Jiang Xia's voice, Amuro Toru came back to his senses.
He turned his head silently, looked his employees up and down, then walked to the door of the office and picked up a gift box to examine it.
Then I saw Jiang Xia’s name written on the greeting card.
Toru Amuro: "..."
Seeing the complicated look on his boss' face, Jiang Xia quietly defended himself, "I never asked any customer for chocolate."
"I know." Amuro Toru was speechless for a moment, then stood up and stared at the door in front of him that was blocked by chocolate. "...Move these in first."
…
More than ten minutes later.
The chocolates were moved into the house and temporarily piled in the corner of the living room.
Toru Amuro emptied the mailbox that was occupied by chocolate and then heaved a sigh of relief.
He walked back to the office, piled the chocolates in his hand onto the chocolate mountain he had prepared earlier, then turned around to look at the group of cats that Jiang Xia had just brought back and occupied another corner of the living room.
Thinking of the rich ladies who lost their cats, Toru Amuro couldn't help but say, "Jiang Xia..."
Jiang Xia: “Hmm?”
Amuro Toru considered his words and asked, "Are you taking on too many requests to find cats? Won't this interfere with your work?"
Jiang Xia thought about the cases brought by the wives of the clients, as well as their acquaintances who were currently in jail or in the cemetery, and said sincerely: "I think it's okay - in fact, I hired some people to help find the cat, and this kind of commission won't take up too much time."
Toru Amuro: "..."
No, that's not the question.
The problem was that he always felt that these clients came to the firm not for the cats, but for something else.
——Toru Amuro feels that the frequency of his visits to the detective agency is actually not that high.
However, even so, he has become familiar with many cats, and can even vaguely match these precious cats with their respective owners. It is unknown how many times these lazy and sleepy innocent house cats have been caught...
Come to think of it, even he, a bystander, had already noticed it. With Jiang Xia's speed in solving cases and his observation skills, he must have realized that something was wrong a long time ago.
But Jiang Xia is still addicted to accepting commissions to pick up cats, and never gets tired of it...
When he first noticed this, Toru Amuro had mixed feelings and thought: Could it be that, like those rich wives who were not interested in cats, Jiang Xia was actually not interested in the commission, but was attracted to the rich wives, or their resources?
However, later on, according to his observation, Jiang Xia had never accepted any private invitation from any of the ladies - even if he was occasionally invited, he only accepted those invitations in occasions with a large number of people present, where it was difficult to create ambiguity or conduct transactions, and he never closed the door and spent time alone with them.
After observing the new information, Toru Amuro silently did a process of elimination in his mind:
Since it's not for those ladies, then...
Toru Amuro remembered the conclusion he had reached before and couldn't help but turn his head and look towards the corner of the detective agency.
While he was distracted for a moment, Jiang Xia had already taken out a good-tempered cat from the cage, holding it in his arms and petting it a few times.
Not long after, as if sensing the boss's gaze from behind, Jiang Xia put the cat back into the cage as if nothing had happened, then found a roller and started to pick up the cat hair that was on the ground and off his clothes.
Toru Amuro: "..."
...Could it be that Jiang Xia accepted these commissions just because he was greedy for other people's cats?
(End of this chapter)
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