Chapter 456 Jiang Xia's Horrifying Style
Haibara Ai thought about Jiang Xia's kind and expectant tone just now, and her little hands, which didn't know where to put, stroked the phone case, and she was in a dilemma.
After thinking for a moment, she did not answer Jiang Xia's question.
He just said nonchalantly: "I was going to make your favorite fried shrimp and saury tonight, but I ran out of ingredients at home. The seafood at the Dayou Department Store Supermarket next to the south exit of Mika Station is relatively fresh. If you have time, you can go and buy some for me."
Jiang Xia paused for a moment and said, "No problem. I'll go take a look."
The brief call was quickly terminated.
Haibara Ai looked at the black screen of her phone, thinking of the relief and joy in Jiang Xia's last words, as well as the naughty kids who were having fun in the Otomo Department Store at that moment, and raised her hand and pressed her chest.
…My conscience hurts.
But…but Jiang Xia is not a bad person, and he never beats children. Those children often encounter cases such as kidnapping, robbery, and even murder.
In this dangerous situation, it might be safer to have Jiang Xia watching beside you...
Haibara Ai simply comforted herself, then put away her phone, went back to the kitchen, put on gloves, and continued to fiddle with the oven and the desserts inside.
…
Next to the rice flower station.
The first floor of Dayou Commercial Building.
Conan, Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko, four children, were sitting in the waiting area outside the cash register, each holding an ice cream and happily eating desserts.
They had just played video games in the arcade on the fifth floor. After the game, they went to the basement supermarket to buy ice cream and take a rest.
While they were discussing where to go tomorrow, the number of people around them gradually increased.
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya held the almost finished ice cream in his hand and carefully shrank back: "There are so many people."
Ayumi Yoshida often goes shopping with her mother. She was very knowledgeable and gave some advice to the little boys: "Because it is already past four in the afternoon, it is the right time for everyone to buy ingredients for dinner."
"Dinner..."
Mitsuhiko took a bite of ice cream and suddenly thought of a new way to play.
He suggested with great interest: "By the way, let's play the menu reasoning game!"
“?” “?” “?”
Three puzzled looks.
Conan was attracted by the word "reasoning" and repeated this unfamiliar new term in confusion: "Menu reasoning?"
"That's right!" Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya pointed to the storage rack next to the four people.
On the shelf, there are some small rectangular plastic boxes filled with discarded receipts - shoppers will sort their shopping bags and pack their change on the shelf. During this process, some people will see the receipts in their wallets and take them out and throw them away.
Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya explained the new gameplay: "'Menu reasoning' means to use those receipts to guess what each household plans to eat tonight--"
As he said this, he stretched out his hand and grabbed a few receipts while no one was paying attention: "Sounds interesting, right? I'll start!"
Yuan Tai's face was full of "disinterest" as he sat beside her and concentrated on eating his ice cream cone. He preferred the exciting adventure to the riddles he was not good at.
Conan is not very interested in this kind of reasoning which is about the difficulty of "one plus one equals two", and:
“…This is an invasion of privacy.”
Mitsuhiko and Ayumi shook their heads like rattles: "Detectives don't care about these things! And don't you often pry into other people's privacy?"
Conan blushed: "..."
...I couldn't refute it for a moment.
"Okay, listen carefully, I'm about to start!" Mitsuhiko picked up a piece of paper and read the products on it, "Potatoes, onions, 6 eggs, a bag of ground beef, bread crumbs..."
Yoshida Ayumi thought it sounded familiar and answered quickly, "It's cream meat pie! Um...wait, it seems we're still short of flour..."
Conan listened with his ears perked up, and couldn't help but interrupt: "Flour is a common ingredient at home, so there's no need to go out and buy it."
"Oh, that's right, then I guessed right!" Ayumi became happy again.
She also took a receipt and read the contents: "Chicken thighs, ketchup, tomatoes, cabbage, celery..."
"It has to be chicken rice! The one with vegetable salad!"
——The voice that came was actually Kojima Genta’s.
Although he didn't like guessing riddles, he was very interested in eating... and now it was almost time for dinner, he was actually starting to feel hungry.
Genta Kojima decisively joined the "menu reasoning" game.
He reached out to grab the receipt.
However, when he stretched out his hand, it collided with another hand above the receipt box.
Genta Kojima subconsciously raised his head, looked at the person in front of him clearly, and his smile froze at the corner of his mouth.
The other three children turned around in confusion when they heard Yuantai's rough laughter suddenly stop.
——Then they saw Jiang Xia standing behind them and took out the receipt from the receipt box first.
Jiang Xia lowered his head to examine the paper in his hand, then looked at the four children and spoke in a friendly manner, "What are you playing?"
He glanced at them kindly, and the three children froze in unison.
Conan, the only one who could speak normally, turned around and explained to his classmates: "It's a new way for the kids to play - to guess what the buyer plans to eat for dinner based on the items on the receipt..."
Before he finished speaking, the three children next to him suddenly stood up, turned to Jiang Xia in unison, and bowed as if admitting their mistakes: "I'm sorry! We shouldn't have invaded other people's privacy. We won't do it again next time!"
Conan: “……?”
...That's not what you said just now!
Jiang Xia looked at the three heads that came close to him, and before they could react, he touched them.
Then, when the three children touched their necks in fear to check if their heads were still there, he nodded and commented, "It's a very creative game."
After saying that, Jiang Xia also looked at the stack of receipts in his hand and read out the top one as if participating in a game: "Raincoat, gloves, hemp rope, large black plastic bag, hatchet..."
Conan: “???”
...Why did the situation suddenly become different when it came to Jiang Xia?
Wait, this floor is a food supermarket, they don’t sell these things at all!
"Let me see."
Conan jumped off his seat, hurried to Jiang Xia and took the receipt from him.
He originally suspected that Jiang Xia was trying to scare the child.
However, after a quick glance, I found that these items were actually written on the receipt. The store name was not the supermarket downstairs, but a tool store across the street.
Every bill in the stack of receipts that Jiang Xia took had overlapping creases - the person who threw them away probably took out a large stack of accumulated bills from his wallet when collecting change, rolled them up and threw them away.
…If the receipt is genuine, why did this person buy these things?
A knife, gloves to block fingerprints, and a raincoat to prevent blood from splashing... What is this guy doing? What on earth does he want to do? !
(End of this chapter)
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