Chapter 129 Birds and Light

Conan Edogawa, who was hit on the head by his brother, covered his painful head and rushed to the door without asking why. The people who had not yet left the inner room could hear his clear question.

"Sister! What criminal were you talking about just now?"

When they walked out of the door, they did not see anything related to the case, only two women who looked at the little boy standing in front of them and kept covering their mouths and laughing.

The female boss who had just gone out to take care of business after greeting a few people was now being held by the arm of a young woman with a high ponytail. The woman was dressed in a capable manner and held a letter with a small bunch of dried flowers in her hand. She waved it in front of the little boy and said with a smile, "Of course it's the 'criminal' who has been writing letters to Miss Toyokawa every day for ten years."

"You bastard." Toyokawa Norika smiled and took the letter out of the other's hand, and put it neatly into her bag. Her movements were full of caution.

Edogawa Conan was stunned for a while before he reacted. He blushed and apologized. The two pinched his side face from the left and right, and smiled and praised him for being cute. It was not until Tsukiyama Asari rushed over that he rescued the dizzy little boy.

It turns out it's not a case, luckily.

Tsukiyama stuck out his tongue, and when he picked up the little boy, he didn't forget to rub the place where he had hit him. When he met Edogawa Conan's sparkling eyes full of doubt, he couldn't help but think that something had happened because he had just heard the word "criminal" and subconsciously hit the "culprit" next to him. This behavior made him feel a little guilty.

"Are you the guests who made reservations before?" The woman with a high ponytail finally responded and quickly called several people back to the hotel. "I'm so sorry, I'm a clerk here. Please forgive me for my poor hospitality. I just went to the supermarket in the town to replenish food, and I didn't expect to be delayed for so long..."

"You bought so many things." Seeing the large and small bags of things in the trunk of the car, Tsukiyama poked his head towards Conan who was holding Edogawa and asked, "Can I help?"

In addition to frozen fish, there were also many fresh vegetables and fruits in the trunk. He even saw a big cake in it, which looked like it tasted like chocolate.

It's really exaggerated. The boy who was being held poked his head to take a look and couldn't help but complain.

"Thank you so much." Seeing several people coming forward to help, Asakawa Nami smiled and thanked them. She took out the already melted cake from the trunk and rushed it to the kitchen. "Uncle Shibagaki, quickly give our chocolate princess a seat--"

"Got it--" A strong male voice came from the kitchen.

Tsukiyama Asari followed into the kitchen with a big bag of fish and meat. This modern kitchen was somewhat out of tune with the traditional Japanese architecture. It was very clean and bright. After greeting the chef Shibagaki Shoichiro who was wearing a headscarf in the kitchen, he opened the big freezer next to him.

There was no chill in the air, and the man stopped putting things in the freezer with some doubts, and reached out to touch the inner wall of the freezer, feeling a hand full of moisture.

"What's wrong?" Hagiwara Kenji happened to come over with a large bag of mushrooms, and saw him frowning and studying the inside of the freezer, so he leaned in and asked.

Before Tsukiyama Asari could tell him about his discovery, Asakawa Nami behind them shouted, "Uncle Shibagaki! It seems like there's a power outage. The lights in the refrigerator are not on..."

"Is there a power outage?" Shibagaki Shoichiro put the work in his hands aside and walked over to check. "No, that's not right. The light in front of the chopping board is still on. Besides, I just paid the electricity bill."

"Mr. Shibagaki, it seems like the power is out in the freezer here too."

Upon hearing this, Shibagaki Shoichiro checked several freezers and refrigerators in the kitchen and found that all of them had stopped working. The things in the freezer had melted a lot and were full of water vapor.

"Is there something wrong with the circuit?" Hagiwara Kenji touched his chin and looked around, but couldn't see any problem. "If it's not a power outage, maybe the wires are damaged or something like that."

The chef hurriedly checked the wires. He moved the surrounding cabinets to the side a little, revealing several wires that were pulled out from under different freezers and gathered together at the front end.

"It looks like there's nothing wrong..." Asakawa Nami also squatted down to check with the other party. She stretched out her hand and pulled the wire, and actually pulled the wire directly from the crack in the wall not far away, "Hey?! Shiba, Shibagaki uncle, this wire is broken!"

"What?!" The uncle in charge of daily meals frowned, and hurriedly took the wire from the woman's hand, and pulled the long wire out from inside in a few strokes, "Whose prank is this? It's too much."

"It looks like someone cut it directly." Tsukiyama glanced at the wires inside. The cuts were very neat, and it could be said that they were 'killed with one knife', "It doesn't feel like a prank..."

"Oh no, the ingredients inside are going to melt."

"I think we should put the freezer outside first." Shigaraki Shoichiro thought for a long time but could not come up with a solution. The temperature inside was very high, and the moisture inside the freezer was even higher. He was afraid that leaving it there would affect the frozen ingredients. He quickly picked out the ingredients for dinner and put them aside, then asked other employees who were still at the front desk to help move the freezer.

There were six or seven cabinets in the kitchen. After Amuro Toru, who was originally in the lobby, came to ask about the situation, he simply hung his thick coat at the door and came to help move it.

Shoichiro Shibagaki, who was extremely strict about food, was helping with the moving while constantly apologizing to them for the accident. In addition, they were helping to move things, so when Kenji Hagiwara heard "I'm so sorry" and "Thank you so much", he felt that his brain was about to turn from "Private Marseille" to these two sentences. He quickly changed the subject and asked him to stop, "Mr. Shibagaki, are we having crab meat hotpot tonight?"

"Yes, we just got it from the best fresh food store in town this morning, and considering that several guests drove for several hours to get here, I thought of preparing crab meat hotpot for the first meal to warm you up...but I didn't expect this to happen. The crabs have melted a little. I'm really sorry..."

Why is it here again!

The semi-long-haired man and Tsukiyama exchanged a glance, and the latter quickly changed the subject, "It's obvious that this was man-made. Do you have any ideas? In this situation where the mountain is about to be closed due to heavy snow, if all the food we find is spoiled, wouldn't it be the same as being trapped here."

"No, it's not that serious." Asakawa Nami saw that she had no chance to intervene and help move things, so she simply ran outside with a broom to sweep away some of the snow and make room for several large cabinets. "We store a lot of emergency food in our warehouse, and we check the freezer several times a day. We won't wait until the food is spoiled to find out. Maybe it's just a child's prank."

"A prank?" After placing the ice chest he was carrying in the cleared snow pit, Toru Amuro frowned when he heard this. "It's really a very bad prank."

"It's common for some children to smash the hotel's glass with stones or break the lanterns under the eaves. But it's the first time they've cut the wires outside." After Shibakaki Shoichiro moved the last freezer to the door, he explained through the female clerk's words, "We are the only villa in the town located in the mountains. People from other villas don't like it and say a few words. Unexpectedly, some children heard it and thought it was really a haunted house. They came here when they could go into the mountains."

"That's really troublesome."

Tsukiyama Chaoli echoed a few words, and finally caught his breath after putting the refrigerator he and Matsuda Jinpei were carrying in the right place. He thought he was quite strong, but he didn't expect that the refrigerator in the kitchen, which he didn't know what brand it was, was so heavy. He just thought he could move it by himself, and almost hit his leg halfway. If Matsuda Jinpei hadn't just happened to help him, this trip would have really started in tragedy.

"I didn't expect this refrigerator to be so heavy." After putting down the refrigerator in his hand, Date Kou couldn't help but sigh.

"I was also shocked when I moved it before." Shigaraki Shoichiro laughed, "This brand of freezer we bought is very heavy as long as it is a large box, and there is not much space inside, but the freezing effect is very good."

"Really... That's good, we can put one in the cafe in the summer, and put the extra ice cream and cakes made by Mr. Amuro in the freezer." Tsukiyama Asari touched the freezer with his hand, but didn't see anything else. Instead, he felt that the freezer was unexpectedly familiar, as if he had seen it somewhere before.

"By the way, Jinpei--" Hagiwara Kenji looked at it for a long time, and suddenly turned around to look for his childhood friend as if he remembered something, "You should be able to repair that wire, it doesn't feel good to leave these freezers outside all the time."

"Do you think I'm an electrician?" Matsuda Jinpei frowned and complained unhappily, but turned to the kitchen. "I'm afraid the few things I brought are not enough."

Knowing that there was still a chance to repair it, Asakawa Nami's eyes lit up instantly, "We have a small tool room here! There are all kinds of tools in it, just tell me what the guests need."

Because of the backup guarantee of the tool room, Matsuda Jinpei changed from a vacationing police officer to a limited-time electrician in a few minutes, working in the stuffy kitchen. Hagiwara Kenji walked around this handsome electrician with his sleeves rolled up and a little sweat, holding a snack, and was pulled away by Date Kou who couldn't stand it before he was beaten.

Is this how you are a policeman? It's too naive, isn't it? After watching the whole process, Conan Edogawa could not help but complain in his heart.

Leaving Matsuda Jinpei in the kitchen for the time being, the others simply took their luggage and went back to their rooms. When Tsukiyama Chao led the little boy back to the room, he saw that he looked a little unhappy. After putting down the luggage, he simply asked, "What's wrong? You look listless all the time."

"No, nothing!" Conan Edogawa waved his hands hurriedly.

He couldn't say that he was complaining about those policemen in his heart, could he? He rolled his eyes and simply changed the subject, "I was thinking about that freezer, it always feels familiar."

"Huh?" Unexpectedly, a casual question could turn out to be a key question. Tsukiyama Asari was stunned for a moment and quickly looked at the boy next to him, "Conan, does it feel familiar to you too? I also felt like I've seen it somewhere before."

"Come on - you two are actually entangled in this matter." Suzuki Sonoko was sticking her head out at this time, "We went shopping in the mall last week. There was a whole floor of home appliances. It's not surprising that this freezer looks familiar. Maybe we saw it then."

"That's true." Tsukiyama Asari smiled. Fortunately, I don't have the habit of changing the address to 'Shinichi' in private, otherwise this would be another embarrassing scene where someone almost got exposed, "Why is Sonoko here?"

"Oh, I almost forgot. Mr. Shibasaki said dinner will be ready and asked everyone to go to the restaurant in half an hour."

"Okay, we'll be down in a while."

Half an hour later, the group changed into clothes suitable for the indoor temperature and sat around the dining table in the restaurant on the second floor again.

"Why can't I see the teacher?" After sitting down, Conan Edogawa immediately noticed that his teacher was not at the dining table. He quickly turned his head to look at Okiya Subaru who was sitting not far away, "Has Mr. Subaru seen him?"

The pink-haired man paused with the teacup in his hand, lowered his head and took a sip of warm tea before speaking, "Mr. Suemitsu is not feeling well and has fallen asleep."

"What time is it now?" They had been so busy just now, and it was not yet eight o'clock. The little boy frowned and was about to get down from the chair, "I'll go and see..."

He just stood up, and then he remembered what the other party said about Suemitsu Sosuke just falling asleep, so he could only hesitate for a long time, "At least sleep after dinner."

Worry got the upper hand, Edogawa Conan still stood up and ran upstairs. The room here is more like a friend's guest room than a hotel. There is no room card or key. If you want to lock it, you can only lock it from the inside.

The boy turned the door lock lightly and found that it was not locked, so he quietly pushed it open a little. It was dark in front of his eyes. The little detective squinted his eyes and vaguely saw the bulge between the bedding on the bed. It seemed that he had fallen asleep completely.

Edogawa Conan closed the door and quietly returned to his seat.

"Don't worry, boy. I borrowed the kitchen here to prepare some porridge." Seeing that he came back soon, Subaru Okiya put down the teacup and added, "It has been sent over just now."

"Hey? Mr. Okiya can also make porridge?" Mao Lilan, who was sitting next to a few people, was worried because of this news.

"I thought Mr. Okiya could only stew beef, but I didn't expect that he could also make porridge." Amuro Toru interrupted at this time, and said in a weird way. He was obviously smiling, but it seemed that black air was coming out of his body.

The two men started to complain, one on the left and one on the right. Tsukiyama Chaoli looked around and felt that his decision to take Edogawa Conan to sit between them was a big mistake. He covered his face and remained silent for a long time. After all the dishes for the night were served, he finally couldn't help it and pinched the waist of the little detective.

Edogawa Conan gasped in pain, and immediately understood. He turned around and bit the bullet to transfer the pain to the ace agent next to him, pinched the other's forearm and winked at him.

At the same time, Tsukiyama Chaoli turned his head to Amuro Toru and made a threatening gesture of "stop". After he finished, he thought about it and added a "deduction of wages".

With both sides taking action, the world finally quieted down temporarily.

Hagiwara Kenji watched the excitement for a long time, and when he saw the two finally focus on the hot pot, he picked up his bowl and chopsticks, and kept saying, "Hot pot, hot pot, you have been cooking here for so long and no one cares about you. It seems that only I can appreciate you."

Hearing his childish words, Matsuda Jinpei couldn't help but sneer at the side.

The man with half-long hair put the crab legs on his plate and looked to the side. On the noisy dining table, Asuka Mizuki was lowering her head and rolling the boiled cabbage in the sauce bowl in front of her, and then stuffing it all into her mouth. Her cheeks were puffed up a little, like a hamster hoarding food.

"Well, our little Kiri is still the best." Hagiwara Kenji sighed.

The white-haired boy choked instantly because of his strange words. After swallowing the food in his mouth with great difficulty, he turned his head and coughed for a long time before he recovered.

What a strange tone!

He felt that everyone's eyes were on him after hearing this sentence. If it weren't for his paralyzed face, Fei Niao Wu would have been unable to show his painful mask. Seeing that the weird guy next to him was about to say something again, he quickly snatched the other's plate, dipped the peeled crab legs in the sauce bowl, and stuffed them into Hagiwara Kenji's mouth.

"Hmm... Thank you Xiao Wu... Wait!" Hagiwara Kenji's originally smiling expression froze. He swallowed the crab meat in his mouth and put the crab shell on the plate before he finally realized what was happening from his delayed taste. "What is this?! So spicy!"

Seeing that he was about to faint from the spiciness, a bunch of "friends" around him were only concerned with taking pictures. Mao Lilan looked around and quickly picked up the porcelain pot that came with the food from the side. He poured a bowl full of water and handed it to the man, "Mr. Hagiwara, drink some water."

Hagiwara Kenji was choked by the chili and burst into tears. He took the porcelain bowl and poured the water into his mouth, and then immediately coughed, "......What is this?!"

Mao Lilan was stunned. She took the other party's cup and smelled it closely. She only smelled the pungent and mellow smell of wine, "Ah... It seems to be white wine. I'm so sorry! I thought this was water..."

"This is the specialty white wine here. It's particularly clear because of the water quality..." explained Shibbaka Shoichiro, who came over with the fish he had just processed, "I'll go find some drinks to relieve the spiciness."

"I have milk."

Seeing that the other party was so spicy, Asuka Mizuki, the instigator, couldn't help feeling guilty. He just felt that the taste of this sauce was much heavier than other lighter dipping sauces and more to his appetite. He didn't expect Hagiwara Kenji to react so strongly. He looked down, and in the surprised eyes of others, he took out a box of milk from the big pocket on the front of his sweater, inserted a straw and handed it to the other party.

Hagiwara Kenji drank the milk that the white-haired boy took out from the magic pocket, and finally breathed a sigh of relief, "I'm finally alive--"

"Xiao Wu, I've always wanted to ask, what's in your pocket?" Suzuki Sonoko looked at the box of milk and asked.

Feeling the searchlight-like line of sight, Fei Niaowu paused for a moment, and simply took out the things in his pocket one by one. Soon, a box of sandwich cookies without any brand logo, bags of chocolate milk, a handful of toffee and a few chocolate bars were placed on the table in front of him, "That's all."

"What do you mean that's all!" Suzuki Sonoko exclaimed "Wow", and went over to take a look at each one, "How did you stuff so many things into your pockets, and...how much do you like sweets? You're still so thin, it's really unfair! This cookie is obviously made by Asari-san, he really dotes on you, aren't you afraid of getting cavities?"

"After all, Kirito is still growing." Hagiwara Kenji put down the milk carton in his hand and saw the white-haired boy staring at him. He took a big bite of the cabbage dipped in that devilishly spicy sauce. He had no expression on his face, but he seemed to be showing off. He couldn't help but find it cute and funny. "You can really eat spicy food..."

The man's voice stopped there. He widened his eyes slightly in the smoke of the bubbling hot pot, then put away the exaggerated expression on his face. His expression was inexplicably gentle through the mist. He reached out and rubbed the boy's soft white hair, and put all his attention back on the hot pot in front of him.

The others who were paying attention to this place also changed the topic. Tsukiyama Asari pouted his head to pick up food for the boy next to him and peeled shrimps and crabs. He didn't realize until he had finished half of the wine in front of him that the atmosphere just now seemed to be a little...not right.

No way?

Tsukiyama Asari used his head to peel shrimps as a cover to open the system panel. The matchstick man of the system was lying on the interface frame holding a bowl. Inside was the gasoline cap and noodles that he had heard him repeat countless times. The man's eyes twitched when he saw this, and he simply skipped the other party and opened the forum directly.

[Ahhh, Mommy's Xiaowu - Xiaowu -, whatever you want to eat, Mommy will buy it for you! ]

[What? What happened? I think Xiao Wu who hoards snacks is quite cute, like a little hamster]

[Woo woo... This behavior is really sharp. Because of my work, I come into contact with many children from poor families. Some of them like to hoard food. Because they were often hungry before, they will subconsciously carry the snacks they are given with them. For them, food is an important source of security. The more food they carry with them, the more secure they feel]

[I understand (lies on the ground) (distorts) (crawls away in the dark) (crawls back) Wait a minute, mom has been taking care of Xiao Wu all day. She probably hoards snacks just because she gets hungry easily. Isn’t she still growing! It’s been so long, maybe he has forgotten it now]

[It seems that Xiao Wu is hoarding things without realizing it. Asari can only silently prepare various snacks and a sweater with a large pocket capacity for him. Maybe the previous memory is too deep. Even if he is living a good life now, he still subconsciously wants to hoard]

[It seems to be even worse (silence) (crawl away)]

[And spicy food, why can Xiao Wu eat spicy food so well? Is it related to pain? Wuwuah, why is it so miserable!]

As expected...

Tsukiyama Asari almost buried his head in his plate.

As expected, he had another strange idea in his mind. The child likes to hoard food only because he gets hungry quickly due to his physical condition, and it is more convenient to put some things on his body.

"Tsukiyama...?"

Tsukiyama Asari, who was in a tangle of thoughts, finally realized that someone was calling him. He looked up and met Date Kou's gaze. He then realized that he had spent too long peeling the shrimps, and the tender shrimp meat had piled up into a small mountain on the plate.

The man simply pushed the whole plate of shrimp meat in front of the little boy next to him.

Edogawa Conan's eyes widened. His plate already had the crab legs that Mori Ran had just peeled, not to mention the snacks that Granny Mizuhara had stuffed into it before. He felt his stomach ache when he saw this plate of shrimps.

"Don't worry." Amuro Toru, who was sitting next to him, came over and whispered, "He must have been delayed on the way."

Tsukiyama Asari took a while to realize that he was talking about Kasugawa Shugo, and could only nod his head in agreement. No one knew Kasugawa Shugo's current situation better than him. Judging from the current situation, he is estimated to arrive after ten o'clock.

Because the guy who was originally said to come has not yet arrived, although everyone is sitting around the dining table and eating a lively meal, the few people who know Kasugawa Shugo will come basically look outside every once in a while, but they have never seen any lights like car lights.

By the time we finished our meal, more than an hour had passed. All the dishes on the table had been removed, wiped clean and covered with a new tablecloth, and hot tea and snacks were placed on the table.

After a satisfying meal, Hagiwara Kenji moistened his throat with tea, propped up his head and listened to the three high school students who seemed to be children chatting for a while. He was about to interrupt with a smile, but when he turned around, he accidentally saw his childhood sweetheart looking out the window with a frown on his face, wondering what he was thinking.

The snow outside the window was much heavier than before, and it was so heavy that even the scenery outside was blocked, and nothing could be seen clearly.

"Why hasn't that guy Shuugo come yet?" The relaxed expression of the man with half-long hair also changed a little. He lowered his voice so that only the two of them could hear clearly, "It's snowing heavily... I remember when we went up the mountain before, the uncle said that the mountain would be closed tonight due to heavy snow."

"Who knows what that guy will do on the road again." Matsuda Jinpei responded unhappily, but he felt a sense of uneasiness in his heart, and he just felt uncomfortable.

The man scratched his hair irritably and stood up directly.

"Matsuda, where are you going?" Date Kou was whispering with Morobushi Keimitsu about some unimportant topics, and saw his friend next to him suddenly stand up and walk out, so he asked casually.

"You guys chat, I'm going to the corridor to smoke a cigarette."

Seeing him turn around and leave, Ida Hang couldn't help but say, "Has he been smoking too much recently?"

"Isn't it." Hagiwara Kenji spent the most time with his childhood friend, so he naturally knew how that person had been smoking recently. "For this vacation, we have taken on so many tasks, and when there are so many things to do, we smoke a lot. I think that guy Xiao Zhenping can't find a girlfriend with his bad character. I don't know when he will be controlled."

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6.30 has been revised, and the hot spring chapter has been revised. If it is not connected smoothly with the following text, it may be that the revised chapter has not been loaded. Refresh a few more times and it will be fine. Bobo~