Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 270: Innocent Landlord and Pretty Tenant

After hearing the conversation between the two, Fusae immediately realized that she had almost caused a misunderstanding that might regret her life because of her random thoughts. She quickly smiled and greeted Ishino and a group of children. Only then did she realize that the seven children in front of her were Three of them are the adopted children of the couple, and the remaining four are Xiao Ai and Xiaosaki's classmates at Tedan Elementary School.

Seeing the two old friends who had not seen each other for 40 years, they stood there awkwardly for a while. Natsumi smiled and looked at her two daughters and asked first: "Xiao Ai, Xiaosaki, why are so many of you gathered at Dr. Agasa's house today? What did you do?"

Hearing the question from her mother, Xiaosaki immediately understood the other party's intention. She walked up to Dr. Ari with a smart smile and said, "Such a mother. Today, Dr. Ari specially invited our young detective team to help him solve a mystery." The code on a postcard from 40 years ago, and later we found out that the postcard was actually left to him by his first love!"

Then Xiao Ai also explained to Dr. A Li: "Dr. A Li has been trying to find out the answer with his own wisdom for the past three decades, but unfortunately he guessed wrong. This time he felt that he must not miss it again. So he asked us for help, and we finally found this place after working together."

"That's right, that's right. Dr. Ali is obviously not good at solving puzzles but he still shows off. The puzzles he comes up with are always at the level of a joke!" At this time, the three little ones also understood what the two sisters meant and ran away understandingly. He stepped forward and pretended to complain.

Seeing the children trying to help him weave a beautiful lie, Dr. Ari felt grateful and looked at Fushae with guilt, scratching his hairless head and apologizing: "I'm sorry, Fushae. I'm too stupid to make you wait for so many years..."

Knowing that the other party has not forgotten her all these years, Fu Shahui felt warm in her heart, smiled sweetly, shook her head and said: "No, I can't blame you. If I want to blame, I can only blame the cowardice in my heart. I took the initiative to ask you to meet but didn't. If you dare to tell me the location, I will leave such a strange puzzle for you to guess."

At this point, she turned to look at the children and asked curiously: "But I really didn't expect that my awkward code was actually solved by you. Can you tell me how you found this place?"

After hearing this, the three little ones couldn't say that they knew this through Ishino's text message, so they had no choice but to look at Conan behind them for help.

At this time, Conan had deduced the meaning of the secret code from the answers on the way over. Upon seeing this, he walked up to Fusae without any hesitation and explained in a child's tone of asking for credit: "It took us a long time to finally guess the secret code." The numbers refer to the number of English onomatopoeic words for animal sounds, so the animals suggested by the groups of numbers are respectively chicken, dog, mouse and none."

"Then we associated the locations of these animals based on Dr. Agasa's memory as the school, the Noi family, the Choye family, and the Kinoshita family. Finally, we connected these words together and got the phrase 'under the ginkgo tree of the school' homophonic!"

After listening to Conan's explanation, Xiao Ai was the first to understand the idea of ​​solving the puzzle. She couldn't help but look at the confused Dr. Ali with pity, thinking that she really couldn't blame him for encountering such a puzzle.

Later, other people present slowly followed Conan's train of thought, and finally understood the real reason why the old lovers had not been able to see each other for so many years. They all reflected in their hearts that in the future, if they have any feelings they want to convey, they must express them directly. I am determined not to be the Riddler.

Even Fusae, who was the one who asked the question, had to think a lot before recalling how she came up with this secret code. She couldn't help but shook her head and said with a bitter smile: "You are really smart! But I have to say , even after listening to your answers, I felt that this code was a bit too much."

After saying that, she looked back at Dr. Ali and bowed her head to apologize: "I'm sorry Mr. Ali, it's the little awkwardness in my heart that made you waste so many years trying to figure out the code. If I were braver, I could have figured it out. Your contact information came directly to you..."

"No, no, no, how can I blame you? If I had asked for help earlier or gone to the school to find out your moving address, I should have been able to contact you long ago." Dr. Ali waved his hands in relief after hearing this.Seeing Dr. Agasa's helpless look, Fushae couldn't help but burst into laughter and said, "It seems that both of us made a mistake in this matter."

With the autumn wind blowing beside her, Fushae raised her head slightly and watched a ginkgo leaf fall silently on Dr. Ali's gray hair, with unconcealable pity in her eyes.

She inadvertently moved to Dr. Ali's side, raised her hand to take off the ginkgo leaf from his head, looked at the other person's bright eyes and said, "Ali-kun, do you still like ginkgo?"

"Yes, she is indeed very beautiful." Faced with Fusae's intimate actions and words, Dr. Ali blushed and unconsciously wanted to avoid looking away, but then he plucked up the courage to meet the other person's gaze. , said the words that have been buried in my heart, "I still like ginkgo the most."

Hearing Dr. Agasa's answer, Fusae suddenly had a sore nose. She couldn't help lowering her head and tried to use the brim of her hat to block the tears pouring from the corners of her eyes. Her voice was full of happiness: "Yes...is it? In fact, I also like ginkgo the most. …”

Feeling the emotion in the other person's words, Dr. Ali didn't know what to say for a moment, so he changed the subject and said: "Well, although it is a bit late to say it now, I still want to congratulate Fushae for realizing your dream. Became a globally renowned designer.”

"I also want to congratulate you for becoming an outstanding scientist." After hearing this, Fushae wiped away the tears on her cheeks with her hands. She raised her head with a joyful smile and carefully looked at the lover in front of her. She couldn't help but joked: " But you look even cuter now with your chubby look than you did 40 years ago!"

"C-cute?" Dr. Ali, who had never expected to receive such a comment from his target, immediately stood blankly on the spot. After reacting, he scratched his head in embarrassment and explained, "I do seem to have gained some weight recently. Look. You need to exercise more, hahaha."

"Doctor, in addition to your lack of exercise, the most important thing is to control your diet. You can't eat junk food every day." Seeing this, Xiao Ai took the opportunity to interject and said, "I have advised you so many times, but you still need to control your diet." Can’t help it, I think what you need most now is someone to take care of your life and food!”

Seeing Xiao Ai's perfect assist, Ishino immediately praised his daughter's agility in his heart.

At the same time, Fusae also plucked up the courage to make her request to Dr. Agasa, who also had a reddish complexion: "Agasa-kun, I may stay in Japan for a while this time. If it is convenient during this period, , can you let me stay at your place temporarily? I will repay you with the food I made by myself."

Dr. A Li was stunned when he heard this, then nodded and agreed: "It's not inconvenient at all. I'm the only one at home. If you don't mind, I can stay here as long as you like."

"Then I'll trouble you, Doctor..." With an affectionate response, Fushae inadvertently changed the name of the other party.

(End of this chapter)