Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 171: Didn’t your cold recover too quickly?
"This……"

Lin Xiuyi hesitated for a moment.

When Lingzi was little, she liked to stick to him and sleep with him at night.

But that was when she was a child. Now she is an eleven-year-old girl. Although she has not yet grown into a graceful young lady, she is no longer an ignorant child.

At this age, sleeping together is obviously inappropriate.

Lingzi stared at Lin Xiuyi with anticipation, but when she saw him remain silent, she immediately lowered her head in disappointment.

"Onii-chan, I get it," the little cousin bit her lip, her voice tinged with tears, "Even if I'm scared, I will try my best..."

As she spoke, she raised her hand and wiped her eyes with her slender fingers. Crystal tears immediately slid down her cheeks.

"Onii-chan, put me down. I'm going back to sleep."

Looking at his sister's pitiful appearance, Lin Xiuyi could no longer bear to do it.

"Okay, sleep here tonight. When you get better, go back to your room!"

"Ok!"

Lingzi nodded happily, and like a kitten, she rubbed her head against Lin Xiuyi's neck.

"Onii-chan is the best!"

"Stop messing around," Lin Xiuyi carried the girl to his bed. "I'm going to the izakaya to get some green onions and ginger now. Just lie down and be good."

"Oh," the little cousin responded obediently and curled up into the quilt.

Lin Xiuyi turned and walked out of the room. Just as he reached the first floor, he suddenly remembered that he was in such a hurry to come out that he forgot to take the key to the izakaya.

He hurried back and was about to get the key when he heard the girl's cheerful laughter coming from his room.

"I can sleep with Onii-chan tonight! Onii-chan's scent, hehe..."

Uh……

Lin Xiuyi's face suddenly became dark. He gently pushed the bedroom door open a crack and looked inside.

The little cousin was wrapped in his quilt, rolling around on the bed like a happy little ball.

Lin Xiuyi couldn't help it any longer, so he pushed open the door and asked with a stern face, "Your cold is getting better too quickly, isn't it?"

"O-Onii-chan?"

Lingzi shuddered, and the smile on her face froze instantly. The next moment, she returned to her previous listless appearance and said pitifully,

"My head is so hot and uncomfortable... Ouch!"

"Still pretending!"

Lin Xiuyi gave his sister a slap on the head, feeling both amused and helpless. Then he put his hand on his little cousin's forehead, which felt cold to the touch.

"You're a really fast learner, aren't you?"

Lin Xiuyi immediately understood that the little girl must have been imitating him yesterday, rubbing her hands to warm her forehead.

"Onii-chan, I know I was wrong!" Reiko, realizing she'd been caught, quickly turned over and sat up, kneeling on the bed. "Since we're already here, why not just leave it at that tonight..."

"Go back to your room immediately!" Lin Xiuyi snorted.

“Wow… Onii-chan doesn’t want me anymore…” Reiko raised her arms and tried to wipe her eyes with her hands again.

Lin Xiuyi grabbed her hand, bent down and smelled it. It smelled like onion. No wonder her tears flowed so freely just now.

"Did you learn this from Yukiko?"

"Yeah," the little cousin nodded timidly, her head almost lowered to her chest.

Before Lin Xiuyi could get angry, she quickly jumped out of bed and ran out of her brother's bedroom.

"Onii-chan, I'm going back to my room." Lin Xiuyi shook his head helplessly. Having such a clingy sister was both a joy and a headache.

……

The next day, Lin Xiuyi slept in for a rare time. When he opened his eyes, it was almost ten o'clock.

He suddenly felt a little strange. Ever since Lingzi moved in with them, the little girl would never let him get up so late even on weekends. Why was it so quiet today?

As soon as he walked out of the bedroom, Wangcai ran over with the collar in his mouth, looking at his master expectantly.

"Wang Wang..."

"Didn't Lingzi take you for a walk?" Lin Xiuyi touched the dog's head and glanced at his sister's bedroom.

Normally at this time, my little cousin would have come back from a walk with Wangcai.

"Wait a moment," Lin Xiu patted Wangcai and walked into the bathroom.

When he finished washing up and came out, there was still no sound in Lingzi's room.

Lin Xiuyi thought that his sister was too tired yesterday and slept in, so he didn't pay much attention to it. He went to the kitchen of the izakaya to cook seafood porridge.

Then I took Wangcai out for a walk, and on the way I went to a nearby convenience store and bought some meat buns.

When they returned to the izakaya, the seafood porridge was already cooked. After delivering half of it to the Maori mother and son on the third floor, Lin Xiuyi took the rest back to the second floor.

As soon as he entered the house, Wangcai couldn't wait to go to the doghouse, pick up his food bowl, and put it at Lin Xiu's feet.

"Don't worry, yours will be there," Lin Xiuyi said with a smile as he took out three meat buns and threw them into the dog bowl.

"Reiko, time for breakfast!"

Lin Xiuyi shouted several times at the top of his lungs, but there was no response from his little cousin's bedroom.

He was puzzled and pushed the door open to check: "Lingzi?"

"...Onii-chan," the girl, her face flushed, looked over drowsily as she lay on the bed, "I feel a little unwell."

"Are you pretending to be sick again?" Lin Xiuyi glared at the girl unhappily, "Hurry up and have breakfast."

"...Oh," the little girl pouted in grievance, climbed up from the bed weakly, and followed Lin Xiuyi to the restaurant with heavy steps.

"Eat quickly, it will get cold soon," Lin Xiuyi scooped a bowl of seafood porridge and placed it in front of his sister.

Lingzi nodded obediently and picked up a meat bun weakly, but just sat there stupidly, staring at the bun, without moving for a long time.

"Don't you want to eat?" Lin Xiuyi asked doubtfully.

"...I have no appetite," Lingzi replied listlessly, her voice as soft as a mosquito's.

You don’t really have a cold, do you?
Lin Xiu stretched out her hand half-believingly and gently placed it on her sister's forehead. It was really hot like a small stove.

However, having learned his lesson last night, in order to prevent the little girl from pretending to be sick, he put his hand under the girl's armpit to try again, and it was still warm.

"You actually have a cold?" Lin Xiuyi was sure.

"...I just told you," Lingzi said with a face full of grievance, "Onii-chan, you don't believe me!"

"Who told you to pretend to be sick last night..."

Before Lin Xiu finished speaking, she saw her little cousin pouting, as if to say "if you say it again, I will cry in front of you", so she had to change her words quickly.
"Okay, I was wrong, okay?"

You can't drink seafood porridge when you have a cold. Lin Xiuyi quickly went to the refrigerator to pour a glass of milk, heated it in the microwave, and brought it to his sister.
"Be good, it's okay if you don't want buns, but you have to drink the milk. I'll make you something delicious later..."

After coaxing his sister to finish drinking the milk, Lin Xiuyi let her go back to her room to rest.

Lingzi didn't move, but opened her arms towards him.

Lin Xiuyi could only pick up his sister and was about to go to the girl's bedroom when Lingzi reminded him.
"Wrong! Not this way!"

(End of this chapter)