After drinking coffee, Mouri Kogoro squatted in front of the entrance with a mop.
But because he got up too early today, even after drinking coffee, Uncle Maori quickly started to "fish" in his head bit by bit, and then fell asleep in a daze.
"It's true... I kept saying that I would stay up until six-thirty, but I fell asleep first..."
Mao Lilan was already accustomed to her father's inconsistent and unreliable behavior, but she still couldn't help but complain.
"Then I'll ask uncle to wake up then." Conan, who had guessed most of the truth, said with a smile.
Time passed slowly, and the sun finally poked its head out from the other side of the horizon, spreading the first ray of morning light.
"Get up, uncle!" Conan came to the drooling Kogoro Mouri and whispered in his ear, "The time is almost up!"
When Kogoro Mouri opened his eyes in a daze, but before he could wake up, a voice suddenly came from the direction of the door that made him wake up instantly.
"Ding dong!"
The loud doorbell echoed in the room, and Mouri Kogoro was stunned for a second, and then jumped up from the floor as if it was loaded with springs.
"Come on, come on!" Xiao Lan poked her head out of the house and walked towards the door with Shui Wu Lina.
"This guy..." Mouri Kogoro ran towards the door at lightning speed.
He gritted his teeth and opened the four locks on the apartment door from top to bottom with windy movements, and then pushed the door open.
"Wait for me...I will definitely catch you!"
A low growl came out of his throat.
But when he opened the door, what he saw was unbelievable.
There was no one at all in the corridor at the door.
And from the time the doorbell rang to the time he opened the door, it only took seven or eight seconds.
"No, not even half a person?!"
He exclaimed.
Xiaolan also looked around, her tone full of surprise: "How is that possible?! Could it be the person next door?"
"Yes, I have!"
At this time, Conan's voice sounded at the right time, attracting the attention of the other three people.
He pointed at the pile of newspapers, periodicals and books that needed to be thrown away that Reina Mizuna put down at the door last night and said:
"Here! Just behind here..."
"Huh? Isn't that a magazine?" Mouri Kogoro said impatiently, but he still walked over, "Idiot! How could a servant be hidden in a place like this..."
He walked to the pile of square magazines and looked at them.
What Uncle Maoli didn't expect was that there was really a person hiding behind the pile of magazines.
"S-kid?!"
Mouri Kogoro suddenly opened his eyes, then stretched out his hand suddenly, grabbed the child's collar and lifted him into the air.
"You brat! Are you the doorbell weirdo?!"
"No wonder...because I was a child, I didn't notice it." A look of realization appeared on Xiaolan's face.
"After all, I never imagined that there would be a person hiding there..." Reina Mizuna finally knew why she had never been able to catch the doorbell weirdo.
"So the doorbell weirdo didn't play any prank last Saturday...Ms. Minashi was on a business trip at that time, and she had almost no magazines to throw away..."
Mouri Kogoro put his face close to this child who looked younger than Conan, and said rather viciously:
"Hey! Why on earth are you doing such a thing?!"
Conan saw that the child was a little embarrassed and didn't want to speak, so he immediately came to his rescue and said:
"I think he rang the doorbell to wake up Mizunashi-san, right? So that Mizunashi-san could catch up with the "Good Morning 7 o'clock" program!"
"He must have thought that he couldn't see Mizuno-san on the show because she overslept. He doesn't have to go to school on Saturdays. He can go home quickly after ringing the doorbell and check on TV whether Mizuno-san has appeared on the show.
Already."
Mouri Kogoro nodded slightly, and then asked: "But didn't it happen on Tuesday?"
"Well... I think that day should be the sports day off, right?" Conan said.
"Then the sleeping pills were given to help my sister sleep peacefully and wake up early in the morning?"
Xiaolan also reacted and asked generally for confirmation.
"Well, well..." The little boy looked at Xiaolan, who looked gentler, and finally spoke, "Because mom said that after eating it, you will sleep well."
"But why? Why are you doing this?" Shuiwu Lina understood the principle of all this, took two steps forward and squatted in front of the little boy.
"Because you are very similar..." There was a trace of sadness in the little boy's words, and his voice was choked up, "Because you and your mother look very similar... My mother died in a car accident last year... so I..."
As soon as these words came out, several adults present were a little stunned.
"Kid, I can understand your loneliness after losing your mother, but if you can't let go of your mother, you will only make your mother in heaven worried..."
Shui Wulian took a deep breath and said warmly:
"Boys, you need to be strong, so that your mother can rest assured... So, don't come here anymore. This is for your mother and yourself..."
After listening to Shui Wulian's words, the little boy nodded with tears in his eyes.
"Well, well...bye, big sister!"
Seeing his back turning and running away, Shui Wu Lina's eyes became a little sparkling.
Seeing Xiaolan's surprised look at her, she explained: "Ah, it's because I had a brother like that before..."
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"I can't stand it...it's such a boring case..." Mouri Kogoro slumped his shoulders and walked down the street with Xiaolan and Conan.
After the commission was over, the three of them were preparing to walk home when they suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from the side of the road.
"Hey, what are you doing here so early?"
The three of them turned around and saw a car parked on the road next to them, and the person in the driver's seat was looking at Yuanhuaiyu on their side.
"Mr. Yuan?"
"Teacher Yuan?!"
Yuan Huaiyu waved to them.
"We just solved a boring case and are preparing to go home." Mouri Kogoro explained.
"Oh? That's just right. I have something to do with Conan. Since we have met, can you let Conan follow me today?" Yuan Huaiyu said with a smile.
"Uncle, Sister Xiaolan, you go back first, I will go have breakfast with Teacher Yuan!"
Conan was well aware of Yuanhuaiyu's character of not going to the Three Treasures Hall for anything. His appearance here was obviously not an accidental encounter, but a special visit to him.
Maybe it has something to do with that organization's affairs.
He waved to Maori and his daughter, then jumped into Yuan Huaiyu's car.
Yuan Huaiyu nodded to the dazed Maori father and daughter, then stepped on the accelerator, and the car accelerated instantly and drove forward.