Due to a drowning incident, the kite competition was terminated early.
The police investigated on the river bank for three hours. During this period, the contestants left one after another, leaving only a few people scattered on both sides of the river bank.
After the two police cars on the river embankment drove away, Mumu Thirteen and his men hid in the organizer's tent with the young detective team, quietly staring at the suspect not far away.
Conan noticed that Haiyuan Ai had been typing on his mobile phone. Curiously, he moved closer to Haiyuan Ai and asked in a low voice, "Who have you been sending messages to since just now? Sometimes you smile, and sometimes you don't look like much." Happy……"
The three children had long been curious about what Haiyuan Ai was doing. When Conan asked, they immediately turned their attention to Haiyuan Ai.
"Brother Chi, he asked us in the group how the game was going, so I replied to him. He said that he had read the key parts of the information and was going to have a rest tonight. He also said that he would treat us to a big dinner later... "Haiyuan Ai saw the eyes of the three children shining brightly. He turned the phone screen to the children and let them see the last chat record between him and Chi Feichi. He said with a speechless face, "But the reason for his treat is this."
Conan couldn't help but laugh when he saw the phrase "The kite died before it left the battlefield", "Brother Chi's ability to tell cold jokes can rival that of the Doctor!"
"What does this mean?" Yuantai asked in confusion, "You die first before leaving the army...does it mean our kite fell down?"
Mitsuhiko frowned and recalled, "This should be a Chinese poem, I've heard of it before..."
Haibara Ai saw the suspect outside entering the outdoor toilet, put down her mobile phone, and reminded Conan to work, "Edogawa, the target has entered the toilet, it's time for you to take action, right?"
When the three children heard "action", they put the poetry aside for the time being and looked at Conan expectantly.
Conan nodded and smiled at the three children, "Then please prepare the 'microphone phone' and demonstrate it to the police officers later!"
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More than ten minutes later, the suspect bowed his head in front of the evidence and confessed, and was taken into a police car by the police.
Dr. A Li called Chi Fei Chi, and then led the young detective team to the road next to the river embankment, staying next to his yellow Beetle, waiting for Chi Fei Chi to come over.
After the incident was resolved, the three children focused their attention on the sentence "die before leaving the army" and started chatting with Conan and Haihara Ai.
"By the way, Conan, what does the saying "die first before leaving the army" mean?"
"It's 'Death before leaving the army'. It comes from a poem written by Du Fu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty in China. The name of the poem is "The Prime Minister of Shu", which refers to Zhuge Kongming, the Prime Minister of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period. Brother Chi said The poem means that before the Shu army sent troops to attack Wei, Zhuge Kongming, the prime minister and military advisor of the Shu army, passed away..."
"So this is ah……"
"Brother Chi means that our kite is just like Zhuge Kongming. It has been broken before it can lead us to victory, right?"
"Kite feels so pitiful..."
Haibara Ai:"……"
If she guessed correctly, Brother Fei Chi meant to make fun of them by saying this, right? He meant to make fun of the poor quality of the kites they made and that they were scrapped before they even finished the competition.
As a result, Edogawa's explanation and the children's understanding turned into "Kite is very pitiful", which made her feel a little melancholy in her heart.
Probably the red sunset in the sky at this moment was very consistent with Zhuge Cheng's state of being in decline for many years, so it made her want to express something with emotion.
"After we go back, shall we repair our kite?" Mitsuhiko suggested.
"Yeah!" Ayumi nodded, with a smile on her face again, "Although I don't know if the kite competition will be held again, we can still repair it and let it fly again!"
Yuantai also nodded in agreement and added, "Even if there is no competition, we can fly kites on the river embankment again when we have time! I have decided that our young detective team will fly kites here every week from now on!"
"Hey, hey, the frequency of coming every week is too exaggerated," Conan reminded in a dumbfounded voice, "and not every day is suitable for kite flying..."
"I don't have any objections. It's up to you to decide whatever you want," Haihara Ai stood beside Conan and whispered, "Anyway, after they come here twice, they won't have much interest anymore."
Dr. Ali listened to the children's talk and felt that the atmosphere around him was full of life. He smiled, looked up and suddenly noticed children on the river embankment not far away.
On the walking path, four children walked together.
One of the children was pushing a children's bicycle, and three other children were following him. The four of them talked and laughed together, with a relaxed and happy atmosphere surrounding them, and they walked away under the setting sun.
Dr. Ali's eyes subconsciously followed the four children, his eyes full of nostalgia, and he sighed, "It's really nostalgic. Standing on the river embankment at sunset, it seems like childish singing is ringing in my ears again... …”
"Huh?"
The three children stopped their discussion and turned their attention to Dr. Ali.
"Doctor, what are you talking about?" Yuantai asked with a puzzled look on his face, turning his head and looking around, "Is anyone singing near here?"
Dr. Ali looked at Haibara Ai and Conan, worried that saying that song would ruin the atmosphere, and wondered whether he should just say, "Well..."
"It's not that someone sang, but the doctor remembered a certain song in his memory, right?" Conan turned to look at the river embankment walking path, and suddenly felt that the river embankment road under the sunset was very familiar. He was stunned for a moment, and quickly smiled. , "That road can lead to Didan Elementary School. The doctor was also a student of Didan Elementary School before, so when the doctor was in elementary school, he should have walked that road, right?"
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"Yes, yes..." Dr. Ali smiled and scratched his head.
"Speaking of this road, Xiaolan used to..." Conan realized that he almost let it slip. He sweated and quickly changed his words, "Sister Xiaolan told me before that this embankment road connects to Mihua Town.
In many schools, she also walked this road with her brother Shinichi when she was in junior high school. At that time, they also met Miss Akita Reiko who was practicing singing by the river..."
"Miss Qiuting was also a student of Didan Elementary School," Bumi said with a smile. "She may have walked this road when she was in school. This road is probably full of childhood memories for her, so she
Choose to practice singing here!”
"Well..." Conan turned to look at the tall buildings downstream on the other side, and responded a little absently, "Yeah."
"What's wrong?" Haiyuan asked, and turned to look at the building over there in confusion.
"Nothing, just talking about singing, I suddenly remembered something..." Conan still looked at the building over there and explained, "There is a rooftop vegetable garden on the roof of the building over there. Uncle Kogoro received that
At the invitation of a resident, Sister Xiaolan and I went there to help collect vegetables. Brother Chi also went with us that day. When we arrived at the rooftop vegetable garden, we found someone dead on the rooftop vegetable garden, and Brother Chi was there.
After seeing the scene, I walked to the rooftop, looked at the river embankment road here, and suddenly asked me...did you hear the singing?"
"Ah?" Mitsuhiko sweated as he listened to Conan imitate Idechi Feichi's unwavering tone, feeling that the surrounding temperature automatically dropped two degrees, "Was anyone singing near you at that time?"
"No, it was very quiet near the rooftop vegetable garden at that time, and no one was singing on the river embankment. And even if someone sang on the river embankment, it would be impossible to hear it standing on the roof of the building over there, right?" Conan looked back at the building.
He looked at the embankment road again, with a look of helplessness, "I was wondering if he was hallucinating, so I asked him directly what song he heard, and he told me - the scarecrow..."