Chapter 169 The food reaches your mouth and then slips away
Obtaining useful information before going back to sleep will naturally improve the quality of your sleep.
Fujiwara Yu, who slept until blackjack at night, felt that his head was a little groggy. Human beings are indeed troublesome creatures. If you sleep less, you will feel sleepy and cause headaches. Now, if you sleep more, you will not feel sleepy but will feel dizzy.
With his eyelids drooping, the first thing he did was check his phone for missed calls and unread emails. After confirming that there were no missed calls and emails, he turned to his mailbox. When all three places were empty, he walked safely into the bathroom and started washing up.
After washing up and putting on clean clothes, he looked out the window at the setting sun, stretched out and decided to find an izakaya to have a drink, as a way to celebrate learning that the true identity of the rye whiskey was b Investigator Shuichi Akai.
Before going out, he didn't forget to look at the calendar and found that today was already December 6th.
Time flies so fast, is it time to celebrate the New Year again in a blink of an eye? Fujiwara Yu had no idea about the New Year's Eve. He picked up the black suit jacket lying on the sofa, opened the hotel room door and prepared to go downstairs through the fire escape.
Although the rooms in the Mihua Hotel are relatively old, the transportation nearby is very convenient. In particular, the surrounding facilities are very complete. There is a commercial street at the back door of the hotel, and adjacent to the commercial street is a shopping mall with several izakayas.
food street.
Wearing a black suit, Fujiwara Yu looked like a salaryman who had just gotten off work. He randomly selected an izakaya. As soon as he stepped into the store, he saw an already tipsy uncle asking a junior high school girl for a beer with his hands clasped together.
After noticing the girl's appearance, he quickly looked away.
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There are really quite a few people in Tokyo. The little girl who was still very crying after not seeing her for four years has grown up.
"Dad, you are already too drunk to drink any more! And we need to be tighter on food expenses this month, right? You haven't received a commission for a week. If this continues, mom will never come home again!"
Mao Lilan, who had high bangs, looked helplessly at her father. She had promised to bring her to have a casual meal, but her father still couldn't resist the temptation of plum wine, which made the already small living expenses even more stressful.
There was no room for him and he had to sit at the next table. After hearing the girl's complaints about her father, Fujiwara Yu had a faint smile in his eyes. However, this smile soon turned into loneliness and envy. He was lonely in his family and only left
He himself envied the fact that he could interact with his relatives like friends.
After hearing his daughter's "troublesome" words, the tipsy Mouri Kogoro quickly retorted:
"Are you kidding? Even if she were at home, she wouldn't be able to cook such delicious food, okay? Really, the wine in her hand wouldn't taste good even if I didn't ask what that woman did."
"Dad, what are you talking about?" Mao Lilan tilted her head and asked with a kind smile, but her raised fists did not look friendly, and the bulging muscles on her arms were more like threats.
When Mouri Kogoro saw this scene, he knew that his daughter was angry. Worried that his daughter would really punch him, he changed the topic with a smile and said:
"I didn't say anything. Xiaolan, can you let me have another drink? I promise not to drink again after this one."
Mao Lilan, with her arms folded across her chest, silently calculated the price of a single cup of plum wine in her mind, making sure that there would be no deficit in living expenses, and then nodded and agreed to her father's wish to have another drink.
Fujiwara Yu, who was sitting next to him holding a menu, had good hearing, so he naturally heard the whole conversation between father and daughter without missing a word. He closed the menu and looked at the waiter standing beside him, and said politely:
"Hello, please give me one piece of edamame, one piece of salt-grilled chicken skewers, two pieces of thick-cut beef tongue, and a bottle of Umenojuku plum wine, please add ice."
"Okay, sir, please wait a moment, I will place your order right now."
The appetizer is a perfect match with the plum wine with ice. When the food is served, he is ready to eat a big meal. Unexpectedly, he picks up the taiko and wants to take a bite of the thick-cut beef tongue. The mobile phone placed on the table does not give him any dignity.
The ground vibrated, preventing him from enjoying the food.
After Fujiwara Yu saw the caller ID as "White", he didn't dare to neglect it because he knew that White had recently gone to investigate a man with long black slightly curly hair who was in contact with Scotch whiskey, so he directly adjusted the volume of his mobile phone to the lowest level before turning on the phone.
Connected.
"Mr. Creel, I am following Scotch Whiskey and have found that he has entered the alley but has not come out. Do you need to go further?" White asked aloud, sitting in the car fifty meters away from the alley entrance.
"No, I'll look for you wherever you are now." Fujiwara Yu smiled and said this in a normal tone, just to avoid making people around him suspicious. You must know that the little girl mentioned the word "entrustment" just now.
, this alcoholic uncle’s profession is probably a private detective, and he doesn’t want to be his first subject of investigation in two weeks.
White heard the noise in the background and said briefly:
"In area 19, Hatchobori 2-chome, Chuo-ku, the target has not left the alley."
"Okay, I'll pick you up right away."
Fujiwara Yu deliberately raised his voice to finish these words, then hurriedly stood up and put on the black suit jacket that he had taken off again, pretending to be in a hurry and walked quickly to the cashier, opened his wallet, paid the bill, and pushed the door open to leave.
The waiter in the store obviously didn't expect that someone would leave due to urgent matters, leaving a table of untouched meals. She was originally going to clean it up, but unexpectedly, Kogoro Mouri, who was sitting next to him, transformed into a gibbon and directly put the dishes on the table.
He quickly moved to his table and began to drink while his daughter and the waiter were stunned.
"Dad! What are you doing?" Mao Lilan never thought that her father would eat the food ordered by others. She frowned and was about to criticize a few words. Unexpectedly, Maori Kogoro, who had just pricked up his ears to eavesdrop, interrupted him directly.
What she said.
"Oh, that handsome guy just now won't be back. He said he was going to pick someone up." Mouri Kogoro picked up a bunch of salt grilled chicken skewers and put it in his mouth. While chewing, he explained: "Put the meal aside.
It’s a waste, you might as well give it to me, hahaha!”
The waiter sneered and picked up the rag to wipe the table. She had no reason to stop her. After all, the customer had paid the bill and did say to dispose of the food as he pleased before leaving. She said "Please use it with ease".
Went to entertain the new guests.
Mao Lilan stared at her half-moon eyes and felt speechless. She had no choice but to hold her chin and sigh. It seemed that she had to ask Shinichi for help tonight. She couldn't help her drunken father home alone.
She picked up the old flip phone, found the third number in the address book and quickly dialed it. At this time, Shinichi probably hadn't had dinner yet. There were still some ingredients at home to make curry rice, so it would be okay.
Thank him for helping you.
"Hello? Is this Shinichi?"
"Oh, Xiaolan, what do you want from me?"
"With that voice...you're probably sitting on the sofa reading mystery novels again, right?"
Kudo Shinichi, who was sitting on the sofa reading a mystery novel, widened his eyes. After looking around, he whispered:
"Xiaolan, you shouldn't have installed a surveillance camera in my house, right?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? Haven't you always had this hobby since you were a kid?" Mao Lilan sighed helplessly. Hearing the snickers coming from the other end of the phone, he knew that Shinichi was joking with him.
, she said helplessly: "Are you free to do me a favor now? My father is drunk again, and I can't drag him alone."
"Hey? Uncle is drunk again... Really, then you can send me the address on your mobile phone, and I will change my clothes and come."
"Okay, wait a minute and I'll make you my specialty curry rice!"