Conan carefully recalled the scene when Fei Yingli and Xiao Bailian entered the store, and gradually realized that there was actually a slight gap between the two actions of "black cat pointing at people" and "turning back by oneself".
It seems that the black cat was actually referring to this beautiful aunt.
But because Xiaolan lied and said that her date was "Kudo Shinichi," she preconceptions that her date was more likely to be a man, and then she received the wrong signal.
Mao Lilan felt better after seeing Fei Yingli.
When she saw the cat in her mother's arms that she hadn't seen for several days, she was even more happy. Before calling her mother, she couldn't help but sweetly shouted: "Xiao Hei!"
"Huh?" Fei Yingli looked down at the cat that raised the tip of its tail, seemingly greeting Mao Lilan, and asked doubtfully, "You have a cat? Doesn't that man not stand cats?"
"That man" of course refers to Mouri Kogoro.
Mao Lilan sighed: "My dad really didn't let me keep him. Xiaohei is a stray cat, but he often came to play with me before."
Fei Yingli frowned again, and once again made a note to Mouri Kogoro in her heart: "It is cold-blooded to be willing to drive away a cat that has entered the house."
Then she thought about it, Mouri Kogoro didn't want to raise a cat, she thought. In the future, if her daughter wants to see a cat, she can go directly to her home, so that the cat can live more comfortably, especially since it looks very small and can be easily raised.
With this thought in mind, she held the cat in front of her eyes.
As a senior feces shoveler, Fei Yingli is much gentler than usual when facing cats, and the sense of oppression of a strong woman is also lessened. She coaxes with a smile on her lips: "Do you want to come home with me?"
"No!" Before the cat could say anything, Conan blurted it out first.
Among the three people, he was the only one who knew best that this was not a stray cat at all. He strongly suspected that if Fei Yingli took the cat home now, another black cat would break into her house at night and steal the cat.
Shiraishi was really a little excited just now. But after thinking about what triggered the separation between Fei Eri and Mori Kogoro, it seemed to be a dark meal made by Fei Eri... he immediately stopped thinking.
Not to mention staying, it doesn't even dare to go there just for food.
When Fei Yingli heard the objection, she lowered her head and glanced at Conan. She had heard Mao Lilan say before that there was a poor child living in Mao Li's family whose father did not care for his mother.
She then freed her hand and touched Conan's head, thinking that he was reluctant to let go of the cat: "You can also come to my house to see the cat."
"No..." Housebreaking and robbery are considered a felony, and black cats like to wear scary masks. It would be even worse if Fei Yingli was frightened in the middle of the night.
Conan thought for a moment and then said bravely: "I have seen it several times in Brother Shiraishi's cafe. It probably has an owner."
Mao Lilan recalled the appearance of Shiraishi's house: "But when I went there, I didn't see a cat litter box or cat toys in Mr. Shiraishi's house."
"This... the cat may be raised by his classmate. Brother Shiraishi occasionally borrows it to play with. After he falls asleep, the cat gets bored and runs to our house along the stairs, so we rarely see it on the street.
Get it." Conan used his reasoning talent to make up a nonsense, and he almost believed it after making it up.
The two people before the meeting were temporarily deceived. He stretched out his hand to Concubine Yingli and put on the innocent smile of a child: "Let's take it and ask Brother Shiraishi first, and then decide whether to adopt it."
It is impossible for Shiraishi to let the cat be kidnapped by others. In this way, Fei Yingli will not be robbed, or be anesthetized and hidden under the bed...
Fei Yingli thought for a moment and nodded. If this was really not a stray cat, it really couldn't be adopted casually. Looking at Conan's open hand, she bent down and handed the cat over.
At this time, several people happened to walk to the corner of the street.
Shiraishi stepped on Conan's shoulder and took a look. In front of the restaurant, Toyama Shisan was being loaded into a police car. Soon the police car would drive away and the crowd would disperse.
It's time to sneak back in and clock out.
Moreover, Conan's frame is too bulky and not as comfortable as Fei Yingli's arms.
Feeling the black cat looking towards the side of the road, Conan looked at it with common sense and immediately let go of his hand.
The cat jumped down to the ground, turned around twice and disappeared. In Mao Lilan's voice of "Xiao Hei!", Conan looked at its back and breathed a sigh of relief, which was regarded as sending him away.
Speaking of which, why did Black Cat fail to save people again? And where has he been since the murder happened until now?
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The space behind the restaurant is not big.
Toru Amuro rummaged through all the corners and cupboards, and finally concluded that there was no place to hide someone unless they were ground into minced meat and poured into the sewer.
After searching to no avail, he dialed the number again without any hope. Unexpectedly, the call was answered this time.
Matsuda said that when he went to the bathroom, he saw a cat playing with a pendant and chased it out of the window. Unfortunately, he accidentally lost it after chasing it for a few streets. He continued to search nearby.
As for why the primary school student said he had never entered the bathroom... because he was just a primary school student. Children tend to forget things easily and tend to be distracted. It is normal for them to miss one or two people passing by.
After listening to it, Toru Amuro thought about it carefully and felt that this was really what happened.
After all, other than this, there is really no way to explain why Matsuda disappeared out of thin air.
The world became scientific again. Toru Amuro secretly breathed a sigh of relief and told Shiraishi that the information was found and there was no need to go back to the store. He would help quit his part-time job and bring the necklace back to the organization.
The conscience of this undercover senior was very reliable, and coupled with the boss's roar in the background, Shiraishi gave up all thoughts of going back to the store, found a corner, removed the mask, and headed straight home.
It's past one o'clock now, past Shiraishi's meal time, but not too late.
He packed up his body and was about to go to the doctor's house for dinner when he suddenly heard several knocks on the door.
Shiraishi was startled, recalling what he heard just now when he was still a cat, thinking that Mao Lilan and Fei Yingli would be outside the door.
Unexpectedly, when I opened it, there was only Conan outside.
——The cat ran away midway, and when I heard that Shiraishi lived downstairs from the Mori Detective Agency, Fei Yingli didn't want to come over.
Mao Lilan's main schedule today was to go shopping with her concubine Yingli. She decided to come back in the evening to ask about the cat, and then go shopping during the day and buy some small gifts for Shiraishi.
Conan suddenly became the light bulb between mother and daughter. Now, after confirming that there was no green light above his head, he lost the motivation to continue following and returned home alone.
When going upstairs, Conan passed by Shiraishi's house, turned his head and glanced twice, and couldn't help it anymore, so he went back and knocked on the door.
He really wanted to know why Black Cat went so hard to sneak in to work today.
Ah, speaking of which, it seems that his "artwork" was forgotten in the store.