Conan's corpse picker

Chapter 464 Jiang Xia's Scary Painting Style

Hui Yuanai thought about Jiang Xia's kind and expectant tone just now, rubbed the phone case with her small hands that had nowhere to rest, and fell into a tangle.

After thinking for a moment, she didn't answer Jiang Xia's question.

He just said nonchalantly: "I'm going to make your favorite fried shrimp and saury tonight, but the ingredients at home are exhausted. That... next to the south exit of Mihua Station, the seafood in Dayou Commercial Building Supermarket is relatively fresh. If you are free, you can Go buy some for me."

Jiang Xia paused for a moment, and said "Yes": "No problem, I'll go and have a look."

The brief call was quickly hung up.

Hui Yuanai looked at the blacked-out phone screen, remembered the ease and joy in Jiang Xia's last sentence, and the brats who were having fun in Dayou Commercial Building at this time, raised his hand and pressed his heart.

... a pang of conscience.

But... But Jiang Xia is not a bad person, and she never hits children.Those children often encounter cases of kidnapping, robbery, and even homicide.

At such a dangerous time, it may be safer to have Jiang Xia watching by the side...

Hui Yuanai briefly comforted himself, then put away the phone, returned to the kitchen, put on his gloves, and continued to fiddle with the oven and the desserts inside.

……

Beside the rice flower station.

The first floor of Dayou Commercial Building.

Conan, Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko, the four children sat in the waiting area outside the cash register, each with an ice cream, happily eating dessert.

They played video games for a while in the game hall on the fifth floor.After playing the game, it is customary to go to the underground supermarket to buy ice cream and have a rest.

While they were discussing where to go tomorrow, the traffic around them gradually increased.

Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko held the ice cream that was almost finished in his hand, and shrank back carefully: "There are a lot of people."

Yoshida Ayumi often goes out to the supermarket with her mother, and she knows how to educate a few little boys: "Because it is already past four o'clock in the afternoon, and it happens to be time for everyone to buy dinner ingredients."

"Dinner..."

Mitsuhiko took a bite of the ice cream and suddenly thought of a new way to play.

He suggested with great interest: "By the way, let's play the menu reasoning game!"

"?" "?" "?"

Three puzzled eyes.

Conan was attracted by the word "reasoning", and repeated the unfamiliar new term in confusion: "menu reasoning?"

"That's right!" Tsuburaya Mitsuhiko pointed to the shelf next to the four of them.

On the shelf, there are some small rectangular plastic boxes, which are full of discarded receipts - shopping customers will organize shopping bags and pack change on the shelf.During this process, some people will take out the receipts and throw them away when they see the receipts in their wallets.

Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya explained the new gameplay: "'Menu reasoning' refers to guessing what each family plans to eat tonight through those small tickets—"

As he said that, he stretched out his hand and grabbed a few small tickets while no one was paying attention: "It sounds interesting, then I'll start!"

Yuan Tai wrote "not interested" all over her face, sitting next to her and concentrated on eating the cone.He still prefers exciting adventures to guessing riddles, which he is not good at.

Conan is not very interested in this kind of reasoning that is about as difficult as "one plus one equals two", and:

"...This is an invasion of personal privacy."

Mitsuhiko and Ayumi shook their heads like rattles: "Detectives don't pay attention to these things! And don't you usually inquire about other people's privacy?"

Conan blushed: "..."

...for a while it was impossible to refute.

"Okay, listen carefully, I'm about to start!" Mitsuhiko picked up a sheet and read the items on it, "Potatoes, onions, 6 eggs, a pack of ground beef, bread flour..."

Ayumi Yoshida sounded familiar, and quickly answered: "It's a butter patty! Um... wait, it seems that there is still a shortage of flour..."

Conan listened with his ears open, and couldn't help interjecting: "Flour is a standing material at home, so you don't need to go out and buy it."

"Yeah, then I guessed it right!" Ayumi was happy again.

She also took a small ticket and read the content on it: "High-quality chicken drumsticks, tomato sauce, tomatoes, cabbage, celery..."

"It must be chicken rice! The one with vegetable salad!"

——It turned out to be the voice of Kojima Genta.

Although he doesn't like guessing riddles, he is very interested in eating... and now that the meal is approaching, he is actually starting to get hungry.

Kojima Motota decisively joined the game of "menu reasoning".

He reached out to grab the receipt.

However, when the hand stretched out, it touched the other hand that was stretched out above the receipt box.

Kojima Motota subconsciously raised his head to see the person in front of him, his smile froze at the corner of his mouth.

The other three children turned their heads in doubt when they heard Yuantai's rough laughter that stopped abruptly.

——I saw Jiang Xia actually standing behind them, taking out the receipt from the receipt box first.

Jiang Xia looked down at the paper in his hand, then looked at the four children, and said friendlyly: "What are you playing?"

His kind eyes swept across, and the three children froze.

Conan, who was the only one who could speak normally, turned around and gave a science introduction to his classmates: "It's a new way for children to find out - from the items on the receipt, guess what the buyer plans to eat for dinner..."

Before he finished speaking, the three children next to him stood up suddenly, turned to Jiang Xia in unison, and bowed as if admitting their mistakes: "I'm sorry! We shouldn't invade other people's privacy, and we will definitely not do it again next time!"

Conan: "...?"

...That's not what you said just now!
Jiang Xia looked at the three heads approaching him, and touched them before they could react.

Then, when the three children touched their necks in horror to check whether the head was still there, they nodded and commented: "Very creative game."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Xia also looked at the stack of small tickets in his hand, and read the top one as if participating in a game: "Raincoat, gloves, hemp rope, large black plastic bag, hatchet..."

Conan: "???"

...Why did Jiang Xia's painting style suddenly go wrong when he came to Jiang Xia?

Wait, this floor is a food supermarket, so it doesn't sell these things at all!
"Let me see."

Conan jumped off his seat, hurried to Jiang Xia's side, and took the receipt from him.

He originally suspected that Jiang Xia was scaring the child.

However, after a quick glance, these items were actually written on the receipt.The name of the store is not this supermarket, but a tool store across the street.

The stack of receipts that Jiang Xia took had overlapped creases on each of them—the person who dropped it probably pulled out a large stack of accumulated receipts from his wallet while collecting the change, and they were lumped together Throw it away.

…Since the receipt is real, why did this person buy these things?
Another knife, another glove to block fingerprints, and a raincoat to prevent blood splashes... What are you doing?What exactly does this person want to do? !

(End of this chapter)