When the Sand Sculpture Trial Comes to Yokohama

Lin Xianming was running around in the Bachang Detective Office, and even the mentaiko rice bowl that Bachang Zenzhi put on the table didn't taste good.

What's going on at Huajiuhui?Is he going to find Zhang Shun to find out what happened?But if I go back now, will I fall into the trap of the police?He entered the country illegally, and his job is also a gray industry...

Bachang Shanzhi held the bowl and looked at Lin Xianming pacing repeatedly: "Xiao Lin, stop spinning, it makes me dizzy..."

"No, I have to take a look!" Lin Xianming made up his mind, "It shouldn't matter if you pretend to be a passing passerby and take a look from a distance. I'm afraid my IOU is still there..."

Just as he was walking towards the door, there was a sudden "dong dong" knock on the door.

Lin Xianming was slightly taken aback, and his expression immediately became vigilant.

The Machang Detective Agency has not yet opened the door, so who would be the person who knocked on the door so early?Is it the fish that slipped through the net sent by Hua Jiuhui, or the police who discovered his existence?

In a flash of thought, Lin Xianming drew out his knife, and just as he was about to ask a question, Shanzhi Bachang jumped out with a mentaiko rice bowl in his hand, and opened the door lock with his hand raised.

"What are you doing, you idiot!" Lin Xianming was startled, and he raised his hand and pulled back the leader of the racecourse Shanzhi.

However, the door still opened following inertia.

The bright morning light outside the house shines into the office, coating the figures of a man and a woman standing at the door with a bright edge.The young man among them had slightly long orange hair, wore a top hat, and had no superfluous expressions on his face; while the young girl looked only at the age of a female high school student, and smiled friendlyly at the two people in the door.

After seeing the faces of the two of them clearly, Lin Xianming was startled.

He knew everyone in the Huajiuhui, but these two people were not from the Huajiuhui.

The girl with black hair and blue eyes took a quick look at the two of them, then raised her legs and walked in front of Baba Zenzhi.

"Lin Xianming, right?" She said cheerfully, "Hello, hello, my name is Minan Rinhua."

Zenji Baba was silent for a moment, then looked back at the big man in women's clothing beside him.

"Sorry, I'm not Lin Xianming." He spoke with a strong Bodo accent, holding the bowl in one hand, and pointed at Lin Xianming with the other, "He is."

Minan Linhua was taken aback for a moment, and looked at Lin Xianming in disbelief.

Her gaze first stayed on Lin Xianming's lightly made-up face, then swept his smooth long golden hair all the way down, and finally stopped on the red skirt he was wearing.

"Have you changed your gender?" She said in shock, thinking how shocked Lin Qiaomei would be if she found out...

[System prompt: Lin Xianming's palpitation value +300]

"I'm a real man!" Lin Xianming was angry, "I just like to wear women's clothes!"

"Oh, disrespect, disrespect..." Minan Rinka suddenly understood, after all, there are women's bosses in Honmaru, Ranto Shiro, Jiro Tachi, etc...

And looking at Lin Xianming's appearance, that blond hair similar to that of Ranto Shiro, and then contacting the previous statement of revenge Yata Nakajiro and Zhang Shun's statement, Minan Rinka immediately connected everything into a line ——And the unlucky client who misidentified Ranto Shiro and thus entrusted to the revenge house, the unlucky killer who should be connected is Lin Xianming Benming...

"The thing is like this," Minan Rinka explained to Lin Xianming, "Because of some coincidence, I met your sister. She also came to Japan some time ago, and she was looking for you while working..."

"My sister?" Lin Xianming was startled, and he didn't care to keep a distance, and hurried forward a few steps, "You mean...Qiaomei?"

"Yes, yes, Lin Qiaomei." Minan Rinhua nodded, "She also came here through the Huajiuhui, so she caused a little trouble. But she is safe now and is staying in Yokohama. You want Don't want to see her?"

***

At seven o'clock in the morning, Lin Qiaomei carefully left the third floor after washing, and took the elevator to the coffee shop on the first floor.

The opening time of the coffee shop has not yet arrived, but when Minan Rinka brought her here the day before, she had already greeted the boss and his wife.Now as soon as the proprietress saw Lin Qiaomei, she enthusiastically brought out a plate of sandwiches and a cup of coffee.

"Come to have breakfast?" She put the plate in front of Lin Qiaomei with a smile.

"Ah...thank you!" Lin Qiaomei hurriedly went to take out her wallet, but the proprietress shook her head and pressed her hand.

"The breakfast fee has already been paid." Compared with customers like Osamu Dazai who pay on credit every day, the proprietress now feels kind to the customers who pay in time, "When Rinka brought you here yesterday, I already paid for your meal in advance La."

Lin Qiaomei was taken aback, subconsciously looking down at the sandwiches on the dinner plate.

The sandwiches on the plate are obviously freshly made. The white bread with the edge cut off is sandwiched with ham, lettuce, and scrambled eggs.

In this world, there are Hua Jiuhui and the mayor's son who oppressed and bullied her, as well as mothers and elder brothers who love and help her, as well as Minan Rinka who was a stranger when they met, the owner and wife of the cafe.

Next, as long as I reunite with my brother...

[System prompt: Lin Qiaomei's heartbeat value +395]

Thinking of this, Lin Qiaomei picked up a sandwich and took a bite on the tip.

I don't know how Minan Rinka is doing now.

She was chewing on the sandwich in her mouth when she suddenly heard a "dong dong" tapping sound from the other side of the bar.

As soon as Lin Qiaomei turned her head, she saw Minan Linhua waving at her beside her.

Said Xiaohua Xiaohua arrived.Lin Qiaomei was taken aback by her.

[System prompt: Lin Qiaomei's palpitation value +79]

In the next second, Lin Qiaomei found that there were still two people standing beside Minan Rinhua.One of them was an orange-haired young man wearing a top hat, and the other was a young woman with long blonde hair in a short skirt.

Lin Qiaomei's gaze quickly flicked over the blonde woman, and then moved to Minan Linhua again.But she suddenly felt something was wrong.

The appearance of the blonde woman has a feeling of deja vu...

Lin Qiaomei involuntarily turned her attention back to the blonde woman's face.The blond woman stared at her intently, opened her mouth, but couldn't say a word.

The eyebrows and eyes became more and more familiar, even six or seven points similar to her own.Lin Qiaomei couldn't help shouting: "Brother? Brother, is that you?"

Lin Xianming finally squeezed out a few syllables from his dry throat: "Qiaomei...it's me..."

He wanted to step forward, but the feelings brought about by the long-awaited reunion weighed heavily on his heart, so that he didn't even dare to take a step forward, lest the meeting at this moment would be like a dream that had been repeated countless times in the past. The moment you touch it, it turns into nothingness.And when he opened his eyes, what he could see was still the yellow ceiling with mottled walls in the narrow room assigned to him by Hua Jiuhui.

Lin Qiaomei hurriedly stood up.She didn't expect that her brother, whom she had been searching for for so long but could not find, would be brought to her by Minan Rinhua overnight.

[System prompt: Lin Qiaomei's heartbeat value +999]

[System prompt: Lin Qiaomei's heartbeat value +999]

[System prompt: Lin Qiaomei's heartbeat value +999]

"Qiaomei, you've lost weight..." Lin Xianming's voice was trembling, "Did you suffer a lot after coming here?"

"Brother, you...you've lost weight too..." Lin Qiaomei murmured, "And... have you changed your gender?"

[System prompt: Lin Xianming's palpitation value +999]

[System prompt: Lin Xianming's palpitation value +999]

[System prompt: Lin Xianming's palpitation value +999]

"I'm not transgender, I'm just wearing women's clothing!" Lin Xianming's long-awaited reunion was overwhelmed by the sentence "Brother, you are transgender", "I just want...to see what you will be when you grow up What does it look like..."

Lin Qiaomei was stunned for a moment, and tears fell down.Lin Xianming, on the other hand, turned his head and glared at Minan Linhua sullenly.

His sister is such a lovely person, she even opened her mouth to suspect that he has changed her gender.This must have been spoiled by Minan Rinka...

Xiao Hua was taken aback, feeling innocent: "What are you looking at?"

This is a routine he is extremely familiar with.Lin Xianming opened his mouth and answered, "What are you doing?"

Minan Rinka was silent for a moment: "No matter how much you look at you, you can't become a real girl..."

Lin Xianming was stunned: Is that what he meant?Did he ever say he wanted to be a real girl? ?

[System prompt: Lin Xianming's palpitation value +173]

Minan Rinka let the reunited brother and sister chat slowly in the booth.She turned around and sat down in front of the bar, lying limply on the bar table.

The sleepiness that had been up all night slowly climbed up at this moment.Thinking about going to class later, Xiaohua felt very tired: "Boss, give me a cup of coffee..."

"Okay." The coffee shop owner turned around with a smile and started fiddling with his coffee machine.

Nakahara also thought about it, and sat down beside Minan Rinka.He picked up the menu in the coffee shop and glanced at it, thinking about whether he should also have breakfast here.

After looking around on the menu, Nakahara Chuya turned his head to ask Minan Rinka what he planned to eat, but his eyes stopped when he saw her face.

While he was looking at the menu, Minan Rinka had fallen asleep lying on the bar counter.She rested her forehead on her arms, closed her eyelashes tightly, and her jet-black hair slid down her cheeks, swaying with her breath.

He is obviously very skinny when he is awake, but when he is asleep, he is very small, and he looks so obedient.

Zhong Yuanzhong also hesitated for a moment, but took off the glove on his left hand, carefully picked up the hair covering her side face, and gently hooked it behind her ear.

During the movement, the young man's bony hands brushed her cheek.Nakahara also opened his palm tentatively and found that if Minan Rinka buried her face in his palm, half of her face could be covered.

In the booth in the corner, Lin Xianming and Lin Qiaomei curled up together like two children, talking softly and sharing the same plate of sandwiches; the coffee machine behind the counter made the sound of operation.The boss filled a cup of coffee, turned around with a smile, and wanted to ask Minan Rinka how to add sugar and milk.

As soon as he turned around, he saw Minan Linhua lying on the bar counter and falling asleep.Nakahara Zhongya covered her ears with one hand, and raised the other hand with a black glove to his lips. He raised his index finger and made a soft gesture.

"Give me this cup of coffee." He said softly, "Let her sleep for a while, and make another cup for her later."

The boss immediately understood, put the coffee in his hand on Zhongya's side, and happily prepared to open the store

[System prompt: Zhongye Zhongye's heartbeat value +333]

[System prompt: Zhongye Zhongye's heartbeat value +450]

[System prompt: Zhongye Zhongye's heartbeat value +...]

***

When Minan Rinhua was gently shaken awake, her mind was not fully awake yet.

"Who am I? Where am I?" She raised her head in a daze, with a light red mark from the folds of her clothes on her smooth forehead, "Oh, I'm in a coffee shop... I fell asleep?"

"You slept for more than half an hour." Zhong Yuan also pushed a cup of steaming coffee and a plate of cake in front of Minan Rinka, "It's just after eight o'clock. You go to school at 08:30, right? Finish breakfast now Go back and change clothes, just in time to go to school."

"Oh!" Minan Rinhua woke up when she heard about going to school.She rubbed her eyes, picked up the coffee and took a sip. She thought the coffee tasted good, and the sugar and milk were added just right.

"How's the coffee?" Nakahara asked as if nothing had happened.

"It's delicious!" Minan Rinka gave a thumbs up.

[System prompt: Zhongye Zhongye's heartbeat value +233]

As soon as the heartbeat value came out, Minan Rinhua guessed: the sugar and milk must have been added to her by Zhongyuan Zhongye.

"By the way, what happened to Lin Xianming and Lin Qiaomei?" Minan Linhua dug a piece of cake with a fork and stuffed it into her mouth, looking back vaguely for the situation of the two brothers and sisters.

As soon as she turned her head, she saw that the brother and sister were no longer the same as when they first met.I saw Lin Xianming and Lin Qiaomei huddled in the booth, even though the seats were spacious, they were still crowded together, talking in whispers.Lin Qiaomei still giggled from time to time, thinking that she was in a much better mood.

Thinking of this, Minan Rinka relaxed a little.She looked at the two brothers and sisters, and sighed: "They have such a good relationship. Even after being separated for so many years, there is still no gap when they meet again. Just like the two of us, hehe..."

As she was talking, she heard a sharp report from the heart palpitation system.

[System prompt: Zhongyuan Zhongye's palpitation value +99]

[System prompt: Zhongyuan Zhongye's palpitation value +199]

[System prompt: Zhongyuan Zhongye's palpitation value +299]

Minan Rinhua looked back at Nakahara Chuya with a dazed expression on her face: Why does this good guy suddenly have palpitations again?It was obviously quite cheerful just now, and what appeared just now was obviously worth a heartbeat!

Zhong Yuanzhong also looked sideways slightly, avoiding her gaze: "What are you looking at?"

Minan Rinhua was silent for a moment: "Let me see what's going on with you..."

[System prompt: Zhongyuan Zhongye's palpitation value +200]

"It's nothing." Zhongyuan Zhong also avoided talking about it, but raised his jaw in the direction of Lin Xianming and the others, "What should they do?"

"Ah, that's right." Nakahara Chuya mentioned this, and Minan Rinka remembered what he was going to explain to the Lin Xianming brothers and sisters.

She took the cake and went to Lin Xianming and Lin Qiaomei: "The Hua Jiuhui has completely collapsed. Do you plan to stay in Yokohama for a while, or leave for Hakata today?"

Hearing this, Lin Qiaomei showed a shocked expression.

Just now, she had been exchanging with her brother whom she had reunited with for a long time about their living conditions in the past few years, and she hadn't heard him mention the Hua Jiuhui.

Immediately, Lin Qiaomei was in palpitations: when Minan Rinhua sent her here last night, she said that she would be able to return to Bodo within three days.The number of three days is scary enough, I didn't expect these three days to suddenly become one night...

[System prompt: Lin Qiaomei's palpitation value +233]

"Then I will take the Shinkansen back to Hakata with my brother later." Lin Qiaomei thought for a while and said, "In this way, I can still catch up with the afternoon classes at the university."

"Okay, what about your next residence?" Minan Rinhua asked again.

"Although the place to work was arranged by Huajiuhui, I rented the house myself. After all, I am different from my brother. Huajiuhui only treats me as a commodity and will not provide me with housing." Lin Qiaomei played the role of poverty The frugal nature of a child born in the countryside, "There are still a few months left on the lease, so I plan to continue living there before it expires."

"Where's your brother?" Minan Linhua's gaze shifted to Lin Xianming.

"I won't go back to the residence arranged by the Huajiuhui." Lin Xianming said, "The apartment rented by Qiaomei has only one room, which can't accommodate two people. The horse farm said that I can temporarily stay in his detective agency and talk to him. Take jobs together. This can be regarded as solving the employment problem.”

"That's fine." Minan Rinhua thought for a while, and said, "I found the impounded documents of the two of you last night, and I will let Ren give them to you later, along with Zhang Shun."

Hearing this, both siblings were shocked.Lin Xianming blurted out: "Zhang Shun?"

"That's right, I left that stuff for you." Minan Rin waved his hand, "He had planned to sell Qiaomei from the very beginning, and last night when he found out that the person I was looking for was After you, you said that I can deal with you at will, regardless of life or death. So I don't ask you how to deal with him. You can figure it out. "

Lin Xianming was stunned for a moment, his eyes gradually became sharper: "I see."

Seeing this, Minan Rinka took the last bite of the cake and waved her hand: "Since everything is settled, I'll go to school first, and if you have any other questions, please contact me."

She turned around with the plate and wanted to leave, but Lin Xianming suddenly stopped him.

"Wait a minute..." He hurriedly opened his mouth, seeing Minan Rinhua turning his head, he paused again.

After a few seconds, Lin Xianming said awkwardly: "Thank you, I don't know how to thank you for what you have done for our brothers and sisters. Since I entered the Huajiuhui, no one has respected me like ordinary people. The previous racecourse is the first, and you are the second."

"If you need my help with anything in the future." Lin Xianming stood up and said in a deep voice, "I will never refuse."

"Oh," Minan Rinhua laughed, "It's okay, it's okay, don't care about these details, after all, Qiaomei is already a clerk in our sword office, hahaha..."

[System prompt: Lin Xianming's palpitation value +233]

Turning around and putting down the cake plate in front of the bar, Minan Rinka suddenly remembered something.

"This is for you." She took it out of her pocket, and then put a round object with body temperature in Nakahara Chuya's hand.

"What?" Zhong Yuanzhong was also a little surprised.He opened his palm, and saw a small teleportation compass lying in his palm, the golden shell shone slightly under the light of the cafe.

"This is?" He was silent for a moment, looking up at Minan Rinka, "Honmaru's... key?"

"That's right." Minan Rinka nodded, "After the last S-level mission ended, I applied to the Government of Time for a teleportation compass for family members. The compass was just approved two days ago."

This is the first compass for relatives approved by the government of time.

The teleportation compass needs to be activated with spiritual power, so even if it falls into the hands of ordinary people, there is no danger of exposing the existence of Honmaru.And the Central Plains is also the carrier of Huangbatu, and the gods live in the body, so you can also use the compass to move between the present world and the Honmaru.

"In the future, if you want to come to Honmaru, you can come here anytime." She lightly tapped the compass in Nakahara Nakaya's palm with her finger, "Honmaru is my home, and it's also your home. It's good to come to have dinner or see the cat sometimes Well."

Seeing that Zhongyuan Zhong hadn't recovered yet, Minan Rinka couldn't help laughing: "Remember to go home often! I'm going to school first!"

Watching Minan Rinka push open the glass door of the coffee shop, the figure gradually disappeared at the end of the road, Nakahara also retracted his gaze, and stared down at the compass the size of a shell in the palm of his hand.

He opened the compass cover and took a look, and found that Minan Rinka had adjusted a fixed coordinate in the compass.

That's where her Honmaru is.

Zhong Yuanzhong also exhaled slightly, and carefully put the compass in the innermost pocket.

[System prompt: Zhongye Zhongye's heartbeat value +999]

"Boss," he said while sitting at the bar, "pour me another glass of ice water."

***

The normal working hours of the Armed Detective Agency are exactly nine o'clock.Usually, Osamu Dazai would not come late until after ten o'clock, and when he arrived at the Armed Detective Agency, he would lay down on the reception sofa spreading pancakes until Kunikida Tokpo grabbed him by the collar and dragged him up.

On this day, Osamu Dazai left the house before 08:30.

His shirt and trench coat were neatly dressed, and the jewels on Poirot's tie were polished to sparkle.In one pocket of the windbreaker, there was a pocket book "Complete Sex" as usual, while in the other pocket of the windbreaker, there was an extra copy of "Introduction to Spoken Chinese".

It's not his Dazai Osamu's style to meet cute girls and not say a few flirty words.Even if the girl he meets is not Japanese, it can't stop Osamu Dazai from moving forward.

After a night of fishing and learning, he has been able to say the words "beautiful lady, would you like to die for love with me" that he usually says in Chinese with style.

Knowing that Minan Rinka arranged for Lin Qiaomei to have breakfast at the coffee shop on the first floor today, Osamu Dazai walked towards the office building confidently.

While waiting for the red light at the intersection opposite the office building, Osamu Dazai suddenly saw the door of the cafe on the first floor open, and two slender figures came out of it.

Dazai took a closer look, isn't one of them Lin Qiaomei who lived in the night before?

The person next to Lin Qiaomei with long blond hair and wearing a short skirt looks like a girl at first glance, but Dazai Osamu can find out that the person's body shape, skeleton trend and some subtle features are only for men. .

Then he just watched Lin Qiaomei and the blond women's tycoon holding hands affectionately, leaving the red brick office building, and just left... gone... gone...

Osamu Dazai: "???"

[System prompt: Osamu Dazai's palpitation value +666]

This Chinese is learned for nothing, and I get up early for nothing.Osamu Dazai just wants to go home and go back to sleep...

But everyone has come here, and if they go home, they have to go again later.On a hot day, Osamu Dazai felt that it was not worth it.

The red light at the intersection flickered a few times before turning green.Now that the girls have run away with the big guy in women's clothing, Osamu Dazai is not in a hurry anymore, so he simply crossed the road slowly and wandered to the front of the red brick office building.

Just as he was about to enter the building, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a familiar figure through the huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows of the coffee shop from the corner of his eye.

The little man sitting in front of the bar, wearing a long black trench coat and a top hat in summer, isn't he his good partner when he was working in the port mafia, the gravity user Chuya Nakahara?

Osamu Dazai stopped in his tracks, and stood outside the floor-to-ceiling glass window to observe secretly.I saw Zhongyuan Zhong also turned his back to the French window, pouring lemonade with ice cubes in his hand, his face was expressionless, but the roots of his ears were still a little red.

In the blink of an eye, Osamu Dazai had a flash of light in his mind, and he connected all the things that happened.

The depression of waking up early but wasted no time gradually dissipated.Osamu Dazai felt that this wave of early waking up was not a loss in the end, no, isn't there a slug that can be persecuted right in front of him?

Thinking of this, Dazai Osamu laughed a few times, pushed open the glass door of the coffee shop, and walked in.