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Leaving aside the chaotic steps, he quickly fled to the back of the paper door of the Japanese room and knelt down on Ah Li, his heartbeat still far from calming down.

"Sure enough, you are playing with me like a pet. I hate Luanbu the most!" A Li hugged his knees angrily, and he wanted to cut Luanbu into a paper man, and then do whatever he wanted on his facial features Scribble.

Like a favorite toy or pet, he's still a child who hasn't grown up.

It's just that Ah Li doesn't know that even the world's No.1 detective may not be able to easily see through the unpredictable girl's heart.

After a while, Ah Li stood up from the paper door with some numbness in his legs, and decided not to think about a childish ghost, but to finish tonight's cooking first.

She ran into the kitchen with a dark face, greeted the middle-aged woman inside, and sorted out the plastic bag ingredients.

The sound of 'dong dong dong' cutting vegetables was heard incessantly. The girl with tea chestnut hair tried to calm herself down by immersing herself in the cooking, but almost chopped the cutting board in half with a kitchen knife.

Aunt Chaokura, who was washing vegetables next door, was taken aback by her action, turned her head to observe carefully, and just saw the familiar strangeness on her face, she understood what happened.

"Xiaoli, did you quarrel with Ranbu-kun again?"

Ash nodded reluctantly.

Aunt Chaokura is the housekeeper hired by their family. She is usually responsible for cooking three meals a day and doing housework for the family. When Ali has a special job and needs to travel, she basically takes care of the family's catering chores.

After all, the president needs to be busy entertaining with some high-ranking officials, and Luanbu himself is a common sense idiot.The famous detective who can say the motto "If it suits me, everything is fine" enjoys the life of clothes and food, and it is impossible to expect him to take good care of himself.

So as long as there is time, Ah Li will go to the kitchen to take over the cooking tasks, so as to share the burden of Auntie, so that she does not have to work too hard.

Aunt Chaokura has been working diligently in this family for nearly ten years, and she is used to the scenes of her and Ranbu arguing since they were young, so she sighed angrily when she heard the words: "You have to get along well with Ranbu-kun, I think he must have no intention of making you angry..."

"If 'Wanted' said that, I wouldn't be what I am now!" Ali was chopping meat with a depressed expression, absolutely refusing to admit that he was using ingredients to vent his anger.

Aunt Asakura shook her head helplessly and amusedly.

Tonight's main course is flower bud hamburger meat. In fact, it is made of ground beef, mixed with eggs, and then poured into minced onions, carrot puree and seasonings, kneaded into round patties and put them in the pot to fry.

As for the 'flower buds', a flower-model container is placed in a pan, and eggs are put into the middle of the container, and the fried eggs are fried into thick and delicate poached eggs like flower buds, and then spread out on the surface until the outside is crispy and the inside is tender. Served with lettuce, it blooms like a flower.

The yellow and white flower-shaped poached eggs, plus the hamburger steak that overflows with crystal gravy when pressed lightly, this brightly colored and delicious food combination has always been very popular with children like Edogawa Ranpo.

After the two people in the kitchen worked together to finish the cooking, Aunt Asakura took off her apron and got ready to leave work. There were still a bunch of children waiting for her to go back to take care of her.

Ah Li sent her off as usual.

"Auntie, be careful on the road~"

Aunt Chaokura put the apron in the basket, then quietly came to her ear, bowed her head and told A Li a little secret: "I prepared after-dinner pudding for you two, put it in the refrigerator, eat After dinner, remember to help bring it to Luanbu."

After finishing speaking, she winked hintingly at Ali.

It seemed that every time she tried to reconcile the two of them, she couldn't control the volume when she spoke, which was not considered a whisper at all.

A Li shoved the woman's back with some embarrassment, and said ironically: "No, I want to occupy all the pudding you made, Auntie!"

The woman who grew up taking care of her two children saw through her lies at a glance, and was pushed out of the door by the girl while laughing: "Be careful and you will cry if you walk in disorder~"

"I can't wait to cry him out!" Ah Li said viciously, like a little bully.

Aunt Asakura had no choice but to be pushed away by her.

But after such a blending, Ah Li's original dissatisfaction calmed down a lot.After bringing all the dishes in the kitchen to the dining table, she called the president and Ranpo to eat.

At the dining table, Ranbu seemed to have completely forgotten what happened in the backyard just now, sitting on the dining chair and dangling excitedly.

"Oh, it's flower bud hamburger! There are also fried shrimp and omelet rice!"

The face of the black-haired young man clearly showed the emotion of 'like', like a piece of pure white paper that can be seen through at a glance, his essence is completely unpretentious inside and out, and his thoughts are pure and straightforward.

Well, actually Ash really likes it too.

What I'm talking about here is not liking his character, but liking tonight's cooking!

Ah Li gritted his teeth and corrected this sentence in his heart.

The square wooden table was covered with napkins, and the family sat down as usual.Ah Li sat across from Ranbu, and the chief seat in the middle was the president.The president has always believed that correcting other people's eating habits is the most meaningless thing, so there is no rule in their family of 'no talking when eating, no talking when sleeping'.

While Luanbu was feasting, he told the president about the case he solved in the mall today. At the end of the story, Ah Li added a little annoyed: "It's a pity that I couldn't catch those two black-clothed men in the end." Otherwise, the hands and feet of the two of them could be wrenched and sent to the police station."

Moreover, the apology he said he wanted was not completed, and Ah Li felt very upset when he thought about it.

Fukuzawa Yukichi was silent.

Twisted limbs or something... He didn't remember teaching his daughter to be so cruel.

Here, Luanbu smashed the omelet rice with a spoon, with an expression of indifference, and shifted her self-blame: "Actually, I also predicted this, it's not your problem, Ali, I didn't plan to do it from the beginning. To catch them."

Ah Li turned to look at him, tilted his head slightly like a small animal, his almond eyes were full of doubts.

"That's right, Li." The president nodded calmly, agreeing with what Luanbu said, "Don't chase after the poor, there is no need to fight against others if the enemy is unknown."

Just like the [Port Mafia] organization that coexisted with them in the city of Yokohama, the two parties kept their own camps as if they were clearly separated, and they did not interfere with each other.

Although the Armed Detective Agency is basically on the side of implementing justice when it is seriously liquidated, its nature is as ambiguous and vague as the dusk of the transition from the purple haze. Many extraordinary methods and self-concepts are not compatible with some people with a strong sense of justice.

What's more, the people in black are at most considered an attempted crime this time, and it's not a last resort. They don't need to make more enemies with others.

It is not very interesting to put this talk on the dinner table of the family reunion, and soon they dismissed the topic lightly, returning to a warm and ordinary atmosphere, A Li even went to the president's side with his little head .

"Dad! How about the cooking I made tonight? Is it delicious? Look, I even drew a cat pattern for you with ketchup!"

With her chin in her hands, she carefully pointed to the omelet rice on her adoptive father's plate, with a cute look eagerly waiting for a response.

Although the president rushed home before dinner time, in fact, he rarely had the opportunity to have dinner with her and Ranbu due to work reasons. Of course, Ah Li wanted to seize every opportunity to ask for praise. .

So Fukuzawa Yukichi glanced at the cat's face that had half disappeared from the plate, and his expression was serious.

Saying you don't like it would be a lie.

When the mature voice of the silver-haired man flowed out from the slightly rolling Adam's apple, it brought a little warmth: "I like it very much, thank you, Li."

The girl in the cat ear headband froze slightly, and soon her cherry pink lips curled up, and her whole body turned into a sweet sunflower with a bright smile, blooming around the other party.

Luanbu, who was left out on the opposite side, stared straight at the interaction between the father and daughter, and suddenly the curvature of the corner of his mouth slipped visible to the naked eye. He held his breath unhappily and asked, "What about me? I'm in today's case You worked hard too!"

This sentence was forcibly squeezed into the warm and harmonious atmosphere between the two of them, and favoring one another is not conducive to the healthy growth of the child's body and mind, so Fukuzawa Yukichi coughed, turned to look at Ranpo, and decided to praise him also: "You have done well very nice."

"What! Don't grab Dad's attention with me!" A Li slapped the table violently.

Luanbu was not afraid of her at all, took the opportunity to pick up the fried shrimp on her plate with his chopsticks, took a bite and denied, "I didn't have any~"

Ah Li gritted his teeth with hatred, and involuntarily made a certain decision in his heart.

(It's decided, I'm going to eat the pudding tonight! Edogawa Ranpo, you cry for me!)

Unexpectedly, the other party seemed to have a special ability like mind reading, and he opened his mouth and said, "You can't do it! I have heard my aunt tell you about pudding in the refrigerator in the kitchen!"

"You wait, I'll finish my dinner right away and go to the refrigerator—"

In order to go to the kitchen one step ahead of the other, the two children who had not grown up in mental age immediately got up in the air at the leftover food, and started a competition at the table to see who could eat faster.A certain head of the family eats in silence amidst this reenactment of the rowdy drama.

are used to it.

As a result, he accidentally choked on Luanbu who ate too fast in the middle of the meal. Ah Li quickly took this opportunity to clean up the residue on the plate, and then pushed away the table with a victorious attitude, hugging his own plate like a gust of wind. Quickly ran to the kitchen.

"Dad, I'm done eating!!"

Fukuzawa Yukichi didn't even have time to reply to her, and Ah Li had already disappeared before his eyes.Rushing into the kitchen, she threw all the bowls and chopsticks into the sink, and raced against time to open the sliding door of the refrigerator. Two boxes of well-preserved fresh pudding were on the floor closest to her.

"Heh heh heh~ I won!" Ah Li happily took one in each hand, intending to monopolize the dessert.

Luan Bu came to the kitchen a few steps behind Ah Li, and seeing the things in her hands, he couldn't bear it and rushed over to grab them: "A Li——that's mine! Give it to me!"

"No! Just cry for me! Tonight, hide under the quilt and cry while regretting the 'Hate of Seizing the Shrimp' you bestowed on me!"

Ah Li hid the pudding in both hands in her bosom, no matter how much Luanbu grabbed her clothes behind her back, she refused to let go.

"You can't do this! Give it to me quickly! If you don't give it to me, I will be rude—" Luanbu yelled and wanted to reach out and grab her chest, but Ah Li refused to give it, and Luanbu He had no choice but to hug her small person from behind and forcefully broke his arms.

"What if I don't give it to you?"

Ah Li, who successfully got the pudding, is in the mood of a villain at this moment. She didn't notice anything wrong with this posture at all. Hearing what Ranbu said, she turned her head slightly to estimate the strength of Ranbu. Arrogantly said: "Let me tell you, just because of your two slender arms is absolutely stealing..."

"If you don't give it to me, I will kiss you!"

Luanbu yelled in her ear.

The detective's threat hit a certain girl's bull's-eye with precision.

As soon as Ah Li's palm was released, the two boxes of puddings in her hand slipped from her palm, but fortunately, she predicted all the chaotic steps behind her and received them firmly in her hand in time.

"you you……"

As if all the blood in his body exploded on the spot, Ah Li felt dizzy and his feet felt weak.She turned around and left Luanbu's embrace, and kept backing away until her back hit the cold door of the refrigerator before stopping.

Out of embarrassment, her face flushed a magnificent red, like a little flower trembling in the wind, talking incoherently to her bamboo horse.

"You, what are you talking about!!"