Kadian is raising cubs again today

Lu Jing tied up his long hair, put on a more modern windbreaker and trousers, put on his wallet and went out.

The first stop is Chinatown in Yamashita Town.

Lu Jing walked firmly into the bookstore.

Three minutes later, the deer came out with a blank expression on his face.

This unreasonable world is hopeless.

Lu sighed in surprise, really wondering why the bookstores here are still like this and haven't closed down yet.

Maybe it's because they didn't have the opportunity to be like him, and they were uplifted by classic novels from all over the world, so they were also very happy to see Lei Wen, who was looking at the bookshelves full?

Feeling melancholy, Lu Jing decided to comfort himself.

He came to a restaurant.

Lu Jing was a little fed up with the food "produced by the industrial assembly line" at home.

Don't get me wrong, it's not takeout.

The so-called industrial assembly line products refer to the food made by the paper figurine shikigami who work hard in the kitchen every morning, noon and evening.

Lu Jing actually knows how to cook, and his cooking skills are not bad, but cooking is an activity that takes at least an hour from preparation to cooking three times a day. up.

It has to be said that more than half of Lu Jing's enthusiasm for learning Onmyoji is aimed at using shikigami.

Shikigami is really the most convenient tool man.

Unlike orthodox onmyoji who choose to tame powerful monsters and ghosts as shikigami, Lu Jing prefers the most common paper man shikigami.

In other words, he doesn't like having self-awareness in his tools.

Paper figurine shikigami can be said to be the most common shikigami. Due to the amount of raw materials and the amount of spiritual power applied to it, they can only do some simple mechanical work.There is no problem with sweeping and mopping the floor, but cooking is a challenge to the limit of paper figurine shikigami.

But who is Lu Jing?

In order to liberate himself from the kitchen without hiring living creatures to cook, Lu Jing gave full play to his ingenuity.

One paper figurine shikigami can't cook, so ten or twenty paper figurine shikigami will come.

They don't need to be able to cook, they just need to do the right thing at the right time.

Lu Jing split all the processes of each dish, pinpointed the timing of each step, and let each paper figurine perform its duties.

Take fried eggs as an example——

The cooking method of the paper figurine version is: Paper figurine No. [-] lifts the frying pan, Paper figurine No. [-] turns on the gas stove, Paper figurine No. [-] pours oil, Paper figurine No. [-] waits for a few seconds and beats eggs, Paper figurine No. [-] waits for a few seconds Flip the omelette with a spatula, etc... Finally, it comes out of the pan.

Paper figurine chefs do not look at the heat, but only make a certain action at a certain time. With the attribute of Shikigami's tool, as long as the spiritual power is still inside, Dazai can't make trouble in the kitchen. They work together to fry it. The eggs not only taste exactly the same, but even the shape is perfect.

It is a very convenient way of cooking, but in the eyes of some chefs, it is estimated that those meals have no soul.

When you find it troublesome to be picky about what is soulless, although the taste has not changed, it is better than your appetite.

It's just that every dish cooked by the paper figurine chefs is disassembled and distributed by Lu Jing.If he eats too much, Lu Jing will also want to try food that he has never eaten outside.

Lu Jing rested his chin with one hand, picked up a pen and circled Xiaolongbao, grilled saury, fried crab legs and other food on the menu.

"that's it."

"Hi!" The one who took the order was a teenager about [-] or [-] years old. He was wearing the uniform red uniform issued by the restaurant. His short black hair was uneven, as if he had cut it with scissors.Under the messy hair, the boy has a pair of black cat cub-like green eyes, the end of the eyes is raised, and the eyelashes are long and thick, revealing a kind of cleverness and cunning.

"This man, please wait for 29 minutes and 36 seconds. The Xiaolongbao will be the first to be served. After 35 minutes, the fried crab legs will be served. After 10 minutes, there will be lily porridge..."

"Ah?" Lu Jing blinked, and he looked at the young man. He was thinking about when the food he ordered would be served, but the young waiter told him the time, accurate to the second.

But, is the waiting time a little longer?

"Edogawa-kun!" came a voice from behind the young man trying to suppress his irritation. A woman with a round figure and graceful attire glared at the green-eyed young man viciously, then smiled politely at Lu Jing, and said: " This person, the dishes you ordered have been arranged in the back kitchen, please wait a moment."

The green-eyed boy turned his head innocently, looked at the proprietress, one of his immediate bosses, and subconsciously said, "I think this person really wants to know when the order will be served, so I..."

Lu Jing could see clearly that the boy in front of him was not pretending to be innocent, but he really didn't understand why the proprietress was angry.In addition to being at a loss, he was also a little helpless, like a small animal who didn't know what he did wrong but was kicked twice by humans.

"Mr. Edogawa, please go and settle the bill for the people over there!" The proprietress raised her hand, her eyes were not friendly.

Telling people to wait for a long time on purpose, isn't this rushing!

This kid is so simple... Sure enough, he shouldn't be taken in here just because he is pitiful. He is obviously good-looking, but that mouth affects the business too much.

"Oh..." Although he didn't understand where he was wrong, and he was at a loss for the malice from the adults, the green-eyed boy could still understand the simple and clear mission requirements of the other party.

The boy ordered the menu and walked to the booth by the window.

There are four people at this table, two men, two women, and they have finished eating. One lady stayed in the bathroom for a long time, and the other went to find it.The now blonde-haired man signaled to the restaurant staff that he wanted the check.

"Chenghui, the total is..."

Before the green-eyed boy could report the number, a scream came from the direction of the bathroom.

"Dead——!!!"

With this voice, the whole restaurant was shocked.

"This voice... is Keiko?!"

The man who was about to pay the bill suddenly got up and was about to rush to the bathroom.

However, the green-eyed boy stretched out his arms, directly blocking the man's way.He widened his emerald green eyes, raised his voice suddenly, and emphasized: "8050 yen!"

The man who was blocked by the green-eyed boy widened his eyes, as if he was shocked at this time. The boy insisted on asking him to pay the bill first. There is something wrong with his head, and the scream that he was anxious to hear seemed familiar. It was he who went to the bathroom to find his best friend's girlfriend, and was so worried.

In the end, he was actually stopped?

Not for reasons such as protecting the scene, but because he has to settle the bill first? !

The man was suddenly furious.

Is he short of the checkout money! !

"Get out of here!" The man pushed his hand without hesitation. The disparity in height and physical strength made him push the green-eyed boy aside like a chick, and said sharply, "Don't block the way!"

"Edogawa Ranpo!" The proprietress, who was a little dazed and subconsciously worried about something, suddenly seemed to have found a vent. She rushed over and wanted to grab the boy's clothes, and said angrily, "Don't get in the way!"

She missed it.

Because Lu Jing stretched out her hand, she grabbed Edogawa Ranpo's collar first, and dragged him to her side.

"Obviously you asked me to pay the bill..." Edogawa Ranpo felt that he was going to be killed by these unreasonable adults, and muttered: "Obviously I don't worry at all, and it's not okay to meet up after paying the bill How much time was wasted."

Lu Jing's eyes moved slightly, and he glanced at Edogawa Ranbu.

The green-eyed boy seemed completely unaware of what he said. He just kept his mouth open, like a child who has been wronged.Or, inexplicably kicked a stray cat?

The inappropriate behavior of a boy named Edogawa Ranpo insisting on asking people to pay first when he was most likely dead was soon suppressed by another heavy news.

It's really dead here.

In Yokohama, dead people are actually nothing, but restaurants like this still care about dead people.

A full 10 minutes later, the local police arrived late and sealed off the entire restaurant as a crime scene.

Although Lu Jing was the last person to enter the restaurant and the food he ordered had not been served, he was still regarded as one of the suspects and stayed in the restaurant waiting for questioning by the police.

The victim's name was Reika Yamashita. Because of the bitter almond taste in her mouth, the police immediately determined that the cause of her death was cyanide poisoning.

This is murder.

The three people who ate with her at the same table, the first person who discovered the death scene was Takahashi Keiko, who was a best friend who grew up with the deceased.Two men, a man with black hair and glasses who looks very gentle is named Kazuya Yamashita, who is Rika Yamashita's husband who has been married for a year.The blonde-haired guy who said he wanted to pay the bill just now was Masahiko Sato, Keiko Takahashi's fiancé and Kazuya Yamashita's college roommate.

The reason they gathered here for dinner was that Masahiko Sato and Keiko Takahashi were engaged. They had a good relationship with the Yamashita couple. They passed by Yokohama and happened to meet for a meal, and sent their wedding invitation to them by the way.

But, how could they have imagined that after eating a meal, Lijia Yamashita was poisoned and died.

Takahashi Keiko was greatly stimulated, and now she was leaning on her fiancé's arms, crying out of breath.Yamashita Kazuya's wife died, and he was hit hard, and the whole person was in a trance.

The first suspicious target of the police is Yamashita Kazuya, because there are too many similar cases where the wife or husband died suddenly, and they searched and found out the person next to them, because insurance, extramarital affairs, and various reasons .

There were too many cases like this, so they naturally suspected Kazuya Yamashita first.

Of course, in addition to Yamashita Kazuya, Takahashi Keiko, a best friend and the first person to spot the scene, is also suspected.

It's all routines.

There are also other people who dine in the restaurant, who are also a little suspicious.The police don't think it was a temporary idea, and the lethal amount of cyanide is not a bad street thing.

As one of the suspects, Lu Jing sat on his deck with his chin resting on his back, and he opened his eyes openly, without the nervousness and excitement of being at a crime scene, nor the panic and uneasiness when he saw death.

Lu Jing, who was used to seeing death, naturally wouldn't be moved by the death in front of him. He came into this restaurant for lunch.Originally, according to what Edogawa Ranpo said, the service of this restaurant was slow enough, but a murder case broke out, not to mention the service, everyone was gathered in the restaurant, and there was no one in the kitchen. dinner.

very depressed.