After becoming a chaotic daughter

On the first day of the New Year, when Edogawa Ranbo yawned and got up from the bed, he saw his unlovable, stupid daughter wearing a little dinosaur pajamas, sitting on the tatami with her back to him, and a large pile of clothes in front of her. Coins poured from her piggy bank, absorbed in counting her little coffers.

The little green dinosaur's tail hangs behind its buttocks, lying on the ground crookedly, its small head is hidden in a big dinosaur hat, and the whole person looks like a fluffy little green dinosaur when viewed from behind.

The little dinosaur stretched out her small short hands, putting one coin from one stack to another without distraction, counting the number in a low voice, and there was a small book next to it, on which the numbers were neatly recorded .

Luanbu pulled the quilt and took a look, and found that it was Nanako's small account book, which recorded her letters from him, from the president, from and Yosano, and even from Kunikida and Kazuya in the past two months. The pocket money received from the clerk.

Although Nanako is only six years old, she spends all day in the detective agency and has nowhere to spend money, but as a competent and good father, Ranpo will give Nanako a little pocket money every week. Whenever Nanako is asked to come over to pick up pocket money, he will feel a sense of pride in being a "father" from the bottom of his heart.

In addition to him, the president and Yosano would also give Nanako some change from time to time, and even Kunikida would occasionally give her the change for afternoon tea.

Ranpo bought a piggy bank for Nanako, so that Nanako could conveniently save the pocket money she had nowhere to spend. Before he knew it, two months passed, and the piggy's stomach was full and became heavy.

Nanako has finished counting 500 yen, 100 yen, and 50 yen coins and divided them into three piles. The pile of 100 yen is the most, followed by 500 yen. She is now picking out 10 yen from the remaining coins of.

“65、66、67、68……71。”

A total of 71 10-yen coins, Nanako pushed a small stack of 10-yen coins to the side, then picked up a small book and pencil, and wrote down the numbers in the book, the remaining 5-yen and 1-yen coins were only a few , she also quickly finished counting and wrote it down in the notebook.

Multiply 500 by 153, add 100 by 332, add 50 by 98, add 10 by 71, and finally add 78 yen change. Nanako calculated it vertically in the small book, and there are 11 More than 7000 yen, almost [-] yuan when converted into RMB.

Nanako took the pencil, scratched her cheek, and looked at the pile of small money around her, feeling a little weird.

...How does she earn [-] a month by saving pocket money?

Listening to Nanako's chaotic steps counting coins for a long time also felt a little weird. He couldn't figure out why Nanako seemed to be saying Chinese numbers instead of Japanese when counting coins.

He was still a little sleepy, dazed, and lazy, so he simply put this problem behind him, and suddenly reached out and picked up the little dinosaur Nanako and flew high.

"Nanako! Say Happy New Year to Dad!"

Ranpo picked up Nanako and turned around, then she couldn't hold her anymore and put her back on the tatami.Nanako has gained a lot of weight in the past two months, and she has also grown a little. It looks like she has turned from a four-year-old to a four-year-old little radish.

"Happy New Year" is a somewhat complicated sentence. It's so long to say 【New Yearおめでとうございます】, and Yosano taught her for a long time yesterday before she managed to remember it. She stumbled and said to Ranpo:

"New, howling in the new year... good."

"Mmm~mm~!" Ranbu nodded in satisfaction, "Happy New Year! This is the lucky money that Dad gave you this year!"

He took the New Year's money wrapped last night from the table, and stuffed it to Nanako. Nanako knew that there was a 1 yuan bill inside, and the person Nanako didn't know was printed on the bill.

Nanako put the New Year's money in her small box, and planned to save it all up, so that when Ranbu was fired, the small coffers she saved would last them ten days and a half months, until Ranbu found the next one who was willing to recruit one Employees who do not do business and fish every day are taken advantage of... Bah, boss.

Thinking of this, Nanako also feels lucky that Ranpo has not been fired by the detective agency for two months. President Fukuzawa, like Kunikida, is really a good person.

*****

On the first day of the new year, the detective agency was on holiday. The employees went on vacations and returned to their hometowns. Even Kunikida didn't come to work. Only Ranpo, Yosano, and the president stayed in the agency.

Nanako got the new year's money from the president and Yosano. She took a peek and found that they were all 1 yuan bills. With a stern face, she carefully hid the money in her small pocket, feeling that After Ranpo was fired, they had three more days to live.

Yosano and Ranpo also received lucky money from the president. At noon, the four of them ate Osechi cuisine at the president's house. The luxurious and exquisite three-layer bento box looks good, but it's not good at all Eat, so I ended up eating hot udon noodles.

Ranpo was very happy, and Yosano was also very happy. Nanako immersed herself in eating noodles, and the president could only put the osechi dishes that no one was eating back into the refrigerator.

In the afternoon, the president took out a stack of New Year's greeting cards received by the detective agency, that is, New Year's greeting cards, colorful and fancy, with simple blessings or beautiful haiku and songs written on them.

Nanako grabbed the table, knelt on the chair and looked at the annual certificates on the table. Ranpo and Yosano took some of them, but most of them were sent to [Armed Detective Agency] Yes, the president has to pick out some, and thank you for responding while the first month is not over.

Ranbu saw Nanako who was staring at the greeting card on the table, although there was no expression on her face, and there was no wave in her dark eyes, but he guessed that Nanako wanted to see these year's greetings, so he Picking up Nanako and sitting in the office chair, she casually took a New Year's certificate in her hand.

"This is 'I wish your club a prosperous business'—that is, I hope the detective agency can make more money." Luanbu read out the congratulations written on the annual greeting certificate in his hand, pointing to those words and repeating Read it again, "Sheng-Yi-Xing-Long-"

Nanako followed him and read: "Sheng... Yi, Xing, Long."

Putting this year's certificate into Nanako's hand, Ranpo replaced it with a new one: "This one says 'Regardless Chun'an'—that is, wishing us a comfortable spring."

"春の... やす, らぎ, を." Nanako read it slowly, recognizing the pseudonym on the New Year's certificate.

"That's right! Let me see...the next one is..."

He took Nanako to read the congratulatory speech on the New Year's Certificate one by one in random steps, thinking that he was really good at everything, and the president also said that he was not suitable for teaching Nanako to learn to read, so he finally agreed to let him teach Nanako is learning to count. What is there to teach such boring things as counting? It is more fun to teach her how to read.

look!Isn't that perfectly fine!

I ran to the president to get a few blank New Year's certificates and came back. I just finished teaching Nanako how to read the blessings, and the random steps went straight to practice. I grabbed a marker pen from the pen holder and began to teach Nanako how to write New Year's greetings. Congratulations.

"Writing the name of the recipient here is to write who you want to send the New Year's Letter to."

He pointed to the center of the surface of the New Year's letter.

"Recipient... person (recipient)." Nanako repeated the word she hadn't learned before, and then holding a marker pen that was a bit thick for her small hands, wrote [パパ] (father) crookedly. .

Ranbu happily continued to teach her: "Write the recipient's address here——"

Nanako struggled to hold the pen, and continued to write crookedly: [Armed Detective Agency]

I didn't think there was any problem with Nanako's ability to write Chinese characters at all, and Ranpo continued enthusiastically: "Here write the address and name of the sender, and the sender is the person who sent this year's letter."

"Business trip... person (sender)." While repeating this unfamiliar word like "receiver", Nanako wrote another "Armed Detective Agency" at the bottom left of the annual letter, and then wrote her current name.

【Nanako】

(Nanako)

"This is a stamp, because it was printed when it was issued, so there is no need to paste it separately, otherwise you have to paste the stamp yourself."

Ranpo pointed at the pattern on the upper left corner with the price printed on it, and before Nanako could learn the pronunciation of "stamp", she flipped the New Year's card to the side with the pattern printed on it to write blessings:

"—Finally write a blessing here!"

Holding the marker pen in her hand, Nanako scratched her hair, thought for a while, and wrote a row of words crookedly:

[お今事頑張ってください! 】

(Please work hard!)

"...It's finished." Nanako held the pen and looked at Ranbu with a dull face.

Ranbu: "..."

I don't really want to pick it up.

Ranpo Edogawa suddenly had some doubts, whether Nanako spent a little too much time playing with Kunikida recently.

******

In the end, Ranpo took away the certificate written by Nanako, because Nanako later wrote a certificate for Yosano and the president. If he didn't take it, he would be the only one who didn't have the certificate written by Nanako. , as a father, that would be too embarrassing.

The blessing Nanako wrote to Yosano was 【きれい (仙丽)】, and the blessing to the president was 【すごい (很伟)】, which is not so much a blessing as an impression. Ayumi felt that Nanako's blessing sentence to him was the longest and most complicated, with Chinese characters, which can be said to be very "advanced".

Therefore, before leaving the detective agency at night, he still sneaked and dilly-dally stuffed this year's certificate into his pocket.

It snowed heavily in Yokohama the day before yesterday, and it was the last snow in the old year. It fell heavily, and the snow that was not cleared on the road has not melted until today.

Wearing a scarf and wearing gloves, she led Nanako randomly, stepping on the snow with one foot deep and one shallow. Nanako was dressed fluffy today, like a fluffy little ball. After wearing a down jacket and a big hat, The whole little face was gone.

They passed the small park, under the street lamps, the park was quiet with no one there, covered with a thick layer of snow.

Luanbu let go of Nanako's hand, ran into the park, leaned over and made a round snowball in the snow, Nanako was still looking at the snow under her feet, trying to keep up.

It was difficult to walk in the snow, she walked unsteadily, just as she reached the place where the street lights in the park could be illuminated, a snowball hit her on the head with a "boom", and it scattered into pieces of snow, fluttering fell off the hat.

Nanako was stunned, and before she could realize what happened, another snowball was thrown over her body, and the splashed snowflakes fell on her face, which was icy cold.

She raised her head and saw that Ranbu was making the third snowball.

Nanako squatted down, grabbed a handful of snow from the ground, and wanted to throw it at random, but she didn't know how to rub the snowball, and her strength was weak, so the broken snow fell on the ground within two steps. Luanbu laughed triumphantly.

"Hey-!"

The third snowball was also thrown. Nanako squatted on the ground and missed her, but Ranpo had already made the fourth snowball.

Nanako wants to make snowballs too, but...

But she is a southerner who has never seen snow before coming here, and she can't make snowballs.

The snowball fell at her feet, and the snow mist splashed on her face, making her shiver with cold.Nanako got up, stepped on the snow, staggered towards Luanpo, ran up to Luanbu, squatted down and grabbed a handful of snow, and slapped it on Luanbu's pants.

Holding a snowball in his left hand and a snowball in his right hand, she stunned him for a moment when he slapped the random steps. One lowered his head and the other raised his head, and stared blankly at each other for two seconds.

Luanbu dropped the snowball in his hand.

"Porf~~~~~~~~~!"

He put his cold hand on Nanako's cheek.

Seeing that Nanako was shivering from the cold, she walked wildly and laughed happily. He wanted to hug her, but he thought the thick down jacket was bothersome, so he squatted down with his back to Nanako, and patted her shoulder nonchalantly.

"Go! Dad carries you home!"

After hesitating for a while between [walking back slowly with her own short legs] and [may be thrown on the back with random steps], Nanako suddenly made a "ha chirp" and sneezed a little. It shrugged its nose like a puppy.

【……never mind. 】

She clumsily climbed onto Luanbu's back, a little afraid that she might catch a cold.

"Ha chirp!"

Luanbu, who was carrying her on his back, also sneezed loudly.

Nanako, who was almost thrown off, hugged Ranpo's neck tightly in fright.

The author has something to say:

Nanako: My New Year's wish is that my father won't be fired this year. ●

President: ...No