Not too many out of four

The closed door of the study room was slowly opened, and "Brother Zhongye" came out with almost stiff hands and feet. He paused for a moment, and couldn't help but raised his hand to touch his forehead, and the color of the base of his ears gradually changed from light red to darker.

Looking away randomly, he met Edogawa Conan's nervous and tangled expression, he coughed dryly and turned his head, and hurriedly turned back into a cat and ran upstairs.

"?" The young boy showed a blank expression, and turned to Nakahara Chuya: "What is that guy doing?"

He thought he could delay for some more time, but he didn't expect it to end so soon.

Could "Central Plains Chuya" be such a useless man?

He didn't tell Li Jia everything, did he?

Edogawa Conan ruffled his hair irritably, "Damn it."

At first, he thought about questioning separately, maybe he could find a way to evade the past, but now it seems that there are great disadvantages in questioning separately, for example, he can't know what the other guys will tell Li Jia. angry.

Zhongyuan Zhong also looked thoughtfully at the little orange cat running away with the same arms and legs and a stiff tail, he laughed softly, and patted the little boy on the head: "Let's stay here tonight, Li Jia usually has Pack and clean your room, you can go straight back to sleep."

Edogawa Conan raised his head in a daze, watching him walk towards the study and close the heavy double doors again.

Does he mean that he can delay the questioning time tonight?

Where did Chuya Chuya have the confidence to be able to do it? Wasn’t there a lesson learned from failure before that he turned into a cat and ran back in despair? Isn’t that also “Chuya Chuya”.

The clock in the living room performed its task meticulously, making a small sound.

"Is it already ten o'clock?" He looked up at the clock on the wall and found that it was getting late. No wonder Zhong Yuan Zhong also asked him to stay tonight with a calm face. It was almost Li Jia's usual bedtime: "Oops, It's already this time."

"Hurry up and call Lan and tell her not to go back to sleep tonight."

Edogawa Conan hurriedly took out his mobile phone and dialed Mao Lilan.

……

There was no one in the study.

Zhong Yuanzhong also raised his eyebrows, and scanned around the huge study, making sure he didn't see the little girl who was supposed to be staying in the study.

He walked slowly into the direction of the desk, and following the sound of slight rapid breathing, he found Li Jia with her hands folded around her knees at the place where her feet were placed under the desk.

She stepped on the dark red carpet in the study with her bare feet, her arms crossed her knees, and she buried her head to hide her face, motionless as if she didn't exist by hiding.

"Li Jia?" Zhong Yuan Zhong also squatted down patiently on one knee, looked at the dark and narrow space under the desk, shrank in the figure of a little girl, and there was still more than half of the space left, "What are you doing in there?"

The cat's pupils in cobalt blue eyes are enlarged and rounded with the change of light, allowing more light to enter the eyes. He can clearly see Li Jia's restless body hiding under the desk and hear her slightly rapid breathing Voice.

Bai Shengsheng's little feet landed on the carpet and tensely curled up her toes to grab the ground. She was too shy to make a sound. Even if she knew that Zhongyuan Zhongye had come into the study, the "Zhongyuan Zhongye" she had just kissed had left, and she would still be at a loss , I don’t know how to face the other Chuya of the Central Plains.

"Please give me some more time," she said with her head buried in her knees, "I'll be out soon."

She has to work hard to adjust her mentality and continue to question other people.

It's just a kiss, it's not a big deal.

Zhongyuan Zhong also looked at her quietly, and said slowly: "It doesn't matter if Li Jia doesn't come out, you can ask questions with this posture."

He wouldn't force her to come out if she didn't want to. It's not difficult to maintain such a posture anyway, but he was a little worried that she would be so shy that she would hide under the desk tonight and wouldn't dare to go back to the bedroom.

"...Is it okay?" Li Jia shrank in the dark corner, carefully revealing a pair of blue eyes, and her voice was very light and small, like the whining of a cub.

"It doesn't matter, if staying inside will make Lijia feel more secure." Zhongyuan Zhong also shook his head, for him the environment is not an important factor.

If you want to tell Li Jia, you can naturally say it anywhere. As for how much you can tell her, it is up to them to grasp it.

It's better to take the initiative to reveal some of the facts to her than to tell her nothing, and to reveal all the dark and bad things for the last time, making it difficult for her to accept.

Li Jia thanked in a low voice softly, her eyelashes fluttering nervously: "Mr. Chuya, what do you want to tell me?"

In fact, she wanted to know everything and because she didn't know anything, she didn't know where to start asking, so she had to hand over the power of answering to Nakahara Chuya.

In fact, they only need to tell her part of the truth, instead of showing an attitude of keeping everything from her, no matter what they say, she is willing to listen carefully.

Even if you can't listen to it all in one night, if you spend a few more days and spend more time communicating, you can always clear things up bit by bit.

"I don't know if Brother Chuya has told you about Izu. Let me start with what I have been doing in the past few months." His voice was deep and magnetic, and he did not evade at all and even led Li Jia to go to other places. direction of thinking.

"Does Li Jia know how secret information is usually transmitted?" Zhong Yuan put one hand on his knee, lowered his head slightly and shrank under the desk, only revealing a pair of blinking eyes of a young girl.

"Secret information?" Interest and curiosity were aroused a little bit, she raised her face and wondered softly: "Is it through a code? Or a postman?"

Like in the movie novels, agents or special intelligence agents go to designated places to hand over information with specific codes, and then hand over money or traded items to the other party.

Or send it out by registered mail, and store the mobile hard disk and tape storing the information in the bank safe, and only use a password or password to take it out.

"There is indeed a way of using ciphers. The postman delivering the information will record a specific decryption table to decipher the location and time of the transaction information, and the sealed important information requires another set of different decryption tables to decipher it. information." Chuya Nakahara's voice narrated as if telling a story, with sharp and arrogant eyebrows lowered.

Li Jia was a little dazed and uncertain and asked: "Is it to prevent the intelligence agents from privately viewing the secret information inside?"

She thought that the information collectors were generally the ones who delivered the information, after all, it was always played like this in the movies.

But now it seems that this may not be the case. It must be very important to think carefully about the identity of the spy who is responsible for collecting information. You cannot let people find out that you have exposed yourself. Nothing strange.

Zhong Yuanzhong also nodded slowly, raised his lips and said: "In order to keep secret, spies usually don't show up in real body, they only put the processed and encrypted information in a specific place and wait for the postman to pick it up, because it is not easy to deliver the message and the identity Information is easily suspected and exposed, and the rewards for postman missions are generally not small."

"This is what I've been doing every now and then when I go out."

It is definitely impossible to tell Li Jia nothing, but they don't need to tell Li Jia everything.

As long as you choose some of the safe content, which won't make her worry too much, or make her suspicious, and simply say it, the little girl will easily feel at ease.

Even Zhongyuan Zhongye's work during this period is a hundred times more dangerous and exciting than the work of a "postman", and the profits are much higher, and it is closer to gradually establishing its own power among various organizations.

But as long as Lijia is told some less dangerous work content, she can naturally relax with peace of mind.

If he's not mistaken, "Brother Zhongye" should have the same idea at the beginning. He only said part of it or picked up unimportant things that would not make Li Jia worry and fear, so as to calm down the anxious little girl. Then slowly expose her to the world of the mafia and part of the work.

Give her a buffer of time to come to terms with their jobs and who they really are.

But I don't know why, he behaved so strangely when he just left the study.

Logically speaking, he is confident that he will be the first to accept Li Jia's questioning, and he can even hold her back for two hours. He should be in a stable state with ease and confidence.

When Nakahara Nakaya just mentioned Izu, he deliberately glanced at Rijia's expression. Obviously, "Brother Nakaya" didn't tell her what happened to Izu, and maybe he didn't reveal much information.

It was an "interrogation," as he began by saying.

However, he will use all his past experience to "anti-interrogate" Li Jia to divert her attention, and resolve the uneasiness and worries left by them who were immature in their teenage years.

Why did "Brother Zhongye" come out with such an expression after two hours and why did Li Jia hide under the desk and refused to come out? What exactly did they talk about during these two hours.

Zhongyuan Zhong also can only be sure now that Li Jia has not yet felt afraid of avoiding them, and has no specific knowledge of the Mafia.

This is actually the result of the tacit understanding of the few of them. Except for "Mr. Zhongye" who does not have a good impression of the Mafia, they are all people who don't want Li Jia to feel afraid and panic.

Even Zhongyuan Zhongye has enough confidence. When Li Jia knows that they are the mafia, she can quickly change her view so that she will not be afraid of them, but it is of course the best way to proceed step by step without complicating matters.

Unfortunately, things don't always go as planned.

She still had doubts about their work in advance and wanted to know everything.

……

"Is it dangerous to be a postman?" Li Jia lowered her head and pressed her knees, and asked timidly in a low voice.

Was it too capricious of her to call them all back suddenly?

If Mr. Nakaya and the others suddenly left their jobs and came back, wouldn't there be a risk of exposure?

"Being a postman is not very dangerous, as long as you clear, cough, and get rid of the little tails that come after you, you just put things in a specific place and wait for someone to pick them up."

Zhong Yuanzhong also almost slipped his tongue, and his voice paused: "The postman is just a transporter on the road. We will not come into contact with people from the two organizations, let alone let people know our true identity. There is not much danger."

Zhong Yuanzhong didn't lie when he said this. Although he didn't work as a postman many times, he took over the job several times because he dropped by and the salary was really high, but as long as no one followed him, he put the things in a specific place and left. Watching someone take it away from a distance means the work is done.

It's just that for most postmen, how to get rid of or deal with the tracking person is the biggest problem.

There are also many organizations that deliberately use the undercover agents lurking inside the organization to pass on wrong information, and by the way track and find out where the organization that the other party sent people over to deal with them came from.

Postmen don't care if the information delivered is true or not, their job is just to send things from one place to another, that's all.

"So it's like this..." Li Jia relaxed a little, tilting her head on her knees: "I've been worried that Mr. Zhongya is doing dangerous things outside."

Zhong Yuanzhong also raised his eyebrows and asked, "What dangerous thing does Li Jia think I will do?"

He was also a little curious about what the little girl thought about the work that they would travel away from home from time to time.

"Surveillance, stalking or something," she hesitated, blushing in embarrassment: "It's similar to Uncle Maori's investigation of an affair, but it's more dangerous and troublesome."

She would often hear Ms. Lan say that Uncle Mao Li would not go home to eat when he went out to work, and sometimes he would go out and follow the client's husband or wife far away in order to investigate the affair of the client's husband or wife.

After all, no one who cheats will have a private meeting with his lover in a place near his home that is easy to be found by the people next to him. Naturally, Uncle Maori wants to investigate clearly, so he will follow him to places outside of Tokyo.

Zhong Yuanzhong couldn't help laughing, and followed her words: "Indeed, I heard that the Maori detective is very good at catching affairs. something you want."

Should it be said that the ability of the former criminal policeman Mori Kogoro to track the suspect has not declined, or that he is best at following the commission of the affair.

His ability to track and counter-track is much higher than his ability to solve crimes.

"Right?" Li Jia had a soft and lovely smile on her face, let go of her legs while she was resting under the desk, stretched her body, and said happily: "I heard that Maori detectives are also very arbitrarily looking for cats!"

She had thought before that if Dr. Ali's collar was removed for repair, and the cats in Zhongya happened to run out of the house again, and she didn't know where they went, she could ask the Maori detective to help her find the cats.

After all, Maori Detective's detective ability of catching affairs and finding cats has been recognized by many clients, and even many jobs that other detective agencies cannot do, he can perfectly win.

The bent calf was straightened and flattened, the originally nervous and shy mood gradually relaxed and relieved with Nakahara Chuya's words, and the brain almost forgot what I did on the spur of the moment.

"Ah, it's already eleven o'clock." Zhong Yuanzhong also pretended to glance at the clock in the study casually, "It's getting late, Li Jia hasn't taken a shower yet, right?"

Li Jia was surprised and said, "Is it this late?"

She felt that it hadn't been long since she came into the study, as if one moment she was in the living room and wanted to ask all of them questions, and the next moment it was almost time to go to bed.

In a flash, she impulsively hugged "Brother Zhongye" and kissed her forehead, and the roots of her ears turned red unconsciously. She panicked and wanted to raise her head to go to a bright place, but she forgot the solid wood desk on top of her head. .

Before a bulge popped out of her head, Zhongyuan Zhong also reached out and placed her hand on her head in time to prevent the reckless little girl from getting injured before going to bed.

"Mr. Zhong, Mr. Zhongya..."

The brain acted one step ahead of the ability, and Zhong Yuanzhong also blocked Li Jia's exit position, and put his hand on her head, almost blocking her whole body in the small space under the desk.

Originally, it was not a space for people to squat and hide below, but now it is squeezed into the Central Plains, forcing Li Jia to lean against the wooden board behind him, and the hands that fell on the carpet helplessly grasp the soft carpet under his hands fluff.

The young man's scorching breath was so close that it seemed that it was about to spray on her face, she felt dizzy and felt that the space under the desk seemed extremely stuffy, and she could hardly breathe.

"...Sorry," Zhong Yuanzhong also pursed his lips, turned his head and said in a low voice, "I'm going out now."

As soon as their calves took a step back, they heard the sound of the study door being unlocked, the heavy wooden door was pushed aside, and Edogawa Conan's dignified voice came from the door: "Li Jia, I want to say something..."

Nakahara Chuya and Li Jia froze at the same time, subconsciously holding their breath.

The little boy didn't finish his sentence, and found that there was no one in the study room: "Where is the person?"