Not too many out of four

Lightning flashed from the window and illuminated the whole room. Li Jia was thinking of drying her hair before finding the kitten to come back for a bath, but she didn't expect to see the boy squatting outside the balcony when she looked up.

Light and free, like a cat, he landed on the fence of the balcony with arrogance, the raindrops wet his clothes and face, his curly ocher hair and cat ears were drooping down, but the boy's expression was so bright and dazzling that people could ignore it The desolation of the body wet by the rain.

The slender and elegant tail is raised and bent in a leisurely arc, as if he is not under the shackles of the heavy rain and doesn't care about his embarrassment. He has the arrogance that he can go anywhere as long as he wants.

Zhongyuan Zhong also turned his head in a panic, seeing that he couldn't explain his behavior in the past, he wanted to escape from here.

Li Jia pushed open the glass door of the balcony, the torrential rain wet her nightgown, and the strong wind swept the rain into the bedroom, the boy turned around and wanted to jump away, she couldn't grab his hands or the hem of his clothes , only the tail dangling in front of her eyes, she reached out and grabbed it.

When she grabbed Nakahara Chuya's tail, she didn't even know what she was thinking, she just apologized in a panic.

After all, she knew that felines don't like being scratched by their tails, and the action she just held on just happened to pull off the boy's tail.

The heavy rain soon wet her body, but Li Jia had no mind to think about these things.

She opened her mouth, and said hesitantly: "Mr. Zhongye, is it a cat demon?"

Zhong Yuanzhong also showed a look of astonishment, and couldn't help making a confused voice: "Huh?"

Li Jia's introverted personality, which was difficult to express herself smoothly, only asked one sentence, and she was embarrassed to continue asking.

She stood stupidly in the rain and pulled Nakahara Chuya's tail, not daring to let him go for fear that he would flee here immediately, but she didn't know what to say, now thinking about what she said just now, it was really stupid.

Why does she think that Zhong Yuanzhong is also a cat demon?

Her feet froze in the rain and she didn't know whether to turn back to the room or stay here. The nightgown was soaked by the rain and stuck to her body. The biting cold brought by the autumn rain made her shiver unconsciously.

"Go back inside and take a bath again, you'll catch a cold if you do this." Zhong Yuanzhong couldn't stand it anymore, he frowned and spoke up.

People with poor physique still ran out to get wet in the rain. Does she still want to get sick and go to the hospital?

He turned around and fell down from the fence, took her cold arm and pushed her back into the bedroom, and said in a deep voice, "Don't you know how poor your body is?"

Li Jia was pushed back by him in a daze, still holding the flexible and hard tail in her hand, she quietly raised her eyes to look at him without making a sound for a while.

He couldn't help feeling a little regretful, was his tone too aggressive.

He couldn't control his temper. He obviously wanted to care about her, but the words he said were so blunt and annoying.

"...You're getting wet too, there is a spare bathroom at home," the girl's voice was like cotton candy, soft and soft, shy and introverted: "Brother has clothes that were put away before, so I should be able to temporarily Lend it to you."

In fact, you can wait for the clothes on your body to be washed and dried before taking them away, but she doesn't have the nerve to let people stay until the rain stops before leaving.

Just looking at the thick dark clouds outside, the rain should not be able to stop in a short time.

Zhong Yuan Zhong also had a headache from the tail that she held lightly in the palm of her hand. Li Jia's strength was not heavy, but although holding it like this would make people feel a little uncomfortable, it didn't make him feel pain.

In addition, the raging flames burning inside his body made him not feel cold. In fact, he was not as miserable as he looked on the surface, but it was not easy to explain this to Li Jia.

How can he say that he is so hot now that he doesn't need a bath and won't catch a cold from the rain.

Seeing that Zhong Yuan Zhong also frowned and watched her silent for a long time, Li Jia began to hesitate again in his heart, loosened his fingers to hold the long flexible tail, and carried it behind his back embarrassingly.

She didn't mean to grab Nakahara Chuya's tail on purpose, but she didn't turn her head around at the time. Could he be angry because of this...

"If Mr. Zhongye is not at ease, I can send the clothes to dry now," Li Jia lowered his head hesitantly and whispered: "However, if the wet clothes are directly dried, there may be many wrinkles when they come out."

Moreover, the dirty things that fell from the rainwater belt were not cleaned, and small bugs might be born if they were worn directly on the upper body.

Zhong Yuanzhong was also choked by her: "I don't have anything to worry about, the person who wants to raise guard is you, not me!"

Not everyone is worthy of her unsuspecting and complete trust. This time, she was lucky enough to meet him by chance. If she met someone else, wouldn't she be so unconscious to keep him?

He couldn't help muttering and complaining: "I'm talking about you, do you have the vigilance and self-consciousness that you are a woman living alone now, don't just bring people into the house."

"Eh?" Li Jia blinked in surprise, looked up at Zhongya Zhongyuan: "How did Mr. Zhongye know..."

She lives alone now, with no family around.

Nakahara Chuya's expression changed a few times when he accidentally said something that slipped his lips. He faltered and said: "The disappearance of the great detective Kudo Shinichi has long been known, and you live here again..."

He fake coughed twice to hide his unease: "This is just a simple reasoning, I'm really not monitoring and following you."

After adding the last sentence, he regretted it a little.

It felt like he was trying to cover up, cover up and lie to others, but he really didn't have any bad thoughts about Li Jia, he just planned to come back and take his clothes.

The weather has turned cold and rainy recently, and Li Jia is always worried that he will be cold due to the lack of a layer of undercoat, and she is expected to start knitting him a sweater.

He didn't want to be the only one in the family walking around in a fancy sweater, that would be too embarrassing.

Zhong Yuanzhong also showed a little guilt and avoided Li Jia's eyes. He lowered his head, water droplets fell from the tip of his hair, slid along the sharp and youthful face line, passed the collarbone and sank into the neckline, and the whole person just stood still. Wet a large area of ​​the carpet in the bedroom.

His body was too wet, and his clothes were soaked with water and stuck to his body heavily, fearing that a basin of water would come out even if he twisted it with his hands.

"I believe what Mr. Zhongye said, as long as it is what Mr. Zhongye said, I will believe it." Li Jia pursed her lips with a shallow and cute arc, her small and playful canine teeth loomed on her lips, and her sea blue eyes were bright and charming.

Zhongyuan Zhong also raised his eyes to meet her gaze, and somehow felt his heart skip a beat.

He turned his head to avoid Li Jia's sight in embarrassment, and replied vaguely: "...um."

"Mr. Zhongye, can you go to the bathroom on the first floor?" Li Jia dug out two thick bath towels from a drawer, put one on her body, and handed the other to Zhongyuan Zhongye: "There are shampoo and shampoo in the bathroom. I'll send clean clothes over later."

Just going out for a while, she was soaked like Zhong Yuanzhong, and had to go back to the bathroom and take a bath again to warm her body.

Zhongyuan Zhong also took the bath towel in a daze, his mind a little unturned: "Ah, good."

He blinked and watched Li Jia tighten the towel on his shoulders and waved to him, and said with a smile, "I'll take you to the bathroom."

Zhong Yuanzhong also slowly followed Li Jia's pace, feeling inexplicably heavy and speechless.

He actually wanted to refuse at first, but...

Her eyes still fell on Li Jia's thin and slender back, she clutched the bath towel and sneeze softly, covering her lips.

If you continue to argue with her about these things, maybe she will really catch a cold and have a fever because of being drenched in the rain.

Now Kudou is not at home, if Li Jia burns up in the middle of the night, there will be no one to take care of her.

Zhong Yuanzhong also used this reason to persuade himself not to care about the messy things, just as Li Jia took him in kindly and kindly, just like she brought him home back then.

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The hot water flushed the body again to warm up the cold skin, Li Jia looked down at the palm of his hand: "The cat demon really exists."

The cat's tail she holds in her own hands is different from the fake tail that is pinned on the back of her waist and clothes. It is a real cat's tail that has heat and life will twist and struggle in the palm of her hand, and wraps around her wrist intimately.

The soft cat ears drooping on the top of the ocher hair, unwilling to get wet and succumbing to the rain, shakes and shakes, feeling pitiful and cute.

"...If I help Mr. Zhongye dry his hair, will he agree to let me touch it?" Li Jia tugged at the hair that fell on the collarbone and murmured to herself in a low voice.

The sensitive cat ears, which look thin and soft, fell down low and dropped water drops, and the thin fluff covering the cat ears was wet and sticky to them. Inexplicably reminded her of the kitten Zhong Ye who was also very similar to Zhong Yuan Zhong Jun.

It is also so arrogant and energetic, with its tail raised high and triumphantly patrolling around the house.

"No, it can't be like this." Li Jia shook her head vigorously, putting aside such thoughts.

She invited him in to take shelter from the rain and change out of his wet clothes to thank Chuya Nakahara. How could she make such an embarrassing and unreasonable request.

When her body warmed up a little, Li Jia turned off the hot water and prepared to find suitable clothes for Nakahara Nakaya. You should be able to find suitable clothes for him in the box of clothes that Kudo Yukiko sorted out and put away at home.

A dry and soft towel was placed on the wet hair. Li Jia was wiping her hair while looking for a place to put her clothes: "My brother's clothes in junior high school seem to be placed here."

"Mi?" The orange kitty tilted his head and looked at her in the dark looking for something in the room, turned around, jumped up and turned on the light, and leaned over leisurely with his tail wagging: "Mimimi?"

The warm little body rubbed against her calf, Li Jia turned her head and looked over: "Ah, it's Zhong Ye who is here."

She didn't intend to turn on the light to alarm the cats at home, but unexpectedly, "Zhong Ye" found out.

The cats in the house seem to be a little shy. When Zhongya Zhongya came to visit last time, they were vigilant and aggressive. Today, sisters Huiyuan and Dr. Ali are also in a state of vigilance and tight scrutiny throughout the visit.

Li Jia guessed that Moyo was so wary of Zhongyuan Zhongya and the others because the cats at home didn't often see strangers coming to the house.

"My sister happened to be looking for something, and Zhong Ye was really helpful." She praised with a soft smile.

Although the original intention was to separate the Zhongya cats from Zhongyuan Zhongya, there is no way to avoid it and it is impossible to lock the cats up. I hope that the cats will be more friendly when they meet for the second time.

The orange kitty squatted obediently and waited for Li Jia with his head held high, only his naughty tail flicked behind him, hooking Li Jia's calf from time to time, trying to get her to give up these boring chores and come to play with the cat.

"Brother's first-year junior high school clothes." Li Jia picked it up, looked around, and said uncertainly, "Is this size okay?"

Although they were all worn out clothes by Shinichi Kudo, Yukiko Kudo packed them into boxes carefully, and the clothes that could be stored and not thrown away were not considered worn out.

Except that the style is not in line with the current fashion, the fabric and cut of the clothes are very suitable for the upper body.

"Zhong Ye" pricked up his ears vigilantly, and raised his paw to pull Li Jia: "Mi? Mimi?"

The slender tail flicked from side to side quickly turned into restlessness, "Zhong Ye" still couldn't help rubbing against Li Jia's legs, blocking her view of the sweater, and called Mimi loudly and vigilantly.

Li Jia sighed softly, and tapped the pink and wet tip of the cat's nose: "Why are you so sensitive?"

She just came to find a piece of clothing, and "Zhong Ye" knew what happened right away.

In desperation, she had no choice but to carry "Chuya" together to deliver a clean change of clothes to Nakahara Nakaya. She could also borrow Kudo Shinichi's clothes for him temporarily, but he could only let him stay in the bathroom with his underwear. Wash and dry before wearing.

"Mr. Zhongye, I put the clothes outside." Li Jia shouted into the bathroom that was tightly covered by the rising mist.

From the bathroom came the boy's panicked response: "I know, I know."

"Zhong Ye" narrowed his beautiful cat's eyes slightly, stretched out his paws to pick up the wet clothes that La Lijia picked up, but she blocked them with her hands: "No, it will make the paws wet."

The clothes that Zhongyuan Zhongye put in the laundry basket were wet into a ball, and a large handful of water could be wrung out by hand. How could she let "Zhongye" touch it? If she got wet again at this time, she would have to first Take "Chuya" to take a bath.

She hasn't dealt with the wet carpet in the bedroom, and her wet nightgown and Zhongyuanzhong's soaked clothes have to be cleaned and dried. According to the rain outside, she won't even think about seeing the sun in a short time.

"Mi woo?" The cat's short and soft coquettish voice made Li Jia purse her lips and smile slightly, and she didn't bother holding "Zhong Ye" to sort the clothes into the washing machine by color and start it.

"Troublemaker, go back and blow your hair with sister." At least before Zhongyuan Zhongya came out, she had to take care of her own affairs first.

It would be too rude to let the guests sheltering from the rain wait for her to dry their hair before going downstairs.

Take a bath and change clothes again. This time, Li Jia didn't wear a nightgown anymore, but changed into light and loose clothes, wiped and absorbed the moisture from her hair little by little, and then dried her semi-dry hair thoroughly with a hair dryer.

During this period, "Zhong Ye" has been obediently nestling on her lap, looking up at Li Jia from time to time, his obedient and clingy appearance does not show that "Zhong Ye" has a fierce side at all.

"Has Chuya-kun finished washing?" Li Jia walked out of the bedroom and saw Zhongya Zhongya sitting stiffly in the living room.

The naturally hanging tail was blown half-dry and stopped dripping, and the slender cat hairs were glued together and exploded slightly. The tail in the half-dry state felt thicker than when Li Jia held it.

He fidgeted restlessly, pressed his hands on his knees, and looked up to see her slightly relieved: "You're here."

He has been stared at by the cat at home for more than ten minutes, and he is really relieved that "Brother Zhongye" and "Mr. Zhongye" have not shown the same hostility as last time.

But staring at him so tightly, his eyes were so hot that it almost made people burn.

I feel that the sofa under my buttocks makes me uncomfortable, and I want to jump up to avoid their piercing eyes.

However, he is now just a guest in Kudo House, not a part of the family, except for the living room and bathroom where Li Jia brought him, he dare not move around.

"Hasn't Mr. Zhongye blown his hair yet?" Her gaze was involuntarily drawn to the top of Zhongya's head, the ocher hair was curly and fell down neatly, and the cat ears stood up high, looking full of energy.

Zhong Yuanzhong also didn't understand what she meant for a while, he scratched his hair randomly, and said vaguely: "Don't worry about it, it will dry naturally soon."

In fact, he spent a long time blowing his tail in order to put on his pants.

Usually, I don't think there are so many hairs on the tails. It takes Li Jia to blow them. When it's his turn to blow them, Zhong Yuanzhong is so anxious that his head is on fire.

It is impossible for him to put on his pants if the tail is not dried, and he will get wet by the tail if he puts it on hard. The tail in human form is more difficult to control than that of a cat. Not as well-behaved as in Li Jia's hands.

Zhong Yuanzhong couldn't figure it out, it was clearly his tail.

Why do you obediently listen to Li Jia's words, but want to run away in his hands?

"...Mr. Zhongye catches a cold easily like this," Li Jia pursed her lips, and bravely said, "Let me blow your hair for you."