Bandage fine tricks

When walking out from the balcony and going to the first floor along the corridor with one room and one handrail, Xiao Hachi glanced at the lobby on the first floor, but did not see Mr. Fukuzawa Yukichi and Mr. Akashi Seishomi—how about Mr. Yukichi? Said that Mr. Akashi, as the current person in power of the Akashi Foundation and the organizer of this banquet, should be the focus of the entire lobby on the first floor.

But now he is not there.

"For a banquet, even if it's hosted by your own family, you don't necessarily need the host to stay at the banquet the whole time." As if seeing through her doubts, the red-haired young man next to him explained softly, "At this time , Father, he should be in the reception room with Mr. Yukichi."

"That's it..." Xiao Hachi nodded half-understanding, and led by Akashi Seijuro through the self-service pick-up counter. The waiter happened to bring up trays of desserts, so they stopped for a while and waited. This wave of people passed.

After the waiter finished leaving, Hachi glanced at the neatly arranged row of small cakes on the dining table, and when she was about to turn her head to talk to Seijuro Akashi, she caught a glimpse of a man in a suit walking forward out of the corner of her eye. , glanced quickly across the row of small cakes, then took a piece from it, and left.

Xiao Ba was stunned for a moment, and his eyes fell on those cakes again.

It is a black forest cake cut into small squares, sprinkled with chocolate chips on the surface, made a rose with chocolate in the middle, and dotted with two cherries on the side, which can be clearly seen from the cut surface The presence of cherry jam in the cake embryo.

"Excuse me, Akashi-kun, can I ask you a question?"

Xiao Hachi's eyes were still on those Black Forest cakes, and Akashi Seijuro felt that it wasn't that she wanted to eat cakes—he had never seen a girl who would throw a tantrum on the dessert she wanted as if she was explaining what kind of century Difficult expression: "Of course, is it related to these cakes?"

Xiao Ba nodded: "Are these Black Forest cakes ordered from the dessert shop and delivered here, or are they freshly made in the kitchen after the banquet?"

"Usually, they are made at banquets, but the host of the banquet this time is Yuanyue College. As far as I know, the desserts are made by Miss Akakubotamo, one of the ten masters, and then refrigerated at low temperature. The shipping method is delivered to the banquet as soon as it is made."

Although it is possible to assign a dessert making room to Miss Akakubo Momo in the kitchen of the annex where the banquet is held, but the other party is currently working in a first-class dessert shop in Yokohama that has a cooperative relationship with Totsuki Academy, so it is difficult to separate, so the final result of the negotiation between the two parties It was Akakubo Momo who finished the cooking work in the dessert shop, and then the Akashi family delivered the finished product to the banquet.

It was too late to be surprised that there is still "Spirit of the Halberd Eater" in this world, Xiao Hachi didn't care about explaining, grabbed Akashi Seijuro's hand, and pulled him to walk quickly in the direction where the man he saw just now left, asking : "Akashi-kun, do you know the contact information of Miss Akakubomomo? Do you have a mobile phone with you?"

Coincidentally, he has both.

Realizing that there seemed to be something wrong, otherwise the lady would not suddenly change her face, Akashi Seijuro did not ask why, nor did he withdraw his hand, allowing the other party to pull him away, and directly took out his mobile phone, found Akane Kubomomo's contact information was dialed and handed to Hachi.

"Hi, this is Akakubo." A cute girl's voice came from the other end of the phone.

The situation was urgent, Xiao Hachi directly omitted all the etiquette and self-introduction, and asked the question he was most concerned about: "May I ask if the rose chocolates on the black forest cake you provided for the Akashi family banquet are all the same shape?"

"Huh?" There was a doubtful voice on the other end of the phone, "Of course, it was printed with a 3D printer, and even the veins of the leaf will not change!" Immediately afterwards, the other party seemed to realize something, "Hey, Could it be that someone did something to my work and you saw chocolate roses with a bad look?"

"Thank you for your cooperation!" Hachi returned the phone to Akashi Seijuro immediately after saying this, and looked for the figures in the crowd.

Not here, not there...where did he go!

It's just a wrong eye and it disappears. There are too many people and too many people, and the smell is difficult to distinguish...Damn it!

Akashi Seijuro answered the phone, because Hachi forgot to hang up, and the voice of Akakubomomo kept shouting "Hello, is anyone there" came from the receiver. He held the phone in his hand, with excellent insight Let him understand that Xiao Ba seems to be looking for someone but lost the trace of the other party: "If he lost his trace near here, I remember that there is a relatively hidden rest area here, which is easy to be overlooked."

As soon as Xiao Hachi stopped, Akashi Seijuro held her back, and this time he took her away, borrowing a waiter with an empty plate, and soon arrived at the corner where two pots of tall green plants were placed .

After bypassing these two pots of green plants, I discovered that there is actually a hidden space about twenty square meters behind, with three or four sofas and a tea table. At this time, there are several men and women sitting here, as if They were drinking cocktails and chatting when they were interrupted by two people who came over suddenly. They stopped communicating and looked over in unison.

"Ah, isn't this Master Akashi?" The wavy, long-haired woman sitting in the center was the first to smile politely. The displeasure of being disturbed just now had completely disappeared from her brows. With a cocktail plate, he stood up from the sofa, as if he wanted to greet this unexpected guest.

Gently squeezed Xiao Hachi's hand, Akashi Seijuro let go of his hand, maintained a gentle etiquette, and started talking with this lady.

Acknowledging Akashi-kun's hint—taking advantage of the moment when he drew everyone's attention to himself—Xiao Hachi quickly browsed through the objects on the coffee table: decorative vases, fruit bowls, wine glass...

and a black forest cake.

...the two cherries for decoration are missing.

Xiao Ba noticed this immediately.

Could it be that the problem is not the chocolate roses, but the cherries?

"Hey, let me say, Miss, can you stop staring at my cake?" The woman in front of the Black Forest cake had short hair and said dissatisfiedly, "If you want cakes, there are a lot of them at the self-service bar! "

When she spoke, the eyes of those who had already focused their attention on Akashi Seijuro were turned back, and everyone realized that besides the heir of the Akashi family, there was this young lady who broke in just now. .

"who is this?"

"I don't know...not from our circle, right?"

Although there were not many people, it was impossible to tell which mouth these whispers came from.

Xiao Ba took one last look at the Black Forest cake, and then turned his gaze to the woman who spoke just now.

It was a man who took the cake.

That person is not here.

By the way, when I walked over just now, the waiter I met head-on... I see.

Xiao Ba suddenly understood.

"What's wrong?" Akashi Masomi's voice came from behind, Xiao Hachi turned around in surprise, and found that at some point, Fukuzawa Yukichi and Akashi Masomi had also come over.

Other than that there weren't many people.

"Father." Akashi Seijuro nodded to his father, then stood beside Hachi, and explained softly, "You will pass here when you come out of the reception room."

Saw them here so walked over to see what was going on.

"I still want to ask what's the matter!" The short-haired woman who was dissatisfied with Xiao Ba just now had an undisguised anger on her face, "We want a few sisters to get together here, this lady suddenly pulled Wouldn't it be too rude for Master Akashi to barge in?"

She is obviously very good at speaking. When she came in just now, everyone saw that Seijuro Akashi pulled her in, but in her mouth, it became that this lady pulled Seijuro Akashi in. It was impolite. The person becomes this girl, not Master Akashi.

Obviously, even though she was venting her dissatisfaction, she did not direct her anger on the host of the banquet.

Akashi Masato was puzzled for a moment, he didn't think that the child of his friend would act disrespectfully for no reason, what's more, he noticed it just after meeting for a short time, this child is not used to the atmosphere of the banquet, let alone drag Seijuro abruptly Coming here, the most likely thing for her is to find a corner and stay alone.

Besides, with Seijuro by his side, if there was something she shouldn't do, he believed that Seijuro would remind her.

But Seijuro didn't stop her, and even at this time he was still standing beside Hachi, without any act of separating the relationship, but he meant to protect her. Obviously, Hachi didn't make Seijuro hate her and leave her alone, so in this way , the reason why Seijuro didn't stop her is worth thinking about.

Compared to Akashi Masomi who was thinking about what was going on (he didn't believe that the girl was talking about Hachi breaking in), Fukuzawa Yukichi was more direct: "Hachi, what happened?"

The originally silent girl raised her head, her tea eyes froze for a moment, and said: "Just now, Akashi-kun and I came down from the second floor, passed by the self-service pick-up counter, and saw a row of small Black Forest cakes brought by the waiter."

The short-haired girl sneered: "Why, did you come after my cake?"

"That's right!" To her surprise, the girl admitted it, and said with a slight smile, "I fell in love with it at first sight, but a man took it away first."

"Have you never seen a cake in your life?" the short-haired woman asked almost without thinking, as if she saw something disgusting on her haughty face.

"I've definitely seen the cake before, but, miss, do you know why I fell in love with the piece in front of you among the black forest cakes that cost more than 20 yuan?" Xiao Ba walked over slowly and picked up the cake The black forest cake in front of women with short hair, "Because of this rose chocolate!"

Chocolate roses?

Everyone's attention was focused on the Black Forest cake in Xiaoba's hand. The rose chocolate on it was still intact, and there was nothing special about it.

Akashi Seijuro thought about recalling the appearance of other Black Forest cakes on the buffet table just now, compared with the one in front of him, but he couldn't see any difference.

"It's because the number of petal layers is different!" Xiao Ba smiled and announced the answer, "There are four layers of rose chocolates on this Black Forest cake - other Black Forest cakes only have three layers of rose chocolates. "

"Well, so what! It's nothing unusual for the pastry chef to make an extra layer!" The short-haired woman's tone was still aggressive, but this time there was a sense of guilty conscience.

"Well, miss, what you said is very reasonable!" Xiao Ba affirmed her words, "I also considered this possibility at first, so I asked the dessert chef who made this batch of desserts, and the other party answered me Say, the chocolate rose above is made with a 3D printer—the texture of each petal of the chocolate rose made with a 3D printer is exactly the same, and there is absolutely no possibility of even one more mark, let alone one more. layer of petals."

There was a little sweat on the forehead of the short-haired woman, and she faintly felt that something was wrong, but no matter what she thought, it was impossible for the other party to just... know what she was going to do just because of a rose chocolate, right?

Thinking of this, she softened her tone and tried to send these people away as soon as possible: "Do you like it so much? I haven't touched it anyway. If you don't mind, just take it away."

"Have you never touched it before?" Xiao Ba handed the Black Forest cake to the short-haired woman, and when he spoke again, his voice was obviously the same, but there was an inexplicable force of shock in his voice, "This lady Excuse me, where did the cherry on top go?"

The pupils of the short-haired woman shrank: "This...how do I know this! It was already like this when I got it!"

"No, when the man handed the cake to you, it should be intact!" Xiao Ba put down the cake, "Then, let me guess where you put those two cherries... …Speaking of which, on the way here, I met a waiter, the tray in his hand was empty, and he was heading towards the bar—did he just deliver the bar for you?”

"Yes, if it's the tall, black-haired, hook-nosed waiter, indeed, he has just delivered the ordered wine to us." This time it was not the short-haired woman who spoke, but the first greeting Akashi Seijuro's wavy and long-haired lady, from what Xiaobafang said, she intuitively sensed something bad, so she added, "Is there a problem with that waiter?"

"The waiter's words should be fine, and the wine he brought over is fine, because..." Xiao Ba picked up the cocktail plate that was placed in front of the wavy long-haired lady just now, and it contained wine as beautiful as the glow of the sunset , "The final step of the Manhattan is to add a cherry for decoration. If the bartender at the bar makes a mistake and adds an extra one, as a waiter with this kind of basic common sense, he should remind the other party when receiving the drink and remove the excess. The one from the original, or simply remake a glass - but there are two in this glass of wine, which can only mean that the person who finally handled it replaced the original cherry."

As the cup was shaken slightly, two cherries swayed in the red wine.

"Of course, the most direct evidence is that the chocolate chips on the cherries were brought into the liquor."

At the bottom of the cocktail dish, the fine sediment that is hard to detect unless you look carefully, moves with the sloshing of the wine.

The woman with wavy and long hair changed her expression, and she looked directly at the woman with short hair: "Cube, you..."

——Because Cangzi was close to the waiter, she helped to take the wine glass. When the waiter left, she found that there were two garnished cherries in her Manhattan wine. Cangzi also said it was a symbol of good luck!

"Only, it's just one more cherry! What's so strange!" The short-haired woman waved her hand suddenly, as if she was very upset, but her hand went straight to Xiao Ba's hand holding the glass of Manhattan wine —she wants to break it!

Fukuzawa Yukichi's eyes were serious, and he was about to make a move, but he saw Hachi retracting his wrist miraculously, and the short-haired woman's hand was immediately emptied, and the black-haired girl with tea eyes took a step back and moved away from her: "It's dangerous!" , the evidence is almost gone!"

"It's not surprising that there's just one extra cherry, but it's not surprising that this Black Forest Cake - to be precise, the cherry on top - was smuggled into the banquet by taking so much trouble to deceive the eyes of Yuanyue Academy and the transportation company under the Akashi family. It would be very strange to add it to the Manhattan wine Mrs. Ooka is going to drink." Akashi Seitomo said indifferently, and took the cocktail plate containing the Manhattan wine that Xiao Hachi handed him, "Unfortunately, Miss Fuchun Aoko , I need to ask you to go to the police station."

After that, there was nothing wrong with Xiaoba. Annoyed that an accident almost happened at the banquet held by him, the Akashi family investigated very quickly, and quickly figured out what was going on: because of the strict security of the banquet, poison and other things Can't be smuggled in, so Fuchun Cangzi aimed at the gap during the time when the batch of Black Forest cakes left the dessert shop and put them on the transport truck, contacted his accomplices, and mixed the poisonous Black Forest cakes into other cakes as a difference , that is, there is an extra layer of rose chocolate for decoration.

The man Xiaoba saw at first was another accomplice of Fuchun Cangzi. He was passionately pursuing Fuchun Cangzi, so he obeyed Fuchun Cangzi's order, waited at the self-service dining table, and brought her the "will bring" Lucky four-layer rose chocolate black forest cake, absolutely must not fall into the hands of others, otherwise she will never forgive him in this life", and delivered it to her.After receiving the cake, Fuchun Cangzi returned to this hidden rest room, counted the time for the waiter to deliver the wine, took the cherry off the Black Forest cake and served it with Manhattan wine while everyone was distracted. She exchanged the cherries in the bag, and then handed them to Mrs. Ooka who was going to be poisoned.

Just a little bit, her plan succeeded.

——If Xiao Ba didn't notice that distinctive chocolate rose.

In order not to disturb the guests at the banquet, the police parked the police car in the backyard under the arrangement of Akashi's family. It was inconvenient for Akashi Seishi, who was the host of the banquet, to leave the banquet, so he asked his son to come and receive the police—just in time, he also knew this best. One of the people involved in the incident.

At this time, the red-haired boy was standing at the gate of the back garden, watching the police take Fuchun Cangzi into the police car.

"Just because of that rose, do you feel something is wrong?" Akashi Seijuro asked the girl beside him.

Xiao Ba was looking at the woman who tried poisoning and murder. He heard the words and looked at the red-haired boy: "That man seems to have been waiting by the side from the beginning. When we went to the second floor, I saw him helping himself. He was wandering around the pick-up counter, and when we came down, he was still there. But at first I thought he might prefer to socialize near the self-service pick-up counter, so he didn’t pay much attention.”

The girl with black hair and tea eyes smiled: "Until the batch of Black Forest cakes were served, I noticed that one of the chocolate roses looked different, and the man immediately came up to him, his eyes fell on that cake, and immediately Just took it away - obviously the piece of cake was placed close to the center, according to table manners, it was a bit rude to eat like this, and he showed a relaxed breath almost immediately after getting the cake , as if he had completed some mission, there were too many suspicious points, so I chased after him."

The rose with the same special label, the man who was waiting for it, and the gesture of leaving immediately after getting it - these were enough for her to judge that there was something wrong with the piece of Black Forest cake.

"However, it was after entering the rest room that the cherries were found to be problematic," Xiaoba said thoughtfully, "At first I thought the problem was the chocolate roses, but after I entered, I found that the cherries were gone, so I realized that there might be something wrong with them." The problem is actually the cherries, and the roses are just a mark so that the man can find the cake exactly. As for the Manhattan, the only cocktail on the table is garnished with cherries."

If there was more than one cocktail garnished with cherries in the end, she would probably have to rely on the undissolved chocolate chips to judge.

"Overall, good luck!" Xiao Ba reviewed everything and concluded, "It's great that no one was hurt!"

No, it's not a matter of luck... Akashi Seijuro said slowly in his heart, if it were someone else, even if they noticed what she noticed, would they think so much, would they be so impolite to catch up?

Will not.

But one thing she said was right.

"Yeah, that's great," he said softly.

Fortunately, before Mrs. Ooka drank the glass of wine, before she lost her life, she broke into the rest area.

It's great that no one was hurt, no life was lost.

In addition...

He looked at the girl beside him.

It was great to meet her.