Bandage fine tricks

"...Huh? What a colorful summer vacation!" By the flower bed at the entrance of Yokohama's business district, taking advantage of the shade of the parasols of the nearby businesses, Xiao Hachi listened to Kudo on his mobile phone, who should be in the middle of the night in the United States at this time Shinichi talked about the cases he encountered during this period, what kind of plane murder case, what kind of silver-haired murderer, what kind of FBI handling cases, all kinds of demons dancing wildly, while paying attention to the surrounding environment - he was trained a lot by Mr. Dazai, especially a certain After the "stealth training" of "be careful not to let yourself be photographed by the camera" began, it almost became her instinct to pay attention to the surrounding environment anytime and anywhere.

But it's really difficult... Xiaoba thought to himself, let's not talk about the cameras of various shops on the commercial street, everyone's mobile phone cameras are already hard to guard against, who knows who is taking a picture of you or friends taking pictures of each other In the end, the photo posted a picture of her passing by?

How on earth did Mr. Dazai manage to walk through the entire commercial street without letting any camera capture his face?

"Hey, Xiao Ba, are you listening? Xiao Ba?"

The voice in the receiver brought back Xiao Ba’s suspicious thinking about Mr. Dazai, “Actually, it’s cheating, it’s definitely cheating, Mr. Dazai hasn’t finished this journey at all, right?” She hurriedly said, “I’m here! Huh? I What are you doing during this time?" Xiao Ba thought about this time, "Doing homework, practical training, etc..."

Mr. Dazai's training is also training.

"That's right, Hachi, you are going to take the entrance examination for Academy City, have you signed up?" Kudo Shinichi dug out this message from the corner of his memory.

"I've signed up a long time ago——by the time you remind me, the time for registration has passed!"

"That's not the case. Academy City has a second chance to register. The super ability test is the first. If you fail to pass the super ability test and fail the written test, you can apply for the follow-up general test. After admission As long as you can meet the standards of super ability subjects, you can transfer from ordinary subjects to super ability subjects. This is the "super ability road" for students who started relatively late.

"For students who aspire to general subjects, it is equivalent to having two chances to take the exam. If they passed the written test but failed in the actual combat in the previous super ability test, they will be classified into general subjects. If they fail the previous test, they will still be classified into general subjects You can try again for the exam." Kudo Shinichi said with a smile, "But you don't have to worry, with your grades in Weizhong Academy, you can go to the general department of the city in the Academy."

"But I want to apply for the superpower department." Xiao Ba said.

"I remember you said general subjects?" Kudo Shinichi rarely doubted his memory.

"I thought so at first, because at that time I thought I didn't have [super powers]. Didn't I find out that I had [super powers] later?" Xiao Ba played with his slender ribbon tie, and wrapped the bright red ribbon around On her thin white index finger, she didn’t let go until she wrapped the flower ring on her index finger, and then straightened it, “Mr. Yuji also talked to me, my ability is very powerful, even if it’s just because For the purpose of protection, it is best to be able to test for a super ability license. If there is no recommendation from the super ability department, individuals who want to sign up for the super ability license test have to go through special channels such as the public security police. I did well in the Ability Department. Because of this, I was trained by Kunikida-sensei recently... My back is still aching!"

Kunikida-sensei's strikes were so ruthless that she wondered if she had dipped his "ideal" notebook into tea.

"Poor kid!" Kudo Shinichi let out a merciless laugh, "...by the way, I wanted to ask just now, the background sound is a bit noisy over there, are you in a commercial street?"

Xiao Ba glanced back at the bustling business district behind him: "That's right, I'm in the business district of Yokohama!"

"A date to go shopping with someone?"

"It's about the same. If I want to buy a gift for someone, I'm not very good at picking it myself, so I asked someone to help me refer to it." Xiaoba said.

"You don't know how to choose? You can't..." Kudo Shinichi felt a little strange, and then he thought of a possibility, "Where is the gift recipient? Is it a man?"

If it's a woman, with Xiaoba's character, she won't be able to say "I'm not very good at picking". She can only behave like this when the person she is going to give a gift to is someone she doesn't know well.

"Dangdangdangdang, the answer is correct, there is no reward!" Xiao Bashun also hummed a piece of music that would be played when someone won the special prize when the merchant held a lottery.

"Give gifts to men... why don't you come and ask me?" He was happy to help his assistant, Mr. Watson—oh, this should be Miss Watson.

"I don't have any hope for your EQ, Senior Shinichi." Xiaoba and his former friends have very unified cognitions in this regard: Obviously, Kudo Shinichi is a model of exchanging EQ for IQ! "If you ask Senior Shinichi to give me a reference, maybe I will give you a gift with unclear boundaries and make people think about it——I believe that Lan-senpai will agree with me, right, Lan who is listening beside Senior Shinichi Senpai?"

There was a pause for a while, and Mao Lilan's voice suppressed laughter came from the receiver: "How did Xiaoba know that I was listening to you next to Xinyi?" She obviously didn't make a sound.

"Senior Xinyi's microphone has a wide range of sound collection. I guess it's because of the hands-free, but if he is the only one chatting with me, there is no need to turn on the hands-free, so I guess Senior Lan is here. Listen to me!" Xiao Ba smiled, and out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of the person walking towards him, and quickly stood up and waved over there, "Ah, the person I'm waiting for has arrived, so I'll hang up first, and wait for you to come back to Japan Let's talk later!"

Saying goodbye to the two seniors on the other end, Xiao Ba hung up the phone and put away the phone: "Akashi-kun!"

The red-haired boy who just walked in front of her was apologetic: "Sorry, I'm late, have you been waiting for a long time?"

"No! Akashi-kun arrived 10 minutes earlier than our agreed time - I was in danger of traffic jams on the road from the detective agency, so I went out early. I didn't expect the traffic conditions to be good today, and I was not caught along the way. Damn, I'm only a few minutes earlier than Akashi-kun." The girl wearing light brown half-rim glasses smiled brighter than the summer sun, "I planned to stay in the ice drink shop next to me until the appointment The time will come again, but unfortunately the business of the store is so good, I am too embarrassed to stay there. Alright, let's go!"

"En." Akashi Seijuro responded, and the two walked towards the commercial street side by side, "Xiao Hachi is going to give gifts to the male elders as a thank you, isn't it? Can you tell me the general situation of the other party?"

"Well, what about this..." Xiaoba thought for a while, "Although he is an elder, he is not very old. He looks like he is in his twenties, and he is very particular about his daily dress. From my observation, the suits and jackets are all made by hand. If you like it..." She recalled, "I guess it's racing cars, red wine, music and... smoking?" The last little eight is not very sure, she just fainted when Mr. Nakahara was very angry and wanted to beat Mr. Dazai. Smelling smoke, it is speculated that he smoked somewhere before he arrived, but I don't know if it was because he was upset or because he was used to it.

How many others...

She drove out of the underground parking lot of the Port Mafia at that speed, and the staff at the sentry box could pull up the lifting lever with extra foresight, obviously familiar with this speed—Mr. Zhongyuan probably also loves racing;

There were several bottles of red wine and a full set of wine utensils in the refrigerator in the back seat of the Maybach. Later, she checked the brands of red wine on the Internet, and found that they were not the usual red wines that would be bought for entertaining people, but were kept by wine collectors. The name of the winery and the special year - Mr. Zhong Yuan probably likes red bars very much, and the red wine in the car is also prepared for himself.

The operation of putting red wine in the car is really... well, good boy, don't learn it.

Uncle traffic police will check drunk driving.

The clue of her liking for music also came from inside the Maybach car. When she was looking for the envelope left by Mr. Dazai, she saw a lot of records in the file cabinet of the passenger seat. The number has exceeded the level of car music that most people would prepare. up.

"Drag racing, red wine, music, and cigarettes?" Akashi Seijuro repeated, thinking, "Let's ignore the first one. For red wine, even if it's a gift, we can't buy it at our current age."

Japanese law stipulates that alcohol cannot be sold to young people under the age of 20.

Otherwise, red wine should be the best choice, don’t worry about repetition, within the scope of normal gifts, there is no redundant meaning——Akashi Seijuro glanced at the girl who nodded in agreement with his words with a sad face, thought for a while and crossed it out Added the option of "Ask the housekeeper to help you find a collection of red wine and give it to Xiaoba".

Collection-grade red wine is also extremely sought-after in the collectibles market, not to mention that if you drink a bottle of red wine, the price of the rest will only increase. He felt that Xiao Ba would not agree to accept this gift that contained so much behind it that the weight was overwhelming.

If you like tobacco, you can usually send a lighter, and the price of luxury lighters is also within Xiaoba's tolerance.But women always have some ambiguous meanings when giving men lighters, even if the other party is an elder, it is not suitable, especially according to his observation, Xiaoba hates the smell of cigarettes very much. In this case, giving a man a lighter means that It's really enough to make people think about it - comprehensively, Akashi Seijuro crossed out this option without hesitation.

In the end there was only one choice left.

"Hachi, do you remember what kind of music he likes?" The two walked into a video store, and Akashi Seijuro asked while looking at the records on the wall.

"Rock, heavy metal rock." Xiaoba said without hesitation. Although he only had a glimpse at the time and didn't look at it carefully, he roughly remembered it. He looked back and checked the names of those albums, and he almost understood what Mr. Zhongyuan admired. Music type too.

How should I put it, when I saw the result, I had a feeling that it was not surprising, and it was indeed in line with the feeling that Mr. Zhongyuan had always given her, especially... Xiao Ba recalled that the well-dressed but transparent With a casual look, he only has the appearance of a young man wearing a short collar in a rock-and-roll style around his neck—well, that seems to be called Choker, right?

The understanding of choker is limited to "Sailor Moon has it on her neck when she transforms, probably some kind of fashion in Japan that has been popular for many years", Xiaoba didn't want to be wrong at all.

"Heavy metal rock..." Akashi Seijuro walked directly to the counter and talked to the shopping guide. After a while, a middle-aged man came to welcome the two into the next room.

Xiao Ba was dragged away with a dazed face, until the middle-aged man who was called the store manager put a stack of records on the table in front of her, she realized something belatedly : "... Akashi-kun, is this store yours?"

"It doesn't count. The owner has some connections with our family. He likes music, so he opened this store." Akashi Seijuro flipped through the records casually, and motioned Xiaoba to pick one, "You first put your name in that store." Pick out all the records that the male elders have seen, and we will slowly check the rest."

Yes, you have to beware of the ones that others already have when you send the records... Thinking that this little eight head is bigger, I quickly recalled the appearance of those discs in the Maybach car, and tried to pick out the ones that seemed to be repeated.

A few minutes later, facing the rest of the record, Xiao Ba raised a white flag: "That's all, I really can't remember..."

She picked out the records she had seen packaged as much as possible, and the store manager also helped to pick out a few with a large circulation, but she really couldn't figure out the remaining dozen or so records, Mr. Zhongyuan. Do you have the same...

After all, it is the mafia, if you really want to get something you like, there must be a channel, it just depends on whether he has the heart to get it.

Facing the "QAQ" expression on that pretty face that was about to materialize, Akashi Seijuro suppressed a smile, and said to the shop manager who was also smiling at the side: "Please wrap these up—gift packaging."

"Akashi-kun?" Xiao Ba was dumbfounded, "Could it be that all of these..."

"If you can't pick it out, don't pick it out, just send it over." Akashi Seijuro wrote lightly, "No one will think it's so perfunctory-these records can't be found in ordinary stores. According to your description, if a small Eight, if you really find an orphan record, the other party probably won’t accept it.”

The final settlement price was also within the budget. Xiaoba wondered if she had been secretly discounted at a loss, but after looking at the price marked on the shelf, she confirmed that the store manager had indeed discounted it, which was not what she imagined. Excessive discounts.

After the clerk finished packing, Akashi Seijuro took the bag and motioned Hachi to follow: "Is there anything else you want to buy?"

Xiao Ba nodded, took out his mobile phone and checked his memo: Since we are going to buy things, of course we should buy them all together: "The next thing I want to buy is notes..."

After buying the things that should be bought, it was still early, Akashi Seijuro took Xiao Hachi to a dessert shop with a particularly heavy traffic and a long line waiting for packing.

"The business of this store is really good!" Before entering the store, he saw a long queue, and Xiao Ba felt like quitting at that time: he didn't want to line up under the sun...

Unexpectedly, after the two entered the store, a clerk immediately came over and took the two of them to an empty table to sit down, which made Xiao Ba suspicious again: "I look at any store now and feel that there is a 'Akashi' on the top of the head." 'Two words..."

Akashi Seijuro, who ordered himself a cup of coffee and was slowly drinking it, chuckled lightly when he heard the words: "No, this store really doesn't belong to my family, and it's not because of Akashi's family that there are vacancies, but you, Hachi my own."

"Huh?" The girl wearing light brown half-rim glasses took a bite of Strawberry Buffet and blinked suspiciously.

While talking, the dessert in front of her was almost eaten, and at this moment, the clerk delivered another extra sweet and beautiful little cake: a four-inch round cake, which was carefully made into the shape of a castle , it can be seen from the exposed embryonic body that different parts of the castle are made of cake rolls with different flavors and different production methods, and the various embellishments on it come from different materials. It can be felt that the labor cost accounts for at least [-]% of the selling price of handicraft-grade dessert cakes.

"We didn't order this, did it go wrong?" Xiao Ba quickly called the waiter and said.

"No, I gave it to you specially!" It was not the waiter who answered her, but a purple-haired girl who came out of the dessert making room with a doll bear in her arms. People mistakenly think that middle school students or even elementary school students, "In order to thank you for avoiding the shadow of killing my desserts, I made them specially for you."

Xiao Ba blinked, and searched out a possible partner from his memory: "...Miss Qian Kubotao from Yuanyue College?"

The purple-haired girl nodded: "Don't you want to try it? I made it specially for you, [Sleeping Beauty's Castle], using petal sugar impregnated with my favorite Damascena rose, and to reflect the color and texture of the castle." Special whipped cream, topped with flaky candy garnishes made with drawn sugar, is my crowning masterpiece right now!"

I emphasized it for the third time... It seems that I really want her to taste it.

Akashi Seijuro, who was happy to be the background board at this time, thought happily in his heart.

Xiao Ba also noticed this, picked up the fork and said, "Then I won't be polite."

She carefully forked off a piece of cake, mixed it with cream and thin slices of candy, and put it in her mouth.

The first feeling is sweet, like a fairy tale.

But sweet but not greasy, just like all good fairy tales, no one would think there is anything wrong with such a perfect ending, the bad guys get punished, the good guys get rewarded, and the prince and princess will be together forever.

It is a different kind of sweetness, the looming sweetness of chiffon cake rolls, the sweetness of the cream brushed on the wall of the cake rolls like the background, and the crisp and thin slices of candy have a distinct sense of presence, as sweet as the red roses on the branches... Clear layers, Blooming on the tip of the tongue in turn.

"How is it?" Seeing Xiaoba opened his eyes, Akane Kubomomo asked impatiently.

"Sweet as a fairy tale." Xiaoba said without hesitation, and then began to think, "The sweetness of this cream that washes the city wall seems a bit unusual..." She tried to find a similar taste in her memory, and suddenly her eyes lit up , "Brown sugar?"

Akakubo Momo opened his eyes wide in surprise: "...Yes, I added brown sugar to whip the cream."

In most cases, white sugar is added to the whipped cream, but this time, for a special flavor, she chose brown sugar—unexpectedly, it was tasted immediately.

The girl who confirmed that she had tasted the right taste added a bit of pride in her smile: Don't underestimate the taste of the big foodie empire!

"If the full score is 100 points, how much do you think this dessert can score?" Akane Kubo Momo asked.

This time Xiaoba thought for a longer time: "If you consider the taste and aesthetics comprehensively..." She took another bite, feeling the sweet taste released in her mouth, "... 95 points. "

This time, Akane Kubomo was stunned: "...Where is the point deducted?"

"The beauty is full marks, the only point of deduction should be the sweetness." Xiao Ba put down the fork after finishing the last bite of the cake, "Although brown sugar is added to increase the flavor, the added flavor level is not enough To support diners to eat the whole cake without feeling 'a little too sweet', from the perspective of diners, the simplest description is: single."

Although there are three different levels of sweetness, it is still a bit single in expression.

——Don't look at her like this, she also wrote articles for gourmet magazines when she was short of money!It was so well received that it opened a column!

"It's better to increase the flavor, such as adding a little salty mouth, or adding a little salty to set off the sweetness. Simple sweetness can easily make diners bored!" Xiaoba said, this is definitely not a long time to write about pure sweet pets, If you want to write a long story, you must add some small twists and turns, small abuses, small breakups, etc., small abuses are fun!

"Simple sweetness, salty taste... set off..." Akakubomomo was lost in thought. If she just had the idea of ​​repaying her at first, her goal has changed now: she must make this picky eater succumb to her works. Down!

She is the leader of "cute perfect score"!

Before fully immersing himself in the world of desserts, Akane Kubomomo asked Hachi to leave his contact information, and said, "This time is not counted, next time I will invite you to taste my creations again - until the next time, I will definitely Let you say full marks to my desserts!"

After saying this, the purple-haired girl returned to the dessert room with the doll bear in her arms, leaving Xiaoba with question marks floating around her head.

No, she thinks that it is enough to go to the Wenye studio and the Shinigami elementary school student studio now, and there is also the Academy City studio that can be expected in the future. There is no need to add a gourmet food studio, although she is curious about the works of the king of medicine. ...

It's a pity that Akishakubo Momo didn't give her a chance to refuse.

"I didn't expect Hachi to be so demanding!" Akashi Seijuro didn't speak until Akakubo Momo returned to the dessert room, "The desserts made by Totsuki Shijie can also pick out reasonable questions."

"The gap in experience, right?" Xiao Ba didn't think much about it, "No matter how talented you are, even if you start making desserts since you can walk, your time is still limited, and some things need to be experienced - even so, I still like it. Dessert made by Ms. Akakubo Momo! Super delicious! Very delicious! It is the first dessert I have ever eaten!"

Of course, the blueberry egg tart is out of the question and does not participate in the ranking—Xiao Ba announced his new favorite without hesitation, and added silently in his heart.

Xiao Hachi, who was concentrating on talking to Akashi Seijuro, didn't notice that a dark-skinned young man wearing a peaked cap glanced at him in the queue waiting to pack desserts.

After a while, the line was up to him, and he looked at the message sent by his colleague on his mobile phone: "One red wine cake, one more..." He pretended to point in the direction of Cai Cai Xiaoba unintentionally, " Can you get me a cake that girl ordered? It looks delicious!"

The waiter took a look and quickly realized what was going on: "Sorry, guest, that is specially made by the dessert chef, and there is only one copy! Please change it, our other desserts are also delicious!"

"That's right, there's nothing to do if there's only one copy..." Fortunately, the guest was very talkative. After reading the list for a while, he listed several kinds of cakes. The waiter wrote them down one by one, packed them neatly, and packed them Give it to the guest.

The guest left quickly, but Akakubo Momo, who was making desserts in the dessert room, looked up at the back of the guest who was leaving.

The dessert cakes he packed, apart from the red wine cake that he ordered originally, the other cakes happened to be the cake embryos she used to make the [Sleeping Beauty's Castle].

That is to say, except for the special cream, sliced ​​candies and other decorations that cannot be restored, as far as the cake body is concerned, those kinds of cakes he bought can taste the same taste as the [Sleeping Beauty's Castle] cake body of.

After taking a look, Akakubo Momo lowered his head again to do the final decoration on the cake in his hand.

Is she overthinking it?

The door of the white Mazda was opened, and Toru Amuro handed the bag in his hand to Belmode who was sitting in the passenger seat: "I've been waiting for a long time, the business of that dessert shop is really good!"

"Of course, otherwise I wouldn't be so worried...you bought so many?!" Belmode was about to take his red wine cake, but was shocked by the definitely more than one packing box in Bourbon's hand: she only Let Bourbon buy her a wine cake!

"Don't worry, only that one is yours, and the rest are mine." The blond, wheat-skinned young man handed over the red wine cake that Belmode ordered, and put the rest in the back seat.

"Do you like cakes?" Belmode thought to himself, he really can't be judged by his appearance.

"Is this..." the young man said with a smile that showed no abnormal emotion, "I just heard that it was the first dessert she ever ate——

"—A little, just a little curious."