age is not a problem

After the club activities, Qingmei rode a bicycle on the way back to Mihua Town alone.

With earphones in her ears, Mozart's "Requiem" is being played. Now she needs to use this music to calm her mood and make her thoughts rational and peaceful.

At the crossroads, out of the corner of his eye, he saw the public telephone booth on the corner of the street, frowned slightly, and finally changed the direction of the handlebars and walked towards the public telephone booth.

Walking into the phone booth, Qingmei dialed a number with a blank expression.

There was always a waiting tone of "beep-beep-" on the other end of the phone. Qingmei also leaned against the glass door of the phone booth and waited patiently.

finally--

"ia?"

A familiar Italian male voice rang on the phone. After hearing this voice, Kiyomi also used the voice changer invented by Dr. Ali to change back to her own 24-year-old mature voice:

"Nicole, it's me."

The person on the opposite side was not surprised, but just chuckled, "I just saw a phone number with an area code from Japan, so I guessed it would be you."

"Hmph, didn't you send me that email just to let me take the initiative to contact you?" Qingmei's tone was not very friendly, recalling the scene when she suddenly received Nicole's email this morning, she didn't realize it. The time was a little more chilling, "Why do you know my mailbox number?"

People who know her mailbox number can count on one hand, and that mailbox has been abandoned by her for a long time, and has not been used in the past two years.

"It's not important...and don't worry too much about it. I got that email number just to be able to contact you. After all, your whereabouts in Japan are too mysterious. If I'm not wrong... this phone call You are the one who called me from a public phone right now, it is really not easy to get in touch with you."

"Stop talking nonsense, why did you contact me?" Qingmei didn't have the heart to catch up with her old colleagues, and went straight to the point, "The ruby ​​on the picture you sent me by email is the tear of the red pupil, right? There has been a lot of uproar in Japan recently, Kaitou Kidd's next target."

"That's right, it's the tear of the red pupil. Below the picture, I attached an introduction to this gem, have you seen it?"

"Well, I've seen it. The family treasure that the old aristocratic Malthus family in southern Italy wanted to recover has now passed into the hands of the Japanese Suzuki chaebol." Except for the information attached to the email sent by Nicole, she took a lunch break When I was there, I also searched the Internet for relevant information about that gemstone.

However, there is not much useful information found, I only know that it is a priceless ancient gem.And now, if you search for information about "Tears of Red Eyes" on the Internet, it is naturally closely tied to the Kaitou Kidd, and it is almost on the top of the list.

Nicole: "The Malthus family had secretly contacted the Suzuki family before, but the Suzuki family didn't seem to want to give up this gem... There is also information that the Suzuki family is unwilling to have any contact with the black forces, so they expressed Refused. But, ah, it just so happens that the Malthus family and the Pengele family are negotiating a very important cooperation recently. The largest overseas presence of the Pengele family's tenth generation family is Japan, so one of the cooperation conditions proposed by the Malthus family is , I hope the Pengo Lie family can help them get that tear of the red pupil..."

"That is to say... on the day Kidd stole the gem, people from the Vongola family would probably also attack? And you hope that I can take this opportunity to capture the people from the Vongola family, or that I will grab the gems before Kidd?" I took the gems before, and then used the gems as bait to fish out the members of the Peng Lie family." Qingmei had almost guessed what the other party meant.

"Well, although we haven't cooperated for a long time, it seems that there is still some tacit understanding between us."

Qingmei sneered, "Hey, Nicole, have you forgotten what I said to you in that hotel last time? I'm not interested in being a pawn in the power game between your various forces. Why do you think I will obey the task you give me?"

"So this is not assigning you to complete the task, but a deal between us." Nicole was not annoyed at all.

"trade?"

"Yes, deal. If you can help me complete this task in Japan, I can tell you about that person."

"That person?" Qingmei narrowed her eyes slightly.

"That's right, it's 'that person'... The death of that person was not that simple. I only recently discovered some interesting things."

For a moment, Qingmei's hand holding the microphone couldn't stop trembling, and her pupils widened in an instant, as if countless memories poured into these opal-like pupils in an instant.

After listening to the silence on the other end of the phone for a long while, Nicole already knew it in his mind, "It seems that the deal has been concluded. Well, let me give you two more pieces of information. First... there is a chain of sushi restaurants in Japan called Bamboo Sushi, especially Bamboo Sushi’s main branch in Tokyo, located at x street x, x district, Tokyo, is worth investigating.”

After hearing the specific location of the store reported by Nicole... Qingmei was a little stunned for a moment. She had been to that store before, and she went there with Sawada Tsunayoshi.And the shop manager of that store, when he went to Sawada's house, delivered food to Sawada's house, so she still has a good impression of the handsome shop manager.

"What about the second information?"

"Fengji Department Store, you should also know it? A large department store chain nationwide in Japan. There are rumors in Japan that this department store belongs to a secret underground consortium. In fact, I went to Japan last time for another purpose, which is to investigate that The consortium, because that consortium seems to have frequent exchanges with Sicily. As a result, some incredible things were really investigated... The consortium is called the "Feng Ji Consortium", and the founder is the tenth generation of the Pengo Lie family The guardian of clouds, Hibari Kyouya."

And when it came to Fengji Department Store, Qingmei subconsciously jumped out of the incident that she won the lottery and was delivered ten boxes of coffee jelly by Fengji Department Store's home delivery...... Ah, speaking of those ten boxes of coffee jelly, she still hasn't It's all over.

...There shouldn't be any problems in this, right?

"Okay, I see." Qingmei replied lightly, and when she was about to hang up the phone, she suddenly remembered something, "By the way, that tear with red pupils...you know it is related to Akashi from Japan. What is the origin of the family?"

Thinking of the last words Midorima said during today's club activities, Qingmei always felt that there must be something else in it.

"Akashi? Akashi, one of Japan's three major chaebols?" Although he didn't quite understand why Qingmei asked such a question suddenly, Nicole said after thinking about it: "I really don't know about this... so, I Go back and investigate the matter about this gem. If there is any new situation, I will send an email to your mailbox. Of course, you can also call me at any time... However, it would be great if you can pay attention to the time difference But that's all."

"Oh, long-winded." After finishing speaking, Qingmei hung up the phone directly and walked out of the public phone booth.

When she was picking up her bicycle parked beside her, two middle school students in school uniforms passed by her, and they were noisy.

However, the voices of a man and a woman full of vigor and vitality sounded more like flirting.

"Agish t start!"

"Eh?!...Quick fight you...!"

When Qingmei raised her head, she happened to see this scene, and saw that the boy conjured a white rose from the girl's school uniform skirt with a very mellow technique, and the movements of his hands were so fast that the naked eye could not catch it. Arrived, and then said meanly to the girl:

"Hey~ The pure white rose is exactly the same color as Qingzi, your fat~"

Just now, after recovering from the young man's public outrageous magic trick, and being teased by the young man with such words, the young girl blushed suddenly with anger:

"Damn...Kaito!!!"

As a bystander, Qingmei's focus is not on the young man's unscrupulous magic tricks, but on the young man's face... Work!rattan!new!one! ?

Qingmei closed her eyes, squeezed them, opened them again, and looked at the boy again... She dared to use her 2.0 eyesight to guarantee that this face was definitely the face of Kudo Shinichi, the original master of Toki Conan That's right!

This... what's the situation? !

Boss Conan, you took the recovery medicine and wanted to take a stroll? !Pick up girls openly like this on the street? !If your sister Xiaolan finds out, do you want to be stabbed to death by your sister Xiaolan with a sharp corner of her head? !Have you forgotten how Brother Cheng died in "Day on Campus"? !

Boss, don't make a mistake!I can't hold enough of your almighty thigh!

……

When Qingmei returned home by bicycle, she found that the door of Kudo's house opposite was open... Has anyone entered?

With some curiosity, Qingmei walked in.

Just walked into the living room on the first floor——

"Ah, it's Kiyomi's little sister from Dr. Ali's family. Since you're here, let's help clean together." Sonoko Suzuki, who was twisting a rag, greeted.

Mao Lilan, who was cleaning the cabinet, also greeted with a smile: "Is school over, Qingmei-chan?"

Only then did Qingmei remember... that's right, today seems to be the day when Mao Lilan comes to clean Kudo's house on a regular basis.

Tsk tsk, such a virtuous, kind, hard-working girl is waiting for you, but she can still do such a thing, won't your conscience hurt!Even if you are Conan, you... eh? !

"Huh? What's the matter?" Conan, who walked into the living room with a bunch of cleaning tools from the next room, asked in confusion after receiving Qingmei's strange eyes.

Qingmei frowned with some hesitation: "You... are here too?"

"Well, I came right after school." Conan didn't understand why Qingmei suddenly asked such nonsense.

After thinking silently for three seconds, Qingmei walked up to Conan, then squatted down... two hands pinched Conan's face, tearing at various angles.

"Hey... what are you doing?!" Conan struggled desperately, but he was helpless because Qingmei's hands were too strong.

After confirming it, Qingmei finally stopped ravaging Conan's little face: "It's a real person..."

Then who was that boy she saw on the street just now... Could it be that Kudo Shinichi is really such a popular face?

"What's the matter? Qingmei-chan, why did you pinch Conan's face?" Noticing the movement here, Mao Lilan was a little curious.

"Uh..." After rolling her eyes, Qingmei, who was still squatting on the ground, went straight up and kissed Conan's pink face, and then smiled and made excuses: "Because Xiao Ke is so cute~"

The next second... Realizing what attack he had suffered, Conan immediately flew to the bucket, and quickly picked up the water in the bucket to wash his cheeks, as if he had just been infected with amoeba.

The whole movement was done in one go, and it was almost too late for Xiaolan to remind: "That... Conan, this is the water we just rinsed with a rag..."

Conan: "..."

On the other hand, Suzuki Sonoko laughed at Conan, then looked at the school uniform Kiyomi was wearing, "Yes, speaking of Kiyomi, you are a student of Teiko Middle School..."

"Well, that's right." Qingmei nodded.

"Then do you know Akashi Seijuro?"

Hearing Sonoko's question, Qingmei was a little surprised and curious, "I know...he is my deskmate."

"What a coincidence! So you and Seijuro are at the same table!" Sonoko was instantly excited.

After hearing Sonoko directly call out "Zhengjuro", which is usually used by people who are close, Qingmei became more curious, "Sister Sonoko, are you... familiar with him?"

"It's not very familiar, but he is my cousin."

"Eh--?!"

"My mother and Seijuro's mother are sisters, but my aunt passed away when Seijuro was in the fifth grade of elementary school, and then I lost a lot of contact with Seijuro... and since the death of my aunt, the character of that kid It’s changed a lot, obviously he was so cute and such a little angel when he was a child!” Yuanzi has already fallen into the infinite memories of his cousin’s cute appearance when he was a child.

Although Qingmei really wants to say that your cousin doesn't look crooked at the moment, in fact, he is still a very small angel... But she has one more important thing to figure out.

"Miss Sonoko, the ruby ​​named 'Tears of Red Eyes' that Kaito Kidd issued a notice to steal belongs to your Suzuki family, right?"

"That's right! Ah~ah~ I finally have a chance to meet Kid Saa again!" As soon as he mentioned the male god in his heart, Sonoko instantly entered the nympho mode again.

Qingmei's dead fish eyes instantly become even deadlier... Hehe, miss, why don't you just catch your Kidd saa with gems every day, anyway, the most important thing you need is money.

Of course, now is not the time to digress...

"Hey, Sonoko-san, does that jewel... have anything to do with the Akashi family?"

Hearing Qingmei's question, Sonoko finally exited the nympho mode, and a trace of sadness appeared on the brows, "Has Seijuro been affected by this incident recently... How should I put it, there is indeed some connection. Let me listen to you." His mother said that the gemstone was a gift from his aunt back then. Seijuro loves his mother the most. Although he has never said anything in these years, the death of his mother really hit him hard. In fact, he has been thinking about his mother in his heart since [-]...so this time, he should care so much about this gem."

After quietly listening to Yuanzi's narration, Qingmei didn't have much expression, as if she had listened to an ordinary story, and then picked up the mop beside her to help with work, "Okay, okay, Cleaning up, cleaning up~”

"Wait! Don't use the water in that bucket to clean the mop! That's the water from just rinsing the rag!" Conan hurriedly stopped it... After all, it was his own house.

"Oh, it's okay, didn't you wash your face with this water just now?"

"...Stop talking, okay?"

……

After the first floor was almost cleaned, Okiya Subaru, who had just finished cleaning the second floor, came down with sanitary tools, "Thank you for your hard work, everyone, shall we stay for dinner tonight?"

Mao Lilan smiled apologetically: "Ah, no, Dad will take me and Conan to a party tonight, we have to go back quickly."

Sonoko: "Ah, me too. I have already made an appointment with someone else tonight."

After the others declined, Qingmei said with a smile: "That's great, I'm worrying about what to do for dinner tonight, I'm a little nervous about pocket money recently, so I can't always eat out or order takeout."

Conan: "Eh? At Dr. Ali's house...isn't Huihara always in charge of cooking?"

"Oh, this... I accidentally deleted Haiyuan's video of Ryuyu Higo's match this morning, I'm afraid she'll give me some strange poison in my dinner tonight, hahaha .” Qingmei scratched the back of her head and said with an awkward smile.

... She really knows how to inject real poison. She has no doubts about Shirley's professional level.

Conan added silently in his heart: ... No, what you should worry about is whether the things you collected around Oguri Shun have returned to the trash can.

Then, I saw Kiyomi looked at Okiya Subaru again, both her eyes and the corners of her mouth showed a meaningful smile:

"Also... I heard that Mr. Okiya is very good at computer. I would also like to ask Mr. Okiya to do me a little favor later."

Let's put the jewel thing aside until Kidd's night of magic.

Now, she started with the two pieces of information that Nicole gave her.

Just... Investigate those coffee jellies first.

……

The author has something to say:

The relationship between Yuanzi and the red team was set by myself, well~ Anyway, it is normal for these rich families to have various marriages.

And, in this chapter, the stalk of Kudo Shinichi and Kaitou Kidd colliding with each other...in fact, it can no longer be considered a stalk, because the official has already played this stalk in various ways~