A Tribute to Sherlock Holmes[Comprehensive]

Mao Lilan was worried that Izumi Hiratsuka would feel awkward after living in the house. After getting along for several days, she didn't feel inappropriate except for the complicated etiquette of Izumi Hiratsuka that she was used to.

It seemed that her worry was a little unnecessary, so far, she no longer worried about it.

Because Mao Lilan has to go to school on weekdays, it is impossible to stay with Izumi Hiratsuka at home all the time.The restaurant where Izumi Hiratsuka worked was closed because of the incident with the store manager Kusuzu Sami, so she stayed in the office every day and helped Kogoro, which was considered to be repaying the favor of staying here temporarily.

Hiratsuka Izumi is well-behaved and polite, and it is not difficult to get the care and love of his elders.Although Kogoro is always fooling around on weekdays, even watching horse racing while drinking beer, he has no image, but as a former criminal policeman and active detective, he also noticed that Hiratsuka Izumi was a little strange.

Although I could feel that the existence of Izumi Hiratsuka had a sense of disobedience, but there was nothing wrong with it, so Kogoro didn't pay much attention to it.After all, if you keep staring at a cute girl, he can only be regarded as a pervert.

In the afternoon, Izumi Hiratsuka greeted Kogoro and went out, the destination was naturally Kudo House.

Kudo Shinichi is still recovering from his injuries at home, and his feet are injured. As a result, he has a lot of mobility problems, and he rarely even leaves the house, let alone go to school.

Because of this, Izumi Hiratsuka has a lot of time to go to Kudo's house to show his concern when the office is free.And during this time period, Mao Lilan was at school.

A perfect neutral.

The reason why Hiratsuka Izumi insisted on going to the Kudo house, her original words were: "Kudo-kun is injured because of me, so I should take care of him, otherwise I will feel very guilty." I have the heart to refuse this kindness.

Well, "Because I was injured", she said this sentence too much, and even Shinichi Kudo, who was in the audience, was persuaded by such psychological hints.Although he initially felt that his injury had nothing to do with Hiratsuka Izumi.

Tell a lie three times and you can fool yourself.What's more, Izumi Hiratsuka always emphasizes invisibly and gives psychological hints subtly.

In fact, Shinichi Kudo put aside his doubts about the girl, and Izumi Hiratsuka's behavior these days is exactly what she said, "that's all" care, without crossing any line.

This just set off the previous overnight stay and the shirt incident, which were absolutely unavoidable actions.

In the attitude towards Kudo Shinichi, decent behavior, just the right distance.What she showed was what a gentle and pleasant ordinary girl should look like.

Taking care of Kudo Shinichi did not deliberately conceal Mao Lilan, let alone conceal it, Hiratsuka Izumi's approach has nothing to do with these two words.Every time she went, she would explain it to herself, which seemed to be a polite behavior on the surface.Even Kogoro knew that Izumi Hiratsuka would go to Kudo's residence most of the time when he went out.

Mao Lilan knew it, but she had other concerns in her heart.Because she cared too much, she used to go to Kudo's house after class, just to see what Izumi Hiratsuka was doing there.

It just so happened that the only time she went there was that Izumi Hiratsuka was cooking dinner at Kudo's house.Although Kudo Shinichi and Hiratsuka Izumi both said that this was the first time, it was purely a coincidence, and after returning home at night, Kogoro also said that he knew that Hiratsuka Izumi would not be at home for dinner at night.

Everything is arranged in a watertight manner, which is obviously very inconsistent. For example, there will be questions such as "how can there be such a coincidence in the world", but the facts are right in front of you, and there are corresponding reasons for every point.

Besides, what is seen by the eyes is false?Unless, even my own eyes can't believe it.

Mao Lilan was a little bit jealous, but more, she felt that she was not as good as the other party.

That's right, Izumi Hiratsuka is good-looking, has good manners, and cooks really well...

It was the first time Mao Lilan encountered such a situation, she would be thinking about a girl and worry about it.

Today I don't know how many times Mao Lilan has lost her mind and sighed. Sitting in the classroom of Class B of the second year of Didan High School, looking at the empty detective's seat beside her, she sighed again.

My friend Suzuki Sonoko finally couldn't stand it any longer, and raised his hand to pinch Mao Lilan's face: "Lan, what's the matter with you, didn't your husband come back a few days ago? Why, are you worried that he'll empathize with you?"

The joke in the last sentence made Mao Lilan's expression even more tangled.

Yuanzi was still joking and smirking a second ago, but she was a little surprised to see Mao Lilan's serious face suddenly, and then let go of her hands that were pinching her friend's face: "No way, am I right? Object who is it?"

Mao Lilan didn't pay attention to Sonoko's question, she was still thinking about the scene that Izumi Hiratsuka made dinner at Kudo's house that day, so she blurted out: "Sonoko, do you remember Izumi-chan, the middle school is in the same class as us of."

"What? Is it her?"

The two were obviously chatting across servers.

"What object?" Mao Lilan couldn't understand why.

"It's your husband Kudo's cheating partner."

"What are you talking about, Yuanzi!" Hearing his friend's teasing words, Mao Lilan immediately waved his hand to stop, "I'm asking you seriously."

"Okay, I won't make fun of you." Yuanzi pulled her chair and sat down at Mao Lilan's table. She tapped her lips with her index finger and thought for a few seconds, "Ah, you mean the little girl who used to cheerlead? What happened to her? ? Did you transfer to another school or suspend school?"

Sonoko remembered Izumi Hiratsuka, who was very popular in the cheerleading squad back then, and probably the only one who couldn't remember clearly was the great detective.

"Have you met her recently? I feel like I haven't heard of her since she left. I thought she was going to be a model or something. Hey, there used to be scouts looking for her. I remember looking for her. That guy is a handsome guy..."

When it comes to these trivial matters with a bit of gossip, Yuanzi can always say a lot.In the end, she herself realized that she missed the point: "I'm sorry to go too far, what's wrong with her?"

"Before the bombing of the Mihua Building, Xinyi saved her, and recently she is taking care of Xinyi..." Since Mao Lilan had never mentioned Izumi Hiratsuka to Yuanzi before, she felt that just talking about the recent incident would be confusing. Cause ambiguity, "Well...it's a bit complicated to say."

If I have to talk about it, I have to start with the matter of Hiratsuka Izumi coming to the office to commission a stalker a long time ago.

Mao Lilan sorted out her thoughts, and discussed the events from then on, to the fact that she moved into her own house after the Mihua Building incident, and the fact that the other party is taking care of Kudo Shinichi...

Everything that happened before, everything she knew, was said again.

After finishing speaking, Mao Lilan suddenly discovered that there are so many intersections between Izumi Hiratsuka and his family.There are so many that there may be many, which are connections that exclude her.

She turned out to be like an outsider.

Mao Lilan inevitably recalled the scene that day when he said he was going home to get clothes for Izumi Hiratsuka and went out, Kudo Shinichi anxiously pulled the latter's wrist and pulled him into the house...

"Lan, you're distracted again."

"No, I was thinking about something else I forgot to tell you."

After listening to Mao Lilan's narration, Suzuki Sonoko immediately commented: "Is she going to grab Kudo from you?" The conclusion hit the nail on the head.

Mao Lilan shook her head, but she couldn't see that Izumi Hiratsuka meant more than a friend to Shinichi Kudo.All of those ambiguous behaviors were well-founded, and she even felt that Izumi Hiratsuka didn't know it.

Looking at it from another angle, it is Kudo Shinichi, her bamboo horse always shows that she cares about Izumi Hiratsuka more than she cares about ordinary friends.

No way……

It's not true what Sonoko said, Kudo Shinichi cheated... Bah, what the hell is cheating!

Thinking of this, Mao Lilan felt that he was not qualified to restrict Kudo Shinichi's thoughts.If Kudo Shinichi really fell in love with Hiratsuka Izumi, she has no right to stop her.

After all, they are still just childhood sweethearts.

During class in the afternoon, Mao Lilan received several calls from Kogoro.

Originally, she didn't intend to answer in class, but after she refused, Kogoro's phone kept coming in.Therefore, he could only pick up Kogoro's call after leaving the classroom on the pretext of going to the health care room because he was not feeling well.

"Father, why are you in such a hurry? I'm still in class."

Kogoro on the other end of the phone was silent for a few seconds, and then asked excitedly: "Are you in class, at school?"

Mao Lilan was speechless for a while: "Otherwise where would I be..."

"Then why did you refuse to answer the phone?"

"I'm in class..." Mao Lilan was inexplicably questioned.

"Oh, right for class... I can't answer the phone in class..." The tone of the words came out with a sense of enlightenment.

"Dad, what's the matter with you? Did something happen?"

"It's all right." After Kogoro said that, he added another sentence, with a very serious tone, "Lan, why don't you wait for me at the school gate after class, and I'll take you home."

"Huh? Dad, what's wrong with you?" Mao Lilan felt that Kogoro's appearance was too abnormal, so he continued to ask: "What happened?"

Finally, Kogoro explained the reason: "It's okay, I just received a prank email saying that you were kidnapped."

"I see...I'm fine! I'll come back with Yuanzi in the evening, so you don't want to come to school, I'm not a kid anymore!"

After hanging up the phone, Kogoro who was sitting in the office opened the anonymous email again - your daughter is in my hands, if you want her to live, prepare 500 million cash and give you one day to prepare, At this time tomorrow, I will contact you again.

Now that Mao Lilan's safety was confirmed by phone, Kogoro deleted the email with disdain.

Well, it really was a prank, right?

The author has something to say: I think I still need to guard against the bullshit...

The comic line Xinlan did confirm the relationship, but:

1 The timeline of this article is before the Red and Black series. As I mentioned earlier, Okiya Subaru did not appear.

2 This article was written by me! Huh!

I have been mentioning in the previous article that Quan Mei and Mao Lilan look alike.

I think everyone can guess what happened next