Mu Chuanxia felt that the school was a little lively today, seeing the girls gathered around chattering and chattering, she didn't quite know what they were talking about.

"I just saw a Rolls-Royce Phantom parked at the gate of our school. God, this is really surprising."

"I don't know why such a car is parked in front of our school..."

……

Indeed, it is very inappropriate and feels out of place.

Just after school, the girl walked out of the school gate with Mao Lilan. She glanced at the Rolls-Royce Phantom casually, then turned her gaze away and planned to leave.

"Excuse me, are you the daughter of a Maori detective?"

"Ah, yes, my name is Mao Lilan. Excuse me...?"

Mao Lilan obviously didn't expect to be accosted by the person driving this car, she replied a little embarrassedly, with some unease on her beautiful face.

"It's like this. I'm from the Atobe Zaibatsu, and I'm the housekeeper of the Atobe family. I came to see you today because I wanted you to take us to a Maori detective. I planned to visit, but found that he was not at home. I think you should Know where he is, so..."

The gray-haired butler squinted his eyes, with a just-right smile on his face, neither intimacy nor alienation.

"I'm Shinichiro Yamada, you can call me Grandpa Yamada, butler Yamada too."

He is extremely good at communicating with people and making people let their guard down.After only a few simple words, Mao Lilan had let go of most of her defenses and nervousness.

"Ah, Grandpa Yamada, my father should still be outside, and he won't be back in a while... Otherwise, you and I will go back and wait, if you are in a hurry to see him."

"Then trouble you."

Shinichiro Yamada still smiled very kindly, and opened the car door in a gentlemanly manner to invite Mori Ran and Kikawa Natsu to enter.

There was a middle-aged brown-haired driver, but no one else.

"I won't go, I'm going home Lan, call me if you need anything."

Mu Chuanxia withdrew her gaze from looking at them, then straightened her wrinkled collar, glanced at the driver in the car with her green eyes, waved with Mao Lilan and left.

The driver just now looked very listless, his face was very melancholy, and he was a little pale.Some small eyes are also lacklustre, and the feeling is not very good.

She didn't care, and walked straight on the way home.

Under the setting sun, Mu Chuanxia's shadow was drawn to the old man, feeling a little lonely and melancholy. Her long black hair was fluttering, and she was wearing a blue uniform, which looked elegant and beautiful.

At a corner, Mu Chuanxia found a corner of the fabric, which was delicate and soft, and it seemed that ordinary people could not afford it.

"Ok?"

Mu Chuanxia always felt that something was going to happen, so she wrapped the bit of fabric in a white handkerchief.

Let's pay more attention, incidents happen all the time in this world.

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"Sister Xia, you are back."

Conan saw the girl who opened the door with a key and walked happily over to get her slippers.

"You... I can do it myself."

Damn it, it's too weird to see this weird child exchange shoes for my mother who came home from get off work!

Conan felt that when he lived with her, he had to show the obedience, sensibleness, and innocence that a first-grade child should have in an all-round way.

Because he knew that Mu Chuanxia was very smart, he didn't want to show any signs, and it was good to see her choked expression.

"Hey, sister Xia, this is the jasmine tea I just brought from the doctor, would you like to drink a little?"

Feeling that Mu Chuanxia has nothing to want to chat with him* He took the initiative to speak, the girl's green eyes glanced at him, then opened her lips and said slowly.

"You talk a lot."

! ! ! ! ! !

Conan felt that Mu Chuanxia was as difficult as ever, the corners of his mouth twitched, and then he tried his best to suppress it, still smiling innocently.

The vibrating sound of "buzzing buzzing" came from Mu Chuanxia's pocket, she put down the schoolbag in her hand, took out her mobile phone and glanced at the caller ID.

"orchid……"

Mu Chuanxia pressed the answer button, and just put it to her ear, she heard Mao Lilan's voice from inside.

"Xia, can you come to my house, there is something here, maybe only you can open it."

"That's it, then tell me carefully when I get there."

Mu Chuanxia hung up the phone, and then found that Conan had been looking at her, his eyes were full of curiosity and doubt.

"Lan, oh no, sister Lan is looking for you, isn't she?"

The eyes on the little boy's white and delicate face were as clear as the spring water in the mountain stream, making people unable to get close to him, and the black hair was also soft and messy.

Thinking of the touch of drying his hair that time, her fingers moved slightly.

"Let's go, I don't worry about leaving you at home, let's go together."

"Hey—is it really possible?"

Conan was a little surprised that she would take him there. Aren't ordinary people afraid of children causing trouble?

"If I say no, you can stop changing shoes?"

Mu Chuanxia's black hair was rolled up, and her green eyes looked helplessly at the young boy who was about to change his shoes at the door, with a rare gentleness on his beautiful and bright face.

"Hahaha."

Conan scratched his head, smiled awkwardly, and his laughter was dry.

――Maori Detective Agency

"dong dong"

As soon as he heard the knock on the door, Mao Lilan immediately opened the door and Mu Chuan Xiala came in and sat down.

"Huh? Xia, who is this little brother?"

"Xinyi is a distant relative of that guy. If Xinyi has something to do, he will live with me temporarily."

Mu Chuanxia told Mao Lilan what she had memorized for a long time, and she had no doubts.She knelt down and looked at Conan, feeling an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

But he used black-rimmed glasses to cover some features, and Mao Lilan couldn't see why.

"Hey, I always feel like you've seen it somewhere."

"Hahaha, isn't it? Many people have said that maybe I'm more popular, hahaha."

Conan felt a little guilty after being watched for so long. When he heard Mao Lilan say this, he turned his face and scratched his head and said with a dry smile.

"Well, it makes sense."

Mao Lilan didn't worry too much about this problem, she walked to Mu Chuanxia, ​​and watched the girl calmly poured a glass of white water and drank it, as if she was at home.

"Xia, inside my dad was talking to that grandpa Yamada, their young master was kidnapped, but it was strange, the kidnapper didn't ask for money, but just gave them a box to open first, but..."

"This lock is a bit similar to the lock on the box that your grandfather left behind. It feels a bit Chinese. They don't understand these structures, so I called you here rashly. After all, human life is at stake."

Mao Lilan was a little worried that the girl was unhappy, she explained, with a little anxiety on her beautiful face.

"Well, let's see if I can open it."

Conan was a little surprised to find that he didn't know anything about what Mao Lilan knew. Although he knew that Grandpa Mu Chuanxia left her a lot of things after his death, he hadn't seen any of them, but Mao Lilan seemed to know very well.

"Sister Lan, how do you know that sister Xia has a similar lock? Do you often go to her house?"

No, it's hard to see even if you go often.He has also been there a few times and found that there is nothing else in the living room except for spotless furniture, sofas and the like.

Then there is only an explanation... Either put it in your own bedroom, or put it in a secret hidden compartment.

"Me? I lived with her for a while, so I'm familiar with her house."

Conan was a little shocked, pursed his thin lips, and habitually used the index finger and thumb of his right hand to rest his chin in thought.

There are many things that only Lan knows, but I don't know anything...

When is that period of time?As he thought backwards in the long river of memory, he gradually got some clues.

It was when he went abroad to live with his parents for a while...

During that time, it seemed... the only grandfather who accompanied Mu Chuanxia passed away.But that was in the third grade of elementary school, it's been a long time...

"Xia, are you sure you can do it?"

Mori Kogoro asked with some doubts, and Yamada Shinichiro who was sitting opposite narrowed his cloudy eyes slightly, showing a sense of scrutiny.

"It's okay, this kind of lock is rare for you, so it's hard to get it open."

The girl looked at the boxy box made of metal, it was black, with some faint golden edging on it, it looked very restrained and mysterious.

This lock looks like it has been around for a few years, but it has only lost some color. It still looks delicate and small overall, a bit similar to the shape of a Chinese longevity lock, but the inside is much more complicated than that.

Mu Chuanxia looked at the lock very carefully, then held up the small lock with one hand, and took off a black hairpin pinned to her head with the other hand.This hair clip is made of slender wire, with a little silvery white on it. She put the thin section into the lock where the key needs to be inserted, and turned it several times. Slowly but decisively determined the location, and opened the lock.

"This, this is?"

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