Himemoto's interpretation

"So..." Xingqi scooped up a spoonful of red bean smoothie, "Is it a plan for you to come to Macheng?"

"Yes."

"The cheap airfare and the hotel you booked by mistake are also excuses?"

"No comment."

"Oh--"

The red bean sorbet is so sweet that it has a sticky texture. It tastes much worse than the fruit candy and nougat that detectives usually feed.

Holding the cold glass bowl, Xingqi regretted that she chose this dessert just now.

Too sweet, she thought wryly.

"give me."

The detective took the glass bowl and took away the small spoon that Xingqi was holding.

"Then what is our goal?"

The detective took a sip of the red beans and pointed the spoon at the old lady who was looking around in the crowd downstairs as if she was looking for someone.

The grandma should be past seventy years old, with an ivory yellow knitted woolen sweater, a white scarf with a bow, and occasionally took off the sloping brown woolen top hat to wipe the sweat from her temples, and she can also see the neatly combed sparse white hair.

Overall, she is an elegant and decent elderly woman.

"Is that the grandma wearing the scarf?" Xingqi suspected that she had identified the wrong person.

"Yes, pay attention to her movements."

Xingqi took a cup, poured half a cup of lemonade, and cleared the sweet red bean smell that filled her mouth. Out of the corner of her eye, she watched the old lady walking among the slot machines.

Although the old man's gait was a little faltering, which was difficult to compete with the destiny, he walked very steadily overall.

Purpose of travel is revealed on board.

Thinking about it now, the detective's perfunctory case analysis is usually word by word, link by link.On the contrary, words like "accidentally" and "forgotten" said in a serious, apologetic and discussing tone are full of loopholes and cannot withstand scrutiny.

Because she had never been on a plane before, Xingqi followed the detective step by step, but when she arrived at the boarding gate, a couple with a child separated her from the detective.

On the one hand, Xingqi was anxious to find a detective, but she might have drank too much water in the terminal, and she was also a little anxious to go to the bathroom.

Seeing her unnaturalness, a flight attendant came to her, asked her in a low voice what she needed, and then took her to the bathroom. When she went out, the flight attendant thoughtfully brought her a towel, took her to her seat, and gave her a vitamin drink .

When the flight attendant left, Xingqi couldn't help asking the detective, "Is it really a special ticket?"

Will there be such a service for special tickets?

The beautiful young lady gave her a gentle smile, as if all her troubles and worries were thrown back to the ground.

"Ok?"

Xingqi asked again.

"No." Perhaps it was because the temperature in the cabin was a bit high, and the detective's ears were obviously blushing. She spread out a magazine and said absently, "I have a small case to deal with. I told you that there is a spring break for the Chinese New Year, but I didn't want to tell you that there is a spring break. Cancelled, sorry."

"Let's just say it," Xingqi turned her head to look at the flight attendant who was delivering blankets to the passengers, "How can the special ticket be worthy of such a gentle and beautiful young lady?"

After that, until check-in, the detective didn't say a word.

The hotel that the detective decided had its own casino, put away the luggage, and simply packed up. The two went directly to the entertainment hall, and the detective pointed out the goal of this trip.

But the identity of the old man and why he was looking for her, the detective hasn't mentioned yet.

"Wow."

Xingqi saw the bottom of the lemonade.

The old lady took off her hat again and pretended to wipe off her sweat, but the hand holding the hat used the top hat as a shield, and used her ring finger and little finger to grab a chip from the basket on the machine next to her.

The old man did not rush, put the chips and the handkerchief to wipe sweat into the pocket of the cashmere sweater naturally after putting on his hat.

In just 5 minutes, the grandma followed suit and took away at least a dozen chips. With the previous harvest, the pockets on both sides were bulging.

For the last time, the old lady seemed to feel something, and suddenly raised her head to look at the buffet table where the two were.

The detective leaning on the railing turned around before she did, and returned the smoothie that had been eaten for a long time but not even half of it disappeared, to the assistant, "Let's go, let's exchange some chips."

On the way to the service desk, Xingqi passed by the old lady.

It's hard to say whether the detective chose such an opportunity on purpose, or whether the old and strong grandmother deliberately met her observers. When Xingqi pretended to be nonchalant and cast her eyes on the detective ahead, the old grandmother stretched out her hand and patted her. Arm, "Have fun, little sister."

The authentic Haicheng dialect is used.

Xingqi held the melted smoothie and didn't finish saying "you too", the old lady was already humming a ditty to the dining table.

"Grandma found us!" Xingqi caught up with the detective, "She greeted me!"

"Oh." The detective handed the card into the window, and replied coldly, "I will definitely find her if anyone stares at me for ten minutes."

She glanced at the smoothie that had turned into red bean paste, took it and put it on the service desk, "Take it away."

Immediately, a white glove stretched out from the window, took away the glass bowl, and sent out a bamboo basket full of chips and cards.

Xingqi carefully pulled off the detective's sleeve, "Are you unhappy?"

The old lady's actions were so smooth and flowing, she was reluctant to look away, subconsciously, there was a feeling that the old man would not notice her luck when she was old.

Being caught by the surveillance object, Xingqi didn't need to think too much, she could feel that something was wrong.

The detective didn't speak, and motioned to the assistant to take the bamboo basket and join the tiger hunting army.

The slot machine is a gambling machine with a long history. Its attraction lies in its small gain. If you are lucky, you can earn thousands or even tens of thousands of times in return with a single coin. The gameplay is simple. You only need to put in chips or tokens and pull the lever , waiting for the rotating pattern to stop.

The detective was absolutely pissed off.Looking at the bamboo basket with only three chips left, Xingqi thought anxiously.

Like throwing money, every time she passed an unused slot machine, she put a handful of chips in it and pulled it. Sometimes, before the pattern stopped, she couldn't wait to move on to the next machine, as if what was thrown was not The tokens that can be exchanged for money, but her bad mood.

Occasionally she would look around to find the whereabouts of the target, but the casino is no more than five or six steps higher than the dining table where you can look down from the heights, and there are crowds of heads and machines with flashing lights everywhere, it is difficult to find the short, shot Be fast and ruthless grandma.

This made Xingqi even more frightened.

"You go."

Seeing that there were not many chips left, the detective took off his gloves and threw them into the basket, quitting the tiger fight.

"Forget it..." Xingqi shied away.

"Come!"

Xingqi clearly realized that the detective's low pressure had spread to the surrounding area, and two or three people were looking over here.

"Shall we go back after playing?" Xingqi clenched her chips and asked in a low voice, "Is it too noisy here?"

The noisy environment often adds fuel to the fire, and after getting off the plane, he went straight to the hotel, didn't have dinner and didn't have much rest, so the detective was so angry.

It must be like this.

"Come back after losing."

Xingqi nodded. The slot machine where the detective had just thrown a lot of chips was taken by someone. She put three chips into the machine next door, looked at the detective, and then pulled the lever.

The patterns rotate row by row, from slow to fast, and then slowly decrease the speed.

Xingqi put the detective's gloves in her pocket, put the basket in the trolley, and was ready to leave the casino and return to her room.

However, at this moment, the machine burst into deafening cheers.

"Jackpot!"

Immediately afterwards, chips rained from the coin outlet.The sound of the collision of plastic signs can be heard endlessly, and what is noisier than this is the crowd rushing up quickly.

Xingqi backed away uneasily until she had no choice but to sit on the armless swivel chair, with a dull pain in the back of her head. She didn't understand why everyone was yelling at her.

"congratulations!"

"Good luck, little girl!"

"Whoever sees has a share, whoever sees has a share!"

"Be happy."

"..."

She rubbed the back of her head and looked at the detective in bewilderment.

"Don't panic." The detective patted her on the shoulder and handed her a piece of candy, "I won the jackpot."

"what?"

Some of the onlookers took out a large bamboo basket from the cart and handed it to Xingqi, "Haha, the little girl is stupid, what are you still doing, hurry up and collect the money!"

Only then did Xingqi realize that a lot of chips with different colors and numbers had fallen into the coin outlet.

"Little sister is lucky." The long-lost old lady appeared out of nowhere and helped Xingqi pick up the chips, "Jackpot is the jackpot of the slot machine, but it's a pity that there was only one jackpot in the afternoon. It's a millionaire."

The old grandma took out the coin mouth, took out the last chip, put it in the basket, "Fortunate luck, little sister."

The crowd gradually dispersed, and the old lady left with her handkerchief in her hand. Before she left, she took a chip of the smallest denomination under Xingqi's eyes.

"Do you want to chase her?" Xingqi asked the detective in a dilemma, holding a bamboo basket piled up with chips.

Just now the detective said that you will return after losing, when will you lose such a lot?

The detective said blankly, "No, let's go back."

On the way back to the room, Xingqi held the paper bag provided by the casino, feeling the heavy weight of the banknotes, while looking around vigilantly.

After entering the door and kicking off her shoes, Xingqi quickly threw the pile of hot potatoes on the table, "Why don't you let them directly charge your card, how troublesome is it to carry so much cash?"

Also dangerous.

The detective took off his coat and hung it in the closet, "Why did you call me? This is what you won, it's yours."

"Ah?" Xingqi poked her head out of the bathroom, "Don't joke with me, it's too scary."

Even if she was dazzled by colorful chips for a while, a dozen stacks of banknotes neatly placed out of the small window were enough to cool her boiling blood.

That's the detective's bargaining chip, the detective's jackpot.

The detective also went into the bathroom and took some hand sanitizer, "Do I seem to be joking with you?"

"But...but...don't...it's not..." Xingqi spoke incoherently and shook her head anxiously, "It's not mine, not yours."

"Look, people say you're lucky." The detective looked down at the assistant sitting on the toilet, "The rules of the casino, whoever pulls the lever counts."

After speaking, she rinsed off the foam and walked out of the bathroom.

Xingqi flushed her face with cold water, wondering why Jackpot came out early and late, but it happened at her place.

You have to know that the detective lost almost all of his chips.

She stayed in the bathroom for a long time, partly because she was afraid to face the detective who was about to rain, and partly because she was thinking about how to stop the detective from saying such hair-loss words.

After thinking about how to say it, she took several deep breaths and opened the door that was concealed by the detective.

The detective was lying on the sofa and was watching the local news. Hearing the movement, she asked, "Do you want to go out for dinner, or in your room?"

"That's not important." Xingqi blurted out, her voice was sharp to her ears, she cleared her throat, "That's yours."

The detective turned his head and looked over, "What?"

"Good luck." Xingqi knelt on one leg, then sat down cross-legged, "You brought me good luck."

The detective's eyes flickered slightly, but he didn't speak.

Xingqi continued: "Since I became your assistant, I have learned a lot, changed a lot, and made new friends. I was just looking for a job close to home, and the salary doesn't matter. Now... …Well……"

The detective watched her all the time, and the words she had thought up were broken up again and again, making Xingqi feel that this was dry and meaningless like a thank you speech.

"Well, I just want to express..." She lowered her head and kissed the detective's wrist hanging in front of her eyes, "Thank you, I am very lucky to have met you."