"The hot springs we have here are very effective in treating ailments such as sore shoulders," the proprietress said, leading the way to the hall at the end of the corridor and introducing with a smile, "There is the social hall ahead."
Mao Lilan's eyes lit up when she saw the person sitting in the hall in front of her, "Hey? Isn't that lady Akechi Eri who specializes in writing romance?"
'Eri' and 'Eiri' have the same pronunciation in Japanese.
Mouri Kogoro froze when he heard that. The travel bag in his right hand fell and hit his foot. The next second, he grinned in pain and jumped on the spot with his feet in his arms. "It hurts! It hurts!"
Mao Lilan was helpless, "Dad..."
In the saloon, a group of people gathered around the coffee table and sat on the sofa drinking tea.
Hearing what Mouri Kogoro was doing, the middle-aged man in a dark gray suit sitting in the main seat looked up. The four women on the sofas on the left and right turned their heads. Even the young woman standing next to the middle-aged man stopped. Enjoy the snow and look back.
quiet.
"Ah," the middle-aged woman wearing glasses whispered, looking at Mouri Kogoro, "Are you..."
The middle-aged man on the main seat put down his tea cup and stood up.
On the sofa on the right, a woman with long black hair and a woman with short brown wavy hair also stood up almost at the same time.
The middle-aged woman and the other two women were stunned.
They all stood up in this posture...
Isn't that a bit exaggerated?
"Mr. Chi?" The middle-aged man walked forward quickly and extended his hand to Chi Feichi in surprise, "I didn't expect to see you here!"
Chi Feichi reached out to shake hands with the middle-aged man. After retracting his hand, he turned his head and introduced to Mouri Kogoro, who looked puzzled, "Teacher, this is Mr. Tokyo Toichi, the producer of Nippon TV. I am with him at thk I met him twice in the company, Mr. Bando, this is my master, the famous detective Mouri Kogoro."
"It turns out to be Mr. Mouri Kogoro, the famous detective," Banko Tokyo handed the business card to Moori Kogoro with two hands, "I have long admired your name!"
"Hahaha, where is it," Maori Kogoro smiled and took the business card, then turned to look at him, "Ah, by the way, this is my daughter Xiaolan..."
"Hello." Mao Lilan bowed to say hello.
Chi Feichi looked at Huiyuan Ai and said, "This is my roommate Xiao Ai."
"Hello." Hui Yuan Ai greeted him.
Mouri Kogoro looked at Conan, "As for this, it's for..."
Conan: "..."
"This is Conan!" Mao Lilan took the lead and bent down to touch Conan's head to introduce him.
"Hello, uncle." Conan raised his head and greeted obediently.
"Oh, why are you so embarrassed to let everyone stand and talk..." Tokyo Tokyo turned to look at the sofa.
The two women on the sofa on the right gave way, and the two women on the sofa on the left had also stood up, but there was only one main seat, so...
Chi Feichi reached out and took Maori Kogoro's travel bag, "Teacher, you guys chat, I will deliver the things to the room."
"Me too!" Mao Lilan was embarrassed to let Chi Feichi carry the luggage back to the room alone, and looked at Saka Tokyoichi, "Sorry, let's excuse ourselves first."
"No, I'm disturbing you all," Tokyo Tokyo understood immediately, and warmly welcomed Kogoro Mori to the coffee table, "Come, Mr. Mori, please sit down..."
Mouri Kogoro was not polite and sat down on the main seat, "Were the previous people discussing something?"
"It's like this," said Tokyo Tokyo. "Our TV station and University Hall Publishing House are planning to join forces and ask Ms. Akechi Eri to write a new play for us to be released next spring. We are currently discussing it."
To go to the room, you need to pass by the saloon and turn right. Chi Feichi and Mao Lilan carry their luggage there, followed by Conan and Haibara Ai.
"Hello, Mr. Mori, I am Yoriko Honda from University Hall Publishing House," the middle-aged woman handed the business card to Kogoro Mori, then looked at the three women sitting opposite and standing opposite, and said with a smile, "This play is a narrative It’s a story about three young women who are emerging in various fields, so we plan to use the most active women in various fields as the blueprint for this play.”
Saka Tokyo took over the words, "This time, we specially invited three graduates of Ms. Raiko's alma mater, Royal University, to come here to discuss together. This is Ms. Asuka Shibazaki, a fashion model who is very active in Paris and New York..."
"Mr. Mori, please give me some advice."
"Hello, you are so beautiful!"
"This is Miss Ema Anzai, an oil painter who won a prize at the Toto Art Exhibition."
"Please give me your advice."
"Oh...it's so cute!"
"As for this person, she is Ms. Fukatsu Harumi, a singer-songwriter who is already well-known in the music industry..."
After Chi Feichi and the four of them turned around the corridor, the conversation in the saloon over there could no longer be heard clearly.
Haibara Ai looked back and said, "Brother Fei Chi, do you know Miss Asuka Shibasaki and Miss Ema Anzai?"
Mao Lilan and Conan looked at Chi Feichi curiously.
When Saka Tokyo stood up just now, the two people also stood up at the same time, looking at Chi Feichi, probably because they recognized Chi Feichi.
Chi Feichi calmly carried his luggage and went to the room, "Maybe I met you when, I don't remember."
Mao Lilan was a little confused, "No, don't you remember?"
Conan Half Moon Eyes, they are two pretty girls after all, don’t you remember this?
"Maybe I've seen it at a banquet," Haiyuan Ai was not surprised. "Sometimes the lights in the banquet hall are dark, the guests are dressed more grandly than usual, and women also wear makeup to attend. Sometimes there are many people who need to say hello or respond. , if you have only met him once or twice without having an in-depth conversation, it is normal for you to not recognize him for a while when you see him again. As for the fact that they can recognize Brother Fei Chi, it is probably because Brother Fei Chi's eye color is relatively rare."
Mao Lilan understood, "So that's it."
"Then the two of them should be from very good families," Conan said. "Brother Chi doesn't like to attend banquets very much, unless it's inconvenient to shirk or the inviting party has an unusual status, right? The guests invited by such people should have backgrounds as well. not simple."
Huihara Ai added, "But she is not the daughter of a big group or a certain financial group. Her family has no cooperative relationship with Brother Fei Chi's family. She is a relatively unfamiliar type of person."
Chi Feichi: "..."
Don't bother, he can't remember it no matter how much he analyzes it.
Those should be people with no interest, and this time it should be the plot of the long-sleeved kimono case. It seems that the two eldest ladies among the three outstanding women who died...
"By the way, where is Miss Shenjin?" Mao Lilan looked forward to seeing Chi Feichi, "Brother Feichi, you should know her, right? The song she composed herself is very nice, I like it very much!"
Chi Feichi thought about it for a moment, "I've heard of it, but I've never seen it."
The landlady did not interrupt the conversation between the four of them. She arrived at the door of a room, opened the door, and said, "This is the room you reserved."
This time, Mouri Kogoro booked a large suite with a living room and two rooms.
There are wooden tables and chairs in the living room, and bright long-sleeved kimonos and obi hanging on the wooden shelves in front of the wall.
"Wow, there are long-sleeved kimonos here too," Mao Lilan turned around and asked after entering the door, "Boss Boss, there are long-sleeved kimonos and obi hanging everywhere in your hotel. Is there any allusion to this?"
"Because every household around here enshrines the kimono sleeve god," the landlady's attitude remained gentle. She put down the hot water bottle and sat at the table to make tea for a few people. "Every household has such decorations. It's very common here. "
"Xiaolan, Xiaoai, which room do you want?" Chi Feichi asked.
"This is the one inside. Brother Fei Chi, Conan and Dad are in the room next to the courtyard. The room inside will feel very safe." Mao Lilan asked Haihara Ai, "What do you think, Xiao Ai?"
"I can do it." Hui Yuan Ai said indifferently.
Chi Feichi took Conan to another room, put down his luggage, and took out his laptop to charge.
When Mao Lilan went to put her luggage away, she was still chatting with the proprietress, "Can I wear a kimono here? Are there any taboos? I want the child to put on a kimono later and take her out for a walk."
"Wear it with confidence," the landlady said with a smile, "There are no taboos."
Chi Feichi took out a sealed plastic bag from his luggage bag, sent it to the next room, put it on the floor, and expressed his support for Mao Lilan with his actions.
"Is this the one?" Mao Lilan picked up the bag and looked at Haiyuan Ai with an expectant smile, "Xiao Ai, let me put it on for you~"
Haibara Ai:"……"
Suddenly I felt that Sister Xiaolan’s smile was a little scary...
"Brother Fei Chi, wait..." Haiyuan cried out to Chi Fei Chi. Seeing Chi Fei Chi turn around, he felt entangled in his heart. He gritted his teeth and pretended to be a shy little girl, "This place is different from Kyoto. There aren’t many people here who don’t wear kimono, so it would be weird for me to wear one and go shopping alone..."
"knew."
Chi Fei went out late and helped close the door.
Haibara Ai:"……"
You say you know, but you still show that you want her to wear a kimono, right?
It's rare for her to act coquettishly, but she still doesn't give me face... ruthless!
Mao Lilan held the bag and knelt down in front of Haiyuan Ai, smiling, "Xiao Ai~"
Haibara Ai:"……"
Conan next door listened to Hui Yuan Ai's silence over there, and couldn't help but snicker as he imagined how dark Hui Yuan Ai's face would be.
He sympathized with Haiyuan.
Chi Feichi returned to the room, took out his kimono, and went to the bathroom to change.
Would it be weird to go shopping alone in a kimono? That's just two people. Anyway, it's impossible for Hui Yuan Ai to turn away just because he wants to be cute.
Five minutes later, the landlady left the room.
Conan sat in the living room drinking tea and waiting for others to change clothes.
Ten minutes later, Chi Fei left the bathroom late.
Conan looked up and froze for a moment, as if there was a chill running from his back to the top of his head.
Men's kimonos are not pure white. They were worn by men in ancient times only after committing seppuku. The kimono on Chi Feichi's body is naturally not pure white either.
Although white accounted for a lot, the mattress under the kimono revealed a grayish blue-purple collar, a belt of the same color, and a pattern of the same color embroidered under the kimono collar. Since it was covered with a haori, he could probably tell it. It was a crane with its wings spread out, and Yuori blocked it so that only a small section of the crane's wings could be seen.
Although Haori is mostly white, there is a blue-purple petal pattern on the shoulders, and the layers of cherry blossoms spread from the shoulders to half of the sleeves.
The overall color of the clothes is concentrated in the upper part, with the sleeves below the elbows and the torso waist below being white. Men's kimonos of this color are rare, and there are not many women's kimonos. The designer's original intention should be 'freshness and diversity' , let young people try it.
There was no fresh, diverse, youthful and energetic atmosphere on Chi Feichi's body. Seeing Chi Feichi walking over, he actually felt that the person in front of him had no warmth at all.
It's not lifeless like a corpse, it's not like an old man with a sense of twilight and decay, it's not as gloomy as the ghost in a white T-shirt that day in the old apartment at dusk.
The clothes are white and noble, the person's behavior is steady and casual, but indifferent and cold, ancient and lonely, the sense of distance is too strong, the sense of distance is so strong that it's like...
Not human!
Why?
What's going on with that 'very scary' feeling?
