"Gee, these meatballs look really good!"
In front of the snack bar, Mouri Kogoro deliberately exclaimed, then quietly moved back.
Okay, take this opportunity to secretly... secretly...
"What do you want to eat, teacher?"
A calm and cool voice came from behind. Mouri Kogoro's expression froze and he slowly turned his head.
Um? Wait, his apprentice feels a little different. It seems that the color of the clothes is too warm. Even the eyebrows and facial contours have softened a lot. There is still no expression on his face, but he still feels quite harmless.
It's not sunshine, but it just feels pure and harmless.
"What do you want to eat?" Chi Feichi repeated, "I'll buy it for you."
Maori Kogoro:"……"
Humans are indeed visual creatures, and there is no change just by listening to the sound, but I just feel that his apprentice has become a lot gentler.
It's... very awkward for him, and he's not used to it.
The female clerk turned around and saw Chi Feichi. She immediately smiled and sighed, "It feels very different from what I just felt. It suits you very well!"
"Thank you," Chi Feichi said, "Thank you for your hard work."
"You're welcome," the female clerk looked at Mouri Kogoro, "I think this gentleman will also like this surprise!"
Mouri Kogoro was confused, "What surprise?"
Chi Feichi confessed calmly, "I told them that I wanted to give you a surprise. Please don't let you leave first."
Maori Kogoro:"……"
No wonder he was watched so closely, damn it!
gentle? harmless? This kid clearly deserves a beating!
The key is that he may or may not be able to beat him... It's annoying!
The next second, Maori Kogoro turned around and walked towards the clothing store. When he passed by Chi Feichi, he said angrily, "I'll give you a surprise too!"
Ten minutes later, the master and apprentice were walking on the street.
Mouri Kogoro wore the same suit and trousers as before, but changed into a black shirt and a dark brown windbreaker. He wore sunglasses on his face, had a cold face, and had a serious aura.
Chi Feichi walked aside silently.
His teacher is really similar to Takatori. Height, body shape, face shape, and mustache are almost exactly the same. There is a slight difference in the eyes, but you can't tell it with sunglasses on. In addition, his dressing style is much more serious. Now he The teacher is exactly the same as Takatori Isao.
Fortunately, without confirming the meeting in advance, Gin and the others would not take the initiative to say hello when they met him. Otherwise, he would really worry that when passing by a certain alley, Vodka would mistake Mouri Kogoro for Takatori Isao, no matter what Say hello without hesitation...
When Maori Kogoro saw Chi Feichi following him without saying a word, he couldn't express his anger, "I'll take you to Lemon Bar and try their super spicy cheese!"
…
lemon bar.
There were no other customers in the bar, only a man in a waiter's uniform standing behind the counter.
The man's dyed brown hair was slicked back into a slick, with fish eyes, thick but bloodless lips, and a tall and thin figure. He was wiping a wine glass with a towel. When he noticed someone coming in, he raised his head and said hello, "You two, welcome... eh?" Mr. Mori?"
After Mouri Kogoro took off his sunglasses, he was recognized and sat in front of the bar. "Boss, it seems there are still no customers today."
Chi Feichi sat down next to him, looked at the man, and then quickly looked at the wine cabinet behind the man.
He had no recollection of the case.
But if the target of the gangster is Kogoro Maori himself, 'Kimura' is probably a cover that does not exist at all. Then, the bar owner who said he had seen 'Kimura' is very suspicious.
Moreover, Mouri Kogoro took the wrong coat in this bar, and the other person was the only one who could manipulate and create the existence of "Kimura".
However, the more someone needs attention, the less likely they are to stare at and observe him. He does not have Conan's small stature and age that are easily ignored and underestimated.
"It's still early," the man smiled, "Mr. Mori, do you still want to eat super spicy cheese?"
"Yes, please prepare for two," Maori Kogoro turned to Chi Feichi and explained, "When I first came here, I originally came here to use the free drink coupon for the first anniversary of the opening of the store, but I tasted him The cheese I made is so delicious that I can’t forget it. Recently, I’ve become obsessed with spicy snacks!”
The shop owner turned around and said, "Mr. Maoli, you've given me the compliment. I didn't know who this person is..."
"It's the one I talked about the night before yesterday, my eldest disciple Chi Feichi," Maori Kogoro introduced, then looked at Chi Feichi who was sitting next to him, "It's a pity that you didn't come with me the night before yesterday. ”
"I had to sort out documents at home the night before yesterday, and I couldn't get away." Chi Feichi's eyes were still wandering among the bottles in the wine cabinet, "otherwise I would have come, just because of the name of this bar."
"Huh?" Mouri Kogoro was curious, "lemon? What happened to the name?"
"Because of the song," Chi Feichi did not elaborate and looked at the man, "Boss, can you give me a glass of sazerac?"
"Ah?" The man turned around and smiled sheepishly, "Sorry, my store has only been open for a year, and the previous bartender resigned due to family matters, so..."
"No wonder it's not easy for you to make food and mix drinks by yourself!" Mouri Kogoro sighed.
"Can I come by myself?" Chi Feichi stood up.
The language was asking, but the way he stood up would have made most people embarrassed to say no.
After all, if the customer mixes his own wine, it is still under the nose of the boss. There is no reason to refuse such a thing, even if the wine made by the customer cannot be drunk, as long as the customer pays the bill.
If the boss still refuses even though the customers have stood up, that means there is some reason why he cannot be allowed to go behind the bar.
"No problem!" The man agreed readily and looked at the wine in the wine cabinet. "The wine with the brand on it was bought by the customer. The rest can be used as you like."
"I'm really sorry, boss," Mouri Kogoro said, "I've caused you trouble."
"It doesn't matter." The man smiled and turned around to put the cheese on the plate.
Chi Feichi turned around and went to the bar, took the wine without a wooden label, and introduced it loudly, "Sazerac is known as the first cocktail in North America. The traditional recipe is French cognac, Albis, and bitters. , sugar, and garnish with lemon peel..."
Sazerac wasn't considered unpopular. The boss didn't know, either the bartender really had resigned, or the bar had been open for less than a year.
And the wine cabinet itself can also tell a lot of information.
From the gaps on the inside of the wine cabinet, you can tell how long the wine cabinet has been used. Even if the inside and outside of the wine cabinet are wiped every day, there are always corners that are ignored. At the same time, the accumulation of wiping over time will also leave some different marks on the wine cabinet.
This wine cooler is at least three years old.
From the number of bartending utensils and food-making utensils, you can tell how many people worked here. For example, if there used to be two bartenders here, then there will be more than two sets of bartending tools. Even if one of them leaves, only The remaining one is working, and the extra bartending tools will not be discarded or put away, but will be used as spare tools.
The tools are complete, including two pestles of the same type. There should have been only one bartender before.
From the usage of cups, saucers, etc., you can determine the usual flow of customers.
This does not depend on the degree of cleaning, traces of use, or proportion of damage, but on the way they are placed. If there is usually a lot of traffic in the store, at this point in the evening, the boss will probably put a large number of cups in places that are easy to access. .
Generally, the most prepared items in a bar are various wine glasses, followed by plates for small food. Some bars also prepare some knives and forks for eating cakes.
This bar seems to have a small number of customers... no, it should be said that it is pitifully small. There are only two rows of glasses on the outside, a total of ten, and a pile of eight plates.
What's even more interesting is that there is dust on the two lower edges of the pile of plates, and the knife and fork placed in the innermost part has even accumulated a layer of dust.
It means that the boss expects that there will be no more than ten customers today, and there are not many customers coming every day recently. If there are five plates that the boss uses for his own meals, even if not every customer orders food, the number of customers will be even less. .
In addition, although the ten glasses placed outside were polished clean and translucent, they were only classical cocktail glasses, champagne glasses, and beer glasses.
In bars, martinis and margaritas are commonly ordered cocktails, and they also have specific cups. One bar actually didn't put away two martini glasses and margarita glasses in advance. The boss really Want to do business?
Or maybe the boss knew that Kogoro Mori was fond of beer and soju and couldn't order cocktails, so he put it away?
The bar has been open for at least three years. Although the owner said he took it over for a year, it is not that even Sazerac didn't know about it. In other words, the owner may not have taken over the bar for a year. Plus the cups are idle. It has only been open for a few days, but Mouri Kogoro received a coupon for free drinks on the first anniversary...
This is simply like a bar opened just for one person, or in other words, a trap specially prepared for one person.
Maori Kogoro felt a little emotional as he watched Chi Feichi pick out bottles of wine, turn around and put them on the console.
After changing into warm-colored clothes, his apprentice seemed to be in a much better mood. He was actually in the mood to mix his own drinks, and he explained so patiently.
"You need to prepare classical cocktail glasses, mixing glasses, and pestles..."
Chi Feichi was looking for something. When the bar owner turned around and brought two plates of cheese to the bar, he quickly opened the wine bottle with the wooden sign "Kimura" with his left hand, using the cover of his body when he stood up to pick up the pestle.
Fei Chi looked over, but couldn't smell the smell, "Master, it's fake wine, it has no smell!"
Chi Feichi came closer and smelled it. He took the pestle in his right hand and operated it with his left hand. He quickly capped the bottle cap and put it back in place. He turned his head and asked the bar owner who turned over calmly, "Do you have any ice cubes?" ?”
"Yes," the man helped to get the ice bucket, "it's in the freezer layer of the refrigerator."
Chi Feichi put the pestle on the console and went to get ice cubes from the refrigerator.
Even if the wine is light, it will still have a special smell, such as grassy and fruity aroma.
The bottle with the wooden sign with the name 'Kimura' on it is not fake wine, it's simply boiled water!
If that person named 'Kimura' really existed, and spent money to buy a bottle of boiled water here, and asked the boss to put it away, and come here to drink boiled water every day, isn't that something wrong with his brain?
He thought that the boss asked him to come to the bar because he was innocent. Now it seems that he overestimated the other party. The other party didn't think he could find anything at all, and he didn't try to cover up or prevent others from approaching the wine cabinet.
They didn't even want to prepare a bottle of real wine, so they just put boiled water in as wine. It was really perfunctory.
The man held an ice bucket to help load the ice cubes, but Chi Feichi observed the inside of the freezer layer and the freezing condition of the ice cubes.
All are three ice cubes.
This is a bar opened by Kogoro Mori alone, and it’s a real success.
The bar owner probably waited for his teacher to come to the door. After his teacher left, he closed the door perfunctorily, and then opened it casually for a while the next night to see if his teacher would come. At about ten o'clock, ten o'clock At one o'clock, it was estimated that his teacher would not come, so he closed the door for a rest, completely avoiding the bar's operating hours from 11 to 2 or 3 in the morning, so there were not many customers who barged in with their clothes covered.
They are not here to run bars at all.
