Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 119 The Bad Girl's Request for Help

"You're overthinking it," Lin Xiuyi said with a smile, "Yukiko and I are not a couple. How could Mrs. Fujimine tell me this? Even if it's true as you said, they must have misunderstood."

Fei Yingli gritted her teeth in anger: "I don't know what the curly-haired fox said to his parents, to make them think..."

"Okay, let's stop talking about this," Lin Xiuyi quickly interrupted the girl, "It's getting late. After I finish cleaning up the store, I still have to carry you back home."

"Huh? Onii-chan, you still want to send Sister Eri home?" Reiko immediately objected. "Sister Eri's leg injury has already healed. Why bother with that?"

"Who said I'm fine?" Hibiki Eri tried to stand up while holding onto the cash register, but the next moment, she fell back into her seat. "Look, I can't even stand up!"

"When I eavesdropped on Yukiko and the others just now, your leg was clearly healed!" Reiko exposed, "I saw it all. You pretended to be passing by and walked back and forth behind Onii-chan several times."

“I think I’m watching too…”

As soon as Maori Kogoro opened his mouth, he was glared at by Kisaki Eri, and he quickly changed his words.
"I must have seen it wrong. Yingli is sitting at the cashier tonight, hehe."

"Did you hear that?" Hibiki Eiri said with a smug smile, "My leg isn't healed yet! Shuichi has to take me home!"

"Kogoro Nissan, you..."

Lingzi glared angrily, and Lin Xiuyi pinched her cheek in a funny way.

"Don't be angry, your face is puffed up like a meat bun! Yingli's house is not far away, I will be back soon. After you take Wangcai upstairs, go to bed early. Don't forget that we still have to go to the amusement park tomorrow."

"Oh," the little cousin nodded obediently, "I'll listen to Onii-chan."

When Lin Xiuyi went to clean the kitchen, Lingzi made a contemptuous face at Kisaki Eri, left a word "liar" and ran away.

"Stinky girl!" Feiying was so angry that she wanted to get up and chase after her, but she was afraid of being seen by Lin Xiuyi, so she could only pound the table in anger.

After cleaning up the izakaya, Hayashi Hideichi carried Kisaki Eri home on his back. When they reached a place where the izakaya owner could not see her, the girl started to make a fuss about getting off.

After Lin Xiuyi put her down, Fei Yingli said embarrassedly: "Sorry, actually my legs..."

"I know, you've been able to walk freely for a long time," Lin Xiuyi said unhappily, "Do you think I didn't see what Lingzi said before?"

"Then why did you give it to me?" Hibari asked back with bright eyes.

"It's almost twelve o'clock. I can't let you go home alone so late," Lin Xiuyi urged, "Let's go. I'm exhausted today and I want to go back early to take a bath."

"Tsk, can't you say something nice..." Kisaki Eri curled her lips and followed.

……

The next day, Sunday,

Early in the morning, Lin Xiuyi was awakened by a knock on the door. He got up and looked at the alarm clock on the bedside table. It was just past seven o'clock.

Lin Xiuyi walked out of the bedroom yawning, and saw Lingzi also got up, walking towards the door with sleepy eyes, holding a panda doll.

"I'll go open the door," Lin Xiuyi stopped his little cousin, "You go back to sleep for a while." Lingzi looked at her brother drowsily: "Onii-chan, aren't we going to the amusement park?"

"It's only seven o'clock now," Lin Xiuyi explained, "There are still three hours until the gathering time. Go back to bed. If you don't get enough sleep, you won't grow taller."

"Good night, Onii-chan."

Seeing Reiko walk back into the bedroom, Lin Xiuyi went forward to open the door. He thought that the person standing outside the door should be Mouri Kogoro, and thought that this guy must have remembered the time wrong again.

But when the door opened, I saw the bad girl from the flower shop. She was wearing sportswear, just like the last time we met, and was standing at the door with an anxious look on her face.

"Orikasa? Why are you here?"

"Senior, excuse me for disturbing you," Orikasa Midori said sheepishly, "The flower shop was robbed last night. I heard from the officers on duty that you're very good at investigating cases, so I wanted to ask you to come over and take a look."

The bad girl was an acquaintance of Lin Xiuyi's, so it was difficult for him to refuse her.

After changing his clothes, he was ready to go out, but Wangcai also woke up. Seeing Lin Xiuyi's appearance, Bengou thought he was going out for a walk, so he excitedly came up to him.

Lin Xiuyi had no choice but to put a leash on the dog, then led the dog to the flower shop with Orikasa Midori: "There was a thief in the store, was there any cash missing?"

"The money wasn't lost," Orikasa Midori replied, "but a lot of the flowers in the shop were damaged."

"The flowers were smashed?" Lin Xiuyi frowned. "A thief wouldn't do such a thing. Could it be that your mother offended someone and was retaliated against?"

"I thought so too," Orikasa Midori said with a worried look on her face. "This time they only smashed the flowers in the store. What if next time they hurt Mom..."

Is this the reason why you want to ask me for help?

Lin Xiuyi glanced at the girl who was worried about her mother and said, "I remember when I went to the flower shop last time, I heard you say that your mother used to be a bad girl?"

"Well, that was more than ten years ago," Orikasa Midori explained, "Mom became a bad girl when she was in high school. That's when she met Dad. After she got pregnant with me, she dropped out of school."

"My mom told me that she and dad had planned to get married after I was born. But a month before I was born, my dad was racing on the street and died in a car accident."

"After that, my mother stopped associating with her bad friends and returned home to inherit my grandparents' flower shop. She raised me all by herself."

"If they're still holding a grudge against someone from over a decade ago, they shouldn't just be smashing the flowers," Lin Xiuyi pondered. "Did your mother offend anyone recently? For example, did she argue with a customer, or upset a customer by delivering the wrong flowers?"

"...Probably not," Orikasa Midori thought for a moment. "Although my mother has a bad temper, she's very patient with the customers in the flower shop. She's been helping my grandparents plant and grow flowers since she was little. She remembers the meanings of various flowers and the significance of giving them as gifts very clearly. She definitely wouldn't make a mistake."

As they were talking, the two had already arrived at the door of the flower shop on the commercial street. Two police officers were asking Orikasa Midori's mother about the losses of the shop, and there were many people gathered around to watch.

Seeing Lin Xiuyi coming, the two police officers on duty greeted him with a smile. They were also regular customers of the izakaya. After Lin Xiuyi said a few polite words, he began to inspect the scene.

The flowers on the shelves in front of the flower shop were all destroyed. The flowers and broken flower pots were thrown aside, and the soil was also dumped together.

Lin Xiuyi walked into the flower shop. The flowers near the outside were also uprooted like the ones at the door and thrown together with the flower pots. The soil was poured into a separate pile...

(End of this chapter)