Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 387: Once could be an accident, but twice would clearly be intentional.

"Hmph, whatever Sister Liuli and the others say goes!"

Reiko pursed her lips, then suddenly, as if remembering something, stared suspiciously at Kogoro Mouri.
"On the train earlier, Ruri-nee asked me and Eri-nee to keep an eye on you, and said that you've almost spent all your allowance. Where did you get the money to buy these things?"

At this point, the little girl turned her gaze to her older brother: "Onii-chan?"

"Kogoro, I can't believe you lied to me!"

Lin Xiuyi looked annoyed at being deceived, her brows furrowed.

"You just told me you were going to buy a fountain pen, that's why I lent you the money. I never expected you'd go buy these things!"

"I"

Kogoro Mouri opened his mouth, but seeing the wink Hayashi Shuichi secretly gave him, he had no choice but to swallow the blame with a bitter face.
"These are two recently released classic issues, Lingzi. I promise, after reading these two, I will never buy another one."

He raised his hand to swear, his expression so sincere it was almost comical.

"Hmph, what you're looking at has nothing to do with me. Just don't show it to Onii-chan."

Reiko turned her head away, but her eyes were still secretly glancing at the two hidden magazines.
"However, I promised Sister Liuli that if you look at these things again, she'll call you."

"I'll cover all your snacks next month!" Kogoro Mori quickly interrupted her.

"If Sister Liuli finds out I betrayed her, she'll definitely be angry." The little girl blinked, a sly smile on her face.

"Two months! Two months' worth of snacks!"

Kogoro Mouri gritted his teeth, the muscles in his face twitching slightly.
"If I have any more, I'll really run out. I still need to save money for my date with Liuli."

“It’s a deal!” Lingzi immediately beamed with joy.

Kogoro Mouri looked at her reluctantly, but in his heart he was thinking, "Anyway, you didn't say how much it would cost, so I'll buy you the cheapest snacks starting tomorrow."
Just as he was thinking this, he saw Reiko affectionately hug her brother's arm: "Onii-chan, it's not good to keep bothering Kogoro-nii-san. Why don't you just deduct my snack money from his monthly salary?"

"Great idea!" Lin Xiuyi nodded without hesitation.

Kogoro Mouri rolled his eyes in exasperation: "I've really fallen for you two siblings."

"By the way, are you short of money lately?" Lin Xiuyi pinched her younger sister's chubby cheeks. "You're even out of money for snacks? I didn't see you spend much money on this trip. What happened to the allowance I gave you? You've used it all up?"

"No," my little cousin shook her head with a smile, then lowered her voice mysteriously, "I just saved all my allowance and will use it later."

Her voice grew softer and softer, and the last few words were almost inaudible.

The little girl's words were vague, but because she was always well-behaved and sensible, Lin Xiuyi didn't press her for details.

He turned to go back into the house, but was suddenly startled by Kogoro Mouri's exclamation.

"Who smashed it?" Kogoro Mori pointed at the broken window, his eyes wide like saucers.

"I don't know," Lin Xiuyi briefly explained what had just happened. "When Lingzi and I came out, we only saw the back of a child running away."

"Damn it, how dare they smash up our shop!" Kogoro Mori clenched his fists in anger, his knuckles cracking. "When we catch him, we'll teach him a lesson he won't forget!"

"Alright, it's just a piece of glass. Maybe it was just an accidental breakage," Lin Xiuyi waved his hand dismissively. "Go inside, the curry should be ready soon." The next day, Lin Xiuyi made an appointment with a glass repairman early in the morning and asked Mrs. Mori to wait for the repairman at the shop before going to school with Kogoro Mori, not giving the matter a second thought.

Unexpectedly, after school in the afternoon, as soon as Lin Xiuyi approached the izakaya, he saw that the glass that had been smashed yesterday had been replaced with a new one.

However, another window next to it had a hole smashed in it.

Once could be an accident, but twice would clearly be intentional.

Lin Xiuyi's heart sank. Worried that the person who broke the glass would frighten Mrs. Maoli, who was in poor health, he quickly ran up to the third floor and gently knocked on the door.

The door opened, and Mrs. Maori was arranging flowers, filling the room with a faint floral fragrance.

"Shuichi's back?" Mrs. Mori looked surprised. "What's wrong?"

Seeing that she was unharmed and clearly unaware that the izakaya's glass had broken again, Lin Xiuyi breathed a sigh of relief and made up a casual excuse: "It's nothing, I just came to see you and asked about the glass repair this morning."

After chatting for a few minutes, Lin Xiu went downstairs to carefully examine the stone that had fallen into the shop.

They were ordinary pebbles, smooth on the surface, with the distinctive fishy smell of river water; they must have been picked up casually from a nearby riverbed.

The kids came and caused trouble.
Could it be Reiko, or perhaps Furuya Rei had a conflict with someone his age, so the other person deliberately threw stones at him?
The only children in Lin Xiuyi's shop were the two of them.

As for Chengshi, he spends most of his time in the hospital, and he has a well-behaved personality and is cute. Most young boys would be too shy to face him, let alone retaliate like this.

Just as Lin Xiuyi was pondering which brat had done this, Orikasa Midori came over after school.

"Senior, why is the glass broken?" The delinquent girl noticed the abnormality as soon as she entered the room, and her brows immediately furrowed.

“Some little devils deliberately smashed it,” Lin Xiuyi sighed, pointing to the two windows. “This is the second time. It was smashed once last night, and I just had someone fix it this morning. I didn’t expect it to be smashed again so soon.”

"Are you sure it was done by a kid in their teens?" Midori Orikasa suddenly asked.

“Last night when Lingzi and I chased after him, we saw his back,” Lin Xiuyi nodded affirmatively. “Judging from his build, he should be about the same age as Lingzi.”

"Understood, senior. I'll go find the brat who broke the window right now," Midori Orikasa said, turning to leave.

"How are you going to find it?" Lin Xiuyi stopped her in surprise.

“Senior, most of the kids near the shopping street have learned kendo from me,” Midori Orikasa said with a confident smile. “I’ll go ask them; maybe someone saw it.”

When she mentioned it, Lin Xiuyi remembered it too.

The last time the two of them rode their bicycles to Sakuragaoka Junior High School, they accidentally went down a slope. The children passing by were joking around with Xiao Lü without any restraint, and the two seemed to be very familiar with each other.

……

Midori Orikasa went out excitedly, but Lin Xiuyi didn't actually expect her to find the person quickly.

After all, breaking windows is something that most children do secretly by themselves, so it's not easy for others to see it.

Unexpectedly, less than an hour later, Midori Orikasa returned with a father and son.

(End of this chapter)