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It seems that this won't work. Regardless of Xingyuan's opinion, isn't telling this to the Love Detective the same as betting on horses to gain financial freedom? The president will kill me!

Thinking of this, Ishigami surrendered decisively and said generously: "...I can't think of anything, just laugh at me."

"...Do you have any strange habits?" Xing Yuanhui looked at Ishigami and concluded, "Then why not? Instead of making things worse, why not just watch from the sidelines and wait until the president needs you."

Chapter 29 Let's give them a surprise

In the distance, the sea breeze swept across the deck with salty and humid air. Reflected in their eyes was a lighthouse standing quietly in the grass. Its black and white stripes were particularly conspicuous against the azure blue of the sea and sky. The only pity was that the sky was bright now, so they could not see it casting light into the distance.

Although Tokyo is on the sea, for Ishigami and Shirogane, who were so close to a lighthouse for the first time, the lighthouse that they had only seen in storybooks seemed to have become real only at this moment. Some ambiguous emotions spread in their hearts that could not be accurately expressed.

Some white spots were moving slowly on the leafy island. It seemed that they had frequent contact with the tower keeper. They were curious about the fishing boat that had made a special detour to come here, and they flapped their wings. Some seagulls standing on the reefs were very skillful and brave, and their wings pressed against the sea surface like a torpedo, causing ripples.

Lighthouses always bring imagination to people. What sailors lost at sea most want to see is the navigation light that can pierce all the darkness and fog. Lighthouses always represent perseverance and hope in stories, and these things have always been a special attack on teenagers.

The dean slowed down the speed of the boat, wanting to let the two guests who came from afar see enough. He sighed in his heart: Xingyuan is really good at choosing scenery, and he touched my friend's heart at once.

Of course, it is possible that he would not choose it. He just remembered this lighthouse that he could see every day, and he might have moved them by accident.

Looking at the seabirds flying around, Xing Yuanhui knew that this short voyage was about to end, and said to his friends: "This is the biggest reason why I want the dean to come to Hakodate to pick us up. It should be good, right? If you take the ferry, you can't get so close to the lighthouse and seabirds. This is their habitat, and scholars have come to the island to study it."

If there is anything that best reflects Oma's closeness to nature, then it couldn't be more appropriate than the seabirds hovering right next to the ship, right?

Unlike the ones kept in zoos, these birds are still wild. If that's not shocking enough, I'll give you some French fries, and you can also witness the not-so-precious scene of seagulls swooping down to grab human food.

"It's a very special feeling." Baiyin couldn't help but take out his mobile phone. He really wanted to record everything he saw, even though he almost never took photos with his mobile phone.

On the other side, Shi, who was standing on the bulwark with his hands in a daze, was awakened by the "click" sound of modern creations. He began to follow the president's inner impulse and took his first step.

"Huh~!" Ishigami couldn't control himself. He stood on the bow and was about to shout, but he almost fell into the sea due to a bump.

Rose can't stand without Jack, but Rose doesn't want to be held by Jack!

Faced with a dilemma, Ishigami found his own wisdom and suddenly realized the philosophy of "one step back, the sky is broader". He stepped back and grabbed the iron bars on both sides that were originally used to tie ropes, and then he began to shout with relief.

Seeing the "waterless monkey" open its arms and roar, the seagulls' formation was disrupted for a moment, and they all flew away at the same time - would it eat the bird?

When Xing Yuanhui and Bai Yin saw the accountant's left eye with his bangs lifted by the wind for the first time, they couldn't control the urge to cry.

Oh my god, I just saw two eyes on the stone at the same time, why am I feeling so emotional?

"Xingyuan, what is this..." The screaming savage turned around and was about to ask something, when he found that the two men were twisting their eyes like their father and looking up 45 degrees, which made people think of the most tragic thing in their lives.

Ishigami, who could ignore the password and directly connect to the boys' channel, instantly understood what they were thinking and said with an awkward expression, "Well... I just like to have bangs, I'm not blind."

"I didn't say you were blind." Xing Yuanhui stepped forward and patted his friend on the shoulder. "I'm just afraid that I'll see that your eye is wearing a beauty contact lens like the Sharingan. When I think that you might be secretly addicted to the second dimension, I can't help but feel sad."

There was a sense of déjà vu as if there was something strange under the coat.

Baiyin followed the general affairs officer's words in perfect agreement: "Yes, because doesn't this mean that school life is not interesting enough for you and you need to find extra spiritual food? This is a bad review for the student union."

"..." Ishigami complained with a wooden face, "Why should I give myself a bad review?"

"But don't you want to live a pink campus life? Why don't you change your hairstyle?" Xing Yuanhui didn't reply to him. He walked over and smoothed Shi Shang's hair back. "Long bangs are too gloomy!"

"If the person I like rejects me because of my appearance instead of my soul, then it's just pink youth." Ishigami didn't stop Xing Yuanhui's big hand and shrugged, "Besides, I have finally lost my presence in school. There's no need to change my hairstyle to attract everyone's attention again, right?"

It was annoying when the Ogino family was in the news, could it happen again? I don't want it.

"Oh? I had already thought of a new hairstyle for you, what a pity." The professional family barber touched his chin, examined it carefully, clapped his hands and said, "Can't you just cut your bangs shorter? I know someone who can recycle hair. Your hair quality seems to be very good."

Although he didn't want to cut his hair at all, Ishigami still asked, "How much?"

"It's not long enough, and he's a boy..." Shirogane started calculating with the spirit of a test, and after a while came to a conclusion, "Five hundred yen?"

"Five hundred yen?!" Ishigami quickly pulled his head back, broke away from his friend's hand, and carefully fixed his bangs, "Are my features only worth this much?!"

The consolation prize I get in a competition might be higher than this!

"Are you happy, Ishigami?" Xing Yuanhui put his arm around Ishigami's shoulders again and said cheerfully, "The president and I both collect hair by the pound. Aren't you happy that you won?"

The president stayed up late, and mine is not long enough, so only Xiaogui's hair can be sold at a high price. Fortunately, the Baiyin family is not in such a difficult situation, otherwise Mengye would have come to kill them if he knew about this.

"Not happy at all!" Ishigami shouted again, scaring away the seagull that wanted to fly over.

……

After getting off the boat, the dean found a tricycle for transporting goods and took the high school students directly back to the welfare home. The pier they docked at was the venue for the Ocean Festival, but it was far away from the welfare home - the dean seemed to have received a message on his phone and had to go and help quickly.

Although the three insisted that they could go back by themselves, the dean still wanted to show his hospitality and asked the uncle driving the tricycle to take a detour.

"Oh! This." Xing Yuanhui took two souvenirs with the words "Arrival Certificate of Omazaki, the Northernmost Point of Honshu" written on them. "Hasn't this thing been discontinued for a long time? Because there is no use for it."

After all, there is no comparison between the northernmost part of Honshu and the northernmost part of Japan.

"Xingyuan, your mouth has become more powerful since your trip to Tokyo." The uncle laughed, obviously not taking the words seriously, shook his head and left.

The three of them watched the tricycle disappear around the corner. Baiyin and Ishigami put away the certificate that had long been discontinued, and turned their attention to the walled building in front of them.

It looks different from the stereotypical welfare home. Apart from the slightly faded sign of "Dajian Welfare Home" next to the gate, the style of this building is not so out of tune with the surrounding civilian houses. It does not look like a Khrushchev-style building like a residential area, and there are no Western elements. From the outside, it looks like just a larger single-family house.

"How is it? This is my hometown. Does it look okay?" Xing Yuanhui pushed open the closed gate of the courtyard, put down the suitcase and extended his hand to invite them, "Two guests, come this way."

"That doesn't have to be the case, does it?" Ishigami touched his head and smiled awkwardly, then he stood on the other side and began to imitate, putting pressure on the next person, "You are the president, please go first."

"...Let's go in together!" Baiyin grabbed the arms of the two men, and the three of them started fighting on the spot.

After the teasing episode, Shirogane and Ishigami walked into the yard and found some old amusement equipment in the yard, such as seesaws, slides, swings, etc. Although there was not much dust, the damaged paint still looked lonely.

Apart from the stone path leading directly to the entrance and the small house on the edge which is obviously a storage room, there is a small path extending from the main house to the yard. It is slightly blocked by the flowers planted in the yard, but it makes it more attractive.

"Good... normal?" Ishigami, who had always been suffering from poor performance in Chinese class, scratched his head but couldn't think of a more appropriate word.

I thought I would see a building with windows neatly and precisely placed on the wall, or a small church, but it turned out to be just a large single-family house.

"Need, need help?" Baiyin pointed at the seesaw over there and said politely, "I've worked as an assistant in a repair shop before, so repainting it is no problem for me."

It really affects the appearance of the school. My obsessive-compulsive disorder as the student council president has kicked in!

"No one plays with it, so it doesn't matter if it's a little rotten." Xing Yuanhui knew that they had some strange misunderstandings, and hurriedly explained, "In fact, I thought about demolishing it. After all, the country is peaceful and the people are safe now. Dajian is not a famous place. Basically... I have never seen abandoned children there."

There was no one, except me.

He went on to say, "If there hadn't been a scandal in an orphanage that brought it down, maybe there would only be me and the director now. I also thought about tearing down these things, but the director said that it would be empty anyway, so it would be better to leave them there so that people wouldn't know this is an orphanage without looking at the house number."

"I see..." Ishigami kept turning his head to look around, and his sharp eyes saw a legendary fishing tackle that could only be seen on the live broadcast channel in the storage room with the door not closed properly.

He walked over and opened the door. After confirming, he looked at Xing Yuanhui with horror and said, "Uh, why is there a rebar in your tackle room?"

And it's not just ordinary rebar, it has something welded on it, and it actually looks a bit like the fishing rod on the shelf next to it!

Azai even shook it in his hand, and wow, this thing is actually solid!

Xingyuan, what are you doing? You can't use guns to fight fish in Japan, so you just use this to knock it out?

But can a fish that has been knocked unconscious by rebar still nourish its brain? There is a metallic taste in the head... It is more like an iron supplement! Maybe you can empathize with the pain of the fish after eating it! Ishigami complained fiercely.

"Haha." Xing Yuanhui smiled and scratched his face. "That's our little secret of the orphanage. Don't delve into it."

This is not my idea, it was instigated by Qi Hai and the others! I think that since Wukong has the golden cudgel, I must have a special weapon that is handy and meets the standards of a fisherman. I asked the dean to find someone to volunteer to give me pocket money to make it for me.

Using this thing is more like throwing the fish over your shoulder and onto the boat than fishing. My younger brother is not satisfied with it and also equipped it with steel wire...

The result of relying on perseverance without flexibility is that when the fishhook is out of the water, you can only see the fish's mouth but not the fish. If you feed it to a cat, the cat will think twice before taking it, for fear that it might be contaminated with some evil spirit.

There were all kinds of minor problems when using it, such as almost denting the sidewall when throwing it over the shoulder, and accidentally poking a hole in someone else's wooden yard on the street, etc.

But it's not that dangerous after all, right? It's a magical tool that can be passed down for thirty generations! It's just that it's a bit difficult to catch a whole fish, and the tip of the rod is covered in fish blood...

Baiyin raised his eyebrows and asked with a smile: "A little secret? Is it for fishing? You must be kidding~."

Xing Yuanhui smiled but said nothing. He didn't want to explain.

The yellow-haired young man's smile gradually disappeared. Thinking that this guy might be able to use this thing, his face twitched and hesitantly asked, "Are you... kidding?"

The three of them were silent for a while, and Xing Yuanhui turned around and pulled the three people's suitcases to open the door. As soon as the wind chimes rang, he walked into the entrance and urged: "Hurry up, the Ocean Festival is still waiting for us!"

"It's really for fishing!" the accountant and the president shouted in their hearts.

When they arrived at the entrance, they changed into slippers and were attracted by the huge specimen on the wall, and their eyes widened.

What a big fish!

"Is this... Marlin?" Baiyin, who likes to read and is well-informed, asked hesitantly, "Did you fish for it?"

The maxilla protrudes forward like a spear head, the side beak is blunt and round, the body is covered with small ridged scales, and the skin is thick and rough like leather...

But why is there a groove on the head? Is it natural? How come I didn't know that the blue marlin had this feature?

"Yeah, what's wrong?" Xing Yuanhui, who only took a quick glance and knew it was the Marlin from Hawaii, didn't look closely. He looked up carefully because of Baiyin's doubts. After reading it, he said speechlessly, "Uh... maybe something went wrong during transportation?"

It must have been Fujiwara Chika's idea. Maybe she was impressed after seeing him knock a fish unconscious with his elbow, so she secretly suggested it to her dad?

'Without leaving this mark, how would you know it was the fish you caught?'

He could even imagine Fujiwara Chika's confident look when he asked her about it.

Xing Yuanhui coughed lightly: "Don't pay attention to these details. Maybe this fish is just being stubborn."

It lunged at me, so it would be unreasonable for me to punch it. The flattened head is an exaggeration. I remember that its head was fine.

Xing Yuanhui, who did not follow the captain to dissect Marlin and discovered that the fish skull was broken, waved his hands harmlessly.

"Ha..." Ishigami looked into the specimen's eyes. The straight look in his eyes scared him a little, and he couldn't help but suggest, "Let's go to the room and put our luggage away. I want to eat tuna."

Why did the taxidermist make the eyes so vivid? Is it accusing me of something? Will I have nightmares about this fish chasing me?

Or I can ask Xingyuan to give me the rebar fishing rod so I can sleep with it. I believe it can subdue the fish spirit and keep this place safe!

They walked a few steps forward and pushed open the door, and the two guests looked around the large living room of the orphanage.

On the outside is a large square table that can easily accommodate ten people. The chairs are all folded up in the table, and oil stains can be vaguely seen on the floral tablecloth.

On the side of the dining table is the door leading to the kitchen, and there is a hole dug out on the side, which looks like the opening for taking food, but it is closed with blinds.

Further in, there is a row of sofas against the wall, a coffee table, a large TV screen, and a tatami area with a slightly raised floor. I guess in winter, the people in the welfare home would move out the kotatsu and curl up inside to watch TV comfortably, right?

Ishigami looked at the decoration here, paused for a moment in front of the glass cabinet with game cartridges next to the screen, and then sighed to Xing Yuanhui: "Your welfare home has a very musical temperament."

The capo and pick packed in a box on the coffee table, the playlist on the refrigerator, the music books everywhere in the small bookcase...

"Although it's inconspicuous, it's everywhere." Baiyin also agreed, "Is there anyone in the family who particularly likes music?"

Mr. Sato? He looks gentle and polite, but he fishes a lot, so his hands are covered with calluses. Maybe he's also a guitarist? It's cool to think about it.

Then it also makes sense why he was able to explain the pronunciation principles so clearly when teaching me to sing the school song. He is worthy of being a teacher. He can teach at school and at home. I am so envious.

Baiyin held overly malicious expectations, but Xing Yuanhui remained calm and began to talk nonsense, mixing truth with lies: "After all, our Dajian Welfare House used to have a music room. Birds of a feather flock together. It's normal for people to be interested in music."

You little brats, I didn’t forget to give you the key to the music room, so why did you leave the things you need all over the living room?

Xing Yuanhui complained that he was unwilling to claim some of the books in the cabinet that he had left there half a year ago.

"Huh? Really?" Although Ishigami didn't know much about music and was just a follower who listened to popular songs, he couldn't help but feel curious when he heard that there was a music room in the welfare home. "Isn't it the kind that fools children?"

"Hey, why do you make it sound like our welfare home is so poor?" Xing Yuanhui protested, "The dean is a talent that those guys on the committee are looking forward to when he will retire from the school!"

Especially the fishing map in my hand, it makes my mouth water every time I drink.

"Sorry." Ishigami said sheepishly, "Then can we go take a look? I'm quite curious about this kind of home music room."

"Okay." Xing Yuanhui, who just wanted the two of them to go and see it, agreed readily.

Anyway, the news that there are three junior high school kids in the welfare home who are eager to form a band has spread throughout the city a long time ago. Mr. Sato, who has had a good catch in recent years, is also a person who loves children very much. Wouldn't it be reasonable for him to use some of the money to set up a music room?

This way, there is no need to hide this music room like we are doing intelligence work all day long, just let it become a regular business naturally.

Besides, I can’t hide it anymore. After all, the three of them can’t play music alone like me. They still need feedback from others to go further.

When they performed at school for the first time not long ago, they skipped the school music classroom and ran straight home. The teacher couldn't stop them and thought they were deserting. He repeatedly asked their dean and teacher, Sato Yuta, before he was finally relieved.

If the performance had not been a great success, the teachers were ready to use this failure to persuade Sato not to spoil his children too much.

But the performance was a success, so people who didn't know the truth would naturally suspect that they might have practiced in an orphanage.

The welfare home has a basement, but people are told that it has not been maintained for a long time and is not allowed to enter. In the past few years, this name was used to cover up the purpose of converting it into a music room. If someone with strong action ability goes to ask the construction team in Hakodate, I am afraid they will get the answer right. They will always have to make some emergency plans.

As for the confidentiality of my vest... after I transferred the information, how could anyone in the big room confirm my identity just by relying on the music room?