Conan's other me

Chapter 146 The promise under the ginkgo tree

After solving the murder case of tram fans, Fengyuan and the others lived a period of uneasy life, and cases followed one after another.

But Grim Reaper also has time off.

On this day, at the doctor's home, all the young detective team gathered to help the doctor find an important letter.

"Doctor, what did that letter look like?" Conan asked.

"It came in a postcard-sized envelope..."

"What letter is it?"

"A wedding invitation for the son of a friend of the doctor, and there is a postcard of attendance receipt that must be mailed today..."

"If it's such an important letter, it should be put away!"

"exactly!"

"Can you stop Dr. Light and Monster?" Hui Yuan Ai yawned, "One of the reasons why the letter disappeared is that you messed up the place by playing games last night..."

"Yes, yes..."

The elementary school students were a little embarrassed, and tried harder to find the letter, Hui Yuanai couldn't help but yawned again.In the morning, she and Ayumi went to take care of the school's sick rabbit. After returning, she went to work in the basement, and now she was a little sleepy.

Fengbara walked to the TV.

"Fengyuan," Mitsuhiko shouted, "I've already searched there..."

On the TV was a stack of letters they had already found.

Feng Yuan glanced at the gap between the TV and the table, then reached out and took out a stack of letters, "Look, some of them fell down."

"Really!"

The primary school students gathered around to watch, and Kaedehara simply handed over the task of turning over the letter to Conan, who took the letter and began to look through it.

"Greeting cards, summer greetings, driver's license renewal notice, everything..."

"Ah, things I've never been able to find!" said the doctor.

While flipping through the pages, Conan passed the letter he had read to the doctor through Ayumi's hand, and was slightly stunned for a moment.

"What a lovely word..." Hui Yuanai also glanced at it.

"It's a postcard written by a child." Conan said casually, passed the postcard back, then flipped through it, and found that the next one was the letter they were looking for.

"That's it!" Ayumi took it, glanced at it, then happily turned her head and handed the letter to the doctor, only to find that the doctor was looking at the letter in a daze.

"It's a postcard written by the kid just now!"

"Could it be a love letter?"

"Ah?" The doctor hastily denied, "No, it was a postcard sent to me by a former friend... It was already 40 years ago..."

"40 years ago?"

"That is, when the doctor was in the sixth grade of elementary school?" Hui Yuanai calculated.

"Yeah, it was the first day of school after the summer vacation. I was going to be late, so I took a shortcut," Dr. A Li said slowly with a look of nostalgia, "Then I saw a student from a lower grade The girl stood there, her face turned blue with fear... She was a lovely girl with big eyes under the dark hat...

She seemed to be afraid of the barking of the big dog in front of her, so she didn't dare to go there...there is the nearby Noi's house, which is famous for raising large dogs...

In the end, she passed behind my back. I asked her why she was so scared... She said that it was because she was bitten by a dog when she was a child, so she started to be afraid of animals...

Because it would be too pitiful, so I took her to the house of my friend who kept hamsters.At the beginning, she was still very scared, but after a long time, she gradually got used to it... After two months, she began to like animals, and she could walk past Noi's house with a smile..."

"Doctor, you remember it really clearly." Fengyuan said.

"And then? Have the Doctor and she been to school together since then?"

"Ah, that..." said the Doctor, "it's just that fall..."

"what?"

"In the cold rain at the end of November... I waited for her at the door of Noi's house as usual, but she didn't come...I thought she had a cold and couldn't come to class, so I went to her house after school I went to see her... As a result, her neighbor told me that their family moved out in the morning..."

"Has the doctor been silent all this time?"

"At least say goodbye!"

"Ah, no..."

"It's definitely because I wanted to say it but I couldn't say it," Haibara said, "'Goodbye' is a sad word that brings pain like a needle prick when we are separated..."

"How, how?"

"But the parting without saying anything is too sad!"

"No, it's not... She specially sent a thank you postcard, which is the one I got in my mailbox that day..."

"But, there is no postage stamp on this postcard..."

"It must have been sent directly to the doctor's mailbox before the move..."

Conan said, and then read the postcard:
"Thank you so much for these three months, it's great to meet Ari! Because I hate to say goodbye, so ten years later, we will meet at the old place before sunset...

If I can't see you, it will be another ten years... Even if I become an old woman, I will wait forever, so come and see me once if you have time...

To my favorite Akasa, fourth grade class A, Kinoshita..."

"The following words are blurred, I can't see..." After finishing reading, Conan continued.

"And then? Have you met this Kinoshita?" Hui Yuanai asked.

"No, I can't think of what this old place is..."

"Hello..."

The primary school students were a little speechless, and cast contemptuous glances at the doctor, but then they noticed that the time indicated on the postcard happened to be today.

This is the fourth decade.

Thinking that the girl might also be waiting for the doctor at the appointed place today, the boys detective team started to discuss actively.

Fengyuan actually found this postcard a long time ago, but he felt that it only made sense for the doctor to perform the contract on the day when the other party made an appointment, so he didn't take out the postcard in advance.

On the other hand, the elementary school students tried to ask the school administrator for Dekinoshita's name and address, but Haibara rejected it.

"Even if we contact her, it will only hurt her, won't it?" Hui Yuanai said, "In this way, she will know that the doctor has been unable to remember the places she thinks are memorable, and made her wait in vain 40 years...but only if she's still there waiting."

"Then we still have to find a way to find that old place and let the doctor go to see her!"

"But it's been 40 years..."

"However, there are still clues..." Conan picked up the envelope and showed it to everyone, "Aren't there many numbers under the doctor's name? Could this be a code indicating the address?"

There are four separated numbers on the envelope: "4163 33 6 0".

"Really...but what does this mean?"

"There is also a reminder that it is an animal..."

"Hey, doctor! What does this mean?" Ayumi asked curiously.

"Ah...this..."

"If you knew, you would have seen it..." Hui Yuanai glanced at the doctor angrily.

"However, if it's Conan and Fengyuan..." Ayumi looked at Conan and Fengyuan expectantly.

"No, not at all."

Conan immediately vetoed it.

It's just that although Ayumi asked two people, there was no other response in the air, but a silence.

Everyone's eyes fell on Feng Yuan.

……

The answer to the puzzle is "under the ginkgo tree in elementary school".

Exactly ten years ago, Xiaolan was lost in the woods. When Kudo Shinichi went to find her, he met the person waiting for a doctor here.

Of course, he didn't say that directly.

Soon, Dr. Ali drove the young detective team to the woods of Didan Primary School and began to search for it.

"Hey, Fengyuan, there is no one..."

"Look for it again."

"It's okay not to be here," Conan said, "This is an agreement made 40 years ago..."

"Huh? It's still parked there..." While talking, Ayumi saw a white car, "That white car..."

"Oh... we stopped there when we came to visit the little bunny this morning..."

"It must have been waiting in the car from morning till now!"

"Yeah, I'll take a look!" Yuan Tai said and ran over directly. Dr. A Li hesitated, but still followed with the children.

But no one was in the car.

"Did you go to eat..."

"No," Conan said, "The fast food coffee cup is still steaming...it should be just finished eating...and the amount is quite large, is it for three people?"

"Hey, even if she's chubby, don't take it too seriously..."

Haibara sighed and comforted the doctor.

While talking, she looked at the doctor's expression, and found that both the doctor and Fengyuan were looking at a ginkgo tree not far away.

Others followed their gazes and looked over.

It was a big beauty with beautiful long blond hair and a bowler hat.But judging from the details, she is still a little older.

"Super beauty..."

Conan blushed a little, as did Genta and Mitsuhiko.

"Is she..."

"It's, what a pity..."

"Hey! Doctor, why are you in a daze!" Ayumi said.

"You've made her wait for 40 years, haven't you?" Haibara Ai also urged Dr. Ali.

"Ah...that, it might not be her..."

"Let's go!" Yuan Tai pushed the doctor from behind.

The doctor walked over hesitantly, the beautiful woman under the tree heard the movement, turned her head to look over, and then showed a pleasant and unexpected expression.

From the body shape and nose, she recognized at a glance that this was the man she had been waiting for 40 years.

"Um…"

Dr. Ali spoke hesitantly, then stopped.

A foreign man wearing sunglasses stepped out from the tree trunk that had just blocked their view.

The two communicated in a foreign language in a low voice, and the man in sunglasses waved to the beautiful woman and returned to the car.Dr. Ali, who was already a little hesitant, immediately thought that the foreign man just now was her husband.

The woman also noticed the children who were sneaking and eavesdropping not far away, and immediately thought that they were the grandchildren of Dr. A Li.

"Such lovely grandchildren..."

The woman smiled softly and said to the doctor.

"Ah, um..." Dr. Ali hesitated like a child who made a mistake, "That... sorry..."

"I passed by here by chance this morning, and I was attracted by this piece of ginkgo...it's such a bright color...so now I'm here again...do you hate ginkgo?"

"Ah, no..."

"So farewell..."

"Uh-huh…"

"My husband seems to have been waiting..."

The beautiful woman lowered her eyelids slightly, glanced at Dr. Ali with some reluctance, and said goodbye.

The reunion spanning 40 years seemed about to be cut off by a strange misunderstanding.

Then, in her sight, a child who had been eavesdropping over there came over.

"But shouldn't you still be single?"

"Eh?"

"You are Ms. Fuesa Campbell Kinoshita, the founder and designer of the Fuesa brand, right?" Fengyuan continued. He originally wanted to see if the doctor could solve it by himself, but in the end he still had to do it himself , "I watched your interview on TV..."

"Fuesa...it's really you..."

"It's still recognized, I'm really sorry, Ah Li..." Although the lie just now was exposed, Fuesha still smiled softly, "The reunion after 40 years was made like this by me..."

"Also," Fengyuan continued, and everyone in the Detective Boys followed, "although——"

"—Although we all regard the doctor as a grandfather, he is still single!"

"That's right!"

"Besides, I've been single for more than 50 years..."

(End of this chapter)