Conan's self-cultivation of fake wine

Chapter 585 As expected

Many times, things don't go as planned.

For example, now, Lu Ren knows that Maori might give a gift, Kitajima sees that Maori is going to give a gift, and even Kisaki Eri, the person involved, guessed that Maori will give her a birthday present.

Everyone was tacitly aware of this matter, but the problem arose: Maori had no intention of giving any gifts at all.

When everyone was seated in the hotel restaurant, Maori did not mention the gift, which could be explained as he would prepare it after the meal.

After everyone finished eating the Western food provided by the hotel, Maori still did not mention the gift, which can also be explained as he planned to give it after everyone had a few drinks together.

But when Maori was drunk and unconscious and fell completely on the table, no one could find any reason to explain it.

Even Mao Lilan, who had the most resolute attitude towards this matter and could be said to have single-handedly facilitated the travel plan, began to have doubts about the matter after seeing her father lying on the table motionless.

She knew that such a necklace must exist, but was this necklace really given to Eri Kisaki?
After all, Kogoro Mori has never directly admitted this matter, and his attitude at dinner tonight was extremely bad, as if he didn't want to see Eri Kisaki.

"Mom, I'm sorry, Dad is drunk."

"It's okay, it's not your fault. Well, it's eleven o'clock, I should go back and rest, I have things to do tomorrow morning. You guys should go to bed early too." Kisaki Eri turned her wrist to look at her watch, then stood up and said goodbye.

Mao Lilan wanted to keep her mother, but she didn't know what to say, and finally she could only watch her mother leave.

Those who had a similar reaction to her were Bei Dao, Lu Ren and the other two who were sitting not far away.

But compared to Mao Lilan's complicated feelings and urgent desire, Lu Ren and the others were just watching the show.

To be more precise, it was Xiao Ai and Bei Dao who wanted to sit back and watch the show, while Lu Ren was more interested in investigating the case. Unfortunately, he didn't see him after a whole night.

"Brother Ren, what's going on? Didn't Mr. Maori want to send a gift? Why is he..." Bei Dao was at a loss for words for a moment.

In fact, the most appropriate thing to do in this situation is to say a few dirty words, but due to his personal upbringing and the relationship between Mao Li and Lu Ren, Bei Dao couldn't say those offensive words.

Naturally, there is nothing to say.

"It's not surprising." Lu Ren also looked at the time and gave up the idea of ​​ordering another one with some regret. "Did you hear Brother Mao Li directly say that he had a gift for Lawyer Fei?"

Bei Dao shook his head, then said: "But today is Sister Yingli's birthday."

"So? Who said that gifts must be given on birthdays?"

"But if you don't like the idea of ​​Maori giving gifts, then why did you go through so much trouble and fanfare to call Sister Eri over?" Kitajima still felt puzzled.

"Sister Shino, you actually got one thing wrong." Huiyuan, who was sitting between the two of them, spoke up to explain for Lu Ren, "It is precisely because Brother Ren is not optimistic about this matter that he went through so much trouble, made a big fuss, and did this in a roundabout way."

"That's right. I'm worried that something might go wrong, so I'm not doing it. Otherwise, I could just let Xiaolan call her mom and it would be over. Why would I bother with this?"

Lu Ren was a little surprised at first that Huiyuan understood his actions, but then he didn't find it strange. Although he rarely explained the purpose of his actions to others, after all, they had been together for a long time, so they naturally had a tacit understanding.

"I thought you wanted to give Sister Eri a surprise."

"Giving her a surprise should naturally be done by Maori. All I can do is give her a heads-up so she won't be too disappointed."

Lu Ren spread his hands. "Think about it, if Hibiki Eri knew last night that Maori would give her a birthday present, she would have been looking forward to it all night and almost all day today. But the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment when the reality is in front of her. Now, she has only been looking forward to it for a few hours, so the psychological gap is not that big."

"That's right." "Well, it's getting late. Let's go back and rest." Lu Ren glanced at Mao Li Ran and noticed that she was trying to help Mao Li to get up, so he decisively ended the topic, stood up and quickly walked to Mao Li to help Xiaolan.

In fact, considering Mao Lilan's strength, there is no possibility that she cannot support Mao Li.

But Lu Ren knew in his heart that the person who was most disappointed tonight might not be Kissing Eri, but Mao Li Ran, who had always had strong expectations for this matter.

Lu Ren was really a little worried that Mao Lilan would throw Mao Li to the ground. Although this was basically impossible given Mao Lilan's personality, he was always afraid of the possibility.

If Mao Li was to get into trouble, he would at least lose a few days of lottery draws. Unless Mao Li had the ability to turn the hospital where he was staying into a murder scene.

Ok……

It seems that it is not impossible.

"Brother Ren, what do you think Dad is thinking?"

"Um……"

"I'm sorry for wasting your kindness." Mao Lilan's voice was very low at this time, and even her eyes began to turn red.

Everyone is working hard, but his father doesn't seem to take it seriously at all.

Is this relationship destined to be just a mistake?

Sometimes, paying too much attention to one person's feelings is actually harmful to others.

Just like now, in order not to disappoint Hibiki Eri too much, Lu Ren directly used the company's year-end benefits. But this behavior just increased Mao Lilan's psychological burden.

She had won the first prize with 50,000 yuan and a bit of luck. But for her parents' sake, Lu Ren waved away countless first prizes.

This is all money.

It would have been fine if it had worked, but something went wrong.

So in addition to sadness and disappointment, Mao Lilan also felt a sense of guilt for having let down Lu Ren.

"It's okay, it's just something that happened easily, no need to apologize to me. Seeing how Maori-san is now, I guess he won't talk tonight. Otherwise, let Conan take care of him, and you go and sleep with your mother for the night."

"?" Conan slowly widened his eyes. Is it so natural for this guy to order people around?
Mao Lilan seemed to be interested, but she thought about it seriously for a while, and finally shook her head, "No, it's Dad's fault. When he sobers up a little, I'll take him to apologize to Mom."

"Apologise..."

Lu Ren pondered for a moment and felt that this was unnecessary.

After all, this matter was handled by Maori Ran from beginning to end, and she never asked for the opinion of the person involved, Maori Kogoro.

Even if things went wrong now, it would be wrong to ask Mao Li to apologize, because he had never made any promises.

But after all, this is the Mori family's family affair, and outsiders should not interfere.

"Well, you make up your mind."