Conan: The Mechanic

Saturday, October 1, 1994, was a great day.

Because the boy detective team came to a place where matsutake mushrooms can be collected today.

"Each adult can collect three, and each child can collect two—" the staff introduced enthusiastically. "Once you've collected it, you can hand it over to us, and the hotel will prepare the food for you. But I'd like to remind you at the end, don't cross the barbed wire - one barbed wire is a buffer zone, and two Beyond the barbed wire is the bear area."

"Don't worry, I will take good care of the children, and you have told me many times!" Dr. Li smiled and reassured the staff.

"Why limit? Is this thing very scarce?" At this moment, Yuan Tai seemed to be a little dissatisfied with the limit of staff. "Even though the price of accommodation is so expensive, yet they are so stingy with us about picking things... How can we get the cost back now!"

"More than scarcity, the growth conditions for matsutake mushrooms are quite harsh." Chi Yu replied with a dissatisfied voice after glancing at Genta. "Let me put it this way, a 120-gram bag of fresh matsutake mushrooms that you can buy in the imported ingredients shelves generally has 4 matsutake mushrooms, and the price is a full 10,000 yen. Considering that this thing is so expensive, how can the store let you pick it? ? Although the local matsutake mushrooms are not so expensive, they still have to leave room for profit!"

(Although Japan is the main producing area of ​​matsutake mushrooms, it is also a major consumer country, so there are several thousand tons of imports every year - in terms of price, a lot. As for the content of the original work... Yuantai is on the price of this It seemed to be acting more than Ayumi, which was clearly not right, so I fixed it by the way.)

"Is it so expensive?" Haiyuan Ai, who was beside him, was surprised. "Didn't it happen yesterday..."

"When has our family's food become cheaper→→" Chiba glanced at Haibara Ai. "And it's not the time for domestic matsutake to be harvested in large quantities, so the prices of those in the Far East that are picked earlier are particularly expensive - especially since you often don't have dinner at home now, so I will increase my budget when I go home to eat, Naturally, I bought matsutake mushrooms."

"Haihara-san, you...don't eat dinner?" Mitsuhiko was surprised when he heard Chiyu's slightly complaining remarks.

"I have something to do tonight, so I didn't eat at home." Haibara Ai shook her head lightly.

Since the last time I went to see the retrospective work carried out by Chiba and Ayumi, Haibara Ai hadn't had much dinner at home, and every time she went to the laboratory and other places after school - her own explanation Yes, the antidote is about to be developed, so she has to keep an eye on it to make sure there is no problem with the antidote.

That's true, but...

Just when Qianyu was worried, Conan gently pulled Qianyu and took him aside.

"Did you have any conflict with Haiyuan?" Conan asked. "These days, whether it's at school or on the way... When did you see you ride with her in the car before, and when she was by her side, she would read books and chat with Ayumi from time to time?"

Saying so, it seems a bit... She came here with a book that is rarely seen, and she seldom talked to herself.

Qianyu's eyes dimmed slightly.

"I don't know, at least I didn't find the reason..." He glanced at Haibara Ai who turned his back to their direction and replied like this.

While they were talking about this, Dr. Agasa, who watched the staff leave, turned his head and looked at everyone.

"Okay, time is limited, so let's go look for matsutake mushrooms first." Dr. Agasa reminded. "Although we have a lot of time, many people should have come here to pick before this, so the remaining stock of matsutake may not be very large, and they are often only available in difficult-to-reach places. the rest."

"However, can we really find Matsutake this time?" Ai Haibara suddenly asked Chiba, who was a little stunned. "Although it is said that you and Edogawa proposed it together, I have also investigated a little before, and I have not heard any recommendation for this land."

"Because the quality of matsutake mushrooms in those popular places will not be as good here, or the price will be worse, if the purpose is to taste matsutake mushrooms, this is indeed the best place." Conan replied. "As for the reason..."

"Those more famous free-picking spots for matsutake mushrooms are too early to become famous." Chi Yu took over the topic after seeing Conan's turning eyes. "Let me give an example. The matsutake mushrooms in our country and those in the Northeast region of the Far East belong to the [Japanese type of matsutake mushrooms], but the matsutake mushrooms in our country...are a little premature."

"What does that mean?" Although Dr. Li brought them here, he didn't do much homework on these details.

"The growth conditions of pine mushrooms are still relatively harsh - red pine is required to occupy an absolute advantage in the forest area, that is, about two-thirds. In China, generally speaking, the foot of the red pine around 20 years old can start to produce pine mushrooms, and about 35 years old. It is the best period, and the 70-year-old red pine will basically no longer produce pine mushrooms~www.readwn.com~ However, the same kind of pine mushrooms in the northeastern region of the Far East are about 20 years later than our local ones in terms of age. This is the reason why I describe it as 'premature aging'. And those famous matsutake production sites were basically used as matsutake production sites during the Shenwu boom, and there is still a lot of matsutake left there... …”

"And this place is relatively young, right?" Dr. A Li immediately understood what Qianyu meant. "It turns out that, considering that this is not a particularly famous picking location, it will indeed be a place with relatively high yields and relatively low picking volumes."

"Unfortunately, Ayumi couldn't come together, as if she was going to do something or something?" Mitsuhiko muttered like this.

"Things?" Conan was slightly stunned, and then he realized that Ayumi seemed to be really busy with clothes recently. "Yeah, has Ayumi been doing a lot of things recently?"

"Well, she has something to do at home, maybe... it can be done in about half a month?" Qian Yu replied casually. "Before that, I'll probably focus my energy on these things."

On October 15th, there will be a large-scale charity concert held simultaneously around the world, and Ayumi will participate in it - maybe it will be regarded as a part of history and recorded in the memory of many people.

In this way, Ayumi should be considered to have got a chance... to ascend to the sky in one step? If you perform well on stage, you will really become famous in one fell swoop.

However, even if she can perform here smoothly, it is still unknown whether she can achieve the real purpose of doing all this - fame is not her purpose, but her means.

Thinking like this, Qianyu pouted, but did not notice that Haibara Ai was looking at his profile, thinking about something.