Women only affect the speed of my reasoning!

Guangmei turned around when she heard the voice and said in confusion: "By the way, Second Mom, I remember that you are going to attend your friend's wedding tonight, aren't you?"

"Yes." Yabuuchi Machiko smiled, "I will help you prepare dinner before setting off. I am getting ready to do it now. You all can go back to your room and rest for a while."

"Oh, in that case I will take Kiko and you to the guest room first." Hiromi said.

"Eh? Guest room?" Yukiko was a little surprised, "Forget about having dinner, wouldn't it be a bit... inconvenient to stay here?"

"What are you talking about? Yukiko, it's not like you never lived in our house when you were a child." Hiromi was very enthusiastic, "Besides, I even told my foster uncle before. Anyway, it's winter vacation and there's nothing to do. You might as well stay for a while before leaving. alright."

"a ha ha ha……"

Guangmei quickly led the three of them to the guest room on the west side of the mansion.

Under Yukiko's strong request, the three of them finally only had one dormitory.

"Then you guys can rest here first. I'll go see if there's anything the second mother can do to help. I'll call you later during dinner."

After saying this, Guangmei left directly.

After confirming that there were no other outsiders around, Mashiro leaned over softly.

Qin Xianshu stretched out his arms and hugged her.

"Thanks for your hard work."

"fine……"

Feeling the familiar aura enveloped her, the girl narrowed her eyes in relief and nuzzled her gently like a little animal.

Qin Shanshu originally thought about taking it one step further, but in the next second a warm foot stepped on the soft flesh of his waist through socks and clothes, and his beady toes were tickling restlessly up and down.

"Hey, hey, hey, I remind you not to go too far, don't bully Shiina." Yukiko warned dissatisfiedly.

"Then why don't I bully you?" Qin Ushu blinked.

"come."

The girl proudly held out her chest, showing her heroic spirit.

"Oh?"

Qin Sanshu was stunned when he heard this, then nodded happily.

"Okay, come on."

"Uh, stop, stop, stop..."

Seeing that someone really wanted to take action, Yukiko quickly begged for mercy.

"We'll talk about it when we get back. Now we're in someone else's house. You can bully me as you please when you get back."

"Then we'll talk about it when we get back, remember it first."

Looking at the girl with blushing cheeks who had been taken into his arms by him from behind, Qin Xianshu agreed very nicely.

"By the way, you were right when you said that the foster uncle is himself. Is that true?"

"Oh him, he is a hammer..."

Chapter 291 Dinner Time

In the guest room, Yukiko was slightly stunned as she was hugged.

Qin Sanshu's words were a bit vulgar, but this did not prevent her from understanding the former's meaning.

——The Yabuuchi foster house currently sharing the same house with them is no longer the real Yabuuchi foster house.

"What on earth is going on?" the girl asked in confusion.

"Quite simply, I came to this conclusion from two aspects."

Qin Xianshu raised a finger and said.

"First of all, the reaction he gave when he saw through our true intention of sending tea was wrong."

"Really? I feel like there's nothing wrong with it?" Yukiko recalled carefully and said.

"No, no, no, the problem is serious." Qin Xianshu said, "Do you still remember his reaction at that time?"

"He's angry," Mashiro said softly.

"Yes, he's angry, and he should be angry, but he shouldn't just be angry."

The high school detective made a reasonable analysis.

"From your and Miss Guangmei's descriptions, I believe that this adoptive uncle should be a very open-minded and cheerful person. Such a person is suspected of his identity by his juniors, and even sends threatening letters to his home. He is I should be angry, but more importantly, I should feel disappointed, but I didn’t see any hint of disappointment in his eyes and expressions. Instead, he was full of wariness towards outsiders.”

"Even when he saw that Miss Hiromi, who had been close to him since childhood, was among them, his eyes were still full of wariness and hostility."

"But according to what you said, then..."

Youxizi was about to speak but stopped.

As if he could tell what the girl wanted to say, Qin Xianshu shook his head.

"Don't mention it, that scar is also problematic."

"Eh?"

"I don't know if you have noticed before, but the skin around the scar on his foot is still dark red. If according to what you said, the stitches were done more than ten years ago, the skin color should have returned to normal by now. Well, at most the skin texture will look a little weird. With skin of that color, it will probably take less than two or three years for the injury to heal."

"And if he was stepped on by spikes, it should be an irregular wound with open flesh. And his scar is very thin and smooth. It was obviously cut by a scalpel. It is probably caused by a surgery such as installing a steel plate after a fracture. ."

"But why didn't you just say it at the time?" Yukiko didn't quite understand.

"Because of the threatening letter~" Qin Xianshu shrugged, "If I had said it directly at that time, the others would have kicked the old man out on the spot, and if I said he was true, then the person who sent the threatening letter would Maybe some measures will be taken.”

"But don't worry too much. The old man is so fierce. When I poked his scar before, I found that his leg muscles are extremely tight and stable. His whole body is stocky but not bloated. Maybe he has practiced something. As long as the prisoner doesn't do anything, the times have changed, and there's basically nothing he can do to the old man."

"Um……"

After hearing what Qin Sanshu said, Yukiko stopped talking.

Not long after, Yabuuchi Hiromi, who had left to help in the kitchen, returned and said that dinner was ready, and asked the three of them to go to the restaurant to have dinner together.

Dinner is sukiyaki.

When the four of them arrived at the restaurant, most of the others had already arrived and sat down around the dining table. There was a large pot in the center of the dining table with red charcoal burning underneath, and a small basket of eggs on the side of the table.

The so-called sukiyaki hot pot is actually similar to the hot pot of Tianchao. The eating method is similar, but the taste is different.

And when eating hot pot, it is dipped in a mixture of various seasonings, while sukiyaki is simply dipped in raw eggs. The egg smell is not strong, and the texture will be smoother.

Also arriving at the same time as them were Yabuuchi Yoshifu and his personal bodyguard Carlos.

Seeing the sukiyaki pot on the dining table, Yabuuchi Yoshifusa sneered.

"Let's have sukiyaki tonight. That will make me feel at ease."

"An Xin... what An Xin?" Hidekazu Yabuchi, the eldest brother among the three siblings, asked in confusion.

"Of course, since everyone eats food from the same pot, Carlos and I don't have to worry about being poisoned to death." Yabuuchi Yifu walked in and sat down cross-legged in the chief position and said politely.

"No, no way." Hiromi smiled awkwardly, "I think the threatening letter my uncle received was just a prank by someone."

"Sudayo~"

Qin Mianshu also joined in for some unknown reason.

He sat cross-legged at the table, resting his elbows on the table and supporting his chin in one hand, with an inexplicable faint smile on his face.

"Besides, even if the threatening letter is true, now that it has been confirmed that Mr. Foster is the real person, I don't think anyone will do this."

"Hmph, I think it might be the opposite!" Yabuuchi Yoshifusa snorted heavily.

"Ah ha ha--"

When everyone gathered, the rest was naturally eaten with chopsticks.

However, less than 10 minutes after dinner started, the landline phone in the restaurant suddenly rang.

"Who is calling me suddenly at this time?"

Hiromi, who was closest to the phone, reluctantly put down her chopsticks and moved from the mat to answer the phone.

"Hello?"

"Well, Hiromi."

Machiko Yabuuchi's voice came from the other end of the phone, causing Hiromi to be stunned and immediately react.

"It's the second mother. Why did you call me suddenly?"

"Let me ask you, are we running out of firewood in the bathroom at home?"

"Yes, so it might be inconvenient to take a shower today..."

"ah!"

Before he finished speaking, an exclamation came from the other end of the phone.

Hiromi was startled and asked quickly.

"Second...Second mother, are you okay?"

Because the incident happened suddenly, Qin Mianshu habitually pricked up his ears and listened.

On the other end of the phone, there was obviously the music of a wedding scene, mixed with the drunken voice of a man, who seemed to want to invite Machiko Yabuchi for a drink, and the latter replied coquettishly, "Really, I'm still on the phone. ".

After a short while, Yabuuchi Machiko's voice sounded again.

"Ah, by the way, I just wanted to say that I bought the firewood for the bathroom this morning and put it next to the warehouse. If you want to take a bath then, you can just use it."

"Okay, okay, I understand." Guangmei said helplessly.

"That's it~"

Machiko Yabuuchi's voice became obviously more relaxed after being handed over to play with her. After saying this, she hung up the phone directly.

Listening to the beeping busy tone from the other end of the phone, Hiromi put down the phone and sighed softly.

"what happened?"

Yabuuchi Yoshiyuki cast a questioning look at his sister.

"It's nothing. My second mother just told me that she had already bought the firewood for bathing."

Hiromi shook her head and said nothing more.

"Well, it looks like I can take a bath tonight."

Chapter 292 Why is there someone in your well?

After a series of events, the dinner finally ended in a barely lukewarm atmosphere.

After dinner, naturally they started lining up one by one to take a shower.

Unlike Sakurasou, which was built as a student dormitory from the beginning, although Yabuuchi's floor space is more than double that of Sakurasou, it is still essentially a private residence and does not have a public bathhouse. The only place for bathing is a bathing room built independently from the house in the backyard.

The bathhouse is also very old-fashioned. The walls are covered with pine boards, and the stove is built with cement. A large wooden barrel more than one meter deep is placed on it. Water is poured in from the well in the yard. There are people in the house underneath. Make a fire outside, put the firewood into the stove and light it.

This may sound a bit like boiling people in it, but it is true that the essential difference between the two actions lies in the appropriate temperature of the water.

There is only one bath bucket, so you can only take baths one at a time.

Logically speaking, if there are guests at home, the guests will usually be allowed to take a bath first to show respect, but for Yukiko, she is not really a big guest.

As friends who have been together since childhood, Hiromi Yabuuchi's elders are basically equivalent to her elders. Although Qin Ushu's previous words in the room have revealed the identity of "Yabuchi Yifusa", the scene that needs to be done still needs to be done. made.

In this way, Qin Ushu and Shiina Mashiro were also demoted one level for no reason.

So in the end, the right to take a shower first still fell to Yabuuchi Yoshifusa, the oldest person in the family.

"Then it's up to you, Carlos."

Yabuuchi Gifu, who was taking a change of clothes and going to take a bath, turned around and left the restaurant after saying this in public.

Everyone looked at the Brazilian man sitting cross-legged at the dinner table in Yabuuchi Yifang immediately after saying this with his arms wrapped around him like an iron tower. The atmosphere in the room, which had been lively for a second, suddenly dropped to freezing point.

This made it clear that Carlos was going to monitor every move of each of them.

"By the way, why don't you go first after the foster uncle has finished washing her? Unless there is Kiko?" Yabuuchi Hiromi said with a reluctant smile.

"Sorry, I can't. I'm not used to sharing bath water with others." Qin Ushu raised his hand, "You all wash up first. I'm the last one. I'll fetch water myself and heat it again."