Conan's other self

Maplehara and Haibara Ai first went to a nearby discount butcher shop to buy meat, and then went to the supermarket to buy other ingredients.

When they returned to the doctor's house, the room had been tidied and the pot used to cook curry had been cleaned and ready.

Yuantai also proactively came over to help carry things. Although he knew that he could not stay like this for long, it still made Haiyuan Ai feel relieved a lot.

Of course, the main reason is because Ayumi seems not only fine, but also in a very good mood.

She was wearing Hui Yuan Ai's clothes, and from time to time she would secretly pull the collar to her nose and sniff, looking intoxicated and shy.

The natural next step is to make curry again. Maplehara was in charge of cutting vegetables. After showing off his knife skills he learned in Hawaii, and seeing everyone getting busy, Maplehara pulled the doctor aside.

"Doctor," he asked in a low voice, "when Haiyuan and I were not at home in the past two days, some unknown people came to the house, right?"

"Y-yeah...how did you know?"

"They are slippers. Normally you are the only one who uses adult slippers at home, Doctor, but I noticed that you kept a few spare pairs..."

"ah…"

"This means that not only has someone been here, but you think there is a possibility that someone will come again..." Fengyuan continued, "I think this is because of the person who watched the pot in the video, so I didn't take it to heart before..."

"Yes, they all came to see the pot after watching the video on that video website. Three groups of people came..." the doctor replied, "What's wrong?"

Maplehara glanced at Ai Haibara, who was cooking curry with Ayumi, and Conan, who was still sitting on the ground using a computer for analysis, "When I just went out, I found someone staring at this place."

"Stare, stare here!"

"Keep your voice down, doctor..."

"Could it be those guys?" the doctor worried.

"Probably not. They should have noticed that I went out with Haiyuan, but they didn't follow me. Instead, they continued to stare here..."

Fengyuan paused, "So if they are targeting people, then the target is you, Doctor..."

"Ah? This..." The doctor touched his head in embarrassment, "Am I already so famous?"

"..."

"Uh... isn't it?"

"If the target is you, Doctor, I should attack you while Haiyuan and I are going to school, or we should say that we don't care about children like Haiyuan and me at all..."

"This, that's it, then they-"

Maplehara glanced in Conan's direction. Genta and Mitsuhiko, who were idle now, were helping Conan with ideas.

The doctor immediately understood, "My pot!"

"Yes. The other party only appeared around after we sent the video, so it is indeed possible. So back to the topic, Doctor, what are the situations of those three groups of people?"

Feng Yuan was asking. Haibara Ai didn't need to keep looking at Curry for the time being. He noticed what Feng Yuan and the doctor were saying and came over.

Fengyuan didn't want to hide it from her either.

The doctor didn't notice it at all, but recalled it.

"Well, let me think about it...the first group was two young sisters. They looked at the pot for a while, knocked it a few times, and then asked me to sell it to them for 5,000 yen."

"Didn't you sell it directly?" Haiyuan Ai walked to Fengyuan and happened to hear the doctor's words, "Kudo said that the pot is not important..."

"It's not that important. Five thousand yuan is too little..." Fengyuan said, "And I probably didn't say that at that time..."

"Yes, and they didn't understand it at first glance! I asked them, and they said [Although we don't understand much, it's not bad to buy a vase for five thousand yen]. I asked them to take a closer look, but they He said his feet were numb, so he went back."

"So you're just here to join in the fun?" Haiyuan Ai said, a little curious, "Why are you talking about this all of a sudden?"

Feng Yuan explained.

Compared with the things they had encountered, the incident that was suspected to be just a preparation for theft was nothing, and Haibara Ai was not too worried.

"what's next?"

"Next came a middle-aged couple who had never touched the pot at all... They just looked at it carefully with a magnifying glass... said it might be a very valuable pot and advised me to take the pot for a formal appraisal! They also told me I might have people who want to buy it cheap and tell me I better not show that pot to too many people.”

"Did the pot sit on the carpet?"

"Yeah, just put it on that carpet. I think it will look more classy this way!"

"Didn't they offer a price?" Haiyuan Ai asked curiously.

"Yeah...after saying that, they left..."

"Oh... what about the third group?" Fengyuan asked.

"They are a very rude father and son!"

The doctor said unhappily, "They just touched the pot a little and looked inside. The son smiled and asked me how much I thought this was worth! I felt very unhappy, so I casually said: "Five hundred thousand is enough." Selling it to you, the carpet also comes with it]!”

"..."

"In the end, the father smiled bitterly and said I was joking...The son also smiled and said that people without vision are really sad. I was very angry and drove them away!"

"…Rejoice, Doctor."

Because he hadn't told the doctor about the carpet yet, Fengyuan himself was a little lucky, "I think this father and son are pretty good people."

"Hey, hey, this is too much..."

"Why do you say that?"

"because--"

"Doctor!" As he spoke, Conan stood up from the carpet with a confident look on his face, interrupting Fengyuan, "I understand!"

"We know it!" Yuantai corrected.

"W-what?"

"This carpet may be a Persian carpet!" Mitsuhiko said.

"B-Persian carpet!?"

"Oh... no wonder Mr. Detective said that the father and son were pretty good people," Haibara Ai crossed his arms and looked at Fengyuan, "Some Persian carpets can even be worth more than 10 million yen easily..."

The father and son clearly had the opportunity to spend half a million yen to take away tens of millions of things from the doctor, but they did not do so.

"Ten, ten million!?" The doctor said in shock.

"Yes." Conan said, "We compared the weaving methods, pattern arrangement and patterns, combined with the texture, doctor, your old carpet is most likely a Persian carpet..."

That’s why Maplehara said it’s not important…

It was also because of these words that he shifted his attention away from the pot and onto the carpet under the pot.

After hearing what Conan and the others said, the doctor happily ran to the carpet and stroked it. Ayumi, who was watching by the curry pot, also walked over curiously and admired this valuable carpet.

"One, ten million..."

The doctor repeated it again before he came to his senses and urged Conan and others who were still standing on the carpet: "Hey, come down quickly!"

"Really, Doctor..."

"Doctor, you change your attitude so quickly!"

"This is a carpet worth 10 million yuan!" The doctor said, and then looked at Feng Yuan with a worried expression, "Then, shouldn't those people's target be this carpet?"

Conan and others were stunned for a moment.

After a while.

After listening to the doctor and Maplehara recounting the matter, Conan thought for a moment, "I see. So, the other party may indeed be here for the pot or the carpet..."

"And it should be among those three groups of people."

Feng Yuan took over the conversation, "The pair of sisters in the first group are completely ignorant and just came to join in the fun. They can be excluded...The father and son in the third group can also be excluded..."

"Ah? Why?" The doctor was a little surprised. He had a very bad impression of the father and son, and Fengyuan hadn't had time to explain just now.

"Observing the marks of time left on the outside and inside of the pot is also one of the identification methods. The father and son only touched it a little and looked at the inside of the pot to know the value of the pot, which shows that they have a very discerning eye..."

"Then they said you were kidding, doctor, which shows that they also saw the value of this carpet..."

"Using half a million yen to buy something worth tens of millions of yen is a good deal," Haibara Ai finally added, "There is no reason not to accept the plan you gave me, doctor, but you want to commit a crime..."

"That's the second group of people!" Ayumi said.

"B-but that couple was kind enough to say that this might be a very valuable pot," the doctor was a little puzzled, "and asked me to ask an appraisal expert to take a look!"

"They are all talking about the pot, right?" Fengyuan said, "And they are talking about taking the pot for identification. After that, they also advised the doctor not to let too many people see the pot... which means they don't want other people to pay attention. To dr your rug…”

"That's right," Conan agreed, "Doctor, you just said they didn't touch the pot, they just kept observing it with a magnifying glass, right?"

"Yes, yes..."

"That must be like what we just did!" Mitsuhiko said, "We were also using the magnifying function of Conan's glasses to look at the carpet just now!"

"I see," Haiyuan Ai glanced at the doctor, "They must have figured out from the video that it was a Persian carpet, so they came directly to the carpet and were not interested in the pot at all..."

Judging from the other party's behavior, the couple obviously came for the carpet, but they pretended to come to see the pot. This secretive behavior also indicates that they may have some illegal ideas about carpets.

"Does the Doctor remember who they are?"

"He, they didn't say..."

"Do you have any other impressions?" Fengyuan then asked, "Or did you say anything else?"

"So, it seems that someone asked some strange questions," the doctor recalled, "such as when you and Xiao Ai came back, who are your friends, what do you do on weekends, etc..."

"Is that the couple?" Hui Yuan Ai asked.

"No, I don't remember..."

"Hey, hey," Conan looked at the doctor with dead eyes, "It's only been a day or two..."

"Oops! Doesn't the doctor have the kind of problem where he doesn't remember things when he gets older?"

"It's called Alzheimer's disease..." Mitsuhiko explained to Yuantai.

"No! I just didn't take it to heart!" The doctor defended somewhat guiltily. At that time, all he could think about was his own pot.

"Strange," Conan held his chin and thought for a moment, "If it was for the carpet, wouldn't it be better to just steal it? Why are you asking about Maple and Haibara's situation..."

"It's to make sure no one is home..."

"Isn't it more appropriate to pay attention to the doctor as an adult?"

"Ah! I know!" Yuantai said, "You must not take the doctor seriously! How disgusting!"

"Yes, yes!"

"It's okay, doctor, we're here!"

"..."

"Then what should we do now?" Haiyuan Ai looked at Feng Yuan, "Are we just waiting for them to take action?"

"There's no way to guard against thieves for a thousand days." Fengyuan said, "If they are looking for opportunities, then create opportunities..."

Although it is just speculation now, and there is no hard evidence to prove that the guess is correct, it won't make any difference if you try it.

…

Kambe Toshio is a president who runs a furniture store in Yoneka-cho 3-chome.

He and his wife once worked on the interior decoration of a capitalist's home. After hearing that the descendants who got the carpet sold it at a low price without knowing its value, they have been looking for the whereabouts of this carpet.

His wife accidentally saw Dr. Ali’s video, and then they discovered the rug and came up with the idea of ​​a rug.

In fact, their original plan was to fake a kidnapping.

They planned to use the rug to kidnap one of the children, and then find an excuse to put the child back, and in the meantime, they would unpack the rug.

In this way, the other party will not pay attention to that carpet, and they can sell the carpet safely.

That's what they thought.

However, after learning that the two children of Dr. A Li's family were almost inseparable, they gave up this plan and planned to use the pot as a smoke bomb instead.

So their trajectory returned to theft.

On this day, they hid in the car and observed the A Li family, and noticed that many children came in. During this period, the two children from the A Li family went out together...

As expected, they are inseparable. There is no way to kidnap one alone...

After waiting for a while, just when the Kambe couple was thinking about picking the lock again at night, Dr. Ali drove out with a large group of children.

Judging from the number, they should all have gone out.

No one was in the house, so this was a good opportunity.

Thinking in their hearts, the Kambe couple, who put on black hoods, quietly got out of the car and came to the door of the doctor's house. Then they were a little surprised to find that Dr. Agasa had even forgotten to lock the door.

That guy is really careless...

Can such people also live in Mihua...

However, I am so lucky...

When they entered the house, they immediately saw the carpet and the pot, just as they had been when they came last time.

The air was very fragrant, and a fragrant curry seemed to be cooking in a large pot not far away.

This also meant that the group of people might come back soon, so the Kambe couple quickly picked up the pot, rolled up the carpet, wrapped it around the pot, and got ready to go out.

"I'm sorry." A clear male voice came from behind them, "I promised you not to take your things away."

The startled Kambe couple looked back. They were completely unaware of how the other party appeared a few steps behind them.

Okiya Subaru adjusted his glasses.

He came in through the back door of the doctor's house.

That was the end of the rug and pot affair.

The doctor was not in a hurry to spend money. He was just addicted to videos and ended up doing this. However, the video he made caused trouble again and his interest suddenly disappeared.

So he took down the video and stuffed the pot and carpet back into the warehouse.

And next…

After seeing off Officer Takagi and the two prisoners, it was naturally curry time.

"Eh? Subaru-nii can also make curry?" The elementary school students looked at Okiya Subaru beside the pot.

"Yeah...and it's not just curry," Subaru Okiya pushed up his glasses again, "I can cook a lot more..."

"Really?"

"Of course. It's quite lonely to eat alone..."

Subaru Okiya turned to look at the doctor, "Doctor, if you are usually busy, I can come over and help you make some food. In return for letting me stay at Kudo's house...how about it?"

"Ah...this..."

The elementary school students had a good impression of Okiya Subaru, who fished with them and made curry with them. However, the doctor still subconsciously looked at Maplehara and Haibara Ai, wanting to ask for their opinions, "Of course I welcome it." ,but…"

Haiyuan Ai grabbed Fengyuan's sleeve.

Although Subaru Okiya seemed to be looking at the doctor when he spoke, she always felt that the other person was actually looking at her and asking for her opinion.

"Of course." Feng Yuan gently squeezed Hai Yuan Ai's hand to reassure her, "Then I'll trouble you."

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