Chapter Five Hundred and Sixtieth Birthday Party Invitation

March 21, Saturday, morning, Kudo's study.

While dusting off the book, Yuanzi complained, "What are you doing? It's been a good weekend and the weather is so good. Why does my Yuanzi have to come to the new family to help clean it? Why bother him so much."

"Yuanzi, don't complain when you're working," Lan said with a smile, "Be careful of dust."

Yuanzi thought about it, yes, and quickly stopped talking.

After an unknown amount of time, all the books were dusted off, and Yuanzi said, "Okay, let's go now."

"It can't be done," Lan said, "Just now the dust is on the bookshelf, the desk, and the floor. We have to clean these up before we can leave."

"Ah?" Sonoko called out with a bitter face.

Not long after, Lan found some cleaning rags and buckets from the utility room, and started working again.

Seeing Yuanzi picking left and right and taking the mop, Lan said: "Yuanzi, before mopping the floor, you have to sweep it, follow the tile pattern, and before sweeping, you have to clean up the bookshelves and desks first." , Cleaning is from top to bottom, from the inside to the outside.”

"Ah," Yuanzi sighed, "Lan, why do you look like an old man?"

"Yes, yes?" Lan felt embarrassed.

"Really, modern girls will go out to find boyfriends by themselves," Sonoko complained, "I came here to work as a cleaner for that reasoning maniac. Who the hell did I provoke? It's so embarrassing, my Love time."

"Hey, speaking of love," Lan said, "I don't know who Xinyi's first love will be? Xinyi must have been in love once or twice."

"No way?" Yuanzi said angrily, "He seems to be relatively slow in this regard, and he is also impatient. The only thing better than him is that his father is a world-renowned novelist, and his mother is a once-famous actor. "

Hey, hey, Conan straightened up his triangular eyes, don't speak ill of people in person.

"Could it be that Lan..." Yuanzi stared at Lan and said, "Speaking of which, Lan, you have been hanging out with that guy since you were a child. Although you are a little stronger, you are still very gentle, so I think , maybe Xinyi's first love is Lan you."

"No, no way," Lan said blushing, "We're just childhood sweethearts who often play together."

"Oh, let's talk about you, Lan," Yuanzi said with a sly smile, "Your first love is the new couple."

"Wait, wait," Lan said hastily, "Yuanzi, don't talk nonsense."

"Looking at your appearance, I must have guessed right." Yuanzi smiled, "By the way, I don't seem to have heard any rumors about you and other boys. Today you are still a housewife here..."

Home, housewife? Conan was distracted for a moment.

"Yuanzi!" Lan yelled, "You really are, I'm going to be angry if you don't restrain yourself."

At this time, the doorbell rang.

Lan asked, "Who could it be?"

Sonoko smiled and said, "You're so stupid, of course the only possibility is Shinichi."

Lan said, "But why would he ring the doorbell when he returns to his own home?"

Yuanzi said: "It goes without saying, he must have known from the doctor that we are here, and wanted to give you a surprise." As he spoke, he pushed Lan towards the entrance.

Lan said, "But Shinichi didn't tell me that he plans to come back soon."

"Surprise, surprise," Yuanzi smiled, "It's not an accident, what's the surprise, it must be coming back early." Then he laughed, "Why are you shy, it's not to pick up your sweetheart, it's not to say that he is not yours Is it your first love?"

"Really," Lan said shyly, "Stop talking nonsense."

Yuanzi opened the door and found a beautiful woman in her twenties outside. She was stunned for a moment, and Lan and Conan who followed were also stunned.

The woman asked, "Excuse me, are you Kudo's friends?"

"Excuse me," Sonoko asked in surprise, "Are you Mami-senpai?"

Lan asked softly, "Yuanzi, do you know her?"

"Have you forgotten?" Sonoko said, "She was the student council president when we were in the first grade of Teidan Middle School, Uchida Asami-senpai who was two years older than us, and now she is a top student at Toto University."

"Thank you." Asami Uchida smiled.

Sonoko said, "Oh, I haven't introduced myself yet, I'm Sonoko Suzuki."

"I'm Mao Lilan." Lan said, "This is Edogawa Conan."

"I'm Uchida Asami." Uchida Asami smiled, "Good afternoon, everyone."

"Noon, good afternoon?" Yuanzi was taken aback, then looked at the time, and found that it was already noon, and it was almost one o'clock in the afternoon.

"Is there a problem?" Asami Uchida asked.

"No problem," Sonoko said, "We were helping Kudo clean the study, but we didn't expect it to be noon."

"Oh," Asami Uchida smiled, "If you don't mind, then count me in."

Lan said, "This, how can this work."

"It's okay," Uchida Asami said with a smile, "I just want to ask you something, so I can't just watch you clean it."

As a result, there was another temporary cleaner, and her reward was the news of Kudo Shinichi.

Lan said: "Xinyi is dealing with a difficult matter, and I don't know where he is."

Yuanzi said: "It's like being an undercover agent, and it's still a one-way connection."

Asami Uchida, who was rubbing the rag, said, "So that's the case. No wonder every call is recorded."

Lan asked: "By the way, senior sister, is there anything you can do with Shinichi?"

Asami Uchida said: "My friends in the university's reasoning research club, they said they wanted to borrow a villa today for everyone to hold a simple birthday party for me, so I was thinking, I hope I can invite Kudo-san, he is a detective , If he can pass, it will definitely surprise my friends, and they will be very happy. But I have called a lot but no one answered, so come and have a look.”

"It turns out that today is my senior's birthday." Lan said, and then asked nervously, "Sister, are you familiar with Shinichi?"

"I used to be the manager of the football team." Asami Uchida smiled, and then recalled, "And, at that time, that confession."

"Confession!" Lan, Yuanzi, and Conan were all taken aback.

"He should have forgotten it," Uchida Asami sighed sadly, "It's not unreasonable, people are like this, first love always fades."

first love! Lan was taken aback, this person is Xinyi's...

"First love?" Sonoko said, "By the way, I remember when I was in junior high school, there was a rumor that there was a guy in the first grade who approached Mami-senpai, and it turned out that the one who was overconfident was Kudo Shinichi."

"What kind of flirting? That's a rumor." Asami Uchida smiled embarrassedly, "He just wanted to confess to me, pure and beautiful first love."

"Ah, ah, that," Conan changed the subject, "Since Brother Shinichi hasn't come back, why don't you ask someone else to go?"

"By the way, I know a famous detective, he is definitely willing to go." Yuanzi smiled.

"Oh, which famous detective are you talking about?" Uchida Asami asked.

"Yuanzi, you don't want to," Lan Da was surprised, and said quickly, "No, no, it's not like you don't know, if something happens again..."

"You're not talking about the sleeping Kogoro, the famous detective Mori Kogoro, are you?" Uchida Asami said, "If you say that, Ran is..."

"Yes, that's my father." Lan said.

"We've heard the rumors about the Mori detective," Uchida Asami said with a smile. "It would be nice if it could bring about an incident. If there is no incident, how can there be reasoning?" Then he said, "Excuse me, is the Mori detective at home now? I also It’s a good invitation in person.”

"Uh," Lan said blushing a little, "my father is not at home now." She said and glanced at Conan.

Conan understood, indeed, Mao Li's unshaven beard and disheveled clothes are really not suitable.

"But my father must be free tonight," Lan said, "Senior sister, tell us the address, can I let him go by himself?"

"Okay, then it's settled." Uchida Asami smiled at Lan.

Lan understood that Asami Uchida had guessed that Maori was at home but it was inconvenient to entertain guests, and her face turned even redder for a while.

"That," Sonoko asked, "Senior sister, can we be counted?"

"Of course." Asami Uchida smiled.

"Yuanzi, how can we go?" Lan asked in a low voice.

"What's wrong, maybe we can meet a few good boys like this." Yuanzi said in a low voice, and then smiled while covering her face, "I feel like my love is coming."

With love, Sonoko threw away the bread. By nearly three o'clock in the afternoon, all the work was done. After Uchida Asami left, he remembered the problem of lunch, so the three of them went to the pizza shop to have a big meal.

Nearly four o'clock in the afternoon, Maori Detective Agency.

After Sonoko came in, he found that Yamazaki was drinking tea, so he poured himself a cup, and then found that Mori was sleeping on a desk full of garbage.

Sonoko asked Yamazaki, "Hey, when did uncle come back?"

"Uncle, he didn't go out," Yamazaki said. "Watching Marseilles in the morning, calling and betting, and after losing, I watched the game and drank beer, and then fell asleep."

"Ah!" Yuanzi laughed, "Okay, Lan, you actually lied."

"I don't want to either," Lan said angrily, "But, I can't just let Mami-senpai come here."

"That's true," Sonoko said, "If I see such a famous detective, I'm afraid I won't hire him, and my goal will be over." Then he said, "How do I wake him up? It's getting late. "

"I'll do it." Lan said, going to call Maori, pinching his nose.

Maori yawned, "I'm back."

Lan said: "Dad, we are going to Mami-senpai's birthday party, go get ready, trim your beard, take a shower and change your clothes."

"Birthday party?" Maori cheered up. "Where is it? Are there many people attending?"

"No, it's in a villa in the mountains, and only Mami-senpai's classmates." Lan said, "They're all college students."

"What! You want to spend the night in a villa on the mountain with college students?" Maori cried, "No, no, it's absolutely not allowed."

Lan clenched her fists, held back her anger and said helplessly, "That's why I called you to go with me."

"No," Maori refused, "I'm a busy person, and I don't have that much time."

"That's right. As a famous detective, uncle can't go out to play even on weekends. However, the name Mouri Kogoro is like a god to those in the reasoning research club. Everyone must want to hear it very much. Listen to the story told by the great detective himself." Sonoko said intentionally, "Besides, this time is for the birthday of Mami-senpai who is Miss Dongdu University. If she is not a beautiful woman, she must not dare to show her face. It’s like a beauty pageant.”

"The beauty pageant venue? Miss Dongdu University?" Maori was distracted.

Yuanzi smiled and said, "But since Uncle is so busy, we have no choice but to give up this idea."

"No need, I will accompany you as a guardian." Maori said, "I think as long as I arrange my work a little bit, I will have time. If I let down those potential members of the Reasoning Research Society, I am really sorry Well, for those cases I have solved in the past, as long as they can play a little role for them, it is something that I, a senior, should do."

"Oh yeah!" Sonoko secretly made a victory gesture.

Maori asked, "By the way, what time does the party start?"

"Someone is already at the villa." Lan said, "We just need to go there."

"Nalan, prepare my clothes right away." Mao Li said, "I'll go and take care of it." He went upstairs while talking.

"Conan, you should hurry up too." Lan said while tidying up the desk, "I will prepare the clothes for you."

"Oh, thank you Sister Lan." Conan said and went upstairs.

Sonoko said, "Yamazaki, is Mei Daizi at home? Lan and I want to borrow her bathroom."

"Go ahead," Yamazaki said, and then asked, "But your clothes?"

"I called and asked someone to deliver it." Yuanzi said.

Yamazaki asked: "By the way, Asami-senpai is..."

"Really, why don't you know Mami-senpai, but also, you used to be a typical unorganized person who disappeared as soon as the school bell rang." Sonoko said, "Listen clearly, Mami-senpai is older than us. Senior classmate, former student council president."

"I'm sorry, but I still know about this senior," Yamazaki said with a smile, "I have also interviewed her a few times."

"Huh?" Yuanzi asked unexpectedly, "Why haven't I heard of this before."

"What's there to say, she asked me to do a job and asked me to find someone to join a club," Yamazaki said with a smile, "I didn't even agree."

"What, that's how it is." Sonoko smiled.

"Speaking of which, Mei Daiko also knows Mami-senpai." Yamazaki said with a smile, "and it can be said that she is very familiar."

"Ah? How come?" Lan asked.

"I'll give you two examples so you can understand." Yamazaki said with a smile, "One, when she was in middle school, she mediated the conflict between the Disciplinary Committee of the Student Union and Mei Daizi. The building of the society."

"If you say that, you're really familiar with each other." Yuanzi asked, "Do you want to go together?"

"Mami-senpai didn't invite us, let's talk about it after you ask," Yamazaki said, "At that time, the work of the first half of the restaurant was almost finished."

"That's fine," Sonoko said. ...