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Initially, Mu Tianyuan and the others intended to throw away those impossibly nasty candies, but later, when Mu Tianyuan was tidying up snacks, he casually put them into a cabinet. Then he forgot about them until the day before yesterday, when he was putting away snacks he'd bought with his magic show money and stumbled upon them. Today, when he left the house, Mu Tianyuan took them with him. Originally, Little Fox thought he was just going to throw them away, but who knew he'd give them to Conan...
"What do you know? Although there's nothing regrettable about throwing them away, since I promised Conan, it would be a shame to throw them away now, alright?" Mu Tianyuan said while rubbing Conan's head, trying to give him a new hairstyle. Little Fox rolled her eyes silently and said, "You really don't waste things, do you..."
Mu Tianyuan said proudly, "Of course!"
But at this moment, Little Fox looked at Mu Tianyuan seriously and said, "By the way, aren't you trying to get on good terms with Conan? Is treating him like this getting on good terms with him? Why do I always feel like you're heading straight for a mortal feud?"
Little Fox felt that if Conan ate the candy Mu Tianyuan gave him, especially if he knew it was specially brought for him, he'd probably block him instantly!
Conan, unaware that Mu Tianyuan had unwittingly pranked him again, looked at Mu Tianyuan in surprise and said, "You earned money so quickly?"
"Yeah, I met a good person, performed a magic trick for him, and he gave me money," Mu Tianyuan shrugged, answering proudly. Conan, Ran, and Uncle Mouri had no idea what kind of magic trick Mu Tianyuan, the fake magician, had performed. Upon hearing Mu Tianyuan's words, they immediately took them literally. Then Ran exclaimed, "Xiao Mu, you can do magic? Why have I never heard you mention it before?"
Although Conan didn't speak, he also stared at Mu Tianyuan.Ā Yeah, why did I never know this guy could do magic?! We grew up together from childhood, playing in the mud! You have such a skill for picking up girls, and you don't even teach me! Don't you think that's going too far?!
"It's nothing, just a small skill. I only recently discovered this talent of mine. I'm still not proficient and need to keep practicing," Mu Tianyuan waved his hand. After Mu Tianyuan seriously rambled for a few sentences, Ran got up, intending to take Conan to a convenience store to buy some things. But just as the two reached the door, the doorbell of the Mouri Detective Agency suddenly rang.
Ran, who had already led Conan to the door, heard the doorbell and immediately said "Coming!" Then she reached out and opened the door. As a result, before she even saw anyone, a large pile of messy items clattered and fell in. Fortunately, Ran was agile enough to dodge in time; otherwise, she would have been buried alive by all that junk.
Ran was agile enough to dodge, but Conan didn't have that agility. He was immediately slammed down by those things, face first. Uncle Mouri, sitting behind the desk, and Mu Tianyuan, sitting on the sofa, both immediately stood up. Then Mu Tianyuan glanced at the packaged toys and other items on the floor and exclaimed, "Wow, are they here to give gifts or seek revenge?"
As soon as Mu Tianyuan finished speaking, a middle-aged man in a brown suit and glasses walked in. Then, the middle-aged man looked at Conan, who was sitting on the floor, rubbing his head and complaining of pain. He reached out to Conan and said awkwardly, "Excuse me, little friend, are you alright?"
"Uh, I'm fine." Conan first examined the middle-aged man's hand, then shook his head and grasped the middle-aged man's hand to stand up. Then, with the help of Mu Tianyuan, Ran, and Conan, they placed the various toys and other items the man brought onto the coffee table. After they all sat down on the sofa, Uncle Mouri looked at the man and said, "Sir, do you have something you'd like to entrust to me, the great detective Kogoro Mouri?"
"Yes," the man nodded, then began to introduce himself: "My surname is Ogawa. Starting about two years ago, someone has been sending me money and toys every month, but the sender's name and address are fake. I think this matter is a little fishy."
Uncle Mouri picked up a toy and examined it, saying, "Hmm, someone sends you money and toys every month. Do you have any children at home?"
"Yes, I have a son named Yuta, who is five this year," Mr. Ogawa nodded and replied. Uncle Mouri heard this, immediately propped his chin, and began to ponder. Then Uncle Mouri looked at Mr. Ogawa and asked, "Then, how much money do they send you each time?"
"It's a million every month, but this month, they suddenly sent twenty-five million," Mr. Ogawa was here for help, so he naturally couldn't hide anything. Upon hearing Uncle Mouri, he immediately answered truthfully.
"What?! Twenty-five million?!" Upon hearing Mr. Ogawa, the country bumpkins Uncle Mouri, Ran, and Mu Tianyuan all screamed in surprise. Little Fox, if she hadn't reacted in time, would have exclaimed in shock too, after all, the gold coins she and Mu Tianyuan brought back were only worth six hundred million, and they couldn't even sell them!
And Conan, who was originally examining the toys, was also startled. He had thought that sending a few toys and some money wouldn't be much, but who knew it would be so much!
"Good heavens, who is this good person? A million every month for over two years, plus this month's twenty-five million. That must be over fifty million, right?" Mu Tianyuan leaned on the sofa, muttering in amazement. Uncle Mouri and the others were originally only shocked by receiving twenty-five million in one month, but upon hearing Mu Tianyuan's mutterings, they realized they might have been surprised too early. If they didn't count this month's amount, even the amount received every month before was not a small sum!
Just as Uncle Mouri was shocked, Mu Tianyuan whispered to Little Fox on a private line: "This is really a case of 'man is nothing compared to man, goods are nothing compared to goods.' Look at us two, we finally meet a good person, and he's a poor ghost. We worked hard for half a day and only earned a little over eighty thousand, but look at this uncle, he does nothing and gets so much money every month. This is seriously too unfair. Why don't good people send me a million a month anonymously?"
"Yeah, why don't we get such good fortune?" Little Fox also muttered gloomily. Although Mu Tianyuan received living expenses from his parents in this world every month, there was still a gap compared to a million a month!
And at this moment, Mr. Ogawa continued: "Yuta is happy because he receives toys every month, but I always feel that this money isn't quite right, so I haven't touched it at all."
"Money! You can leave it with me!" As soon as Uncle Mouri heard this, he immediately looked at Mr. Ogawa excitedly and shouted. Hearing Uncle Mouri willing to help, Mu Tianyuan, Little Fox, Ran, and Conan's expressions were filled with helplessness. Then Little Fox, watching Uncle Mouri being roared at by Ran, twitched her mouth and said, "This perverted uncle is much more straightforward than us..."
"Don't be so subtle. Just say he's much more shameless than us, that's enough..." Mu Tianyuan also twitched his mouth, watching Uncle Mouri, and whispered to Little Fox.Ā Damn it, although they envied Mr. Ogawa for encountering such good fortune, they would die before they could say something as straightforward as Uncle Mouri's declaration!
Little Fox shook her head and said, "No, that won't do. Wouldn't that mean we're insulting ourselves too? So I think being subtle is pretty good."
Hearing Little Fox's reply, Mu Tianyuan silently nodded and said, "I don't think it's about being subtle or not. You shouldn't compare us to Uncle Mouri. If you compare us to Uncle Mouri, no matter how subtle you are, people will think we're the same kind of people as Uncle Mouri..."
Mu Tianyuan believed that Little Fox had made a mistake by comparing them to Uncle Mouri. If they didn't compare themselves to Uncle Mouri, then no matter how blunt they were, it wouldn't matter! But putting themselves on the same level as Uncle Mouri, no matter how subtle, would still be problematic...
"Hmm, okay. Next time, I'll try to only compare you to the perverted uncle, alright?" After hearing Mu Tianyuan's words, Little Fox immediately nodded in agreement and promised Mu Tianyuan. Mu Tianyuan, hearing Little Fox's promise, was silent for a moment and said, "...I think it's pretty good to compare the two of us to Uncle Mouri!"
At this moment, Uncle Mouri finally calmed down from Ran's roar. He tugged at his tie, looked at Mr. Ogawa in a suave manner, and said, "Ah, yes..."
But before Mr. Ogawa could say what the clue was, Conan on the side guessed, "Then could it be sent by the uncle's patients?"
"Patients?" Hearing Conan, Uncle Mouri, Ran, and Mr. Ogawa were all startled. Mu Tianyuan propped his chin and said, "You mean this gentleman's former patients sent him these things to thank him?"
"Yes!" Conan looked at Mu Tianyuan with appreciation and nodded.Ā Can't tell, this guy's academic performance is bad, and he always likes to bully me, but his reactions are not slow at all!
Then Conan looked at Mr. Ogawa and said, "Uncle, if that's the case, it's certainly possible!"
Mr. Ogawa heard Conan, was silent for a while, then suddenly looked at Conan and Mu Tianyuan in surprise and said, "Strange, did I say I was a doctor?"
He seemed to have just introduced his surname since entering, and hadn't even said his name, let alone his profession. How could they know he was in the medical profession?