Chapter 417 It’s Still a Word Game

In this regard, facing Miwako Sato's inquiry, Gao Yuan and Xiao Ai looked at each other, and then Gao Yuan turned to Miwako Sato and explained:

"This is a bit complicated to explain...

"The main thing is that when I first entered the store, I felt that the atmosphere in the store was not right, and noticed that the store manager seemed to be reprimanding the clerk. Therefore, I originally planned to leave directly, but then, the clerk's behavior But it made me stay curious-"

Recalling what he saw when he first entered this barbecue restaurant, Gao Yuan first explained:

“When he saw us pushing in the door as customers, the man who seemed to be the store manager wanted to ask us to leave because it was about to close, but the female store clerk who looked like she had just cried because she was reprimanded took the initiative to invite us to stay. . This is why I decided to stay and take a look even though I felt strange.”

"Huh? Weird?"

Hearing what Gao Yuan said, Miyamoto Yumi took a pair of chopsticks from nowhere and picked up the grilled barbecue on the baking tray in front of Gao Yuan. Some of them were already cooked, so she picked up the barbecue and ate it on her own. He asked curiously.

Then, after savoring a few mouthfuls, Miyamoto Yumi suddenly looked surprised -

"It's delicious! Mr. Akechi, you baked this! I really can't tell! If there is a barbecue party next time, can I invite you?"

Miyamoto Yumi asked carelessly.

After hearing this, Xiao Ai, who was calmly eating barbecue, raised his head for a moment to pay attention to the female traffic policeman in front of him, but immediately continued to eat the barbecue calmly as if nothing had happened.

"Yumi...you are so rude. By the way, where did you get the chopsticks?"

However, facing her best friend who unceremoniously ate Takato's barbecue, Sato Miwako couldn't help but rolled her eyes at Miyamoto Yumi, and then asked curiously.

In response, Miyamoto Yumi replied with a smile:

"I picked it up at the counter. Besides, I haven't had dinner yet, so I'm really hungry. I can't help but... Mr. Akechi, is that okay?"

At this moment, Miyamoto Yumi listened to Sato Miwako's words, and then asked Takato's opinion.

In this regard, Gao Yuan felt helpless——

Even if it’s like this, it’s impossible for me to refuse...

Although if Miyamoto Yumi asked him at the beginning, it would be impossible for him to refuse, but...

Well, who told this to be Yumi Miyamoto.

Because he knew the character of the female traffic policeman in the original work, Gao Yuan had nothing he couldn't understand. He just nodded and said to the two people in front of him:

"You're welcome."

Then, hearing what Gao Yuan said, Miyamoto Yumi smiled slightly, then picked up another piece of barbecue, brought it directly to Miwako Sato's mouth, and said with a smile:

"Look, Miwako, Mr. Akechi said so, why don't you come and eat too!"

In this way, some Yumi Miyamoto couldn't stand it. Miwako Sato was a little reluctant, but she still took the barbecue handed over by Yumi Miyamoto and ate it. After that, she felt good. She couldn't help but nodded and said:

"It's really good! The heat is just right!"

After saying this, she suddenly realized that the topic had gone astray. Sato Miwako continued to repeat the question that Miyamoto Yumi had just expressed doubts about:

"Ah... back to the topic, why do you feel weird?"

In this way, as the little episode just ended, Gao Yuan continued to explain when asked:

"When I opened the door, the female clerk called the man 'daddy'. But in this case, the scene was like a daughter who had just been scolded by her father. When her father planned to close the store, the daughter directly confronted her father and wanted to The business continued, but the 'father' did not continue to make any accusations against the female clerk after that...

"Don't you think it's strange here? The father, who was scolding his daughter for something, went against his decision to close the business in front of his daughter and said he would continue to operate. This scene feels like a subtle change in the position between them. It seems that the appearance of the two outsiders broke something, so we felt something was wrong, so we simply stayed to eat. "

So, listening to what Gao Yuan said, Miyamoto Yumi continued to eat the barbecue, chewing in his mouth, looking at Gao Yuan, nodding silently, seeming to think that what Gao Yuan said made sense.

Miwako Sato looked at Yumi Miyamoto's almost non-stop action of eating barbecue, and couldn't help but glance at Yumi Miyamoto, but she didn't know what to say, so she continued to ask Gao Yuan:

"Then what?"

In response, when Gao Yuan saw that the roast meat on the baking pan had been finished, he started roasting new meat with tongs again and said:

"Then after we were seated, when the female clerk came up with the tableware, she gave us a side dish - bitter melon and tofu with trembling hands."

As he spoke, Gao Yuan looked at the small plate of unfinished tofu on the table and gestured.

Seeing this, Miwako Sato was a little puzzled. After looking at the plate of tofu, she looked at Gao Yuan in confusion, but Yumi Miyamoto didn't care so much. She didn't eat much when she saw the plate of tofu and picked up her chopsticks. He picked off a piece, ate it, then tasted it, with a puzzled look on his face:

"There is no bitter melon taste..."

"Yes, it doesn't taste like bitter melon, so it's not bitter melon tofu."

Seeing what Miyamoto Yumi said, Gao Yuan also explained -

At that time, Xiao Ai also tried the side dish given by the female clerk, and then pretended to be innocent and said "delicious".

However, Gao Yuan knew that Xiao Ai was acting at that time, and she was acting out the normal reaction of a little girl at that time.

Therefore, if this plate of tofu is "bitter melon tofu" with the flavor of bitter melon, then Xiao Ai will at least show his aversion to the taste of bitter melon. After all, not everyone can accept the taste of bitter melon, let alone children. .

Therefore, through Xiao Ai's reaction at that time, Gao Yuan knew what the problem was -

"It's not bitter melon tofu, but the female clerk gave me 'bitter melon tofu', so there's something wrong with it."

——Of course, you can understand this by trying the food yourself at that time, but at that time, you had already discovered that there was something wrong with the situation in the store, so Gao Yuan and Xiao Ai were skeptical when faced with the meals presented by the female clerk. , but Xiao Ai didn’t know what she was thinking at the time, and took the lead to try a bite for herself before she could stop her. So when I saw Xiao Ai trying this meal, I was very nervous and worried, but Fortunately, there is no problem with tofu, except that it is not bitter melon tofu, it is just ordinary tofu.

As he said this, Gao Yuan thought in his mind and looked towards Xiao Ai. He felt inexplicably moved in his heart. Then he saw that some of the barbecue on the baking pan was almost done, so he gave the cooked barbecue to Xiao Ai - —

"So...what's the problem?"

In this regard, listening to Gao Yuan's words, Miwako Sato thought silently for a while, but still couldn't figure out the reason, so she could only continue to ask Gao Yuan for confirmation.

At this point, Gao Yuan also gave a direct explanation:

"It's still a word game!"

——Because I had just helped Sato Miwako solve the "Shousirou" incident eighteen years ago, and most of the clues in it were simply word games, so it was natural that Takato immediately reacted to the idea of ​​word games in his mind at that time. Come out——

"At that time, when the female clerk brought the tofu, she said, 'Although the season is not right, it is not too soft'...

"'Bitter melon tofu (GO YA TO FU)' is not 'soft (FU YA FU YA)', so after removing the sounds of 'FU' and 'YA', it becomes 'GO TO', which sounds like 'robber' pronunciation of "()