Conan's other self

After solving the murder case of a tram fan, Maplehara and the others lived an unstable life, and cases followed one after another.

But Death also has his days off.

On this day, the young detective team gathered at the doctor's home to help the doctor find a very important letter.

"Doctor, what does that letter look like?" Conan asked.

"It's in a postcard-sized envelope..."

"What letter is it?"

"A wedding invitation from the son of a friend who is a doctor, and it contains a postcard confirming attendance that must be sent out today..."

"If it is such an important letter, it should be put away!"

"exactly!"

"Can you please stop Dr. Guogui?" Haihara Ai yawned. "One of the reasons why the letter disappeared is that you came to play games last night and messed up this place..."

"Yes, yes..."

The primary school students were a little embarrassed and searched harder for the letter. Haihara Ai couldn't help but yawned again. In the morning, she and Ayumi went to take care of the sick rabbit at school. After coming back, they went into the basement to work. Now they are a little sleepy.

Maplehara walked to the TV.

"Fengyuan," Mitsuhiko shouted, "we've already looked there..."

There was a pile of letters they had found stacked on the TV.

Feng Yuan glanced at the gap between the TV and the table, then reached out and took out a pile of letters, "Look, some fell down."

"Really!"

The elementary school students gathered around to watch. Maplehara simply handed over the task of reading the letter to Conan, and Conan took the letter and started reading it.

"Greeting cards, summer greetings, driver's license renewal notices, everything..."

"Ah, these are things I have never been able to find!" said the doctor.

Conan flipped through the letter and passed the letter he had read to the doctor through Ayumi's hand, and then was slightly stunned.

"What a cute word..." Haiyuan Ai also glanced at it.

"It's a postcard written by a child." Conan said casually, passed the postcard back, then flipped through it and found that the next one was the letter they were looking for.

"That's it!" Ayumi took it, took a look at it, and then happily turned around and handed the letter to the doctor, only to find that the doctor was looking at the letter in a trance.

"It's a postcard written by the kid just now!"

"Could it be a love letter?"

"Ah?" The doctor quickly denied, "No, it was a postcard sent to me by a friend from before... It was already forty years ago..."

"Forty years ago?"

"That is when Doctor was in the sixth grade of elementary school?" Haihara Ai did some calculations.

"Yes, it was the first day of school after the summer vacation. Because I was almost late, I took a shortcut," Dr. Ali said slowly with a nostalgic look on his face, "Then I saw some students from lower grades. The girl stood there, her face turned blue with fear... She had a pair of big eyes under the dark hat, she was really a cute girl...

She seemed to be afraid of the barking of the big dog in front of her, so she didn't dare to go there... That was the nearby Noi family, which was famous for raising large dogs...

As a result, she passed by hiding behind me. I asked her why she was so scared... She said it was because she was bitten by a dog she raised when she was a child, so she became afraid of animals...

Because that would be too pitiful, so I took her to the house of Chouno, my friend who raises hamsters. She was still very scared at the beginning, but she gradually got used to it over time... Two months later, she started to like animals, and she could even walk past Noi's house with a smile..."

"Doctor, you remember it very clearly." Feng Yuan said.

"What then? The Doctor and her have been going to school together since then?"

"Ah, that..." the doctor said, "it's just that autumn..."

"ah?"

"In the cold rain at the end of November... I waited for her at the door of Noi's house as usual, but I kept waiting and waiting, and she didn't come... I thought she had a cold and couldn't come to class, so I went to her house after school. I went to see her... but her neighbor told me that her family moved away in the morning..."

"Does the Doctor just keep silent?"

"You should at least say goodbye!"

"Ah, no..."

"I must have wanted to say it but couldn't," Haibara Ai said. "'Goodbye' is a sad word that brings as much pain as needle pricks during separation..."

"How, how could it be?"

"But it's too sad to say goodbye like this without saying anything!"

"No, it's not... She specially sent a thank you postcard, which is the one I got in my mailbox that day..."

"But, are there any stamps on this postcard..."

"It must have been put directly into the doctor's mailbox before moving..."

Conan said, and then read the postcard:

"Thank you very much for these three months. It's great to meet A Li! Because I hate saying goodbye, so today, ten years later, we will meet at the same place before sunset...

If you can't see me, it will be another ten years... Even if I become an old woman, I will keep waiting. If you have time, come and see me once...

To Agasa, whom I like very much, from Class A of the fourth grade, Kinoshita..."

"The words at the back are blurred and can't be seen..." After finishing reading, Conan continued.

"Then what? Have you met this Kinoshita?" Haihara Ai asked.

"No, I can't figure out where this old place is..."

"Hey hey..."

The primary school students were a little speechless and looked at the doctor with disdain, but then they noticed that the time indicated on the postcard happened to be today.

This is the fourth decade.

Thinking that the girl might be waiting for the doctor at the agreed place today, the young detective team immediately started discussing actively.

Fengyuan had actually discovered this postcard a long time ago, but he felt that it only made sense for the doctor to fulfill the contract on this date, so he did not take out the postcard in advance.

On the other side, the elementary school students wanted to ask the school administrator for Dekinoshita's name and address, but they were rejected by Haibara Ai.

"Even if we contact her, it will only bring harm to her, right?" Haibara Ai said, "In this way, she will know that the doctor has never been able to remember the place she thinks is memorable, making her wait in vain. Forty years...but only if she is still waiting there."

"Then we still have to find a way to find that old place and let the doctor go see her!"

"But this has been forty years..."

"However, there are still clues..." Conan picked up the envelope and showed it to everyone, "Aren't there a lot of numbers under the doctor's name? Could this be a code indicating the address?"

There are four separated numbers on the envelope: "4163 33 6 0".

"Really...but what does this mean?"

“It also says below that it’s an animal…”

"Hey, doctor! What does this mean?" Ayumi asked curiously.

"Ah...this..."

"If you knew, you would have seen it..." Haihara Ai glanced at the doctor angrily.

"But, if it's Conan and Maplehara..." Ayumi looked at Conan and Maplehara expectantly.

"No, not at all."

Conan immediately rejected it.

But even though Ayumi asked about the two of them, there was no other response in the air, but a silence.

Everyone's eyes fell on Feng Yuan.

…

The answer to the puzzle is "under the ginkgo tree in elementary school."

Exactly ten years ago, Xiaolan got lost in the woods. When Kudo Shinichi went to find her, he met the man waiting for the doctor here.

Of course, he didn't say that directly.

Soon, Dr. Ali drove the young detective team to the woods of Didan Elementary School and began to search.

"Hey, Feng Yuan, there's no one there..."

"Look again."

"It's okay to be absent," Conan said, "This was an agreement made forty years ago..."

"Huh? It's still parked there..." As she spoke, Ayumi saw a white car, "That white car..."

"Oh...we already stopped there when we came to visit the little rabbit this morning..."

"I must have been waiting in the car since morning!"

"Yeah, let me go take a look!" Genta said and ran directly over. Dr. Ali hesitated, but still followed him with the children.

But there was no one in the car.

"Have you gone to eat..."

"No," Conan said, "The fast food coffee cup is still steaming... I must have just finished eating... and the quantity is also large, for three people?"

"Oh, don't worry too much even if she becomes chubby..."

Haiyuan sighed and comforted the doctor.

As she spoke, she looked at the doctor's expression, and then found that both the doctor and Fengyuan were looking towards a ginkgo tree not far away.

Others also followed the gaze.

It was a big beauty with beautiful long blond hair and a round hat. But judging from the details, she is still a bit older.

"Super beautiful..."

Conan blushed a little, as did Genta and Mitsuhiko.

"Is she...?"

"What a pity..."

"Hey! Doctor, what are you doing?" Ayumi said.

"You have kept her waiting for forty years, haven't you?" Haihara Ai also urged Dr. A Li.

"Ah... that, it may not be her..."

"Go quickly!" Yuantai pushed the doctor from behind.

The doctor walked over hesitantly. When the beautiful woman under the tree heard the movement, she looked back and showed an expression of surprise and surprise.

Through his body shape and nose, she recognized at a glance that this was the man she had been waiting for forty years.

"Um…"

Dr. A Li spoke hesitantly, then stopped.

A foreign man wearing sunglasses walked out from the tree trunk that had just blocked their view.

The two communicated in a low voice in a foreign language, and then the man in sunglasses waved to the beautiful woman and returned to the car. Dr. Ali, who was already hesitant, suddenly thought that the foreign man just now was her husband.

The woman also noticed the children who were eavesdropping not far away, and she immediately thought that they were the grandchildren of Dr. Ali.

"What lovely grandchildren..."

The woman smiled softly and said to the doctor.

"Ah, um..." Dr. Ali hesitated like a child who made a mistake, "Um... I'm sorry..."

"I passed by here by chance this morning and was attracted by this patch of ginkgo...it's such a bright color...so now I'm here again...do you hate ginkgo?"

"Ah, no..."

"Then, farewell..."

"Uh-huh…"

"My husband seems to be impatient..."

The beautiful woman lowered her eyelids slightly, glanced at Dr. Ali with some reluctance, and then said goodbye.

The reunion that spanned forty years seemed to be cut off by a wonderful misunderstanding.

Then, in her sight, a child who was eavesdropping over there walked over.

"But shouldn't you still be single?"

"Eh?"

"You are Ms. Fusesa Campbell Kinoshita, the founder and designer of the Fusesa brand, right?" Maplehara continued. He originally wanted to see if the doctor could solve it by himself, but in the end he still had to do it himself. , "I watched your interview on TV..."

"Fuesa...it's really you..."

"I'm still recognized. I'm so sorry, A Li..." Although the lie just now was exposed, Fuesha still smiled softly, "I made our reunion after forty years look like this..."

"Also," Feng Yuan continued, and everyone from the Young Detective Team followed, "Although -"

"——Although we all regard the doctor as our grandfather, he is still single!"

"That's right!"

"Moreover, I have been single for more than fifty years..."