"This is the book you want. Please count the number." Yin Jiu was wearing a mask on his face and a black rabbit ear plush suit and was standing next to a black van.

"Right! Right! This much stock is enough to keep me going for a long time." The old curator personally escorted Yin Jiu and pushed a large suitcase in front of him. "This is cash. Do you want to find a warehouse to check it?"

"No need." Yin Jiu weighed it lightly and immediately guessed the amount of money. He raised the corner of his mouth meaningfully, "I am only responsible for collecting the money, not counting it. If you find something wrong later, someone else will come to you."

"Yes, yes, yes." The old curator wiped the cold sweat from his face, quickly directed the clerk to move the things in, and he himself hurriedly walked away carrying a box of books.

"Hey? Brother Yin Jiu? Why are you here?"

Just as he watched the library director walk away, Yin Jiu heard a familiar voice coming from behind.

His long eyelashes drooped to hide the emotions in his eyes. He slowly turned around and saw four little ones standing not far away and waving at him.

"..."

Yin Jiu looked around calmly and made sure that the other peripheral members had gone away.

Then he lowered his umbrella and pulled his mask down to his chin. "Why are you here?"

"We are here to help Conan with his winter vacation homework!" several children said in unison.

Then, Ayumi pulled Yin Jiu's clothes with a pitiful look on her face, "The chicken-rabbit-in-the-same-cage exercise that Brother Yin Jiu assigned is really difficult. Can we wait until our midterm exam to hand it in?"

"No. There are other daily homework after school starts." Yin Jiu had a gentle smile on his face, but his words were cold. "If it's really difficult, you can do it together with Conan, but you have to understand the solutions to all the questions clearly. I will randomly check your solution ideas at that time, and you have to be able to solve them independently."

"Ah..." Several children wailed.

"Speaking of which, Conan should have caught a cold recently, right?" Yin Jiu heard that Conan caught a cold while skiing last time and had been lying at home for several days. "Don't worry, you haven't finished your homework yet. If you add my exercise book, you might really be too late."

"I'll definitely make it in time." This time, Conan was acting out of character and didn't take the homework exercises seriously at all.

Then he saw the half-man-high black suitcase in Yin Jiu's hand, "What is this?"

"This." Yin Jiu patted the suitcase pretending to be indifferent. "They are all medical books. Last time I read the research hypothesis on the genetic genes of colorectal cancer written by Miss Zhongyuan, I felt very inspired, so I came to the library to buy some materials."

"Medical books are thick and heavy. I want to buy a lot of them. It would be more convenient to transport them in a suitcase."

"Heh, heh." Conan suddenly thought of the books on the wall of his house. Yin Jiu was right. His father, Kudo Yusaku, often used a suitcase when buying books. Especially for the collector's editions of mystery masterpieces, when there were enough of them, using a suitcase to check in could minimize the possibility of damage or tearing during transportation.

But I bought all medical books.

This is really Yin Jiu’s style...

Conan immediately lost interest in the suitcase, and Yin Jiu took this opportunity to quickly escape.

After saying goodbye to the children, Yin Jiu turned a corner and sat in the rear driver's seat of Gin's car.

"Oh, it's so rare. How could I trouble my guardian to pick me up in person?" Yin Jiu started to behave dishonestly as soon as he got into the car.

Trading the 'Conch' was originally Gin's mission. No matter who it was distributed to, the final confirmation would inevitably have to be by Gin.

But Yin Jiu just wanted to satisfy his urge to talk, and as expected, he immediately received a glare from Gin.

"You're really too fierce, Mr. Guardian." Yin Jiu sighed and dug out a map of Beihua Town from under the back seat. "How about we eat Sukiyaki today?"

Yin Jiu pointed to a store with two red circles on it and said, "It's a good place to clean my polluted nose."

“...What's wrong with your nose?” Vodka always reads the expressions and supports Yin Jiu. Seeing that Gin didn't react, he hesitated for a moment and took the initiative to talk.

"I was irritated by the corpse stench coming from the library," Yin Jiu confirmed the hotel, rolled up the map slowly, and stuffed it back under the chair. Then he glanced at Gin again, and seeing that he was still pretending to be asleep, Yin Jiu pretended to be concerned and said, "... I'd better shut up. Some people don't seem to be interested in what I say."

"..."

'Some people' Gin opened his eyes and glanced at the rearview mirror with a cold gaze. Seeing Yin Jiuzhen just closed his mouth and quietly looked at the scenery, the veins on his forehead bulged slightly.

"I'm listening, you better have something valuable to say."

"It is valuable. It is very valuable." With a satisfied audience, Yin Jiu's mouth curled up immediately. "The old curator who traded with us today is about to be arrested. Does this count as valuable information?"

"He was exposed?" Gin was not surprised. The director of the Beika Library was not even an outer member. At most, he was a trading partner of an organization. There were too many people like him exposed. It was nothing more than an extra procedure to deal with the aftermath.

"Is that all you have to say?" A sneer appeared on Gin's face, and his hand, which had already clenched the miniature pistol, slowly moved upwards.

"Wait!" As if he had anticipated the danger, Yin Jiu immediately moved to the back of Gin. With the help of the back of the chair, he spoke faster, "Yes, I'm exposed, but not completely!"

As he spoke, Yin Jiu took advantage of Gin's hesitation and quickly reached out to help Gin press his left hand, which was holding the gun, back down.

"Didn't I say I smelled a corpse? I did my homework before coming here to do the deal. A staff member in the library suddenly disappeared these two days." Yin Jiu sat back in the back seat. "Afterwards, I came to check the area in advance and found that the body was hidden above the elevator."

"You said that the elevator shafts of normal libraries are usually not open to outsiders. That means the murderer must be at least an insider with extremely high authority. Combined with the fact that the curator is currently dealing with us, I reasonably assume that perhaps the employee discovered the boss's secret, so he was silenced."

"But, you said that it is such a big body after all. Even if the weather is cold now, it will stink after a while! I received news this morning. Some people in the library have started to complain about the garbage odor..." Yin Jiu remembered the smell of rotten eggs that the vampire smelled in the morning, and frowned uncomfortably, "In my opinion, this body will be found sooner or later, maybe today."

"Hmph, if he is caught by the police, then give him a bullet." After hearing what Yin Jiu said, Gin still didn't think it was a big deal. There were a few such cases every year anyway.

"Don't you think something is missing?" Yin Jiu tilted his head to the side suspiciously.

Did Gin change his gender?

It was just to silence the witness?

"Glenfiddich, do you mean to destroy the evidence and burn down the Rice Flower Library?" Vodka interrupted at the right time, his hands on the steering wheel, his small eyes flashing with wisdom, rolling around under the cover of sunglasses.

"How could I do that?" Yin Jiu showed an expression of disbelief, "Do you think I'm the kind of cruel and murderous person?"

"..."

"Ah."

The scene suddenly became quiet, with only Gin's cold snort clearly audible in the carriage.

This is really a bit too much.

Yin Jiu's expression was ferocious for a moment, but he soon thought of something and put his hand on Gin's chair with a smile.

"My dear guardian, that is a huge fortune. Are you planning to give it up so easily?"

The person is about to die, so it’s not too much to take back the “goods” in his hands, right?

Yin Jiu's calculations were clacking in his mind, and a complete plan appeared in his mind in a moment. "I will go to the bookstore again later. I will be responsible for holding the people back. You can let the peripheral members go in to transport the goods. Take as much as you can."

While speaking, Yin Jiu did not forget to take a piece of white paper from the side and outline the layout of the library with a pencil. "This area is the surveillance range, this is a blind spot, and the fastest route is this." Yin Jiu put more emphasis on the line of the fastest route and drew a few more strokes. "If the family of that employee calls the police today, it will be even better. The police will be there by then. Mr. Director and his men will definitely not notice the situation at the back door."

Yin Jiu talked excitedly for a long time, but when he turned around, he found that Gin had already opened the computer and did not show any intention of replying to him.

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