I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

"You'll find out when you come."

It's really surprising.

After ten minutes of walking, Serabel and others finally followed Suzuki Tomoko to the so-called "hotel".

Well, there is nothing wrong with calling it a hotel, but compared to a hotel in the popular sense, the style of this hotel is more like a farmhouse. The entrance has a strong flavor of a single-family house, making it feel like half hotel and half home.

Yuanzi was shocked: "Mom, you actually chose this kind of hotel?"

"There's nothing we can do."

Suzuki Tomoko turned around and smiled. She reached out, opened the door of the hotel, and stepped into the entrance hall. The voices of people and the aroma of food in the restaurant on the first floor immediately came towards her along with the cool air of the air conditioner.

"If we stay at a star-rated hotel, the hotel manager might ask a group of waiters to follow us even when we visit a temple fair, and we won't be able to have fun. Besides, I've done some research on this hotel. Although it's not big, it has a pretty good reputation in Izu."

"But precisely because it's small, by the time I booked it, there were only two rooms left."

"Then Sonoko, you, Ran, and Conan will all stay in the same room."

Uh-huh?

Suddenly, she felt something was wrong, and a big golden exclamation mark appeared above Serabelle's head.

Chapter 184 Mrs. Suzuki Does Not Want to Be Constrained

The sense of déjà vu of a single-family house becomes particularly obvious after going up to the second floor of the hotel.

Looking from the staircase leading up to the first floor toward the end of the corridor between the guest rooms on both sides in the distance, you can see that the section from the staircase to the back is all newly built.

Obviously, this was originally just an ordinary single-family building, but later it started a homestay business. As the business grew and its reputation got better and better, the customer flow continued to increase. In order to be able to operate more smoothly, they bought the land next door and built a homestay.

However, land in Japan is also very expensive, especially in tourist destinations like Izu, where ordinary B&Bs simply cannot afford much space.

Therefore, if we want to separate as many rooms as possible in a limited space, we can only reduce the area of ​​each guest room within a reasonable range.

"This room... feels a little small."

She used the key she got from the hotel front desk to open the room with the corresponding number. When Yuanzi turned on the light and saw the layout of the room clearly, she couldn't help but complain.

All the guest rooms are very standard Japanese-style rooms, with the exception of shower rooms and toilets. The floor of the room is covered with tatami, with a low square table in the middle and futons on both sides of the table.

There is no bed.

The beds were replaced with floor mats, all rolled up and neatly placed in the cabinets in the guest rooms.

Moreover, considering the area of ​​the room, if you put a tatami on the floor, it would be too crowded to put only one tatami. You can roll around on the tatami when you fall asleep at night. Two tatami would be more than enough as there is enough space in between.

But if you put three, then all three mats will be placed side by side without any gaps.

Of course, you can also place two vertically and one horizontally.

But then one person would have to smell the stinky feet of the other two.

Sonoko originally planned to let Serabelle and Conan share a room, and then she could share a room with her mother and Ran.

It seems impossible now. Either it will be squeezed to death or someone will have to smell the stinky feet. By comparison, it is better for me to share a room with Ran and then stuff that little brat Conan into Ran's bed.

Oh, or she could share a room with Serabelle, but considering that her mother was among the people present, Miss Sonoko had to give up.

I dare not mention it, I dare not mention it at all.

At the same time, Tomoko Suzuki also took out the key and opened the door of the guest room next door, which had the same configuration as Sonoko and Ran's room.

She raised her chin towards Serabelle, signaling her to go into the room first, and then turned to her daughter.

"Okay, stop being in a daze, go in and put your luggage away, go downstairs and have dinner, then we should go out to watch the fireworks display."

……

There's not much to say about the dinner. After all, it's just a B&B, so the dishes are all common Izu home-cooked meals.

After dinner, I changed into slippers and left the hotel. It was less than six o'clock in the evening and there were already many people on the streets of Izu.

After all, this is an annual cover-up conference. Not only tourists from other places, but also many local people in Izu will come out to watch.

From little kids who came out with their parents to an elderly couple in their sixties, there was even a high school student who took advantage of the fireworks display to put on a yukata and sneak out to be with his or her crush.

There are all kinds of people, but generally speaking, most of them are young couples.

The evening breeze at the seaside is always refreshing. A group of five people, four adults and one child, were walking on the street.

Suzuki Tomoko gently waved the folding fan in her hand, looking at the scenery on the street in front of her, with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth.

"It's good to be young. It seems to you that most of the people participating in the fireworks display are students of about the same age as you."

"Yes, yes, and they all have partners, unlike us..."

Sonoko has always been outspoken. After she finished speaking, she realized that what she said was a bit too explicit. She quickly stopped and glanced at Serabelle who was walking beside her mother. After confirming that the latter had no reaction, she put on a smiling face and poked her friend's waist with her elbow.

"But if we really have to say, the one who has the greatest regret should be Lan, right?"

“…Huh? What?”

Xiaolan was caught off guard by the sudden attack from her good friend. She blinked rapidly with a silly look on her face.

However, how could Sonoko let her go so easily?

"Hey, Ran, just be honest and don't be shy (poking the waist). We have known each other for so many years, how could you not guess this (patting the shoulder), it's normal to have some thoughts when seeing so many couples on the street (spreading hands), for example - ah ~ Shinichi! Where are you? I am so lonely with such a beautiful time but without you by my side (reciting with deep affection)!"

Xiaolan couldn't stand her exaggerated acting at all, and her face instantly turned red: "How is it possible? I don't think so. Besides, when I called him before, he said he was busy with a case. Anyway, it's always cases. Let him spend his whole life with cases! Humph!"

After saying this, he snorted heavily in a very arrogant manner.

Conan, who was walking at the edge, also looked at the fool with contempt.

Yuanzi was not embarrassed by the refutation from her best friend, she just chuckled twice.

"It doesn't matter. After all, this is our first time to visit a fireworks display together. I have to take a few more photos to take back and make a certain cocky detective envious."

As she spoke, Sonoko pulled out a camera that looked very valuable from her yukata sleeve as if by magic.

Xiaolan was surprised and said, "So you brought a camera, Sonoko."

"Of course, how can you travel without a camera~" Miss Sonoko said proudly.

“Come to think of it, this is also the first time I’ve been to a fireworks display with this mentality.”

At this time, Suzuki Tomoko also came over and smiled slightly.

"Remember to take a few more photos for mom when the time comes."

"…Eh? Mom, are you telling the truth or not?"

Yuanzi didn't react for a moment.

"It's true."

Suzuki Tomoko snapped her folding fan shut, raised her arms high and stretched without caring about her image. She didn't care even when the sleeves of her yukata fell down, revealing her snow-white arms, and didn't put them down until she had stretched completely.

"The fireworks displays I attended in the past were more like meetings of leaders than fireworks displays. Most people would just sit down wherever they liked and start watching, but we had to go to a designated location and sit on a bench with a group of ministers and congressmen who also brought their families. We would watch the fireworks for an hour with a silly smile on our faces. Even if the fireworks that year were not outstanding, we would still have to make a few comments."

"Reading makes you a gentleman, writing puts you in jail," Serabelle complained.

“That’s about the feeling.”

Tomoko Suzuki accepted this new description without any obstacles.

"So I've been looking forward to enjoying a fireworks display like this without any restrictions for a long time."

As soon as he finished speaking, a gust of evening breeze blew, ruffling the wife's hair by her ears.

The young butler held a stick by his side in one hand, while the old-fashioned tram in the distance rumbled along the railway track, with sparks flashing from time to time at the connection between the roof and the catenary.

Everything is so beautiful, just like in a cartoon.

Chapter 185: Dangerous Garden

The fireworks display lasts for one hour, but because fireworks displays are often accompanied by temple fairs, and there is a warm-up phase before it starts, the total time is actually much longer than one hour.

The fireworks burn out, just like the end of a song and the audience disperses.

Serabelle and the others set out from the hotel before six in the evening, and by the time they left, it was already around eight or nine in the evening.

“Ahaha~ I really took a lot of photos.”

After leaving the place where they watched the fireworks, Yuanzi walked leisurely along the tree-lined path while opening the photo album in her camera and admiring it.

She really turned into a crazy photographer tonight. She not only took a lot of photos of her mother Suzuki Tomoko, but also took a lot of photos of herself and Xiaolan, almost filling up the camera's memory card.

As for Conan and Serabell, since they were not very interested in taking photos, they had to give up.

Just like when they came, the five of them walked slowly and leisurely.

At this moment, several boys and girls who looked about high school age suddenly ran past in a hurry. The boy in front held the hand of the girl behind him, while the girl tightened her yukata with her hands and walked quickly in small steps.

"Why are they running so fast?" Xiaolan asked curiously.

"Oh, that..."

Suzuki Tomoko took a glance and smiled.

"In the past, the reason would have been to catch the last bus."

"what about now?"

"Now, if I must say, it's to get home before their parents get home and pretend to be good. After all, most parents are not open-minded enough to let their precious daughters go out alone with a brat whose name they don't even know on such a special holiday. Those who ran over just now must have used the excuse of not being with their parents and sneaked out after their parents left."

"Eh? Mom, how do you know all this?"

Yuanzi was very surprised.

If she remembered correctly, about two hours ago her dear mother said that she had never been so relaxed while visiting a temple fair.

Suzuki Tomoko didn't take it seriously: "There's a saying that goes, even if you haven't eaten pork, you've seen pigs run. Mom, although I've never experienced this kind of thing, I was curious about the same question when I was in school. I also asked other classmates who went to watch the fireworks display, and they told me."

"Mom, your adolescence was such a complete regret..." Sonoko complained.

Rumble——!

As he finished speaking, the railroad tracks not far from the tree-lined path suddenly began to vibrate, and a few bright car lights shone from the diagonal rear. Looking back, he saw that it was a tram approaching from afar, and the flashing sparks from the contact rail on top instantly illuminated the woods on the other side.

Serabelle himself is not the type of person who likes to join in the fun. Let alone a tram, even if an excavator under construction was placed in front of him, he would not be tempted at all.

But it was also for this reason that, at the moment when the sparks exploded, he seemed to catch a glimpse of a pair of people in the jungle on the right.

It should be a man and a woman. The man was kneeling on the ground, while the woman was lying flat on her back. No matter how you look at it, it looked like... a fight in the wild.

The light produced by the electric spark flashed away, and Serabel actually didn't see anything clearly. He just caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye. When he subconsciously turned his head to look, the light had gone out. He could only barely see a vague human-shaped black shadow in the dim light of the street lamp. If it weren't for the previous quick glance, he wouldn't have noticed that there was someone there.

Okay, but it's true that for outdoor battles you do need to find a secluded place.

However, just as Serabelle was about to look away and pretend she saw nothing, a strange scene happened.

The male figure who was kneeling on the grass a second ago suddenly stood up. Something in his hand seemed to fall to the ground and hit the stones, making a crisp metallic sound. Then he fled into the depths of the jungle in panic.

The woman was still lying on the ground motionless.

"...?"

Vaguely sensing something was wrong, Serabelle immediately stopped.

As soon as he stopped, Suzuki Tomoko stopped too.

"What's wrong, Sera-kun, did you see anything?"

"Well, wait a minute..."

Without time to explain, Serabelle took out her cell phone from the sleeve of her yukata, turned on the flashlight and shone it in the direction she had just been in, while she strode into the jungle.

The dark night is quickly dispelled by the light of technology.

When Serabelle walked into the bushes, she saw a young woman with brown hair lying motionless on the grass about six or seven meters away from the road, with large areas of blood on her chest and abdomen in her bathrobe.

There was also a bloody dagger lying beside him.

"This, this is..."

After seeing the scene clearly, Conan, who was following over, was stunned.

Serabelle didn't react as much as he did. She moved closer to smell his breath and feel his pulse, then stood up and said.

"He's been stabbed in the heart. Even if he's in front of the hospital, he can't be saved. He's already dead. We should call the police."