I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

If I ask her, maybe I can get a reliable answer?

Conan also lifted his chin and complained: "It may even be that in the end it would be better not to find the person."

"Eh? Why?"

Hattori Heiji didn't understand his theory.

Conan continued to hold his cheek and squinted: "Needless to say, it's been eight years since the incident, maybe she already has a partner now, if you go find someone else, wouldn't it be awkward for both parties?"

"Hiss—minotaur guna!"

Hattori Heiji's already dark complexion suddenly became even darker.

Serabelle took another sip of the red bean soup and said, "Wake up. Logically, you don't even know her name. She may not even know you. Even if she has a partner now, it's pure love. You, who showed up late, are a minotaur, and you have the right skin color... Fuck~"

At the end, he even used plain but just the right vibrato to recreate Rama's famous scene from the West Coast Journey to the West.

Hattori Heiji, who was tortured by the two men in turn, could only silently raise an international friendly gesture.

"Don't be so long-winded. She has a partner now. Besides, I just want to give her this crystal bead in exchange. I don't really want to do anything to her."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah."

Conan said as if what you said was right, but anyone could see that the boy didn't think so at all.

"But now I know why He Ye was so nervous when she knew you were coming to Kyoto. It turns out that your first love holds such an important position in your heart, hehe~"

"Wait...wait? Kazuha and the others are here too?"

As if he had heard something terrifying, Hattori Heiji's eyes suddenly widened.

"Yeah, they are a few high school girls wandering around Kyoto right now."

Serabel habitually took out his cell phone to see if Masumi Sera had taken a landscape photo for him, but as soon as he opened the lock screen, a new message appeared at the top of the screen.

When I clicked on it, I saw that it was indeed a photo sent by the latter.

In the photo, they seem to have arrived at the gate of a temple called "Shanneng Temple". Looking inside from the gate, the old man abbot is chatting with a few people.

One of them was Kogoro Mori.

yeah?

Chapter 410 You are the real Buddha

As we all know, Kyoto has a huge number of temples.

Just like those so-called "Kyoto Travel Guides" on the Internet, at first glance the name makes you think it covers everything from food to entertainment to local customs and culture, but when you click in, you find that they are all about this temple and that temple. You might have thought it was some kind of pilgrimage route for Buddhist believers.

There is a line in ancient Chinese poetry that goes "Four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasties." It is not an exaggeration to use this to describe Kyoto.

For example, Kinkakuji Temple, Komyoji Temple, Kenninji Temple, Kodaiji Temple, Nanzenji Temple, etc. These are famous temples that often appear in various film and television works and novels. Even if you don’t specifically search on the Internet, you can easily list a lot of them.

As for the less famous small temples...there are even more of them.

Shanneng Temple is one of them.

Compared with the many large temples listed above that have almost become tourist attractions, its scale seems much more shabby.

He was only a few blocks away from the dim sum restaurant where Serabelle and others had met and Red Bean Soup.

There are no red maples all over the mountains in autumn, nor are there green mountains and clear waters surrounding the nature.

It just sits plainly on the street in Kyoto.

It can even be said that if it weren't for the three big characters "Shanneng Temple" printed on the plaque on the outside door, if the door was closed, this place would look no different from an ordinary old house from the outside, at most the courtyard would cover a slightly larger area.

Then the scene changes to Sannoji Temple in Kyoto.

The message was received at ten o'clock and the person arrived at ten ten.

When Serabelle, Conan and Hattori Heiji stepped into the main gate of the temple, passed through the Buddha hall and came to the residential area at the back, they saw a room on the steps and a room where Xiaolan, Ye Zhenchun and others were all there, including Maori Kogoro and the host in the previous photo.

A group of people were sitting around a low table, some cross-legged and some sitting upright, seemingly preparing to discuss something.

"Yo, uncle."

Hattori Heiji walked up and greeted him with a familiar smile.

Hearing the voice coming from behind him, Kogoro Mouri turned around subconsciously, and three familiar faces immediately came into view.

He was stunned for a second, and then he immediately became angry.

"I'm talking to you guys! It's fine if Lan and the others came, but you three said you were going to play, so why did you come here? Besides, do you know where this place is? Why did you just come in so casually? How can you be so disrespectful!"

"Well, Mr. Maori, there's no need for that."

The one who gave the advice was the elderly monk who looked kind and well-intentioned and was sitting at the long table.

"Temple is a place for people to worship freely. How can we open a temple but not allow people to enter? If that is the case, the rules are too strict. Even Buddha will be unhappy. Anyone who comes is a guest. Come on, come on, please take a seat, my three friends."

"Tsk..."

Seeing that the old host said so, Kogoro Mouri didn't know what to say, but he still glared at him in dissatisfaction.

After the three of them sat down, Kogoro Mori put on a serious expression, covered his mouth with a fist and coughed lightly.

"Then let me introduce you."

He first raised his hand to signal the old host who had given advice earlier.

"This is Master Yuanhai, the abbot of Shanneng Temple."

Then Kogoro Mori turned to a young monk who was sitting next to Abbot Yuankai. He was also wearing monk's clothes, had thick eyebrows and big eyes, looked quite honest, had a crew cut and some hard black stubble on his chin.

"Then this is Master Yuan Hai's apprentice, Monk Long Yuan."

Then he switched to the other side of the low table, where three people were sitting in a row.

The first person sitting in the first seat was a middle-aged businessman with two delicate mustaches, wearing a well-tailored suit and looking very bloated.

"This is Mr. Sakura Masazo, an art dealer who runs an antique business on Teramachi Street in Kyoto. He is one of the three donors of Sannoji Temple."

The second one was a young man wearing a kimono. Judging from his appearance, he looked somewhat similar to Kikukawa Seiichiro, the son of the Kyogen master who I met at the trial exhibition of "Cocoon". Even his hairstyle and temperament were almost the same. It was not known whether the two were cousins.

"This is the young master of the Noh Mizuo-ryu, Mr. Mizuo Harutaro. Like Mr. Sakura Shozo, he is also the benefactor of this Sannoji Temple."

The third one is a man in his thirties who wears round glasses, has a slicked-back hair and always smiles. In theory, he should look kind, but for some reason his high cheekbones on both sides give people a sense of ferocity.

"And the last one, like the first two, is Mr. Nishijo Taikawa, who runs a used bookstore."

After the three people were introduced, Hattori Heiji was the first to wave his hand casually.

"Hello everyone, my name is Hattori Heiji, you can just call me Hattori, I'm a high school detective."

"My name is Edogawa Conan~"

"Serabel."

Both Serabelle and Conan's self-introductions were quite brief, almost just passing by.

After listening to Hattori Heiji's self-introduction, the man named Nishijo Taiga suddenly hissed softly, looked up at the ceiling and pinched his chin as if reminiscing.

"Hattori Heiji, I remember this name seemed to be in a magazine..."

"Ahaha~ I think so, but that was a long time ago."

Being mentioned that his name had appeared in a magazine should be considered an honor, but Hattori Heiji was uncharacteristically embarrassed.

And He Ye, who was sitting with Xiaolan and the others, seemed to remember something and curled his lips in disdain.

Huh?

It seemed that there was some hidden secret here, but considering the occasion was not right, Serabelle did not ask directly.

Instead, it was Conan on the side who took the initiative to ask Kogoro Mouri.

"Hey, why did Uncle Kogoro suddenly come to Kyoto without telling us?"

"You little brat...why do I have to report this kind of thing to you!"

Kogoro Maori snorted heavily in dissatisfaction.

"Besides, you went to Osaka to have fun, but I came to Kyoto because of a commission, because of work. Do you know what work is?"

Hey, is this true?

Hattori Heiji and Conan both narrowed their eyes in their hearts.

You have to know that Osaka and Kyoto are just next-door neighbors. Even if you travel between the two places every day, it won't take much time. So what's the harm in saying a little more when you come to Kansai?

You don't even want to say it. Don't you really want to take this opportunity to go to some place where Xiaolan will definitely be angry if she knows about it?

“This is real.”

Maybe it was because the three men's expressions of distrust were too obvious, but Xiaolan actually took the initiative to defend her old father.

"Mr. Long Yuan invited dad to come because there is a Medicine Buddha statue in the temple that is only open to the public every twelve years. It was stolen eight years ago. But in five days, the day every twelve years will come, so Mr. Long Yuan wants to use dad's wisdom to find the stolen Medicine Buddha statue."

Wow, it’s been stolen for eight years before I thought of asking someone to look for it…

You are the true Buddha.

Serabelle thought.

Chapter 411 Abstract Puzzle

"Then the question is, how can we find this Buddha statue that was stolen eight years ago and we just started looking for it?"

And inside the room, after listening to Xiaolan's general description, Hattori Heiji's attitude was almost the same as that of Serabel.

How is it possible to find it after eight years?

Besides, the Buddha statue is not the bottom of a stove. It would take a year or two before you would think of taking it out and scraping the coal ash off the bottom.

Normally, cleaning Buddha statues and their storage places is a daily compulsory task for monks in temples. If they are really stolen, it will not take a week as they will be discovered the next day and the police will be called.

It’s now five days before the public exhibition, so what were you doing earlier?

"Actually...I also advocated calling the police back then."

Monk Longyuan sighed softly.

"But Master said that this is not necessary. Since it was stolen, it means that we have no fate with Medicine Buddha. If there is no fate, there is no need to force it. If there is really fate, I believe we will meet again in the future."

"So this fate has come..."

Hattori Heiji resisted the urge to hold his forehead.

He could remain so calm even when his own Buddha statue was stolen, and even maintain a go-with-the-flow attitude. This is truly quite Buddhist.

Monk Long Yuan scratched his shaved head with a hint of embarrassment: "Well, it's here, but it can't be considered completely here."

"?"

What does it mean to come but not fully come?

Are you also Tathagata?

Then, as the three young men sitting at the table looked at them as if they were looking at a rare animal, he slowly took out a letter from his wide sleeves and handed it to Kogoro Mouri who was sitting upright.

Serabelle took a sharp glance at the moment of handover. There was no signature, stamp or address on the envelope, only a few printed words.

[If you want to know the whereabouts of the Buddha statue, just solve the puzzle]

"It's a puzzle..."

Kogoro Maori muttered something, opened the envelope, took out a piece of paper from it and spread it out.