I am in Mihua, and the ladies all like me

"If you can't reveal it specifically, then why not give it a vague hint?"

"Ah? This... is better not to do it?"

"It's okay, just say it~"

"Um……"

After being urged repeatedly, Kisaki Eri's cheeks quickly turned red, and her expression seemed a little resistant, but soon turned into a hint of shyness.

She leaned forward slightly, still avoiding Yukiko's gaze, and covered her mouth with her hand to lower her voice.

"I haven't told Xiaolan about this yet, so Yukiko, you have to keep it a secret for me."

"I know, I know. It's kept strictly confidential!"

Yukiko knew that she would never tell anyone about this kind of thing, so she answered very straightforwardly.

However, having come to this point, Kisaki Eri still cleared her throat with dignity and made some mental preparation before speaking again.

"As for me, Yukiko, you know that I can retire at home without any problems in my current situation. So first of all, I don't really care about the financial aspect. As long as I am not the kind of person who spends money lavishly or likes gambling and can get by a little bit, it's fine."

"Yeah, sure."

Yukiko nodded in agreement. On this point, she and Eri Kisaki completely agreed.

As she started talking, Kisaki Eri's tone gradually became smoother.

"As for appearance, although I don't like to judge people by appearance, I can't blindly look for a middle-aged fat man with a bald head and yellow teeth. If he really looks like that, I won't be attracted to him. So even if he is not very handsome, at least he should be able to keep himself clean."

"Makes sense."

Yukiko continued to nod.

Kisaki Eri added: "Finally, it's about personality. In fact, if the above two points are met, the personality is basically not that bad. But now Xiaolan and I live together, so if possible, I also want to find a type that Xiaolan can accept."

"Hmm~"

Yukiko agreed with this.

It has to be said that although feelings are a very subjective thing, after all, Kisaki Eri is already a mother and now lives with her daughter, Xiaolan, so it is necessary to consider all the above aspects.

It's just...

Yukiko tilted her head in confusion.

"But do people like what you said, Eri, really exist in reality?"

"This one, maybe?"

Kisaki Eri picked up the wine glass and used the action of drinking to cover up the smile on the corner of her lips.

"By the way, Yukiko, what are your plans?"

"Nya? Me?"

Yukiko didn't expect the topic to be thrown back to her so quickly. She couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

She subconsciously put herself into the question she had just asked Kisaki Eri, and was trying to find a way to blur it out, but suddenly she remembered that she seemed to have recently been given a new setting of a widow.

Yukiko quickly shook her head and adopted a firm tone.

"I don't have any such thoughts. For now... just live your life peacefully."

"That's it."

Kisaki Eri put down her wine glass and smiled slightly, still saying nothing.

Yukiko didn't say anything either, and the room fell into a brief silence for a moment.

The quiet atmosphere made an older girl, who was also holding a glass of wine, involuntarily recall the three requests her friend had just made.

If she were to be honest with herself, even though her relationship with Serabelle started out as an accident, it was because of these points that they were able to maintain their relationship until now.

Well~ So there are people like this in the world, like her own Bell.

Oh, no, that’s not entirely true. As Eri Kisaki mentioned, Serabel probably still can’t do the last point.

When Yukiko thought of her son's stubborn temper, she couldn't help but feel the urge to hold her forehead. She thought that no matter how good Bell's personality was, Shin-chan would never accept it.

Forget it, it’s better not to let him know for now.

……

In just over an hour, the bottle of red wine was quickly finished as the two women chatted with each other.

Half per person, no more, no less.

Seeing that the wine was almost finished, the slightly tipsy Kisaragi suggested going back to the room.

Thinking that Serabell was still waiting downstairs, Yukiko naturally did not try to stop them.

So, after leaving the room, Kisaki Eri got on the elevator and left the current floor, and then she called Serabel.

She planned to go to Shenhai Island at night with the latter.

Perhaps because the number of visitors has suddenly doubled in the past six months, the indigenous people of Shenhai Island, who never had a nightlife before, have now developed a night market culture.

Although it cannot be as prosperous as Ginza in Tokyo due to limited conditions, the island residents have created a place similar to a temple fair with their efforts.

It was early summer and we were at the seaside, with a cool breeze at night, making it a perfect time for a date and a festival.

In preparation for tonight's Shenhai Island temple fair, Kisaki Eri even secretly packed the kimono that Serabell had given her into her suitcase.

As for Xiaolan, she has already said that she wants to catch up with Yukiko. If I don't go back, Xiaolan probably won't think of going out alone, so it's not a big problem even if I go back a little later.

The plan goes through!

However, the idea is beautiful, but the reality is often cruel.

The waiting tone on the phone had sounded several times. Kisaki Eri waited and waited, but the call was still not connected until it turned into a busy tone.

what's the situation?

Kisaki Eri was a little surprised. Although she didn't tell Serabell in advance, but... could it be that he ran out to play by himself early?

Impossible, fight again.

But it still didn't work.

After two consecutive calls without any answer, Kisaki Eri had no choice but to believe it.

I'm afraid that Serabelle really went out to play by herself. That's the only way she didn't hear her call.

But it’s still early now, and it doesn’t seem right to rest so early after traveling.

There is no other way, I should ask my daughter.

With no other options, the married female lawyer called Xiaolan instead.

But... still no one answered.

???

Chapter 675: Xiaolan has a deep memory

In the single room downstairs, the lighted bathroom door remained closed.

Looking in from the entrance, there were two faint handprints on the frosted glass of the bathroom door, as if someone had pressed their hand hard on it from the inside when the glass was fogged up.

I don’t know what he is doing.

Inside the bathroom, the white porcelain bathtub with built-in heat preservation and heating functions is filled with clear water. The bright light from the overhead heater shines through the rising mist onto the girl's smooth back, and the sparkling sweat reflects a soft luster.

"Ha ha……"

Xiaolan leaned forward slightly, resting her chin on the shoulder of the boy in front of her, and her arms weakly crossed from both sides to hug behind him, her chest rising and falling slightly due to her quickened breathing.

Underwater, her long and tight legs, acquired through karate training since childhood, were folded around Serabelle's waist in a meditation posture.

The previous fierce battle has come to an end, and the two have been maintaining this posture for nearly five or six minutes.

Serabelle washed the girl bit by bit with a towel, just like she did at home.

The cleaning progress was a bit slow, but Xiaolan extremely enjoyed this slow "finishing work".

In order to better enjoy the service, she turned her head and leaned one side of her cheek against her shoulder so that she could see Serabelle's face above her from the corner of her eye.

"Come to think of it, the phone I put on the bedside table outside seemed to ring just now."

"I heard."

Serabelle hummed, but did not stop working.

"Because my phone rang too."

"I don't know who is calling..."

Xiaolan hummed and showed a sly smile.

"Maybe Aunt Yukiko and mom have finished it, Aunt Yukiko asked you to go back, and then mom called me?"

"It's hard to say." Serabelle shook her head. "It's possible that it was Conan who called. He wanted to ask for your room number during the day and said he wanted to come and chat with you at night. Maybe he still didn't give up, so he called you first and found that no one answered, so he came to call me."

"Alas!"

Before she finished her words, Xiaolan made a disgusting sound.

She clenched her fists into her fists and lightly hit her shoulders, as if that was not enough to vent her anger. She even pretended to open her mouth and pressed two rows of teeth marks on the side of Serabelle's neck before she stopped.

"Please don't say such unlucky words at this time, okay?"

"Is this... an unlucky thing to say?"

Serabelle was inevitably confused.

Although he knew that Xiaolan no longer had any feelings for Kudo Shinichi, it wasn't to the point where she had to retreat like a demon, right?

"Doesn't it count?"

Xiaolan couldn't help but curl her lips.

"From what I know about him, if he really wanted to use his brain for this, he would first call the hotel receptionist to ask questions, and use some strange methods to guess the approximate floor where my mother and I were, and then start to check the room numbers one by one, and finally knock on the door and show up at your door with a smug look on his face."

She added at the end.

“It’s just like a pervert.”

Serabelle: "..."

It's been downgraded to a pervert, but it's okay.

But it shouldn’t be that serious, after all, Xiaolan didn’t reply to his text message all day.

Just like the classic online saying “read but not reply”, although there is no answer on the surface, in fact there is a clear enough answer.

He knew that the girl didn't want to see him but still came over. The great Kudo Shinichi shouldn't be that bad, right?

and……

Somehow, Serabelle suddenly remembered the man who had his kidney bitten by a shark on the speedboat in the afternoon. She didn't know whether the cremation was successful.

"Okay, okay, instead of worrying about it any more, why not just get up and take a look and you'll know everything~"

Xiaolan patted Serabelle's shoulder and muttered something before getting up.

"I hope it's not that unlucky guy..."

However, perhaps the bottom of the white porcelain bathtub was a little slippery, or perhaps the long battle before had severely exhausted the girl's physical strength, causing her legs to become weak.

Xiaolan, who had just stood up halfway, suddenly staggered, her feet shifted slightly, and her knees loosened and she sat down again in the same place.

The next second, a series of exclamations from the girl came from the bathroom, which was unprecedented.

"Yeah~!"

……

About two or three minutes later, with the help of Serabel, Xiaolan was finally able to wipe her body clean and put on her clothes. She finally came out of the bathroom with a red face and holding her stomach.

The first thing she did when she returned to the bedroom was to sit on the bed, then pick up the mobile phone on the bedside table, turn it on and take a look.

There was a missed call from Eri Kisaki.

Fortunately, it was indeed my mother calling...

After confirming that it wasn't some unlucky person calling, Xiaolan breathed a sigh of relief.