Ke Xue: Xiaolan delivers goods to your door at the beginning

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"It's good to be young. Most of the people attending the fireworks festival are students around your age."

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

Sonoko, always outspoken, seized the opportunity to snatch Lin Xiaofeng, who was walking beside her mother, to her side.

Xiao Lan unconsciously moved closer to Lin Xiaofeng again.

Seeing this, Tomoko Suzuki sneered: "That may be true, but it's really one of a kind that you two share a boyfriend."

Ran and Sonoko suddenly looked up and around. Indeed, Lin Xiaofeng's behavior of having two women on his left and right was not just rare, it was something they had never seen before.

. ..... ...

Tomoko Suzuki reached out and pulled Lin Xiaofeng back to her side.

"Sonoko, you never know how to behave when I'm around. And who knows what you'll do when I'm not here? Even a gentle girl like Ran has learned all that from you."

"Ah?" Xiaolan looked ashamed; she wasn't much better than Yuanzi. "Aunt Pengzi, it's not like that."

"Ugh—" Sonoko pouted and nudged her friend's arm with her elbow. "Ran, just bear with it for now..."

"Uh..." Xiao Lan was embarrassed.

"Little Linglan, the lanterns here are so beautiful and bright. I'll take you to take pictures." As she spoke, *Yuanzi magically pulled a camera that looked quite expensive from the sleeve of her yukata.

Ran exclaimed in surprise, "So you brought a camera, Sonoko!"

"Of course! How can you travel without a camera?" Sonoko said smugly.

The two little girls held hands and went to take pictures with great enthusiasm.

At that moment, Suzuki Tomoko leaned closer to Lin Xiaofeng, a slight smile playing on her lips.

"Xiao Feng, you're so smug... Openly two-timing, don't you feel any remorse at all?"

"Mrs. Suzuki, it's not what you think."

Lin Xiaofeng expressed his innocence, stating that he wasn't openly two-timing, but rather juggling numerous relationships.

296. Fireworks may be beautiful, but nothing surpasses the beauty of a lady.

"What is it?" Suzuki Tomoko asked Lin Xiaofeng with a smile.

"I..." Lin Xiaofeng hesitated, wondering whether he should tell Suzuki Tomoko that he was not just two-timing.

"Fine. I won't make things difficult for you." Suzuki Tomoko stretched her arms high without regard for her image, letting her yukata sleeves fall down to reveal her snow-white arms, not caring at all, until she was completely relaxed before lowering them. "I've been looking forward to enjoying a fireworks festival like this for a long time. And with the person I admire."

As soon as she finished speaking, a gentle evening breeze blew by, tugging at the strands of hair by the wife's ear.

Detective Lin was by his side, while in the distance, an old-fashioned tram rumbled along the tracks, with occasional sparks flashing from the connection between the roof and the overhead contact line.

Everything was so beautiful, just like something out of a comic book.

Suzuki Tomoko suddenly grabbed Lin Xiaofeng's hand and pulled him to a spot near the fireworks area, leaving the two silly girls who were still studying how to take pictures behind.

"This place is so cold, the view is really strange." Suzuki Maiko smiled and looked at Lin Qi with a small smile.

"Ah...yes. But, Ran and Sonoko are gone." Lin Xiaofeng was sweating profusely. He only realized now that Suzuki Tomoko had ulterior motives towards him.

"They're not children, they'll find their way home on their own, just leave them alone."

"..."

"Boom, boom, boom—"

Fireworks burst brilliantly in the night sky. Tomoko Suzuki exclaimed in amazement at the colorful sparks. She had once dreamed of watching fireworks with the boy she liked, but that dream had never come true. Now, at her age, it had come true. Life is so unpredictable.

"Fireworks, so beautiful..."

"No matter how beautiful the fireworks are, they can't compare to the beauty of Mrs. Suzuki."

"Don't call me Madam. Just call me Aunt Pengzi, like Xiaolan does."

"Yes... Aunt Tomoko."

The fireworks display lasts for one hour, but since it is often accompanied by temple fairs and there is a warm-up period before it begins, the total time actually exceeds one hour.

The fireworks faded, just as the music ended and the audience dispersed.

After the crowd dispersed, Xiao Lan and Wu Yuanzi finally found Lu Ling's father, Mu Pengqizi, and Lin Xiaofeng.

"Mom, you actually ran away with Xiaofeng! What are you trying to do?" Yuanzi began to be wary of her mother. Lin Xiaofeng was too popular with women, and he was also a womanizer, so she had to be careful.

"Your son and I are just watching fireworks together? What else could we be doing? You're not jealous of your mom, are you?" Suzuki Tomoko teased her daughter.

Then, Tomoko Suzuki looked at Ran and asked, "Ran, did you and Sonoko take any nice photos?"

"Mmm... It's mainly Sonoko who's filming," Ran replied obediently.

Leaving the fireworks viewing area, Sonoko strolled leisurely along the tree-lined path, admiring the photos in her camera's album as she spoke. She'd truly become a frenzied photographer tonight, snapping many beautiful pictures of Ran. She was going to share them with Lin Xiaofeng and Pengzi.

"Wow! Ran, you're so photogenic! You look beautiful in this picture," Tomoko exclaimed.

"Ah... Sonoko, why are all the photos you took of me?" Ran noticed that most of the photos Sonoko took used her as the model.

"Ran, you're beautiful. Not only does Xiaofeng like you a lot, but I like you a lot too," Sonoko replied with a smile.

"No, I didn't..." Xiaolan blushed.

"Oh, Ran, you're so beautiful, Sonoko. Send me the photos when you get back!"

Lin Xiaofeng looked at the photos Sonoko had taken. In the photos, Ran was wearing a blue kimono, holding a small round fan, and barefoot in wooden clogs. Against the backdrop of the Izu night scene, she looked absolutely beautiful. Ran's various movements and expressions were all captured wonderfully.

"Are you all ganging up on me?" Xiaolan puffed out her cheeks.

As soon as he finished speaking, the railway tracks not far from the tree-lined path suddenly began to vibrate. A few bright headlights shone from the side and behind. Looking back, it turned out that a tram was approaching from a distance, and the electric sparks flashing on the contact rail on top of it instantly illuminated the woods on the other side.

Lin Xiaofeng wasn't the type to enjoy joining in the fun. Let alone a tram, even if you put an excavator under construction in front of him, he wouldn't be tempted in the slightest.

But it was precisely for this reason that, in the instant the electric sparks ignited, he seemed to glimpse a couple in the jungle to his right.

That should have been 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 looked at it, it looked exactly like... an outdoor fight.

The flash of light from the electric spark disappeared in an instant, and Lin Xiaofeng didn't actually see anything clearly. He only caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye. By the time he subconsciously turned his head to look, the light had already gone out. He could only vaguely make out what appeared to be a human-shaped dark shadow by the dim light of the street lamp. In fact, if it weren't for that fleeting glimpse earlier, he wouldn't have even noticed that there was someone there.

Well, it's true, you really need to find a secluded spot for outdoor battles.

However, just as Lin Xiaofeng was about to pretend he hadn't seen anything and look away, a strange scene unfolded.

The male figure, who had been kneeling on the grass just a second ago, suddenly stood up. Something seemed to fall from his hand and hit a stone on the ground with a metallic clang. He then hurriedly fled into the depths of the jungle.

The woman remained lying motionless on the ground.

"what's the situation?"

Sensing something was amiss, Lin Xiaofeng immediately stopped.

As soon as he stopped, Tomoko Suzuki stopped as well.

"What's wrong, Lin Jun? Did you see something?"

"Okay, wait a moment... I'll go take a look."

Without time to explain further, Lin Xiaofeng pulled his phone out of the sleeve of his bathrobe, turned on the flashlight and shone it in the direction he had just come from, while also striding into the jungle.

The deep darkness of night vanished in the face of the light of technology.

1.4 When Lin Xiaofeng walked into the bushes, he 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 bathrobe covering her chest and abdomen.

And there was a bloodstained dagger lying nearby.

"This, this is..."

Upon seeing the scene before him, Lin Xiaofeng was stunned. How audacious of the murderer to choose this time to commit the crime? Lin Xiaofeng examined the victim; stabbed in the heart, he was clearly beyond saving.

The three women noticed something was wrong and approached Lin Xiaofeng. They immediately saw the corpse and trembled with fear.

"What on earth is this..."

"Call an ambulance quickly."

"Oh—should we call the police?"

Before long, passersby gathered around and, upon discovering the murder, were both surprised and frightened.

297. Suzuki Tomoko's Night Raid on Lin Xiaofeng

Upon receiving the emergency call, the local police station in Izu immediately dispatched officers to the scene.

Ten minutes later, beside a tree-lined path where red and blue lights flashed alternately, a male police inspector with a square face and a coral-haired hairstyle stepped out of a police car, proceeding in an official manner.

Inspector Coral Head took out a small notebook from the breast pocket of his police uniform, opened it, and coughed lightly.

"Let me introduce myself first. I am Inspector Yokomizo of the Izu Metropolitan Police Department. You are the first in charge of corpses... um?"

Before he could finish speaking, as if he had seen an old acquaintance, just as Yokogawa's gaze passed over Lin Xiaofeng, he suddenly paused, and then his eyes widened sharply.

"Huh? I thought it was someone else, but isn't this high school detective Lin Xiaofeng?"

"Oh. It's you, Inspector Yokomizo."

"Oh, Detective Lin, I'm honored that you still remember me."

Then, Inspector Yokomizo walked up to Tomoko Suzuki, looked her up and down, and said, "You're that Ms. Ikenami from before... wait, I think I've mistaken you for someone else..."

“You’re right, you’ve mistaken me for someone else?” Tomoko Suzuki changed the subject. “What’s the full name of the Ms. Ikenami you’re talking about?”

"Quiet Waves of the Pond".

"So it was her..." Tomoko Suzuki fell into deep thought.

Inspector Yokomizo sized up Tomoko Suzuki a few more times and was nearly scared to death when he realized she was the wife of Japan's richest man, Shiro Suzuki, the business queen Tomoko Suzuki. A while ago, Tomoko Suzuki had filed a complaint against the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and Inspector Ginzo Nakamori of the Third Investigation Division had been severely reprimanded by Superintendent Hakuba, almost getting expelled from Tokyo and sent to the frontier.

Officer Yokomizo put on white gloves and pretended to examine the body. After calculating the time, he suddenly remembered that a similar case had occurred at this time last year and remained unsolved.

"Sigh... I didn't expect it to happen this year too."

"'also'?"

The three women felt a chill run down their spines upon hearing Officer Yokomizo's sigh.

Officer Yokomizo stood up and told Lin Xiaofeng about the relevant information, hoping that Lin Xiaofeng could help him solve the case.

"In fact, in the Izu area, there is a deranged serial killer who specifically hunts down women with brown hair in the summer..."

There were no clues, the crime scene was open, and the perpetrator had escaped...

Although Lin Xiaofeng knew the plot and who the murderer was, he had no evidence at the moment. As long as the other party did not admit it, there was nothing he could do and he could only give up.

Lin Xiaofeng patted Officer Yokomizo on the shoulder: "I understand, Officer Yokomizo, good luck."

"...Detective Lin, you're not planning to abandon me, are you? I don't want this!" Inspector Yokomizo was panicked. He had finally managed to get a chance to learn from Detective Lin's reasoning skills, but the other party just left. He was truly heartbroken.

The group bid farewell to Officer Yokomizo and returned to their hotel.

In the guest room, Lin Xiaofeng sat cross-legged on the tatami mat, holding his phone and placing it beside him. Next to the phone were the sleeping mat for the night and a change of clothes for his bath later.

"Knock knock—" came a knock on the door.

Lin Xiaofeng wondered, would Sonoko and Ran still dare to come looking for him after being warned by Suzuki Tomoko?

"The door is unlocked, please come in."

Lin Xiaofeng looked up and saw the door being pulled open. As the ball bounced, a fair and plump jade leg emerged, barefoot on the tatami mat.

Next, what came into Lin Xiaofeng's view was a shapely and exquisite body that was only covered by a silk nightgown, from the collarbone down to the buttocks.

Tomoko Suzuki's pajamas were tasteful, sheer and hazy, exuding a mature woman's charm. The fabric clearly outlined her curves, making her already slender waist appear even more delicate. After washing off her makeup, Tomoko Suzuki shed her usual air of a wealthy heiress, appearing refreshingly elegant, as if she had returned to the age when she was a young lady from a prominent family, yet possessing a mature charm refined over the years. She stepped out of the bathroom and stood before Lin Xiaofeng, completely unconcerned about the large expanse of skin exposed, smiling at the boy who rarely showed a hint of surprise.

"What's wrong? Were you scared when you saw me?"

"Aunt Pengzi, what brings you here?"

Lin Xiaofeng licked his lips. Suzuki Tomoko is too beautiful. Who can resist her?

The door was closed again, and Suzuki Tomoko sat down next to Lin Xiaofeng.

A pleasant aroma wafted towards me; it was the sweet scent of strong female hormones.

Lin Xiaofeng hurriedly covered the magical artifact he was holding, which was being used to power up Lin Xuchong's treasure. This dilapidated inn had terrible soundproofing; if he did anything wrong, he'd be killed by Sonoko and Ran. Besides, Suzuki Tomoko was the wife of Japan's richest man. She'd first slept with his two daughters, and now she was cuckolding him. Wouldn't she be hunted down?

"I just came to check if Xiaolan and Yuanzi came over to party with you, 153."

"Ah..."

Lin Xiaofeng smiled wryly. Even if Xiaolan and Yuanzi wanted to come, they wouldn't dare with you around.