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"Although your reasoning just now was very impressive, Uncle Shirakawa, I will definitely become a better detective than you in the future!"
“That’s really ambitious.”
Smiling and clapping his hands, Bai Heqing looked at Bai Heying who was quietly beside him.
"Aying, you should also learn more from Shinichi."
"No, Sister Jing is enough for me." Bai Heying refused immediately.
Her sister is an all-rounder, and with such a sister without any weaknesses around, Bai Heying doesn't want to work hard at all.
"Your children have such a good relationship..." Yukiko Kudo sighed a little when she saw this, "Should I have another child to keep Shinichi company?"
Yukiko was quite tempted, but after glancing at Kudo Shinichi, she immediately gave up the idea.
"Forget it. Taking care of a child is too tiring. Even if I really want to, I should at least wait until Shinichi grows up a little bit and let him, as his older brother, take care of him. Hehe..."
"Hey! Mom! I heard it!"
"Hey, why don't you just pretend you didn't hear it? You little brat..."
"Yukiko, why did your family come to San Francisco?" At this time, Shirakawa Kiyoshi asked.
"Oh, I'm just here for vacation and to take a look at the house. After all, Yusaku and I plan to settle down in the United States in the future." Kudo Yukiko replied.
At this time, several people were chatting while walking towards the parasol where Bai Hejing was.
"That's true. Rich people generally like to go to this country." Bai Heqing nodded to show his understanding.
"Okay! Are you teasing me? Obviously, you two are the richer ones, right?"
Hearing the hidden meaning in Shirakawa Kiyoshi's words, Kudo Yukiko glared at him again.
"In order to make money, you are busy with your company's affairs all day long, and you always go on business trips together, leaving Xiaojing alone at home to take care of her sister.
I heard from Xiaojing that you were planning to take the sisters out to play today, right? But you had to go to the company at the last minute. Although the problem is not yours, if you had spent more time with them normally, why would you rush to do this now?
Really, don't waste your time on unimportant things, and pay more attention to your children, right?"
"Well, indeed, you are right."
Soon he realized what Kudo Yukiko said, and after being "reprimanded" by her, Shirakawa Qing nodded and said seriously:
"Sharon and I have been thinking about retiring recently. After all, we are both in our forties and halfway through our lives. We don't really like the kind of life that involves tossing around outside all day long..."
"More than forty years old..."
After being reminded of this by Shirakawa Kiyoshi, Yukiko suddenly realized that Shirakawa Kiyoshi was indeed much older than her.
To be precise, he is nineteen years older.
However, there is such a huge age gap between the two, so why is it that Shirakawa Qing's appearance is almost the same as hers?
The two look like they are of the same age.
Even Sharon, who was three years younger than Shirakawa Kiyoshi, looked a few years older than Shirakawa Kiyoshi in Yukiko's opinion...
"White River."
Staring blankly at Shirakawa Kiyoshi's face, Yukiko subconsciously spoke out what was in her mind.
"Why do I feel like you look younger now than when I saw you a few years ago?"
Chapter 504 Akai Wuwu
"Why do I feel like you look younger now than when I saw you a few years ago?"
Looking at Shirakawa Kiyoshi's face in a daze, Kudo Yukiko subconsciously spoke out what was in her mind.
This is not some kind of compliment, but Yukiko's true feelings.
Not to mention the more distant past, a few years ago when she and Sharon became apprentices of the great magician and she followed Sharon to visit her home, Shirakawa Qing still gave her the feeling of a forty-year-old middle-aged man.
But now, several years have passed, and instead of moving towards middle-aged or elderly, Bai Heqing feels younger.
As an excellent actor, Kudo Yukiko can clearly feel that Shirakawa Kiyoshi's temperament has not changed much in recent years. His "youth" is more direct and fundamental - physical youth.
It's like being rejuvenated.
"Hmm? Younger?" Bai Heqing raised his hand and touched his face when he heard that.
"It definitely feels that way."
Sharon beside him heard this, looked at his face carefully, and nodded in response:
"We live under the same roof, so I've gotten used to seeing your face. If Yukiko hadn't mentioned it today, I wouldn't have noticed it..."
"It seems that I take good care of myself. I can even make myself look ten years younger..." Not taking it too seriously, Bai Heqing teased himself with a smile.
"Shirakawa, what skin care products do you usually use?" Kudo Yukiko asked curiously, also just a little confused and not paying too much attention.
The topic was just blown away by a few people.
"No need for that. Just eat less junk food and exercise moderately."
"Tsk, if everyone can stick to this, then what is the need for skin care products?"
"It may be hard to say for others, but Yukiko is at home taking care of the children every day now. I think there should be enough time for you to develop this habit..."
【Um? 】
Having said this, Bai Heqing, who was originally smiling, suddenly changed his expression. He quickly turned around and raised his hand, accurately grabbing the hand behind him that wanted to hold his shoulder.
"Just casually getting up behind someone is not...!"
Bai Heqing turned his head and after seeing the face of the man behind him clearly, he suddenly stopped talking halfway through. After a moment of confusion, his pupils suddenly shrank and his eyes were filled with disbelief.
The woman behind him has short golden hair, a proud figure and beautiful appearance. She is an absolute beauty.
This beauty was looking at Bai Heqing with a gloomy look and said coldly:
"It's really strange. Today I actually saw a person who had been dead for almost ten years walking around in front of me. Was I taking drugs unconsciously? Or was the dead man resurrected?"
Mary?
When Mary heard Bai Heqing calling out her name, the expression on her face became even gloomier. She glanced at Sharon, who was standing next to Bai Heqing with a serious look in her eyes, and immediately grabbed Bai Heqing's wrist with her backhand.
"Come with me."
As she said this, she pulled Bai Heqing towards the sea cliff in the distance.
"So, what is going on here?"
Sitting on a beach, Kudo Yukiko looked from afar at Shirakawa Kiyoshi who was dragged away by the suddenly appearing blonde woman, and asked:
"Could it be that she is the person that Bai He cheated with?"
"What nonsense are you talking about? I think the possibility of my Shirakawa cheating is much smaller than that of your Yusaku." Sharon glanced at her.
"He dares!" Even though she knew Sharon was joking, Yukiko still got furious. "If that bastard dares to cheat on me, I'll go with him! If he finds one, I'll find ten!"
Sharon smiled and did not respond to her words. Instead, she looked in the direction of Baihe Qing and Mary with a serious expression.
"So, what's going on with that woman? I thought I heard Baihe call her Mary just now? They should know each other, right?"
After the joke, Yukiko asked again worriedly, she was worried about her friend.
"I don't know." Sharon shook her head slightly. She really didn't know.
only……
Looking at Baihe Qing who was still talking to Mary from afar, Sharon felt a strong sense of uneasiness gradually rising in her heart.
She didn't know why, but she always had a feeling that the life she and Shirakawa Qing had been living in for the past few years, which had gradually become stable, was about to disappear...
"Brother Xiuyi, does mom know that man?"
Not far from Sharon and Kudo Yukiko, Akai Shuichi and Hideyoshi were also looking at Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary at the foot of the sea cliff in the distance.
"Isn't it obvious?"
"Come to think of it, I noticed before that when mom looked at Sister Jing, who went into the water with you to save people, and Sister Xiaoying, there was something wrong in her eyes..."
"What do you mean?" Akai Shuichi turned and looked at Hideyoshi.
"I don't know. I just have this feeling. So I tried to test Sister Jing before, but unfortunately I didn't get anything special. In the end, she noticed it. Fortunately, I managed to fool her..."
Hideyoshi spread his hands and said, "So, mom and that man really did know each other, right? I just don't know when it happened, and I don't think I've ever heard mom mention it before..."
“It’s not that there isn’t any.”
After thinking for a while with his head down, Shuichi Akai suddenly remembered something that left a deep impression on him.
"Hideyoshi, do you remember? Mom went to Japan once ten years ago."
"Oh, I remember there was such a thing. My father was still alive at that time, and Majuni was not born yet." Hideyoshi nodded.
"So what did mom do when she went to Japan?"
"I don't know about that either, but I remember clearly that before my mother decided to go to Japan, the expression on her face was just as gloomy as when she called out to that man just now..."
While the families of both sides were equally nervous and worried, the conversation between Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary at the foot of the sea cliff was not as tense as everyone imagined. Instead, it was very harmonious.
"So, you deliberately arranged that fake death and escape drama ten years ago because you didn't want to be involved in Japan's aristocratic politics anymore?"
After listening to Baihe Qing's explanation of the whole story, Mary sighed softly.
"Why did you hide this from me? You must also know that I went to Japan ten years ago to help you solve the case, right?
Why didn't you come out and tell me at that time? For the past ten years, I have always thought that you were dead..."
"Sorry." Bai Heqing smiled at her but did not explain the reason.
Of course he knew that Mary went to Japan ten years ago, and it was because of this that he became determined to hide the truth from Mary.
After all, he couldn't tell someone who was worried about him that he faked his death just to make it easier for him to join a terrorist organization and do evil.
Mary also did not ask any further questions.
"Speaking of which, you have seen the two children from my family just now, right? They are the two boys who went into the water with your daughter to save people, and helped the police call the suspects..."
Mary did not ask about Sharon's identity, nor did she ask about Bai Heqing's former fiancée. As smart as she was, after listening to Bai Heqing's simple description of the past, she had already guessed the general idea, so there was no need to ask about it...
"Well, they are two very outstanding young people."
But what Mary didn't notice was that when Bai Heqing heard Mary mention her own family, a strange look suddenly flashed across his face.