Gentleman's Night Canteen

With the ringing of the bell, the store door was pushed open.

Everyone's attention was unconsciously attracted by the ringtone, but they were taken aback when they saw the person coming, because this guest who appeared suddenly was too 'special'.

The reason why they are special does not mean that the other party is special. After all, they do not know each other at all. The reason why the other party is special is that the other party is not only tall, close to 2 meters by visual inspection, but also has silver-white hair that does not match his youthful appearance. and darker complexions.

In addition, the wine red suit supported by strong muscles on the other side looked full of impact.

After wearing sunglasses, it is even more oppressive.

But the other party seemed to have guessed something from the reactions of everyone in the store. After entering the door, he took off his sunglasses to reveal those shining golden eyes. It was at this time that he noticed that standing in front of Lysa Conan and Haibara Ai showed slightly nervous expressions.

He was a little surprised at first, but then he showed a gentle smile towards the two of them, as if he was going to use this smile to appease them.

But at this moment, Ryza, who was still shaking Conan and Haibara, stood up suddenly.

"Welcome~! Guest, do you have anything you want to eat?"

Lysa received the new guest very naturally.

That's right, although Lysa usually looks like a big kid, she has actually started her career as an alchemist for more than half a year now and has opened her own alchemy workshop with the help of her best friend, receiving guests and so on. She is also extremely proficient. Seeing Lan Meng making snacks in the kitchen, she naturally chose to help Lan Meng.

In her opinion, this is nothing, after all, when she was on the island, she often helped everyone on the street.

Compared to Hui Yuan Ai who was a little astonished, Conan and Dr. Ali were very calm, because unlike Hui Yuan Ai, they did not know the situation in Lanmeng Store. As for the new customer who saw the apron Lysa was wearing From time to time, I habitually regarded him as a staff member, and naturally ordered the meal very naturally.

"Just help me cook some local specialties~ It's rare to come here and want to eat some local dishes. By the way, is there any wine? I just met an old friend and wanted to have a drink."

When the other party was ordering, his face was full of sighs, as if he was reminiscing about something, but at this moment, a line of sight behind him made him frown and looked in the direction of the line of sight, and then collided with Conan's line of sight...

Chapter 4 Change for me!

Generally speaking, some guests give Lan Meng a gift and hang it in the room. After all, he is afraid of breaking it in the restaurant, but some ordinary ornaments will also be added.

For example, the leather carpets produced by the star base, these leather carpets produced by Draperosaurus or Zetasaurus are inexhaustible things in the star base. After all, the amount of meat consumed in the base every day is extremely amazing, and there are naturally a lot of skins that are peeled off. , some of them were transported back by merchant ships traveling between the New World and the old continent, but some of them were taken by everyone for their own use.

Lan Meng also simply bought some. These things are expensive to transport back to the old road, but they are very cheap in the place of origin.

In addition, there are also small handicrafts made by Pokémon from Pokémon Ranch, which are also placed in the store by Lan Meng. These things with different styles undoubtedly make Conan feel very strange, especially Lan Meng directly put them in order to go out and get them. The shield was hanging behind the cash register at the door, which made Conan even more curious.

But these things made Conan feel a little weird at most, but when the new guest appeared, it made him feel a little strange.

This man knew that he was not an ordinary person just by his aura, and more importantly, he found that there seemed to be something hidden in the waist of the other party's suit?

It looks like a gun, right?

Although Neon also has people who legally carry guns, these people are either policemen or people engaged in security or related things. As for illegal guns, although there are also people with guns, after all, Jidao is also a feature of Neon, but these people seldom carry them with them. Carrying, after all, once a gun is fired, it means that the case is not small. Compared with shooting, the knives are more accustomed to using knives. After all, Neon is still quite strict in this regard.

So could it be said that the person in front of him is... illegally holding a gun?

Conan habitually glanced at the other party trying to find clues, but what he didn't expect was that his eyes just stopped in one place because of thinking about the problem, and Conan was keenly aware of his line of sight and followed his line of sight.

Different from the gentle expression when he greeted himself and Hui Yuanai before, this time the other party's eyes narrowed slightly, like a beast ready to hunt at any time.

But when the other party saw the person who was looking at him, Conan was taken aback, and then quickly squatted down.

"Sorry, did I scare you? I'm still not used to a peaceful environment. As an apology, uncle, may I invite you and your friends to have some snacks?"

Although the other party has commanded young soldiers before, it is not a time of battle anyway, and this time, the city where I came to visit the "old friend" is not that kind of chaotic place, let alone even for the young soldiers in front of me. Small children are too small.

That being the case, the other party's staring at him is probably a little curious about him, right?

After all, along the way, he has also been noticed many times because of his height, skin color and hair.

He likes children...or he once vowed to 'create a world where children will not go to the battlefield'. He always has kindness and tolerance towards children that is completely different from his appearance.

But Conan had a strange expression after hearing the other party's words.

Although the other party looks very mature, but only in terms of appearance, he is similar to Lan Meng. Now that the other party suddenly calls himself "Uncle", it still makes Conan feel a little strange. After all, Haibara Ai has always called Lan Meng as "Brother Lan Meng" before this. 'of.

But what made Conan relieved was that at least the other party didn't seem to care even though he noticed his gaze.

He also simply continued to pretend to be a good baby and started talking to the other party.

Seeing this, Hui Yuanai couldn't help but sigh.

Although she has only known this detective for about ten days, her curiosity far surpassing that of ordinary people still makes her feel very helpless as she doesn't like to communicate with strangers, and even occasionally causes some troubles. The only good news is that Relying on the appearance of a child, most people will not pay attention to it, even if they hate it, they will at most just ignore it.

And although the man in front of him seemed a little scary at first glance, but judging from the other party's performance, he should belong to the type of a child... It shouldn't be a big problem.

And the more important thing is that although the other party doesn't look like an ordinary person, he doesn't have the unique terrifying aura of the "organization", so naturally it has nothing to do with her. Instead of paying attention to him, it is better to pay attention to the person who is protruding from the kitchen Lysa who communicated with Blue Dream in the head.

I don't know why she always observes the other party unconsciously... Could it be because of the other party's body that violates physics?

Speaking of which, I didn't seem to care about this before, did I?

Hui Yuan Ai was also a little confused about her own thoughts, but when Lysa informed Lan Meng to come back, she unconsciously greeted her.

Looking at Conan who was chatting with the new customer and Haibara Ai who was pulling that Miss Ryza.

For some reason, Dr. Ali, who brought the two of them to visit, felt a little sad.

Is this what it feels like to be a tool person...

Regardless of the subtle interpersonal relationships in the store for the time being, Lan Meng on the other side was also a little surprised when she heard the menu reported by Lysa.

In fact, Blue Dream is not like what Lysa imagined, because she might not notice the sound of wind chimes because of cooking.

The wind chime on the Gate of Destiny Food is its supporting facility, and I don't know what the material is, but as long as it sounds, it will echo in his mind, and it seems to be bound to the 'system'.

And when he saw that Lysa entertained the guests and successfully guided them to their seats and finished ordering, he simply didn't come out, after all, it was unnecessary.

But when Lysa reported to him the dishes ordered by the new customers, she couldn't help thinking about one thing.

Do you need more waiters in your store?

It was really not necessary when we first opened the store. Generally speaking, customers only show up after a while in most cases, but as more and more regular customers, the flow of people in the store also began to increase slowly. To the time when I have no time to entertain guests in order to cook.

However, unlike customers, as a waiter, you will definitely come into contact with a large number of customers, and sooner or later you will find out about the particularity of the store and the existence of the Gate of Destiny Food, so you must choose carefully.

Of course, the most perfect situation is still for him to make alchemy dolls, but considering the semi-finished products made now... Well, the defective ones are even a problem for walking, so it's better not to think about this kind of thing for the time being.

Thinking of this, Lan Meng couldn't help but take a look at Mao Mao Beast, who was lying on the kitchen counter and watching her cooking curiously.

If cats and beasts continue to evolve, maybe they can help themselves, right?

And the cat, cat, and beast that was watched by Lan Meng naturally didn't know what its unscrupulous master was thinking. It simply noticed Lan Meng's sight, so it couldn't help but tilt its head.

"Blue dream?"

Looking at the cute expression of the other party, Lan Meng couldn't help but want to reach out to touch the other party's head, but just stretched out the hand but stopped unconsciously, because at this time Lan Meng suddenly remembered something, at this time The ingredients I'm handling don't seem to taste very good, maybe the other party doesn't like it, so let's forget it...

Chapter 5 Guests, Your 'Sherry'

The ingredient that Blue Dream is dealing with is a not-so-common ingredient—ginkgo fruit.

Or more accurately, 'gingko fruit'.

Although ginkgo trees are called 'living fossils', there are quite a few ginkgo trees as a common greening plant in parks nowadays. Some are planted around the welfare home where Lan Meng lives. They will pick some when they are around, and their grandma will occasionally use the microwave oven to make some to eat.

When I went back to visit yesterday, Lan Meng happened to see that the other party had picked some and took it back. Of course, this was not for Lan Meng to eat, but simply hoped to help the other party make small snacks.

Speaking of which, the other party cared very much when he heard that Lan Meng became a chef after graduation. At first, he didn't say much because he was worried that he was thinking wildly, but recently he couldn't help but say a few more words after he had stabilized. Lan Meng actually liked his current job very much, so he didn't say much after that.

The reason why he suddenly started to deal with Bai Guo at this time was because Lan Meng suddenly remembered what Xiao Ai said.

According to his understanding, that Dr. Ali has a lot of problems in diet, and he often stays up late, so he started to be "extremely smart" when he was not too old in the next grade, so Lan Meng planned to use ginkgo to make it Snacks.

The most common way to eat ginkgo is as a side dish for cooking, and some people who find it troublesome simply beat it in a microwave oven and eat it.

However, this ingredient can also be used to make snacks, and it can even be regarded as a kind of medicinal diet.

Of course, the first step is to process the ingredients first.

Wearing gloves, Lan Meng used a knife to cut a circular gap in the outer flesh of the ginkgo fruit, and then inserted the knife into it and gently stroked half of the flesh to separate it. It's done.

However, it should be noted that unlike most fruits, ginkgo is eaten with the inner seeds rather than the outer pulp, and even the taste of the pulp is a bit subtle, which is why Lanmeng wears gloves to handle it.

After the pulp is separated, it is generally heated in a microwave oven or boiled in water before continuing to process.

The reason for this is not that it needs to be cooked in advance, but to remove the toxicity.

That's right, although the seeds of this extremely common fruit are edible, they are toxic to a certain extent, but the main toxicity is still concentrated on the shoots. As for the activity of the toxic substances cyanogenic glycosides and ginkolic acid remaining after the other parts of the seeds are heated at high temperature Descent can also be eaten normally.

However, in order to save time, it is impossible for Lanmeng to beat or cook slowly in a microwave oven. Instead, add some oil and fry it in a pan. This will not only heat it to remove toxicity, but also remove the seed coat later. It is also more convenient.

Holding the handle of the pot with one hand in the left hand, I shake the pot twice from time to time, and the other hand is holding long chopsticks and frying tempura.

Because the guest who appeared later did not specify what dish he wanted but said he wanted to eat two "special dishes", so Lan Meng chose the "tempura recipe" obtained from Emiya Shiro.

Among the dishes that Lan Meng has mastered, 'tempura' is the most suitable one that is suitable for appetizers and takes a short time to prepare.

When the ginkgo is heated, it seems that the tempura is already fried.

The outermost layer of the round plate is a fence-like variety of 'vegetable tempura', followed by 'mushroom tempura', and the innermost layer is Blue Dream's personal favorite 'Fried Shrimp Tempura'.

The fresh and sweet shrimp meat is fried with a simple batter and a little salt... The three flavors of salty, fresh and sweet are almost perfectly intertwined.

The making of tempura is very convenient, and it can be made in just a few minutes, and he is also carrying the plate to the restaurant.

"Guest, I kept you waiting~ For alcohol, the store temporarily provides beer and red wine, which one do you want?"

While putting the tempura in front of the other party, Lan Meng asked one more question, and the man hesitated for a moment after hearing Lan Meng's words and made a decision.

"Red bar, I always feel that beer is more suitable for drinking at night."

As a soldier, the other party rarely drinks alcohol, even with friends and occasionally drinking beer, but today's situation is quite special, just happened to come to Earth from the Mars headquarters, so he stopped by the cemetery to visit his former subordinates , comrades-in-arms, and family members, even he who has always been sensible wants to drink some wine for a long time.

And red wine is a very common table wine in Western food, so he would drink some occasionally, so he finally chose red wine.

"Okay, it just so happens that the 'Sherry' I brewed recently is ready to drink, I hope you like it."

That's right, although it hasn't been long since I met Hui Yuanai, thanks to the various unscientific tools in the store, including a small wine cellar in the warehouse, it can reduce the time required for wine making.

Although it has only been more than half a month, it is almost the same as the old wine that has been brewed for about 5 years, and it can be drunk normally.

But after hearing Lan Meng's words, the guest's eyes lit up. After all, self-brewed wine is rare, especially if the boss can confidently use it to entertain guests, it must have its own uniqueness.

"Oh? Then I have to taste it~"

In this regard, Lan Meng also leaned slightly and came to the bar to take out a bottle without any logo and a goblet.

"Because it is self-brewed red wine, the price is relatively cheap. If you like it, you can take the rest of the wine home."

While talking about Lan Meng, he poured wine for the other party.

After the goblet was only about 1/4 poured, Lan Meng bowed slightly to say goodbye and walked towards Dr. Ali.

Lan Meng returned to the kitchen after telling the other party that the snacks would take a while to be ready.

Until then, Conan couldn't help but whispered to Hui Yuanai.

"I remember your code name is 'Sherry Wine'?"

"Sherry is a very common type of red wine, isn't it? And the real sherry refers to the red wine made from 'sherry grapes'. Our place is not the place where this grape is produced, so I guess what the other party said The 'sherry wine' mentioned should refer to the wine brewed using the 'sherry brewing method' or simply using 'sherry casks'..."

Because when she was most desperate, Lan Meng's warm embrace gave her the courage to continue living, so she instinctively didn't want to associate Lan Meng with the organization, and even unconsciously distinguished a few words.

But Conan, a ruthless crime-solving machine, doesn't care about this. He just has reasonable doubts about all "coincidences".

"Although according to our speculation, the other party is unlikely to be a member of the organization, but who knows if you will leak something related to 'Shirley' while you are unconscious? Anyway, let me test it first..."

After finishing speaking, he conveniently left his seat and ran towards the guest...

Chapter 6 Olga Itzka

Different people react differently to the same event.

If a grumpy person is asked by a strange child, he will inevitably feel irritable, even if he doesn't get angry, he will inevitably feel a little bad, but Olga Itzka at this time is undoubtedly an exception.

Not only was he not bored at all when Conan came running in front of him again, but he was a little happy on the contrary. After all, in his opinion, a child's willingness to get close to him meant that he had affinity.

But when he saw that Conan was staring at his wine glass and the wine bottle beside him, he smiled and reached out to cover the top of the wine glass.

"This is something you can only drink after you become an adult~ You are too young to drink now~"

Olga, who became a mercenary with her friend Mikayue at a young age, is naturally not the first time drinking alcohol since she was an adult, and she blushed unconsciously when she said this, but in order to set a good example for children, he is still righteous Verbally said it.

Seeing this, Conan also knew that he probably couldn't taste it, but it was obvious that he didn't want to give up just like that.

"Then can I smell it?"

Conan has always felt that his acting skills are good. After all, his acquaintances like Police Officer Megure know that he "acted like a little adult" at the scene of the crime, but most people don't like it because of their underestimation of children's instincts. You will notice that the reason why he talked to Olga this time is also because of his age.

But it was obviously because he didn't know Olga's experience. In fact, he had already noticed that Conan was different from ordinary children, but he didn't think about the outrageous power of Conan changing from an adult to a child. The answer is simply to think that the other party is more precocious... In fact, he was similar before.

At this time, seeing Conan's unwillingness to give up, he knew that he would probably not give up if he continued to reject the other party, so he agreed.

"Only allowed to smell it."