Chapter 72: Entrusting the Orphan

The next morning, before heading to school, the Mao Li household received three visitors.

The Kudo couple, their faces full of worry, and a little boy wearing glasses who looked no older than seven or eight.

Mao Li Lan, who had just come downstairs from the third floor, immediately spotted the three of them.

"Aunt Yukiko, Uncle Kudo."

"Weren't you two overseas? Why did you suddenly come back?"

"Sigh…"

Kudo Yukiko let out a sigh, a trace of hesitation in her eyes, but in the end she still said it.

"Lan, actually the reason Yusaku and I came back is because of Shinichi."

"Shinichi?"

"Didn't he go off to investigate some case?"

Seeing that Lan still seemed unaware, Kudo Yukiko grew even more worried about Lan's situation.

But at that moment, Kudo Yusaku, his face heavy with grief, spoke in a low voice.

"Lan, Shinichi… he's run into trouble."

"!?"