Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 134
In fact, when seeing Xiao Ai's previous performance, Ishino felt quite relieved and satisfied.

Xiao Ai will compare Yokosuka's castle with this place, and will be proud of her family's castle, and even show it off in front of Conan, which shows that she has completely regarded herself as a member of the Kasaka family, and put the family's glory Consider it your own glory.

In addition, Xiao Ai will show off her good things like an ordinary girl, even if more of them are for Conan, it can also show that her mentality has changed a lot, and now she is far from normal people His life is getting closer and closer, which is undoubtedly a thing to be happy about.

Just when a group of children were happily thinking about their future adventures in the castle, a man complained suddenly from inside the gate: "Who is it? It's so annoying to shout at other people's doors!"

A man dressed as a gardener walked to the gate, looked at the group of people at the gate with disgust and said, "Who are you? If you're okay, don't sneak around the gate. Get out of here early, you know?"

Seeing the people in the manor appear, Dr. Ali quickly explained: "Sir, we are not very suspicious people, but we just happened to pass by and saw such a magnificent castle. If possible, I wonder if we can enter How about taking a look inside?"

"Go back all of them, this is not a place where idlers like you can enter casually!" The gardener hurried away impatiently.

At this moment, a middle-aged man walked out of the castle and asked the gardener curiously, "Hey, who are these people? There shouldn't be any guests scheduled to visit today, right?"

"Master, why did you come out?" The gardener turned his head to look at the visitor, a little puzzled, "The old man with a stupid face said he wanted to come in for a visit."

"What is a stupid look?!" Dr. A Li retorted angrily, "I'm still a scientist!"

"Scientist?" Hearing the other party's claim, the man called Master suddenly became interested and asked aloud.

"That's right, I'm Dr. Ali, and I'm a well-known scientist in Tokyo and Osaka." Dr. Ali proudly stroked his beard and introduced himself when he saw the other party's reaction.

Hearing this, the old man looked at Dr. Ali with interest and said with a smile: "So your mind should be much smarter than ordinary people like us."

"Then invite some of you to come in." Facing the somewhat puzzled gardener, the middle-aged man extended a friendly invitation to everyone, "By the way, would you like to stay here for one night?"

Seeing the hospitality of the other party, the little ones immediately became happy, and Dr. Ali also said excitedly: "I am really grateful!"

Seeing his master making such a decision, the gardener was very embarrassed and wanted to stop him: "But, but, master, is it really okay to make such a decision without discussing with the old lady?"

"You just say that these people are friends I invited over." The man turned and walked towards the castle while he was talking, and added, "Your mother-in-law is like this now, you can just say that."

Seeing that the other party had made a decision, the gardener couldn't say anything, turned around and opened the gate, invited Dr. Ali and his party into the manor, and then led them to the entrance of the castle.

On the way through the courtyard, several children saw the huge chess pieces and chessboard beside the road, and ran up to them curiously to look at the black and white chess pieces of different shapes.

Seeing this huge chessboard, Ishino looked at the gardener with a smile and said, "It seems that the owner of this castle is a person who likes chess very much."

"Probably." The gardener replied indifferently, "I just follow the instructions of my predecessor, Mr. Zhenzhao, to take care of these every day and keep them as they are."

"I heard that these are the last words of the old man who passed away 15 years ago, and Mr. Zhenzhao has never violated it." The gardener continued to explain.

"So that's the one just now?" Dr. Ali asked curiously.

"Ah, that is Mrs. Jian Gongman, my wife's second husband." The gardener said with regret, "Because Mr. Zhenzhao passed away due to illness six years ago, and my wife also died four years ago." Tragically killed in the previous fire..."

"Fire?" Conan, who smelled the incident, suddenly came over.

"Look over there." The gardener turned to the south and explained, pointing to the ruins of a tower not far away, "Isn't there a charred stone tower over there, which used to be the wife's bedroom."

"One day four years ago, my wife came here overnight to celebrate the old lady's birthday, but in the early morning of that day, the whole tower suddenly caught fire, killing my wife, her friends, and everyone who had served the old lady for many years. More than a dozen servants were swallowed up in it, and no one survived."

"The only people who survived at that time were servants like me who had just arrived, and the old lady who was resting in the annex because of a cold."

"Then there is Master Man who came here earlier than his wife, and the only son of that wife and Master Zhenzhao, Young Master Jiangong." The gardener pointed to the young man who was studying the huge chessboard.

"Speaking of which, Master Man and Young Master Noble lived abroad before, but for some reason, after the fire, the two of them stayed in the castle and survived. From the eyes of us outsiders, it seems that they have fallen into something. .”

Listening to the gardener's narration, Conan thoughtfully followed his footsteps into the castle hall, and the first thing he saw was a huge portrait in front of him.

Under the introduction of the gardener, everyone learned that the person in the portrait was the deceased Tai Laoye, and the portraits of the late wife and Master Zhenzhao hung on the walls on both sides.

"Master Zhenzhao married into Jiangong's family, and he respects Mr. Tai, who is also a historian, very much. For this reason, my wife often complains for Mr. Zhenzhao in front of Mr. Tai." The gardener introduced.

"She often said that her father was just a crooked intellectual, but the old man had known these words a long time ago. In fact, after hearing this, he was not only not angry, but very happy." Suddenly an old voice came from the crowd came from behind.

Seeing that the person who came was the old lady in the wheelchair, the gardener hastily bowed and apologized, "I'm really sorry for reminding you, old lady, of these past events."

"It's okay, I've already gotten used to life without the old man." The old lady waved her hand, signaling that the other party should not care, then turned to look at the portrait directly in front of her and said, "This is the same as the pattern of banknotes and the size of a passport. It’s the same as changing, you may not get used to it at first, but after a long time, you don’t feel any sense of disobedience.”

(End of this chapter)