Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

"Wait! Is this Miss Kinoshita's home?"

Lying on the back seat of the second car, Kaori and Yuzuki watched the motorcade entering the manor drive through the maze grass and slowly stopped in front of a castle with four pointed corners, holding each other's chin with their hands.

"I didn't expect that Dr. A Li actually found a rich woman to fall in love with in his later years."

As soon as Kaori finished sighing, Yuzuki corrected her: "Actually, the two of them are childhood sweethearts."

After getting off the car together, the driver had already sent the luggage to the arranged room in advance. Yuji tidied his clothes and subconsciously adjusted his condition.

"Dr. Agasa never mentioned that you live in such a big place." Yuji raised his index finger and twirled it around, explaining: "Really, this place is huge."

"The first time he came, he had the same reaction as you."

Kinoshita led everyone to push open the gate of the castle, and there was a staircase surrounding the courtyard. The double doors in the middle of the first floor seemed to lead to the restaurant.

Along the wall of the staircase, every fourth step was hung with an oil painting of a man in an ornate frame, until the top four paintings were upgraded from paintings to black-and-white photos, and then to color photos.

[If my guess is correct, these people should be the ancestors of Miss Kinoshita. 】

Yuji couldn't help but take out his mobile phone and take a photo. After taking the photo, he realized that it was rude and apologized to Kinoshita in a hurry.

"It's okay, I don't care."

Fushahui looked up at her mother who was sitting in a wheelchair, and suddenly realized that the girl she was holding trembled.

"What's wrong? Xiao Ai."

"No..." Haiyuan sighed: "I just have some bad memories of the castle, the manor and the old lady in the wheelchair."

Without mentioning the unhappy things, Kinoshita led a few people up to the second floor to the guest room, while introducing his family history to these children.

"My family, or my grandfather's family to be precise, is a very old family in England."

On the stairs again, Kinoshita pointed to the first oil painting. In the middle of the painting was a man dressed as an aristocrat, and around the oil painting were four scenes, each telling four short stories.

"My ancestors, who used to follow the British king, were sealed here after stopping the rebels."

The first picture shows a young man wielding a wooden sword, the second picture shows him leading an army to defeat another army, the third picture shows him being canonized by the king after returning from victory, and the last picture shows him standing in front of a castle. , holding a sword in his hand.

"This oil painting...is a bit old."

Focusing on the edge of the painting, Yuji looked at the damaged corners and deduced that the painting had probably experienced a history of 400 years.

"Only one person in each generation of the Campbell family can inherit the estate and land, and the other men can only receive a little money."

Kinoshita walked to the last photo and put his hand on the glass: "It was passed down to my grandfather's generation. He only gave birth to two daughters. It may be because of some health problems, but he was unwilling to distribute the family property to his younger brother's son. .”

Old Campbell chose to let his eldest daughter inherit the manor and gave his younger daughter a fortune. It was the Second World War at that time. He sent all his daughters to the United States. He and his wife, a nurse, died on the battlefield defending the country. .

"So his photo...is covered with medals." Yuji looked at this hero in awe.

"But if he knew that his daughters were all married to Japanese, he would probably be furious."

Kinoshita said casually, then remembered that this was in front of children, so he could only smile apologetically and pointed to the two rows of room doors on the right at the end of the staircase.

"Starting from the third room, you can live wherever you want in the back." Kinoshita stopped at the stairs: "The ones in front are my two nieces."

"understood."

Yuji made an OK gesture and prepared to arrange the room before having his luggage brought up. ………

"Doctor, where is the hotel you booked?"

Adjusting the sunglasses on his face, Kudo Shinichi, who was wearing his brother's pink shirt, picked up their luggage and followed Dr. Agasa out of the airport.

"In order to avoid Xiaolan and the others, we boarded the plane at noon."

It was already evening when we arrived in England. Although it was dark, Kudo Shinichi was still worried about whether there would be organized people here, so he kept wearing sunglasses.

"Okay, in order to take care of your mood, I specially chose a hotel near Baker Street. After attending the funeral tomorrow, I can go directly to the Sherlock Holmes Museum."

Dr. A Li raised his head and saw the hat that was always hanging on the boy's head. He remembered that Yuji brought it to him when he came back from the United States, so he mentioned it as a joke.

"I always thought Yuji would come over to join in the fun."

"Yeah, it's really lonely without him."

[Liar, if Yuji comes over, I won’t have time to see Xiaofu. 】

[Without him, he will be lonely. Don’t be ridiculous. Who would take my brother out on a date with his girlfriend? I wish he could grow hair in Japan. 】

Looking at each other, Dr. Agasa and Kudo Shinichi both showed shy smiles. Although they both missed the boy on their lips, they had the same thoughts in their hearts.

"Okay, then we will..."

Before he finished speaking, a black Rolls-Royce parked quietly on the side of the road. He noticed that Dr. Ali was shaking twice. Kudo Shinichi pinched his chin with interest and reasoned out. The identity of the person.

"Say doctor, there's one thing I've been wondering about."

"What... what?"

Shinichi put his hand on the doctor's shoulder and rubbed his nose: "Why don't you introduce your girlfriend to us? Although Yuji knows what she looks like, Xiaolan and I have never met her."

After being invited into the car, Shinichi sat in the passenger seat. He held his chin and looked through the rearview mirror at Dr. Agasa, who was being examined with various portable instruments in the back seat. He seemed to have guessed something.

[I’m under strict control, I’m sorry to say it. 】

"Sure enough, the data in the physical examination report you sent me in the email last time was changed."

Kinoshita glared at Dr. Agasa, and turned the screen of the instrument in front of the doctor: "My weight has obviously increased, but you actually lied to me and said that it has not changed. My blood pressure is high, and my fasting insulin level is also higher than last year."

"No, fasting islets or something. The doctor was on the plane..." Kudo Shinichi changed his mind under the pleading eyes of Dr. Agasa: "I have eaten an airplane meal."

"lie."

"Eh?!"

When it came to her boyfriend's physical problems, Kinoshita didn't have the same good temper towards Yuji as before. Instead, he stared at Kudo Shinichi's face: "Your facial expression changed rapidly just now, and your eyes were slightly uncomfortable when you said something." Turn naturally, so how many portions did he eat."

Still wanting to see the doctor's reaction, Shinichi found that Miss Kinoshita covered the doctor's eyes with her hands, unable to get any information from her eyes. The high school detective hesitated for a few minutes before telling the truth.

"Five...five servings, if four snacks and three glasses of juice are not counted..."

(Dr. Ali: My life is at an end.) (End of this chapter)