Daily life of a spy in the world of Conan

Tian Yanshengnan waved his hand, glanced at the young man who was studying chess pieces in the corner and said, "Look, that is the young master Guiren, the only son of the master who died six years ago and the mistress who died four years ago.

He had been abroad before and came back four years ago for his old lady's birthday.

After that, his wife died. The old lady was devastated and never recovered. From then on, he returned to the castle and never left.

Tian Yan Shengnan touched Conan's head and said, "If there is a secret here, it must have been solved. Don't think too much, kid."

"Not necessarily." Xia Chuan interrupted, "The secret of chess may not be hidden in the chess itself."

"Uncle Natsukawa, have you discovered the secret?" Conan asked anxiously, feeling a little urgency. Is Natsukawa planning to use his brain?

Brother, the game has just begun! Please wait for me to understand the situation first.

"No, I just think that maybe the puzzle isn't about chess itself."

"Not the chess itself?"

In a corner of the chess set, Mamiya Takato is carefully examining the chess pieces, as if trying to find something from them.

Hearing what Xia Chuan said, a thoughtful expression appeared on his face. He pondered for a long time but had no idea at all, so he stood up and walked towards this side.

"It seems that your decryption speed is a bit too slow, Kudo." Haibara Ai smiled.

"That's impossible. Uncle Xiachuan must not have seen any secrets. He said that just to show off." Conan nodded to himself: "Yes, that must be the case."

"Sir, do you know something?"

Mamiya Noble came over and asked.

He has been coveting this so-called secret for a long time. Although he will inherit the castle and the treasures inside in a few decades, he still wants to solve the mystery as soon as possible.

He had always suspected that there was something seriously wrong with his mother's death.

A total of fifteen people died in the fire and one person was missing. The missing housekeeper Nishikawa Wumei has not been found yet. There must be something wrong. His intuition tells him that it must be related to the mystery left by his grandfather fifteen years ago.

Putting aside the treasure, he hoped to find out the cause of the fire and avenge his mother.

As for my stepfather, haha, this guy is also obsessed with money. The reason why he married my mother was probably because of my grandfather's treasure.

In fact, the other party was his first suspect.

He also noticed when the other party was talking to a few people just now that the purpose should not be too obvious.

Of course, there is no evidence yet, but besides him, the only owners of this castle are his stepfather and grandmother. Although they could be servants, the possibility is too small.

The servants from that time have all been replaced. Except for the gardener, the current batch were recruited after the fire four years ago, so the possibility is not high.

He also observed the gardener and found nothing unusual.

In this case, it would be better to suspect my stepfather than my 83-year-old grandmother.

However, he had no intention of driving away Xia Chuan and his group because of his stepfather. They, the family, might have fallen into some kind of closed loop of thinking, which might be solved by outsiders.

"Oh, no, I was just expressing my feelings."

Xia Chuan naturally would not tell the other party that the treasure of this castle was in the hall, behind the painting of the other party's grandfather.

Moreover, to be honest, this so-called treasure is a bit disgusting.

It’s the view of the castle!

As for what the secret of chess was, he really had forgotten it. He only remembered that the answer seemed to be related to looking down from a high place.

"Is that so?" Mamiya Takato nodded and left, with a lot on his mind, and looked back at Natsukawa several times.

"Conan, do you see the problem with this chess game?" Xia Chuan asked.

"Not yet, but it seems that this chess game does have a secret. If the answer is not on the chess pieces, this puzzle should have other manifestations."

Now we must first understand what the puzzle is. Otherwise, even if we think there is something wrong with the chess game, we won’t be able to find any clues.

After we go upstairs and look down from a high place, we might be able to find some problems.

Led by Tian Yanshengnan, several people came to the room and put their things away first.

Because the place looked a little unsafe, they only took two rooms in total.

Natsukawa and Dr. Agasa each took a group of children to sleep.

Since we need to decrypt it, we must stay overnight.

Afterwards, Conan and several other kids ran to the second floor and looked down from a high point.

Xia Chuan knew the answer and had no interest in this behavior. Instead, he walked to the huge hanging painting in the living room.

It is hard to imagine that there is such a large painting placed here, and the "treasure" is right behind this painting, but no one has discovered it in fifteen years.

This is outrageous! Don’t Japanese people do spring cleaning?

If anyone had done a thorough cleaning and taken down the painting to clean it, the passage behind it would have been discovered long ago.

"Very similar, isn't it?"

Mamiya Mitsuru appeared from nowhere and stood next to Natsukawa.

"Ok?"

"Your Excellency looks very similar to my wife's first husband, Mamiya Shinzo."

"Yeah, it does look alike." Xia Chuan nodded, then changed the subject with a strange expression and asked, "Don't castles have the habit of doing a thorough cleaning?"

"Spring cleaning?" Mamiya Mitsuru was a little surprised. "Did Mr. Natsukawa find something? Could it be that the chess set left by my father-in-law can only be solved with spring cleaning?"

"But we do a general cleaning at least once a year, and the chess pieces are moved out of their original positions and cleaned. If there was any secret, it would have been discovered long ago."

Mamiya Mitsuru's mood suddenly became not so good, and she suddenly felt that the man in front of her might be here to sell housekeeping services.

Xia Chuan noticed the other person's expression, but kept silent and continued to appreciate the oil painting. The painter's skills were indeed superb.

"Yuan Tai, be careful, don't fall!"

From the second floor, the shouts of several children caught their attention.

Upon hearing this, Xia Chuan hurried over. Yuan Tai had shown great restlessness when he was at the door, so could something have happened again?

"Are you okay?"

Xiachuan came to the source of the sound, rushed into the room, and found that Yuantai had only one arm left clinging to the window sill. He hurried forward and pulled him up.

"Don't get close to the window next time!" Xia Chuan warned sternly.

Immediately afterwards, Conan ran out from the next room, was relieved to see that Genta was fine, then suddenly realized something and stared blankly at the window behind Genta.

"Any questions?"

Ever since entering the castle, Anya has been following Conan with great curiosity, as if waiting for something to happen.

"fine."

Conan said this, but he actually started thinking in his heart.

The windows of the two rooms are against the same wall, and the distance between them is about one and a half meters. However, when he looked at Yuantai from the window of the next room just now, the distance between them was at least five meters.

After deducting the three meters between the two windows and the wall, what about the remaining two meters? Is it eaten up by the wall?

Of course not, so there must be something wrong with this two-meter-thick wall.

Secret passages!

This term instantly rushed into Conan's brain.

"Oh~"

Anya listened with great interest, then pointed to the wall in front of her and said directly: "Father, there seems to be a secret passage in this wall!"

"Secret passage?" Xia Chuan was stunned. He knew there was a secret passage here, but how did Anya know it? Shouldn't it be Conan?

He turned his gaze to Conan and found that he was also looking at Anya with surprise, as if he couldn't believe that this was something Anya could say.

Mamiya, who followed closely, blushed and said with shining eyes: "There is a secret passage here? How is it possible? Where is the entrance?"

Although he didn't believe it, he still asked the question, then moved closer to the wall and knocked on it.

The secret passage might be related to the treasure!

So the chess piece refers to this room?

"what's going on?"

Not only Mamiya Mitsuru and Natsukawa were attracted by Genta's voice, but the old lady Mamiya Dai was pushed to the door by her grandson Mamiya Kinito.

"Uh, Dad, what are you doing?"

As soon as Mamiya Takato narrowed his eyes, he felt that Mamiya Mitsuru was very suspicious, and the current situation further deepened his suspicion. The other party's expression was so terrifying, like a hungry wolf, with red eyes scratching the wall.

"Is there anything on the wall?"

Seeing Mamiya Mitsuru scratching the wall, the old lady Mamiya Dai in the wheelchair almost couldn't stand up.

She was the only person in the castle who knew all the secret passages, and she immediately realized that there was a high probability that Mamiya Mitsuru was looking for a secret passage!

What happened? Why did Mitsuru Mamiya suddenly discover this secret passage?

However, this is not the time to think about these things.

Mamiya Dai coughed twice to draw everyone's attention to herself, and raised her hand tremblingly and said, "Mamiya Mitsuru, what are you doing? You really have bad intentions towards my daughter. Look at your behavior, you are like a thief! When my daughter comes back tonight, I will make her divorce you!"

The group of children were stunned when they heard this. Tian Yan Shengnan had said before that the owner of this castle had died four years ago. What did the old lady in front of them mean by this sentence?

"Could it be that the wife who died four years ago was not actually dead?" Conan wanted to find out something from the other person's expression, but after observing for a while, he found nothing.

"Uh..." Mamiya Mitsuru knew that he had lost his composure and stood there awkwardly.

"Grandma, stop talking nonsense. I will take care of father's problem. You can go back to your room and rest first." Mamiya Nobuhito called the servant and asked him to push the old lady back to the room.

After hearing the old lady's voice, Mamiya Mitsuru stopped what he was doing and looked a little embarrassed, but his hands never left the wall. It was obvious that he was not going to give up.

"Father, are you a little anxious?" Mamiya Nobuto narrowed his eyes and looked directly at Mamiya Mitsuru.

"Haha, I didn't. After all, I am the owner of this place. Isn't it normal for me to be surprised and want to find out the secret passage when I suddenly discover it?"

Both Mamiya Mitsuru and Mamiya Takato had smiles on their faces, but they were speaking in a confrontational manner.

"Anyone who can solve the mystery of this castle will get the most precious treasure I left behind. You married your mother for this reason, right?"

Mamiya Mitsuru said with a look of anger: "My dear, I am your father, how can you think of me like this!"

"Inherited."

"Isn't my stepfather my father?" Mamiya said righteously, "Even if he is my stepfather, I am still your mother's husband in the legal sense."

"Uh, let me interrupt you. What you just said is the last words left by my wife's father who died four years ago, which is also a puzzle?" Xia Chuan asked, raising his hand.

"Correct."

The father and son turned their heads to see what Xia Chuan would say.

"Did he leave a will?"

"will?"

The two shook their heads unconsciously. Fifteen years ago, wills were not popular, and the other party seemed to have made verbal instructions before his death.

"If there is no will, then the so-called 'getting the most precious treasure I left behind' is not true." Xia Chuan glanced at the two of them and continued, "In the absence of a will, the first-line heirs to the property should be the property owner's parents, wife, and children."

"Is there any problem?" the two asked curiously, not knowing why Xia Chuan suddenly brought up this.

“You may not know that the first heir does not include my daughter’s second husband, but also my grandson, not to mention that the old lady is still alive.

Therefore, even if you find the treasure, you cannot directly obtain the property according to the law based on this will, but must give it to the only surviving first-line heir, that is, the old lady who just passed away. "

Takato Mamiya looked indifferent. His grandmother was so old and he was the only bloodline of the Mamiya family. When the old lady passed away, all these things including the huge castle would be his. This treasure did not have much appeal to him.

The only thing that interested him was whether it was related to his mother's death.

Mamiya Mitsuru didn't think so. When he finished listening, his face was as black as the bottom of a pot.

If this is the case, then what’s the use even if I find the treasure?

No...if that's the case, then it's fine.

"Nonsense, I'm not the kind of person who covets the treasures of the Mamiya family."

Mamiya Man left with some thoughts in his mind. Mamiya Takato looked at his back and left without saying a word.

Only Xia Chuan and his group were left.

"Hey, Uncle Natsukawa, have you discovered something? I remember the inheritance law is not like this, right?" Conan may not be very familiar with the law, but it is definitely not as absolute as Natsukawa said.