In the living room, several people sat down.
Originally, the vice president and secretary were a little dissatisfied with the arrival of outsiders, but for the sake of the former president's son, they didn't say anything.
After a while, the owner of the villa, Majima Douji, came over.
Kinoshita Tomoe stood up from the sofa and introduced: "President Majima, this is Mr. Qin Zhibo I am talking about."
Seeing Qin Zhibo, President Ma Dao's originally unhappy face immediately put on a smile and reached out his hand.
"You are the famous detective! I have admired you for a long time, I have admired you for a long time."
When Qin Zhibo's status was mentioned, the faces of the vice president and secretary on the sofa suddenly changed, showing expressions of surprise, and then their expressions became heavy.
Qin Zhibo caught this subtle change in expression, did not make any announcement, and continued to be polite with President Ma Dao.
"Where, where, it's just some false names."
President Majima let go of his hand and said enthusiastically: "Since you are here, let's go and see 'that'"
"Lingjia, you take a few of you over first, I'll be there soon."
"Yes, please come with me."
Under the leadership of the beautiful housekeeper, Qin Zhibo and the others were led to the corridor on the other side of the villa.
When he reached the place where he could no longer see the living room, Qin Zhibo looked back.
I saw President Majima with a stern face, holding a document bag in his hand, and seemed to be reprimanding the vice president.
President——Danger!
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Following the housekeeper's guidance, Qin Zhibo, Conan and Mao Lilan came to the Japanese courtyard next to the villa.
Behind the courtyard is a large pond with white fine sand in the middle and a rockery in the middle.
The fine white sand is carefully laid into rows of ripples, which looks very unique.
At this time, the housekeeper looked at the watch on her wrist and said, "The time is just right. Please look at the rockery."
Under her guidance, several people saw the rockery in the middle of the pond.
Gurgling water flows from the cave on the top of the rockery, and the clear water overflows into the pond, turning the originally dry white sand ground into the bottom of the pond.
When the water is completely covered, the white sand covering the bottom looks like waves, sparkling under the sunlight, and full of artistic conception.
"It's so beautiful!" Mao Lilan couldn't help but admire, "Really? Conan?"
"Yeah." Conan nodded heavily.
The housekeeper then introduced: "The water setting of this pool is to let the water from the rockery waterfall flow into the yard at eight o'clock in the morning and evening, and four o'clock in the afternoon. After 30 minutes, the water will automatically drain out and return to its original state.
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Qin Zhibo nodded appreciatively. Except for the waste of water resources and the fact that a large area of the yard cannot be walked on in order not to damage the arrangement of the white sand, this design is quite good.
At this time, President Majima also came back and introduced by the way: "Actually, this is a landscape designed by the previous president. After everyone saw it, they all commented well, so we kept it."
Qin Zhibo glanced at President Ma Dao. He was a man worthy of being the president. He had just finished scolding his subordinates and when he came back, he received the guests with a kind face.
"It's really beautiful. I guess the maintenance cost is not low, right?"
Qin Zhibo's words directly hit President Ma Dao's pain point. He immediately nodded and agreed: "It is true that the monthly maintenance fee for this facility is a huge expense."
"But after all, it was left by the former president, so..."
Ma Dao wanted to say that it couldn't be demolished so quickly, but he felt it was inappropriate and held back his words.
After a while, the housekeeper brought tea again, and several people sat on the tatami and started talking.
The content of the conversation was nothing more than chatting and complimenting each other.
Speaking of Kinoshita furniture, Qin Zhibo saw this brand of furniture when he was shopping in a department store last time, and the prices were quite high.
However, when they first met, Qin Zhibo was too embarrassed to ask for a set of furniture in person.
What's more, who needs a dead man's promise?
Regarding Qin Zhibo, President Ma Dao also has careful thoughts.
When the conversation was almost over, Majima suddenly asked in a tone that seemed unintentional, but with a nervous expression on his face: "Mr. Qin, what is your relationship with Kinoshita?"
Qin Zhibo thought for a moment and answered truthfully: "I am currently writing some novels in a magazine, and the editor-in-chief of the magazine recommended that I come to Kinoshita to discuss literary matters."
Hearing this answer, Ma Dao breathed a sigh of relief, and the tense facial muscles relaxed.
"Oh I got it."
"Then feel free to stay here tonight. I have plenty of guest rooms here."
"Then I'm sorry to bother you."
In fact, if Majima hadn't said it himself, he wouldn't be able to rush back to Tokyo from Shizuoka tonight, so staying here is inevitable.
When Conan looked at President Majiao's face, he also keenly noticed that President Majiao was hiding something in his heart and was very concerned about Qin Zhibo's identity as a detective.
It would be okay if it was normal, but with Qin Zhibo here, something might happen.
As a god of death, Conan, who had no consciousness at all, thought so in his heart.
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6:00 pm, villa restaurant.
"I hope our Kinoshita Furniture business will prosper, cheers!"
"cheers!"
At the dinner table, everyone toasted to celebrate.
The main course of dinner is steak, followed by tea.
President Majima didn't stay too long. After dinner, he left early on the pretext that he had business matters to deal with.
On the other hand, Satoshi Kinoshita has to watch an adventure-related video tape and can chat about literature with Qin Zhibo at 11:15 p.m.
After the two left, the remaining people began to reveal their motives.
To sum it up, both the vice president and secretary were dissatisfied with President Majima, and both of them were made things difficult by Majima in every possible way at work.
The dinner ended in an unpleasant atmosphere.
In the following time, Qin Zhibo has been sitting in the living room, chatting with Mao Lilan, Conan and the vice president.
Of course, during the chat, Qin Zhibo did not forget to place a guard totem in President Ma Dao's room.
With the guard totem, he can see who wants to attack him.
However, from after dinner until 11:15, everything was peaceful in the president's room. President Majima himself was watching TV in the room and laughing from time to time.
Until Kinoshita Tomonori returned to the living room and exchanged literary matters with Qin Zhibo.
The two discussed many things, such as the construction of a unified worldview, the choice of style and subject matter, how to arouse readers' interest in reading, etc.
Conan and Mao Lilan were a little stunned when they saw this series of discussions on professional knowledge.
When did Qin Zhibo know so much about writing novels?
Looking at this situation, you won’t really want to develop in the direction of a novelist in the future, right?
If this is the case, Conan still feels a little regretful in his heart.
After all, becoming a novelist will definitely have an impact on detective work, and Conan still hopes that Qin Zhibo will not waste his talent and become a detective seriously.
As everyone knows, Qin Zhibo always has a "ghostwriter" when writing novels and will not be affected at all.
Qin Zhibo and Kinoshita Satoshi talked about it at 1 o'clock in the night, which exhausted Mao Lilan and Conan's patience, and finally ended the conversation and went back to their rooms to sleep.
At this time, the president is still alive.
This chapter has been completed!