Listening to the two of them exchanging business blows, Mao Lilan felt her face getting a little hot.
Yagura Morio and Mimura also immediately joined the team of exchanging business compliments, blurting out words such as 'A great teacher makes a great disciple', 'You are worthy of being a famous detective', 'I finally saw something today'.
Conan laughed in his heart when he heard this. With him and Chi Feichi here, uncle is going to become a world-class detective...
"Master, I'm going to find the monster. If she bullies me, you have to help me!" Feichi took advantage of the others to brag to each other and slipped towards the pond.
Suddenly I discovered that the monster is not scary at all, not as scary as its owner...it can't be frightened.
"Excuse me……"
As soon as Fei Chi left, the housekeeper came over, knelt down and saluted, "Everyone has been waiting for a long time. Please follow me to the tea room to meet the master first."
"I won't go," Chi Feichi refused. "My pet just slipped into the pond. If it doesn't see me when it comes back, it will run around."
"Pet?" the housekeeper wondered.
Miss Mimura sweated. She didn't want snakes running around, so she ran to her side, stood up and said, "Mr. Chi's pet might be a sibling of the monster. In that case, Mr. Chi just wait here while we go over."
That’s it.”
"I'm sorry," Mouri Kogoro didn't complain about anything. The key is that this disciple is too generous. He raised his hand with a smile and rubbed Conan's head. "My disciple's pet is really naughty. Just like this kid, he doesn't keep an eye on him.
I just ran away to play somewhere else.”
Conan: "..."
What does it have to do with him? Why are you bringing him out to talk about it?
Also, he is running around not just for fun, but to solve cases! Solve cases!
"It's okay," the housekeeper stood up, still calm, "Mr. Chi will wait here for a moment. The rest of you, please follow me."
A group of people leave the house.
Chi Feichi still sat where he was, picked up his phone and read Ginjiu's reply.
Instead of going to meet some master, it would be better to send emails and chat with Gin.
[Japan will continue to keep an eye on this, and let me know if there is any new news. However, you seem to be in trouble recently. Someone has issued a bounty for attacking and kidnapping you?——gin]
【I need helpers and am ready to fish.——raki】
【How many do you want?——gin】
Chi Feichi thought about it and replied:
[It is expected that one or two elites - raki]
The 'fish' he meant were the bounty hunters who were targeting him.
If there are available talents, use yourself as bait to lure them over, capture them, and coerce them into your team.
Gin asked him how much he wanted, meaning that if he couldn't eat it, he would be interested in sharing it.
[How many fish do you estimate there are?——gin]
【About 10 items.——raki】
This is the number Chi Feichi calculated.
Looking at the replies, there are quite a few people who are ready to take action against him.
However, if no one can get the money after three or four actions, no one will accept the bounty again.
Unless the other party increases the price to attract more powerful people to take action.
But the other party obviously doesn't want him to die, so he probably won't raise the price unless the situation reaches a point of death.
[How do you plan to act? Can you draw it out?——gin]
[There has been no suspicious person around me recently, so I will keep an eye on myself first.——Raki]
[OK, have you been active in Tokyo recently?——gin]
【I attended a tea ceremony in Shizuoka.——raki】
[Don’t forget your physical examination report.——gin]
【Are you very free recently?——raki】
【Old same.——gin】
[No wonder... no one is urging you, you are the only one who is in a hurry.——Raki]
【Goodbye!——gin】
Chi Fei didn't reply for a long time, so he sent Feimo an email, asking Feimo to send a letter to Amuro Tohru and make an appointment to meet.
"Master! Master! Look what I found?"
Fei Chi shouted outside.
Chi Feichi put away his phone, got up and went out.
As the sun turns westward, the water in the pool no longer reflects the golden light, and becomes crystal clear and green.
Fei Chi was swimming on the surface of the pond, followed by more than 20 snakes, most of them gray and white.
A group of snakes gathered together in one place, twisting and floating on the water, occasionally entangled together.
Even though Chi Feichi was used to Feichi's appearance, seeing this scene made him feel a little numb.
"You found it in the pond?"
"Yes, they are the same family!" After Fei Chi said excitedly, he turned around and introduced to the other snakes, "This is my master, he is just like me among humans, super handsome!"
"Hello." The thickest white snake said hello to Chi Feichi. His voice was honest and strong, so he was probably a male.
The remaining snakes greeted each other one after another. Although some were stammering, Chi Feichi observed that only the smallest snake did not make a sound. The other 23 snakes had a certain degree of spirituality and could speak.
"Master, let's do you a favor." Fei Equator said, "They don't want to live here. They want to find a place with more flowing water."
"Our ancestors have also lived here for several generations. If there is no other way, we don't want to move," White Snake explained in a simple voice, "About the time of my father's father's father's father's father...'s father...
, there were more than a hundred snakes in my house, and they lived happily together, but someone built a house in the pond and killed half of it when they started construction. My ancestors climbed up and wanted to protest, but that person
He was too scared to go out and finally hanged himself."
Chi Feichi: "..."
This is the truth of the monster legend...
"After that, the house became idle, and then at the time of my father's father's father...'s father, someone moved in, renovated it, and killed many tribesmen. My ancestors went to protest again, and the family moved away."
White Snake said aggrievedly, "Many, many years have passed, and humans have gone too far! Oh, by the way, I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about the humans my father's father's father's father's father met. He not only occupied the pond,
They even fenced off the surrounding land. Originally, our tribe had grown to more than 300. However, a group of children were discovered by that person while playing on the shore. Those people actually killed those tribe members and started cleaning the pond.
We killed more than 200 of the tribesmen there! Our family was almost wiped out, and in the end only three of them were left hiding, and that’s how it continued.”
Chi Feichi: "..."
It's quite miserable...
Based on the snake's lifespan, the time of the 'Great Purge' was probably fifty or sixty years ago, when the construction of this mansion started.
This tea ceremony master may not be the first owner of the house, but the first owner must have eliminated a lot of snakes...
"For so many years, we have not dared to over-reproduce and have carefully hid in the pond. As a result, the house started construction again last year and six more snakes were killed." White Snake sighed, "We can't change the place even if we want to go out.
I will be beaten to death. My wife and I were able to hide, but I am afraid that if the children are naughty and accidentally discovered, there may be another massacre. This place is really untenable. Please be sure.
Please help us!"
The other snakes were making noisy noises.
"It's so abominable, so abominable..."
"This is the place we occupied first."
"We can't leave even if we want to..."
"It's so scary, I don't want to be killed..."
"Okay," Chi Feichi agreed, "As long as you trust me, I will take you to a forest."
"Of course I can trust it. I feel that you are different from those people!" White Snake said immediately, "Then..."
There were faint voices coming from behind Chi Feichi, but the white snake didn't say any more and swum away with the other snakes, hiding.
Fei Chi still stayed there blankly, "They hide so fast..."
Chi Feichi glanced at the pond and said, "It's pretty good to hide."
The pond was very clear now, and when he glanced over it, he could only find a small gray snake circled behind gray-white stones at the bottom of the lake.
"What's hiding well? It's Brother Chi?" Mao Lilan stepped forward in confusion.
From behind, Mouri Kogoro, Conan, the housekeeper and Yagura Morio also followed, but the only Miss Mimura who liked to shake a fan was missing.
"Shh-"
A group of snakes made a sound together. Listening to the sound, some were on the pond side and some were under the bridge leading to the tea room.
Chi Feichi once again wondered whether the snake's personality would no longer be aloof once it became spiritual. "It's nothing, I'm playing hide-and-seek with Feichi."
"Really?" Mao Lilan smiled and squatted down, facing Fei Chi, who was floating on the water, "Fei Chi, it's time to come up after you've had enough fun."
Fei Chi climbed up obediently.
Mao Lilan looked at the pond again and sighed, "The color of the water has really changed. You can even see the bottom of the pond."
After entering the house, the housekeeper prepared to boil water for tea and introduced with a smile, "In the evening, the water in the pool will turn red."
"Mrs. Huaqi!" Aonoki Ryoichi ran over, still holding the fishing rod broken into two parts, and asked with an ugly face, "How did this fishing rod become like this?!"
"Actually..." the housekeeper lowered her head, confused, "it was the Grandmaster who asked me to burn it."
"I knew it..." Aonoki Ryo turned and left with a livid face.
The housekeeper stood up quickly and said urgently, "Don't be impulsive, Master Ryoichi!"
"Ryoichi," Yagura Morio also advised, "you should at least take care of the guests here. If you have anything to do, wait until the tea ceremony is over."
"I know," Aonoki said as he walked downstairs, "I just want to get rid of this fishing rod."
Yagura Morio watched Ryoichi Aonoki leave, and then sighed in a low voice, "Grandmaster has gone too far. Fishing is obviously Ryoichi's only interest. Grandmaster actually treats his own son like this."
"That grandmaster, he was furious at one moment and burned his son's fishing rod at the next. It is not an exaggeration to say that he was difficult to get along with." Mouri Kogoro complained and secretly glanced at Chi Feichi. In comparison, his apprentice
It's just so easy to get along with.
"To be honest, when the teahouse was completed last year, the old lady just passed away." Yagura Morio explained.
"The old lady believed in that legend very much," the housekeeper also said, "so she opposed the construction of the tea room until the end."
"Actually, those of us who are apprentices often talk about the legend of monsters eating people..." Yagura Morio said.
"So that's it," Mouri Kogoro understood. "It seems that the master became moody because he was afraid of that monster."
"No," Yagura Morio said again, "Grandmaster has a scornful attitude towards those superstitions."