"Really?" Conan ran through the rows of bookshelves and took the initiative to meet Chi Feichi. He kept running until he was out of breath, but after he recovered a little, he immediately looked serious and whispered, "I'm Mr. Isesaki Li. In the ward where I was staying, I found a newspaper from June 1, 1944 on his bedside table, which was the time before and after Sophia's accident. So I was thinking that he must have been involved in what happened back then, so he would care so much about keeping that newspaper. A newspaper."
Chi Feichi nodded, took the notebook, and took Conan to the reading area.
Oyamaya and the bodyguard also gained something.
On June 1, 1944, as Conan said, the newspaper reported the disappearance of a boy named "Minato Takeshi", which was the disappearance case that caused Sophia to be wrongly accused of being a prisoner.
Less than three months after that, a newspaper reported a fire in Sofia's house, which mentioned that "the house of a foreign woman who lived with her young son was burned down."
At the end of the report, there is this paragraph:
'According to eyewitnesses of the fire, when the flames became more intense, several teenage children took advantage of the chaos and escaped. People living nearby at the time saw this scene. '
"A teenage boy..." Conan frowned.
Calculating their ages, Toda Jiro, Motomachi Seizo, and Isezaki Riki should have been in their teens at that time. Could there be any other hidden reasons for the fire that year? And this time, is the root cause of this case Elizabeth's will, or is it revenge because of Sophia?
"Didi... Didi..."
The detective armband that Ayumi gave to Chi Feichi and the detective armband on Conan's body rang at the same time.
When Conan saw Chi Feichi taking out the detective armband, he didn't take the one in his pocket and leaned over to listen.
"Brother Chi..." Haiyuan Ai's voice came from the other side, as well as some noisy noises.
"Where are you guys? Didn't you say you were going to the herbal medicine shop?" Conan said, "Brother Chi and I have already met in the library..."
"We are still at the herbal shop," Haibara Ai explained the matter as concisely and clearly as possible. "That Isesaki Shinhide went to the herbal shop and made a big fuss. He also summoned fans who read his website and nearby neighbors to surround the herbal shop and said He wants to find proof that Miss Tsurumi is a witch, and the doctor and the children are coming with him now."
"What?" Conan's expression changed and he asked loudly, "How are you doing? No one was injured, right?"
"We are still in the herbal medicine shop and have not had a direct conflict with them yet, but we are not sure whether a physical conflict will break out soon. Sister Nanatsuki is already calling the police." Haibara Ai is still calm, "We have already We have discussed it, Mr. Oyama doesn’t seem to like that Isesaki Mahide, and so do all of us. If a fight breaks out, we will target Isesaki Mahide and beat him severely..."
Conan, who had already started to run out the door, stumbled and almost fell to the ground. He shouted speechlessly at the detective armband in Chi Feichi's hand, "Hey, hey, I told you not to mess around. No matter who is injured, it's not..." What a good thing!"
"The question now is whether they will mess around. When you come here, you will probably encounter the police. Don't forget to tell them that we are acting in legitimate defense..." Haiyuan lamented, "That's it anyway. If you don't get caught, We're in a hurry, and we don't want to hurt anyone. We'll talk about the rest when you get there."
"drop.."
Detective armband communications cut off.
Oyamaya and the bodyguard followed the two of them out the door. After listening to the whole conversation, they couldn't help but sigh, "Counsellor, Miss Xiao Ai is really similar to you. It's hard for anyone to believe that they are not biological siblings..."
Conan half-moon eyes.
Yes, yes, there could be a fight over there at any time. Haiyuan contacted them with this attitude of 'Don't worry, calm down, our side is sure to win, and we have already decided who to fight'. He really followed a certain guy... …
…
It was past ten o'clock in the morning, and the fog in Jiangshenyuan still hadn't cleared.
It's not far from the library to the herbal medicine shop in the foreigner's residence area. It takes more than 20 minutes to walk and less than 10 minutes to take a taxi.
Unfortunately, there were no taxis operating in the thick fog. Chi Feichi, Conan, Dashanya and the bodyguards ran all the way down the ramp, and Wuming followed in the direction of the herbal medicine shop in the fog.
About fifteen minutes later, four people and one cat ran outside the herbal medicine shop. Wuming saw the courtyard door open and the courtyard was quiet. He was confused for a moment and jumped over the courtyard wall. "Master, let me first... meow ?!”
In the white mist, a shrill cat meowed so horribly that even the noise in the yard disappeared in an instant, and soon there was the roar of something heavy hitting the ground.
Conan's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly ran into the courtyard and squeezed through the crowd. After seeing that there were no traces of a collective fight, he breathed a sigh of relief and looked toward the courtyard wall, looking for the unknown figure.
Although Ms. Tsurumi looked shocked, no one seemed to be hurt.
Why did Wuming scream so miserably? Did you get hit by a branch or something when you jumped in?
After Chi Fei entered the courtyard late, he slowed down and did not follow Oyamaya, Conan and others. He stopped behind the crowd and stared darkly into the depths of the courtyard.
The elder tree deep in the yard has fallen to the side. The fracture in the middle of the tree is smooth. Some slender branches that have not grown for a long time are broken, and the leaves and small cream-colored flowers fall messily on the ground.
And Isesaki Mahide was standing next to him with a chainsaw, probably because the nameless scream just now was too cruel. At this moment, Isesaki Mahide's face was as shocked and confused as the others.
After Wu Ming said his name, he stood blankly by the courtyard wall, looking at the sawed-off elder trees.
This guy actually sawed off the elder tree that his demon master loved...
This guy actually sawed off the elderberry that Witch Anko-san loved...
So the question is, how will this guy die?
Isao Sakuragi arrived a step later. He was running in a hurry. After feeling the cold breath of Chi Feichi at the back of the crowd, he was forced to stop by the suffocation feeling and glanced sideways at the quiet crowd in the yard.
After the crowd was frightened by the cat's meow, they began to whisper in fear because they could not see the nameless figure in the white mist.
"That was a cat meowing just now, right?"
"What, what's going on? Why is the cat meowing so sadly..."
cat?
Yingmu Gong saw Wuming beside the wall and gave up his suspicion that Wuming was killed. He looked in the direction Chi Feichi was looking. After seeing the fallen Elderberry, his heart skipped a beat and he soon understood. He understood what was going on with Chi Feichi's expression and the cat's meow.
Since Chi Feichi and Miss Hongzi arrived in Jiangshenyuan, apart from talking to Elizabeth, they have spent the rest of their time under the elder tree. No matter how stupid he is, he knows that the elder tree has extraordinary significance to Chi Feichi.
The cat made a strange noise that scared everyone, and Chi Feichi's face was so gloomy that it was all because the elder tree was sawed off.
He remembered that when he was in Europe, he heard a very ridiculous legend. The members of the Montgomery family who were rejected by everyone were all dryads...
When he was young, some mean children teased him: Can you grow leaves? Will you bear fruit?
He is a real person, and so are the other members of the Montgomery family. He is not a dryad at all. He has never seen a dryad. This is inconsistent with other sayings that "people from the Montgomery family will curse others in the middle of the night." , it’s no different, so you’ll get used to it after hearing it too much, and you can ignore it completely after that.
But if you take apart 'Montgomari', 'tree' and 'demon' and reassemble them, could the source of this legend be that 'Mongomarie's family has a tree demon' or 'Mongomarie's family has people who like trees'? Where's the demon?
This is a conjecture that sends chills down your spine.
Just thinking about what he saw in the cemetery in the morning, thinking about Elizabeth's junior-like attitude towards Chi Feichi, thinking about Chi Feichi's "unworthy descendants" remarks, and thinking about his mother Sophia or his grandmother who seemed to like her very much. Elderberry…
That bizarre conjecture doesn't seem so strange anymore.
"You..." Yingmu Gong had too many questions in his mind, which drove him to overcome the dull suffocation in his heart and spoke to Chi Feichi in a low voice, "Are you okay?"
Chi Feichi suppressed the murderous intent in his eyes, and his expression returned to normal. Blocked by the crowd's low-pitched chatter like ants passing by, he asked softly, "What can happen to me?"
Isao Sakuragi felt the atmosphere around him relax, and he breathed a sigh of relief. He hesitated and looked at the miserable-looking elder tree in the depths of the yard. "The elder tree was cut off. I heard some stories about Montgomery and Dryads when I was in Europe." legend……"
"Do you think I'm a tree demon?" Chi Feichi looked sideways at the wrinkled Sakuragi Gong and said speechlessly, "It's just that your ancestors thought I liked elder trees."
Sakuragi said dryly, "My...my ancestor?"
Chi Feichi lowered his eyes and looked at the priest's robes on Yingmu Gong's body, and lowered his voice and warned, "The power of the Holy See is all over the world. Sometimes knowing too much is not necessarily a good thing. You'd better forget what I said." , otherwise I can’t guarantee whether anyone will find you or your daughter.”
Isao Sakuragi looked at Tsurumi Yezi, who looked sad and angry in the crowd, and said with a stern expression, "I understand."
"But you don't have to worry. Elizabeth has returned the most fundamental thing to me," Chi Feichi looked at the crowd and said softly, "She acquiesced that the Montgomery family will no longer inherit the contract between me and the Montgomery family. It's over here, as long as you don't talk nonsense, even if there is trouble in the future, it will have nothing to do with you."
"Is this Elizabeth's decision..." Isao Sakuragi couldn't help but ask, "Although I don't know what the so-called contract is, but since the contract has ended, why were you in the cemetery this morning... I thought you Will expose me..."
Chi Feichi answered in a low voice very straightforwardly and without giving Yingmu Gong face, "I watched you being born. Every time you were brought to Elizabeth, I watched you. Now that I see you, I It also reminds me of the way you cried loudly after wetting the bed as a baby, so I don’t want to expose you, but don’t get too happy too early, there is more than one detective here.”
Yingmu Gong's mouth twitched slightly when he heard 'bedwetting', and then he tried hard to understand the logic, but he still didn't understand whether Chi Feichi didn't expose him because of his 'old relationship', or because he didn't think he was a threat, "Then if I... …”
"Humph, it's just a cat meowing!"
In the crowd, after Isesaki Mahide came to his senses, he shouted again with a righteous face, "I have cut down this tree, and no bad luck has befallen me. Look, I am still alive and well, right?" ?”
