Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 253 One Hundred and Sixty Eight. Anna's Treasure

  Lu Li never asked about Anna's background, except that her mother's name was An Lei and she seemed to be from a noble family, he didn't know anything else.

   In fact it is not accurate to be called aristocrat, unless the line "desperate" is added to the prefix. At least when Anna was born, her family had no noble titles, and only a manor and a gallery with few guests remained.

   With inexplicable shyness, Anna revealed the above.

  A few months after Anna died of a contagious disease, her mother, who had not yet recovered, also died of grief and grief.

   "Is there anyone else in your family?"

   Mother and daughter died one after another, which made Lu Li have more ideas.

  Ana's eyes were lonely: "No more... only me and my mother are left, and then..."

   Then she and her mother were gone.

   The possibility of murdering relatives and seizing the property was ruled out. Lu Li turned to ask, "What about that manor?"

   His eyes fell on the picture frame on the bookshelf, and behind the green garden was a three-storey mansion.

Lu Li knew the whereabouts of    Gallery, and was given to the stingy boss Benjamin by Mrs. An Lei before she died. It was he who indirectly contributed to Lu Li and Anna's encounter.

   "Okay...it seems to have been donated..." Anna's voice became weaker.

   Lu Li, who seemed to be asking casually, said, "Tell me about the treasure."

"'Little Anna, let me tell you a secret, there is a treasure buried in our family, which contains the Lotta family and the most precious wealth to me.' That's what my mother told me at the time, when I was six... seven years old. when."

   Anna was too young at that time, maybe Mrs. An Lei was just coaxing Anna and she didn't have any treasures, but as a former noble with artistic literacy, she couldn't lie to Anna.

   It's easy to tell the truth from a fairy tale, Lu Li asked, "Did she tell you the location of the treasure?"

   "Well...I think about it..." Anna let herself fall into memory.

  The warm afternoon sunshine poured out of the window, and the warm bedroom with warm colors was like a maple leaf in autumn. Little Anna sat in her mother's arms, grabbed her clothes with both hands and asked, "Where is the treasure?"

  's former face has been blurred, and Anna only remembers the gentle and kind mother chuckling and saying, "You know where it is."

   "How do I know where it is?" Little Anna tilted her head in confusion.

   Mrs. An Lei rubbed her little head: "The treasure is buried in the deepest place in your memory."

   "Oh..." Little Anna answered honestly, pouted her mouth and stopped talking, and didn't yell at her mother like other children.

   Mrs. An Lei pinched little Anna's cheek by the way: "I'll tell you when you grow up."

   Little Anna dodged, but she couldn't dodge the big soft and warm hand, and giggled.

   This scene is gradually blurred and mottled, yellowing like a book page and fading, filling the sight with a desolate blue-gray color. The contrast between warmth and coldness suddenly made Anna feel extremely uncomfortable and conflicted. Almost instantly, a cold aura emanated from her body, and a touch of scarlet appeared in the depths of Anna's pupils.

  The shadow began to extend outwards, but stopped.

  Lu Li put his palm on Anna's shoulder, his drooping black eyes met Anna's sad eyes: "Keep calm."

The voice and the figure suddenly came into view. Anna stared at him in a daze, looking at the pair of calm black eyes that had not changed, her nose was sore for no reason, she tilted her head slightly, and whispered like a gnat: "I miss my mother. …”

  “…”

  Lu Li didn't say a word, he couldn't comfort people, so naturally he didn't know what to say or do at this time.

   But in general, something has to be said at this time.

   tilted his head and thought, Lu Li added: "The pot is already boiling."

  The sound of boiling water and the sound of the lid being lifted are being heard in the kitchen.

   Anna fell into memory, sobered up the moment she finished speaking, and ran into the kitchen anxiously.

   "It seems to be alright." Lu Chen centrifugally thought.

   "It seems to be alright..." Anna held her breath and thought to herself as the scarlet smudged deep in her eyes gradually faded away in the mirror.

   She removed the hot pot lid, stirred the pot with a spoon, and then put the lid back on.

  After finishing her emotions, Anna floated back to the living room. Lu Li had already returned to the desk and sat down. Because of the contact just now, Anna was slightly embarrassed: "Mother said that I knew where it was, so I buried it in the place where I have the deepest memory."

   "So where?"

  “…”

  Ana looked at Lu Li silently and blinked.

"forget?"

"Um……"

  Anna strayed from her happy eyes.

  The mother did not tell Anna where the treasure was when she grew up.

   "Perhaps it won't be hard to guess." Lu Li suddenly said. "You don't have many things in your life when you are six or seven years old. You just need to remember what was precious to you at that time."

   "Um..." Anna raised a long, thoughtful tone.

   "Playmates, friends, elders, family members." Lu Li provided key words for Anna to associate.

   "Um..." Anna continued to ponder in a long voice.

   "Servants, food, beloved things."

   "Um............?" The end of the long sound draws an arc representing doubt.

  Anna seemed to have thought of something.

   Lu Li continued to follow the point of his beloved: "potted plants, dolls, plants, pictures—"

   "I thought of it! The deepest thing in my memory!"

  Anna suddenly shouted, her bright eyes seemed to be shining like stars: "I'll bury it under my sister's tree roots!"

  Lu Li didn't speak, only asked and looked.

"That's a doll named Nini... Well, my sister is a tree that my mother planted after I was born, and I used to play with it when I was a kid... After that doll named Nini died, I put it Buried under a tree."

   "Dead?"

  Anna's cheeks flushed, and she stammered: "I didn't understand at that time, when I found out that its cotton core leaked out, I thought it was dead..."

"and then?"

   "Then it was like...I can't remember, but the treasure must be there!"

   Details Anna can no longer recall, she only remembers that her mother seemed to have mentioned words like "treasure" at that time.

   And that incident is indeed the most memorable thing for six or seven-year-old Anna. She still remembers the shameful thing she woke up from her dream several times crying and yelling at Nini.

   "Do you remember where the manor is?"

   "How can you forget this." Anna murmured and told Lu Li the address of the manor and where her "sister" was planted.

   "I don't know how it is now..."

  Anna's tone was a little sad. Of course she couldn't treat a tree as her sister, but she did have a special feeling for that tree.

   Anna, who was nostalgic by Lu Li, thought about it for a while, and slipped back to the kitchen to handle the food.

   Lu Li has no reason not to believe Anna.

  Anna's former manor was in Shymfast, in the middle of the Allen Peninsula. The past trip won't take too long. But not now, Lu Li will wait until the merchant arrives in a few days before setting off.

   (end of this chapter)