Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

"No problem," Chikana looked at the crowd looking around, and said with a smile, "Take everyone to the room to put your luggage, and then I will show you to the first floor, and then go to the restaurant from the corridor. It will take about an hour. Send it away."

"Yes, ma'am."

Lydia breathed a sigh of relief, and turned around to arrange for someone to help carry the luggage.

Chi Feichi looked back at the elderberry forest, turned his head to Chi Jianai and whispered, "Later, I want to visit my uncle's room."

Chi Kane nodded slightly, and also said in a very soft voice, "I will take you there before you go to sleep."

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The castle is a three-story Gothic tower building.

The first floor of the main building is the public activity area, the second floor has a large study room and a small living room, as well as the master bedroom and the men's room in the family, and the third floor is the women's room in the family.

The guest's room is arranged on the other side of the corridor, and the men's and women's floors are also clearly separated.

Even if Jane wasn't here, the old English housekeeper and Lydia still allocated rooms according to the rules.

Considering that Haibara Ai might want to live alone on the third floor of the main building, Ike Kana arranged for the two of them to arrange Nanatsuki Koshimizu and Yukiko Kudo to the third floor of the main building.

The only female guests who came here were these two, the old housekeeper thought about it, then nodded and complied.

After seeing the gorgeously decorated lobby, a group of people followed the luggage delivery servant to look at their respective rooms, and then met in the lobby on the first floor.

Ikekana led a group of people around on the first floor, introducing the activity area along the way.

"The entire first floor is free to move about. The second floor is the owner's study, small living room, and bedroom. The third floor is the women's room. Men stop before the stairs on the third floor. Although it is a very old rule, it is also a gentleman's etiquette. Oh, no girl wants to be seen by the opposite sex standing in the hallway when her hair is hanging out of the bathroom..."

"This is the living room on the first floor," Chi Kanai led a group of people into the room next to the hall, turned on the light switch, and looked at the large European-style windows that almost covered one wall with a smile. Very good, we can come here to rest during the day tomorrow."

The living room is covered with dark red thick carpet, and there is no door at the place where it connects with the hall, it looks very spacious.

Crystal lamps hang from the exquisitely carved ceiling, a piano is placed in the corner, coffee tables and leather sofas are placed in front of the fireplace, and sofas and high-back chairs are also placed near the window, which is definitely enough to accommodate more than 30 people.

After the others entered, they briefly glanced at the layout of the living room, and were attracted by the oil paintings on the wall.

"Is this Gainsborough's work?" Yukiko Kudo saw an oil painting next to the sofa, stepped forward to look at it, and then turned to share with Ikekana, "When I went to the United States to make a movie, I met Yu Zuo had seen Gainsborough’s works in an investor’s home. Most of his works were British upper-class figures in the 18th century. He liked to paint full-body portraits, put the figures in front of the landscape, and liked the informal and flexible postures of the figures. Is it? The investor said at the time that a group of Gainsborough’s works were bought and collected by British nobles, and one of them was a portrait of his daughter..."

Chi Kanai smiled and nodded, "My mother bought this painting to decorate the living room. It is indeed Gainsborough's work."

Others also walked to the oil painting they were interested in and chatted in low voices.

"This is the work of George Innes. He can always paint the landscape so brightly and naturally, with interlaced light and shadow..."

"My God! Is this a painting by Raphael Sanzio?"

Since Chi Feichi entered the door, his eyes were attracted by a painting hanging on the wall beside the door. Except for hearing the name of Rafael Sanzio and turning his head to look at the oil painting over there, his eyes were all glued to the painting. on that painting.

Rafael-Sanzio's paintings are famous for their "beautiful", delicate characters and beautiful scenes. At that time, Sandy liked Raphael's painting style very much, and asked someone to ask Raphael for a painting, hoping that Raphael can Help them draw a picture of the patron saint of Montgomery's house, and tell him to the bones that if Raphael draws it, he will definitely be able to draw him very well.

The other party replied—Raphael heard that it was an old lady who was almost a hundred years old who asked him for a painting. He was surprised and happy. There are other painting works, which will take about half a year to complete. After completion, I will be invited by Sandy to be a guest and draw a picture for Sandy.

Yes, Sandy was already an old lady that year. After receiving the reply, she waited happily for half a year, and finally the news came——Raphael had a high fever after returning home, because the doctor thought that Rafael It was just that he was infected with the cold and didn't pay attention to it. Raphael died of illness.

That year, in the beginning of spring, Sandy sat in the garden, aggrieved like a child who was almost a hundred years old, thinking about the pendant on the bone, lamenting the passing of life like Versailles for a while, regretting Raphael for a while Why didn't Er come to Montgomery's house before returning home, so maybe she could cure Raphael.

He was just speechless.

To be honest, the level of medical care back then was the same. Even in Sandy’s generation, the diagnosis, medication, and treatment methods were terribly rough. What other doctors couldn’t do, Montgomery’s family might not be able to do.

However, based on Sandy's love for Raphael's paintings, if Raphael came to Montgomery's house in the early stage of fever, Sandy would probably attach great importance to it and give Raphael a belly full of soup, so that Maybe Phil can really live...

The dead cannot be resurrected, and the same is true for famous painters. Fortunately, Sandy's attention was quickly attracted by the younger generations. The matter of "failing to leave a good-looking portrait for the patron saint" did not become Sandy's regret after all.

After Sandy passed away, only he would think of the old lady sitting in the garden and the regrets she complained about.

Time is a cruel master, and Changsheng is an existence that can defy time, but is hardly benevolent. At certain times, they are equally cruel.

In short, his understanding of Raphael comes from Sandy's love for Raphael's works, and he has never actually met Raphael himself.

And the work in front of him is another gift given to him by time and longevity, a gift that he can't say is good or bad...

Yue Shui Nanatsuki found that Chi Feichi was interested in the painting in the corner of the wall. Curiously, he walked to Chi Feichi's side. Just when he looked up to see the painting on the wall clearly, he heard a faint humming from the bone flute under his clothes. He stretched out his hand to pull the black rope out of his collar, and looked down at the bone flute pendant.

Chi Feichi also heard the humming, and turned his head to look at the bone flute in Yueshui Nanatsuki's hand, suspecting that the bone flute was about to mature, "Yueshui..."

"Ah?" Yue Shui Nanatsuki suspected that he had heard it wrong, and when he raised his eyes to look at Chi Feichi, he put down the bone flute pendant with his right hand, and cast a questioning look at Chi Feichi, "What's wrong?"

"Since you wore this pendant, has anything strange happened?" Chi Feichi asked, "For example, like just now, the bone flute suddenly made a sound."

"Did you hear it too?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki looked down at the bone flute that fell on his clothes, "I don't think it's happened before, it's the first time just now, but obviously there is no wind passing through the hole, I think it might be It was a bit of air that was inadvertently wrapped under the collar, which just made it make a sound..."

no it's not...

The answer came to Chi Feichi's mind, he looked at the painting on the wall again, raised his right hand, and lightly pressed it on the glass protecting the painting, trying to feel the mystery in the painting.

After the oil painting is framed and added with a glass layer, it may affect the viewing, but for some old and fragile paintings, such an insurance can only be added in the daily maintenance.

This is an old painting, the colors are not so rich, but they are gorgeous enough.

Under the blue sky, the field is golden. A girl in coarse clothes is sitting on a corn pile in the corner, holding the pendant of the necklace with one hand on her chest. The girl still looked up at the sky, smiling recklessly and flamboyantly.

Two flying birds landed on the grain pile next to the girl, and the diluted blue and white materials formed whirlwinds, filling the fields and the sky, and behind the girl formed a tall but shapeless, stretched A figure with huge wings...

The whole painting is brightly colored, and even though there are no religious figures, it still has a strong religious atmosphere.

He knew the girl in the painting.

Hundreds of years ago, her name was Diana, and after she got married, her name was Diana Montgomery.

When Chi Feichi and Koshimizu Nanatsuki looked at the painting again, Huihara Ai also walked aside, looked up at the painting with a light atmosphere, "It looks like a medieval painting..."

"Are you interested in this painting?" Chi Kanai also walked to the side.

Yue Shui Nanatsuki looked at Chi Feichi, "It's Mr. Chi..."

Chi Feichi put his hand down from the painting, and greeted Chi Jianai, "Mother."

Chi Kanai smiled at Chi Feichi, and looked at the girl in the painting, "Your grandmother bought this painting from a friend's house who had fallen into poverty. She can tell that this painting has a long history, and the brushstrokes are delicate and smooth. It's also very artistic, and it looks like everyone else, and the girl in the painting is very happy, which makes people feel happy, so she spent money to buy it, but after consulting a lot of information, she still doesn't know where it is. When I went to school in London, a friend once came to my house as a guest. She sent some of the paintings here whose origins could not be determined to her family’s painting appraisal office for identification, and it was confirmed that they were indeed handed down from the Middle Ages. It is not easy for the paintings of that period to be preserved so well, but it is also not confirmed whose work it is. If it is confirmed whose work it is, the value will not be lower than that of the Midnight Jackdaw, and maybe it will be higher It's several times."

"It's Giotto's painting," Chi Feichi said, looking at the painting, "Giotto di Bondona."

After a moment of silence in the living room, those who heard the name 'Giotto' all turned their heads to look at the paintings in front of them. Those who didn't hear were also startled by the sudden silence, and then asked about the others in a low voice. .

Chi Kanai didn't understand why Chi Feichi was so sure, and after smiling back at other people's gazes, he said unhurriedly, "The laboratory also had the same suspicion. They compared the brushstrokes of the paintings and found that they were similar to Giotto's late paintings. The brush strokes are similar, and some small habits of painting are also the same. In the 14th century, Giotto was the first painter to add a perspective background to the painting, which is also consistent with the estimated history and style of this painting..."