Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

The subsequent development was just as Conan expected.

Mouri Kogoro found no eye-catching suspicious objects, took some photos at the scene, and organized others to leave the restaurant first and go to other rooms to wait for the police to arrive.

Izumi Jizaburo had cheese stained on his robe, so he needed to go to a nearby room to change his clothes first.

When Chi Feichi proposed that he wanted to follow Izumi Jisaburo for protection, Izumi Jisaburo immediately welcomed him happily. Seeing Conan following Chi Feichi closely, he asked Conan if he planned to follow. After Conan nodded in affirmation, He immediately nodded and agreed to let Conan follow.

all the best.

Halfway through changing clothes for Izumi Jisaburo, Chi Feichi found an excuse to call away Toba Hatsuho, giving Conan a chance to talk to Izumi Jisaburo alone.

At Conan's suggestion, Izumi Jizaburo wrapped an armor pocket around his chest and abdomen to serve as a simple stab-proof vest, and then put on a loose kimono to completely cover the armor pocket.

Chi Feichi counted the time and returned to the room with Hatsuho Toba. Hatsuho Toba pushed Izumi Jisaburo's wheelchair and went to the living room to meet others.

"It's really reassuring to have Mr. Chi and little brother Conan by your side..."

The wheels of the wheelchair rolled on the wooden floor. Izumi Jizaburo sat in the wheelchair and sighed, turned to Conan and smiled, "I'm sorry to trouble you today, but I'll treat you to a big dinner another day!"

Conan acted very cooperatively as a child, and Izumi Jisaburo showed a bright smile during the conversation, "Thank you, curator!"

"And Mr. Chi..." Izumi Jisaburo looked at Chi Feichi next to him and said with a gentle face, "If you want to visit here in the future, you can come here at any time, including on closed days! Anyway, this place will be open even on closed days. Someone is guarding me, and I stay here all year round and don’t go out much, so you will be welcomed whenever you come.”

"Thanks."

Chi Feichi responded politely, but didn't take it to heart.

When he was valuable, he believed that Izumi Jizaburo was serious when he said this. But after he no longer has value, these words may not count. Even if Izumi Jisaburo really lets him in on the closing day, his attitude will be different. Will be as kind as now.

And this cake is really not attractive to him. When a person can enjoy more privileges, he will not care whether he has any privileges in a certain place. Having privileges will naturally be more convenient. If he does not have privileges, it will be nothing... …

If he likes Noodles so much that he wants to appreciate them again and again, he can find a Noodles craftsman to make thousands of Noodles for him, build his own Noodle shop, and collect them himself.

"I should like to thank you for your help many times," Izumi Jisaburo looked at the front door of the living room and said with a smile, "And Mr. Chi gets along well with me. I also hope that you will come here more often in the future!"

Hearing Izumi Jizaburo mention "getting along", Chi Feichi took advantage of the situation and said, "Actually, I have an elder whose personality is a bit similar to Director Izumi..."

"Oh?" Izumi Jisaburo had Toba Hatsuho to help push his wheelchair. He didn't have to look at the road. He looked at Chi Feichi and wondered in his mind whether Chi Feichi was serious, whether he was casually chatting or deliberately getting close.

Chi Feichi looked directly at Izumi Jisaburo, his eyes calm, "Shrewd and cautious."

Izumi Jisaburo looked at Chi Feichi's eyes that showed no emotion, and repeated Chi Feichi's comments in his mind. He felt as if he had been seen through by Chi Feichi. He was shocked and couldn't keep the smile on his face.

It felt like my clothes were being stripped off, which was very uncomfortable.

Without waiting for Izumi Jisaburo to speak, Chi Feichi first shifted his gaze and looked at the door of the living room in front, saying in his usual tone, "So I am a little curious, if Director Izumi has a junior like me, will he feel a headache..."

That person is also a shrewd and cautious person, sometimes even shrewder and more cautious than Izumi Jisaburo.

If Izumi Jizaburo really wanted to thank him, he might as well provide him with some reference information.

Forget about painting pancakes, he is not interested in air pancakes.

"Headache?" Conan looked at Chi Feichi in confusion.

Hearing Chi Feichi talk about the shrewd and cautious senior, Conan immediately thought of Chi Feichi's father, the business king who was said to be shrewd and calm. He didn't find it strange, but just wondered why Chi Feichi thought he would cause a headache. .

"For example, personality, expression, etc., does it make people feel aggressive or stressful..."

Chi Fei Chiming was answering Conan on the surface, but in fact he continued to give Izumi Jiesaburo hints - don't hesitate, what I said about 'shrewd and cautious' is literal. I have seen your character and thoughts under the disguise.

Izumi Jizaburo's upper eyelids drooped, and soon a smile appeared on his face again, "I can't say for sure. If it's me, it probably depends on what kind of junior the other person is. If he has a similar temperament to me and is being As the junior heir to me, I should be very happy. Although the junior is too capable and may often make me feel old, I will still be very happy inside..."

Both of them knew in their hearts that Chi Feichi's question was - would a shrewd and cautious elder become wary and defensive because the younger one had cleverly guessed his own thoughts?

And both of them knew that Izumi Jisaburo had not finished the last part of his sentence - if the younger generation was not the successor favored by the elders, then the elders would not be happy.

The door of the living room was not closed, and while the two were talking, Toba Hatsuho also pushed Izumi Jisaburo through the door.

"But it's a pity that I don't have a capable junior like Mr. Chi who I can look forward to," Izumi Jizaburo looked at the irori and the group of people standing in front of the irori with emotion on his face, "So the answer I gave to Mr. Chi , I am just answering based on my imagination. Maybe your elders may not think like me..."

Mouri Kogoro saw a group of people entering the door and walked up to ask, "How are you, Director Izumi? Have you changed your clothes?"

"Yes, Mr. Maori, I would like to ask you to continue to protect me..."

Izumi Jisaburo exchanged polite words with Mouri Kogoro. Since he had changed his clothes and washed his hands, and was not worried about poisoning, he quickly had the rice cakes brought and baked the rice cakes on the irori fire. He also invited Moori Kogoro and Chi Fei. Chi and his party ate rice cakes around the fire.

Conan didn't sit down for two minutes. He found an opportunity to get close to Chi Feichi's ear and whispered, "I'll go to the kitchen to see the phone number that Miss Momono used to call the police." Then he slipped out quietly while others were not paying attention.

Two minutes later, Miyo Momono suggested that she go make a cup of coffee for Izumi Jizaburo and look for Conan, who was missing, and left the living room.

After a while, Mao Lilan was worried that Conan would be in danger while running around outside, so she followed him out.

More than ten minutes later, Mibu Momoyono came in with coffee.

Conan stayed at the door, whispered a few words to Mao Lilan, then turned and left, but did not notice that Tatsuro Kiyoji and Nagata Seinosuke looked at each other solemnly, and also whispered a few words.

Soon, Qingxianji Tatsuro also turned and left the living room, chasing in the direction where Conan and Mao Lilan left.

Beside the fire, Izumi Jizaburo was talking to Mouri Kogoro, always thinking that Chi Feichi had seen through his shrewd nature, and finally couldn't help but test Chi Feichi's identity, "By the way, I might be rude to ask this..."

Maori Kogoro:"……"

Suddenly he remembered what his apprentice said to Hanekawa Johei at the Torakura family residence a few days ago, which made him suddenly think of a sentence - you know it's rude, but you still ask...

It was over. If he continued like this, he was worried that he would be led astray by his apprentice.

"But Mr. Chi has an extraordinary bearing. He talks about being face-to-face and speaking eloquently." Izumi Jizaburo didn't know that Mouri Kogoro's thoughts wandered for a moment, and he said unhurriedly, "I was thinking just now that Mr. Chi's background should not be simple. , the elders in the family may also like traditional things like neng noodles. In fact, I like this kind of things very much. Whether it is to visit or collect, I am interested..."

"His mother is a British aristocrat, and she does have some traditional things at home." Kogoro Maori did not think about covering up, thinking back to the collection of the Chi family he had seen, "but there should not be any collections of Japanese traditional culture, they all seem to be some Famous foreign paintings, heirloom diamonds, etc.”

"Sorry, I'm late." Mibu Momoyono carried the coffee on a tray to the hearth, knelt down and placed the tray next to Izumi Jisaburo.

Izumi Jizaburo thought about the British aristocratic women he had heard about, and quickly thought of a British aristocratic woman who had a family in Japan. Combined with Chi Feichi's eye color and surname, he probably guessed Chi Feichi's identity, and he was not in a hurry to go. Looking at the coffee brought by Miyoshi Momono, he looked at Chi Feichi to confirm, "Could it be from Umbrella's Mr. Ike Shinnosuke..."

"That's my father."

Chi Feichi didn't mind revealing his identity to Izumi Jisaburo, so that he could avoid the old man's random thoughts and repeated tests.

Although Izumi Jisaburo had already made a guess, he was still a little surprised when he heard Chi Feichi's confirmation.

It turns out that he is really the child of that family...

He had wanted to find someone to be a bodyguard before... Well, it didn't happen. He hadn't thought about anything. I'm sorry to bother you.

Chi Feichi knew that Jizaburo Izumi said that traditional things were just a cover, but he still chose to respond, "As Teacher Maori said, the Chi family has very few collections of Japanese traditional colors like nengmen, and they are things passed down from the ancestors of my mother's family. , most of them are famous paintings, and most of them are not in Japan. If you want to visit them, you can only go to the UK. As for selling the collection, the Chi family has no such idea for the time being."

"I see……"

Izumi Jisaburo nodded.

With the current development situation of the Chi family, it is true that the family collection will not be sold. Even if the collection is left to gather dust in the warehouse, it will not be transferred to others. And it is unlikely that the Chi family will suddenly decline in the future and sell the collection to support their lives. So Chi Feichi said, "I don't want to sell it for the time being," which was a deliberate attempt to save him face.

Chi Feichi thought of his previous idea of ​​'building his own museum', and felt that it would not be a bad idea to move these exhibitions to his own art museum. He could see them anytime he wanted, and it would also increase the popularity of his own art museum. "Speaking of this, I am interested in the noh noodles collected by the curator, and would like to ask the curator if he is willing to sell them..."

Maori Kogoro:"……"

It’s really easy to reminisce about the past today.

He then remembered that his apprentice had directly asked his client - do you want to sell this car...