Conan: I Am Not a Snake Spirit

Mao Lilan looked at the people around her who were getting up and moving, and was a little surprised, "Forty minutes have actually passed..."

"It's normal," Suzuki Sonoko counted on her fingers. "Mr. Kenshiro and Yu's uncle spoke, plus the host spoke, Yu expressed his thanks, and everyone applauded. It took almost eighteen minutes. Fei Chi and I It took me about ten minutes in total. With the remaining four people, each person spent an average of three minutes. Forty minutes passed like this because different people came up and said different things to attract everyone's attention. Everyone will feel that time flies by very quickly! In fact, if Brother Fei Chi and I were willing to allow each person to speak for two minutes more, the host might invite one or two less people to come up, but the end result is the same, one more person comes up and one less person comes up. The feeling when people go up there won’t be much different!”

"In order for everyone to spend forty minutes without being bored, the host and the people who were invited to speak really worked hard." Conan joked.

"It's good that you know," Suzuki Sonoko said confidently, regardless of whether Conan was deliberately teasing her, "we made a great contribution to the dinner!"

Conan: "..."

Apart from whether Yuanzi's contribution was very big, he actually felt that what Yuanzi said was right. The person who came up to bless the party just now did indeed make a great contribution to the banquet.

And looking at the reactions of people around me, most people rated this after-dinner show very well.

It seems that it is because it is difficult for these people to see the younger generation like Brother Chi and Yuanzi speaking in person, and it is more fresh than acquaintances like them, so these people did not feel bored just now.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, since he came back from the bathroom, he listened to the blessings of six people, including Brother Chi and Yuanzi. These six people all expressed their views on the bride and groom from their own perspectives and expressed their blessings to the couple. , there is not much repetitive content, and it is really thoughtful, so that no one feels particularly boring.

This kind of activity is a bit boring but not very boring, and it is quite suitable for digestion after meals.

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During the free time, guests present came forward one after another to bless the bride and groom.

Chi Feichi and others had already congratulated the newcomers during the day, and sent two more people to participate in the "after-dinner entertainment show" in the evening. They had already talked enough to the newcomers, so they did not join in the fun at this time.

Soon, Hatakeyama Kinoko took her daughter Ishihara Koko and son-in-law Ishihara Tatsuya and took the initiative to find Ike Feichi and Suzuki Sonoko.

Seeing an old man in his early sixties approaching with a champagne glass in his hand and a smile on his face, Chi Feichi, Koshimizu Nanatsuki, Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan stood up immediately.

Haibara Ai and Conan were too short. If they stood on the ground, they would be completely blocked by the table. If they stood on chairs, they would look even more rude. After a moment of hesitation, they continued to sit between the seats.

Hatakeyama Komienko asked Chi Feichi and others about whether they were used to eating dinner and whether the food was to their taste. After getting satisfactory answers from the four people, he also asked Haibara Ai and Conan. After that, Ishihara Kōko and Ishihara As the groom's sister and brother-in-law, Tatsuya expressed his gratitude to the group for coming and invited them all to have a glass of wine together.

After Hatakeyama Komienko left with her daughter and son-in-law and found guests at other tables, Hatakeyama Kenshiro took his daughter Hatakeyama Arisa and came forward with a wine glass.

Before Chi Feichi and the other four sat down, they stood and went through the process of polite greetings and drinking with Kenshiro Hatakeyama again.

Hatakeyama Arisa was not very interested in talking to people, but she did not say a word when she arrived. She briefly greeted Chi Feichi and others, followed Hatakeyama Kenshiro to invite Chi Feichi and others to drink, and then followed Hatakeyama Kenshiro. Shiro left.

After Suzuki Sonoko sat down, she sighed in a low voice, "Arisa's temper is really much better than before. Seeing that she is so sad tonight and not as showy as before, I still want to comfort her, but Because my sister had a quarrel with her, our relationship has never been close, and I was worried that she would think that I comforted her because I wanted to laugh at her..."

Not far away, Hatakeyama Arisa got into a tantrum with Hatakeyama Kenshiro again, "Okay, I've already said hello, what else do you want from me! I drank too much tonight, and now I want to go back Isn’t it okay to rest in a hotel?”

Mao Lilan looked at Hatakeyama Arisa and asked in a low voice, "Is Miss Arisa's temper worse before than today?"

"I don't have much contact with her, and I think Brother Fei Chi is the same, but out of ten times we meet her, nine times she might be angry because of something," Suzuki Sonoko was speechless, "In addition, she has been She was so fierce when she quarreled with my sister, I think it’s normal for her to have a bad temper, right?”

Next, someone else came forward to say hello to Chi Feichi and Suzuki Sonoko, and after a few brief greetings, the other person said that he was going to go back early. After saying goodbye to Chi Feichi and Suzuki Sonoko, he found the Hatakeyama family to say goodbye.

Not far away, Arisa Hatakeyama had a bad temper with Kenshiro Hatakeyama for a while, but still insisted on leaving. Kenshiro Hatakeyama had to find a driver and asked the driver to take Arisa Hatakeyama to rest in a cabin hotel room on the other side.

The Hatakeyama family invited few guests, which made Chi Feichi and Suzuki Sonoko much more relaxed. They didn't need to deal with too many people. After interacting with three acquaintances and two unfamiliar people who were introduced by acquaintances, they felt at ease again. .

Since someone had lamented to Suzuki Sonoko before, "No one from the Tomizawa family came over today," the topic of conversation between the six people also turned to the Tomizawa family.

Just this year, a big event happened to the Tomizawa family of the Tomizawa Foundation - the chairman of the foundation, Tetsuji Tomizawa, was killed by his eldest son, Taichi Tomizawa.

This incident initially caused quite a stir, causing the Fuze Consortium's shares to fall again and again.

When Yu Hatakeyama's father died unexpectedly, there was some turmoil within the Hatakeyama Foundation. However, compared to the current chaos in the Tomizawa Foundation, the transition of the chairmanship of the Hatakeyama Foundation can be said to be quite smooth.

Speaking of the incident at Tomizawa's house, Suzuki Sonoko couldn't help showing a look of confusion, "Actually, in that incident, I, my sister, Xiaolan and Conan were witnesses."

"Huh?" Koshimizu Nanatsuki said in surprise, "It was said in the news that Mr. Tomizawa Taichi was quickly arrested by the police because there were witnesses to this incident. You said that you are all witnesses, which means... "

"We all saw it. We saw with our own eyes that my sister's future husband's father was killed!" Suzuki Sonoko was speechless. "After my sister and Yusan brother got engaged, our family's villa in Izu was also built in Together, on the day of the incident, I happened to invite Xiaolan to go to Izu with me, and the Conan kid also went there, and my sister wanted to introduce her to her father and two older brothers formally the next day, so Also in Izu, that night, Uncle Tetsuji had dinner and watched the baseball broadcast at my villa. When he went out and walked to the door of his house, he was attacked. At that time, the power in the villa was out, and it was thundering and raining outside. Me, my sister, Xiaolan and Conan were standing behind the window of my villa. Through the window, we saw someone hitting Uncle Zheji on the head with something, killing him directly. At that time, lightning illuminated him! Outside, we could see half of the murderer’s face clearly, which scared my sister quite a bit!”

Koshimizu Nanatsuki said with a clear face, "Because you witnesses saw the murderer's face, did the police directly identify Mr. Tomizawa Taichi as a suspect?"

"The children of the Tomizawa family are triplets," Chi Feichi said. "If we just look at their faces, Mr. Tomizawa Tetsuji's three sons, Tomizawa Taichi, Tomizawa Tatsuji, and Tomizawa Yuzo, look almost exactly the same, but the murderer Taichi The gentleman seems to have had a beard for many years.”

"What we saw that day was the upper half of the murderer's face." Suzuki Sonoko raised her arm to cover the lower half of her face. "Like this, we couldn't see whether the murderer had a beard or not! At that time, I and I don’t know Brother Xiongsan’s family very well. I have never seen his two twin brothers who are almost identical to him. I thought Brother Xiongsan was the murderer. Even my sister misunderstood that it was Brother Xiongsan, so she was so frightened! "

"The night before I was going to officially meet my fiancé's family, I saw with my own eyes someone who seemed to be my fiancé and killed my fiancé's father," Haibara mourned. "Anyone would be shocked."

"Yes," Suzuki Sonoko said with a sigh, "Actually, at the beginning, neither we nor the police knew who the person who killed Uncle Tetsuji was, and Yusan brother and his three brothers did not have a good relationship with Uncle Tetsuji... Mr. Taichi is obsessed with writing novels and wants to become a famous novelist. However, Uncle Tetsuji wants him to return home and inherit the family business, and deliberately lets the publishing house suppress him. His income from writing novels is not enough for him to write well, so he wants to kill Uncle Tetsuji. , after inheriting the inheritance, he will use the inheritance to make himself comfortable in life and have the conditions to attract people and pursue their dreams. This is also his motive for killing. Moreover, he also wanted the police to think that it was Brother Xiong who killed him, because he wanted Brother Xiong to be arrested as the murderer. Afterwards, he can get an extra share of the inheritance!”