[Detective Conan] If the Yuanshan family gave birth to a boy

12.

When it comes to Aomori, the first thing most people think of is its specialty "Fuji Apple", followed by its title of "Longevity County".

Aomori Prefecture is located at the northernmost tip of Honshu Island, facing the sea on three sides, and separated from Hokkaido by the Tsugaru Strait.The special geographical location and climatic environment make its forest coverage rate reach nearly 70.00%.So when the plane flew close to Aomori Airport, the surrounding area was almost dark green from the window.The city is surrounded by this vibrant color, dotted with mottled colors.

Rin Toyama fell asleep on the plane and missed lunch. At this time, he was sitting on a bench with a rice ball bought from a convenience store and was eating while waiting for Hattori Heiji to ask for directions.

Probably because of working days, there are not many people in the airport.The dark-skinned boy was standing about 50 meters away from here, holding a notebook in his hand and asking the staff here, and it took him a long time to thank him and leave, looking very troubled.

Hattori Heiji felt that he really wanted to drag out that family member and beat him up severely.

Why live so far away! ! !Is it that good in the mountains? ? ?It is not convenient to buy things! ! !

Although the other party said that they would pick them up at the nearest bus stop, the question was how to get there.

Heiji originally checked the route in advance, but after arriving at Aomori Airport, he was told that the private railway and shuttle bus they were going to take were suspended due to the heavy rain a few days ago!

This led to the original plan of "airplane→tram→private railway→shuttle bus→wait for someone to pick you up at the platform" to "airplane→tram→???→???→stay autistic"

It was the first time for the two teenagers to come to Aomori County. In such an unfamiliar place, one "???" is almost dead.

Rin Toyama looked at the power of the phone, and very wisely went to the convenience store to buy two mobile power banks powered by single-type batteries, and then called Heiji back to prepare to take the tram first, and then ask about the work at the station personnel. ——After all, it is somewhat closer to the destination, so it should be clearer than the people here.

Hattori Heiji went around without much gain, so the two of them went to Morioka Station first. After learning that there is a bus that can replace the private railway, they took the night bus with their luggage. After going around for a long time, they finally Arrived at the station Ryosuke Himeji mentioned the next morning.

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It looks deserted, is it really okay?

Except for a small road in front of the platform, which means that the surrounding area is inhabited. On both sides of the road are thriving beech trees and some shade-loving low plants. There are many beautiful birds singing among the high branches. .The woods here are all naturally formed. Although the distance between the trunks is not close, the positions are very messy. The line of sight is blocked so you can't see far, and the end of the line of sight becomes completely dark.

"I heard that there are a lot of grizzlies here." Hattori Heiji turned his white baseball cap on, and took a peek at his friend, "Do you think we will meet by chance while we are waiting here?"

However, Rin Toyama turned a deaf ear to Heiji's joke, he poked his head out from the plastic panel at the back of the station, staring at the lush beech forest in front of him.

"what happened?"

Rin raised his index finger and made a silence gesture, signaling Hattori Heiji to shut up and listen.

There was a rustling sound in the woods, and it sounded like some living thing was flying among the low plants in the distance.

"It's not a bear, is it?"

Hattori Heiji laughed a few times, thinking that they were not so lucky, even in the mountains, bears are not just something they can see.

However, in the next second, the rustling voice turned around and seemed to be running towards the station.

Heiji boy immediately pulled Toyama Rin to his left, picked up a thick branch from the ground and held it in his hand. —Although it doesn't sound as big as a grizzly bear, it's better to be careful in the wild.

What if it's Little Bear?

Then the real master finally appeared, a reddish-brown, fluffy red panda.

Toyama Rin looked at the half apple in his hand, and then at the little panda who stood up with his front legs off the ground and looked at him eagerly. In the end, he compromised so easily, squatted down and stretched out his hand to hold it. Hand it over to the little animal in front of you.

"Do people here keep red pandas as pets?" Hattori Heiji twitched the corners of his mouth when he saw the streamer tied around the neck of the little animal, and then handed over his own half, trying to bribe him. To achieve the purpose of touching the fluff.

As a result, the full-fledged little panda flicked its tail and ran away. Hattori Heiji was so angry that he pointed at the woods and scolded it for not being grateful.

"Give me back my apple!!!"

Toyama Rin looked at Heiji like he was looking at a silly dog.

"What is more true between you and animals?"

Hattori Heiji looked unhappy, which made people want to laugh.

So Toyama Rin gave him another one, and told him not to feed this again, but to eat it quickly.

"Why do you have so many apples?"

"Didn't I say that? I went to a convenience store and bought a bag while you were buying your train ticket. Let's say at least five or six." All-purpose convenience stores can sell fruit, especially in Aomori, which is not uncommon.

Hattori Heiji stared curiously at the backpack on his friend's shoulder, wondering if it could hold everything in it like Doraemon's four-dimensional pocket.

The two stood here and waited for a while, when a small truck drove over and stopped in front of the platform.

A brown-haired man who looked less than 30 years old poked his head out of the cab: "Excuse me, is this Heiji Hattori?"

It seems that he is Himeji Ryosheng.

After briefly introducing himself, Toyama Rin followed Hattori Heiji into the car.Because only two people can sit in the truck cab, Hattori Heiji generously gave up the seat to his friend who still coughed from time to time, and sat on the back of the truck and leaned against the small window to ask about the details of the commission. Condition.

Mr. Himeji passed away a month ago.At that time, he was still studying abroad. His mother called him back, saying that his grandfather had passed away and asked him to come back to help.

"Grandfather?"

"Well, my father is married."

In Japan, the man can change his surname, which shows that the Himeji family must be very special.

Rin Toyama thought for a while, and then asked Himeji Ryosheng what he learned abroad.

"Business Studies." He replied quickly, "except for my grandfather, no one in the family is a music student. ——The old man seems to be disappointed by this, but there is nothing to do. After he divorced my grandmother, I My uncles all lived with my grandmother, and my mother didn’t want to study music, so she married and left here after graduating from university. This is also the first time I’ve come back here. —By the way, my grandmother passed away a few years ago.”

"So, usually only your grandfather lives here?"

"And his apprentice and a butler."

Apprentice and butler?

"My grandfather is of mixed race, and his mother is Polish. He lived abroad since he was a child, and only returned to live in Japan after he got married. Originally, the old housekeeper resigned and returned home due to health reasons. Now this one seems to have been recruited a few years ago. "

Even afford a housekeeper.Sure enough, the Himeji family was rich. ——Rin Toyama thought, but when the car turned around the foot of a mountain and revealed Himeji's house, he realized that "very rich" cannot accurately describe the other party's family business.

Too rich! ! !

This is a small castle built in the mountains! ! !

Probably because of the preconceptions of the surname "Himeji" with a strong Japanese charm, I thought that the Himeji family would be a traditional Japanese-style mansion like Hattori Heiji's grandfather's house, but they built a castle here directly. There are also suspension bridges and gardens outside, and there are statues of angels on both sides of the gate.

When Toyama Rin got out of the car, he couldn't close his mouth in surprise, and Hattori Heiji next to him smiled smugly. ——I don't know what he is proud of, this is not his home.

"Let me just say, you have to come. ——How about it? Listen to Hattori Heiji, you're right?"

Toyama Rin suspects that Hattori Heiji already knew what the destination was like, and has been hiding it from him, just waiting for this moment to see his surprised expression.

"Maybe there is a big bath that you can swim in."

"Yeah, the kind that washes you out."

"what?!"

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Mr. Himeji's three children are all there.

The eldest daughter is Ryoko Himeji's mother, Keiko.She wore a long, sleeveless silk dress that fell below her knees, a thin shawl draped over her shoulders, and her hair was pulled into a tight bun, giving her a stern look.

The eldest son, Yoshiyuki Himeji, was dressed in a cheap gray suit, with beards and a beer belly, giving him a greasy look.

The second son, Himeji Mitsuyuki, has dyed hair as bright red as a Disney little mermaid. He is tall and seems to be a model.

In addition to these three righteous masters, there are several "outsiders" in the room.

They are two detectives, two craftsmen, Mr. Butler and the apprentice.

And the butler, who looked like he was in his 40s, was pouring tea for these people with his head bowed.The apprentice was about the same age as Liang Sheng, sitting on a chair by the window, looking out of the window.

Himeji Ryosheng led them into the room. After a lengthy self-introduction, the eldest daughter Himeji Keiko finally took out the photo of her father's will and handed it to Hattori Heiji.Then tell him that as long as he can solve this mystery within three days, he will go to her, and if he can get the old man's treasure, there will be another reward.If you really don't have a clue, you can leave after talking to her.

"Sorry, I can only show you photos. After all, the will was handwritten by my father. In order to avoid some troublesome things, I can't always take it out."

Well, makes sense. ——If someone adds an extra sum to it, it will probably be cool.

Rin Toyama stood still. After all, he was not a detective, so it was not good to join in the excitement.So it wasn't until the butler took him and Hattori Heiji to their bedroom and closed the door that they asked what the will was.

"Where is the will? You can see for yourself."

Hattori Heiji threw his notebook over, and Rin Toyama caught it and turned to the page with the photo, and saw a picture...

Nautical charts?

"It looks like it was drawn on parchment with a pen."

Rin Toyama looked at the unfamiliar place names on it, and had no idea which part of the sea area this nautical chart refers to, and he couldn't even be sure that it was in English.By the way, did this old man ever work as a sailor before he started making pianos? !

"I don't know. After all, I have lived for more than 100 years, and my life experience must be quite rich."

Aomori is indeed the hometown of longevity...

Toyama Rin sighed.But having said that, as the old man's first child, Ryosheng's mother doesn't look that old, at most in her fifties, and the second son Himeji Mitsuyuki is said to be in his early 30s, so this old man has a third child It should be... 60 years old?

Hattori Heiji twitched the corner of his mouth——

"It's really old and strong."

Rin Toyama laughed.

"So what's your plan?"

"Take a rest first, and go get to know that old man after lunch. —Anyway, there are three days, and I will come back after dinner to delve into this nautical chart."

Toyama Rin agreed, "Go to sleep for a while. With so many people, I think Mr. Housekeeper will be too busy cooking alone. I'll help him."

Hattori Heiji, who was already lying on the single bed with the word "big", sat up suddenly: "I'm going too!"

"Didn't you sleep well last night?"

"This is a good opportunity. We can chat while cooking, and maybe we will learn some useful information."

As far as Hattori Heiji's cooking level is concerned... let's go.Although what he said is very reasonable, under normal circumstances, the elderly will get along with the people who often get along with them, so even those who are children may not really know their father, so it is better to ask the housekeeper and apprentice .

"...Let me cut the things, and you are responsible for delivering the things."

"Tsk."

When he found the kitchen, Toyama Rin found that those people seemed to have moved the meeting place here again.

The butler and the apprentice probably planned to come to prepare lunch from the very beginning, and the rest of the people, including the old man's two sons, came to help and arrived a few minutes earlier than them.

When Toyama Rin and Hattori Heiji came in, they seemed to be chatting about the old man's life.

Himeji Chomune lived with his parents in Poland in his early years.After his mother died of illness, he followed his father to Italy and studied at university in Italy.After graduating, he worked as a soldier. After the war ended, he began to travel around. At the age of 27, he worshiped a famous craftsman as his master. After finishing his studies, he left for the United States, met his wife, and returned to the To Japan to settle down, until now.

It doesn't sound like a great experience. ——Most people in that era came here like this.

"Has he never been a sailor?"

"No." Unexpectedly, it was the young apprentice who made the reply.

"How do you know?" — Logically speaking, no matter how much the old gentleman loves this apprentice, it is impossible to tell him all about his life.

"Because the teacher has the habit of keeping a diary." The apprentice explained to everyone, "It seems to have started since childhood. Those diaries are in the study, and I have read them all. There is no mention of the teacher being a sailor."

Journal?

So everyone ran to the study after lunch.

This study room is really not that big.

Rin Toyama looked around the bookshelves where he needed to climb a ladder to get all kinds of tomes, and felt that Mr. Himeji seemed to have moved the bookstore to his home.

The apprentice stepped on the ladder to remove several yellowed diaries from the bookshelf, and then pointed to some of them: "These are from the teacher when he was young."

"You really understand." The second son Guangxing sighed, "As expected of someone who grew up by the old man's side since he was a child."

Mr. Apprentice looked a little embarrassed: "I have been an orphan since I was a child. If the teacher hadn't taken me in, I don't know where I am now."

It turned out that this apprentice was brought up by the old man, and he spent more time with the old man than Liang Sheng's mother. ——No wonder you understand so well.

Rin Toyama thought about it, and then saw Hattori Heiji stepping forward, reaching out to pick up one of the diaries, flipping through them, and then let out a "huh".

"what happened?"

"A few pages here seem to have been torn off." Hattori Heiji raised the book in his hand, revealing the uneven marks on the inside of the binding.

"It should have been torn off by the teacher himself.—It was like this a long time ago."

Hattori Heiji nodded, showing a thoughtful look.