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

13.

After that, everyone went to the place where the old man worked together.

There are many beautifully crafted violas hanging in this big house, and there is a workbench near the window, where there are two semi-finished products that have not yet been wound up.

The viola has a small range, is sandwiched between the big and small violins, and its size is variable, which is a test of performance skills. In addition, the viola has been in an awkward position for a long time because of the popularity of violin and cello sonatas.

There are few solo violas, and there are fewer real viola players (from the sixteenth century to the end of the nineteenth century, almost all violinists were part-time), which directly leads to the fact that there are few people who make violas.Even the famous craftsman Antonio Stradivari, a genius who made nearly a thousand violins in his lifetime, has only 10 violas produced by him.

Based on the above reasons, the viola has always been "hacked" by people for so many years. For example, people often make a joke:

What is the difference between a violin and a viola?

The answer is: If a fire ignites a violin and a viola at the same time, the viola will burn a little longer than the violin.

In fact, however, the viola plays a rather flexible and important role. - Its voice is meticulous, strong, and expresses a deep melancholy.This is an irreplaceable violin and cello.

The young apprentice learned to play while learning the craft from his teacher. —He took down the last viola made by the old man from the wall, and played a piece of "Harold in Italy".

Until the end of dinner, the melody of that time still echoed in Toyama Rin's mind.

"What are you in a daze for?"

"I'm thinking about things."

Hattori Heiji brought his face closer, and Rin Toyama's first reaction after regaining his senses was to take a few steps back, and he retreated to the wall.

"Are you reasoning too? What do you think?" Hattori Heiji's eyes lit up, and he asked immediately.

"That's your job, I'm here to play. At most, I'll help you look up the information." Toyama Rin raised his right hand and pressed his fist against his friend's chest, keeping the distance between the two , "What are you doing all of a sudden?"

"I already have a rough guess." Hattori Heiji said complacently, "Take your hands away, and I will tell you quietly."

So Toyama Rin withdrew his hand.

"I think that apprentice is probably the old man's illegitimate son."

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"what???"

Rin Toyama looked at him with an expression of "Are you crazy?" ——If the apprentice is an illegitimate child, then... the old man must not be 70 years old to return...

This is beyond the description of "old and strong"! ! !

"I have a basis.——Look, because the old man is of mixed race, everyone in the Himeji family has brown hair, the natural kind. I asked the model when I was eating just now, and he also had brown hair before he dyed his hair. Brown hair."

"But the apprentice is blonde."

"He also dyed it, it is said that it is to look good."

"... Then you can't judge that he is the old man's son based on this."

"I took a look at the torn diary of the old man. The apprentice happened to be born at that time."

"I believe there must be many people born in that year in Japan with natural brown hair. Besides, not all brown-haired children will be born with brown hair." Toyama Rin twitched the corners of his mouth, "What kind of devil reasoning are you? -"

Hattori Heiji grinned brightly, showing his white teeth, "Well, it's not impossible, right?"

So Toyama Rin understood that this person just wanted to tease him.

"...I'm going to sleep, you can do your own research." Toyama Rin stretched out his hand and pushed Hattori Heiji away, took off his clothes and lay down on the bed with a thin quilt.

"Hey, hey, it's only past nine o'clock!"

"So hurry up and work! Come on, big detective! I haven't recovered from my cold yet, so let's rest now!" Rin Toyama waved his hand, and then resolutely turned off the light on the bedside table.

"...I won't bring you here next time."

The second sentence in the "Quotations of Hattori Heiji Maka Cuckoo" summed up by Rin Toyama based on his many years of experience is the sentence: "I won't bring you next time."

So he didn't care about it at all, and at the same time slept peacefully and unshakably.

Well, it's really unshakable.

It rained heavily around ten o'clock.

Lightning flashed across the sky without warning, lighting up almost the entire room. —— Hattori Heiji was thinking seriously at first, but was abruptly interrupted by the sudden bright light and the ensuing thunder.

It seemed that the second Heiji left the chair, retracted the fixing rod on the window and plugged in the latch, the bean-sized raindrops fell down, making a dull sound on the glass.

The dense rain made the field of vision blurry, and when I pressed my forehead against the glass, I could only see a piece of darkness.

"This is really amazing." I didn't expect the torrential rain in Mount Aomori to be so terrible. — No wonder the trams are out of service.

The dark-skinned boy looked back to the left side of the room, "Rin, are you awake?"

However, Rin Toyama lay on his side on the bed and buried half of his face in the pillow. He was completely motionless, as if he couldn't hear the explosion-like sound outside.

Although I know that my friend can lie on the desk and sleep in the dark during the extremely noisy lunch break, but the human voice and thunder are always incomparable, have you heard of this? !

"... Could it be that he fainted?"

Talking to himself, Heiji walked up to Toyama Rin with his legs and pinched the other's nose.As a result, the man didn't wake up, and instinctively gave up breathing through his nose and opened his mouth instead.

Heiji boy was completely convinced. ——In case a perverted murderer or the like ran in, Toyama Rin would not be ripped off on the spot after sleeping so dead?

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Hattori Heiji looked at the computer on the table glowing with blue light and the manuscript paper scattered around the keyboard. ——Toyama Rin, you bastard, are you still friends, but you came to help and slept here!

After an hour, I still have no idea. I was very upset when I was interrupted by thunder and lightning. Hattori was very unbalanced when I saw my friend sleeping like a dead pig. I forgot that the other party was a hard-working boy who wanted to get up. Heiji wanted to say anything Toyama Rin cried out to annoy him before speaking.So, the Heiji boy simply lowered his head to Rin Toyama's ear and said, "Ahhhhhhh!"

Then the dead Hattori Heiji was punched by Toyama Rin, and the punch was still in the face.

"What did you hit me for!?" Hattori Heiji sat on the floor and covered his right face and began to accuse his friend of violence, "I kindly asked you to get up and look at the rain outside!!!——You haven't done that in your life. I've never seen such heavy rain!"

fart!

No matter how hard it rains, it's still raining. What's there to see? !

Your ears are going to be deafened by you, and you dare to say that you didn't mean to punish me!

Rin Toyama frowned, lifted the quilt and got out of bed, Heiji immediately set up a fighting posture when he saw this.

Then the two fools fought in the room. ——It was said to be a fight, but neither of them took it seriously.In this case, Rin Toyama, who is more skilled, must have the upper hand.

So a few minutes later, Hattori Heiji, who was overwhelmed by Aikido sanctions, was knocked down by Toyama Rin with his neck stuck.

"Okay, okay, I won't bother you anymore, go to sleep!" Heiji boy begged for mercy, "Don't push too hard, I'm going to suffocate!".

Toyama Rin was only wearing a pair of shorts and a vest when he was sleeping, and when he put Heiji down, his elbow was stuck on the opponent's neck, his right leg was stuck on his knee, and the vest on his body was lifted by the action just now Quite a lot. ——That's why Hattori Heiji touched his friend's waist as soon as he struggled.Naked, much better than his own hand.

Rin Toyama let go of his hand suddenly, Hattori Heiji lost his center of gravity and fell back on the carpet.

"Ahem...why do you feel like a woman?"

Have you ever touched a woman? !I'm afraid I haven't even held a girl's hand.What are you comparing here?

Rin Toyama twitched the corners of his mouth, squatted down in front of Hattori Heiji, and mercilessly reached out and pinched the opponent's chin.

"What are you going to do to me—"

"...Shut up, let me see how I beat you just now." Toyama Rin said angrily, "Believe it or not, I will tie you up."

Oh, I see.Then Hattori Heiji obediently remained still.

Although it was instinct, Toyama Rin didn't use much force.So that punch on Heiji's face just made it a little red. ——Anyway, his skin is so dark, it may not be obvious in a few minutes.

"If you move your fist any higher, you'll hit me in the eye." Hattori Heiji complained.

"I'm so sorry, dare to do it next time. Who told you to yell at me first. You deserve it."

"Hey!"

Rin Toyama finished the appraisal, stood up and covered his ears with his index finger, and glanced at the bedroom door after confirming that his hearing had returned to normal.

The sound insulation of the room here is very good, and the people don't live very close together, and it's still raining outside.So the movement in the room should not disturb others, but Toyama Rin still opened the door and took a look.

Well, it seems to be all right.

When he returned to the bed, Hattori Heiji was sitting on the chair and sighing at the photo.

"Still clueless?"

"...I checked the names on the map, but I can't find them. There are no such words. The location is also wrong. This is completely scribbled by the old man himself. There is no such place on earth."

"Could it be from some novel?"

"So many novels in the world have their own imaginary maps... It is impossible for us to find one by one." Hattori Heiji scratched his hair, then crumpled up half of the paper on the table and threw it into the trash bucket.

Rin Toyama went to the table and picked up the photo to look at, but immediately gave up. ——It doesn't make any sense to him.

"Sleep first?"

"...Go to sleep, I'll think about it again."

Rin Toyama looked at his friend who was deep in thought, and then moved the computer to his side.

"What do you want to check? I'll help you."

Anyway, Hattori Heiji made such a fuss, and he couldn't fall asleep, so why not just stay with him all night.

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At six o'clock in the morning, Toyama Rin suddenly woke up from his dream, lying on his back on the bed staring at the ceiling for several minutes before realizing that he accidentally fell asleep after checking last night.

What about Pingji?

As a qualified detective, Hattori Heiji interpreted his stubborn temper of "I won't go to bed if I can't solve it" when faced with this kind of case. In the end, he couldn't bear it anymore and fell asleep on the table.

When Rin Toyama woke up, Hattori Heiji had just fallen asleep, and the monitor of the laptop was still tirelessly playing the screen saver, instead of directly going to sleep.

Thinking of Hattori Heiji's sudden approach to his ear last night and yelling Toyama Rin, he was furious, but just when he wanted to yell back, he suddenly changed his mind.

What is the strength between me and a fool.

Rin Toyama snorted, bent down and raised Hattori Heiji's left hand on his shoulder, with one hand resting on the other's knee, and the other holding his armpit. The guy picked it up and stuffed it under the covers.

Even if his physical fitness is not very good, it is still possible to throw a Hattori Heiji on the bed.

Then he sat where his friend was just now, and took over the rest of Hattori Heiji's work.

On the paper are the words copied by Hattori Heiji. Toyama Rin can see that Heiji tried to disassemble and reassemble the letters on it. He also tried to delete some letters to form new words. After writing, he finally found a gel pen core. the secret of those words.

These words were "created" by the old man himself. To put it bluntly, they are deliberately wrong words.

Heiji found the prototypes of the words "created" by the old man very accurately, wrote down the original and correct writing of those words, and then marked out the redundant or missing letters, and finally formed a name:

Antonio Stradivari - Antonio Stradivari.Speaking of the violin, apart from those famous musicians, this name appears the most.

I just can't think of the meaning of this name appearing here.

In addition to these, what do the compass, islands, continents and the three-masted sailing ship marked in the lower right corner represent?

Rin Toyama turned over the stack of papers one by one, and then saw the numbers that Hattori Heiji decoded from the latitude and longitude: "54-15-29".

He seemed to have seen this numbering sequence somewhere in this house, but couldn't remember it.

Toyama Rin thought for a while, but still had no clue.

So he planned to wash his face first, and then go to the housekeeper or apprentice to ask.

Hattori Heiji was still sleeping when the door was closed, so Rin Toyama didn't even think about waking him up, and left the room by himself and went downstairs.

Maybe it was because he had been staring at the nautical chart before falling asleep last night, Rin Toyama felt that he almost closed his eyes now that he looked like that photo, and he couldn't do it without thinking about it.

When passing by the door of the old man's studio, he inadvertently saw the paintings hanging in the corridor.

This seems to be the only portrait among all the paintings on the walls of the corridor.

The man in the painting is carrying a sword.It looks very unique, the end of the handle is a bird, the beak is slightly curved, and the accessories are quite gorgeous.

This is a Polish ritual sword.

Then the person in the portrait should be Stanislaw II, the last king of Poland and Grand Duke of the Commonwealth of Lithuania.

But what did Stanislaw II have to do with Stradivari?

He had heard the story that Stradivari made 12 violins for the Polish king within three months, but he didn’t know which generation of king it was. Anyway, it would definitely not be Stanislaw II. Stradivari died when he was a child who couldn't even ride a horse...

Rin Toyama paused, and suddenly thought of a possibility.

He pushed open the door of the studio, and began to carefully look at the pianos hanging on the wall, plucking the strings from time to time to listen to the sound.However, after looking around, there was nothing he expected.

Himeji Nagamune's mother is Polish, and a wealthy family can build a castle. This always makes people wonder whether the old man's mother has something to do with the Polish royal family.

Although most of the people in the Stanislaw family were massacred or driven out of the country after the fall of the royal family, the property was either destroyed or auctioned off, or put into a museum, but if he really kept a Stradiva A violin made by the King of Poland is indeed a very precious property.

And the studio has so many violas of different sizes that it does protect the hidden Stradivari violin well, and it is difficult for laymen to recognize it.

But it turns out that Rin Toyama was wrong. — This room is full of violas.

Will there be a secret door or something?

After all, it is often played in movies, and most of this kind of big house will have organs.

Rin Toyama stretched out his hand to touch it inch by inch, and after a few seconds, he suddenly felt that he was so stupid. ——How can a normal person install such a thing in his home.I'm afraid it's not the real movie I've seen too much.If someone happened to encounter such a scene, they might think he was here to be a thief.

The boy shook his head, leaning against the wall, thinking whether to call Heiji downstairs. ——Although Ms. Keiko ordered you to enter and exit at will except for the private room, but he does always seem a bit sneaky here by himself.

Well, that's it.

He borrowed some strength from his back and planned to change the posture of leaning on it and go upstairs to call someone, but he did not expect that the fulcrum behind him actually moved at this time.

Like a common plot in a movie.

The wall suddenly turned backwards like a revolving door outside the hotel, Toyama Rin was unprepared and fell straight back into the wall.

With a "click", the wall was tightly closed again, as if it had never been opened.