Gu Shuiquan and his group walked through the garden and walked towards the castle under the leadership of the garden. The little ghosts kept looking around with their eyes, looking at the novel scenes, and seemed very excited.

"Ah, it's a horse." Yoshida Akiko ran lovely to hug a horse head sculpture in the yard that was twice as big as hers.

Although she also wore a hairband, she did not expose her forehead like Suzuki Sonoko, and she looked much better. She wore a pink fancy sweater, a red short skirt, and black pantyhose, and was indeed as cute as a little princess. No wonder even Ai Haibara sometimes dotes on her.

"There are horses here, but they are still black." Kojima Tsuta also ran to a sculpture and looked at it.

"But why is it only the part that reaches the neck?" Tsunya Mitsuhiko said in confusion.

"Those horses are called knights, they are chess pieces." Ai Haibara explained to them smoothly with a small sign tone on his back.

"The chess piece?" Yoshida Ayumi's big flashing eyes were full of doubt.

"It's not just chess pieces. If you look carefully at the grass under your feet, it's all laid into a chessboard." Conan added.

Dr. Agasa stood on the side of the road with his hands behind his back, turned to the gardener and asked, "Does anyone like chess here?"

"I don't know, I just followed the instructions of the old master, Mr. Zhenzhao, to me, and do some trimming every day to maintain the appearance here. I heard that this seems to be the last words of the old master before his death fifteen years ago, and Mr. Zhenzhao has never violated it."

"The master of the past? Who is that person just now?" Dr. Agasa was a little confused.

"Oh, he is the wife's second husband, Mr. Aman, and Mr. Zhenzhao died of illness six years ago. As for the wife, she also burned her to death in the fire four years ago."

When Gu Shuiquan heard this, he looked at the middle-aged man talking to the maid under the bridge in the distance. Aman, widow, and the spiritual successor of the prime minister were indeed everywhere.

"Big fire?" Dr. Agasa couldn't help but raise his tone.

"Look at it." The gardener pointed to a broken stone tower in the woods on the left side of the castle. "There is a burnt stone tower, and that place was where the wife's former bedroom was."

"That year, the wife returned to this castle that had been out of date for the old lady. She arrived here in the middle of the night, but before dawn had it, the fire broke out suddenly. Not only the wife herself, but also the friends she brought back, as well as the stewards and servants who had served the old lady for many years, were swallowed up by the fire."

"The only servants who escaped that disaster were hired shortly after me, the old lady who slept elsewhere because of a cold, and the Master Aman who came back earlier than his wife."

"Ah, the only son of the noble master, the wife and Mr. Zhenzhao. Although he returned here two or three days before the fire, I heard that he was sent abroad to study since he was a child. The fire was the first time I saw him. I only met Mr. Aman that time."

"Since the wife remarried abroad, she and Master Aman and Master Guiren have been living in that country. I don't know why, since the fire, Master Aman and Master Guiren have returned to the castle to live."

"To us outsiders, it seems like we are obsessed with something." The gardener couldn't help but sigh.

After visiting the yard, everyone finally arrived at the castle gate.

"They must have had a lot of twists and turns when they got here for the first time, right? You don't know what they look like." Dr. Agasa stepped onto the steps with his hands behind his back.

"No, the photos of the wife remarried had been sent here, so everyone knows what Master Aman looks like, as for the noble master." The gardener said as he pushed open the gate of the castle and pointed to the huge portrait on the wall on the second floor opposite the gate to show Dr. Agasa, "Look, he is exactly the same as the dead old master."

Gu Shuiquan and others also looked at the inside of the castle. The hall was double-storey and directly opposite was a huge portrait of a man with a beard, which almost occupied the entire second floor wall. There was a staircase on both sides of the left and right sides of the portrait leading to the second floor.

"So that's it. Who are the portraits on both sides?" Dr. Agasa looked around, looking at the walls on both sides of the hall full of portraits, he couldn't help asking.

"That's Mr. Zhenzhao and his wife. Mr. Zhenzhao was recruited to come in. He respects the old man who is also a historian like him. He often complains about this wife."

"She often said that her father was just an intellectual with a slander." An old and hoarse voice suddenly rang out from behind everyone.

The gardener suddenly felt excited and quickly turned around and said hello to the old lady with white hair and loose skin in a wheelchair.

"Actually, the child's father often heard this kind of thing before, but he was not angry but was very happy after hearing it."

"I'm very sorry, I shouldn't remind you of these past events." The gardener took off his hat and touched his bald head and apologized carefully.

Gu Shuiquan glanced at his hairstyle. No wonder he could hold a fat man with a tonnage like Yuantai in one hand for so long. He turned out to be a strong man who had been trained.

"You don't have to be too nervous. I've long been used to the days without him. This is just like the change in the pattern of the banknotes and the size of the passport. I was not used to it at the beginning, but I felt nothing strange after a long time. Time is indeed very terrible. No matter how happy, anger, sorrow, it will disappear with time."

Gu Shuiquan glanced at the old lady who was talking a lot and did not speak out.

"By the way, who are these people?"

"Ah, this, that, they are the master's friends, and they seem to be some mystery novelists and inventors."

"The mystery novelist?" The old lady was obviously excited, and even her eyes were squinting. "Oh, that's great. Then I want to ask you to help us solve the mystery he left in this castle."

When he heard the mystery, Conan, who was listless just now, suddenly became energetic.

"Mystery?"

"Oh, it is said that the great master said this before he died. As long as the person who can solve the mystery of this castle will give him his most precious treasure." The gardener explained from the side.

"By the way, my daughter hasn't come back yet?" The old lady seemed to be confused again. "Didn't she come back today? She said she was coming back to celebrate my birthday."

"When she came, she immediately asked her to come to my room and immediately saw her daughter. I'm so happy."

While talking and laughing, the old lady turned the wheels of the wheelchair with her hands, and disappeared behind the stairs flexibly and smoothly.

"She has become like this since that fire." The gardener sighed.

"It must have been a big blow." Dr. Agasa sighed with emotion.
Chapter completed!