Stay away from Conan.

"Mr. Maori and Conan will be staying at Xiaolong's house for the next two days, and Xiaolong, I guess... Xiaolan, will need you to take care of him for two days."

After contacting Conan, since they had already decided to let Conan be Xiaolong's substitute, naturally, the identity that should have belonged to Conan would have to be temporarily replaced by Xiaolong.

So, after listening to Gao Yuan's general explanation of the situation, Xiaolan knew that Conan and his father were safe now, and were taken away by Xiaolong's mother just because of a misunderstanding. Now that the misunderstanding has been resolved, Xiaolan looked at the boy next to her who looked almost exactly like Conan, and seeing that he did not seem to reject her, she naturally agreed to the matter.

So, facing the current situation, Gao Yuan had no choice but to drive the van rented by Mouri Kogoro, and took Xiaolan and Xiaolong back to the Mouri Detective Agency, and then he prepared to help Mouri Kogoro return the rented car first.

During this time, Gao Yuan, who was sitting in the car, couldn't help but ask Xiao Long about the crucial code:

"Xiaolong, did your father... ever tell you anything about the secret code?"

Because in the final analysis, Xiaolong's problem still comes down to the suicide note left by his father, King Qinglong, before his death. He insisted that his child, Xiaolong, must decipher the code in order to inherit the family business, which led to the current very embarrassing situation.

Xiaolong's uncle watched all this with eager eyes. He certainly hoped that Xiaolong would not be able to decipher the code, so that the inheritance would eventually belong to him. The attitude he showed had made Xiaolong's mother feel that he might resort to such despicable "out-of-the-box tricks" as kidnapping Xiaolong to ensure that he could prevent Xiaolong from deciphering the code.

In this way, it is obvious that the suicide note left by the Dragon King is actually very dangerous to Xiaolong and his mother, because if you think more deeply, the content of this suicide note is equivalent to an extreme choice between two options, that is, the person who can inherit the Qing Dragon King's property is either his son or his younger brother, there is no middle option at all.

Such an approach would inevitably arouse the thoughts of Qinglong Wang's younger brother, Huolong, causing him to resort to despicable means in order to obtain the inheritance.

Moreover, based on the information he had found so far, before the ownership of the inheritance was determined, Huolong, as the actual second-in-command of the "Qing" company, could naturally mobilize much more power than Xiaolong and his mother. After all, it was impossible for Xiaolong to do anything practical for the company at his age, and Xiaolong's mother Meiling was not a member of the company's leadership.

Therefore, at present, as long as Xiaolong has not cracked the code, the actual controller of the "Qing" company will still be Huolong.

Therefore, with the Dragon King having passed away, based on what can be found about the leadership structure of the "Qing" company, it is likely that no one in the company can suppress the Fire Dragon. Therefore, Gao Yuan felt that this matter was odd no matter how he thought about it.

Well, if that's the case, judging only by the contents of the suicide note, the final outcome of this matter is nothing more than one of two choices: either the Fire Dragon takes complete power, or the young dragon inherits.

So if we think about it from this perspective, if the Dragon King just wanted his brother to take power, would it be necessary to make things so complicated?

You know, during the seven days of waiting for Xiaolong to crack the code, the Fire Dragon might resort to any means necessary, which would be tantamount to putting his own son in danger.

Therefore, Gao Yuan felt that if the Dragon King had long intended his younger brother to succeed him, he should not have left such a will, but should have clearly let the Fire Dragon succeed him, and at the same time left his wife and children with a sum of assets that would not cause the Fire Dragon to kill them all, and would also guarantee the future life of the mother and child.

However, this clearly does not appear to be the case now.

Then, the situation fell into the other of the only two possibilities -

The Dragon King just wanted his son to inherit.

Then, this matter becomes a little intriguing.

Indeed, if the Dragon King had already decided to let his son inherit everything, then why didn't he just make it clear in his will, instead of making things so complicated?

  However, this is obviously different from his younger brother inheriting directly, because the forces of both sides are not at the same level! Now, based on Gao Yuan's initial understanding of Huo Long, and Xiao Long's mother Mei Ling's belief that Huo Long would kidnap him, if the suicide note directly confirms Xiao Long as his only heir, then can Xiao Long really rest easy?

Obviously not!

Such a young child doesn't know much, and his mother Meiling has no real power in the company, so it's hard to guarantee whether Huolong will take risks.

  If something happens to Xiaolong, the only heir, then how will the Dragon King’s inheritance be distributed in the end?

Especially in terms of the company's board of directors, Huolong can now be considered the actual controller.

Therefore, it can be expected that doing so will lead to danger for the little dragon.

So looking at the current situation, what are the consequences of the Dragon King’s will?

Seven-day buffer...

Since it is not certain that Xiaolong will inherit the company, Huolong is not yet ready to take any risk.

  So, was this a thorough test?

This is a test of Xiaolong's brain, and also a test of whether Xiaolong can smoothly handle the many troubles that will be caused by inheritance...

If you calculate it this way, it seems to be somewhat reasonable.

But in this case, a core problem still needs to be solved:

That's about the code.

  How can the Dragon King be sure that the little dragon can decipher the code?

If the code is a puzzle that the little dragon cannot solve at all, then this so-called test is meaningless. It would be better to simply state in the will that all the inheritance should be handed over to the fire dragon.

Therefore, Gao Yuan felt that in order to achieve this, it was at least necessary to ensure that Xiaolong had a high probability of deciphering the code.

Therefore, Gao Yuan asked the question just now, asking Xiaolong whether he had heard any information about the secret code from his father.

After hearing this, Xiaolong felt a little grateful to these older brothers and sisters whom he had just met, because he knew that the big brother who could speak Chinese had contacted his mother and understood that there was now a little boy who looked very much like him replacing him in his home.

So, when faced with this problem, Xiaolong did not hide too much. After a brief thought, he remembered one thing:

"Oh, right. My father often told me the story of the code that first came to Japan."

"Oh? What's the code?"

Because these words were spoken in Japanese, Xiaolan understood them and couldn't help feeling puzzled.

"In the past, important documents sent from Goryeo were written on bird feathers with ink, but because the bird feathers were black, the ink was also black, so no one could read it."

  Thinking about it, Xiaolong told the story his father had told him:

"However, a clever man used steam to heat the bird feathers to dissolve the ink, and then pressed silk cloth on them to copy the text, and finally read the content..." (End of this chapter)