Conan: The Self-cultivation of Fake Wine

Chapter 441 Extraordinary Talent

The next day, at nine o'clock in the morning, Lu Ren drove a Lexus to the Maori Office. He, Mao Lilan and the others made an appointment to meet here. Today is the day to go up the mountain to visit Yuanzi's villa.

The candidates for the party were the same as agreed last time. The young couple Yuanzi and Maori were paired with the somewhat gray-faced Hondo Yingyu. Being dusty is a literal meaning. Hondo Yingyou's hair is a little messy, and his clothes look a little dirty, especially his trouser legs, which have a lot of mud spots on them. Thinking that he was Keir's younger brother, Lu Ren paid extra attention, "What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

Before Hondo Yingyou could answer, Suzuki Sonoko took over the topic and said, "Brother Ren, don't worry about him. He fell into a ditch on the way here."

"what?"

The latter nodded with a wry smile and said with a bad look on his face, "I can't help it, I'm just so unlucky."

Yuanzi immediately refuted his point of view, "What's unlucky is that you don't care about walking. You can fall into a ditch on such a wide road, and you almost pulled me in."

"Okay, let's get in the car." Lu Ren stopped the conversation between the two. This kind of argument was meaningless.

"No problem." Sonoko was the first to respond to the call. She strode forward, pushed Conan aside, and took the lead in seizing the co-pilot's seat. After fastening her seat belt, she began to give Lu Ren directions, "Brother Ren, just drive up the same road you took to Gunma the day before yesterday. My villa is only separated from the ski resort by a hill, so drive up the original road. Just around the corner, we can go skiing after dinner.”

"Okay." Lu Ren started the car, but after an hour's drive, Yuanzi's proposal was abandoned. There were a lot of vehicles on the road up the mountain the day before yesterday. When Lu Ren drove the car to the foot of the mountain, it was difficult to continue driving forward smoothly. The team in front basically didn't move much, and honking the horn was useless. To put it simply, there is a traffic jam.

When I came the day before yesterday, there were almost no cars on the road, although it had something to do with the heavy snowfall that day. But I never expected that there would be such a traffic jam today.

"Is this mountain a tourist attraction? There are so many cars."

"No." Yuanzi said uncertainly, "I bought a villa here because I wanted it to be quiet. Could it be that a new store opened on the mountain during this time?"

"No." Conan's eyes were bright, "It's also possible that a case happened on the mountain, which caused the traffic jam."

As soon as the case was mentioned, Conan became more energetic. Hatcher stopped fighting and straightened his waist. He looked out the window as if he wanted to jump out of the car and run up the mountain. Seeing his excitement that the world would be in chaos, Lu Ren couldn't help but beat him out loud, "Just be honest, even if there is a case on the mountain now, you can't get up if it's blocked like this."

"Don't argue. It must be because of my bad luck." A weak voice came from the corner.

Lu Ren ignored him. He looked at Yuanzi and wanted to hear her opinion. After all, she was the initiator of this party. "What should we do now? Just drive slowly to the mountain, or turn around and go back?"

"My sister and brother-in-law are also coming tonight. If we just go back like this, they may not be free next time." Yuanzi thought for a while, "Brother Ren, I know there is a small road near here. Why don't you park the car here and we can walk? Go up?"

Lu Ren was convinced, and the Maori couple nodded in agreement. Yingyou looked hesitant. He was in poor physical condition and would definitely be tired if he had to climb all the way up the mountain. But he was soft-tempered, so when everyone else nodded in agreement, he didn't have the courage to shake his head and say NO, so he nodded, indicating that he was fine.

Seeing that everyone had no objections, Yuanzi got out of the car first and started to move the luggage out of the trunk. They had prepared a lot of things for this trip to the mountain, including a change of clothes, food, snacks, novels... Four schoolbags were filled with bits and pieces, and two bags were filled with just the ingredients.

In fact, it stands to reason that they couldn't eat so much food, even with Lu Ren here, but Yuanzi insisted on bringing so much. After experiencing the unpleasant experience of being trapped on the mountain many times, Yuanzi had a slight phobia of insufficient supplies, so he brought enough food to last for three days. Not to mention her sister coming over in the evening and getting some more food.

Originally, this was not a big deal. Lu Ren's Lexus was bought specifically for camping, so it was nothing to install such a few things. But now that they have to walk up the mountain, these supplies seem to be too much.

Looking at the several big bags on the ground, Yuanzi was in a dilemma for a while. She wanted to bring all these things up, but she felt they were a bit heavy. After all, the weather was not too cool today.

"Why don't we just take part of it up?" Yingyou whispered.

When Yuanzi heard the sound, she raised her head and looked at the frowning little black face of our hall Yingyou. She thought for a moment and came up with a plan. "I have an idea. Let's play guessing games. The loser is responsible for carrying all the bags and walking for five minutes, no, ten minutes. What do you think?"

"It works."

"no problem."

"I...I'm fine too."

……

"Scissors...rock...paper!"

"Huh? It's me again?"

Hondo Yingyou's face was ashen, and he bent his knees, almost kneeling on the ground, doing a classic posture of frustrated forward bending. Fortunately, Lu Ren reached out his hand to support him in the end, and now he can understand more or less how Yingyou feels.

Five guessing games, five battles lost. Our hall, Yingyou, carried four big bags and walked on the mountain road for a full fifty minutes. He was about to walk for another ten minutes carrying his bags. If Xiaolan can't lose no matter what, he can't win no matter what.

Being so unlucky as this is a rare talent. Lu Ren helped Bentang Yingyou stand still, reached out and patted his shoulder, "Are you okay? How about I come and carry you?"

"No, no, I can still do it." Yingyou shook his head repeatedly.

Yuanzi opened a bottle of mineral water, stretched out his hand and handed it to Yingyou, "That's right, a manly man, how can you say you're not good at it?"

Our hall, Yingyou, stared blankly, "I always feel that you know that I can't win the guessing game, so you proposed to use this method to choose who will carry the bag up the mountain."

"How is that possible?" Yuanzi retorted loudly, while turning her head to avoid the gaze of the main hall Yingyou. She looked into the distance, stretched out her hand and pointed at that one, "Look, we are almost there. Just keep insisting. My villa has This is a very large bathtub, and the water is boiling for you to take a dip first."

This is really hard to say. Yuanzi knew that Bentang Yingyou was unlucky, so she had some ideas to let him carry the bag a few more times. After all, he almost dragged himself into a smelly ditch this morning. But she really didn't expect that this hall Yingyou would be so unlucky that he couldn't win even once. Now... I can only wait until I get to the villa to find a way to compensate him.

"Alas." I stuffed the water into my bag, bent down, and carried my four schoolbags again as if resigned to my fate, and set off on the journey again.

Sonoko did not lie this time. After walking for about five or six minutes, they arrived at the final destination of the trip, the Suzuki family villa. There is just a small problem. The villa is on the other side of the mountain, and they are on this side of the mountain. The suspension bridge connecting the two sides is broken...

"Ah, this..." Sonoko scratched his head, looked at the dumbfounded Hondo Eyou, and smiled sheepishly, "We can't get through now, I'm afraid we have to go back the way we came."

Hondo Yingyou sat down directly on the ground. He was so pale now that he could just COS the female ghost. He shook his head and said, "It won't work anymore. I've decided that it won't work."

Yuanzi apologized: "Then let's rest for a while before going down the mountain. I'm really sorry, I didn't know that the suspension bridge was broken."

"There is a villa over there." Conan pointed, "Let's go there and sit and rest for a while. If you really can't walk, you can borrow his phone and ask someone to come up the mountain to pick us up."

Bentang Yingyou nodded repeatedly, "This is good, this is good."

"Alright, let's go."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 442 Rare and Strange

The villa Conan pointed to seemed not far away, just a few steps away, but in fact there was still a long way to go. But even so, it's better than returning directly along the road.

Setting off again, Yuanzi didn't mention any more guessing bags. There were four schoolbags, and each of Lu Ren and the others took one. The one in Lu Ren's hand was the heaviest, and the one on Conan's shoulders was the lightest. He didn't ask Yingyou to carry anything heavy, but just handed him a bottle of water to drink if he was thirsty on the way.

This time we went to another villa in the mountains. In addition to taking a short rest, Yuanzi also planned to borrow a phone.

The signal on the mountain is not good, and the mobile phone is basically a decoration. Yuanzi planned to call his family directly and ask them to send someone to drive up the mountain to pick him up if he still couldn't recover after resting for a while.

There are many Suzuki drivers. If the road is still so congested, calling a helicopter over is not a big deal.

Yuanzi's idea was very good, but when it was actually implemented, something went wrong. The villa in front of her, considered her "neighbor", was a bit dilapidated. The light yellow wall peeled off, revealing the gray wall inside. If you have to say it, this villa is only a little better than those haunted houses in Yoneka Town that are uninhabited all year round.

She tried to press the doorbell, and the sound of "ding dong ding dong" rang in her ears. The doorbell still works, which is nice. What is not very comforting is that after ringing the doorbell for a long time, no one came to answer.

As time passed little by little, Hondo Yingyu's mood also fell to the bottom. Yuanzi turned around and said sheepishly: "It seems there is no one."

You can't make a call if there's no one around, which means...

"Are you going to guess the game again?"

"Um……"

"Then there's no need to guess." I, Yingyou, stretched out his hand, "Just give me the bag."

"No, you still have to go through the process, right." Sonoko patted Hondou Yingyou on the shoulder and encouraged, "Just give it a try, maybe you can win."

Mao Lilan stood aside and watched silently. She looked at her best friend, then turned to look at a certain big reporter. She now has a particularly strong sense of déjà vu, and she always feels that the harming energy in Yuanzi is very similar to someone.

This is really...

Ugh……

Fortunately, this hall Yingyou may have a relatively simple mind, but he was actually inspired by Yuanzi's words that did not make sense to Si Liu. He clenched his fists and said, "Okay, then I'll try again!"

"Scissors...rock...paper!"

"Huh? It's me again."

Except for the main hall Yingyou who was very frustrated, everyone else showed such expressions that they were not surprised at all by this result.

Just when everything seemed to have settled, things suddenly took a turn for the better. A dark blue van drove up the mountain road and stopped at the door of the villa. A female driver with slightly curly hair rolled down the window, looked at Lu Ren and the others standing there, and asked in a nonchalant tone: "What do you want?"

In addition to the driver, there were two men of similar age sitting in the two vans. Compared to the expressionless female driver, the attitude of these two men was not very good. They frowned and looked at Lu Ren and his party, their faces full of vigilance and repulsion.

"We are here..."

After listening to Yuanzi telling the whole story, the attitude of the three of them became much better. The curly-haired woman parked the car and invited Lu Ren and the others into the house.

"You guys should have a good rest here before the people who pick you up arrive." The curly-haired woman held a bag of food. They had previously driven down the mountain to purchase supplies. Her name is Makino Jun, she is 29 years old. The other two companions are named Tianxian and Kuramoto Yoji.

Among the three, Tenjo Hiroyuki is the oldest, 30 years old this year, with long hair and a beard, and looks more mature. Kuramoto Yoji is the youngest, 28 years old, with a flat head, sword-like eyebrows, and light dark circles under his eyes.

As for what they do specifically, the three of them didn't say much, just saying that they are engaged in music. Sonoko and the others didn't ask too many questions about this. After briefly introducing themselves, Mao Lilan and the others turned the topic to the villa itself.

Although from the outside, this villa looks pretty dilapidated. I never thought that the decoration inside is quite good and looks very stylish. Just while chatting with Makino Jun and others, Mao Lilan and the others gradually learned that this house was not built and decorated by Makino Jun and others. What they bought was a second-hand house, and they bought it at a very low price.

As for why...

"That's because this house is not clean." Yoji Kuramoto raised his eyebrows and said proudly, "If it can't be sold, we even plan to demolish it directly."

Perhaps it was rare to find a suitable audience, and the several musicians were chatting in high spirits. The three of them said something to each other, with Jun Makino occasionally adding a few words, telling the story of the house's past vividly.

[A pair of wealthy brothers built this villa together a few years ago. At this time of year, they would come here with their wives to spend the summer. Everything was normal until one rainy night...]

[Devil, a demon flew into this house through the window. 】

[It’s useless, it has already settled here. 】

[The elder brother of the rich brothers claimed that he saw the devil. Although they used nails to seal the window where the devil had sneaked in afterwards, disaster still came. 】

[A year later, my brother’s wife, also the sister-in-law, inadvertently looked up while watering the flowers in the garden, only to find that the window that had been nailed shut was half open, and she felt something was hiding in the window. Look at her from behind. 】

[And this is just the beginning of the suffering. From then on, the devil took away the starting gun of fate. The elder sister-in-law hanged herself in the house, and the elder brother committed suicide by jumping off the building. The younger brother and his wife could no longer endure the torture and sold the villa at a low price. 】

"How about it? It's a good place to make music, right?" Jun Makino observed the expressions of several people. What made her a little regretful was that she did not receive the expected reaction as expected.

It stands to reason that after hearing such horror stories, they should act more scared.

As a result, among these people, only the girl named Mao Lilan showed obvious fear. The other girl's eyes lit up with interest. The young man looked confused and stopped mentioning it. But the problem is why the other two didn't react at all.

Children, maybe they are too young to understand. But the adult next to him didn't react at all. You know, when they first moved in, they were suspicious for a while.

Weird, so weird...

Lu Ren didn't know what Makino Jun was thinking. If he knew, he would just laugh it off. It's such an exaggeration. To sum it up, it means that two people died in the house.

This is what only caused such fuss in Gunma Prefecture, if it were replaced by Tokyo, replaced by Miwa Town. Go to the real estate agency there and ask around to find out which second-hand houses have few lives under them. Fuss.

"Excuse me, is that window really unable to be opened?" After a while, the hall's Yingyou asked timidly.

"If you don't believe it, just go see it with your own eyes."

"take a look?"

"Yes, it's on the second floor."

"The legendary window."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 458: Which is right and which is wrong?

After listening to the suggestions of several people, Bentang Yingyou showed an expression of yearning and a little fear on his face.

He hesitated for a moment, but did not agree immediately. Instead, he turned his head, looked at Lu Ren and others, and began to ask for their opinions.

"Brother Ren, let's go over and take a look? Brother Ren?"

"Huh? Okay, I can do that."

Seeing that Lu Ren had no objection, Yingyou calmed down and asked the three people to lead the way.

The three musicians took them up to the second floor and all the way to the end of the corridor.

"This is it." Tiantianxiang stretched out his hand and pointed forward, "This is the 'Devil's Window'."

Several people looked over and found that just as they had said before, the wooden window had been nailed shut.

Not one, not two, but dozens of nails, nailed crookedly on the entire window.

Generally speaking, when fixing something with a nail, if you accidentally bend the nail body with a hammer, for the sake of beauty and stability, you will basically pull out the bent nail, replace it with a straight nail and continue to nail it in. .

The 'Devil's Window' in front of us is obviously not one of them. Most of the nails on it are crooked, and it is difficult to find a few straight nails. Not only that, the nails on the windows are unevenly distributed, more or less, crowded together in twos and threes, with no pattern at all.

After just a few glances, Lu Ren frowned subconsciously. This kind of technique is simply killing obsessive-compulsive disorder. I don’t know how these musicians can endure it. If it were him, the first thing he would do after buying this house is to remove this door, which makes people feel extremely uncomfortable. windows.

Fortunately, Jun Makino quickly spoke up to clarify his doubts, "When we first bought this house, someone suggested that we repair this window, but we felt that there was no need to spend this money, so we left it as it was."

Mao Lilan nodded. Although she strongly disagreed with this approach, out of politeness, she did not object verbally, but forced a rather stiff smile.