Due to the death of Jonathan's uncle, a large number of the servants he had hired to take care of his uncle have basically been dismissed, and even the chef in charge of cooking is temporarily hired.

Jonathan had said before that he didn't live here, and that he hired a chef just because there were a lot of guests at home, and he would go back after cooking the meal, which was basically the same as a rural chef making a private table.

- That's too down-to-earth.

Although they are usually scattered all over the house, they still gather when it is time to eat, and even Jonathan's eldest brother, who had been staying in the room to recite scriptures, came out.

This time, An Yizhi and his eldest brother officially face to face, only saw a back before.

The man looked not a few years older than James, but he looked weather-beaten and enlightened......

He seemed to say hello when he saw An Yizhi, and Jonathan said that his eldest brother was practicing the meditation of closing his mouth and couldn't speak, so it was inevitable that he would be a little rude.

Speaking of rudeness, the woman she met when she entered the door before was called rudeness, she hadn't seen An Yizhi at all, she looked like her eyes were higher than her nostrils, and An Yizhi was naturally even more lazy to take care of her.

On the long table, Jonathan sat in the main seat, and the others lined up at once, except for his eldest monk brother and the woman who didn't know if he was a second sister-in-law, there was also an old man over seventy.

"Mr. An, let me introduce, this is Mr. James, he is my uncle's best friend and the executor of the will."

If he called James Bondan a finger, it would be time to call the police!

"This is Mr. Yasuchichi, that's Miss Yumeko Mizushima, and they are the detectives I brought back."

When Jonathan introduced the two, An stood up and shook hands with James opposite, although he looked over seventy years old, his fingers were still very strong, and he was a very strong old man.

But when he heard Ann Yi refer to them as detectives, James was stunned:

"Detective? Did you ask a detective to help you find it? ”

"Yes, what's so strange?"

James can be clearly seen sighing:

"Forget it, it's not stated in the will anyway, so it's up to you."

He tied his napkin and said:

"I'm going to be here a lot in the last two days, let me know if you find it."

"Okay, we're actually moving very quickly this morning."

James nodded nonchalantly, but the middle-aged woman pricked up her ears, but she didn't know if it was because there were a lot of people, she didn't interject, didn't even say a word, and ate her own lunch.

An Yizhi looked at the red wine stewed snail that had been replaced, and he really felt a little difficult to swallow, and the ghost knew that Jonathan actually hired a French cook.

I've tried this kind of thing once before in a certain dungeon, and it tastes really good, and An Yizhi also hypnotized himself that this thing is actually a conch, because it's really hard to accept eating insects.

Mizushima Yumeko doesn't have any resistance, or as long as it's food, she doesn't resist.

At first, Ann Yizhi thought that the amount of food that Yumeko Mizushima would make her stand out at the dinner table, but she maintained a very decent demeanor throughout the whole process, and the speed of eliminating food was the fastest!

Woman......

Of course, it is more likely that it is because you are afraid of being hungry, and it is rare to encounter something delicious, and it is too much of a loss to eat more.

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There wasn't much to say about lunchtime, during which it was mainly a small talk between An Yizhi, Jonathan and James, and An Yizhi planned to learn more about Uncle Jonathan, and he had a good conversation, so the conversation was quite enjoyable.

But the information he got didn't have anything to pay attention to, at most it perfected his uncle's character.

Jonathan's uncle, who was a strange man in the eyes of outsiders, dropped out of school at a young age and went on to work as a seaman on a ship, and then went on to work as a treasure hunter for two decades.

When he came back, although he had money, he never wasted it, except for this house, he didn't buy luxury cars, he didn't play with women, he didn't use any luxuries, he simply had no desires.

James said that he ran to be a treasure hunter just to be able to run around the world, to be able to go on adventures, to make money or how much money he made, and he didn't really care.

He came back only because he heard that Jonathan's father had died, and he came back to take care of Jonathan's three brothers, otherwise he would definitely have wandered outside until he died of old age.

This kind of person is indeed a very strange person in the eyes of outsiders.

However, An Yizhi felt that the puzzle left by this old man was quite interesting, and this kind of interest was not the difficulty and process, but the idea of the person who made the question.

As a problem solver, An Yizhi can even feel what kind of mood the questioner is in when considering these questions, these are very warm puzzles.

It's a bit metaphysical to say this, but that's exactly how they give Ann.

The puzzle is not to hide the gold, nor to make Jonathan break his brain, but more like a kind old man who is teaching his children some principles of how to behave in the world.

Ann could understand it, but I don't know if Jonathan could understand his uncle's painstaking efforts, or if he liked the 200 kilograms of gold more.

In any case, whether An Yizhi accepted the commission, or that sentence, this is someone else's family matter, and An Yizhi is too lazy to ask or remind.

His task was to find the 200 kilograms of gold, get paid for the commission, and at least improve the firm's business situation.

- There are no eggs or sugar cubes in the office.

After lunch, Old Man James found a room and said that he wanted to take a break, and the others went back to their own rooms, only Jonathan still followed Ann Yizhi and continued their treasure hunt.

During the lunch time, An Yizhi didn't just chat, and he also thought more or less about the hints he got on the hyacinth chicken.

'When I saw it, I always had a unique sense of peace of mind, and I finally arrived home'

As Ann said before, as long as you understand what 'it' refers to, you can find the location of the next hint.

What exactly does this 'it' refer to is to be considered from other aspects, not in a literal sense.

In this regard, this is the experience of Uncle Jonathan.

Whether as a seafarer or a treasure hunter, Jonathan's uncle has been adrift at sea all year round, and for a seaman, what makes him feel at ease when he sees something, and at the same time realizes that he is home?

There is only one answer.

"Mr. Jonathan, are there any seagulls-related decorations or ornaments in the room?"

That's right, it's the seagull.

Although not everyone has seen seagulls in person, most of us have seen them in a variety of works, and they usually gather in coastal areas such as harbors, and when you see seagulls on a boat, it is a sign that they are not far from land, and the risk of the sea has passed, and they naturally feel safe and at home.

"Seagull...... I don't know if the painting counts, but the painting is not dedicated to depicting seagulls, but there are seagulls. ”

"It's okay to have a relationship."

Anyway, there is nothing to lose by going and seeing, and if Ann is not mistaken, the painting Jonathan said is the next location.

He then took Yasuchichi and Yumeko Mizushima to the end of the corridor on the first floor, and hung a pair of words on the wall facing the corridor.

It is a painting of a fishing boat leaving the port, with several seagulls flapping their wings above the boat, and the quiet port city behind the boat.

"It's not a famous painting, it's probably my uncle's own painting, it's been here for as long as I can remember."

An Yizhi looked up at the painting, and at first glance he didn't find anything noteworthy for the time being.

Then, he measured his height and Jonathan's height slightly, and it felt like it was about the same, and then he reached for the painting.

Because the painting is hung relatively high, An Yizhi can only reach the lower half of the painting at most, and the part where the seagull is painted on the upper half cannot be reached.

Or Jonathan, this is the puzzle left to him by his uncle, Jonathan has the key to solving all the puzzles, and so is his height.

This means that if there is a mechanism like the one that got the note, it would be in the bottom half of the drawing.

"Is there something wrong with the painting of that wave?"

Yumeko Mizushima seemed to see some clues, she said:

"It's the one under the boat, and the ripples seem to be a little broken."

An Yi pointed to the position where she said, and it was true, but the part of the broken line was very inconspicuous in the large number of lines representing the waves.

Stretching out his finger and pressing it on it, An Yizhi could clearly feel that the back of that part of the canvas was like a button with a spring, with a sense of pullback.

Then they saw that on the left side of the corridor behind them, a square gap had opened, and they could see the staircase extending down, a bit like the one that had gone up to the attic before, except that this one was downward.

An Yizhi stood in the gap and looked down, it was pitch black and there was no light.

"Mr. Jonathan, do you have any flashlights or candles or anything like that?"

"Yes, I'll go get it."

Jonathan seemed to have seen the 200 kilograms of gold in it, and hurriedly ran to get the lighting, and returned with two candlesticks full of candles in less than a minute.

It was like a candlestick for a candlelit dinner, with three candles on each candlestick, and after lighting them all, Ann and Jonathan stepped into the space beneath the floor.

The lighting ability of the candles is okay, mainly because there are enough of them, and you can clearly see that there is a wooden door on the left side of the stairs.

Ann reached out and spun around the doorknob, and the door was unlocked.

He pushed open the wooden door, and what appeared behind the door was not Jonathan's long-awaited gold, but an underground space of about thirty square meters.

At the other end of the room, you can see a metal double-open iron door, with two old-fashioned light bulbs on the left and two on the right above the door frame.