I had no mory of this at all. Of course, the bond between and my Uncle Three was very complicated. He took to do too many strange things, so not only did I not have any mory of this matter, but I also only had a general the in my mories of many other things that had happened. For example, those many sumrs of catching all kinds of bugs was eventually unified into catching crickets in my mind.
As Jin Wantang spoke, I didn't interrupt and just looked at him quietly. To be honest, I had trained myself to maintain an indifferent attitude towards such secrets and clues because I dared not cling to them so easily.
He went on talking about what happened back then.
At that ti, the ga was very similar to playing house. Everyone pretended to be an archaeological team mber, just like those kids who picked their favorite One Piece character to play fight. But because I was too young back then, I had little mory of it.
Jin Wantang believed that Uncle Three was trying to recreate what really happened at the Xisha underwater tomb at that ti. Qi Yu wasnt important to the whole story, so Uncle Three took to make up the numbers.
When they replayed the series of events that ti, they actually discovered a very important clue. It was because I had participated in the whole process that I was able to stir up so of their fragnted mories.
That important clue was related to Qi Yuthe person I was playingand all of my Qi Yu-related training started after that ga.
Jin Wantang's reasoning process wasnt rigorous, so theres no need to repeat it here. Ill only record what his conclusions were.
First, so people had hoped that Qi Yu was still alive, so they trained to learn his handwriting. In essence, did these people want to believe that Qi Yu was ?
But I was a child, so even if the handwriting was the sa, why would they push themselves to believe that Qi Yu was ?
Unless it was possible that others might believe it. In other words, did many people think that Qi Yu might beco a child?
But why would anyone believe that a person could beco a child?
Considering the experints they did at that ti, I couldnt discount the possibility that in addition to immortality, they might have desired to regain their youth.
In other words, did they co up with a ridiculous plan at that ti? Uncle Three might have lied to others by saying that Qi Yu had taken too much dicine and rejuvenated himself. Since he couldn't reveal the fact that he had lied, he began to secretly train to have traces of Qi Yus characteristics so as to make others think that I might be a childlike Qi Yu.
Fatty looked at and said, "Mr. Nave, I can't believe youre Edogawa Conan. You look like a child, but youre actually a famous detective on Gushan Road."(1)
I thought this statent was pretty funny, but it seed to be possible. "In this case, Qi Yu should have died, I said to Jin Wantang. Why would Xiao Hua look for him?"
"The key question is: where did Qi Yu really go? Xiao Hua definitely wasnt looking for you, the person acting as a scapegoat. What he was looking for was the real Qi Yu. So does this an that Master Hua believed that Qi Yu wasnt actually dead?"
What does that an?
I couldnt seem to find any logic to it, but Jin Wantang continued talking, "I don't know if Master Hua finally found the answer in the end, but there is a problem that we can think about."
He coughed a few tis, leaving so traces of blood on his mouth that gave a bad feeling.
He didn't seem to notice and just kept talking, "Did those individuals your Uncle Three wanted to lie to actually believe in this?"
"Only a fool would believe it," Fatty said.
I didnt think so. First of all, there was a period of ti when I had wondered why I had so strange mories and why my handwriting was the sa as that of my predecessor. If this kind of thing wasnt directly explained by the person involved, then all the secrecy was actually quite scary and convincing.
This matter had always existed in Jin Wantang's heart, but it was only recently that a man ca to him and told him that he was very good at Qin Dunjia. As that man had stood in Jin Wantang's shop at the ti, Jin Wantang felt that his posture was very familiar.
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TN Notes:
(1) The main character in Detective Conan is Kudo Shinichi. He gets turned into a child after ingesting so lethal poison, so he adopts the pseudonym Edogawa Conan to hide from those who poisoned him. (Fun fact, family nas traditionally co first in Japanese so I just stuck with it here). Gushan Road is in Hangzhou where Wu Xie lived (lives? Not sure if Rain Village is their permanent residence now).
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