Traveling back thirty years to Conan, intercepting Princess Eri

Chapter 301 Kenji fell into the water

The Champion Carnival Boxing Finals, which Kujo Yoshiyuki wanted to see, were held at the Korakuen Performance Hall in Tokyo.

The lightweight final in the afternoon was clearly a feast for boxing enthusiasts.

When the Kujo couple arrived with Hayashi Hideichi and Reiko, there were already long queues at the ticket counters, even though the match was still several hours away.

"So many people?" Kotona Kujo frowned. "How long will the line take?"

"Don't worry, I'm well-prepared," Kujo Yoshiyuki smiled smugly, took out a few tickets from his wallet and waved them around. "I already had someone buy the tickets for me."

“The match doesn’t start for several hours yet,” Kotona Kujo glanced at her watch. “Why don’t we go for a stroll around Koishikawa Korakuen Garden nearby?”

Since his wife agreed to accompany him to the boxing match, Yoshiyuki Kujo naturally dared not object.

He kindly took his wife's handbag, and the family walked along the tree-lined path toward the nearby garden.

Koishikawa Korakuen Garden was built during the Edo period. It was originally built by Tokugawa Yorifusa, the first lord of the Mito Tokugawa clan. After receiving Korakuen Garden and the surrounding land from the Edo Shogunate, he began to carefully design and build houses and a garden there as his and his family's residence in Edo Castle.

The garden was built under the supervision of the second feudal lord, Tokugawa Mitsukuni. During this period, he also listened to the advice of his friend, Zhu Shunshui, a former official of the Ming Dynasty, and named the garden Korakuen based on the famous line "Be the first to worry about the world's troubles and the last to enjoy its pleasures" from the Yueyang Tower Inscription written by Fan Zhongyan, a writer of the Northern Song Dynasty.

The entire back garden is a strolling rockery and spring garden centered around a pond.

When Tokugawa Mitsukuni built the garden, following Zhu Shunshui's advice, he incorporated Chinese elements such as the Round Moon Bridge and the West Lake Causeway, making it a garden with a strong Chinese flavor.

This is also one of Tokyo's famous cherry blossom viewing spots. Lin Xiuyi had visited this place a few times with his aunt and uncle when he was a child, so he was quite familiar with it.

After entering the park from the west gate, Kotona Kujo, tired from walking in high heels, rested on a bench accompanied by Yoshiyuki Kujo.

Lingzi, however, couldn't stay still and grabbed her brother's hand, running inside.

The brother and sister strolled along the stone path and soon arrived at a pond.

A long dike, about one meter wide, is built in the pond and is called the "West Lake Dike".

As its name suggests, this long causeway is modeled after the Su Causeway of West Lake in Hangzhou, only smaller in size, and the stone bridges on it are also very small.

Standing on the shore, Lin Xiuyi looked at the blue sky and white clouds reflected in the water and suddenly understood the feelings of Zhu Shunshui, the Ming Dynasty loyalist.

Since I can no longer return to my hometown, I can only build a similar landscape here to console my homesickness.

When I visited this place before, Lin Xiuyi told me about the origins of the landscape in Lingzi Garden.

Looking at the miniature causeway in front of her, the little girl couldn't help but dream of the real Su Causeway.

She rested her chin on her hands and asked curiously, "Onii-chan, what does the real Su Causeway in West Lake look like?"

"How should I put it, it's many times more magnificent than this," Lin Xiuyi said, gazing at the miniature causeway in front of her, imagining the vast expanse of West Lake. "After all, the real Su Causeway was built in the middle of the lake, not in a small pond."

"Onii-chan, let's go see the real Su Causeway together someday, okay?" Reiko looked up at him with longing. "The scenery there must be more beautiful than here."

“Okay, we’ll go when you grow up,” Lin Xiuyi agreed with a smile.

As the brother and sister were about to continue walking, they suddenly heard a boy ask from behind: "Houleyuan, West Lake Embankment, Lushan... why are all these names so strange? Second-year graduate student, do you know why?"

“How would I know?” another little boy with willow-leaf eyes and shoulder-length hair shook his head and replied, “This is my first time here too.”

"Sister Qiansu, do you know?" The boy who had asked the question earlier looked at the girl next to him who was about the same age as Lingzi.

The girl, with her hair in a high ponytail and wearing a light blue short-sleeved shirt and trousers, was intently looking at the map.
“It seems that the scenery here is all modeled after China,” she said somewhat uncertainly, “so the names are also based on China.”

"China?" The little boy who asked the question paused, his eyes full of confusion. "Why would Tokyo imitate scenery from parts of China?"

“You idiot Jinpei,” the little boy with willow-leaf eyes shook his head, “the China that Onisan is talking about is obviously that country across the sea!” The conversation between the two made Reiko laugh out loud.

Upon hearing the laughter, the curly-haired boy named Jinping immediately felt ashamed.

His face flushed red, and he retorted loudly, "If Sister Qiansu hadn't said that, wouldn't you have known nothing even in your second year of graduate school? How dare you call me an idiot!"

The two little boys were arguing, and somehow they ended up deciding who was smarter by running.

The place they planned to use for the race was that one-meter-wide "West Lake Embankment".

A beautiful girl named Qiansu tried to stop them, but before she could speak, two mischievous boys had already run onto the West Lake Causeway.

The girl could only chase after them, anxiously reminding them, "You two, be careful! Be careful not to fall!"

No sooner had she finished speaking than the accident occurred.

Perhaps because it had just rained last night, the stones on the West Lake Causeway were still a bit slippery.

The little boy with willow-leaf eyes slipped and fell into the water.

He clearly couldn't swim; he was thrashing about in the water, waving his arms wildly and splashing water everywhere.

The curly-haired boy who had just been fighting with him forgot about the competition and hurriedly lay down on the embankment, anxiously reaching out to pull his friend up.

He was just too young and his arms were too short to reach it.

"Kenji!"

The girl following behind gasped in surprise, her face turning deathly pale instantly, and she hurriedly ran over.

But by the time she arrived, her younger brother had already drifted further and further away from the shore due to his frantic struggles and was about to sink.

The girl disregarded everything else and was about to jump into the pool to save the person.

Unexpectedly, a "plop" sound suddenly rang out from the side.

Immediately afterward, a boy who was a little older than them jumped into the water.

It was Lin Xiuyi who jumped into the water to save the person.

He quickly swam to the little boy, wrapped his arms around his waist, and swam with him toward the shore.

"This way!"

The girl with the ponytail knelt on the bank, her hands trembling as she reached out and pulled her wet younger brother ashore.

"Why isn't he moving at all? He can't do it." The little boy named Zhenping's voice was trembling with tears as he shook his friend's shoulder repeatedly.

"No, nothing will happen in your second year of graduate school!"

The girl with the ponytail frantically patted her younger brother's cheeks, tears welling up in her eyes.

“Onii-chan, he…” Reiko also ran over, looking at the little boy on the ground with concern.

"Don't panic, he still has a heartbeat," Lin Xiuyi knelt down on one knee, turned the little boy over and placed him on her lap, then patted his back hard.

One spit, two spits. Finally, the little boy vomited out a large mouthful of water.

Along with the violent coughing, the color gradually returned to his pale cheeks...

(End of this chapter)