Anchor, your box lunch is here
Chapter 25 Riddle Manor
Chao An's head was turned to one side, and half of his face leaning against the pillow was stained red by the spit blood. The blood soaked the pillow and bedding, but the black bedding covered up the traces of blood. The heavy sword might have thought that Chao An was fast asleep.
At the moment when he lost his voice, Chaoan's soul floated out of his body. He was wearing a gorgeous red robe, the style was very retro, and there were some special patterns embroidered on the robe. Exhale a strong and evil breath.
Chaoan walked to the only mirror in the bedroom. The original mirror was broken at some point, and the cracks spread from the lower left corner to half of the mirror, which was exactly the opposite of the mirror seen in the "dream".
Chao An looked at the mirror, but his appearance was not reflected in the mirror. He stared at the whole room through the mirror, thinking about the identity of the person who killed him.
Who on earth is it……
Soon, hurried footsteps sounded in the corridor, the bedroom door was pushed open vigorously, and Arthur strode in. When he saw the body of the boy nailed to the bed with an epee, his pupils shrank violently, and then The surging anger filled his eyes, and his chest heaved violently, like a ferocious demon rushing into the cage.
When Arthur stood there for about half an hourglass, no one knew what he was thinking in his heart. Finally, he closed his eyes, and all kinds of emotions were absorbed in his heart. When he opened them again, his expression had returned to calm.
Arthur walked to the bed, raised his hand and pulled out the epee. He took out a white handkerchief from his body, and wiped off the blood on Chao An's cheek bit by bit until Chao An didn't look inappropriate at all. He withdrew his hand, turned around and walked in front of Chaoan's soul body, knelt down on one knee, and respectfully called out "My Lord."
Chao An showed a surprised expression, "Can you see me?"
Arthur raised his head in doubt. When he met Shang Chaoan's eyes, his expression was shocked, and he called out in disbelief, "Master?"
"Hey, you can really see me, why?" Chaoan looked at Arthur curiously, like looking at some kind of novel species. Normally, he is in the state of the soul and will not be perceived by humans .
Arthur's expression froze for a moment, but he quickly returned to normal, and replied in a calm tone, "I don't know, young master, are you okay?"
"I'm fine." In Chao'an's perception, death is nothing.
"...Young master, do you still remember what happened before?"
Chaoan shook his head and said, "I fell asleep, and when I regained consciousness, I already looked like this. I am a ghost now, aren't you afraid of me?"
"No, no matter what the young master becomes, Arthur will accompany you." Arthur's tone was sincere and his eyes were focused when he spoke. Facing such a loyal little brother, even a ghost like Chaoan who has no feelings had to A good compliment!
"Is there anything I can do for the young master now?"
"I need to find the person who killed me, you go and inform other people to come."
"Okay, master." Arthur was about to leave, when Chao An suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, do your hands still hurt?"
Arthur raised his freely movable right arm and said softly, "Master, it doesn't hurt anymore."
"I see, let's go."
Arthur saluted Chao'an and then turned and left the bedroom. His steps were steady, as if the person who had violent ups and downs before was just an illusion.
Soon, everyone gathered in Chao An's bedroom, and when they saw Chao An's bloody corpse, they all showed horrified expressions.
"Angri, no, how could Angelet die? It must not be true!" Kathy cried out first, and she threw herself to the bedside, losing control of her emotions. The remaining relatives.
"My God, how could this be? Master Angelet..." Ersa covered her mouth in disbelief, and when she realized that Chaoan was really dead, she immediately clasped her hands and began to pray in a low voice , hoping to let Chao'an's undead rest in peace.
The judge, on the other hand, looked angry. He didn't believe that under the Queen's seat, a noble heir was murdered in his bedroom in the royal capital. This was a provocation to the Queen!He will never allow this to happen!
"Who is it? Who is so courageous, murdering nobles is a capital offense!"
Among all the people, Chester was the calmest. He walked to Chao An's side, observed Chao An's wound, and pointed to the epee on the ground after a while and said, "Is this sword the weapon used to murder Master Angelet? "
"Yes, the sword was stuck in the young master's chest when I came in." Arthur couldn't help but think of that scene again when he spoke, which made his voice a little colder.
"If I remember correctly, this sword should be in the hands of Baron Villiers. How could it appear in Master Angelet's bedroom?" As soon as Chester said this, everyone looked at the baron.
The Baron's eye sockets were sunken and bloodshot, and he was in a poor state of mind, like a sluggish junkie.Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Villiers immediately became annoyed and shouted, "You think I killed Angelet?"
The baron's anger made other people's eyes narrow. Before they were judged, they had no right to doubt a nobleman.
The judge withdrew his gaze and said coldly, "Anyway, let's inform the magistrate first. Everyone must stay in the castle until I come back." If this matter is not handled properly, it will affect the Queen's prestige, so he needs help External forces quickly cracked the case.
Everyone else acquiesced to the judge's arrangement. They left Chao'an's body in the bedroom and returned to the living room together. The remaining three servants dared not come out and follow the crowd. Mistakes can also lead to trouble, and you don't know what will happen later.
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The judge asked the coachman to find a fast horse, and he rode away from the castle. The Riddle Manor was huge, and there was a large lawn outside the castle. The judge ran on the main road, heading towards the gate of the manor.
When he rode two hourglasses, he saw a gate appearing from a distance. The judge thought that he was approaching the exit, so he swung his whip to speed up the horse. However, when he saw the gate clearly, the judge was stunned.
What appeared in front of him was not the gate of the manor at all, but the gate of the castle he had just left. A dozen or so steps into it was the ancient building, and he came back after going around in a circle?
The judge always felt that he was walking a straight path, how could he return to the original point?The judge thought he had lost his mind, so he turned his horse and headed for the gate of the manor again.After two hourglass hours, the judge returned to the front of the castle. Looking at the familiar building in front of him, he got off his horse and walked into the castle with a gloomy expression.
Everyone in the living room was waiting anxiously. When she saw the judge coming in, Kathy immediately went up to meet her, "Your Excellency, why did you come back so soon? Where is the magistrate?" Kathy looked behind the judge while speaking. , but no one saw it.
"The manor can't get out."
"What do you mean you can't get out?"
"I rode towards the outside of the manor, but returned to the original point, and we were trapped in this manor."
"How is this possible?!" Everyone else turned pale with shock.
"I won't believe your nonsense. You must be afraid of the news spreading and trying to trick us into staying here. I'm leaving now." The baron walked out as he spoke, thinking he had seen through the judge's tricks.
The baron rode on the judge's horse and left the castle with confidence. As a result, he returned to the castle as the judge said. The baron didn't believe in evil, so he tried again. This time he walked very slowly, carefully identifying the roadside The result is that he repeats the same mistakes.
The baron returned to the castle, and the others knew the result when they saw him coming back. For a while, most of them had expressions of panic on their faces.
"It must be a ghost. The ghost has cursed this manor. The rumors outside are true." Kathy said in horror. Although she likes to cause trouble, she is still afraid of the unknown.
"Nonsense, it was fine before, why did something happen at this time?"
"That's Angelet. Angelet was murdered. The murderer is among us. Only when the murderer is found, will he let us leave here."
As soon as Kathy said this, everyone looked at the baron again. The "Shemos" was always in the hands of the baron, and Chaoan was killed by "Shemos". Everyone should doubt the baron.
The baron was furious, and the bloodshot eyes became more and more obvious. He roared, "This is framing! Can't you see such an obvious framing?" Then he pointed at Kathy, who pointed the finger at him, and said, "It's Kathy. Xi, she has symptoms of sleepwalking, and she killed Master Angelet while sleepwalking."
"Villiers!" Kathy looked at the baron in disbelief. She didn't expect her fiancé to say such words, which made her very sad.
But Villiers' words did give other people another direction of thinking. After a while, Chester said, "How long has it been since Miss Kathy's sleepwalking symptoms?"
"You really suspect that I killed Angelet? How could I do such a thing!" Kathy screamed loudly. She felt that she had been greatly insulted. She looked at the judge, hoping to gain approval from it. , the judge looked away, and she looked at Ersa again, and Ersa lowered her head.
Kathy understood, she rubbed her forehead and sat on the sofa, and replied exhaustedly, "Well, I have had this problem since I was a child, and I can't remember when it started."
"Has Miss Cathy ever hurt anyone while sleepwalking?"
Kathy hesitated for a moment before answering, "...I knocked down a maid once, but Angelet's death really has nothing to do with me. He is the only family member I have left. I have no reason to kill him..."
"What if it's for the inheritance?" the judge suddenly said, and everyone's eyes turned to him immediately. The judge continued to say without changing his face, "As far as I know, since your father died in that tragedy, Miss Kathy has lost her life." But you are used to being extravagant, and now you should urgently need a fortune for your own expenses. Master Angelet has a huge inheritance and has no heirs. According to the law, Miss Kathy also has the right to inherit."
Hearing this, everyone looked at Kathy suspiciously, yes, anyone would be tempted by such a huge inheritance.
"No, that's not the case, you're slandering." Kathy panicked, but such rebuttal was too feeble, and the others were indifferent.
"Well, even if I have selfish intentions to get close to Angelet, what about you, Your Honor? Why did you stay at the Riddle Manor? I heard that you have been working for the Queen." Kathy turned to the Chesters again, "And you , I don't believe that you stayed because of your friendship with the count, you merchants are the real greedy ones!"
Everyone stopped talking, they did have their own little calculations, and an argument ended unhappily because there was no evidence.
Chao An leaned on the sofa, and after admiring everyone's expressive performances, he felt that everyone in the manor was talented and spoke nicely. He liked it so much, so he opened the barrage.
"Old Monk Comes From Afar" has opened, guess the murderer.
"If you are a pig, you have to look like a pig." I bet a bag of spicy sticks that the baron is the murderer. He deliberately used his own sword as a murder weapon, playing with the heartbeat.
"Little cutie in class two of the third year" two packs of spicy strips, with Kathy, the sleepwalking part scared me last night.
"Lift your skull." I also bet on Kathy, even if it's not sleepwalking, it must be for money. Kathy has been coveting our anchor's money before.
"Cuckoo" Since you all suspect Kathy and the Baron, then I bet on Arthur, just to upset.
"Why can't it be curly hair?" Are you serious about Arthur...
If "Church Stall Liu Banxian" plays like this, then I bet the anchor to commit suicide.
"..."
Chao'an realized that it was a dream to get constructive opinions from the audience. He turned off the barrage and sat on the sofa to think. At present, only Kaixi has a clear motive for killing, so let's follow Kaixi tonight.
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After nightfall, Chaoan's figure appeared in the corridor. He was wearing a gorgeous red robe, and he followed behind Kathy like a stroll in the courtyard. He watched Kathy walk through the corridor and came straight to the door of his bedroom. After looking around to make sure no one noticed, he opened the door and walked in.
At this time, Chaoan's body was still lying on the bed, and the room was filled with a strong smell of blood, but Kai Xi ignored it, she quickly searched in the room, from the closet to the bookshelf, looking very carefully, but a circle down, but found nothing.
"Where, where, damn it, where did Angelet put his things!"
As time went by, the fear of being discovered became more intense, and sweat oozed from Kathy's forehead. Perhaps because she was too anxious, Kathy accidentally knocked over the candlestick on the bedside, and the metal candlestick fell to the ground There was a loud bang.
At this moment, Kathy's startled heartbeat stopped, she quickly stopped her movements, and the world fell into silence. After confirming that there were no footsteps in the corridor, Kathy breathed a sigh of relief, bent down and put the candlestick on the ground. pick it up.
When she was about to get up, Kathy's gaze casually glanced at the mirror in the corner, and she saw a red figure reflected on the broken mirror, and that figure was standing behind her.
"!!!"
Kathy screamed, fell to the ground, and made a series of noises, but nothing happened. After a while, she was terrified and looked towards the mirror again, but only saw her own figure.
Is it an illusion?
Kathy could no longer think about it. The voice just now would definitely attract the attention of the servants. She hurriedly got up from the ground on the edge of the bed, and wanted to leave here first, but her hand inadvertently touched a cold object under the pillow. After finding out the thing, I found that it was the key I was looking for, and I was pleasantly surprised for a while.
Just at this moment, footsteps appeared in the corridor, and Kathy quickly put the candlestick back to its original place, hurried out of the bedroom with the key, and then ran back to her own room.
The moment she closed the door, Arthur's figure appeared at the end of the corridor. He looked at Kathy's door, then at Chao An who was lazily leaning against the wall, and asked in a low voice, "Miss Kathy?" What did you take?"
"The key to the collection room."
"Do you need me to get it back?"
"No, let her go, the collection room is not so easy to enter." When speaking, Chao An seemed to think of something interesting, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
Arthur stared at the smile on his face, the casual but easy-going look was extremely charming, a vine seemed to grow out of his heart, wrapping around his heart in circles, and then a blood-colored flower bloomed on the top of the vine The flower, the flower bloomed on the tip of his heart.
Chaoan didn't notice that Arthur looked at him wrongly, he stood up and walked towards the other end of the corridor, while waving his back to Arthur.
"Go back and rest, Arthur, good night."
Arthur bowed his head and bowed slightly in respect.
"Good night, master."
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After discovering that Kathy was just trying to steal a bunch of keys, Chaoan lost interest in her. Taking advantage of the early time, Chaoan decided to go shopping with other people.
The closest to Kathy’s room is the judge at the other end of the corridor. Chao An’s soul walked through the door without hindrance and entered the judge’s room. He saw candles on the corner of the judge’s table, and the other party was writing at his desk, with a goose feather in his hand. The pen writes smooth cursive on the paper.
"...To sum up, Her Majesty, the Earl of Sheffield's involvement in the smuggling business has solid evidence and is applying for deprivation of the hereditary title..."
In the whole article, Chaoan grasped the key point at once. It turned out that the judge came to investigate the earl's smuggling business.
As far as Chao An knows, the Earl of Sheffield has a lot of business, among which refined sugar cubes and tea are big players, especially sugar cubes. Nobles love this new luxury in 10 minutes. The pure sweetness explodes on the tip of the tongue. It is a kind of enjoyment, and the technology of refining cube sugar is in the hands of the earl, and Chester is in charge of selling it, so this business is completely monopolized by the earl and Chester, making the earl a lot of money.
But the profits from sugar cubes and tea leaves alone were not enough to support the earl to collect so many precious collections, so the earl was also involved in other industries. "Spice smuggling.
Weapon smuggling is easy to understand. The Earl sold the excellent weapons of the Doin Kingdom to the surrounding small countries, making a fortune in war.And "Lima" is a spice that produces an addictive fragrance when ignited. The Queen of Golden Thorn Flower once banned the sale and purchase of "Lima", but there are still many nobles who pursue the ultimate enjoyment brought by hallucinations. By purchasing "Li Ma", the earl is using this to earn a high price difference.
These two businesses obviously violated the law and were not conducive to the Queen's rule, so the judge applied to deprive Sheffield of hereditary titles. Originally, this matter had quite an impact on Chao'an, but now that everyone is dead, the titles are all It doesn't matter anymore.
Chao An left the judge's room and came to the last room in the corridor, which was the room of the Chesters.
Chester is the earl's close business partner, if the earl smuggled, it would be hard for Chao An to believe that Chester was clean, not to mention that greed is the nature of a businessman.Chaoan thought he would discover some dark secrets, but he found out that Chester and Ersa were doing it in the room!prayer!tell!
The two are indeed fanatical believers of the Dean religion, and they still don't forget to pray at this time. The only strange thing is the posture of the two praying. Earlier, Chaoan saw the two praying at the dinner table by clasping their hands and reciting the prayers silently. But at this time, Chester was standing in the middle of the room, holding a "Book of Salvation" in his hand, while Ersa was kneeling at his feet, reciting the same prayer devoutly.
Is prayer still divided into public and private occasions?
Chao'an looked at it for a while, but didn't see what was going on, so he drifted away. It happened that the clock rang, and another midnight arrived.
As soon as the bell rang, the scene around Chao An changed, like two superimposed pictures, the front one gradually became transparent, and the back one gradually became clear until it was completely replaced.
The place where Chaoan stood was still in the corridor. There were candles on the walls on both sides, and the surrounding lights were brightly lit. Chaoan still maintained the state of the soul body. He failed to return to the body of the young Angelet like the previous two times. This may have something to do with his death.
It was very quiet in the ear, there was no sound of rain, and Chaoan realized that the time had changed. He walked along the corridor towards the living room. Appeared in the study through the door.
At this time, the Duke's study room was very lively. Several nobles gathered here, sitting in one direction of the round table. These were the most trusted nobles of Duke Riddle. Chaoan saw a familiar face in it, that was him. His father - the Earl of Sheffield, or the Baron of Sheffield, at this time the earl had just inherited his father's title, and was only a baron.
Duke Riddle stood in front of the crowd, put his hands on the round table, leaned forward, and said in a firm tone, "We must stop Her Royal Highness, this is selfish and evil, those missionaries are full of lies, they deceived Your Royal Highness, continue, our Duoin Kingdom will soon perish!"
"But Her Royal Highness has made up her mind..." said an earl in embarrassment.
"That must also be stopped. If this matter spreads, the common people will panic, and they will doubt whether Her Majesty's rule is secure, and we, as the Queen's vassals, cannot escape the responsibility." Duke Riddle was obviously very angry. He hated the missionaries he spoke of.
Everyone fell silent. They were all thinking about the Duke's words, and at the same time considering the possible follow-up effects of this incident. After a while, Baron Sheffield asked, "Your Excellency, what are you going to do? I believe you have persuaded Passing the Queen, it turns out that it doesn't work at all."
Duke Riddle pondered for a moment and then said, "My wife's birthday will be in a few days, so I decided to hold a banquet in her name and invite some nobles who are inclined to us to come and jointly speak to Her Majesty the Queen, hoping to change Her Majesty's mind. "
"What if Her Royal Highness still insists on going her own way?" Baron Sheffield asked.
"Then I will publicize the behavior of Her Majesty the Queen like the ministers, and hang those missionaries for the crime of rebellion." When he spoke, Duke Riddle showed a look of anger on his face. Obtaining the title of Duke is his hard work, and he will never allow the Doin Kingdom he guards to fall into the hands of ambitious people!
Hearing this, everyone was silent, they realized that something big was about to happen, and their involvement in it was unavoidable.
"Okay, let's stop here for today's talk, it's getting late, everyone can leave, remember, don't disclose what happened today to anyone."
"We understand, Your Excellency."
Several nobles stood up and signaled to the Duke, and then walked out of the study. Chester, who was the personal servant of Duke Riddle, was waiting outside the study, ready to send these nobles and their families away. To cover up the purpose, the nobles brought their family members with them Come, disguise this meeting as an ordinary small gathering among nobles.
After thinking for a while, Chao An did not stay in the study, but followed Baron Sheffield to the living room. This time, the scene in the living room was different. Several ladies were sitting on the sofa with coffee and desserts in front of them. While talking eagerly, Chao An noticed that one of them was the Duchess.
The duchess' attire was different from what she saw at the banquet in the "dream" world last time. She wore a more comfortable plain dress without exaggerated lace and bustle as decoration, but this did not make her overshadowed. Because she wore a huge gemstone necklace around her neck, the gemstones shone with dazzling luster under the candlelight, making her easily visible in the crowd.
"I heard that Ma'am, you are going to hold a birthday party?" A lady asked.
"Yes, in a week's time, the invitation will be sent to your mansion later, I hope you will appreciate it then."
"Madam, you are too kind. It is our honor to attend your birthday party." The ladies laughed and rushed to speak flattering words first.
Duke Riddle is the only Duke of the Doin Kingdom, and the Duchess has therefore become a noblewoman second only to the Queen of Goldthorn. All the noble ladies in the capital are proud to befriend the Duchess.
Chao An glanced across the living room, and saw Angelet and Kaixi sitting together in the corner. Angelet had already started to feel drowsy because of his young age, his head was pecking at rice bit by bit, while Kaixi On the other hand, he looked enviously at the Duchess in the crowd, who was like a star holding the moon, and said in awe, "Angelet, look at how dazzling the Duchess' gemstone necklace is. I heard that this necklace costs a hundred thousand gold. Crowe, do you know how much one hundred thousand gold crowes is? It can be piled up into a small mountain."
"Wow, can so many kinkroes buy small cakes?"
"Of course, it's not just a small cake. I can buy anything. If I can marry a duke, then I can have gorgeous dresses and jewelry like the duchess, and enjoy being loved by the ladies of the royal capital." The feeling of following, that must feel great."
"Then cousin Kathy, can you marry the Duke in the future?" Angelet asked in a dazed manner, blinking her big eyes.
"No, there is only one duke in the Duoin Kingdom, and" as an ordinary noble lady, there is a gap between Kathy and a big noble like the duke. In the end, she may be betrothed to a baron.
Thinking of this, Kaixi immediately felt a lot of resentment, and the envy turned into jealousy, why wasn't she the one surrounded by the jealous crowd!Jealous of the Duchess's wealth!
Standing beside Kaixi, Chao'an caught the strong emotions of Kaixi and showed a thoughtful expression. He thought that the incident at the banquet was just a temporary prank on Kaixi. The hidden evil is equally astonishing.
What about Villiers?Where does his evil come from?
Chao An's eyes searched the banquet hall, but he didn't see Villiers, which made him more or less disappointed.At this time, the noblemen had already come down the stairs, and the ladies stood up to say goodbye to the Duchess, then walked out of the living room holding the nobleman's hand, and got into the carriage at the door.
Angelet and Kathy also joined Baron Sheffield. As soon as they got into the carriage, Chao An saw Villiers walking towards his father, all wet, with anger remaining on his face, cursing and faintly swearing. Heard words like "Duchess" and "Damn aristocrat".
Just when Kathy opened the car curtain and saw this scene, she glanced at her mouth immediately, and muttered dissatisfiedly, "Villiers must have been teased by those noble young masters again, who made him hang around the princess all day, he deserved it!"
Kathy was very dissatisfied with Villiers' behavior of chasing the princess, and at the same time the sourness in her heart became more obvious, hum!If she is a duchess, what is a duchess?The princess also saluted when she saw her!
Seeing this, Chao An finally understood the motives of the two teenage leaders, Kathy and Villiers, the jealousy based on vanity and the hatred based on inferiority. Human emotions are so complicated, but except Even without the chain effect created by Kathy and Villiers, this tragedy is still full of doubts, such as... Where did the guards go?
Even if they accidentally put the murderer in the banquet hall, why didn't they show up after the accident happened?
The carriages drove out of the Duke's mansion one after another. Chester watched everyone leave. He was about to return to the study when he found that Master Angelet's top hat was left on the chair. He immediately ran out with the top hat, trying to catch up with Xie. Baron Field's carriage.
He saw the carriage driving out of the manor, and then stopped at a hidden corner of the street. Chester was overjoyed, thinking that Baron Sheffield had discovered him, and was about to step forward to explain the reason and return the young master's top hat , I saw Baron Sheffield get off the carriage and get into another well-covered carriage in the alley.
Chester felt strange, and quickly hid in a corner to continue observing. Unfortunately, after Baron Sheffield got into the car, the mysterious carriage left quickly, and the carriage in which Kathy and Angelet were riding continued to drive towards the baron's mansion. .
Chester didn't go forward to return the top hat. He stood still and tried hard to think. The driver of the mysterious carriage seemed familiar to him, and they must have seen it somewhere.
Chester walked back while thinking, and just as he was about to step into the castle, his body shook violently, with a horrified expression on his face, he remembered!It was the coachman in the palace, and he once met Duke Riddle when he entered the palace with Duke Riddle.
Is Baron Sheffield planning to enter the palace to meet Her Majesty the Queen? !
Realizing this, Chester panicked. He immediately wanted to tell the Duke about it, but when he walked into the living room, he met Ersa. At this time, she was holding a small mirror, admiring the pearls on her neck from different angles. necklace.
"Ersa, where is the Duchess? She was in the living room just now."
"I'm going to see the Duke." Elsa replied casually, then showed Chester the pearl necklace around her neck, and asked, "Does it look good?"
"Where's the necklace from?"
"The duchess rewarded me. She called me into the living room just now and told me that she hid a sum of money in the manor in Hongfeng Town. If something happens to the duke's mansion, I hope we can take good care of the duchess. Alas, ma'am How can something happen to the duke's mansion, that's the only duke in the kingdom, and Her Royal Highness respects our lord duke."
After Ersa finished speaking, she found that Chester's expression was ugly, and asked suspiciously, "Chester, why do you have such an expression, what happened? And why are you holding Master Angelet's hat in your hand?"
"The problem lies in this hat. The Duchess is right to worry. I am afraid that something will happen to the Duke's mansion this time." Then, Chester told Ersa what he saw, and Ersa heard After that, he covered his mouth in disbelief.
"You said Baron Sheffield might inform the Queen?"
"That's right, so the Duke must be notified of this matter immediately, so that the Duke can find a way to deal with it."
Chester was about to go upstairs to the study, but he was suddenly grabbed by Ersa just after taking two steps. He turned his head suspiciously and saw an excited and greedy expression on Ersa's face.
"Tell me, if the Duke and Madam are gone, the money from the Red Maple Manor..."
Chester's face changed drastically, and he quickly pulled Ersa aside, "No, you can't do this, it's crazy."
"Why not? As long as you keep the whistleblower secret, we can secretly take the money when something happens to the Duke's mansion. If the Duke's mansion is safe, we can continue to stay here. We don't need to take any risks."
"This..." Chester still hesitated.
"Think about it, with that money, we can start a business and live a good life. We can even find a way to buy a title and become a nobleman."
Elsa's last words touched Chester. As the Duke's personal servant, he has seen more about the luxurious life enjoyed by nobles. His greatest wish is to become a nobleman one day instead of being a slave for life. .
"Yes, you're right, we don't need to take any risks."
The two smiled at each other and said nothing.
At this time, Chao An, who was watching the audience, also felt very satisfied. He finally knew where the old couple's business capital came from. It turned out that they had betrayed their master and embezzled the master's property. Tsk tsk, no wonder they had to hide it identity, but...
Chao'an's eyes fell on Ersa who continued to appreciate her pearl necklace. This woman was shrewd and greedy at this time, but Chester beside her was relatively weak. This was completely opposite to reality. Chao'an remembered Ersa again. The way Sha knelt at Chester's feet and prayed devoutly made her feel extremely strange.
"Sandwich Fudge" ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhdsm) I'm almost dizzy by this complicated relationship between the characters, there's no good stuff in the manor!
"Little cutie in class two of three years" is nonsense, the anchor and Arthur are good people!
"If you are a pig, you have to look like a pig." I don't know if Arthur is a good person, but the anchor e...
I warn you in front of "Anchor's Small Pendant", don't slander my anchor, or I will climb out of the screen and kill you~~~
"If you are a pig, you have to look like a pig"
Do you forget the judge by saying "lift your skull"?Judges are good people too.
"Why can't it be curly hair?" According to the personality of the anchor, I believe you will be slapped in the face soon.
"Eat your rice" agree!The judge's story hasn't come out yet, but he is definitely not a good person. Don't ask why, it's the confidence given by the anchor!
"The old man came from afar" Wow, all the villains, what a red chicken!
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Next is the full screen of 666.
The announcement "Why can't it be curly hair" rewards the anchor with 5 points, and the current score is 146.
It is announced that "Little Cute, Class Two, Three Years" rewards the anchor with 2 points, and the current points are 148.
Announcement "Eat Your Rice" rewards the anchor with 1 points, and the current points are 149.
clang--
The bell rang, and Chao An returned to the living room where he was in reality, but the time displayed on the wall clock was already nine o'clock in the morning, two hours later than the first day.
At the moment when he lost his voice, Chaoan's soul floated out of his body. He was wearing a gorgeous red robe, the style was very retro, and there were some special patterns embroidered on the robe. Exhale a strong and evil breath.
Chaoan walked to the only mirror in the bedroom. The original mirror was broken at some point, and the cracks spread from the lower left corner to half of the mirror, which was exactly the opposite of the mirror seen in the "dream".
Chao An looked at the mirror, but his appearance was not reflected in the mirror. He stared at the whole room through the mirror, thinking about the identity of the person who killed him.
Who on earth is it……
Soon, hurried footsteps sounded in the corridor, the bedroom door was pushed open vigorously, and Arthur strode in. When he saw the body of the boy nailed to the bed with an epee, his pupils shrank violently, and then The surging anger filled his eyes, and his chest heaved violently, like a ferocious demon rushing into the cage.
When Arthur stood there for about half an hourglass, no one knew what he was thinking in his heart. Finally, he closed his eyes, and all kinds of emotions were absorbed in his heart. When he opened them again, his expression had returned to calm.
Arthur walked to the bed, raised his hand and pulled out the epee. He took out a white handkerchief from his body, and wiped off the blood on Chao An's cheek bit by bit until Chao An didn't look inappropriate at all. He withdrew his hand, turned around and walked in front of Chaoan's soul body, knelt down on one knee, and respectfully called out "My Lord."
Chao An showed a surprised expression, "Can you see me?"
Arthur raised his head in doubt. When he met Shang Chaoan's eyes, his expression was shocked, and he called out in disbelief, "Master?"
"Hey, you can really see me, why?" Chaoan looked at Arthur curiously, like looking at some kind of novel species. Normally, he is in the state of the soul and will not be perceived by humans .
Arthur's expression froze for a moment, but he quickly returned to normal, and replied in a calm tone, "I don't know, young master, are you okay?"
"I'm fine." In Chao'an's perception, death is nothing.
"...Young master, do you still remember what happened before?"
Chaoan shook his head and said, "I fell asleep, and when I regained consciousness, I already looked like this. I am a ghost now, aren't you afraid of me?"
"No, no matter what the young master becomes, Arthur will accompany you." Arthur's tone was sincere and his eyes were focused when he spoke. Facing such a loyal little brother, even a ghost like Chaoan who has no feelings had to A good compliment!
"Is there anything I can do for the young master now?"
"I need to find the person who killed me, you go and inform other people to come."
"Okay, master." Arthur was about to leave, when Chao An suddenly remembered something and asked, "By the way, do your hands still hurt?"
Arthur raised his freely movable right arm and said softly, "Master, it doesn't hurt anymore."
"I see, let's go."
Arthur saluted Chao'an and then turned and left the bedroom. His steps were steady, as if the person who had violent ups and downs before was just an illusion.
Soon, everyone gathered in Chao An's bedroom, and when they saw Chao An's bloody corpse, they all showed horrified expressions.
"Angri, no, how could Angelet die? It must not be true!" Kathy cried out first, and she threw herself to the bedside, losing control of her emotions. The remaining relatives.
"My God, how could this be? Master Angelet..." Ersa covered her mouth in disbelief, and when she realized that Chaoan was really dead, she immediately clasped her hands and began to pray in a low voice , hoping to let Chao'an's undead rest in peace.
The judge, on the other hand, looked angry. He didn't believe that under the Queen's seat, a noble heir was murdered in his bedroom in the royal capital. This was a provocation to the Queen!He will never allow this to happen!
"Who is it? Who is so courageous, murdering nobles is a capital offense!"
Among all the people, Chester was the calmest. He walked to Chao An's side, observed Chao An's wound, and pointed to the epee on the ground after a while and said, "Is this sword the weapon used to murder Master Angelet? "
"Yes, the sword was stuck in the young master's chest when I came in." Arthur couldn't help but think of that scene again when he spoke, which made his voice a little colder.
"If I remember correctly, this sword should be in the hands of Baron Villiers. How could it appear in Master Angelet's bedroom?" As soon as Chester said this, everyone looked at the baron.
The Baron's eye sockets were sunken and bloodshot, and he was in a poor state of mind, like a sluggish junkie.Seeing that everyone was looking at him, Villiers immediately became annoyed and shouted, "You think I killed Angelet?"
The baron's anger made other people's eyes narrow. Before they were judged, they had no right to doubt a nobleman.
The judge withdrew his gaze and said coldly, "Anyway, let's inform the magistrate first. Everyone must stay in the castle until I come back." If this matter is not handled properly, it will affect the Queen's prestige, so he needs help External forces quickly cracked the case.
Everyone else acquiesced to the judge's arrangement. They left Chao'an's body in the bedroom and returned to the living room together. The remaining three servants dared not come out and follow the crowd. Mistakes can also lead to trouble, and you don't know what will happen later.
……
The judge asked the coachman to find a fast horse, and he rode away from the castle. The Riddle Manor was huge, and there was a large lawn outside the castle. The judge ran on the main road, heading towards the gate of the manor.
When he rode two hourglasses, he saw a gate appearing from a distance. The judge thought that he was approaching the exit, so he swung his whip to speed up the horse. However, when he saw the gate clearly, the judge was stunned.
What appeared in front of him was not the gate of the manor at all, but the gate of the castle he had just left. A dozen or so steps into it was the ancient building, and he came back after going around in a circle?
The judge always felt that he was walking a straight path, how could he return to the original point?The judge thought he had lost his mind, so he turned his horse and headed for the gate of the manor again.After two hourglass hours, the judge returned to the front of the castle. Looking at the familiar building in front of him, he got off his horse and walked into the castle with a gloomy expression.
Everyone in the living room was waiting anxiously. When she saw the judge coming in, Kathy immediately went up to meet her, "Your Excellency, why did you come back so soon? Where is the magistrate?" Kathy looked behind the judge while speaking. , but no one saw it.
"The manor can't get out."
"What do you mean you can't get out?"
"I rode towards the outside of the manor, but returned to the original point, and we were trapped in this manor."
"How is this possible?!" Everyone else turned pale with shock.
"I won't believe your nonsense. You must be afraid of the news spreading and trying to trick us into staying here. I'm leaving now." The baron walked out as he spoke, thinking he had seen through the judge's tricks.
The baron rode on the judge's horse and left the castle with confidence. As a result, he returned to the castle as the judge said. The baron didn't believe in evil, so he tried again. This time he walked very slowly, carefully identifying the roadside The result is that he repeats the same mistakes.
The baron returned to the castle, and the others knew the result when they saw him coming back. For a while, most of them had expressions of panic on their faces.
"It must be a ghost. The ghost has cursed this manor. The rumors outside are true." Kathy said in horror. Although she likes to cause trouble, she is still afraid of the unknown.
"Nonsense, it was fine before, why did something happen at this time?"
"That's Angelet. Angelet was murdered. The murderer is among us. Only when the murderer is found, will he let us leave here."
As soon as Kathy said this, everyone looked at the baron again. The "Shemos" was always in the hands of the baron, and Chaoan was killed by "Shemos". Everyone should doubt the baron.
The baron was furious, and the bloodshot eyes became more and more obvious. He roared, "This is framing! Can't you see such an obvious framing?" Then he pointed at Kathy, who pointed the finger at him, and said, "It's Kathy. Xi, she has symptoms of sleepwalking, and she killed Master Angelet while sleepwalking."
"Villiers!" Kathy looked at the baron in disbelief. She didn't expect her fiancé to say such words, which made her very sad.
But Villiers' words did give other people another direction of thinking. After a while, Chester said, "How long has it been since Miss Kathy's sleepwalking symptoms?"
"You really suspect that I killed Angelet? How could I do such a thing!" Kathy screamed loudly. She felt that she had been greatly insulted. She looked at the judge, hoping to gain approval from it. , the judge looked away, and she looked at Ersa again, and Ersa lowered her head.
Kathy understood, she rubbed her forehead and sat on the sofa, and replied exhaustedly, "Well, I have had this problem since I was a child, and I can't remember when it started."
"Has Miss Cathy ever hurt anyone while sleepwalking?"
Kathy hesitated for a moment before answering, "...I knocked down a maid once, but Angelet's death really has nothing to do with me. He is the only family member I have left. I have no reason to kill him..."
"What if it's for the inheritance?" the judge suddenly said, and everyone's eyes turned to him immediately. The judge continued to say without changing his face, "As far as I know, since your father died in that tragedy, Miss Kathy has lost her life." But you are used to being extravagant, and now you should urgently need a fortune for your own expenses. Master Angelet has a huge inheritance and has no heirs. According to the law, Miss Kathy also has the right to inherit."
Hearing this, everyone looked at Kathy suspiciously, yes, anyone would be tempted by such a huge inheritance.
"No, that's not the case, you're slandering." Kathy panicked, but such rebuttal was too feeble, and the others were indifferent.
"Well, even if I have selfish intentions to get close to Angelet, what about you, Your Honor? Why did you stay at the Riddle Manor? I heard that you have been working for the Queen." Kathy turned to the Chesters again, "And you , I don't believe that you stayed because of your friendship with the count, you merchants are the real greedy ones!"
Everyone stopped talking, they did have their own little calculations, and an argument ended unhappily because there was no evidence.
Chao An leaned on the sofa, and after admiring everyone's expressive performances, he felt that everyone in the manor was talented and spoke nicely. He liked it so much, so he opened the barrage.
"Old Monk Comes From Afar" has opened, guess the murderer.
"If you are a pig, you have to look like a pig." I bet a bag of spicy sticks that the baron is the murderer. He deliberately used his own sword as a murder weapon, playing with the heartbeat.
"Little cutie in class two of the third year" two packs of spicy strips, with Kathy, the sleepwalking part scared me last night.
"Lift your skull." I also bet on Kathy, even if it's not sleepwalking, it must be for money. Kathy has been coveting our anchor's money before.
"Cuckoo" Since you all suspect Kathy and the Baron, then I bet on Arthur, just to upset.
"Why can't it be curly hair?" Are you serious about Arthur...
If "Church Stall Liu Banxian" plays like this, then I bet the anchor to commit suicide.
"..."
Chao'an realized that it was a dream to get constructive opinions from the audience. He turned off the barrage and sat on the sofa to think. At present, only Kaixi has a clear motive for killing, so let's follow Kaixi tonight.
……
After nightfall, Chaoan's figure appeared in the corridor. He was wearing a gorgeous red robe, and he followed behind Kathy like a stroll in the courtyard. He watched Kathy walk through the corridor and came straight to the door of his bedroom. After looking around to make sure no one noticed, he opened the door and walked in.
At this time, Chaoan's body was still lying on the bed, and the room was filled with a strong smell of blood, but Kai Xi ignored it, she quickly searched in the room, from the closet to the bookshelf, looking very carefully, but a circle down, but found nothing.
"Where, where, damn it, where did Angelet put his things!"
As time went by, the fear of being discovered became more intense, and sweat oozed from Kathy's forehead. Perhaps because she was too anxious, Kathy accidentally knocked over the candlestick on the bedside, and the metal candlestick fell to the ground There was a loud bang.
At this moment, Kathy's startled heartbeat stopped, she quickly stopped her movements, and the world fell into silence. After confirming that there were no footsteps in the corridor, Kathy breathed a sigh of relief, bent down and put the candlestick on the ground. pick it up.
When she was about to get up, Kathy's gaze casually glanced at the mirror in the corner, and she saw a red figure reflected on the broken mirror, and that figure was standing behind her.
"!!!"
Kathy screamed, fell to the ground, and made a series of noises, but nothing happened. After a while, she was terrified and looked towards the mirror again, but only saw her own figure.
Is it an illusion?
Kathy could no longer think about it. The voice just now would definitely attract the attention of the servants. She hurriedly got up from the ground on the edge of the bed, and wanted to leave here first, but her hand inadvertently touched a cold object under the pillow. After finding out the thing, I found that it was the key I was looking for, and I was pleasantly surprised for a while.
Just at this moment, footsteps appeared in the corridor, and Kathy quickly put the candlestick back to its original place, hurried out of the bedroom with the key, and then ran back to her own room.
The moment she closed the door, Arthur's figure appeared at the end of the corridor. He looked at Kathy's door, then at Chao An who was lazily leaning against the wall, and asked in a low voice, "Miss Kathy?" What did you take?"
"The key to the collection room."
"Do you need me to get it back?"
"No, let her go, the collection room is not so easy to enter." When speaking, Chao An seemed to think of something interesting, and the corners of his mouth curled up slightly.
Arthur stared at the smile on his face, the casual but easy-going look was extremely charming, a vine seemed to grow out of his heart, wrapping around his heart in circles, and then a blood-colored flower bloomed on the top of the vine The flower, the flower bloomed on the tip of his heart.
Chaoan didn't notice that Arthur looked at him wrongly, he stood up and walked towards the other end of the corridor, while waving his back to Arthur.
"Go back and rest, Arthur, good night."
Arthur bowed his head and bowed slightly in respect.
"Good night, master."
……
After discovering that Kathy was just trying to steal a bunch of keys, Chaoan lost interest in her. Taking advantage of the early time, Chaoan decided to go shopping with other people.
The closest to Kathy’s room is the judge at the other end of the corridor. Chao An’s soul walked through the door without hindrance and entered the judge’s room. He saw candles on the corner of the judge’s table, and the other party was writing at his desk, with a goose feather in his hand. The pen writes smooth cursive on the paper.
"...To sum up, Her Majesty, the Earl of Sheffield's involvement in the smuggling business has solid evidence and is applying for deprivation of the hereditary title..."
In the whole article, Chaoan grasped the key point at once. It turned out that the judge came to investigate the earl's smuggling business.
As far as Chao An knows, the Earl of Sheffield has a lot of business, among which refined sugar cubes and tea are big players, especially sugar cubes. Nobles love this new luxury in 10 minutes. The pure sweetness explodes on the tip of the tongue. It is a kind of enjoyment, and the technology of refining cube sugar is in the hands of the earl, and Chester is in charge of selling it, so this business is completely monopolized by the earl and Chester, making the earl a lot of money.
But the profits from sugar cubes and tea leaves alone were not enough to support the earl to collect so many precious collections, so the earl was also involved in other industries. "Spice smuggling.
Weapon smuggling is easy to understand. The Earl sold the excellent weapons of the Doin Kingdom to the surrounding small countries, making a fortune in war.And "Lima" is a spice that produces an addictive fragrance when ignited. The Queen of Golden Thorn Flower once banned the sale and purchase of "Lima", but there are still many nobles who pursue the ultimate enjoyment brought by hallucinations. By purchasing "Li Ma", the earl is using this to earn a high price difference.
These two businesses obviously violated the law and were not conducive to the Queen's rule, so the judge applied to deprive Sheffield of hereditary titles. Originally, this matter had quite an impact on Chao'an, but now that everyone is dead, the titles are all It doesn't matter anymore.
Chao An left the judge's room and came to the last room in the corridor, which was the room of the Chesters.
Chester is the earl's close business partner, if the earl smuggled, it would be hard for Chao An to believe that Chester was clean, not to mention that greed is the nature of a businessman.Chaoan thought he would discover some dark secrets, but he found out that Chester and Ersa were doing it in the room!prayer!tell!
The two are indeed fanatical believers of the Dean religion, and they still don't forget to pray at this time. The only strange thing is the posture of the two praying. Earlier, Chaoan saw the two praying at the dinner table by clasping their hands and reciting the prayers silently. But at this time, Chester was standing in the middle of the room, holding a "Book of Salvation" in his hand, while Ersa was kneeling at his feet, reciting the same prayer devoutly.
Is prayer still divided into public and private occasions?
Chao'an looked at it for a while, but didn't see what was going on, so he drifted away. It happened that the clock rang, and another midnight arrived.
As soon as the bell rang, the scene around Chao An changed, like two superimposed pictures, the front one gradually became transparent, and the back one gradually became clear until it was completely replaced.
The place where Chaoan stood was still in the corridor. There were candles on the walls on both sides, and the surrounding lights were brightly lit. Chaoan still maintained the state of the soul body. He failed to return to the body of the young Angelet like the previous two times. This may have something to do with his death.
It was very quiet in the ear, there was no sound of rain, and Chaoan realized that the time had changed. He walked along the corridor towards the living room. Appeared in the study through the door.
At this time, the Duke's study room was very lively. Several nobles gathered here, sitting in one direction of the round table. These were the most trusted nobles of Duke Riddle. Chaoan saw a familiar face in it, that was him. His father - the Earl of Sheffield, or the Baron of Sheffield, at this time the earl had just inherited his father's title, and was only a baron.
Duke Riddle stood in front of the crowd, put his hands on the round table, leaned forward, and said in a firm tone, "We must stop Her Royal Highness, this is selfish and evil, those missionaries are full of lies, they deceived Your Royal Highness, continue, our Duoin Kingdom will soon perish!"
"But Her Royal Highness has made up her mind..." said an earl in embarrassment.
"That must also be stopped. If this matter spreads, the common people will panic, and they will doubt whether Her Majesty's rule is secure, and we, as the Queen's vassals, cannot escape the responsibility." Duke Riddle was obviously very angry. He hated the missionaries he spoke of.
Everyone fell silent. They were all thinking about the Duke's words, and at the same time considering the possible follow-up effects of this incident. After a while, Baron Sheffield asked, "Your Excellency, what are you going to do? I believe you have persuaded Passing the Queen, it turns out that it doesn't work at all."
Duke Riddle pondered for a moment and then said, "My wife's birthday will be in a few days, so I decided to hold a banquet in her name and invite some nobles who are inclined to us to come and jointly speak to Her Majesty the Queen, hoping to change Her Majesty's mind. "
"What if Her Royal Highness still insists on going her own way?" Baron Sheffield asked.
"Then I will publicize the behavior of Her Majesty the Queen like the ministers, and hang those missionaries for the crime of rebellion." When he spoke, Duke Riddle showed a look of anger on his face. Obtaining the title of Duke is his hard work, and he will never allow the Doin Kingdom he guards to fall into the hands of ambitious people!
Hearing this, everyone was silent, they realized that something big was about to happen, and their involvement in it was unavoidable.
"Okay, let's stop here for today's talk, it's getting late, everyone can leave, remember, don't disclose what happened today to anyone."
"We understand, Your Excellency."
Several nobles stood up and signaled to the Duke, and then walked out of the study. Chester, who was the personal servant of Duke Riddle, was waiting outside the study, ready to send these nobles and their families away. To cover up the purpose, the nobles brought their family members with them Come, disguise this meeting as an ordinary small gathering among nobles.
After thinking for a while, Chao An did not stay in the study, but followed Baron Sheffield to the living room. This time, the scene in the living room was different. Several ladies were sitting on the sofa with coffee and desserts in front of them. While talking eagerly, Chao An noticed that one of them was the Duchess.
The duchess' attire was different from what she saw at the banquet in the "dream" world last time. She wore a more comfortable plain dress without exaggerated lace and bustle as decoration, but this did not make her overshadowed. Because she wore a huge gemstone necklace around her neck, the gemstones shone with dazzling luster under the candlelight, making her easily visible in the crowd.
"I heard that Ma'am, you are going to hold a birthday party?" A lady asked.
"Yes, in a week's time, the invitation will be sent to your mansion later, I hope you will appreciate it then."
"Madam, you are too kind. It is our honor to attend your birthday party." The ladies laughed and rushed to speak flattering words first.
Duke Riddle is the only Duke of the Doin Kingdom, and the Duchess has therefore become a noblewoman second only to the Queen of Goldthorn. All the noble ladies in the capital are proud to befriend the Duchess.
Chao An glanced across the living room, and saw Angelet and Kaixi sitting together in the corner. Angelet had already started to feel drowsy because of his young age, his head was pecking at rice bit by bit, while Kaixi On the other hand, he looked enviously at the Duchess in the crowd, who was like a star holding the moon, and said in awe, "Angelet, look at how dazzling the Duchess' gemstone necklace is. I heard that this necklace costs a hundred thousand gold. Crowe, do you know how much one hundred thousand gold crowes is? It can be piled up into a small mountain."
"Wow, can so many kinkroes buy small cakes?"
"Of course, it's not just a small cake. I can buy anything. If I can marry a duke, then I can have gorgeous dresses and jewelry like the duchess, and enjoy being loved by the ladies of the royal capital." The feeling of following, that must feel great."
"Then cousin Kathy, can you marry the Duke in the future?" Angelet asked in a dazed manner, blinking her big eyes.
"No, there is only one duke in the Duoin Kingdom, and" as an ordinary noble lady, there is a gap between Kathy and a big noble like the duke. In the end, she may be betrothed to a baron.
Thinking of this, Kaixi immediately felt a lot of resentment, and the envy turned into jealousy, why wasn't she the one surrounded by the jealous crowd!Jealous of the Duchess's wealth!
Standing beside Kaixi, Chao'an caught the strong emotions of Kaixi and showed a thoughtful expression. He thought that the incident at the banquet was just a temporary prank on Kaixi. The hidden evil is equally astonishing.
What about Villiers?Where does his evil come from?
Chao An's eyes searched the banquet hall, but he didn't see Villiers, which made him more or less disappointed.At this time, the noblemen had already come down the stairs, and the ladies stood up to say goodbye to the Duchess, then walked out of the living room holding the nobleman's hand, and got into the carriage at the door.
Angelet and Kathy also joined Baron Sheffield. As soon as they got into the carriage, Chao An saw Villiers walking towards his father, all wet, with anger remaining on his face, cursing and faintly swearing. Heard words like "Duchess" and "Damn aristocrat".
Just when Kathy opened the car curtain and saw this scene, she glanced at her mouth immediately, and muttered dissatisfiedly, "Villiers must have been teased by those noble young masters again, who made him hang around the princess all day, he deserved it!"
Kathy was very dissatisfied with Villiers' behavior of chasing the princess, and at the same time the sourness in her heart became more obvious, hum!If she is a duchess, what is a duchess?The princess also saluted when she saw her!
Seeing this, Chao An finally understood the motives of the two teenage leaders, Kathy and Villiers, the jealousy based on vanity and the hatred based on inferiority. Human emotions are so complicated, but except Even without the chain effect created by Kathy and Villiers, this tragedy is still full of doubts, such as... Where did the guards go?
Even if they accidentally put the murderer in the banquet hall, why didn't they show up after the accident happened?
The carriages drove out of the Duke's mansion one after another. Chester watched everyone leave. He was about to return to the study when he found that Master Angelet's top hat was left on the chair. He immediately ran out with the top hat, trying to catch up with Xie. Baron Field's carriage.
He saw the carriage driving out of the manor, and then stopped at a hidden corner of the street. Chester was overjoyed, thinking that Baron Sheffield had discovered him, and was about to step forward to explain the reason and return the young master's top hat , I saw Baron Sheffield get off the carriage and get into another well-covered carriage in the alley.
Chester felt strange, and quickly hid in a corner to continue observing. Unfortunately, after Baron Sheffield got into the car, the mysterious carriage left quickly, and the carriage in which Kathy and Angelet were riding continued to drive towards the baron's mansion. .
Chester didn't go forward to return the top hat. He stood still and tried hard to think. The driver of the mysterious carriage seemed familiar to him, and they must have seen it somewhere.
Chester walked back while thinking, and just as he was about to step into the castle, his body shook violently, with a horrified expression on his face, he remembered!It was the coachman in the palace, and he once met Duke Riddle when he entered the palace with Duke Riddle.
Is Baron Sheffield planning to enter the palace to meet Her Majesty the Queen? !
Realizing this, Chester panicked. He immediately wanted to tell the Duke about it, but when he walked into the living room, he met Ersa. At this time, she was holding a small mirror, admiring the pearls on her neck from different angles. necklace.
"Ersa, where is the Duchess? She was in the living room just now."
"I'm going to see the Duke." Elsa replied casually, then showed Chester the pearl necklace around her neck, and asked, "Does it look good?"
"Where's the necklace from?"
"The duchess rewarded me. She called me into the living room just now and told me that she hid a sum of money in the manor in Hongfeng Town. If something happens to the duke's mansion, I hope we can take good care of the duchess. Alas, ma'am How can something happen to the duke's mansion, that's the only duke in the kingdom, and Her Royal Highness respects our lord duke."
After Ersa finished speaking, she found that Chester's expression was ugly, and asked suspiciously, "Chester, why do you have such an expression, what happened? And why are you holding Master Angelet's hat in your hand?"
"The problem lies in this hat. The Duchess is right to worry. I am afraid that something will happen to the Duke's mansion this time." Then, Chester told Ersa what he saw, and Ersa heard After that, he covered his mouth in disbelief.
"You said Baron Sheffield might inform the Queen?"
"That's right, so the Duke must be notified of this matter immediately, so that the Duke can find a way to deal with it."
Chester was about to go upstairs to the study, but he was suddenly grabbed by Ersa just after taking two steps. He turned his head suspiciously and saw an excited and greedy expression on Ersa's face.
"Tell me, if the Duke and Madam are gone, the money from the Red Maple Manor..."
Chester's face changed drastically, and he quickly pulled Ersa aside, "No, you can't do this, it's crazy."
"Why not? As long as you keep the whistleblower secret, we can secretly take the money when something happens to the Duke's mansion. If the Duke's mansion is safe, we can continue to stay here. We don't need to take any risks."
"This..." Chester still hesitated.
"Think about it, with that money, we can start a business and live a good life. We can even find a way to buy a title and become a nobleman."
Elsa's last words touched Chester. As the Duke's personal servant, he has seen more about the luxurious life enjoyed by nobles. His greatest wish is to become a nobleman one day instead of being a slave for life. .
"Yes, you're right, we don't need to take any risks."
The two smiled at each other and said nothing.
At this time, Chao An, who was watching the audience, also felt very satisfied. He finally knew where the old couple's business capital came from. It turned out that they had betrayed their master and embezzled the master's property. Tsk tsk, no wonder they had to hide it identity, but...
Chao'an's eyes fell on Ersa who continued to appreciate her pearl necklace. This woman was shrewd and greedy at this time, but Chester beside her was relatively weak. This was completely opposite to reality. Chao'an remembered Ersa again. The way Sha knelt at Chester's feet and prayed devoutly made her feel extremely strange.
"Sandwich Fudge" ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhdsm) I'm almost dizzy by this complicated relationship between the characters, there's no good stuff in the manor!
"Little cutie in class two of three years" is nonsense, the anchor and Arthur are good people!
"If you are a pig, you have to look like a pig." I don't know if Arthur is a good person, but the anchor e...
I warn you in front of "Anchor's Small Pendant", don't slander my anchor, or I will climb out of the screen and kill you~~~
"If you are a pig, you have to look like a pig"
Do you forget the judge by saying "lift your skull"?Judges are good people too.
"Why can't it be curly hair?" According to the personality of the anchor, I believe you will be slapped in the face soon.
"Eat your rice" agree!The judge's story hasn't come out yet, but he is definitely not a good person. Don't ask why, it's the confidence given by the anchor!
"The old man came from afar" Wow, all the villains, what a red chicken!
……
Next is the full screen of 666.
The announcement "Why can't it be curly hair" rewards the anchor with 5 points, and the current score is 146.
It is announced that "Little Cute, Class Two, Three Years" rewards the anchor with 2 points, and the current points are 148.
Announcement "Eat Your Rice" rewards the anchor with 1 points, and the current points are 149.
clang--
The bell rang, and Chao An returned to the living room where he was in reality, but the time displayed on the wall clock was already nine o'clock in the morning, two hours later than the first day.
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