Journal of the Wandering Traveler

"We don't know where and when the anthurium meets the dandelion, so we have to find the anthurium before tomorrow!" There was no news of the anthurium all night, and Margaret and the others went to the hotel to inquire about it in the morning , but the answer he got was that the anthurium didn't come back all night.This made Margaret start to panic, "What if the anthurium disappears? What if we and Dandelion miss it?"

"If we can't find her, we can still wait for her to appear at the city gate."

The other party frowned, and said distressedly: "This is not feasible, she may already be in the city, and there are so many people coming and going every day, we may miss her."

Milan patted the other person on the shoulder, she is not good at comforting others, but she sincerely hoped that Margaret would cheer up, so she tried her best, "It will be fine, maybe she just... just... went Shopping outside? Let’s go to yesterday’s tavern to find her first? Take ten thousand steps back, even if we don’t see Dandelion in Moon City, we can still follow her road map, and I will accompany you until you find her.”

"That's right, we can't give up, we are the best partners!" Margaret patted her thigh and stood up from the bed, "Milan, thank you. You didn't have to help me."

"I'm just paying you back." Milan smiled and said when he saw Margaret cheered up.

As soon as they went out, they didn't delay at all, and went directly to the tavern yesterday, but the people inside also said that the fire crane flower hadn't appeared since yesterday.The two had no choice but to leave the tavern with ashamed faces. After discussing for a while, they planned to ask Danny for help.He seems to have a good impression of Fire Crane Flower, and he will definitely help after knowing that she is missing.

"But where can we find him?"

Margaret touched the hemp petals and pondered for a while, then said, "Maybe he's on patrol or something? We might go to places with more people..."

Sometimes fate likes to give people sweet things. Before Margaret could say a word, a familiar male voice came from a nearby dwelling. to see what happened.

When they saw it, they found that the man who was talking was Danny, and he was saying to the young woman standing opposite him, "Madam, please forgive me."

"Stop crying like a mouse, I know you guys killed him!" The woman glared at Danny angrily, as if she wanted to kill him.

"So what if you are, so what if you are not? Even if you say it, no one will believe you. So obediently take out those pages." Danny deliberately lowered his voice, and he hid his hands behind his back, facing the woman The person took a step forward, "It's really naive to think that you can report on us with those few pages of paper."

"You scumbags! I said that I don't know where those pages are, and even if I knew, I wouldn't give them to you!" The woman took a step back and replied through gritted teeth.

Danny was not unhappy, but shook his head with a chuckle and said, "Madam, you are so naive. I will come back later with something you don't want to see, if you don't tell the truth at that time... don't blame me for treating you do something bad."

"Brothers, watch her, don't let her go." Danny didn't say anything, Milan really didn't notice that there were other people in the house.

Danny left the house after the other knights tied up the woman.

Milan was afraid of being discovered, so she pushed Margaret's head down, and she also arched her body to make herself as small as possible to prevent Danny from discovering.

After a while, they stood up after seeing Danny leave, and left the place immediately.

"We seem to have heard something incredible..." Milan's eyes were a little dull, what happened just now was too much information for her, "Those pages seem to be very important, and that woman seems to be It looks like it's been tortured terribly..."

"That's right." Margaret nodded and replied, but then she thought of something, "Ah, we haven't told Danny about the anthurium yet!"

"What happened to the fire crane flower?"

Suddenly a hand was placed on Margaret's shoulder, she was taken aback, she turned around reflexively and pushed his hand away, "Ah! It's Mr. Danny, you...you, you, you are the closest you Are you ok?"

Danny scratched his hair in disbelief, "We just met yesterday, what do you think happened to the anthurium?"

"Anthurium is missing." Milan pulled Margaret behind her. She was afraid that she would talk nonsense, so she said before her: "Have you seen her?"

"Ah, she is the one who killed Peter. She surrendered herself yesterday. I didn't expect her to be like this. It's rare that I like her so much..." Danny shook his head with a regretful expression.

"What? No, it's impossible! How could Anthurium kill someone! I want to see her!" Margaret didn't believe Danny's words. They had been together that day, so how could Anthurium have a chance to kill someone, and then put her A dead body thrown in a back alley?

Danny shrugged, pulled his pants that were about to slide down, and replied: "I'm sorry miss, I can't do anything, no one can visit the criminal. We have called the judge to carry out the interrogation yesterday, and he seems to have arrived in court to prepare, You can see her at the trial in court."

"Where's your belt?" Margaret suddenly asked such a question.

The other party was startled, but quickly replied calmly, "I took it off yesterday and it disappeared. I am like this, and I often lose things. By the way, it is noon now, and I still have things to do, miss Ladies, I excuse myself first."

Without waiting for Milan and the others to respond, Danny walked away in the opposite direction from the tavern just now.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" Margaret looked at Milan seriously and asked.

Milan's eyes twitched again, she didn't know what Margaret was looking at, but she was sure it was not a good thing, "What?"

"Let's follow him!"

"This really doesn't seem like a good idea." Milan hid behind a wooden barrel, secretly peeking at Danny who was walking in front from behind, "If we are discovered, we will all die."

Milan's voice sounded very calm, and it was completely impossible to tell that she was in an abnormally tense state.

"It's okay, he stopped at the door over there, which building is it?" Margaret saw Danny parked in front of an off-white house, the shops and houses here looked the same, and asked People who are not familiar with Yuecheng can't tell the difference at all.

Danny took out the key, opened the door of the house, and walked in without hesitation.

"That's probably his house..."

Nodding her head, Margaret showed the smile that Milan was most afraid of seeing, and replied: "I think so too... why don't we search there after Danny leaves?"

"It doesn't sound like a good idea, but we have no other choice, right?" Milan sighed silently as he lowered his shoulders helplessly.

Unexpectedly, Danny walked out of the house very quickly, and he had an extra handbag in his hand.When he walked away, Milan and Margaret came out from behind the wooden barrel.

Folding his arms, Milan looked around and found that there were residential buildings all around, and he said carefully that there were still people inside, which meant that they could not break through the windows in order to keep a low profile, "Margaret, how do we get in? "

She pursed her lips and thought, "Open the window first? Maybe it's not locked."

"Ah, it's really opened!" Milan followed the other party's words, and it turned out that the window was unlocked, and it opened as soon as she pushed it.After speaking, she was afraid that they would be seen by people nearby, so she jumped into the house immediately, and Margaret followed closely behind.

The house was not very big, the kitchen was the one they walked in, and the dining table was beyond the stove.The dining room and the bedroom are connected together, and there is nothing special about the house at a glance.

But Margaret was particularly concerned about the big bookcase next to the bed. She stepped forward and flipped through the books, "Les Miserables", "Revelation of God", "Power and Will", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", " "Divine Comedy", "Dutch Poems"... Does this person read too many kinds of books?"

Milan saw that there was nothing to see around, so he followed Margaret to the front of the bookcase and looked through it, and suddenly she laughed, "Pfft ha ha ha!"

"what happened?"

She mentioned two books to Margaret to read, "The Death of God and... the New Testament! Did Danny take the wrong medicine? Isn't this combination too bad?"

"Pfft, that's right! Look here, he bought two copies of "Jane Eyre"!" When Margaret pulled out the two books, there was a "snap" sound, it was a notebook The sound of falling to the ground.It turned out that the book was sandwiched between the two "Jane Eyre".

Milan picked it up and opened it to see that there were page after page of figures, "This is the account book."

"let me see?"

Passing the book to Margaret, Milan said, "I guess this book is so important that Danny would buy over a hundred books from this bookcase just to hide it."

Margaret flipped through the account book quickly, and she pointed out one of the pages to Milan, "Look, there are a few pages that are missing here, and they might have been torn out."

"So you think those torn pages are what Danny was looking for?" Milan asked.

Margaret nodded and said, "Yes, let's take this account book away first..."

Suddenly, a voice interrupted their conversation, "What are you doing here?"

Both of them were so scared that their hearts almost jumped out, but when they saw that it was not Danny, they were relieved.That person was the woman they spoke to yesterday. Milan stood up alertly and asked, "You are not the owner of this house, are you?"

"Yes, I'm not. But I'm not here to play." The woman saw the thin book in Margarita's hand, and her face darkened, "Give me that account book in your hand!"

The behavior of this woman confirmed Milan's inference that this account book full of numbers is very important.Margaret hid it behind her back without thinking, "No, we found it! Why did you give it to you?"

"I knew you were on the knight's side!" The woman took out a knife from her black clothes and pointed it at Margaret. Call: "I knew it! You bastards who support knights!"

"No, no, no! Miss, calm down! We are on your side!" Margaret said in desperation, and she winked at Milan, signaling her to agree.

Milan nodded emphatically, "Yes! Our friend was framed and killed by a knight, and we followed that knight... We plan, plan..."

"I plan to find out their weaknesses and threaten him to let our friend go." Margaret immediately answered the words tacitly.

The woman tilted her head, she put away the knife for a long time, she seemed to believe Margaret's words, "Is that man a knight named Peter?"

"Yes, you know him?"

"Yes, I found it from him." The woman took out a few pages of paper from the same pocket where she put the knife, and when she looked carefully, she could see that the paper had been cut by the knife.She flicked them in the direction of Milan, "After I saw him kill him, I took him to the house next to me when he didn't care, and did what I always wanted to do."

So many "hes" made Margaret and Milan confused, but they were afraid that the woman would take out the knife again, so they didn't say much, and waited for the woman to finish speaking.

"When I cut No.20 three times, I found this, and then I knew he was killed because of this. So I'm going to come here and find that, and then give it to the judge!"

A thought crossed Margaret's head, and she probably understood the woman's words, "You said you saw Danny kill Peter, and then moved Peter to the Elsewhere. You found those pages when you poked Peter with a knife, and you ended up coming here to find the rest and show it to the judge?"

"Yes, that's what I said just now!" The woman nodded with satisfaction.

No, you don't, Milan thought to himself.

At this time, there was a sound of opening the door, "Hi! Who are you? What are you doing at my house?"

The woman looked back, and immediately ran to Margaret, "Oh no, he's back!"

"Hey, Danny, we're here because... I saw the window open and thought there was a thief, so I went in and looked." Margaret's head became immobile due to fear, and even such a ridiculous excuse She could tell, but she forgot the account book in her hand.

Danny sneered, and closed the door behind him. Looking at his calm face, he should have guessed what happened, "Kikyo, I know you. You live in the family next to Peter, right? Everything is clear Woke up."

"You saw me kill Peter, I know you hate knights... When I was looking for the pages Peter hid, you took the body back to your home?" Danny walked forward slowly, explain.The only exits from this house were the windows and the door that Margaret and the others had just walked in, and Danny was blocking the way they left.

Margaret secretly handed the account book to Milan, "No matter what happens in a while, you have to go out of the window immediately and go to the judge."

"Then what do you do?" Milan asked anxiously.

Although it's not the time to laugh, Margaret still had that treacherous smile, and said to Milan in a low voice, "Don't worry about yourself, the person Danny will chase is you, not me. And , and I don’t know the way to court.”

"Peter came to my house that day. After he left, I found a few pages missing in the account book. That stupid Peter thought I didn't realize that he tore those pages out, so that he would have time to go to the judge." Dan Ni didn't notice Margaret's actions, and talked to himself.

"Milan, it's now!" Margaret rushed forward and threw herself on Danny; the other party lost his balance because of the unexpected accident and fell to the ground.

Milan instantly snatched the paper from the woman called Kikyo and ran to the window.She kept telling herself not to look back, not to stop, to run faster; don't look back, don't stop, to run faster, to run faster, to run faster, to run faster!

Danny pushed Margaret away, intending to stand up and chase after Milan who was holding the account book, but Kikyo came to his senses and grabbed his ankle, "You don't want to leave!"

"You woman—!"

Immediately standing up, Margaret yelled at Kikyo, "Don't let him go!"

She knew that the two women could not stop Danny, so she planned to pick up something to defend herself first.She picked up a book at random and threw it over to Danny.He couldn't dodge because his leg was caught by someone, and the book hit him in the chest, not because of pain or anger, his face was a bit hideous, and his voice was no longer calm.

"You guys!" Danny bit his lower lip, he didn't want to step forward and wring Margaret's slender neck off, but he had more important things to do.He kicked Kikyo's stomach with the foot that was not caught, and Margaret could clearly see Kikyo being kicked to a distance of more than one meter.

Kikyo could only fall to the ground pitifully.

After glaring at Margaret fiercely, Danny decided to go after Milan first.His head was not deceived, now they broke into his house first, the reason is on him.As long as the ledger doesn't fall into the judge's hands, he'll be all right.

Yes, only the ledger has to be snatched back, other things are not important at all.

With a bang, Danny walked out of the door and immediately ran to the judge's place.

Watching Danny's sad shadow slowly go away, Margaret can only pray that Milan will go to the judge's place before Danny.She helped the woman up and asked, "Kikyo, you said you saw Danny kill Peter, did you see what he used to kill him?"

The road to the court is not particularly rugged. The court is located in the center of Moon City, as long as you walk towards the interior of Moon City, you will be there.Milan didn't think about anything, and kept running and running until she saw an open-air white building, which was the court; she ran in without hesitation, and shouted: "Help! We want to help!"

"You have no evidence!" Danny was clasped by the knight brought by the judge, and shouted frantically behind the iron railing: "They forged that account book! It's none of my business!"

The judge stroked his beard. He had been a judge for decades and had been to many places for interrogation.Experienced, he asked the question calmly: "But you didn't say that in the safe in the bank house? In addition to a large number of gold coins, we also found prohibited drugs in it."

"It's not mine!" Danny tightened his grip on the iron railing, "It's someone else's! I'm just helping to keep it!"

"But the writing on the account book is indeed your handwriting?"

Danny wanted to refute at first, but he opened his mouth and found that he had no excuses, showing an innocent face, he replied: "I wrote the account books, but I was forced! The drug dealer told me to do this." Yes, if I tell you his name, can you let me go?"

The judge shook his head, "I'm afraid I can't, I won't trust a murderer."

"What?!" The plan failed, and Danny's face immediately turned pale, and his tone of voice became more guilty, "Fa, what are you talking about, Your Honor?"

After clapping his hands twice, the judge motioned for Kikyo to step forward, when Danny found her there.

"Miss Kikyo, did you see this man strangling Peter to death?"

"Yes!" She nodded firmly.

There was a flash of light in his eyes, and Danny knew that this was his counterattack, "Your Honor, this lady's mother is our regular customer, and she used to come to our knights to buy banned drugs. Later, her mother died because of a drug overdose." Death. Since then, Miss Kikyo has a grudge against the knight, and she will definitely kill Peter and frame me for selfishness!"

"Miss Kikyo destroyed the body, but after I saw the body, I found that he was strangled to death, and Peter was so tall that Miss Kikyo couldn't reach it at all." The judge didn't change his mind because of Danny's words. He picked up a belt from the table, "Compared with the marks on the corpse, he was strangled to death by this belt. Do you know where this belt was found?"

Swallowing his breath, Danny knew he was going to die this time, and he began to regret that he didn't burn the belt, "...Where, where?"

"A kid named Margaret found it under your bed. Is this your belt?"

Danny slumped his shoulders, giving up resistance.He was already mentally prepared from the moment he was caught, no, in fact, he was already mentally prepared to spend his next life in prison when his brother decided to let him, the only one who had no family, take care of everything.

"Yes, everything was actually my idea. I killed Peter because he tore some pages out of the ledger and was going to tell me on. Then I forced his wife to give me those pages, my lord. Wrong, please don't sentence me to death!"

Shrugging his shoulders, the judge said helplessly: "The law is the law. If you kill someone, you must die. And you are a selfish guy who only kills for your own benefit. And you want a woman named Huohehua to be your wife." Scapegoat, the crime is worse! In the name of the judge, I sentence you to be hanged next week, so that you can experience the pain of the dead once!"

Danny wanted to cry, he wanted to shout that he wasn't selfish, he wanted to report other knights, he wanted...but it was all just thinking about it, he would never betray his brother, he even betrayed Flamingo for his brother's sake Hua, "She came to confront me, saying that I didn't listen to others, and I, I arrested her in a hurry, saying that she was a murderer...Your Honor, I understand, but I hope that I can die with my brother Have a meal."

According to the law in China, a death row prisoner can make a wish before he dies, and if the wish is not too excessive, the judge is obliged to help him realize this wish, "Is this your wish for the death row prisoner?"

"Yes!" The other party replied firmly.

The judge nodded, "Okay, I'll order someone to prepare."