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The first floor has more space and more rooms, but the maids and housekeepers in the villa live here. There are often maids walking in the corridors, and some rooms are not convenient to go in and explore.

In the name of looking around, Xie Baiyuan took Fang Li all over the first floor.

Passing by a door, Xie Baiyuan stopped in his tracks.

It was a small single door. The door panel was painted with red paint, and it almost blended with the dark red wall beside it. If you don't pay attention carefully, it is easy to miss.

A large iron lock was hung on the door. Judging from the lock hole that had been blocked by rust, it had not been opened for a long time.

Xie Baiyuan put his ear to the door panel and listened for a while, "Nothing happened."

Fang Li looked at him, his Adam's apple twitched nervously: "Can you open it?"

A locked room with absolutely no secrets inside.

Xie Baiyuan pinched the lock, "It should be possible."

However, before he could take action, someone ran over quickly to stop his behavior.

"Guest, it's forbidden to enter here. Please visit other places in the villa." It was An Wen who spoke, the crying maid whose hair was pulled by Xiao Yuan last night.

Xie Baiyuan asked, "What's inside?"

An Wen lowered her head: "I don't know either."

Xie Baiyuan narrowed his eyes, closed them suddenly, and pressed his hands on his temples: "Fang Li, let's go back, I have a headache."

Fang Li was already worried about his health, so he hurriedly stepped forward to support him after hearing what he said.

When Xie Baiyuan turned around, he paused slightly, "Can you give me some flour?"

Although An Wen didn't understand what he wanted the flour for, she still brought up the lunch and flour after Xie Baiyuan returned to his room.

After lunch, Xie Baiyuan stretched his waist and asked Fang Li, "Do you want to sleep for a while?"

"You go to sleep," Fang Li didn't usually have the habit of taking a nap, "I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep at night if I sleep now."

Xie Baiyuan took off his coat and put it on the bedside, "Then I'll sleep, good afternoon."

He fell asleep as soon as he said, and Fang Li heard his breathing more and more steadily after a while.

It seemed that Xie Baiyuan, who was sick, was far less energetic than he showed.

Fang Li was really bored. After listening to music with headphones on for a while, he turned his attention to Xie Baiyuan's Grimm's fairy tales.

A certain page of the book was folded at a corner by Xie Baiyuan. Fang Li turned that page and found that it was about the story of "The Twelve Brothers" in the Grimm's fairy tale.

Twelve again...

Fang Li is particularly sensitive to this number now, since he is idle anyway, he sat by the window and read the story carefully.

The Twelve Brothers tells the story of what happened to the king's family.

The king and queen had twelve boys. One day, the king told the queen that if the No.13 child was a girl, he would kill all twelve boys.

To show his determination, the king even prepared twelve coffins, waiting for the arrival of No. 13 children.

The queen couldn't bear to see her own flesh and blood being killed, so she told the incident to the youngest boy, Benjamin, and made an agreement with Benjamin that twelve of their brothers should flee into the forest. Never come back.

Finally, on that day, the No.13 child was born, a girl.

From then on, the twelve boys fled into the depths of the dense forest. Ten years later, the little girl grew up and heard the story of her twelve older brothers from her mother, so she decided to go to the dense forest to find the twelve older brothers.

She found her brothers and lived with them in a hut in the jungle.But one day, the little girl wanted to make her brothers happy, so she ran into the garden and picked twelve lilies growing in the garden.

The moment the lily was cut off, the little girl's twelve brothers turned into twelve ravens.

The witch told the little girl that she needs to stop talking and laughing for seven years before her brothers can be saved.

The ending of this story is quite satisfactory. After going through all kinds of hardships, the little girl became a young queen, and the twelve brothers turned back into human beings, and they lived happily ever after.

But Xie Baiyuan's Grimm's fairy tale is obviously closer to the first edition, and many of the contents in it are mixed with bloody elements that are not suitable for children to read.

For example, because the king hated girls and didn't want to see a daughter among his sons, he swore to wrench the heads of the twelve sons after the queen gave birth to his daughter.And in the second half of the story, because the little girl was not allowed to speak, she could not defend herself after being slandered by her husband's stepmother, and was even sent to the stake for this.

It is worth mentioning that the twelve lilies picked by the little girl, Zhu Yicheng also mentioned lilies in the divination, Fang Li thought there must be some connection between the two.And this connection may have to be found in the sea of ​​flowers outside the villa.

In the evening, the host came back with a group of people from outside.

Fang Li counted the number of people with his eyes, and heaved a sigh of relief after confirming that there were not many people.

There are ten people, not one is missing, which means that today is barely a safe day.

The host asked everyone to rest for a while, and the dinner will be announced at seven o'clock.

The others went upstairs talking and laughing, Zhao Xiaotong walked over, exchanged a glance with Fang Li, and the two came outside the villa tacitly.

Walking in the romantic sea of ​​roses, Fang Li was not in that relaxed mood.

According to Zhao Xiaotong, the host took them to the horse farm behind the villa today. They rode horses all afternoon, played golf for a while, and came back without anything else happening.

But this manor is really big. There is such a large sea of ​​flowers in front of the villa. Besides the horse farm and golf course, there are two green hills behind the villa, which are also included in the manor.

Fang Li is not interested in horseback riding or golf. He would rather go to the other side of the mountain.

Zhao Xiaotong asked him: "What did you find in the villa during the day?"

Fang Li: "Did you know that we explored in the villa during the day?"

Zhao Xiaotong glanced at him: "We have all gone out, how could Xie Baiyuan miss this opportunity. Besides, you two men can't be bored in the room during the day and do something... You can't really do something, right?"

She widened her eyes, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt it was possible: "I didn't expect, how is Xie Baiyuan doing now, can he still get out of bed? Let me just say that I see something wrong with you two."

Fang Li was startled, "What can I do to him? No, what's wrong with us??"

Zhao Xiaotong: "Then he fell ill and hasn't been able to go out until now."

Fang Li revealed helplessness: "Our doors and windows were opened for some reason last night, and he blew a cool breeze. I have a little fever today. Didn't I tell you all about it?"

Zhao Xiaotong: "Oh, that's it."

Fang Li: "..." Why do I feel that you are quite disappointed.

Anyway, they brushed the dungeon together, Fang Li felt at ease with Zhao Xiaotong, and sincerely regarded her as his friend.

Since they were friends, he unreservedly told the other party what he saw and heard in the villa during the day.

Except, of course, that Grimm's Fairy Tales.He still has to wait for Xie Baiyuan to wake up to discuss the story about the twelve brothers with him.

"Then why are you still standing there?" Zhao Xiaotong said, "Let's hurry up and find the doll."

"Wait," Fang Li shook his head, "Let's put that aside for now. Before it gets dark, let's find something in this sea of ​​flowers."

Zhao Xiaotong asked: "What are you looking for?"

"Lilies." Fang Li tilted his head and added, "It should be white lilies."

The lily, a symbol of purity, should be easy to find if it grows among this fiery red bloom.

Half an hour later, two people who were dazzled by the sea of ​​flowers met in front of the villa.

"How?" Fang Li asked.

Zhao Xiaotong rubbed her eyes, everything she looked at now had a red light: "I didn't find it."

"Me neither." Fang Li took out his phone and checked the time. There were still more than ten minutes before dinner, "I won't look for it anymore, let's go back."

Zhao Xiaotong agreed.

As soon as he entered the villa, Fang Li saw that Xie Baiyuan had gone downstairs and was leaning against the window with the host, talking and laughing.

When they got closer, Fang Li heard that they were talking about Renaissance paintings.

Fang Li didn't have much research in this area, and after listening for a while, he began to lose his mind, and his eyes fell on Xie Baiyuan's opening and closing mouth.

Xie Baiyuan's facial features are wonderful, and when he just looks at the second half of Zhang Lian, he may be attracted by his fleshy lips, thinking that this person must have a gorgeous appearance.It was only after seeing his cold and stern eyebrows that he realized that this person was clearly the one who had been killed by the flower of Gaoling.If it wasn't for his weak body and his frequent laughing when standing with Fang Li, he would have nothing to do with the word "easy contact".

"You and your wife seem to have only raised one daughter. I don't know if you have considered raising another child, so that both children can live happily together?" Xie Baiyuan didn't know what they were talking about, so he brought the topic to this.

Fang Li took a tight breath, and he saw the host's expression froze, "I haven't considered this, my wife's health is not very good, and the doctor also advised her not to have children."

No more children, but may have previously given birth to boys.The male host's age also seems to be 50 to [-] years old, and it is very likely that Madoka is not his first child.

Fang Li thought of the pile of small clothes under the hostess' bed, and had some guesses in his heart.

When it was time for dinner, the master sent a maid upstairs to invite the guests down to dinner.

The maid went upstairs, and ran back in a hurry after a while.

She looked terrified, her mouth was wide open and her breathing was rapid, as if she had seen something extremely terrifying, and she was about to lose her soul in the next second.

The hostess smiled, and quickly stepped forward to support her: "What's wrong? What did you see?"

Xie Baiyuan stood behind him, his eyes narrowed.

The maid gasped for a long time before pointing tremblingly to the second floor: "People, people are dead, and the skin is gone!"

Fang Li's breath was slightly suffocated, and a creepy feeling ran up his spine all the way to Tianling Gai.

The passengers standing on the first floor were all shocked, and everyone hurried to the second floor following in the footsteps of the host.

The second floor was filled with a faint smell of blood. There was a door on the right side that was wide open, and there were several passengers with livid faces standing outside the door.

Although he was prepared, Fang Li still trembled uncontrollably when he saw it with his own eyes.

Xie Baiyuan supported his waist from behind, and gently patted his back as if to comfort him.

In the room, two skinless corpses were mangled and nailed to the wall with steel nails as thick as arms. Agitated, just like the blood-red curtains that Fang Li saw when he woke up in the morning.

The author has something to say:

There is a reason why Xie Baiyuan is weak, I will not say the reason (

Poor health does not mean low force value_(:з」∠)_

Brother Yuan: Who do you think can't get out of bed?

Xiao Fang supported his waist: I, I, it's me.