My Brother

Chapter 21 Elegy

Annika came to Natasha's house and entered the mansion without any hindrance. There were two people sitting in the living room, drinking afternoon tea, and Annika heard crisp laughter from outside the door.

"Oh, Annika, you are here, come quickly, the tea party is missing you~" Natasha was very affectionate, she pulled Annika to sit on the sofa, and poured black tea for her, Pep was the other person , The two chatted very vividly. Even though Natasha said that Annika was welcome, the two of them did not intend to let Annika participate in the conversation at all. Annika was unexpectedly out of the topic.

The two of them didn't seem to care much about Annika's actions, and Annika planned to find some clues.

This mansion is a bit old, the corners of the carpet are damp and moldy, the wallpaper is yellow, and some places are even heavily dusty. It doesn't look like it's been cleaned frequently. After the painting was taken off, the color of the wall was very different from that of other walls, and the only decorations were also very old.

This looks like a declining family home. What is more surprising is the relatively new furniture with a strong Rococo style.

Annika went to the glass cabinet on the main landing.

Annika subconsciously felt that the people who appeared together must have some meaning.

Annika saw an old tapestry in the cupboard, a reddish-brown blanket, with several holes scalded, the most important one being a large hole just under the Natasha family coat of arms beetle.

Tapestry, usually the genealogy of an ancient family, the names on it can be removed, but Annika has never seen a hole burned under the family crest.

Seeing that the location couldn't be an accident, Annika used the small thin-mouthed vase next to it as a magnifying glass to carefully look at the details of the tapestry's family crest.

Annika finally found a faint picture, on the edge of the charred one.

This means that the original family emblem is not like this, and there is still a part of it below.

Annika turned her head to look at Pep and Natasha, and seemed to understand in an instant.

Annika took out a heavy book from the cupboard, which was a record of the family's big events.

In fact, the beetle and the cardinal were originally the family emblem of a family. The founders were a husband and wife, both of whom were declining nobles. In order to make the family rise, the husband and wife merged the family and used the existing resources to work together. This new family adopts the amalgamation of the original two family crests, with the beetle on top, the cardinal on the bottom, and the daggers crossed.

This family was once prominent in the town, and no one can compare it to others. However, when the family passed down to a pair of brothers, the two brothers fell out because they were dissatisfied with each other's becoming the patriarch. They split the clan emblem and separated into clans. down.

The two families have been separated for many years, but it seems that in the generation of Natasha and Pep, the two families are reconciled as before...

As for the reason?

Not to mention that Natasha and Pep had a happy conversation, besides, Annika slowly shook her head as she looked at the conspicuous cardinal crest on the nearby candlesticks and other lighting fixtures and furniture.

Annika probably knew how to pass this "close".

After rummaging through the cupboard again, Annika found two daggers, the ends of which were not surprisingly individual beetles and cardinals.

When the family was founded, the husband and wife entrusted someone to make it. The husband's family emblem is a beetle and he holds a cardinal dagger. Naturally, the wife holds a beetle dagger, which means that the family is inseparable and bloodshed when divided.

Annika smiled, picked up the two daggers on a tray and went down the stairs.

"Natasha, these daggers are so beautiful, are they ancestral treasures?" Annika put the tray on the coffee table and praised.

"Of course, these daggers are treasures that have been handed down from the beginning of the family." Natasha smiled slightly and raised her neck.

Pep froze for a moment, looked at the pattern on the dagger, and reached for it, but Natasha slapped it on the back of his hand.

"Don't move around, it's very precious."

"This is also a treasure of our family, you can keep it for yourself, why don't you let me see it?" Pep became angry and asked loudly.

"What about your family? Your family has been kicked out and even your surname has been changed. How dare you say this is your family's treasure?!" Natasha brought the tray to her, preventing Pep from having any contact with it. Chance.

Natasha's words just hit Pep's weakness, and Pep stood up screaming: "You are as shameless as your ancestors. For the sake of a little profit, you betrayed your trust, guarded this pile of treasures, and cried poorly to me."

Immediately afterwards, Pep pointed and told the story of the furniture she bought for Natasha over the years and the story of helping Natasha by herself, with a sharp tone and no sympathy.

Natasha became anxious, picked up the dagger and stabbed at Pep, who dodged away.

"You still want to kill me! Do you think that if you kill me, you can pay your debts and rest easy? Look at how poor you are, you can't even hire servants!"

Pep grabbed another dagger and fought Natasha.

Annika sat on the arm of the sofa and watched the two fight hard.

What would happen to Natasha and Pep in real life?Don't be kidding, is it true that the IQ of two people like Cheng who were only provoked by me with a word?

If the real Natasha and Pep were fighting, Pep would definitely be subdued within one round, but it was clear that the fight between the two was disorderly at the moment, like two young ladies gesturing with embroidery needles.

Annika also seemed to see what a woman in Deadpool's mind should look like, weak, vulnerable, beautiful, with big breasts and no brains.

? Annika felt that she had more to settle with Deadpool.

Annika stared at the carpet on the ground, found the right moment, and yanked it hard. The two people on the carpet were staggered and rushed together. The two daggers were inserted into each other's chest. Everything seemed to be rehearsed. as natural.

There was no blood on the chest, and Annika watched the two kneeling on the ground facing each other, slowly turning into puppets.

Annika finds the two missing lines of the sonnet on the nape of their necks.

But Annika still doesn't understand why Pep represents "a more admirable use of your beauty."

Annika felt that this matter should not be so simple. When she opened the family tree, the title pages were stuck together, and Annika carefully tore it apart.

There are four sentences above, which seem to be used as family mottos.

We want beautiful life to multiply continuously.

In this way, the rose of beauty will never die.

Since mature things are bound to pass away.

Beautiful descendants should inherit the fragrance.

Annika frowned, this is another group of sonnets, so where did the remaining three lines of the original group go?

"Prove that his beauty is in your lineage!

? This will revive you in old age,

? And refresh your chilled blood. "

The current clues are a bit confusing, and Annika can't figure it out. Annika took out a blank sheet of paper and silently wrote down the new poem. Annika looked at the next verse, slightly dazed.

But you are married to your bright eyes,

Burn yourself as firewood, and burn out the brilliance of your eyes.

Annika couldn't help feeling that these two lines of poems belonged to her. Pressing her fingers on these two lines, Annika felt a throbbing pain in her heart.

Annika intends to go back to "home", where there must be some clues.

As soon as she walked into the half-hidden door, Annika saw Loki in a dark green suit sitting on the sofa with great fanfare, as if no one else was around.

"Oh, Annika, Annika, nice to meet you!" Loki said with a smile.

"I don't think so. You have to admit that you are full of lies and have a lot of blood on your hands..." Annika frowned slightly, smelling the smell of blood that hadn't dissipated in the room.

"Don't be like this, my dear Annika, I am also the one who sings goodbye to you at your grave, but... why are you still alive when the songs of the dead are being sung?" Loki's malicious smile and words made him Annika is very uncomfortable.

"How can I blame you for being rude? After all, you are not even a gentleman." Annika remembered the record about Loki in the diary. God bless, Loki wanted to kill himself. Gave him some bad influence.

Loki is perhaps the most special of the town's nobles, whose entire fortune was "cheated," reads "Anika"'s diary.

"I admired Rocky and invited him to my private party, but Rocky was drunk and sang a beautiful opera with his unique voice, and he enjoyed the applause of others, but smiled and said to me , I have nothing but this voice, this skin, my fine clothes and jewels, all fraudulently obtained from my innocent brother, I'm just a little~singer!"

"Anika" thought it was just Loki's joke, but there was a passage in the diary, "I went to visit Rocky, and asked him how to sing, and he opened the door to see me covered in blood, with those green eyes Like an evil poisonous snake, he smelled blood all over his body, he seemed to be intoxicated by it, he said, he killed his stupid brother.

"Anika" could clearly see the slave mark on Loki's body.

"Annika" thought that Loki would be sentenced for murder, even though his brother was really missing, even "Annika" even saw him covered in blood, and even had a slave marker, but no one believed a Innocent little girl, they were willing to believe Loki's smooth tongue, which got him acquitted, and he even got a knighthood because of his brother's disappearance.

"Why do you have to kill me? You removed your mark, didn't you? I pose no threat to you." Annika asked.

"Because my stupid brother is not dead, even if he forgot that I tried to murder him, but you are the only witness, you know that I am not his real brother, just a lowly slave, not entitled to everything now, Only if you die, I will not be threatened at all." Loki took out a simple pistol from behind and pointed it at Annika.

"Come on, smart people never bother to use violence. Why don't you make a bet with me, who is 'mortal', at least let me die peacefully?" Annika sighed and said slowly.

"This is a grand sideshow before death~" Loki was obviously confident in his wisdom.

Annika turned around and took out two bottles of red wine from the wine cabinet and put them on the tea table to open them. The aroma of the alcohol permeated her nose. Annika poured the red wine into goblets respectively. The bright red color was like blood.

"You can ask me three questions, and I will only tell the truth, and I will only say yes or no. You choose to drink one of the wines, and the rest is mine." Annika smiled slightly, sitting Opposite Loki.

"What a stupid question!" Loki was like a peacock, proud and conceited.

"Is the glass on the left poisoned wine?"

"Yes."

"Is the glass on the left poisoned wine?"

"Yes."

With a bright smile, Loki stretched out his hand to drink the glass of red wine on the left, and threw the glass out casually. The sound of the broken glass was extremely crisp.

Annika doesn't drink the red wine on the right because Loki has turned into a puppet.

"Who told you that there must be non-toxic wine in my wine?" Annika swirled the red wine in the glass and smiled faintly.

People who think they are smart have always died of arrogance. You just need to make him think he is smart enough, and you will win.

Who said this?Annika had forgotten, but it was uncannily accurate, wasn't it?

"It's a pity that I failed." Annika took Loki's ring from his hand, hovering thrush, dexterous songwriter.

A circle of words on the inside of the ring:

This caused famine where there was plenty,

You are against yourself, teaching yourself to be victimized.

The author has something to say: (°ー°〃) Don’t think that the characters in the town are the original characters, except for Annika, the rest are these people in the eyes of Deadpool.

These poems... are all Shakespeare's sonnets. Of course, the rhymes are in English, and the Chinese are really uneven!The baby was particularly pleasantly surprised to find that many of them can suppress the effect I want. I have been looking for it for so long and it was not in vain.

The reason Loki wanted to kill Annika was that he didn't want to leave any hidden dangers for himself, even though Annika only saw it and had no other evidence. (A careful study of the story of Annika and Loki will help to understand the whole decryption game...(___)ノ｜）

The problem of poisoned alcohol, this is a classic question, but I adapted it, it would be boring if I followed the original one, but it is also a very simple logic question, right~

No, it's all poisoned wine anyway.

Annika lights up the black-bellied attribute...(___)ノ｜

There is another chapter in the story of the town. Haven't you guessed what the whole decryption game is based on?