Hesta nodded. She still had more questions to ask, but looking at Ava today, Hesta temporarily stopped talking.
She had never seen Ava as tired as she was today.
"You must not underestimate the team of lawyers I have formed," Ava's eyes were still stern. "If you show your flaws this time, I can't save you, so I won't save you."
"clear."
…
In Viscount Rich's reception room, servants were coming and going in confusion - after listening to Si Lei's analysis of the meaning of the photo, the Viscount lived up to expectations and had another convulsion and fainted on the spot.
Si Lei stood in the corner and waited for the farce to end. She waited for the Viscount to regain consciousness so that he could start talking about the next topic. However, this thirty-seven-year-old man was obviously too frightened. After waking up, he kept crying and shouting some very vague words. Si Lei couldn't hear what they were.
However, she did find that Chiba was very silent on such occasions - she had not spoken a word since entering the conference room, and even skipped introducing herself.
After staying like this for more than an hour, Rishi was finally able to sit down and talk to everyone. His eyes were swollen and pale, and his vision was a little blurry. Avinash sat next to him so that he could caress the Viscount's back from time to time. Reassure him that there is no need to fear.
"Actually, I had almost forgotten about that incident... Just twelve years ago, I met a red-haired prostitute in Tan Yinan District. That woman's hair was just like... who appeared in Tan Yi Nan District eight years ago. Jane Hestad from the reserve base is exactly the same——"
"Wait a moment, Viscount." Avinash said warmly, "There is something I need to let you know first."
"……You say."
"Jane Hestad's guardian is in this room now."
Rishi was so frightened that he jumped up from his chair.
"...Don't be so nervous," Qianye finally spoke, and everyone's eyes instantly turned to this woman who had been silent. "The relationship between the guardian and the ward in the mercury needle is not as close as it is in the habitable place. I don't think so." I haven’t seen this ward of mine for almost two years—very different.”
Si Lei looked at Qianye in shock, and immediately changed his expression, "Ms. Qianye, if this is the case, it would be better for you to avoid it."
"No, I can't avoid it." Qianye Zhensheng replied, "First of all, I have to remind you, don't forget the proof previously given by Office 004 - Jane Hestad has been performing special tasks recently, we can equate It is considered that she has not been active in District 3 during this period. This person should theoretically be excluded from our suspect list.
"Secondly, just because I am her guardian, I know the danger of this person - I can say this, if the murderer is really Hesta, there are probably not many of you here who can kill this person."
Viscount Rich looked helplessly at Avinash, trying to get confirmation from the eyes of this mercury needle.
Sure enough, Avinash did not refute.
Tears welled up from Viscount Rich's eyes again.
"Come on, Viscount, let's not waste each other's time," Qianye smiled kindly, "I assure you, the person you should trust most in this room is me."
Rishi calmed down for a moment before regaining the strength to remember again.
"Then... that day, after meeting us, the prostitute... the prostitute said that she came from Niah Province, her family was very poor, and she was desperate, and asked if anyone among us would be willing to take care of her business, Or take her in as a maid——"
"Excuse me?" Si Lei frowned, "Who is the 'we' you just mentioned?"
"There's me, Hoffman, Danglars, and the Duke..." Rich was sweating, and suddenly remembered something, "Oh, there's also Inspector Schmidt. That day, we went out for a walk together. "
"No Fernand?"
"...No, we were not very familiar with Fernan at that time. He...he was not yet in our circle."
Si Lei nodded: "Okay, this woman wants you to take care of her business, what next?"
"We refused because this matter is really weird in every aspect." Li Xi whispered, "You can also call us hypocritical. After all, the scenery in the countryside was just right that day, and the prostitute was also unusually beautiful... If she was If any one of us was stopped while we were traveling alone, we might all be a little dissatisfied - but we happened to be traveling together at that time, and in front of other people, we couldn't agree to such a ridiculous request anyway. .”
Avinash said indifferently, "It's human nature, Viscount, you don't have to feel ashamed——"
Si Lei interrupted: "Then what?"
Viscount Richey's eyes darkened, and his voice suddenly trembled: "Then, we scolded her and warned her not to corrupt the customs of the livable land. We...each of us said some words of reprimand - but in fact it was For her own good. She is still so young and so beautiful, no one can bear to see such a woman go astray.
"Just when we were about to leave and return to the carriage, she suddenly called out the full name of each of us from a distance - God, we were traveling in private clothes that day, and we didn't wear any family emblems or anything at all. It was something that showed her identity, but she shouted it out.
"She laughed at us and said that the curse had been planted and none of us could escape... I was so frightened at the time that I fell seriously ill when I got home. At that time, we just thought we had met a crazy woman. Slowly I just forgot about these things. I didn’t expect, I didn’t expect that this year... everyone present would have accidents one after another!
"Ah...I didn't react at first. It wasn't until Danglars suddenly came to me and asked me if I still remember that there was such a woman twelve years ago that I suddenly realized. There was no red-haired witch in the past. Can you explain? I think we met a witch that day, and she came specifically to curse us..."
Rixi's expression looked a little painful, and his two thick eyebrows were tightly knitted together.
"We shouldn't have ignored her from the beginning, because serious women in livable areas simply wouldn't greet her like her, but we still ignored her out of habit...
"I know that red hair is not uncommon in the third district, but that woman's flaming red hair is very rare - there is no way I can admit it!"
Rishi clenched his fists.
"So I began to suspect the child named Jane Hestad very early on - I think she must have some kind of relationship with the woman from twelve years ago. Please, no matter what means she uses to temporarily clean herself up now, If she is free of suspicion, don’t completely believe her——"
"Wait," Si Lei caught some inconsistencies, "when did you start to doubt Jane Hestad?"
