In King's Castle, Barry's office, Karasumaying squatted beside the small carpet in the middle of the room, stretched out her fingers and touched the dark red area in the middle of the carpet.
There was a cold and wet touch on her fingers. Karasuma Ying withdrew her hand, and her fingers were stained with some kind of light dark red liquid.
After bringing it to the tip of her nose and smelling it, and rubbing it on her fingertips, Karasumaying finally came to a conclusion.
The dark red patch on the carpet is human blood, and it is human blood that has been mixed with a large amount of water and is no longer able to coagulate on its own.
Karasuma Ying pinched a corner of the blanket and lifted it up. She rubbed her other hand hard on the floor under the blanket and on the floor outside the blanket.
[The proportion of dust outside the blanket and under the blanket is basically the same...]
Looking at the almost identical dust stains on the two fingers, Karasuma Ying stood up and turned to look at Hans who was standing at the door behind her.
"Mr. Hans, how long has this rug been in Chief Barry's office?"
"Ah, I'm not sure about this. After all, I belong to the Guard. I rarely meet Chief Barry on weekdays. It's my first time to come to his office today..." Hans replied with a smile.
The Kingdom Police and Guards of the Kingdom of Andrew are two completely different departments, and since the relationship between the two top officers, Barley and Biluen, was not good during their lifetimes, the relationship between the two departments was not harmonious on weekdays.
"Oh, right……"
Suddenly thinking of something, Hans reached out and pulled the guard soldier standing outside the door in, and asked: "Let me ask you, how long has this carpet been in Chief Barry's room?"
"Uh, back to Captain Hans, I don't know this either..." the soldier shook his head and replied.
"On weekdays, there is no need to stand guard in Chief Bali's office, and we are not allowed to enter..."
"How often is the room cleaned?" Karasumaying asked.
"The bedrooms of the royal family or other nobles in the king's castle will be cleaned by maids every day, but if it is a special room like Chief Bali's office, it will usually be cleaned by a dedicated person only once a month. I remember the first cleaning was more than half a month ago..."
"More than half a month?"
After hearing the soldier's answer, Karasumaying looked at the carpet in the middle of the room again.
This rug does not belong in this office.
The reason is simple. This office was last cleaned half a month ago. If this carpet has been kept in this office all this time, the dust stains under and outside the carpet cannot be so evenly distributed.
In other words, this blood-stained carpet, which looks a bit out of place, was probably temporarily moved to this office by someone.
"Mr. Hans, can you take me to see the maid who first discovered Chief Barry's body?" Karasuma Ying looked at Hans and asked.
She has basically collected the clues in this office. She even has a rough idea of how Barry was killed and his motives for doing so.
Thinking about it carefully, Barry's murder today was not without warning. Yesterday, he suddenly called her and not only said a bunch of incomprehensible words to her, he even deliberately told her about Andrew's royal heart through some hints. The secret of the treasured blue sapphire.
Barry's behavior at that time was actually a bit abnormal, but Karasumaying was shocked by the secret of the blue gem at the time, so she didn't notice it...
Sighing slightly, Karasumaying followed Hans to a maid's lounge in the castle. There were also two guard soldiers standing in front of the door of the lounge.
At this time, the lounge was crowded with more than twenty young maids in maid uniforms. They were all ordered to return to the lounge after the king's brother Preben ordered martial law in the king's castle.
Hans opened the door to the lounge and called to a young maid inside.
"Esther, come here."
"Yes Yes!"
A little nervous, the maid named Esther stood up quickly after being called and came to the corridor under the worried eyes of her companions.
"Please, what can I do? Captain Hans?" Because Hans was speaking in English, she asked in English as well.
"Were you the first to discover the body of Chief Barry this morning?"
"Yes, it is."
"What happened at that time?" Karasumaying asked.
Esther raised her head and glanced at Karasuma Ying, then quickly lowered her head and replied: "At that time, as usual, I wanted to trim the big tree in the corner of the central courtyard, and then, then I saw the tree Barry The chief’s body…”
"Before that, did anything strange happen near there? Or did you hear any strange noises?"
"No, everything was normal in the courtyard at that time. I just walked over normally, and then I saw Chief Barry..." Karasuma Ying's voice was very calm, which gradually calmed down the originally nervous maid.
Hearing this, Karasuma Ying lowered her head and thought.
Something was wrong with the situation. According to her speculation, in the incident of Barry's murder, someone should have wanted to deliberately cover up and distort the truth of his death, and that person did so. In Barry's office The blood-stained carpet is the best proof.
Thinking like this, she changed the angle of inquiry.
"Did anything unusual happen in the King's Castle this morning?" Karasuma Ying asked again.
"Abnormal things?" Esther seemed not to understand her question.
"Anything is fine, just like something that never happened on weekdays, but happened today..."
"Well, it's something that doesn't usually happen..."
After hearing this, Esther held her face and tried hard to think about it for a while, then raised her head again and asked tentatively:
"Butler Ole asked us not to take care of the flowers and plants in the courtyard this morning. Can this be counted..."
"Butler Olei?" Karasumaying thought of the handsome young man with blond hair for a moment and asked, "What do you mean?"
"This morning when I was pruning the flowers and plants in the courtyard, I was seen by Butler Ole who happened to be passing by the courtyard. Then Butler Ole told me that I didn't need to trim the flowers and grass in the courtyard this morning, so that I could go back and rest. …”
"But you didn't go back?"
"Yes, because if there are any changes to these work arrangements on weekdays, we will usually be notified in advance.
But Butler Ole just said this to me when he passed by this morning. I was a little worried, so I asked the head maid.
It was the head maid who told me that she had not received a similar notice this morning, so I went back to work..." Esther explained in detail.
"Butler Ou Lei..." Karasuma Ying narrowed her eyes and continued to ask, "Do you know where he was going at that time?"
Chapter 2 later
(End of chapter)
