The maid paused, with a strange look in her eyes.
Xiaolan seized the opportunity and asked quickly, "Do you have any speculation?"
The maid raised her eyes and looked at Xiaolan hesitantly, "That's just something circulated among our servants."
Xiaolan loves to hear rumors, "What is it?"
"Some people said..." the maid leaned closer to the wooden window and lowered her voice, "The first lady doesn't seem to be as kind as the rumors, and those servants don't seem to have left and... voluntarily."
Xiaolan pricked up her ears.
"They said..." The maid's voice was almost inaudible, "Those servants seemed to have died after the first lady was buried."
Burial? !
Xiaolan expressed her shock with her eyes.
"Why do you say that?" Xiaolan asked, "Did someone find any clues?"
"First of all, although Miss Yirel told us that most of the previous servants left the manor to find other places, in fact, no one has seen those servants anymore." When it comes to rumors, the maid's order is actually smooth. "Also, after Mr. Morven returned to the manor, he didn't seem to miss his wife, but he quickly married the second lady..."
Seeing the maid's eyes seeking approval, Xiaolan immediately said, "It makes sense."
The maid smiled and continued, "The second lady has been with Mr. Morvern for nearly two years. He dotes on her very much. But in the summer four years ago, Mr. Morvern went out for a month. After he left, the second lady On the weekend of this week, my wife was found hanging in her bedroom."
"Why did she commit suicide?" Xiaolan frowned.
The maid shook her head, "Madam didn't leave a will, so we don't know, and I'm not the one who takes care of Madam personally, but I heard them say that Madam seems to be sick."
"I got sick?"
If you are sick, you will be cured.
"The madam is mentally ill," the maid pointed to her head. "They said that in the days after Mr. Morvern left, the madam said every day that she could see... strange things."
Suffering from mental illness?
"In the end, she didn't wait for her husband to come back, she was in the bedroom..."
"Why didn't the doctor come?"
"Because Madam insists that she is not sick," the maid said, "Madam insists that what she saw is real."
Xiaolan couldn't help but think of her own experience.
"And after that?"
"After the death of the second wife, Mr. Mervyn was sad for a while, and it took a long time before he started looking for his third wife..."
It's really embarrassing for Mr. Mo Wen to find a wife after everything is like this.
"The third lady only lived in the castle for a short time. Later, when Mr. Mervyn was traveling, the lady actually disappeared inexplicably."
"No one knows what's going on?" Xiaolan asked.
The maid widened her eyes and shook her head, "No one saw Madam's whereabouts. Moreover, during that time, it happened to be the time to prepare for Miss Lily's birthday party. Sir also returned home to invite relatives and friends to the party. At that time, the entire castle Everyone is busy. The day before Madam disappeared, she was still preparing desserts for Miss Lily's mother's birthday, but the next day..."
"Have you looked everywhere?"
"Of course, we searched all over the manor for three whole days, but in the end there was nothing we could do. We confirmed that the lady is no longer in the castle."
Xiaolan thought of the body on the stone bed she saw in her dream, "Have you searched for it in the basement too?"
"Basement?" The maid looked puzzled, "The basement... we usually don't open it, and Madam certainly won't be in a place like this, and there is only one key to the basement, and it's at Miss Yrel's place. If the key is stolen, Miss Yrel will tell us if we take it away."
Xiaolan changed the question, "What does the third lady look like?"
The maid raised her eyes and recalled, "The third lady is very beautiful. She has long golden hair like a waterfall. The biggest feature of the lady is that her pupils are golden red."
Every word collides with Xiaolan's memories.
That's right.
In the dream, the corpse on the stone bed was the third lady.
Although he only saw the frightened look of the third lady before her death, those golden-red eyes were so special, so special that Xiao Lan even thought they were an optical illusion caused by the blood and flames.
Xiaolan sighed softly.
"What's wrong with you?"
"It's okay," Xiaolan replied, "What's next?"
"After the gentleman returned to the manor, he also searched for the lady nearby for a long time, about half a year. He gave up and took the fourth lady home...the fourth lady..."
When the maid said this, her nose suddenly turned red.
"Are you okay?" Xiaolan asked hurriedly.
"No, no, it's nothing, I'm just kidding you," the maid hurriedly lowered her head and wiped her eyes, "It's just... the fourth lady, we all like her, but the way she left was so miserable, I couldn't help but Just thinking about it..."
"She must be a kind person, right?" Xiaolan said gently.
"Madam is brave, kind, friendly, and very funny. She is very considerate to our maid," the maid sniffed, "just like you."
Xiaolan smiled and said, "I heard that she died in the fire."
The maid narrowed her eyes and said, "Madam, she died in this basement. As of today, we don't know why the madam took Miss Yrel's key and came here, but judging from the scene of the madam's death, it should be The lady entered the basement by mistake, and the candle she was holding lit the firewood placed around the basement, and it ended up like this."
Xiaolan asked tentatively, "At that time...did you only see one body in the basement?"
"Of course..." the maid blinked her red eyes, "If you are referring to the completeness of the body, when we found her, the lady had turned into ashes."
Xiaolan raised her chin and started thinking.
Where was the body of the third lady?
Shouldn’t they also be burned to ashes together?
"It was precisely because something happened to the lady that from then on, firewood was no longer piled in the basement. Mr. Malvern seemed to have been worried for a while, but the castle always needed a mistress. It took about a year before Mr. Malvern found him. This time, Mr. Merwin only took a carriage to a nearby town to attend a banquet. It only lasted for two or three days. However, in these short few days, tragedy still happened. A cloudy day In the early morning, the lady took her two children to play by the stream. Not long after, the children came back crying..."
The maid sighed, "Madam, she slipped and fell into the water and drowned."
