The next day, Jabi came to the manor very early in the morning, and finally felt relieved when he saw that Arthur was fine.
"How's it going? Did you find anything?"
Arthur pressed his still aching head and replied weakly: "It's nothing big, but we still have to find the housekeeper and find out more about the situation of this house."
Arthur did not tell Jia Bi what happened last night, but seeing Arthur's listless look, Jia Bi couldn't help but suggest: "I think you must not have slept well last night. Why don't you go to the hotel and take a rest first?" Let’s go find the housekeeper after we regain our energy.”
Arthur waved his hand, "Don't worry, I'm fine. It's better to resolve this matter as soon as possible. This will also allow you to see Elizabeth earlier."
Speaking of Elizabeth, Jabi immediately perked up.
The old butler lived in Wandsworth, a district in south London, probably the most famous place for Wandsworth Prison.
Although Wandsworth is not a wealthy area, it is still better than the east, where the dock workers live.
He owns his own property here, and now that he is retired, he still has a lot of money to settle down.
"Isn't this His Excellency Earl Fraser and Mr. Doyle? What happened that brought you two to me?"
The housekeeper asked with some surprise as he looked at the two of them.
Jia Bi was still very angry before he came, but when he saw that the old housekeeper had suddenly aged a lot, he suppressed his anger.
Arthur didn't hide anymore and told the old housekeeper everything about the workers these days.
Finally, I couldn't help but ask: "You have worked in that manor all your life, haven't you discovered anything?"
The old housekeeper replied without hesitation: "I dare to guarantee with my life that there is no problem at all there."
Looking at the old butler's resolute attitude, Arthur could feel that he was not lying.
This made him rub his still sore forehead. After pondering for a long time, Arthur took out the strange little box.
When the butler saw the box, his eyes immediately lit up, "Sir, where did you find this box?"
Arthur asked, "What? Do you know it?"
The old butler shook his head, "Old Master Childe had looked for this box before he was alive. At that time, he said it was in the manor, but no matter how hard we tried, we still couldn't find it. In the end, when the old master died, he asked about this box. I’m still brooding over this matter.”
"Do you know why the old master is looking for it?"
Arthur asked hurriedly.
The old housekeeper still shook his head.
"But the current new owner seems to be looking for it too. If you can return it to the Childe family, I think you will be able to get a lot of reward."
Jabi snorted unconsciously when he heard the money.
The old butler immediately knew that he had said something wrong and hurriedly made up for it: "Of course a powerful person like Earl Fraser will look down on this, but your quality will be spread among the nobles."
Arthur was a little surprised. He didn't expect this abandoned old butler to be so loyal to the Childe family.
However, he happened to want to find the Child family, the new head of the family, so he couldn't help but ask: "Then do you know how we can find him?"
"The new owner lives in Kensington Gardens Street, but he has always been very busy, traveling all over the world."
On Kensington Gardens Street, even Jabi could only call him Good Guy.
This place is basically the territory of the royal family. Being able to own a real estate there shows his worth and status.
Fortunately, Jabi's identity is not simple. Although the two of them paid a presumptuous visit, the owner happened to be at home.
Edmund Child was the name of the new head of the family. Arthur had thought that he would be very young, but he did not expect that when they met, he would see an octogenarian old man.
Judging from his age, he looks to be at least 60 years old.
Arthur said his intention again, and finally took out the exquisite box.
When the old man Edmund saw the box for the first time, he immediately stood up excitedly.
Arthur handed the box to him directly, but saw Edmund looking up and down, left and right, and kept mumbling, "That's it, that's the box."
The old man Edmund seemed very excited, but in Arthur's opinion, the old man didn't seem to know much about the situation of the box.
He couldn't help but ask: "Can you tell me something about it?"
Edmund stroked the box obsessively, and he couldn't help but hesitate when he heard Arthur's question.
"I have no intention of learning about your family's past, if you don't want to talk about it."
Edmund waved his hand at this time, "This matter is indeed a bit secret, but there is nothing that cannot be said."
The old man first put the box on the table, and then slowly explained: "This matter can be traced back to my grandfather, Meyer Child. When he was young, he met a mysterious Persian businessman. He bought a box from a businessman, the most exquisite box in the world. The businessman who sold the box once said that if anyone could open this box, he would get endless wealth."
Hearing what he said, Jabi immediately thought that Meyer Child must have opened the box, so his family had the wealth it has today.
Arthur felt it was not that simple.
The old man Edmund suddenly smiled at the two of them and said, "You must think that my grandpa opened this box, right?"
"Is not it?"
Jabi asked very cooperatively.
Edmund shook his head and said with a little pride: "What our Childe family believes in has always been giving and giving."
Jabi asked somewhat confused: "Then why are you looking for this box now?"
"It is said that what is really contained in this box is a trailer."
"What kind of preview is it?"
At this time, even Arthur was aroused with curiosity.
"It's a prediction of the end of the world."
The old man Edmund said to the two of them mysteriously.
Jabi simply rolled his eyes rudely.
Arthur also felt that this statement was a bit too exaggerated, but judging from the old man's expression, it didn't seem like he was being hypocritical.
Arthur couldn't help but asked curiously: "If it is a doomsday prediction as you said, then what's the use of knowing it?"
Edmund just smiled weirdly and said very cryptically: "The end of everything is a new beginning. The key is who started it and for whom it ended."
For a moment, Arthur found it difficult to understand what he meant. After thinking for a while, he stopped thinking about it, and then continued to ask: "Do you know who died in the lake in the manor?"
Edmund was stunned for a moment by Arthur's question. Unknowingly, two lines of hot tears flowed down his cheeks.
"Did you find Lien's body?"
Arthur didn't know how to answer. He couldn't say that he was the evil spirit he saw!
So he changed the topic and asked: "Can you tell me why she died in the lake?"
"She was my sister. She was swimming in the lake when she was 18 years old and unfortunately died there."
The old man Edmund obviously didn't tell the truth. Arthur couldn't help but ask: "Do you still remember the sculpture with two heads that looks like a bird but not a bird? What kind of animal sculpture is that?"
"Is there still such a statue? I don't remember it anymore."
This time Arthur could tell that the old man Edmund was still lying, and Arthur had no intention of asking any more questions, so he left with Jabi without leaving the delicate box behind.
But Jabi has promised that after this incident, he will give the box to the old man.
Arthur hurried back to the manor with Jabi, and then immediately started looking for people to salvage the bodies from the lake.
What Arthur was thinking now was that since he could no longer get rid of the water ghost, he would first destroy her physical body.
But everyone was in trouble again while standing on the lake shore.
This lake is living water and is always connected to the Thames River. Some experienced river workers said: "According to the flow direction here, if you really drowned here, you must go to the Thames River to salvage it."
These people didn't know that what Arthur asked them to salvage was a dead body from decades ago, otherwise the river workers would definitely ask him to salvage it from the North Sea.
But Arthur saw the evil spirit yesterday, so he believed that the body must be in this lake.
However, the river worker's words also gave him new inspiration. The reason why the body was still here must be because someone had tied something heavy.
Arthur walked around the lake and finally determined that it was in the center of the lake, because if he were to dump the body, he would definitely choose this location in the center of the lake.
Following Arthur's command, a group of people plunged into the lake together like dumplings.
There was no professional diving equipment at this time, so everyone relied on holding their breath long enough.
The lake is not deep, but there is no lighting equipment, so people mostly use their hands to catch it.
After nearly two hours of salvaging, even Arthur wondered if he had miscalculated the location. Suddenly someone shouted: "There seems to be an iron coffin down here."
"What? The coffin is in the water?"
This made all the river workers explode, and some even shouted: "It's so evil, I think it's better not to fish it out."
In order to calm people's hearts, Jabi immediately shouted: "Don't be afraid, everyone, as long as they can salvage it, I will give everyone a reward of 5 pounds."
The river workers, who were frightened just now, immediately became energetic and their eyes widened as soon as they heard the reward of 5 pounds.
Arthur felt that if anyone dared to stop them now, they would definitely be torn apart by these people.
But they immediately encountered a new problem. The water coffin was not only heavy, but also had chains on all sides.
It was impossible to fish her out by manpower alone. Arthur thought for a moment and simply set up a scaffold on the case.
Then four ropes were tied to the iron coffin, and more than 20 people worked hard together. Finally, as the lake water surged, a rusty iron coffin broke out of the water.
As soon as it was dragged onto the case, the stench in the coffin immediately choked the river workers and made them vomit.
Arthur was extremely puzzled. This body had passed so many years and was underwater. It should have turned into white bones, let alone such a strong corpse smell, unless she was... .....
