Monument of Life and Death

  Chapter 518 The sixth place

   Xiaolan stared at the familiar cover for a long time.

   "Lily," Xiaolan smiled stiffly, "You have already heard this book."

   "I want to hear it again." Lily stuffed the thin fairy tale book into Xiaolan's hand, turned her head and crawled into the bed.

  Xiaolan sat on the velvet armchair beside the bed.

   "There used to be a man...

  "He hopes to find a wife...

  "The wife finally saw it, the closed door of Blue Beard's house, what is in the door...

  "Wife’s brothers are holding swords...

   "Blue Beard, just died like this."

  Xiaolan closed the book.

   "You said..." Lily's pupils flickered in the candlelight, "Why did Blue Beard kill his wives?"

  The same problem as last time.

  The last conversation is still engraved in Xiaolan’s memory.

   "Because..." Xiaolan smiled silently, "He loves his wife, but his wives don't love her."

  Lily sat up and stared at Xiaolan.

   Xiaolan responded to her eyes without fear.

  "Do you know that there is another ending to this story?" Lily opened her mouth.

   Xiaolan was silent.

   Lily grinned, revealing two small white tiger teeth. She moved her gaze away from Xiaolan, looked at the white wall on the opposite side, and slowly told another story with a dreamlike voice.

"Blue Beard quickly found his first wife. The girl was beautiful and kind, and she really fell in love with Blue Beard’s sincerity and hard work. They lived happily, but the good times didn’t last long. It didn’t take long. Blue Beard’s The first wife had an accident and left him forever..."

  The smile on Lily's face disappeared, and the whole person seemed to have matured a lot.

"Soon, Blue Beard had a second wife. Blue Beard treated her sincerely. The two lived peacefully for a while. Then, another accident came. Blue Beard lost his wife for the second time. It is not the end of bad luck. The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth wives of Blue Beard also died of unfavorable fate..."

   Xiaolan's scalp is a little numb.

  Lily's voice gradually lowered, until when she couldn't hear her too much, the little girl's eyes froze and solidified on Xiaolan's body.

   "After that, Blue Beard married his seventh wife," Lily paused for a long time, "and also the last wife."

   said, Lily closed her mouth.

   "Then what?" Xiao Lan couldn't help but asked.

   Lily lay back on the pillow, her smile returned to her face, "Then? Then the story is over."

   Xiaolan tucked the quilt for Lily, and when she turned around to walk out of her room, Lily’s voice faintly sounded, "I saw you last night."

   By the way, there is this thing.

   Xiaolan quickly turned around, "Why did Lily stay up so late last night?"

  Lily glanced at the cuckoo clock on the wall, "Eleven o'clock, is it late?"

   "Eleven o'clock?" Xiao Lan frowned, "But I..."

   "I saw it all," the little girl slowly buried her face in the quilt, "I saw it all..."

   Xiaolan closed the door of Lily's room fearfully, picked up the key, and absently opened the door of her room.

What does   Lily’s words mean?

  Eleven o'clock? Twelve o'clock?

  What did she see?

  When the door lock opened with a click, a hand suddenly appeared from Xiaolan's back and patted her on the shoulder.

   Xiaolan shakes all over, and quickly sticks to the door.

   She panted, staring at the slightly sorry face.

   "I'm sorry," Dr. Suowan said in a low voice, "I thought you saw me."

  "Doctor?" Xiaolan looked at the end of the corridor, "How are you..."

   "It's a bit presumptuous, but... can you go in and say it?"

  Doctor pointed to Xiaolan's room.

   Xiaolan hesitated for a few minutes.

  Forget it, my room doesn’t seem to be a safe place anyway.

   Xiaolan pulled out the key, opened the door, and let the doctor into the room.

   "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," the doctor's voice became normal as soon as he entered the door, "You must be full of doubts."

  This is true.

"First of all, you will be wondering why Miss Yrel didn't arrange me to live in the guest room upstairs, but lived on the second floor of the castle," Dr. Solwand gestured, "This is because...Mr. Morvin His wife is my sister, so I am also a relative of the Morwen family."

   "Wife?" Xiao Lan was stunned.

  "Mr. Mor Wen's deceased wife, to be precise." Dr. Suowan raised his eyebrows.

   "I'm sorry..." Xiaolan waved her hand in a panic, "I don't know..."

"It’s okay, you don’t have to be like this. Sandora is my youngest sister, and she hasn’t been with me since she was a child, so we don’t have such deep feelings between us, although Sandora’s death brought a lot of sadness to my family , But the dead are gone, and we have long since recovered from our grief."

   Xiaolan nodded and reacted, "Then Moses and Lily are yours..."

   "You can think so," Dr. Suwan smiled. "However, Moses and Lily were not born to my sister Sandora. They were the children of Mr. Morwen's first wife."

   "Your sister Sandora, what happened?"

   Xiaolan felt that the reason why Dr. Suowan came to see herself at this time might be to ask herself this question.

Sure enough, the doctor who heard the problem immediately straightened his chest, walked two steps to the center of the room, and said, "Originally, when you asked me, I thought I shouldn't tell you, but...this matter, I think you need to understand."

   Xiaolan nodded cautiously.

   "My sister Sandora," the doctor took a deep breath. "Like the poor maid, she was also decapitated."

  The atmosphere instantly solidified for a while.

  Doctor Suowan clenched his hands and looked out the window.

   "Why... what's going on?" Xiao Lan asked humbly.

  The first word that came to her mind—serial murder.

"Just a year ago, robbers were rampant in nearby villages. Many families in the village lost their lives in this way. Sandora was killed by someone next to the back entrance of the castle on a rainy night. Later, the robbers I was caught, the murder never happened again, and Sandora's incident was regarded as one of the crimes of the band of robbers."

   Xiaolan understood what the doctor meant.

   "But now, the murderer has appeared again..." Xiaolan said thoughtfully.

  The doctor nodded emphatically, "So I thought about it again, my original idea."

  Doctor paused for a while.

   Xiaolan quietly waited for the doctor to finish speaking.

   "Sandora's death may not have been caused by the robber," the doctor lowered his voice again, "but it was related to the death of Mr. Morwen's previous wives."

  (End of this chapter)