"Your Majesty, Lord of Daybreak Town, what do you think? Can you help me?" Chalik continued to ask, with a very sinister look in his eyes, "Your personal servant is in my hands. Only you can help me find that one."
Only with a magic hairpin can I let him go."
Werther thought that Wile had been imprisoned, and now he could only rescue Wile by agreeing to Charlie's conditions. What's more, helping Charlie find the hairpin was the task given by Parchment. Perhaps, his only choice now was to bite the bullet and take this
mission completed.
He swallowed, lowered his head slightly, and looked up at Charlie with a sharp light in his eyes: "Are you sure I will release my valet after I find the hairpin for you?"
"Of course, if you are willing to help me, I won't make things difficult for you. At most, I will just starve him." Charlie said easily, but his expression looked extremely vicious.
"You are so disgusting, you can't deny him food!" Werther said angrily, "You must provide him with three meals a day and enough water."
Charlie looked up and thought for a while, then said: "It's not impossible, but the premise is that you must carefully find the card for me."
"Okay, I'll help you find it." Witte stood up straight and tried to stay calm, "But if you don't provide me with clues, I can't help you find it. I think you should still tell me some important information.
That’s all.”
Charlie sighed heavily: "Well, since you insist on knowing the clues, I can only tell you part of it. Your Highness, Lord of Daybreak Town, don't stand there. I'm tired of standing. Come in and sit down.
I won't hurt you."
Werther took a step forward, continued to stare at the other person with sharp eyes, and said: "If you dare to offend me again, I will be rude to you."
"Haha, I know, Your Highness the Lord of Daybreak Town." Chalik's face returned to the respectful look it had at first, "I will pay attention to my words and actions."
Werther breathed a sigh of relief, followed Chalik into the study, and sat on the chair again. He stared at the other person cautiously, and said softly: "Can you tell me now, what happened on the day that the hairpin was lost?"
.”
Charlie blinked his eyes, looked at the ceiling, and began to recall: "Last night, my sister was in the room with her fiancé. I was worried, so I hid outside the door and eavesdropped."
"..." Werther narrowed his eyes and looked at him with his neck curled up, "So it's such a shameful thing. No wonder you refused to tell me just now."
"Your Highness, Lord of Daybreak Town, you are also very venomous. I already feel embarrassed, and you still insist on reminding me." Chalik closed his eyes and spread his hands.
"If you hadn't been rude to me just now, I wouldn't be so venomous. You continued talking, and what happened next."
"I really didn't expect that my sister would actually say to her fiancé that my brother is a fool!" Charlie said, suddenly frustrated, "You know, her fiancé's attitude towards me was quite respectful, but after she said bad things about me
, everything has changed, and her fiancé also called me a fool! I am really embarrassed."
"Wait a minute." Werther stopped, helplessly sweating, "I'm not asking you to tell me the conversation between the two of them. I want to know what happened to your hairpin."
Charlie paused, scratched the back of his head, and thought for a few seconds before saying: "That hairpin... I remember that I was wearing that hairpin before I took a peek. As for why I was wearing the hairpin, it was because
The death anniversary of my ancestor is coming soon, so I want to put it on in advance to avoid
The anniversary of his death was forgotten by me."
"Then what?" Werther asked.
"Then, after eavesdropping, I returned to my room and found that the hairpin was gone."
After saying that, Charlie filled his cup with coffee and drank it leisurely.
Werther was messy in the wind. Just like that, what's the difference between him and having no clues! And what's the matter with him looking so leisurely now? Where did the life-or-death look half an hour ago go?
"Is there anything else?" Werther asked with his eyes closed, holding back his anger.
"That's all I can tell you, Your Highness."
"What's the use of all this!" Werther grabbed his hair and said loudly, "Don't you feel that someone is passing by you or someone touches your hair?"
"No." Charlie shook his head.
Werther was extremely helpless, shrugging his head, looking like he was about to cry. He believed that the hairpin was a headdress that clamped the hair tightly. Charlie's hair was not long. If someone took away the hairpin, his scalp would be damaged.
There will be feelings.
It is believable that Charlie's card was stolen without his knowledge, but it was definitely not while eavesdropping outside the door! Charlie must have concealed important information, perhaps something embarrassing to him
.
I can't ask anything else about him, but I can ask the servants. Thinking of this, Werther stood up, walked to the door, and whispered: "I'm going to ask the servants about the situation. Maybe they know what happened last night."
What."
Unexpectedly, Charlie, who had been drinking coffee leisurely just now, suddenly showed a surprised expression, jumped up from his chair, hugged Werther from behind, and rubbed his tears and snot on Werther's clothes.
He wailed: "Your Highness, don't ask, please!"
"Hey, don't rub your nose on me!"
"It's okay, it's the clothes I gave you anyway."
Werther held his head helplessly and said: "If you don't want me to ask the servant, then just tell me what else happened, otherwise I won't be able to help you find the hairpin, and your taverns and hotels will always have no customers.
of."
"I said, I will say it now. However, I need to be mentally prepared." Chalik closed the study door, pushed Werther onto the chair, and sat opposite him, taking a deep breath to calm down.
Werther looked at his funny look and felt a little dumbfounded.
A few minutes later, Charlie finally told the truth.
"When I was eavesdropping outside my sister's room, I accidentally made a noise, so my brother-in-law-to-be opened the door to see what was going on. He didn't see me and thought I was a thief, so he beat me up."
"Uh, something like this happened!"
"It was so embarrassing. A servant who was cleaning nearby came to try to dissuade me, but it was useless. After my brother-in-law-to-be finished beating me, he found out that I was the owner of the manor and apologized to me. Then I returned to my room.
, then I found that the issuing card was missing.”
"So that's it. So, that is to say, when your brother-in-law-to-be hit you, your hairpin disappeared. Where was your sister at that time?"
"My sister was afraid, so she hid behind the door and watched."
"So, during this process, there were only your prospective brother-in-law and a servant nearby. They may be the ones who stole your card."
"That's right. I had the same suspicion last night, but nothing was found on them."
"This is strange." Werther lowered his head slightly and said as he thought, "When you lost your hairpin, there were only two of them around you. Logically speaking, they should have taken your hairpin in the chaos."
"I also thought that the hairpin might have fallen into a corner, but the servants and I searched almost all night and couldn't find it."
Werther was extremely confused. It didn't look like Charlie was lying. The card must have been lost. However, the person who might have stolen the card was not found on him. So where would this thing go?
At this time, he suddenly thought of a question. There were many valuable things in this manor. Are they often stolen?
"I want to know, has your manor been robbed before?"
"As far as I know, there should be no such thing."
It's strange, why didn't the thief steal the glass cups, gold plates, and high-end vases that were placed in obvious places, but instead took the small hairpin in Charlie's hair? This hairpin is not as valuable as other things, and it is inconvenient to steal, so why did the thief take it?
What about adventure?
By the way, maybe the thief is attracted by the magic power of the hairpin! In order to get this magic power, he steals!
"Charlie, who are the people in your manor who know that hairpins have magical powers?"
"It's just me, my sister and the housekeeper."
"Have you ever told this story?"
"My butler is very strict and won't tell anyone. I have only spoken to you."
Werther lowered his head and thought again. If what Charlie said is right, then the person who revealed the magic power of hairpins should be Charlie's sister. She probably wouldn't tell the servants this kind of family secret, but it is very likely that she would reveal it to her.
Fiancé! And her fiancé has the motive to steal hairpins and use magic to prosper his family.
So, this would-be brother-in-law is most likely to steal the hairpin. But why can't the hairpin be found on him? Could it be that he colluded with Charlie's sister. He took the opportunity to steal the hairpin and stuffed it into Charlie's sister's hand.
, in this way, no one can find the hairpin in his hand, and he will not be suspected.
It just so happened that he was going on vacation today. It was very likely that he returned to the villa in Xishi City under the pretext of vacation and put away the card so that his family could get better through the magic of the card.
"What's your brother-in-law's name?" Werther continued to ask.
"Krihen."
"Why did he suddenly go on vacation with your sister this morning?"
"It seems that on a whim, my sister suddenly said that it was too boring in the manor and wanted to go shopping in Peony City, so my brother-in-law-to-be accompanied her in the carriage."
"Did you notice the direction their carriage was traveling?"
"Didn't pay attention."
"I now suspect that they did not go to Shaoyao City, but maybe to the direction of Xishi City. Their destination was Crehen's villa, in order to put the hairpin he stole in the villa."
"What?" Charlie asked in shock, "Why do you think so."
Werther told his guess. Charik looked in disbelief, covering his head with his hands and closing his eyes tightly.
"Your Highness, Lord of Dawn Town, this is simply ridiculous. How could my sister betray me?"
"I'm just telling you the most likely scenario. To verify my guess, we just need to go to Creek Rock to have a look. Are you willing to go with me?"
"Since this is the only clue, then I will go with you."