"So, Sister Lan, let's go. In front of the hotel, Cook stopped a taxi, turned around and smiled at Highlander behind him.

Highlandoa nodded, and with graceful steps, got into the car with Cook.

"Is it really good to leave Lisa alone in the hotel? Highlando covered her mouth and chuckled, her words revealing a deep sense of schadenfreude.

Cook sighed helplessly, what could he do, this time he went to Anthony's Distillery to investigate, what if there was any danger?

"I can only listen to her complaining. Cook spread his hands and shrugged his shoulders, revealing a gesture of indifference, in fact, he was still a little apprehensive.

"Master, trouble going to Anthony's Distillery. Cook fastened his seatbelt and said to the driver.

"Huh?" the driver muttered in a puzzled voice, "Does anyone still go to that broken brewery now?"

However, because the driver's voice was too quiet, and Cook was being teased by Highlando, neither of them noticed the driver's muttering.

Stepping on the accelerator, the car kicked up a puff of wind and dust and drove quickly towards its destination.

I have to say that this winery is really in a very remote place, and it took half an hour for Cook and Highlandoto to finally reach their destination.

"Ahem!" Hylando covered her nose and mouth, her eyes half-open, and her other hand danced in front of her mouth.

"It's so shabby, it's dusty everywhere. ”

Listening to Highland's depressed complaints, Cook smiled bitterly, he didn't expect this place to be so dilapidated, it was completely an abandoned winery!

Gently pushing open a dilapidated wooden door, the billowing dust on their faces made Cook and Highlando's two take several steps back.

"No, I'll look elsewhere, I can't stand it here. Hylando quickly surrendered, waved his hand to disperse the dust around him, and walked away quickly.

After a slight hesitation and struggle, Cook gritted his teeth and rushed into the dilapidated room covered in ashes and cobwebs.

Turning on his flashlight, Cook slowly searched the room.

Under the curtains, under the carpet, and in the chests of drawers, Cook scanned them all, but the biggest catch was a frightened crustacean worm.

The coiled body of the long insect suddenly stretched out due to fright, and the carapace on its body quickly fell off, revealing its wet maggot-like body, which moved and wriggled on the ground with all its might, leaving behind a line of white and green foul-smelling body fluids.

Tsk! There was a look of disgust and disgust in Cook's eyes, he didn't want to stay here any longer, so he pinched his nose and turned around and left the room.

Cook had just left the room when a tattered curtain slammed down on Cook. Frowning, Cook looked up and saw that above the door of this room, there was a square cabinet like a storage room, which had been covered by a curtain before, so Cook and Highlando's two did not notice it.

"You'll have to find a staircase to go up. Cook said with his hands on his chest, looking at the cabinet and feeling a little depressed.

However, where will the stairs be is still a big question. Even if there were, would the stairs in this winery, which had been abandoned for many years, really still be usable?

"Hmm......" Cook thought for a moment, then as if he had thought of something, he took the ice flower from his waist and a number of football-sized stones from his surroundings.

Pile some stones in front of the door, use ice bombs to firmly condense them together to form a huge ice platform, and then pile some stones on top of the ice platform to continue to condense...... In just a few minutes, a rudimentary ice ladder suddenly formed.

Cook used the ice ladder to get to the door of the cabinet, which was so narrow that Cook could barely squeeze in by lying on the wooden planks of the cabinet.

When I turned on the flashlight, I found that there were a lot of miscellaneous items placed in it, and when I looked at them one by one, most of them were some discarded furniture and toys used by babies.

However, there were unexpected discoveries, and Cook soon found a thick stack of photo albums among the pile.

Curious, Cook slowly opened the stack of albums, but only the first page made Cook's pupils shrink, and he looked at the figure in the photo in disbelief.

It was a sunny and gentle young man, who was none other than Jared, who had just been executed a few days ago.

Why is Jared's picture here? Cook only felt his heart beating and contracting rhythmically, and the feeling of suffocation in his chest made him breathless.

The sweat on his forehead fell on the photo, and Cook swallowed hard and flipped through the next photo.

It was a very haggard looking woman, judging from her face alone, she was at most in her thirties, but she was wearing a hospital gown, sitting on a hospital bed, and a thin needle for infusion was still inserted in the back of her right hand, but the woman seemed to care about this, and was smiling and waving to the camera.

After staring at the woman in the photo for a long time, Cook finally determined that he had never seen this woman, neither in the Dragon Circus nor among the puppets.

Continuing to turn the next page, he saw a beautiful girl about fifteen or sixteen years old, the girl's small face shape and perfect facial features doomed her to be a pampered young girl wherever she went. It is worth mentioning that the girl was holding an immature boy with a disgusted face at this time, although he was much younger, but Cook still saw that the boy was Jared.

"What is this?" Cook scratched his head in annoyance, wondering why the pictures were intended.

Continuing to flip through the pages, Cook's expression became more and more serious and confused, because all the photos after this were burned in half, leaving only the lower part of the person's body.

"What's going on?" muttered Cook, puzzled, if there were only three complete photos?

If that's a picture of Jared's mother and sister, then where is his father's picture? Why not leave a picture of his father?

With such doubts, Cook quickly flipped through the album, and his pupils began to flutter slowly as the album twitched.

After a long time, Cook's rapidly flapping hands stopped, for he had reached the last page of the album, where there was still the last complete photo, a family photo.

Cook also finally witnessed the full picture of Jared's father, and like Jared, he had a face that gave people a gentle and elegant feeling just by looking at it, coupled with a neat suit, full of the atmosphere of a successful person.

Rolling his eyes slightly, his gaze slowly moving downward, Cook stared at the lower right corner of the photo for a long time, where there was a small cluster of blackened flames, which should have been made by Jared.

Slowly closing the album, an inexplicable heavy depression filled Cook's heart, and with this album, Cook left the cabinet.

Although it is just a few simple photos, it seems to tell a sad and sad story, and Cook has only now realized that the Jerred he knows is more complex than he imagined.

Da, da, da......

A very rhythmic crisp sound of high heels, accompanied by a faint fragrance, Highlando, holding a notebook in her hand, slowly came to Cook's side.

"Alright, today's investigation is over, let's go back. Highlando, tapping the note lightly on Cook's head, said to Cook as if comforting.

Cook reached out and took the note from his head, his fingertips rubbing slightly against the note, a little sad, and a little relieved with a smile and nodded.

……

On March 27, 355 Empire, Dad's winery was doing a good job, and he took the family out for a good meal.

On June 8, 356 Imperial, my mother was admitted to the hospital with a severe relapse, but because my father was there, my mother's illness would definitely be cured.

After turning the first two pages and taking a few brief glances, the general content can be condensed to this point.

Frowning in confusion, Cook turned the next page, but unexpectedly found that like the album, there were many omissions in the notes, and many pages were artificially torn up.

It's like denying those happy times in the past, and the content of the diary after that suddenly became surprisingly heavy.

Papa's distillery suddenly closes down, and Mom's treatment is interrupted.

Dad went to borrow a loan shark and scraped together a sum of money for Mom, and Mom was finally saved again.

The creditor found my father, and in order to pay off the debt, my father used my sister and I to rob behind my back.

Dad was made a wanted criminal by the Lysin Academy, and in the process of escaping, Dad was shot and killed by John.

Why? Did Dad already commit a capital crime? Why did he shoot Daddy?

Mom died today, too.

John is going to die, Hanlaus is going to die, they're the ones who killed Daddy, they're going to kill Mom!

……

The rest, with the exception of a few pages full of dead words, was all blank.

Jared's father was shot by John? No way! It's just robbery, and according to the criminal law of the Empire, it's not punishable by death! What the hell is going on?

And who is Hanlaus? Is that the creditor?

A series of questions rushed into Cook's mind, and he finally understood what Jared's hatred was, but it brought more confusion.

Could John, as the Dean of the Branches, not understand the Imperial Penal Code? That is absolutely impossible, so why would John shoot Jared's father?

Was it manslaughter? Cook's eyes suddenly crossed a cold glint, no matter what, he must go and ask John tomorrow!