We don't know why the director chose us, but it was God's favor that this opportunity fell to us. The duration of the exchange internship is only two months, but it is enough, you can see what the legendary aristocratic school is like! To do this, I asked my mother to buy me new, more expensive clothes, and Katrina pestered her father to make her a new pair of leather shoes.

But when we actually came to the Prize aristocratic school by boat, we still felt ashamed. Most of the students here are dressed in gold, and it is said that a suit of clothes can cost thousands of dollars! Compared to that, my $20 suit and Katrina's $5 shoes were naturally much inferior.

Fortunately, the students of Prize Noble School were quite enthusiastic, hugging and kissing as soon as we met, and Teacher Rosa also held a special welcome ceremony to welcome us. Soon, we became very interested in the aristocratic boys and girls here. Because they are from all over the world, there are slight differences in dress. Jason is a top student at the school, a very beautiful and decent Indian boy, very dark-skinned, very healthy, although India has now fallen to the British colony, but Jason's mother was a nobleman in India, so he can be regarded as a noble birth. Jason likes classical Chinese culture very much, can play the guzheng and sing, Katrina and I are both Chinese, the Qing government is corrupt and incompetent today, we immigrated to the United States, we are VIP students of the new detective school, and the blue-eyed little girl Candy is the granddaughter of the English general, the naughty and dancing little princess Sandy......

Jason told us that the main curriculum of the Prize aristocratic school is to learn some languages from various countries, such as English, French, Japanese, etc., and the girls also learn various aristocratic etiquette, and occasionally organize some group visits.

The Prize aristocratic school is roughly composed of four parts, a Western-style school building, a church (because most of the students here are from Western countries and profess Christianity), a dining hall and a dormitory. Most of our communication is in English, Katrina and I majored in French, and the French teacher was a beautiful woman with a high nose bridge and a tall body, her English name was Elaine, Elaine is Italian, but she likes French, otherwise, she would have chosen to teach English in Class NO.1.

Not only does Miss Elaine speak French fluently, but she also plays the violin, and her mother, Sarah, is the granddaughter of Princess Blaise, and it is said that she studied French in order to have the opportunity to study in Paris, the "capital of music". However, Miss Elaine also has a good partner in this aristocratic school, and Sandy, who likes to wear all kinds of fancy clothes and likes to dance, is a dancing genius, and dances like a playful butterfly in Miss Elaine's melodious piano sound.

Jason finally found us, and he said that everyone had been waiting in the church for a long time, and that it was Sunday, and everyone had gathered in the church.

Katrina and I looked at each other, neither of us were religious believers, but we had to change into black clothes and black shoes to go to church and sing hymns.

The Gothic church was on a grand scale, and when we hurried there, the blue-eyed girl Candy ran out with her face covered: "Dead man, dead man!" ”

We immediately realized that something had happened, and the moment we stepped into the church door, the church was terrifyingly silent, and a tall statue of Our Lady came into view, with a calm face, holding a Bible in her right hand, and Ursula, a small girl from class NO.1, lying motionless on the ground, her face as white as paper, and she was not breathing.

The old man Mona, who was in charge of guarding the Church of Our Lady, was the first to find the deceased, and after receiving the alarm, the international police also rushed as fast as possible, because the deceased Ursula was the only daughter of Mr. Law, and was extremely angry, and the police quickly cordoned off the scene.

According to the confession of the old man Mona, the time when the deceased was found was about early in the morning, and then the people who went to the church to make soaps also came, and the forensic identification results showed that the deceased was suffocated by someone covering his mouth and nose with a soft thing such as a pillow, because debris cotton was found in the mouth and nostrils of the deceased.

Katrina and I wanted to stay at the scene to investigate, but Officer Sec wouldn't allow us to do so, saying, "Classmate, you're going to destroy the scene." But when we escaped the VIP detective school, he obediently shut up.

"The deceased Ursula, a German, 17 years old, a student of Class NO.1 of the Prize Noble School, who loves horseback riding and is lively and outgoing, was forcibly suffocated to death in the church in the early morning of Sunday, May 16, the murder weapon can be tentatively set on a pillow, and the deceased fell to the ground with his front knees bent and his clothes intact. According to the old man Mona's recollection, he opened the door of the church at about six o'clock in the morning, and he didn't hear anything strange last night......"

As I spoke, Katrina was taking notes as quickly as she could.

"Old man Mona has been sleeping in the church room? Alone? ”

"Yes, a man, he also freaked out his heart, and now he is being examined by the school doctor!"

Despite Officer Sweet's attempts to stop it, the single bedroom checked the scene, and there was nothing special about the chapel except that it was more magnificent than the average church, except for the statue of the Virgin in the center.

The statue of Our Lady was holding a Bible in her right hand, and I took it down to look at it, and as soon as I turned the first page, I realized that something was wrong.

The page depicts a woman, on a horse, holding a weapon and fighting the enemy, she has a beautiful face, she looks like she is in her early twenties, wearing this battle armor, her face is calm, and what is even more strange is that there is a cinnabar mole on the woman's forehead, and she also writes English Curse with a charcoal black pen.

"How? What was found? Katrina asked me.

I handed her the Bible.

"You see, the fold is obviously not the first page of this Bible, someone deliberately pasted it, as for what it means, I don't know, this woman is wearing a battle robe, and there is Curse written on her forehead."

"That's true."

"Could the woman in this painting be the Virgin?"

"Stupid!" Katrina really showed no mercy to me, and said categorically, "Our Lady is a symbol of goodness, kindness, and peace, and the woman in this painting is on the battlefield, and it is clear that she is definitely not the Virgin." But why is she in the Bible? Curse is the English ...... for curse"

"What does a Curse and the strange woman drawn in a book say about you?" Officer Schwett deliberately asked the question, and it seems that he still doesn't want us to get involved in the case.

"First of all, we have to figure out who is the woman in this painting. Why is it in this Bible? These seemingly inconsequential questions may be the key to solving the case! Also, what does it mean that the Blessed Virgin holds up the Bible in her right hand? ”

"Perhaps, we should find a Christian to decipher the text," Officer Schvett shrugged his shoulders and made a very helpless look, "You know, I'm not a superior person, so I'm not a believer. ”

"Yay!" Katrina laughed lightly, "We're not high-class either, so we're not Christians, and we can at least read the Arabic numerals on this painting: 1857."

1857？ Probably a date! I couldn't help but ponder, and the woman in the battle uniform, with a cinnabar mole on her forehead, couldn't help blurting out - "Queen Zhangxi!" ”

"You're doing a good job in history!" Katrina complimented me: "Queen Jangsi was an outstanding patriotic leader of India in the 18th century, born Akhshmi Bhayi, born in Benares, India, in 1835. After the British and other invaders poured into India, the prince died without a son, and she became queen. Killed in a battle in 1857 at the head of the local population, Queen Jangsi has been a hero to the Indian people for more than 50 years, even though India has long since fallen into a British colony......"

So far, we have not gathered many clues, and since the deceased was the only daughter of the German Military Aircraft Department, Mr. Rouse was so grief-stricken that he decided to stop sponsoring the Prize noble school and took the headmaster to the largest court in the world.

"Listen, Miss Grace, we have to get this case closed within a month, that is, within the deadline for our internship." Katrina munched on sausage bread and slurred.

"How is this possible?" I was extremely reluctant, "Most of the people in the school at the time of the crime had alibis, and it was difficult to investigate them one by one, and we didn't have much contact with Ursula on weekdays, so where do we start?" ”

In fact, I still felt a faint uneasiness in my heart, as if behind this seemingly ordinary murder case, there was an earth-shattering international secret, of course, until there was sufficient evidence, all this was just my feeling.

"Not necessarily, didn't you find the portrait of Curse and Queen Zhangxi from that Bible yesterday? Although India was a British colony, as far as I know, India's religious beliefs are extremely complex, but most of them believe in Buddhism rather than Christianity, so it is not surprising that the portrait of Queen Zhangxi should appear in the Gothic building of the Church of Our Lady! ”

As he was talking, he suddenly saw Jason running over in a panic: "Oh no, there is another murder!" ”

Katrina spat out all the bread in her mouth: "What's going on? ”

We felt that the body had been taken away at the time of the crime, but fortunately the scene had not been destroyed. The deceased Ronoldo, the grandson of the former president of France, was also seventeen years old, a student of Class NO.1 of the Prize aristocratic school, died in the classroom on May 19, 1905, at about 12 o'clock in the afternoon, at this time most of the teachers and students of the school were eating in the cafeteria, so no one witnessed the whole incident. Ronoldo is a talented and intelligent boy, who has never relied on his family power to bully or look down on other classmates, and is deeply liked by teachers and classmates, but this time he died a terrible death, his tongue was cut in half, his body was stabbed a few times, and his eyes were wide open, as if he was dying. It is said that next to his death, there was a piece of drawing paper, on which was a portrait of Queen Zhangxi.