December 22, 1866

Today is Tom's "Head Seven".

Tom's funeral was also held today in a field on Smith's Farm.

People all over America thought that Tom was dead and couldn't die anymore.

The entire upper circle of the United States has exploded, and everyone regrets that a young talent like Tom died young because of an accident.

There are even unmasked Yankee factory owners who hold balls in memory of Tom again and again in their luxurious estates.

"Cheers, toast Tom Smith!"

"Cheers!"

"Cheers, to the God who arranged all this fate!"

"Cheers, to God."

At the ball, a group of American capital upstarts who had no worries about food and clothing lamented the impermanence and fate of life.

It's as if Tom Smith is the good brother they see every day.

In the era of no information explosion, they can only look for all the ups and downs of the world as much as possible in the boring daily life of drunken fans, so as to polish their ugly life.

The news of Tom Smith's death was nothing more than an excuse for a prom.

The upper circles are blown up, but what about the low-level employees and farmers?

They don't work one day, and the next day they wander the economic level, how can they have the leisure and elegance to lament the sudden death of a young rich man who has never been masked?

Not to mention the bottom of the Yankey area, even the bottom employees in the Smith factory area in Texas have not stopped their work.

After all, the Yankees wanted to buy a functioning Smith factory area, not a discarded complex of abandoned buildings.

The eighteen-hour daily workload still ravages every low-level employee in the world, and Tom's death has no impression on these people.

Even the shouts in Geneva in September 1866 about a ten-hour reduction in the workload did not make waves in the world, let alone the death of a capitalist.

At 3 p.m.,

Inside Smith Farm,

Tom Smith's funeral took place as scheduled.

The crowd sat around an empty coffin and listened to the prayers of the most respected priest in Texas.

The people who attended the funeral can be said to be varied:

There are core members of the Smith family; There are Texas government executives, state senators, and members of the two chambers of the House of Representatives; There are some redneck farmers who have worked with Smith, the American Society for Equal Rights, ......

Even the Yankey Task Force, the theorized killers of Tom Smith, attended the funeral on behalf of the federal government of the United States to honor the memory of the egalitarian fighter.

After the train "crashed", the train that was supposed to transport explosives, with the help of the Yankey, blew all the passengers to pieces.

The Smith family could only hold Tom is funeral with a luxurious empty coffin.

The normal funeral etiquette of the upper class in Europe and the United States, unless the death is extremely miserable, the body will be whitewashed and put into a coffin.

Then at the funeral, the coffin does not close, but the coffin board is wide open.

so that the body may be made public at the funeral for the public to pay their final respects.

The empty coffin does not have this common custom in Europe and the United States, and the closed empty coffin is behind the priest who prays for Tom's soul, quietly listening to the priest's prayers.

At the end of the priest's prayer, it is the family and friends who take turns to give the final speech.

Tom's last remaining immediate family members are traditional German Catholic women.

Devout believers, in this scene of the death of a loved one, each crying pear blossom with rain, how can they have extra strength to speak.

Even the two one- and two-year-old Tom's little nieces in their arms were infected by the atmosphere, playing with the faces of their mother and grandmother with sadness.

The two little girls hope to use this way to restore their mother and grandmother to their former appearance.

But all in vain.

None of the immediate family members are in a state of mind suitable for presentations.

On the stage, the descendants of the Smith family publicly remembered Tom and expressed their affirmation and gratitude to Tom.

Acknowledging Tom's leadership and thanking himself for the wonderful life he has brought under Tom's leadership.

Then there is the Yankee Task Force, who falsely claims that Tom Smith's death is a loss to the United States of America.

Then there are farmers, equal rights organizations, and others.

Finally, it was Loki's turn, and Loki didn't have the sadness or joy on his face like most people at the funeral.

Instead, his face was emotionless, like a J in a playing card, and he took out a thick script of speech and began to speak.

"I have investigated clearly, the explosion of explosives on the cargo compartment caused by the derailment of the train is not an accidental explosion."

"The train was torn apart by the bombing, but yesterday afternoon, my men found the locomotive's baffle."

"The locomotive's baffle didn't show any signs of a collision at all."

"Even a few trees blocking the railroad tracks have been carbonized by the fire caused by the explosion."

"I can still see that the cut surface at the base of the tree is extremely smooth and neat."

"All the above evidence shows that this accident is not an accident."

"It's a man-made event."

"Hiss~"

As soon as these words came out, all the guests in the audience stopped breathing and gasped.

There were no fools in the audience, and they all knew what Loki meant by saying this at this point in time?

There is a good chance that Loki has conclusive evidence of who caused the "accident".

Loki ignored the gasps from the audience, and continued to speak in an angry, chilling tone.

"John, you traitor!"

"It's you and Yankew, who killed Big Tom!"

As soon as the words ended, all the guests looked at John and the Yankee who came to cry rats.

Before everyone could look back at Loki, Loki began to recount his speculation:

"When Big Brother Tom was in Austin, you were the only one who knew Big Tom's travel route."

"The most important basis is that on the third day after Big Tom's death, you took those hateful Yankees and forced Aunt Penny to sign an agreement to break up the Smith Company and sell its shares."

"You're doing all this to carve up the Smith Company that Big Brother Tom has worked so hard to build up with the Yankees!"

Everyone began to follow Loki's train of thought and unfolded their own speculations.

It was indeed a coincidence that Tom died on the front foot, and Tom, the sole owner of the company, had no offspring.

Tom's company was supposed to be inherited by his only two adult relatives, Tom's mother and sister.

Then John, as the man who had been working in the vineyard with these men in the first place, had a natural affinity.

Several mud legs who have just come from Bavaria, Germany, unexpectedly obtained a sky-high inheritance.

It is also reasonable to be manipulated by John, an ambitious man, to sign the documents for the sale of the inheritance.

Everyone suddenly realized that the truth might be what Loki had speculated, and that John Mueller was the murderer of Tom Smith!

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