In the King's Castle, in Barry's office, Karasuma Squatted next to the small rug in the middle of the room, and reached out to touch the dark red area in the middle of the rug.

There was a cold, damp touch on her fingers, and Karasuma withdrew her hand, her fingers stained with some faint dark red liquid.

Leaning over to the tip of his nose and sniffing it, and rubbing his fingertips again, Karasuma Ying finally came to a conclusion.

The dark red on the carpet is human blood, and it is also human blood that has been mixed with a large amount of water and can no longer coagulate on its own.

Karasuma Ying pinched the corner of the blanket and lifted it, rubbing her other hand vigorously on the floor under the blanket and on the floor outside the blanket.

[The proportion of dust outside and under the blanket is basically the same......]

Looking at the almost identical dust stains on both fingers, Karasuma stood up and turned to look at Hans behind her, who was in the doorway.

"Mr. Hans, how long has this carpet been in Chief Barry's office?"

"Ah, I don't know much about this, after all, I belong to the guard, and I rarely see Chief Barry on weekdays, and this is the first time I've been to his office today......" Hans replied with a smile.

The Kingdom Police and Guards of the Andrew Kingdom are two completely different departments, and because the relationship between the two supreme officers, Barry and Birune, has always been bad, so the relationship between the two departments is not harmonious.

"Oh, yes......"

Suddenly thinking of something, Hans reached out and dragged in the guards standing outside the door, and asked, "I ask you, how long has this carpet been in Chief Barry's room?" ”

"Well, back to Captain Hans, I don't know about that......" The soldier replied with a shake of his head.

"On weekdays, Chief Bally's office is not guarded, and we are not allowed to enter ......"

"How often is the room cleaned?" Karasuma asked.

"The bedrooms of the royal family or other nobles in the king's castle will be cleaned by maids every day, but if it is a special room like the office of the chief of Barry, it is usually cleaned only once a month, and the last time it was cleaned was more than half a month ago......

"More than half a month?"

Listening to the soldier's answer, Karasuma looked at the carpet in the middle of the room again.

This carpet does not belong in this office.

The reason is very simple, the last time this office was cleaned was half a month ago, if this carpet has really been placed in this office all the time, the dust stains under and outside the carpet cannot be so even.

In other words, this blood-stained carpet, which looks a little abrupt, is likely to have been temporarily moved to this office by someone.

"Mr. Hans, can you take me to meet the maid who first discovered the body of Chief Barry?" Karasuma Ying asked, looking at Hans.

She had basically gathered the clues in this office, and she even had a rough idea of how Barry was killed, and his motive for doing so.

Thinking about it, Barry's murder today was not without warning, he suddenly called out to her yesterday, not only told her a bunch of inexplicable words, but even deliberately told her the secret of Andrew's royal secret treasure azure sapphire through some hints.

At that time, Barry's behavior was actually a little abnormal, but Karasuma Ying was shocked by the secret of the blue sapphire at that time, so she didn't notice it......

Sighing softly, Karasuma followed Hans to a maid's lounge in the castle, where two guards were also standing in front of the door.

At this time, there were more than twenty young maid ladies in maid costumes sitting in the lounge, all of whom were ordered to return to the lounge to stand by after the royal brother Preben ordered martial law at the king's castle.

Hans opened the door to the lounge and shouted to one of the young maids inside.

"Esther, come here."

"Yes, yes!"

Somewhat nervous, the maid named Esther quickly got up after being named, and went out into the corridor under the worried eyes of her companions.

"Please, may I ask what's the matter? Captain Hans? Because Hans was in English, she asked in English as well.

"You were the first to find Chief Barry's body this morning?"

"Yes, yes."

"What was the situation?" Karasuma asked.

Esther glanced up at Karasuma Ying, then quickly lowered her head and replied, "At that time, I just wanted to prune the big tree in the corner of the central courtyard as usual, and then, and then I saw the body of Chief Barry under the tree......"

"Did anything strange happen around that neighborhood before that? Or have you ever heard any strange sounds? ”

"No, everything was normal in the courtyard at that time, I just walked over normally, and then I saw Chief Barry......" Karasuma Ying's voice was very calm, which gradually calmed down the maid who was originally a little nervous.

Hearing this, Karasuma Ying lowered her head in contemplation.

Something was wrong, and she speculated that someone in the murder of Barry was trying to cover up and distort the truth about his death, and that person did just that, as evidenced by the bloodstained carpet in Barry's office.

Thinking like this, she changed her angle of inquiry.

"Did anything unusual happen in the King's Castle this morning?" Karasuma asked again.

"Something unusual?" Esther didn't seem to understand her question.

"Anything goes, like something that didn't happen on a regular day, but happened today......

"Well, something that doesn't happen on a normal day......"

Hearing this, Esther held her face and tried to think about it for a while, before she raised her head again and asked tentatively:

"Steward Ou Lei let us not take care of the flowers and plants in the courtyard this morning, can this be counted......"

"Steward Oulei?" Remembering the handsome young blond man for a moment, Karasuma asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"When I was pruning the flowers and plants in the courtyard this morning, I was seen by the Ou Lei steward who happened to pass by the courtyard, and then the Ou Lei steward told me that I don't need to prune the flowers and plants in the courtyard this morning, so that I can go back to rest......

"But you didn't go back?"

"Yes, because if there is any change in the arrangement of these tasks on weekdays, we will generally be notified in advance.

But this morning the steward of Ou Lei only said this to me as he passed by, and I was a little uneasy, so I went to ask the head maid.

It was the head maid who told me she hadn't received a similar notice this morning, so I went back to work......" Esther explained in detail.

"Butler Oulei......" His eyes narrowed slightly, and Karasuma Ying continued to ask, "Do you know where he was going?" ”

Chapter 2 is a little later

(End of chapter)