Chapter 34 The Truth About the Axe Family (Part 2)
Jiang You blinked blankly. Of course, she didn't actually have eyelids, so the only thing she showed was that her pupils flickered. "I didn't see it~"
Jericho handed her so much information! She just followed her curiosity and picked out a few pages to read. She had no interest in gory stuff like autopsy reports.
However, Jiang You pondered Andrei's words again and said suspiciously, "...Wait! Why do I feel like you showed these things to me on purpose?"
Why did she feel like a student being questioned by a teacher? She was neither a student nor a detective, just a skeleton making soy sauce!
Andrei flashed his enigmatic, slightly rogue grin again. He didn't give a direct answer, but simply said, "If you read the autopsy report, you'd know there wasn't a smoked chicken sandwich in Holland's stomach. Instead, there was a pile of seasonal fruits, which happened to be grown in these very woods. He enjoyed these delicacies in these woods until shortly before his death."
Peramin didn't go looking for Holland. After washing the cream of mushroom soup off her body, she hung out with Whipson for a while before heading to the dining room for dinner. She was late because she had gone to the kitchen to drug her sister's sweet soup.
After dinner, Peramin and Whipson each returned to their own rooms. They had to wait for the servants to return to their rooms and for the potion in Peramin's sweet soup to take effect before they could continue their private meeting. However, at around nine o'clock in the evening, Whipson discovered something unusual.
The servants fell into a deep sleep and no one answered Holly's calls.
He didn't have time to think about what went wrong, he just hurried downstairs to get the magic dish. The harvest of nightshade flowers was extremely important to his family, even if he was an idle and carefree playboy, he would not go to such lengths to get rid of his wallet.
Of course, it was not until he was halfway there that he thought that the servants might have drunk his wife's sweet soup by mistake, and his rare diligence could successfully make up for the servants' mistake of falling asleep. He immediately decided not to appear in front of Holly, so that his nephew would think that it was a servant who brought the magic dish.
He knew that Holly was a careless person who only cared about plants, and he would not go to the servants to confirm the next day... In this way, the drugging incident could be easily covered up.
However, when he was leaving after delivering the magic dish, he found that Peramine had also come out.
Pearlamine, who had been waiting for a date in the evening, saw Whipson hurriedly leave the mansion and mistakenly thought that he was going to change places, so she followed him out.
Whipson thought again, Holly would not leave the greenhouse, and everyone else was sleeping in the mansion. The empty botanical garden was a good date place, not to mention that there was no moonlight tonight, and no one would discover them.
He didn't know that his wife didn't drink the sweet soup with medicine. He just thought that the greedy servants drank the extra part in the pot. He also didn't realize that Peramin didn't watch Holland go to bed that night, and his half-brother was still wandering in the woods late at night!
"Holland must have been tired of playing and wanted to return to the house, but it was a double moon that night, with no moonlight. The botanical gardens were also dark, and he couldn't find his way around," Andre said. "Just then, he heard the voices of his second brother and Peramin. He excitedly went forward, but instead witnessed a family scandal."
The young boy might not have understood what was happening, but he was used to being a bully, with a loud voice and a big mouth, and he pulled Whipson and Peramin and yelled that they wanted to join their "game." Whipson panicked and pulled the herbal knife from the sheath tied to his leg and stabbed his brother directly in the heart.
All the Haff people working in the botanical gardens had the habit of strapping herbal knives to their calves, allowing them to immediately remove any rare herbs or overgrown weeds they found while working. Whipson, though a lazy fellow, had been forced to do so by his father since he was a child, and it had long since become a habit.
After Whipson stabbed the man, he realized that he had killed his brother, and he and Peramin hurried back to the house through the back door. Both of them were covered in blood. They used the last bucket of hot water that the servants had boiled in the afternoon to wash off the blood stains on their bodies, and then stuffed the bloodstained clothes into the stove and burned them to ashes.
They had been busy for most of the night, and were so busy with their own affairs that they naturally did not notice that Pertmin had also secretly come down from the tower, left through the main gate, and went around to the botanical garden.
"I saw them running back frantically from the tower, as if they were being chased by ghosts," Pertmin admitted. "Even though there was no moonlight, I could still recognize those two familiar figures even if they were turned into ash. I was curious about what was going on, so I sneaked downstairs to check. When I saw them covered in blood, I realized something was wrong."
She took an oil lamp and followed the way they came, and found Holland lying dead in a pool of blood.
"In that moment, I thought a lot," Pertmin said. "I could turn around and let it go, letting Whipson and Pertmin pay for their crimes, but that would mean I'd live in shame and ridicule for the rest of my life. People would say, 'Look, there's that beautiful woman, but her beauty couldn't keep her husband! And her sister! Such a shame! How could she do that!'"
She imitated the gossipers in the market perfectly, then spat on the ground. "No, I reject such a future! Although Holland's experience is very unfortunate, I still see this as an opportunity! An opportunity to squeeze Holly out of the game."
She acted decisively and secretly returned to the mansion to get a new set of clothes for Holland. She wiped the blood off Holland's body, erased all the marks on the knife, changed Holland into new clothes, and stabbed the knife back.
"I've heard that the Kingdom's Knights possess a variety of special magics that can track criminals through the bloodstains, weapons, and stains left at crime scenes. I can't leave Holly's mark on Holland, but I can erase the mark on Holland. Throughout the entire process, I was also very careful not to leave any traces of my own."
"Why put Holland in the flower bed?" Andre asked the last question.
"I packed up everything and wanted to lure the Kingdom Knights away from the real scene." Perlamin sighed. "I once thought about putting the body in the greenhouse, but when I was about to do it, I softened my heart. Holland is a good child, but I am not a good sister-in-law. If I hadn't promised my family to bring Perlamin into this family, perhaps all the tragedies would not have happened.
"So I put him in the flower bed, like a funeral. He was wearing clean clothes, sleeping among the flowers, with a peaceful smile on his face..."
"Of course," she said, forcing a sinister smile, "I'd also love to see the faces of Peramin and Whipson when they're terrified by the corpse the next morning!"
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