Chapter 110
The mistress of the manor kept apologizing and scolding the maids for being too careless, saying that if the ring was swallowed, there would be serious consequences.
The woman turned the ring around and saw two names engraved in cursive script inside. One of them belonged to Mr. John, who had introduced them to the house today.
This is Mr. John's ring. How did it get in the food?
The woman was confused, but she looked at her child first, raised her eyebrows, and asked with her mouth: "Are you lying?"
The little boy cried and shook his head.
The woman hesitated for a moment, then looked back at the mess on the table. Because of the embarrassing behavior the two of them had just done, the meat on the table was no longer what it had been at the beginning.
The woman coughed lightly: "This seems to be... Mr. John's ring..."
"Really?" The mistress of the manor stopped lecturing the maid and looked at her. "Maybe John left it here. I will remind him tomorrow."
This is a bit unreasonable. The two middlemen took their family to the manor, and after entering the castle, they didn't stay there for long. They told them to look around the house by themselves and didn't want to disturb them anymore, so they left the castle.
They didn't stay in the castle for long, so how could the ring be left in the food? Unless he often went in and out of the castle besides showing houses.
After all, there are many beautiful maids and a beautiful hostess here.
That makes some sense.
The woman felt her thoughts uncontrollably turning to some not-so-good things, and these thoughts were an insult to this ancient family.
She nodded and handed the ring to a maid: "It looks like a wedding ring. Mr. John must be very anxious when he finds out that the ring is lost. Return it to him quickly."
The maid responded and walked into the kitchen carefully carrying the ring.
Once out of the family's sight, she threw the ring into the trash can with an expressionless face.
She called several other maids to the kitchen and kept making strange noises, as if she was scolding others.
In the restaurant, the mistress of the manor put down her cutlery, wiped her lips, and asked the maids to take out a contract: "I wonder if you are satisfied with this manor?"
Although the manor is a bit old, it is large and cheap. With a little effort, it will soon become magnificent.
All of this was in line with and even exceeded the couple's expectations.
Upon seeing this, the mistress of the manor asked her maid to hand the contract to them.
The woman took the contract and was a little surprised: "Are you going to sign it now? Don't you need an intermediary to notarize it?"
"No, it's not necessary now." The lady of the manor smiled even more. "They and I are old acquaintances. After the transaction is completed, I will give them the promised reward. Together with the ring that John lost."
The woman nodded and stopped asking about the two middlemen. Instead, she opened the contract and looked at it carefully.
The contract initially stated the amount that the family had to pay to buy the manor, requiring them to pay within three days of signing the contract, and the Vincent family would provide them with the right to use the grounds of the manor. Unless the structure of the building was incomplete and habitability was at risk, they were not allowed to demolish the castle.
The woman felt that these were not a big deal and continued to look forward.
The contract also requires that the number of people living in the castle must not be less than ten, and that no less than one hundred people must be invited to the manor to attend parties every year. There is no limit to the form of the party and the identity of the invitees.
The woman felt a little strange and looked at the mistress of the manor with an inquiring look: "Why... why do we have to limit the number of people living there and the number of gatherings?"
The lady of the manor smiled and replied, "Because the Vincent family is a family that values honor. Although we are forced to leave here, we still hope that our manor can continue to be as lively as before. If we did not have requirements for the new residents, we would not have promised such a low price."
The story that the mistress of the manor had told the woman before also expressed a lot about their family's concern for respectability and the views of the neighbors. The woman understood it very well.
Moreover, living in such a large manor, it would be strange not to invite relatives and neighbors to hold parties, right?
The lady of the manor pointed and emphasized, "This contract is binding. If you fail to do any of the above points - for example, we agreed to invite at least 100 people every year, but you don't invite enough people - it will be considered a breach of contract and you will need to accept the punishment. I'm telling you now, once you sign it, it will be considered as informed consent and you cannot regret it."
The woman hesitated with the pen in her hand, but decided to ask first: "What is the penalty for breach of contract?"
The smile on the face of the lady of the manor seemed meaningful: "It depends on the situation."
She added: "But it's not difficult because we have no restrictions on who can be invited. If you want to hold a charity dinner here and invite all the homeless people in the neighborhood, that's fine. We only require a hundred people to be invited a year, that's all."
The woman asked again about the rule that no less than ten people should be settled here, and learned that as long as enough people are found within a month, hiring servants to settle here will also count.
But if someone leaves for some reason and there are fewer than ten people living in the manor, new people must be added.
It would be eerie to have only their family of four living in such a large manor castle, and they would not be able to manage the place properly, so the hostess thought there was nothing wrong with these requests.
After asking a few more cautious questions, the woman signed the contract without hesitation.
The lady of the manor took back the signed contract, looked at it and seemed very satisfied, smiling happily: "You have signed it, and this contract is binding. So when do you want us to move out?"
The woman hesitated. "The sooner the better."
She originally thought that the migration of the entire family might take a long time, but the mistress of the manor said readily: "Then we will leave tomorrow."
Yu Leng, Kou Man, Wei Xiao Yan and the other two were originally searching on the upper floors, but later when the maids came up to clean, they had to stop and find a place to hide.
Fortunately, new visitors arrived soon and the maids did not deliberately make things difficult for them. They just walked around a few times and then left.
The three of them also slowly went downstairs, wanting to find Lu Jiamu and the others first, but they didn't find them.
While they were hiding in the darkness on the second floor, they listened to the noise coming from the restaurant downstairs and felt something was not right. They were trying to observe whether the three people had been killed.
But it looked like it was someone else.
Yu Leng heaved a sigh of relief and retracted his head: "It's good to eat the ring, at least I didn't eat the finger."
Wei Xiaoyan whispered to him, "Maybe they had eaten it, but they just suddenly lost their minds, so they didn't notice it."
That makes sense.
The moment the mistress of the manor closed the contract, a text prompt appeared in front of the three people again: [The aboveground part of Vincennes Castle has a new owner. If it is discovered by the new owner's family, it will be considered as illegal trespassing.]
As soon as the text prompt appeared, Yu Leng immediately grasped the key words: "The new owner of the above-ground part? Is there also an underground part?"
At this time, the two people in the underground space also received this text prompt.
It seems that even though the manor has been sold, they cannot walk around it freely and have to hide from that family.
However, the good thing about such a big castle is that it is impossible for the owner and his family to take care of every corner. As long as it is hidden well enough, it may not be discovered for a long time.
Lu Jiamu had already climbed to the sunken area below and began to feel around carefully.
Johnny waited for a moment and finally climbed down.
Before the two of them had even turned halfway through the space below, the crystal chandelier above their heads suddenly lit up, but the light was red. The fragmented red light dotted the environment, but did not make the surroundings clearer.
Although he didn't know what was going on, Lu Jiamu still dragged Johnny into the next room.
The huge monster outside began to wriggle again, and the thin tendrils spreading into the air began to shrink.
There was a slight vibration on the ground.
Lu Jiamu leaned over to the door and listened carefully for a moment. He figured out that the source of the sound was not the movement of monsters, nor was it an earthquake: "It's the elevator."
But Johnny didn't respond. He didn't stick to the door, but walked into the room and said tremblingly: "Lu, did we... go into the wrong room?"
Lu Jiamu turned around and looked at him: "What's wrong?"
"I just touched it..." Johnny tentatively turned on the flashlight and shone it into the room.
There were several rows of people standing densely in the room, all staring at them.
Johnny's breath got stuck in his throat. But after seeing the black-haired girl before, Johnny was prepared to see so many people suddenly.
He soon realized that it wasn't a group of people who discovered the two of them, but rather a group of corpses were placed in the room.
There was a soft "ding" sound from outside, indicating that the elevator had reached the underground floor. This was followed by the sound of footsteps heading straight towards them.
Lu Jiamu immediately ran towards the neatly arranged corpses, and Johnny, without his reminder, also dived into the pile of corpses.
In this room, you don't have to find a corner where no one can see you. The best place to hide is among these corpses.
The two men imitated the neatly arranged corpses and stood straight. Johnny took a deep breath, feeling a little uneasy: "What if they find us?"
"What do you think?"
The two people did not continue to communicate, and the door of the room was pushed open.
A group of maids walked in one after another with dull eyes, seemingly turning a blind eye to the group of monsters outside.
They walked into the room, stood in an orderly line, and then stopped moving.
Lu Jiamu noticed that when the maids stood up, thin red whiskers appeared on their bodies. After these whiskers faded, they became completely quiet. As if they were dead, they didn't even blink, and it seemed that they didn't notice the two people.
Seeing this scene, Lu Jiamu already had a guess.
They did not walk into the room and stand in line by themselves, but were neatly stacked into the room like toys.
After all the maids entered the room and lined up neatly, the door was closed from the outside and the room was dead silent.
After waiting for a while and seeing that no one was coming in, Johnny plucked up the courage to reach out and poke the maid in front of him. She staggered, and Johnny immediately held her up, but the maid didn't react at all.
Johnny seemed to understand something: "So, the Vincents are all masters of magic tricks with puppets?"
"Well." Lu Jiamu asked, "Do you know deep-sea monkfish?"
"I don't know. I don't live by the sea."
"It's a very ugly fish that hides in the deep sea. It can emit light on its back, and use the light spots to attract other fish and then eat them. Do you think it sounds like the Vincent family?"
Johnny agreed: "If you mean ugly, I think he looks alike."
"I mean this is a common trick used by predators. For example, the tongue of the alligator turtle is like a worm, and it will attract fish to eat it by wriggling." Lu Jiamu shook his head. "The monsters in the Vincent family may have evolved similar abilities. They build secret castles underground and manipulate prosthetic puppets to go to the surface. They use some reasons to attract living people to live in, and then let the living people recruit more living people to fill the castle so that they can slowly eat them. For example, they sell the manor at a low price."
This would explain why when they hid in the room, the maids seemed to know where they were hiding as soon as they came in. Because the maids and the manor owners left on the ground by the monsters were all dummies, and their real bodies were under the manor, watching the entire manor in some way.
The two men carefully squeezed past the neatly stacked corpses and squeezed to the door to look outside.
The huge monster had already broken apart into several pieces, each one the size of a human, and they were moving around the hall busily as if they had no bones. The thin whiskers that stretched into the air had also shrunk a lot.
Several monsters dragged a corpse out from somewhere and slowly dragged it into the kitchen. Some of them went to get bottled liquid that seemed to be red wine.
An hour later, the number of maids walking back and forth on the grounds of the castle decreased a lot. The mistress of the manor chatted with them for a while and then asked them to choose a room to rest early.
The little boy who had just eaten the ring had barely stopped crying. The two children were very quiet and allowed the woman to lead them upstairs obediently.
In the past, these two naughty kids were very noisy, difficult to discipline, and always did impolite things, but for some reason, they became quiet after entering the manor today.
Although the woman felt strange, she thought it was a good thing that the naughty child had calmed down.
After settling the children, she returned to her husband and excitedly discussed who to invite to the party after the castle was ready.
The man smiled as she continued to plan and just said, "Before that, we should hire some people to help us."
In line with the principle of keeping wealth within the family, the woman immediately named several of her distant poor relatives and sent messages to those she could still contact, informing them that she had bought a very nice manor and hoped they could come and help as soon as possible.
In the underground castle, all the monsters separated from the big mass.
The elevator started moving again, making a slight resonant sound, and then with a "ding" sound, it arrived at the current floor.
Someone got off the elevator, walked straight to the room where the two people were hiding, and opened the door.
This time, it was led by the master and mistress of the manor, along with another group of maids.
The hostess still had that stiff smile on her face. The thin red whiskers on her head moved, and her somewhat dull eyes turned around, as if she was still looking at something.
Although the two of them squeezed into the pile of corpses and stood up straight as soon as they heard the elevator sound, Johnny was still very scared when he saw her rolling his eyes, worried that she could recognize the unfamiliar faces mixed in.
The red whiskers pulled her forward, and she walked in little by little, standing in a neat line before withdrawing. But these whiskers did not leave immediately, but floated through the rows of corpses, as if reaching in to feel for something.
The two of them immediately opened their eyes and held their breath.
The thin whisker slowly moved in front of them, but it seemed that its vision was limited. After a pause, it passed between them and explored further inside.
After a moment, it seemed to find nothing and retracted.
The other "people" had also lined up and stood in line, and Xixu had left the room and closed the door.
Lu Jiamu's lungs were already exhausted, and when he saw them leave, he immediately took a small breath. Johnny's face had turned red, and he opened his mouth to gasp for air.
After resting for a while, Lu Jiamu started to squeeze out again, and he squeezed all the way to the door and looked out through the crack.
I saw the monsters outside crawling slowly towards the long dining table and "sitting" on the high-back chairs, as if they were about to start eating.
At this time, the monster that dragged the corpse into the kitchen had finished processing it and crawled out pushing a food cart full of meat.
The monster who went to get the wine opened the bottle and poured wine into the glasses of the other monsters in turn from the top.
The monsters stretched out their tentacles to wrap around the wine glasses, raised them up and clinked them against each other, muttering something indistinctly, and holding their own dinner party.
Lu Jiamu noticed that the monster sitting at the top was holding a scepter in its tentacle, and there seemed to be a ruby inlaid on the top of the scepter.
However, because the light from the crystal chandelier was also red and had been refracted, Lu Jiamu was not sure if he had seen it wrong, so he asked Johnny to take a closer look. Johnny also thought it was a ruby.
Now that the monsters are numerous and powerful, Lu Jiamu does not intend to act rashly and cause trouble.
But being trapped in this house all the time is not good. The monsters have placed these bodies here, which means they will definitely come back to take them later. I didn't encounter them just now, but that was just now. If I take them later, I will find them.
Seeing that the group of monsters were just eating there and there was nothing interesting to see, Lu Jiamu walked back to the manor host and hostess and started to explore.
They just came down in the elevator, so the key to open the elevator must be on these corpses.
Lu Jiamu successfully took out a key from the pocket of the man of the manor, but he was not satisfied yet, and began to search the corpses placed on the side of the room one by one.
In the end, he found three keys in total.
Johnny saw his behavior and asked, "Aren't the three keys different?"
"No, they are the same." Lu Jiamu thought it was strange that he asked this question. After carefully comparing the three keys, he answered, "But if you want to steal the keys, you must steal all of them."
On the ground, as the people in the manor left, the other three people had already taken action in secret.
They were on a high floor before, so they only knew that someone seemed to have come to see the house, but they didn't know that two agents had been killed. So they went to the kitchen first to check who had been eaten.
The kitchen had been cleaned up, and there were no large bones to be found. In the end, the three people just found the ring in the trash can. After looking at the two names inside, they threw it back into the trash can for fear of being discovered.
After the two teams got separated, they returned to the lower floors and searched for a long time but couldn't find anyone. Even though everyone in the manor was asleep, they still didn't show up. They had already guessed that if the other three people had not been killed, they were either outside the castle or had gone to an area outside the ground.
After discussing for a while, the three of them decided not to continue searching in the castle, but quietly opened the door and walked out.
As soon as they got outside, Yu Leng shivered and said directly: "Why is it so cold outside? They definitely can't spend the night outside."
But they had searched the first floor of the castle several times and found no stairs or secret passages leading underground. If it was underground, how did they get down?
The three men wrapped their clothes tightly and walked along the outer wall of the castle, searching carefully inch by inch, and finally found the window of the semi-basement.
The three people were frozen after walking around outside. After seeing the window, they thought for a moment and went in one by one.
There was a faint dark red light coming from the front in the semi-basement, but it was useless for lighting.
A moment later, Coleman, who was walking in front, bumped into something in the dark, and the object bounced back and hit her in the face.
Coleman stopped and said, "I seem to have... bumped into something."
Yu Leng asked: "What?"
Coleman said hesitantly, "One person."
The three of them didn't have flashlights, so they couldn't see what was happening in front of them. Coleman could only feel the person in front of him up and down little by little, and whispered information such as "long hair", "female", "about 1.6 meters tall" based on his sense of touch.
As he touched it, Coleman gradually fell silent.
Before this, she had had close contact with the black-haired girl several times in order to help her and understood her general body shape.
Coleman tried to pull the person in front of him up, but felt that the person was firmly stuck to the ground: "Is this the girl?"
The black-haired girl has been killed here, which means that there is some unknown danger in this semi-basement, and the other two people must be found quickly.
Coleman stopped trying to pull the man up and walked around it and inside.
The three people moved forward in the dark, and the dark red light became more obvious as they moved forward.
Because of his increased size, Coleman was not as careful as Lu Jiamu when walking in the dark. In addition, the dark light in front of him made him dizzy. By the time Coleman realized that he had stepped on empty air, it was too late to retract his foot.
She fell into the sinking space in front without a sound.
Yu Leng and Wei Xiaoyan, who were behind, were stunned when they vaguely saw the person walking in front suddenly disappear.
The monsters in the underground castle who were still happily dining and clinking wine glasses noticed the man who suddenly fell, and all their tentacles stopped moving.
A height of several meters was nothing to Coleman. After she slipped and fell, she looked up and saw these muddy monsters who were holding a dinner party, and the family portraits hanging on the wall.
Although he didn't know what was going on, Coleman immediately stood up and tried to climb back up, shouting, "Run!"
The monsters sitting on the high backs immediately became excited. They smashed the wine glasses in their tentacles and rushed towards Coleman with fangs and claws in anger.
Yu Leng and Wei Xiaoyan, who were on a high place, immediately turned around and ran back.
Lu Jiamu also seized this opportunity and ran out of the room with three keys.
Coleman has attracted the attention of all the monsters and is entangled by a group of monsters.
She was wrapped in layers of blood-red mud monsters, and her shape could no longer be seen, but she was not dead. She was bearing the huge weight of the monsters and climbing up the vertical drop with difficulty.
There are too many monsters over there, and it is no longer possible to successfully take Johnny out of the window of the semi-basement.
The only accessible way now is the elevator.
A few monsters spotted them and tried to rush over, but Lu Jiamu and Johnny had already rushed into the elevator.
Lu Jiamu used the key to start the elevator and kicked away the mud monster that was trying to get in. The mud monster tried to fight back but missed.
The elevator started to ascend smoothly.
Johnny stood in the innermost corner of the elevator, panting heavily. At this time, he did not forget to ask fearfully: "We, just run away like this? Don't go to help her?"
Lu Jiamu asked back: "Then you go back?"
Johnny only said that subconsciously, he also knew that if he turned back it would be a dead end.
The two of them took the elevator to the first floor, and Lu Jiamu locked the elevator as soon as he came out.
The monster in the underground castle didn't get on the elevator and was kicked. He was so angry that he immediately stretched out his bloody whiskers and controlled a corpse in the room to move.
They also wanted to catch up by taking the elevator. It was night time now, and without the strong sunlight that they feared, no one would notice anything.
But after searching for a while, I couldn't find the elevator key. Without the key, I couldn't start the locked elevator.
Lu Jiamu and Johnny successfully reached the ground and walked out of the castle again.
Yu Leng and Wei Xiaoyan had already run out of the semi-basement.
Although Coleman was entangled by the mud monsters, he still climbed out of the sinking underground castle little by little with his own powerful strength.
Lu Jiamu asked Johnny for his flashlight and shone it through the window of the semi-basement. He saw Coleman, whose body was covered in red, tearing the monster off his body while crawling with difficulty.
When illuminated by the flashlight, the slime monsters shrank back, but soon realized that it was only the light of the flashlight, not the sunlight, and began to wriggle and tangle again.
Although their pause was brief, it was enough to show that these monsters were indeed afraid of light.
When Lu Jiamu saw this scene, he told the other people not to come over, and he climbed into the window of the semi-basement, ran towards Kouman, tied her up and pulled the mud monsters off her body.
The mud monsters roared angrily and wanted to wrap him up as well. But because Lu Jiamu's abnormal ability was to dodge, they tried several times but failed.
The few people waiting outside could only squeeze at the window and use the small flashlight in Lu Jiamu's hand to observe the situation inside.
The brightly coloured flowers planted in a circle around the castle sway gently in the night.
Johnny had seen an agent killed in this sea of flowers before, and he was still frightened. So while watching the situation in the basement, he kept an eye on the back.
He suddenly shuddered, stretched out his hand and slapped Yu Leng several times: "Look, behind!"
Yu Leng sensed his fear. Although he was very concerned about the battle situation below, he immediately turned around and said, "Fuck."
Several shriveled figures had stood up in the sea of flowers. From a distance they looked like scarecrows, quietly walking towards them across the sea of flowers.
Moreover, those flowers that were swaying from side to side were not just moving without wind, but large fruits had already grown on the buds, and something was wriggling inside them, as if it was about to burst out.
If the three of them stood there stupidly and encountered danger, they would just be a burden. Yu Leng immediately grabbed one of them with one hand and signaled them to run first.
In the room of the castle, the two children couldn't sleep and heard the resonance sound of the elevator running, as well as the howling and fighting sounds of something below.
The little girl huddled in her blanket and asked anxiously, "Is the big bear coming to catch us?"
The little boy touched the little girl's head, plucked up the courage to get out of bed, moved a small stool to the window, climbed up and looked down.
He happened to see several shriveled figures that looked like scarecrows wandering in the sea of flowers, with a large plant on their heads.
I saw several flowers trembling rapidly back and forth in different directions. There were large fruits on the buds, and strange things inside were trying to drill out and break out of the shells.
I also saw a person downstairs dragging a huge, wriggling blood-red monster towards the main gate of the castle.
The little boy fell off the stool and screamed: "Ah!!!"
The parents in the next room were awakened by the scream and rushed in immediately, asking: "What's wrong? What happened?"
The little boy collapsed on the ground, trembling. He couldn't stand up. He just pointed at the window and said, "Monster... Monster... There's a monster downstairs. The monster is coming to eat us!"
The woman immediately picked up the little boy from the ground and looked out the window.
The manor was quiet and peaceful at this time, with nothing in it.
The woman thought the little boy was having a nightmare, so she patted him on the back and said, "It's gone. The monster is gone. It was scared away."
The little boy kept crying and making a fuss. "No, they're coming in! They're coming in!"
While crying, he described the scarecrow monster, the wriggling meat monster, and the man who dragged the monster away.
The woman didn't believe what he said at all, but thought that his imagination in the dream was too rich, so she asked the girl: "Did your sister see it?"
The girl huddled in the quilt and shook her head slightly: "I didn't see it..."
The woman held the little boy and turned around, letting him see for himself the peace outside, but the little boy was still restless and described the strange roaring sounds and the vibrations that came from the elevator when it suddenly started operating at night.
The woman thought that there was indeed a large area of wasteland outside the castle and became a little nervous: "There may be some wild animals in the weeds. Let's ask Vincent and the others tomorrow morning. It's best to get rid of this weed as soon as possible."
The man responded twice. Then they remembered that they had not asked which floor the manor's host and hostess lived on, and it would be inconvenient to search for them floor by floor in the middle of the night.
It's really embarrassing that the child is screaming so creepily so late at night.
The woman held the little boy and found the elevator in the castle, but the elevator was still locked and there was no sign of abnormal operation.
The woman could only say: "The previous owner and his family still live here. You can't stop them from using the elevator at night, can you?"
After a long time of coaxing, the little boy finally calmed down, but he had to be accompanied by his parents before he could sleep.
Under the castle, five people were clinging to the wall.
After hearing the scream from upstairs, the mud monsters that had been pestering Coleman let go of her in an instant and went back to the semi-basement.
The dead bodies and broken flower buds that stood up from the soil quickly burrowed back into the ground, and the entire manor returned to peace at the fastest speed.
Obviously, although they were afraid of being discovered by the new residents, the monsters in the Vincent family were even more afraid of being discovered by the new residents about the abnormality of the manor.
According to Lu Jiamu's guess, the old castle and the impoverished manor owner on the ground were just baits. They hoped to attract not only a family of five, but perhaps even more people.
Compared to the indestructible Kou Man and the indestructible Lu Jia Mu, the family was more important. So the monster gave up on them and reached a temporary reconciliation.
But they must have been seen by the kid upstairs just now, and I don’t know what the consequences will be.
They waited quietly for a moment, and nothing happened.
Perhaps the child was looking at them from such a distance that he did not see them clearly, nor could he describe them clearly, so he could not be considered to have discovered them.
Coleman's body was covered with a layer of mucus that had not yet dried up, probably the same kind of plastic wrap used to seal corpses.
Although he did not suffer any direct damage, Coleman's face wrinkled up due to the disgust of these things, which caused great psychological damage. If he stayed for a while longer, the mucus would probably turn into that kind of plastic wrap.
When everything calmed down, she stood up and said, "I'm going to take a shower. You guys go back first."
It looked like she wanted to take a bath in the artificial lake.
Kou Man would not be in any danger even if he went to the lake alone to take a bath late at night, but Wei Xiaoyan still said worriedly: "I'll go with you."
Lu Jiamu took out the three elevator keys and said, "They shouldn't come up again. Just find a floor to wash. There are two families living in this manor now. Even if there is some noise, no one will come up."
Coleman thought about it and felt that a clean hot bath was far better than taking a bath in cold water with the ugly fish, so he took the key while suppressing his nausea.
The next morning, the new family slept until they woke up naturally and went to the first floor to wait for the master and mistress of the manor to appear, but they found that the first floor was deserted and there was no one there.
Some valuables were also missing, and the contract signed last night was placed on the dining table.
The woman was a little confused: "They are... moving away? So soon?"
The previous owner and his family had already left, and they had no way to contact each other, so they could no longer ask if there were any wild animals in the grassland. She took out her cell phone and sent a message to the middleman, but she didn't get a reply for a long time.
But she didn't take it to heart. After waiting for a while, she and her family prepared to go out and buy some daily necessities.
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