Chapter 75.
As it spoke, it looked at the other four people and said, "You and him should work together to deliver the invitations before dark. Also, go to the town's store to get a hundred pieces of paper and pens. Those were ordered in advance by the gentleman."
Tian Xun took all the invitations, but before he could ask any questions, the butler Conaway left.
Tang Yu took an invitation from Tian Xun.
It was a piece of letter paper folded in half with an exquisite wax seal at the seal, and on the back were the names and addresses of the guests to be invited.
Li Jia also took an invitation and looked at it. She saw the names of the guests on the back of the envelope at a glance.
"This name is on the list I saw. Edward is indeed inviting those townspeople!"
Tang En said: "So Edward's purpose in organizing the dinner party is to take revenge on these townspeople?"
"Your guess makes sense!"
Li Jia nodded vigorously, her eyes sparkling as she said, "In this way, we only need to watch the entire dinner and see Edward punish the real murderer to pass the level!"
Tang Yu scratched his head and asked uncertainly, "Is it that smooth?"
Li Jia put his arm around her shoulders and said happily: "Don't worry, big brother. Life is great. Everyone in our team is an expert. What difficulty dungeon can't we pass? It's not that the dungeon is easy, it's that we are too awesome!"
Ning Xuanqing ignored Li Jia's optimistic remarks and took the invitation from Tian Xun's hand. She weighed them and found that there were about a hundred of them.
Conaway requested that the invitations be sent out before dark. Although it did not explicitly state the consequences of not sending the invitations on time, it was clear that nothing good would happen.
It’s impossible for one person to deliver all these invitations.
"The five of us will share some and send them out together. We should hurry up and try to send out the invitations before dark."
The few of them didn't waste any time. Each of them grabbed a stack of invitations and left the manor directly.
The guests Edward needed to invite were all residents of the town. Judging from the number of invitations, he might have invited all the residents of the town.
The five people followed the path behind the castle to find the town, and began to deliver invitations door to door according to the house numbers, while trying to find out about Clarence.
I had thought that such a confidential matter would be difficult to find out, but it turned out to be unexpectedly smooth.
Tang Yu found the house number on the invitation and knocked on a resident's door. A middle-aged woman opened the door.
Its face was filled with death, and its golden curly hair was coiled behind its head like lifeless dead grass. Its green eyes had long since turned cloudy and gray, and it was staring at Tang Yu without blinking.
"What do you want?" the woman asked in a cold voice.
Tang Yu handed over the invitation that belonged to him and said, "Mrs. Lina, the castle will hold a dinner party in three days. I hope you can come and attend."
"Another dinner party?" Lina frowned subconsciously. It seemed that she was not very impressed by the dinner party.
Tang Yu's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked calmly, "Don't you want to go?"
Lina rolled her eyes and said, “The master who lives there is powerful, how can I not go?”
Tang Yu then asked, "You seem to have a deep prejudice against that master. What happened?"
She didn't expect Lina to tell him, because there were other residents, and one of them would leak some information.
As a result, Lina seemed to have no idea of Tang Yu's identity and told her about the previous owner of the manor directly in front of her.
"You know the old master here before? He is the father of the new master. He is a notorious person..."
From Lina, Tang Yu learned the whole truth about Clarence's death.
Clarence is the owner of this manor. He is powerful and the whole town is his property. The residents of the town need to pay him high rent regularly.
But Clarence was not satisfied. In order to exploit the townspeople more, he organized a dinner and invited the townspeople to attend, hoping to be elected mayor through voting.
There are also talented people among the town's residents who can be elected as mayor. Olier, Dave and Willy are their biggest competitors.
In order to secure his election, Clarence threatened Olier that if he refused to withdraw from the election, he would expose the fact that he had taken possession of Olier's wife, making it impossible for Olier's wife to gain a foothold in the town.
At the same time, it also bribed the townsman Dave. As for the third competitor Willy, he was a man who was not tempted and had no weaknesses to threaten.
So the cruel Clarence simply killed Willy.
There were two other poor townspeople, Martin and Valk, who witnessed everything, so Clarence simply killed them as well.
These crimes were exposed one by one at the banquet that night. When the townspeople learned that Clarence was so cruel, they were completely enraged...
"So you killed Clarence?" Tang Yu couldn't help but ask.
Lina pouted unnaturally and said, "We were very excited and firmly disagreed with such a person being elected as our mayor. In the end, the guy fell down the stairs and died."
"oh."
Tang Yu said goodbye to Lina and began to think about what he had just seen and heard.
She didn't quite believe what Lina said.
She was a maid from the castle, but Lina completely ignored her identity and told her everything about Clarence.
Isn't this...too stupid?
Tang Yu was half-believing and half-doubting, and knocked on the door of the second household.
Using the same rhetoric, the resident also spoke frankly and recounted Clarence's crimes.
The third household, the fourth household...
Every resident Tang Yu asked accused Clarence in a passionate voice. Although there were some deviations in the details, the impact was not significant.
It is completely obvious that these residents hate and are dissatisfied with Clarence.
Tang Yu met up with her friends with a lot of stories in her mind. She told everyone the stories she had heard and found that others had also received the same information as her.
"Tsk, this Clarence is actually a villain." Li Jia said, stroking his fluffy afro.
After all, the entire town had the same attitude toward Clarence.
It is understandable if a person is hated by a few people, but if a person is hated by an entire group, then there is a big problem.
It seems that Clarence has indeed done many evil things, which is why the residents of the town dislike him so much.
"Edward wants to avenge it even after it's been like this?" Tian Xun couldn't help but say, "Edward really has no sense of right and wrong."
Tang En hesitated and asked, "Is it possible that there is something else going on?"
Li Jia shook his head and said, "No, it's impossible. When I sent the invitation to the shop owner, it mentioned that the incident attracted the sheriff at that time. The sheriff investigated the town for a long time and finally closed the case with the same statement."
This means that everything is set in stone.
Tang En wanted to say something more, but his brain, which had not been rested for a long time, was quite slow to react. He also began to think that what Li Jia said made sense.
"Hey, guess what this thing is for?" Li Jia raised a cloth bag in his hand, which contained paper and pen taken from the store.
She said mysteriously, "I counted them, and the number just matches the invitations. There are a total of 100."
Ning Xuanqing said directly: "Edward wants to continue what Clarence has not finished. He wants to run for mayor?"
Li Jia was not surprised that Ning Xuanqing guessed it right away. She curled her lips and said, "It's really impossible to play a little mystery with a smart person like you."
Tian Xun, however, raised the remaining five invitations in his hand with an unpleasant expression and said, "These five people cannot be sent out. There are no addresses on them."
Several people's attention was drawn and they gathered around to look at the five invitations.
When they saw the name on the back of the invitation, everyone gasped.
"Willy, Martin and Valk are dead!" Tang Yu looked at the names on the invitation with some disbelief.
She heard it from the townspeople themselves: Martin and Valk witnessed Clarence killing Willy and were then silenced.
How could a dead person accept an invitation?
Tian Xun said in a deep voice: "Not only these three, but Oriel and Dave are also dead. I asked the townspeople, and they said that Oriel, Dave, and Clarence all died at that dinner party."
The four of them looked at each other. Clarence organized that dinner with the purpose of getting elected mayor, and he thought it was a sure thing, but his crime was exposed by the townspeople.
The angry townspeople had a violent argument with Clarence, which ultimately resulted in the death of Clarence and two townspeople.
Thinking of this, Li Jia couldn't help but sigh: "Clarence is like this, and Edward still wants to avenge his father?"
Tang Yu was also very confused and asked, "Besides, these five people are already dead, why would Edward send them invitations?"
If these five people were killed by Clarence, what was Edward's purpose in sending them invitations?
Are you so angry that you want to drag the person out and whip his corpse?
Ning Xuanqing vaguely sensed that something was wrong, but the long period of sleepiness made it difficult for her to think clearly.
She rubbed her dizzy head and said, "Let's not talk about this for now. Conaway requires us to deliver all the invitations within the specified time. These five invitations must be delivered to the original owner no matter what."
Li Jia scratched his head and said in distress: "But the person is dead, how can I send him off?"
Ning Xuanqing pursed his lips and thought for a moment, then said, "Is there a cemetery nearby?"
After some inquiries, they found out that the other fork of the path led to the cemetery.
They followed the fork in the road into the woods and indeed found a cemetery.
The cemetery is overgrown with weeds and filled with tombstones, some of which are very old and some are very new. It can be seen that this cemetery has a long history.
Li Jia walked in the cemetery, feeling cold winds blowing all around.
She couldn't help but move closer to Tang Yue, complaining, "Is it really appropriate to build a castle so close to a cemetery?"
As long as the people standing in the cemetery raised their heads slightly, they could see the pointed attic of the ancient castle not far away.
From the perspective of Feng Shui, this is very bad!
I don’t know if it was an illusion, but after entering the cemetery, the gloomy feeling became stronger and stronger.
Tian Xun's senses were extremely sharp. He looked around vigilantly and said, "Let's quickly find the tombstones of those five people, place the invitations there, and leave."
The four of them naturally sensed that something was wrong with this place, and after hearing what he said, they quickened their search.
But this place is too big. The entire cemetery is blocked by various trees and vegetation. You can't see the boundary for a while when you stand in it.
There were more than a hundred old and new tombstones mixed together, and it was really difficult for them to immediately find the tombstones of O'Leary and the other four.
Tang En's teeth were chattering from the cold. He looked around in panic and said, "Sister Tang Yu, is there... something dirty here?"
Tang Yu also felt a little cold. She was wearing a black and white standard maid uniform. The fabric was a bit thin. It felt okay in the castle, but she couldn't stand the cold when she came to this place.
Seeing Tang En asking this, Tang Yu originally planned to comfort him with a few words.
Li Jia: "Pfft! Don't say such unlucky words. Don't you know that your mouth is blessed?"
Tang En thought of his own hip-pulling skills and shrank his neck.
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