Leonardo da Vinci’s painting <The Last Supper>, which told the story of the Bible—— Jesus had dinner with his twelve apostles and said, “Someone will betray me”. Upon hearing these words, the twelve apostles looked differently and gathered together to discuss who was the traitor, and the real traitor, Judas, knocked over the bottle on the table in panic, which showed his weakness at that time.
At this time, the long dinner table after the wedding banquet sat exactly 13 people.
The seat similar to the one in the painting made Yue Xingwen naturally think of a ‘traitor’, he looked at Xu Feixue and asked, “Do you remember the order of positions of everyone in <The Last Supper> painting?”
Xu Feixue nodded. “Remember. Jesus was sitting in the middle, with 6 apostles on the left and right sides. The fourth from the left, that is, the person two seats away from Jesus’ right hand, was the traitor Judas.”
Listening to her words, Yue Xingwen turned his head to look at the long table, quickly taking out a pen and paper to note down the seating order of the entire table.
Xu Yishen looked at the long table and said, “The etiquette of Western food is that the right is senior and ladies first. The lady sitting on the far right should be Mrs. Brown, the mother of the groom, next to her is Mr. Brown, and next are the bride’s parents. Followed by the bride Alice and the groom Jack; Then Daisy’s husband, Rhodes, son Dean, Daisy, Leah, and the three men sitting next to Leah, supposedly cousins or some relatives.”
According to senior brother Xu’s visual inspection, Yue Xingwen wrote the name on the paper. After writing the seat distribution map, he looked at it from left to right and said, “The fourth place on the left is Leah, the same position as the traitor Judas in the seating order of <The Last Supper>.”
Xu Feixue said suspiciously, “Two positions away from her is Daisy’s husband, Rhodes? In the painting, this middle position should be Jesus ah!”
Hearing this, the students looked at each other.
Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce. “Our reasoning doesn’t match the seating order, right? In <The Last Supper> painting, Judas betrayed Jesus, and according to today’s position order, should Leah betray Rhodes?”
Jiang Pingce’s gaze swept towards the long table and said, “The order of the seats in the painting may not necessarily be exactly the same as today’s order. We already know that the traitor in <The Last Supper> painting was sitting in the fourth place from the left, if today’s traitor is also the fourth from the left, is it too simple for us to directly lock the suspect?”
Yue Xingwen nodded. “That’s right. The library should not directly allow us to analyze the murderer by the order of the seats, but Leah’s suspicion still can’t be ruled out. She came to the wedding without a smile on her face. On the contrary, both families were friendly towards her. Why?”
Liu Zhaoqing scratched the back of his head with a headache. “I heard gossip at the wedding banquet before. Leah used to be a rich young lady as well, and then her family went bankrupt before she was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Roland. She was an orphan whose parents had died, and these two families didn’t bully her, they even invited her to the wedding banquet and sat at the same table for dinner… It’s too polite for her, right?”
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Yue Xingwen said, “Everyone spread out and listened to the guests’ discussion. We might be able to discover new clues.”
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Jack looked surprised, “A gift? My brother is too polite, I didn’t even give you a gift when you got married.”
Rhodes said mildly, “When I got married, you were still in school. It’s proper for an older brother to give his younger brother a gift.” He handed the box to the bride, and Alice immediately took it with both hands, smiled and said, “Thank you big brother.”
A man in a dark blue suit sitting on the far left said with a smile, “Two sisters marrying two brothers makes the Brown and Roland families even closer.”
When the old madam heard this, she immediately smiled and giggled. “There are only these two precious daughters in our family. In the future, we can ask you two brothers to take care of them more.”
Rhodes said, “Mom, I’ll take care of Daisy, the mother and son.”
Jack also said, “Mom, don’t worry about leaving Alice in my hand.”
The two couples looked at each other, with affection, and seemed to have a good relationship.
Mrs. Brown took the initiative to raise her glass and said with a smile, “It’s a blessing for my two smelly brats to be able to marry such beautiful two sisters. Let’s all wish Jack and Alice a happy wedding!”
At the long table, everyone raised their wine together and the two families looked happy.
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, and the latter said in a low voice, “Sisters are married to two brothers respectively. The relationship between these two families is definitely not as simple as it seems, and those conversations just now look like a show.”
Yue Xingwen nodded and quickly drew a network of relationships on the paper.
The eldest daughter of the Roland family, Daisy, and the youngest daughter Alice, were married to the eldest son of the Brown family, Rhodes Brown, and the second son Jack Brown, respectively. Daisy had a son named Dean, Alice and her husband just had a wedding.
The old castle building where they were located was the villa where Daisy lived, and Daisy once took her son to plant sunflowers in the garden. The three bodies found in the garden were an elderly couple and a young woman, with mild deformed spines, corresponding to Mrs. Roland’s mild hunchback. It could be concluded that the two elderly deceased were the parents of Daisy and Alice.
The bones of another young woman… Was it Daisy, or Alice?
At this moment, Leah, who was sitting in the fourth place from the left, suddenly stood up, and the people around her all turned their eyes to her. The corner of Leah’s mouth pulled out a smile gently and said, “Sorry, I’m going to the restroom for a moment.”
She held the cat and got up to leave. Yue Xingwen immediately signaled Xu Feixue to follow her.
Xu Feixue followed all the way to the restroom, and a moment later, she came out of the women’s toilet, walked to Yue Xingwen and said, “Leah really went to the toilet, did not talk to anyone during the process, and vomited in the toilet for a long time. It seems that she has an upset stomach.” She paused and wondered, “I also like cats, but I have never seen one so inseparable from a cat as she is, going to the restroom with it.”
Jiang Pingce frowned slightly. “There must be something wrong with the cat.”
Yue Xingwen said, “The white kitten, it looks very cute, not like some fantasy setting like demonic possession or cat demon eating people.” He crouched down beside Leah and tentatively reached out to touch the white kitten. Because they were in the painting’s world and could not affect the plot in the painting, Yue Xingwen touched the cat’s head, but his fingers passed through the cat’s body like air.
At this moment, the kitten suddenly ‘meowed’ and rubbed its head against Leah’s arm. As the kitten turned its head, Yue Xingwen saw that the kitten was wearing a wooden tag around its neck. He lowered his head to take a closer look, it was a very common pet tag, the tag had the name of the cat and the owner’s phone number written on it.
On the back of the tag, there was a black button shaped object-like thing.
Yue Xingwen was vigilant and typed immediately: “Young Ke, come over here!”
Ke Shaobin was listening to the guests chatting in the distance, and when he saw the message in the chat channel, he trotted all the way to Yue Xingwen’s side and asked nervously, “Xingwen, what’s wrong?”
Yue Xingwen pointed to the cat in Leah’s arms and said, “There’s something a little strange about the thing this cat wears on its neck. Let Xiao Tu use a 360-degree scan to see what’s on the back of the tag.”
Ke Shaobin immediately summoned the robot Xiao Tu, made Xiao Tu the size of a palm, came under the cat’s body, and photographed the wooden tag on its neck from another angle.
Soon, Ke Shaobin’s laptop showed the captured picture, and he looked at the button-like object and said with certainty, “It should be a bug device, the kind that can record!”
Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce looked at each other, and Jiang Pingce said, “No wonder Leah always carries this kitten wherever she goes. It turns out that this kitten has a bugging device around its neck—— she was using this kitten to investigate.”
Yue Xingwen said, “With this cat around, she should know a lot of secrets about both families.”
The dinner party was about to end, and the students scattered around quickly gathered at Yue Xingwen to summarize the news they heard.
Liu Zhaoqing lowered his voice and said, “I heard gossip. Rhodes and Daisy are not married because of love, but the two families let the eldest son and eldest daughter marry for business cooperation. The husband and wife’s relationship is not good, and the usual affection is all pretense. Daisy had a boyfriend she liked very much before marriage, and she had a falling out with her family for this.”
Lin Manluo said, “Coincidentally, I heard that the couple who got married today is also a family marriage. The business of the two of them is very close, in order to strengthen the family relationship, it’s not enough to force the eldest daughter and the eldest son to marry. The younger daughter also has to marry the younger son. The two couples are in charge of different companies, and they even have a prenuptial agreement written up.”
Lan Yarong followed closely and said, “About Leah, I heard two old people chatting in the corner of the dinner party. Leah’s family used to be very rich and had business dealings with these two families, but a few years ago, there was a sudden accident. Her parents died in a car accident when they went out with Daisy’s parents, and after that, Daisy’s parents adopted her and treated her like their own daughter.”
Jiang Pingce frowned. “Could it be that she suspected the cause of her parents’ deaths back then, and that’s why she hung a bug device around the cat’s neck, trying to find out the truth?”
Ke Shaobin followed this speculation and said, “A car accident when going out together, this is too suspicious, right? If her parents were killed by Daisy’s parents, then she had enough motives to kill Daisy and Daisy’s parents, bury the bodies of three people in the garden, and then, replace Daisy, become the mistress of the house?”
Yue Xingwen looked at the seating chart and relationship diagram he drew on the paper and said, “The murderer usually cuts the grass and removes the root, right? Since she wants to kill Daisy’s family, how can she let Daisy’s sister and son go?”
Jiang Pingce said calmly, “Our clues are not comprehensive enough at the moment, and we can’t draw conclusions rashly. We only opened the mechanism of the illusion in the three paintings, maybe there are also mechanisms behind the other paintings, so let’s look for them carefully.”
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I wonder if it will turn out that Leah actually wants to help the sisters and that it’s her body buried…