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Soon afterwards, Commander Barry died from his severe injuries. As for the small ice cubes he used to fix the dagger, they melted into clear water after a night and seeped into the carpet under him, eventually becoming the scene that Butler Olei saw this morning. "
Having said that, Mary looked at Ole again, her tone much softer.
"At about 6:30 this morning, Butler Olei came to the bedroom to deliver breakfast to His Majesty the King, and saw Commander Barry lying on the carpet.
You subconsciously thought that there was a conflict between Chief Bali and His Majesty the King, which led to His Majesty the King killing him in anger.
After seeing this scene, you did not wake up the sleeping King, but quietly pushed Officer Barry's body out of the window, cleaned up the bloodstains in the room, and used a cart to transport the bloodstained carpet away.
From the perspective of His Majesty the King, Orel is indeed a very loyal steward. The real purpose of doing all this is not to cover up Barry's death. On the contrary, you want to bring his death upon yourself.
You know very well that Barry is an important official of the kingdom, so his death will be strictly investigated by the police. In order to prevent His Majesty the King from being implicated, you resolutely decide to become the murderer who bears the name of murder.
Therefore, you deliberately placed the blood-stained carpet in Barry's office, deliberately walked through the central courtyard to let the maid named Esther notice your actions, and even deliberately revealed obvious flaws in front of Xiaoying and me.
All of this is a deliberate misleading on your part in order to direct the blame to yourself..."
"Olei..."
Behind Ou Lei, Heningu looked at him, his voice old and weak.
"What she said...is it true?"
"I'm sorry, Your Majesty, I..." Ou Lei turned around and faced He Ninggu, lowering his head with red eyes and replied: "I was too nervous at the time, and subconsciously thought it was Your Majesty..."
He Ninggu just shook his head slightly when he heard this, and said nothing.
"So, is this the truth?"
Beside Mary, the king's brother Preben couldn't help but be moved after hearing this reasoning.
He looked at Ole with tears in his eyes.
"Olei, I misunderstood you before. I didn't expect you to be so loyal to my brother. I didn't expect the truth of the matter to be so unexpected..."
Ole was a little caught off guard by his words. He paused and then said quickly: "Please don't say that, Your Highness Preben. You didn't do anything wrong..."
"No, I was indeed reckless this time. However, Barry was an important official of our kingdom after all, and he enjoyed a high reputation among the people. His murder does need to be dealt with strictly and quickly. Only in this way can we give the people a proper explanation, but..."
As he spoke, Preben suddenly changed the subject and looked at Heninggu on the bed, and asked in a curious tone:
“Brother Wang, there is one thing I still don’t understand, why did Bali insist on committing suicide in your dormitory to frame you?
Brother Wang, does Bali have any special reason for doing this? "
Preben's eyes were curious and innocent. He seemed to really not know the reason, but also seemed to really want to know.
For a moment, the room fell into an eerie silence.
Heningu closed his eyes and did not answer, and Preben did not seem to be in a hurry. He just looked at his brother, waiting for his answer.
【The final scene is finally coming...】
Mary raised her hand to push up her sunglasses, the corners of her mouth slightly raised.
At the dormitory door, Captain Hans covered his mouth with his hand and yawned a little tiredly. He raised his hand to call the guard soldier next to him and whispered a few words in his ear. The soldier nodded sharply, then turned around and left quickly.
In the dormitory, Mary, who had been watching him out of the corner of her eye, saw the whole scene.
"Um, His Highness Preben..." As if he couldn't stand this depressing atmosphere, Orel looked at Preben and couldn't help but said:
"I think, now that the cause of Chief Barry's death is clear, why not today..."
"It's because of what happened ten years ago."
Suddenly, a voice that no one in the room expected was heard, interrupting Ole's words.
Mary looked at Karasuma Ying who suddenly spoke beside her with great surprise.
[This child?! ]
But soon, she seemed to have guessed something and turned her head sharply to look at Hans at the door, only to find that Hans' face also had a very surprised expression.
【Why……】
And on the hospital bed, He Ninggu, who had originally closed his eyes and said nothing, suddenly opened his eyes and looked at Wu Wanying with sharp eyes.
It looks like the Kingdom chapter will come to an end tomorrow (﹃) I’m so sleepy
Chapter 241: Plan for a Coup
She was in the middle of a national coup.
If Wu Wanying had only some doubts about this in the past two days, then today during the investigation of Barry's murder she had become completely certain of this.
Moreover, this carefully planned coup had already begun long before the detectives arrived in the kingdom. It can even be said that the royal commission invitations themselves were the product of this premeditated coup.
The country can be roughly divided into two factions, namely the king's faction and the king's brother's faction.
The beginning of this coup originated from the mysteriously stolen sapphire.
According to Barry, the theft of the sapphire was related to Princess Freya, so Wu Wanying was not entirely sure whether this was a real accident or a trap set by the prince's younger brother Preben.
But in short, the disappearance of the blue sapphire did provide the prince's faction with an excellent opportunity to act.
The regent Preben naturally blamed the theft of the royal treasure on the guard commander Birun, who was in charge of guarding the palace.
He did his best to incite and maximize the negative impact of the incident, while constantly putting pressure on Birun, and even issued a death order to Birun that he must find the blue sapphire within a month.
Preben's purpose in doing this was simple, Birun was King Heninggu's man.
As the highest commander of the guard, Birun was originally a pawn sent by Heninggu in the name of "assistant" to monitor and check Preben.
The Kingdom of Andrew has three armed forces: the Guard, the Kingdom Police, and the National Defense Force.
The Royal Police and the National Defense Forces are not allowed to approach the palace without the royal order. Only their highest officers have the authority to enter and exit the palace.
As for the last guard, their existence itself is to serve the royal family, and guarding the palace is their duty. Therefore, they are also the only armed force that can be stationed in the palace.
If Preben wants to launch a coup, he must find a way to get rid of Birun, the highest commander of the guard, otherwise no matter what he does, it will be in vain.
Birun was obviously aware of this, and after realizing Preben's intention, he did not intend to sit there and wait for death.
Under Preben's relentless pressure, Birun directly sent out a large number of invitations to the detective community throughout European society in the name of the royal family, gathered all the invited detectives in the palace, and commissioned them to find the sapphire for the royal family with generous rewards.
Birun's action completely angered Preben, causing him to abandon conventional political means and choose to get rid of Birun through a simpler and faster assassination method.
So on the day when the detectives gathered in the palace annex, Birun was murdered.
The former captain of the guard, Gunnar, who murdered him, should have secretly defected to Preben's brother's faction.
In Preben's own plan, the death of Birun would be blamed on the unlucky jailbreaker in the dungeon, and Gunnar, who murdered Birun, would be quickly promoted after this incident and become the new commander of the guard.
As for Barry, Wu Wanying speculated that he should have a cooperative relationship with Preben, but judging from his subsequent actions, Barry was not a true member of the King's Brother faction.
The plan to completely eradicate Birun was finalized, but what no one could have imagined was that Mary intervened in the plan. She quickly solved the case and dug out Gunna, the real murderer, completely disrupting the plans of Preben and others.
Therefore, in order to prevent others from continuing to investigate, Gunna decisively chose to commit suicide after his identity was exposed.
After this incident, Preben did not take any dangerous actions against Mary who disrupted his plans. Instead, he tried to extend an olive branch to her.
He did this because of many concerns.
An invited foreign detective had just solved a major murder case of a senior official of the kingdom, but he died in the palace inexplicably. Any normal person with a sound mind could guess the reasons behind this.
If it gets out, it will be bad for the royal family's reputation.
What's even more troublesome is that if the detectives accidentally make a big fuss, they might even attract the British government, and then things will be in real trouble. After all, Britain is known to the world as a troublemaker.
In short, although Preben’s goal was not fully achieved in this plan, at least the most important Birun was dead.
Mary was commended for solving the case, and the position of guard commander was temporarily shelved, while Hans took over Gunna's position as captain.
Here, Wu Wanying has reason to suspect that the newly promoted Captain Hans is likely to have defected to Preben.
After solving the thorny problem of the guard to a certain extent, Preben couldn't wait to start his next plan.
It’s called a plan, but it’s actually very simple.
Because the Holy King of the Kingdom of Andrew, Heninggu, has a very fatal weakness, which is the border village tragedy ten years ago.
There are still many survivors of that tragedy, one of whom even became the highest commander of the kingdom's police, Barry.
Barry has been committed to making the truth of the tragedy known to the public and saving his fellow villagers who are still imprisoned in the dungeon.
But for some reason, even though he now knew all the truth, he did not choose to announce it himself, but chose to cooperate with Preben.
The cooperation model between the two may be that Barry will facilitate Preben's coup. In exchange, Preben will help Barry expose the border village tragedy of that year and release the survivors in the dungeon.
Barry is undoubtedly a man who attaches great importance to his promises. In order to help Preben and for the truth of that year, he chose the most direct method.
He committed suicide in the king's bedroom. Regardless of whether his attempt to frame the king was successful or not, this action was the most fatal attack on Heninggu.
If the means of framing the king succeeds, Heninggu will become the murderer of Barry. The king's younger brother Preben will take advantage of the tragedy in the border village that year and launch a coup d'état with "legitimate reasons" while Princess Freya is away in Japan, depose Heninggu and directly inherit the throne.
By the time Freya received the news and hurried back from Japan, everything was already decided.
If he failed, it would also lead to another important question. As an important official of the kingdom, why would Bali choose to commit suicide to put the blame on his king?
No matter who tries to stop him, Preben is determined to find out Barry's motives.
Because only in this way could he use public opinion to legitimately depose Heningu, legitimately squeeze out Princess Freya, and sit on the throne himself.
Preburn could have chosen to reveal the matter himself, but he probably didn't because he wanted to be "clean."
After all, it happened ten years ago. He himself was an insider of the border village tragedy, but he had never spoken about it before. Now he suddenly spoke about it. Anyone with a discerning eye could see what he was trying to do.
So he needed Barry's help. Only when the survivor of the border village died unexpectedly and the original incident was accidentally revealed, would he have better room for maneuver.
Only in this way can he be portrayed as a people-loving prince who has always been dissatisfied with the tragedy and wants to speak for the people, but is forced by the tyranny of Heninggu and can only endure it secretly and wait for an opportunity.
As for Karasuma Ying, she doesn't care about the internal struggles of this country.
From that special cell to what Barry said to her yesterday, Wu Wanying didn't know why Barry chose her, but since the one-eyed old man trusted her so much, she didn't want to let him down.
She is really not good at dealing with this kind of people...
Chapter 242: The Way of Survival for the Weak
"It's because of what happened ten years ago."
In the king's bedroom, in this depressing atmosphere, Karasuma Ying suddenly spoke.
Ten years ago... Faced with this sensitive time point, the two insiders present had completely different reactions.