Qiao opened the proportional mode, so the screen projected by the smart machine occupied most of the living room.
When the sound and picture appeared, they seemed to be pulled into the scene of that year, watching a scene of an afternoon decades ago from the perspective of the photographer.
Joe was stunned for a moment, his expression trance and emotion for a moment.
He was watching on a small screen last night, and his attention was on the heads of several people, so he didn't think much of it. At this moment, the most restored mode is turned on, and all of a sudden, have the illusion of returning to childhood, and there is an indescribable feeling in heart.
The manor building in the image is on the other side of the living room, just like the real thing.
Although only the lower edges of the windows on the first floor and the second floor are in the mirror, it can still be felt that the complete manor should be exquisite and stylish.
In front of the building is a flower stand set up on the lush grass, shaded by tall and prosperous fruit trees.
In the shade of the trees are high tables, where a sumptuous afternoon tea is placed. The tables and chairs are arranged in a well-ordered manner, generally forming a circle. A group of well-dressed people enjoy afternoon tea while chatting and laughing. There are both men and women. The atmosphere is not bad at first glance, because a few hearty laughter can be heard.
Near the camera, that is, Yan Suizhi and the others are sitting next to the sofa. There is a neatly trimmed hedge and a swing chair. It can be seen that the person filming is leaning on the swing.
"This is—" Joe reached out to introduce the location, but got stuck.
"The Manson's old manor." Someone took his words.
"Ah... Yes, the old manor of the Manson family." Qiao turned her head subconsciously, only to realize that the person who answered the call was Yan Suizhi.
"Do you know Dean?" Joe was a little surprised.
Various reports about the Manson family occasionally include several of their mansions in the accompanying pictures, and this old manor is an exception, which hardly appears in any reports. Just because this manor will hold a party from time to time, the Manson family is very strict.
Unless it is a guest invited by the Manson family, no one really knows this place.
"Have you been?" Joe asked.
Yan Suizhi shook his head: "Just know."
There was half of the milk in his glass, but he didn't drink any more, but held the glass loosely in both hands, resting on his lap. His upper body leaned against the back of the chair, looking elegant and relaxed, his eyes fell a little farther, and swept over the guests under the shade of the tree, his face was very light.
Qiao had never struggled to survive in law school, so Gu Yan, Ke Jin, and Laura knew Yan Suizhi's temperament as well. But he could still feel that Yan Suizhi's mood wasn't bad, but it wasn't that good either.
At least not as good as when you just woke up.
After the camera stabilized, a female voice sounded in the living room: "On May 22, 1227 Emma, the location is still Manson Manor, and I was tricked by my father to attend this damn boring party, pretending to be two and a half hours. Fake lady, the newly bought high-heeled shoes don't fit as well as when you tried them on. Both heels are bleeding. The pain is so painful that I have to keep smiling. I doubt that during the half hour just now, I might have laughed like I was going to eat people..."
Qiao Gan laughed twice, taking advantage of the female voice to explain: "Ms. Eunice loved to take this kind of dynamic diary when she was young, because she insisted that she would want to relive the past after she was 170 years old. It's time to be silly. Just bear with it."
Eunice's voice didn't sound as crisp as it does now. More than 20 years ago, she had just been involved in family affairs for a few years, and her tone was still lively from the school, and the endings of some complaining sentences were a bit sweet.
"Taking advantage of the intermission just now, I escaped, and I was—" the camera turned around and could see a large garden and two swing ropes nearby, "I'll hide here on the swing for a while, I hope the garden Don't come near me, the little devils rolling around, including my foolish brother."
Joe: "..."
He kind of regretted that he had just fast-forwarded yesterday and didn't review the content at the beginning.
Ms. Eunice really didn't say good things about him.
The camera cuts back to the guest, and focuses on a man sitting in the shade, a slightly younger Devore Everth. He rested his elbows relaxed on the arm of the chair, wiping his glasses without hesitation.
On his left, a round-faced man gestured and said something to him.
"Starting from the far right, this is Mr. Bevin, the manufacturer of medical cabins. He has been trying to convince us to replace all the medical cabins in Ivy Hospital today. However, the batch of medical cabins that were replaced last year was ordered from him." The camera was fixed on the round-faced man's face for a few seconds, and Eunice whispered mockingly: "Dad must be saying: fuck you, stop dreaming. But Mr. Bevin's harvest is okay, after all, just now The Manson brothers ordered a batch of the latest medical cabins with him on the spot, and placed them in various residences, saying that they were for their father to take care of them anytime and anywhere. The rest were given to each guest present."
Joe didn't turn the camera, and then Eunice's voice said: "Didn't I say before that the old fox brought some medical, medicine and mining people to Manson? This Bell is one of them. I remember him at this party. I have been here about three times. His medical cabin is upgraded every year, and the Manson Brothers also order a batch on the spot every year to give to old Manson and all the guests. In fact, the number is not too many, at most 40 sets. One thing is that Niss found out later that she saw the shipping order at that time through some channels. The quantity filled in on the bill was no problem, 40 sets, but the delivery vehicle was silver snake every time. Silver snake, you know, That cargo capacity can hold 200 sets of medical cabins. It's a little strange that these businessmen are all careful and considerate, and they don't use more suitable vehicles?"
He hesitated for a while, and then said: "Chun Ivy's medical cabin is basically used in his house. Later, the old fox seemed to have some unpleasantness with him for a year. I heard the old fox mentioned that he wanted to terminate the order of his house and replace it with another one. A family, but there is no logical reason. Not long after that... maybe two or three months? He... died. After that, the medical cabin of the Ivy Hospital was changed."
"Cause of death?" Gu Yan asked.
Twenty-seven or eight years ago, he was only four or five years old. The alliance kills so many people every year, and there are not a few businessmen. He was not impressed by these old things.
"Overdose, a painkiller," Joe said.
"Painkillers?"
"He has been suffering from severe neuralgia."
During their communication, Eunice has turned the camera several times and mentioned several guests one by one, all of which are considered acquaintances.
"...Mr. Cliff, no accident, he dragged my dad and Mr. Ken Manson to give a speech. 'Without the two of you, it would take me at least another sixty years to get hold of this shuttle production line. , and those A-level transport tracks', Balabala, this is the opening remark every year, and I will recite it."
"Ah - sitting next to him is his son, who is a little older than me. I forgot his name. Let's call him Little Cliff. I don't really like the way he looks at the back of his father's head. , as if saying 'When will you gang of immortals abdicate and let the sages', he looks at my dad even more disgusting. I think he doesn't like any deep-rooted family, maybe it's jealous? Wait another 20 years and he'll probably be able to Inheriting the family business and mourning in advance for myself twenty years later, it is a hell to deal with such a person."
Yan Suizhi's expression was still light, but the tip of her brow was raised.
The so-called Little Cliff is now living in the Hotel Henkin. More than 20 years have passed, and indeed the generations have changed, and the position of the head of the family has changed.
"He doesn't like the family?" Yan Suizhi said smoothly.
Joe said: "I have limited dealings with him, Eunice is more, according to her. After talking with him for a long time, I can feel from some of his tone, eyes and some detailed movements that he does not like family , especially don't like my house."
Yan Suizhi nodded.
"What's wrong?"
"It's nothing." Yan Suizhi said lightly, "I think it's a little interesting when I think of how he played poker before."
"What kind of? Very tugging and rude?" Joe mumbled.
"Spades and hearts are thrown in the distance at will, the squares are placed in front of them, and the grass and flowers are playing with them." Yan Suizhi has a good memory and can even reproduce Cliff's expressions and small movements in retrospect. .
"So what?" Qiao looked at him blankly, and poked Gu Yan again as if asking for help, "Help me, I feel like I'm back when I took elective courses back then."
Young Master Qiao's mind was flooded with the elective class at the law school. Most of the class was thoughtful under Yan Suizhi's prompt, but he knew nothing. a clearer explanation.
Gu Yan also became accustomed to it, "Remember the poker suit theory? Grass represents status, power and prestige. It refers to a family like yours or Manson. Square represents money and resources."
"Oh oh oh -" Master Qiao nodded again and again like a cock crowing, and said, "I understand what you mean."
The one placed in front of oneself is always the one closest to self-consciousness. The square piece represents Cliff himself.
And his play with grass and flowers shows that he has no respect for those families. Even with a hint of condescending disdain and disobedience, perhaps because they feel that they are eating the legacy of their ancestors, it does not mean how strong their own abilities are.
Joe: "But he has a good relationship with the Manson Brothers, not the kind that draws forces together. They played together when they were young."
Yan Suizhi: "So I think it's a bit interesting."
...
Eunice introduced many people in turn, and Joe added a few.
"This bearded Mr. Zhou is a professor at the Medical School of Bartley University. He is very good. At that time, many famous doctors and researchers at Ivy Hospital were his students. The Manson brothers would chat with him for a long time every time, about Old Manson's previous illnesses, including future prevention and recuperation, etc. This is also... The old fox suddenly stopped using his students. In the next three or four years, the doctors and researchers related to him in the Ivy Hospital were arrested. Transferred, fired, fired. Not long after that, the professor suddenly had an alarm clock."
This is the brain-degenerative dementia that is difficult to treat in the alliance today, and the elderly are at high risk. People with this disease will forget most things, only remember some habits at regular intervals, repeat them every day, and are extremely sensitive to the moment, and they will lose control of their emotions within a few minutes.
...
"This Ms. Luce is very powerful, and she should be the youngest of these people. According to Eunice, she was not yet 40 years old when she was filming, she was lively and straightforward, and she was very likable. Among the people present were Several men were chasing her, but she ignored none of them. In the second year, she willfully married an ordinary teacher. She was unknown, and no one remembered her surname. It was said that she gave birth to a daughter? She holds two drug mine lines in her hand. At that time, a batch of common pharmaceutical raw materials in the market came from her drug mine, and she got into a big trouble later. It was said that some drugs on the market were found to have problems, which led to Many people who take the medicine are mentally ill. But the sleep aids commonly used by these business leaders are also among them. In the end, they traced the source and gave the pot to the medicine mine. But there are many interests involved, and the news was covered up, and finally quietly The two drug mine lines were scrapped, and the lady went to prison and committed suicide the following year."
Joe thought for a while and added: "It's a bit of a coincidence that Mr. Bell, who died of an overdose just now, took painkillers and was also in this batch of problematic drugs."
...
Eunice's dynamic diary is not short, and it took four sections. They spent more than half an hour and finally saw the end.
Joe focused on seven or eight people, and each person's affairs seem to be nothing on their own, which is not bizarre. But it does make a lot of sense to get together—these people who were acquainted with Devore Everth and introduced to the Mansons died in a hurry.
"Before each of them had an accident, the old fox had more or less expressions and actions." Joe said, "The more things I check, the more proof that his reactions are not coincidences. In fact, there are more than that. There are several other people at this party. , it's just not in the shade of the tree when the video was recorded, Eunice said that some went to the bathroom, and a couple came late because of something—"
While speaking, Eunice's camera suddenly heard footsteps, and it sounded like something was running over.
Joshua stopped abruptly.
A kid's voice came into the camera, from far to near, "Sister! You! Again! Steal! Shoot! Didn't you say that random shooting is not allowed here!"
"Shhhhhh-" Eunice booed a few times, warning the kid to keep quiet, then turned the camera and said helplessly, "God, the fool is here for me!"
However, the timing of her turn was not very coincidental. She happened to be hit by the kid who was fired over. The camera twirled and fell to the ground with a thud.
"Grass? And this part? Why didn't I see this part yesterday..." Joe touched her nose awkwardly, "I'm really impressed by this scene, I didn't stop the car and hit her, her knees bent, and her legs were bent. I lost her balance and immediately knelt down. Fortunately, there was a hedge to block it, so I wasn't seen by those people... But she probably never lost her face like that, so she was very angry. Later, I was beaten up by Ms. Eunice. awful."
"Sister, I'm sorry."
The miniature blond young master in the camera turned his face in front of the camera, looking stunned, panicked to help Eunice, and because Eunice was posing to slap him, he turned his head and ran away. return.
Eunice picked up the camera and forgot to turn it off in a hurry. He just clipped his neckline, limped through the hedge and the garden, and found a sink to wash off the ashes from his palms and knees.
After washing it, she sneered and turned around to catch the silly brother and beat him.
"It's nothing, I've closed it." Master Qiao covered his face, intending to turn off the black history.
As a result, just as he was about to put the screen away, in the camera, Eunice rushed out of a row of hedges and almost ran into someone.
It was a beautiful lady. She was startled by Eunice. To avoid collision, she subconsciously took two steps back, and was supported by a tall man who was following behind her, holding her shoulders.
Judging from the direction they were walking, it should have come from the main entrance of Manson Manor. It was the couple that Qiao called "the couple who are late for something."
On the screen, Eunice's voice sounded, and she said a little embarrassedly: "Sorry, I went too hastily, I didn't see you turning around."
The lady who was almost hit waved her hand and smiled, pulled a strand of her hair behind her ears, and her beautiful eyes were bent, even the small mole at the corner of her eye became gentle and vivid: "Then I should also say Sorry, the garden is beautiful, I've been looking around."
The tall man who was supporting her, Sven and handsome, nodded and said hello to Eunice.
Eunice gave way to the two of them, and hurriedly chased after her younger brother who was running between the hedges, but before taking two steps, she turned her head and glanced again.
The couple appeared in the camera just now, but this time it was from the back. They walked a little further, and stopped after a while.
The lady went around behind her husband, nudged him on the back and said, "Go ahead, so if I lose my mind again, no one else will be unfortunate."
The man was very tall, but he didn't move when he was pushed. He turned his head to look at her, and said, "Yeah," in agreement, "There is no one behind you, so you should sit on the ground after hitting you. Of course, it's not anyone else who is unfortunate."
Miss:"..."
Eunice, who was off-camera, laughed.
Gu Yan on the sofa looked at the couple's face, frowning slowly.
Eunice finally realized that the video was still being filmed and raised her hand to close the camera.
The holographic screen in the living room suddenly darkened, and the light and shadow disappeared.
Gu Yan's brows still haven't loosened, and some thoughts are about to pop up in his mind.
Immediately afterwards, Yan Suizhi, who was beside him, suddenly opened his mouth and said, "Joe, do me a favor."
Gu Yan turned to look at him, and saw that his eyes were still on the place where the couple stood just now, a little dazed.
"Huh?" Master Qiao was stunned for a moment, "Okay, what are you busy with?"
"Replay the paragraph just now." Yan Suizhi said.
"Of course." Joe recalled the video and said as he adjusted the progress: "What's wrong with this part? Is there any detail I didn't notice?"
Yan Suizhi didn't answer for a while, until the hologram moved forward quickly with Joe's pulling, and Eunice's background voice was pulled high and sharp, he came back to his senses, and replied calmly and casually: "Oh , there are no details. I just want to see those two people again and let Gu Yan see them too."
The image has been adjusted to the end between the words, and the camera shakes again.
It was Eunice's brother who was chasing into the hedge.
Then there was another corner, another soft exclamation, and another hurried footsteps...
The couple is very close to the camera, and also very close to the three people sitting on the sofa.
Maybe only one step away.
They stood there and bent their eyes in Yan Suizhi's direction.