The Old Butler's news caused an uproar. No one had imagined that a corpse was buried in their own garden!
And the Postman's corpse, at that?
"No, this... Lord Li Wei, why?"
Bianca blinked. Her brain felt as though it had been struck by lightning. She stared in shock, utterly unable to understand what had happened.
"Just as I said, Miss Bianca."
Li Wei spread his hands.
"Two murders occurred in this Manor. The victims were the Postman and Charlie, the Male Servant. And both murders were committed by the same person."
Li Wei paused, smiling as he looked around at everyone.
"In fact, when Charlie was killed, I already knew who the murderer was. But I didn't identify him then, because there was still a major gap in the sequence of events. I kept looking for the missing piece, and now I've found it."
Li Wei paused again, then looked at everyone.
"All right, enough preamble. Let's go through the entire case, from beginning to end." As he spoke, Li Wei turned to Isaac, whose face was ashen as he stared coldly back at him.
"As Isaac told everyone at the time, he went to meet the Postman, carrying the invitations he had written, intending to mail them..."
"Wait, Sir Li Wei."
Gladys could not help interrupting.
"If he wanted to mail the invitations, why kill the Postman?"
"Exactly. That was my question too."
Li Wei nodded.
"I couldn't make sense of it. Mr. Isaac really did intend to mail the invitations, because the success of this banquet depended on them. He also knew that this was closely tied to whether his family would qualify to inherit the Cromwell Family estate, which was why he wrote the invitations himself. Logically, there was no reason whatsoever for him to kill