Chapter 16: The Doll Under the Bed
Susan's attention had been drawn to Yu Xing, and she stopped turning the book in her hand, and although her brother Alex cast a contemptuous glance at her, she had long been accustomed to ignoring the annoying brother.
She saw Yu Xing and looked at the painting: "Do you like this painting?" ”
Yu Xing withdrew her gaze from the portrait of the girl holding the cat and said, "I don't like it, staring at my hair." ”
Susan explains: "My mom was used to this style of painting, and the house was full of that. ”
Yu Xing: "Why does Mrs. Brown like this style?" ”
Susan said, "This ...... You go ask my mom, I don't know. ”
Yu Xing looked at her suddenly dodged eyes, and knew that a lot of information about this deduction could be asked in conversations.
Susan said that her mother hung the painting, but she didn't dare to say why.
It shows that there is really something wrong with the painting itself, and it is not that someone in the villa deliberately changed the painting in order to scare him.
It seems that in this deduction, he needs to pay more attention to what the Brown family said and interpret it in time.
"By the way, what's your name?" The Susan man stroked his sideburns and sat down more dignifiedly.
Yu Xing Xing introduced himself to Mrs. Brown outside, Airy and Susan didn't hear it, glanced at Alex, who was reading silently, and Yu Xing reintroduced it in front of the two children: "My name is Roy, and my companions are York and Martha, they are very good brothers and sisters, just like you." ”
Airy raised his eyes when he heard this, his curly hair was neatly groomed, and his figure was good, he belonged to the type of little handsome guy that girls like very much.
He quickly returned to the book, and seemed to retort in a whisper: "Who is a good brother and sister with Susan, who is always carrying her broken music box, quarreling to death." ”
Susan heard this, she pursed her lips, took the little princess music box in her arms, and said no more.
The allocation of rooms quickly came to fruition.
The villa is occupied on both floors, the first floor is Alex and Susan's room and two guest rooms, plus a kitchen and bathroom.
On the second floor is the room of Mr. and Mrs. Brown and Angel, and next to it there is a small study, and there are also two guest rooms.
Mrs. Brown had arranged for Yu Xing and York to be on the second floor, and Martha, because of her young age, lived on the first floor like Susan, and had a playmate.
But Martha shuddered.
At night, maybe she's the only one on the first floor, and if the one next door comes over and knocks on the door or something......
She probably fainted on the spot.
Seeing her resistance, York offered to live on the first floor with Martha, so only Yu Xing was left on the second floor.
Yu Xing: It's good, it's easy to do things.
Mrs. Brown said she was going to prepare dinner and gave the keys to their rooms to each of them.
He and York Martha led the two children to the living room for a while, and then went back to the guest room to clean up.
Yu Xing went up the wooden staircase, and Mrs. Brown said that his room was in the second room of the first staircase.
Finding the door without much difficulty, he didn't go straight in, but glanced to the right.
The room on the right seems to be empty, and a little to the right is Angel's bedroom.
Angel's bedroom was quiet, I don't know if anyone was inside, and I don't know why Angel didn't show up.
On the left, in the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Brown, there is a man's cough from time to time, and it should be the sick Mr. Brown.
Yu Xing saw that the guest room was sandwiched between Mr. and Mrs. Brown and their eldest daughter Angel, and a strange feeling came to my heart.
Is my daughter's room separate from her parents?
At this moment, footsteps were heard, and Yu Xing saw Susan walking up.
Susan looked at him, "Have you found it already?" I was worried that you wouldn't recognize the room, so I came up to point you out. ”
Yu Xing pointed to the door in front of him: "This is it, right?" ”
Susan: "Yes! ”
She thought for a moment and said, "Mom said that she would come up and call you at dinner, and said that if you clean up, you can also go to the living room to play." ”
Yu Xing smiled: "Well, thank you for conveying." ”
Susan covered her face again, blatantly shy.
Yu Xing tilted her head and swept her gaze up and down Susan.
Don't have her music box with you?
After two seconds, Susan lowered her hand: "Then I'll go down!" ”
Yu Xing: "Bye-bye." ”
Susan finished her task, and walked gracefully towards the staircase, but before she could reach the end, she suddenly stopped again, and turned her head stiffly as if someone had pulled her by the neck.
"Roy."
Hearing Susan's call, Yu Xing looked at her.
The little girl has blonde hair inherited from Mrs. Brown, which at first glance looks similar to the girl in the painting.
Her expression was blurred for a moment, and Yu Xing couldn't see it clearly, and could only feel that she should have shown a deliberate smile: "Be careful, my sister doesn't like to be noisy, don't disturb my sister when she is resting." ”
Yu Xing remained silent: "Okay, I know ......"
He was in a trance.
Look again, where is Susan's shadow in the hallway.
There wasn't even a sound of footsteps going down the stairs.
Yu Xing stood at the door of his room and thought about life for a moment, thinking that Susan might not have made it to the second floor at all.
Not to mention that he had just heard from Airy that Susan's music box was with him, and he was almost inseparable, and Susan on the second floor quickly slapped him in the face......
Just now, Martha and York complained that Susan was stupid, and Susan heard it, and the two little girls started a debate on the issues of "who is more stupid" and "who is more earthy".
It can be seen that Susan is a lively character, and Martha also relies on her teammates to die.
Judging by the degree of the broken mouth, he shouldn't have finished the quarrel now, he came up directly because he wanted to see upstairs.
How could Susan be arguing with Martha while going to the kitchen to listen to Mrs. Brown's words?
Yu Xing chuckled, opened the door, and prepared to enter the room with his handbag and his cane.
He doesn't mind bumping into ghosts, and the more information he has, the better.
Since "Susan" has footsteps when she comes, and she can also have them when she leaves, she has to use a vanishing out of thin air to remind the deducer that she is a ghost, from the perspective of the game, it is nothing more than to make the deducer feel afraid and scrutinized for a while, and then think about the information in her words.
Yu Xing decided to skip the fear link, break the cranky part, and directly enter the information extraction mode.
Regardless of whether it was a human or a ghost just now, the most obvious message in the words was about the eldest daughter Angel.
Angel should be in the next room next door, and there is a certain threat in the tone of "Susan", as if something bad will happen to Angel if she makes a noise.
Speaking of which, this family is really weird, and Yu Xing's mind is lively.
Mr. Brown is seriously ill and must live in a warm environment.
Mrs. Brown was hospitable and fond of painting in an eerie style.
Angel needs to be quiet and doesn't like to be noisy.
Susan always carries a music box and is very noisy.
Only Alex is the most normal for the time being, not showing any eccentricities, but his relationship with Susan doesn't seem to be very good.
Yu Xing: In case these five are ghosts, and then I have to face it head-on, wouldn't it be fun to find a way to hold Susan in front of Angel and play music, and then hook up with Airy to beat Susan?
However, this demonic thought was generated in his mind for less than a second, and then it gave way to the picture in front of him.
The moment he opened the door, Yu Xing paused, raised his eyebrows and looked at the layout in the room.
The style of the guest bedroom is also medieval British style, quite spacious, the color tone is more rigorous, and there is no color matching that Yu Yu can't accept.
The decorations are delicate and beautiful, although not brilliant, but also decent.
The only problem is...... In the room, facing the direction of the door, there is an oil painting.
The painting was larger than the one in the living room, half a man tall, and a woman draped in and draped in only a strip of white silk sat lazily in a chair with armrests, her curly hair coiled behind her head, and a pair of eyes staring at Yu Xing without blinking.
That gaze seemed to be nothing, which made Yu Xing feel a discomfort of being stared at.
Yu Xing calmly closed the door, put down the things in his hand, and walked to the painting.
The texture of the woman in the painting is delicate, and if you look closely, you can even see the fine fluff on her face, and the details of her body can be seen at a glance, and the brushstrokes are no less than those of the world's famous paintings.
[You are investigating an oil painting, HP -10]
"......" Is this also physically demanding?
Anyway, the data has been deducted, Yu Xing planned to investigate it carefully, and stretched out a finger to wipe it on the woman's eyes, which is indeed the touch of the painting.
He can also paint oil paintings himself, and the level is not low, and it can be seen at a glance that if this painting is real, it will definitely have a sky-high price.
It is unscientific to say that an ordinary family with money casually hangs a painting of this level in the guest room.
He stared at the woman in the painting for almost a minute, and the woman in the painting did not change.
Yu Xing had to give up, even if there was a problem with the painting, it was not like the little black cat that could be blown up by staring at it a few times.
He then looked down, admired the woman's figure, and finally concluded: "Yes, no wonder it is hanging in the bedroom, the figure is indeed good, Mrs. Brown has a heart." ”
The woman remained still.
Well, it seems that words are useless.
Yu Xing lost interest, turned around and continued to look at the bedroom, ready to find something that could be used locally.
He's too incompetent as a detective, and he doesn't even have daily utensils like wires in his bag!
As he searched, he heard the sound of a search.
The sound was extremely small, like the sound of cloth rubbing, and if Yu Xing hadn't dedicated some of his attention to be vigilant at all times, he might have missed it.
There was something else in the room besides him!
Yu Xing subconsciously looked at the painting, and the result was no different from just now.
That is, there is still something to hide, and he is not allowed to find out.
Yu Xing immediately opened the cabinet in the room, searched carefully, but to no avail, walked to the side of the bed again, and prepared to lie on the ground to look at the bottom of the bed.
A pair of big dark eyes and Yu Xing matched.
Under the big eyes, the curvature of Yin Hong's mouth was very exaggerated, and he smiled a very terrifying feeling.
It's a doll.
It lay on its stomach on the ground, maintaining a crawling position, and if it hadn't been spotted by Yu, it might have to crawl out of the bed on its own.
The hand was still raised, as if he was trying to catch someone.
Such a small thing was under the bed, and Yu Xing felt a little cold.
With a blank face, he picked up the doll and placed it on the opposite side of the painting, so that the doll and the woman could face each other.
"Go and play on your own." He said.