30. Warmth on a small fire

Yes, Tang admits that he was a little neurotic about the reservoir incident seven years ago, and he can't forget that incident in his life, it was the first big heel in his life.

As a police officer at the Shuishui Police Station at that time, he thought that the accident was a murder, and the people from the substation thought it was an accident.

Now, Tang meets Maddie again, as if he has met an enemy. Tang felt that Maddie had something to do with the accident in chair 14 with the policeman's intuition. He decided to continue his investigation, secretly of course.

Tang couldn't say why he was so persistent.

Is it for a cause?

Or is it to satisfy a person's self-need, as his own "theory" assumes?

Throughout the day, Yan Yu, accompanied by Maddie, had a lot of fun at the ski resort.

In the evening, the manager of Baixue Hotel invited Maddie and Yan Yu to a seafood buffet, along with the assistant manager and several other guests.

Dinner lasted for a long time. The dishes are on the ground one by one, as if they will never be finished. The men drank all over the place, with liquor and beer, glass after glass, as if their stomachs would never be satisfied. Before the banquet ended, Yan Yu came back first, she said that she was too tired after a day of playing, and she wanted to rest early.

Back in the small wooden house, Yan Yu took off her clothes and went to the kang.

The little kang was still hot, but she couldn't sleep, tossing and turning like a pancake.

In fact, Yan Yu came back early from the banquet not because she was too tired, but because she was very confused. Although she was happy on the surface for a day, in fact, there was always a mess in her heart, which was caused by the accident in chair 14.

For a day, Yan Yu tried her best to hide her psychological state, and she didn't want others to see anything until she figured out the problem - including her husband Maddie. Now, she wants to stay quietly alone and sort out the mess in her heart.

When did that mess start to form?

It seems that just after the ropeway accident, she didn't care at first, she was just frightened by the accident. However, when she was shocked, there was a trace of doubt in her heart, and those doubts were intertwined and entangled, filling Yan Yu's heart.

Yan Yu finally felt that something was wrong with what happened today.

What's wrong?

She couldn't say it, but Yan Yu felt in her subconscious as if when and where she had seen or heard of this kind of similar scene?

So, have you ever seen or done this kind of thing before? Yan Yu thought.

Or is today's scene a repetition and reproduction of some kind of scene?

She pondered in the inventory of her memories, but never remembered.

However, she firmly believes that her subconscious is accurate.

Yan Yu was dimly aware that although today's accident happened to those two young people, Yan Yu felt that the accident was related to herself.

The problem was that she couldn't find evidence.

The chopping wood in the stove pit was still "crackling" and burning, exuding a bitter taste, which was faint, as if it was far away. When have you ever smelled the bitter smell of burning firewood? It seems that when I was a child, I went to my grandmother's house in the countryside, squatted in front of the stove pit to help my grandmother cook on the fire, my grandmother's house burned apricot strips, pouted a handful of apricot strips and stuffed them in the stove pit, the apricot strips were burning slightly, and the roots were "zilala" foaming, and now I recall it, I still feel a kind of warmth...... The small fire kang burned too hot, and the heart fire was too strong, Yan Yu couldn't lie down. She got up and got dressed, and went outside alone.

Tonight was a windless night, without the bitter cold of last night, and the air was filled with a kind of sweetness and warmth of snow. The stars in the night sky seemed to be more numerous than yesterday, bigger, and nearer, the moon was rounder than yesterday, and the snow under the moonlight became blue, so blue that it was so blue that it was eye-catching, as if it were sprinkled with fine sapphires.

The surrounding groves cast a clear shadow, as if a patch of gray moss had grown out of the snow. Yan Yu walked in the moonlight, stepping on the moonlight, stepping on the blue snow, breathing in the fresh air filtered out of the snow, and her mind became clear.

The sober Yan Yu is still thinking about the mess in her heart.

After today's ropeway accident, Yan Yu also saw the clip of the No. 14 chair seat belt, and there were traces of hard friction on the clip. Although Yan Yu doesn't know how to scout, the traces on the card are too obvious, and anyone can see that it is a hard wound that has been broken with a tool.

Yan Yu naturally saw it.

Who broke the clip of the seat belt for what? If the clip of the seat belt fails, there will be an accident and it will kill people.

In this way, it seems that the incident in chair 14 was a man-made accident, or that someone deliberately committed murder.

Murder?!

Yan Yu was taken aback by her own thoughts: this is a murder that happened around her!

So, who is the murderer going to murder?

According to the general logical reasoning: since the murderer broke the clip of the seat belt on chair No. 14, then the target of the murderer's murder should be the person sitting in chair No. 14.

Chair 14 is the Chair of Death.

The two young men were sitting on chair 14, so was the murderer trying to murder those two young men?

If the murderer's murder targets were the two young men, the accident had nothing to do with him.

Yan Yu felt a sense of relief in her heart. However, this ease did not last long, and then Yan Yu's heart was grabbed by a sudden inspiration.

No, no! The two young men were only temporarily seated in chair No. 14, and their seat in chair No. 14 was just an accident, an accident, and the murderer would not design his murder plan according to the plot that appeared unexpectedly. Or rather, the killer himself would not have imagined such an accident in the execution of the murder plan - someone preemptively sat in chair 14.

So, who should be sitting in chair 14? In other words, if those two young people did not suddenly appear, who would have been the one who must have sat on the No. 14 seat?

Yan Yu followed her own train of thought and deduced:

- Maddie and I went to the ropeway very early this morning, and there was no one else in the ropeway landing pavilion at that time, and it was assumed that it was me and Maddie who should have taken the No. 14 chair. It was the two young men who sat down in the place of me and Maddie. If it weren't for the two young men who suddenly appeared and got into chair 14 first, then it would have been me and Maddie who were murdered.

Thinking of this, Yan Yu was startled!

Could it be that someone is trying to murder me and Maddie?

Are you a little too nervous? Maybe that's not the case, for example: the seat belt clip in chair 14 was not broken today, but at a previous time, and the cause of the saboteur has nothing to do with us, we just ran into it by chance......

Wrong wrong! Yan Yu denied herself in her heart, because she still vaguely saw something completely similar in the mess, but she hadn't had time to pull out the thread yet.

So, let's move on to the next step:

If the murderer's murder targets are me and Maddie, then, who is the murderer?

According to the reasoning just now, the murderer should have been the one who knew that the murdered object would be in the No. 14 chair.

So, who knew Maddie and I would be in chair 14?

It's a tough question.

There are dozens of chairs on the long list of chairs on the ropeway, and who sits on which one in advance does not make a reservation, nor does it buy the wrong ticket, and the skier who comes here to catch up with which one sits is completely up to the rider himself-

Wait......

The occupants choose their own?

Yan Yu's heart suddenly lit up, she seemed to see the crack that uncovered the mystery of the accident, and found the thread that sorted out the mess in her heart.

The one who sits is the one who knows.

Because those in the know can choose chair 14.

Then, the murderer is the one who sat in the No. 14 chair.

Of course, it wasn't the two young people who came from behind, but Maddie, who had planned to sit in chair 14.

The snow under her feet was making a "creaking" breaking sound, like Yan Yu's heart beginning to break, and occasionally a gust of wind swept through the woods, blowing a cloud of snow mist under Yan Yu's feet. Due to the psychological changes, Yan Yu felt that the night around her was starting to become less beautiful, and even a little terrifying. In this terrifying atmosphere, Yan Yu continued to think:

The reasoning that Maddie is the murderer is well-founded, as she is reminded of a series of abnormal behaviors of Maddie in the ropeway boarding and landing pavilion:

——When Yan Yu and Maddie came to the ropeway landing pavilion after breakfast, the ropeway had already started to run, and Maddie should have led me to sit on it, and there were constantly chairs turning in front of me. The number of the chair that came at the beginning seemed to be 6 or 7, but it was before the 14th anyway. However, Maddie didn't ride right away, and he missed the first few chairs under the pretext that the manager was talking to the fire and cigarette lighting. After lighting the cigarette, he was supposed to ride, but it seemed to be chair 9 or 10 that came at that time, and Maddie didn't take it, so he excused himself to tie his shoes and delayed for a while. He seems to be deliberately delaying time like this, the purpose is to wait, what are you waiting for? Wait for chair 14 to arrive, because only he knows the secrets in chair 14.

- However, just then, two young men unexpectedly appeared, and they came after them and impolitely got into chair 14, which broke Maddie's original plan.

So, Maddie was so annoyed that she shouted at the two young men, almost regardless of her demeanor. In fact, it doesn't have much to do with sitting in a chair early and sitting in a chair late, if it is under normal circumstances, there is no need for Maddie to be so angry, and the anger shows that the two young men have sabotaged Maddie's carefully conceived murder plan and made his plot abort.