Time passed minute by minute, and the bell tower had not made a sound at all since last night, probably because the blood of the corpse had penetrated deep into the machine, causing the parts to stagnate.

The longer Yanagihashi delayed, the more uneasy the nine people who remained behind the walls of the recreation room, some of whom were wearing watches, kept raising their wrists to check the time. The feeling of being suffocated and breathless in a small, crowded space can swell indefinitely, especially in the event of a horrific event and there is no way to escape, but no one wants to object to it.

After all, it's still relatively safe here, everyone can fully monitor the actions of others, and if the murderer is unfortunate enough to be here, they will also become a turtle in the urn together.

Among all of them, only Liu Qiaopu and Shan Mingze are two exceptions, and the old man has ulterior motives and is deliberately covering up his emotions. And Shan Mingze was swollen and red because of the wound on his face, and he couldn't see any expression.

He covered his face with his hands, his lower eyelids and the entire bridge of his nose were swollen like steamed buns, which even affected his gaze, Shan Mingze could only look up and look at the ceiling.

Sister Wang and the cook's mother-in-law couldn't bear to see him like this, because gauze alone had no anti-inflammatory drugs, and it couldn't have any practical effect. Sister Wang gently broke the hands that were holding her tightly, leaned close to Liuqiao and said, "Otherwise, I will press the medicine just now into powder and put it on Mr. Shan's wound, so that he should accept it." ”

"It's useless, I think he's wary of us and won't touch medicine." Liu Qiaopu replied in a low voice, his eyes were also focused on Shan Mingze.

"But it's easy to get infected like this, his wound is so deep, I don't know if it hurts the nerves!" Sister Wang sighed and said, "I have to let him take some medicine, or Grandpa Liu, you have to think of a way?" ”

Sister Wang's words made sense, they should really help this young man, so Liu Qiaopu shouted at Shan Mingze: "Boy, come here." ”

Shan Mingze didn't understand what the old man was going to do? After being stunned for a few seconds, he slowly stood up and walked towards Liuqiao Pu and Sister Wang, walking a little unbalanced, probably because his eyes could not fully see the ground.

Before Shan Mingze could stand still, Liu Qiaopu took out a white pill from his pocket, tore off two pills from it, handed one of them to Sister Wang, and stuffed the other into his mouth, and then said, "Take the medicine!" It's an anti-inflammatory, it's not toxic!! ”

Liu Qiaopu's simple and rude approach surprised Sister Wang, but I have to admit that this is also the most effective method. She handed the anti-inflammatory medicine to Shan Mingze and said, "Eat it, otherwise your wound will be easily infected." ”

"I ......" Shan Mingze took the white pill, there seemed to be something shaking in his swollen eyes, he didn't take the medicine immediately, but sat down next to Liuqiao Pu and said, "Can I sit here?" ”

"Whatever you want." Liu Qiaopu replied stiffly, but his eyes did not take his eyes off Shan Mingze's wound, as if he was checking the condition of the wound for him.

Waiting for Shan Mingze to put the white pill in his mouth, Sister Wang immediately handed over a bottle of drink, but the drink she handed to Liu Qiaopu was rejected by the old man on the grounds that he didn't like things that were too sweet. The old man just picked up a napkin, covered his mouth and coughed a few times, then put the napkin in his pocket.

"Boy, your wound wasn't cut with an iron tool, was it?"

"No, it was cut by a piece of wood that had been warped under the stairs." Shan Mingze replied.

"Where's the stairs?"

"I fell at the end of the stairs in the secret passage of the Blue Tower, where I should still be able to find my blood."

When Shan Mingze answered, he touched the wound, and the blood slowly seeped out from it, and the little girls in the room turned their heads and didn't want to look more, Liu Qiaopu said: "Take a clean napkin and wipe it, Xiao Wang, is there anything like white medicine at home?" ”

"No, I don't know if there's in Mr. Housekeeper's room? He had some medicine with him. ”

"There should be one here," Liu Qiaopu sat up with his hands propped up, felt a convulsion in his throat and stomach, sighed in his heart that people were too old to withstand the toss, and said, "Didn't you say before that there was a warehouse on the second floor of the main house?" The housekeeper often has to go there to get things, I think it should be the storage room of this house, and if it can really lead to the second and third floors of the main house, there will be all the usual supplies that you need in your daily life. ”

The cook interjected and said: "Mr. Liu, I don't think it should be so sure, after all, the main house is not sure if anyone has lived there, and besides, except for the food on this mountain, there are very few other things stored, and if the medicine is not needed, we don't need it a few times a year, we don't even ask, it is the housekeeper who decides whether to bring it back from the bottom of the mountain." ”

"Doesn't the hostess need to use it?" Yanagihashi asked.

"No, with fear by her side, her mental state will be very stable, and she refuses to take medicine."

"And what about the burns on her body? Your hostess was also more or less affected by the fire back then. ”

"That one has long been healed, but it just has a little scar on its body, and it's not a big deal. The housekeeper let us say she ......"

Halfway through the cook's explanation, Liu Qiaopu interrupted him and waved his hand and said, "I know this, mother-in-law, you should have been a part of the treacherous house at the time of the fire, right?" Do you have any burns? ”

"I wasn't at home at the time."

The cook's words shocked everyone, because they always thought that the cook was the maid at the time of the fire. The cook continued, "I know what you suspect? At that time, there were two maids in the Spiegel House, I was only in charge of cooking, and the other maid did similar work to Xiao Wang now, and the housekeeper and I happened to go down the mountain at that time. ”

"Because I heard the weather forecast before, there is about to be a snowstorm, we take advantage of the good weather, we want to go to the mountain together to purchase, the main reason is that the hostess likes to eat mutton, and the mutton selected by Mr. Housekeeper is really bad, once brought a piece of stinky back, so I want to go down the mountain to see with him, tell him how to choose ingredients."

"How old were you, mother-in-law?" Liu Qiaopu asked unhurriedly, as if chatting, his eyes glanced at Shan Mingze intentionally or unintentionally, and Shan Mingze on the side still covered his face with his hands, and made a slight inhalation sound in his mouth, which made people feel very painful when they saw it.

The cook counted with her fingers and replied, "I can't remember clearly, I'm probably in my 30s, I'm almost 40 years old, I'm the oldest in the family, and then there's Mr. Housekeeper." ”

"What about the other maid? What's her name? Left after the fire? ”