Xie Yunmeng asked, "Have you been busy in the kitchen since this morning until the murder?" ”

"This morning, ah......" Aunt Tao answered this question with an uncertain look on her face, she said: "I don't know about the two of them, but I have been told by Lao Nuo since the morning that I don't have to go to the kitchen to work today, and then let us stay here to weave umbrella noodles until lunch." ”

"It's the same with the two of us." The other two aunts immediately answered.

From this question and answer, it reflects what kind of plan Lao Nuo seems to be arranging. The suspicion began to focus on Lao Nuo little by little, and this inexplicably hit his head against the railing. Is the elderly man who survived by jumping into the lake the mastermind of the murder on the island? Or maybe he's just an accomplice and everything he does is planned by someone else.

Xie Yunmeng got up before dawn that day, and he recalled a little that he did not see the three aunts in the hotel in the morning, only the two little girls. That was before nine o'clock. After nine o'clock, Xie Yunmeng and Yun Yeyao left the hotel and went to the dock.

Xie Yunmeng asked Yun Yeyao: "Xiao Yao, when you went to wash up after breakfast, was there definitely no one in the kitchen?" ”

"There was no one, and I went to see the kitchen, the bathroom, and the warehouse at the back. Otherwise, I wouldn't have noticed any anomalies in the warehouse. ”

"Was something already going on in the kitchen?" Aunt Tao asked weakly, and Xie Yunmeng replied, "No, don't think nonsense, just answer our questions." ”

"Oh!" After the middle-aged woman responded, she seemed to feel a little uncomfortable maintaining a movement, and gently pulled her fist out of her pocket. Yun Yeyao immediately asked her, "Auntie, what are you holding in your hand?" ”

Aunt Tao was startled by him, and her hand immediately stopped in mid-air. Xie Yunmeng immediately stood up and walked over, his eyes fell on the fist hidden by the middle-aged woman on the side of his body, it really seemed to be holding something, Xie Yunmeng stretched out his hand towards Aunt Tao and asked, "Can you show me what is in your hand?" ”

"This ...... Alas! Forget it, if you have to look at it...... "Aunt Tao spread out her palm, and there was a small, round tubular thing in it with a sponge stuffed in the middle, Xie Yunmeng didn't recognize what it was? But Yun Yeyao made a big red face, an actress he knew had done an advertisement for this thing, so Mr. Actor immediately understood.

Quickly stood up, pulled Xie Yunmeng back to his seat, and Yun Yeyao said embarrassedly: "Xiao Meng, don't ask about other people's privacy!" ”

"But...... Why? Xie Yunmeng was still looking cloudy, and Aunt Tao's voice came from the other side: "Thank you!" Mr. Yun, I've been restless because I'm not very convenient. Now, if there's nothing to do, can you let me go out? ”

"However, there is only one ...... in the hotel here."

"It's okay, the dock can be solved, there is a temporary one." Aunt Tao said.

Yun Yeyao remembered that when he and the criminal police arrived on the dock, they didn't see any temporary toilets. So he was skeptical, but since the middle-aged woman said that it could be solved over there, it shouldn't be a lie.

Xie Yunmeng interjected and said, "Xiao Yao, if I accompany my aunt over, I can also help if there are any difficulties." "What he meant was to spy on Aunt Tao and not let her take the opportunity to do anything else.

"You... You're such a piece of wood! Yun Yeyao had a feeling of wanting to hold his forehead, but he was also reluctant to explain things clearly in front of the criminal police, because it would embarrass his aunt.

So he took it upon himself to say, "I'll accompany my aunt." ”

Aunt Tao picked up the conversation, she was quite generous, and said: "I know that you are afraid that I will slip away, anyway, you are all old women, it doesn't matter, Mr. Yun, you can go with me." ”

"Auntie, don't worry, I'll stand in the aisle of the dock and wait for you later." Yun Yeyao said, Aunt Tao smiled at this young man, feeling that he was quite considerate.

Xie Yunmeng also reacted at this time, he hesitated, thinking that his aunt couldn't do anything to Xiao Yao anyway, so he agreed to Yun Yeyao's proposal, but repeatedly instructed the two of them to go back quickly and not delay time.

Soon, only the criminal police and the other two aunts were left in the room, Xie Yunmeng cheered up and continued to ask, the aunts could not provide more substantive clues except for describing in detail what they were doing, they came to this island much later than Aunt Tao, and they didn't know anything about the past at all.

After listening for a while, Xie Yunmeng felt that there was nothing more to ask, so he asked the two aunts to go downstairs, but he didn't let the others come up for the time being, but followed the aunt downstairs downstairs, wanting to see the situation downstairs, they had been upstairs for more than an hour, what were the people downstairs doing? What to say? Xie Yunmeng wanted to know.

When a few people walked to the staircase, Xie Yunmeng inadvertently glanced back, the aisle of the board house was very long, and there were a total of more than a dozen doors from east to west. At first glance, Xie Yunmeng was even a little surprised, he only realized now that there were so many rooms lined up on the second floor of the board room, he originally thought that there was a row behind these rooms, and there were at most five or six rooms in front.

But when I entered, I realized that the back of the room was directly facing the large lake, and it was arranged in a north-south rectangle, and everyone lived in the same row. There is not even a single seam in the walls between the rooms, and the number of rooms can only be judged by the doors.

Every door was closed, Xie Yunmeng reached out and touched the wall, it felt very damp, the wood should have absorbed a lot of moisture, he asked his aunt: "The wooden walls of this house are so damp, won't they rot?" ”

"After a period of time, Lao Nuo will re-order the materials of the board house, and will repair them regularly, and all the wooden planks that are found to be damp and rotten, we will ship them outside to be recycled, so the house here has always been very strong."

It was when they were talking that there was a sound of the door opening and closing downstairs, Xie Yunmeng thought that Yun Yeyao and Aunt Tao were back, and immediately walked downstairs, and the two aunts followed him all the way downstairs.

The three of them came downstairs, Xie Yunmeng's body had not yet stood firm, and he saw a wet man rushing towards him, the criminal police turned sideways slightly, and wanted to avoid this man, but after seeing the man's appearance, he immediately changed his mind and caught the tall body that fell towards him with both hands.