"Auntie, are we really going to do this? You've already given too much! The man who entered the room could not bear to do what he said next, and his hands rested on the woman's shoulders, stroking her thin skin, tears falling with the lake.

"It's okay, for my Nono, it's okay!" The woman just repeated the words, and from her face, there was no fear at all.

Her hand slowly touched the back of the man's hand, as gentle as a mother's. The man hugged the woman's shoulders and wept silently, but for the sake of the other, he had to be ruthless. Saying sorry in his heart, his hand slowly wrapped the blue ribbon around the woman's neck.

The man closed his eyes and did not look at the woman's painful expression, as if a century had passed, and the man felt a burning heat splash on his face and body, and quickly opened his eyes in surprise.

"Then do you know what difficulties Kang Chen encountered to come to the island?" Yun Yeyao interjected and asked, he was very interested in the reason why Kang Chen came to the island.

"I don't know," the middle-aged chef pouted and said, "This matter is only known to Lao Nuo, he hasn't told us about it, it seems that there is some privacy involved." ”

"What about the oranges? What kind of person is Juju? Is she here? ”

While asking, Yun Yeyao looked around, wanting to see what Xiaoju looked like, but the answer was still no, the chef said: "Xiaoju is not here, she has not appeared since she quarreled with Kang Chen in the morning." I remember...... By the way, it seems that an aunt has seen Xiaoju, and we can go and ask her. ”

In fact, when Lao Nuo and Kang Chen knew that the things in the kitchen had been touched, they planned to let Xiaoju and her aunt go to the kitchen to clean up, and then pretended to accidentally meet the criminal police and actors to let them know. However, Lao Nuo did not find Xiaoju at all, and in the time after the quarrel, everyone on Bifang Island did not see Xiaoju appear.

After the cook finished speaking, he turned back to look for the aunt he mentioned in the crowd, and soon found his target, and following the direction of his finger, a woman in an apron who was bending over to fiddle with something appeared to them.

The woman was broad, not fat or thin, probably in her forties, with her hair tied tightly behind her head and a little greasy and damp. In both hands, he held a plate full of small pieces of food.

When the three of them approached, they heard a low meow of a kitten, and it turned out that the woman was feeding a few kittens, and the plate in her hand was filled with fresh fish cut into small pieces.

For this kind of conversation, Yun Yeyao is the best, so Xie Yunmeng and the chef stood in the back as bystanders. Yun Yeyao ran up and asked, "What a cute little kitten, where is the female cat?" ”

When the aunt heard the voice, she turned her head and happened to meet Yan Rushunying's face, and was immediately attracted, her eyes stayed on Yun Yeyao's face for a while, and she didn't answer the question, but exclaimed: "It's so beautiful!" ”

"Uh... Thank you. Yun Yeyao replied a little embarrassed, shook her hand in front of her aunt's eyes, and asked, "Auntie, what do I call you?" ”

"Oh, I'm sorry, my surname is Tao, the Tao of ceramics."

Aunt Tao straightened up, and several little milk cats immediately rushed under the table, maybe they hadn't learned to accept strangers yet, Yun Yeyao didn't even see their appearance clearly, and they disappeared.

'It's time to change this thing, it's time to change it...... Aunt Ye kept repeating this sentence in her heart, lingering like a spell.

After all the windows were closed, the woman breathed a sigh of relief, and a familiar voice came from the door of his room: "Xiao Ye, are you okay." ”

The middle-aged woman didn't look back, but she couldn't control the tears falling from her eyes, she knew who the man behind her was? also knew why this man came to him, so he only said: "Don't worry, it will be changed, everything will be fine, and I will remind them every day to pay attention to what they should do." ”

Although the voice was very soft and soft, it seemed like thunder in the ears of the man at the door, and he knew what she meant. She also knew that he actually had a deep concern.

The two of them were silent for two or three minutes, the woman never looked at the man, even the breath in the void seemed to be condensed, the man gently closed the door and walked out, while the woman was still looking at the wooden blinds in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking?

Outside the lobby of the hotel

Lunch has almost been eaten, everyone is cleaning up the table, Lao Nuo is commanding alone, while squinting at Kanghong in the warehouse from time to time, Kanghong seems to have compromised with himself, has been working silently, eating is waiting for everyone to sit down before coming, after eating, and immediately returned to the warehouse.

Lao Nuo was noncommittal, his expression was not proud, nor was he dissatisfied, and when facing these workers, he had always had no emotions to speak of, except under special circumstances.

However, there is an exception to this, and that is Xiao Ju, so among the reasons why Xiao Chen made him angry today, his bad attitude towards Xiao Ju was also one of them. Lao Nuo naturally wouldn't tell Kang Hong about this, this old man didn't have a good impression in Lao Nuo's heart, if he hadn't been working here since the artificial island was built, Lao Nuo would definitely drive him away mercilessly.

Thinking of Xiao Ju, Lao Nuo looked around, and actually saw her on the dock, Lao Nuo frowned, and walked towards the dock without saying a word, Kang Ju was there alone, which made him very uneasy.

He walked a few steps, and Kanghong in the warehouse noticed that Kanghong did not move his footsteps, but secretly observed where Lao Nuo wanted to go, and when he found that Lao Nuo was actually heading towards the dock, he immediately turned around and hid behind the cargo box in the warehouse.

In the noisy and busy sound of the artificial island, there was a slight sound of falling water from somewhere, and no one noticed it, Lao Nuo quickened his pace and walked towards the pier aisle, and the expression on his face gradually became agitated.

The whole village liked Nuo Nuo very much, especially Lao Yan, Nuo Nuo was like his own son, so now the most impatient at the edge of the big lake was Lao Yan, who wore a thin coat and let the wind on the lake blow his hair and clothes, pacing back and forth, constantly looking at the lake in the distance, hoping to see a miracle.

But the more he hoped for a miracle, the more disappointed he became, there was no shadow of a boat on the lake, only the green aquatic plants kept being lifted to the shore, and Lao Yan couldn't control it anymore, and he said to the fishermen on the side: "Why don't I go out to sea first?" I'm good at the water, and even if I fall into the water, I won't necessarily drown, so you can continue to wait on the shore. ”

"How can this be? With such a big wind and waves, no matter how good the water is, it can't be controlled. As the old saying goes, besides, you are old, you haven't sailed for many years, and we can't let you take risks. The fishermen who had summoned him to the lake immediately dismissed his idea.

Immediately, like two spinning tops, the two of them continued to circle back and forth on the shore, thinking of better countermeasures.

But in this case, what can they do but wait? The worry on Lao Yan's face became more and more intense, and the people around him were no better, until the sky was getting darker and the day was about to pass, and the lake was finally a little calmer.

This time, no one persuaded him, Lao Yan immediately unlocked a boat, drove the boat to the center of the lake, the fishermen behind him were also ready, they continued to observe, as long as the waves on the lake calmed down a little more, they would follow Lao Yan to sail together to find Nuo Nuo and his son.

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Nearly half of the day had passed, and the shadow could not have stayed long under the surface of the lake, and from time to time he poked his head out to breathe and observe if the ship he was waiting for had reached the designated area. Today, he deliberately attracted that person to the surface of the lake, just to take advantage of the wind and waves to kill him, but it had been a long time since the incident, and that person had never appeared, which made the black shadow very anxious and felt faintly uneasy in his heart.

Finally, at the moment when his heart was racing and he wanted to give up, he saw a familiar boat from a distance, which was heading towards him, and he was equally familiar with the middle-aged man on the boat, as long as he glanced at it from a distance, he could recognize who this person was.

The shadow took a sharp breath and submerged himself into the undetectable place at the bottom of the lake, estimating that it would take several minutes for the ship to sail close to him, and in those few minutes, the shadow waited like centuries, until he felt that the air in his chest was about to melt away, and a shadow finally passed over his head.

The black shadow hurriedly put on the mask he had prepared in advance, and like a ghost, gradually floated up from under the lake, ready to take the life of the man on the boat......

"Why can't you know? You tell me why! (Questioned by the loud-voiced)

At this point in the conversation, Yun Yeyao paused, continued to look at the floor, and muttered the numbers in his mouth: "One two, and then in turn another, two, three, why are they all towards the door?" ”

Yun Yeyao's words here seem to be a little strange, what one, two, three? What does that mean exactly? In fact, Yun Yeyao was counting footprints, but with this explanation, the problem came again, the room was closed with curtains, it was pitch black, and he didn't even turn on the light, and Yun Yeyao didn't lie on the floor to look closer, how could he see the footprints on the board clearly?

Before explaining this, let's talk about the orientation of the board room, the position where Yun Yeyao stands, and the general structure of the room.

As we have described before, the whole island is rectangular, the hotel and the board house are at the two ends of the rectangle, the hotel is located on the east side, the gate faces west, and the whole house is located in a posture facing west and facing east.

The prefabricated house is located on the west side of Bifang Island, close to the wharf, but it is located in a completely different direction from the hotel, with its gate facing the south of the pier harbor and its back against the northern edge, which is the same as all warehouses, and there is a large area in front of the board house for people to walk.

Although the exterior structure of the hotel and the prefabricated house are not the same, the internal structure is the same, and the doors of the rooms on the second floor of the hotel open to the south, including the balcony. (There is no balcony on the side of the hotel, please look for the previous description of the structure of the interior rooms and kitchen)

Yun Yeyao now entered the first room on the east side of the second floor of the board room (all the rooms on this island, we are arranged from east to west, with east as the beginning and west as the tail) He was standing next to the window of the room, that is, with his back to the north wall of the room, facing the door.

From his two hands, on his right: on the north wall are the windows, and then the small wardrobe against the wall. There was nothing hanging on the west wall, just a few wooden boxes stacked near the floor, which were supposed to hold clothes and daily necessities.

On the left-hand side: the same north wall, leaning against a small desk and a small chair, just beside Yun Yeyao. Then turn directly to the east wall, there are some protruding shelves on it, and there are a lot of materials on the shelves, Yun Yeyao doesn't recognize what these materials are for? I can't see what they look like. In my mind, I guess it's probably the material for making umbrellas, or some tools to dismantle and build houses.

Then there are the two sides of the gate in front of you, and the ornaments here are relatively clear in the eyes of Yun Yeyao due to the distance. Yun Yeyao is a farsighted eye, and the farther the distance, the clearer it is to him. However, there are no furniture and electrical appliances on either side of the gate, just some decorations that are not easy to break.

"yes, but I still think it......" Aunt Tao seemed to want to say something, but changed halfway, she continued: "Xiaoju has very white skin, a little taller than us, about your shoulders, and the person is very thin, huh...... One leg was a little lame, but that was in the past, and now it is recovering well, and it is almost impossible to see. In terms of personality,,It can only be said that he is silent and introverted.,Don't communicate much with people on the island.,Like to be locked in a room alone to stir things up.。 ”

“…… Does his personality have something to do with love? Yun Yeyao approached Aunt Tao and asked, his eyes flickered a little, as if he felt that he was asking a question that he shouldn't ask, or was testing what Aunt Tao still knew?

Aunt Tao avoided his gaze and said, "How could I possibly know? However, Xiao Chen's temper is quite torturous, maybe it has something to do with it. ”

"Oh, Auntie, are you going to make a heavy light umbrella in the afternoon?" Yun Ye asked.

Another aunt replied, "We will help polish the umbrella bones and do some rough work, as for the weaving and painting of the umbrella surface, it is not something we can do, those are the work of Xiaoju and Lao Nuo." ”

"Lao Nuo, by the way, it's Uncle Li, what is his full name?"

"You little handsome guy has a lot of questions, but when I think about it, we, like you, never knew what Lao Nuo's full name was? I only know that his surname is Li, and there is a Nuo in his name. ”

"Maybe Noh isn't in his name." Aunt Tao added: "We just called him Lao Nuo, Lao Nuo is used to it, and he has never said that there is a Nuo in his name." ”

"Hasn't anyone asked the question of Uncle Lee's name for so many years?"

"Who cares about this? It's hard to work every day, unlike you city people, who have a lot of free time and think a lot. Aunt Tao replied.

A few people you say a word, the atmosphere is not bad, Yun Yeyao while talking, while reaching out to help the aunts fold the clothes they have received, because he folded crookedly, and was ridiculed by the aunts for a long time.

In 2011, inside the hotel

After Xie Yunmeng and Yun Yeyao separated, they walked directly to the hotel, he didn't expect that he had just caught the horror that happened in the hotel when he went over at this time, and it also confirmed what Yun Yeyao saw behind the kitchen in the morning.

"But the level of the orange is ......"

"You can teach her, Aunt Ye, Xiaoju learns things quickly." Xiao Chen insisted on his opinion.

Aunt Ye didn't want to argue with him, and said, "Okay, let Xiaoju live in my room these days, so that I can learn a little more." ”

"No, Xiaoju must live by my side!" Xiao Chen suddenly said with a gloomy face.

Aunt Ye asked rhetorically, "Are you still worried about my middle-aged aunt?" ”

“……”

"I'm going to protect her and not let her wander around other people's rooms, right?"

“…… Okay, but please let me stay here during the day, okay? ”

"Alas! Stay as long as you want. ”

Aunt Ye lowered her head, as if she was very helpless, Yueyue listened to the conversation between the two people, and felt that Xiao Chen was starting to become unreasonable again, so she sat down next to Aunt Ye, patted the middle-aged woman's back, and began to chat intentionally or unintentionally.

Xiao Chen glanced at the two women and walked towards the door, he wanted to go to the kitchen to see if there was anything he could do to help? Anyway, for the time being, the work here is done, and he can't interject.

After Xiao Chen left, Aunt Ye grabbed Yueyue's hand and said, "Little girl, you better leave this island as soon as possible, there's nothing fun here." ”

"However, Uncle Li said that the ship will not be empty for the next few days."

"Don't listen to him, that old man always says this in order to attract customers, you see that there are so many cargo ships parked on the dock, which one can't take you ashore, wait a minute, I'll tell Lao Li, you can go back with the cargo ship."

"But......" Yueyue hesitated.

"What else could it be? Don't you want to go home? Aunt Ye adjusted her sitting posture and asked in front of Yueyue.

Yue Yue naturally took Aunt Ye's hand, helped her gently soothe the skin around the wound, and said, "It's not that I don't want to go home, it's Xiaodou, he seems to be very obsessed with the village on the north bank of the big lake, and he must want to go and see it." I don't know why for this, anyway, Xiaodou wants to go, so I'm willing to go with him. ”

Hearing Yueyue say this, Aunt Ye withdrew her hand from Yueyue's palm, put it on her knees, looked out the window as if she was a little unhappy, and said, "Although the village there has been rebuilt, it has nothing to do with the past, and the people in the past are no longer there, so what's the use of you going?" ”

"Xiaodou is an orphan, he has no relatives, he wants to find a little trace of the past, it is understandable, I think, there should still be his relatives there." Yue Yue replied.

"It's impossible, it's been 30 years, and everyone is gone." Aunt Ye's voice was so light that only she could hear it clearly, and Yueyue looked at her suspiciously, not understanding what she meant, so she didn't continue to speak.

When Lao Nuo stood up tremblingly, Chef Yan, who was still standing in front of him just now, was gone, probably rushing into the hotel with the crowd, and Lao Nuo was left standing alone on the edge of the lake outside, as if he had encountered the end of the world.

Far from ending there, just as everyone had just entered the scene of the murder and had not yet gained a foothold, there was a sudden heavy crash outside the hotel gate, and the sound of a man climbing over the railing and falling into the lake.

Chef Yan was closest to the gate at the moment, he was standing in the middle of the stairs leading to the second floor, and after hearing the sound outside, he immediately turned his head and ran out, but the door was already empty, and on the railing near the side of the gate, the burst of blood was still dripping, and Lao Nuo, who was supposed to be standing there, couldn't even see the figure at this moment.

"Come back, everyone, Lao Nuo has jumped into the lake! Whoever has good water quality hurry up and catch him! Chef Yan lay on the railing next to the bloodstained and shouted loudly, he couldn't see what was floating on the water. But at this time, this location, apart from jumping Lao Nuo, what else could it be?

No one came out of the hotel, no one answered his shouts, only the wind on the great lake hunted in his ears, and the people in the lake were about to disappear under the lake. Chef Yan suddenly made a big decision, he didn't even take off his coat, he climbed the railing, and jumped into the big lake, and the lake splashed high, swallowing everything in an instant......

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In the blood-covered room, no one had yet entered to take a look, and in the middle of the blood there were faint traces of dragging, which stretched all the way to the outside of the windowsill, as if a person was dragging the corpse and jumping into the lake outside.

This is the interior of the fifth room on the second floor of the hotel, Lao Nuo didn't mention it, so no one will run into it, his door is still tightly closed, the furniture, floors and soft objects in the room are wet everywhere, and one thing, what everyone didn't notice is that Xiao Chen, who was unwilling to let his aunt check his trouser legs in the morning, left from this room.

This matter has probably been forgotten by everyone, including the current Aunt Tao.

At this moment, Aunt Tao and Yun Yeyao had just packed up all their clothes and took the clothes back to the room, Yun Yeyao was ready to leave, and when she left, Aunt Tao suddenly ran down the stairs alone, caught up with Yun Yeyao, and gave him a half-finished heavy light umbrella.

She took the initiative to take Aunt Ye's arm, and her head rested on her shoulder, the middle-aged woman finally reacted a little, her body moved slightly, and her pupils turned back, just on top of the girl's head.

'If he was still here, maybe I would have such a lively and lovely daughter a long time ago, Nono, are you still waiting for me? ’

The uninjured hand unconsciously lifted up, wanting to stroke the girl's soft hair, but before it came into contact, it drooped down, Aunt Ye's body slowly fell to the bed, the strength was passing from her little by little, and the pupils were slowly dilating, and what flowed out of the newly put gauze was no longer bright red, but jet black.

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Inside the hotel kitchen

"Ah——!!h The screams without warning startled everyone, Xiao Chen quickly looked at the source of the screams, and he saw Xiaodou slumped on the kitchen floor like crazy, waving his hands wildly and moving his body backwards.

Xiao Chen hurriedly ran out and asked, "What's wrong with you?!" ”

"Dead, dead! Dead man without a head!! Xiao Dou shrank his whole body under the big kitchen table and yelled at Xiao Chen.

"Don't hide, where the hell are the dead? Let's make it clear! ”

But Xiaodou had no way to answer his question, and the 27-year-old young man was so frightened that he almost lost his mind, and he was still shrinking back until his back was hit hard by the corner of the table, and then he stopped his movements and gasped violently.

There was no way, Xiao Chen could only look for it by himself, he looked around the kitchen, it was still the same as just now, and then, he followed Xiaodou's line of sight and found that the direction was towards the water tank, so he stepped to the edge of the water tank. The water tank is in the corner of the kitchen, very close to the door of the small warehouse.

When Xiao Chen looked inside, he immediately understood why Xiaodou was frightened like that, he himself was scared into a cold sweat, and he almost fell to the ground. Under the clear water, there was a headless corpse floating, the neck of the corpse was cut by a knife and the flesh was blurred, pieces of flesh and nerves, and uncut bones were floating in the water, and even the trachea and esophagus in the cut surface could be seen.

The whole body had been blistered and swollen, the legs were bent and curled up on the stomach, the knees could be seen to have been knocked with a blunt object, the kneecaps on both sides were all shattered, exposing the flesh, and the entire thigh to calf part was bruised.

The toes under the feet curled up, the soles of the feet bent sideways in an abnormal position, and the skin on the soles of the feet could be seen curled up, as if someone had filed with a file, floating in the water one by one, but no blood flowed out, only whitish skin.

Throwing the things in her hand into the room, the woman followed into the room at once, almost like a fast-flying bird. The sound of footsteps was accompanied by the sound of things falling to the ground, then the creak of windows opening, and finally, the sound of a man leaping into a large lake and crashing against the water.

The water splashed high and splashed on the windows, on the walls, and on the crumbling window frames.

After a long time, the people in the other room had begun to be in a daze again, and suddenly there was a loud noise in the room that the woman had just entered, and the sound of wood breaking and glass breaking sounded together, and within a few seconds they all fell into the water, and then splashed high together.

'Damn it, don't damn it, should all be dead, right?' The man in a daze thought to himself, 'How long can we stay here?' ’

No one knew the answer to this question, because everyone was waiting for Mr. Detective to give them a suitable answer, but at the moment, our young detective was inside the hotel, and he had no clue at all.

——

As soon as Yun Yeyao entered the hotel, he heard Xie Yunmeng's roar: "What the hell is going on with this head?" What about the body! Where did he come from? ”

The sound came from the kitchen, Yun Yeyao braked suddenly, turned around and rushed into the bottom of the kitchen hallway, he rushed straight forward without a head, completely unaware of what was under his feet.

Xie Yunmeng was standing at the door of the kitchen, looking down at a disgusting pool of blood on the ground, and suddenly a person rushed over, stepped on the blood, and then stood unsteadily and slid forward on his toes, and the newcomer fell to the ground like this, his buttocks and the back of his head hit the ground, and it hurt to hear.

"What's the matter with you! You ......" Xie Yunmeng just opened his mouth and cursed a few words, and he saw clearly that the person who came was Yun Yeyao, and hurriedly stepped over the blood, rushed up to help the person up, and asked him: "Why are you rushing so quickly?" There's another incident out there?! ”

"That..."Yun Yeyao was dizzy from the fall, and it took a while to come to his senses and say: "Uncle Li and Mr. Cook both jumped down and jumped into the big lake, and Uncle Li also hit the railing, and there was a lot of blood on the railing, and it is still flowing down!" ”

"What?!" Xie Yunmeng was furious when he heard it, after all, he was still a young criminal policeman who had never handled a case independently, and the situation had suddenly developed so seriously without warning, he was a little careless, and his body was already covered with cold sweat.

Xie Yunmeng let go of Yun Yeyao and rushed out of the hotel, but was dragged back by Yun Yeyao, Yun Yeyao said, "Xiao Meng, what are you doing?" ”

A few years later, you have grown into a bouncing little girl, with two pigtails, still chasing the 15-year-old Nuo every day, Nuo Nuo was sent to school by her father for a few months, the girl didn't even think about tea and dinner, waiting for him to come home, the relationship between the two children is obvious to all.

This life could have gone on forever until they grew up, or became brother and sister, or husband and wife, but the girl's mother remarried and took her away from the fishing village, and Nono and her father disappeared on the lake, and from then on, the two men were separated from each other and never saw each other again.

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Ten years after Nono and her father disappeared, in a two-story house, a fifteen-year-old girl was lying alone on a small bed in front of the window, and the old locust tree could be seen outside the window.

The old locust tree is like the old man in the village, so old that the leaves are about to fall off, and there are still a few pieces left to hang on it, it is not too cold weather, it is estimated that this locust tree should not last next year.

The girl reached out to pluck a leaf, and he felt that the leaf was like the gentle hand of a boy in the past, and when the hands passed over her eyelids, she saw the light. But halfway through the hand, the girl stopped.

'Shall I kill this old locust tree, if I pluck its leaves and cause it to die instantly, will I not even have the last memory of the past?' ’

Thinking of this, the girl retracted her hand, she did not want to lose the old locust tree, in her memory, when she was very young, it was the old locust tree was still full of vitality, there was always a boy climbing between the branches, bringing her happiness, although later the boy was gone, but the old locust tree became an unobtainable puzzle in the depths of her memory.

The fingers moved forward again, this time each fingertip feeling particularly gentle, and the girl carefully stroked the surface of the leaf, as if she were speaking to it with her mind.

There was silence in the room, the door was not locked, and a gap was opened, which the girl had deliberately opened so that she could hear the voices downstairs, the girl's hearing was very good, and from her own room, she could even tell who was talking and walking downstairs?

This also helps her avoid the so-called relatives she will never like.

The fingers were withdrawn to her chest, and the girl heard a footstep that was not slow, and the heel part was trampling very hard, it was the footsteps of her stepfather, the girl quickly closed the window, got up from the bed, ran to the door and banged it, closed the door heavily, and did not forget to lock it from the inside.

Due to the excessive force, the water tank shook very violently, and the water in it kept splashing on Xiaodou's body and the kitchen floor, he couldn't care so much, he had to verify his guess, because when he sat on the ground just now, Xiaodou obviously saw black hair exposed under the water tank.

Shodoi's eyesight is very good, and he can roughly tell that the hairs are not like the hair on the horse's tail, but are softer and more delicate.

"Xiaodou, what are you doing?! Stop it!! ”

Before the water tank could be pushed open, Convoy's voice came in from outside the door, and the action arrived at the same time. The big hand grabbed the back of Xiaodou's neck and pulled him out more than a dozen steps away, Xiaodou's strength could not be compared with Kang Hong's at all, so he could only passively retreat to the corner of the wall and stand there gasping.

This time, it is estimated that he will be treated as a murderer, and Xiaodou probably knows this very well in his heart, so he didn't think about it, and rushed out of the door in an instant. Kang Hong and Xiao Chen, who came back, didn't have time to stop him, and Xiaodou quickly rushed out of the kitchen corridor and ran towards the second floor of the hotel.

He heard Yueyue's exclamation clearly just now. If he hadn't found the body in the kitchen, he would have gone to find Yueyue immediately. Something must have happened on the second floor, and the top priority is to let Yueyue stay with him.

No matter what kind of suspicion you are subjected to. Even if he is imprisoned by the people here, Xiaodou is not afraid. The most important thing is that Yueyue can't have an accident, and Aunt Ye, Aunt Ye hasn't told Xiaodou the secret about Bi Fang's umbrella.

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From the previous episode, we can see that Shodou should remember some things from the past, and it is also possible that he knows some people on this island.

However, the fact that he did not say it proves that he does not trust these people. Now at the scene of the homicide, he made another suspicious move, deliberately pulling the murder suspicion onto himself.

Whatever his purpose is? In short, the people on the island should now focus on Xiaodou, and there is a possibility that he will be caught and handed over to the police.

But we can also say that this is exactly what Xiaodou wants. Only in front of the police can Xiaodou easily tell the secret in his heart. But will the people on the island really do that? Will they really hand over Xiaodou to the criminal police?

What if the murderer controls these people, and Xiaodou is arrested by them and killed? Danger and uncertainty have allowed fear to begin to spread in everyone's minds, and the managers of the artificial islands have not yet appeared.

After speaking, Xiao Chen raised his fist, ready to beat Xiaodou, but was stopped by Kang Hong, after all, Kang Hong is an elderly person, and he is much calmer than a 15-year-old boy. He said: "Don't be impulsive, it's important to save Xiao Ye first, in this way, you go and close the door, and then we will check Xiao Ye." ”

"No, the door is closed." Xiaodou's voice came immediately, Kang Hong was startled, turned his head to look at the door, Yueyue was already standing there, the little girl's hand was holding the doorknob, and her back was also close to the door panel.

Xiao Chen wanted to walk over, but Kang Hong stopped him and said: "That's fine, anyway, we don't trust each other, we can explain it when we lock it in the room, and you are sure to lock the kitchen door downstairs when you come out?" ”

"No problem, I also covered the water tank where the corpse was found, and no one will see it for the time being, unless they go through the back door." Xiao Chen replied.

"So young man," Kang Hong turned his head to look at Xiaodou and said, "Can you let us see Aunt Ye's condition now?" ”

"Yes, Yueyue and I have already treated his wounds, and Aunt Ye can't die." With that, he turned sideways and moved out of the way.

The window of the room where Aunt Ye lived was smaller than the other rooms, occupying the upper part of the wall, and she was lying on the bed in the lower part of the wall against the window frame.

Aunt Ye was lying quietly on the bed at the moment, her face looked very bad, but it could be seen from her slightly undulating chest that she was indeed alive, and her swollen hands had been replaced with clean gauze at some point, and the blood that came out of it was already bright red.

Yueyue returned to the bedside, silently took Aunt Ye's hand and hugged it into her arms, and looked vigilantly at Kang Hong, who was leaning over and checking the physical condition of the middle-aged woman. When Convoy inadvertently approached her, the little girl would suddenly tighten her body parts to prevent him from touching them.

Kang Hong didn't care about the little girl's vigilance, what he cared about was the cause of Aunt Ye's poisoning. After a little inspection, he gave up his position to Xiao Chen and said, "You come to see what's going on with her hand?" ”

Xiao Chen pulled Aunt Ye's injured hand from Yueyue's arms, and untied the gauze on the new package little by little, until it reached the last layer, he suddenly muttered: "Doesn't the poison look like it came from the wound?" ”

Whether or not Cheng became the first witness to the corpse cannot be arbitrarily considered to be beneficial or disadvantageous, but mainly depends on the development of the actual situation and the needs of the people's plan at that time. Suppose that among Xiaodou, Kanghong and Xiaochen, there are indeed homicide suspects.

If the suspect wants to hide some clues from the body, or wants to deal with the scene in advance, and there is no way to leave in time, then becoming the first discoverer of the body is a good way to prevaricate others.

If the suspect wants to try his best to reduce his sense of existence and is unwilling to be paid special attention to the body after it is discovered, then he will never be willing to be the first discoverer of the body, and he hopes that after others find the body, he will be an after-the-fact bystander.

Of course, there are other factors that can influence a suspect's thoughts on this issue, which we won't list here.

Now Xiaodou and Kanghong have not told everyone about the discovery of the corpse in the kitchen, proving that neither of them wants others to think that they are the first witnesses to the corpse. Watching Convoy communicate with Yannuogu, Xiaodou pulled Yueyue and stood quietly behind the two aunts who had inexplicably left the kitchen, observing their reactions.

I can't be sure if the two aunts have found the bodies, and their reactions now seem to be normal, one of them is standing on the edge of the counter on the west side, reaching out to grab something from the counter drawer, presumably a snack that is usually left there, and Xiaodou sees that she has stuffed something into her mouth.

The second was whispering to a young girl, and Dou only heard a few words, but it was almost certain that what they said had nothing to do with what was going on in the kitchen.

Yueyue hid behind Xiaodou and asked softly, "Is there something going on in the kitchen too?" Yueyue didn't see the situation in the kitchen, but from the conversation between Xiaodou and Kanghong, she judged something, something that frightened and scared her.

Xiaodou put a finger to his lips and whispered to her: "Don't care so much, leave everything to me, you just need to remember what I said to you when you fell." As he spoke, he reached out and touched the bruises on Yueyue's head.

There is still some pain to the touch, so Yueyue shrank her head slightly, and said to Xiaodou: "I know, but you must not do anything strange, let's try to leave this artificial island as soon as possible, if you really can't go to the north shore of the lake, you can go home with me, okay?" ”

"Hmm!" Xiaodou nodded heavily, and the sound in his throat was also very hard, so Yueyue was a little relieved.

Everything was planned in advance. But it's developing too fast, and the dark shadow at the bottom of the lake always feels that something is wrong? What the hell are the detectives and actors pondering? They did not stay at the scene of the murder, and the detectives did not call the police on the spot. (The black shadow didn't know that the criminal police's mobile phone was out of battery and couldn't contact the outside world), and the black shadow who peeped secretly found that the two people had entered the board house with all the residents of the island.

This time he has disrupted all his plans, and the corpses in the inn must be paid attention to, otherwise it will be difficult for the shadow to carry out his next actions. He sat in the hollow stand and gasped, he couldn't stay at the bottom of the lake forever! No matter how good a diver is, he can't stand it even if he has an oxygen tank, and besides, Black Shadow doesn't have any equipment on him, he's already reached his limit.

The diving skills that have been trained so hard over the years now seem to be nothing more than that, and the Black Shadow feels that he really has no talent at all in this area.

Reaching out and wiping a handful of water dripping from his face, he tried to think, his mind was a little chaotic now, because there were so many things he had experienced in the morning, and he still carried the past 15 years ago.

It all looks like it's about to overlap, but in reality? The Black Shadow felt that a subtle change was taking place, a change that he could not control, when did he fall into this bottomless whirlpool? Why did the original intention change so easily? Now, I have become someone else's shadow.

Thinking of the person who was single-minded about himself, a deep guilt flooded his heart, the black shadow bent down, covered his chest with his hands, and gasped violently, he seemed to vomit, and it seemed to be crying silently.

When he straightened up again, his right hand tore something from his face, and it was thrown aside like garbage, which he had been disgusted with for a long time, but in order to disguise it in front of everyone, he had to carry it with him all the time.

After hesitating for a long time, the black shadow finally stood up and picked up the things on the ground, he stuffed it into his pocket, feeling that everything was wet, even his internal organs seemed to be invisibly soaked in sin and swollen and smelly.

It was a bad feeling, so bad that he was about to vomit again. He leaned his whole body against the wall, leaning there and covering his mouth, not swallowing vomit, but sin that would never melt away and tore his good heart to pieces.

About what you were doing in the afternoon? Xiaoju's answer was that she spent the whole afternoon in her room learning to draw heavy light umbrellas. Yun Yeyao and Xie Yunmeng didn't seem to believe her statement, because after lunch, Yun Yeyao was still talking to her aunt on the second floor of the board room, if Xiaoju was in the room, she couldn't hear it, but Xiaoju didn't know about it.

Moreover, after the body was found in the afternoon, the hotel was very noisy, why did Xiaoju never go over, everyone followed Xie Yunmeng back to the board room to meet her, when she was standing barefoot at the door of her room, looking at a loss, as if nothing had been figured out.

As a result, Yun Yeyao and Xie Yunmeng also confirmed the location of her room, which was the last room to the west of the board room. There are a lot of semi-finished products of heavy light umbrellas hanging at the door of the room, and the paint on some of the umbrellas has not yet dried, which can be regarded as confirming what she said, but painting the umbrella surface without hearing what is going on outside the window is a bit too much.

Xiaoju's explanation for this is that he closed the invisible wooden blinds, and the window on the north side of the room was also closed, so he didn't hear the sound. This explanation is also reluctant, the walls of the board house itself are relatively thin, and there is no sound insulation at all, even if the windows are closed, it is not of much use, Xie Yunmeng will not even fail to see this.

However, he did not dismiss Xiaoju's words one by one, because they still had the most important question to ask, and that was the matter of the quarrel in the morning.

Xie Yunmeng asked, "Did you quarrel with anyone in the morning?" ”

"How do you know?" Xiaoju asked unexpectedly, and it could be heard from her tone that she originally wanted to hide this matter, so as soon as the question came out, she covered her mouth, and her eyes became uncertain.

Xie Yunmeng said to her: "We heard the quarrel with our own ears, Uncle Li was also present at the time, he stayed in the warehouse next door, when you quarreled, we didn't see a person come out to persuade the fight, Uncle Li's explanation is that you often quarrel like this, so everyone is too lazy to care, isn't that so?" ”

"No, Xiao Chen and I just quarreled a little, maybe everyone didn't hear it, so they didn't come out to persuade us, and we reconciled quickly." Xiaoju immediately replied, as if this matter was important to her, and she continued to clarify: "Uncle Li you are talking about is Lao Nuo, right? He shouldn't have heard us arguing, even if he was in the warehouse closest to the house at the time. ”

Yun Yeyao's idea is actually very simple, there is a total of one main door in the hotel, six guest room doors, and one kitchen door and one bathroom door, and the total number of door keys is exactly nine, but there is a back door in the warehouse behind the kitchen, where is the key to the back door? Could it be that the back door of the kitchen is not locked at all?

Although there is really no way to lead to a place through the back door according to the direction, most of the people on the island are very water-based, and the back door is open to the big lake, isn't it also a special road for them? And there is direct access to all parts of the island. In other words, you can also enter the interior of the hotel from various places on Bifang Island without realizing it.

Yun Yeyao began to secretly think about something, this was the first time he learned to analyze the case in detail, and find flaws in it, and the temperament of the whole person was gradually changing, and he began to get close to someone he remembered.

Turning your gaze back to the three aunts. Among the three people, only Aunt Tao had more contact with them, and it felt more relaxed, and the other two aunts were very restrained, for fear that they would say the wrong thing, and there were not too many seats in the room, so the aunts could only sit on the wooden box on one side. Aunt Tao sat in the first one, and the other two aunts sat behind her in turn, as if they had not yet shaken off the fright.

After Xie Yunmeng waited for them to sit down, he directly asked Aunt Tao, "The room we are in now should be Kang Chen's room, right?" Yun Yeyao had also asked this question before, and Xie Yunmeng deliberately asked it again here, wanting to test Aunt Tao.

"Yes, I already talked to Mr. Yun at noon." It seems that this aunt is relatively honest and has a good memory.

"I said it didn't look like a man's room, do you remember?" Yun Ye asked.

"I remember you asked me, but Kang Chen was originally a young man who loved cleanliness, and his room was tidy and tidy, and it was nothing." Aunt Tao didn't quite understand what Yun Yeyao meant, so she could only explain it according to her own words at that time.

Yun Yeyao shook his head and said, "It's not just clean, but there are other aspects, Aunt Tao, let me ask you, when did Kang Chen come to this island?" ”

"About half a year ago."

"It can't be half a year, because I've locked him up for more than two months." Xie Yunmeng interjected. Indeed, he solved Kang Chen's brawl more than half a year ago, plus he was imprisoned for more than two months, Kang Chen's time here was three or four months at most.

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?" ”

The homicide has not yet been exposed, and the only people who know the existence of the body are Xiao Chen, Xiaodou, Yueyue and Kanghong. Xiaodou thought that when he went downstairs, he would definitely see Lao Li who was back in the hotel, but after looking at it for a long time, there was no Lao Li downstairs.

It stands to reason that Lao Li should have returned to the hotel before. At noon, Lao Li met Kang Hong in front of the board house, and after the two of them said a few words, he went to the dock, because he vaguely saw that Kang Ju seemed to be on the dock, and he seemed to be worried about going over to take a look.

But he didn't find Kang Ju, he just counted the goods again, and then returned to the front of the board room, where Kang Hong worked in the warehouse, and unexpectedly met Kang Ju. At that time, Kang Hong was also asking where his daughter was, and then Lao Li took Kang Ju back to the direction of the hotel, except for Kang Hong, Xiaodou, Xiao Chen and Yue Yue didn't know about these actions.

They were never seen out again in the afternoon. So normally, Lao Li and Kang Ju should have stayed in the hotel in the afternoon. But Xiaodou, Xiao Chen, and the aunts have been tossing in the hotel for so long. I didn't see them either, which is indeed a bit strange.

Xiaodou didn't care about what happened to Lao Li, he just kept worrying about whether the corpse in the kitchen would be Kang Ju, watching Xiao Chen and Yan Nuogu talking, he didn't have time to notice him, Xiaodou looked at the kitchen, bathroom and a few places where people could hide again, and found no signs, it seemed that it had already returned to normal.

Out of the corner of Yan Nuogu's eyes, he glanced at Xiaodou and asked him, "What are you looking for?" ”

Bean replied pretending to be nonchalant. "I'm looking for the manager of this hotel, where did he go in the afternoon?" ”

"I don't know, huh? Isn't Lao Li supposed to be in the hotel? After he reminded him like this, Yan Nuogu also paid attention to Lao Li and said: "He always likes to stand at the counter in the afternoon, writing and calculating his account books, why is there no one today?" ”

Yan Nuogu's words suddenly aroused everyone's curiosity, and everyone consciously began to look for the manager of the hotel, and Xiaodou reminded him at this time: "It seems that Xiaoju hasn't seen it for a long time." ”

As soon as he said this, Xiao Chen's voice came from upstairs: "Xiao Ju is helping to sort out the goods on the dock, and it will probably be done in the evening." ”

"How do you know? Weren't you still looking for her just now? Xiaodou immediately asked rhetorically.

Xiao Chen's voice was very impatient: "Ask Uncle Kang specifically, I'm not free now." ”

"Ugh! All right. Xiaodou had no choice but to give up and turn his gaze to Convoy, he wanted to hear what Convoy had to say.

"Of course I don't want to, then let's talk about a quid pro quo, I'll help you clean up the kitchen, and don't tell Uncle Li about your slipping away, you tell me everything you know about the north shore of the big lake, especially about Nuo Nuo, and Xiaogui."

"Do you know Nono?" Yan Nuogu was obviously stunned for a moment, he knew the name Nuonuo, so there was incredulity in his eyes.

Xiaodou nodded and continued: "If you are willing to tell me, I will tell you my background, how about this in the quid pro quo?" ”

"Hmm...... Why do you think I will know about the north shore of the lake? Is it because of the unreliable stories I told you in the morning? Yan Nuogu asked rhetorically.

Xiaodou said: "Those are not unreliable stories, because I have heard of the characters you mentioned in them." So I'm sure you know what happened in the past, whether you've experienced it yourself or heard from others, and I just want you to tell me everything you know. ”

“……”

Hearing this, Yan Nuogu was silent, and he seemed to be hesitating. The young chef slowly walked to the kitchen door, glanced in the direction of the hall, then leaned against the door frame and said, "Okay, but what I told you, don't let Convoy and Lao Li know, the two of them are taboo." ”

"Are they all fishermen from decades ago?" Xiaodou asked.

"I don't know about this, I can only promise to tell you what I know, and ask them for the rest."

"Okay, then I'll start cleaning up now, you wait for me." Xiaodou rolled up his sleeves and was ready to do it, Yueyue wanted to stand up and work with him, but was stopped by Xiaodou, Xiaodou asked him to sit at the kitchen door and not leave, it seemed to have some special meaning, but he was unwilling to explain it. Yueyue had no choice but to sit down again and watch the two of them walk around.

Yan Nuogu followed Xiaodou into the warehouse, and he said, "I'll also come to help, and after cleaning up this place later, let's go to the small space at the back door." After he finished speaking, he didn't forget to say to Yueyue: "If anyone comes in, you can remind us, pretty little girl." ”

"yes, okay."

The two people in the kitchen seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding, but the Kanghong and the two aunts who were staying in the hotel hall at the moment had a different atmosphere.

After everyone else left, Kanghong's face immediately became gloomy, and he didn't ask the aunt who left through the back door of the warehouse, but asked her to go upstairs to help Xiao Chen. It wasn't until only Convoy and the first aunt to leave the kitchen were left in the hall that he asked, "What did you see?" I was in such a hurry just now. ”