Chapter 723: The Pickup Truck Seaside Wine Barrel Murder Begins Act 44
"Okay, Mr. Liu, as long as I can move, I will definitely feed everyone."
The simple exchange eased the tension in the room a lot, and when the conversation between Liu Qiao Pu and the chef was over, Yun Ye Yao continued: "Before we officially start looking for the secrets hidden on the third floor, we have to figure out a few things first, first of all, the kitchen lady, I hope you answer truthfully, the next question I want to ask, okay?" β
"Yes, Mr. Yun, I know you will definitely ask me, because I am the only person who has experienced the change in this family 15 years ago, as long as it is something I know, I must know everything, so you can just ask questions."
The cook's mother-in-law would say this, which was already expected by Yun Yeyao, but Yun Yeyao did not directly talk about what happened 15 years ago, but turned the topic to Horror.
"Mother-in-law, you told me yesterday that your son's name is Xiao Heng, but it is not Yan Muheng by our side. You also admit that Terror is Xiao Heng's girlfriend. You shouldn't have forgotten that, right? β
"I didn't." The cook replied.
"But she said her boyfriend's name was younger, why is that?"
"Ahh There is a misunderstanding here, my surname is Yu, and my son is with my surname, but there is also a Heng character in the name, so sometimes everyone will call him less than, and sometimes they will call him Xiaoheng. β
"That means your son's full name is Yu Heng, right?"
"Yes, Mr. Yun, does my son's name have anything to do with the case? Or did you hear someone mention the name Yu Heng? β
"No, mother-in-law, don't worry, Yu Heng has nothing to do with the case, I just want to confirm your son's name."
"Oh, that's good!" The cook's mother-in-law breathed a sigh of relief, and he waited for Yun Yeyao to continue asking.
But Yun Yeyao's next question was about to turn to Yan Muheng, who had just returned to him, Yan Muheng seemed to be very impatient to squeeze Lu Haoyu away, pointed to the empty chair on the other side and said, "You sit over there." β
"Why should I sit over there? Can't I sit next to Mr. Yun? Not to be outdone, Lu Haoyu retorted, with his strength, he couldn't compete with Yan Muheng, and was squeezed to stand up. In terms of temper, he is no smaller than this man with a scar on his face.
The words echoed back in the demon's ears like a deep imprint in his memory, hinting at something to him, 'Eternal must know something, he was reminding the butler, but in the end it reminded me. The demon thought, and there was no reason for a smug feeling in his heart.
He shouldn't be complacent, what he planned to accomplish on the first day was half ruined by the criminal police and the hateful old man, although the people who were going to be killed were all dead, Shu Xue did not escape. But how did that kid know about Shu Xue's death? That kid hadn't stepped inside the treacherous house until now.
'No, he's at least entered the secret passage, and he's ...... with Shu Xue,' the demon thought as he kept denying some of his thoughts. He must carefully analyze the current situation and be fully prepared for the rest of the time. The heavy snow depends on the situation, and it is impossible to stop for two or three days.
This is a good thing for the demon, because he can carry out the next plan with confidence, but the world is unpredictable, and he must also be prepared for the sudden cessation of the heavy snow or the sudden arrival of the police down the mountain.
Eternal's existence was a tricky one, and he would have gone up the mountain with the police because of that...... No, the demon thought, he wasn't sure if it was Eternal, didn't he have a long scar on his face like the male detective?
Therefore, before confirming his true face, the demon felt that he could not arbitrarily make a conclusion, even if they were similar, it could not be ruled out that Eternal was using Yan Muheng as a shield, and he was secretly hiding somewhere to spy on his secrets.
It won't take long to get back inside the treacherous house, but before that, the demon must first go to a place where the demon has hidden secrets for fifteen years.
The sturdy body shuttled back and forth in the cave of the rock, like a weaver in a spider's web. Soon, the demon saw a mark he was familiar with, which had been engraved more than three years ago.
It hasn't subsided until now, and it seems that this is really a place that even insects have forgotten. As soon as he had finished thinking about this, the demon laughed at himself and said, "I forgot that it is always cold here, and there are no insects." β
Indeed, the small ones are very right, they can't stay here for a long time, and only by letting Liu Qiao Pu and Yun Yeyao come to investigate the scene together can they get more clues. Liuqiaopu has much more experience than them, and now there is no forensic doctor present, and the things that use their brains can only be sent to Liuqiaopu and Yun Yeyao. After all, Mei Xiaoxiao and Xie Yunmeng need to put action first.
Sissy's weak body is not just because of the abdominal wound, how the abdominal wound was formed, the policewoman can't say now, because if she says Sissy, she will collapse, and it will also affect the other person in this house.
Since entering the treacherous house, the policewoman has been paying attention to Sissy's movements, otherwise she would not have been able to take people away and send them to Jokli's room as soon as she found the murder scene in Sissy.
Qiao Keli's identity is actually similar to Yan Muheng, he is also a party to the case on the periphery, and he is a person who has never been to the treacherous house, but has a little understanding of the treacherous house, at this time, of course, the policewoman cannot tell Yan Muheng in front of her about these things.
Mei Xiao: "That's it, I'll take Xixi back to the teacher first, you work hard, guard the corpse, and wait for me to bring the teacher over." β
"I'm fine," Yan Muheng didn't care about staying here and waiting, he said, "But Grandpa Liu left, who is guarding over there?" What he meant was that after Yanagihashi left, the people in the room were likely to have another accident.
"It's okay, it's almost dawn now, I think Xiao Meng and Xiao Yao should also go back, you must not leave here, I will come back as soon as possible." After speaking, Mei Xiaoxiao took Xixi in Yan Muheng's hand, although the little girl was slightly chubby, but in fact her weight was pitiful, and when she was held in Yan Muheng's arms, she was like a little rabbit curled up.
Seeing Mei Xiaoxiao and Xixi leave the inside of the basement of the ruins, Yan Muheng was finally able to truly express his emotions, and he sat in the corner of the room dejectedly, looking at the chef's face that had not yet faded his complexion, and his heart was confused.
'Should I hate now, or should I forgive?' Yan Muheng asked himself, but he couldn't find a suitable answer. Thinking of everything that happened when he was a child, he felt that he should hate the butler and the cook, and when he was just sensible, the butler and the cook kept forcing him to sleep and dream.
At first, Yan Muheng didn't think there was any difference, because aren't children going to sleep more? It wasn't until Shu Xue appeared that he felt that something was wrong, because the housekeeper and the cook no longer forced him to sleep, but shifted their attention to Shu Xue.
Because of the matter of the wooden wall, Yan Muheng's memories were interrupted, and his sad sigh was also in vain. Yan Muheng walked back to Mr. Chef, squatted down, and reached out to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes that had not yet dried for him.
Mr. Chef's eyes were facing the entrance and exit of the basement, where Eternal had left just now, and Yan Muheng said softly, "At the last moment of your life, are you confessing to him?" β
No one would answer him, the void was accompanied only by the biting cold, and even the sigh seemed to stick between his lips and teeth.
Gently closing Mr. Chef's eyes, Yan Muheng took advantage of the small gap that had not yet returned, and walked in the direction of the underground cave, it was a sloping road, and the entrance was not big, but after entering, the space would slowly expand.
Yan Muheng has passed by here countless times, and it can be said that he is familiar with the way, and he wants to take a look to see if there is any trace left by the murderer. Just now Xiao Xiao was here, and he was not good at acting, because Xiao Xiao didn't know that he knew about the rock cave.
If the murderer had followed Mr. Cook into the basement, there might have been footprints or something, the ground in the rocky cave was damp, and some lichen plants grew all year round.
Yan Muheng carefully searched and checked on the necessary path, and after going back and forth many times, he finally found a small white object in a small puddle, shaped like the tip of a chicken claw bone, and there was black dirt on it.
Yan Muheng wanted to use his nails to remove the black part, but he couldn't get it off at all. He pinched the little object between his index finger and thumb, looked at it closely, and the more he looked at it, the more familiar it became.
After a moment, he remembered the white bones on the skeleton in the house, wasn't it like a small knuckle bone? Thinking of this, Yan Muheng couldn't help but shudder, could it be that someone got the skeleton here? Who knows about the existence of skeletons other than butlers and cooks? β
"What happened in the house, until now, Yan Muheng only knew about the murder of a middle-aged woman and the death of Shu Xue that Mei Xiaoxiao just said, and he couldn't understand anything else, because he didn't have much time to go in and out of the house.
βEternalγ Yan Muheng suddenly reacted to this name in his mind, why didn't he see him when he was in the ruins just now, could it be that he killed Mr. Cook and ran back to the main house?
"I don't think Eternal would have killed Mr. Chef if he had been, yes, Eternal wouldn't have killed anyone." As if making excuses, Yan Muheng repeatedly denied the possibility of Eternal's murder.
When it was dark, Xie Yunmeng finally returned to the inside of the brown tower, he was already very sleepy, a night of investigation did not bring him much gain, if Yun Yeyao or Xiaoxiao were by his side, maybe the situation would be better.
Now that the shadows of the events overlapped in front of his eyes, everything seemed more blurry, the fatigue of his body and brain affected the rhythm of Xie Yunmeng's thinking, and he really needed to rest for a while.
After entering the room where everyone was, Xie Yunmeng finally breathed a sigh of relief, everything in the room was very calm, especially Yun Yeyao, who was already awake, was looking at him, Mr. Criminal Police walked up to the actor, sat beside him and said, "Has Xiaoxiao ever come back?" β
"I came here just now, the teacher went out with her, and I heard that it was Xiaoxiao and Yan Muheng who found the cook's body, which was in the basement on the other side of the ruins."
"The chef of the restaurant died?!!" Xie Yunmeng suddenly sobered up a lot, and the murder that happened again stimulated his nerves, and the criminal police wanted to stand up the body that had just sat down, but was pulled by Yun Yeyao.
"You're tired, then leave it to the teacher and Xiaoxiao, Yan Muheng may come over, as soon as the chef dies, he will be useless on the periphery, and I suspect that in fact, that chef is the housekeeper."
"How?" Xie Yunmeng tensed his nerves, his face was gloomy, and his heart ached when he looked at it.
Gently patted Mr. Criminal Police on the shoulder with his hand, Yun Yeyao remembered Liu Qiaopu's instructions, so he tried his best to restrain the habitual interaction between himself and Xie Yunmeng.
Of course, Xie Yunmeng's troubled brain would not notice the change in Yun Yeyao at this moment, but just listened carefully to him and continued.
"According to the little description, the chef and the butler look exactly the same, and don't you think it's a little weird that the man who died in the snow?"
"You don't think the man who died in the snow was a steward? But we've all seen his face, can't there be anything wrong? If it's a decomposing corpse, that's fine, but in the current weather, the corpse is so decomposed outdoors that it can't be recognized, and it's not something that can be done in a day or two. β
"I'm not saying that the dead are the same person as the cook, I'm saying that I suspect that the dead are the chefs, and the people who survived and were just killed are the stewards!"
"Why?"
"Because Mr. Cook and I were locked in the same big bell, I saw him killed and then taken away, and the big clock blocked the murderer's face, but I can be sure that the murderer was a man, and very tall, just like your size, Mr. Detective."
What Ms. Wen said was obviously implying that the person who killed the housekeeper or cook might be Yan Muheng on the periphery, but Yun Yeyao heard two meanings from her words.
First, after a night of thinking, Ms. Wen did not intend to tell them the truth, and second, Yan Muheng could not be the one who killed the housekeeper or the cook, because no murderer would be stupid enough to expose his characteristics to witnesses when he killed someone. What's more, Yan Muheng didn't have time to kill.
Ms. Wen didn't know about Yan Muheng's actions before, she only knew that there was Yan Muheng on the periphery after Xie Yunmeng and Wen Manman rescued her, and what she should know about Yan Muheng was limited to the fact that she was tall.
However, it is very likely that Ms. Wen guessed who threw the body into the bell and who kidnapped her, and she did not intend to tell the truth, it is possible that this person was not the real murderer, but an accomplice or someone who was taken advantage of.
No matter how you guess, this person must be someone who is related to Ms. Wen, or it may be a little girl. Yun Yeyao didn't want to argue with Ms. Wen now, he pretended to accept the information that was transmitted just now, and said to Xie Yunmeng: "Now, the only thing that can be determined is that the murderer who attacked Ms. Wen is a person of similar stature to you, Yan Muheng on the periphery, you must take good care of him, maybe this person also hides some secrets." β
"The murderer must be someone who is familiar with this house, and Yan Muheng is very suspicious. Wait a minute, what are you going to do when he comes in? β
"I haven't thought about it yet, I'll talk to the teacher later, Xiaoxiao and I originally meant to let him participate in the action, stay by my or Xiaoxiao's side, and watch him, because if you stay with you, I'm afraid that if something happens, you are not his opponent and will let him escape."
"It depends," Yun Yeyao made a noncommittal response, and then said: "Xiaomeng, it's already dawn, don't wait with us, hurry up and sleep for a while, and when the teacher comes back, I will tell him about these things."
Xie Yunmeng moved his body in place and said, "In this situation, I can't sleep in peace, so let's just lean here for a while." With that, he wiped his tired face with his hand, leaned his head back against the wall, and closed his eyes.
The man was indeed very angry, and Sissy's weakness was something that everyone could see. The wound in her abdomen was worrying. Coupled with the previous fright, the man has been relieved.
It's just that he can't ask Sissy, who wanted to see his beloved girl with the help of another person, but accidentally saw a different scene.
The truth of the scene scared him so much that he couldn't go outdoors again. So he hurriedly turned around and exchanged his original identity with the person who replaced him.
And the person who replaced him happened to be on the same body part and had the same scars. The two of them are friends, the kind of friends who can take risks on each other.
But at that time, the man really didn't know that the murder had happened, and if he did, no matter how good his friends were, they wouldn't necessarily be willing to help him.
The place where the helper disappeared was a place where everyone could go, and when he left, it was when there were no witnesses in the room in front of him.
The man found the right direction, but he couldn't think of the right answer, and the only thing reserved for him was fear, so he didn't dare to act anymore, so he could only sit there and think to himself, how to get out of the current predicament.
Sissy's trust is now the most important thing for him. The man knew exactly who was in the group who was ruining their love, because he overheard a conversation between Sissy and someone when he had just woken up.
Just like the incident on the periphery, the man was mistaken for the murderer even though he had done nothing. Now, he still hasn't done anything, and he will also suffer from the suspicion of Sissy and the mysterious man.
Why did the man who spoke to Sissy blame him for the murder? The man couldn't figure it out, he felt that he wasn't familiar with such a person, and he couldn't figure out who the voice was coming from in this treacherous house.
Now, the angry voice unconsciously came out of his mouth, but at the same time it was accompanied by a feeling of regret, so when Mr. Actor turned back to him, the man flinched.
Angry, he lost his mind, but the murder made his reason tremble again, and he stopped talking, allowing the actor who walked in front of him to look directly into his pupils.
There is a pretended stubbornness and fear that cannot be concealed, and the man believes that the person in front of him may be able to feel it.
'Perhaps he had guessed more truth than anyone else't, but I could not avoid his gaze......' The man cheered himself up in his heart, desperately trying to contain the uneasiness and fear that welled up in his heart.
In the previous three chapters of the golden cicada, I just described Mr. Actor's actions and thinking process, and did not contain answers. Therefore, on the surface, no one is acting alone under the cover of Yun Yeyao, but in fact, the shell that can act alone and can be used as cover has been revealed.
Liu Hang's action may be an opportunity, but Yun Yeyao is actually testing Xixi's courage, if this matter wants to blind the suspect, Xixi must be able to persevere.
Of course, Yun Yeyao also considered Xixi's actual ability to bear it, but there should be another helper in this matter, which is one of the reasons why Yun Yeyao decided to implement the plan.
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When Qin Sen woke up from his sleep, he noticed that the condition of someone around him was very wrong. Although this person was not lying with him, Qin Sen's gaze was on this person's face.
The brain that had just woken up couldn't concentrate on thinking, and his vision was blurry, Qin Sen rubbed his eyes several times in a row before he finally confirmed his judgment, the person in front of him had no blood on his face at all, his lips were slightly open, and he looked so old and helpless curled up among the little girls.
Qin Sen hurriedly got up from the ground, the floor where he was lying was covered by the futon, and he couldn't see the bottom clearly. Qin Sen felt that his whole body was about to fall, and the process of getting up was also very difficult.
When he managed to pull his feet out from under the heavy heat, the person watching in his pupils suddenly moved slightly.
Qin Sen felt a burst of panic, he could now be said to be a soldier of all plants, and any slight movement could make him suddenly frightened.
Touching his pounding heart with his hand, Qin Sen stayed in place for a while, wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead, and then slowly crawled towards the person he was watching.
He didn't want to wake anyone up, because if it was really like what he imagined, there was something going on in front of him, or if he was not in good health. There is a risk that people will suspect that they have done something by themselves.
While looking around and continuing to move towards the target, Qin Sen's eyes were full of vigilance. His fingers finally touched the wrinkled skin, but he shrank slightly.
So far, no one has said his name, only the man lying on the bed. It stands to reason that his identity should be Sissy's boyfriend, or at least an ordinary friend.
However, when Cissy was sent back by Mei Xiaoxiao, he didn't want to stay by the side of the person in bed at all. At that time, Liu Hang was still sitting on the edge of the bed and talking to him, and when he saw Xixi enter the door, his face immediately showed an irrepressible joy.
Unfortunately, the instant response was avoidance and fear. Liu Hang also felt very strange because of this, although he didn't ask, the doubts in his eyes were no less than those on the bed.
Sissy was adamantly reluctant to be with her companions, preferring to stay on the other end of the room, with the other survivors. When the whole body curled up in the bed, Sissy's mood finally stabilized.
Mei Xiaoxiao still remembered the corpse outside in her heart, and she didn't want to influence Xixi's thoughts, so after letting go of Xixi, she gently cared for Sister Wang's ear, woke up Liu Qiaopu, and pulled the confused old man outside the room.