Located in the middle of the Yangtze River Delta, S City is a veritable landscape city. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 infoThere are four distinct seasons here, and the urban area is full of rivers and trees. The suburbs are densely forested and the natural environment is very superior.

In recent years, the economy of S City has developed rapidly, and there has been a large influx of foreign population. Real estate developers have seized the opportunity to take advantage of the unique natural geographical environment of S City, and under the banner of returning to nature, they have built many luxury apartments and villas on the edge of the mountains and forests on the outskirts of the city. Surrounded by natural beauty, these homes are popular with the city's nouveau riche, and the prices are naturally high.

These apartments and villas are generally built within 50-100 km of the city, not too far away. It is also adjacent to the highway to facilitate the commutation of residents to and from the suburbs.

However, in the mountains farther away from the city, there are also some mid-mountain villas scattered around. The appearance of these villas is very old, and the architectural structure is not so luxurious. They were built twenty or thirty years ago, when almost no one cared about them because of the constraints of living conditions. As a result, many are now deserted.

About ten years ago, a young industrialist and his friend bought one of these old villas.

At that time, it was not popular to buy country houses, and people mostly preferred to buy houses in the city. So the sales lady and the staff at that time were very curious about these two people~ The man who looked very generous actually bought the house that no one cared about at a high price, and immediately gave it to a friend who didn't pay a penny on the side~ This matter also became a topic of conversation between the sales lady and her friend for a long time later.

The old villa that was bought is located halfway up Mt. L, more than 300 kilometers away from S City, and is a milky white wooden building surrounded by dense forests.

It is said that more than 20 years ago, a tax evasion nouveau riche secretly built it here for his gambling and illegal money. Later, the east window was seized by the police after the incident. In the same year, it was bought by a real estate developer along with the land there, and it was sold after repairs and improvements.

But its location is so remote that you have to drive through a narrow ring road, cross a rope bridge, and cross a small forest, so it has been unattended for more than ten years, so the staff at that time secretly nicknamed the villa Luoque House - which means that no one cares about it.

It wasn't until 10 years ago that the House was finally bought.

Now there are very few people in S City who know about the existence of the Bird House.

May 2, 2016

In the afternoon, the sky was drizzling lightly, and on the narrow ring road, a red Ferrari 488 was driving cautiously in the direction of the Roquehouse. The driver is a middle-aged uncle in his fifties, who has maintained his body shape quite well and has a healthy complexion, and he knows at a glance that it is the result of years of exercise. He has thick eyebrows, big eyes, a collapsed nose and an angular face.

This person's name is Bian Benyi, and he is the financial director of the high-end fashion company Hibiscus Haute Couture, a nationally renowned clothing design company headquartered in the central commercial street of S City, and the husband of its female boss, Ms. Hibiscus Moto. And the lady was sitting next to him at this time.

Although Ms. Yuan Mu Hibiscus is nearly 50 years old, she is still quite beautiful. He was wearing a fashion with a market value of about 600,000 yuan designed by himself. It is said that she never goes out to buy clothes, and all the clothes in the house, including underwear, are designed by herself.

Now she is nervously helping her husband watch the road. Because both of them are walking this path for the first time today. Although there are signs and guardrails on the roadside, driving on such a narrow ring road can be daunting.

"Hibiscus, this road is so difficult to walk, do you say that swimmer is too sad and burns out his brain. Otherwise, how could I have to live in this hellish place? Bian Benyi's face was tense at this time because of his high concentration of energy, and he made a few complaints from time to time.

"Drive seriously." Motoki reminded him.

"No, I don't understand, what the hell do you think about swimming? Yes?! For the sake of that person, what do you want to do if you don't do it, and lock yourself up in such a place where birds don't? Oh, by the way, aren't you going to open a branch for Swim Heart to be the leader? Such a good opportunity, he said that he would not do it if he didn't do it? ”

Bian Benyi's loud voice echoed in the car, and Yuan Mu Hibiscus frowned a little impatiently and said: "Swimmer also has the difficulty of swimming, he was single-handedly led by me, and I believe he will never be ungrateful to embarrass me." Besides, after so many years of affection, it is gone, how many people can get through this hurdle? What's more, his heart is more special, and he can't talk to friends like others. If we can understand it, we can understand it. You, just stop talking nonsense and concentrate on driving your car. ”

"Alas! You understand best. Bian Benyi sighed helplessly and continued his extremely difficult driving work.

The swimmer mentioned in their words, whose full name is Liang Yongxin, is the current owner of the Luo Que House and the beloved apprentice of Ms. Yuan Mu Hibiscus. Thirteen years ago, Yuan Mu Hibiscus, who was already very famous in the clothing industry, was introduced to Liang Yongxin, who was only 19 years old. After only meeting once, Yuan Mujin made a deep impression of Liang Yongxin, because Liang Yongxin not only showed a strong interest in clothing design, but also was a rare beautiful boy.

Soon after, with the help of an introducer, Liang Yongxin officially enrolled in Ms. Yuan Mujian to study fashion design. He was gifted, diligent and studious, and with the preference and support of Ms. Motoki, he soon made a name for himself. Become a new and powerful designer.

However, it is precisely because of Ms. Yuanmujin's doting that Liang Yongxin began to be complacent and willful after becoming famous, and often decided some things on his own. Although Yuan Mu Hibiscus didn't say anything about this, Bian Benyi was already dissatisfied. He also told Motoki Hibiscus his opinion, but she didn't care at all.

Just like this time, Liang Yongxin suddenly stopped coming to work because of emotional problems, threw important work aside, and called to say that he was going to resign. In the end, they turned around and found out that the boy had come to hide, so they went up the mountain to find him.

At this time, the sky was overcast, the dark clouds were slowly gathering like foam on a boiling pot, and the rain and wind were gradually increasing. The gloomy curtain of rain gradually eroded the retreat of the red car.

One by one

Around 11 p.m., Roquehouse.

The milky white villa nestled in the green mountains and green waters is actually just a large L-shaped wooden house with a double spire. The ivy-covered white walls, chocolate-colored roofs and caramel-coloured protruding balconies and European-style windows make it look like a candy house from a fairy tale. The path in front of the house is lined with colorful moon flowers and wild red rhododendrons. A variety of birds roost near the house and chirp, adding a more specific symbolism to the name.

Half a month ago, at the needs of the owner, a thirty-seven-year-old maid named Li Song Weiyi lived in Luoque House. Take care of all household chores and chores. There is also a host who replaces most of the time in the room to receive guests.

Li Songwei is also a petite woman, about 1.6 meters tall. He talks very little and is introverted. Usually, I don't say a word other than work inquiries.

Now, Li Songwei is also distributing the large handfuls of moon flowers picked early in the morning into vases in each room. Because yesterday the host told her that there were a lot of guests coming today, and asked her to dress up the house more beautifully.

Following Li Songweiyi's steps, let's take a look at the internal structure of the Luoque House. Perhaps the novel's lengthy foreplay is indeed a bit verbose, but please read it patiently. This boring first volume, its content will be inextricably linked to all the events that follow it, so it has to be said. When later readers are reasoning about the murders, the content of the first volume will become a very important reference and basis.

Now, the most important thing for us to understand is the internal structure of the Roquehouse. The front of the house faces south and is a transverse L-shape, with a protruding square main house on the left and a rectangular side house connected to the right rear of the main house. The first floor of the side house is mainly composed of a kitchen, laundry room and warehouse, and the second floor is a greenhouse full of flowers and plants.

Its gate is located at the back of the house and is the only entrance. The windows are equipped with small lattice nets to prevent small animals or wild birds from invading. In other words, no matter what happens to the Bird's House, as long as the only entrance and exit is blocked, no one inside or anyone outside can enter or exit.

From the direction facing the house (facing north), go around the side house to the right and you will see a single door. It is located on the side of the main house, and it is indented into the wall, so it is not visible from the direction of the main house.

Entering the door, what is presented in front of you is an L-shaped entrance, in fact, if you look closely, it should be square, and there is a small bathroom of 1.2 by 1.2 in the corner of L.

The bathroom door is located on the side of the wall facing the living room, is the same color as the wall, and there is only an inner padlock. Therefore, it is easy for beginners to think that the entrance is L-shaped. Bypassing the small bathroom, there is a large living room of nearly 50 square meters with a length of 10 meters and a width of 4.5 meters.

Facing directly in front of the house (facing south), the living room is divided into two parts:

The 4.5 meter entrance to the wall at the end of the left side is occupied by two wooden sliding doors, except for the entrance of about 2 meters. Inside the sliding door is the kitchen. Near the sliding door is a large rectangular dining table for eight people, covered with a creamy white plaid tablecloth with lace. Directly behind the table (in front of the entrance door on the back left side of the living room) is a decorative mantelpiece taped to the wall, on which our first vase appears (please remember the position of each vase).

The front right side of the living room against the wall is a combination of a sofa, a coffee table and a carpet. There is a TV on the wall opposite them. (The specific descriptions of these things will be mentioned later, so I won't repeat them here.) Above the TV and the decorative mantelpiece, there are two large double-opening glass windows, and the inward-facing lattice sash is carved with beautiful patterns. In the middle of the window hangs a painting of Munch's cry, a replica of course.

We continue to walk forward facing the front of the villa (south) and with our back to the back wall of the living room (north):

The door to the bedroom and stairwell on the first floor is located right in the middle of the wall in front of you, between the sofa and the dining table. Push forward the door and enter, there is a small hallway, with two compartments on either side of the corridor, one large and one small.

The smaller rectangular compartment on the left (east side) is a bathroom with a bathtub;

On the right (west) side is the larger one is a square study. Walking into the study, there is a mahogany bookcase with a diameter of 1 meter 5 and a height of about 2 meters 5 on the east wall and the south wall. The bookcase is divided into seven horizontal spaces from top to bottom by horizontal partitions, and inside are vertically filled with books of various themes. The cabinet against the north wall is larger, about 2.5 by 2.5 meters. In fact, it is more appropriate to say that it is a cabinet than a shelf, which is a large square wooden shelf composed of 16 small squares without a baffle at the front and back, and each small square holds one or several anime dolls.

The furnishings of this study are very simple, except for the bookcases and shelves, all that is left is a rattan chair leaning against the edge of the shelf, and a small round table. Our second vase is on this little round table.

Next to the bookcase on the south side of the study is the door to the bedroom on the first floor. The windows in the study are located on the west wall at a 90-degree right angle to the door, and are double stained glass windows that open inward.

The first floor bedroom is a double bedroom, where there are two vases, one on the two bedside tables in the double bed, and only these two vases in the whole house are plastic flowers. I won't talk about the rest of the furnishings and structures, because the first multiple locked room murders in the story will happen here (including the study), so allow me to sell it here for a while, and then take a slow time.

Leaving the study and further on, on the right is another door to the bedroom we just entered. That is to say, there are two ways to enter this bedroom, one is to enter directly from the outside door that we see now; The other is through the door inside the study.

In fact, there is a built-in way to enter, which has to do with the small enclosed balcony on the west side of the room. As for how to use this third method to enter, it is still a mystery.

To get back to the point, the whole corridor, the west side is the study and bedroom we just introduced, exactly two square compartments of the same size. On the east side is a bathroom and stairwell leading to the second floor. At the end of the stairwell was a small horizontal storage room, stacked with unused old items, all large pieces of furniture and wood, stuffed to the brim.

Walking up the stairs on the first floor, the wooden stairs creak and creak. The handrails and stairs look old.

Turning the corner, we walked out of the stairwell on the second floor, which was in the same location, and we could see that directly above the storage room was a small single room. Upon entering, I found that the furnishings of this room were quite simple, with a single bed in the innermost room, gray lace sheets, gray duvet covers and pillowcases. On the south side was a small table and a chair against the wall, and nothing else.

There are no windows in this room, only a small skylight at the top of the south wall, and the sash is only half open, so it is very dark.

Walking out of this room, this time we started in the direction of facing north and back south. The first is a double bedroom on the west side (i.e. on the left-hand side). Of course, it's located directly above the first-floor bedroom, and it looks a bit larger than the first-floor bedroom. Let's follow Li Songwei, who is holding a bouquet of flowers, and walk in.

As soon as we walk into the room, we feel that we have become "color blind" in an instant, everything here is milky white, and the room is so well lit that it is almost dazzling, which is in stark contrast to the small room just now.

The first thing I could see was the small balcony directly opposite (west), which was different from the small balcony of the bedroom on the first floor, not a rectangular protrusion that stretched along the shape of the room, but a semicircular balcony that stretched from the west side to the south wall, like a "hook" hooked to the wall of the house.

The inner wall part of the "hook" is made up entirely of glass, forming a large glass floor-to-ceiling window that occupies two-thirds of the west wall and one-quarter of the south wall, allowing sunlight to penetrate into the wall. These floor-to-ceiling windows are divided into three windows, all the same size as a door. The two doors on the west side move from side to side, while the one on the south side opens directly to the outside. The balcony is also covered with an anti-theft net.

Let's look at the interior of the room, next to the floor-to-ceiling window on the south wall is a huge double bed, the headboard, the foot of the bed, the sheets, the quilt cover, the pillow pillowcase, the mosquito net are all milky white, without a little extra pattern. It's like a big piece of white cake with an excess of milk. There is a bedside table on only one side of the bed, which is a milky white semi-circular cabinet. There are three semi-circular drawers at the top and bottom, and a mirror is pressed above the backsplash to make it appear as high as the head of the bed. Here is our 5th vase.

Li Songwei also inserted white moon flowers of the same color as the room in this vase. This is of course the owner's preference. Looking around the room with the bed as the center, except for the balcony on the west side, the wall parallel to the door on the east side leans against the wardrobe, which is quite high, almost close to the bottom edge of the triangular roof. Of course, the triangular roof and beams that belong to this room are also painted white.

On the north side of the room, facing the double bed, hangs a 43-inch color TV. There was a single sofa on the side, and two round couches with no feet were thrown on the floor. And the entire floor of the room was covered with a whole carpet of pure wool that was worth a lot of money. Of course, it's all milky white.

Given these qualities, this room was called "Snowy" by its owner.

Leaving the "white snow", turn and walk north, again a short corridor, with a toilet with a bathroom on the right (east) staircase next door, as downstairs. The difference is that there is a shower here, and a bathtub downstairs.

A few further steps lead up to a second double sized bedroom on the first floor. The structure and arrangement of the things in this bedroom are exactly the same as those of "Snowy", except that the placement of all things, the orientation of the doors, and the direction of the balcony are opposite to "Snow", as if the two rooms are reflecting each other. In addition to the glass, the walls, all the objects, the balconies, the inside of the doors, the roof and the carpet are all fiery red, and even the reflection of the sunlight is red, so it is called "Red Flame". There is also a vase (the sixth) on the bedside table of "Red Flame", which of course has been inserted with a fiery red moon flower.

Every time he walked into this room, Li Song Weiyi seemed to be able to smell the smell of blood, because it was so red, so red that it made people feel like they had walked into the blood mist of hell. Li Songwei couldn't stand this feeling, there was an aura of death here, which made her inexplicably afraid.

Hurriedly picking up a few red petals that had fallen on the carpet, Li Songwei also quickened her pace and walked out of the room, and after closing the door, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and gently leaned her body against the door to rest for a while.

Moving his gaze to the flowers in his hand, Li Song Weiyi's eyes were covered with a layer of fog. "How beautiful... Like a young girl...... I ......"

The voice was so soft that only he could hear, he closed his eyes and bowed slightly, then cheered up and continued his unfinished work.

At this point, we were already directly above the large living room. Let's take a look back at the general structure of the house:

First of all, the whole house faces south and backs to north. From the front, it is an L-shaped horizontal appearance, the west side (left side) is the main house, the east side (right rear side) is the side house, the only gate to enter the house around the side house is a hallway with a small bathroom, after entering, is the living room, the living room occupies the second half of the main house (north side) of the entire floor, and is connected to the first floor of the side house (the first floor of the side house includes the kitchen, laundry room and small warehouse).

Standing in the living room, facing south and facing north, through the living room door is a corridor, the right side of the corridor (west) is first the study, then a large bedroom; On the left side of the corridor (east side) there is a bathroom with a bathtub, then a stairwell, and then a horizontal warehouse.

From the stairwell to the second floor, it is also a corridor that comes out.

This time we walked north and south, starting with a small dark room directly above the warehouse, and on the right hand side (east side) were the stairwell and bathroom, both opposite the first floor. On the left-hand side (west side) is a full double room (snow).

Walk forward to the living room, and on the left (west) is also a large double room (Red Flame); Two-thirds of the way to the right (east) is occupied by a large concave cloakroom (backed by the northernmost wall of the house, with a concave opening facing south).

Directly above the entrance is the storage room, which is not connected to the cloakroom. A door next to the cloakroom leads to the second floor of the side house, where there is a whole greenhouse. The door to the pantry is in the greenhouse.

Whew, all right, the internal structure of the Roquehouse is finally verbose, and I would like to express my gratitude to the readers who insisted on reading this place, thank you for persevering in reading such a long and boring description.

One by one

While Li Songwei was also doing housework, the owner of the Luoque House had already woken up.

These days, he locked himself in the "white snow" day and night, thinking about the whole plan, he can't be a little negligent, he doesn't know what the future will be, he only knows that this time it is really a backwater, he has to give up everything to win.

Yes, that's what he's going to do. First of all, it is necessary to give the teacher an unexpected surprise and reassure the teacher, and then the plan can officially begin. He has been preparing for this surprise for more than a month, but it is not the most important thing, the most important thing is what he will do later, and the people who are coming today:

Fan Xin'er and his wife didn't matter, they were just drinking friends they met a few months ago, and they were invited to come just to make up the numbers; Of course, the teacher and his wife are the protagonists of today, but I don't know what the teacher will think if you trick them up the mountain;

The falcon-like man who had only met once took the initiative to come to him, saying that he wanted to come to the wilderness to explore, forget it, let him come, it would be good for him to come, the more people the more chaotic, the better it would be, wouldn't it;

The young college duo is temporary tenants, and they have been specially arranged to come today to increase the number of people; And Jiang Xinglong, the owner of the old friend Xinglong restaurant chain, will also bring his wife, who is of course a very important guest;

In the end, there is the man who is both attractive and dangerous, he is the only and unsettling factor, and the pair of asura eyes seem to be ready to pierce the heart of the person at any time......