The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

The six of Xiao Lou returned to Qingfeng Town during the daytime. The residents of the town were preparing lunch. The smell of food was wafting around the streets. People had kind smiles on their faces. It was impossible to tell that such a peaceful town There are actually two cold-blooded, brutal murderers hiding on the ground.

Qin Feng's roster is the key physical evidence. The people marked with a red cross on the roster are all people who have disappeared in Qingfeng Town in recent years, except for the Zhao family and the Chen family who were definitely lured to the mass grave by the murderer. , The other missing persons were killed by which murderer, there is no conclusion yet, Xiao Lou intends to investigate one by one.

He first screened out all the women on the roster who were around the age of 18.

Except for the fourth daughter of the Zhao family, Zhao Zesui, the number of remaining girls is exactly the same as the number of corpses found at the bottom of the lake. That is to say, in the past few years, all the missing girls in the town were dragged into the lake by the second murderer and drowned of.

Xiao Lou thought about it for a moment, and said to his teammates: "The families of these girls are still there. I guess, they have been brainwashed by the rumor of 'ghosts claiming their lives' and have not continued to track down the whereabouts of the missing. We have to find a way for them to see it with their own eyes. The corpse at the bottom of the lake proves that it is not a ghost seeking his life, so we can start an investigation."

Yu Hanjiang agreed: "The murderer is hiding in the dark, we will be very passive, not to mention that we are just passing passengers, and it is not convenient to directly ask for clues about the deceased. But if we 'accidentally' found a corpse in the lake, Their mayor must come forward to investigate this matter."

Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang looked at each other, and said tacitly: "Lead the snake out of the cave, use Qin Feng, the mayor, and use his mouth to investigate the truth of the girl's drowning case."

After confirming this point, Xiao Lou started to make arrangements.

The six of them had to put on a play.

***

After lunch, the weather was hot, Liu Qiao and Lao Mo went to the lake to enjoy the cool, pretending to enjoy the scenery.

Liu Qiao lay on the edge of the fence and looked into the distance. Suddenly, her foot slipped and fell into the lake with a "plop". She opened her mouth and shouted, "Help...help...help..."

Seeing her struggling and sinking into the lake, and the top of her head was submerged by the lake water, Lao Mo's expression changed and he ran to the lake in a hurry. Go to the lake!"

Yu Hanjiang, Xiao Lou, Long Sen, and Qu Wanyue "just happened" to pass by here. Hearing the cry for help, Yu Hanjiang came to the lake in stride. There were already many onlookers around. He squeezed into the crowd and asked in a low voice: " Uncle, what's the matter?"

Lao Mo pointed at the lake in a flustered expression: "My apprentice accidentally fell into the lake, she has already sunk, will she be drowned? Is there anyone who can save her!"

Without saying a word, Yu Hanjiang took off his coat and stuffed it into Xiao Lou's hands, and said to Longsen, "Save me!"

The two jumped into the lake one after the other.

The people around also poked their heads out and looked at the lake curiously. Some people whispered: "I haven't responded after falling for so long, can I still be saved?" Woolen cloth."

Xiao Lou looked nervously at the place where Yu Hanjiang jumped.

Yu Hanjiang and Long Sen had already sunk into the lake to find someone—of course they were not looking for Liu Qiao, but the female corpse at the bottom of the lake.

According to the original plan, when they rescued Liu Qiao, they would push away the water plants and drag a recently dead female body ashore. The onlookers would definitely be shocked. Clues to the corpse case.

The problem is that they found the female corpse last night in the ghost town at night, and now it is Qingfeng Town during the day, will there still be corpses in the lake?If the inference is wrong, the scene will be in vain.

Xiao Lou waited anxiously for a moment.Suddenly, Yu Hanjiang floated onto the lake with the "dying" Liu Qiao, and Lao Mo immediately ran over excitedly and said, "Xiaoqiao, are you okay?"

Liu Qiao coughed desperately, coughed up a lot of lake water, finally regained his composure, and said with a pale face, "I'm still alive?"

Lao Mo was overjoyed, touched her wet hair, and said, "That's great! Thank you, this lifesaver."

Liu Qiao turned to look at Yu Hanjiang, and said, "Brother, thank you for saving me."

Yu Hanjiang said in a low voice, "Thank you for the little effort."

Several people put their heart into acting, and the onlookers were about to disperse after watching the excitement.But at this moment, Long Sen, who jumped into the lake just now, suddenly dragged a woman in red to the surface, and said, "Old man, is this your apprentice?"

Old Mo was stunned, looked at the girl dragged out by Long Sen, and said, "Wh...whose girl is this?!"

Long Sen put the woman in red on the ground and said, "Isn't it your apprentice?"

Old Mo said: "My apprentice has been rescued, I don't know this girl!"

The faces of the onlookers were horrified—one girl jumped off and two girls came up, what kind of situation is this?

Moreover, the woman in red seems to be dead?Her skin was as pale as paper, her face was swollen from the blisters, and she couldn't see her features clearly.

Yu Hanjiang took a step forward with a serious expression, knelt down and looked at the corpse on the ground, probed her breath with his hand, shook his head and said, "This girl, I'm afraid she died for more than a day or two. Recently, some people in the small town committed suicide by throwing themselves into the lake ?”

An old woman next to her said, "I never heard of a girl who committed suicide! But not long ago, a girl disappeared on the day of the Ghost Festival. It is said that she was hooked by a ghost to become a ghost wife?"

The middle-aged man said: "Why does the jade pendant on this girl's waist look familiar to me?"

An old woman asked suspiciously: "Isn't this Miss Lin's family? It seems that the word 'Lin' is written on the jade pendant. By the way, their lady disappeared on the day of the Ghost Festival, and unexpectedly fell into the lake... Sigh , commit crimes!"

People around are talking about it.Soon, someone went to notify the mayor, Qin Feng.

When Qin Feng arrived at the scene, the crowd was surrounding the corpse. He pushed aside the crowd and came to the corpse. Looking at Yu Hanjiang, he asked in a low voice, "Did you find the corpse?"

Yu Hanjiang stood up, looked directly at the other party, and nodded: "Yes. The girl from Xiaoqiao accidentally fell into the water. My guards and I went to the lake to save her. Unexpectedly, a female corpse would be rescued from the bottom of the lake."

Qin Feng squatted down with a frown, carefully examined the condition of the corpse, and finally came to the conclusion: "It should have been drowned." He picked up the jade pendant around the woman's waist, looked at it, and said, "It's Miss Lin who disappeared a few days ago. , I didn’t expect to stumble and fall into the water.”

Xiao Loudao: "Just now I heard from everyone that Miss Lin disappeared on the day of the Ghost Festival and was tricked by a ghost to become a ghost wife. Why did she suddenly fall into the water and drown?"

Qin Feng said coldly: "Outsiders should not ask too much about our Qingfeng Town."

He stood up and said to the two subordinates who followed him: "Send the girl's body back to the Lin family and bury it properly."

Then, he turned around and walked away neatly.

Xiao Lou: "..."

The plot NPC doesn't cooperate with the investigation at all.

According to common sense, so many girls have disappeared in the town in recent years, and the body of one of them was found in the lake. Shouldn't the lake be searched thoroughly to see if other people also fell into the water and died?In the end, the mayor actually buried the body, turned around and left, pretending nothing happened?

I wanted to use Qin Feng's hand to collect clues, but I didn't expect Qin Feng to play cards out of common sense, and Xiao Lou's wishful thinking came to nothing.He glanced at Yu Hanjiang and had no choice but to follow the crowd and disperse.

What a mistake, you can't jump down now and fish out another corpse, right?

After returning to the inn, Xiao Lou said helplessly: "This time the characters in the secret room are not affected by us at all. It seems that it is impossible to ask Qin Feng for help. We have to find clues by ourselves. Besides, Qin Feng's suspicion It hasn't been ruled out yet."

Qu Wanyue said: "The rattle in the secret room of Qin Feng's study, the roster marked with a red cross, these evidences are too directional, why do I think he doesn't look like a murderer?"

Xiao Loudao: "I also don't think he is the murderer, but he must be one of the insiders. It's just that he won't tell us the clues he knows. Moreover, judging from the reaction just now, he is very repulsive to other people investigating this matter .”

Yu Hanjiang suddenly thought of something, frowned and said: "By the way, someone has been offering incense to them in the Zhao family's mourning hall. The survivor of the Zhao family's extermination case is likely to be the daughter-in-law of Zhao's family who did not appear on the memorial tablet. She is also involved in this case." The key. We have to go to Zhao's house again to see if anyone has gone to the mourning hall to light incense."

Xiao Lou also wanted to go to the scene again. When he and Yu Hanjiang went to Zhao's house yesterday, they found that the mourning hall was a little strangely arranged. Incense.

Night is another space, they can't meet this incense burner.

I might find something else in the daytime.

Thinking of this, Xiao Lou said, "Let's go to the Chen family and the Zhao family again to see if there are any missing clues."

A group of people put on the invisibility cloak and quickly came to Chen's house.

At that time, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang did not search Chen's house, it was Liu Qiao and Lao Mo who did the investigation.The key clues Liu Qiao found were a rattle and a letter written by Chen Yu to his father-in-law. Now Xiao Lou searched again, but found no other useful clues. It was a hidden cellar in the backyard of the Chen family that caught Xiao Lou's attention. .

When he walked to the door of the cellar, he always felt that the dark cellar was strangely gloomy, and the cold wind was blowing straight into his neck. He looked at the iron door that locked the cellar, and asked Liu Qiao: "Xiao Liu, have you gone down here to see it?" ?"

Liu Qiao was a little embarrassed: "Professor Xiao, time is running out. I didn't realize there was a cellar in the backyard."

Hearing the words, Yu Hanjiang also came over, and leaned over to look at the iron gate: "The cellar is usually used to store wine, right?"

Xiao Lou said: "This door is locked, you have to go down and have a look."

Long Sen took the initiative to walk in front, broke the door lock, quickly walked down the wall and turned around, and said: "Everyone, come down, there is no trick. The smell of wine is very strong here, and there are a lot of good wine hidden."

But what can it explain?Chen Yu likes to drink?

Xiao Lou didn't worry about this for now, and brought everyone back to Zhao's mourning hall.

Sure enough, three more sticks of incense were lit in the incense burner at the front of the mourning hall. At this time, the three sticks of incense were about to burn out, indicating that the person offering the incense had been away for a while.

Xiao Lou looked around carefully, trying to find the clues left by the person who offered incense...

However, the other party was very cautious, not even a single hair was left behind.

Just when Xiao Lou was regretting that the investigation was fruitless, his eyes suddenly fixed on the hanging beam on the roof. In the middle of the hanging beam, there was a palm-sized spider lying on its stomach. The color was very similar to the hanging beam. Words are hard to detect.

Xiao Lou pointed there: "Look."

Qu Wanyue took a closer look, and was taken aback by the spider, and said, "This spider doesn't seem to be moving at all?"

Yu Hanjiang raised his head and said calmly, "That's not a live spider, but Chu Huaying's spider mark."

You have seen Huaying's spider mark before, and it is indeed possible to confuse the real with the fake.

Xiao Lou was overjoyed: "This is the clue that Huaying left us!"

Yu Hanjiang flew up, climbed on the hanging beam with his left hand, and searched carefully in the cracks of the hanging beam with his right hand. Sure enough, he found a letter, opened it, and found that it was the old man's vigorous calligraphy.

However, the content of the letter made everyone look at each other in dismay.

I saw the first line read: "Lu, Tang, Chu, Gui, the four of us traveled to the world three years ago, and we can't go back."

Xiao Lou: "..."