The Secret Chamber of the Card Game

Chu Huaying returned to the inn after following Qin Feng, and downstairs, Gui Yuanzhang's investigation also had results.

The girl who was crying at the Chen family this morning was named Qin Yuxia. She was the sister of the missing Mrs. Chen Yu, Qin Yuwei. Talk to her.

He knocked on the door of the "A" room on the second floor, and he saw the girl standing at the door with red eyes. When he saw him, he choked up and asked, "Brother Qin, is there any news about my sister's family?"

Gui Yuanzhang was silent for a moment, then shook his head solemnly: "Miss Qin, I'm sorry, there is no clue about the whereabouts of your sister and brother-in-law, and I'm sending someone to search. I came to you so late because I wanted to ask about the whereabouts of their husband and wife. How did you meet? Have you offended anyone? You'd better tell me in detail."

Qin Yuxia didn't doubt the identity of "Qin Feng" in front of her at all, invited him into the room, and said with a pale face: "My sister and I are from Qingzhou. The Chen family came to Qingzhou to do business more than ten years ago. There is a business relationship, my sister and Brother Chen have known each other since childhood, and they grew up together as childhood sweethearts. The two of them have a deep relationship, and they are well-matched. In my sister's year, Uncle Chen came to propose marriage with a betrothal gift, and my father agreed to their marriage."

Gui Yuanzhang asked: "Your family is also in business? Do you have enemies?"

Qin Yuxia immediately shook her head: "Our Qin family has opened the largest restaurant in Qingzhou. My parents are kind to others, and my sister is also very gentle. She shouldn't offend anyone, right?"

"What about the Chen family?"

Qin Yuxia lowered his head and thought about it, and said: "I don't know, they came from other places more than ten years ago. Uncle Chen is very business-minded, and he has established a firm foothold in Qingzhou within three years."

"The Uncle Chen you mentioned is Chen Yu's father? I heard that he has passed away. Do you know how he died?"

Qin Yuxia's expression changed slightly, as if there was something unspeakable hidden.Gui Yuanzhang said softly: "This question is related to the reason why your sister and brother-in-law disappeared. You'd better tell me the truth."

Qin Yuxia gritted her teeth, and finally made up her mind: "Uncle Chen once went out to drink with someone four years ago, and suddenly went crazy after returning. People in the Chen family said that he might be possessed by evil spirits. After he went crazy, he bit people everywhere. Brother Chen had no choice but to tie him up, and in the end, he slammed his head against the wall to death, his face was covered in blood, and he died in a miserable state."

"..." I didn't expect Chen Yu's father to die so strangely.

"How will his funeral be handled?" Gui Yuanzhang asked.

"I found a local cemetery and buried it." Qin Yuxia was silent for a moment, and then said, "Not long after, Aunt Chen also passed away, and she died in exactly the same way as Uncle Chen. The fortune teller said that the feng shui in their yard is not good. Maybe it was cursed by someone. My brother-in-law was hit hard and didn’t want to stay in Qingzhou anymore, so I moved back to my hometown with my sister.”

When Gui Yuanzhang asked, he pressed the team headset by the way, and conveyed the news to Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci.

Hearing this, Tang Ci analyzed in a low voice: "The death of the Chen couple is very strange. They bit people crazily. It feels like they were affected by some kind of toxin. Could it be the murderer of the 'Ghost Killing Case'?"

Lu Jiuchuan said: "Chen Yu's parents died, and it was four years ago that the couple moved back to live in Qingfeng Town. Did Second Sister-in-Law Xue, Han Ningshuang, marry into Qingfeng Town four years ago?"

Tang Ci checked the records in the drone.The photographed roster clearly recorded the situation of each household in the town. The time when the Chen family moved to Qingfeng Town was indeed exactly the same as the time when Han Ningshuang married to Qingfeng Town.

Tang Ci nodded to Lu Jiuchuan: "It was four years ago. Assuming that Han Ningshuang was the murderer, she committed a crime in Qingzhou City four years ago and killed Chen Yu's parents; then, Chen Yu's family moved back to Qingfeng Town, and she married Xue Zhao from Qingfeng Town also returned to her hometown. In the past four years, she carefully planned to sort out all the enemies who murdered her mother-in-law during the famine year, and cleaned them up one by one. The cause of her husband's death may be unusual. She just married Not long after arriving in Qingfeng Town, Xue Zhao died of illness, and she became a widow, how could such a coincidence happen? Could it be that Xue Zhao was also poisoned to death by her?"

After all, the person next to her pillow can easily discover her secrets.So she simply poisoned her husband and started doing business in the small town as a widow, pretending to be pitiful and weak, to lower the people in the small town's wariness of her?

The more Lu Jiuchuan thought about it, the more he felt that this conjecture was very reasonable. Otherwise, how could we explain so many coincidences?He was silent for a moment, then said seriously: "Han Ningshuang's suspicion is indeed getting bigger and bigger."

Gui Yuanzhang also thought so. He looked at the girl in front of him and continued to ask: "Miss Qin, there was a famine in Qingfeng Town more than ten years ago. Were your Qingzhou affected at that time?"

Qin Yuxia was stunned for a moment, with a puzzled look on his face: "Famine? Our Qingzhou is a land of fish and rice, and there has never been a famine. However, I heard that there was a famine in some places more than ten years ago, and many people died. I don't know exactly which places .”

It seems that after the Chen family left Qingfeng Town, they chose a rich place to start a business. They probably didn't tell the locals that they came from Qingfeng Town, which had suffered a famine, so as to avoid the local people's suspicion of the origin of their money.

Judging from the descriptions of the locals in Qingfeng Town, the Chen family was not considered rich before.

But Qin Yuxia said that Uncle Chen was very business-minded, and quickly gained a firm foothold in Qingzhou...

Where did he get the funds from?

Tang Ci concluded: "Chen Yu's parents should have obtained a large amount of money by dishonorable means during the famine year. They might have joined the hunting dog organization and eaten human flesh and drank human blood. After the famine passed, they stayed away from Qingfeng Town, went to other places to do business. Because they had a lot of money, they quickly gained a foothold in Qingzhou and attached themselves to the real rich Qin family in the local area. But for some reason, the murderer also went to Qingzhou and killed Chen Yu's parents."

Lu Jiuchuan nodded in agreement: "In this case, the whole logical chain makes sense. Han Ningshuang and Qin Feng are both survivors. Han Ningshuang killed Chen Yu's parents in Qingzhou, then returned to Qingfeng Town, and transformed into the widow Xue Ersao , and continue to clean up the descendants of those sinners. Qin Feng knew that she did it, but because of his affection back then, he couldn't bear to disclose her crimes?"

The two fell silent, lowered their heads and thought carefully—although such speculation can explain most of the current doubts, they always feel that something is missing?

Suddenly, Tang Ci thought of something, and asked Gui Yuanzhang in the headset: "By the way, Lao Gui, do you remember when you went to the academy in Qingfeng Town to investigate, the wife of the eldest son of the Zhao family, Zhao Zeping, was also from Qingzhou, it seems... Is your surname Qin?"

Gui Yuanzhang also remembered this matter.

Since someone from the Zhao family arranged a mourning hall for them three years later, laid out everyone's spiritual seats, and offered incense to them on time, Xiao Lou speculated that this person might be Zhao's eldest daughter-in-law who had never appeared in the spiritual seats.

The eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhao family has a mysterious origin. People in the town only know her surname is Qin. Her surname is the same as this Qin Yuxia's, and she is from the same town. It shouldn't be a coincidence, right?

Gui Yuanzhang asked: "Miss Qin, do you know if there are any other girls surnamed Qin who are married here in Qingzhou?"

Qin Yuxia said: "Yes, she is a distant relative of our family. According to seniority, I should call her cousin, but our relationship is not very close, and we rarely move around. Her name is Qin Yurou, and her family makes silk. For business, married to a man surnamed Zhao, I haven't seen her for many years."

Sure enough, it was no coincidence that the daughters-in-law of the Zhao family and the Chen family were both from Qingzhou.

The three sisters of the Qin family, the relevant persons in the case.

Qin Yurou married Zhao Zeping, the eldest son of the Zhao family. Now the Zhao family is missing. Everyone's tablets are placed in the mourning hall, except for her and her son's names. Is she the survivor who offered incense to the Zhao family?

Qin Yuwei was married to Chen Yu. After Chen Yu's parents died strangely, she followed Chen Yu back to Qingfeng Town.On the rainy night when the incident happened, she gave birth to a child, but immediately after, the whole Chen family disappeared. Xiao Lou and the others found the bodies of the Chen family in the mass grave.

Qin Yuxia, the youngest, knew that her sister was about to give birth, so she ran all the way to Qingfeng Town to visit, but when she entered, she found that the house was empty and there was no one there, so she cried and made a scene, attracting onlookers, and asked Qin Feng to investigate this matter thing.

Tang Ci sorted out the information of these three people and recorded them on paper.

The clues that Gui Yuanzhang found from Qin Yuxia made Han Ningshuang more and more suspicious, but Lu Jiuchuan didn't want to draw conclusions rashly, he said: "The letter we left to Xiao Lou is an objective description of what we have heard. Don’t attach too much subjective reasoning to the news. I always feel that we seem to be missing something.”

Tang Ci also thought the same way, Xiao Lou and the others could not find out what happened in the year of the crime in the time and space three years later, but they could find out the behavior of many people after the crime.To judge the murderer, all the information must be integrated.

Gui Yuanzhang returned to his room, and said in a low voice on the voice channel: "We have to add some clues to the letter to Xiao Lou, do you want to go to Zhao's house?"

Lu Jiuchuan said: "Let me go with Tang Ci, get that letter back first, and then we'll talk after adding it."

The two put on the invisibility cloak and came to Zhao's house together.

As a result, as soon as she entered the door, she saw a woman in black sneaking into Zhao's house mysteriously with a child about 12 years old. She walked into the hall of Zhao's house and took out a large pile of wooden blocks from her carry-on package. , and then use a red pen to write on it expressionlessly.

Zhao Zeping's spiritual position... Zhao Ze'an's spiritual position...

She wrote very quickly, and in a blink of an eye, she wrote the names of the whole Zhao family, and arranged them neatly in rows in order of seniority, then lit the incense burner at the front, held three sticks of incense, and knelt down in front of them to worship .

The face of the child next to her was very pale. She took the child's hand and said in a low voice, "Kneel down and kowtow to your father, grandfather, uncle, and aunt."

The child knelt in front of the coffin, and she kowtowed three times while holding her down.

Then, she said coldly: "Do you remember the person who killed the whole Zhao family?"

The child choked up and said, "Remember."

The woman said: "When you grow up, you must avenge your father and the others, you understand?"

The child nodded vigorously: "Understood, mother."

She stood up, turned and left with the child.

Lu Jiuchuan stared blankly at this scene: "Could this person be Qin Yurou, daughter-in-law of Zhao's parents, and her children?"

Tang Ci said: "She really placed the spiritual seats of the Zhao family. From this point of view, she has been offering incense to the members of the Zhao family in the next few years. Xiao Lou's speculation about this matter is correct. "

Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said: "Many of the results that Han Jiang and Xiao Lou speculated are correct. Of course, they occasionally make mistakes. Let's collect all the clues we have seen and leave them to analyze."

But at this moment, Tang Ci suddenly asked a question: "Ninth brother, do you think that the way to clear the secret room may be different from what we thought."

Lu Jiuchuan looked at him suspiciously: "What do you mean?"

Tang Ci said: "Since we came three years ago and we can't go back to the original world for the time being, can we just wait for Xiao Lou and the others to figure out the correct murderer to clear the level? Could it be...we also need to find the correct murderer Otherwise, you will be trapped in this world forever, and you will not meet Xiao Lou until three years later?"

Lu Jiuchuan felt a chill in his heart and didn't know how to refute for a moment.

The timeline is different, Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang pass the customs, can you take them to pass the customs together?

If the timeline of the Chamber of Secrets followed normal logic, then they could only meet Xiao Lou three years later.In other words, if they want to wait for Xiao Lou to pass the customs, they have to wait for three years and be in the same world as Xiao Lou before they can pass the customs together.

Thinking of this, Lu Jiuchuan suddenly had two big heads: "Either we wait three years and analyze the case with Xiao Lou and the others, or we have to find the murderer at this point in time and pass the customs in our own way?"

Tang Ci found a branch, drew a line segment on the ground, marked two points, and analyzed carefully: "We are at time point A, and Xiao Lou is at time point B three years later. What we see now It will take three years for everything to pass to Xiao Lou. We cleared the customs at time A, and we can still leave clues to Xiao Lou at time B to help them pass the customs. I think the biggest difficulty of the K secret room is probably in here."

Lu Jiuchuan understood: "That is - the transmission of clues across time?"

Tang Ci nodded: "Otherwise, why would the gatekeeper send us to three years ago, allowing us to see too much information? Wouldn't this reduce the difficulty of reasoning?"

Lu Jiuchuan: "..."

Every reasoning depends on Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou. This time the team was teleported to a different point in time, which is the most severe test for everyone.In case they make a mistake in their reasoning, or the clues passed on are wrong, it is very likely that they will mistake the murderer in the end, leading to the end of the group.

They were three years ago, not the parallel time and space synchronized with Xiao Lou.

Lu Jiuchuan's face gradually turned ugly.

Tang Ci calmly said: "There are two choices now. First, we hide our identity and join Xiao Lou after three years. Second, we are sure that the reasoning is correct, we will pass the customs first and give Xiao Lou They left complete clues to help them pass the customs three years later. Which one do you choose?"

Lu Jiuchuan pressed his temple with a headache.He doesn't have the patience to stay in this world for three years. The flow rate of time in this world is calculated separately. For three years, that's really counting every minute and every second...

Clear the level by yourself?

He didn't have that much confidence in himself, but looking at the handsome and pale face of the man standing beside him, Lu Jiuchuan suddenly smiled, pressed Tang Ci's shoulder lightly and said: "I choose the first one. I believe yours Analytical ability, after all, before meeting Xiao Lou and the others, you were always the brains of our team."

Probably this is also the reason why Tang Ci was able to walk out of the nightmare chamber with his legs cut off - he never relied on physical strength, but always relied on his brain.

Tang Ci listened to the other party's praise, and said calmly: "Don't put a high hat on me first. By the way, I finally remembered what we overlooked-I think Han Ningshuang was not the murderer of this ghost murder case, but an accomplice. "

Lu Jiuchuan was taken aback: "Oh? Why do you say that?"

Tang Ci said: "The sound of a rattle."

He paused and frowned slightly: "Do you remember that when we first came to this world, the sound of rattle drums came from the direction of the mass grave? And at that time, the Zhao family's wedding team had just walked out of the town, and Han Ningshuang At that time, since kites were flying in the small town to pretend to be ghosts, why did the sound of rattles appear in the mass grave far away from the small town?"

Lu Jiuchuan's eyes lit up, and he suddenly realized: "That's right! The reason why Han Ningshuang pleaded so straightforwardly in front of Qin Feng was because she knew who the murderer was, and she was helping the murderer. She wasn't the one who went to the mass grave - there was more than one murderer!"

Tang Ci said: "We have to find a way to find out how many children are brought up by that 'mother-in-law'."

The author has something to say:

There is a chapter to be updated today, and the case will be clear tomorrow!

I wonder if everyone understands what Tang Ci said?Although I wrote it at the same time, in fact, they had to wait three years to see Xiao Lou, and Mr. Shao and Ye Qi had to wait 20 years to see Xiao Lou.The difficulty of this secret room is that the protagonist team was assigned to investigate at different time points.