Chapter 729 Pickup Truck Beachside Wine Barrel Murder Case Opening Act 50
Yan Muheng was observing Yun Yeyao quietly, and Mei Xiaoxiao behind him was also observing him. The person now showed more and more flaws, and they looked different from when he was at the foot of the mountain.
Mei Xiaoxiao glanced at her watch. It was already lunch time. Their current location was only a wall separated from the two people in front. However, Mei Xiaoxiao could ensure that Yan Muheng and Yun Yeyao would not notice them. This was also due to the fact that the tower corridor was rotating upward in a circular shape, and half a arc apart, the walls could protect the followers well.
Mei Xiaoxiao leaned against the wall and asked Shan Mingze behind her: "When you first met him, did you know that he was a part of the strange house?"
Shan Mingze's answer was very straightforward, and he said: "I don't know, we are just ordinary friends."
"If that person was really not your kill? Why did you escape from the police's sight and go up the mountain with Xixi? You know the police are suspicious of Xixi." Mei Xiaoxiao continued.
"I'm trying to save Xixi because I love her, but she's obsessed with it."
"Who does Xixi love?"
"This is also the question I want to figure out. Also, what are we doing now? Should we keep following these two people?"
Mei Xiaoxiao looked back at Shan Mingze, and did not answer the question he asked, but continued to ask: "Do you think it is possible to be Xiaoheng?"
"...You mean Yan Muheng! I don't think it's possible. Don't Yan Muheng have a girlfriend in this family?"
"But when I was outdoors just now, I saw Xixi trusting him very much. Didn't it be that they met in advance because they were at the foot of the mountain?"
"Impossible. Maybe Xixi has always regarded him as Officer Xie. Officer Xie and Yan Muheng used the same disguise. I understand Xixi. She is very simple. If she believes that someone can protect herself, she will give her trust without any scruples."
"It's better to say that you are a little selfish than to be straightforward. You really give for her, but the result is not as good as a stranger." Mei Xiaoxiao's words were heartbreaking, and Shan Mingze stopped talking.
Mei Xiaoxiao didn't have time to answer Shan Mingze's questions. She kept staring at Yun Yeyao's actions. Yun Yeyao would tear the blue wallpaper in front of Yan Muheng. It was absolutely impossible for him to do so just because he suspected that there were other things hidden behind the wallpaper. Xie Yunmeng often mentioned it intentionally or unintentionally, so Mei Xiaoxiao knew him very well. On the surface, she was gentle, but in fact she was very smart inside.
The policewoman often thinks that if Yun Yeyao is a person who is petty or flawed, it will be a bad thing whether he is his friend or his enemy. Fortunately, Yun Yeyao is not such a person. Xie Yunmeng once said that Xiaoyao is a generous and kind person, and Mei Xiao chose to believe this.
‘But at this moment, facing Yan Muheng, a person who cannot determine the quality of the problem, Xiaoyao is probably trying hard to figure it out?!’ Mei Xiaoxiao thought, slowly retreating, holding a corner of Shan Mingze’s clothes in her hand, pulling him back with him.
Mei Xiaoxiao didn't answer Shan Mingze's question directly just now, which made him confused. Now that she was pulled by the female police, Shan Mingze's eyes turned around even more suspicious. However, Shan Mingze was not unable to understand such an attitude. The criminal police asked him to participate in the operation, which was probably a last resort, and it was reasonable to have reservations about him.
So he did not make any rebuttal, but followed Mei Xiaoxiao backwards. Wen Yuya was not calm and she asked the policewoman in a low voice: "Xiaoxiao, are we leaving?"
"Aunt Wen, he's here."
"Who is here?" Wen Yuya was still confused.
Mei Xiaoxiao simply replied: "Xiaoheng!"
"Did... Xiaoheng discovered us?"
"I don't know." Mei Xiaoxiao answered while retreating, and the expression on her face became more and more serious.
Her appearance made Wen Yuya nervous and asked, "Is it the murderer pretending to be Xiaoheng! There is a scar on his face, right?"
"You didn't give the little lady a good morning kiss when you left the brown tower. Didn't you play the role of a couple? Why didn't you have a good morning kiss? This is not something embarrassing in front of everyone, right?" Yaya asked in one breath, waiting for Xie Yunmeng's answer with her big eyes looking forward to her. Tang Meiya, who was on the side, could only hold her forehead and sigh, complaining that her granddaughter was too straightforward.
Xie Yunmeng replied: "But we are not husband and wife! And I never thought of any good morning kiss."
Yaya was obviously dissatisfied with Xie Yunmeng's answer. She pouted and said, "Miss Xiao is your girlfriend. You are living in her room, and you are still stingy with a good morning kiss? But I think maybe you are not stingy, but don't love Miss Xiao."
Yaya's words hit the nail on the head, and Xie Yunmeng didn't know how to answer. He had never been a shy person, so he would say whatever he had? But now, he felt like he was empty in his heart and had no words to answer.
Yaya continued, "If you don't answer, you're just accusation! That's why I said that you can't see obsession in your eyes, only respect."
"... Then who do you think I like?" Xie Yunmeng answered mechanically. He didn't know why he asked like this?
"Of course you like the little lady." The little girl's answer made Xie Yunmeng laugh and cry for a moment. Isn't she contradictory? So Xie Yunmeng was about to end this irrelevant topic.
But unexpectedly, Yaya immediately said: "Like it is not love! You only like it. I feel like the river behind my grandma's house, and there has never been any trouble. I can also give an example. When the little lady disappeared, Brother Xiao Meng, you were really anxious, but you can still think about the problem and analyze and judge. But when Mr. Yun was attacked by the murderer, you became so scary! It seemed like you wanted to eat people. I was almost scared to death when I saw you."
"Look, even a good friend like Mr. Yun can make you lose your mind, but the little lady who wants to spend your whole life with you is not as good as him. Brother Xiao Meng really doesn't love the little lady at all, he can only like it!" After Yaya finished summarizing, she looked like I was the most correct. Tang Meiya almost wanted her mouth again.
Yun Yeyao and Yan Muheng are still on the top of the secret passage of the blue tower. The tower is very high. As long as Mei Xiaoxiao and the others don’t yell, the people above will not notice it. After entering the room, Wen Yuya is indeed inside. At this moment, she is exactly the same as when she was crazy before, frightened and panicked, and her body trembled without control.
Mei Xiaoxiao didn't understand why this situation suddenly happened? She quickly walked to Wen Yuya, squatted down and hugged her and asked, "Aunt Wen, what's wrong with you?"
"In the big clock! Terrible corpse... Someone threw the corpse into it...it was in the big clock!!" Wen Yuya's words intermittently, as if in an instant, back to the time when she was rescued from the big clock just yesterday afternoon.
As for her abnormal reaction, Mei Xiaoxiao finally realized something was wrong. She asked: "Aunt Wen, do you still remember what we said to Mr. Yun just now? It's in this room."
"..." Wen Yuya buried her face between her knees and shook her head.
Mei Xiaoxiao continued to ask: "What did you do with Mr. Shan just now?"
"I... don't know!" This time there was an answer, but it was obvious that Wen Yuya could not remember the things just now. This reminded Mei Xiaoxiao again of the word "blood relationship" mentioned by Liu Qiaopu. The policewoman is not stupid. It is not something that needs to be said clearly before she can understand it. Now she has finally begun to realize what blood relationship means...
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"Maybe there are no outsiders in this family, but are covering up some secrets in the name of foreign children. These secrets are likely to be related to Anze's dream mystery, that is, the person who inherits his blood relationship."
On the top of the blue tower, Yun Yeyao said to Yan Muheng, of course he could not have thought that the female policewoman at the bottom of the corridor was having ideas similar to these words.
The reason why Yun Yeyao said this was because Yan Muheng opened a door, which had been locked before.
The bookcase as big as the door of the room is very ordinary in style. The front is like the bookcase we often see in the library, but it is much smaller.
There are not many books above, most of the places are empty. Yun Yeyao did not pay attention to those empty grids. He was just flipping through books. In the book, An Ze explained all his true feelings about the dream one by one. It made Yun Yeyao feel that he had been worrying about it all his life, so that he trapped his daughter in the dream.
The actor looked at the words in front of him, but the contents of the incomplete diary found by Xie Yunmeng appeared in the gray brain cells. If the diary and book were written by An Ze himself, then the amount of information that can be obtained from it is not a little bit.
While comparing silently, Yun Yeyao did not ignore Yan Muheng beside him. Why did he suddenly think of the hidden bookcase? Is he the chef's son Yu Heng, or someone with a connection with An Ze? Perhaps both are both, because before An Ze's death, the chef was not old. She lived in a treacherous house all her life. She had no husband, but had a son, which made people suspicious.
The cook’s problem can be understood later. At this moment, Yun Yeyao clearly felt that Yan Muheng’s emotions were not very stable. This instability may lead to changes in Yan Muheng’s thinking and behavior anytime and anywhere. Yun Yeyao has already experienced it and tested it, so he must be vigilant at all times.
At this moment, aside from the behavior, Yan Muheng's thinking state is indeed changing uncontrollably. He stayed in the interweaving position of dreams and reality. Even the familiar gazes in his eyes also affected another person with a deep connection with him. This person was Wen Yuya, who was trembling in Mei Xiaoxiao's arms. The resonance between them made both parties fall into a state of inextricable self-exercise.
The air in the blue tower seemed to condense, and Yan Muheng seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, silent. Yun Yeyao could not hear a sound in his ears. He narrowed his eyes to cover up the anxiety that gradually surged in his heart, and tried to immerse himself in thinking, ignoring the oppression brought by Yan Muheng.
‘The weather was extremely cold. I was working, but the course was occupied by other teachers, so I didn’t do anything. I sat alone in front of the window and waited for my daughter to return home. I received a call from the class teacher. It was still a bit difficult for my daughter to do the homework for the third grade of elementary school.’
This diary was written on December 1, 1989. The most important thing it reveals is the age of Anze's daughter. At that time, she was a third-grade student in elementary school and was almost nine years old. If you included reading for one year in the morning, it is still a question whether you were nine years old. Based on this calculation, Anze's daughter should be under 30 today, which is inconsistent with the current mistress of the strange house.
If the content of the diary is true, age alone can prove that the resentful little girl back then was definitely not the same person as the mistress Yun Yeyao and the others heard about. In this way, the scope of the assumption will be wider. Let’s talk about the three simplest points. First, after An Ze’s death, someone in the Treasure House imprisoned his daughter because he coveted his property or the real wealth brought by the dream, and lived in the Treasure House as an impostor.
If the above statement is true, then the possibility that Shu Xue is An Ze's daughter will be increased. First of all, she has lived in a strange house all year round, but is not discovered by most people. Sister Wang and Horror only hear their names and do not see them. The chef, housekeeper and Wen Yuya are silent, unwilling to reveal more information, and even unwilling to mention them on their own initiative.
So can it be said that the chef, the housekeeper and Wen Yuya are all accomplices in this matter? They want to divide Anze's property and take advantage of Shu Xue's possible dream to recreate Anze's miracle back then.
But there are obviously many things that make sense. For example, we mentioned a girl's confession before (please refer to the beginning of Chapter 58). In her thoughts, someone wanted to let Horror completely replace her, but she did not hold on to herself, but used a thought with pity, thinking that Horror lived in the fog.
Regardless of whether the girl is Shu Xue herself or not, her thoughts are definitely not something that a person full of resentment and injustice should have. It is impossible for a girl who has been taken away from her property, identity, and has to become a tool for making money.
The second diary mentioned Anze's wife. On December 1, 1989, she had been away from home for more than two months. Therefore, we can speculate that Anze's daughter was still in elementary school, and the impact of this can be imagined.
Let’s not talk about An Ze’s wife for now, let’s continue to analyze the following diary content.
Diary III: Written on January 18, 1992.
'What should be gone has left. My daughter has graduated from elementary school and her homework has improved. Recently, I found that my mind is often drowsy and I really have no time to take care of her. My work is getting more and more leisurely, and I don't know if it is a good thing!'
When you read these words, do you feel that something is inconsistent? Maybe you, like Yun Yeyao, can see at a glance that some of these sentences lack subjects, and some lack reasons.
One thing to make a statement is that the above sentences are written on the same page, with the beginning and end continuation together. It is certain that there is no other interspersed content in these words, so it can only be that Anze deliberately ignores the subject and reason.
‘What should be left has left. My daughter has graduated from elementary school and her homework has improved.’
This sentence does not indicate who the person who should leave is? If Anze is talking about his wife, then from the language organization, we can see that Anze is not reluctant to leave his wife. He said that he should leave has gone. This is a manifestation of nostalgia. If Anze is talking about his wife, it will be difficult to guess.
In the book in the hands of Mr. Actor, Anze also mentioned that his wife left his daughter when she was very young and had never contacted her since then.
Also, the saying "all have left" reminds people of whether many people left Anze at that time. Perhaps Anze had only his daughter with him later, and he never taught in school after he was forty. The reason is that he had been betrayed by his relatives.
It is a very painful thing to have no friends, no wealth, and even lose most of its relatives, so Anze desperately wants to use his dream to turn over (this is also expressed in the subsequent diary). Dreams are nothingness, and Anze is very lucky to be able to use it to obtain wealth. Regardless of whether Anze's dream has the ability to predict, it can only be said that Anze should not be defeated.
Xie Yunmeng bent down and entered the basement of the ruins of the side house. Yaya's question just now was still circling in his mind, and Yun Yeyao's figure lingered. Xie Yunmeng tried hard to force himself to forget his feelings and concentrate on the corpse.
At this moment, the situation in the basement had changed a lot. Liuqiaopu opened all the entrances and exits at both ends, and opened many holes in the damaged and rotten walls around. The mud and sand inside had already absorbed enough water. Now that the cold air blows, ice is basically formed behind the wooden boards, so the temperature inside suddenly becomes very cold, and even the detective shivered when he entered.
Xie Yunmeng turned around and reminded Tang Meiya that she had wrapped her down jacket tightly, and it was very cold outside. Yaya was temporarily staying in the rock cave, but she was not standing in an empty place like this. Xie Yunmeng carried her body above a protruding rock, which was above their heads. If Yaya stayed on it, the person below would not notice her as long as he did not look up.
This place was also what Mei Xiaoxiao told Xie Yunmeng after observing it. He asked Yaya to stay on it for safety reasons, and the other hand, it was to observe the situation in the rock cave, so as to prevent someone from moving here when they were not paying attention. Xie Yunmeng took care of Yaya, and when he saw people, he should try to pay attention to conceal himself, and he did not need to remind them, just tell them everything he saw later.
Yaya agreed nodded, and the little girl accepted the task with a very serious attitude, as if she was already a policewoman. Xie Yunmeng liked Yaya's personality very much, so she couldn't help but praise her, which made Yaya even more proud.
Xie Yunmeng first entered the basement and observed the situation. Due to the simple transformation of Liuqiaopu, the surface of the chef's corpse did not change much. The blood stains and corpse on the ground were frozen in the cold wind, delaying the time of decay.
But even so, when Tang Meiya saw the body for the first time, she was so scared that her heart was pounding and she was afraid to approach her.
In the closed and narrow space, a lifeless black shadow leaned there. The black shadow's neck tilted to one side as if it was broken, and his upper body tilted in a strange posture. At first glance, it made people feel like he was a corpse.
However, after getting closer, we could hear the weak breathing sound from the dark shadow's breath. He didn't know how he was in this place. It had been many days, and he had no light. He only relied on breathing and did not know who abandoned the food here and had already lost hope.
But the entrance and exit were suddenly opened just now. Heiying saw two women, one of which seemed familiar, which made Heiying recall something he did with the young woman many years ago, something they had hidden and dared not speak of.
‘If she were really the person from the past, why didn’t she recognize me?’ The dark shadow kept thinking about this question in his vague brain. He couldn’t believe that the people he had protected for so many years would ignore his life and death, so the only possibility was that she did not recognize who he was.
The gasp became weaker and weaker, not entirely because of physical reasons, but because his heart was gradually losing hope. In the moment, the small table bounced back from the mechanism hit him. He probably might have been injured in his ribs. He felt that moving became difficult, and there were bursts of severe pain in the place he hit.
‘Who is that man? Why did he block his life channel?’
Black Shadow used his only moving right foot to kick the wood that broke suddenly, but his weak force could not do anything. After trying several times, Black Shadow finally gave up. He simply collapsed and waited for the arrival of death. There was not much food left here, and the water in the cracks in the rocks could not save his life.
The black shadow thought that anyway, he was always poor and living a life of debt would be better than dying. Hope disappeared completely in a person's heart, and no one saw his pain. At this moment, a woman not far away was suffering because of this pain.
Tang Meiya followed Xie Yunmeng back to the front of the rock crack just now. She unconsciously looked towards the other side of the crack, while Yaya was following Xie Yunmeng to carefully observe the ground.
I don't know how long it took, a ray of light was cast into the dark place. Yu Cha was so excited that he couldn't open his eyes. He raised his hand to block the source of the light, and heard the unpleasant friction between the air cushions and the walls continuing on his ears.
Xie Yunmeng took out all the things stuffed into and out of the entrance and exit bit by bit. The air inside these things had leaked out, so it was spread on the ground at this moment like a thick layer of rubber pads. Due to the tightening of the material, the color also looked much darker than the surrounding colors.
The next step is to find a way to get out the altar that was blocked inside. The legs and a horizontal bar of the altar have been broken. After the air cushion was pulled out, a lot of bricks and tiles on the walls on both sides were also brought down, and many cracks and gaps appeared in an instant.
Why did Xie Yunmeng have to stuff all the thick air cushions into the narrow entrances and exits before? It was to destroy the surrounding walls. Once there were more cracks on the walls, the air would naturally pour into the room. Of course, it would be best if there was a vent behind it.
After clearing out the gap on the wall, Xie Yunmeng shouted inside: "Yu Cha, are you inside? If you are there, you will respond."
Chapter completed!