Chu Huaying returned to the inn after tracking Qin Feng, and downstairs, Gui Yuanzhang's investigation also had results.
The girl who was crying at Chen's house this morning was named Qin Yuxia. She was the sister of the missing Chen Yu's wife Qin Yuwei. Gui Yuanzhang used Lu Jiuchuan's mask card to pretend to be Qin Feng and went directly to find her.
Ask questions.
He knocked on the door of the "A" room on the second floor, and sure enough he saw the girl standing at the door with red eyes. When she saw him, she choked and asked, "Brother Qin, is there any news about my sister and her family?"
Gui Yuanzhang was silent for a moment, and shook his head solemnly, "Miss Qin, I'm sorry, there are currently no clues about the whereabouts of your sister and brother-in-law. I am sending people to search. I came to you so late because I want to find out who the couple is.
How did we meet? Have you ever offended anyone? You'd better tell me in detail."
Qin Yuxia had no doubt about the identity of the "Qin Feng" in front of him. He 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. Our family has something to do with it."
In business, my sister and Brother Chen have known each other since they were young, and they grew up together as childhood sweethearts. The two of them have a deep relationship, and they are well matched. When my sister was eighteen years old, Uncle Chen came to propose marriage with a betrothal gift, and my father agreed to their marriage.
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Gui Yuanzhang asked, "Your family is also in business? Do you have any enemies?"
Qin Yuxia immediately shook her head, "Our Qin family has opened the largest restaurant in Qingzhou. My parents are kind to people, 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 for a moment, then said, "I don't know, they came from other places more than ten years ago. Uncle Chen is very business-minded and established himself in Qingzhou within three years of coming to Qingzhou."
"The Uncle Chen you are talking about 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 she had something to hide. Guiyuan Zhang said warmly, "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 before making up her mind and said, "Uncle Chen went out to drink with someone four years ago. When he came back, he suddenly went crazy. People in the Chen family said 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. In the end, he hit his head against the wall and died, his face was covered in blood, and his death was quite tragic."
"..." I didn't expect Chen Yu's father to die so bizarrely.
"How will his funeral be handled?" Gui Yuanzhang asked.
"I found a cemetery locally and buried her." Qin Yuxia was silent for a moment and then added, "Not long after, Aunt Chen also passed away, and she died in the same way as Uncle Chen. The fortune teller said that the feng shui in their yard was not good, and it was very bad.
Maybe he was cursed. My brother-in-law was hit hard and didn't want to stay in Qingzhou anymore, so he took his sister and moved back to his hometown."
When Gui Yuanzhang asked, he pressed the team's headset and conveyed the news to Lu Jiuchuan and Tang Ci.
Hearing this, Tang Ci analyzed in a low voice, "The deaths of the Chen couple were very strange. They were biting people like crazy. It felt like some kind of poison had affected their sanity. Could it be the murderer of the 'Li Guisuo Murder Case'?"
Lu Jiuchuan said, "Chen Yu's parents died and the couple moved back to Qingfeng Town four years ago. Was it also four years ago that Sister-in-law Xue, also known as Han Ningshuang, married to Qingfeng Town?"
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, who came 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 clean them out one by one. The cause of her husband's death may not be ordinary. She just married
Xue Zhao died of illness not long after Qingfeng Town, 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, it would be easy for the person next to her to discover her secret. So she simply poisoned her husband, went into business in the town as a widow, pretended to be pitiful and weak, and lowered the people in the town's wariness of her?
The more Lu Jiuchuan thought about it, the more he felt that this speculation was reasonable. How else could he explain so many coincidences? He was silent for a moment and said seriously, "Han Ningshuang's suspicion is indeed getting bigger and bigger."
Gui Yuanzhang thought so too. 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. Was your Qingzhou affected at that time?"
Qin Yuxia was stunned for a moment and looked confused, "Famine? We in Qingzhou are a land of plenty and have never had 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 the specific places.
"
It seems that after the Chen family left Qingfeng Town, they chose a fertile place to start their business. They probably did not tell the locals that they came from Qingfeng Town, which had experienced a famine, to avoid locals suspecting the origin of their money.
Judging from the descriptions of the locals in Qingfeng Town, the Chen family was not considered wealthy before.
But Qin Yuxia said that Uncle Chen was very business-minded and quickly established a foothold in Qingzhou...
Where did he get the funds?
Tang Ci concluded, "Chen Yu's parents should have obtained a large amount of money through dishonorable means during the famine year. They might have participated in the hound organization, eaten human flesh, and drank human blood. After the famine passed, they stayed away from Qingfeng.
Town, they went to other places to do business. Because they were rich, they quickly established themselves in Qingzhou and attached themselves to the Qin family, the real local rich. 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 entire logical chain will make sense. Han Ningshuang and Qin Feng were both survivors of that year. Han Ningshuang killed Chen Yu's parents in Qingzhou, then returned to Qingfeng Town and transformed into the widow Xue Ersao.
Continue to clean up the descendants of those sinners. Qin Feng knows that it was her, but due to the feelings of the past, he cannot bear to disclose her crimes? "
The two fell silent, lowering their heads and thinking carefully - although such speculation could explain most of the current doubts, they still felt that something was missing?
Suddenly, Tang Ci thought of something and asked Gui Yuanzhang in the earphone, "By the way, Lao Gui, do you remember that you went to the academy in Qingfeng Town to investigate. The wife of Zhao Zeping, the eldest son of the Zhao family, is also from Qingzhou, and her last name seems to be...
Qin?"
Guiyuan Zhang also remembered this incident.
Since someone from the Zhao family arranged the mourning hall for them three years later, placed everyone's memorial tablets, and offered incense to them on time, Xiao Lou speculated that this person was probably the daughter-in-law of the Zhao family who had not appeared in the memorial tablets.
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 Qin Yuxia, and they are from the same hometown. It can't be a coincidence, right?
Gui Yuanzhang asked, "Miss Qin, do you know if there are any other girls named Qin 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 is in the silk business.
She is married to a man named Zhao, and I have not seen her for many years."
It is indeed no coincidence that the daughters-in-law of the Zhao family and the Chen family are both from Qingzhou.
The three sisters of the Qin family are relevant figures in the case.
Qin Yurou married Zhao Zeping, the eldest son of Zhao. Now the Zhao family is missing. Everyone’s memorial 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 married Chen Yu. After Chen Yu's parents died mysteriously, she returned to Qingfeng Town with Chen Yu. She gave birth to her child on the night of the heavy rain, but soon after, the Chen family disappeared, and Xiao Lou and others
The bodies of the Chen family were found in a mass grave.
Qin Yuxia, the youngest, knew that her sister was about to give birth, so she came all the way to Qingfeng Town to visit her. However, when she entered, she found that the house was empty and there was no one there. Therefore, she cried and made a fuss, attracting onlookers, and asked Qin Feng to investigate the matter.
thing.
Tang Ci organized the information of these three people and recorded it on paper.
The clues Gui Yuanzhang obtained from Qin Yuxia made Han Ningshuang's suspicions grow stronger, but Lu Jiuchuan did not want to draw rash conclusions. He said, "The letter we left for Xiao Lou should objectively describe what we heard."
Don’t attach too much subjective reasoning to the news. I always feel that we seem to have missed something.”
Tang Ci also thought this way. Xiao Lou and the others could not find out what happened when the crime occurred in three years' time, but they could find out the behavior of many people after the crime. To judge the murderer, all information must be integrated.
Gui Yuanzhang returned to his room and whispered on the voice channel, "We need to add some more clues to the letter to Xiao Lou. Do we want to go to Zhao's house and have a look?"
Lu Jiuchuan said, "Tang Ci and I will go there. Get the letter back first and finish the supplement before we talk."
The two put on invisibility cloaks and came to Zhao's house together.
As a result, as soon as he entered the door, he saw a woman in black sneaking into Zhao's house mysteriously with a child of about twelve years old. She walked into the hall of Zhao's house and took out a large pile of wood from her bag.
block, and then write on it with a red pen expressionlessly.
She wrote very quickly, and in a blink of an eye she had written the names of the entire Zhao family, and arranged them neatly in rows in order of eldest and youngest. Then she lit the incense burner at the front, held three sticks of incense, and knelt down in front of her to worship.
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The child next to her looked very pale. She took the child's hand and whispered, "Kneel down and kowtow to your father, grandfather, uncle, and aunt."
The child knelt in front of the coffin, and she kowtowed three times.
Then, she said coldly, "Do you remember the person who killed the whole Zhao family?"
The child choked and said, "Remember."
The woman said, "When you grow up, you must avenge your father and the others, do you understand?"
The child nodded vigorously, "I understand, mother."
She stood up, turned around and left with the child.
Lu Jiuchuan stared at this scene blankly, "Is this person Qin Yurou, the daughter-in-law of Zhao's parents, and her children?"
Tang Ci said, "She indeed placed the memorial tablets of the Zhao family. It seems that she has been offering incense to the Zhao family in the next few years. Xiao Lou's speculation on this matter is correct."
Lu Jiuchuan smiled and said, "Many of the results speculated by Han Jiang and Xiao Lou are correct. Of course, they will make mistakes occasionally. We will first summarize all the clues we have seen and leave them to analyze."
But at this moment, Tang Ci suddenly asked a question, "Brother Ninth, do you think that the way to clear this secret room may be different from what we thought."
Lu Jiuchuan looked at him doubtfully, "What do you mean?"
Tang Ci said, "Since we have arrived three years ago and cannot go back to the original world for the time being, can we only wait for Xiao Lou and the others to guess the correct murderer and pass the level? Could it be... We also need to find the correct murderer,
Otherwise, will you be trapped in this world forever and have to wait three years to meet Xiao Lou?"
Lu Jiuchuan felt a chill in his heart and didn't know how to refute.
The timeline is different. If Xiao Lou and Yu Hanjiang clear the level, can I take them to clear the level together?
If the timeline of the secret room follows normal logic, then they can only meet Xiao Lou three years later. In other words, if they want to wait for Xiao Lou to clear the level, they must wait three years and be in the same place as Xiao Lou.
Only one world can be cleared together.
Thinking of this, Lu Jiuchuan suddenly raised his eyebrows. "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 clear the level in our own way?"
Tang Ci found a branch, drew a line segment on the ground, marked two points, and carefully analyzed, "We are at time point a, and Xiao Lou is at time point b three years later. Everything we see now
, it will take three years to pass it on to Xiao Lou. When we clear the level at time point a, we can still leave clues to Xiao Lou at time point b to help them clear the level. I think the biggest difficulty in room k is probably here.
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Lu Jiuchuan understood, "That is - the transmission of clues across time?"
Tang Ci nodded, "Otherwise, why would the gatekeeper send us three years ago and let us see too much information? Doesn't this make the reasoning less difficult?"
Lu Jiuchuan "......"
Every time they make inferences, they rely on Yu Hanjiang and Xiao Lou. This time, the team is transported to different points in time, which is the most severe test for everyone. If they make mistakes in reasoning, or there are errors in the clues they pass on, they may end up figuring it out.
The wrong murderer led to the destruction of the group.
They were three years ago, not in a parallel time and space synchronized with Xiao Lou.
Lu Jiuchuan's face gradually turned ugly.
Tang Ci said calmly, "We have two choices now. First, we hide our identity and wait for three years to meet up with Xiao Lou. Second, on the premise that we are sure that the reasoning is correct, we clear the customs first and give Xiao Lou and the others
Leave complete clues and help them pass the level in three years. Which one do you choose?"
Lu Jiuchuan pressed his temples with a headache. He didn't have the patience to stay in this world for three years. The flow rate of time in this world was calculated separately. Three years, it was really like counting every minute...
Pass the level on your own?
He didn't have that much confidence in himself, but looking at the handsome and pale face of the man standing next to him, Lu Jiuchuan suddenly smiled, gently pressed Tang Ci's shoulders and said, "I choose the first option. I believe in your analysis."
Ability, after all, before I met Xiao Lou and the others, you were always the think tank of our team."
This is probably why Tang Ci was able to walk out of the nightmare chamber even with his legs cut off - he never relied on physical strength, but his brain.
Tang Ci listened to the other party's praise and said calmly, "Don't put your hat on me yet. By the way, I finally remembered what we overlooked - I don't think Han Ningshuang was the murderer of this Li Guisuo murder case, but just an accomplice."
Lu Jiuchuan was stunned, "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 rattles came from the direction of the mass graves? At that time, the Zhao family's wedding team had just left the town, and Han Ningshuang was
If you are flying a kite and pretending to be a ghost in a small town, why do the sounds of rattles appear in a mass grave far away from the town?”
Lu Jiuchuan's eyes lit up, and he suddenly realized, "That's right! Han Ningshuang confessed so easily in front of Qin Feng because she knew who the murderer was, and she was helping the murderer. She was the one who pretended to be a ghost, but she lured the Zhao family and the Chen family away
She was not the one responsible for the mass grave - there was more than one murderer!”
Tang Ci said, "We have to find a way to find out how many children the 'mother-in-law' has brought up."