Chapter 2 intruder in private room

On the tenth day, although the army fought a big battle with Peiping's army centered on Alang's village, three days later, the enemy disappeared from the right bank of the Xiangjiang River.The Miao army came back in a big victory, led by out-of-key military music, and the long queue meandered back to Baxianzhai again.On the night of victory, the most important thing is to relieve the soldiers' hunger and thirst. In Lorelle's house, which was regarded as the headquarters, Zarov, Peng, and Jansin, who had hardly slept a wink for three days, didn't even eat dinner, and went to bed as soon as it got dark.But among the remaining five people, one must be selected to be Haida's master tonight.As early as daytime, the careful Zaroff ordered vigilance to prevent the opponent's spies from sneaking in after the victory. Therefore, before the lottery, everyone carefully checked every corner of the entire building.Once the inspection is over, the devil's bidding begins.The tag was opened, and the four eyes burning with greedy light closed.This moment is simply suffocating - Wang Zhong signed it!This joyful "one-night groom" happily pushed open the door leading to the paradise.

It is night, and the new moon is in the sky.The early summer in Baxianzhai is like a sweet soup, intoxicating.In the lustful embrace, everything swayed, inside and out.The remaining four formed a circle around the table in Haida's next room, playing mahjong.Outside the window of Haida's room, various flowers such as Tokyo peach and plum, spring sweet-scented osmanthus, and apricot are blooming.Perhaps it was because of jealousy of Wang Huanxi, this sour-sweet aroma was actually somewhat annoying to the four of them playing cards.About an hour later, under the dead night sky, a sound of an organ lingered quietly.

"Huh? It's Mrs. Laurel, right? I don't know what she is playing on the dirty organ next to the boiler in the basement." One of them said holding a mahjong tile. "You mean that piece? It's Mahler's "Song for the Dead Son." The sentimental Ye said casually, and then went on to play cards. Under such a scorching sun and such a rainstorm, there are no children playing outside the door—this sad and obscure posthumous work of the master, which expresses the deepest emotions in the soul, is so suitable for Mrs. Laurel! So far, it is necessary to talk about the situation around Hedda's room.Haida lives in a room with a single door, and outside the only door is a long and narrow rectangular empty room (there is neither furniture nor decoration, it is a veritable hollow, like a closed wooden box) .Another door in the empty room leads to the assembly hall where the non-commissioned officers are playing mahjong.Although the other door of the assembly room opened to the corridor, since the mahjong table of the non-commissioned officers was placed in the opposite corner, as long as someone appeared at the doors on both sides, the non-commissioned officers would immediately notice it.To the left of the empty house in the center is a toilet with access from the corridor.In other words, this rectangular space sandwiched by two rooms is divided into two from the center, one is an empty room and the other is a toilet.The walls of each room are covered with luxuriously colored slate-gray ash planks, and each door is carved with different patterns—swallow flowers for the toilet, flower orchids for the non-commissioned officers’ assembly hall, ivy for the empty room, and ivy for the sea. Da's room is a mandala flower (please refer to the attached picture on the next page for details).

10:30 - The organ repeats the same tune, but this time, as if with a different player, and Mahler's "Song for a Dead Child" becomes a disturbing noise.At this moment, the door of the corridor was opened, and the lady's maid walked in. "Hey, who is this playing the piano?" Ye said impatiently. "I guess it's still Madam, but she's just teaching people. The seven or eight women who weren't on duty all squeezed into the room, and it was really noisy. I'm here to find Miss Heda." "Not now." One of them said with an obscene gesture.

At this moment, the door of the empty room opened suddenly, and Wang, who was supposed to be sleeping with Haida, came out. "Huh?" Everyone's half-surprised eyes shot at Wang. "I don't want to waste a night serving a drunkard." Wang said with an unhappy face, his lips tightly closed, and finally said with a wry smile, "When I went in just now, that bitch was fighting with soap bubbles in the bathtub." "Huh? And then?" "Then I became her hygienist." With a "bah", Wang spat and walked straight to the corridor. However, not long after Wang and the maid left, there was a burst of laughter in Haida's room.The laughter sounded insane, like hard metal hitting each other.Although everyone felt that it would stop soon, she couldn't stop laughing. After a break, she laughed wildly again.Everyone was very surprised. Someone entered the empty room between the two rooms, but immediately came back with a strange look on his face.

"Hey, there's a man in the Hedda house." Everyone was skeptical and quietly came to Haida's gate.Just as the person said just now, Haida's wild laughter was indeed mixed with the man's deep and rough chuckle.Although they couldn't see anything through the keyhole, several people hesitated and finally didn't turn the handle of the door.Everyone returned to the previous room, looked at each other in blank dismay for a while, and remained silent.Although Haida's laughter was still ringing in his ears at this time, the man's voice could not be heard. "There are people!" murmured someone, "but where did the guy get in?"

Haida's wild laughter suddenly stopped, not gradually weakened, but suddenly stopped when it reached the peak, and then there was not even a soft sound, as if the tight anchor chain was suddenly broken under the violent turbulence of the ship. .This sudden and hasty disappearance inevitably caused a trace of fear to flash across their hearts.In this way, under the sound of the organ that was still ringing continuously, everyone felt more and more uneasy. At this moment, the few people still have no fear, but a feeling of being intoxicated by the unimaginable phenomenon, as if seeing the strange and strange.But then the situation changed suddenly, and an ice-like shudder suddenly struck everyone.

"Anyway, let someone go and have a look?" Ye said impatiently, but no one responded.At this time, the door on one side of the corridor opened, and Wang's tall figure appeared in front of several people. "Hey, what are you guys doing here?" "Speaking of which," Ye Fan asked, "Where did you go just now?" "Not going anywhere, just getting some air." "It's like this. After you went out, there was another man in Haida's house." "Nonsense. You're dreaming, aren't you? Let me tell you about it. First of all, I put all the latches on the window. After letting Hedda run through the shower and dry herself, I not only got the best results from Mrs. I found a petticoat in the closet for her to wear, and in order to find cognac, I checked every corner of the room, even under the bed. Where do you think the man will hide?"

"Then go ask the sentry outside the window." Ye Bai rolled his eyes, "In short, besides the four people here, someone must have entered through the window..." But not long after, Ye walked back with a disappointed face. "It's getting more and more confusing. The sentinel said that he has been standing under the willow opposite the window since just now, not to mention anyone entering through the window, not even passers-by. In this way, he can only inspect the scene himself. Let me go and have a look, maybe my idea is completely wrong." He said, he pulled out the safety device on the pistol, and pushed open the door of Hedda's room.

Since then, there has been no movement in the house.This eerie silence lasted for more than fifteen minutes.Everyone was worried for Ye, but luckily he showed up again. I saw his face was ashen, his cheeks convulsed, as if he had a high fever. "There's no one in the room, it's unbelievable." Ye coughed dryly twice, "Haida is sleeping soundly on the bed with a mosquito net hanging on it, and even the small window in the bathroom has a latch in the room." "Strange." Wang tilted his head like a child, "When I came out, that woman was still sitting on the ground on her back. She was so drunk that it would be a miracle if she could climb into bed. How about her clothes? "

"Wearing a petticoat -- that's the only thing that makes your point." Ye said casually, picked up the glass full of whiskey on the table, and drank it in a slightly nervous posture. Afterwards, the sound of playing cards resounding all night, for some reason, was as dull as the sound of nails being hammered into a coffin in everyone's ears.And in the morning following the night of this incredible intruder, Hedda Muhalec was found dead.