Chapter 20 Chapter 19 The Third Slain

After returning to the top, seeing the dark sky outside the window, Ye Wan realized that it was already the evening of the 29th.It was still raining outside, and the sound of the fading rain meant that the rain was getting lighter.The wall clock in the dining room showed that the time was 6:25, and the house was quiet. Although the living room was lit, the quiet atmosphere made Ye Wan's heart inexplicably terrified.Like a student returning home from school, she walked upstairs cautiously, and she didn't plan to go to her room, Ye Wan wanted to go to the third floor to see her aunt first.

When I got to the second floor, I met Gao Pingying who came down from the third floor.Seeing her appearance, Gao Pingying's face showed complaints. He looked at her questioningly, waiting for her to confess.Ye Wan remembered Shen Huaqi's warning, pretended to be normal and continued to walk upstairs, as if she had always been a law-abiding person. When she brushed Gao Pingying's shoulder and overtook his position, Gao Pingying asked if she didn't intend to say anything to him?Ye Wan replied, she didn't want to say anything, and continued to walk upstairs.When she turned the corner of the stairs and ascended the second step of the upper staircase on the second floor, Gao Pingying spoke again, asking where she was going now?

"To see my aunt." "What does Miss Ye think of your aunt's death?" Gao Pingying's voice was a little cold.Ye Wan looked at Gao Pingying in surprise, she was a little confused by what he said just now, wondering whether she had heard it wrong or the other party had said it wrong.But Gao Pingying looked at her with clear eyes, as if he didn't understand Ye Caixia's disappearance as death. Could the death he asked be death in the actual sense? Gao Pingying saw her suspicion and also saw that she didn't know, so before she asked, he told the terrible thing.At about eleven o'clock this morning, Wu Meilan heard a noise in Ye Caixia's room.Around 11:30, Wu Meilan went downstairs and asked Zhang Ma, did anyone go to Ye Caixia's room on the second floor?Mama Zhang said no.At around four o'clock in the afternoon, he woke up and went to the living room to find Ye Caixia dead in front of the empty door of the living room.On the couch next to the mural in the living room, there was a piece of blood-stained cloth, and the murder weapon on the deceased was a medium-sized fruit knife.In addition, the word "death" appeared on the door of Ye Caixia's room, and there were some bloodstains on the floor of the room.It is certain that the deceased was killed and moved to the living room. The first murder scene was probably in Ye Caixia's room. In order to respect the deceased, he and He Yi carried the body back to the deceased's room.Just now, he came down from Ye Caixia's room.

"No, it's impossible!" Ye Wan yelled at Gao Pingying, and then rushed towards the third floor. The injured muscles hurt when exerting force, but it couldn't compare with the pain in her heart. She couldn't accept the facts Gao Pingying said. When she woke up, the world would collapse Yet? On the door of the first room on the third floor, the red word "death" is still there, and the handwriting has dried up.Ye Wan opened the door with trembling hands. The room without lights was very dark, and the person on the bed could be vaguely seen in the darkness. She was lying quietly, but her dead eyes were not closed, staring at the ceiling in the darkness, like Believe in the killings suffered.A knife was stuck deep in the abdomen of the deceased.

Ye Wan stood stiffly at the door, her brain was like concrete that was about to solidify, she was thinking with difficulty, the warm bowl of porridge in the morning still left an aftertaste in her stomach, but now the person who made the porridge has disappeared.My aunt knew that there was danger on the top, so why did she go back to the top to die.When Shen Huaqi told her to go up, her aunt was already dead. Did he not know about her, or did he not tell the truth on purpose?He must have known that her aunt was dead and felt that she was superfluous below, so he told her to go back up. Gao Pingying pushed open the door and turned on the light in the room.In the bright room, the paleness of the dead is even more evident.The cold fruit knife was deeply inserted into Ye Caixia's abdomen, and only the black handle was exposed. It can be seen that the murderer stabbed the dead with all his strength. Of course, the knife full of hatred did not leave any room .On the floor in the middle of the room, there were some bloodstains. The bloodstains showed the line where the corpse was moved out of the door, and a few drops of blood were scattered on the floor leading to the door.

Ye Wan walked in stiffly, sat on the chair beside the bed, looked at the dead on the bed, she couldn't think of anything to do except shed tears, now she was completely isolated.When she was underground, my aunt did not show any signs of dying, and her expression of relief seemed to announce that everything was about to end safely, and death no longer existed.But the current situation shows that death is still going on. Gao Pingying stood beside Ye Wan and asked, "Seeing your aunt's tragic death, don't you want to do something for her?" With a teary face, Ye Wan asked blankly, "What can I do?"

"Tell me, what did you do all day?" What did she do that day, she just took a nap.In order to prevent Gao Pingying from asking about the secret door, Ye Wan did not say that she discovered the secret door, but pretended that she was taken underground by her aunt with her eyes closed.The underground exit was also blocked, they couldn't go out, and she just fell asleep underground, when she woke up, Shen Huaqi took her back to the top.Ye Wan also revealed an important clue, that is, when she told the story of the twelfth person to several people underground, they guessed that this person might be Shen Dan's boyfriend Yu Jian, and it might be that he and Wu Meilan teamed up to seize the twelfth person. Shen family property.

Gao Pingying silently read the name, with a shocked expression on his face, as if he smelled something again.Ye Wan thinks that the murderer is Yu Jian. Where is he hiding on the fourth floor? , Gao Pingying checked, there is no hidden door.The painting at the end of the corridor and the wall behind the painting did not find out the mystery. "What's the underground space like?" Gao Pingying asked. "It's nothing special, it's like an apartment, with a kitchen, a living room, and a bedroom." Ye Wan thought of the door in the second room, "However, what I see is only the front part, and it feels like the underground space also has the back part." .This underground space is just under the field behind the house, and there is a side road leading to the kennel, which can lead to the outside world, but it is now closed."

"It's incredible." Gao Ping praised derogatoryly. Ye Wan also finds it inconceivable that the place she stumbled across ten years ago will become her catastrophe ten years later.What is hidden in the Ruin Rose Garden?I am afraid that what happened ten years ago is not all its past, it must have a very important past.The stories in the distant and mysterious past time, hidden in the bone marrow of the rose garden, can be extended to so many strange things. "Did the twelfth person kill her?" Ye Wan asked weakly. The person standing beside Ye Wan told her suspiciously that the person who killed her aunt might not be the twelfth person.Ye Wan glanced at Gao Pingying in surprise, then turned to look at the deceased on the bed, she didn't see any answer on the deceased, the deceased did not specify who the murderer was, and left no trace of the murderer except shock and pain.

Gao Pingying took out two things and put them on the table, which he found on Ye Caixia's body when he checked her body.One thing is a bunch of keys, there are four in total, he has tested, one of the four keys is the key to the door of the deceased, and three are the keys to the three sacrificial halls on the fourth floor.Another thing is an old-fashioned button, dark gray cloth.This coil was in Ye Caixia's clenched right hand, and it was very likely that she was pulled from the murderer when she was killed.According to Ye Wan's description of the twelfth person, it is a person wearing black knit tights, not the owner of the coil, so the murderer cannot be the twelfth person.

Ye Wan raised a hypothesis, maybe the twelfth man was wearing an old-fashioned coat when he killed her aunt.Gao Pingying shook his head and denied her hypothesis. The reason is that everyone has their own style and preferences in clothing. The clothes of the twelfth person show that he is a person who likes simple and fashionable clothing styles, and the owner of this button must be A guy who likes old fashioned old school style.People's personalities and preferences are not easy to change, and in the current limited space, it is not convenient to create false appearances.Her aunt's expression showed that she was killed without precaution, and she was surprised that the other party would kill her. "The buttons are usually sewn on the clothes very firmly, and they are not so easy to tear off." Ye Wan questioned. Gao Pingying affirmed the question she raised, and also made a hypothesis, assuming that this is a loose thread and a crumbling button, maybe her aunt was about to sew it on for the other party, but the other party took this opportunity to kill her.This murderer may be someone she is very familiar with and close to, that's why her expression is so surprised, surprised, and painful. His hypotheses are as convincing as real scene reenactments.Ye Wan seemed to see her aunt being assassinated suddenly without any psychological preparation. The indifferent and ruthless fruit knife pierced her abdomen, piercing her heart and her feelings.The pain that my aunt left on her face was not because of death, but because of the person who killed her. Could it be Shen Huaqi?Ye Wan's mind immediately flashed the appearance of him being close to her aunt on the balcony, he is the man she is closest to and most familiar with here.Even if Shen Huaqi didn't wear clothes related to panniers, her aunt is dead, and the crimes committed by the deceased are irrelevant. The only person she can rely on now is probably the policeman. Why don't you tell me about the secret door? Come out and let the police find the real culprit.If Shen Huaqi was the murderer, wouldn't it be too ridiculous for her to keep secrets for him? "Miss Ye is back." A peaceful voice interrupted Ye Wan's train of thought, and the peaceful voice said sadly, "Mrs. Shen still cannot escape death, maybe this is fate, Miss Ye, don't be too sad." He Yu's comfort made Ye Wan stop grieving, and she also knew that now is not the time to grieve, the pace of death has not stopped, but is still advancing slowly. "You are as cunning as your aunt, and you actually hide the door of the secret path." Another voice sounded in the room. The sharp female voice made Ye Wan's blood rush to her head. She stood up abruptly, turned around, glared at Wu Meilan and shouted: "Murderer, you are also a murderer." "Crazy." Wu Meilan gave Ye Wan a guilty look, "Your aunt was killed by Shen Huawen's ghost." "Miss Ye, did Mrs. Shen tell you anything important during her lifetime?" When Ye Wan heard Gao Pingying's question in anger, she immediately thought of something. She took out the platinum necklace entrusted by her aunt from her jeans pocket. She remembered clearly what her aunt told her, but she just didn't know how to do it. , and don't understand what she can get because of it. "Auntie said that there is a secret hidden in this necklace, a secret that can only be revealed after her death. Moreover, this secret will allow me to get what belongs to me." Ye Wan said, showing Gao Pingying the secret in her hand. necklace. Gao Pingying carefully picked up the necklace in Ye Wan's hand, put it in his hand and admired it carefully, from the chain to the pendant, he admired it very carefully, and finally he twisted the pendant eye on the pendant with his hands, and the pendant eye was in his hands. It turns out that it is not fixed, but is rotated into the top of the pendant like a nut. After Zhuoyan was turned out, Gao Pingying turned the pendant upside down towards his palm, as if he wanted to pour out the contents, but it didn't work.Afterwards, he took out the pin that had worked hard on the lock of the sacrificial hall door on the fourth floor from his pocket, and used the pin to take out the contents of the pendant, which was a roll of small white paper with a diameter of about one centimeter. The ball of paper was brushed away by Gao Pingying, and it was only about five centimeters long. There must be something written inside. Gao Pingying was watching intently, while the other two looked at him expectantly, waiting for his reading.Ye Wan sat back in the chair disinterestedly. After her aunt died, she felt that nothing was important anymore, no secrets could replace her aunt, and she didn't care about anything. Gao Pingying read the short note for quite a long time, looking at Ye Wan with a strange look.He Yi and Wu Meilan couldn't wait, they walked over to look at the ball of paper together, and then their expressions became the same as Gao Pingying's.It seems that the content inside the paper ball is really related to Ye Wan, and it is a bit unbelievable, because the expressions of those who read the paper ball are full of surprise, shock, and surprise.Especially Wu Meilan's expression, that ugly old face, seemed to be cramped a few times, distorted and painful. "What's written inside?" Ye Wan was finally infected by the unusual expressions of the three people, and also curious about the contents inside the ball of paper. Gao Pingying opened his mouth to answer, but stopped talking, handed the ball of paper to Ye Wan, and said in a heavy tone: "You should read it yourself." His heavy tone made Ye Wan's heart heavy, she took the note uneasily and looked at it, as if someone had suddenly poured a pot of hot water, she stood up abruptly.What was written in the ball of paper made her blood rush to the top of her head and her brain swell.Ye Wan rubbed her eyes, wondering if her eyes were wrong. After confirming the content, her brain became dizzy, and the note fell from her hand to the ground. Ye Wan weakly softened her lower body and sat on the chair daze. The content written inside the ball of paper is very concise and easy to understand, only thirteen words in total: "Ye Wan is the daughter of Shen Huawen and Ye Caixia." Aunt became her biological mother, uncle became her biological father, and the world was turned upside down. How could she believe and accept such a change of life experience.If the secret said in the paper ball is true, she is a member of the Shen family, and what belongs to her is the property of the Shen family.Why did Ye Caixia do this back then, why did she abandon her own daughter? "Despicable, you deserve to die." Wu Meilan gritted her teeth and vented to the deceased on the bed, and rushed out of the room angrily. Gao Pingying picked up the note on the ground, put it back into the pendant after finishing it, and then put the necklace on the side of the bed next to Ye Wan, asking her to keep the necklace well, it is a token of changing her fate.Ye Wan could hear the cynicism in his words, she looked at the necklace on the side of the bed, and at the dead man on the bed, wondering if she could trust her aunt—her biological mother.The secret of Ye Guoqiang threatening Ye Caixia seems to be her background.What happened twenty-four years ago, and why was her fate changed?Does the announcement of her background mean that Shen Le is indeed not the son of Shen Huawen and Ye Caixia? The sudden change of fate reminded Ye Wan of what He Yi said during the last supper, "Understand all misfortunes with gratitude, and pain and disaster will become another harvest."After a series of misfortunes, she has changed from being a Cinderella to a princess, and from a boarder from outside to the protagonist of Shen's house. Jesus had to go through that redemption to truly become the Son of God, and it was because of this catastrophe that she was able to restore her true identity.If Ye Caixia survived, I don't know if the secret of her life experience can be revealed.All the arrangements really have far-reaching significance.Ye Wan wiped away the tears on her face, and the dead person on the punch bed sneered, lowering the sadness in her heart.After knowing her life experience, she even hated the dead a little bit.Twenty-four years of deceit, as long as the deceased is alive, this deception will continue, but the deceitful person, as the benefactor, is loved and respected by her. "Although it is said that as long as Christians believe in the Lord, they can go to heaven after death, but with lies, the gate of heaven will not be opened." He Yi said, shaking his head regretfully and walking out of the room.