Chapter 24 Chapter 23 Dinner at Midnight

The cold air did not dissipate, and the living room was filled with the coldness of the night.It was less than twelve o'clock, and there was still an hour until October 29th.Will Shen Huawen really appear in this hour?Ye Wan felt that it was impossible, the so-called announcement of property inheritance was just a empty promise.Even if Shen Huawen is really alive, there is absolutely no need to come out to announce any property inheritance. The two main property heirs of the Shen family are both dead, and the person who took the property is dead and the other is crazy. Who will be next? Inheriting property is very simple, it depends on Shen Huaqi and her, whoever survives to the end is the winner.

Yu Jian's death and Shen Dan's madness heralded Wu Meilan's retreat, and the rest was a tug-of-war between her and Shen Huaqi.She is very weak, Ye Wan knows this very well, she cannot fight against Shen Huaqi with her strength, she can only rely on Gao Pingying to defeat Shen Huaqi.As for the one-armed Gao Pingying, he can only rely on her help now, they are a mutual aid group. Ye Wan brewed two cups of instant coffee, one for Gao Pingying and one for herself.After she sat down on the single sofa next to the cabinet in the living room, she looked at the black waist bag beside Gao Pingying opposite, and asked him inexplicably why he didn't lock the black waist bag in his room, anyway, the key is in his hand now inside.

"Who can guarantee that there is only this set of keys in the room?" Gao Pingying asked her back while opening the biscuit tin. It's really hard to answer, Ye Wan leaned on the sofa silently, looking at the chandelier above the living room, the lamp is still so gorgeous, it's not decadent at all because of hanging dead people.She lowered her head and took a sip of coffee, and couldn't help sighing lightly and heavily. She just fell asleep in the underground secret room, and her world unexpectedly changed drastically.Not only that, but during that period of sleep, two people in the house were killed. Who killed these two people, was it killing each other, or the weapons of both sides?

"Ah, I don't understand." Ye Wan suddenly realized a problem and asked Gao Pingying, "The three knives that Yu Jian inserted into Shen Le's body were obviously based on the method of killing a hanger ten years ago. How did Jian know this way of death, so he thought of using it?" Gao Pingying ate a piece of biscuit and replied, "This means that Yu Jian also knew about what happened ten years ago." Ye Wan was greatly surprised. She thought that she was the only one in the house who knew about the death in the house ten years ago. Gao Pingying had already surprised her. She didn't expect that even Yu Jian knew about it. It seemed that the people gathered in the house were all the same It's about what happened years ago.Is it the arrangement of fate, or the trick of that mysterious force?Ye Wan frowned, she smelled the evil of human beings.

"What do you think of the thirteenth key?" Ye Wan asked, she is very sensitive to the number thirteen now. After thinking about it, Gao Pingying answered her, maybe they are the thirteens referred to in the poem.The number of words revealing her life experience should be just a coincidence of thirteen, and has nothing to do with the thirteen in the poem.Except for Ye Caixia and Ye Guoqiang, no one else knew about her life experience. When the secret of her life experience was revealed, Jesus Poetry already existed. Ye Wan felt that what Gao Pingying said was quite reasonable, the person who wrote the Jesus poem would not know her background.Why do you need thirteen keys for twelve rooms? Is this number intentional?Ye Wan tried hard to think if there were any other locked doors in the house, it was impossible to have upstairs, there were clearly twelve rooms.The downstairs kitchen, storage room and laundry room all have doors that don’t need a key. If there is a locked door, there is only the house door, but the closed one is inside, so there is no need for a house door key. .

"Ah!" Ye Wan suddenly thought of a door and yelled. "What's wrong?" The person opposite looked at her puzzled. "I know which door the thirteenth key opens." Ye Wan looked at Gao Pingying's questioning gaze and said, "When I went underground, I saw a gate with iron bars on the passageway underground. The key It must be the key to the iron gate." The clue surprised Gao Pingying, and Ye Wan herself was also surprised. Yu Jian actually has the key to the iron gate of the subway, doesn't it mean that he knows the underground secret room and can even enter the underground.But she didn't understand again, since he knew why he and Shen Dan didn't go underground after Ye Caixia and Shen Hua hid underground together.

A tired figure came down from upstairs, it was Mama Zhang, the servant.She had lost her enthusiasm for employing people, and her ordinary old face was a bit haggard. She really looked like a woman who had been abandoned by her husband.However, compared with the tragedy when she knew Uncle Zhang disappeared, Mama Zhang now appears calm and calm. There should be no bad factors in her mood. The exhaustion and haggardness are probably just a problem of the environment. In such an atmosphere , Everyone looked tired and haggard. Mama Zhang sat down on the couch by the window, and Gao Pingying asked her to eat some biscuits as well, which could ward off part of her hunger.The other party shook her head unmoved, her face showed that she was indeed not hungry.Seeing Gao Pingying's surprised expression, Mama Zhang explained in embarrassment that there was some dry food in her room, and she hid the dry food after the food disappeared.She was not found during the rounds, so she was never hungry.

"It seems that I am the only one who is starving." Gao Pingying looked at Ye Wan and Zhang Ma, smiled humorously at the behavior of eating alone, and immediately asked Zhang Ma, "What is Zhang Ma's original name?" "My surname is Lin." "After listening to your cry at the stairs, I realized that you and Uncle Zhang are married for the second time. Can you tell me your ex-husband's surname?" Gao Pingying asked some weird questions, Zhang Ma looked at him in surprise, thinking that he had asked a wrong question, so she didn't answer right away.After being pressed for questioning, I realized that the other party was not wrong and was asking for her ex-husband's surname.

"His... surname is Wang." "Are there any children in the divorce?" "There is a son who has followed his father." "Have you and Uncle Zhang had any children?" "Yes, because the old man has no children yet, so he gave birth to a daughter, who is studying abroad." "What was Uncle Zhang's original wife's last name?" Zhang's mother showed embarrassment: "I... I don't know about this, and he didn't tell me." Gao Pingying's eyes changed and he asked again: "Did that fish tank exist ten years ago?"

After Mrs. Zhang nodded, she further explained the history of the fish tank. Ten years ago, there was no fish in the fish tank, and it had been empty until Mrs. pick up the fish.At the beginning, the number of fish was quite large. Because tropical fish are not easy to raise, one or two often die, and then the number was reduced by half. "Those fish..." When Mama Zhang turned her head to look at the fish tank, she noticed something abnormal in the fish tank. "They're all dead, frozen to death." Gao Pingying told the other party regretfully. Ye Wan understood that Gao Pingying's intention of asking about the fish tank was to know the approximate time when the Catholic key was placed in the fish tank.According to Zhang Ma's answer, the key was not left ten years ago, but someone secretly hid it in the fish tank during this year.Only the person who hides the key knows where the mysterious key comes from, and the person who hides the key should be the person in the house.

"Is anyone here Catholic?" Gao Pingying stopped eating, watched Ye Wan and Zhang Ma concentrate on asking, and finally moved the question to the most critical point.Thinking about keys, Jesus poems and Western-style religious decorations in the house seems to be related to Catholicism, but there are no Catholics here. Zhang Ma only said that Ye Caixia is a Christian. "Doctor He's grandparents were Catholics." Ye Wan thought of a person who had something to do with Catholicism. "How did you know?" Gao Pingying was curious about her knowledge. "When he explained to me the religious figures in the cupboard, I asked him if he was a Western Christian. He said that his ancestors were Catholics and he had a Bible at home. He had read it, so he knew these figures." Ye Wan recalled that time in the living room, what He Zong told her about Catholicism.Suddenly, her thinking was touched by something. Could it be that the house is related to He Yi's ancestors?According to He Yi, Christianity only worships the Trinity God, not the Virgin Mary.And the oil painting on the fourth floor of the residence is a painting of the Virgin. The religious figures in the cabinet in the living room include the Virgin and saints in addition to Jesus.All these can show that the people who built the houses may be Catholics, and ordinary people or Christians would not place these Catholic decorations in their homes.Shen Huawen neither believes in Catholicism nor Christianity, so why put those religious ornaments at home?A very discordant phenomenon. "Having a midnight dinner?" The unique peaceful sound sounded on the stairs, and He Zong asked as he went down the stairs.Behind He Terracotta is a half-dead bitter melon face, and Wu Meilan looks as if she has been sentenced to death. "Where's Shen Dan?" Gao Pingying asked the two people who came down. "Her condition worsened. I gave her a sedative and she fell asleep." He Zong sat down on the sofa beside the mural while answering, and Wu Meilan sat down beside him. Because of the appearance of He Yi and Wu Meilan, Gao Pingying suspended the topic of Catholics.He Yi's expression is still so peaceful, and his temperament of not being moved by everything makes him even more mysterious.No one knew about his past, a psychiatrist came here to work as a doctor for mental patients, and secretly detoxified the patients. "You don't want to say something?" Gao Pingying had already stared at He Yi and asked, with his wisdom, he had already seen He Yi's problem. He Yi's apologetic eyes were slightly guilty, and he admitted that he had indeed concealed Shen Dan's real cause of disease.Not long after he came here half a year ago, he discovered that Shen Dan was not mentally ill, but that his words and deeds were abnormal due to drug use.But Shen Dan told him to keep quiet. She didn't want to go to a drug rehabilitation center, so she begged him to help her with drug rehabilitation at home.He wanted to refuse, but he couldn't bear Shen Dan's begging. She is a poor woman. She lacked maternal love and father's love since she was a child. She has lost her status in this family. If she enters a drug rehabilitation center, she will lose this family completely. .In the past six months, Shen Dan's drug addiction has been controlled, and the attack time is getting longer and longer.But she didn't expect that it would happen in the secret room, maybe it was Yu Jian's death that stimulated her. "Because of your compassion, a killing was accomplished." Gao Pingying concluded bluntly. "It's my fault. If I can use my life to atone for my sins, I am willing to be crucified like Jesus." He Yi calmly repented of his mistakes. The terrifying words of confession did not sound like repentance, but exaggerated terror.Whether he is a good person or a bad person is impossible to judge. Every word he says is so honest and true.If he's a bad guy, it's the devil who turned into Jesus. "Does Ms. Wu have any brothers?" Gao Pingying asked Wu Meilan, holding back his doubts about He Yi. "No." The cold answer. "You were still young when you divorced Shen Huawen, did you remarry?" The corner of Wu Meilan's mouth twitched in displeasure, and she answered it. "What's that man's last name?" Gao Pingying asked about the last name again. "Why should I tell you?" Wu Meilan said uncooperatively. "Say it to prove your innocence." Gao Pingying looked at her closely. The corner of Wu Meilan's mouth twitched again in displeasure, and she squeezed out three words: "My surname is also Wu." This surname made Gao Pingying's complexion heavy, and he stopped asking about Wu Meilan's family affairs, and asked her, Shen Huawen's The signed letter must have been made by Shen Dan and Yu Jian.Wu Meilan shook her head, saying that she didn't know, they didn't tell her about the signed letter. "Even if there is no signed letter, Shen Huaqi will still come here, every Saturday he will come to see Mrs. It will be two nights." This clue completely overturned the intention of signing the letter. October 27 happened to be Saturday, so Shen Dan naturally knew that Shen Huaqi would come, so there was no need to send a letter.In their plan, it seems that Wu Meilan's existence is not needed.The signed letter was not the masterpiece of Shen Dan and Yu Jian, it was not they who got Wu Meilan and Shen Hua up here.And the person who sent the letter must have wanted these two people to appear on October 29th, intertwined with each other, and both of them happened to come here on October 27th.What was originally thought to be the right direction was wrong again, and the person who sent the signed letter became a question mark again. Wu Meilan took a bite of the biscuit resentfully and said, "What kind of signature letter, what kind of property inheritance, they are all fooling people. Now it is almost October 30th, where is Shen Huawen? I haven't even seen a ghost." When it comes to Shen Huawen's ghost image, everyone thinks of Shen Huawen's skeleton. Ye Wan and Ye Caixia saw the skeleton at a certain distance, and Wu Meilan was the person who had close contact with it. It is really such a weird ghost event?After everything was exposed, Wu Meilan finally admitted that she didn't see Shen Huawen's skeleton at all, she just followed Shen Dan's order and performed a play in the bathroom to make everyone present believe that there was a ghost.As for Shen Huawen's skeleton, it was arranged by Shen Dan and Yu Jian, and she didn't know how it was arranged.Now the only person who knows about these ghost events is Shen Dan, and she is crazy, so it is difficult to tell everyone correctly. "Can you make me a cup of coffee?" Wu Meilan slumped on the sofa, powerlessly asking Mama Zhang. Mama Zhang glanced at her and didn't move. After a minute, she stood up and walked towards the kitchen, probably because she was used to the work of employing people.Ten minutes later, Mama Zhang came out of the kitchen, carrying a coffee pot and a coffee partner.In this family, she has been making coffee all the time, and she has no habit of making coffee, so she made a pot of coffee for everyone, and anyone who doesn't want to sleep at night can drink it. "The matter must be over quickly, otherwise everyone will be in danger." After Zhang Ma finally said something complaining, she went upstairs. Mama Zhang's complaints were also the thoughts of the people present. There was no voice in the living room, only the sound of eating biscuits.Wu Meilan didn't join the dinner party, she was thinking about something with a sullen face, maybe she thought Zhang Ma didn't pour her coffee.He Yi stood up and went to the kitchen, brought a cup and poured Wu Meilan a cup of coffee.But Wu Meilan didn't appreciate it, she was no longer interested in coffee, and said that it was time to go upstairs to rest, and it was better not to drink coffee before going to bed. The biscuit cylinder brought down from the secret room was only half full, and half of the biscuit was quickly consumed by the hungry man.Ye Wan stood up and planned to go upstairs to sleep.But Gao Pingying still suggested that she move the quilt to the living room and rest under his supervision. Although Yu Jian died, it does not mean that the person who controlled the death game died. There are still doubts about many things. "Officer Gao is right, Miss Ye's identity is more likely to attract murder at this time." He Yi also advised Ye Wan to be careful. "Shen Huaqi is not a simple character." Wu Meilan stood up and reminded indifferently as she walked upstairs. "After tomorrow, the sky will be clear and everything will be better. I hope everyone can spend this evening well. Good night." He Yi stood up and said good night. Seeing the cup of coffee that Wu Meilan didn't drink, he felt that it was a waste. "I'd better take this cup of coffee upstairs to drink. Anyway, I don't plan to sleep tonight." Ye Wan and Gao Pingying in the living room did not intend to sleep, Ye Wan had a good sleep in the secret room in the basement, so she was not sleepy.In order to please the guardian, when Ye Wan went upstairs to get a quilt for herself, she also brought a quilt for Gao Pingying.Thinking of the sunny day tomorrow, her mood became brighter. She picked up the coffee pot, poured a cup of coffee for Gao Pingying, and poured a cup for herself, planning to get through the night.Just like what He Yi said, if you spend this night well, tomorrow will look promising. The brewed coffee tastes better than the brewed instant coffee. It tastes so pure that every sip seems to be a kind of enjoyment.I don't know if it was because of Gao Pingying's protection that made her feel so at ease, Ye Wan, who didn't want to sleep, still fell asleep.