After chatting with Su Lan, Gu Liang and her came out of the lounge one after another.
After coming out, Gu Liang noticed Yang Ye for the first time, and Yang Ye was also looking at him, and turned his head in the direction of Yu Scumbag's male lounge.
Understanding what Yang Ye meant, Gu Liang nodded towards him.
At this moment, Rong Mingyuan had almost finished chatting with Meng Qiancheng.
Seeing that Rong Mingyuan called Mei Design to go to the one-on-one interrogation room, it seemed that Meng Qiancheng wanted to chat with Mei Design immediately afterward.
Gu Liang glanced at Housekeeper Hao who was silent alone, then turned his head, and knocked on Li Xiaoyu's table as he passed by. "Come on. Come and talk."
If so, Li Xiaoyu followed Gu Liang to Yang Ye's lounge.
Yang Ye and Gu Liang sat side by side on the sofa.
Li Xiaoyu sat opposite the two of them across a table, just facing Gu Liang.
As soon as Li Xiaoyu raised her head, she saw Gu Liang staring at her coldly.
Li Xiaoyu immediately moved towards Yang Ye.
Gu Liang: "..."
There was Meng Qiancheng in the front, and Li Xiaoyu in the back. At this moment, Gu Liang also realized something, raised his hand, put his palm on his face, and rubbed it subconsciously, as if to make his facial expression less rigid.
Li Xiaoyu hurriedly said: "That's right, don't be so serious. Do you feel that everyone is suspicious of Yang Ye, that's why you are so nervous?"
Yang Ye: "Yo, I like to hear that."
Gu Liang: "..."
Gu Liang knocked on the table and decided to continue to be serious, not to let two unscrupulous people disrupt the process of solving the case.
Returning to his poker face, Gu Liang asked Li Xiaoyu: "Can you tell me more about your timeline this morning?"
Li Xiaoyu covered her face with her palms, blocking Gu Liang's sight.
Then she poked her head out, made a face at Yang Ye, and mouthed: "Your wife is getting more and more fierce!"
Gu Liang turned his head, wanting to see what Li Xiaoyu was doing, Li Xiaoyu's palms followed, completely covering his sight.
Gu Liang could only look at Yang Ye. "What are you two doing?"
Yang Ye stood up and knocked on the table in front of Li Xiaoyu, pretending to reprimand him. "Be more serious, let's solve the case!"
Gu Liang: "..."
Li Xiaoyu: "..."
Li Xiaoyu coughed twice, finally came down seriously, and under the gaze of two pairs of serious eyes, said honestly: "Well... at 7:30 in the morning, I went to have breakfast according to the system notification. I also met the old Mengtou in the elevator. He went to the garden restaurant together, and just after a few bites, you and Yang Ye arrived. During the meal, everyone's timeline is the same, so I won't talk more about it."
"After dinner, it was almost 8:30. When I left the garden restaurant, I noticed that Mei Design had said something to Yu Zhanan alone. I was a little jealous, after all, Yu Zhanan was already with me. On the way back , I invited the scumbag man to my room."
"Me and Yu... Forget it, it's weird, anyway, it's not the stage of acting now. I'll just say Ai Biaomei. Ai Biaomei is afraid that the beautiful design will take away Yu scumbag's soul, so she invites him to the room because she just wants to do it." Talk about things like you and me. This love goes deep... "
Li Xiaoyu felt more and more embarrassed about telling this kind of script in front of two big men. She raised her cheeks, not embarrassed to meet their eyes, and lowered her head and said: "The love is so deep, this The scumbag left suddenly, and Boudoir Ai felt very strange. You and I were kissing me, but your heart didn't know where to fly, and you actually wanted to leave halfway?"
"Bestie Ai, I just remembered that Mei Design had said a few words to Yu Scumbag alone when she left the restaurant just now. She thought that Mei Design was also teasing Yu Scumbag and dating him. So Yu After the scumbag left, Boudoir Ai followed quietly."
Speaking of this, Li Xiaoyu let out a long breath, "Okay, now you can change the person, back to 'I'."
"After Yu Zhanan got on the elevator, I walked to the elevator and saw that the elevator went to the first floor. So after the elevator came up again, I walked in and pressed the first floor. After reaching the first floor, I went to the main entrance of the lobby After looking at it, I thought he would not leave the castle, so I went to the main hall instead. As soon as I entered the gate of the main hall, I saw him go out from the side door and head towards the garden."
"At that time, I didn't follow immediately. I went to the kitchen to ask for something to eat, and pretended to eat dessert in the main hall. After about 10 minutes, I saw Mei Design come to the main hall, and then she also went to the garden through the side door I am even more sure that they went on a date behind my back."
"But I still didn't follow right away. I always thought, Yu scumbag and I got better for a few days. No matter how scumbag he is, he won't change his mind so quickly, right? Come on, no matter how hard he is, he won't mess with me under my nose Things. Maybe the two of them have something else to discuss?"
"I waited for another quarter of an hour, but the two of them haven't come back yet, so they probably got together. The more I thought about it, the more I felt uncomfortable, so I went looking for it."
"It was almost 9:30 when I found them."
Gu Liang said: "Sorry to interrupt, how did you find them? From the path between the fruit forests on both sides to the end, there are two roads facing the peach forest, one goes to the vegetable garden, and the other goes to the lake. How do you want to go to the lake?"
Li Xiaoyu said: "Because there was a sound from the direction of the lake. Although I couldn't hear it clearly, there was a sound. So I went to the lake, and sure enough, I saw Yang Ye and Su Lan."
Gu Liang asked: "Is there any sound from the vegetable garden, or the smell of fire?"
Li Xiaoyu shook her head: "Probably not, neither heard nor smelled."
Gu Liang: "So, during the story interpretation, you have never been to the vegetable garden from the beginning to the end, and you have not been to the beauty design?"
Li Xiaoyu shook her head: "No. I'm basically sure that Mei Design and I haven't been there either."
After a pause, Li Xiaoyu further explained the reason why she could know the timeline of Mei Design: "When we were by the lake, Mei Design and I started arguing as soon as we met. The quarrel lasted for about ten minutes. , we were both very disappointed with him. He said that we women are troublesome, and he wants to relax by the lake alone. Mei Design and I went back to the main hall."
"On the way back to the main hall, we were still arguing, and we were not walking fast. When we finally returned to the main hall, it was almost 10 o'clock. We didn't go back directly to the accommodation area."
Hearing this, Gu Liang understood the important point, frowned and asked her, "Why didn't you go back immediately?"
"We were stopped."
Li Xiaoyu said, "There are staff members arranging the wedding scene in the main hall. They are all performed by NPCs. When we arrived, they had just set up the catwalk. There were a lot of flowers on the ground, it was very messy. They need to arrange the flowers on the catwalk On both sides, when they saw us coming, they asked us, we are all friends of Rong Mingyuan, can we help arrange flowers on both sides of the table.”
"In front of so many people, Mei and I designed to maintain our ladylike image, so we temporarily put aside our grievances, stopped arguing, and helped out in the main hall together, maintaining the superficial peace."
Gu Liang couldn't help asking: "What time do you arrange until?"
Li Xiaoyu recalled for a while, and said: "About 30 minutes, that is, I was busy until 10:30. In addition to the flowers on the runway, there were also flowers on the table. It was quite a lot."
"After finishing the work, the chef came over with dessert and juice, saying that he thanked us for our help."
"At about 11 o'clock, I left the main hall. Isn't Rong Mingyuan's wedding ring in my place? The wedding is about to start, and I have to go back to my room to get the ring. In addition, I also need to change my clothes and put on light makeup. "
"Mei Design went back with me. So I can be sure that I didn't go to the vegetable garden, and I can basically be sure that she didn't."
For this part of the missing timeline, Gu Liang finally figured it out. "So, you haven't seen boyfriend Feng all morning."
Li Xiaoyu thought for a while and said, "Yes, Mei Design probably hasn't seen him either."
Gu Liang: "In fact, since the two of you came back from the quarrel, you have never seen Rong Mingyuan and Hao Butler."
Li Xiaoyu nodded.
Gu Liang frowned for a while, and looked sideways at Yang Ye beside him: "Actually, the general staff should not ask guests to help arrange the wedding scene, and even the chef specially prepared desserts and drinks for them. It is very likely , they were instructed by someone."
Yang Ye nodded: "I agree. Some people asked the staff and chefs to keep Ai's best friend and Mei Design, probably to prevent them from going back to the dormitory."
Li Xiaoyu's eyes widened, and he reacted for a while: "Then... is it the housekeeper? He is the one who can get in touch with the staff and the chef the most. Moreover, as a housekeeper, everyone will listen to him."
"Very likely." Gu Liang said.
—The suspicion of Butler Hao is indeed getting bigger and bigger.
At this point, Yang Ye got up and took two bottles of mineral water and walked over, handed out one bottle to Li Xiaoyu, and then took out another bottle of mineral water, it seemed that he was going to hand it to Gu Liang.
"Don't just talk about it, both of you, you are both thirsty, drink some water."
Hearing Yang Ye say this, Li Xiaoyu happily took the mineral water, opened the bottle cap, took a sip, and was about to say thank you when she saw Yang Ye unscrew the cap of the mineral water bottle on his hand, and handed it to Gu Liang.
The mineral water in my mouth is suddenly not clear and sweet, it is sour.
But at this time, Li Xiaoyu's heart was complicated.
On the one hand, she felt that as a single dog, she was abused.
On the other hand she was jumping for joy, thinking she'd gotten real.
Swallowing that saliva, Li Xiaoyu held her chin and said, "Hey, a single dog has no human rights. But..."
Li Xiaoyu suddenly looked at Gu Liang and Yang Ye seriously. "But it doesn't matter to me, I wish you 99."
Gu Liang: "I..."
Yang Ye knocked on the table again and scolded Li Xiaoyu: "After drinking the water, hurry up and talk about the case, don't talk about anything else."
Gu Liang: "..."
—I think I really need to explain to Li Xiaoyu.
Forget it, let's solve the case first.
Gu Liang drank two sips of mineral water, and then asked Li Xiaoyu: "I understand your timeline. I have another question to ask you, how much do you know about witchcraft and pentagrams?"
"I don't know anything about this character. But after free investigation, I learned that Hao Butler, Rong Mingyuan, and Yu Scumbag all know it, and Mei Design also knows a little bit." Li Xiaoyu said.
"What did Butler Hao say?" Gu Liang asked.
"Well, during the free investigation, after we found the witchcraft clues on the scumbag's sports car, we were discussing this matter." Li Xiaoyu said, "Rong Mingyuan and Hao Butler took the initiative to confess that they knew about witchcraft. "
Gu Liang asked: "Can you tell me more about the situation at that time?"
"sure."
Li Xiaoyu recalled that after everyone watched the pentagram formation together in the vegetable garden, Yang Ye and Gu Liang stayed in the vegetable garden, and the other five of them left the vegetable garden together, passed through two fruit groves, and returned to the main hall.
Searched separately in the main hall, but failed to find any clues, so the five of them left the main hall together, walked through the lobby, left from the main entrance of the castle, and finally went to Yu Zhanan's sports car.
When you open the sports car, you can easily find the special photo frame.
There is a picture of a wizard in the frame and a pentagram on the back.
Therefore, it became a definite thing that Yang Ye had something to do with the pentagram and witchcraft.
Girlfriend Ai, Mingyuan Rong, Steward Hao, Mei Design, plus a boss Rong, they immediately discussed Yang Ye's matter, including Su Lan seeing him go to the storage room last night, and that he might have killed him with fire. It's about ladies.
While discussing Zhenglie, Yang Ye and Gu Liang came to the gate from another direction and called away Mr. Rong, the detective of the case.
So the remaining few people continued to discuss this.
"I really don't know about witchcraft and pentagrams, do you know?" Li Xiaoyu looked at the others.
Mei Design was the first to answer: "Actually, I also know something. The pentagram can seal evil spirits, and evil spirits are afraid of fire. Therefore, the combination of the two should be able to kill dolls."
"As a doll designer, I also have a lot of dolls at home. My mother is more taboo about these things, so I invited a wizard to see them. The wizard reminded me that dolls are easy to attract evil spirits, and the pentagram and fire can kill evil spirits and so on. But the specifics How to do it, I don't know."
"What about the others? Since the doll maker from Meidesign knows witchcraft, you should know about Rong Mingyuan?" Li Xiaoyu asked Rong Mingyuan.
Rong Mingyuan thought for a while, glanced at Housekeeper Hao, and said to Li Xiaoyu: "I know. I have also seen a wizard, and he talked about the pentagram. But I don't know anything particularly specific."
"Then Housekeeper Hao must know about it too." Li Xiaoyu finally looked at Housekeeper Hao.
Butler Hao nodded: "I know. I've been in the castle all the time. Of course I know that there are guests here."
Li Xiaoyu described the situation at that time in detail. "Well, that's how it was at the time, it can't be wrong."
"So, Mei Design was the first to admit that she knew witchcraft, then Rong Mingyuan, and finally Hao Butler, right?" Gu Liang asked.
"That's right." Li Xiaoyu nodded.
"Okay. Then you go out first. I think Lao Mengtou will call you." Gu Liang nodded, "Thank you."
Li Xiaoyu stood up holding the mineral water bottle. "Got it, I'm leaving, let the two of you have a good chat."
After a while, only Yang Ye and Gu Liang were left in the lounge.
Gu Liang turned his head and met Yang Ye's eyes.
When Li Xiaoyu was there just now, Gu Liang didn't feel it.
Right now he felt that Yang Ye was too close to him.
Gu Liang raised his elbow and poked Yang Ye sideways. "You sit across from me."
Yang Ye: "Why?"
Gu Liang said solemnly: "It is convenient for discussion."
Yang Ye smiled, and sat down opposite him.
But he lay down on the table and looked at Gu Liang with his face propped up, his eyes were still very close to Gu Liang.
Gu Liang got up and went to fetch a bottle of mineral water for Yang Ye.
For some unknown reason, he imitated the example, opened the bottle cap, and handed it to Yang Ye. "Drink it."
Yang Ye looked him up and down: "You..."
"It's just reciprocity." Gu Liang sat back on the sofa and knocked on the table, "Time is limited, continue to discuss the case."
"what… "
Yang Ye raised his eyebrows, and looked at Gu Liang with a smile for a long time. After a while, he turned serious and asked Gu Liang first, "After chatting with Li Xiaoyu, do you have any new ideas?"
"There are no new ideas in general, but she added details, which can make my reasoning closer to Butler Hao's behavioral logic."
Gu Liangdao, "I think, after Housekeeper Hao found out that you, Mei Design, and Ai's best friend had all gone to the garden, he decided to take advantage of this time to go to everyone's room to deal with the dolls, stab them, and cut off their right arms."
"In order to prevent you from coming back, he told the back kitchen and the staff to stop you and let you stay in the main hall to help decorate the wedding scene instead of returning to the main hall. I think, if Mr. Rong and I finish playing chess early , will also be left behind by the staff.”
"Then he came to the first floor and observed that only Ai Girlfriend and Mei Design came back, and you didn't come back. At this time, he went to the garden from another road, went to the lake to find you, and knocked you out. Ah, no—"
Gu Liang realized that he had made a mistake, paused for a while, and then continued: "I want to revise our previous thinking - Butler Hao asked the staff to stop them and knock you unconscious, not to prevent you from returning to the dormitory area, It’s because I’m afraid that you will go to the vegetable garden.”
"He should have finished dealing with the stabbing of the doll and cutting off the arm at 10 o'clock. After he knocked you out, he took your doll and all your right arms to the vegetable garden to burn."
Yang Ye thought for a while, then frowned and said, "So, he didn't kill first and then set the blame. He set the blame first and then killed. This means that he conceived all the plans very early."
- Is this reasonable
"Yes. Because if it's to prevent you from going back to the dormitory, he doesn't need to knock you out."
"In the case that he has already told the staff to stop you in advance, if you go back to the main hall normally at that time, you will be stopped to help the wedding scene just like Mei Design and Ai's best friend. You will definitely not go back to the accommodation area .”
"So Housekeeper Hao knocked you out not to prevent you from going back to the dormitory, but to prevent you from going to the vegetable garden. For the same reason, he tried to keep Mei Design and Ai's best friend in the main hall for the same purpose."
"What can prove this is that when Li Xiaoyu went to find you, he didn't smell a special smell. He probably didn't burn anything in the vegetable garden at that time. Then, you quarreled by the nearby lake, and he cast magic circles in the vegetable garden. Kill people? He probably wouldn't do that, he'll wait for you to leave before setting up a formation to kill people."
"In the end, I never saw him from the beginning to the end, so whether he went to the vegetable garden or the lake, he didn't take the road from the side door of the main hall. Every time he went, he had to go around the main entrance of the castle. If he goes to the vegetable garden to burn something first, then goes back to the main hall to watch, sees that you haven’t come back, then runs back to the lake to knock you unconscious, and finally runs from the outside of the castle back to the doll to deal with the doll, it’s too devious and impossible.”
Speaking of this, Gu Liang came to a conclusion: "So, before 10 o'clock, Housekeeper Hao stabbed the doll and cut off his arm in the dormitory area. After 10 o'clock, he went to the vegetable garden to set up a formation to kill people. I'm not sure when the magic circle will work, but Based on this, it can be inferred that Feng's boyfriend died after 10 o'clock."
After a long while, Yang Ye frowned: "Before 10 o'clock, we are not in the guest room. The dolls in the room and the housekeeper are easy to manipulate. But what about the famous lady and Feng's boyfriend? These two people are quite special."
"Rong Mingyuan went back to her bedroom to put on makeup after dinner at 8:30. So the housekeeper had to stab the doll in her room and tear off her arm before 8:30."
"Let's talk about Boyfriend Feng. According to your inference, Boyfriend Feng must have died after 10 o'clock, which means that he was in the room before 10 o'clock. Then when did the housekeeper tamper with the doll in his room?"
Yang Ye's question was indeed crucial.
They must completely restore the timeline of the housekeeper to truly get close to the truth.
Gu Liang let go of his brow that hadn't been for a long time, and couldn't help but frown.
He thought for a while, and then said: "Then, the butler can only play tricks at the end. He is the one who found the body. We are all waiting in the main hall for boyfriend Feng to come down to attend the wedding. When he went to call boyfriend Feng, the dolls in his room He was stabbed in the chest and cut off his arm."
"Well. Reasonable." Yang Ye frowned, "So, we have to revise a previous inference. The dolls in each room were not tampered with at the same time."
"Not bad. Just..."
"Yang Ye, the question you mentioned is very important. We need to clarify the timeline of Butler Hao."
Gu Liang found a pen and paper in the lounge, and began to follow the crucial timeline.
"Breakfast started at 7:30. After the two of us sat down, the butler came and brought us milk, and then left. Mingyuan Rong took her seat afterward."
"Let's assume that after leaving, the butler went to the kitchen to bring breakfast to Feng's boyfriend, then he went to Feng's room at about 8 o'clock. Then he went to Rong Mingyuan's room, stabbed the doll, and chopped off his arm. Suppose he He temporarily hid his arm in his room, so he returned to his room to put his arm down before coming to the restaurant."
"At this time, we had almost finished our breakfast. He finished clearing the table and helped Lao Mengtou and me set up the chessboard. It was 8:30."
Following Gu Liang's train of thought and continuing to reason, what Hao Butler will do later should be like this—leave from the garden restaurant, return to the sixth floor of the dormitory area to watch, at 9 o'clock, he saw Ai's best friend, Mei Design, Yu Zhanan all left.
So taking advantage of the opportunity to clean the room, Housekeeper Hao stabbed and chopped off the dolls in the room of Gu Liang, Ai's best friend, Mei Design, and Mr. Rong.
It took him a little longer to get to Yang Ye's room, because he had to change the wet carpet, wet sheets and quilt covers, and wipe off the water on all the furniture on the tables, chairs and benches.
After dealing with these matters, Butler Hao went to the main hall again. He should have asked the chef and the on-site staff and knew that Yu Zhanan and the others had gone to the garden.
At this time, the butler wanted to go to the garden to find a place to set up the pentagram, so he told the staff and the chef that if those guests came back, they should stay in the main hall and not let them return to the garden.
After finishing this, he left from the main hall, walked through the lobby, from the direction of the main entrance of the castle, through the outer enclosure to the vegetable garden, then passed through the peach grove to the lake in the north, knocked Yang Ye unconscious, and at this time, It was almost 10 o'clock.
After 10 o'clock, he returned to the vegetable garden, burned the doll, and finished killing Feng's boyfriend.
After finishing the timeline of the housekeeper, Yang Ye and Gu Liang looked at each other for a long time, and they both understood the meaning in each other's eyes—the housekeeper was too busy.
Just talking about stabbing the doll and cutting off the arm, he had to divide it into three parts.
First of all, he had to go to Rong Mingyuan's room while everyone was having breakfast, and play tricks on the doll, and he had to come back before everyone had finished breakfast.
Because Rong Mingyuan would go back to her room to put on makeup after eating, and she might not leave until the wedding at noon. The housekeeper could only go to her room while she was eating breakfast.
Secondly, from 9:00 to 10:00, the housekeeper had to go to the room of five people to do things, and had to clean up the water stains in Yang Ye's room. Not only that, but he had to go to the main hall and instruct the staff and the chef to stop the guests from wandering in the garden, and then ran back to the lobby, took another route to the vegetable garden, and went all the way to the lake to knock out Yang night.
Finally, at 12 o'clock in the noon, he took advantage of calling Feng's boyfriend to attend the wedding, and dealt with the dolls in Feng's boyfriend's room.
In fact, except for the last time, which is reasonable, the first two times for dealing with dolls are too rushed for him, especially during the time period from 9:00 to 10:00, he has too many things to do, and he must ensure that every There is nothing wrong with one step.
"It's weird. It's unreasonable. Then he should deal with the dolls in the five rooms after 10 o'clock."
Gu Liang pressed his eyebrows, "But it's back to the previous question. Since he has told the staff and the chef, he will ensure that you stay in the main hall instead of going back to the dormitory, just like Mei Design and Ai's best friend."
"Why would he knock you out and be afraid that you would go back to the dormitory when you are definitely not going back to the dorm? Dolls do things, or clean your room. If he knocks you out, he must stop you from wandering around in the garden, so that when you walk into the vegetable garden, you see him setting up a pentagram circle."
"Then what if—" Yang Ye sat up, stared at Gu Liang, and his voice sank, "Is there someone else who set up the magic circle in the vegetable garden?"
When Gu Liang heard this, he also sat up straight.
Yang Ye was sitting directly under the lamp, and the lamp reflected his tall nose, and reflected a little light on his glasses.
When Gu Liang's thoughts were at a deadlock, Yang Ye's words made the usually unscrupulous him look magnificent again.
So, after staring at Yang Ye through the lens for a moment, Gu Liang said, "That can only be Rong Mingyuan's pentagram."
Yang Ye nodded, and said slowly: "Yes, after 10 o'clock, Rong Mingyuan puts up a pentagram in the vegetable garden. The housekeeper is dealing with the dolls in each guest room."
"So, we guests can neither continue wandering around the garden, so that we go to the vegetable garden and find Rong Mingyuan burning a pentagram; nor can we go back to the accommodation area, so as to destroy the housekeeper's plan to deal with the dolls."
"That's why I was knocked out by the lake, and Mei Design and Ai's best friend were left in the main hall."
Gu Liang lowered his head and recorded these conclusions.
He stared at the notebook in front of him and thought for a moment, then said: "Then the problem now is—"
"Rong Mingyuan likes dolls so much, why would she burn them?"
"Again, because of the curse of [The moon caused you to fall in love with me], she will never leave boyfriend Feng. Why does she want to kill boyfriend Feng?"
"In addition, everything at present is our speculation, and we have not yet found conclusive evidence, or a decisive flaw for the real culprit."
"Finally, why did the butler do this? This script... Is there an accomplice? If there is an accomplice, how do you vote?"
"If you want to vote for the accomplice and the real murderer at the same time, who is the accomplice and who is the real murderer among Rong Mingyuan and the housekeeper?"