Chapter 114 The Murderous House 3
【God Yu is anxious! He is anxious! 】
【Hahaha, wife has been taken away, how can he not be anxious? 】
【Ye Yuanyu looked quite worried, Xiang Chen is relatively calm. 】
【En, after all, they are make-do. So not that nervous. 】
【Hahahahaha, sarcasm! Darling Jian is going to be sad. 】
During the discussion on the barrage, Qin Shiyu had already taken the lead and emerged from the passage with Ye Yuanyu and Xiang Chen.
This was a room covered with cobwebs and dust. There were seven or eight large bookshelves inside. Countless books were neatly placed on the bookshelves. They were all a bit dilapidated, like a dusty library.
"This should be a library and archives room." Ye Yuanyu picked up a book from one of the bookshelves marked ‘Chen Family Rules’ and it was titled ‘Chen Family Genealogy’. When opened, it showed the birth history of everyone in the Chen Family. In addition to men, women were recorded in terms of dates and life stories, but they were all legitimate wives. Their life stories were very brief.
Ye Yuanyu flipped to the end and read the record, "The last two people in the Chen Family were Chen Dongqing and Yang Meng-er. There was no one after that?"
At this side, Xiang Chen found the answer. He held a newspaper from the Republic of China and read, "Anecdotes from City C: One month after the mysterious death of Yang, the eldest madam of the Chen Family in C City, dozens of people from the Chen Family mysteriously disappeared overnight. The police suspect that the Chen Family mostly likely met misfortune, but couldn't find the bones and the murderer. So they suspected that wronged souls had sought their lives."
Xiang Chen concluded after studying the details of the report, "After the Chen Family disappeared, the police station sent people to investigate and found that there were no traces of the Chen Family leaving. Everything in the mansion remained the same. Alive, there was no person; dead, there was no corpse. So this place became famous far and wide as a haunted house."
He rubbed his chin and contemplated, "After Yang Meng-er’s mysterious death. So this matter must be connected to her, right?"
Ye Yuanyu looked at Yang Meng-er's birth and death dates on the family tree, "February 7, 1902 - July 2, 1922," he sighed, "She only lived 20 years."
Xiang Chen came over and took in the introduction, "The evil woman Mrs. Yang, the daughter of Scholar Yang from Qingshi Town, was brought back with a fifty-tael betrothal gift to hold a wedding with Eldest Young Master to counteract the bad luck. Disrespectful to the parents-in-law, jealous, has had no children for three years, and even had an affair with an outsider. Sentenced to immersion in a pig cage."
He said, "So Yang Meng-er was sold to the Chen Family to marry the eldest young master. Because she had no children for three years and was found to have had an affair, she was drowned in a pig cage? But based on the content in the newspaper, she might have been killed unjustly.”
Ye Yuanyu felt that something was amiss, "If she drowned in a pig cage, it doesn't count as a mysterious death, right?"
Something else must have happened. Xiang Chen asked Qin Shiyu, "Are there any other clues?"
"That should be all. Let's go." Qin Shiyu directly opened a secret door.
Ye Yuanyu and Xiang Chen were stunned. Xiang Chen was surprised, "There is no password?"
The audience had it better than the two of them, but not much better:
【I clearly saw a password lock on it! 】
【En, I saw it too. Qin Shiyu went up and unlocked the code. 】
【He solved the password before I even found the puzzle? 】
【God Yu, we know you are anxious, but don’t be so anxious. You can explain it to us a little bit. 】
Fortunately, Ye Yuanyu was curious. He looked at the five-digit text code lock hanging on the secret door, "Where is the puzzle?"
Qin Shiyu handed him a piece of paper.
Ye Yuanyu took it, "Meng-er, I bought Chen's property. According to your preference, I built a lot of secret passages so that you can freely wander around the property. This code is our favorite poetry game when we were children. You can tell at a glance - Meng Yu."
Below was a 10 by 10 grid with a lot of text filled in messily.
After studying it, he handed the paper to the curious Xiang Chen.
Qin Shiyu explained as he walked, "This is a chessboard code. You can get the answer by moving up, down, left, and right in the direction he pointed. It’s 'the sun flows into the sea'."
Xiang Chen laughed, "You solved it too quickly."
【That’s right. I don’t even understand it? 】
【I didn’t even have a chance to clearly see the question. 】
【I had long heard that Qin Shiyu is formidle when he’s not dawdling around. Today, I saw it today. 】
Knowing the thought path, Ye Yuanyu and Xiang Chen quickly obtained the answer to the puzzle. They began to study the information on the paper. Ye Yuanyu said, "Meng Yu, is the great-grandfather of the Meng Family who bought the Chen Family's property?"
Xiang Chen said, "He dares to buy a haunted house. Quite formidable."
"Because of Yang Meng-er." Ye Yuanyu said, "From his words, he was a childhood friend with Yang Meng-er."
Xiang Chen said, "I'm afraid he wasn't an ordinary childhood friend. He dared to buy this haunted house after the Chen Family disappeared and even renovated it specifically for Yang Meng-er. Could he be the murderer who killed the Chen Family in revenge for Yang Meng-er?"
Ye Yuanyu felt there were doubts, "But he can't make so many people in the Chen Family disappear overnight, right?"
While they were discussing, they arrived at the new room. It was a pharmacy. There was a whole wall of medicine cabinets and a whole wall of medical books. It seemed that because the eldest young master of the Chen Family was sickly, the Chen Family had a permanent resident doctor.
The three of them found Dr. Chen's medication records for the Chen Family on the table in the middle. Ye Yuanyu opened a page with words and read: "On 8th April 1919, the eldest young master, Chen Dongqing, is physically weak; consume medicines such as cinnamon, deer antler, Epimedium, and recommend supplementing with tiger..."
Ye Yuanyu suddenly stopped reading. Xiang Chen curiously approached, "What's wrong?"
After seeing the words above, he pursed his lips and closed his mouth, making the audience extremely curious:
【What's wrong? What kind of medicine made you all shy? 】
The camera clearly pointed at the medication record. saw that the last line was: "... recommend supplementing with tiger penis."
Even if one didn’t understand the medicine at the beginning, the adult would probably understand the latter part. The audience was immediately became amused:
【Hahahaha, it turns out they are all aphrodisiac medicinal materials. 】
【So it turns out that this Young Master Chen can’t do it? 】
【LOL, they are so innocent. They actually feel embarrassed because of this. 】
【A pure academic knows a lot, hahahaha. 】
【A bit cute. 】
The two people in the camera quickly moved past this topic in a tacit understanding. Xiang Chen said, "So Yang Meng-er can’t be blamed for having no children, right? She was indeed wronged."
Ye Yuanyu turned to another page and couldn't help but frown, "It seems that it's not just wrongly accused of being childless."
Xiang Chen saw Yang Meng-er's frequent medication records:
"On 10th April 1919, the eldest madam, Mrs. Yang was infected with chill from wind and cold; used Yunnanbai medicine to activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis."
He wondered, "Use medicine to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis to treat wind and cold?"
Ye Yuanyu said, "The eldest young master of the Chen Family got married on April 8th and was prescribed aphrodisiac medicine. Yang Meng-er was infected on April 10th and needed medicine to activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis to prevent cold..."
He continued to read:
"On 15th April 1919, the eldest madam, Mrs. Yang is infected with chill from wind and cold; used gold sore medicine..."
"On 1st May 1919, the eldest madam, Mrs. Yang is infected with chill from wind and cold; used safflower oil...On 3rd May, used gold sore medicine..."
Ye Yuanyu frowned. Xiang Chen caught on, "She was abused. In the pretense of a chill from the wind, she was given medicine for bruises..."
Ye Yuanyu counted the time, "1919, 17 times."
Xiang Chen took the booklet over and continued to read. His brows furrowed more and more tightly, "Yang Meng-er's medication record was even more than that of the young master of the Chen Family. Those who don't know better think that she was the frail one."
"Look for other clues," He looked up and saw Qin Shiyu pulling out a wooden box with a code lock. Stepping forward, he spoke, "What is that? How many digits is the code? Letters or numbers?"
As soon as he finished asking, Qin Shiyu directly opened the lock.
Xiang Chen:......
Audiences:……
【...When did he get the password? 】
【I swear, I watched him walk around the room, find this box, and then he opened it straightaway. 】
【Remembering Jiang Yu back then. God Yu, don’t imitate her! 】
Ye Yuanyu couldn't help but be curious, "What's inside?"
Qin Shiyu simply took out a notebook inside, "Meng Yu's diary."
Xiang Chen studied the box, "How do you know the password?"
Qin Shiyu stated, "Yang Meng-er's death date."
【? ? ? ? 】
【What did we miss? 】
【Confused face. It was said earlier that Yang Meng-er died mysteriously. The date of her death wasn't mentioned, right? 】
Xiang Chen suddenly realized, "The family tree contains the dates of Yang Meng-er's birth and death, but..." he asked, "Why is the password the date of her death?"
Qin Shiyu opened the diary, "According to the normal script structure, after introducing Yang Meng-er and her experiences, people who want to clear her grievances or get revenge should appear. And since they want to avenge her, then this password is very likely to be related to her. A six-digit password is usually a date. So it's either the birth month and year or the death month and year."
【...This works? 】
【The leaping mind of a top student. 】
【The escape room bug! I finally witness it. 】
【This is too awesome! As expected of my husband. 】