Chapter 24 Come Again
A piece of fish belly floated up in the eastern sky, and gradually became brighter.
Li Taiyuan opened her eyes and sat up slowly.
At this moment, he was wearing a loose white pajamas, and the bed beside him was empty.
The glimmer of morning light shone into the room through the gap in the wooden door. Li Taiyuan touched the empty bed beside him, and couldn't help but wonder where the "wife" who had never met before had gone.
He turned over and was about to get out of bed, but suddenly he felt something beneath his head.
The surface of the pillow is slightly raised and it feels uneven to the touch, as if there is some hard metal object.
Curiously, Li Taiyuan lifted the pillow and took out a snake-shaped key from the mezzanine.
"How did this thing run under my pillow?"
Li Taiyuan played with the key in her hand, and suddenly felt like a bolt from the blue in her mind, and she was stunned by the bed. In an instant, countless familiar scenes rushed over like a tide.
In the Bai Mansion, the scene of Chen Bin and others' death... He is like a newly activated device, frantically reading the memories of the previous archives.
Half an hour later, Li Taiyuan slowly came back to her senses from her dull state.
He wiped the sweat beads that flowed from his forehead to the tip of his nose. He clearly didn't do anything, but he felt as if he was exhausted.
After all, it also takes a lot of brain cells to convert and absorb the massive amount of memory.
Now I live in a time and space, the seventh cycle of marriage to Bai Mansion the next day.
"It's me."
Li Taiyuan rubbed her chin thoughtfully, lifted the quilt and walked off the bed.
Thanks to the end of the previous cycle, 2.6 was in danger and hid the keys obtained from Chuntao's room in the pillow, so that I could read the file directly from the moment I opened my eyes, with all the memories in the previous ones.
, to deal with the cycle that is about to begin.
This time, Li Taiyuan woke up earlier than before, which means that the investigation time left for him was more abundant.
It is 7:05 in the morning, and there are eight hours before Chen Bin and others arrive at Bai Mansion.
Before the last round of death, he had set up an alarm clock reminder for viewing the album in Joan's phone to ensure that he recovered his memory the moment he entered the village of Holy Springs.
With Qiao An’s guarantee, what I have to do now is to investigate the two problems left in the previous cycle within eight hours:
In the sixth round of the cycle, Li Taiyuan once saw the ghostly face in Joan's mobile phone.
The photo was taken by Qiao An before the fifth cycle of killing. The ghost in red at that time was the fierce spirit who killed him.
However, what surprised the two was that the face under the black hair was not Chuntao, but Ning Tonghai!
Then, it was the end of the sixth round of cycle.
The evil ghost in red broke into the room again and killed the last surviving Qiao An and Li Taiyuan. Before his death, Li Taiyuan tried his best to see what it looked like:
Half of the face of the evil ghost was like Ning Tonghai, while the other half was Ruan Zhuyin, who was killed not long ago. Their facial features seemed to be puzzles randomly pieced together after being disrupted, and were scattered in messy faces of the evil ghost.
It looks particularly weird.
Based on the above situations, Li Taiyuan believes that the evil ghost in red has the ability to change his appearance by devouring others.
This ability is probably related to the two ghost boys and the huge box used to hold the corpse. After all, in the fifth cycle, I was pulled into the box and killed.
Huixiang was still an ordinary person until her death. She was cursed by a mysterious force because she revealed her secret.
The reason why she appeared in the side courtyard late at night seemed to be just to help her sisters.
Judging from previous memories, Chuntao was not a demon from the beginning.
Until the end of dinner and had her last conversation, she was still a normal person.
So Chuntao went somewhere after leaving her room, or came into contact with something, and was swallowed up and became a female ghost in red.
After straightening out the problem of the evil ghost in red, the next question is another question.
This is much simpler than the former: Why did he successfully break the deadlock after only one cycle on the first night, but on the second night, he was stuck seven times?
Li Taiyuan slowly rubbed the lines on the snake-shaped key. Such a fine-crafted key was definitely not something Chuntao, a servant should keep.
As the totem of the Bai clan, the spirit snake is carved in its style and can be seen everywhere in the Bai Mansion.
But except for the patriarch Bai Rong, no one dared to wear jewelry related to the spirit snake at will; and Li Taiyuan had never seen buildings decorated with this in the three courtyards east, west and south.
It can be seen that the spiritual snake enjoys a very high status in the Bai clan and will not be used in ordinary residences at will. Therefore, the door that can be opened by this key must be in the North Court where Bai Rong lives.
The reason why the first night's cycle was broken so quickly must be because 1.2 did what he had never done so far: heading to the North Courtyard.
After listing and sorting out the information in his mind one by one, Li Taiyuan suddenly felt enlightened.
Not long after, Chuntao and Huika walked into the room with water and clean clothes.
What surprised Chuntao was that Su Wende had woken up long ago and was sitting at the table drinking water slowly.
"Son-in-law, are you awake? My name is Chuntao, and her name is Huixiang. From now on, we will serve you in close contact. I will serve you first. I will serve you to wash and change clothes first, and the meal will be delivered later." Chuntao spoke first.
"Um."
Li Taiyuan's ears were calloused after hearing these words. He took a sip of the cold tea and slowly stretched out his hand.
Chuntao quickly handed the wrung towel to the other party. She quietly raised her eyes and looked at Su Wende, feeling very surprised.
Long before coming, General Manager Yue repeatedly reminded that the environment in which those sons-in-law who married into their marriage lived was different from that in Shengquan Village. When they came here, no one could adapt to the rules of the Bai Mansion. As a personal maid, you need to be careful in every move.
, be sure to obey everything and not to anger the other party.
On the way here, Chuntao repeatedly warned Huixiang to be prepared to be angry with her new son-in-law. For example, no matter how the other party beats and scolds her, she should not be messed up.
But what happened now was very different from what she imagined. This new son-in-law named Su Wende not only showed calmness, but also did not feel sorry for them from beginning to end; he seemed to have adapted to life here and was very assigned to his work.
After serving the other party, they washed and changed their clothes, and they went to the kitchen to bring white porridge and some side dishes.
Su Wende picked up the spoon and slowly scooped some white porridge. He lowered his head slightly, put the porridge into his mouth, picked up chopsticks, carried two or three pickles of pickles, and chewed them slowly.
The other party's eating habits are very elegant, he speaks with a pleasant expression, and his attitude towards himself and Huixiang is gentle and polite.
Chuntao stood aside and secretly breathed a sigh of relief for herself and her sisters: She felt that following Mr. Su would be much easier than returning to the kitchen to work as a helper.
After Li Taiyuan ate the food in front of him, he picked up a handkerchief and wiped his mouth.
He pretended to be careless and looked at the two maids standing beside him: Compared to the previous encounter, in this round of cycle, the two of them had significantly improved their first impression of themselves, and their condition was not as tight as before.
Strong.
Chapter completed!