Idle game leads to another world.

Chapter 358: I'm afraid we'll never meet again
The whole thing seems very complicated, and Li Chengxi also feels that there must be a dark hand behind this.

But the information we have now is too little. Not to mention who the mastermind is, even the purpose is completely unclear.

I have only focused on the murder of the Wen family's accountant, and now I have some clues.

First of all, the deceased was a newcomer who came to the accountant of the Wen mansion under the pretext of seeking refuge with his cousin.

In the real world, if a relative you have never met, or even a relative from several generations away, suddenly comes to visit, he or she will definitely not be welcomed.

But Yang Yiyi’s situation is different. We cannot directly apply realistic values ​​to it.

After all, they are relatives. If he drives them away, the accountant's reputation will be ruined, and the neighbors will all whisper behind his back that he is heartless.

But we couldn't leave an idle person at home eating idle meals. Also, we heard that the deceased had been a teacher and had some knowledge of mathematics, so we recommended the deceased to be an accountant.

Although this part was decided by the accountant, it was actually predictable. After all, if you go to live with a cousin who is an accountant, the jobs he can introduce you to are either being an accountant or being a servant.

If someone had investigated the Wen family before and found out that an old accountant wanted to go home at the beginning of autumn and the mansion was short of someone, and then played out this scene at this time, there would be a high probability that he would be recommended to be the accountant.

Simply put, Li Chengxi had begun to doubt the identity of the deceased, feeling that he was not just a victim, but more like an abandoned pawn who had lost his usefulness.

Secondly, there is another very critical point.

Li Chengxi believes that the deceased and the murderer knew each other and had chatted for a while before his death.

To make such a judgment, it is not the result of fortune-telling as Yang Yiyi said, but the result of deduction based on the account books.

The accountant said that there were several outrageous errors in the deceased's account book, which were not simple typos or miscalculations.

Logically speaking, would an accountant who sneaked in by disguising himself really do something that would obviously expose himself?

And it was also said that the errors in the previous pages of the account book were normal and not as outrageous as those in the latest pages.

So Li Chengxi made an assumption.

Is it possible that when the deceased was settling accounts in the room, the murderer suddenly came in. And the deceased also knew that the murderer's purpose of coming was probably to kill him.

But the window paper was not broken at first, so the deceased chatted with the murderer and kept accounts before his death. He also used this time to leave some information in the account book.

This information must not be too blatant, otherwise the murderer will destroy the account book at a glance, but it cannot be too obscure so that only you can understand it, which will be of no use.

So, what information can be put in the account book without being suspicious and yet be easily seen?
Naturally, some wrong accounts are recorded, which is the so-called death message.

So far, these are the inferences Li Chengxi has made based on the account books. To prove this inference, evidence is needed.

The key evidence is the wrong account left in the account book.

If a message left by the deceased can be found from the wrong account, then this reasoning is valid, otherwise it is just pure fantasy.

And this is where the problem lies.

When Yang Yiyi and Qin Yan were flipping through the account book, Li Chengxi deliberately enlarged the camera and took screenshots of the account book. He took screenshots of every page the two of them flipped through.

There were five outrageous errors in total, but looking at these screenshots, Li Chengxi felt a headache.

Because it seems that these are just very outrageous accounts. No matter whether you pick them all out and connect them according to the ending words, or ignore these five errors and look at other accounts on the same page, it seems that you can't find any clues.

Li Chengxi immediately changed his mind. Would it be better if the focus was not on the accounts but on the numbers?
He turned on his phone and entered the wrong number. Looking at the string of numbers, Li Chengxi still had no idea.

The only regularity is that there are no 9s and 0s in the numbers and they are all two-digit numbers.

Getting just this row of five numbers is of little use without any further clues.

Li Chengxi felt that he must have overlooked something. The deceased deliberately wrote down such an outrageous mistake, and he must have thought about how to make it visible to others. The clues must have been laid out.

The question was how to parse the key clues of this number, where was this thing. According to the nature of the puzzle games he had played, such clues were usually placed in very inconspicuous places, and he really couldn't think of any suspicious places for a while.

So Li Chengxi said to Yang Yiyi:

"We have almost understood the situation of the Wen family. Let's go to the Qing Mansion. Didn't they have a servant who died? The two murders seem to be related. Maybe we can find new clues by checking the situation of the Qing Mansion."

Yang Yiyi naturally had no objection. She didn't quite understand Li Chengxi's reasoning just now, but with Li Chengxi watching her, Yang Yiyi felt as if she had taken a reassurance pill and she was no longer worried.

I have to say that sometimes relaxing too much can also be harmful.

For example, Yang Yiyi, who left the toilet, found herself lost...

The Wen Mansion had been expanded several times instead of demolishing the old house and rebuilding it. As a result, the old and new buildings were mixed together, and with the green gardens that were squeezed in wherever there was space, Yang Yiyi couldn't find her way back soon after leaving the toilet.

This is not a big problem. The Wen family is not a royal palace and it is not that big. If you meet a servant on the road, you can just ask for directions.

But I don’t know if Yang Yiyi’s luck was just bad. She didn’t see any servants after walking for ten minutes. Instead, she became more and more confused.

Standing in the corridor outside the room, Yang Yiyi wanted to jump onto the roof, where she could stand higher and see farther.

Just at this moment, a voice suddenly came from behind:
"Lady Yang, here, I'm here."

Looking back, there was no one there, but the voice was still saying "here". It was not until Yang Yiyi looked carefully that she noticed a small hole in the window behind her that was nailed shut with a wooden board. Someone's eyes were constantly talking to her through the hole.

Moving closer, Yang Yiyi could see clearly through the small hole in the window.

"You are Wen Yun?"

"Lady Yang, I've been grounded by my father, so I'm sorry I can only meet you like this."

"Just because you're with Qingliu? What's your relationship?"

"..."

Seeing Yang Yiyi’s passion for gossip burning in her heart, Wen Yun was speechless.

"I heard Qingliu mention that Lady Xia Yang once saved Qingliu's life. Yun, I am very grateful."

Qingyun bowed his head behind the window, and Yang Yiyi waved her hand quickly:

"Not really, it's just a piece of cake. I just wanted to escape at that time. Oh, by the way, what is your relationship?"

Do you have to ask this?
But it’s okay to tell an outsider like Yang Yiyi.

"Qingliu and I have known each other since we were young. We always secretly ran out to play together. When we grew up, we secretly fell in love with each other, but Miss Yang also knew the relationship between our two families. I once thought about eloping with Qingliu, but somehow my father found out about this."

Wen Yun found a way to make the window paper a little bigger, and a jade hairpin came out from inside.

"I don't know if we can meet again in this life. Please give this jade hairpin to Qingliu. Please."

This is like a token of love. Yang Yiyi took the jade hairpin and said curiously:

"Why do you say you don't know if we'll ever see each other again in this life? Your father can't lock you up forever, can he?"

"Miss Yang, you don't know that Qingliu's father plans to marry her off to someone else. My father might want to lock me up until Qingliu gets married."

"who is it?"

"I heard that he is the son of a high-ranking official from the capital. Once this is accomplished, Qingliu will definitely follow her husband's family to the capital. The high walls and deep houses will make it difficult for us to see each other again in this life."

This sounds very cruel...

(End of this chapter)