Escape From the Library

【Phantom in the painting-16】

Yue Xingwen's speculation has opened up a new way of thinking for everyone - if the case is split, the murderer who killed the Roland couple and the murderer who killed Leah have completely different motives, which can explain the current doubts.

Ke Shaobin said: "Xingwen means that the murderer who killed the Rolands had to choose one of the two daughters Daisy and Alice; the murderer who killed Leah had to choose one of Rhodes and Jack. ?”

Yue Xingwen nodded: "This is just my guess. If you want to confirm the final answer and pass this course, you must not just rely on guesswork. We have to find more and stronger evidence."

Zhuo Feng said: "Currently, we have opened all the traps in the abstract paintings and oil paintings on the first and second floors, and we have almost collected clues in the bedrooms of the two sisters on the third floor, and the rooms on the fourth floor have not been searched. "

Xu Yishen smiled and said: "The first floor of this villa is the guest dining room and the nanny's room, the second floor is the studio and study room, the third floor is the bedroom of the two daughters, and the fourth floor must be the master bedroom of the Rolands and the couple's study room. , I guess the most important clues should be on the fourth floor."

Ke Shaobin immediately said: "Then let's hurry up and go to the fourth floor. I've been here in this dilapidated villa for so long, and I'm already hungry."

Yue Xingwen heard his stomach rumbling, and said, "Don't move around here, I'll buy you an orange." Ke Shaobin stood there in a daze, unable to move.Yue Xingwen conjured up a big orange and handed it to him. Ke Shaobin was able to move as expected. He immediately took the orange and said without restraint: "Thank you, Dad!"

The classmates around looked at him speechlessly.Ke Shaobin smiled and ate oranges: "If you want to eat, find Xingwen."

Yue Xingwen said: "Young Master Ke's digestive function is better than everyone else's, so let him pad his stomach first. Others, after finding the clues later, go back to the library to eat after clearing the level."

Everyone has no objection, it has only been a few hours since I came to this villa, and I am not very hungry.

Yue Xingwen and Jiang Pingce walked up side by side. When they came to the fourth floor, they saw a very large master room designed as a suite - master bedroom, cloakroom, study room and attached sky garden.

The villa is extremely dark, and can only be illuminated by Xin Yan's alcohol lamps. Xin Yan simply summoned a large number of alcohol lamps to let the warm fire light illuminate the entire house, making it easier for everyone to check.

Yue Xingwen said: "Search the study room first, everyone keep up, don't fall behind."

One wall of the study room is full of books, and the other side is a desk with many drawers.

There was a locked drawer, but the lock was missing.Jiang Pingce opened the drawer and found that there were only some bills in it. He frowned and looked at Yue Xingwen: "This drawer should have been tampered with."

Yue Xingwen squatted down and checked carefully, and came to the same conclusion: "The lock was violently pried open, and some scratches were left on the drawer. Important documents must have been stolen."

The two looked at each other, and Jiang Pingce said, "Documents related to property distribution?"

Yue Xingwen nodded in agreement and continued to search other drawers.

He found a photo album in the bottom drawer, which contained photos of a family of four, from Daisy and Alice's infancy to their marriage, recording every bit of the sisters' growth, and some photos were marked with date.

江平策说道：“从相册标注的日期来看，黛西出生于1990年12月12日，艾丽斯是1992年11月15日，姐妹俩差了两岁。”

Ke Shaobin's eyes lit up: "As long as we know Leah's date of birth, we can deduce who switched identities with her and replaced her daughter. This person is most likely the murderer!"

Leah was adopted because she was adopted because she switched identities when she was born. Then, the person whose birth date can match her is the one who switched identities with her, and it is most likely because of property inheritance. And kill the parents!

Thinking about this, everyone became excited.

Zhuo Feng asked: "Are there any clues related to Leah's birth date?"

Lin Manluo said: "I only remember that Leah and Rhodes are classmates, and they participated in the summer camp with Alice and Jack. The summer camp is not sure, students of all ages can sign up, but if they are in the same class, they are usually the same age Right? She should be the same age as Rhodes."

Yue Xingwen looked at Jiang Pingce and reminded: "Just now, Daisy asked a private detective to investigate the evidence of her husband's infidelity. Is there any information about her husband Rhodes in the signed contract?"

Jiang Pingce took a look at the document and said, "Born in 1992."

Yue Xingwen leaned over to look at the document: "In other words, Leah was also born in 1992, the same age as Alice?"

Jiang Pingce said: "These two girls must have been born in the obstetrics department of the same hospital. The two children were mistaken. The Roland couple didn't know that their own daughter was living outside, and they always loved Alice as their own daughter. "

Ke Shaobin asked curiously, "Then how did they know about it later?"

At this moment, Liu Zhaoqing dug out a case file from the bookcase next to it, and handed it to Yue Xingwen: "Old Mr. Roland was diagnosed with leukemia in the hospital and needed a bone marrow transplant. When encountering such a situation, the hospital will usually find a doctor first. When the family members did the type matching, it must have been discovered that Alice was not her biological daughter during the type matching."

Xu Yishen patted his forehead: "The day Leah met this couple, she went home and sent a message to her mother, and even wrote a diary. What is the date of the diary, does anyone remember?"

Jiang Pingce, who is most sensitive to data, immediately said: "June 2009, 6."

Liu Zhaoqing analyzed: "The time when the old man diagnosed the blood disease was May 5. After the matching, he found that his daughter was not his own. Then he went to find his biological daughter and spent a month to find Leah's whereabouts. The logic was right. "

At this time, Lin Manluo took out another document from the corner of the bookcase, and said, "The Rolands have always had a cooperative relationship with the company of Leah's adoptive parents, and they obviously know Leah's adoptive parents. The two found their daughter and learned about her. The new year is not going well, this couple simply conspired with their daughter, killed the family when they were traveling, made the daughter the sole heir of the property, and then adopted Leah by their side in a fair and honest manner?"

Yue Xingwen agreed: "At that time, the illusion in the painting only played the clip of Leah meeting her biological parents. There was no sound. I don't know what they discussed. After that, Leah's adoptive parents and younger brother died in a car accident. This is definitely not the case. Coincidence. Sister Man Luo's analysis is very reasonable, so Leah will be the biggest beneficiary."

Jiang Pingce frowned and said: "Their original plan should be to kill the family that was not good to Leah first, let Leah inherit the property, and then take Leah to the family, and wait until the two daughters Daisy and Alice get married. , gave all the love and care to her long-lost daughter Leah, and made a will to inherit the property to Leah."

Yue Xingwen sighed softly: "It's not easy to publicize this matter, so after Liya came to the house, she temporarily lived in the nanny's room on the first floor. Unexpectedly, this secret was discovered, and the husband and wife were killed."

Everyone looked at each other, and Ke Shaobin made a conclusion: "The person who killed Leia was my sister Alice! Is my sister Daisy her own? When the couple left a will, they should give Daisy a part of the property. But Alice Liz was not her own, and she had no part in the property. She immediately stole the will and killed the couple who had raised her for nearly 30 years."

Liu Zhaoqing added: "Because the old man has a blood disease and is very weak, and the old lady is hunchbacked and her legs are not very agile, Alice, a young woman, can easily strangle this couple. After they die, she will avoid being discovered , and buried the couple in the garden in front of the gate."

The death of the Roland couple has now been sorted out.

Judging from the group photos of the whole family and the plot clips in the paintings over the years, the couple treated their two daughters fairly. They must have thought that Daisy and Alice were their own.The elder sister Daisy was born in 1990, the younger sister Alice was born in 1992, and Leah was also born in 1992. The most likely reason is that the younger sister and Leah switched identities.The person who had a property inheritance conflict with Leah was also the younger sister, and she had the motive of killing her non-biological parents.

Who killed Nalia?

Yue Xingwen rationalized the clues in his mind, and said: "We can't judge the time of death of the three corpses, but judging from the black roses in the garden, I personally tend to think that Leah died later. Alice killed When the Roland couple died and buried them in the garden, maybe there were still sunflowers blooming in the garden?"

Jiang Pingce also agreed with this analysis: "If the murderer buried Leah at that time and planted a large area of ​​black roses, it would definitely arouse the family's suspicion and vigilance. Unless something happened to this villa and people have already gone to the building empty, it was abandoned, and if he replanted black roses, he would not be discovered."

The two looked at each other, and Yue Xingwen said: "The first scene of Liya's death is probably not in this villa. Did the murderer transport her body to the villa and bury her after killing her elsewhere?"

Ke Shaobin complained: "In the end, the murderer dug and found two more buried in the ground?"

Everyone: "..."

The murderer's expression must have been wonderful.

Liu Zhaoqing couldn't laugh or cry: "Rhode and Jack, choose one of the two, who do you think it will be?"

Just as everyone was discussing in low voices, Jiang Pingce suddenly said, "It's Rhodes."

Yue Xingwen looked at him suspiciously: "At that time, Rhodes and Leah didn't know each other when they saw the scene of the kid's birthday at the kitchen door. We also discussed it. It doesn't seem like they have an affair. look."

Ke Shaobin also echoed: "That's right! Didn't Rhodes have a mistress outside? He was exposed by an old friend in person, and he admitted it frankly. How could he suddenly kill Leah?"

Jiang Pingce said, "Look at these photos."

He took out the photos taken by Daisy through the private investigator investigation, in which Rhodes and his mistress behaved intimately.The woman has a pair of clear, beautiful blue eyes. She is not Leah, but her facial features and temperament are [-]% similar to Leah.

Xu Feixue immediately said: "By the way, at the beginning we identified Leah as the character alluded to in the painting "The Woman Holding an Ermine". The original protagonist of that painting was herself the mistress of the Duke of Milan! The woman in the painting hugged The gray mouse, and Leah holding the white cat, is this a reminder that Leah is like a mistress, but not a mistress?"

Yue Xingwen's eyes lit up: "Yes! Did Rhode find a substitute to be his mistress?"

Jiang Pingce said: "This is a typical paranoid personality. He had a crush on Leah since he was a child, and he couldn't love her, so he found a woman similar to Leah to be his mistress. On the surface, the more indifferent he was to Leah, the more he thought in his heart. The desire to monopolize the other party becomes stronger and becomes more psychologically distorted after a long time. The younger brother Jack is different. He has easily chased after Leah. A playboy like him will not cherish a woman who is easy to get and has had a relationship with. There will be no particularly strong love."

Yue Xingwen opened up the idea of ​​solving the problem, and continued to analyze: "I still remember that in the wedding dinner corresponding to the painting "The Last Supper", Rhodes sat in the position of Jesus in the original painting, and Leah sat in the original painting of the traitor Judas. At that time, we wondered if this could be a coincidence? Now it seems that Rhodes thinks that Leah betrayed his feelings!"

Substitution, Mistress, Betrayal...

The key words in the painting are all on the right.

Rhodes had been secretly in love with Leah for many years and regarded Leah as his own, but Leah "betrayed" him?So, he couldn't bear it anymore, killed Leah, buried her in the ground, and planted black roses in the garden that symbolize "you are mine".

Black roses bloom in the moonlight, but Leah's soul has nowhere to rest.

A large number of paintings in this villa are actually phantoms at night, just to restore all the truth.