belated marriage

Chapter 312 Are You Cold?

Xu Ye yelled to tell her to walk slowly, and she reluctantly slowed down.

Lin Chuqi walked behind the team, and Mo Tingyuan stood shoulder to shoulder with her. Xu Ye would look back at the two of them from time to time to confirm that they had followed.

After walking for about half an hour, they finally turned over the small hill and found the cave Xu Yekou had mentioned.

As soon as they stepped into the cave with one foot, they heard a bang, and candles lit up on the inner wall of the cave.

Candlelight jumps, illuminating the way forward for them.

The overall style inside the cave is a little different from the eerie wind outside. The cave is very bright. Going inside the cave, you can see some off-white furniture with some scattered dust on it, and then go inside...

"No way."

Evelyn exclaimed, looking around, there was silence, only the whistling of cold wind pouring into the cave could be heard.

Lin Chuqi rubbed her arms involuntarily, feeling her heart beating faster.

"Lin Chuqi, are you cold?"

Mo Ting never called her Boss Lin in front of several young people, but the concern in his words couldn't be hidden.

Evelyn also came to Lin Chuqi's side after hearing the words, and said, "Sister Qiqi, are you cold? I have a coat here."

"No, thank you, I'm not cold." Lin Chuqi politely rejected her offer.

I am not cold, but a little flustered.

She felt a little depressed in all directions, and with the clues that Xu Ye took from the wall, the expression was creepy, and it was inevitable that she would get a little goosebumps.

Mo Tingyuan's eyes stayed on her, vaguely guessing that she was a little scared, so he moved and stood beside her.

Seeing this, Evelyn and Fiona approached with smiles and talked to Lin Chuqi.

"Actually, I'm also a little scared." Fiona said, quietly looking at Mo Tingyuan.

Mo Tingyuan just pursed his lips and did not speak.

Lin Chuqi listened attentively to Xu Ye's reading of the clue. The clue was actually a question of deduction. The youngest son in the family died suddenly. There were three suspects: his father, stepmother and half-brother.

Everyone has an alibi, but the murderer is one of them.

"Don't talk for now, let's deduce which one is the murderer."

"It must be the stepmother!" Fiona said, "The stepmother is not the biological mother of the youngest son and the eldest son. She is already pregnant and doesn't like the two children. In addition, the youngest son broke her favorite antique vase, She was murderous, which is reasonable."

"But she has the alibi of her father and her elder son together, how can she convince her elder son who is not compatible with her to help her cover it up?"

Xu Ye asked.

Everyone fell into contemplation.

Lin Chuqi's mind quickly flashed a few alibi and the relationship between family members, pondered for a moment, and said, "It's the eldest son."

"How come?" Evelyn looked at her in surprise, "In this family, the relationship between brothers is the best!"

Everyone looked at her with questioning eyes.

"The elder son's alibi is only the father." She pondered for a moment, and explained: "And every time the elder son provides other people with an alibi, he said that he saw his father or stepmother, but the father and stepmother did not see it." If you see him, then he may have been hiding in the dark to observe them."

"But he has no motive." Xu Ye's eyes were cold, and he stared at Lin Chuqi sharply.

Lin Chuqi said: "Why is there no motive? The younger son's mother and the older son's ex-stepmother once pushed him down the second floor, and the younger son is still watching coldly."

"Until the arrival of the new stepmother, the eldest son and the younger son became people in the same boat."

She looked at the clue drawing in Xu Ye's hand and said, "Can you show me again?"

"of course."

Xu Ye handed her the blueprint, and she looked at it seriously, without even noticing that Mo Tingyuan was standing behind her, and his deep eyes remained on the blueprint.

Three minutes later, Lin Chuqi pointed out a few details on the blueprint, and expressed his opinion.

Until the end, she confirmed that the eldest son was the real murderer.

Everyone suddenly realized.

"Then try?"

Evelyn was eager to enter the answer.

"Wait." Mo Tingyuan interrupted her movement, but his eyes remained on the drawing, "You have neglected one place, the biological mother of the youngest son, and a close friend, who was the one who rescued the woman with dystocia. back."

As soon as these words came out, Lin Chuqi immediately reacted.

"Is it the father and the eldest son?"

"That is to say, father suspects..."

Fiona looked at the drawings in surprise.

"Try it, there are three chances in total, and we will be locked here only if we are all wrong." Xu Ye said.

Evelyn obediently entered the answer.

With a click, an iron box opened, revealing a simple key.

"There is a keyhole under the box." Lin Chuqi's sharp eyes saw the clues under the box at a glance.

Everyone didn't expect the answer to be deduced at once this time, and they looked at Lin Chuqi and Mo Tingyuan in surprise and joy.

"Sister, you are amazing!" Evelyn held Lin Chuqi's arm affectionately, her pale pink cheeks were full of smiles.

Lin Chuqi was a little at a loss by her intimacy, she withdrew her hand uncomfortably, and said with a smile, "Maybe it's just luck."

"Luck is also a kind of strength." Mo Tingyuan said coldly.

A little surprise flashed in the eyes of Evelyn and Fiona.

Mo Tingyuan spoke twice along the way, once when he was speculating in the cave, and once just now, both times because of Lin Chuqi's opening.

Even the initial self-introduction was done by Lin Chuqi.

This……

The two young girls exchanged a "we all understand" look, and the corners of their mouths raised unconsciously.

Lin Chuqi didn't care about other people's small thoughts, who doesn't like to be praised.

She raised the corner of her mouth slightly, and reminded: "Use the key to open the door first, and see what's behind the cave."

After the words fell, Xu Ye stepped forward first and turned the keyhole with the key.

The dull sound was accompanied by a stone wall slowly rising, and they finally saw the world outside the cave.

A wide meadow, with a stream running across the middle, the stream is gurgling and crystal clear.

There are still stones at the bottom of the water that have been washed away.

Aldrich really put a lot of thought into this terrifying island.

"Shall we go straight over?" Evelyn asked in a low voice.

The small stream is not too deep, but it is not narrow either. If you want to cross it directly in one step, you will definitely not be able to.

Without saying a word, Xu Ye strode to the edge of the creek and dug out a new map from under a rock.

Lin Chuqi's eyebrows twitched when she saw it.

Surprises are everywhere.

Since she and Mo Tingyuan joined temporarily and did not know all the rules, they simply waited for Xu Ye to speak.

Xu Ye looked at the map, and after discussing with Luke and Charles beside him, he decided to walk over directly.

(End of this chapter)