Chapter 558 Death of the Priest

 Liu Tao didn’t trim his beard.

 He is remorseful.

It’s not scary to be deceived. What’s scary is being cheated twice using the same trick!

After experiencing the baptism of "Roger Mystery" and appreciating the charm of narrative trickery, Liu Tao thought that he would never be deceived by the same trick again.

However, Jiang Yang used this novel to tell him that he was still too young.

This guy used similar tricks and deceived him again.

When he first got the manuscript of "Tragedy in Three Acts", Liu Tao took a look and thought, oh, third person, this time it should not be a narrative.

Then-

 He looked down.

 This book was very attractive at the beginning. To put it in fashionable terms: [Lao Shuai, Da Zhuang and the doctor are good friends. Lao Shuai and Dan Dan like each other, but there is a big age gap between Lao Shuai and Dan Dan.

On this day, the old handsome held a banquet, and thirteen people came, including the trio of the old handsome, Da Zhuang and the doctor, mother and daughter Dandan, Poirot, the pastor and his wife, etc.

 There is also a handsome guy.

 This handsome guy likes balls.

Since there are thirteen people in total, the housekeeper said it was unlucky, so she should join in, so there would be fourteen people.

Then.

At the banquet, the old handsome man made cocktails and invited everyone to drink them. The doctor didn't like cocktails, so he didn't drink them.

The pastor didn't really like cocktails either, but he reluctantly drank one.

 After a glass of wine, the priest died.

 Because the priest was too kind and had no enemies, and he got the wine himself, and the cocktail glass was tested the next day, and there was nothing there, so Poirot and the local doctor both thought that the priest died of a sudden illness. 】

certainly.

 This is a mystery novel. Liu Tao doesn’t have to guess. The priest must have been poisoned to death.

He actually deceived Poirot!

 Reading mystery novels is sometimes an intellectual competition game.

 When Liu Tao saw that Poirot had been deceived, he wanted to catch the murderer first, but after looking for a long time, he could not find the murderer.

 He could only continue to look down.

　　【Lao Shuai left because he felt Dandan was more suitable to be with Xiao Shuai.

after a while.

Da Zhuang was on vacation in France and read in the newspaper that his good friend, the doctor, died.

 The way to die is exactly the same as that of a priest!

Just in time, Lao Shuai came over and once again confirmed that the priest's death was murder. He also said that Dandan and Xiaoshuai were present when the doctor died, and now Dandan is writing to ask for his help.

Since their old friend died, Da Zhuang and Lao Shuai had no choice but to leave. They set off and rushed back. They met Poirot at the train station and talked about the case.

Poirot was shocked, I had been deceived!

 Then Poirot continued to make soy sauce.

 After Da Zhuang and Lao Shuai returned, they formed a trio of detectives with Dandan and began to solve cases—]

 From the moment the three amateur detectives start solving the case, this novel becomes very, very boring.

The portrayal of the three amateur detectives is very thin, with no psychological activities and no personal characteristics. They are basically detectives who found suspects and related personnel for questioning and asked for some testimonies, but they were of no use. The three amateur detectives could not see any use. Liu Tao, an outsider, couldn't see the use.

 Then, three amateur detectives repeated the above operation.

This mystery novel is neither tense, humorous, nor suspenseful.

 At most, Lao Shuai and Dan Dan will talk about love.

to be honest-

Liu Tao has a feeling of "I saw it, I saw it, I saw something".

He followed his wife to watch **** romantic dramas, which were more exciting than this novel. So after getting this manuscript, Liu Tao did not stay up at night and had trouble sleeping and eating. Instead, he slept so soundly that his wife watched His eyes were filled with resentment.

He even complained to Jiang Yang - writing books was becoming more and more difficult, but it still kept Lao Liu awake at night.



What made Liu Tao most intolerable was the reasoning of these three detectives. They didn’t know what they were investigating. Liu Tao wanted to find them out and go in to investigate the case himself. So when the old commander said: "To be honest, we really "Is there any progress?" Liu Tao followed up with, "You **** know it too!"

Then.

Poirot, who has written most of the book, appears!

 Liu Tao happened to be having breakfast when he read this chapter.

 At that time, he had already concluded that this book was Jiang Yang’s failure.

It’s okay, people make mistakes and horses stumble, and Jiang Yang can’t guarantee that every mystery novel will be so amazing.

 He is still reading, that is, he wants to know who the murderer is and why the priest was killed.

Then.

Liu Taoren was dumbfounded.

After Poirot appeared on the stage, it was as if constipation had squeezed out Selu, and the rhythm of the whole book suddenly became smoother. The messy testimony that had been found out before suddenly became very confusing after Poirot changed his perspective. Useful clues.

When the final answer to the mystery was revealed, Liu Tao immediately realized that he had let Jiang Yang fool him again!

  Boring?

 It’s just boring!

Having been going round and round in reasoning for a long time and making no progress?

 That’s right if there’s no progress!

The characters are thin, the three detectives have no characteristics, and there is not even a psychological description?

 That’s right if you don’t!

 Because the murderer is among the three amateur detectives.

　　Two detectives follow the murderer and take the reader to investigate the case. It’s **** good if the case can make any progress.

Following the fact that the narrator of the investigation in "Roger's Mystery" was the murderer, Jiang Yang changed the third person voice again, allowing the investigator to continue to be the murderer, and actually deceived him again.

 “Nima!”

 Liu Tao is completely stupid.

 He suddenly slapped his forehead, startling Mrs. Liu, and asked him: "What's wrong?"

 “I’m so stupid, really.”

 Liu Tao said.

 He should have thought of it earlier.

 with Jiang Yang, a master who has already written two masterpieces of mystery novels, no matter how bad his writing is, he can't be this bad. Just like a professional 100-meter athlete, he can run faster than ordinary people even if he has diarrhea and diarrhea.

so-

 When the book is so boring, Liu Tao should have thought about why it is so boring.

 Liu Tao couldn't eat breakfast anymore.

With the guilt of thinking that this book was a failure, he took the manuscript paper in front of him again.

 Then he looked at the pile of manuscript papers with respect.

 Seriously—

 In a sense, this novel is more elaborately designed than "Roger's Mystery".

  If "Roger's Mystery" is clever, it uses the first-person narration method and relies on the readers' natural trust in the narrator to trick the readers into falling into a trap.

 This novel uses the third person, from the book title, from the structure of the book, from the motivation, from the text, and even the character creation, step by step to make the readers fall into the trap——

 The detective led by the murderer is inherently boring, misleading you and leaving you unable to find any useful clues, otherwise what?

 What particularly amazed Liu Tao was the death of the priest!

  It can be said that he was misled because he could never figure out the motive of the priest’s death!

so-

 The detective inside the book and the reader outside the book are desperately trying to find why the priest died.

actually-

 Just look at the title of the book and you will know "Tragedy in Three Acts".

 This is drama!

 The murderer is a dramatist!

 Drama must be rehearsed!

 So, when rehearsing a murder, do you need a motive to kill someone?

unnecessary!

 Out of the fourteen people at that time, any one except three could die.

 Including Poirot!

 In this novel, the motivation becomes the key to deciphering the indiscriminate killing on a small scale, and the title of the book has clearly told the readers.

 Liu Tao had to say one more thing, "cowhide!"

 (End of this chapter)