Xueshan Letter continued reading, Mr. Booker invited Poirot to dinner on the dining cart, and chatted about writing styles.

Then Poirot began again, and began his habit of observing others. There were thirteen people in the dining cart, all of which were different in age and class.

There must be an important role here, so when Xueshanxin read it, he wrote a little more pen and ink.

"Su Xuanmian's fifteen suggestions on the creation of mystery novels, among which the first one is that the murderer must be an important role."

First of all, she looks very ugly, with a large pearl chain and many rings like Princess Dragomirov, the nouveau riche.

Through Mr. Booker, he learned that the princess was Russian. Her husband had cashed in all his money before the revolution and invested overseas, so she was really rich.

At the same time, Poirot saw Mary, a British lady who had been traveling with the train before. This was natural. Mary had said she wanted to take this train.

If Poirot hadn't received a telegram suddenly, he would not have traveled with him. Poirot noticed that Mary was not the colonel, but two women.

One of them was a tall middle-aged woman wearing a plaid top and a tweed skirt, with a strange terrain like a big bread behind her head. She was wearing glasses and a friendly long face that looked like a goat's face, listening to a sturdy, smiling old woman. The latter's voice was clear, slow and monotonous, and there was no intention of stopping to take a breath.

Among them, the older woman is an American, who proudly talks about her daughter.

"If it weren't for knowing that Poirot was just observing, his behavior was a bit like a maniac." Xueshanxin thought silently.

Looking back, I saw the colonel, staring at Mary tightly. It was obvious that Mary didn't want to be too close to the colonel, otherwise it would be too convenient for the dining car to sit together.

There is also a couple in the dining car, who is talented and beautiful, and then Mr. Booker introduced him as the Hungarian ambassador.

"This chapter is almost all about character introductions. I finally know that I will start writing another car in the first chapter, because I will first introduce Mary and the Colonel to make the readers familiar with it, otherwise more than a dozen names will suddenly appear and my head will be dizzy."

Snow Mountain Channel said: "McQueen, who was dragged out by Mary, then Poirot's train in the same cabin is Rachett's secretary."

As mentioned earlier, McQueen was one of the two Americans Poirot met in a hotel restaurant, and Rachett was the other, the person Poirot regarded as a beast.

Slowly, everyone in the dining car left after dinner. As expected, Rachet took the initiative to sit opposite Poirot.

[“Can you borrow a fire?” he said, his voice soft and a little nasal, “My last name is Rachet.”

Poirot bowed slightly, reached into his pocket and took out a box of matches and handed them over, but the other party did not ignite it after taking it.

"I think," he continued, "I have the honor to speak to the famous Mr. Hercule Poirot, right?"

Poirot owed again. "You know it is correct, sir...]

"It's similar to what I thought. Poirot has solved many major cases and is already very famous." Xue Shanxin said to himself: "But Poirot is quite narcissistic."

The next plot is interesting. Rachett is not simply coming to chat with the detective, but wants to give Poirot a commission.

Rachet said directly that he was very rich, so he could even use 20,000 US dollars to entrust Poirot, not to mention that at that time, even now 20,000 US dollars is not bad.

His commission was to think someone wanted to kill him, so Rachet carried a gun with him, but Poirot refused.

Xueshanxin nodded and pointed out the topic.

And Poirot said bluntly at the end: "Let me say something rudely - I don't like your face, Mr. Rachett."

This detective is quite sarcastic. Xueshanxin is quite excited and all the characters are on the stage, which means that the stage has been set up.

Chapter 4: The night screamed. Poirot returned to his carriage from the dining car. He was told by the conductor that his luggage was moved to Carriage No. 1 by Mr. Booker, which was the carriage where Booker lived before.

Instead of getting off the car, Mr. Booker moved to a new carriage he had just arrived from Sweden, and stayed in a room with a Greek doctor.

McQueen chatted with the colonel, and was surprised to see Poirot. He thought he had already gotten out of the car after he had moved his luggage away.

Continuing to build the stage, the two ladies who had dinner and chatted with Mary in the previous chapter gave an introduction.

A little older American woman who likes to talk about her daughter is Mrs. Habat, whose husband works in Smyr University.

Another woman, Swedish, seemed to be a missionary, caught a cold yesterday.

Mrs. Habat, an American woman who likes to show off her daughter, complained to Poirot. She was also afraid of Rachett. From this we can see that Rachett's face really looks like a beast.

Because Mrs. Habat lives next to Rachet, she blocks the door with her luggage at night.

At night, it was time for each to go to bed. McQueen and the Colonel had a good chat, so McQueen invited the Colonel to his room to continue chatting.

Mainly, Poirot moved to Car No. 1, and he was the only one left in McQueen's car.

Mrs. Habat also went back to her carriage and went to bed. Poirot did not stop and returned to his room. The room he changed was in front of Rachett.

"Here, the murder is finally going to happen." Xue Shanxin was a little excited.

[Poirot got out of bed and turned on the light. He realized that the train had stopped - maybe he was at the station.

The shouting scared him. He remembered that Rachet was living in the next room. He got out of bed and opened the door. The conductor hurriedly came from the aisle and knocked on Rachet's door. Poirot opened a gap in the room and observed it outward. The conductor knocked on the door again. The ringtone rang, and the indicator light showed that it was another door in the distance. The conductor turned his head and looked at it. At this time, a shout came from the next room: "It's okay, I rang the wrong bell."

"Okay, sir." The conductor ran quickly to knock on the door that had just turned on the light.

Poirot returned to the bed and turned off the light with confidence. He glanced at his watch and it was just a little 23 minutes away...]

"The difference is 23 minutes, which is 12:37 minutes. This time should be very critical." Xueshanxin remembers.

After a brief silence, Poirot thought of the button and asked the conductor for a bottle of water, but before he could press it, he heard the ringtone ring again.

Then he heard the conductor knocking on the door not far from Poirot's room, and then a female voice. Poirot easily determined that it was Mrs. Harbatt.

After all, in terms of distance, Poirot is only separated from Habat by Rachel.

After a long quarrel, the matter was resolved. Poirot rang the bell and called the panting conductor and asked for a bottle of water.

But the conductor committee said aggrievedly that Mrs. Habat had just pressed her to say that there was a man in her carriage, but the carriage was so big, how could she hide people?

It is obvious that Mrs. Habat, Rachet and Poirot's cars are all one-person.

Then I learned from the conductor that the train had stopped and was trapped by snow, between Winkovzi and Broad.

PS: Some translations are really bad. McQueen is obviously Rachel's secretary, and some translations say that Rachel's master is McQueen's master. At that time, Rachel's domineering and bad character was not described. The master was stunned and confused.
Chapter completed!