When Yang Zhiming was negotiating with my grandfather, I was already sitting in a house in a mountain village.

It was the instructor's hometown, Qujia Village.

Although Qujia Village has long been abandoned, the houses in the village are still there, and most of the houses are still inhabitable. At that time, I was sitting in one of the houses.

Sitting opposite me were Xinyan and Little Jelly Bean, who looked at me without saying a word, and finally couldn't help but say, "Brother Fox, are you really sure that this is the instructor's home?"

"Sure!" I said, holding my chin with my hand, "The instructor has taught me before, and the classic combat examples can be reproduced in different places and on similar occasions. It's like I don't know how many people have used "Thirty-six Strategies", why does it work continuously? In a sense, it's because of a similar environment. ”

I took a deep breath and said, "I never figured out what the instructor was reminding me? 133 It's not as complicated as we think, and the answer is in the instructor's diary, p. 133. ”

"When I got the diary, I immediately turned to page 133, where there was only one numerical reasoning problem. The mathematician Euler once raised a question: that is, 6 officers of 6 different ranks were selected from 6 different regiments, a total of 36 people, and arranged in a square of 6 rows and 6 columns, so that the 6 officers in each row and column happened to be from different regiments and the ranks were different, how should this square be arranged?

I lit a cigarette and said, "When we were in the army, the instructor did it for us. Several of us thought about it for days, but it didn't work. Later, the instructor told us that this question had been proven to be a wrong proposition in hindsight. Because, that diary is just a record of the joke that the instructor played with us back then. Even if someone sees it, they won't take it seriously. The instructor's real purpose was to remind me of the number thirty-six. ”

My voice sank: ""Thirty-six Strategies" can be changed to different occasions, why can't the clues left by the instructor?"

Little Jelly Bean shook his head and said, "I didn't understand what you meant?"

I pointed out the window: "Look at the arrangement of the houses in Qujia Village, are they in several rows?"

Houses built in rural areas are generally not built neatly like barracks, but there are exceptions in some cases, the villages on the hillside will look scattered, and the plain will look cluttered, and Qujia Village is built on the hillside.

I said in a deep voice: "The house we are in now is exactly on the left side of the zigzag, and there is an open space in the middle of the zigzag, just enough to build another house, is this the same as the empty tomb arranged by the instructor in the cemetery?"

The tomb is the house where the dead live, and it is also called the house of the underworld. Replace the Yin Mansion with the Yang Mansion where the living live, and we are located in the same position as the tomb where the diary was dug up.

I pointed to the ground: "This is the instructor's old house." And where all the stories begin!"

Xiao Jelly Bean subconsciously looked out: "What's the use of you finding Instructor Qu's hometown? Didn't his family move to another place? His grandmother also went to the mass grave, and his family's secret is not here at all!"

I shook my head and said, "This is the second scene change." The instructor left one of the biggest flaws in his story. I'm afraid no one can see this. ”

The instructor said that his grandmother had dug up her family's ancestral grave, built a house on top of it, and suppressed her mother's body. This story sounds very bizarre, and it can also be explained by the fact that the villagers are afraid of Mrs. Chen's identity and dare not say much. However, no one forgets the most important person. The instructor's grandfather!"

I said slowly, "In the whole story, only the instructor's grandmother is a warlock, and my grandfather is just a little stronger than the average person. In the last paragraph, the instructor writes that his grandmother taught him to wear a white lamp. Don't you think it's strange?"

"That's right!" said Jelly Bean, "His family has been sons for two generations, why did his grandmother teach him to tie a white lantern?"

I nodded and said, "There has always been a rule in the art path that secret methods are passed on to children but not to women, and those who pass on secret methods to girls are either individual occupations and can only be inherited by girls, or there are no men in the family, so they have to be passed on to girls." Xiao Qian'er is the best example, she is skilled, but she doesn't know secret methods. ”

In the instructor's diary, his grandfather was so anxious to die for him, but there was no way to save him, and his father knew that he would die, but he did not have the ability to deal with it, which can only show that the secret method was not passed down from his family. Since his family has no secret methods to pass on, the instructor's grandmother's practice of digging up his family's ancestral grave to suppress the dead body is not valid. ”

I paused for a moment before saying, "Take 10,000 steps back, even if there is anything special about the ancestral tomb of the instructor's family." The daughter-in-law digging her own ancestral grave is a big disobedient thing in the village farmers. The instructor's grandfather would have agreed, and the villagers would have eaten the old lady alive. Therefore, what the old lady dug up at that time was definitely not an ancestral grave, but an abandoned ancestral house. ”

As I spoke, I looked up at the hillside: "That house is either at the tip of the pin, or at the edge of the clearing." I think it's more likely in the open space. ”

When Xinyan heard this, she couldn't help but ask, "What's going on with the stone house in the tomb?"

I muttered: "It should be Li Yunge's ghost over there, they couldn't find the stone house written in the instructor's diary, so they built one." ”

"I estimate that the only people who shot this time are Li Yunge and the hateless lamp. Otherwise, they wouldn't have had to find a way to divide us into several ways and create so many illusions to hold us back. ”

"If we get together, the two of them can't deal with so many people, and it is in their interests to break them one by one. Therefore, at the beginning, at least ninety percent of the clues that appeared came from Li Yunge. ”

Xiao Jelly Bean said curiously: "Brother Fox, do you say, is Instructor Qu's surname Qu or Chen?"

"It should be surnamed Qu, right?"

I always felt that the instructor seemed to have some secrets hidden in him, otherwise he would not have suddenly left the army and suddenly came back to me.

When Xinyan heard this, he couldn't help but say, "Chen Ye, don't you think Instructor Qu's death is strange?"

Seeing that I motioned for her to continue, Xinyan said again: "If you count from Instructor Qu's purchase of the cemetery, he started his action at least a year ago, that is, not long after Xu Aiping's death. At that time, Li Yunge had not disappeared, and the hateless lamp had not reached your hands. The timing is not right. ”

"Moreover, I have checked all the funeral records in the city, and there is no Yu Wei or Xu Aiping in them. In other words, neither of them was buried. The whereabouts of the two of them remain a mystery. ”

"And the most important point, since Li Yunge's disappearance, she has only disappeared for three or four months, in such a short time, how can an ordinary person become a spirit......?

Xinyan paused for a moment before saying, "What's the matter with that beautiful snake? She called your name in the graveyard and ambushed you in the snow. But I always feel that she has nothing to do with the hateless lamp and Li Yunge, just like a snake demon that suddenly appeared. It's not on Li Yunge's side, but you're making enemies?"

What Xinyan said is the biggest suspicion, and I also think that the appearance of the beautiful snake is a bit abrupt.

I muttered, "If I'm not mistaken." The instructor had a premonition a few years ago that something was going to happen to him. His danger comes from Yu Wei. ”

"The instructor should have been with Yu Wei for a long time, and even took the initiative to explore the other party's secrets. The three thieves, as well as a professor who studied folklore, were the helpers he had found. They must have explored somewhere, for example, Qujia Village, where we are now. ”

"However, that time the instructor missed. The three thieves who were traveling with him were killed one after another, and the professor was probably no longer alive, and the instructor had a premonition that he would be the next person to have an accident. So he was laying out clues for us early in the morning. ”

I said in a deep voice: "I dare to say that the person the instructor is guarding against is not Li Yunge. Li Yunge's purpose is to kill me, and he can't wait to throw out a clue to get me here, and then kill me. Even if the instructor doesn't leave any clues, Li Yunge will notify me to come over. Her purpose was for me to die, so he wasn't afraid of the clues being exposed. ”

"The person the instructor really has to guard against is the one who is afraid of his own exposure. I estimate that person Bacheng is Yu Wei, that is, the beautiful snake. ”

Xinyan said: "You mean, Li Yunge and they happened to be at the right time, and they happened to come here a few days after Instructor Qu was about to have an accident and set a trap for you?"

I shook my head and said, "It's not just the time, but it's already here." ”

"As you said, when Li Yunge was taken away, she was still a living person, she couldn't have become a mirror spirit for no reason, she must have experienced something? What she experienced was very likely to be related to the secret guarded by the instructor's grandmother. ”

"How do you know?" Jelly Bean's eyes widened.

I raised my chin and gestured against the opposite wall: "There's a mirror over there." ”

"When we first arrived in Qujia Village, didn't I go from house to house? Don't you notice that there are mirrors on the walls of every house? Some of the houses have collapsed, but the one with the mirrors is intact. Don't you think it's strange?"

Xinyan and Xiao Jelly Bean looked at the figures in the mirror at the same time, and subconsciously moved their bodies and moved their shadows out of the mirror.

I said in a deep voice: "At the beginning, I felt a little strange when I saw Yang Zhiming find someone to turn Li Yunge and send her away secretly. Yang Zhiming's approach seems to be meaningless. Now, I finally figured out that Yang Zhiming would attack Li Yunge in order to make her more qualified to become a mirror spirit. This is the real purpose of Yang Zhiming's habit of Li Yunge. ”