Liling Castle.

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The people of the world have learned to raise livestock and plant plants, but all kinds of techniques have not yet been popularized, so few people know the way of medicine, although there are also herbs planted in their own yards, but they are one or two common plants for both food and medicine, and there are very few large-scale and multi-variety plantings.

On this day, when I asked someone who was familiar with the local terrain and folk customs, I had a preliminary goal.

Li Moyi quickly instructed Wang Shi to organize people to go to these villas with medicine gardens to guard the rabbits.

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I have seen Wang Longshang's wife seriously ill, so I can infer that Wang Longshang is probably hiding in the city, and he must steal medicine in the near future, otherwise his wife will not be able to survive.

This kind of thing can't be rushed, so I have to put it aside for the time being.

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In the far north, Shili City ——— Chuan Road.

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The wind blew the trees in the courtyard rattling. The fog that had shrouded the surroundings had lifted, and in the blink of an eye, the light was shining obliquely.

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"Alright, let's go inside."

Li Yuanfeng said loudly and walked towards the dog meat shop under the light.

Song Dabai looked at the weather vane on the roof, which was rattling and constantly changing direction, and followed behind with the old man Pu Tian.

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As Song Dabai expected, the door of the hall was locked.

Li Yuanfeng grabbed the door bolt with both hands, pushed and pulled, and tossed for a long time, but the door did not move at all. He turned around and said to Song Dabai and the others, "I'll go find some guys." After speaking, he ran towards the outside of the courtyard.

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Climb a few flights of stairs and you'll find the porch. Song Dabai and the others stood there waiting for Li Yuanfeng.

The old man Pu Tian didn't say a word, knocked on the cane in his right hand, and at the same time, looked at the gray-white gate and the window with black window paper on the left.

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Song Dabai asked in a complicated mood: "Do you remember anything?" ”

The old man was silent, only shaking his head slightly.

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Soon, Li Yuanfeng brought a few round wooden sticks. It took him half an hour before he finally smashed the door open.

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"Alright." Li Yuanfeng muttered proudly, wiped the sweat beads on his forehead with the back of his hand, and walked in first.

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The house is even more dilapidated than Song Dabai expected, and it can be said to be an "abandoned house". The ground was covered with dark stone bricks, covered in dust, and covered in cobwebs.

From this point of view, it has been uninhabited for a long time.

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They came to the hall.

The light from the outside shines through the dark windows, intertwining with the dim light inside, creating a subtle sense of tranquility and transcendence.

The three pushed open the door and walked inside.

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Li Yuanfeng walked to the middle, looked around the hall, then clasped his hands and stood there, snorting from time to time in his throat.

Inside the front, there is a pale white door. Maybe that's the door to the firewood house?

In front of the left is a small staircase with a white handrail leading to the second floor.........

Song Dabai, like Li Yuanfeng, clasped his hands and looked around the dim room, recalling in his mind the description of the hall ——— in the old man Putian's notebook.

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At that moment, they heard a creaking door, and the old man Pu Tian was pushing open the white door to the left of the entrance.

Seeing the old man Pu Tian walk in, Li Yuanfeng hurriedly chased after him, and Song Dabai also hurriedly followed.

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They came to the large room with high roof panels.

A cloister equivalent to the height of the second floor, which surrounds this large room on three sides.

Underneath the cloister there is a lot of furniture (wooden shelves, wooden chaise longues, etc.), covered with white cloth.

The light shines through the black curtain paper on the walls, forming a variety of colors that make this place even more eerie than the hall next door.

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Pu Tian walked to the center of the large room and slowly raised his head. Just like that, twist your neck and move it to the side little by little.

——— he seemed to be looking for the peeping hole mentioned in his notebook.

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Li Yuanfeng stood at the entrance of the door and made the same humming sound as before.

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"How?" Song Dabai asked, but he didn't answer anything, he copied his hand again, frowned, and didn't move.

Song Dabai walked past Li Yuanfeng and walked inside. I walked up to the old man Pu Tian and looked at the spacious room again.

Around ——— room, the patterns on the black window paper are based on the five elements. In order, they are "golden" and "wooden.........

There are many bookshelves on top of the cloister, which block the dark windows. But when I looked from here, the shelves were empty, and there wasn't a single book in sight.

He turned around and was about to tell Li Yuanfeng, when he noticed that the painting that was mentioned in the notebook ——— hanging next to the entrance of the door was also missing.

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"The painting is gone." Song Dabai said to Li Yuanfeng.

"Huh? ———Oh, I really don't. ”

"There are no books on the shelves either."

"Seems like so." Li Yuanfeng responded absentmindedly and turned around. The old man Pu Tian was silent and continued to tilt his neck. Li Yuanfeng glanced at him, copied his hands, and looked around.

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"How?" He muttered, "What the hell is this .........?"

At this time, Li Yuanfeng looked a little sullen, and seemed to be unable to understand everything in front of him. Song Dabai didn't know what to say, so he could only look back and forth at the house.

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The dilapidated houses, the empty bookshelves, and the paintings on the walls are gone.

——— all this is completely different from the scene described in Pu Tian's notebook in August last year.

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It's really weird to say weird.

Soon, Li Yuanfeng sighed, said nothing, and walked towards the corner of the room. That's the corner to the right of the entrance to the room.

Li Yuanfeng knelt on the ground with his legs and dusted off the dust deposited on the nearby stone bricks with his palms. Looking at his posture, Song Dabai immediately understood what he was going to do.

——— Li Yuanfeng wanted to find the secret passage that led to the cellar.

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"It looks like it's this brick."

Song Dabai came over, and Li Yuanfeng said to him, pointing to a stone brick full of dust. It was a solid black stone brick in the corner.

"Dabai, take a copper coin."

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The dagger is the same as the copper coin.

This seems to be a reproduction of the scene in the handbook, the wind dagger and the old man Pu Tian looking for a secret passage.

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Song Dabai took out a penny copper coin from his arms and looked back at Pu Tian. He also seemed to notice Li Yuanfeng's actions and walked over here.

Li Yuanfeng stuffed the copper coin into the gap between the stone bricks and pried it vigorously.

There was a dull sound.

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The "key" stone brick floated.

Li Yuanfeng took out the stone brick and slid the black stone brick next to him.

Maybe it was the dust that blocked the gap between the stone bricks, and it was not easy to move each stone brick, but Li Yuanfeng did it patiently, and soon, he found the switch that opened the door of the dark passage.

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"That's it." Li Yuanfeng muttered, stretched out his hand and pressed down. With a slight thud of copper and iron, a square "small door" about an arm's length opened with four stone bricks facing downward.

In the dark ground, a small square gap appeared.

——— it was pitch black inside, and nothing could be seen.

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Li Yuanfeng returned the copper coin to Song Dabai and took out a kerosene lamp from the bad. It seems that he is very well prepared.

Li Yuanfeng lit the kerosene lamp, lay on the ground, and stuck his head into it, wanting to see the reality.

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"That's right. It seems to lead to the cellar. ”

"Then let's go down."

Hearing Song Dabai's words, Li Yuanfeng raised his head, looked sad, and shook his head: "There is no ladder below." It's a bit dangerous to just jump like that. ”

Li Yuanfeng dusted off his dusty clothes and stood up. He wrapped the kerosene lamp, put it back in the bad one, and said to Song Dabai and Pu Tian, "Let's go and see elsewhere." With that, he walked swiftly towards the gate.

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The three of them walked out of the large room and went to the other rooms on the first floor to take a look.

The dining hall, the adjoining guest room, the kitchen, ......... There was no decent furniture in each room, and even if there were, it was covered with a white cloth.

The floor was thick with dust, and the walls and windows were also covered with dirt, and some of the black window paper had cracks. No matter how you look at it, it's all an "abandoned house".

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"What the hell is going on? Mr. Park. Li Yuanfeng's face became more and more sad, and he asked the caretaker of the dog meat factory, "At least last August, before that notebook was written, you lived here." How could this house become a ......... all of a sudden?"

He paused to see how Old Man Pu Tian reacted. The old man closed his eyes and shook his head slowly, "Something must have happened, and you were forced to leave here." As a result, the furniture and the like were sold by the owner of the house. Now that's all we can think about. What do you think? Do you remember anything? ”

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"What———" Old Man Pu Tian kept shaking his head, his voice hoarse, and replied with difficulty, "What, anything........."

"Looking at the room in the house, the furnishings, didn't think of anything?"

"Nope. No, I can feel like I've lived here before. The big room and the meeting room......... I have all the impressions. It seems like a long time ago, but it'........."

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Subsequently, Li Yuanfeng and Song Dabai went up to the second floor.

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At that time, the old man Pu Tian said that it was too difficult for him to go upstairs, so he stayed on the first floor alone.

But Song Dabai noticed that from just now, his expression and attitude had changed subtly. If compared to the beginning, when we met at the Ten Mile City Inn, this change is even more obvious.

At that time, the old man Pu Tian was very eager to remember the things of the past. He also said that even if the past doesn't go as expected, it's much better than not remembering anything.

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In the past, Pu Tian couldn't remember everything that had happened, as if he was tied to a heavy stone and sank to the bottom of the water. But when he came here and walked into the room, a lot of the past obviously began to revive in his mind. It used to vibrate slightly, but now it shook violently, and it seemed like it was about to break free from the heavy stone.

Now, there was a palpable look of fear in his expression. He was scared. He had a premonition that something ominous was about to be revived, so he was scared.........

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In the corridor on the second floor, there are two doors on the left and right, which look quite strong and old.

Li Yuanfeng and Song Dabai opened the door in turn.

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The structure of the rooms is the same, with dusty wooden couches inside.

After looking at the four rooms, Li Yuanfeng came to the right side of the corridor again, leaning on the wooden staircase to the nearest room, and walked to the large barrel room shared with the next door.

——— there is Anzheng's final "secret room".

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The style here is different from that of a detached vat house. There were dark stone bricks on the floor and walls, and inside were a large brown wooden barrel with legs.

The poles from which the curtain was hung were firmly embedded in the walls on both sides, and they were very strong.

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Song Dabai looked at the inside of the big wooden barrel in horror, which was full of dust.

Song Dabai remembered that in that notebook, the color of the big wooden barrel was clearly written black......... But he didn't think about it any further.

Li Yuanfeng was naturally most concerned about the large vat door leading to the rooms on both sides.

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The inside of the door has a cross-pin iron lock. The iron pins on both doors were not damaged, maybe the old man Pu Tian repaired them afterwards, or maybe the real scene was in the shared vat room across the corridor. It was impossible for Song Dabai to memorize all the records in his notebook, so of course he could not accurately grasp the location and orientation of each room.

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"What do you think? Great. Li Yuanfeng shook the door back and forth, left and right, and asked slowly.

"This one is very sturdy. There is no mention of this in the doorframe——— which means that at least at that time, the door was in the same state as we see it now. ”

"In other words——— it is impossible for someone to use a thread or needle to close the door from the outside."

"Yes. And that's not all. In that note, doesn't it say that there are no doubts in the iron pins, iron pins, doors, and door frames? ”

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"There are many kinds of cases like this, which manipulate iron pins and create the illusion of a secret room." Li Yuanfeng pinched the horizontal iron pin on the door frame with his hand, "Break this iron pin like this, to the top of the diagonal top, and put a small piece of candle at the bottom to fix it." After the door is closed, the candle is melted by some means outside, and the iron pin will fall into the mouth of the iron pin due to its own weight. In the same way, put a small wooden stick under the horizontal iron pin to fix it, light it, and quickly close the door. When the sticks are burned, the pins will also fall. ”

"I see."

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After listening to Li Yuanfeng's explanation, Song Dabai remembered that such a trick had also appeared in the unsolved case books he had read before. But Song Dabai had little interest in this kind of trick. This may be because he is not very fond of the so-called "closed room unsolved". In some unsolved cases, there will also be a trick in which the murderer uses his death to prove his alibi.

For this kind of unsolved case, Song Dabai doesn't like it very much. Whenever Song Dabai saw the book and the case was confusing, he would think in his heart——— there is always a way to solve the case, and when the mystery was finally revealed, he would not feel very excited, at most he muttered——— I see.

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"There are a few tricks in there, but ......... If you use candles to commit crimes, you will definitely leave traces; If you burn something, there will inevitably be ashes......... When he saw the unsolved case book in the room of the wind dagger, he immediately said——— Do you also read such a book? ”

“……… This shows that the old man Pu Tian is very familiar with the books that record unsolved cases, and he often reads them. So it's not surprising to know some knowledge of secret rooms to solve crimes. In the diary, it is also written——— in short, there is no doubt. Moreover, it was asserted that the moment the wind dagger and the wind several rushed into the vat room, there was no time to destroy the evidence. For now, we can only believe these words. ”

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