That night, Qin Zhenxuan stayed in the room of Qin Tianxu, the eldest brother of the "Tower Courtyard". After the third watch, Qin Yanxuan didn't feel sleepy, he lay on the bed with a sword in his hand and listened to the movement outside. He believed that the thief who had lost the topaz would definitely come to the scene again to look for him, so he ambushed a dozen regimental exercises in the east and west wings. Sure enough, after a rooster crow, there was a sudden soft noise on the roof, and there were night walkers walking on the roof.

"Sure enough," Qin Yuxuan jumped off the bed, "It seems that I am not wrong at all." But instead of going out at once, he clenched his sword and peered through the crack in the door, waiting for his moment.

I saw that the night pedestrian gently descended from the house, suddenly lit a fire sickle, lit a torch, and searched the courtyard. Under the house, next to the grinding plate, by the well, and next to the tower, I carefully searched for it.

Qin Yanxuan saw by the light of the fire that the person who came was wearing a night suit, his face was covered, he couldn't see his face clearly, and he looked thinner. Qin Yanxuan didn't dare to rashly issue an order to let the ambushed regiment practice to arrest people, because the "tower courtyard" was very large, and the people who came were good at it, so he was afraid of alarming him. He had to wait for the arrivals to enter the White Tower before issuing an order to catch turtles in an urn.

Sure enough, the man searched in the courtyard for a while, and then walked towards the white tower. Qin Yanxuan saw him walk into the White Tower, he was secretly happy in his heart, and was about to send a signal for everyone to come out to guard the tower gate, and then enter the tower to arrest people, when suddenly another person flew from the roof, also dressed in night clothes, masked, and suddenly rushed into the White Tower.

This time was completely unexpected by Qin Yanxuan, only to hear the sound of the handover of blades from inside the tower, and the two of them actually fought in the tower.

Qin Yixuan saw that he couldn't miss the opportunity, rushed out of the house with his sword, and shouted loudly at the east and west wings: "Come out and catch the thief." The group rushed out of the east and west wings with a hula and rushed towards the white tower with knives, guns and torches in hand.

As soon as he arrived at the gate of the White Tower, he suddenly shot a dart from the tower, and immediately injured three or four people in the group training. Everyone was shocked, and as soon as they hesitated, they saw two black shadows flying out of the tower, crossing the reels on the well, and rushing to the roof. The two fought on the roof again, and the group hurriedly moved the ladder to the room, but they were cut and kicked by the two and fell down.

The two men had been fighting on the roof, and suddenly jumped off the roof, only to hear the sound of horses' hooves outside the courtyard, one horse to the south, and the other to the north.

The day he finished the funeral for his eldest brother was March 16, and the moon was full at night, Qin Zhenxuan went to the town cross street to find the fortune teller Li Zhonglian. Li Zhonglian is known as "Li Banxian", and is good at Qimen Dun and Five Elements Gossip. The calculation is very accurate, it is said that once a person found Li Banxian and said that his father stole his money, and asked Li Banxian to play a game of Qimen to see if his father stole it. As a result, Li Banxian said that the money was not stolen by his father, but fell behind the cabinet, and asked him to go home to find it, but he found it. Another time, Li Banxian set up a hexagram stall in Qingzu Laoji, and asked Li Banxian to count the members of his family for what they were doing. As a result, Li Banxian's calculation was not bad at all, and his son was crippled by the carriage, so his reputation spread far and wide. Even the magistrate of Kaizhou came to him to solve the murder case, and there were five murders in Kaizhou in a row that year, and the deceased were all young girls, all of whom were raped first and then killed. The servants were helpless, and they were so anxious that they turned around, and in the end, Lord Zhizhou had no choice, so he sent someone to invite Li Banxian over and let him play a strange game. Li Banxian calculated that the location of the murderer was about 200 miles to the northwest, and sure enough, the officers caught the murderer in Zhangde Mansion.

Qin Yixuan admired Li Banxian very much, so he also worshipped him as a teacher in his spare time and learned from him.

Li Banxian was listening to Guo Blind singing pendant books on the cross street, and on the 14th, 15th, and 16th days of every month, Guo Blind would sing pendant books on the cross street in the town. Li Banxian likes to listen to the pendant very much, because Guo Blind Zizi's pendant book sings really well, not only with emotion, but also imitates various sounds vividly, and one person can imitate a group of people to speak together.

Henan pendant is not only different from storytelling, nor from Suzhou pingdan, nor from other one-man shows, often one person pulls the strings and one person raps. The content of the stories is mostly long historical stories, but there are also short life anecdotes. When singing, he holds a pair of pear blossom planks in his left hand and sings and plays the board, and in his right hand he holds a drumstick, and from time to time he beats a few times on the small drum in front of him.

As soon as he arrived at the cross street, Qin Yixuan heard a melodious erhu sound and a crisp pear blossom plank, and then Guo Blind's slightly hoarse singing voice came: "...... One cloud head is three thousand miles, two cloud heads are enough for nine thousand, and the cloud head exhibition is enough for several exhibitions, and it is enough for us mortals to walk for a few years......"

Qin Yixuan heard it, Guo Blind sang "Luo Cheng Fortune Telling". I only heard Guo Blind continue to sing: "...... To the east, you can see the sea of the East, to the south you can see Luojia Mountain, to the west you can see Leiyin Temple, and to the north you can see the ...... of Yuma Spring."

Qin Yixuan also likes to listen to the pendant book very much, but he doesn't have the heart to listen to it at the moment. He found Li Banxian to explain his intentions, and Li Banxian cleaned up the stall and went home with him without saying a word.

Back at Li Banxian's home, Qin Yixuan said: "Mr. must already know what happened to my Qin family, I really shouldn't disturb Mr. Yaxing tonight, and I hope Mr. Haihan." I came here today and hope that my husband can help me calculate where my eldest brother's murderer is. ”

Li Banxian waved his hand: "Xuan Xuan, your own family doesn't have to be polite." I have heard about such a big thing happening in the Qin family a long time ago, and I don't need you to say it, I also want to help you find out the whereabouts of this murderer. Okay, today I will guide you to start a game of Qimen Dun, see where this murderer is, and by the way, see how you progress in learning Qi Men Dun. ”

Qin Yanxuan nodded happily, and then spread Li Banxian's Qimen Dun Nine Palace Grid on the table.

"What year, month, and time is today?" Li Banxian asked.

Qin Yixuan said: "This year is the year of Wuzi. ”

"What month is the sexagenary?" Li Banxian continued to ask.

"It's March, and it's the year of Wuzi, it should be ......" Qin Yuxuan thought quickly in his mind what month it should be.

"Recite the five tigers' mantra." Li Banxian said impatiently.

"The year of the first is the first, the year of the second is the head, the year of the second is the head, the year of the second is to find the Geng, and the Ding Ren Ren Yin flows down the river. Qin Yixuan recited it fluently.

"That's right, this year is the year of Wuzi, if you say where to go and what is good to pursue above Jiayin, what month is it." Li Banxian continued to ask.

"In the year of Wuzi this year, Jiayin is the first month, and March is the month of Bingchen." Qin Zhenxuan said.

"Well, that's good." Blind Guo nodded, "Check the yellow calendar again to see what day it is." ”

Qin Yixuan opened the yellow calendar and quickly found out that today was Xinyou Day, and Li Banxian said again: "How to check the time?" ”

"Escape with five rats." Qin Yanxuan recited softly: "A has also added A, B and C are the beginning, Bingxin starts from Wu, Ding Ren Gengzi lives, where does Wu Gui make it, Renzi is the true way." Today is Xinyou Day, it should be counted from Wuzi, well, now it should be Ding Youshi. ”

"Well, the children can be taught." Li Banxian praised, "It's time to start." ”

Qimen Dun is a very complex art, the first step includes the first step to calculate the year, month and day, then the territory, the third step is to arrange the heaven and the god disk, the fourth step is to arrange the astrolabe and the door disk, and finally to calculate the specific direction.

Qimen Dun is based on Taoist theory, according to the principle of Wuji giving birth to Taiji, Taiji giving birth to two yi, two yi giving birth to four elephants, four elephants giving birth to gossip, and eight trigrams set nine palaces, the eight trigrams in the diagram of Qian (northwest), Kan (north), Gen (northeast), Zhen (east), Xun (southeast), Li (south), Kun (southwest), and Dui (west) are respectively filled into the nine square grids, and the middle palace is empty.

When arranging the turf, it is necessary to convert the starting time year and time into the specific number of rounds, and the year of this game is the year of Wuzi, which is ranked in the eleventh game; The time of this game is Ding You, so it is ranked in the tenth game. In the middle is the month and day of Qin Xuanxuan's birth. He was born on the fifteenth day of the fourth month, so the year is eleven, the month is fourteen, the day is fifteen, and the hour is ten. The result of adding the four numbers is forty, and then dividing by nine gives the remainder of four, so the game is the fourth game.

After arranging the turf, then the heavenly disk and the god disk are arranged, and finally the astrolabe and the door plate are arranged. That is, the Tianrui Star, the Tianzhu Star, the Tianxin Star, the Tianpeng Star, the Tianren Star, the Tianxing Star, the Tianfu Star and the Tianying Star are respectively ranked in the nine houses. Then the eight gates of life, injury, Dumen, Jingmen, death, shock, door and door of rest are also filled in the nine palaces.

Qin Zhenxuan calculated that the bureau was guarded by Jiawu Xin, and then deduced that the territory of the bureau was Tianzhu Star. He will also place the Pillar Star in the value symbol......

Then he lined up Yin Gan and Ma Xing, and deduced that this game was a surprise door, and Shi Gan was Ding You.

After more than an hour of deduction, Qin Yuxuan finally came to the conclusion that the murderer's location was in Kun, that is, in the southwest direction, about 600 miles away from the local area.

"Six hundred miles to the southwest?" Qin Yixuan looked at the results and was secretly surprised, "Zhuxian Town near Kaifeng is in Kunwei, but it is only three hundred miles away from here, how can it be six hundred miles?" Could it be that I didn't deduce it accurately? ”

Qin Yuxuan still decided to go to Zhuxian Town to check first, and he also had another matter, that is, to go to Nanyang Mansion to find Zhang Xihe, the "Holy Hand of Traditional Chinese Medicine", to discuss the matter of opening a pharmacy in the capital.