"That's the benefit of exercising, and I've always been very exercise-oriented. She showed off her well-proportioned figure in front of the mirror, looking like a self-pitying idiot.

I ignored her. returned to the rental house, told her what happened during the day, and then listened to the recording of Lin Zhiyan and the old man Yang Junfei on the sofa repeatedly. I listened to it over and over again, and I could memorize almost every word they said. If Yang Junfei wants to convey some information, and he wants to convey it very secretively, and he can't let the people who listen to it find out, he can only rely on this way. I'm convinced that there must be something hidden in these recordings, but I just haven't noticed it yet.

Finally, I heard some clues.

Yang Junfei stated the account every day, but he never mentioned the Xiong family's mother-in-law, nor did he mention the progress of the investigation and what emergencies he encountered, and he did not emphasize anything in the communication. But every day, he mentions one thing, and that's the breakfast shop.

He went to a street breakfast spot under the hotel where he was staying every day for breakfast, and he was very punctual, at 6:11:15 every morning. Every day he proudly repeats how delicious the snack bar is, so much so that he doesn't want to go late. That's a contradiction in itself. Anyone who knows this guy's moral 'sex' knows that even when he is handling a case, he will never get up early, this 'bastard' is such a big person, and he still likes to lie in bed. It's humiliating.

There was something wrong with the breakfast shop, and maybe he left some clues there!

I took off my headphones, stood up silently, and kept thinking while pacing in circles in place, and after a long pause, I suddenly looked up and said from Lin Zhiyan: "There is something to do." ”

She was startled, then rejoiced, "You've found a clue." ”

"Sort of." I didn't answer directly, but said lightly: "Tomorrow morning I will get up at half past five, and we will go to a place on time at ten o'clock at six o'clock." ”

"Where are you going?" She asked, confused.

"You'll know when you get there." I smiled. Old man, I want to see what clues you have left us, and I hope it is worth my brains and detours. And then when they find you, they beat you half to death. Otherwise, it will be difficult to solve the depression in my heart. 'Bastard' old man, you must hold on, live and wait for me to beat you. Early the next morning, just after a quarter past five o'clock, we got up 'in bed'. Slowly walked out of the big 'door', opened Zhang San's polo and galloped towards the Moore Hotel in the center of Lingshan.

When I got to the street where the hotel was located, it was exactly six o'clock. I saw that there was a breakfast shop for fried fritters on the side of the pedestrian street downstairs of the hotel, and the owner was a middle-aged "woman" and "woman", who had just arrived not long ago, and was taking down the table and stools and other things from the tricycle and neatly placing them on the ground.

"Boss, two fritters, two bowls of soy milk." I walked over quietly, looked at the food board, and ordered a few random things.

"That's going to have to wait a minute, about ten minutes, I've just arrived, and the fritters are still going to be fried." The proprietress said.

"Well, we can wait. What a fragrant smell, does the boss get up so early every day? ”

"Oh, the people who work here don't come here until after seven o'clock. I came early today, usually at half past six. Come, sit down first. The hostess politely wiped the table and beckoned us to sit down.

"It's okay, let's stand for a moment." I replied politely, and secretly pulled Lin Zhiyan, who was grinning and was about to sit down.

"Why are you letting this beautiful 'girl' get up so early, I'm so tired and panicked, I can't do it." She glared at me.

I glared back and whispered, "Idiot, why do you think the old man has to emphasize that he arrived at six o'clock in the morning?" ”

"Didn't you explain, he's telling us that the clue is in this breakfast shop." She pouted, annoyed that I called her an idiot again.

"That's one of them. Another thing that came to me after I saw this breakfast shop. I waved my hand, an expression of hatred: "I'm afraid, he wants to tell us the table number." ”

"Table number?" She asked suspiciously.

"Not bad. You see, at six o'clock in the morning, the proprietress of this shop arrives at half past six most of the time. He came at 6:11, how could he be able to eat in this shop every day. There's weirdness in that. I slowly explained: "Actually, what he really wants to emphasize is the number eleven. ”

"There it is." I walked over to table 11 and stroked it on it, and sure enough, I found something on it.

Lin Zhiyan glanced at it and said in surprise: "This is indeed the president's handwriting, but what does this mean?" I saw six inconspicuous English children and mothers engraved on one foot of the table: aehfcd

I looked at the string of children and mothers and groaned for a moment: "This should be a coordinate, there is no such a difficult trick like this, you don't know." It's 158 and the FCD is 634. ”

“158，634？ I'm afraid this is not a standard latitude and longitude coordinates. Lin Zhiyan shook her head: "Are you mistaken?" ”

"Of course not. Go to the car and take a map of Lingshan City out to take a look. "After coming to this city, I bought a local map by the way in order to 'get lost', and this map is very thoughtful, not only has the general scope of the jurisdiction, but also marks the scale with a scale.

I packed the soy milk fritters and took out the map in the car, and sure enough, the coordinate location given to us by the old man Yang Junfei refers to the scale on the edge of the map.

“158，634。 Well, it should be 15 in width of the map. 8 cm, length 63. 4 cm place. Pregnant! I followed the scale with my finger, and finally my index finger stopped at a certain location in the mountains on the southwestern outskirts of the city.

"Where is the thing that the president left for us?" Lin Zhiyan looked up at me.

I said 'um': "It's possible that the things he left behind are there, or it is possible that after his investigation, the source of everything is there." Anyway, we just have to go there and get close to uncovering the truth. ”

Lin Zhiyan frowned: "Look at this location, it happens to be the place where wolves have gathered recently, and it is very dangerous." ”

"No matter how dangerous it is, you have to go. Maybe the old man was there too. I said firmly.

"Speaking of which, I've been thinking about a question lately, and I can't find the answer using the search tool on the Internet." She tilted her head and thought about it, and said suspiciously: "What is the Xiong family's mother-in-law?" Why is it so different from the story we know? Are these events really related to this fairy tale? ”

"That's what I want to know. Recently, I've been researching a lot of literature, but it's hard to match the situation here. I sighed: "Regarding the Xiong family's mother-in-law, in fact, I thought that its source came from Mahu, which should not be doubted." Mahu is also a creature used to scare children. The south is called Ma Huzi, the northeast is called Tiger Mazi, and Bayu is called Ma Laohu, in fact, they are all the same thing. The custom of using Mahu to scare children has been verified by literature since the Tang Dynasty, such as Tang Li Kuangyi's "Collection of Resources" non-Mahu Tiao:

The vulgar horror baby is called Mahulai, and Tang Yan Shigu's "Great Cause Collection" also said: So far, I have been crying, and I have stopped when I hear people say that Mahu is coming. As for Xiong Jiapo, in Chongqing, Chu, Hunan and Guizhou, there are variants such as Xiong Ga Po and Savage Po, which are all apes, mandrills, baboons and other animals in dialects, and are closely related to horse monkeys, also known as Mu monkeys and macaques. In the Central Plains, the word Mahu spread to the Jianghan area, and it is very likely to be falsely transformed into a dialect horse monkey and attached to an ape, and Xiong's wife has become a false rumor of Xiong Po. From this point of view, Xiong's mother-in-law entered Sichuan by water. ”

"Wait a minute, I've been 'messed up' by you. What is this podache? Lin Zhiyan covered her forehead and made a dizzy expression.

"The so-called flax is mentioned in the Tang Dynasty Li Kuangyi's "Collection of Resources": The vulgar horror baby is called Ma Hulai, and those who do not know its origin think that the bearded god and the face is stabbed. The Sui general Mahu was cruel and cruel, and Emperor Yang ordered the opening of the Bianhe River, and the power was prosperous, so that the immature children were afraid of the wind and threatened each other. The child's language is not correct, and he turns into Hu. Just like Xianzong's general Hao Wei, all of them are afraid of it, and the babies in his country will stop with fear. I swallowed: "Now I can only use this literature as a reference, in fact, I don't know how credible what he said." In short, something like the terrible cry, as Li said, is not one. "Zhao Yi of the Qing Dynasty also cited Ma Qiu, Liu Hu, Huan Kang, Yang Dayan, Bei Houli, Hao Wei, Liu Qi, Evil Law Huge, Yawu Tower and other folk creatures that scared children in his "Shen Yu Cong Kao" volume 39, but for some reason, he turned the little-known Ma Hu into Ma Hu? And why is the term Mahu similar everywhere? Some people say that through the book Liao Lai, the legend of flax to scare children existed in the Wei and Jin dynasties, but it is not clear whether it is Zhang Guan and Li Dai. Moreover, the record of Mahu is an old event of the previous dynasty, and it is a long time apart, and it seems that the words of the Li family are more like the Six Dynasties, so as not to be suspected of attaching to them. "I carefully read Li Kuangyi's "Leisure Collection" several times yesterday, and it was nonsense throughout, but the credible place found two points, one is that the creature that scares children is not apocryphal, and the other is that the folk at that time had no unknown etymology, and began to chisel and stab the face of the bearded god. Hu is a Sui and Tang Dynasty word, derived from the beard, that is, the meaning of Hu people's beard, Xu Shen's "Sayings" in the Eastern Han Dynasty: Hu, the cow is also drooping, only for the "meat" solution, and the Wei and Jin dynasties also have no meaning of beard. Then the transformation of Mahu into a multi-hairy monster is probably also a matter at that time. ”