Four pillars of light pierced the darkness, and the room was covered with dust, and it must have been a long time since anyone had visited.

We were probably in the hall, with a pile of tables and chairs in the 80's in the corner, a rusty stove next to it, and a small curtain hanging on the wall facing the doorway.

Xiao Yu put on white gloves and walked over, lifted the curtain, and we found that there was an abandoned shrine inside, there was no idol in the shrine, only an incense burner was placed there, and there were four sandalwood sticks in the incense burner that were half burned and extinguished.

"Four sticks of incense—aren't they usually offered three?" Xiao Yu said in wonder.

I walked over and took a look.

"Folk say that there are three gods and four ghosts, and the so-called ghosts actually refer to the dead ancestors most of the time, and what is enshrined here is probably the tablet of the ancestors." I said to her.

Lin Ying touched the incense in the stove with her hand, frowned and said, "The quality of this sandalwood is not bad, how can it be half burned and extinguished?" ”

No anomalies were found in the shrine. Xiao Yu lowered the curtain, and we divided into two roads, Lin Ying and I walked towards the east side, and Xiao Yu and Shi Chong walked towards the house on the west side.

The first room on the east side has an old wooden bed, there is a wooden hanger next to the bed, and on the other side there are two cabinets in the style of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China.

"Strange, it's the first time I've seen this kind of lock." Lin Ying said.

"Fish locks, the ancients believed that fish would never look at them, so making the lock in the shape of a fish means that you can always keep your eyes open and stare at the locked property." I explained.

"And what's in this box?" Lin Ying knocked on the box with her hand, the sound was very crisp and hard, and it sounded like the wood was very good.

Lin Ying wanted to open the box, but she touched the lock and stood up.

Because we can't open the lock right now.

Lin Ying and they are both police officers, without the consent of the owner of the item, and there is currently no evidence worthy of a search of the residence, these personal belongings are generally not directly turned over.

I felt that Lin Ying was staring at me inexplicably, and I turned to look at her, only to see her raise her chin and nude in the direction of the fish lock.

I immediately understood what she meant - they were police officers and couldn't just pick the lock, but I didn't have the identity of a police officer......

"Forget it." Lin Ying suddenly smiled, "The dust on this box is very thick, and no one has touched it for a long time, so it shouldn't have anything to do with Shang Weimin's recent disappearance - I won't embarrass you." ”

I squatted down and illuminated the wooden box with the light of my mobile phone flashlight, allowing Lin Ying to take a few photos from various angles.

At that moment, I suddenly noticed that there seemed to be words engraved on the brass lock, and I leaned down closer to make it closer. Only then did I find that the fish lock was divided into four circles, each of which was engraved with six small characters, which together seemed to be a poem.

"I am boundless, neither human, nor material, nor god. Good knowledge of the end of the sun and the moon, similar to the wind and clouds of heaven and earth. ”

"Huh? What is this thing, quaint. Xiao Yu also looked at it and said.

I laughed.

"It's a combination lock." I said to her, "It's the same as our current combination lock, except that each circle of the current combination lock corresponds to a number, and this is a Chinese character." ”

"The people in the past were quite ingenious." Lin Ying also admired.

"However, this poem is too crazy." I said to myself.

Aside from the wooden box, there was nothing strange about the first room on the east side. But Lin Ying shone a flashlight into the room, and suddenly stopped.

"Did you find anything?" I asked.

"Strange." Lin Ying touched the ground.

I saw that there were some delicate dregs of old grass and trees, and these dregs formed a straight line on the ground with a characteristic regularity.

"What is this?" Lin Ying said to herself.

I looked up and saw that the roof of the house was an old-fashioned purlin roof, and suddenly I understood.

In the past, when there were no concrete panels, people generally used beams to build the roof - a girder in the middle, and there were multiple purlins in parallel. Purlin is also called purlin or truss, and between the girder and purlin, purlin is built with small wooden strips, this kind of wooden strip round is called rafters, square is called trusses.

After the wooden structure of the roof is erected, it is covered with thick reeds or thatch, and then covered with earth and compacted, and the spire houses are usually tiled, and the bungalows are made into slopes and the roof is hardened, so that the house can be sheltered from the wind and rain.

And the plant fibers we see on the ground are the dregs that have fallen from the aging of the reeds on the roof of our heads.

As soon as I explained, Lin Ying also understood. She looked up at the roof, then at the ground and said, "Makes sense, you see, these reed slags all fell along the line of the main beam, probably because the main beam is too big, and the reeds on top of it are squeezed harder." ”

"That's how it should be. It seems that this house is about to become a dangerous house. I said.

The house is a strange thing, it is closely related to people, as long as there are no people, it is easy to rot and collapse.

Some people say that this is because the doors and windows are closed after not living and the air is not circulated, which will cause seasonal humidity and corrosion, as well as the gnawing of rats and insects; Some people also say that there is actually a "yang" power in people, which can fight against the "yin" of the outside world. Because the house loses its yang energy, the yin energy breeds, and finally it is overwhelmed and gradually decays.

It seems that this house was built quite well back then, and it can still stand here after so many years of being uninhabited.

We were about to go to the easternmost room when we suddenly heard the shouts of Hua Qi outside.

"Come and see, honey!"

Lin Ying and I hurriedly ran outside, and happened to meet Xiao Yu and Shi Chong also running out of the West House.

"Did you find anything over there?" I asked.

"Wait a minute!" Xiao Yu said a word and ran towards the courtyard with us.

We were all stunned when we ran to the yard, because Hua Hu had climbed to the top of the big locust tree at some point, and she was holding a Pad in one hand and a bottle in the other, sitting on a branch and dangling her legs, pointing downward.

Lin Ying and the others were obviously stunned by her painting style.

"Oh my God...... Xiao Yu looked up at the tree, grinned and lowered his voice and said, "How did Mr. Shen go up, it's too hanging, right?" She can't really be crazy, right? ”

"I think it's like a secondary two disease." Shi Chong, who is himself a secondary disease, echoed the road.

"Teacher Shen, what's going on?" Lin Ying was fortunately calm, she was just stunned for a moment, and then shouted at Hua Yu and asked.

Hua Hu didn't answer, she just pointed to the bottom of the tree with her finger, I looked in the direction she pointed, and saw a bluestone slab faintly under the tree, and the bluestone slab was full of moss.

"Under the slate, there are Shang Weimin's things." She lifted the bottle and took a sip of something, burping comfortably by the way.