Chapter 13: The Ghost Leads the Way

"Oh~oh~oh~" Liu Zimo said apologetically that he was wrong. He hurriedly nodded like a pounded garlic to affirm Lin Qiuzheng's greatness and correctness. Liu Zimo hurriedly stretched out a hand and made the word "please", signaling Lin Qiuzheng in front of him to continue. Lin Qiuzheng rolled his eyes at him and began to get busy again. He placed the compass on the table, looked at Liu Zimo, who was full of novelty, and explained: "Oh, this is called Tianchi and also called the bottom of the sea, which is the compass. As he spoke, he pointed his hand up the compass. In fact, the Tianchi of the compass is composed of a thimble, a magnetic needle, a sea bottom line, a garden column-shaped outer box, and a glass cover, which is fixed in the center of the inner disk. There is a pointed thimble in the center of the bottom of the round box, and there is a concave hole in the center of the bottom surface of the magnetic needle, and the magnetic needle is placed on the thimble. The direction of the compass with an arrow pointing south and the other end pointing north.

He listened carefully and nodded slowly, Lin Qiuzheng saw Liu Zimo's serious face, so he gestured on the compass with his hand and said: "This compass is generally divided into eighteen layers, that is, the first layer: Zhongyang Tianchi, the second layer: the congenital hexagram, the third layer: Luo Shu Nine Stars, the fourth layer: the earth mother turning the hexagram, the fifth layer: the three yuan twenty-four mountain yin and yang plate, the sixth layer: the seventy-two dragons through the mountain, the seventh layer: the needle in the Sanhe people's plate, the eighth layer: the sixty dragons equally, the ninth layer: the three Tianpan sewing needle, the tenth layer: one hundred and twenty dragons and gold, The 11th layer: the 64 hexagrams of the Yipan next to the stars, the 12th layer: the name of the 64 hexagrams of the inner disk, the 13th layer: the 64 hexagrams of the Tianpan and the five elements of the hexagram, the 14th layer: the name of the 64 hexagrams of the Tianpan, the 15th layer: the 64 hexagrams of the Yipan, the 16th layer: the 64 hexagrams of the beginning of the upper plate, the 17th layer: the 64 hexagrams of the Tianpan 384 auspicious degrees, and the last layer of the 18th layer: the 64 hexagrams of the Tianpan and the six relatives of the hexagrams. After finishing speaking, Lin Qiuzheng felt a little dry mouth, so he took a cup on the side and took a sip of water. Taking advantage of the gap between his drinks, Liu Zimo, who was already worshipping Lin Qiuzheng, interjected and asked, "Wow~ Master, every layer of this compass sounds so powerful." How many layers are you going to use? ”

Lin Qiuzheng, who had finished drinking the water, put the cup back in its place and replied calmly: "Just use the first layer of Tianchi later." Liu Zimo's face changed suddenly, and he didn't have the previous worship, but said with contempt on his face: "That means you want to use the compass function?" Lin Qiuzheng felt a little embarrassed by what he said, but he still kept a serious face and explained: "Young man, you don't understand the power of this compass, it's enough for me to use the first layer." Liu Zimo looked at Lin Qiuzheng expressionlessly, as if he was saying to him: You just blow it.

Then Lin Qiuzheng took out a piece of white rice paper and spread it on the table and compacted it with his hands, then placed the compass in the middle of the rice paper, and finally took the long hair that was originally taken out of the evidence bag and put it in a bowl. When the preparations were done, he looked at his watch again. The hand stays at exactly 16:30. Lin Qiuzheng's eyes flashed when the time came, staring intently at the hair in the bowl, and gradually raised his hands above his head. A few seconds later, while pointing to his chest again, he suddenly pointed to the hair and shouted, "Shen Shizhi, the ghost door opens." I saw that the slender hair seemed to have received the signal sent by Lin Qiuzheng, and it writhed softly. Lin Qiu was pinching the mantra towards that hair and had no intention of stopping. Liu Zimo looked confused again, as if he couldn't believe that this was true in front of him. The hair writhed limply in the bowl, and after a while it seemed to have somewhere to go, and gradually twisted out of the bowl. The hair climbed onto the rice paper that Lin Qiuzheng had prepared in advance, and twisted in one direction with all its might. It wasn't until the hair stopped writhing that Lin Qiuzheng stopped chanting the mantra. Immediately afterwards, he took out a pen and marked the rice paper according to the direction shown on the compass. I saw him write on the top of the rice paper: Hai, Zhengbeizi, ugly. Write on the far right: Yin, Dongmao, Chen. At the bottom: 巳, Nanwu, not. Write on the far left: Shen, Xiyou, 戌. Then he went on to write between the ugly and the yin: Northeast. Written between Tatsu and Si: Southeast. It is not written between Shen and Shen: Southwest. Written between 戌 and Hai: Northwest. In this way, under Lin Qiuzheng's marking, the originally blank rice paper suddenly looked a bit like a gossip map. Liu Zimo saw that Lin Qiuzheng stopped chanting the spell and knew that it should be over, and asked, "Master, what kind of spell was that just now?" The hair actually moved! Also, what do you mean by writing the 12 zodiac signs on the paper? ”

Lin Qiuzheng felt that the question raised by Liu Zimo in front of him was like illiterate, and he gave him a blank look with his hands on the table. Somewhat impatiently, he explained, "This is called ghost guidance." It can only be used every day when the ghost door is opened. It's about letting them lead the way. ”

"Master, what about the 12 zodiac signs written on your paper?" Liu Zimo then asked.

Lin Qiuzheng said angrily: "The things of the ancestors, I think they will be broken when they reach your generation." This is the direction and location of the southeast, northwest, and southeast. After listening to his explanation, Liu Zimo was still at a loss. But he was afraid that if he continued to ask questions, he would definitely scold him, so he couldn't help but speak. Lin Qiuzheng felt strange why this kid actually stopped, and he was about to continue. Then he glanced at him, Liu Zimo was standing there with grievances and fear on his face, like a child who had done something wrong. Seeing this scene, Lin Qiuzheng immediately reflected on his previous attitude and put away his impatience. He cleared his throat and told Liu Zimo that he wanted to find out the location of the owner of this hair through ghost guidance. Then cooperate with the compass's standing Tai Chi to set the eight directions. The eight directions are east, southeast, southwest, southwest, west, northwest, and north. This is the 12 zodiac signs that Liu Zimo said before. In this way, you can know the direction and direction of the owner of the hair.

Liu Zimo thought it was amazing, he could know so many things just through his hair. He said: "Master, isn't there no need to investigate any cases in the future." Just give you hair or body hair, and you're done? Lin Qiuzheng looked at the rice paper and the hair intently, and responded simply: "I'm not so empty." Unless it's a tricky case like this. Lin Qiuzheng began to measure it on the rice paper with his own hands. I saw that after his hand landed on the compass, he used the palm of his hand instead of a ruler to measure it towards his slender hair. Liu Zimo was very curious about why he couldn't measure with a ruler with higher accuracy, so he actually used his hands. From the compass to the other side, Lin Qiuzheng used two and a half palms. Then I saw that the direction of the hair stopped at the southwest point. Lin Qiuzheng had a general idea and told Liu Zimo on the side: "Now it seems that the owner of this hair is in our southwest. Actually we are about 25 kilometers. ”

"Master, I can understand your position. But master, you said that it is 25 kilometers away from our location, is it a bit of a child's play? You're 10 kilometers in one palm? Won't it be 11 or 9 km? Liu Zimo adheres to a scientific and rigorous attitude and wants to discuss with Lin Qiuzheng. But after listening to the words, Lin Qiuzheng felt that Liu Zimo was questioning his accuracy, so he turned his head and said directly to him: "Okay, then you come." This made Liu Zimo confused, and quickly explained: "Master, I just want to discuss the issue of accuracy. Lin Qiuzheng didn't pay attention to him, so he carefully put the hair back into the evidence bag and hid it. Then he opened the drawer alone, and somehow found a yellowed map of Shanghai and spread it on the table. He took a pencil and simply drew lines in circles on the yellowed map of Shanghai. Immediately after that, he threw the marked map to Liu Zimo and said: "There are some marks on it, and tomorrow we will go directly to the place I marked to investigate." Liu Zimo, who took the map, looked down at the map. This map has already been drawn by Lin Qiuzheng I don't know how many times, and all of it is the coordinates of circles and forks, which is not what the original map should look like at all. He became a little dazed, looked up at Lin Qiuzheng and said, "Master, this map seems to be a bit complicated. ”

Lin Qiuzheng snatched the map, pointed to the map and explained to him impatiently: "Here! You see it's our unit. Where! See! It's the direction of the investigation. It's stupid, I can't even read the map. The place Lin Qiuzheng pointed out was not recognizable in Liu Zimo's eyes at all. These areas he was referring to had been drawn by Lin Qiuzheng at least hundreds of times, and the map was about to be broken by him. Liu Zimo could only nod: "Oh~ I know, master." ”

"That~ knight. Let's go back today, it's been a long day. We'll investigate the rest tomorrow. ”

"Okay, master. Then see you tomorrow~" Liu Zimo sorted out his desk and equipment and went home from work.

At this time, Lin Qiuzheng was left alone in the office. He habitually lit a cigarette and crossed his legs on the messy table. He regrouped his thoughts, based on the information he had just gotten. The owner of this hair is located 25 kilometers to the southwest, and the map shows where the most prosperous business district in Shanghai is crowded and complicated. If you really want to investigate, it's not as convenient as you think. Intuition told Lin Qiuzheng that this case was not so simple. He gradually frowned thoughtfully, and the cigarette butt he lit directly burned his fingers. He came back to his senses, picked up the phone on the table and dialed the number with a serious expression.

"Hey~ Is it Wu Wei? Captain Wu? ”

"Yo yo yo ~ don't be so outside. As long as no one is there, call me Xiao Wu~ But, Ah Zheng~ You are really a rare guest! Wu Wei on the other end of the phone made a high-pitched and excited voice. Obviously, Wu Wei was very overjoyed that Lin Qiuzheng could take the initiative to make a call.

Lin Qiuzheng still had the same old rules as he owed him more and paid him less, and he didn't have the slightest enthusiasm and greetings, so he said angrily: "I need to trouble you with something." It's about the corpse case. ”

"You are a lonely hero who never asks for help, and today Ah Zhengdu you spoke. As long as it is within the scope of my Wu someone's ability, let alone one piece, ten pieces are no problem. You say. ”

"Good~"