"What about you?" Xu Tian asked.

"What do you want to know about me?" Mr. Xu said.

"For example, if I can see your true face, at least I can trust you more." Xu Tian said.

"I had an accident a few years ago, and my face was disfigured, which is why I have this beard and long hair." Mr. Xu said.

"I'm sorry, since that's the case, there's nothing to ask, Mr. Xu should introduce us to this village!" Xu Tian said.

"This village is part of Caogang Village, but the village is out of touch with Caogang Village, which means that the villagers here don't interact with the people of Caogang Village, and you must not mention Caogang Village in front of the villagers, you know?" Mr. Xu admonished.

"Why is that? Could it be that the people of this village have a feud with Caogang Village? Xu Tian asked.

"It's all because of the unpleasantness of the cultivated land, and finally because there are two families of equal power in Caogang Village, so this village has not won the cultivated land it deserves, and now the villagers hate Caogang Village to the core, and every household lacks food for the winter, so you don't draft the word Gang Village in front of the villagers." Mr. Xu said.

"Understood, so where is the crime? Is it okay for the two of us to go alone? Xu Tian asked.

"The villagers should be waiting outside the gate! Warm up with hot water and go! Don't make them wait too long, you see they are all wearing thin clothes, and they are very cold in this winter. Mr. Xu said.

After Xu Tian and Teacher Jin walked out, they saw the villagers squatting outside the gate and waiting, and Xu Tian's heart was a little sour at this time.

"Mr. Jin, this seems to be the location of the detective game mentioned by Dr. Lin, another group of villagers in Caogang Village." Xu Tian said.

"Let's take one step at a time! However, what Mr. Xu said about the altar is indeed a bit pediatric, and it doesn't sound like a convincing legend, so it's no wonder that the villagers don't believe it. Teacher Jin said.

"It's definitely inconvenient for the two of us to talk later, when I get to the scene, I check the scene of the crime, you observe the villagers, I always feel that the villagers here are not people to mess with, you look at their faces, most of them are tough middle-aged people, and there are very few women." Xu Tian said.

"I think so too, and they are inevitably wearing a little too thin, no matter how difficult it is, there should always be a few tattered cotton clothes, right?" Teacher Jin said.

"Maybe these group performances are really amateurish, or maybe they ...... They hadn't had time to put on their cotton clothes yet. Xu Tian said with a sinking face.

Under the leadership of the villagers, Xu Tian and Mr. Jin came to the scene of the crime, which is the innermost part of the village, behind the ancestral hall is a cliff about 30 meters high.

"This is the ancestral hall of our village, and after everyone dies, the ashes are placed in the ancestral hall." An elderly villager said.

"And what do you call it?" Xu Tian asked.

"My surname is Gao, and I am temporarily acting as the leader of the villagers' group, but our village has been disconnected from Caogang Village, although it has not been recognized, but I do the work of the village chief."

"Then shall I call you Team Leader Gao or Village Chief Gao?" Xu Tian asked.

"Just call me Lao Gao, after all, I haven't been recognized!" Lao Gao said.

"So where did the victim die?" Xu Tian asked.

"You come in with me, but be mentally prepared, there are many urns in the ancestral hall, and ordinary people dare not set foot here." Lao Gao said.

Walking in and looking, there are really a lot of urns displayed on the cabinet, each urn is pasted with black and white photos, Xu Tian estimated that there must be at least a thousand urns here.

Among them, there are eight urns displayed in the main position, and there are no posthumous photos on them, and those eight urns are all wooden, which looks very old.

"Those are our ancestors, and they are also the spiritual positions where the incense can't be broken." Lao Gao said.

"What is the main surname in the village?" Xu Tian asked.

"There are surnames and everything, the surnames in the village are very mixed, most of them are people who moved to the island before the liberation, and we are not aborigines." Lao Gao said.

"So where is the crime scene? I don't seem to see an altar. Xu Tian said.

"Come with me!"

Lao Gao led Xu Tian and Teacher Jin to the backyard of the ancestral hall, this ancestral hall was built like a small temple, there are stone piers in the backyard, and there are red brick walls on the left and right sides, which are different from the green bricks of Caogang Village, these red bricks should be built in modern times.

Through the long backyard, Xu Tian and Teacher Jin were taken to a place like a back garden, where the flowers and trees have withered, and through this back garden is the altar, but Xu Tian thought it was a stage at first glance, because there were many costumes hanging on both sides of the altar, and there were people who practiced changing faces singing on the altar.

"This is the altar?" Xu Tian asked suspiciously.

"Our altar is different, it's not that kind of deep thing, you can also see, these are villagers who can sing, and during the New Year's festival, the villagers will come here to listen to the big drama all night." Lao Gao said.

Xu Tian found that there was an elderly old lady sitting in the audience under the altar, her head had about sixty percent of the white hair, the old lady's eyes were rather dull, she looked like she was seriously ill, her left arm was shaking very much, and the big black mole on her left cheek was very conspicuous, but the old lady's face looked very kind.

"That is the ancestor of the village, she is ninety-two years old this year, she loves to listen to operas, but she has suffered from Alzheimer's disease a few years ago, since the onset of the disease, she will sit in the audience on time every morning and watch the stage in a daze, and I don't know if she is really listening to the actors on the stage singing." Lao Gao said.

"Will there be people on stage who practice singing every day?" Xu Tian asked.

"Almost! As long as it is not rainy, snowy and windy weather, everyone will come to the altar to practice singing, because we all know that the ancestor will come every day and want to sing to her old man. Lao Gao said.

"Look at the scene of the crime! According to Mr. Xu, the victims all died under the table on the altar, is it the table on the altar? Xu Tian asked.

"Yes, it's that table, it's actually a prop table for singing, five people died in ten days, and they are all strong guys who are about to get married, this matter can't be ignored in the village, so everyone wants to ask Mr. Xu to help solve the case." Lao Gao said.

"You believe Mr. Xu so much? Do you know what happened to him before? Xu Tian asked tentatively.