"Don't look for a notebook, I'll give you one." The man handed Xu Tian a yellow notebook with two ballpoint pens on it.

Xu Tian took the notebook suspiciously, and the man squeezed his eyes at the notebook, and Xu Tian immediately understood the man's intentions.

"Who's that female corpse?" Xu Tian asked.

"This female corpse has nothing to do with the case in the village, but you will soon come into contact with the identity of the female corpse, and when the case in the village is solved, you will come to the forest to get the female corpse away." The man said.

"What about you? Where are you going back? Xu Tian asked.

"We've actually met, but it's in Li Zhitong's narrative." The man said.

"And who are you?" Xu Tian asked again.

"Trick! Do you still remember the trick that Li Zhitong told you about the little girl and her stepmother? The man said.

"Could it be that you are ......" Xu Tian suddenly remembered an important person in the trickery.

"I'm the owner of the funeral parlor near the little girl's house." The man said.

"Then how did you know that Li Zhitong told us about the trickery?" Xu Tian asked.

"You'll find out later, that's all I can tell you now, and we'll meet again when you've resolved everything." The man said.

"The last question, what is the matter with those who have come back from the dead? Is it a reborn person? Or a clone? Or...... Are those people like you? Xu Tian asked.

When Xu Tian asked this question, a group of crows suddenly flew down from the tree, Teacher Jin grabbed Xu Tian, and the two squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, and after the crows dispersed, the man was gone.

Xu Tian immediately took a look at the ground, only the footprints of the man when he came, and there were no footprints of the man leaving.

"This ......" Xu Tian didn't know what to say.

"We might as well do what he says, don't you think?" Teacher Jin said.

"Xiao Ai! What he meant in his words was that we should protect Xiao Ai, he said that Xiao Ai couldn't die for the third time, Xiao Ai had already died in front of us once before, and this matter should be taken seriously. Xu Tian said.

"Female corpse ......" Teacher Jin used a flashlight to shine around, and found that there was a large black plastic bag wrapped around a long object not far away.

Teacher Jin walked over to check it, the female corpse had been sealed very tightly, and according to what the man had said, Xu Tian and Teacher Jin did not carry the female corpse back.

……

It was already past ten o'clock in the evening when the two of them walked out of the woods and returned to the path, which was already late at night in the countryside.

"I want to go to the grave of the dead to see what is going on, and I think it will be easier for me to search it at night." Xu Tian said.

"Then go ahead! There's nothing to check in the village now, and I'm quite interested in the grave of the dead. Teacher Jin said.

Xu Tian and Teacher Jin tried to walk in the direction of the grave of the dead, the forest was quiet all the way, this forest seemed to have no life at all, except for the dead trees and snow, the two walked for about two hours, and finally saw a clearing.

However, there were no raised graves in this clearing, and after shining a flashlight, Xu Tian found that this was a very vast territory.

"This should have already stepped into the grave of the dead, be careful!" Teacher Jin said.

There were only footprints of Xu Tian and Teacher Jin in this clearing, and under the snow, Xu Tian felt like there were very slippery stone slabs, just like that kind of floor tiles.

Xu Tian squatted down to pick up the snow and found that there was a very regular road below.

After walking about 500 meters, the two saw a very old blue brick house, the architectural style of this house is very similar to Caogang Village, that is, the kind of houses around the ancient house of the Chen family.

The house looks the size of three rooms, but the house is not fenced off, which makes it very obtrusive.

"Is this the old house that the old man was looking for?" Xu Tian said.

"You have to ask the old man to find out, the house looks like it's been uninhabited for a long time." Teacher Jin said.

Xu Tian and Teacher Jin walked to the door of the house and saw that the door was not locked, so the two opened the door and walked in.

There was a strong smell of dust inside, and there were no signs of anyone on the ground, so it looked like no one had been here for a long time.

The inside of the house was a bit messy, with lots of wooden tables and chairs piled up in the corners, already covered with dust and cobwebs.

Xu Tian tried to shine a flashlight on the surrounding walls, and on the wall of the living room hung a large black-and-white photograph of a man with a mustache and wearing a military uniform.

"Who is this?" Xu Tian said.

"It looks a bit like a Japanese officer." Teacher Jin said.

There is also an incense burner and a rotten fruit offering under the large photo, which was previously enshrined here, but no one has been in here lately, because there is no sign of being trampled on in the house.

Xu Tian and Teacher Jin walked into a bedroom again, which had a double wooden bed, a small mirror and a wooden comb on the bedside table, and a pair of red cotton slippers under the bed, which looked like women's slippers with size 35 feet.

"It seems to have been inhabited before, but judging by the dusty situation, no one has been in it for more than 10 years." Xu Tian said.

"Lao Gao said that the dead man's grave is buried with the corpses of enemy soldiers, and judging from these signs, it should be the corpses of Japanese soldiers during World War II." Teacher Jin said.

"You can't go wrong." Xu Tian said.

The two walked through the living room to the other bedroom, and as soon as they entered, Xu Tian shone a flashlight on the photo on the wall, and there was a family photo on the wall.

Xu Tian pointed the flashlight at the photo, and suddenly Xu Tian shuddered, Xu Tian recognized it at first sight, there was a woman in the photo who was a red girl, Xu Tian was absolutely not mistaken.

"Red Girl!" Teacher Jin said.

"Who are the others?" Xu Tian carefully identified the photo and said.

"Old horse! You see! Teacher Jin pointed to one of them and said.

"Next to the old horse stood a man with a hippie smile, and this man's face looked a bit like that of a retarded person." Xu Tian said.

"Hongmei is married to a mentally handicapped, which is very consistent with the information we gathered before." Teacher Jin said.

"So, Hongmei married into Lao Ma's family? Then this mentally handicapped man may well be the brother of Lao Ma. Xu Tian said.

"You can't be wrong, but there is no grandmother in this photo." Teacher Jin said.

"This matter can be explained, because this photo is likely to be a family photo of Lao Ma's grandparents, no matter who takes the family photo, the elderly of both sides are rarely in the same frame." Xu Tian said.