Chapter 136: The Dark Room
I took a deep breath and sat back in my chair, if it was to seek revenge, the general should have died a long time ago, if the other party was trying to make money, I wouldn't have asked the general to bring back the words, I really don't understand who ate the leopard and dared to move Ye Jiuqing in Chengdu.
I rubbed my forehead in disappointment, and my eyes fell on the letter on the table again, Ye Jiuqing has always been calm, knows how to advance and retreat, and will never go out alone late at night for no reason because of a letter, there must be some mystery in this letter that makes Ye Jiuqing abnormal.
The actress is lovesick and bitter.
I studied these seven words again and again, and I also showed them to the general, but we never knew what they meant.
"What happened to my uncle?" Ling Zhihan stood at the door and asked in a whisper.
Her leg injury was not healed, and when she came back, she didn't go to see her because of Ye Jiuqing's matter, so I quickly got up and helped her into the room, and inadvertently saw Ye Zhiqiu looking at me coldly.
"Who is she?" The general asked with a puzzled expression.
"Ling Zhihan, Ling Ran's daughter, something happened to us at Gusu Ling's house, and we were almost not buried alive by Ling Ran, fortunately she saved us, but she was kicked out of the house against Ling Ran, I had to bring her back, and I will tell you the details after dealing with the shopkeeper." I'll give the general a brief explanation.
"You...... You brought Ling Ran's daughter back from Suzhou?! The general's eyes widened and he looked at me like a ghost.
I nodded blankly.
"Aren't you adding to the chaos, what kind of temper does Ling Ran have, even if you return to Chengdu, he won't give up, between the Ling family and the shopkeeper...... Hey, isn't it fate? The general slapped his thigh and sighed.
"Uncle Wei, don't worry, people have a way back." Ye Zhiqiu's yin and yang weirdness grabbed my hand and shook it in front of the general.
The general saw the bracelet I was wearing, his eyes widened, the cigarette he had just lit choked into his lungs, tears were about to cough up, and he pointed at me and asked intermittently. "You...... You kid put ...... What's wrong with the people? ”
"What do I do to her, what can I do to her...... You guys are endless, now talking about the shopkeeper, how can it be related to me. "I didn't know who to deal with in a hurry.
"At that time, the situation forced Zhihan to save people, and he didn't think about anything else." Ling Zhihan said to Ye Zhiqiu with a red face. "Zhiqiu, things are not what you think."
"Cousin, you said that, and you don't mean anything else when you put the bracelet on him." Ye Zhiqiu suddenly laughed happily.
Ling Zhihan pursed her lips, hesitated for a moment, nodded silently.
"Aren't you messing around, Gu Su Ling's house is also a place where you can play with children's play, this bracelet ......"
"Uncle Wei, my cousin said it's okay, what are you anxious about." Ye Zhiqiu interrupted the general and hurriedly diverted the topic. "My dad's whereabouts are still unknown, let's get down to business, don't talk about anything else."
"You are a dog's face, you will change when you say it, whoever brings it up first." I glared at Ye Zhiqiu and found that there was no reason to talk about it in front of her.
"Have you made enough trouble, the shopkeeper has been missing for more than half a month, and if you want to save the shopkeeper, you must know the meaning of this letter." The palace lord gave us a cold look.
"The actress is lovesick and painstaking, just seven words, it doesn't look like a poem, and I can't see any meaning at all from a literal point of view, this is a dumb riddle." The field chicken leaned his head over. "I don't read much, don't count on me for things that cost me brains."
"Playing dumb riddles...... Since this is not a poem, it should not be a specific reference, it should be a mystery! "The palace lord's eyes lit up and he looked up at us." It's an anagram, this sentence should be a puzzle of an anagram, and the shopkeeper should have cracked the meaning. ”
"Anagrams? Why use anagrams in the first place? It's good to just write it, so why bother with it? Ye Zhiqiu asked incomprehensibly.
"Because the person who wrote this letter knew that the shopkeeper would definitely understand the meaning of the words inside, and this person didn't want others to know what the mystery was." I said thoughtfully with a frown.
"Since it's an anagram, we have to take these seven words apart, first of all, the two words of the actress." The palace lord pointed to the typesetting in the letter.
"I know that." Tian Ji said seriously.
"You know?" We looked at him suspiciously.
"Of course I know, who doesn't know this, the actress, don't you watch the movie, Zhang Yu in the love of Lushan, a well-known actress." Tian Ji didn't even want to blurt it out. "As long as there is her in the army, there will be no trouble among the soldiers below."
I looked at Tian Ji's innocent face, and I really wanted to slap it, his biggest ability is to say a completely unreliable thing from his mouth, coupled with his honest and honest appearance, it will become reliable.
Everyone in the room ignored him, and probably didn't know what to say about him.
"Actress...... If it's an anagram, it should be a clear finger, which is a kind of word splitting, which is actually very simple, that is, behind the shadow word. Ling Zhihan sat quietly on the side, and her voice was as gentle as the others.
"After the shadow word is taken apart, it is a scene and 彡, and the shadow queen refers to 彡." I asked curiously as I drew on another piece of paper. "Didn't you learn the secret art of Feng Shui, how can you understand this?"
"Feng Shui Kanyu is also a kind of metaphysics, the Ling family is not like the rumors outside, only Feng Shui secret arts, but all metaphysics Ling family is involved, but the most proficient and good thing Feng Shui is just that." Ling Zhihan replied in a soft voice.
"If you split the word according to this method, the queen of the shadow refers to 彡, so how should the word acacia be dismantled? The words are dismantled from the left wood and the eyes, and the words are on the field and the heart, how can these words not be combined together. "Ye Zhiqiu took my pen and wrote and drew for a long time without progress.
"There is feng shui in metaphysics called the earth phase, and there is a kind of human physiognomy, which is simple to say fortune telling, one of which is called word measurement, which is similar to the word puzzle, there are many ways to measure words, such as separation law, increase pen method, reduce pen method, relationship method, pictographic method, and will mean dozens of methods, the previous shadow queen used the separation law, but not all words can use such a method." Ling Zhihan said softly to Ye Zhiqiu.
"There are dozens of methods, so who knows how to decipher the word lovesickness." The general was taken aback.
"I, I know." Tian Ji couldn't bear it again, and looked serious next to him.
"Shut up." I didn't even bother to look at him.
Tian Jizui held his head and retracted it, and the palace lord said that the word acacia has too many meanings, and it will be difficult to decipher it for a while, so look at the remaining words first.
The last three are painstaking.
"These three are easy to dismantle, you can have a way to know, the word Huai should be meaningless, but it is just the connection between the two words lovesickness and painstaking work, and the focus is on painstaking work." Ling Zhi said calmly.
"Do you know what a wry smile means?" Ye Zhiqiu's voice was unconvinced.
Ling Zhihan nodded, and the corners of Gong Jue's mouth suddenly curled: "I know too." ”
"Then you can say it." Ling Zhihan smiled humbly.
"The word bitter is prefix above, a cross in the middle, and a word below, the so-called bitter heart, the general heart refers to the middle, and the middle of the bitter word is the cross." Gong Jue said.
I looked at Ling Zhihan, she nodded and said that what Gong Jue said was right, it was indeed an allusion to the cross, in this way, we deciphered the head and tail of this sentence, adding together the words 彡 and ten, but I still couldn't see what it meant, and the final key was on the remaining acacia.
We racked our brains in the house and thought about it all night, but we didn't figure out what the meaning of the word acacia was, and even Ling Zhihan, who was proficient in metaphysics, used all the methods of measuring words, but he still couldn't solve the mystery of the word acacia.
At dawn, we all looked tired, Tian Ji estimated that he couldn't help anyway, so he simply slept for a night, and when he got up, he saw that we were still frowning, and stretched a lazy waist, and he was afraid that he would talk about him.
"What the hell are you trying to say?" I was weak and slumped in the chair, and when I saw him dangling, I asked angrily.
"I know what lovesickness means." Tian Ji immediately did it, with a smile on his face.
"Let him say it, I see that he has been holding back all night, and if he doesn't say it, he will hurt sooner or later." The palace lord shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Acacia beans." Tian Ji didn't wait for me to nod, and hurriedly said it.
"Shut up!" I regret that I still believe him.
Tian Ji sat on the chair with a pout, and Ling Zhihan, who had been concentrating on studying the words on the letterhead, suddenly raised his head: "He was right, there is an increase in the word measurement method, but I actually failed to draw inferences, and I thought that it could also be an increase in words." ”
After Ling Zhihan finished speaking, she picked up the pen and wrote on the paper.
"The queen of the shadow is the word 彡, the painstaking heart is the cross, and the acacia extension refers to the word bean, and the three together are ......"
Ling Zhihan stopped his pen and turned the paper in front of us, everyone gathered around, and a word appeared on the paper.
Peng!
We finally unravel the meaning of the queen's lovesickness, but we are still confused, and the word Peng is somewhat unexpected, I really can't figure it out, why Ye Jiuqing will suddenly be in chaos when he sees this Peng word, and he went to Qiu Gang alone without half an explanation.
It can be seen that this Peng character has a special meaning for Ye Jiuqing, and it is also Ye Jiuqing's lifeline, no matter who wrote this letter, he must know better than any of us where Ye Jiuqing's seven inches are.
Bang!
The outside door was pushed open heavily, and we turned around to see Zhao Yan, who had always been calm and calm, running in in a panic, without any previous scruples, rushing to the room and panting.
"Something happened...... Something is wrong! ”
"What the hell is going on? You speak slowly. The general stood up in a hurry, knocked over the wine bottle on the table, and fell to the ground and fell to pieces.
"You? How did you get back? Zhao Yan looked at the general, first happy, and then immediately asked in surprise.
"Don't care how I come back, tell me what's going on!" The general asked loudly.
"Chaoge asked me to send someone to Qiu Gang to investigate, but the person who came back said that Qiu Gang had been murdered more than ten days ago, and three people were shot dead on the spot." Zhao Yan replied breathlessly.
"Three people were shot......," the general's eyebrows sank thoughtfully. I did hear three gunshots that night. ”
"Is there a shopkeeper among the people who were killed?" I asked nervously and anxiously.
"No, the people who were shot were all three indiscriminate tomb robbers, and they had nothing to do with the shopkeeper." Zhao Yan replied.
We breathed a sigh of relief after hearing this, but we were still puzzled, Ye Jiuqing went to the appointment after reading the letter, why did someone die in Qiu Gang, and they were three tomb robbers who had nothing to do with each other.
"The whereabouts of the shopkeeper have also been found, and the person is fine, but ......" Zhao Yan's mouth was dry, and he took a sip of the wine on the table.
"Don't talk about half the fuck, you're dying, where is the shopkeeper now, but what?" The general asked loudly with angry eyes.
"Three tomb robbers were killed in Qiu Gang, and the person who shot the murderer was also caught on the spot, and the murderer was ...... It's the shopkeeper! Zhao Yan gasped and said. The shopkeeper has been arrested for most of the month, and the police have blocked the news, so there has been no whereabouts of the shopkeeper. ”
We were dumbfounded and couldn't believe what Zhao Yan said, if it was five years earlier, I would absolutely believe that Ye Jiuqing killed someone, he is now a person who gasps for breath when he walks a few more steps, and he will not do anything about fighting and killing a long time ago, not to mention that there are many old people, Ye Jiuqing's heart has obviously softened in recent years, otherwise it is estimated that Gong Jue will not be able to live now.
As far as Ye Jiuqing's current body is, don't say that he never carries a gun on his body, he said that thing is unlucky, even if he is given a gun, I don't believe that he has the ability to shoot three people.
"Someone wrote a letter to lure the shopkeeper to Qiugang, and he was sure that the shopkeeper would definitely go if he understood the letter, everything was arranged in advance, and this was a deliberate attempt to frame the shopkeeper." I stood up and said to Zhao Yan. "Since you know that the shopkeeper is fine, let's go and meet the shopkeeper first and ask what happened."
"It's not that simple, I know the news, I want to find out some news as soon as possible, the shopkeeper has a face in both black and white, and we have never been less on the white road, and what happened in the past has been turned into a big and small thing, but this time I can't even find a person, as if I was deliberately avoiding me." Zhao Yan shook his head and said extremely incomprehensibly. "Until now, I only know that the shopkeeper has been arrested, but where he is locked up, and what is happening now, I can't find out anything."
"It's not a matter if money can solve it, go back to the pawnshop to decorate more money, I haven't mixed in the circle, the foundation is clean, I'll go in person." After I finished speaking, I planned to go back to the pawnshop with the general and Zhao Yan first.
"When was this house built?"
Gong Jue's voice suddenly came from behind, and at this time he asked a completely irrelevant question, and I was stunned and turned around to see Gong Jue, who had not spoken, squatting on the ground, staring intently at the wine bottle that had been knocked over by the general before, and the remaining wine in it was scattered and spread everywhere.
I knew something was wrong when I saw the palace lord's expression, so I walked back to the room and asked, "I came to the Sifang pawnshop to find this house, and I heard the shopkeeper say that he bought this house when he was young, what's wrong?" ”
The palace lord squatted on the ground and looked up at me, pointing to the wine flowing on the ground with a sure expression.
"This room has been altered, the traces of wine flowing on the floor are wrong, leaking down, there is a dark room underneath this room!"