Li Yiran, Shen Shikang, Xu Rongzheng, Cui Yunyi, these are the four names I am more familiar with on the list of eight people, and at this moment, the name of the fifth person in the list of eight appeared on the letter that Dr. Zhou searched from the room of the rotten Taoist priest: Lin Daokai. These three words made Jiang Jun and I stunned.

When we returned to Tiemuguan, the original purpose was only to investigate the relationship between Lao Zhang and Xiong Wancheng and Lao Zhang's involvement in the case, but what we didn't expect was that what we wanted to investigate did not find clues, but Dr. Zhou found a letter with a fifth person written on it by chance.

My intuition tells me that the name of this fifth person is more important than us finding out Lao Zhang's suspicions. I immediately flattened the letter, and I read the name of the fifth man several times, for I was afraid that I had read it wrong. But these three simple words are indeed exactly the same as the one in the list of eight people left by Wang Xin.

"Dr. Zhou, where did you find this letter?" Jiang Jun immediately asked Dr. Zhou.

I saw that Dr. Zhou was still holding another book in his hand, and he handed the book to us, saying that when he was flipping through the book in the room, the letter fell out of the pages of the book, and he thought that there might be a problem, so he immediately called us and handed us the letter. I took the book handed by Dr. Zhou, which was a very shabby-looking Taoist scripture.

I opened it and looked at it, and it was full of Taoist philosophical words, and there was nothing special about it. Jiang Jun and Liu Jia also circulated this scripture, and in the end everyone agreed that it was indeed just an ordinary scripture. So, we focus again on the letter that is sandwiched between the scriptures.

The letters were densely packed, and every word was very well written, and it was written with a brush, but the ink used for this brush was red. The whole letter was dark red, and before I could read the contents, I already felt a tingling in my scalp. Liu Jia muttered and asked me if this letter would be written in blood.

I put the letter to my nose and sniffed it, and even though it looked a little old, it still smelled of ink. I shook my head and preliminarily concluded that it was not blood, and that the color of each word on it was very strong and uniform, which human blood could not do.

I couldn't wait to read on. The letter was written by someone else to Lin Daokai, but whether it was on the envelope or the payment of the letter, the person who sent the letter did not write out his identity and name.

Ruyou is your friend, it seems that this letter was written by Lin Daokai's friend to Lin Daokai.

The content of the letter is written in semi-vernacular form, mixed with a large number of incomprehensible classical Chinese expressions, which can easily be seen that the other party may be an old man, because generally only the old people like to use such expressions, of course, the other party may also be a literati in the generations of scholars, at least a person of culture and culture, if so, the age of the other party cannot be speculated.

The first sentence of the letter is: My friend, I have not seen him for many years, I miss him very much, I know the difficulties of life when you accompany the wicked.

We all know that the content of the letter is important, so we don't read it quickly, but we have to parse it every time we read it. The letter was signed three years ago, the year after the 330 case. The other party and Lin Daokai have obviously not seen each other for many years, and judging from the tone of the first sentence, the relationship between these two people should be good.

As for the "wicked" mentioned in the letter, we deserve to be scrutinized. The letter was searched from the room of the rotten face Taoist, so this rotten face Taoist priest is most likely Lin Daokai. If the rotten-faced Taoist priest is the Lin Daokai mentioned in the letter, then it is not so puzzling who this "wicked man" is.

The rotten-faced Taoist priest lives in the Tiemuguan all the year round, and he unravels people all day long, and almost never goes down the mountain. And in this Tiemu Temple, there are only two Taoist priests, him and the split-lip Taoist Xiong Wancheng, so this "wicked person" is very likely to be Xiong Wancheng. It is also true that Xiong Wancheng is related to the case of the woman in red, and bewitches Qiu Xinghua to kill people and dig up dirt, he is ruthless, and even shows no mercy to himself, if he is not a wicked person, I am afraid there will be no wicked people in the world.

Wicked people are relative to good people, if the other party calls Xiong Wancheng a wicked person, then Lin Daokai and the person who sent the letter must be good people, at least they think they are good people. The strange thing is that since they know that Xiong Wancheng is a villain, then it may be that Lin Daokai's bad-faced Taoist priest still wants to be with Xiong Wancheng all day long.

Let's move on and see what follows, if translated into the vernacular, is not at all puzzling. In the letter, the other party first greeted Lin Daokai politely for a while, and then the other party began to recall their past experience. However, the other party did not directly explain what kind of experience they had, but vaguely mentioned it.

The other party said that they had fought side by side together in the past, but as time passed, not only did they not see each other for many years, but even those memories of the past have been slowly covered by the years, and if you don't think about it, the other party can't remember it. On the night of the stars, the other party cut candles and drank, and the past came to his heart, and he wrote this letter with a pen.

The other party said that he missed those years very much, and if there was another chance, everyone would gather together and drink and talk. However, the years are rare, things are not people, and now the other party can talk to only Lin Daokai alone. This is the end of the greetings of the letter, and then the content of the letter begins to take a turn.

The other party said that he had accepted the invitation again. Maybe he was afraid that others would see the letter, or maybe Lin Daokai and the other party knew it, so the other party didn't say what kind of invitation he received. The other party said that he hid all day long and just wanted to live a peaceful life, but over the years, some people have been forced to force each other, and the so-called invitation is just coercion.

Originally, I didn't want to, but the other party couldn't stand being distressed all day long and agreed. But the writer was honest, and he said that the reason for his agreement was because he was moved. Seeing this, I can understand the purpose of the other party's letter: the other party hopes that Lin Daokai will accept the invitation like himself.

The other party is convincing Lin Daokai. The rest of the words were very subtle, and he didn't say what he was doing with the other party. Soon, the content of the letter ended, and the other party asked Lin Daokai to remember the past and accept the invitation. The letter ends with one sentence: If you don't go to the appointment, eternal life is hard to see, the morning flowers are picked up, and the old dreams are revisited.

Jiang Jun had a headache when he saw it, and he scolded and said: "Is the person who wrote the letter also a Taoist priest, how can he speak in a crepe, pretending to be mysterious, and he hasn't explained anything clearly!" ”

And I was still staring at the contents of the letter, thinking carefully. There are many people with the same name and surname in the world, but it is rare for the same name to appear in the same event. So I think that the name of Lin Daokai and the list of eight people is not the same because of coincidence.

I had a bold speculation in my mind: the other party who wrote to the fifth person on the list of eight would also be one of the eight. When the names of eight people appear in the same list, it is destined that these eight people are implicated, maybe friends, maybe enemies. The word "many" appears in the content of the letter, so does this "many" refer to those eight people?

I told Jiang Jun about my speculation, and Jiang Jun also nodded to me, saying that it was very likely. After searching for the letter in the room of the Bad-Face Daoist, we entered his room again, and we tried to find any more useful clues, but more than two hours passed, and we searched all over the room of the Bad-faced Taoist, and finally failed to find other useful clues.

After that, we went to the back gate of Tiemuguan, Jiang Jun went to investigate at the bottom of the mountain, and the villagers said that the grave of the rotten face Taoist priest was behind here. Sure enough, we only looked for a while and found two tombstones, these two tombstones, one large and one small, one new and one old, one clean and one dirty.

After reading the Taoist number, the new one was the rotten face Taoist priest's, and the other one was Xiong Wancheng's.

I can surmise that Xiong Wancheng was spurned by everyone, and his grave will appear here, most likely made by a rotten Taoist priest for Xiong Wancheng.