Chapter 8 Chapter Seven: The Book of Heaven

Last year, Tang Erye performed well in disaster relief. The government rewarded him with an umbrella. Although it was not worth much, he was proud of it and mentioned it to me many times.The whole body of the umbrella was black and shiny, and the four gold characters "Flood Fighting Heroes" were printed on the umbrella cloth. Thinking, Erye Tang, why do you still haunt me? If you want to become a ghost and scare people, you should also go to Hu Jiaheng! Aunt Ma didn't know what I was thinking. Seeing that I refused to leave, she said that it was raining so hard now that it was a mistake to take the wrong umbrella. If a student came to return the umbrella tomorrow, she would tell me.I had no choice but to open Erye Tang's umbrella and was about to step into the rain curtain when a female student ran towards me.I turned on the camera light of my mobile phone and took a picture of her. No one recognized her, but I recognized the umbrella she was holding—it was mine.

"Aunt Ma! I'm sorry, there was a power outage just now, and I took the wrong umbrella. Did I get your umbrella?" the female student asked seriously. "It's not mine, it's this... what's your name?" Aunt Ma asked me, and after hearing my answer, she added, "You got Huang Dingyi's umbrella! It's all right now, you can change it back !" "You robbed me just now?" I asked intently. Embarrassed by being stared at, the female student replied, "Steal something? You mean this umbrella? I said it all, but I took it wrong. Who would grab the umbrella!"

Aunt Ma understood what I meant, and chimed in: "He was asking, did you run down from the attic? Someone knocked me down just now, wasn't it you?" "I've been on the first floor, and I haven't been upstairs." The female student got a little angry, and said, "Change the umbrella back, I have something to do, hurry up!" I carefully observed the expression of the female student, and felt that she did not seem to be pretending, otherwise she would not have thrown herself into the trap.No one is stupid enough to grab something and run back to be caught.But this is indeed Mr. Tang's umbrella, and it is absolutely unmistakable. Why does the female student in front of him have Mr. Tang's umbrella?Seeing how weak her body is, she doesn't look like a hero fighting floods.I was just about to ask the female students this question, when Tang Ziyue called me and told me to go to the laboratory building quickly.

The female student changed the umbrella back, turned around and ran into the rain, and disappeared into the night at once.I'm not sure if the female student is the one who snatched things, after all, I didn't see anything in the attic, but she took Mr. Tang's umbrella, so it must have something to do with our matter.In order to find that female student in the future, my Aunt Thomas reopened the library and let me have a look at the entry and exit records.Aunt Ma thought that I was interested in others, so she eagerly took out the records. I took a look and noticed that there was only one female student who entered and left the library tonight. Her name was Gu Yingying, and the other names were boys.

I wrote down Gu Yingying's student number, and planned to ask her sometime how the umbrella became hers.Then, I left the library and ran to the laboratory building alone in the dark rainy night.After the power outage, the laboratory building looked even more gloomy. I saw flickering candlelight in the upstairs laboratory. I knew it was the alcohol lamp lit by Tang Ziyue and Axiu, but I still thought of the ghost stories that were widely circulated in the school before. I was eager to know what was recorded in the diary, so I ran upstairs to find them without fear.Tang Ziyue saw that I was in a mess, and asked what was wrong, if I fell during a power outage.Ah Xiu was present, so I can't say it clearly, I can only admit that I don't have eyes when I walk.While I was answering, I glanced at the laboratory. Axiu had already fished out the log from the glass tank, and the transparent liquid inside had turned into muddy muddy water. They also separated the logs one by one and spread them neatly on the laboratory table.

I took a deep breath and asked, "How is it? What's in the diary? Is the secret that Mr. Tang said written in it?" "This..." Tang Ziyue and Axiu seemed to have something to hide, neither of them answered me. "Why don't you talk?" I didn't have that patience, the answer was right in front of me, so there was no reason to wait.As soon as the words fell, I couldn't wait to walk to those tables, wanting to peek at the contents of the diary.Unexpectedly, I just took one look, and my whole body froze.It took me a long time to realize it, and I asked incredulously, "These are really papers from the diary? Are you correct? From the beginning to the end, the diary is within your line of sight, right?"

"I can assure you that the diary has not been secretly replaced by someone. This is what we dug in the old ferry..." Tang Ziyue realized that Axiu was there, so she stopped talking vigilantly. Axiu didn't care too much, but comforted me: "Brother Huang, this diary may only have handwriting on the first page, and the rest of it is blank. I may have run out of ink." Yes.Except for the first page, the logs are all blank pages. After the infiltrated muddy water is washed away, although the pages are still dirty, there is not a single word.At first, I wondered if the diary had been soaked for too long, or the chemical agent Ah Xiu poured was used wrongly, so that all the handwriting was washed away.But Ah Xiu denied that it was totally impossible, because the handwriting on the first page was still there, without any fading, which proved that the method he used was correct, and the problem was in the diary.

I thought to myself, so the salvage log of the pontoon force is a wordless book?A one-page log is worthless, so why would anyone go to the ferry to dig it up?Fortunately, I thought I had found a treasure and guarded it everywhere, but in the end the diary turned out to be a piece of rubbish.Tang Ziyue saw that I was very disappointed, and wanted to say something to comfort her, but she didn't say much because of Ah Xiu's presence. In this way, we thanked Axiu, and the two left the laboratory building together, walking in the rain disappointedly.Tang Ziyue thinks the same as me, they both think that the big mystery can be revealed after opening the diary, who knows that the predecessors are too lazy, and the diary has nothing to write after writing a page.On the way, I told Tang Ziyue about someone snatching the medical examination report. She was also puzzled, wondering why there was such a thing hidden in the attic of the old library.

"I'm sorry, I wasted your time all night. I didn't find the answer to the log and the report." Just as we were about to walk to the back door of the school, Tang Ziyue said apologetically. "You are too far-fetched, and this is beyond your control." I didn't want Tang Ziyue to have a psychological burden, so I deliberately changed the subject, told about Gu Yingying and Shan, and asked Tang Ziyue to check, Gu Yingying's student number Which department and which class do you belong to? "It's very simple. I'll tell you when I find it tomorrow, but are you sure it's Mr. Tang's umbrella?" Tang Ziyue asked me.

"I'm not too old-eyed, I'm sure I didn't miss it. If you find out, don't disturb her, wait for me to ask together, I'm afraid it will scare the student away." I discussed. "Did you know? Agatha, the Queen of Detective Fiction, has a famous saying - A detective never knows anyone, no matter who he is. To a detective, all people are strangers and may be suspicious." Object." Tang Ziyue suddenly changed the subject. "You like reading novels so much?" I asked blankly. "My sister likes to read Agatha's novels. She told me these. In fact, that sentence is quite reasonable. If you think about it, if you can do so many strange things, that person must be familiar with you, me, Du field, and other things. Could it be... that person is by our side?" Tang Ziyue asked me.

"That is to say, but there are only a few people in the crossing field, and there is no great hatred for each other, so it is not possible to punish us like this. Unless, Second Master Tang is not dead, it is he who is playing tricks on us. The problem is, Second Master Tang His body was cremated, I saw it with my own eyes." I replied. Tang Ziyue thought about it, and now there is no result to discuss, so she had to say: "It's getting late, you should go back and rest quickly, it's dark and the road is slippery, so be careful." "Okay, let's get in touch again." After Tang Ziyue said goodbye to me, she turned and went back to the school. The electricity has not been restored until now.I let out a long sigh, the school's electricity is connected to the ferry station, and if there is a power outage here, the ferry station must also have no electricity.Holding the undried diary and holding an umbrella, I walked a long way and returned to the yard of the ferry after being splashed in muddy water.Now that there is a power outage, everyone is sleeping in the house. The emergency repair of the power facilities has nothing to do with us. Apart from sleeping in, we can't do anything else. As soon as I got back to my room, my phone kept telling me to charge it now.I thought the notification sound was annoying, so I simply turned it off and threw it on the table.There are white candles and lighters on the table. I touched them, and after they were lit, my eyes fell on the urn. "Oh! Second Master Tang, Second Master Tang, if you can really manifest spirits, please give me some hints, don't keep pretending to be a ghost to scare me!" I sighed in my heart, unexpectedly, a miracle really happened. "My hands...strange! Isn't the log blank? Why do my hands have these colors?" I stared at my hands in surprise, I don't know when the palms were stained with many colors, as if touching mixed multi-colored paint.Immediately afterwards, I flipped through the papers in a hurry, they were still blank, and the color was overflowing from the cover of the journal.The cover is hard and strong, soaked in the glass tank for so long, and it has not softened until now. When I saw this, I became excited, took out the fruit knife in the drawer, and immediately and carefully cut open the cover.Among the wrapping paper and hard board, there is a piece of paper inside, the paper is completely dyed by red, yellow, blue, blue, purple, black and other colors, and the original appearance can no longer be seen, let alone whether there are words on the paper. .Facing the strange colored paper, I'm not sure if it's something that the pontoon troops hid on purpose, but apart from it, there's nothing special about the journal. This discovery cheered me up, and I wanted to call Tang Ziyue immediately, only then did I realize that the phone was running out of battery.Besides, it was very late now, Tang Ziyue probably fell asleep.I resisted the urge, hid the colored strange paper, washed my hands and face, and lay on the bed, forcing myself to fall asleep quickly.But the thunder continued, and every time I wanted to fall asleep, I was always awakened by the loud noise.After an unknown amount of time, I was awakened again by a thunderbolt, my eyes opened slightly in a daze, and then I wanted to close them again, but suddenly I broke out in a cold sweat and jumped out of the bed! All of a sudden, I didn't feel sleepy at all, because when the night sky was lit up by lightning just now, the window was also lit up, and a figure appeared outside the window.Through the thin curtains, I saw Erye Tang in a trance, he was staring at me sleeping on the bed motionless.I shivered, and hurriedly got up to turn on the light, but remembered that the electricity had not been restored, and the candle was blown out.I tried to calm down, ghosts are nothing to be afraid of, if Second Master Tang really came back, that would be great, I can ask him directly what is going on with these strange things.Regrettably, I opened the door and saw that there was no one outside, only the raindrops kept falling on the eaves, creating splashes of water. I stood blankly for a while, thinking that maybe it was a dream, I might as well continue to sleep, but just as I was about to close the door, a chill hit my whole body again!This... is not an illusion! Under the eaves, several rows of footprints appeared on the rough concrete floor, exactly the same as the ones I saw in Mr. Tang's room that day.One in the first row, two in the second row, one in the third row, two in the fourth row... It's like the person walking past has three legs.I was shocked for a while, and hurriedly took out the flashlight from the room, and shook it in the rainy night. Everyone in the ferry was sleeping, and no one came out. The outer edge of the floor under the eaves was wet, and the footprints walked a few steps inside, turned a corner and turned outside.I took out my umbrella and flashlight, trying to catch up without even thinking about it.Before, the footprints in Mr. Tang's room dried too quickly. I thought it was an illusion, but this time the footprints were not only on the floor, but also on the grass.The grass is as soft as dough, and if you step on it, the imprint will not disappear quickly. "It doesn't matter if you are a human or a ghost, I'm following you this time. If you don't find out, you will never be able to sleep peacefully." I made up my mind, quietly closed the door and chased into the rain, no matter whether it was early morning or not, how terrifying the crossing at night was.Not long after I followed, I almost lost it several times, because there was water on the grass, and the footprints sometimes disappeared.After going around a few times, I followed the footprints through clumps of weeds, and my whole body was soaked by raindrops, only then did I realize that I had arrived in front of the abandoned small building in the crossing. This small building is frightening. It is haunted by ghosts when you look at it during the day, not to mention how scary it is at night.In order not to scare away the people who left footprints, I turned off the flashlight early. I wanted to go in and have a look, but suddenly there was a quarrel inside.Immediately afterwards, hurried footsteps were faintly heard in the building, and they were walking outside at this moment, as if I had been discovered.In desperation, I put away my umbrella, took a few steps back and hid in the grass outside. call!call!call! The river wind at night was strong and violent, and the raindrops fell from the sky and hit people's faces, as if they had been slapped.My face was covered with rain, and I held my breath after wiping it, for fear of being discovered.It's not that I'm afraid of ghosts or being bumped into by people, but I want to see who is arguing in the abandoned building, and I don't want to alarm them too early.After waiting for a while, a person rushed out of the small building. Because of the lack of light, I couldn't see clearly, and I couldn't even tell whether it was a man or a woman. "Keep your voice down! If anyone finds out, we'll be finished! Get in!" That person dropped a sentence and then retreated into the abandoned building, but I kept talking. Although I couldn't see clearly, I could definitely tell who the voice was—it was Hu Jiaheng's voice!It's so late, why Captain Hu is in the abandoned small building, it must be a shameful dirty thing!This discovery shocked me, and I was at a loss. I wondered if I should rush in now and catch him right now?After hesitating for a while, I thought it was inappropriate. After all, going to the abandoned small building at night is not illegal. Last month, Yue Mingfei and I also came here and hid some things in the small building. The question is, who was in the building with Captain Hu, and who was the one who quarreled with him?Is it someone from the ferry? I was so cold from the rain that I couldn't help but sneezed. Fortunately, the rain was still strong and blocked the sound.After waiting and waiting, Captain Hu still didn't come out. I gradually became impatient, so I stood up from the haystack and walked towards the abandoned building step by step.At this time, my flashlight could no longer be turned on, I didn't bring my mobile phone, and I didn't have any lighting tools.But I can't control that much anymore, too many questions piled up in my mind, this time I managed to catch Captain Hu, and I must open his mouth. The small building was damp and stuffy, and as soon as I walked in, I couldn't see my fingers. I had no choice but to flick the flashlight, hoping it would turn on again.This flashlight is a street commodity, and it broke after the rain, but I shook it a few times, and it turned on again, but it would keep flashing, as if the battery was running out.I cursed secretly, flashlight brother, you deliberately tricked me, flashing around in this kind of ghost place, do you think you are making a ghost movie? This night, there were a lot of strange things. After I searched the abandoned building, I searched upstairs and downstairs, but there was no sign of Captain Hu, and another person disappeared.My hair stood on end, where did Captain Hu go?I have been guarding in the grass just now, no one has left this building, unless they slipped out from the back over the wall, but is this necessary?They didn't notice me, so they could walk out through the main entrance openly. "strangeness!" I searched again in the building, but there was still no trace, only scratches on the wall and yellow nails all over the floor.After a while, I can only accept the reality, maybe Captain Hu is a monster who knows how to teleport, otherwise how could he escape Lao Tzu's eyes?However, I still can't figure it out. Captain Hu didn't sleep at night, so who did he come here to argue with?Can't we go to another place to make a noise? That night, I was so exhausted that I slept until noon after drying off.The sun was out of the sky in the early morning, and the water level of the Yi River was also dropping, and there was no flooding.After I got up, I went to Mrs. Han and asked for a bowl of white porridge with a bun. After I was full, I saw Captain Hu walk into the cafeteria.At that moment, the atmosphere became very strange. I waited for Mrs. Han to return to the kitchen, thought for a while, and then asked, "Captain Hu, were you in the room last night? Did you go anywhere else?" "Where can I go under such heavy rain?" Captain Hu replied while eating, without looking at me. I deliberately changed the phrase, and continued to ask: "I got up last night to go to the bathroom, and I seemed to see someone in the deserted small building, wasn't it you?" Captain Hu's expression changed suddenly, but he calmed down immediately, and replied: "Little Huang, are you dreaming? That building is dilapidated, who would go there! By the way, it is a dangerous building, maybe someday it will be destroyed." It's collapsed, don't go there casually, do you hear me!" "I knew you would lie!" I agreed with my mouth, but I was thinking in my heart that if Captain Hu denied it, it meant there was a secret. He couldn't be responsible for the weird things these days, right?Captain Hu doesn't admit it now, and I don't have any evidence. If I report the case to the police like this, it's no wonder that someone would believe it.It's a pity that Captain Hu didn't give me another chance to ask. He finished the porridge in the bowl in one gulp, patted his butt and left. I had nothing to do, so I went back to the dormitory and continued to study the colored paper I found in the journal cover. I tried drying it with fire and soaking it in water, but no ciphertext appeared, and the tricks of martial arts novels didn’t work.I wanted to call Tang Ziyue and tell her about the discovery of the colored paper, but her phone was turned off, so she must be in class.Next, I wanted to find Yue Mingfei, but he wasn't there. Du often heard from Jin Lele that Yue Mingfei was always running outside these days, and several times she saw Yue Mingfei and a woman sharing a room in a hotel on the street.Jin Lele's words were full of jealousy, and she was obviously interested in others. No wonder, besides Jia Xiazi, the most handsome person in the crossing field was Yue Mingfei. It was normal for Jin Lele to be interested in others.But I haven't talked to Yue Mingfei for several days, maybe he's tired of detective games, anyway, the current matter has nothing to do with him, his secret is safe. In the afternoon, the sun was high, and the hot temperature came up again. When the water vapor evaporated, the whole of Guangxi became a sauna. I was uncomfortably hot, and the ferry was not equipped with air conditioners, so I had to go to the riverside to cool off the heat.After playing for half an hour, Tang Ziyue called and asked me if I had time to go to the teacher's college.What I have more time for is that I can't wait to fly there immediately, and run across the camphor forest as soon as I hang up the phone. Tang Ziyue stood waiting at the back door of the teacher's academy. When she saw me coming, she immediately waved: "Sorry to disturb you again." "You don't need to be so polite, you don't want me, I still want to look for you." After I said this, I told Tang Ziyue what he thought of the secret in the journal cover. "There are so many colors on the piece of paper? You have to hide it well and don't lose it. If necessary, take a photo at the end and make a backup." Tang Ziyue said cautiously. "It's useless to make more backups, and we don't know what secrets are on that piece of paper." I replied dejectedly. Tang Ziyue encouraged: "Don't give up so quickly! I came to you this time not because of the diary, but because I checked the student number you gave yesterday and found Gu Yingying, the female student who took the wrong umbrella in the library. " "Found it so quickly?" I asked in surprise. Tang Ziyue nodded and said: "She is looking for materials in the library now. I confirmed with Aunt Ma that she is still inside. Let's go and ask her why there is Mr. Tang's umbrella." On the way to the library, Tang Ziyue told me that Gu Yingying was a sophomore in the Department of Mathematics and was about to join the party, so she frequently went to the old library to extract some materials.At first glance, Gu Yingying and Tang Erye had nothing to do with each other. Their bond was the mulberry.Fortunately, when we arrived, Gu Yingying was still in the library and hadn't disappeared. When Gu Yingying learned of our reason for coming, she apologized and said, "Last night, the power outage was too sudden. I was taken aback. I was a little anxious to speak. Don't worry about it." I smiled and said, "It's nothing, I forgot about it a long time ago. It's just that the umbrella doesn't belong to you, right? It should be Sang from the ferry." "Tell me, I'm a teacher at this school, he's a ferryman, we're not police." Tang Ziyue tried to make the other party relax their vigilance. Gu Yingying looked left and right, then called us to the corner of the library, and said in a low voice: "The thing is like this. Last month, I went to the library to read, and it was raining that day, and it was very heavy. I didn't bring an umbrella, so I couldn't go back. Yes, an old man lent me his umbrella. He said he would stay in the library for a long time and would not be able to use it for the time being. On that day, I went back to the dormitory and ran back to the library with my own umbrella, wanting to return it. To the old man. I searched and found that the old man was in the attic and had a quarrel with someone. Although the voice was not loud, I could hear that they were having a very unpleasant quarrel. It was so embarrassing, I dare not Excuse me, so that umbrella has always been in my hand, and I haven't returned it." "That old man is Second Master Tang?" Tang Ziyue asked suspiciously. "I really don't know the Second Master Tang you are talking about!" Gu Yingying said excitedly, "I thought it was the teacher at the school, and I wanted to return the umbrella. During this time, I often came to the library..." "Didn't you find him?" I interrupted. "I found it! A few days later, I saw that old man again. It was also raining that day, and he brought a new umbrella. Just like that, this umbrella became mine." Gu Yingying tried her best to explain . I was very disappointed after listening to it. It turns out that Gu Yingying has nothing to do with Tang Erye, they are just like passers-by.But why does Second Master Tang come and go to the library so often? Is he trying to steal the county annals, or is he looking for the medical examination report?Tang Ziyue patted me on the shoulder, meaning don't get discouraged so quickly, I didn't get the answer I wanted now, but I finally explained a mystery-the umbrella was not brought by Mr. Tang, and the library is not haunted. Seeing that I was about to leave, Gu Yingying seemed to think of something and stopped us: "Wait! Why are you asking these things? If you want to know, I can tell you who the person who quarreled with that old man was. , I heard the old man call that person's name directly." "It can't be Hu Jiaheng, right? Is it an old man?" I turned around lazily and asked. "Of course not!" Gu Yingying said to us, "That's a woman, the old man called her...Li Xiaoai!"