Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven Ashes

Mosquitoes were flying around in the office building in Duchang. When I took out the screen of my mobile phone to illuminate, they swarmed over and bit me, making my arms itchy and painful.All the things in Jin Lele's dormitory were taken away by Qin Wang, in order to meet the request of Jin Lele's parents, and it was just a formality.The things in the office building haven’t been checked yet. I found Agatha’s "The Dumb Witness" from under the files on the desk. I didn’t expect that there was a letter inside. What’s even more strange is that the addressee wasn’t Jin Lele , but me.

"This damn woman dares to intercept my letter, no wonder she knows everything!" I thought angrily and sympathetically, "Curiosity kills cats, gossip kills people!" I scratched the place where the mosquito had bitten, then shook the opened letter, and a piece of paper fell out, and landed gently on the table.I have been at the ferry for more than half a year, and even my parents haven't written to me, who will write to me?It's the 21st century now, don't you know how to call or write a letter if you want to contact me!Confused, I picked up the paper from the desktop and looked at it through the hazy light of the phone screen. There was no word on it, only many colors, dozens of concentric circles.

"A flyer?" I wondered, "Who sends me this crap?" Looking again, the handwriting on the envelope looked familiar, but I wasn't sure.Since graduating, I have rarely touched a pen, and I have never read other people's writing.But Jin Lele hid the letter in a secret place, there must be her intentions, she is not a cheap lamp, since she specially chose "The Dumb Witness" to hide the letter, then she must have thought that it would be dangerous to go to the reservoir last night.There were more and more mosquitoes, and I was bitten so badly that I wanted to sneak out with books and letters. At this moment, I remembered that I had seen this handwriting before!

Some time ago, Yue Mingfei and I stole the keys, got into Second Master Tang’s room, and found many birthday cards and letters under his straw mat.Those birthday cards were for Li Xiaoai, but unfortunately they were not mailed out. The envelope only had her name written on it, but no address. I don't know why.I have studied the birthday card and envelope for a while, so I still have some impression of the handwriting, and it looks familiar at first glance. I was so excited that I was afraid of being caught, so I closed the door quietly and fled back to the room quickly.After turning off the lights and lighting the mosquito coils, I was stuffy in the steaming dormitory, and I took out the flashlight to read the letter carefully.The postmark was on May 10, and Mr. Tang was already dead at that time. How could he send me a letter?However, Yishan Town is a small town. If you put a letter in the mailbox, sometimes it takes half a month or even a month for the postman to pick it up. The delay can be explained clearly.

"So, Second Master Tang may have left me a letter before the accident?" I couldn't believe it, and took a deep breath.Perhaps, Jin Lele also guessed that Second Master Tang had left a hand before his death, so he followed the example and left many clues on the night of going to the reservoir, hoping to warn the mysterious man not to do anything to her.Regrettably, Jin Lele overestimated Yue Mingfei and me. The clues she buried are too deep. I am not the great detective Poirot, so I can't see her intentions. I turned over on the bed and cursed in my heart, Erye Tang is really serious, if I have something to say, I can't say it directly, I have to play detective games.But I thought about it again, Mr. Tang was so cautious, probably because he was afraid that the letter would be intercepted, so he didn't dare to write too bluntly.Facts have proved that the letter was indeed opened. If I hadn't secretly gone to Jin Lele's office, I'm afraid I would never have known that Erye Tang had left such an important letter for me.Jin Lele opened the letter secretly, and must have seen the meaning of the colorful concentric circles, but I couldn't understand it.

This night, I was so tired that I fell asleep in bed without brushing my teeth or washing my face.In the morning, the chirping of birds woke me up.The moment I opened my eyes, I sensitively touched the head of the bed, thinking that the letter had been stolen.Fortunately, the letter was still on the bedside, and the door was opened without any surprise.It seems that the only person who can freely enter and leave my room is Jin Lele. Now that she is lying in the hospital, the strange things have stopped, but who is the one who killed her? In the morning, Sister Miao came to the ferry for an unprecedented time. She saw me brushing my teeth and washing my face, and muttered a few words in dissatisfaction, as if saying that I was too lazy and only woke up now.After that, Sister Miao and Captain Hu talked for a long time in the office, not knowing what to discuss.Before this, Mrs. Han had already gone shopping for vegetables, and Jia Xiazi also went with him. By the way, he checked his eyes to see if there was any necrosis of the eye tissue. He had to check once a month.

"Hey! Tell me, can Qin Wang find out?" Yue Mingfei suddenly walked out of the dormitory with a worried look on his face. "I thought you had gone out a long time ago." I was a little surprised and looked back. "Where can I go?" Yue Mingfei said dejectedly, "I really hope that Jin Lele can wake up and tell everyone the truth." "Speaking of this... By the way, I have something to show you." When Yue Mingfei saw the letter and the multi-colored concentric circles, his reaction was the same as mine, but he couldn't guess what the concentric circles meant.We are all uneducated people. Whenever we encounter such a problem, we naturally want to ask others for help. The most suitable person is Tang Ziyue.Coincidentally, Tang Ziyue had no class in the morning, so I made a phone call and asked her to meet at a restaurant outside the school, and chat about recent events while eating.

half an hour later. We sat down in a restaurant, there is no private room here, the three of us sat on the edge of the small hall, and some students could see us when they came to the dental festival.Tang Ziyue was not shy, she asked Jin Lele why something happened as soon as she sat down, she had already noticed that something was wrong.I didn't cover up, and I didn't make any small talk. I confided the truth to Tang Ziyue from the very beginning, and Yue Mingfei asked him what legal responsibility he would bear. Tang Ziyue clicked her tongue and replied: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? It's too late to tell Qin Wang the truth now. Jin Lele struggled in the water for so long, and the traces of the murderer on her body were also washed away. I can't find it." Direct evidence. You have delayed for so long, and if you confess now, you will only be regarded as a murderer."

"I thought so too." Yue Mingfei said worriedly. "Didn't you tell me that much earlier?" I scolded. "The situation was complicated at that time. Why did I think so much? Jin Lele was beaten by me, and she pretended to be pitiful and told me to keep it a secret. She promised to tell me the truth when she returned. What can I do?" Yue Mingfei said helplessly. I didn't really blame Yue Mingfei, I just felt that I missed a good opportunity, and now I have to continue playing this detective game like Tang Erye's case, the difference is that there is no detective in this case.Tang Ziyue analyzed it for a while, then took the letter intercepted by Jin Lele and studied it seriously.When the proprietress served the food, Tang Ziyue didn't even glance at the food, as if she knew the multi-colored concentric circles.

"That's strange, is Second Master Tang highly educated?" Suddenly, Tang Ziyue asked. "Him? It seems that he hasn't studied much, and I didn't ask." I shrugged, and then asked Yue Mingfei, "You came earlier than me, do you know?" "Second Master Tang hasn't studied for a few years, right?" Yue Mingfei was not sure. "What's wrong?" I asked curiously. "This letter is actually a set of codes, which was invented by an Italian painter." Tang Ziyue spread the letter on the dinner table after finishing speaking.

Then, Tang Ziyue told us that the Italian painter was named Modigliani, who was born on July 12, 1884. His achievements lie in portraiture and body painting, with an obvious style.Modigliani was handsome and handsome, addicted to women, alcohol and drugs all day long, but he was born with frailty and sickness, which made his health worse and he died at the age of 35.In addition to leaving some excellent works, Modigliani also has a set of color codes for communicating with his mistress. The foundation of European civilization is Greek civilization. The letters it uses are called Greek letters (many letters are evolved from Greek letters). The color code is 24 colors corresponding to 24 Greek letters.The concentric circles can correspond to the letters from the inside to the outside, and list the meanings to be expressed.Later, Modigliani's set of codes was cracked by other painters, and letters and colors corresponding to various languages ​​began to evolve, including English and Japanese. "Is this the color code invented by the Italian satyr painter?" I woke up. "It seems that it is not difficult to decipher. You don't just know what letters these colors correspond to?" Tang Ziyue said seriously: "How do I know? There are many languages ​​corresponding to these colors in the world. I don't know how to correspond to Chinese. It seems that I have never heard of it. So I ask you whether Erye Tang is highly educated or not. Maybe he painted it in Russian or English." "So you have to find the corresponding version to know what Tang Erye is going to say?" Yue Mingfei was very disappointed. I was so hot that I asked the proprietress to take three bottles of iced Sprite. After taking a sip, I remembered something.Before, Tang Ziyue and I dug up a diary left by the pontoon troops in the old ferry. The diary was a book from the heavens, and there was nothing recorded, but there was a piece of torn paper full of colors in the cover. Could it be the password? sample?A reference book of letters for each color?The pontoon troops are not well-known, but their role is very important. If they send messages, will they also have their own specific password? Tang Ziyue heard what I said, and agreed: "It seems that the samples in the log are the key to cracking the code, but how did Jin Lele decipher it? The person who dug the log that night should be the one who wanted to kill her. I read the letter Tang Erye sent you, what is he digging up the diary for? It should be Jin Lele who is going to dig it, right?" "I don't know." I said simply. "You guys are too impulsive. If you don't soak the log in vinegar, maybe the samples won't be blurred. Now, where can we find samples? Captain Hu is the only veteran left in the pontoon bridge army? He's willing to tell us Is it true? I suspect that he is the one who harmed Jin Lele..." Yue Mingfei guessed in a low voice, while looking warily at the proprietress who was walking around. "You can't guess without evidence." I said cautiously, even though I also suspected that there was something wrong with Captain Hu. "Don't worry, Hu Jiaheng should not be the only one in the pontoon bridge unit. I have time tonight. I'll look for the teachers of the history department. They may have clues." Tang Ziyue said carefully. "I don't think there is much hope. The pontoon and bridge troops existed in World War II. At that time, China didn't have pinyin, right? The soldiers don't know English or Russian, and they can't even speak Mandarin properly." Yue Mingfei poured cold water, "I see. , may have other meanings." "It's not necessarily!" I took a sip of the cold Sprite, and then said, "The pontoon bridge troops have to escort tanks and other things across the river. Do you know what a tank crossing is? It means that tanks drive across the river! Those things used to be It is a number in foreign language, and the engineers and soldiers of the pontoon bridge understand those foreign language, don't think they are all bumpkins!" During the meal, the three of us argued endlessly, but finally agreed that it was the color code left by the Italian painter Modigliani.As for how Erye Tang mastered this password, we don't know. The best way is to check Erye Tang's educational background.I'm in a very complicated mood. Second Master Tang died for me, and he believed in me so much. He left important information before he died. If he can't find out, he is really ashamed of his soul in heaven. Soon, everyone was full, Tang Ziyue was going back to school for a rest, and Yue Mingfei and I walked back to Duchang on the road, I wondered why Erye Tang insisted on keeping a certain secret, and let others expose it to him .But that secret must be very important and incredible, otherwise that person would have stood up and exposed it to everyone.Now the town is still calm, which shows that the person knows well that if there is no evidence, others will not believe his words. This situation is the same as mine. Yue Mingfei is not good at using his brain, so he went to take a nap when he returned to the ferry. I saw that Sister Miao was still discussing things with Captain Hu, so I went back to the room alone, wanting to study the color code again.If Jin Lele can find out, so can I.But as soon as I sat down, the urn on the table rattled and shook slightly. "Second Master Tang appeared?" I stood up puzzled and terrified. The jar had been placed in my room since I brought it back from the crematorium. Why would there be a vision today, and it was still broad daylight.The jar shook more and more violently. I hesitated for a while, thinking that there would be no ghosts in broad daylight, not to mention there were Yue Mingfei and others outside, so don't be afraid!I took a deep breath, and after stabilizing the jar, I pulled it out hard, and the lid was pulled away. Immediately afterwards, I looked into the jar and yelled in fright. At first, I really thought it was Tang Erye who appeared and wanted to tell me who the murderer was and who was the most treacherous person.When I opened the lid, a grass snake sprang out of it. This kind of snake is colorful but not poisonous. It is very common in Guangxi.I had an inexplicable fear of snakes, and I immediately took a few steps back in fright.The snake was as thick as a thumb, and the ashes stuck to it turned out of the jar and fell on the rough concrete floor.Seeing this, I picked up the chair and slammed it on the floor a few times, and the grass snake died quickly. Just now I yelled and swung my chair to beat the snake. Captain Hu and Sister Miao, who were talking in the office, heard the movement and came to knock on my door together.I opened the door in embarrassment, without even thinking about it, I said that there was a grass snake in the urn, which shocked me.Sister Miao didn't believe it, and questioned how the grass snake could get in when the urn was sealed.I was frightened just now, so I didn't think too much about it. It was only when I heard Sister Miao's questioning that I felt something strange—how did the grass snake get into the jar? "The crossing is not peaceful recently, Xiao Huang, don't make trouble." Captain Hu seemed to have something in his words. Sister Miao glanced at me, and then said to Captain Hu: "I don't think so, maybe someone is intentionally cheating. Why don't we just do what we said just now, change all the locks of every room in the crossing, and use the keys yourself. Safekeeping, if there is any trouble again, then I will be responsible for it. I will do all the chores in the future, and it happens that I have been away from the ferry for a long time, and it is time to come back." "Change the lock?" I asked in amazement. "Why? Do you have an opinion?" Sister Miao glanced sideways and said, "Jin Lele hangs the spare key by the window, just in case someone loses the key and cannot enter the house, just to make it easier for you. I always I think this method is not good, Tang Erye told me last month that someone stole his things and suspected that someone had assigned those keys..." I was staring at the snake corpse on the ground in a daze, and when I heard this, I interrupted: "Er. Tang lost something?" Then I thought, was it the time Yue Mingfei stole the statue? "Of course. Jin Lele's accident is quite strange, although we don't want his parents to continue to make trouble. I discussed it with Hu Jiaheng today, and all the locks need to be changed, not just the dormitory, but also the office building." Miao The elder sister said that she had discussed with Captain Hu, but she had already made a decision. In her heart, she always felt that she was the real captain of the ferry. Captain Hu didn't object, but just nodded aside. Sister Miao couldn't understand it, so she said, "I didn't mean you, Hu Jiaheng, what happened to your management of this place? Huang Dingyi actually let Huang Dingyi put the urn of Tang Erye in his room Li? Huang Dingyi is a newcomer, so it’s understandable for him not to know about the columbarium, what about you? It’s all right now, let someone put the snake into the ashes, aren’t you afraid that Master Tang will settle accounts with you at night?” Sister Miao was very dissatisfied with Hu Jiaheng's style of work, and she began to reprimand me. I stood aside in embarrassment, and only then did I know that there was a columbarium in Yishan Ferry.As the name suggests, the columbarium is the room where the urns are stored, where the ashes of salvagemen are placed, each of which is my predecessor.In fact, salvagers are similar to those who salvage corpses. In the past, those who did this kind of work were all men from the lone star of the gods, so no one took the ashes, so they had to squeeze into a narrow tile-roofed house in the ferry. The columbarium is just opposite the dormitory, only two rooms away from the cafeteria. I always thought it was the place where Mrs. Han put the ingredients, but I didn't expect it to be the ashes.I tidied up and carried the urn over, and Sister Miao asked me if I had lost anything.I didn't dare to say that nothing was lost, but the broken-arm statue had three extra hands.Now that I think about it, maybe someone opened the door quietly and changed a similar statue every time, trying to make me think about horror.But why do you want to do this?Tang Ziyue once said that the Japanese detective novelist Masashi Yokomizo wrote in his novels: The real horror in this matter is not how to proceed, but why it must be carried out in this way. As I walked across the grass, I murmured to myself that someone must be trying to make me think of the Severus instead of horror for horror's sake.Because the matter of the broken-armed water god is not a secret that Mr. Tang wants to keep, we were once misled, and we only realized not long ago that the three-handed baby has nothing to do with the "secret".But if you do this, isn't it just helping Tang Erye?Second Master Tang just wanted to keep the secret and not let others know. Could it be that, in these weird incidents, besides the person who wanted to expose the secret, there was also a person who secretly helped Second Master Tang? "The locks of the columbarium also had to be changed, and every room had to be changed anyway." Sister Miao's voice pulled me out of my thoughts. At this time, the three of us had already walked to the columbarium. Captain Hu kept nodding and didn't raise any objections. He must be embarrassed to argue with the woman.Mrs. Han heard the voice and walked out of the cafeteria. She was washing the vegetables, her hands were wet and the leaves were still stained.Mrs. Han's husband used to be the director of the Yishan Ferry, Hu Jiaheng's predecessor, but unfortunately died in a salvage operation.As soon as Sister Miao saw Mrs. Han, her domineering arrogance disappeared, and she kindly asked Mrs. Han how she was recently. "I'm fine!" Mrs. Han smiled, and when she heard that the lock was going to be changed, she clapped her hands in approval, "It's great to change the lock! Last time I lost Xiao Huang's oxygen bottle, I've been feeling guilty all this time." "Oxygen tank?" Sister Miao turned around and asked me. Captain Hu replied: "That's Mr. Tang's oxygen cylinder. For some reason, Huang Dingyi picked it up in the abandoned building. Later, we went to the reservoir to retrieve the corpse. The oxygen cylinder was handed over to Mrs. Han for safekeeping, but it was stolen. " "There is such a thing? Then you didn't mention it to Qin Wang?" Sister Miao asked unexpectedly. "I mentioned it, but he didn't believe it," I replied. "Forget it, the matter is messy enough, let's get over it when it's over. Erye Tang has no one to rely on, and no one will pursue it. Jin Lele is different. His parents were at the ferry before, and they won't let it go." Ms. Miao After speaking, he took out a large bunch of keys and opened the door. After a while, Jia Xiazi heard the movement with his keen ears, walked out of the room, and asked Yue Mingfei next door what happened.The two of them walked over together and saw that we were opening the columbarium, so they asked one after the other why they wanted to open it all of a sudden.Sister Miao told me about the grass snake, and Yue Mingfei looked at me. Although he didn't make a sound, I knew he was asking in his heart, who put the snake in the urn?What the hell are you trying to do? I'm also wondering, if the "Three Changes of the Broken Arm Statue" is meant to confuse us and make us think in the wrong direction, then what is the intention of stuffing the snake into the urn?Could it be just to popularize the knowledge of the ferry for me, let me know that there is a columbarium here?Is this for my own good, or is it trying to harm me? After Sister Miao opened the door, everyone walked in together. In the hot summer, the columbarium was unusually cool, and the sweat on their bodies lost a layer.The windows of the room were all covered by a thick layer of black gauze, and it was impossible to see the situation in the room clearly from the outside of the window.When I entered the columbarium for the first time, I felt uneasy, thinking that there would be strange and weird mourning hall decorations.As soon as I entered, I was stunned. The columbarium is very simple.There were a few wooden tables in the room, and several urns were placed on each table. A piece of paper was pasted on the urn, and the name and date of birth and death of the deceased were written on the paper. "It's been a long time since I came here." Blind Jia said as soon as he walked in. "You've almost been here forever." Yue Mingfei said without restraint. "Fortunately..." Blind Jia hesitated to speak, as if he didn't want to mention something. "Put Second Master Tang on this table!" Sister Miao pointed to an empty space, and then she wanted to close the door, but asked me again, "I heard from Hu Jiaheng that you and Second Master Tang have a good relationship, do you want to say goodbye? What?" I had this thought in my heart, so I blurted out: "Good!" Sister Miao didn't say much. After telling everyone to leave, she left the key to me, but there is no need to return it to her, because she will find a locksmith today and replace all the locks.When everyone was gone, I closed the wooden door and wanted to mourn in silence, when my attention was attracted by the urn next to it.The note on the jar said: Han Tianxiao, born on February 21, 1955, died on July 2, 1998. "Han Tianxiao is Mrs. Han's husband." I muttered in my heart, "It turns out that her husband's ashes are also here. Her husband has been dead for more than ten years." On the other side, the ashes urns were relatively new. I glanced at them and couldn't help being surprised.The note on the jar read: Honey, born October 28, 1982, died August 30, 2008.I didn't know Honey, never heard of the man, but he died only a few days after I entered the ferry.When I reported to the ferry last September, no one mentioned that a salvageman died at the ferry.If I hadn't entered the columbarium today, I wouldn't have known that there was a salvageman named Honey at the ferry. "The person who put the snake in the urn to scare me deliberately wanted me to know that Honey died before I came?" I wondered, "What does this have to do with me? I didn't kill people of." Although I couldn't figure it out, I was relieved because Sister Miao was going to change all the locks.Sister Miao and I thought the same thing, someone must have assigned all the keys, otherwise it would be impossible to enter and leave everyone's room casually.Fortunately, the grass snake was placed in a jar. If it was placed under the quilt, I would have been scared to death long ago.I thought about it, and went to look at other urns. Someone deliberately arranged me here, and there must be a purpose for him. There are thirteen jars in the columbarium, which is an unlucky number. After I counted, the room felt colder.The strange thing is that there seems to be an urn missing from one of the tables, because there is a round cherry on the dusty table. This matter is no small matter. I was just going to report to Sister Miao when Tang Ziyue called me: "Hello, Huang Dingyi? Are you free tonight? I found a sample of the color code! We can find out tonight What did Second Master Tang want to tell you in the letter!" I was overjoyed by Tang Ziyue's efficiency in handling affairs. I thought that the color code would never be solved in this lifetime, but I didn't expect that there would be news only one day later.I hung up the phone and promised to look for Tang Ziyue at night, then I wanted to get out of the columbarium and told Sister Miao that there was a missing urn. Before I could get out, someone pushed the door open and nearly knocked me down.That person was Sister Miao. Seeing that I was going out, she asked, "Are you ready?" I nodded, shook my head again, and replied, "One urn is missing!" Sister Miao stared at me suspiciously for a while, then counted the urns, as if she didn't believe my words.In fact, I don't believe that there is any pervert in the world who would steal an urn, and it's not the ashes of Sakyamuni.Sister Miao counted and ignored me, then counted again, muttering something.I stood aside anxiously, wondering if I could call the police for stealing the ashes?Qin Wang and the others don't think Duchang is making trouble on purpose again, do they? Sister Miao counted back and forth three times, and finally said to me: "Can you count? There is one missing urn here, and there is clearly one more! It's so strange!" "Ah? One more?" I asked in surprise. "Including Mr. Tang, there should be twelve jars here. Who is this Honey? There has never been such a person in the ferry!" Sister Miao was very confused. "Isn't Honey from the ferry?" I asked quickly, "Then why is he here?" "That's why I said, all the locks must be replaced! Jin Lele and Hu Jiaheng made this place a mess, it really pissed me off!" Ms. Miao said angrily. I didn't dare to say anything, but I was asking in my heart, if there is not one jar missing, but one more jar, then why is there no dusty round seal?When Sister Miao rushed to urge the locksmith to come over angrily, I went to the table and picked up the jar marked "Honey".Sure enough, as I guessed, there was a layer of dust under the jar, and the jar was moved here later.That is, Honey's urn was originally on another table, and someone had recently switched it.Why do you do this?Just to let me know, shouldn't Honey's urn be in the columbarium at the Ferry?Sister Miao is also a veteran, even she doesn't know who Honey is, it seems that things are much more complicated than I thought. Honey's ashes caused a little commotion at the ferry, and then everyone gathered around to talk about where the damned jar came from.However, when the body is cremated, there will always be a record in the crematorium. Go there and check to know Honey's background.But the crematorium is quite far from the town, and since we are not the police, an extra jar will not harm anyone, so we finally decided to let it go.As for the jar, Hu Jiaheng prefers the deceased to be the most important, and let it be placed quietly in the columbarium, so that the crossing will not lose any hair. The matter of having an extra jar passed quickly, and everyone didn't discuss it any more. In fact, they were all overshadowed.Hu Jiaheng and Sister Miao did not advocate investigating this matter, but Yue Mingfei and I really wanted to check the records of the crematorium to find out who sent Honey's body to be cremated.Unfortunately, we are not the police, and the crematorium will not pull out the records for us to see for no reason, so this matter can only be temporarily shelved. When I walked back to the dormitory, I joked with Yue Mingfei: "Why don't you go to the crematorium for a walk, maybe there is a stupid girl there, you can check the records by dedicating yourself." "I won't do it!" Yue Mingfei waved his hands quickly when he heard the word "crematorium". "What about the little girl from before? You don't want her anymore?" I laughed. "I'm going to have dinner with her tonight, who said no?" Yue Mingfei denied. "Tonight?" I stopped in my tracks and said, "Tang Ziyue asked me to go to the teacher's college tonight, the color code has a clue, are you going?" "You come back and tell me." I know that Yue Mingfei is not interested in the investigation, he only cares that his secret will not be exposed, and now that the situation seems to be stable, he doesn't care much about it.In fact, I don't want Yue Mingfei to go to the teacher's academy tonight, so that I can be alone with Tang Ziyue.Back in the dormitory, before the locksmith came to change the locks, I took the time to dress up for tonight's date.Of course, in Tang Ziyue's eyes, it was not a date at all. As soon as the evening passed, the people at the crossing site were sitting in the cafeteria having dinner. Sister Miao distributed the keys to the new locks to everyone, and at the same time asked everyone to keep them safe.I took the key and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, at least no one would sneak into the room while I was asleep.However, people don't believe that someone sneaked into other people's room with a key. After all, it sounds too mysterious. Who would do such a thing! After dinner, I sat in the dormitory, staring at my phone in a daze.Tang Ziyue made an appointment at 7:30 in the evening. After dinner, the phone showed that it was just after 6:00.I was bored, so I took out Agatha's "The Dumb Witness" and casually browsed through a few pages.This detective story is probably about an old lady who wrote a letter to the great detective Poirot because something at home made her restless, but when the great detective Poirot arrived, the old lady was already dead.In the process of investigating the case, the great detective Poirot visited everyone, but he did not believe everyone's words, and it turned out that everyone was lying. As I watched, I wondered if the story of "The Dumb Witness" happened in the town and everyone was lying? Xiaguang came from the west. I looked at it and felt hot again, so I closed the book and wanted to go to the river to blow the river breeze.Just as I was about to close the door and walk out, Jia Xiazi came up from the other side. He moved slowly and asked, "Huang Dingyi, Sister Miao said that there is an extra urn in the columbarium. Is this true? No. Did you put it in?" "Of course not." I replied immediately. "Then...that grass snake is really in Erye Tang's urn?" Jia Xiazi asked. "You don't think I'm fooling around like Qin Wang, do you?" I said bitterly. "No, no, I'll just ask casually." After Jia Xiazi finished speaking, he turned around and went back to the room. I stood behind, looking at Jia Xiazi's back, feeling an indescribably strange feeling in my heart.It is said that a blind man has sensitive ears, and seeing the world with his heart is much clearer than with his eyes, but the blind man often forgets to cover up his facial expressions.I can assure you that what Jia Xiazi said just now was not just a random question, he must know something.I wanted to ask, but Jia Xiazi closed the door after entering the house, and he didn't feel too bored. I saw that it was getting late, so I went to the river to blow a gust of wind, and then walked slowly to Yishan Teachers College after cooling down.Tang Ziyue did not ask me to go to the teacher's office of the Department of Political Science and Law. There are too many people there, and other teachers will gossip.According to the agreement, we met in the small attic of the old library at 7:30 in the evening. There were fewer people there, so it would be much more convenient to talk about things.Last time, I was robbed of a medical examination report in the library, and then I felt that it was not safe there.But Tang Ziyue said that, and I didn't raise any objections. It's easy to do things with few people, regardless of whether it's dangerous or not. Aunt Ma was the administrator of the old library. She had an impression of me. Seeing me coming, she let me go without asking me to fill in my name and ID card.When I walked in, I suddenly thought, since I can easily get in and out, what about Li Xiaoai?Before, a female student named Gu Yingying told me that Erye Tang and Li Xiaoai had quarreled in the attic of the old library, but there was no such person as Li Xiaoai in the entry and exit records.Could it be that Li Xiaoai and Aunt Ma are very close, just like me, so I can't find her in the records? Thinking of this, I turned back and asked softly, "Aunt Ma, do you know someone named Li Xiaoai?" "Who is Li Xiaoai?" Aunt Ma raised her head and asked suspiciously. "Apart from me, is there anyone else who can enter and exit without keeping records?" I asked seriously. Aunt Ma smiled: "Yes!" "Who?" I asked. "Of course it's a leader like the principal!" Aunt Ma said cheerfully. I laughed dryly, and seeing that I couldn't find anything to ask, I planned to go to Tang Ziyue first.The principal of Yishan Teachers College is a man, and the name Li Xiaoai should be a woman. They are definitely not alone.However, I always felt that Aunt Ma knew Li Xiaoai, but I didn't know if Li Xiaoai's name was a pseudonym, so Aunt Ma didn't realize that she had met that person before. With a stomach full of question marks, I walked up to the small attic, where Tang Ziyue was already waiting for me.The lighting in the attic is in a cool tone, which gives people a cold feeling in summer, and the heat disappears a lot.As soon as I came in, I wanted to say hello, but a person suddenly appeared behind a row of bookshelves. I took a closer look and found that his grandma's belonged to that chemistry teacher, Ah Xiu.When Axiu saw me, he greeted me with a smile. I didn't expect him to follow, which really ruined the good atmosphere at this time. "Little Huang, you're here!" Ah Xiu said happily. "Teacher Axiu? Why are you here too?" I asked curiously, and at the same time tried my best to straighten my mind and not think about those romantic thoughts. "He helped us find a sample of Modigliani's color code, so I asked him to come over and study it together. There are many versions corresponding to this code. To know which version Mr. Tang used, you have to work hard." Tang Ziyue explained knowingly. "Doesn't Mr. Axiu teach chemistry? You even know the code invented by the Italian pervert painter?" I asked in amazement. Axiu scratched his head embarrassingly, and said modestly: "I used to know a painter in Changchun, and he was quite familiar with Italian painters. Teacher Tang came to ask me yesterday, so I asked the painter in Changchun, and he knew Several samples of the color ciphers were emailed to me." "You know so many people." I admired. "Don't be too polite, let's study the password given to you by Master Tang. Did you bring that letter?" Tang Ziyue asked me. I took out the letter, and we all went to a corner of the attic, where there was a little table where the books could be stacked.As I walked, I asked Tang Ziyue in a low voice, does Ah Xiu still not know the truth?Tang Ziyue waited for Ah Xiu to go away, she told me quietly, she only said that it was the last words left by the old man, and did not reveal the truth too much, she was afraid of causing trouble for Ah Xiu. "Axiu is really simple." I smiled, and the jealousy in my heart suddenly decreased by three points. There are not many people like this now. Walking to the table, Ah Xiu took the letter, and then spread five color samples on the table, comparing them one by one.Not long after, and without accident, the password left by Second Master Tang was unlocked in this small attic.