Chapter 058 Cabinet
"And then?" I asked. "What happened?"
Chen Meiyu thought carefully: "I remember that when Dad came back, his face was ashen, and he talked to Mom in the room for a long time. I still don't know what it was about."
Li Daming said, "Think carefully again. Are there any details?"
Chen Meiyu smiled bitterly: "How many years have passed? I really don't know."
"When your father went to Heilongjiang, were all his friends men? Were there any women?" I suddenly asked.
The two of them looked at me in surprise. Although they couldn't see my body, their eyes were full of surprise.
Li Daming burst out laughing: "Lin Cong, you are so down-to-earth, haha."
"Oh, that's right, I remember now." Chen Meiyu clapped her hands and said, "Dad brought some photos when he came back. I remember seeing him burn all the photos one day... But I vaguely remember that there were six people in total, three men and three women."
Li Daming laughed out loud. I asked him what he was laughing at, but he looked mysterious and didn't say anything. We are all adult men, and I knew he was up to no good when I saw his wretched look. If you think about it carefully, it's hard to say. The mountain was closed due to heavy snow, and a few men and women were gathered in a holiday cottage. If you say nothing happened, even children won't believe it.
I was just thinking about it when Li Daming said, "I think our thinking is off track."
"What's the matter?" I asked.
Li Daming said, "We should think about this environment. Put yourself in their shoes. If you and I were the friends who came with Uncle Chen back then, and the six of us were staying in a holiday cabin, what would happen? Let's simulate a scenario."
Chen Meiyu had a worried look on her face. She was a ghost messenger and was helpless at this point.
I thought of Uncle Zhong, Wang Yue, and Ma Danlong. Although they were all underworld messengers, they all had a strong respect for the underworld and the bardo. Their abilities could not change anything here, but they respected the settings and rules here more.
Chen Meiyu is actually the same as us in the bardo realm. She can only solve specific difficulties one by one.
Chen Meiyu sat on the wooden bed hugging her knees in a daze. I couldn't rely on her for the time being. I said to Li Daming, how do you want to simulate it?
Li Daming said, "Six people, right? Three men and three women. So the most likely way to allocate the rooms is that the three men live on the first floor and the three women live on the second floor, which is right here."
"Interesting, what next?" I asked with great interest.
Li Daming said: "Suppose, hypothetically, if there is a couple among these six people, then the couple should live together, breaking the accommodation method of men and women living separately..."
I shook my head: "I don't think that's right. Even if there are couples, can't they hold it back for a few days? Occasionally living with buddies or girlfriends, there's nothing wrong with living in different rooms."
"That's what you said." Li Daming said, "But..." Before he could finish his words, his eyes suddenly stared at something.
I followed his gaze and saw that he was looking at the large wooden wardrobe in the room, leaning against the wall with its double doors closed.
"Is there something wrong with the cabinet?" I said.
Li Daming said: "I suddenly have a very dirty idea, I don't know whether I should say it."
"Just tell me, you are a dirty person." I said with a smile.
Li Daming said seriously: "What if the girls were sleeping in the room and there was a man hiding in the closet?"
"Damn, that's Lao Wang next door." I snorted.
As we were talking, Chen Meiyu suddenly got off the bed, strode to the closet, pulled hard, and the two wooden doors opened. The inside was not empty, but full of clothes.
Li Daming walked forward quickly and I hurried to follow.
The clothes in the closet are not ordinary clothes, they are all women's clothes. Some of them are very sexy with lace edges, and they take up an entire closet.
"The clue to the puzzle may be here," said Li Daming.
He reached in and took out the clothes one by one, shaking them out and placing them on the ground. He took them out one by one, and soon the closet was empty. There were no clues worth mentioning in the process.
"If there really is a clue," I said, "I'm afraid only Uncle Chen knows it. How would we know which piece of clothing is problematic?"
"What do you mean?" Li Daming said, "Why did Uncle Chen know about the clothes? He was..."
"Alright, stop talking." Chen Meiyu was like an angry kitten, panting and feeling upset: "What makes you two speculate about my dad like this?!"
I sneered, "Don't be so sensitive about what we said about your dad."
Chen Meiyu looked at me fiercely, then at Li Daming, her eyes filled with tears: "My dad would never do such a thing, you two should stop thinking such disgusting things about my dad!"
Li Daming scratched his head : "We don't have any other ideas. The previous ones are just speculations and have not been confirmed."
"Two otakus, dirty men! Stinky losers." Chen Meiyu snorted, which was totally inconsistent with the gentle image she usually had in her paintings.
"Miss, please don't make personal attacks," I said.
Chen Meiyu went back angrily and sat back on the bed. It seemed that she had a deep relationship with her father. In her eyes, her father was a great hero and would not allow any tarnishing.
Li Daming smiled bitterly, squatted on the ground, and carefully checked the clothes on the ground one by one.
Chen Meiyu sneered: "Brother Li, I really misjudged you. I didn't expect you to be so dirty inside."
"What's wrong with me?" Li Daming said, "You beat me for not washing my feet last night. You don't have the right to say that to me."
Chen Meiyu's face was originally as cold as ice, but when she heard this, she couldn't help laughing and buried her face in her knees.
I squatted beside Li Daming and whispered, "I didn't realize you were such a good flirter."
Li Daming smiled and said softly, "No matter how elegant this woman is, she is still a woman, right? Okay, okay, let's get our attention back. Now let's solve the puzzle and get out. Time is running out."
"What are you looking for?" I asked.
Li Daming said: "I don't know either. I always feel that it is unreasonable for these clothes to be here."
"That's right. Every item in the difficult bardo realm has its own particular placement and they are not just placed randomly," I said.
Li Daming lowered his voice and said, "Do you think Chen Jian is the kind of person who likes to collect women's clothes?"
"Who knows?" I said, "Only Chen Meiyu treats her father like a treasure. No one knows the real situation."
"Take a look in the cabinet to see if there is any hidden mechanism." Li Daming said.
I entered the cabinet, but since I couldn't feel anything, I could only look around with my eyes, and I didn't find any hidden traps. I tried to push the cabinet wall with my hands, but it blocked me from getting through. My state was very strange, I had no form, but I couldn't get through many large objects.
For example, the big trees in the woods, the walls of the wooden house, and the cabinet walls here. In fact, I should have thought of it a long time ago. If nothing in this environment could hinder me, then I would not be standing here and would have sunk into the floor. The earth and the floor in the house are obstacles to me.
At this point I pushed the cabinet wall with my hands and found something was wrong. The cabinet wall was very thin, and the touch was extremely strange. I moved my invisible hands to touch other areas of the cabinet wall. Some places were thin and some places were thick, and the touch was definitely different.
"Damin, there is a problem, come and take a look ."
Li Daming was checking his underwear. He quickly stood up and went into the closet like me. He asked what was going on.
"Look at the cabinet wall at the back, there's a problem," I said.
Li Daming knocked on the counter with his hands, making a "bang bang" sound. I told him what I found, and he checked those places carefully. He said, "It's really different."
He turned around and called Chen Meiyu to come over and see.
Chen Meiyu wiped her eyes. Although she was still angry, this girl still had some sense of propriety and knew when to throw a tantrum and when to restrain herself.
She came over and began to carefully examine the cabinet walls according to what we had discovered.
Li Daming said: "Lin Cong's discovery is very important. I suddenly have an idea. The secret may not be underwear and wardrobe."
"What is that?" I asked.
Li Daming pointed to the cabinet and said, "I'm afraid it's behind it."
We came out of the cabinet and reached a preliminary consensus to move the cabinet a little further away. This large cabinet is more than two meters high and looks so heavy. I can't lend it any strength. Chen Meiyu is also a girl, so she mainly relies on Li Daming.
Li Daming spat into his palms twice, then held on to the cabinet with both hands and tried to exert force.
I ask you if you can do it?
Li Daming laughed: "If there really is a mechanism in the back, it means Uncle Chen has already gone in. If he can move the cabinet, why can't I? Just wait and see." He exerted force with his arms.
Who knew that this cabinet, although it looked heavy, was actually very light. The cabinet actually moved, rubbing gently along the ground without making any sound.
"There is a door." Li Daming pushed harder, and the cabinet moved farther and farther, with more and more area of the wall behind it exposed.
"I suddenly thought of something." I said, "Even if Uncle Chen entered through the cabinet, how did he restore the cabinet to its original position?"
