The cabin was empty, and Zhou Ziruo, who was originally tied to the pillar, was nowhere to be seen.
"Where's the little brother? Third brother, have you made a mistake?" Qiu Cailing asked.
"Impossible. It can't be wrong..." Liu Nanqin said to herself, and suddenly thought of something, "Could it be!"
"Uncle Du took Ziruo away."
Lu Lixiao's unquestionable words resounded clearly in the room.
Wei Heng said: "Uncle Du?... The real murderer is Uncle Du?"
"What did he take the little junior brother for? Will he kill him?" Qiu Cailing screamed.
Lu Lixiao only looked at Liu Nanqin, who gradually frowned, and finally sighed helplessly.
On the small road halfway up the mountain, Mu Qijun, who was out of breath, fell to the ground exhausted. Leng Mo ran ahead, looked back and immediately turned back to help him up, Mu Qijun waved to him while panting heavily: "Don't, leave me alone... you go first... I'll follow after a while..."
"You look like a kid who lacks training. You have good bones but you are so weak." Ouyang Yi walked back, stroking his beard and feeling uncomfortable.
Mu Qijun smiled weakly at him: "If Elder Ouyang doesn't mind returning to the door, he is willing to practice this junior, and this junior promises to cook delicious food every day to honor you!"
"Hmph! Just thinking about the old man's teaching after a few dishes? If Mr. Zhu didn't let the old man let you go today, the old man will punish you severely for the fact that you dare to spy on the old man's private affairs!" Ouyang Yi blew his beard.
Mu Qijun secretly exchanged glances with Leng Mo, and to Ouyang Yi's superfluous "Mr. Zhu was a good friend of the old man when he went out when he was young. She was orphaned and widowed with her children, so the old man helped them settle down in Qingyang Mountain. Occasionally take care of one or two." The statement became more and more unbelievable.
"I'll carry you on my back." Leng Mo held up Mu Qijun's arm.
I don't know where Mu Qijun was hit by this sentence, he suppressed his half-dead look and straightened up: "Are you kidding me!"
Leng Mo didn't understand why he was suddenly angry, and saw Mu Qijun striding forward. He caught up with him in two steps, took off the water bag from his waist and handed it over, "Have a drink."
Mu Qijun took a big gulp, and his breath became much smoother.
Ouyang Yi couldn't help asking the two of them: "What you said is true? Did the elder brother's death really have something to do with the third child?"
"According to the information we have searched so far, yes. Back then, he took the place of Senior Duan Peng and gave a piece of a thousand-year-old locust tree to Senior Duan Peng's ex-fiancée, Senior Ouyang, and Senior Du, who looked so virtuous. People, is it possible to have something to do with the devil in private?" Mu Qijun asked.
Ouyang Yi didn't immediately stare at him for guessing randomly, but his expression became complicated, and after a while he whispered: "It's not impossible... After all, he was quite close to that person back then."
"That person?" Mu Qijun was curious.
Leng Mo said: "The person Uncle Ouyang mentioned is Jiangyue, the lord of Jiangyue Palace, who plays the piano?"
Ouyang Yi was surprised at first, then recalled what had happened to Leng Mo's family, and sighed: "Although that man was withdrawn when he was still in Qingyang Mountain, he was by no means a villain. Heroes of Demon Dao!"
"Really? It's easy to change the country, but it's hard to change the nature. That person has already started to study evil spirits and crooked ways when he was in Qingyang Mountain. It can be seen that he is born to be close to evil things. After that, everything is just to liberate the nature and obey the self!" Leng Mo said coldly Said, Mu Qijun couldn't help but caressed his shoulders that trembled with anger unknowingly.
Leng Mo's words caused many people and things from his youth to appear in Ouyang Yi's mind, his eyes widened a little far away, "It's not completely unreasonable to say that, he was born in a foreign race in a remote place, I heard that they There have been many mysterious, ancient but bloody and cruel secret arts in the family since ancient times. Sometimes the so-called innate nature is actually just the influence of the environment! After he worshiped Qingyang Mountain, he was included in the eight major disciples because of his superior strength, but most of his fellow disciples were because of his maverick And I kept him at a respectful distance... Thinking about it, everyone's invisible estrangement at that time also caused him some harm... Although he never showed it on his face..."
"Senior Du didn't reject him at that time, so their relationship is better than ordinary people?" Mu Qijun said.
Ouyang Yi shook his head, "It's true that the third child has more contacts with him than we do, but I don't think he really takes the third child seriously in his heart. He stands in front of you and smiles at you like a flower, but you never know that he is in front of you." What are you thinking. In fact, he probably also intentionally not to get close to us. In the entire division, the only person who can be regarded as close to him is the fourth child."
Mu Qijun tried his best to recall who was ranked fourth among the top disciples thirty years ago, and Ouyang Yi repeated to himself: "Yes... only the fourth. The fourth brought him back from a remote place, and he The eyes that look at the fourth child are completely different from ours... "
Leng Mo opened his mouth to ask something, when a small colorful bird flew from the sky and landed on his shoulder, turning into a roll of paper. Leng Mo unfolded the note, and his expression changed drastically!
"Uncle Du has captured Junior Brother!"
"What? What did he catch?!"
"I don't know! The fourth senior brother only said so much!"
Mu Qijun and Leng Mo looked at Ouyang Yi together, and Ouyang Yi stroked a strand of beard on his chin and frowned, thinking: "Yesterday, this old man met the third brother at the senior brother's place, and he asked the senior brother for a few days off and said that he would Going out... If he had just taken nephew Zhou away, he shouldn't have stayed at the door..."
Mu Qijun waited for him expectantly, he then spit out: "Then where will he go?"
"Senior, you don't need to explain the psychological process of raising the question!!"
Mu Qijun jumped up anxiously, Ouyang Yi was really guilty, and waved at him: "Let the old man think about it quietly... Quiet? Quiet? Jingtan?"
"Where is that place? Will Uncle Du go there?" Leng Mo hurriedly asked, already holding a talisman in his hand, ready to give Lu Lixiao a talisman at any time.
Ouyang Yi said: "When we were young, five of us brothers and sisters were punished and thought about our mistakes. We accidentally found a pool of water in the valley. Because the pool is so quiet, we called it Jingtan! There are dense old trees and many trees around the pool. The blinding boulder is rarely seen, so he is likely to be there!"
In the deep valley behind Qingyang Mountain, a wide pool of water reflects the bright moonlight and swaying slowly. The night wind blows, and the fine crystals are blooming. The refreshing feeling of the cold pool water splashing on his skin awakened Zhou Ziruo from his coma. He opened his eyes dizzily, and the first thing that caught his eye was the bright starlight in the sky, which instantly made him almost unable to tell whether it was a dream or not. real.
He propped himself up and sat up, only to realize that he was in a flat boat. When he got up just now, the boat almost flipped over. He hurriedly hugged the boat to let the boat slowly return to a balanced state.
The boat was floating in the center of the pool, tens of feet away from the shore, Zhou Ziruo used his hands as oars to paddle a few times, but the boat remained motionless. It's not that he didn't think about jumping down and swimming ashore, but the water in the pool was icy cold, and he would probably freeze to death if he didn't swim halfway. It seems that the person who left him here knew very well that even if he didn't have to tie him up, he couldn't escape .
Zhou Ziruo vaguely remembered what happened in his mind.
In that cabin, another person came after Liu Nanqin left, he fainted out of nowhere, and came here after waking up.
Now Zhou Ziruo is sure that Liu Nanqin is not the murderer in this case.
Although at first he was confused by Liu Nanqin's statement, but after thinking about it carefully, he discovered the contradiction - why did the man in the black cloak let him see that scene the night Feng Jing was killed. If Liu Nanqin and Feng Jing colluded to commit crimes in order to win the competition, it would be impossible for Feng Jing to pretend to be a man in a black cloak and let him see "himself" beheaded. So the man in the black cloak that night was not Feng Jing at all, but the real murderer!
Lu Lixiao once said that the man in the black cloak might have done this to convey some information through his mouth and achieve a certain purpose. This purpose came to Zhou Ziruo's mind after Liu Nanqin confessed to all the crimes, and that was—for Liu Nanqin Create an unbreakable alibi.
Liu Nanqin came under the pseudonym of Jiang Yan, a young man who murdered his brother and threw away his body sixteen years ago. Once this secret is revealed, people with a heart will link him to Feng Jing's death through the connection between this case and the case thirty years ago. The man in the black cloak had prepared for this a long time ago, allowing Zhou Ziruo to witness Feng Jing's beheading while Liu Nanqin stayed in the bedroom, accompanied by Wei Heng and Elder Yunluo of the Shanyitang! But because if Zhou Zi didn't tell the story, the man in the black cloak would have taken an unplanned action as Lu Lixiao guessed, that is, blaming Lu Lixiao, so that Liu Nanqin would have no worries at all.
So far, Liu Nanqin's interpretation of this case has been overturned.
However, there is a bit of truth in one thing, and that is the motive.
The motive for killing Feng Jing was probably that Feng Jing threatened him with Liu Nanqin's past as Jiang Yan. This incident was learned by someone, and then a series of things followed. Liu Nanqin didn't seem to have been involved in this matter early in the morning, it was more like she had discovered something in the middle and was unable to stop it, so in the end she had to take all the charges on her. The evidence is that when Wei Heng was attacked, he asked Zhou Ziruo to go to the ancestral hall. If Wei Heng's situation was discovered two quarters later, he would definitely be dead!
In Qingyang Mountain, there is only one person who can protect Liu Nanqin like this, and at the same time make Liu Nanqin maintain it like this--Liu Nanqin's mentor, Du Hanfeng!
If Du Hanfeng met Liu Mei in Yiyang City thirty years ago, and his only son Jiang Yan knew about Liu Mei's love for him for more than ten years, then Jiang Yan would have come to Qingyang Mountain to join "Duan" without receiving Liu Mei's handwritten letter. Peng"! Of course, he joined Du Hanfeng who pretended to be Duan Peng at the beginning!
With Du Hanfeng's supernatural powers, he could have killed Feng Jing silently without being investigated by anyone. Why did he intentionally make such a big noise and imitate the case thirty years ago
Zhou Ziruo's mind suddenly became confused, because he found another doubt. In the case thirty years ago, only one Duan Peng died. In this case, besides Feng Jing, an unknown corpse also died. How did Du Hanfeng handle the case back then? Why didn't he completely imitate the crime he committed in the past this time
Also, after Liu Nanqin's explanation was denied, the case itself returned to the original point.
How does the Chamber of Secrets work? Why was there no blood at the scene after the beheading? Why does the wound on Feng Jing's neck coincide with Buli
Zhou Ziruo couldn't help wrapping his arms around his head, closed his eyes tightly, and tried hard to recall the scene of this case.
Arms, legs, torso, head...
Anonymous's arms, legs, torso, Feng Jing's head...
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In the previous two cases, the witnesses could not see Feng Jing below the shoulders by coincidence...
The arm in the first case had the same scar on Feng Jing's arm...
anonymous…
In this case, does this nameless person really exist? !
Zhou Ziruo suddenly came up with a bold hypothesis, even though common sense told him that he couldn't do it, his thoughts ran wildly in that direction like a wild horse running wild!
At this moment, the water flow on the calm water in front of him swirled, and a small vortex slowly formed. Du Hanfeng flew out leisurely from the vortex. The moment Zhou Ziruo saw the "thing" behind him, he finally knew that he had guessed right.
At the same time, the cold smile on Du Hanfeng's face made his heart sink heavily.
The author has something to say: So far all the clues of this case have been given, and the key points have also been drawn out through the analysis of the characters. Finally, I will give an idea. The title of the volume is the biggest spoiler. Don’t forget that the case is Xianxia background, you can try to explain it in an unreasonable way. ok that's it~