Chapter 37: Inference Reduction
In the Bamboo Pavilion, the Qin and the book are shuttling quickly in the bamboo forest. Although it has been two days since Liu Zhilan was assassinated, because Liu Zhengqian only cared about treating Liu Zhilan's injuries, and Ming Yuelan didn't care about this matter at all, Zhu Xie Pavilion was not guarded by government guards, so they boldly let go of their hands and feet in the courtyard.
Staying in front of the wreckage of the collapsed bamboo building, Ju Qin secretly glanced at the book beside her. I saw that Yu Shu was staring at the bloodstains left by the long-dried willow branch orchid on the ground, there was no wave on his face, and his calm eyebrows and eyes were full of understanding. Qi Qin retracted her eyes, and a smile of unknown meaning flashed on her lips. Well, I should have secretly come here to read it, but I was loyal. She didn't see it, and after she looked away, she also glanced at her, her eyes were still indifferent.
"Let's take a look at these things together. Qi Qin rushed forward and began to move the broken bamboo board, although she practiced martial arts and was taller, but she could only move some small broken boards, and she couldn't lift it no matter how heavy it was. After she moved a few pieces, a few small beads of sweat oozed from her forehead. She raised her sleeve and wiped it casually, leaning down to continue lifting.
"You can't lift it. Qiqin's body stiffened, she straightened up and looked at the person behind her, with some displeasure on her face, "What are you doing idle there? I didn't call you here to let you watch there." β
"You're in the way. Bishu hugged his chest, and a pair of Danfeng eyes stared at Juqin and said seriously.
Hearing the words of the book, Qiqin was stunned for a moment, and the next moment she bent her eyebrows, and rushed to the front of the book, raised her head and said angrily at him: "Now I won't block it, you go!" She stretched out her hand and pointed to the pile of wreckage behind her, and the book glanced at her, and then walked to the wreckage of the bamboo building without saying a word, throwing the broken bamboo boards aside one by one. He was tall and strong, so the broken bamboo boards were light for him.
"Ka!" moved to the end, and only a few bamboo planks and some fragments of utensils were scattered on the ground. One of the broken bamboo boards was too large, and he smashed it directly with his fist without frowning, and the bamboo board shattered into several halves in just one moment. Ever since he reprimanded him, Juqin has been standing in place and watching him work coldly. Now seeing that Yu Shu directly swung her fist, she subconsciously took half a step forward, and then seemed to think of something, so she stopped again, turned her head away from looking at him.
"Juanqin. After the book moved away from the smashed bamboo board, he straightened up, and the pair of Danfeng eyes on his cold and hard face exuded coldness.
"Done moving?" Qi Qin came back to her senses and turned back to walk towards Bi Shu. She walked over to the book and noticed that his expression was colder than usual, so she followed his gaze curiously. With just one glance, a sneer broke out on Qiqin's face, "Okay!"
In the open space under the remains of the original bamboo building, a stiff corpse that had begun to stink was lying on the ground cold. Qi Qin and Yu Shu stared at the corpse spots that grew on the bare skin of the corpse, and the corpse spots spread so much that they obviously died two days ago!
Juqin looked at the corpse carefully, and suddenly noticed that there was something strange somewhere around his waist. She was curious, and when she knelt beside the corpse, she reached out to the corpse's waist. But before she could stretch out her hand, another hand suddenly appeared and stopped her.
"What are you doing?" said Qiqin, looking at the big wheat-colored hand that was holding her hand, and frowned and shook it off.
"What are you going to do?" he retracted his hand that had been thrown away, his face showing no embarrassment.
Looking at Ya Shu's calm appearance, Ju Qin turned his head and said, "I see that the scabbard on his waist is empty." β
"The scabbard is empty, and the sword that is not in his hand must be near him, so what is the use of the scabbard? Yu Shu stood up, "Don't touch the corpse, it's best to stay away from him, beware of the corpse smelling too much poisoning, and you have to be tired of Zhen Tea to detoxify you." β
"You!" said that he knew that he was right, but it was just annoying his salty tone. She glanced at him fiercely, got up and walked away from the corpse, and then squirmed around the corpse with the book.
"Hey, don't look for it, here it is. Not far from the corpse, he felt that his toes touched something, and when he looked down, a pair of fox eyes swept the congealed dark brown blood stains all over the entire sword body on the long sword. She trembled and was about to pick up the sword, but was stopped again by the book that walked up to her.
"What are you doing?" said Qiqin, her anger burning brighter.
"Let this sword stay here. Seeing that Qiqin was trembling with anger, Bishu reminded him loudly: "Don't you think it's strange when you see all this?"
"......" Qiqin bit her lower lip tightly, and temporarily abandoned the dissatisfaction with the book in her heart. She closed her eyes, thinking about what she had just seen. Seeing that her lips were bitten and were about to bleed, she wanted to remind her not to bite so hard, but thinking that she was so angry with herself, she gave up this idea.
Looking at the corpse's attire, there must be no doubt that it was the Liufu guard, and the blood-stained sword under his feet was also the one of the Nafu guard. But a mere government guard, let alone hurting the lord, he couldn't even touch the lord! But the lord was indeed seriously injured, could it be ...... But if the Lord injured himself, then the sword should be outside the wreckage of the Bamboo Tower; but if the Lord injured himself before destroying the Bamboo Tower, how could the Lord still have the strength to destroy the Bamboo Tower when he was seriously injured? No, what else is missing!
Qi Qin opened her eyes, and the whole person completely calmed down, "This palace guard is just a scapegoat, the real murderer is someone else!" She lowered her voice, this thing was unusual, even if she knew that there was no one nearby, she didn't dare to show it at will.
Seeing that Qi Qin calmed down, Yu Shu also analyzed with her, "If this person's purpose is to assassinate the Lord, he has the ability to seriously injure the Lord, how can he leave the Lord's life?
"Unless, this person has no murderous intent towards the Lord. Juqin raised her eyes and swept over the wreckage of the surrounding bamboo buildings, "And the destruction of the building is also to attract people to come." But what is the purpose of this man?
"The destruction of the building, perhaps to cover up something. When Qiqin's thinking reached an impasse, Bishu spoke up.
"But, what are you covering?" Qi Qin was really puzzled, her eyes inadvertently fell on the corpse in the center of the wreckage of the bamboo building, and a light seemed to flash in her mind, "No, this Liufu Mansion should not appear in this bamboo pavilion with reason." There are only two people in the Bamboo Pavilion who are serving the master, and that person fakes the assassination scene, and Zhencha and I are the most suitable people. The two of us are the closest to the lord on weekdays, and if we want to assassinate, it is also the easiest for the two of us to attack the master, and there is no reason for that person to take a palace guard who can't fight with the master's eight poles to play this scene. β
"......" Bishu walked to the broken boards of the bamboo building that he had moved away, and Qiqin watched him pick and choose among the piles of debris, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "What are you looking for?"
Bishu moved the two large pieces of objects to Qiqin in two trips, and then pointed to their cracks to show Qiqin, "Look at these cracks. β
"What's so nice about this rift. Although she said this, she still leaned down to take a closer look. It doesn't matter if you don't look at it, you can immediately see the problem at a glance, "Why is this rift different?"
The two pieces in front of Qiqin, one from the bamboo couch of the willow branch orchid, and the other from the dresser of the willow branch orchid. At first glance, the cracks in the two pieces are indistinguishable, and they both look like they have been broken in a mess. But if you look closely, you can see that there are scattered frost on the crack of the piece of the dresser.
Staring at the almost invisible frost, Qi Qin hesitated, "This ...... Isn't it a trace of the fight between the Lord and that man?"
Yu Shu shook his head, "I just looked at it, except for the pieces of the bamboo couch, all the other pieces have this floating frost." The frost was so faint that he almost didn't notice it.
"If it's a fight, it can't be just this bamboo couch with traces of the lord's shot. "Liu Zhilan has been practicing martial arts with them since she was a child, so they can tell which one is Liu Zhilan's handwriting.
Qi Qin exhaled a long breath in her nose, her eyebrows were furrowed, and her lips opened and closed to spit out the uncertainty and hesitation in the fox's eyes: "Is it possible...... That person did this to cover up the traces of the Venerable Lord's attack?" After speaking, she shook her head vigorously, "Oh, no! That person destroyed the bamboo tower so that others didn't look like the result of the battle between the Venerable Lord and the palace guards?"
"Or is that person, just to make it look like it's not just the bed that has been destroyed......?"
Before she finished speaking, Ju Qin suddenly thought of something. Her eyes widened as she stared at the book like a brass bell, and it took several times for her teeth to open and close before she finally confided the words in her heart, "Isn't that person ...... with the master" Qiqin didn't dare to say the second half of the sentence, she said that she wouldn't die if she said such pickled words! But if that person is really with the master...... Besides, why that Liufu Mansion guard appeared here can be explained. The Liu family's two thousand gold had a private meeting with the lover in the middle of the night, and the lover was accidentally seen by the palace guards when he entered the house. The palace guard followed this person to Zhuxi Pavilion and saw that his young lady was having a private meeting with a man, and he was tragically killed, and seriously injured the lord and destroyed the bamboo building to cover up this fact......!
Qiqin was shocked, but she knew that Liu Zhilan would never have a lover, so this seemingly most reasonable speculation was actually the most untenable.
"Why did the Lord destroy the bamboo couch alone?" Seeing that Juqin was shocked, she calmly pulled her thoughts back.
Hearing this, Qiqin's eyes lit up. "Only the bamboo couch on the second floor was destroyed by the lord, which means that the lord had already left the bed at that time, and the person must be standing in front of the couch. The Lord attacked the man, but for some reason the Lord did not attack the man, but instead split the bamboo couch. β
"If the Lord doesn't attack, at least it means that the man is not an enemy. Bishu nodded.
"It's not an enemy, so why did the lord make a move?"
"Why don't you think about it first, why did this person come to the Venerable Lord?" β
"You let go!" said Qiqin, who took a step back from him, unabashedly expressing her disgust on her face. Seeing her like this, the corners of her mouth twitched down slightly. He really didn't understand that Qiqin was very good to everyone else in the mist stain, and he always looked at him coldly.
"Tell me, what do you think?" Realizing that his attitude was too bad, Qi Qin softened her tone to break the awkward atmosphere between the two.
Bishu stared at Qiqin for a long time, and just when Biqin was about to endure Bishu's silence, Bishu faintly popped out two words from his mouth: "Alliance." β
"Huh?" said Qiqin, staring up at the book. Neither friend nor foe, visiting in the middle of the night, seeing no one, the lord made a move but did not hurt anyone, seriously injured the lord but did not want his life, "hiss...... Not to mention, it's really possible. "If it is true that someone who came wanted to form an alliance with the lord, and during the discussion, the person angered the lord and led the lord to make a move, but because of the identity of the person who came, the lord did not kill the person, but for some reason, the two were bumped into by the Liufu guard, so this guard was killed.
"Killing the palace guard is to extinguish the mouth, and destroying the bamboo building is to avoid arousing suspicion; as for seriously injuring the lord, I am afraid it is also to round this scene. Qi Qin gasped, but how could a guard seriously injure Liu Zhilan, who had been practicing martial arts since childhood, how could others believe it?" β
"Your Excellency, she must have her own arrangements. Seeing Jiaqin's worried look, Bishu comforted her. But for some reason, a strange feeling suddenly appeared in his heart. He frowned slightly, turned around and protected Qiqin behind him, a pair of Danfeng eyes like a wolf vigilantly watching the surroundings, "Who!"
"Anyone?" Seeing Ya Shu like this, Qi Qin also turned around and paid attention to the movements around Yu Shu back to back. As the master of the Mist Stained Holy Tong Division, he can not only manipulate birds and beasts, but he is also as sensitive to changes around him as an animal.
"Whoosh!" A screech of wind shot out from the bamboo forest to the side of Bishu Qiqin, and the two looked down to see that a snake-headed silver needle had firmly nailed a letter to the ground. Bishu turned his head and said to Juqin, "I'll go to the forest to have a look, don't open this letter." And he flew into the woods.
Juqin saw that the book was gone, and she didn't care about his words at all, so she squatted down and pulled out the silver needle and put it in her sleeve, she picked up the letter in her jade hand, opened the envelope and threw it on the ground, and squatted on the ground to read the letter. But before she could finish reading, the letter in her hand was snatched away by the shadow that hung over her body. "Heyβ"
"Why don't you listen to me?" Bishu frowned and snatched the letter, I don't know who sent this letter, who knows if there is poison on it. Juqin is quite shrewd on weekdays, why didn't she expect this layer.
"Anyway, I'm also a mastermind like you, so you don't talk to me in the tone of your subordinates. Juqin got up and rolled her eyes.
He obviously didn't...... Bishu didn't want to argue with Qiqin, and lowered his eyes to look at the content of the letter in his hand. The snow-white letter was densely filled with all the events of the previous two days, which was similar to what they had just deduced. "The person who came was actually a man from the Bone Oblivion Pavilion. β
Juqin snatched back the letter and read it again, "Alas......" she sighed and tucked the letter into her sleeve, "The lord of the concubine has already thought of a safe one, but the people from their Bone Oblivion Pavilion came to expose their whereabouts, and the girl was involved in this risky move." β
"What shall we do next?" asked the book.
"Just do what the letter says. Ju Qin breathed a sigh of relief, "After all, it's also what the Lord meant." β
"What if there's a problem with this letter?" reminded him.
"Zhen Cha has already told me that the people from the Bone Oblivion Pavilion came to the Venerable Lord a month ago, so this letter is credible. Moreover, if the Bone Oblivion Pavilion really has evil intentions, it will be chaotic as long as it kills the Venerable Lord, so why do you need to do it. Juan Qin walked towards the bamboo forest with her hands in her hands, "Let's go, arrange everything that should be arranged tonight, and you will go with me to find the master tomorrow." β
Ya Shu looked at the back of Qi Qin's departure, and caught up with her in three or two steps. The two of them walked quietly like this, occasionally saying a few jokes when she felt bored along the way, but she was provoked by the shallow response of the book to keep calling him "fool".