Chapter 6: Silence and Shadow
"Wake up, old ghost! Don't leave me alone. Yue Furong couldn't cry, shaking Xu Guisan's body vigorously, watching them noisy along the way, I really didn't expect their feelings to be so deep.
Lu Qingyu squatted down and examined Xu Guisan's body, and there were no wounds on his body, but his throat bone was choked off. He thought: "There are people on this ship who have such profound internal skills, Xu Guisan's martial arts are not outstanding, but they are not bad, this person is a one-trick hit, and he is indeed a master." "Mrs. Xu, what's going on?" Lu Qingyu asked.
"As soon as I turned over, I found that the old ghost was not around, I thought he was going to be convenient, but when I woke up again, I found that he was still not there, my mind was wrong, I looked around, I heard the sound of fighting on the deck, and when I arrived, I saw the butterfly fighting against a masked man, because I was worried about the safety of the butterfly, I stepped forward to help, but who knew that it was a disservice, so that the thief ran away." Yue Furong was sad too much, and her speech was not as fluent as before, "Hmph! Butterfly sneered twice, "If you have time to worry about me, you might as well worry more about yourself, maybe you will die next." "Butterflies." Lu Qingyu didn't know what kind of medicine the butterfly had taken wrong, she used to treat everything with familiarity, but today she said such a scathing thing thing abnormally, which really puzzled him.
"I wish I had died next, so I could go and be with my old ghost." Yue Furong lay on Xu Guisan's body.
There was a trace of nervousness and uneasiness in Butterfly's indifferent eyes, and her voice trembled a little: "I'm going to kill that guy." With that, he walked back into the cabin.
"Wait." Lu Qingyu stopped, "Do you think you can find out the murderer by the signs that the person has been poisoned by you?" Do you think his master will not save him? He can strangle Uncle Xu with one move, can't he still pull out your poisonous silk? And this is not Roselle Palace, what right do we have to search other people's rooms late at night? His series of questions made Butterfly unable to answer for a moment.
Lu Qingyu froze Xu Guisan's body with her ice palm, and said to Yue Furong: "You should mourn!" The day after tomorrow will be at the top of the moon, these two days will park the body in your room, go ashore and bury him well, you can be wronged and live with butterflies! Yue Furong nodded with tears in her eyes. Butterfly sneered again: "But I was wronged!" Yue Furong didn't say anything anymore, if she was in a normal state, she was afraid that she would have to fight with the butterfly, but now she was extremely sad and had no strength to pay attention to other things. She silently hugged Xianggong's body and walked away, her back extremely desolate. Lu Qingyu saw sadness and resentment in the butterfly's eyes, and she was even more puzzled by her abnormality tonight.
"What do you see again?" Lu Qingyu asked the butterfly while inspecting the diamond-shaped hidden weapon embedded in the deck. "It was the footsteps of the thief who passed by my door that woke me up, although he was extremely light, but because of carrying Xu Guisan's body, his steps were inevitably heavier, and when I followed him, he was already ready to throw Xu Guisan's body into the river, and then we started. I didn't expect him to be like me, focusing on cultivating secret weapons and light skills, not inferior to me in the slightest, and I still bargained for a chance to hurt him. β
"It's not like a vendetta in the rivers and lakes, it's like killing people. It may be that some of the master's secrets were bumped into by Uncle Xu, and he killed people in a hurry, because he didn't want to expose his martial arts, and he wanted to kill people quickly, so he used this ordinary throat skill to kill the other party with internal force and wrist strength. The master kills someone, and the servant cleans up the aftermath, and the masked man should be the servant. β
"And the ones who most resemble the servants are the three men dressed as merchants." Butterfly took the words, her eyes full of murder, "Wait, I will make you pay for your blood debt." So saying, he went to the gangway.
"What's wrong with you today, why are you so impulsive, everything is just our assumption, you will fall into the hands of others if you go to Xingshi to ask for guilt so recklessly." Lu Qingyu grabbed the butterfly, "Let's talk about it tomorrow!" Lu Qingyu suddenly remembered Xiaoxue, and hurriedly said, "Oh no......"
"Xiaoxue, Xiaoxue" Lu Qingyu broke into Xiaoxue's room without knocking on the door, Xiaoxue screamed "ah", and hurriedly covered her chest with a quilt, it turned out that she was changing clothes. Xiao Xue's cheeks were red with shame: "Second Senior Brother, why did you come in without knocking?" Lu Qingyu saw that she was fine, so she relaxed and said with a smile: "Little girl, when you grow up, do you know that you are ashamed?" "Of course, they're girls, so of course they can't be seen casually!" Although Xiaoxue said this, she pulled down the quilt on her body and dressed in front of Lu Qingyu wearing only her belly pocket.
Looking at Xiaoxue's mature figure, Lu Qingyu was a little confused, but he immediately restrained himself, and smiled softly: "Don't forget, you urinated the bed once when you were ten years old, and you can't clean it yourself, and you don't dare to tell the master, or the sheets and clothes I washed for you, and now you are still embarrassed with me." "Ahh "Okay, don't mention it." Lu Qingyu stopped laughing - only when he was with Xiaoxue could he let down all his guards, and his heart would be truly calm, as if he had returned to that dustless boyhood.
Before leaving, Lu Qingyu said softly: "Xiaoxue, the second senior brother is next door to you, you have something to shout!" β
"I'm the most distressed sister of the Lord of Luoshen Palace, who dares to bully me?" Xiaoxue smiled playfully and flicked a little fluorescent light at Lu Qingyu, and the fluorescent light moved, and she got into Lu Qingyu's nostrils.
"What are you doing?" Lu Qingyu rubbed her nose and asked.
"That's my sleepy bug! Let you sleep well. Xiaoxue grinned, and then got into the bed.
Early in the morning, the little maids in green prepared their meals, called the guests up one by one, and after a while, everyone gathered at the dinner table. The meal is still very rich, a few plates of vegetarian stir-fry, a plate of braised kidney flowers with nuts and a plate of shredded squid with bamboo shoots, and a plate of eel topped with chicken sauce, porridge steamed bread and noodles are also fully supplied, and the three-color dim sum is particularly exquisite.
Lu Qingyu carefully observed everyone's expressions, and they were all calm, even the real murderer seemed to have completely forgotten that he had killed someone yesterday, and only people who were used to killing people could do this. Killing can be a habit, which is ironic.
"Yuwen Guoshi, where were you last night?" Lu Qingyu actually didn't know how to talk about last night, just because he knew Yuwen Tuo, so he started with him. In addition to doubting the three businessmen, he is suspicious of Yuwen Tuo, only he will have such internal skills.
"What? You Luo Shen Palace has a dead person, do you suspect our Yuwen Gongzi first? "Dugu Gongzi is upset for Yuwen Tuo.
As soon as these words came out, the audience was amazed: "What? Is there anyone dead? Lu Qingyu looked at everyone with an innocent face, and was really angry and funny in his heart, they were all people in the rivers and lakes, so why should they be so pretentious. Look at the fat-headed and big-eared businessman, he behaves innocently, as if he has never stepped on an ant to death, if he is really a murderer, he can only say that his acting skills are really good.
"Sin, sin, sin." Several lamas muttered and immediately began to recite the sutras.
"Shut up!" The butterfly rose up, roared at the lama, and pointed to Dugu Gongzi's nose and said, "Since you know that someone is dead, you must have seen the whole process of killing, right?" "How can I be so lucky?" Dugu Gongzi took a leisurely sip of tea, and was about to put a piece of cinnamon fish cake in his mouth.
"Don't say it, don't eat it!" The butterfly threw out a dart and hit the fish cake impartially, and the fish cake suddenly turned into minced pieces.
"You're too much!" Dugu Gongzi also stood up, and originally wanted to count a few more words, but when he saw the butterfly's reddish eyes, he couldn't help but be timid: "Just say it, when I leaned on the fence to admire the moon last night, I saw that black man peeking outside a person's door, if I remember correctly, it should be outside his door." Dugu Gongzi pointed to the fat-headed and big-eared businessman, "If you look now, there is still a small hole in his window paper."
"People who peep on privacy should be damned!" The skull-faced man next to the fat merchant said, "Even if he is found outside our master's door, it can't prove that it is our master's killer!" "You ......" The butterfly almost made a move, but was pulled by Yue Furong beside her, "You stop, all the lords will decide." "What are you thinking? I'm helping you out, don't you care about your husband's death? The butterfly shook off her hand, but sat down.
"Yuwen Guoshi, I still want to know where you are?" Lu Qingyu stared at Yuwen Tuo tightly.
"It seems that I can't prove my innocence anymore, I'm ......" "He's with me." Xiaoxue rushed to the road, she never interjected in such a scene of adults talking, but she didn't want to watch Yuwen Tuo being suspected, "When I woke up, there was no light, and I couldn't see you,...... I didn't know where I was, so I was scared, but luckily there was Woobun-sama. Xiaoxue said a little timidly, she knew that the second senior brother didn't like Yuwentuo very much.
"That's right!" Lu Qingyu complained a little about himself, he actually ignored Xiaoxue, she was so timid, so afraid of the dark, he actually left her in such a dark and unfamiliar environment, it was really careless.
"It's so lively early in the morning." A sweet voice came from outside the door, and everyone looked towards the door, only to see a woman in purple being helped in by two little maids in green. As long as he sees this woman, no man dares to say that he has ever seen her more beautiful, and he will definitely say that he will never see her again.
"'There is a beautiful woman in the north, peerless and independent, looking at the city and the country'." Yu Dongqiu's sentimentality is troubled again, he always can't help but praise a few words for beautiful things, he is not like a Jianghu person. Xiaoxue couldn't help but shake Lu Qingyu's arm: "Second senior brother, you see this sister is so beautiful!" The woman in purple walked towards everyone with lotus steps, smiling and smiling, captivating the country and the city. She saluted the crowd and said, "Offended, the little woman is the owner of this ship, because she was slightly ill yesterday, she was unable to entertain her personally, please forgive me for the inconsiderateness!" Where did everyone still talk, and several lamas swallowed their saliva when they saw it.
"Is it because the food is not up to the table? Why hasn't everyone touched the dishes and chopsticks yet? The woman in purple leaned over to the table and looked at it, walked lightly in front of the fat merchant, put her hand on his shoulder charmingly and gently, and said: "Old man Zhao, you are a great hero, why do you want to pretend to be such a vulgar profiteer, it really hurts your majesty." "How do you know my true colors?" When Old Man Zhao saw that his disguise was revealed, he simply tore off his human skin mask.
"Humph! It is not easy to be the owner of this ship, and if you don't know the origin and habits of your guests, it is easy to die. The woman in purple smiled brightly, "These two should be your right-hand menβBaili Qianqi Han Hugh and Crazy Flower Fury Sword Sikong Rennan." The skeletal face arched his hand and said, "The girl is so knowledgeable." He casually pulled off the blindfold and tore off the human skin mask, which was a face.
"There was a murder on my ship last night, and before the Iron Courage Hammer could scream, it was strangled to death." The woman in purple gestured at her neck, "Originally, I am very nosy, but this murder happened on my boat, and it was the people of Luo Shen Palace who died. β
"Where did you spend last night, little girl?" Zihua stared at the big-eyed girl fiercely. "You, why do you ask that, of course I lived in my own room." The little girl's eyes were wide open, and her eyeballs were about to fall off.
"Oh? Is that the case? Zihua leaned into her ear, "Don't be afraid, just say what you have!" β
"I'm just sleeping in my room!" The little girl's tone was firm.
"Really? Why did my little maid see someone carrying you into Old Man Zhao's room? "Girl, don't be confident that you have a little bit of a posture, you can just talk about it and not put anyone in your eyes, what kind of identity is my old man, how can you be slandered?" Sikong Rennan seems to be cold and indifferent, but in this way, he is still a person who cares about the Lord.
"Besides, in the dead of night, the black light is blind, and you may not be able to see it really, there are so many women on this boat, why do you think it's my junior sister?" The young man with the sword also tried his best to clarify the innocence of his junior sister.
"Even then, you can't prove she's in your room unless you're in the same room with her." Zihua's lips and tongue are not human.
"You ......," the boy was speechless with anger.
"She was in the same room with me last night." Yu Dongqiu, who had not spoken, finally opened his mouth, but when he opened his mouth, it was not a good word, which also explained the reason why he, who had always been vigilant, did not show up when such a big thing happened last night. In fact, Yu Dongqiu himself didn't expect that there would be such a beautiful blessing, not long after lying down in the bed, the girl ran into her room wearing only her bedclothes, and before he could react, the girl's seductive snow-white carcass was displayed in front of him. Yu Dongqiu was disgusted that Jin was cold and no one kept warm, and it happened that God gave him this stunner in the world, where else to think about anything, and pulled it into the quilt, and then naturally lingered all night. Since last night, he has a deeper understanding of women: looking at women is not just looking at appearance, the seemingly innocent little girl, how could she never have imagined that she would be so enthusiastic and take the initiative to give her arms.
"That's a reason, you two were so close last night that you must have known each other very well. How can a woman walk between two men in one night! I guess my maid was wrong. Although Zihua was apologizing and admitting the proof of the little girl's alibi, she said something several times more serious than that, and no one except the prostitute could stand that kind of sarcasm. The little girl ran out with her mouth covered, crying out.
"You're such a pervert!" Dugu Gongzi glared at Yu Dongqiu fiercely.
Yu Dongqiu spread his hands, his face didn't matter, he had already looked down on lust.
"Second senior brother, what's the matter, why is that sister crying so sadly? Sister Zihua didn't say anything! Xiaoxue tugged Lu Qingyu beside her.
Lu Qingyu didn't know how to explain to her, when it came to real innocence, Xiaoxue was well-deserved. For Yu Dongqiu's debauchery, he is really helpless, although the affair is not something that damages the prestige of Luoshen Palace, and he has no right to interfere in the private life of his subordinates as a lord, but he is afraid that he will accidentally die at the hands of a woman one day.
"I'm sorry to make everyone's breakfast so unpleasant, the little girl has retired! Everyone, please use it slowly. "It's just that no one can eat anymore, but it is those lamas who chew very happily, and it may be rare to open meat once, so we must seize the opportunity, and it is not a good thing to be like them, who have nothing to worry about and only care about the basic needs of life.
"Master Lu, in order to further prove my innocence, can you let me examine Uncle Xu's body again?" Yuwen Tuo actually took the initiative to ask for help.
"What's the matter with you, you're usually not nosy?" Dugu Gongzi grabbed Yuwen Tuo.
Yuwen Tuo didn't say anything, just gently pulled his hand away.
"Then thank you Yuwen Guoshi for your kindness."
Inside the morgue.
Yuwen Tuo carefully examined the corpse, and what he found was only a fatal wound to his throat, but he also noticed a thin pinhole in Xu Guisan's eye socket.
Yuwen Tuo asked, "Mrs. Yue, if the needle is pricked in this position, what will happen to the middle?" β
"Instantly paralyzed, without the ability to resist."
Yuwen Tuo said: "In this case, the possibility that the murderer is Old Man Zhao is too small." Judging from the current situation, the murderer must not be able to kill Uncle Xu within one move, and what he wants to create is this result, so he first paralyzed him with a silver needle, and in the form of his inability to resist, he used his deep internal force to pinch Uncle Xu's throat. β
Butterfly said: "And there is only one person who uses such a thin silver needle as a hidden weapon, and that is Baili Qianzhen Hanyuxiu." Could it be his poisonous hand? β
Lu Qingyu said: "It's definitely not him, let's not say that he doesn't have such a deep internal force, even if he has, he won't use his secret weapon to expose himself, the murderer's calculation is that if he can't blame the old man, he will have a guilt, and there are rumors in the rivers and lakes that there are many customers who have been betrayed." β
Yuwen Tuo said: "The murderer deliberately revealed the traces, first let the little maid see the masked man carrying the girl into the old man's room, and then let the Dugu son see Uncle Xu peeping outside the old man's door, which makes it easy to think that the old man was bumped into because of his romantic affairs, so he wanted to kill people, so even if the old man could not be charged with murder in the end, his reputation would still be affected." β
Yu Dongqiu said perfunctorily: "This murderer is really thoughtful, it seems that he must hate Old Man Zhao to death." β
Yue Furong said: "There is another very confusing place, Yu Gongzi was clearly with that girl last night, but the little maid said that she saw her being carried into Old Man Zhao's room, isn't it too strange?" β
"Maybe it's while he's asleep, and he's going to meet other men." The butterfly glanced at Yu Dongqiu with disdain.
"He entered my room at the right time, and the little maid saw her at the time, could she have a doppelganger? Maybe the little maid was dazzled. I bet unless the girl had a twin sister, she was the one who was with me last night. "Yu Dongqiu is very firm about this kind of thing.
"Twin sisters?" Yuwen Tuo repeated thoughtfully. Then he ran to Tianxuan No. 2 room, which was the girl's senior brother's room. In fact, everyone has always ignored this childish teenager, and they don't even know his name, and even Zihua's cautious proprietress doesn't bother to check his details, just because this person is too tender and shallow, shallow enough to be seen through at a glance, and a pair of ignorant eyes can't hide anything in them. But as long as you pay attention, this young man's killing intent has been pressed on the weapon in his hand all the time, and it is facing the old man.
Only Lu Qingyu and Xiaoxue were left in the house.
"What are they doing?" Xiaoxue still doesn't understand at all.
"Go find the murderer who killed your Uncle Black!" Lu Qingyu replied patiently.
"But you didn't do anything! Just like that, you discuss it word by word, and the murderer will appear? Xiaoxue scratched her head very puzzled, "Silly girl, sometimes it is much more effective to analyze calmly than to search blindly." Lu Qingyu couldn't help but press Xiaoxue's head, "But there is one thing Xiaoxue doesn't understand, since the sister in green clothes sees that someone has been taken captive, she should go and inform everyone, so Uncle Hei won't have to die!" Looking at Xiaoxue's innocent appearance, Lu Qingyu couldn't help but take her into her arms, scratched her nose and said: "There is a word called 'Mingzhe self-protection', Xiaoxue may not understand it now,...... This is the law of survival. β
"Ouch!" Xiaoxue suddenly screamed. "What's wrong?" Lu Qingyu hurriedly asked. "It's like the wound has opened again." Xiao Xue lifted the blood-stained sleeve, and the cut left by Xiao Er's sharp knife on her arm had not yet scabbed, and blood was still oozing from the wound.
"How so? It has been confirmed that there is no poison on the dagger, this is an injury from two days ago, and the best gold creation medicine has been used, how can it not be scabbed yet? Lu Qingyu suddenly thought that this wound might not be simple, he was suddenly a little scared, afraid of losing Xiaoxue, he never thought about what would happen after losing Xiaoxue, just as Xiaoxue didn't think about what would happen after losing him. Xiaoxue looked at Lu Qingyu and smiled, "It'll be fine." As if to comfort him, Lu Qingyu could only take out a handkerchief and gently press the wound.
Yu Dongqiu and the others went to the second room of Tianxuan, while Yuwentuo went to the sixth room of Tianxuan where Old Man Zhao lived and knocked on the door.
"May I ask who this is ......" Old Man Zhao pretended to be confused.
"The old man knows who I am." Yuwen Tuo casually accosted a sentence.
He checked the window paper first, and there was indeed a small hole in it, but it was a small round hole, and if his finger was dipped in saliva and stabbed it, it would not be so round at all. Yuwen Tuo immediately thought of the chimney: "Dare to ask the old man, there is no maid to clean the room, right?" "Nope. Cleaned at noon. The old man replied indifferently. He doesn't really care about other people's blame at all. Today, the king is invincible, and his dominance has been established in the rivers and lakes, whether it is a fact or a blame is the same for him. Yuwen Tuo groped on the ground for a while, and finally got a little harvest, that is, some Tibetan incense burned on the ground, several times more powerful than the incense in the Central Plains, no matter how powerful people protect the body, they will not be able to resist, and they will definitely sleep it for three or four hours.
"The old man slept well last night." Yuwen Tuo asked.
"It's so sweet, the old man really didn't expect to be able to sleep so comfortably on the boat." Old Man Zhao patted his chest and replied very comfortably.
Yuwen Tuo said: "Is the old man interested in knowing who the real murderer is?" β
The old man said, "Then let's see if you're interested in telling me." β
Yuwen Tuo said: "In this case, we have to go to the nameless boy's room now to have a look." β
"No need to go." Yu Dongqiu walked in and threw a set of women's clothes and embroidered shoes on the ground, "Unless that kid is not in his heart, there must be a ghost." "Playboy not only steals hearts, but also steals things quickly!" Yuwen Tuo didn't know whether to appreciate or sarcastically said.
"That kid is now at the bow of the boat with his sister feeding the water birds."