Seeing that Mu Zhongcheng was displeased, Shu Yi said again: "A month ago, Mrs. Zheng sent someone to deliver a message, saying that she was going to hold a banquet, and there was a lack of two purple dragons lying in the snow. It just so happened that this year's Zilong Woxue was not born well, and Mrs. Zheng preferred rich and noble colors, so I chose a muddy gold incense and a pot of golden red big back and sent it away. ”

Mu Zhongcheng frowned, very tired.

In today's world, there are many martial artists, and the imperial court is just a good name, and they dare not easily challenge the forces of the rivers and lakes. Mrs. Du Xian really didn't know what to say, and came to Mu Mansion to be a guest twice, and then saw heaven and earth come to the mansion to ask for things. Is it really that the Mu family is so easy to deceive?

"Come back to her later, leave her alone."

"Yes." Shu Yi hesitated for a moment and responded.

Mu Cangping spared no expense, what he said was that as long as it was not too much, he would give it to her. However, since Mu Zhongcheng disagreed, Mu Cangping would not argue with him in such a trivial matter.

The important and less important people in the Mu family, Mu Gang has an account in his heart.

"It's called Zheng Yunrong," the old butler said urgently, "It was originally a dancing girl in Du Xian's mansion, and later she carried a concubine." After Du Xian's original wife died, she didn't know what means she used to make Du Xianli override public opinion and straighten her out - this woman is not simple. ”

Eight words popped out of Mu Zhongcheng's mind: golden wind under the mountain, guizi in the clouds.

They all thought wrong!

That belly pocket is indeed evidence, but the key is not the previous sentence, but the latter sentence "Guizi in the clouds." ”

Mu Gang raised his eyes and met Mu Zhongcheng's gaze, obviously he also thought of it.

"Go to the Assassin's Mansion."

Zheng Yunrong died.

The old thorn was so sad that he fell ill. It was the housekeeper who received Mu Zhongcheng.

Mu Zhongcheng changed his mind when he saw the white lantern at the door, pretending to come to the door to offer condolences, the old housekeeper did not doubt it, and led him to the mourning hall this way, chattering a lot.

It is said that yesterday was Zheng Yunrong's birthday, and Du Xian held a banquet for her, but Zheng Yunrong was too strong to drink, and asked the maid to go back to rest halfway through the banquet.

The third watch banquet was dispersed, and Du Xianxi was in Xinna's concubine's room.

There was nothing unusual in the house overnight.

I didn't want to think that early the next morning, a servant passed by the garden pond and found a floating female corpse, and salvaged it to take a look, but it was Zheng Yunrong.

The body was swollen, and the soaking time was not short.

The mourning hall was still being built in a hurry, and Zheng Yunrong's body was parked in the courtyard, with people coming and going, and it was very chaotic.

The old butler went on to do other things.

Taking advantage of people's inattention, Mu Zhongcheng pried open Zheng Yunrong's mouth to see that there were aquatic creatures in his mouth that had not had time to clean up, and they were not thrown into the water after death.

He went again to inspect the pond where the body had been found.

To the north of the pond is a willow forest, which is not frequented by people, and moss grows on the shore. From the several roads that are often traversed in the garden, there is a row of shallow footprints in the difficult places to see, and there are obvious slip marks near the pond, shallow on the outside and deep on the inside, until the edge of the pond is broken.

The moss on the inner wall has also been cut out of a gap.

No matter how you look at it, it's like falling into the water.

Zheng Yunrong's room was turned into a mess, and he heard that someone said that there was a thief in the house.

Previously, the eldest maid in Zheng Yunrong's room found that her wife was not there, and when she went out to look for it, the room was fine. Later, the body was found, and there was a mess in the house, and some servants in the outer courtyard took advantage of the chaos to come in and steal their property and escaped.

In the mess, there are two chrysanthemums that have been trampled on.

I asked the people in Zheng Yunrong's courtyard, and it was confirmed that it was the two pots of mud gold incense and golden red backs sent by Shu Yi. It is said that Zheng Yunrong has been taking care of these two pots of flowers personally, and he also deliberately stared at the subordinates, the chrysanthemums are precious, and they are afraid of losing them at night, so they have all moved into the house - there is no possibility of moving them and getting them back.

All kinds of signs seem to show that Mu Zhongcheng's previous judgment was wrong - Zheng Yunrong may not be the murderer of Yan Guishan. Read a book for a long time

But how to explain that Yan Guishan was killed in the front foot, and Zheng Yunrong died after him? And Zheng Yunrong's name happens to have a cloud character.

Mu Zhongcheng brought a specially trained woman who was very good at talking to people, saying that she was good at dealing with white things and stayed in the Assassin's Mansion to get the news.

On his way back to Mu's house, he met the man sent by Mugang to deliver the letter, and Jiao Sui died.

Mu Zhongcheng is not surprised by any kind of bad news this time, but he feels strange to the undead.

Jiao Sui's death was not as tortuous as Cheng Tu and Yan Guishan, who fell off the cliff and died.

Jiao Sui has the habit of going up the mountain to meditate early in the morning, and for the sake of prudence, the place he chooses to sit is different every time. The other party somehow figured out the law of his seat selection, and moved his hands and feet on the cliff in advance.

According to the traces left at the scene, as well as the scars on the corpse, the situation before Jiao Sui fell off the cliff can be basically restored.

The opponent should be a sneak attack launched after taking advantage of Jiao Sui to meditate.

Jiao Sui was highly vigilant, and the other party obviously knew that it was impossible to succeed in one blow, so he prepared lime powder, and after Jiao Sui was attacked, he bounced up vigorously and stepped on the loose boulder, and spilled it out in an instant.

Jiao Sui was burned by lime, and there was nowhere to focus under his feet, so he grabbed the wooden stick that the other party used for a sneak attack - but it was a piece of rotten wood.

The last and most fatal step, the other party took advantage of Jiao Sui's failure to borrow strength, and when his body leaned back, he jumped up and gave him a powerful heart-warming kick.

Such calculations are truly frightening.

Poor Jiao Sui practiced a domineering kung fu, and finally died like this - you don't even need to use a master like Huo An to kill him, just a person with great strength who can jump up and give him a kick at a critical moment.

Mu Zhongcheng has no doubt that he is Mu Dianke's killer.

Who has to put their anxiety to death? Who would have so many eyes and tricks to kill people in such an unexpected way? It was just before the news of Yan Guishan and Luo Qi's deaths came out.

folded four top masters in a row, and no one dared to take Mu Dian who lost his martial arts lightly. Yan Guishan and Luo Qi meant, and Mu Men immediately dispatched people to protect Jiao Sui.

I didn't expect it to be a step too late.

At this time, Mei Longxue was squatting contentedly at the kitchen door of the second courtyard, nibbling on a pot of sauce-flavored elbows stewed with crispy red meat.

She and Aunt Wang went out of the door, one went up the mountain, the other went to the market to buy elbows, the fresh elbows were brushed clean, mixed with sauce, and simmered in the pot for two hours, just in time to eat before lunch.

***

After all, Mumen is a place of great people.

Zheng Yunrong's line was not broken in the end.

Following the clue that Zheng Yunrong liked to use Mei Xiang, he found the incense dyeing again. Before Huo An could erase the traces of Zheng Yunrong's stay in the incense dye, Mumen's people were killed.

The guy who sold incense to Zheng Yunrong was called Chen Hu, and he had a sister named Chen Xia.

Three years ago, Bai Wanli, the leader of the "Wu" sect, accidentally took off his scabbard during a duel with someone, and mistakenly killed Chen Xia, who went up the mountain to collect herbs for his seriously ill father.

Chen's father was overwhelmed and passed away the same day in grief. Chen's mother lost her husband and daughter, and it didn't take long for her to fall ill and die a year later.

Chen Hu, who became an orphan, went to Luoyang with his fellow villagers to make a living.

Later, Chen Hu met Bai Wanli by chance on the street, he didn't know Bai Wanli, but Bai Wanli recognized him, and took a lot of care of this young man after that.

After checking this, Mu Zhongcheng didn't want to check it anymore.

Destroying gold is a secret, not a person with strong martial arts and confidants, Mu Cangping will not tell him about this matter. Of the nine people he brought to Chang'an back then, seven survived, except for the two from Qingshan's ancestral house-Zhao Qingyi, Cheng Zhuyan, Tu Xuanbei, Yan Guishan, Luo Qi, Bai Wanli, and Jiao Sui—and only Zhao Qingyi and Bai Wanli remained.

Mu Zhongcheng believed that Bai Wanli had no reason to kill Yan Guishan. But he is even more convinced that as long as he investigates, he will definitely find the motive for Bai Wanli's killing.

The master of the layout will surely create a perfect motive without leaving any flaws and waiting for them ahead.