While they were eating, it was snowing outside.

The snow was not big, a few snowflakes here and there, if there were any, I couldn't see anything, but the weather was still cold.

My sister and I live in Jiangnan all the year round, and rarely come to the north, so I can't stand the cold for a while, so as soon as I finished eating, my sister urged the little girl to prepare a room for her to warm up.

Seeing her leave, Lu Weilou and Lin Suwen were not there, my senior brother and I sat by the window of the inn, ordered two pots of spirits from the Northern Regions, and drank them warmly while looking at the snow outside.

"It's really cold this day, when we were still in Shimen before, although it was snowing, we didn't see such a cold time."

I looked out the window, as far as the eye could see, all were snow-capped, the distant snow-capped mountains were reflected in my eyes, and I could only vaguely see the bare mountain rocks outside, like black spots, the north wind was howling, and the surrounding light was bleak, giving people the feeling that it was even colder.

The senior brother also looked out along my line of sight, and said with emotion: "Yes, it rarely snows in the south, even if it snows, it is always different from the north, the south is wet, the snow has not fallen to the ground, it sticks into a piece, the north is dry and cold, even if the snow is piled up in one place, it will still be like loose sand, I still remember when we were children, every time it snowed, the senior sister was always happy and tight, and it took a long time to build a small snowman, put it on the windowsill, and it melted before noon, and always pestered us to compensate her." ”

I couldn't help laughing and said, "You expose her when she was a child like this, aren't you worried that your junior sister will know about it and trouble you later?" ”

The senior brother immediately made a gesture of silence, and said in a low and sly voice: "God knows, you know and I know." ”

After three rounds of drinking, I saw that the snow was not heavy and it was not interesting, so I said goodbye to my senior brother: "It's rare to come to the north, I want to go out for a walk, do you want to go together?" ”

The senior brother said: "After a day's journey, I am also tired, I want to go back to the room to rest for a while, you can go by yourself." ”

After a pause, he said: "Come back after finding Lin Gongzi, it's cold outside, don't stay too long." ”

Hearing this, the posture of preparing to get up froze for a moment, and I said angrily: "I'm just going out for a walk, which one is going to find him?" ”

The senior brother smiled silently.

Leaving from the inn, as soon as he walked to the small bridge at the door, he was stopped by Lu Weilou from behind: "Brother Gu, slow down......"

Xu felt cold, he deliberately added a layer of cloak, and the red plum blossoms embroidered on his clothes looked more vivid in the snow.

Hurriedly caught up with me and asked, "Where are you going?" ”

I said, "Nothing to do, walk around." ”

He looked at the opposite road and said, "The terrain here is complicated, the first time I come here, I'm afraid I'll get lost, I'll go with you." ”

I snorted and said with a smile: "It's okay, there's Brother Lao Lu." ”

The two of them walked on the road, and I was silent for a moment and asked him, "Brother Lu has excellent medical skills, so he wants to have been in Xifeng Valley for a long time, right?" ”

Lu Weilou nodded and replied: "Yes, as early as when I was eight or nine years old, I entered the master's sect and followed the master to practice medicine. ”

"Eight or nine?"

I pretended to be surprised and said, "Ling Zun Lingtang is actually willing to give it? ”

Lu Weilou smiled bitterly and said: "Brother Gu doesn't know, my parents died when I was a child, and the only remaining sister also died many years ago, and now except for Master and Master, and all of you brothers, I have no other relatives in this world." ”

I apologized to him and said, "I didn't expect that Brother Lu has another sister in his family." ”

Maybe it's because I'm too careful, I always feel that Lu Weilou and Lu Mei Villa have too many similarities, and I always feel that there is a connection between them.

Lu Weilou snorted and said: "My sister is the most gentle and kind person in the world, she often played with me when she was a child, her hands are very skillful, and she always weaves all kinds of good-looking grasshoppers for me." ”

Hearing this, I glanced at him silently, and at this time, his expression was no longer as silly as before, but a kind of gentleness.

Be careful, as if afraid of shattering some kind of sweet dream.

"Is this longevity lock also given to you by her?"

I have long noticed the longevity lock that Lu Weilou wears around his neck, and it stands to reason that a person of his age, unless he is a young master of a rich family, will not wear this kind of thing for a long time.

The silver collar is inlaid with gold and jade, the jade is of excellent fineness, and it looks very valuable.

He subconsciously touched the longevity lock and replied lightly: "This is a birthday gift given to me by my sister when I was nine years old, and I have always worn it on my body, just like my sister is still by my side." ”

It can be seen that Lu Weilou has a very good relationship with his sister, which reminds me of the pair of sisters and brothers in Lumei Villa.

"Brother Lu's surname, is it following his father's surname?"

People will always easily ignore the most obvious but very small things around them, and I only suddenly realized that Lu Weilou's surname is Lu, and the wife of the owner of Mei Zhuang is also this surname.

"Or else?"

Lu Weilou had obviously sensed my intentions, and asked rhetorically, "Could it be that Brother Gu is suspecting that I have something to do with Lumei Villa?" ”

In normal times, I might still deal with him in order to save face between my junior sister and Lu Weilou, but now, the best way is to confront him directly.

"Since I first met Brother Lu, I haven't stopped doubting you, so Brother Lu must have noticed it, right?"

Lu Weilou nodded and said, "The first time we met in the Hongwen Pavilion that day, Brother Gu had already begun to test me. ”

"That is not the first time we have met, before Brother Lu arrived in Shengjing, the king was seriously ill, and the charm and spirit in the capital were raging, and I and my colleagues in the Hongwen Pavilion strengthened the enchantment in the city, your carriage, and those Shishen made of plum blossoms, were all purified because they touched my enchantment, and that night, I was assassinated by a mystic warlock, and that person, there was the smell of plum blossoms."

"I see."

"But Brother Gu doesn't realize that just by virtue of the fragrance of plum blossoms, I suspect that I did it to assassinate you, is it too hasty?"

"Except for Brother Lu, I really can't think of anyone in Shengjing City in that season, who may have the fragrance of plum blossoms on their bodies."

"Not to mention ......"

I paused, stopped, and looked at him: "There is one thing, I have always found it very strange, according to what Brother Lu said before, the disciples of Xifeng Valley often travel all over the world to diagnose and treat patients, why when the valley was slaughtered, except for Brother Lu and the missing Guimeng, the other disciples all gathered in the valley?" ”

Lu Weilou replied: "Although Master often lets us go out to practice, he occasionally sends us an order to go back and report to him about the outside affairs, as for why I was left out alone......

"Brother Gu also knows that I came to Shengjing this time to treat the condition of His Royal Highness in the Emperor's Grandson's Mansion on behalf of the Master, the royal family is not as good as the people, and the Master should want me to treat His Royal Highness with peace of mind."

"As for what Brother Gu said, the fragrance of plum blossoms ......"

He hesitated, lowered his head, took out the purse hanging from his waist, unsealed it, poured out the contents of his hand, spread it in his palm, and presented it to me.

"Indeed, in that season, few people have the fragrance of plum blossoms on their bodies, but Brother Gu knows that in our Xifeng Valley, there is an ice room, and there are pearl sea plum blossoms planted by the master in the ice room.

The plum blossoms poured out of Lu Weilou's incense sachet have no fragrance due to the lapse of time, but looking at the general shape of the flower, it should be the sea of pearls in Gu Youlan's ice room.

So in the final analysis, it's the same difficult situation -

Lu Weilou and Guimeng, who is the murderer.

"I know that Brother Gu still has some doubts in his heart, but if you think about it, such an obvious clue, if the person who assassinated you is really me, why should I reveal it, and the slaughter of my master is also the same, knowing that sooner or later you will find out, and then you will not only suspect Senior Brother Guimeng, but also suspect me, why should I be like this?"

He's right, and that's where my doubts lie.

All the clues are too obvious.

In these cases, although Guimeng has attracted the main attention, Lu Weilou still can't get rid of suspicion, and if I were him, he would definitely not make such a situation to expose himself.

But perhaps, he guessed that I would think so, so he took the plan and took the risk to dispel my doubts.

Whether he was clever and mistaken by cleverness, or whether I myself had pushed myself into a dead end, I can't be sure yet.

After a moment, I sighed, "too." ”

looked at him and arched his hand: "There are too many things recently, I am upset, and it is inevitable that I will think crankily, and I ask Brother Lu to forgive me." ”

Lu Weilou said: "Brother Gu is in a high position now, there are a lot of things around him, and he is in a bad mood, so he can naturally understand it, but I just hope that after today, I can eliminate the doubts in Brother Gu's heart." ”

The northern region is barren, and there are dozens of families in the town, with no business dealings, and they are basically self-sufficient.

Occasionally, caravans pass by and want to exchange some meat fur with them, and they are not willing to take money, and in the eyes of these mountain people, gold, silver and jewelry are far less important than a handful of salt in a bowl.

Fortunately, Senior Sister and Lu Weilou had been here before and knew their habits, so we brought a lot of daily necessities in our car.

After walking around with Lu Weilou for most of the day, we didn't find Lin Suwen, so we exchanged some of their home-brewed local wine from the outside for the local mountain people, and then turned back.

saw Lin Suwen standing on the small bridge in front of the inn, looking at the few scattered plum blossoms blooming on the shore.

I walked over and said dissatisfiedly, "Hey, why did you go, I've been looking for you outside for so long, and I'm only coming back now!" ”

Lin Suwen looked at me and didn't speak, Lu Weilou on the side said: "The two of you are talking here, I'll go in first, by the way, it's cold outside, don't stay too long, otherwise Miss Ye will blame me again." ”