Chapter 11: Snowy Night (3)
"Please, Zhu ...... Brother Zhu, let me play again. "Maya resorted to coquettishness in front of her father and master.
Who knew that these tricks tried and tested in front of his father and master had no effect on Zhu Wenyu, but Zhu Wenyu still insisted: "No! Go back to your house! I still have something to do. ”
"Brother Zhu, don't scare Maya, anyway, we won't sleep for a while, so she'll wait later." Nangong Ling said on the side.
"This ...... Well, then Maya, you are not allowed to sit here and not move, I am talking to your brother Nangong, you are not allowed to interject and make trouble casually, you know? Or I'll spank you anyway!" In Zhu Wenyu's mouth, it seems that there is no other way to punish the beautiful girl except spanking, but these few people in front of them really eat this set, Tang Yun is too, and Maya seems to be a little afraid. But come to think of it, a big girl's family is beaten on the ass at every turn, regardless of the severity, but it is also a very shameful thing. If it were someone else, he would never come up with this kind of punishment, but Zhu Wenyu is a casual person, and when he was a child, he suffered a lot from Old Master Chen's board, but he didn't think much about the defense of men and women in this matter, and he didn't mean anything else, he just felt that this trick could scare Tang Yun, so he didn't care about beating him, and for Maya, he stretched out his hand to beat him like a gourd painting, but he really stopped Maya's girl who didn't care about the ground.
"Brother Zhu, I thought about it carefully, the injuries on the body of the nursing courtyard are not necessarily related to my fifth uncle, the world is so big, there are strange tricks and tricks of all sects and factions in the martial arts, maybe there are indeed other sects that will leave scars in a few places in the Purple Palace Guan Yuanzhang Gate, maybe it is not a scar left between one move at all. I must find out about this matter and return my five uncles to their innocence. ”
"Well, it's best to think so, I think this matter is ten out of ten done by the Black Wolf Gang, you see that the silver medal is exactly the same as the Qufu murder case, maybe even the murderers are the same people. I think it shouldn't have anything to do with your fifth uncle. Zhu Wenyu comforted.
"It's just that I heard my father talk about it, saying that the fifth uncle has been walking the rivers and lakes for eleven years, and he often returned to the door at the beginning, but he rarely returned to the door in recent years, and sometimes he only brought a letter to the door owner a year. The strange thing is that in the past few years, the rivers and lakes have rarely heard the news of the five uncles, maybe the master of the door does not know the whereabouts of the five uncles over the years, and only after receiving the letter does he know that everything is safe. Therefore, although this time it may not be related to Wubo, since there is such a clue, I must investigate more and report back to the master. Nangong Lingdao.
"Huh? What is it? Maya had been impatient to hear this, and she did not dare to interject casually, so she had to walk up and down the room by herself, rummaging here and there, and seemed to find something, and exclaimed.
Zhu Wenyu and Nangong Ling looked at it when they heard the sound, and saw Maya holding Nangong Ling's "Autumn Water Sword", with a look of surprise on her face.
"What?" Zhu Wenyu and the others stood up and walked over.
"This." Maya pointed to Nangong Ling's sword and said.
The two followed the sound and saw that Maya was referring to a pattern on the sheath of Nangong Ling's "Qiushui Sword", which was a circle, with a horizontal line in the middle of the circle, and many small horizontal lines under the line, but there was a curved curve on the line. The whole pattern resembles an island in the middle of a lake.
"What's all the fuss? It's just a marker. Zhu Wenyu said disdainfully.
"Exactly, this is the mark of my Nangong family. From the beginning of Nangong's disciple learning the sword, the master of the door will personally give a sword, and the scabbard will have the mark of the Nangong family. Nangong Ling was already easy-going, and explained with a smile.
"I've seen this mark." Maya Road.
"What?!" Zhu Wenyu and Nangong Ling were taken aback. "Where have you seen it? Maya? Nangong Ling hurriedly asked.
"There was a masked man who always went to the master, and he usually held a sword wrapped in cloth, but once it was exposed, I saw this mark on the scabbard."
"Masked people? What does it look like? Nangong Ling's heart was shocked, and he hurriedly asked again.
"I said he was a masked man, how do I know what he looks like?" Maya glanced at Nangong Ling and said angrily. However, she was quite strange why Nangong Ling was so concerned about this matter: "Tall and thin, Brother Nangong, it seems that he is a head taller than you." ”
Nangong Ling was shocked like a lightning strike when he heard this, and he was speechless for a long time.
"Wood, is it your fifth uncle?" Zhu Wenyu observed the words and knew that this matter was not trivial, so he asked Nangong Ling gently.
"The fifth uncle is tall and thin. Merely...... It's just that how does the fifth uncle want to be masked? And how to visit the Five Poisons Sect Master? Why Chengdu? Nangong Ling's eyes were dull, as if his whole body was weak, he sat down on the chair and muttered.
"Maya, tell me more about it, what did the masked man do with your master?" Zhu Wenyu turned around and asked Maya again.
"How do I know that? They didn't let me listen to them. It's just that the masked man and the master had quarreled, as if he was saying that the master should not use any Gu, which made the masked man very embarrassed. The master seems to have said that someone else asked her to use Gu. I don't understand why Master is so dignified and still listens to others. Maya frowned and recalled, but couldn't think of anything.
"By the way, Brother Zhu, didn't the file say that a sword was found at the scene? How not? Nangong Ling said suddenly.
"Yes, it is said to be an ordinary long sword, maybe I didn't take it, but I want to see the wood? Then I want Lord Sun to take it. After that, Zhu Wenyu walked out of the door, and after a while, he heard the sound of horses' hooves and walked in the direction of the county office.
Zhu Wenyu returned to the house, Nangong Ling was still sitting at the table, holding her head in her hands, silent, Maya didn't know what was going on, she didn't dare to speak casually, she also sat at the table, but her head turned around and looked around, and when she saw Zhu Wenyu coming in, she quickly stood up.
Zhu Wenyu didn't speak, sat down, poured a cup of tea for himself and Nangong Ling Maya, and drank it by himself.
After a while, he heard the sound of horses' hooves coming from far and near, and stopped outside the inn door, Nangong stood up in a hurry, walked to the door of the room, opened the door, and waited for the official to send the sword upstairs.
I saw that the messenger hurriedly went upstairs with the sword in both hands, and before it was handed to Nangong Ling, Nangong Ling had already taken half a step back as if he had been shocked. Zhu Wenyu felt strange and took the sword.
I saw that the sword was an ordinary green steel sword, without a scabbard, and the file said that it was picked up on the bed in the backyard of the Zhang family, and there was a female dependant of the Zhang family who was brutally killed next to it. Zhu Wenyu turned the sword over and over again and looked at it for a long time, but he didn't see anything unusual, and looked at Nangong Ling suspiciously.
"This ...... This is exactly the sword of the fifth uncle. Nangong Ling said very hard.
"Your fifth uncle's sword? This sword is very ordinary, far worse than your 'Qiushui Sword'....... Maya interjected beside her without knowing it, and was glared at by Zhu Wenyu, and then retracted her words, not daring to say more. Zhu Wenyu still couldn't believe it, suppressed Maya, and looked at Nangong Ling again.
"No, it's not the black and white sword that Wubo carries, it's exactly the same as Wubo's sword. Wubo is gifted and intelligent, and has created a unique black and white swordsmanship, with a thin and flat blade, only one inch wide, which is two points narrower than ordinary long swords, and much thinner, which is very different from ordinary green steel swords. This sword is completely built according to the dimensions of a black and white sword, so the person who made the sword must have practiced black and white swords. Nangong Ling calmed down a little and explained the reason.
"Do you mean that there are murderers who practice black and white swords? And it must have something to do with your fifth uncle? Zhu Wenyu asked again.
"The black and white sword technique is created by Wubo, and it must be ......" Nangong Ling said half a sentence, then closed his mouth and stopped talking, just nodded vigorously.
"What do we do next?" Hearing this amazing news, Zhu Wenyu didn't know what to do for a while, and asked.
"Still have to check. Such a big case must be investigated. Maybe Wubo accidentally passed on the swordsmanship to the evil people, and we found out the murderer, and we just happened to clear the door for Wubo. Nangong Ling thought about it.
"Then what did Nangong Zhi say about going to Maya's master?"
"This ...... I don't know what to do. Let's take one step at a time, let's investigate the case first. Nangong Lingdao.
Zhu Wenyu thought about it, and felt that it had to be like this for now, so he nodded.
"What's wrong? What the hell are you talking about? Maya listened to it in a fog, confused, and said a little anxiously: "Are you saying that my master is related to Nangong Mu's fifth uncle, and his fifth uncle is related to this murder?" Aren't you explicitly saying that Master has something to do with the murder case? How is this possible? You can't just guess, Master will definitely not do such a thing that destroys the conscience, you are spewing blood, you ......"
"Maya, I can't say that yet. It's just that you don't have to say any of these things tonight, and don't tell anyone, including your master, okay? Zhu Wenyu interrupted.
"Well, good. However, it is indeed a little strange that the master said that he would not let me investigate the bloody case of the Zhang family. Maya agreed, muttering to herself.
Zhu Wenyu thought about it, exactly, this is also quite strange, on the surface, it can be said that he is worried that Maya will be in danger, and he will not let her wander around and investigate the case casually. But if the clues just known are connected, the leader of the Five Poisons Sect, He Honghua, is likely to know the inside story of the Zhang family's bloody case, either because he knows that the murderer is quite powerful and afraid that Maya will encounter danger, or the murderer is related to He Honghua, so he will not let Maya investigate indiscriminately, and it will be troublesome if he finds out about his own family.
The more Zhu Wenyu thought about it, the more he thought about it, some previous inferences had already shown that these murderous people were very likely to be members of the Black Wolf Gang, who ransacked wealthy families in order to raise property, and exterminated their mouths. How powerful is this Black Wolf Gang? Who are these gangsters? One question after another broke Zhu Wenyu's head, and he couldn't think of a reason.