Chapter 7: The Strange Case of the Wooden Bridge
"Oh no! it's dead!" As soon as it was dawn, Li Kunlun was awakened by the shouting outside.
"What's wrong?" the swordsman seemed to be woken up by the voice.
Li: "The sound of the gong is the husband of the valley, let's go down and take a look."
Wei: "I'll go with you"
So they got up and went downstairs.
"This old man doesn't let people sleep well early in the morning, what did he just say," the innkeeper yawned and wore an undershirt, as if he was also startled by the voice.
"It seems that someone is dead, I will go out with my seniors to see, do you want to come with the white shopkeeper?" Li Kunlun said.
"Whoever dares to make trouble in the territory of the lord of the valley is impatient, and I want to see who is so bold."
After speaking, the three of them walked out of the inn, and many people at the door of each shop opened the door and leaned out to look around and talk about something.
There were some people around the husband surnamed Tong, and Li Kunlun stepped forward to break away the crowd.
"What are you yelling about early in the morning, Lao Tzu's good dreams are all disturbed by you" A man with a tiger's back and a fierce face held a ghost head knife tied with red tassels, a little angry.
"The king of the human slaughter," someone said next to him.
"Don't be angry, listen to this donor's words clearly," a fat-headed and big-eared monk said with a smile on the side.
"Mengzhen, you rice bag monk, don't mix around here," Wang Hao was displeased.
"The two of you will listen to the old man explain the reason" Li Kunlun saw a personable green cedar man come forward, the patterns on his clothes were more delicate than those seen by Taniguchi, presumably a senior disciple of the Medicine King Valley.
"It turned out to be Xiao Ming, the eldest disciple of the Lord of the Valley, Jian Lehua," everyone saw this and made a move.
"Old man, what did you just say that the person died," Lehua asked.
"The eldest son, the little old man has just ... Just now I was passing by the wooden bridge, and suddenly I saw something hanging on it, and when I got closer, I saw that it was a dead man!"
Lehua: "Bridge of Sighs, go over and see"
Everyone followed Lehua in the direction of the wooden bridge, and Li Kunlun and Wei Swordsman also followed.
There were already a few people there in front of the bridge.
"That's the third son, Yuantai," Wang Hao recognized.
"Senior brother, the money shopkeeper of the gambling house has been killed!" said another green-robed man on the side of the bridge to Lehua who came over,
Lehua: "Third junior brother, why are you here?"
Yuantai: "I went out of the valley last night to help the master pick some morning dew grass, and as soon as I entered the valley in the morning, I saw someone hanging here."
"It's really unfortunate to wake up early in the morning to disturb this girl's dreams, and to encounter this kind of thing," Yuan Tai said angrily to a girl with a delicate face and a pale yellow dress next to him.
"Xue Yu'er, do you still have any humanity, how can you say such things when people are dead," said a capable woman in red on the side.
"Jiang Yanzi, when will it be your turn to teach this girl, you are not a fuel-efficient lamp" The girl named Xue Yu'er saw that she was accused in front of everyone, and hurriedly choked back. Later, he turned his head to look at the corpse on the bridge with shame, obviously realizing that there was something wrong with what he had just said.
"Don't argue between the two girls, let's take a look at the corpse first," Lehua said.
"Brother Le is right, catching the murderer is the right thing, in broad daylight, I Chu Nanfeng want to see which one is not eye-opening" A swordsman with a big grin next to him, dressed gorgeously and not looking like an ordinary person, but his face was covered with mud and was very funny.
"Brother Chu, when did you find the body?" Lehua said.
Chu Nanfeng: "I drank with Brother Xiao Rui and Miss Jiang last night, and I don't remember anything after the rise of drinking." I woke up in the haystack in the morning and came over when I heard someone shouting."
"It seems that there are no witnesses for the time being," Lehua said, and approached the body. I saw that the money shopkeeper was hung on the eaves next to the top of the bridge by a hemp rope, and the whole person was hanging over the river.
After Lehua looked at it carefully, he said: "There is only one strangulation mark on the neck, and it is very narrow, indicating that the money shopkeeper was dead when he was hung up and did not struggle, there is only one wound on the chest on his body and it penetrates the back, it seems that this is a fatal injury, and it should have been moved here after being killed."
"Amitabha" monk Mengzhen performed a Buddhist salute towards the corpse, and then turned the Buddha beads with one hand and chanted something in his mouth.
"How dare you kill someone in this valley, if you are caught by Lao Tzu, you will not slash him with a knife," Wang Hao shouted.
"Miss Xue, Miss Jiang, you live alone in the valley, if you encounter any danger, just call me Chu Nanfeng" Chu Nanfeng said.
"Thank you, Young Master Chu," Jiang Yanzi said.
"This girl is not afraid, if he dares to come and let him taste the power of my flying snow and plum darts" Xue Yu'er looked very confident in her martial arts.
"Senior brother, this money shopkeeper is easy-going and has no enemies, could it be that someone can't afford to lose the money before killing people" Yuan Tai looked at Lehua.
"The jasper wrench in the left hand of the money shopkeeper and the jade pendant on his waist are still there, it shouldn't be killing people for money," Lehua said.
Li Kunlun stared at the corpse for a long time and suddenly said, "Senior, the wound on the chest of this money shopkeeper is a little strange."
"It's a thin sword, the wound is inch wide and consistent, presumably the sword is light and thin, and this sword is so fast that after piercing his chest, the wound didn't bleed too much and he was killed directly, the killer is a master with a sword," the swordsman saw at a glance.
"It turned out to be Senior Wei, I didn't expect to see you again for a few years, why don't you go to the village to find a master for treatment if you are injured" Lehua suddenly recognized Wei Swordsman and said very respectfully.
Swordsman: "Let's talk about it later."
Lehua: "Okay, the third brother will carry the money shopkeeper back to the village and tell the master, let's disperse first, there will be news in the village to notify everyone, and during the period, please don't go out at night and pay attention to safety."
The crowd dispersed.
Lehua: "Senior Wei, come back to the villa with me and let the master help you heal your injuries."
Swordsman: "I don't want to be favored by that old ghost"
Lehua: "It seems that the seniors are arguing with the master again, so let the juniors help the seniors see the injury."
Wei Swordsman: "You are much better than your old ghost master, let's go back to the inn together;
"It's nothing, senior, let's go back" Li Kunlun on the side looked at the people who were far away and thinking about this.
The three of them returned to the inn, and Lehua helped Wei Swordsman check the wound and diagnose the pulse, and said, "Although the senior's external injury is serious, it does not hurt the vital point, the junior has just cleaned the wound and applied this elixir to rejuvenate the powder, and the wound will be almost healed in less than half a month."
"It's just that the senior suffered a very serious internal injury at the same time, and his true qi was greatly damaged, but I am afraid that he will not be able to recover in a short time, if it is the master, he will definitely have a way. ”
"Don't mention that old ghost, as long as my surname Wei is not dead, I won't beg him, by the way, this little ghost has been poisoned by the Red Cloud Snake in order to save me, you can help him take a look" Wei Swordsman said.
Lehua checked for Li Kunlun.
"This little brother is lucky, although the Red Cloud Snake is highly venomous, it does not have much venom to invade the body, and the poison has not hurt the heart. I have a snake gall repellent pill here, you take it first, wait for me to go back to the village to prepare some antidote to Chiyun snake venom, and you can detoxify it all," Lehua looked polite and easy-going.
"Then thank you Brother Le, but I'm from the Yue country to save me, I'm afraid I'm going to break the rules in this valley. Brother Le will be punished by the Lord of Qiugu," Li Kunlun told the truth about his identity.
"Yue people" Lehua's eyes flashed with a hint of sharpness, and then he said, "Hey~ It's all old and old, not to mention what the monarch of Yue has to do with the people."
"Today's heroes are all from the Yue Kingdom, except for Wang Hao and the Chu brothers. Although the master did not save the people of Yue, he did not embarrass them, as long as they were not the princes and nobles of Yueguo, they were only allowed to live in the valley by the people of the rivers and lakes."
"As for the little brother's poison. The master received the favor of the Wu royal family, so he set up the third non-salvation. The three rules of the doctor's benevolence are only used by the master to restrict himself from saving people, and there is no restraint on the disciples in the village," Lehua mentioned that the master's face was full of admiration.
"I see, the lord of the valley is also a righteous man. Then the little brother thanked Brother Le first," Li Kunlun saluted.
After Li Kunlun took the medicine, the three chatted about the case.
"Senior, you just said that the money shopkeeper was killed by the thin sword, but at present, there are only three people in the valley who are good at making swords, that is, seniors, me, and today's Chu Nanfeng Chu brothers."
"The senior is seriously injured and has difficulty moving, and the younger generation only came down from the back mountain today, although the Chu brother is the closest to the place where the crime occurred, he is the young owner of the famous Sword Mountain Villa, and he is open-minded, and it is impossible to do such a thing" Lehua said everything in his heart, and it seemed that he trusted the swordsman very much.
"The murderer is not necessarily the one who uses the sword, the rivers and lakes are sinister, and it is even more Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, many people will hide one or two tricks that are not often used to save their lives or surprise the enemy to deal a fatal blow;
"What the predecessors said is that there are only a few people in the valley who are above the second rate," Lehua replied.
"Oh, let's hear it," the swordsman seemed interested.