Chapter 55: The Red Master of the Six Doors
Shopkeeper Lu pushed open the window, and saw a rope hanging down from the eaves, and a person tremblingly wrapped around the rope of the window, and wrapped the rope several times with both hands and feet, for fear that he would fall, and the long rope hanging down at the bottom kept trembling with this person. The man's small round eyes were wide open nervously, and his rosacea nose was wet and red.
β...... Shopkeeper?" Shopkeeper Lu was stunned and called out the same professional name as himself. Isn't this old man the shopkeeper of the Fuyuan Inn where they stayed! When did he hang here?
The red-nosed shopkeeper looked at the shopkeeper Lu with pleading eyes, his lips trembled, but he couldn't say a word. Shopkeeper Lu was thinking about the strangeness of the matter, and he didn't know what to do, he looked back at everyone, but heard the red-nosed shopkeeper trembling outside the window: "Help-" His body shook, and he was so frightened that he hugged the rope tightly and closed his eyes.
Shopkeeper Lu groaned, stretched out his hand out of the window and grabbed the arm of the red-nosed shopkeeper, pulled it into the window, the rope shook, and the red-nosed shopkeeper screamed and refused to let go. Shopkeeper Lu had no choice but to pull the rope under the bottom into the window, and the red-nosed shopkeeper slowed down before stepping on the lower window frame with his legs and feet that had been wrapped around the rope several times, and inadvertently looked downstairs, and immediately closed his eyes and trembled. After a while, he sat down on the window frame with both hands on the rope, and after a long breath before jumping to the ground, he stretched out his hands in front of the shopkeeper Lu. It was then that everyone realized that the rope around his wrist had been knotted several timesβthe man had been hung here with his hands tied!
"Good...... It's terrible......" Shopkeeper Lu untied him, but the red-nosed shopkeeper was still standing at the window stupidly, his eyes were not focused, his legs were still shaking after entering the house for a long time, and he didn't even react when Hengchuan moved a chair for him to sit, so Hengchuan forced him into the chair. The red-nosed shopkeeper was stunned for a while before he suddenly came to his senses as if frightened, glanced at everyone in the room, and made a gesture, "Thank you for help......" The voice was still a little trembling.
Hua Yeshen brought him tea, he drank it, and the shopkeeper Lu asked, "What's the matter? Why are you hanging here?"
"I don't know much either......," the red-nosed shopkeeper said after a while, "I heard the sound of a fight and ran out to see, and when I wanted to go up the stairs on the second floor, I was grabbed by a man in black and hung here with his hands tied." His voice stabilized.
"The man in black, what are his characteristics?"
"I'm scared to death, how can I remember!"
"Did you shout then?"
"Yes wow. β
Shopkeeper Lu looked at everyone and asked, "What time was it?"
"When I came out of the room, it was the third watch. β
"Oh?" shopkeeper Lu raised an eyebrow, "Then how did you get hung out of the window from the stairs by the man in black?"
He ...... He got me to the roof and tied my hands with ropes to this window...... You don't believe me?"
Shopkeeper Lu looked at Tang Qiuchi, if it was true, even if others were concentrating on fighting, Tang Qiuchi would definitely hear it. But Tang Qiuchi shook his head, his expression still a little dazed.
Shopkeeper Lu asked again, "Who else saw the man in black when he caught you?"
"Didn't pay attention. β
"Did the man in black have weapons on him at that time?"
"I forgot. β
"And where did this rope come from?"
"I don't know if you're suspicious of me, hey, I'm an old man, hung by the terrible man in black outside the window for most of the night, and I'm going to be questioned by you like a thief!" the red-nosed shopkeeper's tone hardened, and his voice was raised. Heng Chuan patted him on the head, frowned, and said, "You be quiet! Don't you see our master sleeping!" The red-nosed shopkeeper's momentum suddenly weakened.
Shopkeeper Lu asked, "Then what did you see when you hung out the window?"
The red-nosed shopkeeper said weakly: "I don't seem to see anything, but I heard the sound of fighting in these four rooms." Also, there was a whole bunch of bugs flying next door...... It's disgusting......"
"Then you saw the man in black in the next room?"
"See a few ......"
Shopkeeper Lu smiled slightly: "Then do you know what they are here for?"
"Coming to kill you?"
"That's right. But, do you know that people like them are never allowed to be seen in action? β
"That'...... That...... What happens if you see it?",
"Kill. β
The red-nosed shopkeeper sat on the chair and jumped, his eyes wide. Shopkeeper Lu continued to ask with a smile: "Then, what did the black-clothed man who grabbed you not kill you?
β...... IβHow do I know the way?"
Shopkeeper Lu snorted and said, "Your play is good." β
"What's the play?" the red-nosed shopkeeper's round eyes rolled.
Shopkeeper Lu didn't answer, and said: "But the nonsense is too lame and full of loopholes." β
"I didn't!" the red-nosed shopkeeper shouted, and was slapped on the head by Hengchuan again.
Shopkeeper Lu said: "First of all, we don't know what you have been hanging here for so long, and second, we opened the window next door and didn't see you, how do you explain?"
"Then I want to ask you, how do I know the way?"
Shopkeeper Lu said, "Because you were just hanging there when we found you." β
"Huh. The red-nosed shopkeeper didn't even refute it.
Shopkeeper Lu said again: "Third, you said that you shouted when the man in black caught you, and we didn't hear it, and you shouted again when you were here, and we didn't hear it, how do you explain?"
"I shouted, but as soon as I opened my mouth, I was poked by the man in black, and then I didn't know what to do. β
Shopkeeper Lu was stunned for a moment, and said, "That's the acupoint point...... paused and said: "No, if you click on your acupoint, you won't be able to speak just now." β
The red-nosed shopkeeper shrugged his shoulders, "I don't know." β
Heng Chuan said suddenly: "You don't want to come in the middle of the night to peep at yourself hanging there, do you? What kind of man in black, did you make it up yourself? There are a total of eleven people in black, and now they are all stung by bees next door, how can there be a twelfth? You honestly let you go." β
"No!" the red-nosed shopkeeper whispered, "You always say that you don't hear it, you don't hear it, don't you hear it when I hang myself here!" Also, look at the rope, by the way, you ask him, you ask him," the red-nosed shopkeeper grabbed the shopkeeper Lu, "the rope was untied by him, and he knew that it was impossible to tie that kind of knot by hanging himself!"
Shopkeeper Lu was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes lit up, "I know the way! There is a person in the world who can tie this knot by himself! He can also hang himself up without making a sound!"
"Who?"
"Six doors, Master Hong!"
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soup, I know you'll see it sooner or later! I just remembered that you actually called me "withdrawn" that day! I like to be quiet, not lonely!! alas, I didn't expect you to drop gear......