Daming's Bizarre Story: Painted Skin

It is undeniable that Zhao Luli's expression gave Miss Wu a sense of accomplishment, so she lowered her voice and said, "Mrs. Rong and Mr. Wen are old acquaintances. I saw them chatting in the corner of the kitchen. Trick..." She elongated the word "old acquaintance", and said it in an extremely ambiguous way, but she almost didn't say the word "old acquaintance".

"Isn't Mrs. Rong the Miss Jiang's Mansion in Beijing? I don't know how much she has met Mr. Wen who is a Jinyiwei. You must not talk about ruining people's reputation!" Zhao Luli showed a look of intolerance.

Miss Wu gave him a blank look: "Mrs. Rong was a young lady before she got married, how could she meet a martial artist? Or is it good enough to be able to whisper after getting married? How much fate does it need?" She The words are fast and clear, like crackling abacus, crisp and clear.

"Then what did they say?" Zhao Luli asked.

Even if Mrs. Rong and Wen Yinong have an affair, it has nothing to do with Zhao Luli. Since Miss Wu wants to form an alliance with a secret, of course it will not be something that has nothing to do with Zhao Luli, so this secret must be is what they talk about.

Miss Wu seemed a little surprised by the sour scholar's reaction, she was slightly taken aback before she said: "Mrs. Rong told Wen Yinong that she heard footsteps the night Yesha died."

"Has she heard who the murderer is?" Zhao Luli asked hastily.

"No?" Miss Wu shook her head.

Zhao Luli was not only disappointed, Wu girl saw his expression, and said mysteriously on her face: "But she knows that the footsteps didn't pass by her door."

There are ten rooms in the inn, rooms [-] to [-] are on one side of the courtyard, and rooms [-] to [-] are on the other side of the courtyard. Mrs. Rong and Rong Shiyi live in Sansheng Inn

Ye Sha lived in Room [-], and Room [-] was Shen Fangji's room. If he hadn't passed the Sansheng Inn, there was only one possibility. The one who killed Ye Sha was Shen Fangji from Room [-].

Zhao Luli pondered slightly: "Then who killed Shen Fangji?"

"The fat man said that it is most likely the injured person who came with Shen Fangji who never showed up. Now this person may be lurking around the inn. They went out today not only to find the way, but also to find the murderer... Miss Wu spread her hands, and said with some regret, "It's a pity that I didn't find it."

Zhao Luli narrowed his eyes slightly, and Miss Wu snorted, "The fat man didn't say anything, he just wanted us to be the bait to catch this killer, so you should be more careful, no matter who you are, I don't think the fat man really took care of you." You take it seriously, otherwise how would he remind you of such an important thing?"

"Well, there's nothing surprising about my identity..." Zhao Luli heyed twice in embarrassment.

Miss Wu rolled her eyes at him, then went into her room without looking back.

Zhao Luli didn't look at the closed doors in the corridor, and quickly walked a few steps into his room. His room was on the first floor, next to the houses of Wen Yinong's subordinates. He stretched Waist said softly: "Is there anything safer than living next door to a soldier, alas, you all can't figure it out."

It snowed heavily for several days in a row, but the snow didn't seem to stop at all. It was still snowing heavily outside the house, covering the sun and the moon, making it impossible to see things at all. It seemed that there was no living thing in the whole inn at the moment.

At this time, there will be no sound of night shifting, but the candle in front of Lu Jiusi is accurately predicting the time. The white dew in the sky has not yet appeared, but the candle is almost burnt out. The sky is about to light up. But there was no movement in the inn.Lu Jiusi couldn't help feeling anxious, he raised his hand to squeeze out the remaining candlelight.

He gently opened the door, looked towards room No. [-] at the end of the corridor, and pondered for a while. Finally, Lu Jiusi walked towards the door softly. When he reached the door, he raised his head and knocked on the door: "Smell grown ups?"

The door opened in response to the sound, Lu Jiusi couldn't help being startled, the light in the guest room was dim, and there was a person lying on the bed in the guest room, he stepped into the room and hurried to the bed and called again: "Master Wen! "But when he patted the quilt lightly with his hands, he found something strange. When he lifted the quilt, he saw that it was not Wen Yinong lying inside, but another layer of quilt was wrapped in it.

Lu Jiusi frowned slightly, Wen Yinong obviously did not sleep in the room as promised.It's a trap!Lu Jiusi suddenly realized that his situation had become embarrassing at this moment, and there were slight footsteps in the corridor. The situation did not allow him to hesitate any longer, so he wrapped the quilt again, opened the closet next to him and dodged in.

As soon as he walked in, he found that there was already an owner in the closet.Lu Jiusi's first thought was that this person was the murderer, but before he stretched out his hand, this person had already registered his name: "I'm Zhao Luli, who is your Excellency?!"

Lu Jiusi froze in mid-air with his outstretched hand. He was full of doubts. Before he had time to ask this person, Zhao Luli "hush" again: "Don't say anything, someone is here, this person Maybe it's the murderer, you startled him away as soon as you spoke."

"I didn't say a word from the beginning to the end!" Lu Jiusi said angrily in his heart.

The door was opened again, and a person came in from the outside, and the person called softly: "Master Wen?"

"Fang Zishi!" Lu Jiusi said the name in his heart.

Fang Zishi was obviously more cautious than the two of them. He stood outside the door and didn't intend to come in. After a few soft calls but no response, he wanted to leave. Lu Jiusi couldn't help but gently pushed the cabinet door open. Some hesitated whether to call Fang Zishi to stop, but Zhao Luli leaned on the door of the closet, and fell out of the closet first.

"Who?!" Fang Zishi shouted in surprise.

"I'm here... I'm here..." Zhao Luli fell to the ground, a little out of breath, struggling to get Lu Jiusi to give him a hand.

Lu Jiusi ignored him, he stood up and walked out from the cabinet door, Fang Zishi was surprised again and said: "Feng Master Lu!"

Zhao Luli finally struggled to get up from the ground, helped the scarf on his head, and said, "Under Zhao Luli."

"Why did you two come here?!"

"Master Lu, Mr. Zhao, why are you hiding in this room?"

"Yeah, why are you here?"

The three of them questioned each other like a cannonball, and looked at each other at the same time, Fang Zishi asked after a while, "Could it be that you have also received a letter from Mr. Wen?" He took out a letter from his pocket and saw a simple sentence written on it. : Yinshi will be in my room in the future. I have something important to tell you. The signature is Wen Yinong, and there is also the private seal of President Jinyi Weiqian.

Lu Jiusi and Zhao Luli took out letters from their pockets at the same time, and sure enough they both received such a letter.

"When I go back to my room tonight, this letter will be placed under my pillow." Fang Zishi said.

Lu Jiusi frowned and looked at the letter in his hand: "Mine is on the table."

"Mine is on the bedding." Zhao Luli also answered honestly.

The three of them glanced at each other after they finished speaking. At this moment, there was a shouting sound from downstairs, and it was Wen Zhinong's voice that could be discerned vaguely. Fang Zishi was the first to shout: "Oops!" He turned around and jumped upstairs go down.

Lu Jiusi jumped down and fell directly to the ground floor, but Zhao Luli had no such ability, so he could only run around in circles towards the stairs, yelling to wait for me, neither Fang Zishi nor Lu Jiusi could do it. He ignored him and ran downstairs to the Datong room, only to see Wen Yinong standing at the door with a knife in his face.

"Master Wen..." Lu Jiusi stopped abruptly as he looked at the situation inside the door.

I saw two Jinyi school guards in the room lying on the ground one after the other, the big box in the room was opened, and it was empty inside.

Zhao Luli ran over panting, looked into the room and immediately shouted: "Ah, the treasure in the box has been taken away!"

There was another sound of footsteps coming from behind, and it was Rong Shishi and his wife and Miss Wu who also ran down together, and Miss Wu asked, "What, what do you mean someone stole it?"

Zhao Luli shook his head again and again: "Master Wen's things are missing."

Miss Wu said "Yeah": "Didn't Mr. Wen say that it was something that was escorted by the court? Presumably it is not his own property!"

"It's not your own property that's bad. Delaying the important affairs of the court is a serious crime of ransacking the family." Zhao Luli retorted.

The two of them quarreled and didn't care about Wen Yinong's face turning pale, Lu Jiu glanced at them impatiently, and said, "Master Wen, you must have stayed in this room last night, why did this happen?" thing?"

Wen Yinongyuan's face was pale and blue: "I didn't sleep all night last night. In the early morning, I heard the sound of Liuweiju upstairs, and then I seemed to hear the sound of fighting. I thought it was the murderer haunting again, so I searched for it. I went upstairs with a sound, in fact, I had already realized the strangeness of the matter when I arrived at the entrance of the building, and hurried back to my room, but...it was still too late."

Mrs. Rong glanced at the crowd and stopped talking, Miss Wu said nonchalantly: "I didn't go out, but Mr. Fang from Room [-] next door to me, and Master Lu from Room [-] have both gone out. If my ears are good, Although their footsteps were light, I could hear them clearly, and I could even hear Mr. Zhao crying out in pain."

"We were deceived!" Zhao Luli yelled.

"The three of us were invited to Room No. [-] by a letter." Fang Zishi said, and Zhao Luli and the three of them took out the letter.

"This is definitely not my official's seal, someone must have played tricks on it!" Wen Yinong glanced at it and said angrily.

Rong Shi breathed a sigh of relief, and said embarrassingly: "I also don't think the people in our row of rooms are walking around!" She didn't say anything just now, naturally she didn't want to offend the people who live in rooms No. [-] to No. [-].

Lu Jiusi said with a serious face, "Say it again."

Surprised by her, Rong stammered, "I, I didn't hear any footsteps in our row."

As soon as he finished speaking, Lu Jiusi turned around and rushed upstairs, and all the people followed to the second floor. Lu Jiusi kicked the second room away, and the room was empty. Zhao Luli asked in surprise : "Where did Mr. Xiong go?"

Ever since Xiong Nengren suppressed Wen Yinong and established his prestige before the crowd, he assumed the posture of being the leader of the crowd. It is absolutely impossible for him to remain silent after making such a big commotion.

Lu Jiusi also walked out the door with a frown. He looked up at Room [-] across the corridor. There was a strange feeling that attracted him, making him walk towards that room involuntarily. He gently pushed the room [-] away. Then he walked to the front of the bed and lifted the quilt again. This time there was a real person lying on the bed, it was Xiong Nengren.

The ferocious Xiong Nengren opened his mouth halfway, as if he had some simple and innocent intentions, but he was already completely dead.

"Impossible!" Fang Zishi lost his voice, "This room was empty when we left!"

This room was empty when Lu Jiusi and Fang Zishi came out from No. [-], and Wu Maiden and Rong's couple who came out together later came not too slowly. Who can put Xiong Nengren back after killing him? Room six.

"Could it be...really...it's really killing people according to the room number here." Miss Wu couldn't help but feel fear in her voice, and Rong's legs limp and fell into Rong Shiyi's arms.

No. [-] room was originally occupied by Xiong Nengren, so he would die no matter which room he lived in, and he would be sent back to No. [-] room. Lu Jiusi's breathing became heavier. He looked up at the window, and there was a boundless sky outside. heavy snow.

He suddenly ran downstairs again, and everyone followed him spontaneously.There are two coffins parked in the cellar downstairs, which they found from the coffin shop in the town. Lu Jiusi specially picked out a pair of exquisite ones for Shen Fangji. He took two deep breaths and put one of them into the coffin. Fu's coffin cover was slowly removed, and the others immediately understood what he meant.

It is impossible for any of them to move the bear's body, so there are only two possibilities, either an outsider has entered the inn, or... the dead people in the two coffins have faked their bodies.

When the coffin was moved away, Miss Wu heard the sound of teeth "creaking". After listening carefully, she found that her own teeth were chattering. The corpse inside the coffin seemed to be wrapped tightly with white cloth strips. It looks like a humanoid cicada chrysalis.

Lu Jiusi crazily tore off the white cloth strips, revealing a face that was still Shen Fangji, and his heart sank to the bottom in an instant, Lu Jiusi asked angrily, "Who did it! ".

"Yes, it's our husband and wife." With the sound of coughing, Rong Shiyi walked out awkwardly, "Both sons died in foreign lands, but according to our customs, if the corpses can be wrapped within seven days, The undead can attach themselves to the corpse and return to the hometown along with the coffin."

Mrs. Rong hurriedly said, "We, we are kind."

Wen Yinong nodded and said: "The two of them have told me that they can appease the dead. Although I don't believe this, but considering their good intentions, I agree to restrain myself according to what they said."

Although everyone knew why, they still felt horrified looking at the two human chrysalis in the coffin. "

Lu Jiusi took a few steps back in despair, and Zhao Luli leaned over to look carefully at Shen Fangji in the cloth strip and muttered, "It's lucky that the weather is so cold, otherwise it would stink, tsk tsk."

His words made Lu Jiusi finally burst out. He grabbed Zhao Luli by the throat in a fit of anger. Zhao Luli couldn't breathe, and hurriedly slapped his palm. Everyone was shocked for a moment. , also stepped forward and dragged Lu Jiusi away hurriedly.

Even though Lu Jiusi was dragged away, Zhao Luli was pinched until he retched, but Lu Jiusi hissed, "What are you? You speak rudely!"

Zhao Luli supported the coffin and coughed repeatedly: "Cough, cough, what's so important about him?"

"Without him, there would be no me! You know..." Lu Jiusi burst into tears, and he seemed to hiss, "But I'm sorry for him, I hurt him, he was hurt by me, not me, he shouldn't fall At this point, I was the one who killed him, and if he died, I don't have to get out of here alive..."

"You, you are so funny. You don't want to live, but others still want to live. What are you doing by strangling my neck? Besides, you want to die with him. Do you ask him if Gao is happy? He cares about you Do you have one life, and you have nothing else to do for others? You always do things that others don’t like, who has been unlucky for eight lifetimes, and has anything to do with you?!”

Zhao Luli was strangled half to death, he was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but he was quick to scold people.Lu Jiusi cried loudly and got people pointing at his face and cursing. He couldn't help being a little annoyed and ashamed, but half of the sadness in his chest disappeared. He wiped away the tears from the corners of his eyes and looked at the silent face in the coffin. Reluctantly, he moved the coffin lid back to its original position.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Luli stretched his neck and glanced at the inside of the coffin, and added: "You are sure that Mr. Shen was very kind to you at the beginning, I think he has thin lips and high eyebrows, he really doesn't look like a kind person who is willing to do good. "

Lu Jiusi was furious at first, but then he thought that the person who saved his birth was actually a strange-looking boy with a big head. At that time, he was also called Zhaoran, not Shen Fangji. The anger in his heart dissipated, and he actually treated this sour scholar. There is a sense of powerlessness.

Wen Yinong went back to the adjacent shop room exhausted, Fang Zishi glanced at Wen Yinong with a dejected face: "I don't know what Mr. Wen lost, maybe we can help find it."

As soon as he said this, everyone's eyes turned to Wen Yinong. No one was curious about what Wen Yinong was escorting for the court, and they vaguely felt that all the people here were trapped Here, maybe it is because of this escort.

Hearing his words, Wen Yinong's round face twitched slightly at the moment, and he said after a while: "More than half a month ago, we discovered a cave with many urn coffins lined up inside..."

Fang Zishi didn't answer, but Miss Wu blurted out, "You found King Zhou's tomb?"

"We also thought it was, because it was rumored that the king of Zhou used an urn to bury the general to guard the tomb gate, but it wasn't..." Wen Yinong patted the big wooden box, even though the box was empty, But his hand still didn't seem to dare to slap the wooden box hard.

Miss Wu couldn't help but asked again: "Have you discovered Rugao order?"

"Why does Ling Rugao need such a big box?" Wen Yinong asked in a low voice.

Everyone looked at the big wooden box involuntarily, and Miss Wu said with her teeth chattering: "You, did you find out..."

"What we found was General Taiyin..." Wen Yinong stabilized his mind, and finally added the most important sentence, "Alive."

He spoke three words, and the whole room was silent. Fang Zishi asked tremblingly after a while, "Eleven and twelve kings of the Western Zhou Dynasty, after the Spring and Autumn and Warring States, Qin, Han, Tang, Song and Yuan for more than two thousand years, is he... still alive?"

"Yes." Wen Yinong said with certainty on his face, "Not only that, I think the corpses in the rest of the jars are also alive."

Everyone involuntarily cast their eyes on Lu Jiusi again. He is not only the most influential alien in the field, but also a miracle doctor. Lu Jiusi frowned slightly and said calmly: "I can use the snake thinking to treat all the problems of people. If you put it in another container, it will not live for 2000 years, and the body will definitely not live for thousands of years."

"He killed people, he killed them..." Mrs. Rong's shrill cry suddenly rang out. Although she was dressed in simple clothes, she still couldn't take off the demeanor of Miss Jiang, who was once a lady of the family. Nothing, crying and shouting, obviously frightened to the extreme, her husband Rong Shixi next to her had no choice but to put his arms around her shoulders and comfort her in a low voice.

"Why don't we leave here?" Rong Xi couldn't help but said.

The others didn't speak, but Miss Wu disagreed and said: "We have no grievances or enmities with the general, even if he wanted to kill us, he would not kill us. The beasts outside don't necessarily know that there is a grievance and a debtor."

When she said this, others couldn't help but think of the sentence that the wives of General Taiyin are all from the Jiang family.

Although Rong Shishi looked angry, he had nothing to do with Miss Wu.

After Liuweiju is Fang Zishi’s Room No. [-], Hanging Pot Room. Although Fang Zishi is also a stranger in the court, but since he lived in the inn, he has always shown humility and cooperation, so they all agreed to spend with Fang Zishi tonight. difficulties.

When going upstairs, Miss Wu suddenly asked Lu Jiusi: "If people keep changing their bodies, wouldn't they be able to live forever?"

"It's nothing..." Lu Jiusi said indifferently, "It's already an obsession for people to remember decades, how can they still remember hundreds of years? After a long time, they will naturally forget."

Miss Wu lowered her head softly and said "Yes", she pondered for a while and seemed to have a question to ask, but when she raised her head, she saw that Lu Jiusi had disappeared, so she had to hold back Zhao Luli who was one step behind: "Then General Taiyin remembers everything. Seriously, is he alive... or dead?"

Zhao Luli thought for a while and then said: "It doesn't matter what happened in the past, as long as he can know the five flavors, understand kindness and resentment, preserve benevolence and righteousness, and suffer from love, hate and parting, he will be alive."

Miss Wu was silent, Zhao Luli suddenly smiled and asked, "If you don't believe me, why don't you take out the bone whistle and ask Zhang Xiaobai?"

The bodies of the two Jinyi school guards in the common shop had already been removed. Wen Yinong sat on a chair with half-closed eyes, and asked a figure in front of him: "Are you sure it's him?"

"Sign up for sure, my lord, you know that as long as the smell is marked down, as long as he doesn't even change his skin, he won't be able to fly with his wings?" Very infiltrating.

Wen Yinong didn't take it seriously, instead, he showed joy and patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, this time's achievement is a great achievement, you can't get away from the position of trying a hundred households!"

The man blushed with excitement: "Biao Xia will definitely do everything he can."

Wen Yinong was also very excited, he paced back and forth in the room and said: "They probably wouldn't have thought that I, Wen, would have someone else's allegiance, they all thought they could be fooled by me, but they didn't know that I had already seen through it Their painted skins! What are they, they are all favored by the emperor, and they dare to compete with the emperor for the blessing of immortality?!"

He stopped in his tracks, calmed down his emotions, and said in a deep voice: "Now that the pack of wolves is looking around, we still need to take pictures. Be careful not to show any traces!"

The man lowered his head, and Wen Yinong clenched his fists again: "A certain family will let him show his original shape tonight!"