Daily life in Kaifeng dormitory

When the middle-aged man was asked, he had a tangled expression on his face, and after a long silence, he said, "This matter has nothing to do with you, we just talked about... something inside the sect."

Ni Yexin smiled and said: "If you don't make it clear, how do we know that it has nothing to do with us? Maybe you killed your junior brother."

"How could it be me!" The middle-aged man retorted a little excitedly.

Ni Yexin said: "Know people, know face, but don't know heart. Think about it, you said that the claw skills of your sect have been lost, and it's even more strange that your master suddenly died under this claw skill. Now Xue It is so big, the murderer came and went without a trace, it is very likely that someone inside Zhuangzi did it, you can be regarded as an elder in Zhuangzi, right? Logically speaking, people who know Zhuangzi well, then you know who killed it your junior brother?"

The middle-aged man showed a confused expression. At the moment when the owner's body was found, he did show a shocked expression. His heart was filled with fear and shock. He couldn't imagine that there would be anyone else who knew this claw skill.But it is also impossible for him to believe that the uncle is not dead.

The middle-aged man was a little decadent, and finally said: "Okay, let me tell you. The story started many years ago. Because of one incident, my uncle made me and my younger brother swear together, vowing to retire from the rivers and lakes, and never go to the snow-capped mountains again." , and never tell others about that matter..."

Ni Yexin didn't ask what that matter was, but he paused and said, "Continue talking."

The middle-aged man paused for a while, and continued: "We all swear, because at that time...that matter...we really don't want to mention it again, because of that matter, my uncle died soon, and my junior sister also went crazy Already!"

Everyone was stunned. The junior sister mentioned by the middle-aged man should be the woman they had seen a few times before. The woman in white with disheveled hair looks very beautiful and should be in her 30s.The disciples called the woman Third Master Uncle.

Ni Yexin said: "Is she crazy? It's not that she's lost her mind."

The middle-aged man sighed and said: "It's not that she was insane, she couldn't bear the blow, and she has been crazy since then. In this way, it is good that I and my junior brother are left in this villa. I will discuss it with him, even though my uncle is dead. Yes, but we must never tell about that matter, and we will never leave the villa again. But..."

All these years have passed smoothly, but the middle-aged man didn't understand why his junior brother suddenly planned to get up and go down the mountain.Before they came, the middle-aged man said that the owner of the villa was not in the village when he was out on business, and asked them to wait.

In fact, before that, the middle-aged man had a quarrel with the owner of the village. The owner suddenly mentioned the matter of going down the mountain. The middle-aged man strongly opposed it, and the two quarreled fiercely.

Later, the owner of the villa wanted to leave without saying goodbye and went down the mountain privately.The middle-aged man hurriedly asked his disciples to chase after him, but the snow is heavy these days, the mountain road is difficult to walk, and going down the mountain is very dangerous, so the owner left but came back.

The middle-aged man breathed a sigh of relief when he saw him come back, thinking that he was going to find his way back.Unexpectedly, the owner of the villa has no regrets at all.

Before, the owner sent someone to find Lu Yan, saying that he wanted to talk to him, but Lu Yan went there for the first time, but he didn't see anyone.

That time, the middle-aged man was one step ahead of Lu Yan, and found the owner first, and took him away to talk.

The owner of the villa threatened that if the middle-aged man kept his oath, he would tell others what happened back then. This other person was Lu Yan who came here with the jade pendant.

The middle-aged man was furious, and the two had a big fight.Lu Yan waited left and right, and left when the owner couldn't wait.

Later, the owner went to call Lu Yan for the second time. When the middle-aged man heard the news, he rushed over in a hurry. He was afraid that the owner would really tell Lu Yan, so he came to warn the owner in advance.

When Lu Yan came, he heard the voice of a middle-aged man. The two were indeed arguing.

Later, the middle-aged man was very angry and wanted to leave, but when he saw Lu Yan coming, he felt uneasy, so he wanted to dissuade the owner again.

The middle-aged man said: "I was talking to him in the room. I was very angry at the time, and my voice was a little louder. But the younger brother didn't look very angry, he didn't care, and I was even more angry when I saw him like that." .I was so angry that I almost made a move, but I didn't think about it..."

"I didn't expect him to do it first?" Ni Yexin asked.

"Yes." The middle-aged man said.

At that time, Lu Yan was waiting outside, so when he came back, he told Ni Yexin and the others everything he knew.

The middle-aged man said: "I was so angry at the time that I was totally unprepared. I was halfway through what I was saying when my brother suddenly slapped me. I was very close to him at the time, and it was too late to see clearly. He was hit right away, fell to the ground and couldn’t get up.”

The middle-aged man received a slap, and that slap was not a joke. He fell to the ground and hit the chair. He could hardly stand up in pain, and blood spattered from the corner of his mouth.

At that time, Lu Yan also heard a lot of movement outside the door, so he broke in immediately and saw the middle-aged man lying on the ground.

The middle-aged man said: "Junior Brother, he gave me a slap, and then immediately opened the window and jumped out. I didn't realize what was going on at the time. I couldn't stand up because of the pain, but I saw that he had already run away. I don't want to I knew what he was going to do, but I still got up as fast as I could and chased after him."

When Lu Yan entered the house, the middle-aged man got up and chased his junior brother, and Lu Yan followed behind and also chased him.

However, Lu Yan was injured or not, so it was a bit difficult to chase after him.In fact, the middle-aged man had a hard time chasing him, because he had just suffered some internal injuries. Although it was not serious, he had more energy than energy.

The middle-aged man said: "What happened later was similar to what you said."

The middle-aged man chased him all the way, seeing that the figure of the younger brother became more and more blurred the more he chased, and he was about to lose track, but the middle-aged man was suspicious.Because the middle-aged man has lived in Zhuangzi for a long time, he knows the layout of all parts of Zhuangzi, and there is no way to go forward. He doesn't know why the younger brother is running in this direction. If he wants to leave the villa, he should Just run in the opposite direction.

The middle-aged man said: "Just when I felt strange, I heard a disciple shouting, and I ran over immediately."

What the middle-aged man saw was a cliff and the terrified expression of his disciple. The disciple said that the owner had jumped off.

The middle-aged man was very shocked at the time, and he was completely dumbfounded. To be honest, he did feel a sense of being frightened and stupid.It is true that he did not see the junior brother jumping down, but the disciple said he saw it with his own eyes.

Ni Yexin said, "Did you see the footprints on the snow?"

The middle-aged man shook his head and said: "I didn't pay attention, I was dumbfounded at the time! I thought my junior brother really jumped... Before... When I was arguing with my junior brother before, he once said that if he is allowed to jump Half his life was wasted in this villa, he might as well be dead..."

Because the middle-aged man had heard the owner say this before, he was completely dumbfounded at the time, thinking that he was pushing his junior too hard.

Ni Yexin said: "Then where did you find the body of your owner? What happened at that time?"

The middle-aged man continued: "At that time, I thought that the younger brother had jumped off a cliff, so I immediately asked all the disciples to go down the mountain to look for it, and wanted to find the younger brother quickly..."

The disciples all went, and the middle-aged man also went out to look for it, but found nothing.

Later, when the middle-aged man returned to the room, he was very annoyed. At that time, he still felt that he had forced his younger brother to death. He didn’t sleep all night, and he didn’t dare to close his eyes. He thought that his younger brother might not die by jumping because of his high martial arts skills. , maybe still alive.

Then suddenly a disciple came over in a hurry, saying that they had found the master's younger brother, and asked his uncle to take a look.

Of course the middle-aged man wanted to see it, but when he heard the disciple's words, his body turned cold. His junior brother really died.

The middle-aged man followed his disciples, but suddenly became suspicious, because the speed at which the corpse was discovered was too fast, and the snow-capped mountain was so huge that it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. How could it be so easy to find it?

The disciple told the middle-aged man another even more shocking thing.

The middle-aged man said: "The disciple told me that the owner was covered in blood and there was a big hole in his stomach. He was not found in the snow, but died in a room."

It was a very remote room. Zhuangzi was not too big, but there were few people, so many rooms were vacant. There were a few particularly dark rooms in the corner that could not be lived in, because it was too cold, so they were vacant all year round. .

However, one of the disciples said that he suddenly found blood on the ground, so he walked over to have a look. Who would have thought that when he opened the door, he would be shocked and found that the owner of the village had died inside.

The disciple hurried to find the middle-aged man, and the middle-aged man hurried over, and sure enough, he saw the dead owner.

The middle-aged man said: "I was stunned again at that time, so I hurriedly told my disciples not to tell the story, and I didn't let anyone touch my junior brother's body again. My junior brother definitely didn't fall to his death from a cliff, the bones on his body are all in good condition, but There was a hole in the stomach. The first time I saw the corpse, I thought of the sect's lost claw kung fu. I haven't practiced this kung fu, but I saw my uncle used it, and the wound is exactly the same as this one."

The middle-aged man was both shocked and frightened, he didn't know what was going on.It is really shocking that his junior brother died under the claw technique of this sect.

The middle-aged man didn't dare to look at the body of his junior brother, he had all kinds of feelings in his heart, ordered someone to guard the body, and then left in a hurry.

Because he left in a hurry, he didn't even know to look at it. There was still a small piece of paper in the palm of the corpse's hand.

When the middle-aged man saw the wound, his first reaction was that his uncle was not dead.But that's impossible. When the uncle died, he and his younger brother buried the uncle with their own hands. That happened many years ago.The junior sister also went crazy because she couldn't bear the blow, and he vividly remembered what happened at that time.

But if the uncle is really dead, how could someone still know this claw skill?

The middle-aged man said: "I can't figure out what's going on, really... I don't know what's going on."

Ni Yexin said: "Where is the disciple who was in front of the cliff that day? You call him over."

Ni Yexin felt that if Lu Yan and the middle-aged man were telling the truth, and the owner didn't jump off a cliff to his death, it's very likely that the disciple was lying.

[-]% of the time the owner ran to the cliff and hid, and then the disciples yelled that the owner jumped off the cliff. The others did not see the owner jumping off the cliff at all, but they saw the cliff, the owner disappeared, and the strength of the disciples It is natural to feel that the owner of the villa has really jumped off the cliff.

The middle-aged man sat on the ground without moving, and said, "It's late...he disappeared."

When the middle-aged man saw the owner's wound, he felt that the owner could not have jumped off a cliff, so he went to find that disciple immediately.

It's just that he didn't find any trace of the disciple, and other disciples told him that the disciple disappeared mysteriously and disappeared mysteriously.

The middle-aged man felt very strange, and searched around in Zhuangzi, but found no one.

Ni Yexin was also surprised, and said, "That disciple disappeared?"

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "It really disappeared, and I haven't found it yet."

"Could it be..." Mu Nanting couldn't help interjecting, "Could it be the corpse you found in the snow?"

As soon as he opened his mouth, the middle-aged man was taken aback, and the others were silently thinking.

A shattered corpse was found in the snow. The corpse was dressed in white clothes of the villa, which resembled the owner of the villa.

And it just so happened that a disciple was missing from the villa. In this way, the corpse is really very likely to belong to the disciple.

Ni Yexin said: "Where is the body, take us to have a look."

The middle-aged man also found it strange, so he simply took them to see it.

The broken body and the owner's body were not put together, and the middle-aged man led them past.

There are no disciples guarding here. In the middle of the night, they opened the door and saw a dead body lying on the ground in a grocery room. It was quite scary.

This time they followed the middle-aged man, and they were swaggering, and they even carried lanterns for lighting, so they could see clearly when they entered the dark room.

The corpse was placed on the ground, covered with a white cloth, Qiu Wuxu went over to uncover the white cloth, and the corpse was presented in front of them.

Before, Murong Changqing only saw a hand, but now, they saw the whole corpse.

To be honest, it was not easy for this corpse to maintain a human shape, and it could only be seen barely, the head was the head, the arms were the arms, and the legs were the legs.

When Mu Nanting saw it, he immediately covered his mouth, and almost turned around and ran out to vomit.

Ni Yexin said: "It looks like this person really fell from a high altitude, and the fall was really terrible."

The corpse has been smashed, not to mention that you can't tell what it looks like, the brains are all cracked.

Ni Yexin said: "When he fell, he must have been hitting the cliffs of the snowy mountain like a pinball. He probably died before he fell to the bottom."

Gu Zhaojing covered Qiu Wuyi's eyes, not wanting the children to see such a bloody scene, so Qiu Wuyi grabbed Gu Zhaojing's hand and said in a childish voice, "What is pinball on the table. "

When the others saw the corpse, their faces changed somewhat, half of them were disgusted, and half of them felt that there was no clue.

After all, this person has fallen so badly, they couldn't tell if it was that disciple at all.

The middle-aged man said: "You have seen the corpse, but I can't tell if it belongs to that disciple or not."

Ni Yexin really couldn't see it, but the possibility of the disciple disappearing is still very high.

Everyone retreated from the room, Ni Yexin said: "Is there any grievance between your owner and someone?"

The middle-aged man hesitated for a moment, and said: "We have lived in seclusion in this snow mountain for ten years, and we have come here like this. It is impossible to have any grievances with anyone."

Qiu Wuxu sneered, and said, "That may not be the case. Do you think you can escape everything by hiding here? I think retribution has come."

The middle-aged man's face was very dark, but he didn't talk back to Qiu Wuxu, and didn't say a word at all.

Ni Yexin said: "It is very likely that your owner wanted to leave the villa, but you didn't allow it, so he set up a scam and wanted to feign death to escape. But coincidentally, he lied to you, but he was caught by the murderer before he could leave. Killed."

The middle-aged man said, "Who is the murderer?"

Ni Yexin said: "It is very likely that the owner of your estate knows someone, or even acquainted. When he was killed, he hardly resisted. It should not be a stranger."

"Familiar person..." The middle-aged man said confusedly: "Who is that? I can't think of it at all. How could someone familiar want to kill my junior brother."

Ni Yexin said: "By the way, your junior brother has been honest here for ten years, why do you suddenly want to go down the mountain and leave?"

The middle-aged man was silent for a while when he heard it, and said: "You may have heard that there is a lot of buzz in the Jianghu right now, and there is a rumor that there are nine wooden boxes, and if you get it, you can get it from the Devil's Cult." Treasure."

"Wooden box?" Ni Yexin immediately thought of the map on the wall of the villa, and said, "Is it because of the wooden box?"

The middle-aged man nodded hesitantly, and said, "Yes, it's the wooden box. Haha, you say it's ridiculous, how many people have been killed by this wooden box, and now it's reappeared. It’s like a person, can’t eat all day, the whole person seems to be very excited, tell me, if we get the treasure of the Demon Cult, then we don’t have to hide in the snow mountain for the rest of our lives!”