Jianghu Daily

It was three months after Lu Xiaofeng learned that Liu An fell into the cliff and his life was unknown.

It was winter, the vegetation was withered, and the snow was falling heavily.Only the plum blossoms in Wanmei Mountain Villa are not afraid of the severe cold, densely blooming and covering the trees, and the cold fragrance is scattered everywhere in the wind and snow.

Ximen Chuuxue has to practice swords at any time.

Even in this weather where a drop of water turns into ice.

Lu Xiaofeng lazily leaned against the pillar in the porch, watching Ximen Chuuxue.

Ximen Chuuxue's sword has improved a lot compared to a few months ago, just by looking at the sword moves, one can know its depth.If it was normal, Lu Xiaofeng would definitely reckon how many tricks he could have with him, but right now he can't even think about it.

"Hero Lu! Hero Lu!"

Lu Xiaofeng picked out his ears, only You Dianshuang in this village could yell like this.You Dianshuang acted like an old woman, quickly put on a fox fur for Lu Xiaofeng, then handed him the stove in his hand, nagging, "Hero Lu, you always pay attention to your body! It's freezing cold, you if……"

"Xiaoyou, who do you think I am?" Lu Xiaofeng took off the fox fur, dumbfounded, and said, "Even if I'm hurt, I won't be weak and become a woman."

You Dianshuang couldn't refute, so he could only stamp his foot and point at Ximen Chuuxue: "This is what Ximen Zhuangzhu ordered!"

Just as Lu Xiaofeng was about to shake his head, Ximen Chuuxue had already sheathed his sword and walked down the corridor.

"That's right." Ximen Chuuxue automatically ignored the dissatisfaction in Lu Xiaofeng's eyes, and brushed the snow off his shoulders, "The wound is on the chest, if it is not treated well in winter, it will inevitably become the root cause of the disease."

Lu Xiaofeng smiled a little forcedly, he said: "When did you learn this?"

Ximen Chuuxue said coldly, "Since you fell at the gate of Wanmei Villa."

Lu Xiaofeng couldn't even laugh this time.

That day Liu secretly stabbed him with a sword, bleeding all the way, and the wound was torn open.

But he didn't feel the wound at all, he only felt that the heart was really torn.

Liu An opened his heart with a pair of white hands, and the pain pierced his heart.

Lu Xiaofeng never thought that Liu An was extremely smart, because he himself was sometimes stupid.But this time, the two of them acted stupidly because of the word "love", which caused this dilemma.

All the doctors in the town were invited to the Shengui to help treat Elder Duyan.Fortunately, You Dianshuang learned from the newspaper that Lu Xiaofeng's friends are all over the world, so he quickly hired a carriage and drove him to the nearest place.

Lu Xiaofeng was in a daze, probably because he had lost too much blood and his mind was not working.In the grotesque mind, only Liu An's heartbroken eyes, the icy long sword, and the plum blossoms of Wanmei Villa...

Ximen Chuuxue opened the door and saw that Lu Xiaofeng was covered in blood, the soil under his body was stained red.

Fortunately, it was only a skin trauma, and so much blood flowed because a blood vessel was accidentally cut.

That's right, accidentally.

Ximen Chuuxue can be sure of this.

Lu Xiaofeng fell into a coma for seven days because of this "skin trauma".

During this period, You Dianshuang and the servants of Wanmei Villa took turns serving him, and Ximen Chuuxue also visited him every day, calling Liu An's name even when he was in a coma.

This was also the first time Ximen Chuuxue realized how important the name "Liu An" was to his friends.

Afterwards, Lu Xiaofeng woke up, and he was comatose for a few days before he got better.At that time, ten days had passed since Liu An fell off the cliff.

The first thing Lu Xiaofeng did after waking up was to go to the Shengui Gang and explain everything to Liu An.

But both Ximen Chuuxue and You Dianshuang stopped him.

Lu Xiaofeng was very puzzled, and Ximen Chuuxue would not explain it to him.

So Lu Xiaofeng could only ask You Dianshuang.

You Dian faltered for a long while before Fang said, "Hero Lu, the owner of Ximen Village said that you...you must spend three months in Wanmei Villa to cultivate."

"Three months?!" Lu Xiaofeng almost fell off the chair, how could he go to Liu An in three months, how could he explain it to her clearly!

You Dian lowered his head and said, "Villa Master Ximen has already delivered a letter to the Clan Master. He said...that you were injured and healed at his villa. You all need time."

Lu Xiaofeng originally wanted to find Liu An like a chicken blood, but after hearing this, he calmed down.

"Simon was right."

Both he and Liu An needed time to calm down.

Lu Xiaofeng frowned, raised his head and asked, "It must be three months?"

You Dian gritted his teeth and nodded: "Three months! Not one day less!"

Lu Xiaofeng still had doubts about You Dianshuang's words, so he dragged his wounds to ask Ximen himself the next day.

Ximen Chuuxue turned around and said to him, "I'm going to find you."

Lu Xiaofeng smiled: "Maybe we are all for the same thing."

Ximen Chuuxue took out a letter from the table, handed it to him and said, "Letter from Liu An."

"You really sent her the letter?" Lu Xiaofeng looked at the letter and hesitated to accept it, and after a long while, he stretched out his hand, as if he was holding Liu An's hand.

"What... what did she write last time?"

Ximen Chuuxue said coldly, "Look for yourself."

Lu Xiaofeng sighed, his heart suddenly opened.

There are only four words on the letter: Get lost, old lady!

The four characters are printed exclusively for the newspaper.

Lu Xiaofeng just stared at these four words for a while, and his grin widened.

Ximen Chuuxue asked: "What did she say?"

Lu Xiaofeng folded the letter carefully, put it in his arms, stroked his beard and said with a smile: "Damn words."

Yes, Liu An's swearing made Lu Xiaofeng feel more at ease than other words.He wished Liu An could swear at him every day, so what about swearing?Compared with those cruel words that are like tearing out bones, at least they won't cause him pain.

Lu Xiaofeng asked: "It must be three months?"

Ximen Chuuxue was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Definitely."

Lu Xiaofeng felt better, turned around and walked away with a smile.He had to take care of himself and be prepared to be beaten by Liu Ankuang.

Ximen Chuuxue was sure that Lu Xiaofeng had gone far away, his eyes were empty, and he said, "He's gone."

There was a lot of noise behind the curtain, but You Dianshuang got out from inside.

You Dian patted his chest and said: "Fortunately, I was one step ahead and gave you some advice, Ximen Zhuangzhu, otherwise you will be exposed by Lu Daxia." Of course Ximen Chuuxue never sent a letter to Liu An.

He didn't answer, his eyes were still looking somewhere, Youyuan couldn't read his emotions.

You Dianshuang cautiously took two steps forward, and was about to speak, but Ximen Chuuxue sighed as if talking to himself, "It's only been three months."

***

Time flies like a white horse, three months is extremely short.

Lu Xiaofeng hugged the stove and was wearing a fox fur, feeling that compared to Ximen Chuuxue opposite, he really became an old woman.

But he was also embarrassed to dismiss You Dianshuang's wishes.

A jug of wine was boiling on the table.

Lu Xiaofeng poured a small glass, took a sip, and praised: "Good wine."

Ximen Chuixue said: "It's just the most common daughter Hong."

Lu Xiaofeng said with a smile: "For a person who hasn't touched alcohol for [-] days, even distiller's grains are good wine!"

He is in a good mood today, not only because his injury has eased, but also because he can go see Liu An.

In the past three months, he received three letters from Liu An, one telling him to get out, two telling him to get out, and the third one sarcastically sarcasm him, saying that he is alive or not dead!

He seemed to have seen Liu An smiling at him.

Ximen Chuuxue doesn't drink alcohol.

He just sent the flagon to Lu Xiaofeng for two points.

"You have been here for three months, but I don't know what happened to you."

Lu Xiaofeng was about to say that you never asked Xiaoyou?But thinking of Xiaoyou's personality, it was probably very frightening to be frightened by Ximen Chuuxue, and it was difficult to explain clearly.After all, even he doesn't know very well.

Lu Xiaofeng paused, feeling that the wine he just drank had turned bitter.

"This matter should start after the decisive battle between you and Ye Gucheng that day..."

Ouyang Qing found Liu An and told her that Gongsun Lan was killed in Huangshi Town, hoping that Liu An could find the murderer.Lu Xiaofeng was with Liu An at that time, so he took care of this matter of course.The two got a list from the dead Gongsun Lan, and all the people on the list were dead.And Lu Xiaofeng discovered that these dead people had all their internal energy sucked dry, and a blood-red palm print on their chest would not fade for a long time.

When Ximen Chuuxue heard this, he frowned and said: "There were rumors in the world decades ago that someone practiced this skill and went crazy, but he didn't think it would really happen."

Lu Xiaofeng nodded: "The world is full of wonders."

The rivers and lakes are huge, and there are so many martial arts, how can they understand them all?

Except for Gongsun Lan's high martial arts skills, the dead who were drained of their internal energy were all low-level characters.But they were dead, and Gongsun Lan had their list on him, which at least showed that the two were related.Lu Xiaofeng couldn't figure out the connection among them, and he also slowly guessed it during the past few days of being injured and recuperating.Liu An once told him that Gongsun Lan was going to investigate the oolong scissorhands case. Is there a possibility that Gongsun Lan did not find the scissorhands, but found "Blood Hand Peach Blossom"?She found clues, and of course the murderer would not let her go, and Gongsun Lan's death would make sense.

Furthermore, about peach blossoms.

Lu Xiaofeng made another assumption, if he was a murderer, would he plant a peach blossom on his head every time he committed a crime, to attract attention on purpose?Of course not.No murderer wants to expose himself.

But the murderer left a big tell.

Peach blossoms, peach blossoms in autumn.

The murders all happened around Huangshi Town, so whoever grows peach blossoms out of season in autumn is the suspect.

Just in time, the owner of Wuzhuang appeared.

It just so happened that the owner of Wuzhuang Village was a man of the rivers and lakes.

It just so happened that the master of the Wuzhuang village used the palm technique.

It seems that all suspicions point to him.But at this time Lu Xiaofeng and Liu An found Huamanlou, and thanks to Huamanlou, they didn't wrong the good people for no reason.

Ximen Chuuxue was stunned for a moment, and asked, "Do you know if what Hua Manlou said is credible?"

Lu Xiaofeng smiled and said: "If you try to protect someone like this, I will also believe it."

For some friends, the word "tacit understanding" is no longer enough to describe.

Ximen Chuuxue obviously thought of this too, and rarely showed a smile.

Lu Xiaofeng took a sip of his wine and continued: "Since no one can steal the peach blossoms of the master of Wuzhuang, where did the peach blossoms on the murderer's head come from? It just so happened that Hua Manlou's words woke me up, maybe the peach blossoms were not peach blossoms, It's fake..."

Lu Xiaofeng kept this doubt in mind.

He was preparing to continue to investigate why the deceased were all people from the rivers and lakes, but another batch of cases occurred.

Eight more people died overnight.

The eight people were all traffickers who didn't understand martial arts, and they seemed to have nothing to do with the previous gangsters, but it just made Lu Xiaofeng figure out the joint.

Assuming that the two murderers are accomplices, the first one only kills martial arts people, and the second one is afraid that the former is too simple and easy to be exposed, and deliberately kills some people to confuse the eyes and ears, making people think that this is just a murderer for pleasure .The second one did this on purpose, one is to cover up, and the other is to make the first notorious, the crime is deeper, and he can never turn back.

Ximen Chuuxue didn't answer this time, he signaled Lu Xiaofeng to continue talking.

Lu Xiaofeng smiled wryly, and said, "Then Liu An quarreled with me and told me to get out."

Ximen Chuuxue wanted to laugh, but suddenly remembered something and stopped laughing.He asked, "Why are you arguing?"

Lu Xiaofeng said: "Because Xue Bing sent me a letter."

Ximen Chuuxue understood.

Lu Xiaofeng rubbed the center of his brows and said, "Blame me. Blame me for being indecisive and not telling her earlier." Maybe he didn't have that momentary hesitation, maybe so many misunderstandings wouldn't have happened.Lu Xiaofeng paused for a long time before continuing: "I shouldn't have doubted people from her gang, but there is someone in her gang who likes her, so I can't not pay attention."

Ximen Chuuxue said: "Do you doubt that person, or do you care? Guard? Dissatisfied?"

"It's all there." Lu Xiaofeng paused, and said, "But my suspicion is not unfounded. When I was in the Turtle Gang, I felt that this person's walking posture was different. You and I both know that a person with deep inner strength walks Treading the snow without a trace, but Yu Shansui always has no traces and traces at other times, as if... his skill is not enough."

Ximen Chuuxue frowned and said, "Have you tested him? Are you sure?"

Lu Xiaofeng sighed, smiled wryly, "Don't try, I'm sure."

"That day when Liu An and I went back to help, Yu Shansui was carving a piece of wood. Only then did I know that everything he carved was lifelike."

Ximen Chuuxue pondered for a moment, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he realized: "Peach Blossom!"

Lu Xiaofeng nodded: "That's right, it's peach blossoms. Yu Shan can carve anything, so a branch of peach blossoms full of vitality can't trouble him. In addition, the dead people found earlier were all from around Huangshi Town, and their martial arts were not high. Yu Shansui has an opportunity to take advantage of!"

This is also what Lu Xiaofeng thought of when he saw the relationship diagram drawn by Liu An. Thinking of this, he didn't have time to explain to Liu An, so he went to find the first evidence.

The carved peach blossoms are fake after all, and fake ones will not have a very fragrant peach blossom smell.But Huamanlou once mentioned that some face powders are very fragrant.

So Lu Xiaofeng found all the peach blossom powders in several towns, brought them all to Shangguanqin, and let him smell them.People in the world only know that Shangguanping is a sky blue swordsman, but they don't know that his father, Shangguanqin, has a sharp nose, like Huamanlou.

As expected, Shangguanqin picked out a box of eight kinds of peach blossom fragrance powder.Lu Xiaofeng didn't have time to think about it, so he went straight to Yingchun Pavilion.

"Then?"

"Then it was much easier. I found the old bustard of Yingchun Pavilion, and she told me that this powder was only available in her brothel, and someone had indeed bought it. Yu Shansui was very smart. He disguised himself and covered his face, so the old bustard couldn't recognize her." But it is also because of this that the bustard has a deep memory of him." Lu Xiaofeng breathed a sigh of relief, and said: "No matter how Yu Shansui pretends, his voice will never change. I asked Sikong Zaixing for a favor, changing his face Cheng Yu is good at following, regardless of his body shape and voice, his voice is exactly the same, and the bustard is sure it is him, so he can't be wrong."

Ximen Chuixue said: "Sikong Zhaixing's disguise technique is indeed superb."

Lu Xiaofeng went on to say: "Of course, these are still my guesses. No one can be wronged until the last moment."

But he was always one step too late.

That night when he rushed to the Turtle Gang, he was about to talk to Liu An, but suddenly he heard a muffled groan of "Mmmm" coming from the Lingxi room.When he rushed to Lingxi's room, he was standing by the window alone, and when he saw him enter the room, he quickly escaped from the window.

Although half of his face was covered, Lu Xiaofeng would not forget him even when he turned into ashes.

It was Jin Jiuling.

Lu Xiaofeng hadn't figured out what Jin Jiuling was doing in the Shengui Gang, he was about to chase after him, but Lingxi hugged his legs tightly.

He was very puzzled, so he asked: "Consonance? What are you doing? Let go!"

Lingxi didn't answer, but wept in a muffled voice, repeating something in his mouth.

Later Lu Xiaofeng remembered that what Lingxi kept repeating was "I'm sorry".

Immediately there was a scream from Elder Duyan's room, Lu Xiaofeng wanted to rescue him, but Lingxi held him back.

This time Lingxi looked at him and said "I'm sorry" sincerely.

Lingxi began to undress, one by one.

The accident happened too fast, but Lu Xiaofeng was keenly aware of the plots and traps.He grabbed Lingxi's hand firmly to stop her from going crazy.

"What are you doing?!"

Lingxi shook his head desperately and cried louder.

Lu Xiaofeng bent down to pick up her clothes, and as soon as she put them on, Zhu Shi rushed in.Lingxi was stunned for a moment, then threw herself into Zhu Shi's arms and cried loudly.

Everything is obvious now.

Jin Jiuling and Lingxi are in collusion, perhaps, Jin Jiuling and Yu Shansui are also in collusion.

The two murderers of "Blood Hand Peach Blossom" can make sense, the first is Yu Shansui, the second is Jin Jiuling, and Gongsun Lan is their opportunity.

Lu Xiaofeng stood in the room blankly, he knew that leaving at this time was the best choice, but he saw Liu An.

Liu An was holding a sword.

He couldn't move anymore.

Liu An questioned, suffered, hated, annoyed, hated...

She even asked why she hurt Elder Duyan?But he didn't do it!Lu Xiaofeng wanted to share the clues he found in the past few days, and wanted to say that Yu Shansui was the murderer, but he saw Yu Shansui standing beside Liu An.

Liu An looked at him with despair and sadness in his eyes.

Yu Shansui also looked at him, with only threats in his eyes.His right hand is slightly clawed, and anyone who knows martial arts knows that this is a starting move.

Lu Xiaofeng had no doubts at all, as long as he uttered the word "Yu", Liu An's head would be wrung out by him.

Yu Shan immediately stood next to Liu An, right next to her!He couldn't save her at such a close distance!So he gritted his teeth, clenched his fists, and confessed all the trumped-up charges.

Just to save her.

Just for her.

His eyes were burning hot, as long as Liu An glanced at him, he would immediately wake up and react.

But Liu An's eyes were full of tears, she couldn't even see his face clearly.

At such a time, Lu Xiaofeng was still joking with himself from the bottom of his heart, he was thinking, how much heartache Liu An had at this moment?

But he knew right away.

Because Liu An passed his pain to him with the tip of his sword.

……

Misunderstandings are too painful.

When the pot of wine was finished, Lu Xiaofeng's story was also finished.

Ximen Chuuxue still frowned, he asked: "I still have doubts."

Lu Xiaofeng sighed: "Why did Lingxi help Jin Jiuling? Who was the elder Duyan hurt? Who taught Yu Shansui's evil skills?" He chuckled lightly and said, "I want to know too. When I go back to the Turtle Gang, Tell Liu An the whole story of this matter, she will forgive me. Then I will interrogate slowly..."

"You can't go back." Ximen Chuuxue said suddenly.

Lu Xiaofeng thought he was joking, and said: "It's been three months, I can't bother you anymore."

"You can't go back." Ximen Chuuxue had a strange expression on his face.

Lu Xiaofeng's heart skipped a beat, but he still smiled and said, "Next time I will come with Liu An."

Ximen Chuuxue sighed slightly, and said: "Lu Xiaofeng, why do you pretend to be stupid, you already knew that those three letters were all fake."

Lu Xiaofeng froze, but still smiled: "The three letters were handed to me by you, how could they be fake?"

Ximen Chuuxue stood up, looking at the ice and snow outside the pavilion, the words he spoke were like ice swords and frost knives in the twelfth lunar month, each word pierced into Lu Xiaofeng's internal organs.

"Liu An is dead."

"After she stabbed you with a sword."

"Jump off a cliff to commit suicide."

Lu Xiaofeng was still sitting straight, but he couldn't even fake a smile on his face.As soon as he let go of his hands, the stove in his hand rolled into the snow, and was covered by goose feather snow in a blink of an eye.

"Hero Lu!" You Dianshuang couldn't hold back any longer. With red eyes, he dug out the stove, put it back in his hand, and said, "I...I didn't hide it on purpose. It's just...just helping her...your injury cannot……"

Lu Xiaofeng closed his eyes, his voice hoarse: "What did she say before jumping off the cliff?"

You Dianshuang actually didn't know anything, but he said seriously: "Hero Lu, the boss said she loves you."

Liu An loves him?

He loved him, just as he loved her.

Lu Xiaofeng lowered his head on the table, his left hand tightly clutched the wound, it seemed to be split open again, and he was suffocating in pain.

He covered his entire face, couldn't see the expression, and didn't say a word.

Ximen Chuuxue turned around, and there seemed to be unbearable eyes.He picked up the sword and said coldly: "I will go out for three days at most."

You Dian wiped the tears off his face, and asked in a nasal voice, "Master Ximen, what are you going to do?"

Ximen Chuuxue said, "Kill someone."

Kill two people.

One is Yu Shansui and the other is Jin Jiuling.