Although Songxi Town is a small town, there are many local chronicles and classics accumulated.Zangshu Pavilion is probably the largest room in the mansion, and when you turn down the stairs, there is actually a cellar.Everyone took charge of a part of the bookcases and began to rummage through them.
Others were fine, but Hong Qigong couldn't sit still at all. He was not the kind of person who loved to read books. There were still many ancient-style characters in the local chronicles. Throw it away.Bored, he found an open space in the cellar and sat down cross-legged, took off the gourd that was refilled with wine at his waist, and drank one sip after another.
When a gourd of wine was almost drained, Yang Guo finally shouted: "See you!"
Everyone put down the books in their hands and gathered around.
Yang Guo said: "It is recorded in this book that it is indeed not the Temple of Tianmu, but just an ordinary temple for seeking marriage. The god enshrined in it is not Tianmu, but the Golden Mother, that is, the Queen Mother."
"Strange, since it was the Temple of the Queen Mother before, why is it now Tianmu Temple? Could it be that it was secretly remodeled?" Hong Qigong sat on the ground, holding a wine gourd, and asked with his head raised.
Yang Guo shook his head: "That's not clear, I didn't mention the renovation in my book. Since the Tianmu Temple was only rumored recently, it must have been a year or two before the renovation."
"If it happened in the past one or two years, then Master should know about it?" Hong Qigong asked casually.
"You should know." Gong Jiu looked at the master, "In Songxi Town, worshiping Tianlao can take revenge on the heinous people. Where did the rumor that Tianlao can eat human brains come from? Who is this Tianlao Temple? Rebuilt?"
The master said: "When and who spread the rumor, I don't know. But when and who built this temple, I do know."
The master sent people, and quickly went door to door to bring the people who had repaired the Tianmu Temple into the mansion, and brought them to the court.
Mo Qi and Gong Jiu sat in the main seat of the courtroom, the master stood behind them, and the yamen servants added chairs on both sides of the courtroom for Huang Yaoshi and others to sit down.
Everyone looked at these people.Some of them were forced out by the yamen servants who broke into the door. They all huddled together with frightened faces, not knowing what crime they had committed.
The master raised his voice: "Quiet. Let me ask you, did you build the grandma's temple that day?"
The people nodded in fear.
The master sternly said again: "You know, the temple originally enshrined the Queen Mother that day. If you modify it at will, aren't you afraid that the Queen Mother will punish you? Said, the Queen Mother Temple has been abandoned for more than ten years. Thinking of repairing it, why did you build it into Tianmu Temple? What do you want to do!"
The people panicked.Most of the people in the hall are honest farmers and craftsmen, but they have committed any crimes, and they have never been broken into by the yamen servants, arrested in the mansion, interrogated by the master, and frightened by the master's stern voice. are less.
The master picked one of them who seemed a little calmer: "Tell me, tell the truth. If there is a false statement, you will definitely not be able to get out of this court."
The man was very aggrieved and called out: "My lord! I am wronged! It is not that the villain wants to repair it, but the villain is also forced to do nothing! Originally, the villain has never even heard of the Queen Mother Temple, so he may think of it. I’m going to repair it! If you say it, the adults may not believe it, but the villain is actually dreamed by Tian Lao!”
As soon as the man finished speaking, the people behind him who had been afraid to speak suddenly commotioned for a while.
"Me too!"
"Me too……"
"I was entrusted with a dream too!"
Master Qing coughed: "Quiet, quiet!"
He turned around, bent down to get close to Mo Qi and Gong Jiu's ears, and said in a low voice, "My lords, look at the situation...should we separate them and interrogate them individually? Since they all said they were If you were entrusted with a dream, why don't you ask each of them what they dreamed about, if what they said is the same, there must be something wrong."
Gong Jiu nodded: "Yes."
The master asked the yamen servants to take the rest of the people down first, and said to the one left alone: "Well, what did you dream about?"
The man looked terrified: "Villain... The villain dreamed of Tianmu and gave the villain a dream, asking me to repair the temple, otherwise a catastrophe will befall the villain's family in a few days."
"At the beginning, the villain didn't take it seriously at all, thinking it was nothing more than a nightmare, but... the next day when the villain came back from the field, my wife told me that the child accidentally fell down while playing. A few embroidery needles happened to be placed in the bumped place, take out those needles, the child has suffered a crime."
"The villain is so scared! That night, the villain dreamed that Tianlao was holding embroidery needles. The child fell down and was pricked by the embroidery needle. If it is not a coincidence, it is really God. Grandma's punishment, that villain can't bear it! This time the child was only pricked to the knee by the embroidery needle, and the pain lasted for a while. But if the prick next time is not the knee, but the neck, eyes, or even the head Woolen cloth?!"
"The villain is afraid. On the second night, Grandma Tian fell asleep again. Grandpa Tian really said that it was a small punishment for the villain during the day. If the temple is not repaired for her, next time, the embroidery needles will not be pierced." Knees are not just for children anymore."
"So, on the third day, the villain picked up tools and went to repair the temple. Unexpectedly, besides the villain, many people were also repairing the temple. When the villain asked, it turned out that they were all Tianmu Those who entrusted their dreams also did not obey Tianmu's orders, so some people in the family were injured by embroidery needles."
"This is so evil! The villain was so frightened that he didn't dare to stay longer after repairing the temple, so he hurried home. Since then, I have never dreamed of Tianmu again."
Mo Qi wondered: The embroidery needle in Tianmu's hand?The Tianmu in the temple is clearly holding a human head, how could it be an embroidery needle?
He changed his mind: It must be the person who made the embroidery needles that day.
This is a very important clue, because it locks the identity of the person who made the rumor about Tianmu, and it must be the person who made the embroidery needle.
In other words, the culprit behind the incident where the people of Songxi Town suddenly became crazy was this guy who made embroidery needles.
"That is to say, you don't even know that there is such a temple in Songxi Town, and you don't even know who is enshrined in this temple. You don't know why the statue of the Queen Mother suddenly turned into a clay sculpture of Tianmu. The place has become the place where you pray for revenge?" The master saw the puzzled expression of the person he asked, so he had to say more simply, "Tell me, when you were repairing, who was the clay sculpture inside, and who was inside?" What is the mural about?"
"During the renovation, there were no clay sculptures in the temple! The murals..." The man recalled it carefully, and said in a daze, "There are no murals? There are nothing in the temple, tables, chairs, futons, none of these! There aren't any murals on the walls either."
Mo Qi and Gong Jiu glanced at each other: It seems that the mural was painted by a queen.
However, when inspected at the time, the murals looked mottled and old in color. It didn't look like it was new for less than a year, but it seemed to have been painted for a hundred years.Otherwise, they wouldn't have failed to see the difference at the time.
Huang Yaoshi said: "The person who painted this mural must have some insight into antiques. First, he must know how to imitate old murals, and second, he must have the foundation to know how to paint and paint. This kind of person is either a master of antiques, or... ...Teacher."
The master looked back at Huang Yaoshi: "Teacher?"
Mo Qi also remembered: "One of the people on the list is indeed Tu Fuzi. After cross-examining the rest of the people first, we will go to this person's house to check."
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The master asked further, but he didn't find anything new.
After the last person finished cross-examining, the master took everyone to look for the native master.
This person lives in the west of the city, has no father, mother, or wife, and is alone, but the house he lives in is not small, and it is mostly used to display the "treasures" he scavenged from various places.After everyone stepped into the door, there was a smell of rust.
Gong Jiu raised his hand to cover his nose in disgust.
Mo Qi glanced at Gong Jiu, and opened all the closed doors and windows.
The light finally shone into the dark room. Hundreds of antiques of different sizes were displayed on the shelves, and if there were any small items that couldn't fit, they were scattered on the floor.Some have been cleaned, and some have not been cleaned, with dirty mud, and the stench they smell comes from these mud-like things.
"Look here." Huang Yaoshi had already walked into Tu Fuzi's study.
Hong Qigong didn't understand anything and didn't dare to touch anything, so he poked his head over to have a look: "What the hell, is this a painting he drew?"
Huang Yaoshi nodded: "The technique and style of the murals in Tianmu Temple are very similar. The murals in Tianmu Temple should be painted by him."
Mo Qi looked over the house and asked the master, "Where is he now?"
The master shrugged: "People are stupid. There are still things all over the floor in this house. A few days ago, I tripped over a jade Buddha statue and fell to death."
Gong Jiu stood motionless at the door, his precious white boots unwilling to take another step inside: "In this list, apart from this person, there is no other Tu Fuzi who can imitate ancient murals. It's work. That is to say, he completed the murals in Tianmu Temple by himself."
Huang Yaoshi took a look at Gong Jiu: "There are ten groups of murals in Tianmu Temple. It must not be a day's work if one person wants to complete so many murals and make them old. If so, in his Before the mural is finished, the person behind the scenes cannot immediately make him mad. Not only can he not be mad, but in order to allow him to complete so much work, he must have enough rest time."
"A Tufuzi—a Tufuzi who can fight so many fights, solve so many secrets, go through so many traps, and bring so many spoils of war. If he is controlled by someone, but he is still awake, he may not even be able to recover. There will be regular periods of rest. So what does he do during this waking time?"
Xiao Longnu: "Leave a clue. I just don't know where he rested. Could it be that he slept on the ground in Tianmu Temple?"
Mo Qi turned his head and asked the master in a low voice: "Before he was crazy, did anyone else see his whereabouts?"
The master nodded: "Yes. Before he was crazy, the neighbors saw him going in and out of this house every day. He went out every evening and only came back during the day. But he is not like this every day or two. After all, he is a native Master, it's his normal state to be out at night, so the neighbors didn't notice anything wrong before he went crazy."
Hong Qigong stared blankly: "The people behind the scenes are so good? They are arrested to paint murals, and they can go home to sleep after finishing the painting every day. What's the difference between this and ordinary workers?"
Gong Jiudao: "The most dangerous place is the safest place. The people behind the scene must hope that the people of Songxi Town think that the sudden change of the murals overnight is due to a miracle, rather than a local master sneaking in every night. In the temple, I painted it quietly in the dead of night. That's why he let that Tu Fuzi go back and forth every night as usual, so as not to be seen by others."
"Then if he left a clue, it must be in this room?" Yang Guo looked around, unable to start.
This room is full of big treasures dug out from the emperor's tomb by Tu Fuzi, Yang Guo is afraid of accidentally smashing them if he touches them, let alone carry them carefully to find them.
Mo Qi was the first to lift up a jade glass statue: "Things are dead, but people are alive. If we don't find the person behind the scenes as soon as possible, more people in Songxi Town will become idiots. Remember, those The victims are not all heinous people, the young grandsons of the Huang family and the oriental genius doctors were all poisoned by him. Who can be sure, who is the next person he will kill?"
Xiao Longnu nodded: "Let's just try to be careful."
Finding clues in a bunch of weird antiques is much more interesting than looking for records of Tianmu Temple in a pile of books.At least Hong Qigong didn't continue to drink with a plate, but enthusiastically stretched out his eager hands to the various gourds on the cabinets.
Huang Yaoshi searched for it, and said casually: "If he wants to hide clues, he must not let the people behind the scenes know. Will it be too obvious in these cleaned up antiques?"
Gong Jiu, who had condescended to step into this stinky room, frowned suddenly: "Are you still looking for those things that are stained with mud?!"
"That's not necessary." As soon as Mo Qi was reminded by Huang Yaoshi, his eyes fell on the antiques that had not been cleaned out, "If you want to hide things in those antiques, you must first remove some of the silt on the mouth, and look at these On the things, where the mouth of the bottle or the mouth of the container is, the color of the silt is not quite right, it was added after stuffing the things.”
Duan Zhixing heard the words: "The old man is also here to help little friend Mo—" Before he finished speaking, his eyes just fell on a tall, slender, slender clay stick that looked like a jade pillar and whose purpose was unknown On the other hand, the color of the soil at the top is slightly lighter than that of the surrounding area, and it is a little dry. "Is this it?"
Huang Yaoshi was surprised: "So fast?"
Hong Qigong didn't believe it, and rushed over with the jade gourd in his hand: "Show me?"
Duan Zhixing took the tools Mo Qi handed over, and carefully removed the mud on it. As expected, a hole was exposed. He raised his arm and turned the hollow jade pillars one by one, and a very small book about A booklet that is two fingers wide and half a palm long.
Hong Qigong: "...It really is a monk, and a monk has a predestined relationship with everything."
Duan Zhixing gave Hong Qigong a helpless look, put down the jade pillar in his hand, wiped his muddy hands with the handkerchief handed over by his master, then went to the study together with everyone, and looked through the booklet.
The characters in the booklet are extremely small, as small as Ruonami, one by one is almost like ants.If it weren't for everyone's excellent eyesight, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to see what those words said.The master watched helplessly for a while, then backed away in despair.
Mo Qi noticed the master: "Master can't see clearly?"
The master smiled dryly: "Such a small character is not much bigger than a dot."
Mo Qi glanced sideways at the cabinet where he had just taken his tools, walked over, and took out a strangely thick transparent colored glass with thick sides and thin center: "Look through this. Get closer."
The master grabbed the thing and moved it to the side of the booklet suspiciously. Looking at it from a distance, the word was really magnified a lot, and every stroke was clearly visible.
Gong Jiu took Mo Qi and took advantage of the kung fu of holding the colored glaze, and brought a bamboo brush with a thin needle instead of a vellus hair: "It is probably written with this."
Huang Yaoshi said: "This book mostly records when and where he went, which emperor's tomb he went to, and what treasures he dug up." I looked at it carefully, and flipped through a few times to the last piece of paper with words written on it.
Rather than writing, it is better to draw pictures.
The portrait depicts a tall and slender man in neon clothes and a shawl, holding an embroidery needle in his hand, but his face is blank.
"Could this be a portrait of the mastermind behind the scenes?" The master asked in surprise, holding up the glass.
Mo Qi pointed at the waist, shoulders and hips of the person in the painting: "Looking at the figure, it should be a man."
Hong Qigong stared: "But these are women's clothes!"
Huang Yaoshi said: "Eastern Invincible, Jin Jiuling..."
Hong Qigong: "..."
Hong Qigong couldn't understand: "Nowadays men are so fond of it?"
Hong Qigong imagined Guo Jing's appearance in neon clothes, and he was shocked, shaking his head again and again, unable to accept it.
"But apart from the man, I can't see anything else." Yang Guo said sadly, "The face hasn't been painted yet, so I still don't know who is behind the scenes."
Huang Yaoshi glanced at Yang Guo: "Who said that?"
"Because of the embroidery needles, the possibility of Dongfang Bubai was already ruled out. Looking at this neon dress now, the possibility of Jin Jiuling has also been ruled out."
Yang Guo was puzzled, "Why?"
Huang Yaoshi said: "Dongfang Bubai used embroidery needles because of his kung fu. Even if a person dies and comes back to life, the part lost due to kung fu still cannot come back. Even if he becomes a shadow man , and his weapons will not change."
"But Jin Jiuling is different. Back then he wore women's clothes, red embroidered shoes, and used embroidery needles to conceal his identity. I don't want everyone to guess that the embroidered thief is Jin Jiuling, the head catcher of the six doors."
"But according to what Mo Xiaoyou said, if the person behind this scene is Jin Jiuling, and he has become a shadow man, then he is in a state of amnesia now. He doesn't remember that he was once an embroidered thief, nor does he remember that he was once a six-fan The head catcher of the door, why do you need to wear this neon dress to cover up your identity?"
Mo Qi's brows relaxed a little: "If that's the case, then the people behind the scenes are not shadow people."
Duan Zhixing clasped his hands together: "Amitabha, this is a good thing. The person behind the scenes is not a shadow person, so the only shadow person in Songxi Town is Brother Ouyang. Now we only need to find the person behind the Tianmu Temple, and then catch him. Brother Ouyang, then Songxi Town can restore its former peace."
Hong Qigong scratched his face: "Why don't you think that the man behind this scene may be the old poison?"
"Impossible!" Yang Guo yelled out immediately, goosebumps all over his body, "My adoptive father wouldn't be so strange! And he doesn't use needles!"
Hong Qigong just mentioned it by the way, when Yang Guo yelled, Ouyang Feng's appearance in neon clothes subconsciously appeared in his mind, and he shivered along with Yang Guo: "Yes, you are right."
Xiao Longnu sorted out the information slowly and said: "That means... the rumors about the construction of the Tianmu Temple and the people who are addicted to medicine in Songxi Town are not shadow people, but a martial arts practitioner who uses needles. As for the body Senior Ouyang, who is a shadow man, appeared here because of the poison in the hands of this needle-wielding man."
Xiao Longnu asked suspiciously: "Don't you think it's strange? Since that person is a martial arts practitioner and has embroidery needles as weapons, why does he use poison every time he makes a move, and is so keen on 'Tianlao eats human brains'?" rumors?"
"And why did senior Ouyang watch me secretly... If he has no memory, shouldn't he watch us together, why would he watch me alone?"
"In the end, when Guoer and I came to Songxi Town, it was because a thief blew up the tomb of the living dead and stole our jade bee jelly, so we let the jade bee follow him all the way. Now, steal us Who is the jade bee jelly man, what is he stealing our jade bee jelly for?"
Everyone fell into silence for a moment.
After a long while, Mo Qi hesitated and said: "What if the rumor of 'Tianmu eats human brain' is just a trick to attract people's attention, but his purpose is not to 'poison', but to 'detoxify'?"
Hong Qigong already wanted to find an open space with his master to use as a wooden stake: "What do you mean? You can make it simpler and clearer?"
Huang Yaoshi is the most intelligent, Hong Qigong understood Mo Qi's meaning as soon as he finished his question.
"What we thought before was that the rumor of Tianbao eating human brains was to add a divinity to the act of poisoning the man behind the scenes. The glorious decoration is like the emperor wants to rule the people, so he says that he is the real dragon emperor, and the emperor's rights are bestowed by heaven."
Huang Yaoshi didn't change his face when he said this, but the faces of the masters standing beside him changed drastically, as if the ground under their feet was full of thorns, and they wanted to rush out of the door immediately.
Huang Yaoshi continued: "But what if it's not like this? What if we got the sequence wrong?"
"If the black hand behind the scenes didn't first have the belief that he wanted to personally punish the rape and eradicate the evil, so he spread the rumor that Tian Lao can eat human brains, and then poisoned him--but he poisoned it first, and then realized that if he didn't make any cover, His real purpose will be easily discovered, so his identity will be easily found out?"
Hong Qigong had already picked up his wine gourd with straight eyes, and began to smash it up and down to drink, as if his soul was out of his body: "What is the real purpose, what is the identity?"
Mo Qi looked at Xiao Longnv: "Just now Miss Long also said that she and Condor Hero came to Songxi Town because someone stole their bottle containing jade bee jelly. Who would want jade bee jelly?"
Xiao Longnu: "A person who is seriously injured, a person who is poisoned."
Gong Jiu also understood: "So, if the person behind the scenes poisons, it is not for the purpose of poisoning, but for studying how to detoxify - then he probably stole the jade bee jelly, just to detoxify!"
Hong Qigong shook his head: "Wait, wait, you guys don't make sense at all. Why does he want to study how to detoxify?"
Yang Guo said, "Maybe he also has someone important to him who was poisoned."
Hong Qigong continued to shake his head: "He himself is the one who poisoned, how could someone important be poisoned? Is it possible that he can be poisoned and then go back on his word?"
Xiao Longnu: "Maybe. And it's also possible that important people ingested this poison by mistake."
Hong Qigong muttered: "What you are talking about... is getting more and more complicated."
"Otherwise, let's test it out." Yang Guo suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "My aunt and I still have a bottle of jade bee jelly, now let's just find someone who is poisoned and give it to him."
Hong Qigong was puzzled: "Why? Can your jade bee jelly detoxify him?"
Xiao Longnu shook her head: "Of course it's impossible."
Hong Qigong was even more puzzled: "Then why—"
Yang Guo said with a smile: "If it's really the person behind the scenes who stole the jade bee jelly to detoxify people, if he sees that the jade bee jelly is useless to the poison, what will he do?"
Duan Zhixing: "Amitabha. Naturally, he gave up stealing jade bee jelly."
Yang Guo continued: "What if someone else stole the jade bee jelly instead of the person behind the scenes?"
Mo Qi said: "It's not for detoxification, even if you see that jade bee jelly is useless for dementia, you will definitely come to steal it."
Yang Guo nodded: "Yes! Exactly!"
Mo Qi pondered: "This plan is feasible. But it is not necessary to feed the jade bee jelly to the detoxified people, just spread the news that the detoxification failed, and then spread the news that the jade bee jelly is in your hands ..."
Yang Guo shook his head again and again: "No, no, we have the jade bee jelly, what if the person behind the scenes doesn't dare to steal it?"
Hong Qigong let out a loud laugh: "That person blew up your tomb of the living dead in Zhongnan Mountain, so why not dare?"
Huang Yaoshi gave Hong Qigong a disgusted look, seeing that Hong Qigong had begun to hear the distracted eyes, he took back the sarcasm, and explained lightly: "At that time, there was no one in the tomb of the living dead. Stealing jade bee jelly from the empty tomb of the living dead and stealing jade bee jelly from Condor Hero and Xiao Longnu are two different things."
Gong Jiudao: "Since that's the case, I will put this jade bee jelly in the master's hand and ask him to take it back to the government office. To the outside world, it is said that the people in the government office have not given up and want to study the jade bee jelly Can you make some more adjustments to get rid of the dementia?"
Mo Qi nodded: "This plan will work."
Huang Yaoshi said: "In addition, we have to set a time limit for the person who stole the jade bee jelly. If we just wait without time limit, maybe the person who steals the jade bee jelly will want to observe and observe again. Only when a time limit is set, he feels that time is pressing, so he has no time to think about it, and can only take the risk of stealing immediately."
Mo Qi said: "Why don't you just say that if the jade bee jelly really can't detoxify, the people in the government don't want to waste this precious healing medicine. They have already made an appointment with the Condor Hero and Xiao Longnu, and they will return it to the two at noon tomorrow. people."
Only then did Huang Yaoshi nod: "This plan is very good."
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Everyone waited in the mansion for a whole day.
Until Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv went all the way into the mansion according to what they had agreed before, they pretended to greet the master and put away the jade bee jelly, but no one came to steal it.
Hong Qigong was still uneasy: "Are you sure? Are you so sure that the person who stole the jade bee jelly is the one behind the scenes? But, what if the news didn't get out? What if it was the one who stole the jade bee jelly?" Didn't the people behind hear the news?"
Yang Guo shook his head and said, "No way. If the person who stole the jade bee jelly still wants the jade bee jelly, since he has confirmed that the jade bee jelly is not in the tomb of the living dead, then it must be on me and my aunt. After seeing my aunt and I come to Songxi Town, she will definitely observe us secretly, so how could she not know the news?"
Hong Qigong said anxiously: "That means we've confirmed it? The person behind the jade bee jelly is behind the scenes, and he stole the jade bee jelly to detoxify?"
Huang Yaoshi said indifferently: "Yes. Therefore, no matter what rumors he creates, the purpose is only to cover up his true intention of poisoning."
Hong Qigong picked out the wine gourd, feeling that his brains were not enough anyway, and it was enough for the others in his companions to have brains. He just had to ask: "Since it is confirmed that he poisoned on a large scale to try to find out the method of detoxification, Those people who have been drugged are just tools for him to try the antidote, so how should we catch him?"
Mo Qi said: "Check."
"Find out who was the first person to be poisoned, and who was the first person to be drugged. The first person to be drugged, among the people closest to him, must be the murderer. "
The master flipped through the list and said sadly: "How do I check this? The family members of the poisoned people gave me these times. If the murderer wanted to be safe, he would have lied to us from the very beginning and lied about a particularly late date. What time is it?"
Mo Qi said decisively: "Then ask the neighbors. Ask them how long it has been since they saw the people on the list travel normally, and count according to the time when they last appeared normally."
Master: "Success, let's go."
After the master took the order, he left without dragging his feet.
Yang Guo was still flipping through the list.
Xiao Longnu touched his shoulder: "Among so many people, who do you think is the most suspicious?"
Yang Guo sighed: "It's all very suspicious. You see, these people are not the kind of heinous people we often see. Although they are one of the ten evils, they are not a big evil after all. I think if their family members Poisoning them, and then softening because of family affection, nothing is impossible."
Gong Jiu didn't look back: "But these people are ordinary farmers and businessmen. Do you think there can be a martial artist like this who holds poison in his hand and knows how to use needles? If so, Songxi Would the masters of the town not know about this kind of thing? The town is not big, and the neighbors are all close, if any family really produces some young heroes, they are all ordinary people, how can they not be proud to show off?"
Yang Guo had a headache: "Oh, Mr. Ninth, you are right."
The strings in Mo Qi's mind were suddenly pulsated by a word: "Neighbors?"
Hong Qigong: "Huh?"
Mo Qi closed the list in his hand: "The Ninth Young Master just said, 'Neighbors and homes'." He looked at Gong Jiu, "Do you still remember why the young grandson of the Huang family was crazy, but no one was there?" You know, even the master in Songxi Town doesn't know?"
Gong Jiu thought about it, and slowly replied: "Because... his family is a well-known family, and there is no need for the owner to go out in person to buy things on weekdays, and it is even more impossible for the young grandson to show up often... Do you suspect that it is the Huang family? people?"
Mo Qi clicked on the list in his hand: "Besides, is there anyone else on this list who can not have frequent contact with the neighbors, even if there is a quack in the family, no one will know? "
Duan Zhixing said: "At first we came to visit and only met the eldest lady at home."
Yang Guo stroked his chin: "That's right! The Huang family has a big business, why did we come to the door and only a lady came to entertain me? The three male masters didn't mention it, saying that they went to find the precious medicine for the young grandson of the Huang family." , what about the second and third wives?"
"We have to meet all the Huang family members, otherwise how do we know if any of them practice martial arts?"
Xiao Longnv nodded: "The wives of Huang's family have no doubts, because the person wearing neon clothes and using needles is a man. We only need to identify the men in their house, and those who happened to be there when we came to the door. If the absent male master is a martial artist, it will be fine."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, messed up, messed up again." Hong Qigong held his head in pain, "Don't blame the old beggar for asking too many questions, I really have to ask this question."
"Don't forget, why do we think that the person behind the scenes is capable of martial arts? Because this is what Mrs. Huang said herself! She said that on the eve of going to report to the police, a silver needle was shot into the window suddenly. There is a letter on the needle."
"If the Huang family did the poisoning, can she still believe it?"
Gong Jiu realized another thing when he heard the words: "Wait a minute, we all forgot one thing, this young grandson of the Huang family is stupid, and he was stupid when Huang Xiong went to Tianmu Temple to pray. At that time There are already rumors of the Tianmu Temple, so the stupidity of the young grandson of the Huang family only happened after the Tianmu Temple appeared. Then the young grandson of the Huang family cannot be the first person to be poisoned!"
Huang Yaoshi said softly: "What about Old General Huang? What about him? When was he kicked out of the house? It was five years ago, right?"
"I remember what you said at the time, when General Huang just returned to the town, he was not stupid, he had hallucinations." Huang Yaoshi shook his head and said, "I have seen such people. Many of them are dangerous with swords and swords. Characters are either killers or fighters. Because they have been dealing with extreme dangers all their lives, it is easy for them to have a situation that even if they have left the original dangerous environment, washed their hands, or returned to their hometowns, There is also an illusion from time to time.”
"They will suddenly flash back their previous memories, as if they suddenly returned to the previous battlefield or danger, and have various hallucinations such as sounds and pictures. But this is not stupidity. This hallucination, and stupidity, are two different things."
Others were fine, but Hong Qigong couldn't sit still at all. He was not the kind of person who loved to read books. There were still many ancient-style characters in the local chronicles. Throw it away.Bored, he found an open space in the cellar and sat down cross-legged, took off the gourd that was refilled with wine at his waist, and drank one sip after another.
When a gourd of wine was almost drained, Yang Guo finally shouted: "See you!"
Everyone put down the books in their hands and gathered around.
Yang Guo said: "It is recorded in this book that it is indeed not the Temple of Tianmu, but just an ordinary temple for seeking marriage. The god enshrined in it is not Tianmu, but the Golden Mother, that is, the Queen Mother."
"Strange, since it was the Temple of the Queen Mother before, why is it now Tianmu Temple? Could it be that it was secretly remodeled?" Hong Qigong sat on the ground, holding a wine gourd, and asked with his head raised.
Yang Guo shook his head: "That's not clear, I didn't mention the renovation in my book. Since the Tianmu Temple was only rumored recently, it must have been a year or two before the renovation."
"If it happened in the past one or two years, then Master should know about it?" Hong Qigong asked casually.
"You should know." Gong Jiu looked at the master, "In Songxi Town, worshiping Tianlao can take revenge on the heinous people. Where did the rumor that Tianlao can eat human brains come from? Who is this Tianlao Temple? Rebuilt?"
The master said: "When and who spread the rumor, I don't know. But when and who built this temple, I do know."
The master sent people, and quickly went door to door to bring the people who had repaired the Tianmu Temple into the mansion, and brought them to the court.
Mo Qi and Gong Jiu sat in the main seat of the courtroom, the master stood behind them, and the yamen servants added chairs on both sides of the courtroom for Huang Yaoshi and others to sit down.
Everyone looked at these people.Some of them were forced out by the yamen servants who broke into the door. They all huddled together with frightened faces, not knowing what crime they had committed.
The master raised his voice: "Quiet. Let me ask you, did you build the grandma's temple that day?"
The people nodded in fear.
The master sternly said again: "You know, the temple originally enshrined the Queen Mother that day. If you modify it at will, aren't you afraid that the Queen Mother will punish you? Said, the Queen Mother Temple has been abandoned for more than ten years. Thinking of repairing it, why did you build it into Tianmu Temple? What do you want to do!"
The people panicked.Most of the people in the hall are honest farmers and craftsmen, but they have committed any crimes, and they have never been broken into by the yamen servants, arrested in the mansion, interrogated by the master, and frightened by the master's stern voice. are less.
The master picked one of them who seemed a little calmer: "Tell me, tell the truth. If there is a false statement, you will definitely not be able to get out of this court."
The man was very aggrieved and called out: "My lord! I am wronged! It is not that the villain wants to repair it, but the villain is also forced to do nothing! Originally, the villain has never even heard of the Queen Mother Temple, so he may think of it. I’m going to repair it! If you say it, the adults may not believe it, but the villain is actually dreamed by Tian Lao!”
As soon as the man finished speaking, the people behind him who had been afraid to speak suddenly commotioned for a while.
"Me too!"
"Me too……"
"I was entrusted with a dream too!"
Master Qing coughed: "Quiet, quiet!"
He turned around, bent down to get close to Mo Qi and Gong Jiu's ears, and said in a low voice, "My lords, look at the situation...should we separate them and interrogate them individually? Since they all said they were If you were entrusted with a dream, why don't you ask each of them what they dreamed about, if what they said is the same, there must be something wrong."
Gong Jiu nodded: "Yes."
The master asked the yamen servants to take the rest of the people down first, and said to the one left alone: "Well, what did you dream about?"
The man looked terrified: "Villain... The villain dreamed of Tianmu and gave the villain a dream, asking me to repair the temple, otherwise a catastrophe will befall the villain's family in a few days."
"At the beginning, the villain didn't take it seriously at all, thinking it was nothing more than a nightmare, but... the next day when the villain came back from the field, my wife told me that the child accidentally fell down while playing. A few embroidery needles happened to be placed in the bumped place, take out those needles, the child has suffered a crime."
"The villain is so scared! That night, the villain dreamed that Tianlao was holding embroidery needles. The child fell down and was pricked by the embroidery needle. If it is not a coincidence, it is really God. Grandma's punishment, that villain can't bear it! This time the child was only pricked to the knee by the embroidery needle, and the pain lasted for a while. But if the prick next time is not the knee, but the neck, eyes, or even the head Woolen cloth?!"
"The villain is afraid. On the second night, Grandma Tian fell asleep again. Grandpa Tian really said that it was a small punishment for the villain during the day. If the temple is not repaired for her, next time, the embroidery needles will not be pierced." Knees are not just for children anymore."
"So, on the third day, the villain picked up tools and went to repair the temple. Unexpectedly, besides the villain, many people were also repairing the temple. When the villain asked, it turned out that they were all Tianmu Those who entrusted their dreams also did not obey Tianmu's orders, so some people in the family were injured by embroidery needles."
"This is so evil! The villain was so frightened that he didn't dare to stay longer after repairing the temple, so he hurried home. Since then, I have never dreamed of Tianmu again."
Mo Qi wondered: The embroidery needle in Tianmu's hand?The Tianmu in the temple is clearly holding a human head, how could it be an embroidery needle?
He changed his mind: It must be the person who made the embroidery needles that day.
This is a very important clue, because it locks the identity of the person who made the rumor about Tianmu, and it must be the person who made the embroidery needle.
In other words, the culprit behind the incident where the people of Songxi Town suddenly became crazy was this guy who made embroidery needles.
"That is to say, you don't even know that there is such a temple in Songxi Town, and you don't even know who is enshrined in this temple. You don't know why the statue of the Queen Mother suddenly turned into a clay sculpture of Tianmu. The place has become the place where you pray for revenge?" The master saw the puzzled expression of the person he asked, so he had to say more simply, "Tell me, when you were repairing, who was the clay sculpture inside, and who was inside?" What is the mural about?"
"During the renovation, there were no clay sculptures in the temple! The murals..." The man recalled it carefully, and said in a daze, "There are no murals? There are nothing in the temple, tables, chairs, futons, none of these! There aren't any murals on the walls either."
Mo Qi and Gong Jiu glanced at each other: It seems that the mural was painted by a queen.
However, when inspected at the time, the murals looked mottled and old in color. It didn't look like it was new for less than a year, but it seemed to have been painted for a hundred years.Otherwise, they wouldn't have failed to see the difference at the time.
Huang Yaoshi said: "The person who painted this mural must have some insight into antiques. First, he must know how to imitate old murals, and second, he must have the foundation to know how to paint and paint. This kind of person is either a master of antiques, or... ...Teacher."
The master looked back at Huang Yaoshi: "Teacher?"
Mo Qi also remembered: "One of the people on the list is indeed Tu Fuzi. After cross-examining the rest of the people first, we will go to this person's house to check."
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The master asked further, but he didn't find anything new.
After the last person finished cross-examining, the master took everyone to look for the native master.
This person lives in the west of the city, has no father, mother, or wife, and is alone, but the house he lives in is not small, and it is mostly used to display the "treasures" he scavenged from various places.After everyone stepped into the door, there was a smell of rust.
Gong Jiu raised his hand to cover his nose in disgust.
Mo Qi glanced at Gong Jiu, and opened all the closed doors and windows.
The light finally shone into the dark room. Hundreds of antiques of different sizes were displayed on the shelves, and if there were any small items that couldn't fit, they were scattered on the floor.Some have been cleaned, and some have not been cleaned, with dirty mud, and the stench they smell comes from these mud-like things.
"Look here." Huang Yaoshi had already walked into Tu Fuzi's study.
Hong Qigong didn't understand anything and didn't dare to touch anything, so he poked his head over to have a look: "What the hell, is this a painting he drew?"
Huang Yaoshi nodded: "The technique and style of the murals in Tianmu Temple are very similar. The murals in Tianmu Temple should be painted by him."
Mo Qi looked over the house and asked the master, "Where is he now?"
The master shrugged: "People are stupid. There are still things all over the floor in this house. A few days ago, I tripped over a jade Buddha statue and fell to death."
Gong Jiu stood motionless at the door, his precious white boots unwilling to take another step inside: "In this list, apart from this person, there is no other Tu Fuzi who can imitate ancient murals. It's work. That is to say, he completed the murals in Tianmu Temple by himself."
Huang Yaoshi took a look at Gong Jiu: "There are ten groups of murals in Tianmu Temple. It must not be a day's work if one person wants to complete so many murals and make them old. If so, in his Before the mural is finished, the person behind the scenes cannot immediately make him mad. Not only can he not be mad, but in order to allow him to complete so much work, he must have enough rest time."
"A Tufuzi—a Tufuzi who can fight so many fights, solve so many secrets, go through so many traps, and bring so many spoils of war. If he is controlled by someone, but he is still awake, he may not even be able to recover. There will be regular periods of rest. So what does he do during this waking time?"
Xiao Longnu: "Leave a clue. I just don't know where he rested. Could it be that he slept on the ground in Tianmu Temple?"
Mo Qi turned his head and asked the master in a low voice: "Before he was crazy, did anyone else see his whereabouts?"
The master nodded: "Yes. Before he was crazy, the neighbors saw him going in and out of this house every day. He went out every evening and only came back during the day. But he is not like this every day or two. After all, he is a native Master, it's his normal state to be out at night, so the neighbors didn't notice anything wrong before he went crazy."
Hong Qigong stared blankly: "The people behind the scenes are so good? They are arrested to paint murals, and they can go home to sleep after finishing the painting every day. What's the difference between this and ordinary workers?"
Gong Jiudao: "The most dangerous place is the safest place. The people behind the scene must hope that the people of Songxi Town think that the sudden change of the murals overnight is due to a miracle, rather than a local master sneaking in every night. In the temple, I painted it quietly in the dead of night. That's why he let that Tu Fuzi go back and forth every night as usual, so as not to be seen by others."
"Then if he left a clue, it must be in this room?" Yang Guo looked around, unable to start.
This room is full of big treasures dug out from the emperor's tomb by Tu Fuzi, Yang Guo is afraid of accidentally smashing them if he touches them, let alone carry them carefully to find them.
Mo Qi was the first to lift up a jade glass statue: "Things are dead, but people are alive. If we don't find the person behind the scenes as soon as possible, more people in Songxi Town will become idiots. Remember, those The victims are not all heinous people, the young grandsons of the Huang family and the oriental genius doctors were all poisoned by him. Who can be sure, who is the next person he will kill?"
Xiao Longnu nodded: "Let's just try to be careful."
Finding clues in a bunch of weird antiques is much more interesting than looking for records of Tianmu Temple in a pile of books.At least Hong Qigong didn't continue to drink with a plate, but enthusiastically stretched out his eager hands to the various gourds on the cabinets.
Huang Yaoshi searched for it, and said casually: "If he wants to hide clues, he must not let the people behind the scenes know. Will it be too obvious in these cleaned up antiques?"
Gong Jiu, who had condescended to step into this stinky room, frowned suddenly: "Are you still looking for those things that are stained with mud?!"
"That's not necessary." As soon as Mo Qi was reminded by Huang Yaoshi, his eyes fell on the antiques that had not been cleaned out, "If you want to hide things in those antiques, you must first remove some of the silt on the mouth, and look at these On the things, where the mouth of the bottle or the mouth of the container is, the color of the silt is not quite right, it was added after stuffing the things.”
Duan Zhixing heard the words: "The old man is also here to help little friend Mo—" Before he finished speaking, his eyes just fell on a tall, slender, slender clay stick that looked like a jade pillar and whose purpose was unknown On the other hand, the color of the soil at the top is slightly lighter than that of the surrounding area, and it is a little dry. "Is this it?"
Huang Yaoshi was surprised: "So fast?"
Hong Qigong didn't believe it, and rushed over with the jade gourd in his hand: "Show me?"
Duan Zhixing took the tools Mo Qi handed over, and carefully removed the mud on it. As expected, a hole was exposed. He raised his arm and turned the hollow jade pillars one by one, and a very small book about A booklet that is two fingers wide and half a palm long.
Hong Qigong: "...It really is a monk, and a monk has a predestined relationship with everything."
Duan Zhixing gave Hong Qigong a helpless look, put down the jade pillar in his hand, wiped his muddy hands with the handkerchief handed over by his master, then went to the study together with everyone, and looked through the booklet.
The characters in the booklet are extremely small, as small as Ruonami, one by one is almost like ants.If it weren't for everyone's excellent eyesight, I'm afraid they wouldn't be able to see what those words said.The master watched helplessly for a while, then backed away in despair.
Mo Qi noticed the master: "Master can't see clearly?"
The master smiled dryly: "Such a small character is not much bigger than a dot."
Mo Qi glanced sideways at the cabinet where he had just taken his tools, walked over, and took out a strangely thick transparent colored glass with thick sides and thin center: "Look through this. Get closer."
The master grabbed the thing and moved it to the side of the booklet suspiciously. Looking at it from a distance, the word was really magnified a lot, and every stroke was clearly visible.
Gong Jiu took Mo Qi and took advantage of the kung fu of holding the colored glaze, and brought a bamboo brush with a thin needle instead of a vellus hair: "It is probably written with this."
Huang Yaoshi said: "This book mostly records when and where he went, which emperor's tomb he went to, and what treasures he dug up." I looked at it carefully, and flipped through a few times to the last piece of paper with words written on it.
Rather than writing, it is better to draw pictures.
The portrait depicts a tall and slender man in neon clothes and a shawl, holding an embroidery needle in his hand, but his face is blank.
"Could this be a portrait of the mastermind behind the scenes?" The master asked in surprise, holding up the glass.
Mo Qi pointed at the waist, shoulders and hips of the person in the painting: "Looking at the figure, it should be a man."
Hong Qigong stared: "But these are women's clothes!"
Huang Yaoshi said: "Eastern Invincible, Jin Jiuling..."
Hong Qigong: "..."
Hong Qigong couldn't understand: "Nowadays men are so fond of it?"
Hong Qigong imagined Guo Jing's appearance in neon clothes, and he was shocked, shaking his head again and again, unable to accept it.
"But apart from the man, I can't see anything else." Yang Guo said sadly, "The face hasn't been painted yet, so I still don't know who is behind the scenes."
Huang Yaoshi glanced at Yang Guo: "Who said that?"
"Because of the embroidery needles, the possibility of Dongfang Bubai was already ruled out. Looking at this neon dress now, the possibility of Jin Jiuling has also been ruled out."
Yang Guo was puzzled, "Why?"
Huang Yaoshi said: "Dongfang Bubai used embroidery needles because of his kung fu. Even if a person dies and comes back to life, the part lost due to kung fu still cannot come back. Even if he becomes a shadow man , and his weapons will not change."
"But Jin Jiuling is different. Back then he wore women's clothes, red embroidered shoes, and used embroidery needles to conceal his identity. I don't want everyone to guess that the embroidered thief is Jin Jiuling, the head catcher of the six doors."
"But according to what Mo Xiaoyou said, if the person behind this scene is Jin Jiuling, and he has become a shadow man, then he is in a state of amnesia now. He doesn't remember that he was once an embroidered thief, nor does he remember that he was once a six-fan The head catcher of the door, why do you need to wear this neon dress to cover up your identity?"
Mo Qi's brows relaxed a little: "If that's the case, then the people behind the scenes are not shadow people."
Duan Zhixing clasped his hands together: "Amitabha, this is a good thing. The person behind the scenes is not a shadow person, so the only shadow person in Songxi Town is Brother Ouyang. Now we only need to find the person behind the Tianmu Temple, and then catch him. Brother Ouyang, then Songxi Town can restore its former peace."
Hong Qigong scratched his face: "Why don't you think that the man behind this scene may be the old poison?"
"Impossible!" Yang Guo yelled out immediately, goosebumps all over his body, "My adoptive father wouldn't be so strange! And he doesn't use needles!"
Hong Qigong just mentioned it by the way, when Yang Guo yelled, Ouyang Feng's appearance in neon clothes subconsciously appeared in his mind, and he shivered along with Yang Guo: "Yes, you are right."
Xiao Longnu sorted out the information slowly and said: "That means... the rumors about the construction of the Tianmu Temple and the people who are addicted to medicine in Songxi Town are not shadow people, but a martial arts practitioner who uses needles. As for the body Senior Ouyang, who is a shadow man, appeared here because of the poison in the hands of this needle-wielding man."
Xiao Longnu asked suspiciously: "Don't you think it's strange? Since that person is a martial arts practitioner and has embroidery needles as weapons, why does he use poison every time he makes a move, and is so keen on 'Tianlao eats human brains'?" rumors?"
"And why did senior Ouyang watch me secretly... If he has no memory, shouldn't he watch us together, why would he watch me alone?"
"In the end, when Guoer and I came to Songxi Town, it was because a thief blew up the tomb of the living dead and stole our jade bee jelly, so we let the jade bee follow him all the way. Now, steal us Who is the jade bee jelly man, what is he stealing our jade bee jelly for?"
Everyone fell into silence for a moment.
After a long while, Mo Qi hesitated and said: "What if the rumor of 'Tianmu eats human brain' is just a trick to attract people's attention, but his purpose is not to 'poison', but to 'detoxify'?"
Hong Qigong already wanted to find an open space with his master to use as a wooden stake: "What do you mean? You can make it simpler and clearer?"
Huang Yaoshi is the most intelligent, Hong Qigong understood Mo Qi's meaning as soon as he finished his question.
"What we thought before was that the rumor of Tianbao eating human brains was to add a divinity to the act of poisoning the man behind the scenes. The glorious decoration is like the emperor wants to rule the people, so he says that he is the real dragon emperor, and the emperor's rights are bestowed by heaven."
Huang Yaoshi didn't change his face when he said this, but the faces of the masters standing beside him changed drastically, as if the ground under their feet was full of thorns, and they wanted to rush out of the door immediately.
Huang Yaoshi continued: "But what if it's not like this? What if we got the sequence wrong?"
"If the black hand behind the scenes didn't first have the belief that he wanted to personally punish the rape and eradicate the evil, so he spread the rumor that Tian Lao can eat human brains, and then poisoned him--but he poisoned it first, and then realized that if he didn't make any cover, His real purpose will be easily discovered, so his identity will be easily found out?"
Hong Qigong had already picked up his wine gourd with straight eyes, and began to smash it up and down to drink, as if his soul was out of his body: "What is the real purpose, what is the identity?"
Mo Qi looked at Xiao Longnv: "Just now Miss Long also said that she and Condor Hero came to Songxi Town because someone stole their bottle containing jade bee jelly. Who would want jade bee jelly?"
Xiao Longnu: "A person who is seriously injured, a person who is poisoned."
Gong Jiu also understood: "So, if the person behind the scenes poisons, it is not for the purpose of poisoning, but for studying how to detoxify - then he probably stole the jade bee jelly, just to detoxify!"
Hong Qigong shook his head: "Wait, wait, you guys don't make sense at all. Why does he want to study how to detoxify?"
Yang Guo said, "Maybe he also has someone important to him who was poisoned."
Hong Qigong continued to shake his head: "He himself is the one who poisoned, how could someone important be poisoned? Is it possible that he can be poisoned and then go back on his word?"
Xiao Longnu: "Maybe. And it's also possible that important people ingested this poison by mistake."
Hong Qigong muttered: "What you are talking about... is getting more and more complicated."
"Otherwise, let's test it out." Yang Guo suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "My aunt and I still have a bottle of jade bee jelly, now let's just find someone who is poisoned and give it to him."
Hong Qigong was puzzled: "Why? Can your jade bee jelly detoxify him?"
Xiao Longnu shook her head: "Of course it's impossible."
Hong Qigong was even more puzzled: "Then why—"
Yang Guo said with a smile: "If it's really the person behind the scenes who stole the jade bee jelly to detoxify people, if he sees that the jade bee jelly is useless to the poison, what will he do?"
Duan Zhixing: "Amitabha. Naturally, he gave up stealing jade bee jelly."
Yang Guo continued: "What if someone else stole the jade bee jelly instead of the person behind the scenes?"
Mo Qi said: "It's not for detoxification, even if you see that jade bee jelly is useless for dementia, you will definitely come to steal it."
Yang Guo nodded: "Yes! Exactly!"
Mo Qi pondered: "This plan is feasible. But it is not necessary to feed the jade bee jelly to the detoxified people, just spread the news that the detoxification failed, and then spread the news that the jade bee jelly is in your hands ..."
Yang Guo shook his head again and again: "No, no, we have the jade bee jelly, what if the person behind the scenes doesn't dare to steal it?"
Hong Qigong let out a loud laugh: "That person blew up your tomb of the living dead in Zhongnan Mountain, so why not dare?"
Huang Yaoshi gave Hong Qigong a disgusted look, seeing that Hong Qigong had begun to hear the distracted eyes, he took back the sarcasm, and explained lightly: "At that time, there was no one in the tomb of the living dead. Stealing jade bee jelly from the empty tomb of the living dead and stealing jade bee jelly from Condor Hero and Xiao Longnu are two different things."
Gong Jiudao: "Since that's the case, I will put this jade bee jelly in the master's hand and ask him to take it back to the government office. To the outside world, it is said that the people in the government office have not given up and want to study the jade bee jelly Can you make some more adjustments to get rid of the dementia?"
Mo Qi nodded: "This plan will work."
Huang Yaoshi said: "In addition, we have to set a time limit for the person who stole the jade bee jelly. If we just wait without time limit, maybe the person who steals the jade bee jelly will want to observe and observe again. Only when a time limit is set, he feels that time is pressing, so he has no time to think about it, and can only take the risk of stealing immediately."
Mo Qi said: "Why don't you just say that if the jade bee jelly really can't detoxify, the people in the government don't want to waste this precious healing medicine. They have already made an appointment with the Condor Hero and Xiao Longnu, and they will return it to the two at noon tomorrow. people."
Only then did Huang Yaoshi nod: "This plan is very good."
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Everyone waited in the mansion for a whole day.
Until Yang Guo and Xiao Longnv went all the way into the mansion according to what they had agreed before, they pretended to greet the master and put away the jade bee jelly, but no one came to steal it.
Hong Qigong was still uneasy: "Are you sure? Are you so sure that the person who stole the jade bee jelly is the one behind the scenes? But, what if the news didn't get out? What if it was the one who stole the jade bee jelly?" Didn't the people behind hear the news?"
Yang Guo shook his head and said, "No way. If the person who stole the jade bee jelly still wants the jade bee jelly, since he has confirmed that the jade bee jelly is not in the tomb of the living dead, then it must be on me and my aunt. After seeing my aunt and I come to Songxi Town, she will definitely observe us secretly, so how could she not know the news?"
Hong Qigong said anxiously: "That means we've confirmed it? The person behind the jade bee jelly is behind the scenes, and he stole the jade bee jelly to detoxify?"
Huang Yaoshi said indifferently: "Yes. Therefore, no matter what rumors he creates, the purpose is only to cover up his true intention of poisoning."
Hong Qigong picked out the wine gourd, feeling that his brains were not enough anyway, and it was enough for the others in his companions to have brains. He just had to ask: "Since it is confirmed that he poisoned on a large scale to try to find out the method of detoxification, Those people who have been drugged are just tools for him to try the antidote, so how should we catch him?"
Mo Qi said: "Check."
"Find out who was the first person to be poisoned, and who was the first person to be drugged. The first person to be drugged, among the people closest to him, must be the murderer. "
The master flipped through the list and said sadly: "How do I check this? The family members of the poisoned people gave me these times. If the murderer wanted to be safe, he would have lied to us from the very beginning and lied about a particularly late date. What time is it?"
Mo Qi said decisively: "Then ask the neighbors. Ask them how long it has been since they saw the people on the list travel normally, and count according to the time when they last appeared normally."
Master: "Success, let's go."
After the master took the order, he left without dragging his feet.
Yang Guo was still flipping through the list.
Xiao Longnu touched his shoulder: "Among so many people, who do you think is the most suspicious?"
Yang Guo sighed: "It's all very suspicious. You see, these people are not the kind of heinous people we often see. Although they are one of the ten evils, they are not a big evil after all. I think if their family members Poisoning them, and then softening because of family affection, nothing is impossible."
Gong Jiu didn't look back: "But these people are ordinary farmers and businessmen. Do you think there can be a martial artist like this who holds poison in his hand and knows how to use needles? If so, Songxi Would the masters of the town not know about this kind of thing? The town is not big, and the neighbors are all close, if any family really produces some young heroes, they are all ordinary people, how can they not be proud to show off?"
Yang Guo had a headache: "Oh, Mr. Ninth, you are right."
The strings in Mo Qi's mind were suddenly pulsated by a word: "Neighbors?"
Hong Qigong: "Huh?"
Mo Qi closed the list in his hand: "The Ninth Young Master just said, 'Neighbors and homes'." He looked at Gong Jiu, "Do you still remember why the young grandson of the Huang family was crazy, but no one was there?" You know, even the master in Songxi Town doesn't know?"
Gong Jiu thought about it, and slowly replied: "Because... his family is a well-known family, and there is no need for the owner to go out in person to buy things on weekdays, and it is even more impossible for the young grandson to show up often... Do you suspect that it is the Huang family? people?"
Mo Qi clicked on the list in his hand: "Besides, is there anyone else on this list who can not have frequent contact with the neighbors, even if there is a quack in the family, no one will know? "
Duan Zhixing said: "At first we came to visit and only met the eldest lady at home."
Yang Guo stroked his chin: "That's right! The Huang family has a big business, why did we come to the door and only a lady came to entertain me? The three male masters didn't mention it, saying that they went to find the precious medicine for the young grandson of the Huang family." , what about the second and third wives?"
"We have to meet all the Huang family members, otherwise how do we know if any of them practice martial arts?"
Xiao Longnv nodded: "The wives of Huang's family have no doubts, because the person wearing neon clothes and using needles is a man. We only need to identify the men in their house, and those who happened to be there when we came to the door. If the absent male master is a martial artist, it will be fine."
"Wait a minute, wait a minute, messed up, messed up again." Hong Qigong held his head in pain, "Don't blame the old beggar for asking too many questions, I really have to ask this question."
"Don't forget, why do we think that the person behind the scenes is capable of martial arts? Because this is what Mrs. Huang said herself! She said that on the eve of going to report to the police, a silver needle was shot into the window suddenly. There is a letter on the needle."
"If the Huang family did the poisoning, can she still believe it?"
Gong Jiu realized another thing when he heard the words: "Wait a minute, we all forgot one thing, this young grandson of the Huang family is stupid, and he was stupid when Huang Xiong went to Tianmu Temple to pray. At that time There are already rumors of the Tianmu Temple, so the stupidity of the young grandson of the Huang family only happened after the Tianmu Temple appeared. Then the young grandson of the Huang family cannot be the first person to be poisoned!"
Huang Yaoshi said softly: "What about Old General Huang? What about him? When was he kicked out of the house? It was five years ago, right?"
"I remember what you said at the time, when General Huang just returned to the town, he was not stupid, he had hallucinations." Huang Yaoshi shook his head and said, "I have seen such people. Many of them are dangerous with swords and swords. Characters are either killers or fighters. Because they have been dealing with extreme dangers all their lives, it is easy for them to have a situation that even if they have left the original dangerous environment, washed their hands, or returned to their hometowns, There is also an illusion from time to time.”
"They will suddenly flash back their previous memories, as if they suddenly returned to the previous battlefield or danger, and have various hallucinations such as sounds and pictures. But this is not stupidity. This hallucination, and stupidity, are two different things."
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