Lu Sandao's attitude made Ma Yingxi realize that the person who came was not evil.
"Qingque Peak has indeed enjoyed a transcendent status in Tianxuan Mountain due to the relationship between the young master and uncle in recent years."
"But this doesn't mean that Lu Zhenshou can act arbitrarily and dominate other peaks!" Ma Yingying also turned cold, looked at Lu Sandao, and said.
When Lu Sandao heard this, he just blinked and asked, "So, will you accept my letter or not?"
Ma Yingjie naturally wanted to refuse subconsciously. After all, it was too ridiculous to judge himself.
But just as the words of rejection came to her lips, the woman in front of him suddenly took a step forward, and a fierce murderous intention enveloped Ma Yingjie.
Lu Sandao still looked calm, but Ma Yingjie knew that if he said no again, he would end up having his hands and feet cut off by the other party.
With Lu Sandao's always erratic temperament, this is definitely not impossible.
Ma Yingjie swallowed his saliva and finally recognized the reality.
"Okay!" He gritted his teeth and said, "Then what does Lu Zhenshou want to sue me?"
Seeing Ma Yingjie's promise, Lu Sandao immediately smiled and said, "I'm not kidding."
"I just want to accuse you of Ma Yingjie's deliberate murder."
"Intentional murder?" Ma Yingjie was stunned when he heard this, but his heart skipped a beat.
At the first moment, he naturally thought of Zhu Renzhao who died in his hands.
But what he couldn't understand was that Zhu Renzhao, a mere outer disciple, had been in Tianxuan City for many years and had never made any decent achievements. How could he know someone like Lu Sandao with his status.
Thinking of this, he almost couldn't help but ask questions. Fortunately, when he spoke, he caught a glimpse of Lu Sandao's strange, slightly expectant look towards him.
He suddenly woke up and suppressed the thought of bringing it upon himself.
"What did Lu Zhenshou say? I, Ma Yingjie, have always been serious about my work. Have I ever committed a murder? Although I am not as powerful as Mr. Lu, I am still cautious in my words and deeds. If I offend Lu Zhenshou in any way, I will be careful."
You can speak frankly and don't deliberately frame him!" Ma Yingjie immediately calmed down and said.
And just as he expected, Lu Sandao suddenly looked depressed after hearing this.
She turned her head towards her back and said with a bit of complaint: "I just said this trick won't work!"
This reaction was beyond Ma Yingjie's expectation. He was in a daze when he saw a young man suddenly stand out from the crowd and walked to Lu Sandao's side: "Mr. Ma is working at Qingquan Peak after all."
I have been a deacon for many years and have seen strong winds and waves. This method is inherently tricky, so it is understandable that it will not succeed."
"If you want him to admit that he is the real murderer of Zhu Renzhao, you have to provide real evidence. It is really not that easy to rely on such a little cleverness."
Lu Sandao also looked at the young man, frowned and nodded: "This is indeed the truth, but do we have evidence now?"
"Not yet, but you can try asking him to take it out by himself." The young man said, then turned to look at Ma Yingjie.
…
The conversation between the two was not deliberately concealed.
The passers-by surrounding the sword-wielding hall, the disciples in front of the sword-wielding hall, and even Ma Yingying himself heard the conversation between the two very clearly.
The eyes of the people around him suddenly became strange.
For the moment, they couldn't figure out whether the young man and Lu Sandao in front of them were missing something, or whether they really had something to rely on.
As the person involved, Ma Yingjie's face turned pale, and bursts of anger filled his eyes.
"Have you two finished singing the double act? After finishing singing, Lu will go back to his house to do some work. Lu is ordered to be on duty at the Sword Hall this month, but he doesn't have as much free time as the two of you. He can accompany you to play around!"
After he said this, he turned around and walked into the mansion.
"Master Lu!" But just when he turned around, the young man said loudly: "Master Lu, are you busy going back to destroy the evidence of the murder?"
Ma Yingjie's steps were paused at that moment. He looked back at the young man and asked, "Who are you?"
"Chu Qingxiao." The young man responded with an attitude that was neither humble nor arrogant.
"Chu Qingxiao?" Ma Yingjie frowned. He thought carefully in his mind and determined that among the nine sacred peaks of Tianxuan Mountain, there seemed to be no such number one person.
He felt slightly reassured, thinking that the other party seemed to be quite familiar with Lu Sandao.
He did not take action, but suppressed his anger and said: "I don't know the Zhu Renzhao you two mentioned. If you really want to sue me, then bring out witnesses and physical evidence. Just a few words are like slander."
For a deacon of the divine peak of Tianxuan Mountain, isn’t Guard Lu too arrogant and domineering?”
Chu Qingxiao didn't care about the sarcasm in Ma Yingjie's words: "Mr. Lu, since you just agreed to review the case in front of everyone, then according to the rules of Tianxuan City, why do you have to ask for personal and material evidence?
"
"If we haven't done anything, we have to close the case hastily. Isn't it true that the thief has a guilty conscience?"
The anger that had been building up in Ma Yingjie's heart was completely unable to be suppressed by Chu Qingxiao's deliberate sarcasm: "I, Mr. Lu, sit upright and sit upright. This is a matter of frame-up. How can I judge it? What's more, how can I judge myself in this world?
Own reason!"
"We don't mind your Excellency trying you by yourself, not to mention there are so many people around you watching. If there is no evidence to prove that Your Excellency is the murderer at the end of the trial, is it possible that we can still defeat Mr. Lu?" Chu Qingxiao asked rhetorically.
road.
When Ma Yingjie heard this, he looked at the people around him, and everyone looked directly at him. Ma Yingjie knew that the young man in front of him was deliberately using the crowd to coerce him and force him to submit.
"If Mr. Lu is really unwilling to cooperate, then we can only trouble Guard Lu to report the matter to the headmaster and let him make a decision!"
"Headmaster?" Ma Yingjie's expression changed after hearing this: "You still need the headmaster to come forward for such a trivial matter?"
"This is not a trivial matter. Zhu Renzhao is a direct disciple that I value. He died mysteriously yesterday. If I can't get justice from you, I will have no choice but to sue the master!" Lu Sandao said.
The right words to say at this time.
As soon as this statement came out, there was an uproar around him.
In a place like Tianxuan Mountain, only those who hold important positions such as the mountain lord, elders and guards can be called direct disciples.
Most of these disciples will be the mainstay of Tianxuan Mountain in the future, and their status is also very transcendent.
They originally thought that this was just a guy from Lu Sandao Tianxuan City seeking justice, but when they heard the words, they realized that this was a major event involving the mysterious death of a direct disciple.
And if the reason for such a thing cannot be found in Tianxuan City, it is indeed enough to report it to the headmaster.
For a while, everyone started to inquire about who the guy named Zhu Renzhao who died yesterday was.
Ma Yingjie's expression also changed. He looked at Lu Sandao in astonishment and said angrily: "Lu Sandao, don't bully others too much. How can a guy like Zhu Renzhao become a direct disciple?"
Others didn't know who Zhu Renzhao was, but Ma Yingying knew it very well.
Zhu Renzhao is already in his early fifties, and his cultivation is still in the third realm. For such a person, let alone a direct disciple, it is impossible for him to enter the inner sect. Lu Sandao clearly deliberately arranged an identity for the other party to put pressure on himself.
Naturally, he was filled with anger.
But when he said these words, Chu Qingxiao looked at him with a smile on his face: "Didn't Mr. Lu just keep saying that you never know Zhu Renzhao? Then how do you know that he cannot become a direct disciple?"
Ma Yingjie was stunned when he heard this, and immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing.
His face was ugly, his brows were furrowed, and he hurriedly said: "What I mean is, Lu Zhen has been guarding Tianxuan Mountain for so many years and has always lived a life of leisurely clouds and wild cranes. How can he recruit direct disciples!?"
"This is obviously a deliberate attempt to use my reputation to put my reputation down! I was angry for a moment, so I spoke arbitrarily! Is it possible that just because of my slip of the tongue, you are going to charge me with murder?"
Ma Yingjie's words were righteous and awe-inspiring, but the onlookers around him looked at him a little strangely at this moment.
Obviously, that gaffe had made the people around him suspicious of Ma Yingjie.
Ma Yingjie, who realized this, looked a little ugly again.
He knew that it was impossible for him to just talk about it casually. Once there were many visitors and the matter spread, it would be a trivial matter to ruin his reputation and cause Qingquan Peak to suffer unnecessary losses. He needed to face him.
Yes, the pressure from the divine peak is the trouble. Secondly, although I don't know what the relationship between Lu Sandao and Chu Qingxiao is, if this matter is not resolved today, being targeted by evil stars like Lu Sandao will be enough to save Ma Yingjie.
Uneasy.
Ma Yingjie thought about this, he thought about it seriously, and after making sure that he had not revealed any tricks in killing Zhu Renzhao, he immediately took a deep breath and looked at Chu Qingxiao and Lu Sandao.
"Since Shou Lu insists on being in trouble, then let the entire Tianxuan City see our Tianxuan Mountain joke. Mr. Lu will take over the case today and try himself!" He said loudly at this time.
Said, and then said: "But if you two can't produce evidence, I will also report this nonsense to the sect! I hope you can take care of yourself!"
…
The guard at the sword-wielding hall was accused of intentional homicide.
Then you have to interrogate yourself in public.
When such things spread, the entire Tianxuan City was in a state of excitement. Many people came outside the sword-holding hall to watch the excitement, blocking the entire gate of the sword-holding hall.
"You said you saw Zhu Renzhao walking into the sword-wielding hall the night before yesterday? And when you saw him the next day, he was already a corpse, right?" Ma Yingjie took a deep breath. He knew that things had reached this point.
Unable to calm down the matter, he calmed down and looked at Chu Qingxiao and asked.
"Yes." Chu Qingxiao said.
"But I was in the sword-wielding hall the day and night before yesterday, so why have I never seen him?" Ma Yingjie asked rhetorically.
"Because you lied." Chu Qingxiao said calmly.
Hearing this, Ma Yingjie secretly felt funny: "Young man, you don't think that just because you said I lied, I can be convicted, right? If you want to prove this, you must either have witnesses or physical evidence."
"There is indeed no physical evidence, but the personal evidence is in the sword-holding hall!" Chu Qingxiao said.
"If Mr. Lu has a clear conscience, then let all the disciples in the sword-wielding hall come out and let me ask them one by one. Someone must have seen Zhu Renzhao."
Ma Yingjie sneered in his heart. The duty of the sword-wielding hall rotates every month, and the disciples who work under him will also rotate. This month, he will be on duty, so the disciples who come to assist him in his work are all disciples of Qingquan Peak. He has already arranged the relationship, and these disciples are no longer in charge.
It is impossible to betray yourself for an outsider.
Initially, when he saw Chu Qingxiao coming in a menacing manner, he thought the young man had some evidence in his hands, so he was cautious. However, after several interrogations, except that he kept saying that he had seen Zhu Renzhao come to the sword-wielding hall, he could no longer get any evidence.
Ma Yingjie found no other evidence, which made Ma Yingjie calm down and regarded Chu Qingxiao as the kind of stupid young man who was not familiar with the world.
"Zhijian Tang is responsible for the entire affairs of Tianxuan City. Calling them all here will affect the operation of Tianxuan City. Young man, you are now backed by Lu Zhenshou. I have to let you go, but you have to think clearly.
, if nothing is found by then, Tianxuan Mountain will blame you, and Guard Lu will be protected by his junior uncle, but you will have no one to protect you!"
"Out of good intentions, I advise you to stop now, otherwise it will ruin your future, and there may be other people who will bear a grudge against you and cause you trouble."
Ma Yingjie whispered in a low voice, his words full of threats.
When Chu Qingxiao heard this, he just smiled faintly: "Master Lu, life is at stake, so just do it."
"You are stubborn!" Ma Yingjie snorted coldly, and immediately looked behind him. The disciples behind him hurried to the sword-holding hall. In less than a moment, more than a hundred disciples from the mansion arrived in front of the mansion.
"All the disciples in my sword hall are here. Little brother, do you want to ask one by one, or do you want everyone to ask together?" Ma Yingying looked at Chu Qingxiao and said, with arrogance and ridicule in his tone.
Chu Qingxiao ignored the sarcasm in Ma Yingjie's words, but turned to look at the disciples, scanning their bodies one by one.
"I thought about it and realized that Mr. Lu is right. There is no need to work so hard on this matter. Let's just choose a few senior brothers for questioning. The others should go back to the mansion first and do their business first." Chu Qingxiao smiled.
said.
Ma Yingjie was stunned when he said these words.
Although Chu Qingxiao seemed stupid to him, the desire to quarrel with him that he had shown before was still a bit scary.
Ma Yingjie has seen a lot of people like this, and although most of them end up miserable in the end, it has to be said that being targeted by such people is not a good experience for the person involved.
At this moment, Chu Qingxiao suddenly changed his tone, which made Ma Yingjie a little unexpected.
But after thinking about it for a moment, he felt that it was natural. Chu Qingxiao probably also realized that he had no evidence that he could threaten Ma Yingjie.
Thinking of this, Ma Yingjie couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart: "I reminded you before, but you insist on letting the disciples of the Sword Master Hall come out, and now you feel it's wrong. Little brother, there are not so many regret medicines in this world."
"Then since you have found your way back, just find a few people you want to question."
He said sarcastically, and he could probably foresee in his heart that in the near future, Chu Qingxiao would kneel in front of him and cry bitterly, begging for his forgiveness.
But Chu Qingxiao still didn't pay attention to his sarcasm. After hearing the words, he nodded and looked at the sword-wielding hall disciples in front of him.
He casually stretched out his hand and nodded towards the crowd: "You, you, and you two, just the four of you. You come out, and everyone else goes back and does whatever they need to do." Chu Qingxiao said.
This seemingly random move caused Ma Yingjie, who had been complacent just now, to suddenly change his expression. The four disciples who were pointed out by Chu Qingxiao also had strange expressions on their faces. They looked at each other with some expressions on their faces.
Undecided.
There is no other reason.
Chu Qingxiao seemed to just point at random, and the four people he named were the four disciples who tortured Zhu Renzhao under the instruction of Ma Yingying the night before.
They participated in the entire process of killing Zhu Renzhao and dumping his body.
Ma Yingjie thought about it carefully, no one saw the whole process of their crime...
But if all this is just a coincidence, out of more than a hundred disciples, Chu Qingxiao happened to choose the four people involved in this matter, what is the probability?
"Why don't you come out? Is it possible that the four of you happened to be the accomplices who killed Zhu Renzhao?" Seeing everyone's hesitation, Chu Qingxiao asked with a smile.
Everyone's hearts skipped a beat when they heard this, and their expressions became even uglier.
"Didn't you hear what this little brother said? You are not afraid of shadows. Come out and let the others go back and do whatever they have to do!" Ma Yingjie said at this time.
His words gave a few people some confidence. The four people stepped out and walked to Chu Qingxiao, while the rest of the people retreated according to Ma Yingjie's instructions.
"Little brother, just go ahead and interrogate him. I want to see how you confuse right and wrong." Ma Yingjie said at this time.
Although he was a little uneasy in his heart, he thought about it and couldn't find where his flaw was, so he decided to suppress the uneasiness in his heart and said this at that time.
After hearing this, Chu Qingxiao turned to look at the four people and asked: "Did the four of you see Zhu Renzhao in the Sword Hall the night before yesterday?"
It can be seen that these four people are a little nervous. After hearing this, one of them said: "No! We... we don't know who Zhu Renzhao is!"
Seeing this, the other three people also agreed.
Probably because Chu Qingxiao named the four of them, these people were a little nervous and did not dare to say anything.
Getting such an answer was what Chu Qingxiao expected, and he was not impatient. He then asked: "Then where have you been since Xu Shi and what have you been doing?"
One of them hurriedly said: "We are all in our own rooms, practicing and resting. We have never left the room. I don't know who has come to the Sword Hall."
The other people continued to echo: "Yes, yes, senior brother Li is right, we are all in our own rooms."
It can be seen that among the people, only the man named Li has the most determined heart, and he is the only one who can still answer Chu Qingxiao's questions in an orderly manner at this stall without revealing any flaws, while the other three are extremely nervous.
, his words flickered, and he could only keep echoing.
This was a harmless answer, but after hearing this, Chu Qingxiao frowned and simply looked at the man named Li and asked: "Senior brother, you can just stay in your own room and practice.
How do you know the three of them are also in the house?"
After saying this, he looked at the other three people and asked the same question: "How did you know the movements of the other three people that night?"
When the man surnamed Li heard this, his face changed slightly. He looked at his companions around him, who also had ugly faces and looked increasingly flustered.
The man surnamed Li, who also knew that he had said something wrong, quickly said, "It was because... we lived in the same house."
When these words came out, the three people around them seemed to be grasping at straws and hurriedly said: "Yes, we live together!"
"The wing room in the sword-holding hall is tight, so three or four people live in the same room..."
"The four of us happened to have nothing else to do the day before yesterday, so we just stayed in the house and didn't go anywhere."
Everyone sang together and finally found a reasonable explanation.
I thought I could get away with it, but after hearing this, Chu Qingxiao was still not angry at all.
"Oh? How big is the house you live in?" Chu Qingxiao asked again.
This is a question that seems unrelated to the previous topic.
But based on the pressure brought by Chu Qingxiao on the four of them before, the four of them were a little nervous.
"It's just an ordinary house, not too big." One of them replied carefully.
"Then don't you sleep on the same bunk?" Chu Qingxiao asked again.
"Absolutely... almost." The man responded.
When Chu Qingxiao received such an answer, a smile suddenly appeared on his face.
He looked back behind him, and at this moment Chu Zhaozhao Yuejian and Meng Jin Ziyu suddenly walked out of the crowd. They all held the pen and ink they had prepared in their hands and walked up to the four people.
"Please, four of you, please stand separately!" Chu Qingxiao said.
Ma Yingjie, who had been watching from the side, felt faintly uneasy when he saw this.
The four disciples also felt a little frightened, and they all looked at him as if asking for help.
Ma Yingjie frowned: "What are you going to do? This is the Sword Hall!"
As he said this, he stepped forward.
But just as he took the step forward, Lu Sandao, who was also looking at the scene in front of him, said this: "I think you'd better do it, otherwise, if you interfere with the evidence collection, I will treat you as fear of crime and stop you!
"
As the woman spoke, one hand was still on the saber at her waist.
That posture made Ma Yingjie's heart tremble, but he didn't dare to stop him after all.
Seeing Ma Yingjie like this, the four people did not dare to disobey. At Chu Qingxiao's request, they opened their doors one after another, and then one of the two on the left and right faced west, one faced east, and the two in the middle, one faced north and the other faced south.
The four of them could not see each other at this moment.
Ziyu and others also handed over the brushes that were already stained with ink in their hands, and at the same time handed the wooden tray with the rice paper in front of them.
"Since the four of you said that you lived together the day before yesterday and stayed in the house until dawn, I would like you to write down the order in which you lay in bed and rested that night."
Chu Qingxiao's voice sounded at this moment.
"Of course, the person who goes to sleep first will probably not know the order after that, but it doesn't matter. Just write down the order in which your companions fall asleep before you go to bed."
As soon as these words came out, the faces of the four people suddenly turned ugly.
That night, they tortured Zhu Renzhao to the best of their ability under Ma Yingying's instructions. They had just made it up because they had stayed in their own room. Chu Qingxiao asked them to write down the order in which they knew how to fall asleep.
, even if the four people have a tacit understanding, it is impossible for the answers given by each to match without discussion.
Chu Qingxiao saw their expressions in his eyes, and the smile on his face became even bigger, and then said: "Everyone, please start writing quickly and think carefully about what happened. By the way, I forgot to remind you, if you really don't want to
Know how to lie and make up a suitable sequence, you can write that you fell asleep together at the same time."
These words made the four people with chills in their hearts light up, as if they had grasped a life-saving straw.
But Chu Qingxiao lowered his voice at this moment, stared at the four people with cold eyes, and said quietly: "If it is really such a coincidence, guest, then I can trouble you to write down the time when you fell asleep, and it must be accurate.
, if there is any deviation, then someone is lying."
"In a case involving the death of a Taoist disciple, if you deliberately conceal the information or even lie to excuse the culprit, you should know what the price will be, right?"