Luo Hanshui was afraid that Chang Qingqing would faint again, so he put his left hand on her back, using energy to calm her mind, and gently touched her right shoulder with his right hand, saying softly: "We know that you have gone through a lot of hardships, and we also know that
I hope you can express your sorrow right now and allow me to ask you something..."
After a long time, the heartbroken Chang Qingqing stood up slowly, looked at the dead Miao Xiuzhu on the chair, and with the tears falling, she stretched out her right hand to close his angry eyes, and stood blankly.
After a moment, in an unexpectedly calm tone, he said, "Sir, please speak."
With tears on her face, Lin Wanzhen walked up to Chang Qingqing, hugged her thin body, and said softly: "Let's talk outside first..."
Chang Qingqing looked sideways at Huangfu Xiu's body on the ground, nodded silently, followed Lin Wanzhen's support, and came to the corridor railing to sit down on a stool.
"Elder Weng, go and tell the arrow guards outside the valley to have Chief Fang bring twenty arrow guards."
After Weng Mu left as ordered, Luo Hanshui, who was standing at the door of the bamboo house, glanced at the dead Yuan Bo and Bingwei in the yard, then looked back at the house and said: "The murderer should have broken into the house first and killed him.
The acupuncture points of your foster father and mother were trapped. These soldiers and Uncle Yuan must have been in the pharmacy. They heard the noise and rushed out. They were all killed by the murderer."
After hearing this, Lin Wanzhen turned her head and looked towards the bamboo house on the west side, only to see the wooden door of the pharmacy open, knowing that Luo Hanshui had expected it to be true.
"Then the murderer returned to the house and forced your adoptive father on the throne. Judging from the fact that he used a sharp object to scratch your adoptive mother's face, he should have used your adoptive mother's life to threaten your adoptive father..."
Luo Hanshui paused for a moment, "Have you ever heard your adoptive father and others say...that the Miao family has enemies?"
Chang Qingqing shook her head, "Grandpa and foster father rarely have any grudges with Jianghu people. The only one they can call an enemy is Liu Gongwen, but he has been forced into the abyss by Brother Xiaoyao... Didn't he die?
"
"Even if Liu Gongwen is not dead, there is absolutely no way he can escape with the combined efforts of Elder Weng and I... Two years ago, he only had ordinary spiritual power. No matter what great power he learned, he would never be able to achieve such a skill.
." Luo Hanshui shook his head decisively, pondered for a moment, and then said: "Then do you have any precious objects in the valley..."
Suddenly thinking of something, he quickly walked out of the corridor and climbed up to the second floor. In the midst of Lin and Chang's surprise, Luo Hanshui fell down into the courtyard again and looked at Chang Qingqing, "The murderer should be Miao Miao."
I came from the Family Medicine Sutra. Is it possible to find the 'Hundred Insects Du Sutra' that was lost at first?"
When he talked about precious objects, he suddenly remembered the meeting of Gan Shaolong in Youzhou. He thought that the 'Hundred Insects Poison Scripture' that Weng Mu asked about was the most precious medicine scripture passed down to the Miao family. Feeling inspired, he went to the hospital.
Checking on the second floor, I saw that the study room upstairs was in a mess. I guessed that the murderer came here for the Medicine Sutra, but he didn't know that Chang Qingqing had returned the 'Hundred Insects and Poison Sutra', so he asked this question.
Upon hearing this, Chang Qingqing immediately ran up to the second floor. After a while, she came downstairs and came to the courtyard. She was shocked and said: "The secret compartment on the floor was opened. The evil man thought he had taken away the 'Hundred Herbs' and the 'Hundred Insects and Poisons'..."
"
Luo Hanshui didn't say a word. He frowned and thought for a long time. He suddenly walked into the house. He looked at the messy scene in the house for a moment. He walked to a pile of scattered clothes on the ground in the house, picked up the top green skirt and took a look.
He turned to Chang Qingqing, who was standing at the door with a surprised look on his face, and said, "In my opinion, the murderer did not take away the medicinal scripture... and this person was not masked when he came to the valley."
Chang Qingqing saw that a gap was torn off the hem of the green skirt in his hand, and suddenly remembered that the scarf on the murderer's face was green, "Sir, do you think the villain temporarily tore off the skirt and covered his face?"
"That's right," Luo Hanshui walked out of the house, "When I met him on the hillside in the forest, I noticed that the cloth on his face was flying. I was so anxious just now that I didn't think about it... Now I see
This green skirt is damaged, I think he tore it off."
"When the murderer was interrogating your adoptive father and mother, Cang Mang saw the bodies in the courtyard from the air and let out a howl. The murderer was afraid that someone would come back and recognize him, so he tore up the cloth and covered his face in a moment of impatience. But when he
The moment you were about to leave the house, you felt the skill of Elder Weng and I, and immediately broke the heart of your adoptive father and mother..."
"Have you noticed Mr.'s skill?" Chang Qingqing was surprised for a moment.
"A person who has achieved great mastery in Baodan can detect sounds within a hundred feet, but in order to judge the level of a person's strength by this, the opponent must reveal his own martial arts skills."
Weng Mu, who had returned to the courtyard to listen, said: "When the vast sky swooped down, it was when the master of the pavilion and I jumped up fifty feet away. At that time, the martial arts energy of the two of us was released.
, based on the murderer’s cultivation level, he can be judged within thirty to fifty feet.”
Luo Hanshui nodded and continued: "He came here without covering his face because he already had the intention to kill everyone in the valley. However, Wanzhen and the others' return, as well as our arrival, were unexpected by him.
, in haste, he covered his face, killed the Miao Valley Master and his wife and fled."
"From this point of view, he did not plan to come to the valley to seize the scriptures..." Luo Hanshui paused and looked at Chang Qingqing, "Is the study upstairs the only place where your adoptive father's secret book of medicinal scriptures is stored?
?”
Chang Qingqing knew that Luo Hanshui's inference made sense. After hearing this, he frowned and thought for a moment, then replied: "Last year, when my brother Xiaoyao and I went to Xiangzhou to visit Uncle Fang, my adoptive father asked me to prepare the 'Guiyuan Pill'
Copy the method and send it to Uncle Fang."
"At that time, my adoptive father took me to the study, took out the medicinal scripture from the secret compartment and copied down the formula... I did not return until today when I left the valley. I don't know whether my adoptive father moved the medicinal scripture to the storage...
…”
'Guiyuan Pill' can not only cure internal injuries caused by damaged qi, but also has the effect of strengthening the foundation when taken when the qi is broken. Fang always wins and improves his cultivation, which relies on the effect of 'Guiyuan Pill'. Miao Xiu
Zhu You felt his kindness in escorting Miao Changning's body back to the valley, and did not want him to go to Yaowang Valley to seek elixirs. Instead, he copied down the refining method and asked Chang Qingqing to take it as a gift.
While Luo Hanshui was deep in thought, Weng Mu asked, "Princess Qingqing, where is the alchemy room?"
Everyone was paying attention to the death of Miao Xiuzhu and his wife for the moment, and did not pay attention to other matters. When Chang Qingqing heard this, he thought that the 'Hidden Qi Pill' should be refined. He raised his eyes and looked at the bamboo house to the east, "It's in
The room in the middle of the building on the left..."
There are two bamboo houses built in the east of the courtyard, separated by more than ten feet. Each of them has two floors, and there are three living rooms on each floor. Weng Mu followed his words and went to the wooden house that Chang Qingqing mentioned. He found that the wooden door was slightly closed and the smell of medicine was strong.
, feeling something bad, he raised his hand and pushed open the wooden door, walked into the room to check, but found that the alchemy furnace was empty.
"Pavilion Master, I think the pills were taken away by the murderer." Weng Mu, who turned back to the corridor and looked at Luo Hanshui, said: "The lids of those pill furnaces are wide open and there is nothing in the furnaces. If Miao Valley Master packs them up himself,
I will definitely put the lid of the cauldron in place."
The art of alchemy is very particular about the temperature and timing. Miao Xiuzhu has already said that it will come out at the right time, and there will be no difference. And if he puts away the 'Hidden Qi Pill' by himself, it should be as Weng Mu said,
I will cover the furnace cauldron.
Chang Qingqing, who was about to go to check, stopped when he heard this. He opened his red and swollen eyes and looked at Luo Hanshui, "Sir... is this evil person here to steal the Hidden Qi Pill?"
Luo Hanshui was also surprised for a moment, pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "You can find this elixir room once you find it. After the murderer restrained them, they can find the elixir immediately, and they will not hurt your adoptive mother or threaten your adoptive father again."
I think he accidentally discovered the prepared elixir and took it away."
After a pause of words, he walked to the alchemy room, then turned back and asked: "Qingqing, do you know if this 'Hidden Qi Pill' technique has been recorded in the Medicine Classic?"
"No." Chang Qingqing shook her head and said, "This recipe was developed by my foster father half a year after Grandpa Miao's death."
Luo Hanshui nodded, "Judging from the fact that not a single pill was left on the ground, the murderer must be someone who is proficient in pharmacology. He knew that this pill was newly made by your adoptive father, so he took it with him and must have kept it for future study."
Studying the use of medicinal properties, it seems that he should be someone who is very familiar with Yaowang Valley...who could it be?"
While everyone was deep in thought for a moment, Fang Yuan, who had received the message from Fei Ge, the Arrow Guard, had already arrived. When he saw the tragic events in Yaowang Valley, he was naturally shocked.
"Mr. Fang, let the arrow guards bury the Miao Valley Master, his wife, and Uncle Yuan." Luo Hanshui turned his eyes to Chang Qingqing, "I will send someone to take care of Yaowang Valley... Is it okay?"
Luo Hanshui is a considerate person, but he knows that Yaowang Valley is the property of the Miao family. Although he wants to protect Chang Qingqing and Miao Kexue, he still has to respect their opinions.
"Sir, I would like to express my gratitude to you on behalf of Kexue..."
Chang Qingqing leaned forward to bow, but was stopped by Luo Hanshui, "You are Junior Brother and Sister Chang, you don't have to be so polite with me."
He was afraid that Chang Qingqing would be overwhelmed with gratitude, but instead pushed the favor onto her brother Chang Shan.
"Master Fang, come and take a look..." An arrow guard who was cleaning up the room at this time came to the door and said.
Everyone suddenly felt something in their hearts and walked into the house. They saw that where Huangfu Xiu, who had been carried away for burial, had originally been lying, there was a bloodstain on the floor, and there were five blood stains on the bloodstain.
point.
Luo Hanshui stared at it for a moment, squatted down, stretched out his right finger and pointed at the five blood spots, and his palm just covered the connected blood stains.
He glanced at the solidified blood stains in front of him again, stood up, and sighed, "Mrs. Miao was forced to kneel on the ground at that time. When the murderer was not prepared, she stuck her hands to the blood on the ground and wiped out the blood.
She wrote horizontally... thinking that the murderer had turned to the right, and she was afraid that she would be discovered, so she put her hand on the words to cover it up, and soon he would rush back in a daze, so she had no time to write out the words. "
But thinking that Huangfu Xiu wrote it with the blood flowing down his face, Chang Qingqing's heart ached, her heartstrings trembled, and her tears fell sadly. Lin Wanzhen saw her shoulders shaking, and hurriedly came closer to support her, and patted her.
on his shoulder, "Princess, I would like to express my condolences. When Uncle Luo finds out the clues, we will definitely find the murderer and avenge you..."
But after hearing this, Chang Qingqing's eyes froze, she nodded suddenly, squatted on the ground, stared at the blood for a moment, and said: "My mother must be reminding me of something, this may be the starting character of the murderer's name..."
…”
"What Princess Qingqing said is true. The handwriting left by your adoptive mother can only be related to the murderer's name or the place where the medicine scripture is hidden." Luo Hanshui nodded and said in deep thought: "One stroke and one stroke... I
I think most of them started with the character '石'."
"Shi? Is the murderer a person named Shi?" Weng Mu asked suspiciously.
"It should be possible." Luo Hanshui stretched out his hand to help Chang Qingqing and asked: "Think carefully, are there stone utensils that your adoptive father and adoptive mother pay more attention to when they are ordinary, or are they often there?
Passing through a cave or something like that?”
"Sir, are you saying that your adoptive father moved the medicinal scriptures and hid them in a place related to stone tools?"
"I think it's very possible. If it's not referring to the murderer's surname, it's reminding you where the medicinal scripture is hidden."
"It has something to do with stone tools..." Chang Qingqing murmured twice, and suddenly walked out of the house and looked at the stone table in front of the kitchen. "My adoptive father has never taken me to a cave in the nearby mountains. If it is for me,
The familiar place, besides often sitting on the rocks by the creek with my mother, is the stone table where we eat together."
Fang Yuan and Weng Mu looked at each other after hearing this, and immediately walked up to the stone table. At the same time, they stretched out their hands to lift the table, which weighed two to three hundred kilograms. They saw that the nearly two feet square base was dented in the middle, and there was a wooden box placed there.
in.
"There is a box hidden on the base..."
Hearing Weng Mu's voice of surprise, Luo Hanshui and the other two people on the corridor stepped forward to greet him.
Chang Qingqing suppressed the excitement in her heart, took the wooden box from Weng Mu, opened it, and saw two scriptures in the box, which were the "Baicao Jing" and "Hundred Insects Poison Jing" passed down by the Miao family.
'.
It turned out that after Chang Qingqing and Miao Kexue left the valley, Miao Xiuzhu was afraid that the soldiers who came to help with the medicine would have ulterior motives and steal the medicine while the couple went into the mountains to collect medicine.
Hide the scriptures on the base of the stone table in the courtyard.
At this time, an arrow guard leader came to report that the grave had been dug. Upon hearing this, Chang Qingqing put the medicinal scripture into his arms, entered a bamboo house, found incense, and went to bury it with Luo Hanshui and others.
place.
But everyone who was afraid that Chang Qingqing would be heartbroken secretly breathed a sigh of relief when they saw her silently looking at Miao Xiuzhu and his wife. Uncle Yuan was buried without crying.
Despite being strong, everyone sighed secretly.
After Chang Qingqing personally erected the wooden monument, burned incense and kowtowed, Luo Hanshui left ten arrow guards to guard the courtyard and took Lin Wanzhen and Chang Qingqing to Lingxiu Village.
Early the next morning, Luo Hanshui sent Weng Mu to escort Chang Qingqing north to Kaifeng. He sighed to Lin Wanzhen, who was escorting Chang Qingqing to the entrance of the village: "The world is unpredictable, but it is unpredictable... Oh, you will come with me later."
Let’s go to Taibai Academy.”
Lin Wanzhen, who was about to say goodbye and go to Moforget Island, was stunned when he heard this, and then heard Luo Hanshui say: "Last night at Haishi, your husband sent news that your Master Chu passed away on the sixth day of the lunar month..."
"Ah?!" Lin Wanzhen didn't expect that Chu Nanfeng's father would pass away at this time, and she was sad and speechless for a moment.
"Xiaoyao and the others think they haven't gone to the Southern Han Dynasty yet... I have arranged for Yunzhou and Moforget Island to go separately and notify them." Luo Hanshui shook his head and sighed again, "We will send you Master Chu together then.
The last leg.”
When Chu Nanfeng's father passed away, Lin Wanzhen naturally had to go to pay homage. After she came to her senses, she immediately responded: "Wanzhen will follow Uncle Luo's arrangements."
Luo Hanshui returned to the village, handed over some matters to Fang Yuan, and then took Lin Wanzhen north to Taibai Academy.
The two rode their horses north, and on a village post road more than seventy miles away from Lingxiu Mountain Village, they met two monks with silver eyebrows and thin bodies.
When they were about five feet away, one of the pale old monks suddenly moved his right hand, and with a "whoosh" sound, the rosary beads in his hand shot toward Luo Hanshui like a flying arrow.
Luo Hanshui, who was on the mount, heard the sound, thought about it, and activated his energy. He used the move of "returning a peach for a favor". When the rosary was about to collide with his energy, it flew back to the old monk's hand.
Luo Hanshui was surprised for a moment when he heard the old monk Heshi say: "Amitabha, it's good, it's good. Is Master Luo okay?"
But when he heard the old monk calling out his surname, which was rarely known in the world, Luo Hanshui was startled again. His thoughts suddenly changed and he suddenly guessed the identity of the monk in front of him. His heart was shocked. He didn't answer the old monk and faced
Lin Wan, who was standing beside her with a surprised expression, said: "Go back quickly..."
Before he finished speaking, he pressed the horse's head with his left hand, jumped up, and struck the two monks with a palm in mid-air. The old monk was chanting the Buddha's name, his figure flashed, and he punched out with his right hand, making a "bang" sound.
, but it knocked Luo Hanshui flying back.
Luo Hanshui, who was lying next to his mount, felt anxious when he saw Lin Wanzhen drawing his sword and jumping off the horse, "I told you to leave quickly..."
Lin Wanzhen had never seen the gentle and elegant Luo Hanshui in such an anxious state. She knew that this situation was extremely dangerous, but she shook her head firmly, "Whether life or death, Wanzhen will definitely advance and retreat with my uncle."
Looking at Lin Wanzhen's determined eyes, Luo Hanshui sighed secretly and looked at the old monk, "How did the master know my surname? Now that the treasure book has been taken away, what will happen to Luo now?"
It turned out that this old monk was Zhiku who had taken away the 'Golden Art of Changing Qi' and the 'Earth Meridian Return Sutra', and the other monk was Zhiguang.
"It's good, it's good. The old monk has a predestined relationship with Layman Luo. Naturally, he can find out the identity of Layman Luo. I wanted to visit your residence today, but I didn't expect to meet him on the road. It's fate."
But knowing that his beloved Luo Xiaoyao is a protector, Zhiku's words were like thunder from the sky to Luo Hanshui. He took a sharp breath and suppressed the shock in his heart, "If we talk about hatred, it's the master's revenge against Luo...
… After seizing the treasure book and injuring several lives, Luo was not as skilled as others and did not seek revenge. As a monk, the master wanted to kill everyone. Aren't you afraid of the Buddha's punishment?"
"Amitabha, it's a sin, it's a sin." Zhi Kuheshi said: "The old monk came to Luo Ju Tu this time to establish a relationship with a layman. How could he involve others."
Luo Hanshui listened to Zhizhi's bitter tone, as if he didn't know that Luo Xiaoyao was a protector, but he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Then what is the fate between Luo and the master?"
"Just now the old monk tried his skills as a layman, but his cultivation level is now less than 80% as before... I think it took more than a year before he met the monk Mingwu who possesses the 'Tian Leiyin' method?"
Luo Hanshui thought that Zhiku had a plan at every step, but he did not give an answer.
"The old monk guessed that layman Luo had formed a bond with the Buddha, and only then did someone guide him to find Ming Wuxiang to save him. However, it took more than a year to get the chance, otherwise the layman would not have recovered only 80%."
Luo Hanshui smiled coldly, "It sounds like the master had a fight with the eminent monk Mingwu. Now I am worried that I have been friends with him for a long time. After hurting me, the eminent monk Mingwu will seek explanation from the master?"
"Amitabha, I don't tell lies. If I dare not hurt layman Luo because he is afraid of Mingming's incompetence, the old monk has never had such an idea." Zhiku shook his head and smiled, "Old monk tried the layman's skills and realized that layman and Ming are nothing more than the same thing.
We have known each other for a long time, so I asked the layman two questions."
Luo Hanshui didn't expect that he would have multiple purposes for his attempt, and he was momentarily surprised and confused.
Seeing that he didn't answer, Zhiku continued, "I wonder who told Layman Luo that the 'Heavenly Thunder Sound' can break the fist tribulation? Did the layman after knowing Wujiu say anything about Buddha's difficulties?"
The sound of Tianlei can break the Hundred Tribulations Fist Tribulation. For hundreds of years, even the people who practiced the Hundred Tribulations Fist technique themselves did not know it. Zhiku naturally wanted to find out who knew this secret.
After meeting Wen Yi and Mingwu at Qinglong Mountain, he knew that Mingwu must know about the Buddha's Dilemma, so he wanted to know if Mingwu had talked to Luo Hanshui. He guessed that Luo Hanshui, who was escorting Zhu Xuanzhou south, already knew about the Buddha's Dilemma.
After Mingwu rescued Luo Hanshui, he was afraid that if he talked about the Buddha's difficulty, the two of them would work together to prevent him from finding the protector, so he asked this question.
"How did the master know that I did not die in the fist calamity? How did he know where I came from?" Luo Hanshui smiled slightly, "Since the master has said that monks will not lie, if he is willing to tell Luo Mou what he asked, Luo Mou should also know it.
Say nothing."
Before Zhiku could reply, Zhiguang, who was standing beside him, said, "Senior Brother, why do you waste so much time explaining to him?"
"Amitabha, my Buddha is merciful. Master Luo has good fortune in his body. He should seek it slowly and not too late."
Luo Hanshui knew in his heart that with his current level of cultivation, Zhiku was going to kill him in disguise, and he must have a plan to slowly talk to him now. When he heard this conversation between him and Zhiguang, he felt something in his heart.
cold.
He was gifted with intelligence, and when he felt something in his heart, he realized something. As his thoughts suddenly changed, he suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. He had already guessed Zhiku's intention. He stopped his shock, calmed down, glanced at Lin Wanzhen beside him, and said to
Zhi smiled bitterly and said: "It is not impossible for Luo to answer the question with the master, as long as the master agrees to Luo's request."
"That's good, that's good. It's okay for Luo Jushi to say it."
"Let Mr. Luo's nephew leave."
Before Zhiku could respond, Lin Wanzhen said anxiously: "Uncle..."
"If my answer is not what the master wants, I'm afraid it will make the master angry. You want to advance and retreat with me for the sake of your mood." Luo Hanshui looked at Lin Wanzhen and said slowly: "Please let me stay as a guest, master."
Go back to the village and report to the person in charge, so as not to worry my family."
Lin Wanzhen also heard the implication of Qi Luo Hanshui's words, but she knew that he was determined to die and hoped that she would send the news back and take his family away from Lingxiu Village. With her heart shocked, she only heard Zhi say bitterly: "Old man
The monk is looking for Layman Luo this time, and he really has no intention of harming each other. What Layman Luo said is to make the old monk ashamed... Whether the young layman leaves or stays, all will be decided by Layman Luo."
Luo Hanshui felt happy, looked at Lin Wanzhen who looked surprised, and said in a deep voice: "Why don't you leave quickly..."
"Uncle..."
"Go quickly."
Looking at Luo Hanshui's decisive expression, Lin Wanzhen was shocked and calmed down. However, she thought that these two monks must have a big conspiracy. Mr. Chu Nanfeng would definitely know the reason. If the two of them died here,
No one will know the inside story... Thinking of this, Yinfan bit his teeth and said nothing, he jumped on the horse, looked at Luo Hanshui with tears in his eyes, then turned around and rode away.