“Actually, when Chief Escort Cheng Yunhe first told me about this, I knew immediately that the story was too ghost-like, that it was too much like someone pretending to be a ghost,” Li Lianhua said with a charming smile.
“And in this story, the Crane Escort Company, Yu Qiushuang, the Yu City Swordsman, Yun Jiao… In the end, only Yun Jiao survived, so she must have had something to do with Qiushuang’s death. At first, I didn’t expect her to pretend to be a ghost, and I never thought of her as someone who would kill, but she may have some different conditions than others, such as things she knows that nobody else does.”
Yun Jiao, who had been released from her cell, nodded silently after a while.
“After I went to Yu City, there was a second thing I found strange,” Li Lianhua said. “Master Zongzheng told me that he went to Yu City the day after Yu Qiushuang died. But, strangely, even a Yu City swordsman’s horse travels 800 miles a day from Yuanzhou to the Kunlun Mountains, and it takes more than half a month to arrive. So how could Master Zongzheng have arrived at the mountain ‘the next day’ after getting the news?”
Li Lianhua smiled slightly, “Unless he was already at the mountain, or he was near Yu City, it wouldn’t have been possible. He never even went to Xiaomian Inn to confirm the news of his fiancée’s murder, but went directly to Kunlun. Although he said he was worried about his future parents-in-law, it’s all still a bit unreasonable.”
“But you didn’t go to the Inn to check either, did you?” Hua Ruxue asked darkly. “Therefore, you are also suspicious.”
Li Lianhua replied, “Since I found that Yun Jiao’s situation is different from others, I naturally thought that she might be lying. If everything Yun Jiao said about Yu Qiushuang that night was not taken into account,” he said with a smile, “then it is easy to draw a conclusion: Yu Qiushuang was in the cargo box from the beginning.”
Bu Chenghai and Hua Ruxue nodded in unison.
“Since Yu Qiushuang was probably already in the cargo box, she didn’t die in Xiaomian Inn.” Li Lianhua sighed, “So, why would I have gone to Xiaomian Inn?”
Bu Chenghai and Hua Ruxue nodded again.
“So Zongzheng Mingzhu is a bit suspicious,” Li Lianhua continued, “But how do we know that he didn’t go to Xiaomian Inn for the same reason as me? You see, there is another person who is more suspicious than him.”
flinch and avoid your hand. That’s just the natural reaction of living things,” Li Lianhua said. “Moreover, Yu Mulan was supposedly only crazy, not blind. But he didn’t respond at all to my needle, which proves that he was only pretending.”
Yu Mulan was stunned, an indescribably strange expression on his face.
“But I still suspected that he may have been suffering from a kind of madness that included blindness, so I gave him a medicinal soup.”
Li Lianhua smiled, “It’s a wonderful medicinal soup. After drinking it for a few days, I knew that Yu Mulan really was pretending to be crazy.”
“What kind of medicinal soup is so effective?” Hua Ruxue suddenly became interested in this young man.
“Soup made from a bunch of weeds I didn’t recognize,” Li Lianhua replied. “If you were to drink it, you would have diarrhea, vomiting, and poisoning in all likelihood.”
He smiled gracefully, and one would have no difficulty completely trusting him.
“People who aren’t crazy wouldn’t drink it, they would pour it out somewhere – and after the water was dumped, the seeds from the plants that had soaked in the clean water would germinate quickly. Outside the window of Yu Mulan and Yu Hongzhu’s room, there has recently been an abundance of six kinds of plant seedlings mixed together, which is very interesting.”
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Mysterious Lotus Casebook
FantasyTen years ago, Li Xiang Yi, the master of the Sigu Sect, dominated with his superior swordsmanship and was a symbol of light in the martial arts world. However, he suddenly disappeared along with Di Fei Sheng, the leader of the Jinyuan Alliance, aft...