Changsheng: Peak at the Beginning

As the Ghost Festival approached, Li Lianhua and Jiang Xinxin finally arrived at Xiaomian Inn, which was only a day and a half away from Yucheng. However, the atmosphere in the small town where the inn was located was not very good. Even when Xiaomian Inn welcomed guests, the guests had to step over the fire basin first.

When they sat down, the waiter cleverly brought up a plate of chilled watermelon. Since she had been feeling much better in the past few days, Li Lianhua had a great appetite. She first gave a piece of watermelon to Jiang Xinxin, and then began to feast on it.

However, Jiang Xinxin only ate a few bites and stopped eating. Seeing Li Lianhua looking over, she explained, "I have superb five senses. This watermelon was taken out after being frozen and then put back. It tasted a little different when I ate it."

Li Lianhua didn't taste anything, but since Jiang Xinxin said so, he stopped eating after finishing the piece of food in his hand, and quickly called the child over to order a few dishes. Then he and Jiang Xinxin listened with relish to the conversation of the escorts at the next table. It didn't take long for them to find out that the current lord of Yucheng is named Yu Hongzhu, who is a cruel and powerful person, and even her husband Yu Mulan can't control her.

Just as she was listening happily, the door opened again and two men and one woman walked in. They seemed to be a master and servant. The young man in the lead who looked like a dandy boy looked at Li Lianhua a few more times when he saw her, as if he knew Li Lianhua before.

The three of them rented two upper rooms. The male and female servants went upstairs with their bags on their backs to settle down. The young man sat down next to Li Lianhua, smiled and nodded to Jiang Xinxin, then leaned over and whispered in Li Lianhua's ear, "Li Lianhua, I won't allow you to harm anyone. You'd better follow me closely, or I'll send a signal directly to Baichuanyuan!"

Li Lianhua was confused by his words. She stepped back a little and asked, "Why do you say that, Mr. Fang? Although I am just a wandering doctor and don't have much ability, I won't harm anyone."

Just as Fang Xingtan was about to speak, the door was opened again. The people who came in were dressed the same. The escorts and the shopkeeper recognized them as guards from Yucheng, but the one who led the guards in was a woman. When the guards went upstairs, the escorts next to them lowered their voices and talked about the disappearance of Yucheng's second lady Yu Qiushuang for three days, and then linked the Zhongyuan Festival with the disappearance of the second lady Yu. It was so mysterious that Fang Xingtan was shocked.

As for the leading woman, it was the shopkeeper who recognized her as Miss Yun Jiao, the close friend of Miss Yu Er.

When the food was served, Li Lianhua served the dishes to Jiang Xinxin very attentively. Fang Xing felt a little awkward sitting there because no one invited him to eat. However, his curiosity about Li Lianhua's and Jiang Xinxin's identities prevailed after all.

"You are so good, Li Lianhua! We have only been apart for a few days and you have already recognized the girl!"

Seeing that Jiang Xinxin didn't pay attention to Detective Fang, Li Lianhua quickly introduced them to each other: "Miss Jiang, this is Detective Fang Duobing from Baichuan Academy."

"Young Master Fang, this is Miss Jiang Xinxin whom I met on the road. She has a way to cure my heart disease."

Jiang Xinxin still concealed her appearance, but this time she did it more thoroughly. Even Li Lianhua, the so-called son of luck, could not see her true face. Fang Duobing's luck was slightly inferior to Li Lianhua's, so naturally he could not see it either.

But in their eyes, Jiang Xinxin was already more beautiful than Qiao Wanwan, the most beautiful woman in the martial arts world, so Fang Duobing felt embarrassed to even look at her a few more times.

Fang Duobing clasped his fists formally to Jiang Xinxin, who just nodded slightly. Fang Duobing also felt it was impolite. At this time, the door was opened again, and this time a young woman with Mu Li walked in.

As soon as the woman appeared, the Yucheng guards who happened to be coming down the stairs came forward to greet her and called her "Second Miss". And this Second Miss was just as the escorts had arranged before. No one knew what had happened to her that had damaged her appearance, so she seemed to be quite angry when she scolded the guards.

Miss Yu went upstairs. Seeing Fang Duobing looking like he didn't see anything, Jiang Xinxin couldn't help but remind him, "Detective Fang, don't you think there's anything wrong with Miss Yu?"

Fang Duobing really didn't see anything wrong with Yu Qiushuang, but since Jiang Xinxin said so, he asked seriously: "I really don't see anything, I hope Miss Jiang will be generous in enlightening me."

Jiang Xinxin was speechless, but still said, "We learned from the escorts earlier that Miss Yu ran away from home because her appearance was suddenly damaged. The young lady who just came in brought Mu Li with her, which was not strange at all. But the strange thing was that she insisted on lifting Mu Li and looking up in the hall to scold the guards, causing the guests in the hall to notice her face."

Fang Duobing scratched his head and said awkwardly: "There was indeed something wrong with Miss Yu just now..."

Li Lianhua almost died of laughter. If it weren't for Fang Duobing's easy temper, he wouldn't have bothered to hold back his laughter. "Miss Jiang means that the lady we just saw may not be Miss Yu Er."

Fang Duobing didn't believe it at all, but just a moment later, Miss Yun Jiao, who was going downstairs, screamed and pointed to a place where there was blood. The guests in the lobby came forward to check, but Jiang Xinxin didn't move. Someone in the inn immediately connected it to the previous legend of ghost killing people, and some people became panic-stricken.

Fang Duobing happened to hear a scream from his maid Li'er, and when he rushed over he found that his servant had been strangled to death.

Fang Duobing and Li'er were crying together. Suddenly, Li'er saw Li Lianhua following them from the corner of her eye. She immediately lost control of her emotions and pointed at Li Lianhua and said to Fang Duobing, "Master, he must have killed someone! It must be him!"

Li Lianhua was speechless, but seeing that Fang Duobing seemed to have misunderstood, she quickly explained, "I have been sitting there since you entered the door, and I have only come up now. Even if I really want to kill someone, I still need time."

Li'er was about to say something when chaos broke out outside again. The body of Miss Yu Er was found hidden in the escort boxes of the escorts. The guards of Yucheng forcefully took everyone in Xiaomian Inn back, including Jiang Xinxin who was leisurely drinking tea downstairs.

In the Yucheng prison, more than 20 people in and outside the Xiaomian Inn were locked up together. Fang Duobing still had the Baichuanyuan prison card on his body, so even though he was too young, he was still trusted by those bodyguards. The amazing thing was that Li Lianhua was also trusted because of his reputation as a miracle doctor.