seven relics

Early the next morning, Xingshan woke up suddenly. The first thing he did when he got up was to check the soles of his feet. He thought that he had left the house barefoot last night. maybe.Fortunately, the soles of his feet were not contaminated with much mud, sand and dirt, and there were no obvious footprints on the floor of the house.Xing Shan breathed a sigh of relief, but then he thought of the beam in Qingye Shuang's house—there was so much dust on the beam, maybe his footprints were left there...

Xingshan really wanted to go to Qing Yeshuang's house to check it out, but it seemed suspicious to go to Qing Yeshuang for no reason. With a dagger, he poked a hole in the sock, carried the torn sock, and knocked on the door of Lian Jiangyue next door with bare feet.He asked Lian Jiangyue, "I don't know if there are any changes of clothes in the brother's room? I didn't notice when I was washing my socks last night. They dried on the window sill all night, but they were dry. I just found these socks." There's a hole."

Lian Jiangyue has already woken up. His room was cleaned out from the storage room. It is full of bottles and cans, and some old electrical appliances that have been eliminated. He couldn't find any pair of socks.

Xingshan said: "Then I'll ask Master Ma." He muttered: "But I didn't see what luggage he brought..."

Lian Jiangyue said: "There must be one in the upstairs bedroom."

Xing Shan echoed: "That's right, when Su Ya showed us around yesterday, I saw that there were clothes hanging in the closet, and there were also pajamas and other things in the closet."

The two went upstairs and knocked on the door of Qing Yeshuang's room.No one answered the door.Xing Shan said: "Still sleeping?"

Lian Jiangyue gently pushed the door, and the door opened. He and Xing Shan went in one after the other. Xing Shan glanced at the bed, took a step forward, and protected Lian Jiangyue behind him, saying: "Brother, something's wrong, don't get close."

There was a large gap in the tiles of the roof, and a beam of light hit Qing Yeshuang who was lying on the big bed.

Qing Yeshuang remained motionless, the bloodstain on the bedside table gleamed scarlet, and thousands of dust particles were floating in the air.

Lian Jiangyue walked away from Xingshan, walked to the big bed to have a look, and walked to the south-facing window in the house.Xing Shan's gaze had already swept across the window sill, but no footprints were left on the window sill. He remembered that he poked the window with his fingertips when he opened it last night, so there must have been no fingerprints left.The most important thing now is to go to the beam to see if there is any evidence left.

Xing Shan called out to Lian Jiangyue, and said, "I'm afraid this person is... dead..."

He also said: "Could it be that the murderer came down from the roof? I'll go up and have a look." Then he flew up to the beam, and sure enough, there was a lot of dust accumulated on the beam, and there were indeed two footprints of him. Shan looked at Lian Jiangyue on the ground, Lian Jiangyue was looking up at him, and asked, "Did you find anything?"

Xing Shan said: "There are some footprints, but not very clear." He asked Lian Jiangyue: "Are there any footprints left outside the window?"

Lian Jiangyue looked out the window, Xingshan hurriedly used his sleeve to blur the footprints left last night, then got off the ground, wiped his feet, and said: "I also left two footprints, the police come You have to talk to them afterward.”

After finishing speaking, he took out his mobile phone to call the police, he asked Lian Jiangyue: "Do you know the address here?"

Lian Jiangyue shook her head, and the two set up a location, but the location was set at the Slender West Lake.The police couldn't report it for a while, Lian Jiangyue looked out the window again, and said: "There is no sign of coming and going downstairs, he must be a master of light kung fu." He rubbed his chin, looked back and forth at the gap in the roof and the open window, Said: "Where did the murderer come in? Where did he leave?"

"Maybe it left from the roof? So I didn't have time to clean up the footprints on the beams?" Xing Shan said.

At this moment, a young woman came in from the outside of the house. Seeing the scene on the bed in the house, she screamed and fell to the ground.Not long after, Ma Zun, Xiang Hongtu, Xiang Meng Zhong, Quan Suya and several handymen in charge all rushed over.

Lian Jiangyue said to the two people who were homesick: "It's better to call the police as soon as possible. Xingshan and I don't know the address here, and the location is not accurate, so we are delayed."

I think Meng Zhong immediately drove away the handymen, and threatened: "No one is allowed to talk nonsense, do what you should do!"

Xiang Hongtu looked at Qing Yeshuang and said: "This person is Jiang Yue your friend that Xiao Fang mentioned yesterday? Isn't this your house? Why is he..."

When Meng Zhong heard the words, the corners of his mouth turned upside down, and his eyes were angry: "Did this man make some kind of enemy outside? Did he come to the door? What kind of dubious person died when we were homesick!"

Quan Suya said: "Master Meng Zhong, this is my third senior brother's friend. Due to physical reasons, it is inconvenient for me to go up and down the stairs frequently, so I changed this room to sleep with my third senior brother yesterday."

Thinking that Meng Zhong was still angry, but he had nowhere to vent his anger. He turned his head and sat down at a round table. Seeing Xingshan's bare feet, he vented his anger on him, saying: "Little brother Xingshan, how can you not be angry?" Don’t wear a pair of socks, and wear a pair of shoes? If you don’t know, you think we are homesick and treat you VIPs so harshly!”

Xing Shan argued: "The sock is torn, my senior brother and I found this house looking for socks, and found Qing Yeshuang dead."

Quan Suya hurriedly ran to the closet, opened the closet, found out a pair of socks, and threw them to Xingshan.She turned around to close the cabinet, but stopped, and hurriedly called everyone over, saying, "Come and see!"

Xing Shan sat down and put on his socks, he didn't go over to watch the excitement, he saw Quan Suya squeezed out something from the closet with two fingers of his right hand surrounded by the crowd, and held it high in the air.

Xing Shan asked: "What?"

Quan Suya said: "One hair!"

She pinched the hair carefully, walked to the round table, took out a few tissues and put them on the table, put down the hair, and said, "A long silver hair."

Walking up the mountain, I saw that it was indeed a silver-white hair.He also looked at the closet again, alarm bells ringing in his mind, could it be that someone hid in this closet last night?The silver-haired person...does he want Meng Zhong or Hongtu?He kept staring at the two silver-haired elders, and Lian Jiangyue also looked at them. How could the homesick two elders bear such speculative and suspicious eyes? Furious: "Nonsense!"

One smiled and said, "My third uncle and I don't have such long hair."

Quan Suya bent down, sniffed the hair, and said, "This hair is dyed."

Ma Zunqi said: "Little girl, can you smell this?" He was already deeply suspicious of homesickness, and now that he was killed, he looked at his family members with a more serious and suspicious look, and he almost used an accent. Said it again: "This room was originally arranged for Lian Jiangyue."

Everyone heard his implication at this time, and Xing Shanle transferred the suspicion to his family members. In order to induce everyone's thoughts, he quickly pointed out: "Could it be that someone wanted to kill senior brother, but he killed the wrong person?"

Xiang Meng Zhong shot two cold arrows in his eyes, and said to Xing Shan: "Xing Shan, Master Ma, you are straightforward people who can't hide your words, so let me tell you directly, Lian Jiangyue is my homesick single pass, why should I Want to pay him to kill him?"

Ma Zun said: "I didn't say you paid for murder."

Xingshan was silent, but Meng Zhong fought back angrily: "Could it be that I did it myself? My old bone, this hand has always only loved to hold a paintbrush, only a needle and thread!"

Ma Zundao: "I think Meng Zhong Baihua's 72 needles are famous in the world."

Thinking of Meng Zhong said solemnly: "The 72 needles of Baihua are acupuncture methods, specializing in acupoints and activating meridians. This man obviously died at the hands of a swordsman. I think he sealed his throat with a sword. It may take a night for this man to die. Everyone is purple."

Quan Suya looked at Xing Shan and Ma Zun: "Fourth Senior Brother, Master Ma is a master at what he does. You didn't hear anything suspicious at night, did you?"

Ma Zun shook his head, and Xing Shan followed suit.Quan Suya said: "Then the murderer's lightness kung fu must be very good."

Lian Jiangyue said: "Is this person just here?"

At this time, Xiang Hongtu took out his mobile phone and went to the side to make a call. After the call was over, he said: "It is indeed a major event for someone to die. I have already contacted my friends from the police. They are on their way here. According to their It means that the garden is temporarily closed, no entry or exit is allowed, and the scene has to be sealed off, this murder case should be handed over to the police, everyone should go to the lobby to rest for a while, everyone should be hungry, let's have some breakfast."

Ma Zundao: "I suggest sealing the roof, windows, and gates with paper, so that no one can come in and out at will."

Thinking Meng Zhongzhong was very angry and said, "I agree too!"

He called for some paper and paste, some pairs of gloves, and a pair of shoes for hiking.Ma Zun shouted to go up the mountain, put on his gloves and turned over the seal on the roof, in case someone tore it off and glued it again, the two of them signed their names on the glued place.This opportunity to get tiles on the mountain was something he couldn't wish for, so he took advantage of Ma Zun's inattention, and secretly wiped a few tiles on the roof with his gloves-he couldn't remember which tiles he touched last night, after all This was the first time he had killed someone, and he was dazzled by the killing intent. Now that he thought about it, what he did last night was really sloppy.But with the experience of putting a seal on the tiles, it would be easy to explain if the police found his fingerprints and footprints on the tiles later.

As for the seals pasted on the windows and doors, Youxiang Mengzhong and Ma Zunbi signed their names at the joints.

Only then did everyone go to the hall on the second floor of the waterside pavilion. The hall had already been arranged for breakfast, and everyone sat down one by one.Lian Jiangyue was really hungry, drank some soy milk, and ate vegetable and meat wontons.Quan Suya saw that he was eating deliciously, and her appetite also came up, but she took a bite of the bread, somehow looked down at the bread in her hand, and saw Qing Yeshuang's death, she covered her belly, mouth There were bursts of sour water.After all, she was young, and although she was a bold person, she didn't feel any fear or panic when she saw the dead just now, but now that she sat down, it was only after thinking about it that she realized that there was a room separated by a screen and a corridor. A man is dead, a corpse, hardening and stinking.

Quan Suya put down the bread and sat down with her head down.

The rest of the people at the table were just sipping thin porridge slowly, all preoccupied.Ma Zun wondered who the two homesick couples were going to attack Lian Jiangyue, wondered if the killer was still in the garden, and if he knew that Lian Jiangyue was not dead, he would do it again.Xiang Mengzhong only felt that someone in the family died for no reason, which was very bad luck. He caught a glimpse of Xiang Hongtu inadvertently, and saw that his face was as usual. Except for Lian Jiangyue, he had the best appetite among the people at the table. Thinking of Meng Zhong, he couldn't help thinking Suspicious: "Could it be Hongtu who did it? This kid has long been eating in the same bowl as Zhu Xing, and they are all in good spirits. How can he care about the life and death of his homesick blood... Money is the most important thing to him. "

Xiang Hongtu said at this time: "There are surveillance cameras in the garden, and they are already investigating. Whether someone got into the case of homesickness or an inner ghost did it, and the truth will soon come to light."

Xing Shanben was carefully recalling what things he had touched with his bare hands last night when he was killing Ye Shuang, where he had passed by, and where he might have left some clues.Hearing this, he panicked and wished he could burn those surveillance videos immediately. He managed to keep his voice steady and asked, "I don't think there are any around here. Maybe there is some blind spot?"

Ma Zundao: "Where are those surveillance cameras? Lead me to have a look. If I don't catch any suspicious people, my qinggong is not bad, and maybe I can find some clues from the blind spots of the surveillance."

Xing Shan also said: "I will go too."

As he said that, he put down the meat bun in his hand and said, "Why don't you just do it now, Ye Chang has many dreams, and I don't know if the murderer's target is senior brother or Qing Yeshuang, if it is senior brother, maybe he is still in the garden now. "

Ma Zun agreed, but said: "I don't worry about Lian Jiangyue being alone, Xingshan, you should keep him and take care of him."

Xing Shan said: "Alright." He thought for a while, and then said, "But in terms of lightness kung fu, I may be better at it than senior."

Ma Zundao: "Okay, then you go. In short, you and I, from this moment on, don't let Lian Jiangyue out of our sight."

Therefore, Xing Shan followed Xiang Hongtu to check the surveillance locations in the garden, and Ma Zun stayed by Lian Jiangyue's side.Lian Jiangyue seemed to be fine, after eating a bowl of wontons, she ate sweet-scented osmanthus rice cakes, Quan Suya asked him in a low voice, "Senior brother, do you still have an appetite?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "If someone wants to kill me, then I will survive a catastrophe, and I can still eat such a hot breakfast, why don't I have an appetite?"

"But isn't that Qing Yeshuang your friend?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "I can't get his life back even if I frown for him."

After dinner, he went outside the water pavilion and took a walk along a cobblestone path.Quan Suya walked beside him without saying a word, Ma Zun naturally followed him closely, observing the surroundings vigilantly, without saying a word.Suddenly, Lian Jiangyue stopped beside a wintersweet tree, he touched a broken branch on the tree and said: "This branch seems to be broken by someone."

Quan Suya looked up and felt strange.Ma Zundao: "I see that the wound on Qing Yeshuang's neck is not as detailed as a sword, but it has a natural sword force. If a tree branch can cause such a wound, then it is really a master of swordsmanship."

Quan Suya looked around and reasoned: "This killer walked under the wintersweet tree, broke a branch, went down from the roof, killed someone, and then escaped through the window?"

"Why didn't he return the same way?" Lian Jiangyue asked.

Quan Suya said: "I don't know, maybe the window was open when Qing Yeshuang fell asleep? But if the murderer returned the same way, wouldn't he put the tiles back?"

Ma Zundao: "Why is Fei doing this? He's here to kill people, so why don't he just leave when he's done?"

Quan Suya said: "Third Senior Brother, when you went to find Qing Yeshuang, the door was open?"

"Unlocked." Lian Jiangyue scratched the bridge of her nose, "It's not a secret room murder."

Quan Suya looked at the roof: "Will there be his fingerprints on the tiles?" But she immediately denied her speculation: "It feels like this killer came prepared, he should be wearing gloves to commit the crime!"

"He came prepared and didn't bring a murder weapon?" Ma Zun said.

"It's so troublesome to deal with the murder weapon. Since he can kill people with branches, he can just throw the branches away. Why not do it?"

The three of them were talking, and when they came to a gazebo, they saw the wulong boat swaying to the shore, and three young men in casual clothes got off the boat, one of them was carrying a silver hard-shell box, the other The two looked nervous, and after a while, Xiang Hongtu led Xingshan past the pavilion.Thinking that Hongtu was out of breath, he said: "Xingshan little brother is really good at martial arts, if my third uncle is 40 years younger, maybe he can still compete with him."

He rested in the gazebo, and waved to the three people who got off the boat: "Xiao Jiang, Xiao Wang, they're inside, you go in first, my third uncle is here."

Those three people also waved to him, and went straight into the water pavilion.Thinking about the big picture, he introduced: "Those two are police comrades, and the other is a forensic doctor. Let's go, let's go back."

A group of people went back to the water pavilion.That Ma Zun stopped Xing Shan, and asked in a low voice: "How is Xiang Hongtu's skill? Does he seem to be able to use a sword?"

"There are calluses on the palm of the hand, but it doesn't look like a person who knows martial arts."

Ma Zundao: "I haven't heard of him having any housekeeping skills in the world, but homesickness is also from a family of martial arts, so he must have practiced some boxing kung fu." He asked Quan Suya again: "Little girl, this big picture, you have seen him usually Gesture?"

Quan Suya shook her head and said, "I haven't seen it before."

Lian Jiangyue listened at the side, bent down to pick up a stone, and threw it at Xiang Hongtu.Ma Zunbao's eyes popped, and he patted him hard: "What are you doing?"

Lian Jiangyue said: "Try it and you'll know?"

Seeing the stone hitting the back of Xiang Hongtu's head, he turned his head.The group of people behind them immediately pretended to be deaf and dumb, looking around.

Approaching the lotus pond, Lian Jiangyue asked Xingshan: "Did you find any suspicious person in the surveillance?"

"The gate is locked with fingerprints. There is only one entry and exit point in the whole garden. Every time you press your fingerprint to open the lock, a record will be left. Since Xiao Fang left yesterday, there has been no entry and exit records for anyone. As for the surveillance..." Xingshan Just then Xiang Hongtu searched all the surveillance cameras in the garden, and also resolved his doubts by the way. He was not captured by any camera, and he said: "No suspicious person was photographed. To enter and exit this water pavilion, you must pass through this water pavilion." A waterway, or around the big circle in front of the water pavilion, in fact, there are not many surveillance systems here, if you know the surveillance points in advance, it is still easy to avoid."

Quan Suya pointed to the lotus pond and said, "Do you think that branch may have been thrown into the lotus pond?"

Xing Shan said: "This... how can we be sure that the murder weapon is a branch?" He smiled, "What did I miss this time?"

Quan Suya said: "We guessed it, the third senior brother found a wintersweet tree with suspicious fracture marks."

Xing Shan pursed his lips, even if the murder weapon was found, he would not be afraid. If the branch was thrown into the lotus pond, even if the blood was still there, the fingerprints would have been soaked away by water.He smiled and said, "Senior brother usually likes to read novels like Sherlock Holmes, this time I can pass my detective addiction."

Lian Jiangyue glanced at the lotus pond, looked at Xing Shan and said, "Let's solve the case to the police."

Everyone entered the water pavilion, and Xiao Jiang and Xiao Wang called them away for questioning separately.Xiaojiang was in charge of asking Xingshan, and he said, "You live on the first floor, right? What time did you go to bed yesterday? Did you hear anything?"

"After dinner, I went back to my room to rest. I didn't hear anything."

"Sleep so early?"

"I have studied art with my master in the mountains since I was a child. Our life in the mountains is very simple. We work at sunrise and rest at sunset. I am used to this kind of work and rest."

Xiao Jiang nodded: "I heard that you are making custom decorations, right?"

"Almost..." Xing Shan said.

"almost?"

"I also make some things like swords and swords, but they are bought by others and displayed for viewing."

"Understand, understand." Xiao Jiang gestured, "Do you usually keep fit?"

Xingshan smiled: "Know how to punch a few times, and use a few swords, just to show the guests, it's all for good looks, and it's not practical."

Xiao Jiang smiled: "I understand, I understand."

Xing Shandao: "Oh, by the way, my senior brother Lian Jiangyue and I found the body in the morning. At that time, we saw that the roof was empty, so I went up to the beam and vaguely saw something like footprints, but I didn't see it." Pay attention, maybe my footprints are left..."

Xiao Jiang said: "Okay, we will pay attention when we screen the environmental evidence."

He shouted: "Forensic Doctor Lin, leave a footprint here!"

The forensic doctor Nalin came over and left footprints for Xingshan.Xiao Jiang asked Xing Shan again: "Do you know the deceased?"

"Yes, he is a friend of my senior brother. In fact, the room he slept in was originally reserved for my senior brother. Because of his inconvenient legs and feet, he didn't want to climb up and down the stairs, so he temporarily switched with my senior brother. This matter is only me, senior brother. , Master Ma and Junior Sister know."

Xiao Jiang nodded and wrote in the small notebook without raising his head: "The deceased came to Missing's house by himself yesterday afternoon. I heard that he came here specially to look for Lian Jiangyue?"

"Yes."

"Did Lian Jiangyue tell him the address?"

"Probably not. We don't know the exact address here. A homesick person drove us here. Brother doesn't have a mobile phone. I just found the dead body and wanted to call the police. I turned on the location, but it couldn't be located here. The address is positioned as the Slender West Lake."

Xiao Jiang smiled and said, "This is indeed the boundary of Slender West Lake, and the river outside is actually a branch of Slender West Lake."

Xing Shan scratched his ears: "I just found out, I don't know how Qing Yeshuang got here."

"Is there anything he wants from you?"

"I don't know...Maybe it's a sign of safety? Because there was an accident before, my brother and I thought he was dead."

"Accident?"

"He stumbled and fell into a deep pit."

"Oh, it was an accident when he went out to climb mountains? He usually likes to climb mountains? What does he do? Do you know his family members? Can you contact them?"

Xingshan looked at Lian Jiangyue who was talking to Xiao Wang, and said: "It was an accident when he was going on an adventure. As for what he did, I don't know very well about his family, and he and his brother seem to be in Inner Mongolia. know."

Xingshan asked: "He has an ID card or something, can he find his family through that?"

Xiao Jiang said: "To tell you the truth, I do have an ID card, but it's a fake one."

Xing Shan was stunned for a moment, then shook his head and sighed: "I have already told my brother that this person has an unknown background and is very cunning, he knows that my brother has inherited such a large family business, so he must have come here for something. "

"You mean he wants to borrow money? Does he have any debts outside?"

"Anyway, I definitely didn't come to look for senior brother for some good deed." Xing Shan said firmly.

Xiao Jiang didn't continue to question him. He walked up the mountain and saw that Lian Jiangyue was still being questioned by Xiao Wang. He was a little bored indoors, so he went outside.By the lotus pond outside the water pavilion, Quan Suya was standing blankly, tearing a weed in her hands, her face was stained with tears.Xing Shan also cherished this little junior sister, seeing her like this, he couldn't bear it, so he walked over and talked to her half-jokingly: "Little junior sister, you are not so sad that Master is gone, are you?"

Quan Suya wiped her face, and called out helplessly: "Fourth senior brother..." She threw down the weeds in her hand, and argued, "I just thought that Qing Yeshuang's body was so badly injured, and I don't know if he died or not. It is definitely not easy to survive, and he is still so young, from his tone of voice, he cherishes the life in the world, but he died like this..."

Quan Suya tied her hair behind her ears, her expression became more and more sad, she lowered her head and continued, "Of course I'm sad that Master is gone, but people don't feel sad all the time. Many people say that Master is gone. Senior Brother killed me, but I don’t think Third Senior Brother is that kind of person... He is someone who would rather hurt his own hand than scare me. I don’t know what happened between them. Master is gone, I’m sad, Third Senior Brother , Alas, I can no longer call him third senior brother, which also makes me very sad, but seeing third senior brother again, I am very happy again, I am so sad for a while, happy for a while, sometimes I really want to think about nothing, I really want to Let your heart become a stone. When the wind blows, it will blow, and if the water flows, it will flow. You say, why is the human heart so complicated? Is it so vacillating? It seems that people don’t know what they want at all, they are just being held Momentary emotions dominate."

Xingshan said: "The wind blows for a long time, and the stone will also be blown out of wrinkles. Besides, isn't there a story about dripping water wearing away the stone?"

"Then let my heart become a bottle, the wind can fill it up, the wind can blow it all away, the water can flow in, and I can drain the water without leaving a drop, so that I will never There will be no worries of the wind, no worries of the water."

Xing Shandao: "You are young, and you have never encountered anything truly worth worrying about, so you want to avoid these troubles. In a few years, I am afraid that you will escape into Buddhism."

Quan Suya said: "The fourth senior brother, you are so much older than me. You have lived to this age, have you encountered any particularly serious troubles, have you encountered any things that are really worth worrying about? Tell me, I will It’s good to be mentally prepared.”

Xingshan smiled, he suddenly wanted to tell Quan Suya that he killed Qing Yeshuang, that he broke a wintersweet branch and killed him with a sword.

A gentle wind blows from the lotus pond, and Lian Jiangyue walks out of the water pavilion.

Xing Shan gritted his teeth tightly, he looked at Lian Jiangyue, and his thousands of words just merged into one sentence: "Senior brother is out, let's go, let's go see him."

Quan Suya laughed, patted Xingshan, and said: "Fourth senior brother! I think your worry is that third senior brother won't go back to the mountain with you to live!"

At this time, the black boat approached again precariously, the boatman stopped the boat, Quan Suya looked under the black boat, took a deep breath, and grabbed Xing Shan's hand firmly.Xing Shan took a look and shouted: "Big sister..."

Na Bian really bent down and came out from under the black canopy. She stood on the bow of the boat, tiptoed lightly, jumped onto the bank, and met Lian Jiangyue face to face.