At night.
More than half of the twelfth lunar month has passed, New Year's Eve is approaching, and there is only a dim moonlight in the sky.
Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu lived in the west wing, separated by only a wall.
Both heard a light tap on the window.
"Qingqing, come out." Tang Qingqing heard someone calling her.
"Little Ye Zi, come out for a moment." Ye Rongqiu heard someone calling him.
Naturally, the only person who could call them names like this was Xiao Ding, so they came out quickly.
The two people who were secretly surprised at first snorted coldly in their nostrils after seeing each other, and then took it out on Xiao Ding together.
"Why are you so noisy if you don't sleep at night?" The two said almost in unison.
"Shh, don't talk, come with me." Xiao Ding said mysteriously, turned around and swept across the courtyard wall.
Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu looked at each other, jumped up suddenly, and followed Xiao Ding. No one was willing to lag behind.
Pengzu Peak is on a cliff, the cold wind is biting, and the distant mountains are blurry.
"What are you doing here at midnight?" Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu asked almost at the same time.
The two of them glanced at each other in the darkness, and then fell silent. This time, for the rare moment, they did not snort in anger.
"This is where Yue Wuhua fell off the cliff." Xiao Ding said calmly, but the two of them were shocked.
He squatted down, grabbed a handful of soil from the ground, squeezed it in his hand, put it in front of his nose and sniffed it gently, then smiled and said, "It should be about this time."
Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu were confused after hearing this, and just as they were about to ask, Xiao Ding also walked up to the middle of the two of them, leaned down slightly, and hugged them both with each hand.
The two of them were shy and anxious, and said in shock: "What are you doing? Put me down quickly."
Xiao Ding hissed: "Don't move, hold me tight."
Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu knew that Xiao Ding would not do such a thing for no reason, but they both sat on Xiao Ding's arms and had no way to use their upper bodies, so they had no choice but to hold Xiao Ding's shoulders and neck and lie on him.
The picture is very strange and the atmosphere is also very strange.
In the middle of the night, with the cold wind blowing off the cliff, two women leaned over a man. This scene was indeed very strange.
Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu both hugged Xiaoding, but it was due to emotional breakdown at that time. But at this time, the three people were hugging each other, and I don't know what they were feeling at this time.
Especially when the two of them crossed their hands and hugged Xiao Ding's shoulders and neck, it was inevitable that their skin and body would touch each other. A thought flashed through both of their minds: In fact, she is not that annoying after all.
Xiao Ding hugged the two of them with his arms, took a deep breath, and walked towards the cliff step by step.
Although Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu didn't have any fear in their hearts, their hearts were beating fiercely. They hugged Xiao Ding quietly. Even if the three of them fell into the abyss like this, they would not struggle.
Finally, Xiao Ding came to the edge of the cliff and stopped. After putting the two of them down, he held one person by the other and walked back to the place where he started from the other side.
Then, he took out the huozhezi from his arms, blew it gently, blocked the wind with his body, put one hand around the huozhezi, and squatted down to check the footprints he had just walked.
Sure enough, where he just walked, there was a set of footprints, the depth of which was similar to the set of footprints he saw during the day.
It was windy on the top of the mountain and when the fire was blown out by the wind, Xiao Ding laughed. He sat down on the ground and laughed.
Could this man be crazy? Ye Rongqiu and Tang Qingqing also squatted down.
Ye Rongqiu slapped Xiao Ding and said angrily: "You're still laughing, tell me what you mean."
Tang Qingqing pinched Xiao Ding's ears directly: "Little madman, you don't want to say anything."
"Okay, okay, let me go, I'll tell you right now." Xiao Ding begged for mercy.
Xiao Ding rubbed his ears and said, "Did you see the footprints I walked through just now? When I came during the day, I saw a set of footprints of the same depth on the ground. The footprints only went to the edge of the cliff, but did not come back. of."
Ye Rongqiu said: "What does this mean? It is a fact that Yue Wuhua fell off a cliff after being stabbed in the throat with a sword. You said this yourself."
Tang Qingqing also asked strangely: "Yes, did you say that on purpose during the day? Do you suspect that the murderer was also at the scene?"
What two idiots, Xiao Ding cursed secretly, but did not dare to show his expression easily.
He explained with a smile: "There has been no rain or snow in the past few days. The ground is dry during the day, but at night the soil becomes softer due to heavy dew. It is difficult for a person to make such deep footprints on the ground. Only people with heavy loads can make such deep footprints." Footprints come."
Ye Rongqiu looked at Tang Qingqing and said softly: "So you are holding us two because our combined weight is about the same as Yue Wuhua's."
"Smart!" Xiao Ding laughed.
Tang Qingqing said: "If the murderer is a woman, then wouldn't it be impossible to leave such footprints?"
Xiao Ding shook his head and said: "The murderer couldn't be a woman. If a woman killed Yue Wuhua, she would have just lifted the body off the cliff with her toes instead of picking up the body with both hands and throwing it down."
Tang Qingqing said she didn’t understand: “Women can lift corpses away with their feet, why can’t men?”
"Although this place is on the cliff, it is extremely flat and there are no weeds around it. It is obviously because the Taoist priests of the Qingcheng Sect often come here to practice. But Yue Wuhua fell in the middle of the night, and the Shangqing Palace He is trying to figure something out, there is no way he can come here to practice alone in the middle of the night." Xiao Ding knew that the two of them would not be able to figure it out, so he simply told the problem directly.
Ye Rongqiu said suddenly: "That means the murderer made an appointment with him and came here together?"
Tang Qingqing said: "Since he came with an appointment, he should be careful. How could he be stabbed through the throat by the murderer so easily?"
Xiao Ding said in a deep voice: "That must be because this murderer is always very good at disguise. Even Yue Wuhua didn't know that his swordsmanship was so fast."
Ye Rongqiu said: "Since he could ruthlessly kill Yue Wuhua with a sword, why didn't he lift the body off the cliff with his kick, pick it up with both hands, slowly walk to the edge of the cliff, and then throw it down with all his strength?"
Xiao Ding said: "So I conclude that the murderer must be very familiar with Yue Wuhua, and even a close relative. Although he had no choice but to kill Yue Wuhua, he could not bear to kick him off the cliff again."
Tang Qingqing sneered: "Do you think this kind of person still has humanity?"
Xiao Ding sighed: "As a human being, how can we be inhumane? It's just that some people are easily disturbed by money and fame and lose their humanity. Yue Wuhua must have discovered his secret, which forced him to kill someone to silence him. The moment he died, Yue Wuhua no longer threatened him, and his secret was kept, so the humanity deep in his heart made him uneasy. He did not dare to kick the body off the cliff again, maybe just because Yue Wuhua is his elder."
Humanity, sometimes losing humanity is such a terrible thing.
Tang Qingqing took a deep breath, thinking that she was almost lost once, and couldn't help but feel scared. Fortunately, she met Xiao Ding, and the radiance emanating from Xiao Ding could dispel all the haze in her life.
The night breeze blew gently, and she felt that her whole body was relaxed, and she was full of expectations for the future.
Suddenly, she sniffed gently against the wind, and her expression changed.
Ye Rongqiu couldn't help but ask: "What's wrong?"
Tang Qingqing said anxiously: "Don't talk, don't move, and come out quickly."
Xiao Ding and Ye Rongqiu each lit a fire stick, while Tang Qingqing's nose flapped and her hands kept groping on the ground.
Finally, she shouted: "Found it!"
Ye Rongqiu was startled by her voice and asked, "What did you find?"
Tang Qingbiao had a mysterious look on his face. He put the thing in his hand under the fire cover and said, "Look, what is this?"
I saw a pill the size of a mung bean in her hand. Although the pill was covered with a layer of soil, it was clearly a light green pill.
Xiao Ding snatched the pill away, put it into his nostrils and sniffed it vigorously.
Ye Rongqiu asked in confusion: "What kind of medicine is this? Are you so excited?"
Tang Qingqing smiled and said: "This is Biyu Qingxin Pill, our Tang family's unique antidote. It specializes in resolving all kinds of poisons caused by incense. It has a strong effect of clearing the heart and calming the mind."
Ye Rongqiu said angrily: "One pill, why are you so happy?"
Tang Qingqing smiled and said, "Where did this pill come from?"
Ye Rongqiu rolled his eyes and said, "Isn't that what you just grabbed randomly on the ground?"
After saying that, I immediately felt something was wrong. Tang Qingqing had never been here before, so the pill could only have been lost by Yue Wuhua and the murderer.
She asked in a trembling voice: "Have you ever met Taoist Yue Wuhua?"
Tang Qingqing shook her head and said, "Never."
Hush, then the murderer accidentally dropped this pill here. But where did the murderer's Biyu Qingxin Pills come from? Ye Rongqiu was about to ask.
Tang Qingqing looked at Xiao Ding and smiled and said, "I don't even have a Jade Qingxin Pill on my body."
Xiao Ding also smiled and said: "Of course not, because I have poured all the Biyu Qingxin Pills on you into Bing Hua Tuo's mouth."
"But before that, each of us has a Jasper Qingxin Pill."
"Yes, we have both, and of course the top four in Qingcheng also have them."
…
It turns out that the person who killed Yue Wuhua was one of the Four Beauties of Qingcheng, but who was he?
Who is the murderer?
Although the answers to the mystery are getting smaller and smaller, the three of them still feel at a loss.
Tang Qingqing suddenly laughed and said, "Besides this, I also discovered an interesting thing."
"What's going on?" Ye Rongqiu and Xiao Ding also asked almost at the same time.
Tang Qingqing pointed at Xiao Ding and smiled: "I found out that you are a little bad guy."
Ye Rongqiu didn't understand, and neither did Xiao Ding.
Tang Qingqing held back her laughter and asked, "Let me ask you, is it because the two of you holding the two of us in the murderer's footsteps just now are because our combined weight is equivalent to Yue Wuhua's?"
Xiao Ding said: "Yes."
Tang Qingqing burst out laughing: "There are so many rocks on this mountain, why don't you try holding the rocks?"
Ye Rongqiu's face turned red. Yes, did this kid do it on purpose?
Xiao Ding was also stunned and muttered: "Yes, such a simple method, why didn't I think of it."
Tang Qingqing said angrily: "Humph, I think you did it on purpose."
Xiao Ding suddenly kissed both of them on the cheeks, jumped up, and ran away like flying.
"I did it on purpose, what can you do, haha..."
