Lu Jing came out of Ma Liang's residence and went to find Li Er, asking the latter if he had any grudges with anyone recently.
The result was a surprising answer.
Li Er did have a conflict with someone about half a month ago, and the person who had the conflict was none other than Miao Yuanwai, who was frightened by the nine-tailed fox picked up on the way home in the second case.
That day, Li Er took the cows to graze and accidentally trampled on the chrysanthemum field outside the Miao Yuan's house when he passed by his house. As a result, there were no chrysanthemums for the Miao Yuan to enjoy during the Double Ninth Festival.
The two had a quarrel, but they were stopped by the village elders who were passing by. The situation did not escalate. Li Er didn't take it too seriously and even forgot about it soon after he came back. Finally, he didn't think about it again until Lu Jing asked.
After listening to Li Er's words, Yan Yun asked Lu Jing, "Do you think Miao Yuanwai lied? He has never encountered any nine-tailed fox. He only said this to clear himself of suspicion?"
Lu Jing shook his head, "Even if he gave up the fighting cock, it is true that he met the begging woman on the way. Many people saw it at that time, and it is true that no one has seen the woman again."
"Everyone in the family knew that Miao Yuanwai fainted in his new house, so I personally tend to believe that the nine-tailed fox is indeed a thing."
"But if the nine-tailed fox thing is true, then the person who holds that strange thing obviously has nothing to do with the Miao members." Yan Yun took over Lu Jing's words and said, "Then why did he help the Miao members punish Li Er? ?According to Li Er’s words, except for the Miao members, he has not had any conflicts with anyone else during this period.”
Lu Jing closed his eyes and thought for a moment, "I'm more curious about how Ma Liang got involved in this matter. He and Li Er are familiar with each other, but according to Miao Yuanwai, the two have never met, so What is it that connects them together?"
As soon as Lu Jing finished saying this, he actually had the answer in his heart. He looked at each other again and Yan Yun, and the two of them almost said in unison, "That little son of the Miao member!"
When Lu Jing went to see Miao Yuanwai before, he had heard from the latter that he had a young son born from a concubine who was studying painting with Ma Liang.
If nothing unexpected happened, the two of them had just met Miao Yuan's young son outside Ma Liang's hut.
Lu Jing recalled for a moment, and the face of a boy about eleven or twelve years old flashed in his mind. The reason why he suspected that person was because the other person was obviously nervous when he saw him.
But at that time, Lu Jing's attention was basically on Ma Liang, and he didn't pay much attention to the kid who was learning painting from him. He just vaguely remembered that the boy painted a chrysanthemum, and his painting skills were pretty good.
Draw that chrysanthemum lifelike.
If that strange thing was on his body, then it would make sense why he drew a cow to punish Li Er, because Li Er trampled on his family's chrysanthemum field, and the reason why he dealt with his own father was also It's not difficult to understand.
Miao Yuan is a romantic person and always wants to find women from outside, and his biological mother is Miao Yuan's concubine.
Men are mostly animals that like the new and hate the old. If he takes a concubine outside the Miao Yuan, his mother's status will become precarious sooner or later. It is obviously a good idea to use the nine-tailed fox to scare his biological father and make him restrain himself in the future. of attention.
"This young man's scheming is not simple." Yan Yun said.
Lu Ding nodded, "It seems we have to move faster. Since he saw us coming to Ma Liang, he should be able to guess our purpose."
Before he finished speaking, Yan Yun and Lu Jing raised their heads together and looked at an old locust tree on the left side.
Then there was a flash of cold light, and two flying knives shot at the two of them one after another!
However, neither of them moved. Yan Yun took out the sword from his waist and flew the flying knife away with just a flick.
As for Lu Jing, he simply didn't move. It wasn't until the flying knife hit him and bounced away that he reached out and grabbed the handle of the knife, but he threw it back the same way.
Unfortunately, Lu Jing had not practiced concealed weapon techniques, so his throw missed a lot and flew out against the tree trunk, but it also shocked the assassin on the tree.
He obviously didn't expect that the two targets he had to solve this time would be so difficult. One had superb swordsmanship, and the other was simply invulnerable.
After realizing that his own skills were no match for the two monsters under the tree, he began to think about quitting.
Unfortunately, before he had time to move, there was a flower in front of him, and then he saw that the woman holding a sword under the tree had jumped up to the treetop at some point, stepping on a twig in front of him that was no more than two fingers thick and said to him lightly, "Get down!"
The assassin couldn't help but feel horrified, but he didn't want to be captured just like that. He wanted to struggle again. When he saw this, he planned to cut off the branches at the woman's feet first, but the flying knife in his sleeve had just come out, and the acupuncture points on his body were already cut by the The woman was clicked all over and couldn't move at all.
His body stiffened, and he fell from the tree like a bear that had been drugged.
He was about to hit his head on the ground and fall red and white, but the next moment, his body was picked up in someone's hands again.
Yan Yun threw the newly captured assassin in front of Lu Jing, and then took off the black cloth from the opponent's face, letting out a light sigh.
"Do you know him?" Lu Jing asked.
Yan Yun nodded, "He is the killer of Yanyu Tower. He is a third-rate master with average martial arts skills, but he has killed several court officials. The Imperial City Secretary was anxious to catch him. I happened to be in the capital at that time, so I helped catch him and sent him to the Imperial Palace. Cheng Si. I heard that he and several other felons were later taken out to be sentenced together, but I didn’t expect to see him here again.”
"So he should be in the same situation as Han Erlang's wife, she has been resurrected from the dead," Lu Jing's eyes flashed, "It seems that someone is already worried."
Yan Yun unlocked the killer's mute point so that he could speak, and then asked, "Who asked you to kill us?"
The killer gritted his teeth and said nothing, and it looked like he didn't remember Yan Yun.
The latter shook his head and could only draw his sword, killing him. As the killer's heart stopped beating, the corpse and blood on the ground disappeared together and turned into a painting.
"It is indeed the person in the painting." Yan Yun took back his sword and shook his head.
Lu Jing took two steps forward, put away the scroll on the ground, and planned to confront Miao Yuanwai's younger son later. After that, the two of them went straight to Miao Yuanwai's house without any further delay.
When he got outside the door, he met Xia Huai who was planning to come here to investigate the case, so Lu Jing pulled Xia Huai over and prepared to meet the Miao Yuanwai's precious son together.
