nycdaug #470 - Another dead body
#470 - Another dead body
Wen Xiaochuan originally thought that Lu Jing would leave her behind after leaving the house, but she didn't expect that someone, in order to save time, after she pointed the direction, actually threw her directly onto his back, and then used his qinggong to stride towards there.
After that brief contact just now, Lu Jing suspected that Aunt Wen had lied about the secret room. He didn't know if Aunt Wen had temporarily decided to help cover up because she felt sorry for her daughter, or if she had been involved from the beginning.
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Anyway, in order to avoid further changes, Lu Jing didn't waste any time afterwards, urging Jingtao Nulang to the extreme, and directly carried Wen Xiaochuan all the way to the secret room.
Because the movement was too loud, it also attracted Li Bufan, who came after hearing the sound, so Lu Jing simply pulled him in as well.
The three of them rushed to the wine cellar in the southeast corner of Wen's house together.
According to Wen Xiaochuan, there are a total of four wine cellars in Wenjiazhuang. This wine cellar was the earliest one built. Because the people who built the wine cellar at that time did not expect that Wen's winemaking business could be so large today, this is just a small wine cellar, basically for the village's own use.
Later, Aunt Wen successively built three large wine cellars. This wine cellar was used less, and naturally few people came here on weekdays.
Wen Xiaochuan didn't know if it was because she had never experienced such a fast speed before. After Lu Jing put her on the ground, she felt a little dizzy.
After regaining her composure, she said, "Great Hero Lu, Chief Li, the secret room is in this wine cellar. I'll take you down."
"Thank you, Miss Xiaochuan," said Li Bufan.
Then the three of them went down the steps, passed a wine wall about ten feet high, and saw six rows of wine racks behind, extending to the other end of the wine cellar.
However, most of the wine racks are now empty, with only twenty or so jars of wine scattered on the row closest to the left wall.
Li Bufan had also been here before during the search. He didn't just search casually because it was semi-abandoned, but checked it very carefully, but unfortunately he still didn't find anything.
But this time was different. Wen Xiaochuan counted a total of six jars of wine on the shelf, and then asked Lu Jing to help move away the sixth jar of wine, groping down from the wine rack, feeling a slightly concave stone brick, and pushed it three times with force.
Li Bufan heard a rumbling sound in his ears, and then saw a wall on the opposite side suddenly move backwards about half a step, and then a headless corpse rolled out from behind the stone wall without warning.
Li Bufan was startled when he saw the corpse, and then couldn't help but wonder, "What, has someone else in the village been killed?"
As a result, he saw Lu Jing beside him first nodded, and then shook his head.
Afterwards, Lu Jing quickly walked to the corpse, lifted his clothes and looked at his ribs, and sighed, "This is Hall Master Jiang's corpse."
"Hall Master Jiang's corpse? Wait, but wasn't Hall Master Jiang's corpse already put in a coffin with his head, and I remember his corpse was also burned," Li Bufan frowned.
Before Lu Jing could say anything, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from above.
Afterwards, Aunt Wen, Lu Qinghou, and Yu Wenyu and others walked down together.
"What happened again?" Li Bufan asked, seeing that everyone was basically there.
Lu Qinghou nodded, "We also just got the news that more than one person was attacked last night. Madam Jin was also attacked by unknown people behind the firewood room, but the person who attacked her did not harm her life, but just tapped her acupuncture points, making her unable to move until she was discovered by a group of children who ran there to play in the morning, but fortunately she only suffered some fright and cold."
"Madam Jin?" Li Bufan was a little surprised, thinking he had misheard. After a moment, he said, "What was Madam Jin doing behind the firewood room?"
"Uh, she said she was upset because of what happened during the day and wanted to take a walk."
Lu Qinghou and others were not fools, and obviously didn't quite believe Wen Qingqing's statement. No matter how much you want to relax, you don't go for a walk after midnight, but this is not the point. The key is to find the person who attacked her.
Lu Qinghou paused and then continued, "According to Madam Jin, the time she was attacked was very close to the time the maid was attacked before, almost one after the other, and if I remember correctly, Great Hero Lu, you were the last one to arrive last night, right?"
"That's right," Lu Jing admitted very simply.
"Then may I ask what Great Hero Lu was doing before? With Great Hero Lu's hearing, you shouldn't have been unable to hear the scream, why did it take so long to come?"
"I sleep very soundly," Lu Jing said, "Once I'm asleep, let alone a scream, even if you keep hitting a gong next to my ear, I won't wake up."
"Is Great Hero Lu joking?" Yu Wenyu asked.
"No, I'm serious, and I also want to know when Great Hero Yu arrived last night?"
Yu Wenyu didn't speak, but the pale look on his face had already betrayed his thoughts at this time.
Yu Wenyu clenched his fists, turning his knuckles white. After a moment, he raised his head again and said in a hoarse voice, "Even... even if I took Dengxian Pills, what does this have to do with Hall Master Jiang's death? You don't want to say that I am the murderer who killed Hall Master Jiang, do you? Don't forget that when Hall Master Jiang died, I was with you and Chief Li all the time."