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Chapter 100

The soft drizzle falling outside the window sounds like a quietly flowing hourglass. It is quiet and long, making people feel as if they are in eternity.

rustling...

Luo Ning sat sideways in front of the window in Tsing Yi, rubbing the Longtan tourmaline in her hand, staring at the lake in front of the window, full of thoughts.

It's impossible to lose your mind and go crazy today, that little thief is obviously cheating, how could he be caught in a series of tricks...

It's only been a few days, why has he been taken by the Queen...

Overnight Xiangjun had a lot of white hair...

I'm quite worried about his charming female boss...

……

The environment of the room is elegant, and on the bed not far away, wearing Zheyunli in a bird's bellyband, sleeping soundly while hugging the quilt, revealing a small waist that is white and clean.

A few days later, a muffled thunder sounded.

bang...

Zheyunli moved her eyelashes, opened her sleepy eyes, and looked towards the window:
"Miss... eh? Mistress, are you back?!"

Zheyunli turned over, put on her clothes, and ran to the window:

"Have you seen Cousin Jing? How did Cousin Jing become the young master of Honghualou? Did Master tell him to let him come to Pingtian to teach?"

Luo Ning came back to her senses, a guilty look flashed in her eyes, and she pondered for a while:

"He...he took the money from Honghualou and helped to occupy the venue. Don't tell outsiders about this. As for Pingtianjiao, he will go to Nanxiao Mountain with his wife after finishing the work of Honghualou. "

Zhe Yunli's eyes lit up: "Then Brother Jing, will he be my junior brother from now on?"

"What junior brother? It's the Dharma protector taught by me in Pingtian. You will have to call him uncle from now on."

"what?"

Zhe Yunli's expression was stupefied, and he pondered for a while: "Cousin Jing is only two or three years older than me, I'm afraid it's called Uncle..."

Luo Ning jumped out of the window, pulled Zheyunli to the bed and lay down:
"I'll talk about these things later, let's take a break, and I have to set off for the capital at dawn."

Zheyunli didn't feel sleepy at all, lying on the pillow, holding his chin with both hands:

"Cousin Jing, didn't he become the eyeliner that my Pingtian Sect placed in front of the Queen? Cousin Jing is not in danger, right?"

"Don't worry, cousin Jing knows the truth of 'a man can bend and stretch'. If Jian Yuhua hadn't been too chivalrous today and Zhou Huaili had become murderous, Cousin Jing would have taken care of the overall situation and wouldn't bother with Zhou Huaili."

"Zhou Huaili is really shameless, Jingtang brother obviously won, and he blatantly turned black and white, if the master was there, he would have shot him to death on the spot."

"Yejingtang is not your master, how dare you attack Zhou Huaili in the Zhou family's territory..."

"Third Uncle! Third Uncle..."

Tread-tap-

The two, who looked like mother and daughter, were chatting when they suddenly heard hurried footsteps and shouts from outside the Zhou family's ancestral house in the distance.

The several courtyards by the lake are the residences of VIPs. When there is any movement or movement, there will be the sound of clothes breaking in the surrounding area:

"Old Guang, what's going on? A night attack on Honghualou?"

"It's not like, hurry over and have a look...Hongzhi, what happened to the Zhou family?"

"I don't know, I was just woken up too..."

……

Luo Ning frowned, feeling that something was wrong, turned over, put on a veil and walked out of the courtyard.

"Patriarch—!"

"Who did it..."

It was early in the morning, and Zhoujiazhuang, which had already turned off the lights and went to bed, became brightly lit in no time.

Downstairs of the octagonal archway outside the villa, countless disciples of the Zhou family gathered with their swords in hand. Some of them didn't even have time to put on their shoes, and stood there in a daze.

Outside the octagonal archway building, there was a boat owner dressed as Yuanwailang, with a pale face, holding a saber and a bronze medal in his hand, he didn't even dare to speak, just trembling in place.

At the foot of the boat owner's house, there was a stretcher, covered with a white cloth, and a few servants were drenched, but spread the tarpaulin to prevent the rain from falling on the corpse covered by the white cloth.

stomping on...

But in an instant, several tens of people were staying overnight at Zhou's house, waiting for the return trip tomorrow, hurried out of the village, and saw the famous sword 'Chaolu' with a bluish-white hilt, and their eyelids jumped down. ——This is the sword of the head of Shuiyun Jiantan!

"This……"

"Who is so bold..."

All the celebrities in the world are unbelievable!
They were thinking just now that this turmoil might end with the sudden and bizarre death of the young master of the Honghua Building.

Who would have thought that only a few hours later, Zhou Huaili would use his own body to slap them on the face several times, and tell them what a truly bizarre and violent death is.

How could Zhou Huaili die?
As long as the contemporary Juggernaut is still around, who would dare to kill him easily?
Could it be that he was too drunk just now, and ran to the city to whore courtiers in the middle of the night, and immediately got wind...

"Brother!..."

When everyone was looking at each other, hurried footsteps came from behind the crowd. Zhou Huaiyi, who had just got up, rushed out of the crowd with a pale face. When he saw the stretcher on the ground, he staggered and fell to the ground. His eyes were full of disbelief, and then his eyes were blood red. Show rage and anger.

Xuanyuan Hongzhi and Zhou Huaili put pressure on Honghualou together in the afternoon, and the corpse was in front of him in the early morning, and there was shock in his eyes:

"Is it the hand of Honghualou?"

The owner of the boat company was terrified on the spot when they extinguished the fire at the pier when they found the body.

At this time, the big men in the rivers and lakes asked that the owner of the boat company knew nothing, so how could he dare to speak nonsense, but tremblingly handed over the bronze medal in his hand.

The bronze medal is made of brass, with a dragon engraved on the back and a word 'Jing' engraved on the front.

Xuanyuan Hongzhi saw the sign held by the chief arrester of the black yamen, his expression became solemn, and he quickly took the sign to confirm its authenticity-the sign was obviously real.

Zhou Huaiyi, who was full of resentment, knew that something was wrong, turned over and stood up, raised his hand to drive away the juniors who were watching:

"Go back."

The juniors in the rivers and lakes who came to watch suddenly dispersed, leaving only four or five famous people standing downstairs in the archway.

"Where was the body found?"

"At... at the Huangsong Wharf, the fire was too big, and the inside was full of stone materials. After the fire was almost burned, I sent people in to clean it up...then...then I saw this sign and it was nailed to the wall by a sword... ..."

After finishing speaking tremblingly, the boat owner bowed and ran out of the villa.

Xuanyuan Hongzhi frowned: "Let's look at the injury first."

Zhou Huaiyi gritted his teeth, knelt down next to the white cloth, raised his hand and opened it, only to see a charred corpse inside, the flesh and skin were basically burned, and turned into a charred black object stuck to the bone, which was unrecognizable at all.

But Zhou Huaiyi was very familiar with his brother's bones, and recognized him immediately, his hands trembled slightly.

Sanjue Xianweng came to the front and squatted halfway, carefully examining the traces on the corpse:
"The chest and back were hit hard, and it was impossible to see what kind of move was done; the fatal injury was a knife wound, a knife under the ribs, a knife pierced the skull from the jaw, and the bone of the left arm was shattered...Which knife technique is this? "

Everyone turned their attention to Xuanyuan Hongzhi. After all, Junshantai is the sect of the world's top swordsman, and no one is more familiar with the world's swordsmanship than them.

Xuanyuan Hongzhi came to the front slowly, looked at the two severed ribs under his ribs, and the unknown killer began to appear in his mind, the posture, strength, and speed of hitting Zhou Huaiyi with a knife from behind...

rustling...

The rainy night fell into dead silence, and everyone was engrossed in waiting.

Xuanyuan Hongzhi's eyes moved slightly, a flash of astonishment flashed in his eyes, he remained silent for a while, and then looked at the skull again.

The Sanjue Immortal came to the head of the corpse and carefully examined the hollow in the skull:
"The knife is two and a half fingers wide, and the blade is straight. It looks... quite common."

That's what Sanjue Xianweng said, but the look in Xuanyuan Hongzhi's eyes has a lot of meaning - this is the Chilong Saber style.

Xuanyuan Hongzhi rubbed his fingers lightly, his eyes moved slightly, as if he had something on his mind, he pondered for a long time before he opened his mouth and said:

"I didn't see what kind of sword technique it was. Honghualou included Ye Silang, and there were only four masters who had entered the room. No one had reached this level of proficiency in swordsmanship. The conflict only started in the afternoon, and Honghualou had already taken it back to Qingjiang Wharf. It is impossible to be stupid enough to kill people outside Qingyun City at night... This matter is not like Honghualou, the murderer is someone else."

Everyone also felt the same way, Honghualou was a well-known family at any rate, and they were not street savages. If they really wanted to kill people, they would do it secretly without leaving any traces.

As for Luo Ning, who was standing at the back, seeing the knife mark, she was full of suspicion, fearing that everyone would suspect that they would come to the head of Honghualou, and interrupted:
"Why did Master Zhou go to Huangsong Wharf alone in the middle of the night?"

The well-known figures present at the scene also showed doubts when they heard the words, and looked at Zhou Huaiyi.

Zhou Huaiyi's eyes moved, but he didn't speak immediately.After all, the elder brother went out in the middle of the night to kill the traitor Jian Yuhua and bring the second girl back.

Jian Yu Huafeng's comments were good, and today he even took up the word 'Xia'. It would be a family scandal to spread this matter, and even his disciples couldn't tell it, so how could it be known to the Jiang Hu people present.

"Brother... I went back to my room to rest after the banquet. I don't know why I suddenly went out."

"..."

Seeing that Zhou Huaiyi didn't tell the truth at this time, everyone present probably guessed what Zhou Huaili was doing when he went out:
Clear the door for the Zhou family!
It is said that although the person who died was wrong, the goal was unexpectedly achieved...

And these clues are connected together, and it can probably infer the context of the matter:
Jian Yuhua left Zhou's house and took the second lady to Huangsong Wharf, ready to elope.

When Zhou's family heard the news, Zhou Huaili couldn't swallow this breath, and went to clean up the house in the middle of the night, but unfortunately ran into a master of the black yamen.

Jian Yuhua's reputation in Jianghu was good, Zhou Huaili's move was regarded as killing innocent people indiscriminately, and the black yamen master was angry and killed him when he found out.

As for leaving the identity plate, it may be that the master of the black yamen did not want to cause trouble in the world, so he generously revealed his identity and asked the Zhou family to find the court to verify the reasoning.

The logic and motivation made sense, and everyone present looked at each other in blank dismay, feeling that this matter might not be easy to handle.

The people in the Hei Ya are all the guards of the younger sister of the empress of the dynasty. Even if the Hei Ya is wronged to kill people, they will be punished according to the law. No matter how powerful the Zhou family is, they can't pull the people from the Hei Ya to use lynching...

Zhou Huaiyi knew that this matter would be difficult to deal with in the Jianghu way, so he considered for a long time and looked at Xuanyuan Hongzhi:
"Old Master Xuanyuan is the Marquis appointed by the imperial court. I wonder if brother Xuanyuan can find out the identity of the murderer?"

To be honest, Xuanyuan Hongzhi's mood was heavier than that of Zhou Huaiyi whose brother died.

He can be sure that the swordsman uses the eight-step mad knife.

Being able to kill Zhou Huaili by breaking his arm bone shows that the swordsman has long been ranked as a master, and he has no reputation in the world. Most likely he is dormant, waiting for the day when his sword skills are perfect, to do something.

And this matter, you don't need to think about it, it's revenge for the abolished eight-step mad knife successor!

If this is the case, Zhou Huaili's death is really not a big deal, after all, they only kill Zhou Huaili, not against the Zhou family.

As for the successors of Junshantai and Babu Kuangdao, some of them may have the revenge of 'killing their father and master'!
But he was under Prince Jing's family, and Junshantai, as the founding prince of the Great Wei Dynasty, really didn't dare to act recklessly...

Xuanyuan Hongzhi wiped the rain from his face, stood up, thought for a while and said:

"Huai Li and I are brothers and sisters. How can I just sit idly by and ignore this misfortune. I will definitely try to help the Zhou family find out about this matter."

Zhou Huaiyi hurriedly cupped his hands: "Brother Xuanyuan, thank you for your kindness, as long as you help the Zhou family find the murderer, my Zhou family..."

"Properly bury the bosom ceremony first. It is related to the court. We need to proceed with caution. Check it out before we talk about it. Everyone, let's go."

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(End of this chapter)