Chapter 376 Gu Qingyi’s Reasoning
Gu Qingyi was indeed ill and sought medical attention, but she certainly couldn’t admit it.
"I, of course I'm not talking nonsense. The old beggar clearly died outside and was carried back. That's how we didn't find any traces of fighting in the temple."
"I have already found out everything. If you sneak around here from where he sleeps, you can avoid the sight of most people, and climb out through the hole in the roof along this wooden pillar."
"But why does this old beggar want to go out?" the tall and thin disciple asked again.
Gu Qingyi didn't want to understand this question, but now that the matter was at this point, she could only continue to reason along this line.
"That was...that was to meet up with his accomplices outside the temple."
"Associate? Does Gu Shenquan mean that this old beggar is the murderer's accomplice? Then he Why did he die here?"
Shen Zhou, who had not spoken yet, couldn't help but ask.
Gu Qingyi’s expression was not very good, but fortunately he was covered by a bamboo hat and no one else could see it.
However, her eyes were already a little panicked, and she was looking around, trying to grab a life-saving straw. At this moment, she accidentally glanced at the two headless corpses on the side.
I found that their body shapes were very close, and then thinking about the news that the scholar had revealed before that He Qisheng owed a huge gambling debt, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind, and he blurted out.
"He...his accomplice is He Qisheng."
"Huh?" Everyone present was shocked.
The two Songxi Sword Sect disciples were even more angry, "Gu Shenqi, my senior brother has been killed, and you are still slandering him. Isn't that going too far?"
"I didn't slander him," Gu Qingyi continued, "He Qisheng owed Ji Le Fang more than 24,000 taels of silver, and he also mortgaged the century-old ginseng plant that the sect asked him to give to the new leader of the Beggar Clan. He couldn't afford so much money and was worried about angering the boss, so he planned to fake his death to escape.
"For this purpose, he specially found a man who was about the same size and age as him as a scapegoat, but he usually behaved like himself. The two junior brothers were together and had no chance to 'die', so they went to find a helper to help. "
Gu Qingyi continued following this train of thought. At first, he was a little guilty and stumbled, but as he spoke, he became more and more fluent.
"He came to The person who helped was the old beggar. They arranged to meet at the ruined temple to create the illusion that He Qisheng was dead. The old beggar brought He Qisheng's substitute in advance and hid it under the base of the Buddha statue.
"Here, it's the third headless corpse we found. He has the same body shape as He Qisheng. With his head chopped off and put on He Qisheng's clothes, most people can't tell the difference at all."
After listening to her words, everyone in the temple looked at He Qisheng's corpse, and then at the other corpse beside him. Except that one was wearing clothes and the other was not, there really wasn't much difference under the neck.
Only the two disciples of the Songxi Sword Sect were still shouting, "It's not a slander. Gu Shendu, how did you know that my senior brother owed money to Jilefang."
"This is not a slander." I can testify to this matter." The scholar who came to see Gu Qingyi before speaking, "Because I am the person sent by Jilefang to collect the debt, and I was the one who told Gu Shenqi about the money He Qisheng owed."
< br>After he finished speaking, he ignored the two disciples of the Songxi Sword Sect and looked at Gu Qingyi again, but his tone became much more polite, "He Qisheng has decided to fake his death and is fully prepared. Why?" It turned out to be real death? "Of course it was because someone killed him!"
Gu Qingyi quickly sorted out all the clues at hand, and then said, "He Qisheng and the old beggar made an appointment to meet outside the temple. He Qisheng excused himself from getting up at night and came to the back wall of the temple, while the old beggar took advantage of the Without paying attention, he climbed onto the roof with the body.
"He Qisheng also used Qinggong to get to the roof, which explains why his footprints only reached the back wall, and why there was no old man outside the temple. The beggar's footprints were because he never came down from the roof.
“According to their original plan, they were supposed to kill the double here and pretend that He Qisheng was murdered, but an accident happened at this time.
“The murderer also came to the roof and killed He Qisheng and the old beggar. ”
Gu Qingyi’s current reasoning actually combines the previous guesses of the scholar and Ma Lu. One of them thinks that He Qisheng faked his death, and the other thinks that someone killed He Qisheng in a sneak attack from the roof.
However, there were fatal flaws in their previous speculations. The scholar's problem was that He Qisheng was indeed dead, while Ma Lu's problem was that even if it was a sneak attack, the battlefield would still leave footprints below.
But if He Qisheng jumped onto the roof on his own initiative, it would be normal if there were no other people’s footprints below. In addition, He Qisheng did want to fake his death, but in the end he accidentally became a real one.
And his accomplices were also killed together, plus the killed substitute, which was enough for three corpses.
Ma Lu was more curious about another thing at the moment, "Didn't you say before that once the battle started, no one else was allowed to enter the area blocked by the fog? Then how did the murderer kill two people at once? ?”
After he asked this question, he found that everyone was looking at him.
After a moment, Shen Zhou coughed and took the initiative to explain, "Of course the battle can also be one-to-many, many-to-one, or many-to-many. As long as the cards have not been played, others can join in.
"In addition, In the case of a sneak attack, if the two people are not far away from each other, the murderer can also drag them into the card game if he touches them at the same time. Of course, this is usually done because he is very confident in his own martial arts, because it will become a dozen in the future. Two situations.
"In addition, there is another way, which is also a more general way, and that is hidden weapons." Shen Zhou paused.
“There are masters who are excellent with concealed weapons. They can use concealed weapons to draw several or even dozens of people into a card game at once. In short, as long as you think about it, there are still many ways. But still, In a word, to fight against so many people at once, you must first be very strong."
"That's it." Ma Lu didn't expect that the hidden weapons in this world could be used in this way, and he sighed. Moved half a step behind Gu Qingyi.
Gu Qingyi was completely immersed in reasoning at this time, feeling a sense of pleasure that he had finally solved the problem.
She continued, "After the murderer killed He Qisheng, he threw his body off the roof, and then brought back the bodies of the old beggar and the unlucky ghost stand-in. He even hid the stand-in's body again. After returning to the bottom of the Buddha statue, hey... this means that the old beggar's every move before was seen by him, and he discovered the mechanism at the bottom of the Buddha statue.
"This is why I said Sister Zheng. , no, it should be the reason why her husband is the murderer. Apart from the old beggar, he is another person in the temple who is easily ignored. ”
(End of this chapter)