The man stood up slowly, looked at the heavy rain outside that still showed no signs of stopping, sighed slightly and said, "Maybe this is all his own fault!"

It's your own fault? Others have no idea what this person is talking about, and they hear it in a confused way.

Zhengyao was also curious about what the so-called "self-inflicted evil" meant, so he immediately asked: "Why did uncle say this? Is there something hidden in it?"

Facing Zheng Yao's question, the man smiled calmly, but there was no fear as before, and he just sighed slightly.

"My ancestral home is Dali, Yunnan. My surname is Zhang, and my given name is Confucianism. I got my name very delicately and elegantly, but I was born as a martial arts student. I was born in the martial arts industry since I was a child. At the age of fifteen, I followed my father's master and was responsible for guarding escorts in the escort agency. 2

Ten years ago, when I had just turned twenty, something happened in our Qingmei Escort Bureau..."

Zhang Rufeng made a reminiscence and spoke eloquently, but there was a bit of melancholy and confusion in his eyes.

It turns out that twenty years ago, there was a famous escort agency in Dali, Yunnan, called Qingmei Escort Agency. Each of the disciples of Qingmei Escort Agency had a unique plum blossom mark on their left arm to prove that they were from Qingmei Escort Agency. Because

The Escort Bureau has a far-reaching reputation and a high status in the world, so many wealthy merchants and court officials will come to them if they need to escort things, and their business is also responsible for business from Yunnan to all over the country.

At that time, the young and vigorous Zhang Rufeng was the only son of Zhang Ao, the head of the Qingmei Escort Bureau. Naturally, he was a tiger father without a son. At that time, Zhang Ao had three major disciples, namely Li Yuanshu from Shanxi, Liao Yun from Hebei and Wan You from Yunnan.

Dao. These three people are like brothers with Zhang Rufeng, and they go together every time they go out. They can be regarded as good brothers who share weal and woe.

However, one day suddenly, the escort agency received a business. The person who came was very mysterious and did not show up. He was only seen holding a scroll in his hand and tied it with a thin rope. At that time, he also said that this thing must be sent to the capital.

It was handed over to a monk named Huiming of Fahua Temple.

"Huiming?"

When they heard Zhang Rufeng talking about Huiming, Prince Jing, Zhengyao and others were startled and surprised.

"Is it really related to that Huiming?" Zhengyao had to sort out the matter. He had already doubted Huiming before, but in the end he convinced himself. But he didn't expect that Huiming would appear again now. It seems that

This matter is definitely not simple, and it must have a certain connection with the case in Wuchanyuan.

"That's right, it's Monk Huiming." Zhang Rufeng didn't understand why Zhengyao and others looked surprised, but he didn't make any more guesses. He thought maybe Zhengyao and others didn't hear clearly that he was talking about Huiming.

"Oh." Zhengyao and others said softly, indicating to Zhang Rufeng to continue.

"Actually, everything was going well along the way, but unexpectedly, we met a group of robbers halfway. In the chaos, they actually opened the scroll. The situation was urgent and we didn't pay attention to what was in the scroll.

We asked Senior Brother Wan Youdao to take away the painting alone and meet us at Fahua Temple. However, we did not expect that when we arrived at Fahua Temple, Senior Brother Wan Youdao had disappeared. Huiming asked us if we wanted the painting but we could not take it.

Finally, in order to compensate, our escort agency was gone, and the brothers in the escort agency went their separate ways. Later, my two junior brothers, Liao Yun and Li Yuanshu, and I went around looking for Senior Brother Wan to find out about this matter, but we couldn't find anything about it.

He was not found. In the end, the imperial court finally intervened in the matter, so they went to Dali, Yunnan and sealed off the Wan family. Senior Brother Wan’s family was also destroyed overnight. Everyone in the family was either dead or arrested. It was a terrible tragedy."

Zhang Rufeng said a lot, and everyone heard it very clearly, but there seemed to be a lot of unreasonableness here. Zhengyao couldn't figure it out for a moment, so he immediately asked: "What about Taoist Wanyou? And his living family members,

Where did they go? What is on that scroll? Who asked you to escort the scroll?"

Faced with Zhengyao's series of questions, Zhang Rufeng didn't know how to answer. He just hesitated and said: "This... I really don't know."

"You don't know? Then why do you say it's your own fault?"

Ning An felt that Zhang Rufeng's words did not match his words, and maybe he himself had a problem, so he immediately blurted out to Zhang Rufeng.

I never thought that Ning An would scold Zhang Rufeng like this. Zhang Rufeng was suddenly shocked and said with a guilty look on his face: "Actually...actually, if the three of us hadn't been afraid of getting into trouble and let Senior Brother Wan take the scroll away alone, maybe we wouldn't have done it.

What happened later was all because we were young, energetic and self-righteous at the time. Of course, the most important thing is that if we could have arrived at Fahua Temple in time, this kind of thing would not have happened."

"What? You didn't arrive in time?"

Zheng Yao was also a little unhappy, thinking that this Confucianist still had something to hide. Incidents like this were most likely due to a small detail not being explained, which ultimately led to a big circle or the inability to solve the case.

Zhang Rufeng looked at Zhengyao awkwardly again, and said with a face of shame: "It was also our first time to come to the capital at that time, so we did not go directly to Fahua Temple. I thought that senior brother must be injured, so we must recuperate for a while first.

Time. So the three of us went to the famous brothels nearby and arrived at Fahua Temple a month later."

Listening to Zhang Rufeng's careless words, Zhengyao was also very angry. It's unreasonable that you still have the intention to go to the brothel while you are doing business. And you must know that it is probably because of this month.

At that time, Wan Youdao had encountered some mishap, causing the scroll to disappear. In this way, these three people really became the culprits.

However, being too angry now will only harm the body unintentionally. Zhengyao calmed down the anger in his chest slightly and looked at Zhang Rufeng without any color: "Okay, I also want to know, who is the man who fell from the building and this headless man?

Aren’t they the same Liao Yun and Li Yuanshu from back then?”

Zhang Rufeng was startled, not expecting Zhengyao to ask such a question, but his ability to adjust was still very strong, and he returned to normal in a blink of an eye. He sighed slightly and said softly: "Yes, the one who fell from the building is my third junior brother Liao Yun.

And the headless male corpse in front of us is our junior brother, Li Yuanshu."

"oh."

Everyone finally understood that these three people were brothers. No wonder they came to Fahua Temple together and lived in the same room.

Zhengyao nodded, a strange look flashed in his eyes. He still had many questions in his heart, but he didn't know how to speak for a while, so he had to change the topic.

"When did the three of you come to Fahua Temple? What do you want to do here?"

"To be honest, when we were at Fahua Temple, the three of us made an appointment. If there is no news about Senior Brother Wan in twenty years, then we will go to Fahua Temple to prove that he is dead.

So I came here to pay homage to him, which can be regarded as a bit of friendship. The three of us arrived at Fahua Temple the night before yesterday. We originally heard from the old monks here that a seriously injured man lived here before.

, we knew it was Senior Brother Wan as soon as we guessed it, so we prepared to go see where Senior Brother Wan lived, but found nothing. Later, Junior Brother Liao Yun wanted to climb the observation tower, but Li Yuanshu and I

Junior Brother was afraid of heights, so he didn't accompany him up the stairs. But no one expected that he would fall downstairs. Because he was panicked at the time, and Junior Brother Li Yuanshu suspected that it was the ghost of Senior Brother Wan who came back to settle accounts with us, so

The two of us ignored Junior Brother Liao Yun and returned to the house together."

Zhang Rufeng spoke very seriously, as if there was a player in his mind, constantly turning, translating the pictures he had compiled through his lips.

Regarding what Zhang Rufeng said, everyone more or less understood what happened. They thought that if Liao Yun hadn't gone upstairs alone, these things might not have happened.

After hearing this, Zhengyao nodded, tapped the tip of his nose with a peach blossom fan, and then asked thoughtfully: "Then are you ready to leave?"

As he said this, Zhengyao was seen holding a green jade peach blossom fan and pointing at the corpse and Zhang Rufeng on the ground, as well as the two bags next to them. If Zhengyao's estimate was correct, these two people were afraid that Liao Yun's fall from the building would involve them.

, so he planned to take advantage of the chaos to leave.

"That's right, Junior Brother Li Yuanshu and I were planning to leave. You see, we even packed our bags, but who knew that Prince Jing ordered not to leave, so the two of us got a little panicked. Later..."

"Later, the more you thought about it, the more flustered you became, and then you felt your mouth was dry, so you picked up the tea cup and drank the tea in the cup, right?" Before Zhang Rufeng finished speaking, Zheng Yao immediately took over and said.

"Yes, yes! That's it!"

As if he had found a close friend, Zhang Rufeng excitedly held Zhengyao's wrist tightly.

After listening to what Zhang Rufeng said, Zhengyao thought for a moment. This matter became more and more strange. First, he misled others into thinking that he accidentally fell from the building, and then he created chaos and drugged his head to cut off his head. The murderer's methods were too cruel and scheming.

It seems too profound. Come to think of it, this incident was definitely a premeditated and planned murder.

"If the murderer is the same person, then this person must have some kind of relationship, interest, or affection with the three people. However, what can be determined in the end is that the murderer is very familiar with the three people, and the murderer is also very familiar with Fahua Temple.

familiar."

Zhengyao secretly said to himself, there is only so much he can know now, which makes him seem helpless.

"This Huiming is very suspicious..." After much deliberation, Zhengyao still felt that this Huiming was the most suspicious. When Wan Youdao disappeared, the last person he saw was Huiming. Huiyuan's death in Wuchanyuan last time was also related to Huiming.

It seems necessary to find this Huiming.

"However, I have made inquiries in the temple four times, and no one knows about the existence of Huiming. This is very inconsistent with what we speculated." King Jing did not disagree with Zhengyao's point of view, but there is indeed no Huiming here.

this person.

Zhengyao shook his head, then looked at Zhang Rufeng and said: "Maybe Huiming has changed his name, we don't know it, but since you promised to send the scroll to Huiming, you naturally have Huiming's portrait or his

Approximately what it looks like!”
Chapter completed!