Chapter 376 Gu Qingyi’s Reasoning


    ??Gu Qingyi was indeed ill and sought medical treatment urgently, but she certainly couldn''t admit it herself.


    "I, of course I''m not talking nonsense. The old beggar clearly died outside and was carried back. That''s why we didn''t find any traces of fighting in the temple."


    “I’ve already found out everything. If you sneak around here from where he sleeps, you can avoid most people’s sight, 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 think about this problem either, 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.”


    "Accomplice? What does Gu Shenqu mean that this old beggar is the murderer''s accomplice? Then why did he die here?"


    Shen Zhou, who had been silent for a long time, couldn''t help but say.


    ?Gu Qingyi''s face was not very good, but fortunately it 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.


    ?Finding that their body shapes were actually very close, and then thinking of 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 disciples of the Songxi Sword Sect were even more angry, "Gu Shenlu, my senior brother has been killed, and you are still slandering him. Isn''t it too much?"


    "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 reason, he specially found a person who was about the same size and age as him as a scapegoat, but he was usually with his two junior brothers and had no chance to ''die'', so he went to find a helper to help."


    ??Gu Qingyi continued to talk along this line of thought. At the beginning, he was still a little guilty and stumbled, but as he spoke, he became more and more fluent.


    “The person he asked to help was the old beggar. They met at a 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."


    ??Everyone in the temple listened to her words and looked at He Qisheng''s body, and then at the other body 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 Shenquan, how did you know that my senior brother owed money to Jilefang?"


    "I can vouch for this matter." The scholar who came to see Gu Qingyi before speaking, "Because I am the person sent by Jilefang to collect debts, and I was the one who told Gu Shenlu about the money He Qisheng owed."


    After he finished speaking, he ignored the two Songxi Sword Sect disciples and looked at Gu Qingyi again, but his tone became much more polite, "He Qisheng has already decided to fake his death and is well prepared. Why did it happen?" But it turned into a real death? "Of course it''s 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, the man climbed onto the roof with the body.


    “Then He Qisheng also used Qinggong to reach the roof, which explains why his footprints only reached the back wall, and why there were no footprints of the old beggar outside the temple. This was because he did not come down from the roof at all.


    “According to their original plan, they were supposed to kill the double here and pretend that He Qisheng was murdered, but then an accident happened.


    “The murderer also came to the roof and killed He Qisheng and the old beggar.”


    ??Gu Qingyi''s current reasoning actually combined the previous guesses of the scholar and Ma Lu. One of them thought that He Qisheng faked his death, and the other thought 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 took the initiative to jump onto the roof, then 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 death.


    ??Moreover, he and his accomplices were also killed together. Together with the killed substitute, there were just enough three corpses.


    What Malu was more curious about at the moment was another thing, "Didn''t you say before that once the battle starts, no one else is allowed to enter the area blocked by the fog? How did the murderer kill two people at once?"


    After he finished asking 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 no cards are played, others can join in.


    "In addition, if the two people are not far away from each other in a sneak attack, the murderer can also drag them into the game together 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 also become One versus two situation.


    “Besides this, there is another way, which is also a more common 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 in one go. In short, as long as you think about it, there are still many ways. But again, fight in one go There are so many people, first of all you must be very strong.”


    "That''s it." Ma Lu didn''t expect that hidden weapons in this world could be used in this way. After sighing, he moved half a step behind Gu Qingyi.


    ?At this time, Gu Qingyi was completely immersed in reasoning, feeling happy that she had finally solved a difficult 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 back at the bottom of the Buddha statue. Hey ...This shows 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 her husband who is the murderer. Apart from the old beggar, he is another person in the temple who is easily ignored."


    (End of this chapter)