Chapter 2 Chapter One
Changzhou City, Little Mian Inn.
On the night of June 17th, the third watch.
Cheng Yunhe, the head of the Crane Escort Company, has been on the road with sixteen boxes of red goods for two days. Although the journey was safe, he was very nervous and exhausted. He was already asleep, but he woke up suddenly for some reason.
The dark room was silent.
There is singing outside the window.
There were bursts of ethereal voices, as if someone was singing, and it seemed that they were singing very seriously, but the tone was very strange, like a song sung by a broken tongue.
He opened his eyes and looked at the window facing his bed.
In the pitch blackness, there were some emerald green dot-like shadows faintly floating on the window, sometimes far away and sometimes near, only appearing on the window facing him.
The singing outside the window came from afar, those tongue-deaf mouths sang a sad song that strangers could not understand
He has practiced martial arts for nearly forty years. Although his eyes and ears are not the best in the world, they are by no means weak, but he has not heard anyone's voice.
The wind was rustling, and through the open window, he stared at the window with erratic blue shadows, and for the first time in his life, he thought of the word ghost?
1. Lotus building with auspicious patterns
The sky is bright and the sun is bright.
Pingshan Town is an inconspicuous little place, with neither rare treasures nor outstanding people. Like most places in the rivers and lakes, its people are a little boring, the crops growing in the fields are a little thin, and the river water is a bit dull. Dirty, things that can be talked about after dinner are too few or too few, so once something happens, everyone will talk about it for a long time, not to mention that the thing that happened recently is really a strange thing.
The thing is like this: On June 18th, when people in Pingshan Town opened their doors to sweep the streets, they suddenly found a two-story wooden building on the street they were familiar with every day.This wooden building is not short, it can accommodate people in it, and it can also live in a very spacious place.The whole building is entirely made of wood, carved with surprisingly fine and gorgeous patterns, even a blind person can tell that the engravings are lotus flowers and auspicious clouds.
After discussing for a long time, some sharp-eyed people finally discovered how this building suddenly appeared: It turns out that its entire structure is a building, but it is not connected to the ground. In short, this building was pulled by a car. Come, transport them to the main street of Pingshan Town, and put them there.People were amazed, but they didn't understand that someone pulled such a wooden building and put it on the street in the middle of the night. What is the use of it? Could it be used as an earth temple in Pingshan Town?Speaking of which, the Earth Temple has been in disrepair and the incense has been cut off for many years.
All kinds of discussions lasted for three days, until one day, a escort came home by chance, was shocked when he saw it, and yelled wildly on the spot: Jixianglou!Then he didn't even go back home, turned around and ran away, screaming Jixianglou all the way!Suddenly this building was regarded as a ghost building again, and people who saw it would go crazy.
It wasn't until the seventh day, when the dart driver suddenly brought the entire escort back to Pingshan Town, that people realized that this building was not a ghost building.
Not only is it not a ghost building, but it is also a blessing building, a big blessing building.
The lotus building with auspicious patterns is a medical clinic.
Its owner's surname is Li, and his first name is Lianhua.
What kind of person is Li Lianhua?In fact, no one in the world knows.The origin of the teacher is unknown, the level of martial arts is unknown, the age is unknown, and even the appearance is unknown. This person has been famous in the world for six years, and he has only done two things in total. Curious legend.
The first thing is to revive the martial arts champion Haoshou Qiongjing Shi Wenjue who died of serious injuries in a duel and has been buried in the ground for many days; He Lantie, the iron flute hero who had been in the ground for many days, was rescued.
These two things alone have made Li Lianhua the person most people in the world want to know and make friends with. What's more, he also has a strange house that he takes away at any time, which makes Li Lianhua a legend in the legend.
The Chief Escort of the Crane Escort led the entire bodyguard to rush to Pingshan Town on horseback. After bathing and burning incense for three days, he finally handed out a greeting card to the wooden building carved from nanmu with trepidation: Crane Escort Itinerary Yunhe has something important to see.
Greetings were cast through the cracks in the window.
Forty or fifty people from all over the bodyguard line waited with Cheng Yunhe, as if King Yama was in the building to be sentenced.
Soon, the wooden building, which was as quiet as if no one lived in it, made a soft creaking sound.All the Crane Guards held their breath, and even the passers-by who were watching were full of breath, staring wide-eyed and waiting to see what kind of ghosts would come out of the building?
The wooden door opened quickly, and did not open slowly as everyone imagined.
A large cloud of dust burst out from the door with a bang, blowing Cheng Yunhe's head and face, and the person inside the door groaned, and said very sorry: "Clean up the sundries, I don't know there are guests outside the door, ashamed, ashamed."
A group of people in the Crane Escort, with heads covered in dust and sawdust, stared in astonishment at the person who opened the door and held the broom, on which was the bright red greeting card stuck.He looks very young, at most twenty-seven or eight years old. If he hadn't been wearing a gray coat with many patches, he might have looked even younger. He has fair complexion and elegant appearance, but he is not unparalleled in beauty. With a photographic memory, he held a broom in his right hand and a dustpan in his left, and looked at the formation of forty or fifty people outside the door with an apologetic face.
Cheng Yunhe coughed heavily, and saluted with fists folded: Cheng Yunhe traveled thousands of miles in Xiahe, and met Mr. Li in Jixianglou, and asked you to inform him on his behalf, saying that Mr. Cheng had something important to ask Mr. Li.
The young man in gray yelled, "Report?
Cheng Yunhe said in a deep voice: "Please also meet Li Lianhua, Mr. Li. I have important matters to discuss."
The young man in gray put down his broom: I am Li Lianhua.
Cheng Yunhe suddenly opened his eyes wide and opened his mouth wide. The look made passers-by almost want to throw three or five eggs into his mouth.Soon he closed his mouth again, and coughed heavily: "I have admired Mr. Li's name for a long time. He didn't know how to say the next sentence. He had carefully written the whole story into the invitation card, but the invitation card was stuck in Li Lianhua's broom." superior.
Li Lianhua said: "Ashamed, ashamed, let go of the debris on the floor and raise your hand to invite Cheng Yunhe to enter the building."
The lotus building with auspicious patterns is indeed full of sundries, including hammers, saws and axes, rags and brooms, sawdust and dust everywhere, and a few boxes with something in them. There is only a table and chairs in the front hall. It is made of bamboo, and it is not worth twenty copper plates.Cheng Yunhe was full of doubts, but how famous is the lotus building with auspicious patterns?The man in gray sat in the middle of the building, and asked him to suspect that this person was a fake, but he didn't dare, so he had to sit respectfully opposite Li Lianhua, and told the whole story of the terrible thing that happened to him half a month ago. .
At midnight that night, Xiaomian Inn.
Cheng Yunhe woke up at night and found a blue shadow floating in the window, and when there was a strange singing outside the window, he almost thought of a ghost word in his mind, but then he couldn't help laughing. He has been walking in the world for more than 20 years, and he has never believed in ghosts in the world.At this moment, a scream came from the room next door to the big disciple, Cheng Yunhe was taken aback and rushed away.His eldest disciple Cui Jianke also saw the ghost on the blue window, got up to check the goods, opened the well-sealed wooden box, but found that there was no sign of the goods in the wooden box, and the gold, silver and jewels that he had taken care of during the delivery were gone.This is not what made Cui Jianke, who has been working as a dart for more than ten years, scream loudly. The reason why he let out that horrifying scream was that there were not only red goods in the wooden box. Rare treasures, compared with money, are small in size, high in value, and easier to carry. ], and inexplicably pressed a rough stone, and the walls were covered with bloody fingerprints.
Those five-fingerprints are like those left by a person who was sealed in a box and was eager to climb out but couldn't get out, but there was nothing in the box.In the middle of the night, the ghost of Bi Chuang was still around, and there were still strange noises. Suddenly, he saw bloody fingerprints in the wooden box. Even Cui Jianke, who had been in the rivers and lakes for more than ten years, couldn't help screaming on the spot.Shocked and angry, Cheng Yunhe ordered his disciples to open sixteen large boxes. Ten of the sixteen boxes were indeed filled with jewels and jade. Full of blood fingerprints, three wooden boxes were filled with the shrine of the dead, and in the remaining two wooden boxes, one was empty and was pressed with a piece of uneven stone, and in the other wooden box, there was a dead body.
It was a very young girl in white clothes with a delicate and beautiful appearance, and the terrified expression before her death was still on her face.
After seeing the corpse, Cheng Yunhe and Cui Jianke's expressions were more frightened than her. This woman in white is known to everyone in the Jianghu. She is Qiushuang, the daughter of the lord of Yucheng.Yu Mulan, the lord of Yucheng, dominates the southwestern mountains and monopolizes the Kunlun jade mines. He is the richest man in Wulin, and he is known all over the world for doting on his daughter.How did this Yu Qiushuang die in the red cargo box secured by the little-known Crane Bodyguard?
There was a commotion in the other guest rooms of Xiao Mian Inn, and within a short while, dozens of people broke into Cui Jianke's room.Everyone who came was shocked, their faces turned pale.
It was then that Cheng Yunhe found out that Yu Qiushuang had also settled down at the Xiaomian Inn that night. When the fifty or sixty Yucheng swordsmen accompanying her were startled by ghosts in the blue window, Yun Jiao, a close friend who shared the same room with Yu Qiushuang, suddenly noticed Yu Qiushuang's inn. Qiu Shuang was nowhere to be seen, everyone looked around, and finally found her dead in Cheng Yunhe's red cargo box!
This is the murder of a ghost in Bi Chuang, which has been raging in the martial arts for half a month. Yu Mulan was heartbroken and her beloved daughter died for no reason. The killing order is to kill all the cranes and darts.Cheng Yunhe was desperate, and was about to disband the bodyguard bureau with his family and flee separately, but suddenly heard the news of Jixianglou.
Li Lianhua can heal the dead and Cheng Yunhe suddenly thought: If Li Lianhua can heal Yu Qiushuang back to life, wouldn't everything be fine?Half a month ago, Cheng Yunhe would never have believed such a thing as treating a dead person, but now, he can only treat a dead horse as a living horse doctor. Since he was lucky enough to meet Li Lianhua, why not try his best ?If the legend is true, wouldn't he be able to escape from death?
But until he finished talking about the murder of ghosts in Bi Chuang, he didn't hear Li Lianhua's amazing insights, but only heard him ah, and nodded.
After drinking the tea, Cheng Yunhe had no choice but to leave. He really couldn't think of any reason to stay in Li Lianhua's empty building full of sundries and a dazed expression on his gentle face.
Cheng Yunhe left.
On the second floor of the lotus building with auspicious patterns, someone said leisurely: After five years, you are still famous
Li Lianhua sat on the chair and drank tea: Ah, I don't know what he is doing.
In fact, I have been unable to figure it out.The person on the second floor walked down slowly. This person was skinny and pale. If he gained ten kilograms, he might be a handsome young man, but right now he looks like a hungry man, but this hungry man is wearing a very fine and gorgeous white dress, hanging Wearing a jade pendant with long tassels that only Mr. Zhuo Shijia likes, and a long sword with a particularly elegant shape, how can anyone in the world believe in such a thing as death and resurrection?It's been five years, and everyone hasn't forgotten your two embarrassing incidents
Because they are not as smart as you.Li Lianhua smiled slightly, stood up and stretched her muscles, but picked up the broom and continued to sweep the floor.
Can you not sweep the floor?Hungry, who came down from the upstairs, suddenly widened his eyes. I am in front of you, my majestic Mr. Fang, but you can still sweep me down?Do you know that if Cheng Yunhe knew that I was inside, he would have knelt down and begged me to tell old man Yu not to kill him all over the house?With a handsome and prominent man like me in front of you, you're actually sweeping the floor all the time?
cannot.Li Lianhua said, I haven't repaired and cleaned this building for a long time. It is very dirty and it will leak when it rains.
Bai Yi stared at him with his eyes wide open for a long time, then suddenly sighed, you guy can neither fight nor heal, neither farm nor rob, how on earth did you survive so famously for so many years?I really can't figure it out.
This starving man in white clothes is the eldest son of the Fang family in Wulin. The troubled son Fang is sick. He has known Li Lianhua for six years, so long that he even knows exactly why this person is famous: Shi Wenjue He was seriously injured in a duel with others, and he performed the tortoise breath Dafa to heal his injuries. The local villagers buried him as a dead person. Li Lianhua went to dig him out, and Shi Wenjue naturally came back to life: There was a cliff-jumping scene where he pretended to be dead and buried himself in the ground. Li Lianhua happened to pass by and dug him out again. Everyone was wondering how Li Lianhua could bring the dead back to life, but Fang Duobing only wanted to know how he Do you know where there are living people to dig in?
Earlier I made some money.Li Lianhua carefully swept the front hall, put away the dustpan, as long as she calculated well, she could still live.
Fang sickly rolled his eyes: How much money do you have left?
Fifty two.Li Lianhua smiled, for me, it was enough for a lifetime.
Fang Duobing let out a piss: There is a scum like you who only intends to spend fifty taels of life in the martial arts world, it is a disgrace to the world.If Cheng Yunhe knew that you were this kind of person, I think he would come to your door and beg you to beg for a genius doctor who doesn’t know a little bit of medical skills and is so petty that he can’t even afford an inn, so he can only run around with his house behind his back to cure people. Thankfully he figured it out.Rolling his eyes twice, Fang Duobing glanced up and down at Li Lianhua, but I'm really not sure whether you kid will really go to put someone to death for him.
Sitting on the chair, Li Lianhua was still fiddling with the tenons of his creaking bamboo table with his fingers. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Why don't you go?"Anyway, I don't know how to farm or sell vegetables, and I don't lack money. If I don't have something to do, wouldn't life be boring?
Once old man Yu finds out that you are a Mongolian doctor and wants to kill you, I will never save you.Fang Duo said leisurely, you go, I won't send you off.
Then Li Lianhua cleaned up and cleaned the lotus building with auspicious patterns for three days. I don't know what he put in that small package, and wrote a long letter carefully, entrusting the lotus building with auspicious patterns to Haoshouqiong for the time being. After Shi Wenjue took care of him, he finally set out on the road.
He was going to Yucheng to see Yu Qiushuang's body.
2. Within Yucheng
In the name of wanting to heal Yu Qiushuang, Li Lianhua walked into the Yucheng City of Kunlun Mountains. The Jade City was built on a desolate and barren mountain, and it contained rare treasures. Among the martial arts, no one can enter the Yucheng City completely. Ten people, the tenth is Li Lianhua, and the ninth is Zongzheng Mingzhu.Li Lianhua is a peerless genius doctor who wants to heal Yu Qiushuang, and Zongzheng Mingzhu has a bigger background than him. He is Yu Qiushuang's fiancée, the grandson of the prime minister, and a fifth-rank official of the court. The kind of look that girls dream of. He looks gentle and elegant, with both poetic and sword skills, a handsome son of Zhuo Shijia.
Zongzheng Mingzhu came more than half a month earlier than Li Lianhua, and he arrived in Yucheng the day after Yu Qiushuang's accident, but Yu Mulan was saddened by the death of her beloved daughter, and went crazy after her dead daughter returned home, forcing fifty or sixty A swordsman committed suicide according to the rules of the sect and set fire to the Yucheng Palace. He is still insane.
how?The elegant and expensive young man in white clothes is now standing behind Li Lianhua, looking at him with a little nervousness. Li Lianhua bent down to look at Yu Qiushuang whose body was buried in the ice coffin for half an hour. , Didn't even move.Li Lianhua let out an ah when she heard the words.Zongzheng Mingzhu had no idea what he was doing, so she asked: Mr. Li?
She is Yu Qiushuang?Li Lianhua asked.
Zongzheng Mingzhu was stunned: When the lord of Yucheng set fire to Yucheng, Qiushuang was unfortunately affected. It turned out that what was stored in the ice coffin was a horrible corpse that was burned beyond recognition by the fire, and it was even more terrifying because it was not completely burned Even if Daluo Jinxian said that he could resurrect such a dead person, I am afraid that even the ignorant people would not believe it, let alone Li Lianhua is not a golden immortal.But he is a genius doctor, Zongzheng Mingzhu hoped that he could at least see some clues.
Is she really Yu Qiushuang?Li Lianhua asked again.Zongzheng Mingzhu nodded. Although the corpse had become extremely terrifying, many of Yu Qiushuang's features were still vaguely visible. Li Lianhua took out a small knife from the small package of printed blue flowers and carefully scratched at Yu Qiushuang's abdomen. go.Zongzheng Mingzhu was taken aback, and blocked her hand: Mr. Li?Li Lianhua held a knife in his right hand and was blocked by Zongzheng Mingzhu. With a swipe of his left finger, Yu Qiushuang's abdomen should be pointed open. His ten fingers had neatly manicured nails. Yu Qiushuang's body was already rotten, so it was not difficult to make a cut. .Zongzheng Mingzhu withdrew her right hand and her heart trembled: It was so smooth. Suddenly, seeing Li Lianhua picking up something from Yu Qiushuang's abdomen with a small knife in her right hand, she asked, "What is that?"Li Lianhua replied: Blood clots.
It was a blood clot that had coagulated for a long time, and Zongzheng Mingzhu's heart was shocked: Blood clot?Anyone with a little common sense can understand: blood in the abdomen proves that there is injury to the internal organs.What does Mr. Li mean?Zongzheng Mingzhu asked.
Li Lianhua smiled slightly: This ghost's method of killing people is very strange. He didn't suck all of Miss Yu's blood, and he didn't peel her skin to paint her face. not come out.
Zongzheng Mingzhu frowned: That is to say, Qiushuang was not killed by ghosts, but was killed by people?
Li Lianhua answered irrelevant questions: I only know that she died for too long and was burned again, so she can no longer come back to life.
With his calm and calm tone, it seems that he himself has the ability to bring the dead back to life, and Yu Qiushuang's only regret is that he died for too long.
Zongzheng Mingzhu shook his white silk and gold thread sleeves: I don't understand, even if Qiushuang was killed by someone, why would someone break her heart?Each sect has its own boxing techniques, and there is absolutely no heavy hand attacking people five inches below the chest and abdomen, this is unreasonable.
Li Lianhua let out a cry, and Zongzheng Mingzhu was taken aback again. He still didn't know what Li Lianhua was doing. After a pause, he changed the subject: Recently, there are always some strange things happening at night in Yucheng.
Li Lianhua murmured: "I'm afraid of ghosts." Zongzheng Mingzhu felt very strange: this person dared to use his fingers to cut open the stomach of a carrion corpse, but he said he was afraid of ghosts?But he said in his mouth: Then Mr. Li will sleep with me in the same room tonight.Li Lianhua readily agreed, with an apologetic face: ashamed, ashamed.
That day, Li Lianhua had dinner with Yu's family. Apart from Yu Mulan, Yu Hongzhu, the wife of Yu's family, surprised Li Lianhua a little: This lady lost her daughter and a crazy husband, but she still handled things properly. He is methodical, and his shrewdness and ability are far superior to other men in the Yu family, and he is nearly forty years old, still has snow-skinned, beautiful face, and is extremely glamorous.It turns out that Yu Hongzhu, the only daughter of Yu's family in Kunlun Mountains, was the only daughter. In order to pass on the incense, she found Pu Mulan, a down-and-out scholar, to join Yu's family twenty years ago and changed her surname to Yu.Although he is famous all over the world as the lord of the city, everything in the city is managed by Yu Hongzhu. He is a rare female hero.Hearing that Li Lianhua came to heal her daughter, Yu Hongzhu clearly didn't believe it, but she didn't tell the truth, and just let Li Lianhua torment herself.
at night.
Yucheng Room.
Zongzheng Mingzhu and Li Lianhua were in the same room, Li Lianhua slept on the bed, Zongzheng Mingzhu had another bed to sleep in, but couldn't sleep.He has never slept in the same room with others, and even if he has a fiancée, he has never kissed Fangze. What's more, the person in his room is not the beautiful and beautiful Yu Qiushuang, but a seemingly mediocre person who acts strangely no matter how you think about it. man.
Li Lianhua gave Zongzheng Mingzhu the impression that he was a dedicated, bookish man who didn't seem to know much about the world: but if he was really a bookworm who didn't understand the world, how could he know how to rely on his fame to come and go freely in Yucheng?To say that he was deeply scheming, and after thinking about it again and again, he couldn't think of any benefits that Li Lianhua could get by pretending to be a fool in Yucheng to cure Yu Qiushuang?Yu Qiushuang died of bleeding from the intestines broken by someone, and she was not injured at all on the outside. How did Li Lianhua see it?All kinds of doubts made Zongzheng Mingzhu unable to sleep at all.
Suddenly, as soon as he opened his eyes, there seemed to be some unusual noises outside the door.
Before he made up his mind to open the door and check, he suddenly noticed many dark green dot-shaped shadows appearing on the window opposite the door. It rang.
It was a creepy voice, a female voice, dragging a strange pitch, singing a lingering song very seriously. The voice sounded like a love song sung by a person whose tongue was broken. Although sad, But it is no longer a tune that strangers can understand
This is the blue window ghost that everyone saw on the day Qiushuang died!Zongzheng Mingzhu was in the dark room, looking at the strange shadow on the window, he couldn't help but shudder for a moment, took a deep breath, and listened intently for a while, but he didn't hear anyone's voice.Suddenly sitting up from the bed, he quickly flitted out, and raised the window as soon as he stretched out his hand. Outside the window, the moon and stars were sparse, the air was cool, and there was nothing.
on the windows.
Zongzheng Mingzhu was shocked. He was not intimidated by the ghost on the blue window, but Li Lianhua broke out in a cold sweat. Hearing this, he pulled down the window. Li Lianhua lit the candle, got off the bed and walked over slowly.
The candlelight shone on the ghostly window, and those strange green shadows seemed to be afraid of the candlelight, but they all disappeared.Li Lianhua stretched out her right index finger, and with her slender nails slashed vigorously on the window paper, only to hear a chirping sound, and the window paper was torn, but no light could pass through, and instead something crawled out from the cracks in the paper.Zongzheng Mingzhu took a closer look and smiled wryly. It turned out that there were two layers of window paper pasted on the window, and fireflies with their wings pulled out were placed in the middle gap. It looks like a ghost in the room, but during the day and when there is candlelight, because the sunlight and candlelight are stronger than the fireflies, you can't see the fireflies.
It turns out that the ghosts on the blue window are actually some bugs.He looked at Li Lianhua and couldn't help but ask, how did Mr. know the secret on the window?
Li Lianhua smiled slightly: I am afraid of ghosts, you are only listening for human voices, but I am listening for non-human voices.
Zongzheng Mingzhu didn't know whether to believe him or not, so she could only smile wryly.Li Lianhua shook the window: Do you smell the scent of Mixiang?The insects were stunned by the medicine, and they would not wake up until midnight. There was a gap in the window paper outside. Once the fireflies woke up and found a way out, the ghosts disappeared.
Zongzheng Mingzhu nodded: "Qiu Shuang's death really has a lot of inside story, and Bi Chuang Ghost Shadow is really someone pretending to be a ghost."While speaking, the voice singing the terrible love song suddenly let out a miserable scream, and then fell silent.Zongzheng Mingzhu was taken aback, and her fair and handsome face suddenly turned pale: How could the ghost in the blue window appear in Yucheng tonight?
Li Lianhua said ah, this time Zongzheng Mingzhu understood what he meant, and only heard Li Lianhua say: Because some people don't believe in ghosts, so ghosts come out.Then he yawned, I'm very sleepy, go to sleep.
Zongzheng Mingzhu couldn't believe that after seeing through the secret of Bi Chuang Ghost Shadow, he concluded that he was very sleepy, so tell him to sleep!After staying for a while, Li Lianhua had returned to the bed and continued to sleep peacefully, but he couldn't fall asleep. He could only sit on the bed and stare blankly at the broken window, his mind was in a mess.
Qiu Shuang was killed by someone, how could the body suddenly appear in Cheng Yunhe's red cargo box?Who made the ghost in the blue window?Who is pretending to be a ghost tonight?Is it because of Li Lianhua's arrival that made it feel uneasy?All kinds of puzzles gathered in his mind. The handsome white-clothed young man's face was as pale as death in the moonlit night, and his eyes revealed confusion and fear. If the infatuated girl who fell in love with him saw Must be disappointed.But the other person on the bed behind him was sleeping comfortably, not only did not shed a drop of sweat, but also seemed to be sleeping very happily, without even the slightest fear.
3. Watering the flowers
The next day, when Zongzheng Mingzhu woke up from the confusion, she found that Li Lianhua was no longer on the bed.He was watering the flowers in the garden outside the door with a gourd ladle, watering them very carefully, sometimes touching the tender branches and leaves of the flowers and plants, he seemed to be in a happy mood.There were still three people standing in the garden, watching Li Lianhua watering the flowers with various expressions. One was Yu Hongzhu, the other was Yu Qiushuang's friend Yun Jiao, and the other was Yu's housekeeper Zhou Fu.
Yu Hongzhu's face was full of anger, Yun Jiao's eyes were full of tears, and Zhou Fu's face was full of anxiety.Zongzheng Mingzhu got up and washed her face. When she walked out, she realized that Li Lianhua had told Yu Hongzhu the cause of Yu Qiushuang's death. Yu Hongzhu was furious. She, if she doesn't kill the murderer, she won't be Yu Hongzhu!Yun Jiao was terrified and seemed very excited, while Zhou Fu was skeptical.After Li Lianhua finished talking about why Yu Qiushuang didn't seem to be killed by a ghost, she asked Zhou Fu very seriously where the gourd scoop was, and then cheered up and went to water the flowers happily.
Zongzheng Mingzhu looked over the half-person-high white jade railing in Yufu Flower Gallery, looked at Li Lianhua's calm back in the flowers, stayed for a while, and sighed.He thought for a whole night before he managed to sort out the doubts about the matter.
There are seven unexplainable things about Bi Chuang's murder of ghosts:
First: Why did the murderer let Yu Qiushuang die?
Second: Why did Yu Qiushuang die in Cheng Yunhe's cargo box?
Third: Who is responsible for the ghostly shadow on the blue window?
Fourth: What about the ghost song outside the window?
Fifth: How did the ghost get from Xiaomian Inn to Yucheng?
Sixth: Why did the murderer kill such a delicate girl as Yu Qiushuang?
Seventh: Why did the murderer pretend to be a ghost?
Zongzheng Mingzhu could only answer two of these seven questions, and the person he expected to give him more answers was now watering the flowers.Just as he was getting more confused, Li Lianhua suddenly turned around holding the gourd ladle and smiled slightly: "When the sun rises, it's time for City Lord Yu to rise, right?"
He looked at Yu Hongzhu, and said, "Li Lianhua is not talented. Although I can't cure Miss Yu, if I can do my best for the Lord of Yucheng, I will not be in vain."Can Mrs. Yu trust me?
He asked so gently and tactfully, even if there were ten thousand reluctances in his heart, it was difficult to refuse for a while, not to mention that Li Lianhua wanted to see Yu Mulan, and Yu Hongzhu couldn't ask for it, so she nodded repeatedly.Yun Jiao wiped away her tears and said in a low voice: Then, I will go back to my room to rest.
Li Lianhua said warmly: Miss Yun, please go ahead.
Yu Hongzhu led him to Yu Mulan's room. Along the way, he saw the luxury of Yucheng. The pearls and jaspers on the corridors and houses were shining brightly, all of which were unimaginable luxury in the world.With a smile on her face, Li Lianhua took a few glances at the gold, silver and jewels, walked around a few times, and arrived at the bedroom of the city lord.
Sitting in the room, Yu Mulan was stunned, her eyes were fixed, no matter what others said or asked, he didn't respond.
Yu Hongzhu said: Since the fire broke out in the city that night, he has always looked like this. He doesn't think about food or sleep, and he doesn't seem to hear anyone talking to him.
She hid a word and didn't say a word. The doctors who came to see her all said that Yu Mulan had been bewitched by a ghost, and another doctor suddenly went crazy when she was taking Yu Mulan's pulse.
Li Lianhua looked into Yu Mulan's eyes for a while, took out a silver needle from his Yinlan package, and slowly stabbed Yu Mulan's eyes.Yu Hongzhu was stunned, she had never seen a doctor treat a disease like this, Zongzheng Mingzhu was by her side, after Bi Chuang's incident, he knew that Li Lianhua was definitely not a fool, but he still couldn't understand his words and deeds .The two looked blankly at each other, Li Lianhua's silver needle had slowly pierced Yu Mulan's right eye.He actually didn't stop, although he was slow, but he didn't slow down. He continued to thrust at Yu Mulan's eyeball. When it pierced Yu Mulan's eyeball, Li Lianhua stopped, moved the silver needle to another position, and still pointed at Yu Mulan's eyes, Yu Mulan's eyes didn't even blink, she was really insane up.
Lord Jade appears to be very ill.Li Lianhua sighed softly.People like Zongzheng Mingzhu who only had a casual acquaintance with him would never have imagined that Taoist didn't know a little bit of medical skills. Hearing his sigh, both Zongzheng Mingzhu and Yu Hongzhu frowned deeply.
Madam Yu's garden grows a miracle medicine to cure madness. I wonder if I can pick some to treat the chronic disease of Lord Yucheng?Li Lianhua asked calmly.
Yu Hongzhu nodded: Sir, whatever you want.
She felt a little strange: the flowers and plants in the garden were all planted by her own hands, but jasmine, peony, magnolia and other ordinary flowers, where is there any magic medicine?Could it be that these flowers actually have other medicinal properties and she didn't know it?
Li Lianhua stepped out of the door, suddenly climbed up the white jade railing, looked around, climbed down from the railing again, and walked slowly to the house not far away. There was a bunch of green grass growing in the corner of the house. Li Lianhua walked over and broke two leaves.
Zongzheng Mingzhu looked more and more curious, and couldn't help but said, "Mr. Li, there is a poisonous substance in the heartbroken grass."
Li Lianhua frowned: It's okay.He put the poisonous heartbroken grass into his arms, and looked at the house twice: whose room is this?
Yu Hongzhu said: It's an empty house.
Li Lianhua nodded, walked around to the peony bushes, looked at the blooming peonies for a while, and suddenly pulled out a weed with a strange shape from under the peony bushes.Yu Hongzhu and Zongzheng Mingzhu looked at each other, only to see Li Lianhua going back and forth in the garden intently, breaking down six weeds with strange shapes.Of the six weeds, Zongzheng Mingzhu knew three of them, the heartbroken grass was highly poisonous, the other two were slightly poisonous, and he didn't recognize the other three.Just when Li Lianhua was putting away the weeds, he suddenly let out a soft ah, and Zongzheng Mingzhu instinctively began to panic when he heard the ah: What?
On the ground leading to another flower corridor outside the garden, there is a clear and wet footprint. Li Lianhua watered the flowers in the garden in the morning, and splashed the whole garden with water. Whoever passes through the garden leaves a footprint on the ground.There is only one footprint, it seems that the person only took one step on the flower gallery.Li Lianhua suddenly picked up a stone from the ground, made a mark next to the footprints, then stood up and straightened her clothes.
Zongzheng Mingzhu looked at the footprints in surprise, then raised her head to look in the direction of the flower corridor: Who is it?
Yu Hongzhu suddenly said coldly: It's Yunjiao!
Li Lianhua looked at Yu Hongzhu strangely: Why do you see it?
Yu Hongzhu sneered: Since Shuang'er's death, she stayed in Yucheng and never left. It was said that she had a deep love with Shuang'er sisters, bah!She hum!She came with Mingzhu, and I have seen her sneaking around in the city and peeping at Mingzhu more than once.
Li Lianhua groaned again and shook her head.
Zongzheng Mingzhu's face showed embarrassment: Auntie, I don't have
Yu Hongzhu interrupted him: I know, otherwise I would have kicked you out long ago.Zongzheng Mingzhu was even more embarrassed after hearing this.
Li Lianhua smiled slightly, and did not comment on the love entanglement between Yu Qiushuang, Yun Jiao and Zongzheng Mingzhu.Mr. Zongzheng, can you do me a favor?
What's up?Zongzheng Mingzhu asked.
Li Lianhua beckoned to him, and whispered something in his ear, Zongzheng Mingzhu wondered: How do you know?
Li Lianhua smiled: Guess
Then he whispered a few more words, Yu Hongzhu listened attentively, Li Lianhua's internal strength was not good, and she couldn't send her voice concisely and properly to Zongzheng Mingzhu's ears, she heard the fire with the skill of listening to heaven, you go to Yumu Lan said a few words about the truth, and was very confused. Did this person know the answer to this whole matter after walking around in Yucheng twice, watering the flowers, and comparing Bi Yumulan's eyes with a silver needle?
Mr. Lee.She has never cared so much about a person's answer: Do you already understand the truth of the many tragedies that happened in Yucheng?
Li Lianhua let out an ah. This time, Yu Hongzhu heard the charm of his ah. It was Li Lianhua's habitual sound of absent-mindedness when he was thinking about something. Sure enough, he turned his head to look at Yu Hongzhu. , asked blankly: Ashamed, ashamed, what did Madam Cai ask me just now?
What exactly does Li Lianhua want Zongzheng Mingzhu to do?Before Yu Hongzhu had time to guess, Li Lianhua turned around and handed the six kinds of weeds that had been folded from her bosom to her hand: Mrs. Troubled, cut the six kinds of herbs into small pieces and soak them in clean water. After half a day, there is no need to boil them. Take even grass.
He said very seriously, guaranteeing that Master Yucheng will take effect immediately after taking it.
Yu Hongzhu took those medicinal herbs. She thought that she had seen this pedantic scholar very thoroughly, but when she looked at Li Lianhua more, she felt that she couldn't see through it a little more. When Li Lianhua handed these six kinds of weeds to her When she got it, she was the same as Zongzheng Mingzhu, completely unable to see through the real intention of this person's words and deeds. Li Lianhua was a complete mystery, from head to toe.
4. Late Night Ghost Talk
late at night.
Zongzheng Mingzhu had already gone down the mountain to do what Li Lianhua asked him to do.Amidst the candlelight, Li Lianhua faced Yu Qiushuang's body in the ice coffin by herself.Originally, Yu Hongzhu was coming, but some small things happened and she had to deal with it. Now Li Lianhua was the only one who was looking at the half-burned and half-rotten young body by lighting a candle.
Hey, Li Lianhua held a candle and looked at her for a long time, sighed and shook her head, making a young and beautiful woman of seventeen or eighteen years old like this, even though he had seen many corpses that were much more terrifying than this , I also feel that this murderer is very hateful.At the door of Yu Qiushuang's room, there was a swordsman from Yucheng guarding him. Li Lianhua gently opened the wound on Yu Qiushuang's abdomen with the knife in his blue package. Yesterday he picked out the blood clot and saw the broken body Intestines, now I don’t know what I want to see.
窗外漆黑一片，今夜雲濃，無星無月，李蓮花百無聊賴地撥弄著玉秋霜的屍體鐵質的小刀在她身上各處輕輕敲擊他既不會驗傷、更不會驗屍，對於全然不通醫術的李蓮花來說，除了剖開肚子瞧瞧裡面有沒有什麼不該有的東西外，別無他法。小刀敲著敲著，在冰凍硬實的軀體上不斷輕輕發出令人毛骨悚然的聲音，不過李蓮花卻面帶微笑，似乎覺得這樣很有趣。
門外劍士靜靜地站著，突然起了一陣輕微的騷動就在這漆黑一片的深夜中，他們又聽到了那天聽到的斷舌的歌聲。
聲音從庭院的大樹後傳來，但那裡並沒有人影，歌只唱了兩句，隨即停了。玉城劍士面面相覷，各自一聲清喝抄到樹後，庭院中空空無人，兩人躍過圍牆，往兩個方向搜索過去。李蓮花持燭微笑，玉城劍士訓練有素，果然名不虛傳。此時四面無人，黑夜寂靜。
真是個適合鬼出來吃人的晚上他喃喃地念了一句，打了個哈欠，我還是回房間躲躲，有點恐怖突然背後吹來一陣涼風，一個披頭散髮的高大影子驟然出現在門口，在頭的位置上是一撮亂髮，宛若並沒有頭。那陣涼風吹得李蓮花衣袂飄動，他喃喃念著恐怖得很，小心地把那小刀收進包裹，竟也不回頭，慢慢從後門走掉了。
他沒看見站在門口的鬼。
那站在前門的長髮鬼僵在門口有那麼片刻它似乎氣得全身發抖，頓了一頓，隨即輕悄悄地跟在李蓮花身後，無聲無息地進了宗政明珠住的客房。
李蓮花回房以後先把蠟燭點起來，門窗關好，想了想，還把門窗都鎖了起來，好像真的很怕鬼。門窗全都鎖死之後，他吁了一口氣，很放心地吹滅了蠟燭，爬上床去，用被子把自己嚴嚴實實地罩住，開始睡了。
過了半個時辰，長髮鬼幽然從屋樑飄下它早在李蓮花進門的同時就跟了進來掠上了屋樑，李蓮花慢吞吞地點蠟燭、關門窗、鎖門早給了它許多時間在屋樑上藏好。它無聲無息地走到李蓮花床邊，緩緩對床上罩得嚴嚴實實的人提起了一小截閃爍著寒光的東西，接著緩緩地沉下手肘。
雲姑娘。被子裡突然冒出了人聲，而且說話的人心平氣和，沒有半分嚇人的意思，即便如此，那長髮鬼聽見後，還是全身一顫，宗政公子今夜不在。
長髮無頭鬼倒退兩步，手肘一沉，那一小截寒光閃爍的東西猛地朝床上人插了下去咄的一聲插入床板，它收肘回拔，屋裡寒光一閃那寒光閃爍的東西是一支連鞘的匕首，這會兒外鞘卡在床上，正好刷的一聲拔刃出鞘，反手切向李蓮花頸項！這一拔一切動作凌厲敏捷，絕非庸手。李蓮花仍然蒙在被子裡，長髮鬼匕首寒刃，堪堪帶風劃到頸項，突然被子鼓起一塊，有個不輕不重的力道在她持匕首的手腕處一敲，咚的一聲，匕首脫手而出斜飛三尺，釘在門板之上！
啊的一聲，那長髮鬼大吃一驚，脫口驚呼，這一驚呼，已顯出了女子聲氣。
李蓮花的聲音透過被子：雲姑娘似乎顯得有些無奈，斯文一點。
不知為何他就是不從被窩裡鑽出來，只躲在裡面說話，宗政公子今夜不在，我有件事想和雲姑娘商量。
長髮鬼低下了頭，突然悄悄地轉身，快步往門口走去，正想推開房門逃走，卻赫然發現房門已鎖宗政明珠所住的客房，是裡外兩面都可以用金鎖鎖住，需要鑰匙才能打開的。她驀然回身，拔起門上的匕首，目光有些驚恐地看著李蓮花，床上那一團貌似戲謔的凸起，在她眼裡卻是可怕非常今夜竟是鬼掉進了人的陷阱之中。
只聽李蓮花柔聲道：今晚雲姑娘想必打扮得不合心意，我就不看妳了。
長髮鬼一怔，渾身似乎起了一陣顫抖，突然扯下亂髮，脫下外衣。
你可以把被子拉下來了。她冷冷地說，眉宇間還留著些許驚恐的神情，聲音有些發顫。
李蓮花緩緩把被子拉了下來。在他拉下被子的一瞬間，雲嬌突然有一種放心的感覺李蓮花有一張並不會讓人感覺到恐懼的溫和臉孔，可是讓她有這種感覺的原因卻是，她彷彿曾經在哪裡見過這張臉，所以在看到李蓮花的瞬間，她全身都放鬆了。雲嬌背靠箸門板，深吸一口氣後，眼淚無緣無故滑過臉頰，掉了下來。
房裡一陣靜默，不知為何李蓮花沒有先開口，過了一會兒，雲嬌才突然顫聲說：不是我
李蓮花微微一笑：我知道。
她全身都軟了，順著門板緩緩坐倒在地：你怎麼可能知道
玉姑娘被人震斷腸子，骨骼卻未碎，該是被人以劈空掌力擊中小腹所致，雲姑娘武功不弱，但內功並不強。
李蓮花以一種愉快談天的語氣微笑說道：殺死玉秋霜的兇手當然不是妳，但是他頓了一頓，緩緩地說，玉秋霜是怎麼死的，想必雲姑娘很清楚。
雲嬌的臉色蒼白，一言不發，只聽李蓮花微笑道：我想和雲姑娘商量的事，就是姑娘能不能告訴我，她究竟是怎麼死的？
雲嬌緩慢但堅定地搖了搖頭，李蓮花慢慢地說：雲姑娘這很重要。
我只不過今晚穿了件男人的衣服，你從哪看出我知道？霜兒她她是被鬼所殺，死在小棉客棧，與我何干？
雲嬌胸口起伏，態度突然強硬了起來，方才被李蓮花一聲雲姑娘驚擾的情緒漸漸平復，沒有人殺人從來就沒有人殺人我更沒有殺人
Yeah?李蓮花嘆了口氣，從程雲鶴告訴我碧窗有鬼殺人一事，我就知道雲姑娘脫不了關係，昨日在這裡看到鬼影，聽到鬼歌後，更加證實了這件事。
胡說八道雲嬌臉色蒼白，你不過是聽了夫人胡說，她一向不喜歡我
李蓮花看著她，嘆了第二口氣：雲姑娘，妳忘了？從小棉客棧到玉城，程雲鶴逃亡江湖，玉城主下令追殺，雞犬不留，當晚在客棧的劍士又全都被玉城城主逼殺殆盡，唯一可以活下來的人，就只有妳一個。
他緩緩抬起頭，看著雲嬌的眼睛，碧窗鬼影，從小棉客棧到玉城客房都曾出現，在這兩個地方都待過的人，也只有妳一個。
so what?雪嬌死死咬著嘴唇，是鬼鬼的話，也可以的，我沒有殺她。
他看著她展顏微笑，似乎很能容忍她這種掙扎抵抗：是鬼的話，不會騙人。
她的臉色瞬間死白騙人
碧窗有鬼殺人一事，最離奇的不過是玉秋霜的屍體突然出現在程雲鶴貨箱中，鶴行鏢行雖然不是高手雲集，卻以信用揚名江湖，頗受敬重。
李蓮花溫言說：程雲鶴是不會騙人的，他說貨箱沒有人碰過，那就是沒有人碰過。在裝滿貴重珠寶、從來沒有別人碰過的貨箱中突然出現玉秋霜的屍體，聽起來是件無法解釋的事，但其實很簡單。
他對著雲嬌微笑，只要想通一點，就知道玉秋霜是怎麼進貨箱的。
雲嬌在臉色變得死白之後，剛才強硬的氣勢漸漸軟了：什麼？
程雲鶴是老實人，並不表示人人都是老實人。李蓮花保持著平靜而愉快的微笑，程雲鶴是不會騙人的，但雲姑娘卻是會騙人的，只要想通這一點，其實這件事並不奇怪。
她閉嘴了，默默聽著，聽李蓮花繼續說了下去：鶴行鏢行的人並不知道當晚玉秋霜住在小棉客棧，他們看到她的時候她已經死了，是嗎？
雲嬌僵硬了一下，點了點頭。
當晚在場的玉城劍士護送玉秋霜回玉城之後，也全都死了，是嗎？李蓮花又問。雲嬌又點了點頭。
那麼，其實程雲鶴並不瞭解玉秋霜當晚的情況，玉城劍士以訓練有素聞名，玉秋霜突然死去，也不會對旁人講述當晚的情況。根據玉秋霜的屍體在半月之內就被送回崑崙山計算，他們一定是日夜兼程立刻趕回了可惜的是一回城就因為玉城主發狂而全部死去。
李蓮花緩緩地說，那麼當晚玉秋霜究竟是死是活、在還是不在，不管是江湖上傳說的、程雲鶴得知的，都是由她的閨中密友，雲姑娘妳說的證人也只有妳一人，如果雲姑娘說謊呢？
他的眼睛看著雲嬌的眼睛，那天晚上，玉秋霜究竟如何，有誰知道？
雲嬌不答，但人已經整個癡了。
如果妳在說謊，那麼一切就真相大白了，玉秋霜一開始就在程雲鶴的貨箱內。李蓮花一字一字地說，語氣溫和，並不激烈，既然箱子沒有被換過，也沒有人碰過那箱子，那箱子就是原來的箱子，只不過在那天晚上發現了屍體而已，這麼一想，整件事便一點都不奇怪了。
我要是沒有騙人呢？she asked in a low voice.
那就是世上真的有鬼。他回答，我怕鬼，所以我不信。
她也不可能在程雲鶴的貨箱裡的，她根本不認識他雲嬌無力地說。
她不過是被託給程雲鶴那十六箱貨物其中一箱。李蓮花說，鏢主本是來自玉城，玉秋霜人在箱裡毫不稀奇。
你怎麼知道鏢主來自玉城？她突然失聲問，臉上露出了極其驚駭的表情其他的事可以用推論和猜測解釋，但這件事怎麼可能憑空猜出來？
她這一聲尖叫，無疑確定了鏢主來自玉城。李蓮花一笑，崑崙山出產白玉，山上的石頭多是礫石，中間夾帶玉石礦脈，玉城建在玉礦之上，冰川之旁，城內的石頭更與別處不同。用來壓箱底的石頭和玉城主花園裡的石頭一模一樣，十六箱貨物中有十箱裝滿了金銀珠玉，若不是玉城託鏢，難道是皇帝託鏢不成？
那她咬住了嘴唇，失色的唇在顫抖。
玉城富可敵國，或者是太富可敵國了些。李蓮花很溫柔地看著她，十箱珠寶即使對於高官富豪來說，也實在太多了。我不知道託鏢之人是誰，但那不重要。他緩緩地說，重要的是這批紅貨來自玉城，玉城不可能不知，玉秋霜之事妳說了謊。還有和妳一起出現的碧窗鬼影，那些螢火蟲雲姑娘，那不是鬼，鬼不必假扮鬼火，和鬼自己。
她低頭看看自己穿的一身黑衣和擲在地上的一蓬亂髮，眼淚突然又一滴滴掉了下來。
玉秋霜不是妳殺的，妳在替誰遮掩，為誰裝神弄鬼？李蓮花微笑問道，其實只要明白玉秋霜並不一定是死在小棉客棧，就很容易弄清楚妳在為誰遮掩，但是我希望雲姑娘不要因此決意頂罪。
雲嬌緩緩低頭：你既然這麼聰明，什麼事都能看破你去抓住兇手就好。
李蓮花搖了搖頭：自玉秋霜死後，所有裝神弄鬼的事都是雲姑娘在做，不是嗎？包括今晚殺李蓮花，都是雲姑娘親自執行妳保護的人並沒有打算和雲姑娘一起涉險，妳明白嗎？
李蓮花的眼神和語氣都很溫和，那是一種非常內斂的和氣，他並沒有咄咄逼人的意思。
雲嬌怔怔地看著他，她一直覺得這個時候的李蓮花很眼熟，彷彿在哪裡見過他但是怎麼可能會見過他呢？又或者只是曾經聽過非常類似的言談，以至於她一直沒有感受到太深的恐懼。
你我好像在哪裡見過你她喃喃地說，你明白嗎？do you understand?我當然明白可是我可是我
妳願意替他死？李蓮花問。
她淚珠盈然：我不知道，也許吧。
李蓮花凝視著她，看了好一陣子，喃喃道：玉城財寶，果然害人不淺我睏了。
他突然把被子拉上蓋住頭臉，夜深了，姑娘也該回去了。
雲嬌愕然，他把她鎖在房裡說了半天，看破她裝神弄鬼，不把她擒住交給玉紅燭，卻下了逐客令？頓了一頓，她竟然不是驚恐或者放鬆，而是尷尬。便回道：門鎖了。
李蓮花的聲音從被子下傳來：啊鎖了，但是沒關啊。
沒關？她愕然看著鎖死的大門果然金鎖鎖得整整齊齊，門縫間上中下三條門門都沒插上，鎖的另一頭根本沒扣在門板上，只是虛掩而已。一時間她不知該驚、該怒、該哭還是該笑，怔怔地推開門，行屍走肉般走了出去。
五、一代神醫
距離見鬼之夜已經過去七、八天了，從那夜以後再也沒有看到鬼影或聽到鬼歌。雲嬌當晚雖然走出了宗政明珠那間客房，但很快就被玉城劍士發現她穿著古怪的衣裳，神情恍惚行跡可疑，當晚就被玉紅燭關了起來。不過雲嬌在玉紅燭嚴刑拷打之下仍是什麼都沒說，這讓李蓮花遺憾得很。
這已是玉穆藍服用李蓮花那六味雜草湯的第八天了，病情仍然未見好轉，仍舊是呆若木雞，對身邊人事茫然無知。玉紅燭在李蓮花拔雜草的時候就隱約猜到這並不真是什麼奇藥，但李蓮花既然說要玉穆藍服下，她便仍舊每日照常浸泡，端一碗給玉穆藍喝。
這六味雜草湯究竟有什麼奇效？不只是玉紅燭，玉城內大家都疑惑得很。但就在第九天，玉穆藍的瘋病突然好了。
第九日早晨，玉穆藍的房門開了。那位昨日還目光呆滯的病人，今天早上開門出來的時候身著紫衣、精神飽滿、神采煥然。當人精神一振的時候，果然和病時不同，玉穆藍此時看來修偉頎長，渾然是一位風度翩翩的中年書生，眼若寒星，鼻若懸膽。
他對發狂之後發生的一切茫然不知，既不知道他縱火焚燒玉城，也不知道他竟下令叫護送小姐回城的五六十名劍士全部自盡，聽到消息之後大慟，在死者墳前眼淚潸潸而下，悔恨不已。玉紅燭心下嘆息，不敢讓他看見玉秋霜死狀可怕的屍體，只勸他靜心休養，照顧自己。而李蓮花趕來為玉穆藍查看病情之後，卻只兀自喃喃自語為何藥物到第九日才生效？真是奇怪也哉、不可思議！
早飯之後。
夫人抓住雲嬌後，當真沒有查出究竟是何人指使她假扮鬼怪，在玉城內裝神弄鬼？玉穆藍聽說了雲嬌被擒的經過後，奇怪地問，難道城內種種古怪離奇之事，都是雲嬌一人在暗中作怪？她和霜兒是至交好友，怎麼可能做下這種事？
她和霜兒一樣癡戀明珠，霜兒若不死，她怎可能得到明珠的心？玉紅燭冷冷地道，霜兒之死，斷然就是這個賤人搞的鬼，殺了我的女兒，居然還膽敢裝神弄鬼，到我玉城作怪！How bold!
她殺了霜兒？玉穆藍失聲問道。
她半夜三更到李先生房裡裝神弄鬼，出來的時候被劍士所擒，哪裡還有假？玉紅燭冷笑，我萬萬沒有想到，這個小賤人竟然敢在玉家犯下這種滔天大罪，若不將她像霜兒一般火焚而死，我便不配當這個娘！
玉穆藍目中露出怨恨之色：夫人，不如今日午時，我們便處置了她，為霜兒的死報仇雪恨。
玉紅燭點了點頭：我也正有此意，她並未受人指使，裝神弄鬼全是她一人所為，那天晚上還想謀害李先生，幸好被李先生擋下趕了出來。
玉城夫婦認定雲嬌是殺死玉秋霜的兇手無疑，就在說話之間，門口白影一晃，一名白衣劍士趕到門口：城主，夫人，屬下有要事相報。
What's up?玉紅燭微有慍色。
宗政公子回來了。白衣劍士道。
宗政公子回來了也是要事？玉穆藍也是慍怒，宗政明珠自從和玉秋霜有了婚約之後常常住在玉城，在城中已不算客人，宗政公子回來了算什麼要事？竟要打攪他們夫妻談話？
不，城主、夫人，宗政公子被人用枷鎖銬住，被捕青天押進來了！白衣劍士素來冷漠的語調中充滿了驚慌，還有花青天也來了
玉紅燭和玉穆藍都是全身一震，面面相覷，臉上忍不住流露出極度的驚愕之色：怎麼會
當今朝廷之中，有兩位朝臣，位屬大理寺，代聖上巡查天下刑案，一位號稱捕青天卜承海，另一位號稱花青天花如雪。這兩人曾經抓過十一位皇親國戚，殺了九人，流放兩人，是朝野之間都十分忌憚的人物。
現下這兩個人竟然押著宗政明珠進玉城來了，這還不是讓朝野江湖震驚的大事嗎？玉紅燭和玉穆藍雙雙一拍桌面，騰身而起，身形皆是矯如飛燕，直撲玉城大殿之中。
玉城大殿之中，仍舊是金碧輝煌，宗政明珠被人點了穴道，臉色慘白地站在殿中。他身後站著兩人，一人身材高大、一人身材瘦小。兩人都穿著官袍，一人只嫌官袍太小、一人只嫌官袍太大，衣冠都不甚整齊，有些滑稽可笑，但正是如此讓人一眼就認出，這兩人是捕花二青天，卜承海和花如雪。見到玉紅燭和玉穆藍雙雙落地，長得又矮又瘦，皮膚黝黑，有三角眼和老鼠鼻的花如雪冷冷地問：可是你們二人報稱此人殺人？
玉紅燭和玉穆藍再次愕然，玉紅燭驚慌地問道：這位公子乃是當朝宗政丞相之孫，兩位大人是不是抓錯人了？玉穆藍卻是大叫一聲：明珠！難道是你殺了霜兒？
花如雪皺了皺眉，卜承海也是一怔，從懷裡抖出一張字條：難道不是你們夫婦報稱此人殺害玉秋霜，要我等將他捉拿歸案？此事究竟是真是假，到底是怎麼回事？
不，這當然不是我夫妻的意思。玉紅燭道，他是我家霜兒未婚夫婿，怎麼可能殺害霜兒？到底是誰胡說八道，實在是可惡至極
玉穆藍卻厲聲道：定是這小子勾結雲嬌殺害我霜兒，我還道雲嬌一介女流武功不高，怎可能害死霜兒？原來她還和明珠同謀，定是明珠指使
花如雪和卜承海又相視了一眼，這倒奇了。他們兩人巡查天下已久，這宗政明珠乾巴巴地拿著一封信找上他們暫住的平雁樓，他們打開信一看，寫信人只寫了一句：速拿信使，此人為殺害玉秋霜之兇手，欲解全案，請上玉城。兩人考慮良久，仍是把人擒下，帶上玉城。不料一進玉城，城主夫妻一人稱宗政明珠絕非殺人兇手，另一人一口咬定他與旁人勾結殺害玉秋霜，這案情離奇至極。碧窗有鬼殺人一事卜承海和花如雪也久有耳聞，但事情如此詭譎多變，也甚是出乎他們意料之外。
Who are you?就在玉家夫婦意見分歧之時，卜承海卻瞪著殿中一個坐著喝茶的年輕人，這個人從他們進來的時候就兀自倒茶葉、洗茶杯、泡茶，如今還端端正正地坐在那邊很愜意地喝茶，竟好像悠閒愉快得很。
I?坐在殿裡喝茶的人當然是李蓮花，閒人
玉紅燭突然尖叫了一聲，玉穆藍和她成親多年從未聽過她這樣不要命的尖叫：李蓮花！是你原來是你！你你這妖怪！
李蓮花啊了一聲，看著玉紅燭的臉上滿是歉意：讓夫人失望了，慚愧，慚愧。
玉紅燭惡狠狠地瞪著他，那美豔的眼瞳之中混合著驚恐和絕望：你她突然飛身而起，一掌往李蓮花頭上劈去，掌勢凌厲，竟是要將他立斃掌下！她一掌未至，李蓮花手裡的茶杯已被她掌風掃落，啪啦！一聲，茶水潑了一身，他站起來轉身就逃。玉紅燭這一掌把他坐的椅子劈得爆裂粉碎，但她臉色慘白，顯然有些事已然無法掩飾。
這時花如雪鬼魅般地站到了她背後，用兩根手指夾著她的脖子，陰惻惻地道：夫人，敢在欽差面前殺人，妳好大的膽子。
身邊的卜承海也冷冷地問李蓮花：是你寫的信？
李蓮花逃到門口，發現安全之後轉過身來微笑：是我。
被點住穴道的宗政明珠臉色死白，全身都在瑟瑟發抖，李蓮花歉然地看箸他，似乎真的覺得很對不起他，宗政明珠對他推心置腹，他卻把他給賣了。
宗政明珠是玉秋霜的未婚夫婿，為何你說他殺害未婚妻子？花如雪問。
李蓮花慢慢從門口走了回來，坐上了被玉紅燭劈碎的那張椅子旁邊的太師椅上，舒舒服服地嘆了口氣，露出李蓮花特有的微笑似乎很溫和平靜，卻怎麼看都隱隱透露一點點未免太過愉快的感覺：因為玉城主不會劈空掌。
花如雪和卜承海都是眉頭一皺。玉穆藍臉上露出尷尬之色，卻是鬆了口氣，臉上的表情很奇妙，不知他是希望聽見李蓮花往下說、還是不希望李蓮花往下說。
只聽他說：勞煩城主下令把雲姑娘放出來吧，你最清楚她是無辜的。隨即他喃喃