Chapter 5 Chapter Four Embroidered Human Skin
A piece of snow-white and smooth human skin, on which a strange picture is densely embroidered with embroidery thread. Under the light, the human skin looks like when it was alive, like creamy white jade. The picture reflects the light, and each one on it is strange The gorgeous patterns seem to be twisting and dancing in the dim light
This skin is very famous, and the reason why it is famous is that it grew on a famous person, but that person died ten days ago and turned into an embroidered human skin.
1. Embroidered human skin
When Li Lianhua got the human skin, he and Fang Duobing were eating. After getting the human skin, Fang Duobing immediately said that he was full, but Li Lianhua still ate the whole bowl of rice and three taels with relish. Braised beef with a cup of tea.
This human skin is the skin of Wei Qingchou, the most beautiful man in Jianghu. According to legend, Wei Qingchou was born like a pearl and beautiful jade. He is eight feet one inch tall. When women meet, they must fall in love with Mr. Pianpianjia, a troubled world.Ten days ago, he married Qi Ruyu, the daughter of Qi Chunlan, a wealthy man from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Crazy with fright.This matter was widely circulated in the past ten days. Some people said that Wei Qingchou was originally a fox with human skin, but now it showed its original shape; Said that the skin is absolutely Wei Qingchou's skin, have you seen the mung bean-sized birthmark on his belly?That is absolutely true and infallible is
Because the daughter of Qi Chunlan's cousin's brother-in-law married the son of Fang's aunt, that is to say, Qi Ruyu and Fang Duobing are relatives, so this embroidered human skin was quickly passed on to Fang Duobing. Qi Chunlan didn't know where she heard that Li Lianhua could make the dead speak and was proficient in yin and yang techniques, so she carefully entrusted the embroidering of human skin to Fang Duobai, implying that she entrusted it to Li Lianhua.
Although he had known for a long time that there was such a piece of human skin, when Qi Chunlan's subordinates brought the human skin and opened it in front of Fang Duobing's eyes, his first feeling was still nausea.
A piece of snow-white and smooth human skin, on which a strange picture is densely embroidered with embroidery threads. Under the light, the human skin looks like when it was alive, like creamy white jade. The pattern seems to be twisting and circling in the dim light
The human skin is about one foot wide and nearly two feet long. It has been soaked in an unknown potion and has a strange fragrance.Fang Duobing and Li Lianhua stared at the human skin intently. Li Lianhua was smiling, and Fang Duobing cursed in a low voice, but couldn't help stretching out his fingers and gently tracing the bright lines on the human skin. When I touched it, I felt that the embroidery pattern was fine and delicate, and the human skin was smooth and smooth. There was a strange smell under my finger, which made me want to play with it. The pattern embroidered on it was:
What is this thing?Fang Duobing dropped his human skin, a spell?signal?Or is it the kind of talisman that Taoist priests string on mahogany swords?
Li Lianhua said: How do I know?A bottle, a mountain, an axe, an egg, two people, and a string of unknown things. This person must be very good at peeling and embroidering, otherwise how could he make it so clean and beautiful?
Fang Duobing murmured: But embroidery should only be done by women. Could it be that Wei Qingchou is a romantic and sentimental man, and he wants to get married. Which female devil kills him because of love and hatred, and then embroiders the human skin?
Li Lianhua sighed: You have always been very smart, but besides Jiao Liqiao who loves to eat people, there are also Zhang Liqiao and Li Liqiao who love to skin you.
Fang Duo is sick and happy: Do you want to ask for a wife recently, dead lotus?
Li Lianhua said seriously: "I have already asked for my wife, but I just remarried to someone else."
Fang Duobiao snorted: Nonsense, in short, you must understand what's going on, I'll prepare the carriage tonight, and you and I will go to the Qijia Immortal Mansion.
Qichunlan's family is known as the Immortal Mansion, so it's no small matter, without Fang's carriage, Li Lianhua and his ilk would never be able to get in.Li Lianhua nodded again and again, her eyes lingered on the exquisitely embroidered human skin, those eight strange patterns must have meaning, but would the murderer embroider clues by himself so that others could trace him?If it is not a clue about the murderer, what do those patterns indicate?The case of embroidered human skin is indeed bizarre and very curious.
Eight days later, Ruizhou.
Fang Duobing and Li Lianhua came to the Immortal Mansion in Fang's gorgeous and spacious carriage.Fang's carriage is pulled by eight horses, the walls are made of nanmu, exquisitely carved, and all kinds of gold, silver and jewelry are hung on the four corners, which is extremely luxurious.Li Lianhua sat all the way, the eight-horse-drawn cart shook violently, the gold, silver and jewels hanging outside were clanging, it was very noisy, when she arrived, she only felt sore back and painful, extremely uncomfortable.Fang Duobing was falling asleep, when the carriage stopped, Li Lianhua shook him twice before waking him up.The coachman outside reported that Fang's arrival was sick, and the gate of the Immortal Mansion slowly opened to let Fang's luxurious carriage in.
Li Lianhua lifted up the window screen and took a look, gasping for air. She saw the splendor of the Qi family, and the courtyards everywhere were 10% larger and three feet taller than usual, and even the flowers and trees planted were much larger than usual. , Fang's carriage looked extraordinary on the road, but somehow it became extremely ordinary and inconspicuous when entering the Immortal Mansion.
The carriage stopped quickly, and Fang Duoxing was completely awake. He took a towel from the car and wiped his face, and pretended to get out of the car. Li Lianhua followed behind him.
I saw a middle-aged man with a handsome figure walking on the opposite side, with a white face and long beard, his expression was very sad, he cupped his hands and said: "I think this is Mr. Fang. He came from a long way. I am very grateful. My family is unfortunate and has undergone great changes." , Qi was extremely ashamed.
Fang Duobing also bowed his hand in return, and replied softly: Uncle Qi, don't worry, since he is an in-law, the affairs of the Qi family are the affairs of our Fang, and the affairs of Qiqi's cousin, Fang will not hesitate.
He really didn't know what kind of relatives Qi Ruyu and him were, and when the words came to his lips, he abruptly recognized a cousin.
Li Lianhua knew what he was thinking, and smiled slightly. Fang Duobing said that the Qi family's matter was my Fang's matter, but he didn't say that it was Fang's matter. If Qi Chunlan couldn't understand this meaning, then It's not Qi Chunlan anymore.
Qi Chunlan was still full of sadness, looking at his appearance was extremely sad, as if the sky and the earth were gloomy, the sun and the moon were dimmed, one couldn't bear to guess what was going on in this man's mind, only heard him say: Both are martial arts masters, both of them Come here, I am not afraid of Ruyu's matter. To be honest, I have been worried day and night these days. I don't know who my Qi family offended. Others start.
Although Fang Duobing and Qi Chunlan were relatives, they had never met each other before. Seeing his appearance, Fang Duobing and Li Lianhua looked at each other in dismay, they were all very surprised. They never expected that the majestic rich man in Jiangsu and Zhejiang would look like this.
Uncle, don't be afraid, wait for the owner of Silian Li and I to check the place where the embroidered human skin was found that day. Uncle and Zhan Yunfei stay in the house first, don't walk around at will.
Before he arrived, Qi Chunlan wrote a letter explaining that he ordered the guard Zhan Yunfei and others to guard the main courtyard tightly, and he and his wife and daughter hid in it day and night, not daring to come out.Zhan Yunfei, the guard of the Qi family, is known as the dragon of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, with superb martial arts, and the 86th No-Front Sword ranks thirty-seventh in the Jianghu. He is loyal to Qi Chunlan and is a rare guard candidate.When the bizarre incident of embroidered human skin happened in the Qi family that day, he was being sent to the capital to handle errands, and this gave the murderer the opportunity to kill and skin the unscrupulous Yun.
Qi Chunlan nodded again and again, behind him a tall man with long hair in a gray robe and long sleeves nodded slightly to the sickly man, he was like Zhan Yunfei.Fang Duobing had never met this famous hero in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He heard that this man was a hero and traveled around the world. He was rescued by Qi Chunlan after being wounded one day, so he was willing to be a slave.Fang Duobing disapproved of this method of repaying kindness, and Zhan Yunfei's failure to comb his hair was a big taboo against Fang Duobing, but he was still quite respectable.
Fang Duobing looked him up and down a few times, but saw that Zhan Yunfei nodded to him, then stared behind him intently.When Fang Duobing turned his head, he saw Li Lianhua smiling slightly at Zhan Yunfei. Zhan Yunfei's eyes moved, and the look in his eyes was indescribably strange. Fang Duobing was very surprised in his heart, did these two know each other?Where did the dead lotus recognize this kind of knight-errant who has been rampant for more than ten years?If not, what does the look mean?
Qi Chunlan and Zhan Yunfei left quickly, leaving behind a tea-serving boy to take them to the bridal chamber, and when Qi Chunlan left, Fang Sickly asked, "Do you know Zhan Yunfei?"
Li Lianhua groaned: We met once.
Fang Duobing said: An old man in his thirties doesn't comb his hair, it's very weird, why does he wink at you?
Li Lianhua wondered: Winking?Ah, you misunderstood, there was a fly flying over my head just now, he probably wasn't looking at me.I heard that this person made his debut at the age of eighteen, and was already very famous at the age of twenty. At the age of twenty-two, when he bet against others, the result was a disastrous defeat. Since then, he has not combed his hair. This person is very trustworthy.
Fang sickly said: "If you lose the martial arts competition, you don't comb your hair. What's the reason for that?"
Li Lianhua said: That's because he made a bet with others, the bet is that whoever loses will not comb his hair.
Fang Duobing laughed loudly: Who is he fighting against?
Li Lianhua said: "Li Xiangyi."
Fang Duoxing smiled even more happily: This senior Li is very weird, why would he bet on letting others not comb their hair?
Li Lianhua sighed: It was only because Li Xiangyi and Zhan Yunfei teamed up to defeat the Lianhai Gang that day and captured the leader of the Lianhai Gang, Jiang Dafei. Li Xiangyi wanted to tie Jiang Dafei back to Taizhou. Zhan Yunfei's headscarf
Fang Duobing admired and admired Li Daxia so much, he slapped the railing suddenly, laughed and said: Zhan Yunfei naturally refused to give away the turban, so they started a martial arts competition with the turban, it was refreshing!It's a pity that Li Xiangyi is dead, I made my debut too late, and I can't see his demeanor, what a pity, pity!
Li Lianhua said: "That's nothing to be sorry about."
Fang Duobing laughed halfway, and suddenly remembered: Huh?How do you know these things?
Li Lianhua hadn't finished her sentence just now, she was stunned suddenly: Ah, I saw Zhan Yunfei once on the day of the martial arts competition, and I never saw him again after that.
Fang Duoxing was extremely envious, and squinted at Li Lianhua: Tsk tsk, then you must have met Li Xiangyi?He never said anything about it.how?Isn't it handsome, handsome, imposing, capable of poetry, painting, and a peerless immortal?
Li Lianhua thought for a long time, as if she was thinking hard about how to express Li Xiangyi's peerless demeanor, before she said: "Is that Li Xiangyi? The bridal chamber is here."
Fang Duoxing was waiting for him to describe how magnificent Li Xiangyi was, when he suddenly heard that the bridal chamber had arrived, his heart shivered.
The two stood still together, and saw a small red building nestled among pavilions and pavilions, deep in exotic flowers and grasses.There was a faint fragrance of flowers in the wind. I don't know what kind of exotic flowers are blooming here.
Fang Duosick looked at the small red building obsessively: there is such a house in the world
Li Lianhua smiled slightly: Let's go.
Fang Duobing was thinking in his mind that Li Lianhua's lotus building with auspicious patterns was really bad and ugly compared to this bridal chamber. He pressed his hand on the door of the small red building, pushed hard, and the door opened with a babbling sound. The smell of blood rushed towards his face, and the tea-serving boy avoided it far away, not daring to look into the door.
Two, the bride
There is a pool of dry black blood on the ground inside the door. If it wasn't for this pool of black blood, the ground was originally paved with white marble, smooth and delicate, without any blemishes. Now the white blood is very terrifying.Apart from a puddle of blood on the floor of the lobby, there were no other traces, and the chairs on both sides were made of red sandalwood, which looked hideous in the dim light.Fang sickness lit the lights in the house, and saw that the candlesticks in the room were all made of gold, and the red candles on them were also very bright red, different from ordinary red candles.A copper gossip hangs on the beam. The casting is exquisite. There is a picture of flying clouds and the sun on it. Pursuing the style of simplicity, a little black smoke is smoked on the copper gossip. The red tassels under it are beaten into the shape of double happiness.There is a screen directly opposite the door. The screen is carved with green agate. It is also a picture of flying clouds and the sun.
Fang Duobing and Li Lianhua walked slowly behind the screen, and here was the bridal chamber. The bridal chamber was very spacious, all red in color, and there was a wooden frame under the window, which was supposed to hold a washbasin, but for some reason it was not placed.The pillows and brocade quilts of various colors on the bed are exquisite, and beside the bed are two huge red candles that are as tall as a person's waist and eye-thin.There is a desk next to the bed, on which the four treasures of the study are complete, and there are slight ink marks in the inkstone. The couple seems to rest after composing poems and painting.A few red clothes were discarded on the bed, and there were some small bloodstains.Li Lianhua picked up the dress and unfolded it. Both of them saw mandarin ducks and lotus flowers embroidered on the corner of the dress. It was not a phoenix crown and a rosy robe, but a bridal gown. There were seven or eight small holes on the sleeves, varying in size. etc. The positions are different, basically the hole on the right is bigger than the one on the left, and there is a bloodstain on the sleeve on the left.Looking at the bridal chamber, it was not as bloody as imagined, the frightening scene of skinning, it seemed that there was surprisingly little blood.
The weather is not very cold, does the bride need to wear so many clothes when entering the bridal chamber?Fang Duo sickly muttered, and unfolded several clothes on the bed one by one. There were weird small holes on the sleeves, and the positions were all about the same size. There were more than thirty in total. What the hell is this?Could it be that the murderer still stabbed her clothes more than 30 times?
Li Lianhua said: This is not
He uncovered the quilt, and there were only some tiny blood spots on the brocade quilt, but there was a large black bloodstain under the quilt, and a small hole was pierced on the bed board.Li Lianhua suddenly climbed onto the bed, Fang Duosick was startled: what are you doing?
As soon as Li Lianhua raised his head, he bumped the back of his head against the bed frame with a thud, and with an oops, he turned his head and stared blankly at the bed frame.
Fang Duoxing became curious, and climbed onto the bed to look at the bed frame, only to see a sparkling thing deeply embedded in a very high place inside the nanmu bed frame.
Li Lianhua, the golden silk pearl, murmured, "You are so smart, why is this thing here?"
Fang Duobing opened his eyes wide, stretched out his fingers and wanted to pull out the golden silk pearl: Is this from the phoenix crown?Could it be that their husband and wife fought and threw Fengguan here?
Li Lianhua raised her hand to stop her, and murmured: "Although it's not in the middle or far away, it's a little too high here."
He got out of bed, walked around the room twice, and sighed, your cousin is the bride, but someone else entered the bridal chamber, no wonder this person died in a muddleheaded way, I'm afraid that people still can't figure out how they died in the underworld of.
Fang Duoxing was taken aback: What did you say?Others enter the bridal chamber?You said the bride is not Qi Ruyu?
Li Lianhua glanced at him sideways, then shook her head: "It's obvious that either Qi Chunlan lied to you or me, or Qi Ruyu lied to Qi Chunlan."
He suddenly put the bridal gown on Fang Duobing's body. Fang Duobing was caught off guard and was about to take it off in a hurry. Li Lianhua patted him on the shoulder: You use your right hand more than your left, right?
The sleeve of Fang's left hand was entangled with the sleeve of his right hand, and he was startled when he heard this: "That's right."
Li Lianhua picked up the golden candlestick on the table and handed it to Fang Duobing's right hand. Fang Duobing held it casually, bewildered, what are you doing?
Li Lianhua took both of his hands, hid the candlestick in his clothes, held the back with his right hand, and the front with his left hand, and stabbed down.
Fang Duobing yelled: Could it be that Qi Ruyu killed Wei Qingchou?
With such gestures, it is obvious that on the wedding night, there was a sharp weapon hidden in the bride's dress, and the bride's right hand held the weapon to assassinate Wei Qingchou through the sleeve of the dress. However, the sleeves are multi-layered and wrinkled, and have been worn many times.The armhole of the right sleeve is larger, that is because the murder weapon passed through the sleeve of the right sleeve first.
Li Lianhua shook her head: You see so little blood on the quilt, and so much blood under the quilt. After being stabbed, this man lay on the bed until he died, bleeding profusely.No matter what sharp weapon the murderer used, the thrust was obviously extremely strong, maybe he was nailed to the bed like this, does your cousin know martial arts?
Fang Duobing stared and said: I haven't even met my cousin, so how do I know if she knows martial arts?
Li Lianhua said: "Your cousin is also doing very poorly. But if the bride is a woman, when she kneels on the bed and assassinates the groom, the phoenix crown she wears can hit the bed frame. She is obviously taller than me."
He gestured the height of the phoenix crown on his head, if it wasn't for your cousin who is eight feet one inch tall, or the bride who wore a summer cloak and a phoenix crown on the wedding night was someone else.
Fang Duo was horrified by illness, and stayed for a while: On the wedding night, someone pretended to be the bride and assassinated the groom. Qi Chunlan is too useless.
Li Lianhua giggled: A bride who is eight feet one inch tall is rare.
Fang Duobing muttered to himself: Qi Chunlan said that Qi Ruyu saw Wei Qingchou turned into a human skin after waking up, this is obviously nonsense, either Qi Ruyu killed Wei Qingchou, or someone pretended to be a bride Kill Wei Qingchou, and this bride, this fake bride, is most likely an accomplice with Qi Chunlan, otherwise why would Qi Ruyu lie?After all, brides with a height of eight feet one inch are rare, so how could the Qi family not realize it?
Li Lianhua said slowly: Then you must meet your cousin.
Just as he was talking about his cousin, there was a sudden crash outside the small red building.
who?Fang Duobing let out a cry, and a person outside the room opened the pearl curtain hanging by the door, with long uncombed hair and gray robe with long sleeves, it was Zhan Yunfei.He glanced at Li Lianhua indifferently, as if he had heard the conversation between the two: Have you finished watching?
Fang Duoxic coughed: "It's over."
In his mind, if the Qi family conspired to kill Wei Qingchou, Zhan Yunfei must be involved, so the way he looked at people was a bit weird.
Zhan Yunfei clasped his hands: Master invites the two Youlantangs to speak.
Youlan Hall is the main courtyard of the Immortal Mansion, and Qichunlan, Qi Ruyu, and Qichunlan's wife, You Shi, all live in Youlan Hall.
Zhan Yunfei led Li Lianhua and Fang Duobing into the Youlan Hall, only to see a faint figure outside the wall and door, and there were seven or eight white-clothed swordsmen standing in front of the corridor and behind the house, everyone looked solemn and strictly guarded.
Li Lianhua praised: "Hero Zhan is really amazing. He has trained so many swordsmen. Everyone has high martial arts skills and is a talent."
Fang Duobing also said: "Youlan Hall is as solid as a gold soup, in fact, Uncle Qi need not be afraid, there is a hero Zhan, what can't be solved?"I waited to come from afar, but it was superfluous.
Li Lianhua praised sincerely, but Fang Sickly was intentionally sarcastic. Zhan Yunfei glanced at Li Lianhua lightly, and the look in his eyes was still very strange: I'm sorry.
Fang Duobing choked, and was about to say a few more words, when several people had already reached the entrance of the main hall of Youlan Hall, Qi Chunlan was waiting in front of the door, with an anxious face on her face, as soon as she saw Fang Shaobing, she grabbed him: Do you understand? Did you know the meaning of the embroidered human skin?
Fang Duo couldn't figure it out, and said in astonishment: What does it mean?
Qi Chunlan was extremely disappointed, and she stomped her feet repeatedly: Yunfei, tell them, how could my miserable Ruyu get into trouble with such a devil?
Zhan Yunfei closed the door, and asked Fang Manyai and Li Lianhua to sit down, while Qi Chunlan kept walking back and forth, looking very irritable.
It turned out that Qi Chunlan's daughter, Qi Ruyu, had a slight limp on her right foot, she was very short, and she was not a strange woman with a height of eight feet one inch. She had a limp on her right foot and rarely went out. Qi Chunlan planned to marry her daughter to Zhan Yunfei. But one thing on my mind.Although Qi Ruyu is lame, she is eighteen years old, rich in wealth, and handsome. Although Zhan Yunfei is older, she is also a hero of the generation. In Qi Chunlan's opinion, it is an ideal marriage.Unexpectedly, Zhan Yunfei refused and refused to marry Qi Ruyu. Qi Ruyu was hit hard. One day, he sneaked out of Qi's house and played with his maidservants in the outskirts of the city to relieve his mood, but picked up a man back to Qi's house. The man was naturally Wei Qing worried.Wei Qingchou is young, handsome and has a gentle language, but after a month or so the two of them made a marriage contract.Qi Chunlan was originally displeased, but Wei Qingchou's handsome character won You Shi's love, and she had never heard of any bad deeds. In addition, her daughter's wedding dowry had already been prepared, so she was repeatedly encouraged by You Shi, so she agreed to the marriage.
One late night, Qi Chunlan got up to go to the toilet at night, and suddenly saw a figure shaking slowly on the wall, the shape was extremely weird, he poked his head out, gasped, and saw Wei Qingchou wearing a white robe, in the flower gallery outside the door Crawling on the ground, like a humanoid worm, it couldn't help making a low, strange laugh, wriggling and crawling towards the door.Qi Chunlan looked in the direction of the door, and saw a woman in white clothes wearing a green gauze standing at the gate of Youlan Hall, her long hair reached her waist, the green gauze she was wearing was covered with blood spots, and the white clothes were also covered with blood. There was blood, and the right arm was hanging in the air, and it was actually broken.Qi Chunlan was scared out of her wits, a mouthful of phlegm stuck in her throat and passed out, when she woke up in the daytime, she was lying on her own bed and asked You Shi, You Shi said that he was dreaming of ghosts in the middle of the night, nonsense!
But after this incident, Qi Chunlan inevitably became suspicious of Wei Qingchou, the closer the marriage, the more restless she became, and finally couldn't bear it anymore, and sent Zhan Yunfei to the capital to investigate Wei Qingchou.However, it took more than a month for Zhan Yunfei to leave and come and go, and Qi Ruyu and Wei Qingchou got married as scheduled. Who would have thought that such a weird and terrifying thing would happen on the wedding night!Thinking of Wei Qingchou and the female ghost that Qi Chunlan saw that night, she was terrified. Day and night, she was worried that after Wei Qingchou was killed by the female ghost, she would kill the whole family of the Qi family and strip everyone of her skin for embroidery, so she was extremely terrified.
Zhan Yunfei has a cold personality, speaks concisely, and the stories he tells are not pleasant at all. Fang Duobiao is bored listening to them, and his eyes can't help moving on many things in Youlan Hall, only to see a girl in Tsing Yi sitting at the side with her head bowed, not saying a word. Not moving, Yue Mo is his cousin.
After Zhan Yunfei explained the matter clearly, Fang Duo couldn't help but asked: Cousin Ruyu, what did you see when you woke up that day?But I said in my heart: If the bride is not you, how can you think that you are the bride?Where in the world is there a bride who doesn't know whether she has entered the bridal chamber?Could it be that you conspired with that fake bride?
I, my Qi Ruyu tremblingly said, before I could say anything, tears came out of my eyes, I just remember that I was sitting in the bridal chamber, Qingchou came in drunk and then I didn’t know anything, when I woke up, I I saw blood all over the bed, and that picture
She trembled violently and turned pale.
Li Lianhua glanced at the clear tea on the table, Fang Duobiao hurriedly picked up the tea, let Qi Ruyu take a sip, and continued, "And that human skin?"
Qi Ruyu closed her eyes and nodded.
Fang Duobing was surprised. If Qi Ruyu was indeed sitting in the bridal chamber, how did the fake bride pretend to be the bride?The purpose of pretending to be a bride is to make Wei Qingchou mistakenly think that she is Qi Ruyu, but Wei Qingchou has already entered when Qi Ruyu was awake, how can the fake bride remove Qi Ruyu when he is not paying attention, and then Changing clothes and pretending to be Qi Ruyu?Turning his head to look at Li Lianhua, he saw him smiling slightly, as if he was very satisfied with Qi Ruyu's answer, and felt even more resentful, wondering what Zhan Daxia got for going to Beijing?
Zhan Yunfei said calmly: Wei Qingchou's parents died, his family was poor, he was handsome, he worshiped at Emei's sect to practice martial arts, and soon he changed his teacher to steal Zhang Tiezu alone.He made his debut two years ago, never mentioned his family background, and walked the rivers and lakes as a noble son. He has never done anything big, but his reputation is not bad.He said it implicitly, but Fang Duoxic blurted out and asked: Where did he get the money?
Zhan Yunfei shook his head, and Li Lianhua said: "It's not uncommon for someone to fall into a cliff and find some secret treasure, and become a noble son with high martial arts skills overnight."
Fang Duo said sickly: Nonsense!All in all, Zhang Tiezu died four years ago. According to Zhang Tiezu's knowledge of martial arts, he would never be able to teach an apprentice like Wei Qingchou. There must be something wrong with it!
Li Lianhua said slowly: Maybe his knowledge and martial arts were taught by Emei nuns
Fang Duobing was about to yell at Lianhua to fight him, when he suddenly remembered that his relative Qi Chunlan was present, held back in time, and said indifferently: Nun Emei has no money to let him eat free food to be a noble son, Zhang Tieqi himself is too poor, otherwise How could you rob?
Zhan Yunfei nodded: Zhang Tiezu died four years ago at the hands of the loyal hero Huo Pingchuan, Wei Qingchou just made his debut two years ago, and he didn't know where he ended up for two years, so there must be something wrong.
Li Lianhua murmured a few words to herself, then suddenly opened her eyes and looked at Qi Ruyu: I still have a question that I can't figure out, if this is Wei Qingchou's skin, where is his body?
Qi Ruyu was stunned, Qi Chunlan and You Shi looked at each other, Zhan Yunfei said in a deep voice: "I don't know where it will end.
Li Lianhua sighed: that is to say, that night, shortly after Miss Qi entered the bridal chamber, Wei Qingchou came in. It's all blood, and there's a piece of human skin on the bed, but other than that, there's no other trace or body, is there?
Qi Ruyu nodded, her face turned even paler,
Li Lianhua said: "In the night of the bridal chamber, there should be no one going in and out of the bridal chamber, so how did Wei Qingchou disappear out of thin air?"This one.If someone killed Wei Qingchou, how did he enter the bridal chamber and how did he disappear?This second.And that piece of human skin, if someone killed Wei Qingchou just to peel off this piece of human skin, why didn't he take it away?This is the third.
The secret path Qi Chunlan murmured, Yunfei, is there a secret path in the red makeup building?
Zhan Yunfei shook his head, and said flatly: "It's absolutely impossible."
Fang Duobing couldn't help but said: Wei Qingchou has martial arts, can't he open the window and escape?
Zhan Yunfei said: This is absolutely impossible. On the wedding night, there are servants and maidservants outside the bridal chamber. Unless it is Di Feisheng and others performing cross-crossing techniques, it is impossible that no one will see it.
Li Lianhua asked slowly: Who first discovered the murder in the room that day?
Qi Chunlan said: "It's Ah Gui, he heard the young lady's scream and broke in with everyone else, and saw blood and human skin in the room.
He suddenly said, talking about the guards outside the bridal chamber, dozens of people said that the lights had not been turned off that night, but they didn't see anything strange.
Li Lianhua said: "Of course the lights are still on."
Fang sickly said: Why did the fire not go out naturally?People are bridal chamber candles, do you think everyone does not turn off the lights?What nonsense?
Li Lianhua gave a absent-minded ah, and murmured: It is absolutely impossible for someone to get out of the bridal chamber on a wedding night, and it will definitely attract attention, but what if someone goes in?When Miss Qi was waiting in the room that night, did she call the maidservant?
Qi Ruyu trembled slightly, and said in a low voice: No.
Zhan Yunfei rolled his eyes, and said in a deep voice: But the guard's servant reported that Miss ordered Eyue to bring tea to rinse her mouth at midnight.
Qi Ruyu shook her head again and again: No, I didn't order it.
Li Lianhua and Fang Duobing looked at each other: Who is Eyue?
Zhan Yunfei said: Eyue is Miss's dowry girl.
Qi Chunlan stomped her feet and said, "Call E Yue over immediately, and ask who asked her to deliver the tea that day?"
The maid Eyue will arrive soon, she is a tall maidservant, quite strong and strong, she is in charge of Qi Ruyu's daily life, Qi Ruyu is lame, Qi Chunlan and You Shi specially selected this very strong maidservant to accompany her.
Qi Chunlu asked sharply: "Who told you to bring tea over on the night of weddings and candles in the bridal chamber?"Did you see anything when you sent the tea over?
E Yue was at a loss: Bring tea?Master, I didn't bring tea and the lady didn't order, how dare I break into the bridal chamber?i really didn't
Qi Chunlan said angrily: How dare you deny it?Agui said that I saw you entering through the gate!
Eyue knelt down with a plop, her face pale: I didn't!Master Mingcha, I really have never entered the red makeup building, the person who entered was not me
Qi Chunlan was furious: drag me down
Before he finished speaking, Fang Duobing coughed lightly and said: "I don't think Eyue lied. There was probably someone else who entered the bridal chamber that night. Otherwise, how could there be an extra murderer in the bridal chamber out of thin air?"Has anyone seen Eyue come out?
Zhan Yunfei was slightly startled, and pondered: Guifu only said that he saw Eyue delivering tea in the middle of the night, and then he patrolled around to check, not knowing if she came out.
Li Lianhua interjected: She came out.
Qi Chunlan wondered: How do you know?
On the contrary, Li Lianhua was even more surprised: Later, there was not one more person in the bridal chamber, but one less uncle. Since there were no more people, it means she came out, why?Is not it?
Qi Chunlan was startled, and secretly scolded herself for being confused: But Wei Qingchou didn't see the dead or the dead, but where did he disappear out of thin air?
Wei Qingchou did not disappear out of thin air.Li Lianhua said, he just walked away from the gate openly and aboveboard.
Everyone was stunned, and they all let out a cry of astonishment, and Qi Chunlan called out: What?how come?Didn't he die in the bridal chamber?
Fang Duoxing also stared and said: How come?If he is not dead, why did he leave?
Three, in the bridal chamber
Why did he leave.Li Lianhua said with a wry smile, I won't know until I see Eyue in that room
Qi Chunlan said: "What crescent moon?"Eyue is right in front of you, and such a thing happened in the bridal chamber, how can there be anyone else?
Li Lianhua said: "Someone, there is a dead man in the bridal chamber."
Speaking of this, everyone's faces were full of disbelief, Fang Duobing couldn't help but shouted: You and I were walking around inside just now, where is there a dead person?Why did I not see it?
Zhan Yunfei also said: If there is a dead body in the bridal chamber, how come no one found it for eight or nine days?
There was obviously a dead person in the bridal chamber, but everyone paid too much attention to the human skin, or was too short, so they didn't pay attention.
Li Lianhua sighed. There were traces of sharp weapons on the bride's clothes, there was a large amount of blood on the bride's bed, there was a hole in the bed board, and there was a piece of human skin on the bed. All these signs only showed that someone wearing the bride's clothes killed someone on the bed. It's just an individual, it doesn't mean that the person who was killed was Wei Qingchou.
Everyone was shocked and blurted out: What?Could it be that Wei Qingchou wasn't the one who was killed?
Li Lianhua said: "Maybe Wei Qingchou was killed, maybe not, but he was in the bridal chamber
Let's go, where are you in the bridal chamber?Fang Duoxing couldn't hold back his shot any longer, he grabbed Li Lianhua's wrist and dragged him away, Zhan Yunfei and the others followed quickly, and they soon arrived in the bridal chamber. Where is someone?Fang Duobing knocked around, the house was made of nanmu, it was very strong, not to mention secret passages, secret rooms, not even a mouse hole.
Where are people?Fang Duobing and Qi Chunlan asked in unison.
Li Lianhua raised her hand and lightly pointed to the red candle beside the bed.
Zhan Yunfei took a closer look, his complexion changed slightly, Fang Sickly stood on tiptoe, oops:
But Qi Chunlan couldn't see anything, she jumped onto the sandalwood chair in desperation, and saw a few black things faintly protruding from the top of the red candle on the right side of the bed, which vaguely looked like hair, and her face turned pale immediately: Could it be that people are people? Hiding among the red candles?
With a sound of swishing, Zhan Yunfei drew his knife out of its sheath, and slashed at the red candle. Halfway through, the knife slapped on the red candle with a slap, and the red candle, which was as tall as a person, shattered all over. There was a crack, and pieces of wax fell all over the floor.Before everyone could see clearly, a huge object fell to the ground, and at the same time, the bright red wax block also fell all over the ground, like congealed blood, Qi Chunlan let out a scream when she saw that the thing that fell on the ground was A female corpse, because this woman has been hidden in the wax for a long time, the appearance of this woman is still unclear, but her abdomen is bloody, a piece of flesh is missing, and her right arm is broken. Isn't it the female ghost he saw that night?
Who is this woman?Fang Duobing was startled, how could he be buried in a candle?Where is Wei Qingchou?
Both Li Lianhua and Zhan Yunfei looked at the woman intently. There was a big hole in the woman's chest, and she was stabbed to death by a sharp weapon. Seeing that her skin was as smooth as snow, she must have been a beautiful woman when she was alive.After watching for a long time, Zhan Yunfei said slowly: This woman is not weak in martial arts, although her right arm is crippled, she has a hidden weapon on it.But to know who she is, I am afraid that the only way to solve the mystery of the embroidered human skin
Li Lianhua sighed: Mr. Wei doesn't know how to embroider, since that piece of human skin belongs to this girl, then those patterns must have been embroidered on her from the very beginning
Fang Duoxing said in amazement: When she was alive, she was embroidered with so many silk threads, wouldn't that be painful to death?
Li Lianhua smiled wryly and said: I also feel very painful.
A woman with a strange pattern embroidered on her body, as long as someone knows about it, she must have a deep memory, and it shouldn't be difficult to find it.Zhan Yunfei let out a long breath, if this was the Eyue that night, where did Wei Qingchou go?
Li Lianhua smiled slightly: Don't you understand?Someone pretended to be Eyue and entered the bridal chamber, but died suddenly. Who would be the one who got out?
Zhan Yunfei said: You said that Wei Qingchou also pretended to be Eyue and left the bridal chamber?
That's right, if Wei Qingchou hadn't left the bridal chamber pretending to be E Yue, she would have disappeared out of thin air.Li Lianhua sighed, Miss Qi didn't know about the personnel affairs after seeing Mr. Wei enter the room, that's because Wei Qingchou herself was the one who killed Eyue by pretending to be a bride.
Fang Duobing lost his voice: What?Wei Qingchou pretended to be a bride and killed this woman?
Li Lianhua said: I guess Wei Qingchou touched Miss Qi's acupoints after entering the bridal chamber, then took off her clothes and stuffed her under the bed, put on a phoenix crown and draped a red hijab and sat by the bed.Not long after Eyue came in, he nailed Eyue to the bed, cut her belly, and then moved the dead person to the hall, then dug a hole from the top of the candle, and stuffed the dead person into it.剩下的蠟塊被他放在臉盆裡煮成蠟汁，從死人頭上澆了下去，封住缺口，接著他把臉盆藏了起來，穿著娥月的衣裳，從大門口走了出去，三更半夜，洞房花燭，只怕沒有人想到新郎會假扮女婢悄悄溜走，所以沒人發現。
難道他娶如玉為妻就是為了殺這個女人？那也太過大費周章了，何況要假扮成什麼人殺人，扮成屠夫也是殺人，扮成和尚也是殺人，魏清愁八尺一寸的個子，若非是坐在床上頭戴鳳冠，扮新娘怎麼會像？方多病大惑不解，還有這奇奇怪怪的女人是哪裡來的？是蘄家的人嗎？
of course not!蘄春蘭臉色泛白，這這就是那天晚上我我我看到的女女鬼！他指著地上的女屍，牙齒打顫，她是誰？
展雲飛表情肅然，搖了搖頭。
李蓮花輕咳一聲，很有耐心地道：她不是蘄家的人，便是跟著魏清愁來的，一個身受重傷、腹部繡有奇怪花紋的女子，跟蹤魏清愁而來，被魏清愁喬裝殺死。大家不要忘記，魏清愁之所以遇見蘄姑娘，是因為他身受重傷那麼容我猜測，在魏清愁遇見蘄姑娘之前，他是不是和這個女子交手過，導致兩敗俱傷？
展雲飛頷首道：有些可能。
蘄春蘭咬牙切齒：若是如此，這小子接近如玉，便只是為了求生，為了擺脫這個女人！
方多病在心中補了一句：除了找到救命稻草之外，娶你女兒，自然就是娶了你家萬貫家財，你自己有錢，怎麼不知道防備別人來騙？真是奇也怪哉！
李蓮花卻搖了搖頭：無論如何猜測，不能解開這圖案之謎，就不知這女人究竟是誰，也不知道魏清愁甘冒奇險殺了她，割了她的肚皮，描了一張圖的目的為何
眾人異口同聲問道：描了一張圖？
李蓮花漫不經心地啊了一聲：洞房裡的硯臺和筆用過了，蘄姑娘如果沒有在洞房裡寫字畫畫，自然是魏清愁描了一張圖
看來在這圖案中，必定有驚人的秘密。
蘄春蘭臉色很難看，李樓主，這人騙我女兒，在我家中做出這許多可怕之事，若不能將他抓獲，蘄家顏面何存？
李蓮花道：當然、當然，不知方少想出這圖案的謎底沒有？
方多病一怔：心裡大罵死蓮花調虎離山、不！是栽贓嫁禍！自己想不出來的事隨隨便便一句話就套到他頭上來了！他又不是神仙，怎麼知道這古裡古怪的圖畫是什麼玩意兒？
這個這個容我仔細想想。
蘄春蘭感激至極，滿口稱謝，讓展雲飛送方多病和李蓮花到桂花堂休息。
四、圖案之謎
如此這般，方多病和李蓮花便在蘄家住了兩天。
那紅燭中的女子經展雲飛請了仵作仔細檢查，這女子年紀莫約在四十五、六之間，並不是什麼青春少女，致命傷是當胸一刺，刺中她的利器極尖而長，類似錐子，但不知實際上是什麼東西。除去肚皮上被割去一塊，此女右臂斷去，裝有一個銀質小盒，其中裝有一些微微橙色，又像褐色的粉末，粉末之中有三支細長的銀針。展雲飛一眼看出此女臂上裝有暗器，卻不知這暗器如此複雜。這些顏色古怪的粉末顯然有毒，誰也不敢輕碰，略一打開就牢牢合上。李蓮花號稱神醫，展雲飛卻也不問他這究竟是什麼毒物，仍舊把小盒放回女屍兜中。
兩日間，蘄春蘭不敢對方李二人稍加打攪，即使想要詢問方多病那圖案之謎究竟想出來沒有，也只敢派人走到桂花堂院外遠遠地望一眼，唯恐令方多病分神。方多病和李蓮花先在富麗堂皇的桂花堂中大睡了一覺，第二日起來，山珍海味填飽了肚子，又復大睡，直到傍晚又吃飯，方多病方才瞪眼問道：你知道那鬼畫符的謎底了？
李蓮花正在啃最後一根雞腿，聞言滿口含糊地道：什麼？
方多病哼哼兩聲，斜眼上上下下將李蓮花看了一遍：以我對你的瞭解，若不是你早就知道了那鬼畫符的謎底，你萬萬無法吃下這麼多東西。
李蓮花斯文地將雞腿骨頭從嘴裡取了出來，再用袖中的汗巾抹了抹嘴巴，正色道：人生在世，有餓與不餓之時，又有糟粕與美味之不同，當肚子既餓且美味當前，自然是會吃下許多東西
他一句話還沒說完，方多病嗤之以鼻：死蓮花的話是萬萬不能信的，快說！呃你若說了我晚上請你喝酒。
李蓮花道：我不愛喝酒。
方多病瞪眼道：那你要什麼？
李蓮花想了很久，慢吞吞地道：如果你在下個月吃胖十斤，我就告訴你那鬼畫符的秘密。
方多病怪叫一聲：十斤？
若是胖上十斤，穿白衣怎會好看？又怎會有病骨纖纖風神如玉讓萬千女子迷醉的氣質？但若他明日再想不出那圖案的秘密，多愁公子顏面何存？權衡利弊，他咬牙切齒痛下決心：五斤行不行？
李蓮花堅定不移地道：十斤！
方多病伸出五根手指：五斤！
李蓮花道：十斤！
方多病道：五斤！
李蓮花皺起眉頭，思考良久，勉強道：五斤五兩。
方多病大喜：好快把秘密告訴我！
李蓮花伸出右手所持之雞骨，在桂花堂雪白的牆壁上畫了一個（山的大篆），興致盎然的道：這是一座山，是吧？
方多病道：這自然是一座山，誰都知道，這是一座山又如何了？
李蓮花在也之前又畫了一個（華的大篆），就變成了（華山），畫完之後，他悠悠地道：你覺得這像什麼？
方多病脫口而出：華山！
李蓮花微微一笑：不錯，華山。
方多病啊的一聲叫了出來：難道這是八個字？
李蓮花道：這是八個字沒錯，不過是八個有學問的字，你少時可曾讚過大篆？
方多病一怔：這個這個
他少時父親管教甚嚴，但他天性不好讀書，所以其實對於詩書也就馬馬虎虎，這種事卻萬萬不能對死蓮花承認。
李蓮花看了他一眼，很同情地搖了搖頭：這兩個字就是華山，而這個（小篆下），你若有讀書，就知道這是個下字，彎曲一道如彩虹者意為天空，其下一點意為天空以下，所以是個下字。
方多病乾笑一聲：原來如此，那其他的是什麼？既然這是下字，那這個蛋殼裡有隻雞，應該就是蛋了吧？
李蓮花非常遺憾地搖了搖頭：不是這個（符號）字，不是大篆。你少時沒有好好讀書，總有聽你爹說故事給你聽吧？有個金烏負日的故事，不知道你有沒有聽過？
方多病心中大罵，死蓮花佔他便宜，這時候來冒充他老子！但這故事他卻沒聽過，只得黑著臉問：什麼金烏負日的故事？
李蓮花語氣十分和藹地道：《山海經‧大荒東經》有云：湯谷上有扶木，一日方至，一日方出，皆載于烏，就是說，海裡有棵大樹，樹上有許多太陽，一個太陽沉下來了，另一個太陽才升起，來來回回，都是烏鴉背著太陽這就是金烏負日的傳說。《淮南子‧精神篇》中說日中有陵烏
方多病忍無可忍，暴怒道：我平生最恨有人在本公子面前吊書袋
李蓮花慢吞吞地道：我只不過是想說明，古人都說太陽裡面有隻鳥而已
方多病怒道：那又如何？
李蓮花道：也不如何，所謂陵烏，就是有三隻腳的鳥，有些人說牠是烏鴉，有些人說不是。
方多病道：什麼亂七八糟的啊
他突然醒悟：這是個日字？
李蓮花道：你果然聰明得很。
那這個一把斧頭滴血的又是什麼字？方多病被李蓮花當了一回兒子，心中悻悻。
這不是個刀字，就是刃字，殺人的意思。李蓮花歉然道：這個字最是好認。他用雞骨在牆上畫了一個（符號），你跟著我寫一遍，先畫一橫，再畫一撇，再一捺，再一小撇，再點一點
方多病跟著他畫了一個戌字出來，目瞪口呆，李蓮花微笑道：像不像？
方多病看了看那圖畫，再看看那戌字，勉強道：有點像，但這圖上有兩滴血。
李蓮花在戌字上大大地畫了個圈，笑嘻嘻地道：這又如何？
方多病瞠目結舌地看著那個字，半晌大叫一聲，咸！
李蓮花點頭：這是一個咸字，咸字從戌，為戰斧之形，最早的時候，就是殺人的意思。
方多病喃喃地道：他媽的，這也能給你想出來不過這繡花的人，好端端的字不寫，卻專門編造些歪門邪道的字，卻是什麼用意？
李蓮花微笑道：用意自然是她只想讓某些人看懂。
方多病道：不管是誰，這人肯定不是魏清愁，魏清愁肯定沒懂，否則他不會殺人割皮，把這八個字描了去，不也就八個破字而已嗎？
李蓮花微微一笑，方多病又問：那這個兩個小人是什麼？
李蓮花在牆上再畫一個（符號）：這字再明白不過，兩個人，兩個車輪，會是什麼？
方多病道：什麼兩個人兩個車輪？
李蓮花嘆了口氣，十分耐心地道：有人、有車輪的東西，是什麼？
方多病道：車、馬車？
李蓮花道：若是沒有馬只有人呢？
方多病道：輦車。
李蓮花瞪眼指著那圖畫：這不就是了？兩個人，兩個車輪，一輛車。
方多病尚未領悟，呆了半天，突然醒悟：輦？
李蓮花看他那模樣，又嘆了口氣：不錯，輦。
方多病喃喃地念：華山下，咸日輦這沒有意思啊，哪有什麼意思？
他懷疑地看著李蓮花，你有沒有解錯？
李蓮花不理他，用雞骨敲了敲牆壁：剩下兩個字，我想了很久。
方多病悻悻道：原來你也會想很久。
李蓮花道：這個像個瓶子的東西，確實古怪非常，我就沒想通那是什麼玩意兒，一直到我突然明白最後這個字是什麼之後才豁然開朗。
他將（符號）畫了出來，這是個旗桿，上面繫著飄帶，古時拿來測試風向用的，其中掛著一個用旗桿影子指示時間的圭錶盤，太陽的影子指到哪裡，就是哪個時辰，這東西叫做圭表測影。
方多病聽得滿臉茫然：哦。
李蓮花這次是真的很同情地看著他：所以圭表測影的竿子所插的地方，是很講究的，這個字是個中字，表示一個特定的地點。
方多病仍舊滿臉迷茫：哦
李蓮花道：古文的中字，在中4的一豎上下都有兩點，想必是不會錯的。
方多病極其不信地看著他，半晌道：如此說來，這七個字就是華山下，咸日輦中。那我們快去華山看個究竟。
李蓮花道：但這裡是瑞州，距離華山七百多里，如果秘密真在華山，這女人和魏清愁跑到瑞州來做什麼？
方多病道：我怎麼知道？
李蓮花道：但瑞州有一座玉華山
方多病一聽大喜：那這女人肯定是要去玉華山了，這樣一來，前面那個瓶子就是玉字。
李蓮花道：我也是這麼想，玉字在古時候是用來代表一種禮器，我雖然沒見過，但據書上所說，跟這瓶子也有些相似。
方多病不耐地道：總而言之，這八個字就是玉華山下，咸日輦中，我們去玉華山肯定錯不了。
李蓮花道：玉華山是錯不了的，但會是什麼東西在咸日輦中？
他斜眼看方多病：你可知道咸日輦又是什麼東西？
方多病一呆，李蓮花微笑道：所以你我要放鬆心情，好好享受一下，睡睡覺，吃吃東西，養好身心，這才能去查看玉華山下，咸日輦中究竟有什麼令人非得殺人剝皮的東西？
方多病狠狼倒了杯酒，大灌自己一口：能令魏清愁放著蘄春蘭女婿不做，在洞房花燭夜逃走的東西，必定不是什麼好東西。
李蓮花也小小喝了口酒，忽道：我若是不要你下個月吃胖五斤五兩，換你做件別的事
方多病大喜，忙道：你要我做什麼都成！
李蓮花甚悅，欣然指著白牆上被他畫得油膩不堪的種種痕跡，小小打了個哈欠：那這裡就交給你吧，我睡了。
他施施然脫鞋爬上床榻，想了想後，伸手從桌上撈走一杯茶水，愜意喝下，才倒下閉目而眠。方多病目瞪口呆地看著牆上許多油污，正要破口大罵，李蓮花突地又道：對了，明日蘄春蘭問起，你要向他善加解釋所謂圖案之謎
方多病尚未說話，李蓮花又道：今天喝了多少酒？
方多病道：三兩。
李蓮花不再做聲，約莫已夢周公去也。方多病望著牆嘆氣，一股怒氣被李蓮花漫不經心一問再問弄得煙消雲散，要怒也怒不起來，只得尋了塊抹布，在月明星稀、烏鵲南飛的美好夜晚，慢慢抹牆。
第二日一早，方多病裝模作樣向蘄春蘭解釋了所謂的圖案之謎，蘄春蘭果然心悅誠服，十分仰慕，當下讓展雲飛帶路，帶領方多病和李蓮花前往玉華山。
五、咸日輦
玉華山為瑞州最高山，號稱奇、幽、秀、險，以各種怪石聞名天下，山上許多道觀，乃是道家聖地之一。不過既然圖案寫明玉華山下，三人就在山下轉悠了幾圈，但也未曾看見什麼古怪石頭，只見遍地野草野花，倒是開得漂亮。
搜了幾圈毫無收權，方多病正要說李蓮花胡說八道異想天開之際，忽聽不遠處有人道：就是此處了，魚龍牛馬幫的咸日輦就是在此處消失不見。
方多病咦了一猓，這人聲音耳熟得很，往外一探，居然便是霍平川，只見他和傅衡陽兩人緊裝佩劍，正對著山腳一片草地指指點點，聽到方多病咦那一聲，霍平川猛地回頭，低聲喝道：什麼人？
方多病奔了出去，叫道：霍大哥！
自從他參與了新四顧門，便把霍大俠稱作大哥，新四顧門上上下下，都是他大哥或小弟。
霍平川一怔，臉現喜色：方少。
傅衡陽也是大出意料之外，略一沉吟，叫道：李蓮花！
李蓮花本不願見到這位少年才高的軍師，此時只得朝著他胡亂一笑：不知傅軍師為何在此？
傅衡陽的目光在展雲飛身上流連，口中問道：你們又為何在此？
展雲飛簡單回答，傅衡陽微微一笑：方少能解開繡花人皮之謎，足可見其聰慧，我等也是因咸日輦一事，遠道而來。
原來近來數月，佛彼白石百川院下一百八十八牢，已被魚龍牛馬幫攻破第四牢，共有四十位罪徒依附魚龍牛馬幫，又不知是何人將消息洩漏出去，江湖為之大嘩。魚龍牛馬幫座下咸日輦近來在各處出沒，施用一種奇毒，中毒者出現幻覺，神智喪失，聽從咸日輦驅使，導致江湖中人聞咸日輦色變，視之為洪水猛獸。傅衡陽率領新四顧門追查咸日輦之事，一路追蹤，追到玉華山下失去了咸日輦的蹤跡，卻撞見方多病一行人。
原來咸日輦已經開始禍亂江湖，卻不知究竟是何物？展雲飛沉吟道，敢問可是一種輕車？
傅衡陽朗聲大笑：不錯，乃是二人拉的一種輕車，四面以青紗掩蓋，不知其中坐著何人，一旦路上受阻或有所圖謀，車中隨即飄出一種粉末，令人嗅之中毒，神智喪失。
展雲飛緩緩地道：一種粉末？可是一種褐紅色的粉末？
霍平川動容道：不錯！難道你們已經查明是何種劇毒？
展雲飛披散的長髮在山風中微微飄動，聞言突然微微一笑：這種劇毒他很少言笑，這一笑讓方多病嚇了一跳，只見他看了李蓮花一眼，李樓主想必比我清楚得多。
方多病又嚇了一跳，死蓮花對醫術一竅不通，怎會認得什麼劇毒？卻聽李蓮花咳嗽一聲後道：那是一種毒蘑菇乾研磨成的粉末，吸入鼻中或者吃進腹中會讓人產生幻覺，做出種種瘋狂之事，而且久吸成癮，非常可怕。
傅衡陽對李蓮花尤其留意，牢牢盯著他的眼睛問道：可有解藥？
李蓮花道：金針刺腦或許可解，但並非人人有效，多半沒有解藥。
方多病大奇，難道幾月不見，李蓮花苦讀醫書，醫術突飛猛進？
傅衡陽霍的一聲一負袖，望天道：那便是說，咸日輦不除、毒菇不除，江湖危矣！
李蓮花乾笑一聲：這也未必，這毒菇並非生長在中原，它長在東北極寒之地的杉木林中，而且數量稀少，要運入中原十分困難，要大量使用，只怕不能。
傅衡陽眉目聳動：咸日輦非除不可！
方多病卻忍不住問李蓮花：你怎麼知道這些
李蓮花正色道：我乃絕代神醫，生死人肉白骨，怎會不知？
方多病張口結舌，只覺匪夷所思。霍平川目光一直在四周青山綠水間打量：剛才我們一路追來，到達此地，咸日輦突然消失，想必在這裡左近，就有魚龍牛馬幫的門戶。
我們幾人人手不足，既然知道在此地，我定要招集人手，廣邀天下豪傑，和魚龍牛馬幫會一會，問一問他們角幫主門下做出這等惡事，究竟是什麼用意！傅衡陽冷冷地道，今日到此為止，不過既然展兄說尋到身帶毒粉的女子屍體，我卻要登門瞧上一瞧。
他揚眉看著展雲飛，蘄家不會不歡迎吧？
展雲飛淡淡地道：傅軍師要看，我自是不便多說什麼，請。
傅衡陽也不生氣，朗朗笑道：我知道我一貫惹人討厭，哈哈哈哈
幾人談論已畢，緩步往蘄家神仙府方向走去，漸漸走出去一兩里後，李蓮花腳下微微一頓，傅衡陽、霍平川和展雲飛突然轉身，施展輕功悄悄往來處走去。
方多病奇道：咦？oops
他突然明白原來他們幾人在咸日輦消失之處高談闊論，說了大半天，那裡若是有門戶，裡面的人必定聽見了。一旦他們離開，門戶裡的人多半會出來張望，所以聰明如傅衡陽，江湖經驗老到如霍平川、展雲飛，都是不約而同往回摸去，打一個回馬槍。
李蓮花看著那幾人遠去，臉上一直帶著很愉快的微笑，方多病瞪眼問道：你在笑什麼？
李蓮花道：沒什麼，我看到傅軍師年輕有為，武功高強，總是很高興的。
方多病哼了一聲：但我卻覺得他好像不大喜歡你？
李蓮花道：啊這個嘛這個
方多病得意洋洋地道：那是因為本公子秀逸瀟灑，聰明絕頂，比之你這不懂醫術的庸醫對四顧門來說重要得多。
李蓮花連連稱是，滿臉露出敬仰之色。
此時午時已過，日光漸漸偏西，玉華山山巒墨綠，被日光暈上一層暖色，襯以藍天白雲，望之令人心胸暢快。方多病和李蓮花望了山景沒多久，傅衡陽三人已經回來，霍平川腋下還夾帶了一個人。
方多病大是驚奇，等奔到眼前一看，霍平川腋下那人眉清目秀，生得俊美絕倫，