Falsches Blumenmuster

Kapitel 13

Li You became even more curious: "Red?"

“Yes, red,” Yang Nianqing said, feeling a little uncomfortable. “It’s clearly red, so why call it Tear Chrysanthemum? He even said that tears can be red… It’s weird.”

Nangong Xue also looked surprised, but neither of them were particularly astonished. Mr. Chrysanthemum was known for his eccentric behavior, and his chrysanthemum name was even more famous for its strangeness.

Nangong Xue smiled: "I'm afraid it's just another one of his new breeds."

Li You nodded, a look of interest returning to his long, narrow eyes: "I've never heard of this before. I'll definitely take a good look at it next time I come."

Yang Nianqing glared at him: "He only said that you should stop bringing women to gamble and trample on his flowers."

“Of course,” Li You sighed, looking troubled. “Every time I make a bet, I end up getting myself into trouble.”

Yang Nianqing suppressed a laugh and coughed twice: "So, who won the bet we made today?"

"Of course it's me."

“What?” she exclaimed. “I’ve already come out.”

"If he hadn't led the way, would you have been able to get out?"

Yang Nianqing retorted, her face stern: "Hey, do you know how dangerous it was for me? If I had stepped on those flowers, I probably wouldn't have made it out..."

“You won’t die,” He Bi, who had been silent all along, suddenly spoke up. “Someone will naturally search for you.”

Nangong Xue looked at Li You and found it somewhat amusing: "That's right, it's just that Brother Li will have to go through a bit more trouble."

He Bi interrupted, "It's alright, he's caused this kind of trouble many times before."

Seeing the two of them putting on a show, Li You didn't mind. He just blinked and looked at Yang Nianqing as if he had realized something: "Fortunately, I didn't have to go through so much trouble today. It was really lucky. It seems that in the future, it's better to find someone who doesn't like to step on flowers when making bets."

Thinking about the bet he made before, Yang Nianqing finally couldn't help but burst into laughter: "Serves him right!"

"If a person doesn't even cherish the life of a plant, why bother saving his life?"

Thinking of what he had said, Yang Nianqing shook her head and nodded at the same time, muttering, "Although he is not a very good friend, at least he is not a bad person for saying such things."

To everyone's surprise, Li You interrupted, saying, "Wrong, he's a really good friend."

He no longer cared about Qiu Bailu's order to leave.

Yang Nianqing looked at him suspiciously: "You...were you arguing with him just now?"

“My arguing with him doesn’t mean he’s not a good friend.”

"You really don't blame him?"

"He is our friend."

"Friend?" Yang Nianqing finally couldn't help but exclaim, her face full of displeasure. "You came all this way to see him, but he's telling you to leave. Is that what kind of friend he is?"

"Of course,"

Yang Nianqing was stunned.

Is he a good friend? His friend came all the way to ask for his help, but he was in a hurry to send his friend away and wouldn't even let him stay for a meal. How can someone say that he is a good friend?

"Are you sure you mean Mr. Chrysanthemum?" She looked at him incredulously. "You think he's a good friend?"

"Not bad." A cold voice rang out.

Yang Nianqing glanced at He Bi, who was speaking, still somewhat indignant: "But he was in a hurry to get rid of us, and even said we were eating and drinking for free, humph..."

“He has already helped us,” He Bi said coldly. “If we stay, we’ll just be eating and drinking for free.”

She curled her lip: "Just because he helped you identify the body?"

"yes."

Hearing this, Yang Nianqing ignored her, rolled her eyes, and suddenly looked up at Li You: "It's a pity your friend is about to be driven crazy by you."

“I’m angry with him because I think he’s more human when he’s angry,” Li You sighed. “The First Divine Physician, if someone acts like a god every day, he’s not lovable.”

Yang Nianqing thought for a moment, nodded in agreement, and then deliberately pointed at He Bi: "He's also a god, a divine constable, cough, shouldn't you make him angrier too?"

“I think so too,” Li You blinked, looking helpless. “Unfortunately, his skin is much thicker than Lao Qiu’s. It’s already lucky that he didn’t drive us crazy.”

He Bi glared at him coldly: "If you don't want me to drive you crazy, you'd better keep quiet."

Seeing them joking around, not at all as serious and heavy as solving a case, Yang Nianqing suddenly felt a surge of warmth in her heart, as if she had returned to the life of playing and having fun with her friends.

"He seemed to have said it was the Ten Thousand Poisons Blood Palm, but what exactly is the Ten Thousand Poisons Blood Palm?"

He Bi immediately shut up and said nothing.

Nangong Xue remained silent for a long while, then smiled: "The Ten Thousand Poison Blood Palm is the unique martial art of Yun Biyue, the Ten Thousand Poison Demoness. Back then, Yun Biyue was heartbroken and spent ten years of her youth creating this vicious palm technique. Its greatest characteristic is that the death after being struck by the palm is no different from that of being poisoned. Countless heroes have died by it. However, Yun Biyue lived a lonely life and never took on any disciples. Since her suicide thirty years ago, the Ten Thousand Poison Blood Palm has been lost. How could it have reappeared in the martial arts world now?"

Women are naturally gossipy, and after listening to his long speech, Yang Nianqing lost interest in the Ten Thousand Poisons Blood Palm and instead became interested in this martial arts tale: "How did that Ten Thousand Poisons Demoness get hurt by love?"

Nangong Xue was taken aback for a moment, then smiled gently: "It happened decades ago, and there are many rumors in the martial arts world. I only heard about it secondhand, so how would I know much?"

Yang Nianqing was discouraged.

Li You suddenly smiled and leaned back: "Whether it's hearsay or not, the Ten Thousand Poisons Demoness wasn't originally called a demoness. Instead, she was a famous beauty in the martial arts world. It's a pity I was born a few years too late and couldn't see her beauty. It's a real regret in my life."

Oh my god, even storytelling can't stray from its roots!

Yang Nianqing glared at him, amused, and muttered, "Playboy!"

He Bi also gave him a cold look: "It's a pity that a playboy like you, who is both philandering and unfaithful, was born a few years earlier. She could have killed you a hundred times over."

Nangong Xue also laughed and said, "That's true. I have indeed heard that Yun Biyue hates unfaithful and philandering men the most. She kills them every time she encounters one. Brother Li should be glad that he was born a few years too late."

Upon hearing this, Li You was not angry: "Everyone has a love for beauty, so why should I be the only one to be punished?"

"And 'love of beauty'..." Yang Nianqing pouted, curiously asking, "Then how did Yun Biyue become the Ten Thousand Poisons Demoness?"

"Rumor has it that she was jilted by Bai Erxia, one of the 'Bai Brothers,' and out of love turned to hatred, she vowed to kill the unfaithful man with her palm. Therefore, she hid in the martial world for ten years and finally created this extremely vicious palm technique. Most of those who died by her palm were philandering and unfaithful men."

At this point, Nangong Xue couldn't help but smile and glance at Li You: "Because the way those who are struck by this palm strike die is extremely similar to those who die from poison, some people call it the 'Ten Thousand Poisons Blood Palm'."

Yang Nianqing nodded: "Now that she has mastered martial arts, did she kill that Bai Erxia?"

Nangong Xue sighed: "She trained hard for more than ten years just to get revenge for what she did back then. Years of hatred have changed her personality drastically, making her cruel, vicious, and indiscriminate in killing."

"Later, she found the secluded place of the Bai brothers and killed them both. However, unexpectedly, after killing the two Bai brothers, she also committed suicide on the spot. Although the people of the martial arts world hated her for indiscriminately killing innocent people, they also pitied her deep love and did not pursue the matter further. The place where the three of them were buried, which was Yimeng Manor, was renamed Duanqing Manor."

It was clearly a tragic love story, but he told it in such an elegant voice, slowly and deliberately, which only added a touch of melancholy and poignant beauty to it.

After a long silence, Yang Nianqing shook her head, sighed deeply, and muttered to herself, "Broken Heart Manor, Broken Heart... In ancient times, breaking off an engagement was a matter of life and death. Wouldn't divorces in modern times cause a huge uproar?"

Upon hearing this, Nangong Xue was stunned: "Divorce?"

"Yes, divorce. Where I'm from, if two people are unhappy with their marriage, they just get divorced. If the man is unfaithful and has a mistress... uh, that is, taking a concubine, you can sue him for bigamy and demand compensation!" She continued rambling, shaking her head and sighing, "Unlike here, an engagement means you're completely at their mercy, and breaking off an engagement is a huge disgrace. Sigh, ancient times were really inconvenient..."

Nangong Xue was immediately stunned, Li You looked at her in surprise, and even He Bi's usually indifferent face showed a strange expression for the first time.

After a moment, a smile flickered in his long, bright eyes: "Bigamy? A wife suing her husband for taking a concubine?"

"I didn't expect you to understand, you're smart!" She pretended to be surprised, patted Li You on the shoulder, and then looked at him with disdain. "If a lecher like you were in our country, with all sorts of women, ha, your wife would have cleaned up your act long ago."

Li You smiled wryly: "How am I like a lecher? Why do you always have to say that about me?"

Yang Nianqing pursed her lips and didn't answer, secretly amused.

He Bi nodded: "If such a place really exists, he should indeed go and visit it." After saying that, he looked at Yang Nianqing: "Now I'm starting to believe that you're not from around here."

...

So they've been secretly suspecting me all along!

When I'm feeling down, dusk always seems to come especially quickly.

"What should we do now?" Yang Nianqing thought through the whole story and then shook her head. "Since Yun Biyue has no successor, how can someone else use the Ten Thousand Poison Blood Palm? It seems like we have no clues again."

He Bi said coldly, "At least we know that it wasn't poison."

Li You nodded: "That's right, it's not that there are no clues at all. Yun Biyue is extreme in her behavior and goes her own way. The martial arts she created will not easily fall into the hands of others."

But all of this is over thirty years old. Now, in this vast sea of people, where can we find this person?

Yang Nianqing suddenly looked up: "Didn't you say the murderer was the enemy of these victims? What was the relationship between these dead people? Did they have any common enemies?"

Nangong Xue slowly shook her head: "First was Master Situ, the Wind-Breaking Palm Master, then Tang Jingfeng, the master of Tang Family Fortress. These two not only had no relation, but also had some incompatible temperaments and were not on good terms with each other; then there was Liu Ru, the Swift Sword Master. Liu Ru and Tang Jingfeng were close friends. As for Zhang Mingchu, he had no relation to the previous people at all. I'm afraid he didn't even know them, let alone have a common enemy with them."

"Since their relationship wasn't special and they didn't have any common enemies, why would the murderer kill them all?" Yang Nianqing sighed in exasperation. "Now we've run out of clues again!"

silence.

Li You looked at her, then suddenly smiled: "Who said there were no clues?"

Netizen #1: The personalities of the male and female protagonists in Munsey are exactly the same as those in Ranko.

Xiao Shu: It's different, keep watching if you don't believe me :)

#6 Netizen: Jin is so diligent~ PS: Isn't "First Husband" Li You?

Xiao Shu: That's not necessarily true.

(Using a little trick to fool the audience~~~~)

Book 1 Why Look for Reasons? Unbelievable Murder

Li You raised an eyebrow: "If your enemy suddenly died, wouldn't people suspect you?"

Yang Nianqing rolled her eyes: "Nonsense."

“I’m afraid you’ll be the first one to be suspected,” Li You countered. “If you wanted to kill someone who was at odds with you, but didn’t want to be suspected, what would you do?”

“This…” Yang Nianqing thought about it carefully, then suddenly shuddered. “You mean… could it be…”

He Bi coldly interrupted, "To cover our tracks, we can't just kill one person."

Yang Nianqing exclaimed, "They'll kill a few more to take the fall first!"

Nangong Xue frowned: "That's right. Once someone is killed, people will first suspect his enemies. But if there are too many people who die, it will be difficult to distinguish them, and the possibility of being suspected will be much smaller."

Li You nodded: "Moreover, he certainly won't be the first to attack his enemy, because being the first is always the easiest to attract attention. If he were to do so, people would immediately suspect him."

He Bi said coldly, "If there is even the slightest suspicion, it will be much more troublesome to kill someone again."

Yang Nianqing thought for a moment and nodded in agreement: "That's right! If he kills an unrelated person first, no one will suspect him."

“Most importantly,” Li You’s lips curled into a smile, “he deliberately set the time on the fifteenth of each month, and in the same place, Nangong Villa. When the second or third dead body is discovered, we will only think of the same murderer as before, and will not pay attention to the enemy of someone later. This makes it easier to lead people astray.”

“He took advantage of preconceived notions and exploited a loophole,” Yang Nianqing immediately added. “So, that old man Situ was the first to die, and his enemies can be ruled out?”