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Chapter 33 Yanshan School

※one※

"Yanshan Mountain is like a long snake, and it is limited to barbarians and Han for thousands of miles. The head is at the foot of the west mountain, and the tail is on the east coast."

Yanshan Mountain is located in the north side of the border, and the ancient poems are often accompanied by strong winds and severe snow. However, the famous Yanshan School in today's martial arts should be at the end of this long snake. On the top of the mountain, the houses are simple, the people are sparsely populated, and there is not much beauty to speak of.

This desolate land has repeatedly produced geniuses. The master Yuan Lei and his disciple Fang Heng are one of the most respected masters of swordsmanship and internal energy in the martial arts world; .

The Yanshan School's swordsmanship is magnificent, with far-reaching connotations, willing to innovate, and they do not hide their selfishness when they compete with outsiders. The only friend is Yuan Lei, the later head of the Yanshan School.

But now, the Yanshan faction has no head.

Just three days ago, the disciples of the Yanshan School discovered that the head of Yuan had been dead for a long time.

The choice of the head of the Yanshan School has always been a headache, those with poor martial arts are hard to convince the crowd, while those with good martial arts are obsessed with sword skills and internal skills, and are unwilling to deal with mundane affairs.In this generation, the head of Yuan Yuan repeatedly wanted to step down as the head of the head and push it to his disciple Fang Heng; Wu Huiyou has not returned for a long time.

So when the news of Yuan's head passed away, Fang Heng, Xu Biao and others had no time to rush back, but Qin Songfeng arrived first with Ji Shuliu and Pan Ziyun because he happened to be in Yongping Mansion.

The head of Yuan died very strangely.

This head is not yet sixty years old. In early July, he took enough dry food and went to another nearby mountain, claiming that he would practice in seclusion for three months, and ordered his disciples not to disturb him.

Members of the Yanshan School often practice retreat there. They have spices to repel insects, ants and beasts, non-perishable dry food, and there are many wild fruits growing near the cave where they retreat. July is just the most suitable time for retreat.

It wasn't until the retreat time passed that the Yanshan faction discovered that the head of Yuan had died in the cave. Although the cave was dry, the body was still rotting.The weirdest thing is that there are only a few strange scars on Master Yuan's body that don't look fatal, and there are two large characters of "Heaven's Punishment" carved with Master Yuan's long knife in the cave.

The Heaven's Punishment Sect has been missing for more than thirty years, and head Yuan is the only friend of the head of the Heaven's Punishment Sect, Shangguanpan.Yuan Lei's junior sister, Qiu Fengqing, one of the "Twin Phoenixes of Yanshan Mountain", later married Shangguan and became his wife, and disappeared together with the Heavenly Punishment Sect more than [-] years ago.Why do these two words appear in the cave where Master Yuan was murdered? Does it imply that Master Yuan is related to the disappearance of the Heavenly Punishment Sect, and that the cause of this matter is that the Heavenly Punishment Sect came back for revenge?

This implication is absurd, not to mention that the head of Yuan is of excellent character, if the Heaven's Punishment Sect has revenge, why delay it for 30 years? Not to mention revenge in 30 years, even the rebellion should be successful.

The Yanshan faction was eager to catch the murderer, so they went to Lulong City to invite an old Wuzuo. When Qin Songfeng arrived, Wuzuo was still in the cave for an autopsy.

Soon, the gray-haired old Zuo Zuo came out with the support of his apprentice, leaning on a cane, and asked if there were any parents, wives and children of the head of Yuan, and if there were any people with poor health.

No.The head of the Yuan family never married, and all the disciples of the Yanshan School are strong and strong.

Only then did the old Wu Zuo utter a sentence that shocked everyone: "This old gentleman is really tragic. Please condolences. He was bound, gagged, and tortured to death alive."

※two※

It is now the beginning of October, and the death of the head of Yuan is probably in July or August. Many evidences have been blurred due to the long time lapse.However, on the rotting corpse, the old Wuzuo found strangulation marks left by the limbs struggling violently and convulsing under restraints. I found some medicinal powder and left it when I suspected that I was extorting a confession.

Regardless of whether relatives and friends believed it or not, Sect Leader Yuan died extremely painfully.

This also basically ruled out the possibility of the head of Yuan secretly harming the Heaven's Punishment faction and eventually being retaliated.What's more, if the Heaven's Punishment faction came to revenge with solid evidence, what reason would they have to extract a confession?

Several teenagers wept sobbingly, Qin Songfeng was also considered as the head of Yuan's Wangnian acquaintance, but he didn't have time to be sad, he asked the old foreman first: "Have you ever heard that there are people nearby who are good at extracting confessions with iron hooks and fine needles? "

The old Wu Zuo shook his head: "It's unheard of in the past few decades. These things can be used to extract confessions. I still read it from a book left by my grand master."

"Bian Wu." Pan Ziyun gritted his teeth, his cheeks puffed up, "It must be Mr. Buwu, otherwise Su Yanlong has always been active in the south of the Yangtze River, why did he suddenly appear in Yongping Mansion recently?"

Everyone looked at him, but his face was pale, his hands and feet were cold, and he was speechless.

In front of everyone in the Yanshan School, Qin Songfeng concealed Mrs. Song's request for help, Bai Zhi's life experience, and Pan Ziyun's identity, and roughly explained the case of the Su family. The sword marks are all heavy swords, like the style of the Heavenly Punishment School, so there is a not-so-popular saying in Yongping Mansion that Yinghun, a disciple of the Heavenly Punishment School, acted on behalf of the heavens. It is hard to say about ghosts and gods, but the head of Yuan He is a good friend of the head of Shangguan. He has practiced many times and is familiar with the swordsmanship of the Heaven's Punishment School. The heroine of the noble school is also the wife of the head of the Shangguan. Could it be that Su Yulong thought that the head of Yuan pretended to be the Heaven's Punishment and killed his whole family, so he came to take revenge? ?”

An elderly Yanshan sect disciple said: "Su sect has committed many crimes and deserves death. If the sect master really kills them, he is doing justice for the heavens. Why hide it and use the name of the heaven's punishment sect?"

Pan Ziyun clenched his hands behind his back until he squeezed the back of his hand, and then he said in a calm voice: "Perhaps Sect Master Yuan didn't know anything about it, but Su Clan insisted that it was Sect Master Yuan who made the attack, so in This place forced Sect Leader Yuan to speak to the rest of the participants, but Sect Leader Yuan had no one to speak to, and was eventually forced to confess by them to death."

This speculation makes sense.People in the world often don't think they deserve to die even if they commit horrific crimes, and they feel that others should cover up when they kill them to eliminate harm.

Qin Songfeng frowned: "If this is the case, the disciples of the Yanshan School who were over 13 years old 15 years ago may all be the ones who the Sumen want to take revenge on. Especially Brother Xu and Brother Fang, I will ask the Chisumen to help them when I go down the mountain. Send a letter telling them to be more careful."

The disciple of the Yanshan School who spoke just now said again: "My master retreated this time to practice internal energy. When the internal energy is at its peak, you can hear the sound of flying flowers and falling leaves nearby. How could you be unsuspectingly restrained by Su Yulong? In this cave Inside and out, there is no trace of fighting at all."

"It's a bit strange." Qin Songfeng said, "But Su Yulong and I have fought against each other before. Not only is he well-planned, cunning and unpredictable, but also his martial arts are extremely high. If I fight him fairly, the outcome will be close to [-]%. Well, he's three and I'm seven."

Those who are qualified to compete with Qin Songfeng are already rare masters. Not only Ji Shuliu can't do it, even Xu Biao, the third master of Yanshan School, may not be able to do it.Most of the disciples of the Yanshan sect who stayed on the mountain were young people who had not achieved martial arts yet, and they lost their color for a while.

On the other side, the old Wu Zuo had been examining the corpses for most of the day, and was exhausted. His apprentice helped him to rest on the nearby stone. Seeing this, Ji Shuliu also helped the other side.The old Wu Zuo was a little surprised: "This young master does not dislike the smell of corpses on my body."

Ji Shuliu said: "The old man doesn't dislike himself when he examines the corpse himself. How dare the juniors dislike the old man. I admire people in your line of work very much."

The old Wuzuo seemed very happy, asked Ji Shuliu's identity, then looked in the direction of the cave and said, "What a pity... Although the master of Yuan is a martial arts practitioner, he is over fifty years old, and he is an old man. Someone treats him like this? To tell you the truth, the older I get, the more I can't see the tragic death of the old man. During the autopsy just now, I only felt a little pain in all the bones of my body."

Ji Shuliu said: "Thanks to the old gentleman for finding out the cause of death, the friends of the Yanshan School have evidence to investigate."

"The old man still lacks a bit of talent, so he can only make up for it with hard work." The old Wu Zuo shook his head again and again, "It would be great if my junior sister was here."

"Junior Sister?" Ji Shuliu was very surprised because he had never heard of women's work.

"It's my Grand Master's granddaughter..." the old Wuzuo sighed, "Back then, Grand Master took my master and me to perform autopsies, and sometimes she also brought her along. The little girl is really smart. Grand Master always hoped that she would inherit It's a pity to lose your mantle."

Ji Shuliu's eyes showed doubts.

"You also come from Yongping Mansion, have you heard about the Jiefu Village?" The old Wuzuo still looks sad when he thinks about coming, "My junior sister's real father is from Jiefu Village, and my junior sister hasn't been back for many years , I went home to visit relatives at that time, but was kidnapped by the bandits in Haifeng Village, and died inside without even finding the body. If she lived to this day, she would be over fifty years old."

The old Wu Zuo said while shaking his head regretfully: "I heard that the few girls who were rescued in the end were all forced to death by the people in Jiefu Village. Really, we hope that they can come back alive, but they The people in Jiefu Village only hoped that the girl would die outside, but the girl came back alive, God, it’s really unfair.”

※three※

The Yanshan faction was busy arranging the remains of the head of Yuan, Qin Songfeng was inconvenient to disturb, and only expressed his condolences in front of the spirit of the head of Yuan, leaving Biyi behind and left quietly.

Although they came quickly, when they returned, the three of them took their time, looking for news along the way.

The style of the Yanshan School is simple, they often help the poor, and occasionally do some chivalrous deeds. They have a very good reputation around here. The head of Yuan is very approachable. He occasionally travels down the mountain, and he can get along with many restaurants and inns at the foot of the mountain. Familiar with each other, in the middle of the night, you can even bump into some acquaintances from your previous life who are inconvenient to visit, and burn papers for the head of Yuan in private.

Hearing the deeds along the way, Ji Shuliu also began to feel sad for the unfamiliar head Yuan.

This day, when I was having dinner in a small shop in a deserted village, Ji Shuliu ate a little slowly, so Qin Songfeng and Pan Ziyun ran to a nearby open space first.When Ji Shuliu arrived, he saw that the two were exchanging moves for a short time, stopping every four or five moves. Qin Songfeng wanted to comment one by one: "The move was good just now, if this is the case," he crossed his sword in his left hand and held his right hand empty. The dagger made a gesture, "A little further down, it's better to have both offense and defense, instead of blindly attacking and revealing flaws.——You should think about it tonight, and then talk about it tomorrow morning. And the footwork I taught you..."

Ji Shuliu walked over and said with a smile, "I don't know when you hooked up."

Qin Songfeng said: "Because you got up late. Come and see next time. Most of Brother Pan's sword skills are realized by himself. Although there are rough parts, they are actually very spiritual. I have been with him for the past two days. After a trick, I figured out a lot of things."

Pan Ziyun said sincerely: "I also look forward to Brother Ji's advice. In fact, I really like watching Brother Ji kill people."

"What?" Ji Shuliu almost jumped up, "I usually don't kill people."

"I understand, but I just happened to see it before." Pan Ziyun said, "But the scene where you killed the three beasts of Sumen, I still remember it vividly for many days, and I couldn't help imitating it even when I shot."

Ji Shuliu looked at him innocently: "Don't get me wrong, plus the two times you saw, I have only killed nine people in total." He seemed to realize that nine people are not a lot, and added a sentence very embarrassingly , "It's all damn."

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Note: Su Zhe's "28 Poems of Envoy to Khitan-Yanshan"