Murong Bai stared into Xu Hanying's eyes and said heavily and slowly:
"Um."
Li Xin'an sighed: "I'm offended."
After saying that, he stepped forward and took off the clothes on Lei Jie's body.
"Boy, what are you doing!" Ouyang Lie glared and waved Li Xin'an back.
"Of course I want to do an autopsy!" Li Xin'an said angrily, "Otherwise, how would we know how Brother Lei died!"
"Is there still a need for an autopsy?" Ouyang Lie snorted coldly, "You can't even see such an obvious wound on Senior Brother's neck. He was killed with a knife!"
"Then let me ask you, in this Tianshan Sect, who has the ability to kill Senior Brother Lei with one sword? You? Me? Or Murong Bai?"
"I——" Ouyang Lie was speechless for a moment and could not speak.
Li Xin'an suppressed his inner anger and said calmly to Xu Hanying:
"Sect Master Xu, we are all saddened by the death of Senior Brother Lei Jie. I can understand your feelings, but you can't do nothing just because you are sad. If you don't do an autopsy, who can find the murderer?"
Xu Hanying frowned and said: "Lei Jie is already dead, and I can't bear to destroy his body."
"There is no other way."
"What's the use of an autopsy? Can corpses talk?" Ouyang Lie shouted, "I think you just want to use the name of autopsy to erase the clues you left behind."
"That's enough, second brother!" Xu Hanying said coldly, "Let them do an autopsy. Don't let people say that our Tianshan Sect is unreasonable."
"master--"
"Get out of here if you keep talking!" Xu Hanying's voice contained deep anger, "Lei Jie's coffin hasn't been transported to the mountain yet, you go and take a look."
"...Hey..." Ouyang Lie stamped his foot, turned around angrily, and left here.
"Old Four."
"Master, my apprentice is here."
"I'm tired. You're here watching them do the autopsy. If there's anything wrong-"
Xu Hanying stared into Li Xin'an's eyes and said slowly: "Destroy them."
"yes."
After Xu Hanying left, the string that Li Xin'an and the others had been tightening finally loosened.
"Brother Xiao, help me take off Senior Brother Lei's clothes."
"good."
The two of them started working together and took off all Lei Jie's clothes. Song Shuping said to Xu Baijiao beside him:
"Baijiao, you go back first, I'm here to watch."
"Okay..." Xu Baijiao nodded weakly and walked out listlessly.
Murong Bai saw Xu Baijiao covering her stomach with her hands all the way, and couldn't help asking with concern: "Miss Xu, are you feeling unwell?"
Xu Baijiao looked up at him and said "hmm".
"What are you asking about women's affairs?" Ye Qinglan said.
He didn't notice that Song Shuping beside him was also gently rubbing his lower abdomen.
While several people were talking, Lei Jie's clothes had been taken off. Li Xin'an inspected them carefully and found no traces of poisonous powder or drugs on the clothes.
"Master Li, what are you looking for?" Song Shuping asked.
Li Xin'an replied: "Senior Brother Lei has a high level of cultivation and cannot be killed by one knife. Even if it is a sneak attack, the wound should not be on the throat."
"So, I guess there are two reasons why Senior Brother Lei was killed. Either he was poisoned and couldn't resist. Or an acquaintance committed the crime."
Li Xin'an said in a deep voice: "In other words, the person who killed Senior Brother Lei was probably someone from the Tianshan Sect!"
Song Shuping took a breath: "Impossible!"
"Why is it impossible?" Li Xin'an asked.
"Elder brother is always kind to others. There are more than 2,000 people in the Tianshan Sect, and no one has ever made enemies with him. How could anyone want to kill him!"
"Killing is not necessarily due to hatred." Li Xin'an said calmly, "Senior Brother Song, your words are too arbitrary. As the saying goes, it is difficult to paint a tiger's skin but not its bones. For the sake of profit, anyone may violate the rules.
Common sense things.”
"I didn't find any traces of drug residue on Senior Brother Lei's clothes. Therefore, the person who can kill Senior Brother Lei can only be someone from your Tianshan Sect, and he must be very close to Senior Brother Lei."
"Why do you say that?"
"If it were a random disciple, even if he wanted to kill Senior Brother Lei, how could he possibly do it? The murderer is not only closely related to Senior Brother Lei, but he is also very powerful."
Li Xin'an said in a deep voice: "Ouyang Lie, Ma Xing, Xu Baijiao, and even Sect Leader Xu are all possible. Of course, that includes you, Senior Brother Song."
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Song Shuping was furious. He was completely unlike the gentle and handsome young man before. He pointed at Li Xin'an's nose and cursed:
"Master Li, you can't talk nonsense. You don't go to investigate the murderer to clear the evidence for you, but you are here to mess around, slander others, and insult our senior brothers. Why do you doubt the master and Baijiao!"
"I have the right to doubt anyone." Li Xin'an said calmly, "Anyone can be the murderer, and the more unlikely the person, the more likely it is."
"What nonsense!" Song Shuping said angrily, "Master and senior brother have been together for more than sixty years, and Baijiao was brought up by senior brother. He is like a brother and a father. Mr. Li, if you are really capable, go and get the real
Find the murderer and don’t pour dirty water on the two saddest people!"
"Senior Brother Song, please be patient." Li Xin'an said, "I know my words are a bit excessive, but I will not do anything outrageous."
"Huh, you better be!" Song Shuping said with a cold face.
Li Xin'an leaned down and examined Lei Jie's body - a finger-long stab wound across the throat was indeed the cause of death. However, Li Xin'an discovered that there was still a stagnation in Lei Jie's chest, abdomen and dantian.
This shows that Lei Jie tried to resist before he died.
Li Xin'an's hands traveled along Lei Jie's various meridians. Finally, he could conclude that Lei Jie did fight back before he died, and he must have seriously injured the man!
He told his autopsy results, and Song Shuping looked surprised: "You are really capable."
"Otherwise, how could I have the courage to say that the murderer will be caught?"
Li Xin'an smiled slightly: "The situation is now very clear. The murderer is someone from the Tianshan Sect. As long as you seal the mountain, count the number of people, and then check them one by one for injuries, and then investigate them one by one according to the time of Brother Lei's death, it should be
We can find the murderer."
"...Okay, I'll do it right away."
With that said, Song Shuping walked out.
"Wait a minute, Senior Brother Song." Li Xin'an suddenly stopped him.
"What's wrong, Mr. Li?" Song Shuping stopped and looked at Li Xin'an in confusion.
"I have an idea." Li Xin'an said in a deep voice, "I can catch a big fish by relying on Senior Brother Lei's death."
"Oh, really? What kind of big fish?"
"Brother Song, Miss Xu went to see you last night. I think you should already know that in yesterday's martial arts competition, Wang Lie, Wang Jue and Wang Meng from Henan Province are the fierce bandits in the northwest desert, the Three Wolves of the Northwest.
"
"Is this happening?" Ye Qinglan asked in surprise, "How come we didn't know about it."
"Last night, I couldn't sleep, so I went out for a walk, and I happened to bump into Miss Xu. She told me. I thought I'd say it by the way today, but I didn't expect...Senior Brother Lei Jie to be killed."
When the two of them were talking, they didn't notice that the expression on Song Shuping's face was very unnatural.
"Back to the topic, Senior Brother Lei Jie's only son Lei Can died in the hands of the Three Northwest Wolves back then. And this time, the Three Northwest Wolves came to the Tianshan Sect to participate in the martial arts competition and election, precisely to assassinate Sect Master Xu."
"Just a few of them?" Murong Bai frowned, "Although those three people are quite powerful, they really can't kill Sect Master Xu."
"The Three Northwest Wolves are just a cover." Li Xin'an said in a deep voice, "I discussed with Miss Xu last night that the people who hired the Three Northwest Wolves to assassinate Sect Leader Xu were people from the Tianshan Sect."
"Senior Brother Song and Miss Xu should have told you about this matter."
"Oh...yes, she told me."
Murong Bai said: "Are you suspecting that the person who hired the Three Northwest Wolves to assassinate Sect Leader Xu is the same person who killed Senior Brother Lei?"
"Most likely!"
Li Xin'an said: "Who do you think would want to kill the sect leader and chief disciple of the Tianshan Sect one after another? Who would be most beneficial to do so?"
That name is already obvious.
"Second Senior Brother... How is that possible?" Song Shuping murmured, "Although Second Senior Brother has a bad temper and is not very friendly to us senior brothers, there is absolutely no way he can kill Senior Brother, let alone assassinate the Master.
."
"Today, I saw that Senior Brother Ouyang's right arm was wrapped with a layer of gauze, right?" Li Xin'an said in a deep voice, "The last time I saw him, Senior Brother Ouyang was not injured. Don't you think it's a coincidence?"
"Furthermore, as you said, Senior Brother Ouyang usually stays in the knife forging room, alone, and does not go out for several days after forging a knife. There is no one to testify for him, and he also has the most sufficient reason to kill
Brother Lei."
"So many clues have converged on one person, Senior Brother Ouyang. This is no longer something that can be overturned."
"I still can't believe it." Song Shuping lowered his head with a complicated expression.
"I want to explain this matter to the master."
"Yes, we respect the Tianshan Sect's approach." Li Xin'an said, "If Senior Brother Ouyang is really unjust, we can continue the investigation."
"By the way, Senior Brother Song, where was Senior Brother Lei's body found? Can you take us there to have a look?"
"Of course." Song Shuping nodded, and after putting Lei Jie back on, he led a few people out of the hall.
Along the way, all the Tianshan Sect disciples they met looked at them angrily.
Li Xin'an smiled bitterly and said: "It seems that we will not be here for a long time. Forget about the martial arts competition, let's go down the mountain after we find out the murderer."
Murong Bai quietly pulled Li Xin'an's sleeve, and the two of them walked at the back.
"It's so obvious, why do you still say that Ouyang Lie was wronged?" Murong Bai said in a low voice.
"It's just because it's so obvious that it's fishy." Li Xin'an replied in a low voice, "If you were Ouyang Lie, if you wanted to kill Lei Jie and Xu Hanying, would you leave so many flaws for yourself?"
Murong Bai suddenly realized: "Don't you think Ouyang Lie is the murderer?"
"At least, I don't think he is that stupid. There must be a deeper secret inside."
Li Xin'an said: "Xu Hanying would have suspected several of his apprentices. Maybe he just didn't want to come forward and borrow our knives to kill people. Or maybe he wanted to catch bigger fish."
"And there are big fish?"
"Of course." Li Xin'an said, "Assuming that Ouyang Lie is the real murderer, do you think he can become the head of the Tianshan Sect just by himself and the Three Northwest Wolves? Of course it is impossible. There must be something bigger behind Ouyang Lie
organization, like..."
Li Xin'an suddenly heard something, and said slowly: "This time, Penglai Pavilion was sent by the Central Plains to watch the contest."