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Chapter 28 Sin
After hearing what Lu Qing said, Fu Wen also felt that this seemed to be the best option at the moment, so he said nothing more and clasped his fists towards Lu Qing: "Master, please don't say such discouraging words! You are a lucky person, blessed by the lucky star, and nothing will happen to you!"

Lu Qing smiled and waved his hand: "Go ahead, you and Fu Lu should go and rest too. We will go to Qingshui County tomorrow."

Fu Wen quickly responded and left the room.

On the other hand, Zhu Yu was also completely awake after returning to his room. He sat on the edge of the bed in a daze, his mind filled with the scenes he had seen in the cave during the day.

If a murderer kills people repeatedly, he will definitely follow the same style of behavior, and the results will naturally be very similar.

From the five corpses in the cave, it can be roughly inferred that four of them died in the same way.

The corpse found in the dilapidated temple was the most intact and the one that could be seen most clearly. There was no sign of struggle before death. It seemed that someone had knocked the body out with incense and then bled it to death.

If that’s the case, why is it that the bloated corpse appears to be intact on the surface, while the ribs are broken and pierced into the heart and lungs?

For such internal injuries, a big man like Fu Lu would probably only need one punch to inflict the damage.

But who would have the patience for a strong man like this who is skilled in martial arts, with all the bamboo tube traps, incense and bloodletting?

With that kind of skills, he could almost massacre the whole village by himself!
Then the most reasonable explanation is that the evildoers do not have any physical advantages and can only use some unconventional methods.

For a person who is not physically strong enough to beat someone until their ribs are broken, and even does not hesitate to break his usual way of killing, the most likely reason is probably a strong hatred.

Because he hated so much, he lost his mind and accidentally killed the man. Then he found that there was no more room for bleeding, so he had to give up.

Suddenly, she remembered something.

When they first arrived in Qingshui County, the waiter at the restaurant told them that the old owner of the store had secretly gone to the Ghost Fairy Temple to pray for wealth and then disappeared. When he was found, he was stuffed in the hole of a dead tree. He was pale, as if he had been sucked dry by something. It was very scary.

At that time, she thought that apart from the corpse that was left behind the statue in the ruined temple and had not been disposed of in time, the other people who died in the Ghost Fairy Temple might have been abandoned in a similar mysterious way as the old shopkeeper.

But what they saw today were several corpses abandoned in a remote cave, which was no different from corpses exposed in the wilderness.

If the old shopkeeper died because of the Ghost Temple like everyone else, why wasn't he thrown into the cave with the others, but was stuffed into a hole in a dead tree so that he could be found?

Is it because the hole in the dead tree is not too big after all, and the old shopkeeper is thin enough to fit in?
As soon as this speculation came up, Zhu Yu himself denied it.

In terms of thinness, the corpses in the cave today might be comparable to the old shopkeeper, so what could be the real reason...

Unable to figure it out, Zhu Yu turned over irritably, and suddenly realized that he seemed to have fallen into his old habit again. He quickly closed his eyes, trying to put aside all distractions and concentrate on falling asleep.

After a long time, Zhu Yu suddenly stood up in the darkness. There was no sleepiness in his eyes, only the excitement after his doubts were figured out.

The old shopkeeper seemed to have died in the strangest way. After his death, he was stuffed into a hole in a dead tree, which was really scary.

But think about it again, what will people do after they find his body?

That naturally means collecting his body, burying him, and handling his funeral properly.

As for those people in the cave...it seemed that the answer was already there - one of them had turned into a pile of bones.

So the old shopkeeper in the tree hole not only frightened the people who found him, but also received a decent burial. Those in the cave became what the people of Qingshui County called "no one can see them alive, no one can see them dead," and their bodies were left exposed in the wilderness.

It seems obvious which is a greater sin, a decent burial or leaving the body exposed in the wilderness.

The old shopkeeper's "appearance in the tree hole" also seemed to be secretly telling others what all this was pointing to.

Outsiders who know nothing about this will only think that one should not be greedy when seeking wealth in the Ghost Temple, as greed may backfire.

But if someone really knew what the old shopkeeper and the people in the cave had done in the past, they would probably be frightened and worried all day long after seeing the old shopkeeper's death.

That makes sense!

Zhu Yu let out a long sigh, and after sorting out the doubts in his mind, he felt relieved.

As for the identities of the corpses in the cave, what connection did the old shopkeeper have with them, and what had these people done in the past that made them have to be killed...

After figuring out the connection, Zhu Yu lay down again with satisfaction, turned over, and finally fell into a deep sleep.

Perhaps because she was thinking too much the night before, Zhu Yu opened her eyes the next day to find that the sky was bright and the sun was high in the sky. She hurriedly got up and opened the bag that the talisman gave her, and found a set of ink-black clothes inside.

The clothes were tailored with narrow sleeves and a short body, and there was a black cowhide belt tied around the waist. It not only made the originally slightly long hem look less cumbersome, but also made up for Zhu Yu's slightly thinner figure compared to men, making him look more heroic.

After changing clothes, he hurried downstairs. He didn't know what the old postmaster was busy with, and only Fu Lu was waiting there.

"Don't worry, Second Master! It's still early." He grinned as he saw Zhu Yu, dressed in black, coming out. "My Lord and the others are waiting up ahead. I'll wait for you here, and then we'll go over and meet up!"

He was also wearing the same black tights as Zhu Yu, except that his muscular body almost filled up the entire sleeves. If he wasn't smiling at the moment, he would have looked murderous.

The two mounted their horses and rode for a while before seeing Lu Qing and Fu Wen waiting there from afar. Both were dressed in black.

Lu Qing's hair was tied up with a small golden crown with a tiger head pattern on it, exactly the same as the tiger head on the token he showed to Zhu Yu at the post station that day, and that token was now hanging around his waist.

Although Lu Qing was a tall man when he was wearing a long robe, the black suit he was wearing now made his shoulders broad and his waist narrow, and he exuded a strong and heroic aura.

When Zhu Yu looked at Lu Qing, Lu Qing also looked at her and seemed very satisfied.

Walking up to him, Fu Wen bowed to Zhu Yu and handed him a leather mask and a veil hat. "Second Master, wear these on the way to the county government office to avoid attracting attention."

Zhu Yu took the thing from Fu Wen and saw that Lu Qing was also wearing a black gauze hat, so he nodded.

She didn't think that her outfit would attract much attention. On the contrary, if Lu Qing rode into the city like this, it would be strange if he didn't get stared at all the way.

The four men, wearing black robes and veiled hats, rode their horses towards Qingshui County. Lu Qing did not seem to be in a hurry and walked very slowly along the way.

We didn't meet many people on the way to Qingshui County, but after entering the county town, the surroundings became lively.

(End of this chapter)