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In the courtroom, Zhou Jun was lying on the ground bleeding from all seven orifices, his eyes fixed on Liu Mu.Liu Mu ordered someone to carry Zhou Jun's body away, but the corpse suddenly stood up, grabbed Liu Mu, and pinched Liu Mu's neck fiercely with both hands, "Even if I'm a ghost, I will pull you as a backing!"

Liu Mu let out an exclamation and sat up from the bed, threw off the quilt and ran out barefoot.When she opened the door, she happened to see Xiangyun, and Liu Mu ran over and threw herself on Xiangyun.Xiangyun hugged Liu Mu subconsciously, "What's wrong?"

"ghost……"

Xiangyun said, "Could it be another nightmare."

Willow nodded.It happened that Yu Wanran passed by and saw Liu Mu lying in Xiangyun's arms, Xiangyun said awkwardly, "Young master had a nightmare."

Yu Wanran smiled and said, "I must have been frightened by that Zhou Jun yesterday."

Liu Mu said in shock, "That guy's eyes are so wide that he wants to strangle me to death! Will he turn into a ghost and come back to me? I think it's better to find a Taoist priest to do rituals."

Xiangyun said, "Ghosts are nothing but things made up by scary people. I'm going to give you a prescription to soothe the nerves."

"By the way, how is Catcher He?"

"My life is saved, but I'm afraid it will take some time to recover." Xiangyun said in a low voice, "But a woman must have suffered a lot after being alone all these years."

Liu Mu nodded, and said, "Sister Xiangyun, this matter must not be revealed. During this period of time, let He Tutou stay at our residence to recuperate."

When Liu Mu came to He Yi's room, He Yi had already woken up, and Liu Ye was feeding medicine to He Yi with a medicine bowl.

"I'll do it myself." He Yi said.

"No, Sister Xiangyun said you were seriously injured, so let me feed you."

"It's not like I don't have hands."

Liu Ye said, "This is the first time this girl has given medicine to others in such a humble way, and you are still pushing back."

He Yi looked up and saw Liu Mu walking in, and hurriedly said, "Lord Liu."

Liu Mu nodded, and said to Liu Ye, "Ye'er, Big Brother and Catcher He have important matters to discuss, you should go out first."

Liu Ye said, "Brother has to carry me behind his back if something happens."

Liu Mu tricked Liu Ye out by talking badly.

He Yi said, "Master Liu must already know my identity."

Liu Mu said, "Don't worry about Catcher He, I will keep this matter a secret for you."

Yu Wanran said, "That day when I saw He Tuotou fighting Zhou Jun, the kung fu used was indeed from my Emei School, but it was a little different in comparison. I wonder which Taoist leader of the Emei School is He Tuotou's master?"

He Yi said, "I only heard from the master that she is a lay disciple of the Emei sect. As for whether she has a dharma name or a name, the master did not mention it. I only remember that the master's surname is Feng. Later, the master taught me to practice some other sects. Inner strength and heart method, that's why Mrs. Liu felt that my martial arts methods are somewhat different from those of the Emei School."

Liu Mu said, "Why would you pretend to be a man and come to Jinling to be a head arrester?"

He Yi said, "To tell you the truth, I was born in the capital city. My father used to be the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishments. Because of the villain's framing, the whole family was sent to the frontier. My father died of illness on the way, and my mother also passed away. Later, a servant of my family took advantage of the officers and soldiers sleeping at night. At that time, he opened the shackles on my hands and helped me escape. Unexpectedly, the officers and soldiers were alarmed. When life and death were at stake, it was thanks to my master who saved me that I was able to save my life. From then on, I followed my master to practice martial arts and vowed to kill those corrupt officials and courtiers who were corrupt and perverted the law."

Liu Mu sighed, "But there are so many corrupt officials in the world, how can a woman like you kill them?"

"Although I'm a woman, I'm sure I can't lose to many men in terms of martial arts. I have no relatives or reasons, and I'm dead. Corrupt officials in the world can kill only one. It's a pity that my father has been dead for many years. Fierce, I can't avenge the lives of dozens of people in my He family who died in vain."

Liu Mu said, "From now on, you and I will join forces, but it's a pity that my official position is too small, otherwise I will join you in killing corrupt officials in the world."

He Yi asked, "Why did Lord Liu help me?"

"Because..." Liu Mu smiled, "He Butou wants to kill corrupt officials and courtiers in the world, and I want to be a good official. I just need a good helper like He Butou."

He Yi nodded, "Thank you, Master Liu."

The next day was Madam Liu's memorial day, Liu Mu, Yu Wanran, Xiangyun and the others went up the mountain with incense candles early in the morning to worship Madam Liu.

"Mother, sister Xiangyun prepared these for you. See how careful she is. After so many years, she still remembers what you like to eat." Liu Mu said while placing the tribute in front of the tomb.Then he said, "Mother, I have become an official, and I am a fifth-rank prefect hand-picked by the emperor. I am so majestic! Now Erniang can no longer say that you have not disciplined me well. My child has grown up now, and I am no longer that old man." I'm ashamed to see your bastard. I know a lot of words now, and I have memorized a lot of books." Liu Muxu chattered for a long time in front of Mrs. Liu's grave.

Everyone offered incense and kowtowed to Mrs. Liu, Liu Mu stood up, but when he turned around, he saw a person standing behind him, "Crazy monk!" Liu Mu was overjoyed and hurried over.

Xingchi wasn't too surprised, but had a weird expression on his face, "Are you here to pay homage to your mother?"

"Yeah, how do you know this is my mother?" Liu Mu said while looking at the tombstone behind him.

Xing Chi said, "Ah, I just happened to hear you calling this tombstone your mother when I was passing by."

"Oh, so that's what it is."

Xing Chi said, "I'm destined to be with your mother when I pass by here, and it's only right to pay respects." Xing Chi lit three sticks of incense and placed them in front of the grave, with sadness in his eyes.

Liu Mu said to the tombstone, "Mother, this is the crazy monk I met in Huguo Temple, he is very good at martial arts!" Then he asked Xingchi, "Crazy monk, why did you come to Jinling?"

"I'm here to worship someone."

"Is the worship over?"

Xing Chi nodded.

Liu Mu said, "As early as when I was at Huguo Temple, I said that if one day you come to Jinling, I will take you to eat all the best food here. Now I finally have a chance to fulfill my promise. "

Xing Chi followed the crowd down the mountain, and Liu Mu said to Xiang Yun, "Sister Xiang Yun, this is the crazy monk I told you about."

Xiangyun said, "Why do I feel like I've seen this master somewhere before?"

Xing Chi said, "There are similarities between people and things. Maybe the girl has seen someone who looks similar to me."

Passing by Yizhuang on the way back to the city, I saw an altar in front of the gate of Yizhuang. Everyone kneeled in front of the altar to worship, and there was a coffin next to it.

Liu Mu said, "It's strange, is this worshiping the sky or worshiping the coffin."

Only one person said, "It must be that the Laojun Temple in the south has appeared. Laojun took a fancy to the spring red that he sent a few days ago, and he will take her to heaven to become a fairy after being reborn."

Liu Mu asked, "Why are there such rumors all of a sudden?"

The villagers whispered, "The bones of the woman in the coffin are broken, but there is nothing wrong with it on the outside. It's not Laojun's manifestation! Isn't the coffin going to be buried outside the Laojun temple?"

I saw a few people over there were about to hammer nails into the coffin, Xing Chi hurried over, "Wait!"

Xing Chi wanted to open the lid of the coffin, but the others hurriedly stopped them, "This is not acceptable, what if I offend Grandma Laojun inside!"

Liu Mu said, "Crazy monk, do you think there is something wrong?"

Xing Chi said in a low voice, "I doubt the cause of the woman's death, I have to see it to be sure."

Liu Mu said to everyone, "I am the magistrate of Jinling, and this is my friend, the eminent monk of Huguo Temple, Master Xingchi. Master Xingchi has a relationship with this grandma, so I want to open the coffin and chant scriptures to send grandma to her." Cheng. If you delay the auspicious time and blame Laojun, can you bear it!"

Seeing that Liu Mu is the magistrate, everyone dared not stop him.

Xingchi opened the lid of the coffin, touched the woman's body, took off the shoes and socks on the woman's feet and looked at the soles of her feet, and saw a red mark in the shape of plum blossoms under the corpse's feet, Xingchi said, "Sure enough, he stepped on plum blossoms and ascended to heaven." .” Then he pretended to recite two passages similar to Sanskrit scriptures, but they were all made up by Xingchi.

In the restaurant, there were only Liu Mu and Xing Chi at this time, and Liu Mu said, "What's the matter with the plum blossom imprint on the bottom of Chunhong's feet?"

"Corpse Crushing Palm!" Xingchi was a little nervous in his words.

"Is it very powerful martial arts?" Liu Mu wondered in his heart, what kind of kung fu could make a master like Xing Chi feel nervous.

Xingchi said, "Fifty years ago, a master suddenly appeared in the Jianghu. No one knew where this person came from, nor did anyone know his name. They only knew that he came from the Western Regions, and he was called the murderous hand monster. This person threatened to defeat the martial arts of the Central Plains and seize the leader of the martial arts. For a while, there was no one in the Jianghu, and many leaders of the Central Plains sects died in the hands of this person. Abbot Benji didn't care about worldly affairs, but he saw that the monster with the poisonous hand had killed too many people, so he had no choice but to abolish his martial arts. Abbot Benji thought that the monster with the poisonous hand would return to the Western Regions honestly after his martial arts were abolished, but he didn't It occurred to me that this person turned out to be a martial arts prodigy. He had learned martial arts in just a few years, and came to Huguo Temple in disguise to assassinate Abbot Benji. Later, Abbot Benji broke his legs and imprisoned him in the temple. I remember The master said that when the poisonous hand monster returned to the Central Plains, his martial arts did not decrease but increased, and his internal strength was very strange. When he fought with his master, the martial arts he used was not Corpse Crushing Palm, but a more vicious one. In this man's hands."

"Is he the one who was imprisoned under the rockery in Abbot Benji's monastery?"

"how do you know?"

"I heard Huihai say it when I was in the temple."

Xing Chi said, "It's strange to say that Abbot Benji trapped him in the dungeon with iron chains made of black iron. Unexpectedly, when Abbot Benji was practicing in seclusion two years ago, the strange man with poisonous hands escaped from the dungeon. Not long after you left Huguo Temple. Later, the abbot said that everyone has his own destiny, maybe this person is destined not to spend the rest of his life in Huguo Temple, so he didn’t inquire about the whereabouts of the murderous hand monster.”

Liu Mu said, "Could it be that the murderous man killed Chun Hong, but the poisonous man should be a ten-year-old man now, how could he kill a good girl from a brothel?"

Xing Chi said, "The person who kills Chunhong may not be a poisonous hand monster. The body of the person who was hit by the palm of the corpse will not be the same at first, but the meridians will be cut off within a certain period of time, and the body will not show anything, even It looks very peaceful, like dying in a dream. The origin of the name Crushing Palm is that the bones of the deceased will suddenly be broken nine days after death No. 40. The person who killed Chunhong is not skilled enough, otherwise Chunhong's bones should have been broken seven or seventy-nine days after her death."

Liu Mu said, "After 49 days? Didn't the deceased have been buried long ago?"

Xing Chi nodded, "That's why we can cover up the real cause of death."

"If Chunhong wasn't killed by the Poisonous Hand, and the Crushed Corpse Palm was the Poisonous Hand's unique skill, could it be that the Poisonous Hand took in his apprentice after he escaped from the Huguo Temple? Could it be Zhou Jun..." Liu Mu He also told Xingchi about Zhou Jun who killed Liu Yuzuo.

Xingchi said, "It shouldn't be this person. If Chunhong was really killed by Zhou Jun, then there was no need for him to conceal the cause of Chunhong's death, and he didn't need to slap the butcher and the butcher to death with his palm. Wouldn't the corpse palm kill them without knowing it? According to what you said just now, Zhou Jun's kung fu should be the Zhiyang kung fu that focuses on fierceness. And the corpse palm is the most yin kung fu. If I You guessed right, that Zhou Jun you mentioned probably wants to cover up the real murderer with death."