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Chapter 376 Gu Qingyi's Reasoning
Gu Qingyi was indeed desperate and tried every possible means, but she certainly couldn't admit it herself.

"I, of course I'm not talking nonsense. The old beggar clearly died outside and was carried back by someone. That's why we didn't find any signs of fighting in the temple."

"I've already checked it out. We can sneak around here from where he sleeps, avoid the sight of most people, and climb out through the hole in the roof along this wooden pillar."

"But why did this old beggar want to go out?" the tall and thin disciple asked again.

Gu Qingyi hadn't figured out this question, but since things had come to this point, she could only continue to reason along this line.

"That was...that was to meet up with his accomplices outside the temple."

"Accomplice? Inspector Gu means that this old beggar is the murderer's accomplice? Then why did he die here?"

Shen Zhou, who had been silent, couldn't help but speak.

Gu Qingyi's face didn't look very good, but fortunately, the hat blocked it so no one else could see it.

However, her eyes were already somewhat panicked, and she looked around, trying to grasp a life-saving straw, and at this moment she inadvertently glanced at the two headless corpses beside her.

He found that their body shapes were surprisingly similar. Thinking of the news that the scholar had revealed before, that He Qisheng owed a huge gambling debt, an idea suddenly flashed in his mind and he blurted out.

"He...his accomplice is He Qisheng."

"Ah?" Everyone present was shocked.

The two Songxi Sword Sect disciples were even more angry and said, "Captain Gu, my senior brother has been killed by someone, and you are still slandering him. Isn't that too much?"

"I didn't slander him," Gu Qingyi continued, "He Qisheng owed Jilefang more than 24,000 taels of silver, and he also mortgaged the century-old ginseng that the sect wanted him to give to the new leader of the Beggars' Sect. He couldn't pay back so much money, and was worried about angering the sect leader, so he planned to fake his death to get away.

"For this reason, he specifically found a man of similar size and age to serve as a scapegoat, but he was usually with his two fellow apprentices and had no chance to 'die', so he went to find another helper to help."

Gu Qingyi continued speaking along this line of thought. At first, he felt a little guilty and stumbled, but as he spoke, he became more and more fluent.

"The person he asked for help was the old beggar. The two of them met at the dilapidated temple to create the illusion of He Qisheng's death. The old beggar brought He Qisheng's substitute in advance and hid it under the base of the Buddha statue.

"Here, this is the third headless corpse we found. He is the same size as He Qisheng. If you cut off his head and put on He Qisheng's clothes, ordinary people can't tell the difference between them."

After hearing her words, everyone in the temple looked at He Qisheng's body, then looked at the other body next to him. Except that one was wearing clothes and the other was not, there really wasn't much difference below the neck.

Only the two Songxi Sword Sect disciples were still shouting, "You still say it's not slander, but how do you know that my senior brother owes money to Ji Le Fang, Gu Shen Bu?"

"I can testify to this matter." The scholar who had come to see Gu Qingyi before spoke, "Because I am the person sent by Ji Le Fang to collect debts, and I was also the one who told Gu Shenpo that He Qisheng owed money."

After he finished speaking, he ignored the two Songxi Sword Sect disciples and looked at Gu Qingyi again, his tone becoming much more polite, "He Qisheng had already decided to fake his death and was well prepared, so why did he actually die when the time came?" "Of course it's because someone killed him!"

Gu Qingyi quickly sorted out all the clues at hand and continued, "He Qisheng and the old beggar agreed to meet outside the temple. He Qisheng used the excuse of getting up late to come to the back wall of the temple, and the old beggar took advantage of the people in the temple not paying attention and climbed onto the roof with the body.

“Afterwards, He Qisheng also used Qinggong to get to the roof. This explains why his footprints only reached the back wall, and why there were no footprints of the old beggar outside the temple. This is because he never came down from the roof.

“According to their original plan, they were supposed to kill the stand-in here and pretend that He Qisheng was murdered, but an accident happened at this time.

"The murderer also came to the roof and killed He Qisheng and the old beggar."

Gu Qingyi's current reasoning actually combined the previous speculations of the scholar and Malu. One of them believed that He Qisheng was faking his death, and the other believed that someone attacked and killed He Qisheng from the roof.

However, there were fatal loopholes in the two people's previous speculations. The problem with the scholar was that He Qisheng was indeed dead, and the problem with the millitary was that even if it was a sneak attack, there would still be footprints left if the battlefield was below.

But if He Qisheng jumped onto the roof on his own initiative, it would be normal that there were no footprints of other people below. Besides, He Qisheng did want to fake his death, but he accidentally turned it into a real death in the end.

Not only that, his accomplices were also killed, and together with the killed substitute, there were exactly three corpses.

Malu was more curious about something else at the moment. "Didn't you say before that once the battle started, no one else could enter the area blocked by the fog? Then how did the murderer kill two people at once?"

As soon as he asked this question, he found that everyone was looking at him.

After a moment, Shen Zhou coughed and took the initiative to explain, "Of course, the battle can also be one-on-many or many-on-one, many-on-many. As long as no card is played, others can join in.

"Also, if the two people are standing close to each other during a sneak attack, the killer can contact both of them at the same time and drag them into the game together. Of course, those who do this usually have great confidence in their martial arts skills, because then it will become a one-on-two situation.

"In addition to this, there is another method, which is also a more common method, and that is hidden weapons." Shen Zhou paused.

"Some masters who are good at using hidden weapons can use hidden weapons to pull several people, or even dozens of people into a card game at once. In short, as long as you want, there are still many ways. But as I said, to fight so many people at once, first of all, you must be very strong yourself."

"I see." Malu didn't expect that the hidden weapons in this world could be used in this way. After sighing, he took another half step behind Gu Qingyi.

Gu Qingyi was now completely immersed in reasoning, feeling a sense of satisfaction at finally solving a difficult problem.

She continued, "After killing He Qisheng, the murderer threw his body off the roof, and then brought back the bodies of the old beggar and the unlucky substitute. He even hid the substitute's body back under the Buddha statue. Eh... This shows that he had seen every move of the old beggar before, so he discovered the mechanism at the bottom of the Buddha statue.

"That's why I said Sister Zheng, no, it should be her husband who was the murderer. Besides the old beggar, he was another person in the temple who was easily overlooked."

(End of this chapter)