diskusbooks Chapter 88 Too Obsessed
Chapter 88 Too Obsessed
“You all think that Madam Xu had an affair with Lion Soul back then, but in fact Madam Xu also suffered a lot of torture and abuse from Guo Qian. Lion Soul saw it all and wanted to rescue her, but they failed and still died at Guo Qian’s hands.”
"But this is fine too. Seeing Madam Xu, dressed in a pomegranate-red wedding gown, fall and drown in the lotus pond has given me a good way to kill someone?"
"A good way to kill someone? So the bronze mirror inside the bridal chamber and the mirror stone outside were all your designs, weren't they?"
“You’ve missed something,” Guo Huo retorted to Li Lianhua.
"And that Shoushan stone and the stumbling block, I placed them on purpose. I also hired that feng shui master. Blame Guo Qian for being so stupid, believing everything he was told." Guo Huo became more and more excited as he spoke.
Li Lianhua sighed after hearing Guo Huo's words.
"Young Master Guo, you killed your fiancée simply to break free from your father's control. But your father's second wife had nothing to do with this. Why did you treat her so cruelly?"
"So what? He drove my mother to her death and ruined my life. Do you think I'll let him get away with it? Whatever he wants, I'll make sure he doesn't get it."
Seeing Guo Huo so agitated, Li Lianhua said to him, "Young Master Guo, your father already knows everything you've done. The only reason he hasn't exposed you is that he still wants to protect his son."
"Ridiculous," Guo Qian sneered.
"???"
Li Lianhua couldn't figure out what this meant.
Even if he exposes me, he won't escape his punishment.
"He was just planning his last move, hoping I would rescue him, but he never expected that I would be happy for him to die."
Li Lianhua: 。 。 。 。 。 。
The sound of a flute: ... ...
Fang Duobing: ... This is a new approach.
"There are a thousand ways to break free from the shackles of sin, so why choose to become an even more wicked person?"
"If you want revenge, why drag innocent people into it to satisfy your hatred?"
“You haven’t experienced my life, my pain, you have no right to lecture me.”
Guo Huo was unaware that Fang was ill due to his anger and rebuke.
“I know you want to find the things that Lion Soul left behind. Back then, in order to avoid revealing that he was a remnant of the Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance, Lion Soul hid all his personal belongings in a place that only I know about.”
"If you release me, I will tell you."
Di Feisheng finally heard what he wanted to know, and in a flash, he stepped forward and grabbed Guo Huo by the neck.
"I hate being threatened more than anything in my life. If you don't tell me, I'll break your neck."
Guo Huo's neck was being squeezed painfully, and he was almost unable to breathe. Moreover, Di Feisheng's voice was getting stronger and stronger, so he quickly agreed.
"Okay... I'll tell you where it is if you let me go?"
Li Lianhua: I'm so happy, we're finally going to find it.
Fang Duobing: I'm so happy! Li Lianhua is finally going to be found.
The sound of the flute released Guo Huo.
Guo Huo then led his group toward the small house in the pond. After walking for a while, before they reached the house, Guo Huo stopped.
"What, are you not going to lead the way properly?" Di Feisheng tried to step forward again.
Unexpectedly, Guo Huo turned around, pulled a knife from a servant's hand, and threw it towards Li Lianhua and Fang Duobing.
Li Lianhua and Fang Duobing quickly dodged to the sides, and the knife flew forward along Guo Huo's force until it smashed through the mirror stone behind them.
While everyone was looking towards the mirror stone, Guo Huo grabbed Lü Rou and quickly fled the scene.
Fang Duobing turned around and saw that Guo Huo had run away and was now only a figure in sight. He quickly chased after him.
Li Lianhua and Di Feisheng looked at the broken mirror stone and what was hidden inside. Di Feisheng quickly stepped forward and took out what was inside.
"The fabric from the Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance seems to truly be a relic of the Lion Soul."
They searched through the contents and found a letter inside; it was indeed in Lion Soul's handwriting.
So Li Lianhua quickly came over to watch together.
Lion Soul was still recovering from his serious injuries, and the Alliance Leader's orders had not yet been fulfilled, so he dared not neglect them. Therefore, he placed Shan Gu Dao's remains in a medicinal coffin to preserve his body from decay, and temporarily hid them under the willow tree at the south gate of Cailian Manor.
After reading the report, Li Lianhua and Di Feisheng exchanged a glance, then found a shovel in Cailian Manor and hurried towards the willow tree at the south gate.
If it weren't for the large number of people, Li Lianhua would have already used her graceful steps to get there.
Having found the willow tree mentioned in the Lion Soul's letter, Li Lianhua picked up a shovel and began to pry up the soil and move it away.
Before long, Li Lianhua casually dug up the coffin. After clearing away the surrounding soil, the entire coffin was revealed.
Li Lianhua lifted the coffin lid and saw "Single Lone Blade" lying inside.
The person lying in the coffin had a face that was very similar to Shan Gu Dao, and even the clothes and armor he wore, as well as his severed fingers, were very similar.
If Li Lianhua hadn't seen Shan Gu Dao alive at Yunyin Mountain before, she wouldn't have been able to tell that the person in the coffin wasn't him.
However, since it was known that it was not him alone, upon closer inspection, some differences could still be found. For example, the broken finger wound was cut flat, as if it had been completely severed by a knife.
Li Lianhua and Di Feisheng carefully examined the inside of the coffin, but found no clues whatsoever, so they had no choice but to give up.
Li Lianhua bowed to the coffin: "Although I don't know who you are, you're still wearing someone else's face even in death, so you must be unhappy as a ghost. I'll let you rest in peace now."
Just as Li Lianhua was about to move the coffin lid from the ground, she saw Fang Duobing coming over from the side with an arrogant look on his face.
"No one can escape from me. Those two are already tied up like dumplings. Li Lianhua, what are you doing? Whose grave is this?"
Li Lianhua: Let me think about how to make this up first. Never mind, I'll just tell you part of it first.
“Fang Duobing, these are the remains of your uncle, Shan Gudao. Actually, we’ve been looking for him all along. Come, come and pay your respects to your uncle.”
Fang Duobing was stunned when he heard this. This was my legendary uncle.
Let "Lone Swordsman" rest in peace; Li Lianhua wrote nothing on his epitaph.
Fang Duobing asked curiously, "Li Lianhua, why didn't you carve my uncle's name on it?"
Li Lianhua: He's not your uncle yet.
“Alas, wasn’t your uncle killed by the Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance? Naturally, I will wait until I avenge him before I carve his name on it.”
Then he'll be your real uncle.
“Yes, I should investigate this thoroughly. But do you know anything about my uncle’s past? I’d like to know. All I know are rumors from the martial arts world.”
Having just had his uncle's body prepared for burial, Fang was also feeling unwell and wanted to know more about him.
Li Lianhua recalled: "At that time, Shan Gudao was only a teenager, living a helpless and barely able-bodied life on the streets. But he found a four-year-old orphan named Li Xiangyi."
“He often gave all the food to Li Xiangyi, while he himself went hungry and was beaten. If it weren’t for his master Qi Mushan coming down the mountain and taking the two of them back to live with him, I don’t know how long these two would have lived.”
"My master must be very grateful to my uncle, right?"
“Li Xiangyi should have been grateful. But he was born unruly and did things his own way. His senior brother treated him so well from childhood to adulthood. But as he grew up, he became more and more arrogant and his opinions clashed with those of his senior brother.”
"Later, he was driven away in anger. What number one in the world, what master of the Four Gates? He was just a mediocre person who couldn't understand the facts and caused many people to die in vain."
Fang Duobing felt increasingly uneasy as he listened, and quickly retorted, "Don't talk nonsense here. My master is not that kind of person. Without him, I would be nothing but a useless person in a wheelchair now. When I was a child, everyone laughed at me, but only my master encouraged me."
"If he treats me this way, how could he not treat his senior brother well? Besides, everyone knows that he decided to fight the Golden Mandarin Duck Alliance because of Shan Gu Dao's death."
Yes, their relationship has always been good. Is it Shan Gudao who has changed, or is it I who have changed?
Since there wasn't a single useful clue, Li Lianhua decided to accept it. Since Shan Gudao was willing to hide, then he would hide forever.
Otherwise, if he ever shows his face and causes trouble, I'll make sure he can't back down.
In front of the Lotus Pavilion, Li Lianhua was trying to persuade Fang Duobing.
"Since we have no leads at the moment, I won't continue. You've already solved three cases and become a full-fledged detective at Baichuan Institute, so go back to where you came from."
Fang Duobing exclaimed in disbelief, "You, Li Lianhua, actually want to drive me away? Have you forgotten how we've supported each other all this way? Have you forgotten our promise to solve all the strange cases in the world and restore peace to the martial arts world?"
Li Lianhua picked at her ear: "Why are you shouting so loudly? I can hear you. Of course, I haven't forgotten what you said. But I didn't promise to investigate all the world's strange cases."
Seeing that this explanation was not working, Fang Duobing pointed to Di Feisheng, who was sitting on the balcony of the second floor of the Lotus Pavilion, and asked.
"What about Ah Fei? Why don't you kick him out? I arrived at Lotus Pavilion first."
"You mean A-Fei? He stayed at Lotus Pavilion before because he promised me something. Now that the matter is over, it's my promise to him, so naturally I can't send him away."
"So you're kicking me out? Your Lotus Pavilion is so big, what's wrong with one more person?"
Fang Duobing was somewhat saddened, realizing that his trust had been misplaced.
"It's not that we necessarily want to kick you out."
Li Lianhua looked at the sullen Fang Duobing and comforted him.
"As the saying goes, those who walk different paths cannot make plans together; they are destined to part ways."
"Where does the saying 'those who walk different paths cannot make plans together' come from? Wherever you go, I will follow."
"Why bother? We'll just give up halfway anyway."
“Let’s talk about it halfway there. At least we’re walking together now. If we really do get off halfway, I’ll catch up as fast as I can.”
Fang Duobing looked resolute, believing that it was sometimes necessary to change some principles for friends with whom one had a connection.
"I'm going to Xiangzhou Prefecture City, would you like to travel with me?"
"We're going the same way, we're going the same way. You're going to find Wu You and Miss Qiao, right? Let's go, let's go together."
Fang Duobing was genuinely afraid that Li Lianhua would abandon him halfway and leave on her own, since Li Lianhua actually did such a thing.
He quickly stepped forward, grabbed the fox spirit who was having a great time playing nearby, and hurried back into the Lotus Pavilion.
Li Lianhua watched Fang Duobing's figure disappear quickly, shook her head helplessly, and then went inside herself.
Outside the city of Xiangzhou.
"Li Lianhua, is it really alright for your Lotus Pavilion to be parked here?"
Fang Duobing was somewhat worried. There were too many people coming and going outside the city, so the safety level wasn't high.
"What, are you not familiar with the mechanisms of your Tianji Manor?"
Di Fei, holding a basket of radishes in his arms, made a teasing remark.
"How could that be? Our Tianji Manor is renowned throughout the martial arts world for its mechanical skills, so why would we be afraid of a few thieves? I'm just worried that if we stay here for too long, someone might come and dirty the outside of Lotus Pavilion or something."
Fang Duobing firmly testified for Tianji Mountain Villa.
"But speaking of which, Li Lianhua, how come your Lotus Pavilion has the traps of my Tianji Manor? And is it alright for us to just leave with these horses like this?"
Fang Duobing weighed the basket of cabbages in his hand. It seemed he wasn't planning to come back; he'd already picked all the cabbages.
Li Lianhua was holding the fox spirit by the hand, and she wasn't carrying much in her hands.
"Your affairs at Tianji Manor are naturally for your own people to ask. Why are you asking me? As for these horses, aren't you quite free every day? Why don't you go out of the city and feed them?"
"Oh, then I'd have to run out of town every day?"
Fang Duobing somewhat regretted asking so many questions.
"Let's hurry up and go, it's not too heavy." Di Feisheng took the lead and walked towards the city gate.
"Let's go."
"Li Lianhua, how much longer until we arrive? It's been at least 15 minutes, hasn't it?"
Fang Duobing raised his hand and pounded his arm. Actually, he wasn't that tired, but walking like this, not knowing where the destination was, was a bit boring and monotonous.
"It's not far ahead."
"How about we go to the teahouse and have a cup of tea before we leave? Hey, don't those two people walking into the teahouse look like Wu You and her friend?"
Fang Duobing glanced around and spotted two people whose figures were somewhat similar to Wu You and Qiao Qiao Wanmian. However, these two were wearing masks that Fang Duobing hadn't seen Wu You wear before, so he was a little unsure.
"It should be them, their auras are very similar." There were many people here, their voices were mixed and their auras were chaotic, so Di Feisheng wasn't entirely sure either.
"Li Lianhua, where are you going?" Fang Duobing grabbed Li Lianhua's sleeve.
"Since we've already encountered them, of course we should go find them."
"It really is those two."
Fang Duobing released Li Lianhua's sleeve and followed in his footsteps.
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Li Lianhua: Author, you said the Lotus Picking Manor would end soon, why is it still taking so long?
Young author: Isn't this to highlight your intelligence and your determination to find Shan Gu Dao?
Li Lianhua: Where am I not wise and brave? Tell me.
Young author: That's true.
Wu You, you two stop chatting, it's my turn and Sister A-Mian's turn to appear, don't block the way.
Li Lianhua: ???