The Elixir is for You, The Poison is for Me

#473 - The real murderer

Lu Jing hadn't actually expected that the murder weapon would be picked up by someone other than the murderer.

But combined with Jin Duoduo's later compromise and what happened last night, Lu Jing had to accept this somewhat bizarre but reasonable explanation.

After coming into contact with the Dengxian Pill, Yu Wenyu's financial situation deteriorated rapidly, and because he was hiding it from his wife and children, he needed even more money to fill the growing hole.

So it was not surprising that he had other thoughts when he saw the murder weapon.

Because according to the views of most people at the time, Jin Duoduo was clearly the murderer who killed Jiang Lei.

Yu Wenyu chose to hide the knife instead of taking it out because he wanted to use it to threaten Jin Duoduo and squeeze some money out of him to relieve his urgent needs.

As for how he managed to hide the knife under the noses of the guards, Lu Jing didn't know.

However, this was originally a very thin and light knife that could be easily hidden on the body. Lu Jing bet that if the guards who followed Yu Wenyu were called in for questioning, they were probably dismissed by Yu Wenyu on some pretext.

And not long after getting the knife, Yu Wenyu couldn't wait to threaten Jin Duoduo.

If he wasn't stupid, he should have used an anonymous method, and the time was likely on the night of the incident. Maybe Lu Jing ran into Yu Wenyu on the way back after his 'tree session', and the latter was just returning from Jin Duoduo's place.

Unfortunately, Yu Wenyu's threat didn't seem to work, after all, the knife didn't belong to Jin Duoduo, and Jin Duoduo didn't kill the person.

It wasn't until Jiang Lei's head appeared in the lotus pond that Jin Duoduo passed by when he fled that Jin Duoduo panicked, so he shouted to Yu Wenyu from afar again.

So Yu Wenyu found a maid as a target, preparing to kill someone and then throw out the murder weapon.

However, Yu Wenyu obviously overestimated himself this time. Although he was addicted to the Dengxian Pill, he was still a righteous person after all. After so many years of chivalry, he might be able to extort Jin Duoduo and earn some money to fill the hole.

However, it was really difficult for him to kill a completely innocent and unarmed ordinary person, and he couldn't get past the hurdle in his heart.

So when the matter came to a head, he found that he was actually a little unable to do it. The knife ultimately failed to cut down, Yu Wenyu just threw the knife in his hand and ended the matter hastily, which led to that somewhat absurd and funny scene.

Moreover, he later ran into Wen Qingqing again when he was escaping, because Yu Wenyu had already changed his clothes at that time, and worried that Wen Qingqing would see his face, Yu Wenyu really had the idea of killing someone to silence them.

But after discovering that the person he bumped into was his gold master's wife, he still couldn't bring himself to do it.

The above is almost all the things related to Yu Wenyu.

Lu Jing said, "Okay, I didn't really sleep that soundly last night. I woke up after hearing the scream. Then I heard the leader of the Li Gang go out first, then the owner of the Lu Manor, then the Duke of England, but there was no movement in Yu Daxia's room, and that's when I started to suspect him."

"But if that's the case, why don't you suspect that he killed Gang Leader Jiang?" Lu Qinghou asked again.

"It's very simple, it's still because of that head." Lu Jing said, "If Yu Daxia killed Gang Leader Jiang, then he wouldn't have needed to cut off Gang Leader Jiang's head and throw it into that lotus pond, but would have waited for the matter to pass before taking the head to exchange for the one million taels of silver."

"In addition, he doesn't need to threaten Boss Jin again, taking the risk of being exposed to commit another murder. To put it another way, even if he wants to have his cake and eat it too, as the murderer who killed Hall Master Jiang, there is no reason why he wouldn't be able to kill even a maid."

Lu Qinghou had to admit that what Lu Jing said was indeed the truth, but this raised a question. He said, "Since Yu Daxia is not the murderer who killed Hall Master Jiang, then who is? Lu Daxia wouldn't be suspecting me, would he, or Gang Leader Li?"

"Of course, neither of you are the murderers." Lu Jing shook his head.

"In that case, the person Lu Daxia suspects is me." The Duke of England sighed, "But as everyone knows, I am just a useless nobleman who likes to travel around and enjoy life, and my martial arts are very ordinary. Not to mention one-on-one, even ten of me would not be a match for Hall Master Jiang, so how could I possibly kill Hall Master Jiang."

"Under normal circumstances, you are indeed not a match for Hall Master Jiang."

Lu Jing said, "But if Hall Master Jiang himself made a cocoon and bound himself, it would be very simple for you to kill him."

"What does Lu Daxia mean by this?"

"I just took a look at that secret room and found that something was missing."

"What thing?"

"Water." Lu Jing said without hesitation, "Since Hall Master Jiang planned to hide here and 'feign death', then he should have expected that this would not be a matter of a day or two. Even if he didn't prepare dry food, there would always be water, but I didn't see any water in it. Even if the murderer killed someone, why would he take away the water and food?"

"I understand, Lu Daxia wants to say that there is something wrong with the water and food. I killed Hall Master Jiang, who is much more skilled than me, by poisoning the water and food." The Duke of England was still calm, "But what do I gain? Boss Jin's money is not paid to me."

"Of course you didn't kill for money." Lu Jing said, "I also learned about your past from asking a friend to investigate your affairs. It turns out that you had a feud with Hall Master Jiang. One of your sons was killed by the gunpowder hidden weapon of the Thunderfire Hall, only because that son was born to one of your mistresses, almost no one knew about it.

"Although that incident was actually an accident, the target of the Thunderfire Hall was not your illegitimate son, he just died in the aftermath of the gunpowder, but you still blamed this on Hall Master Jiang.

"But you are very smart, knowing that you are not a match for the Thunderfire Hall and Jiang Lei, you buried this matter in your heart. Perhaps even you yourself did not expect that the opportunity for revenge would come so quickly."