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[Mysterious Lotus Casebook]

[Episode 7]

The head is a very strange thing.

It leaks a lot of secrets,

whether one is dead or alive.

What do you mean?

At this point,

we need to find out the truth

about Zhang Qingshi's death first.

The murderer made a hole on the wall

to frame someone else after the murder.

It means he must have entered through the front door.

But Zhang Qinghu was staying in the same room

and didn't see anything.

What if

they weren't staying in the same room?

Room 4 and Room 5 are adjacent to each other.

Which one do you think is Room 4?

Isn't it obvious?

One is 4.

The other is 5.

This one, of course.

This is strange.

How come this one is 4 as well?

You put the mud on it?

As it was dark,

the murderer only needed to cover the white dot in the middle on Room 5's door sign

and add a dot

with this white powder to Room 4's door sign

to switch the numbers.

As long as the Zhang Brothers came back separately,

the murderer could perform this trick

in the interval between their returns

and make the one who came back later

mistake Room 5 for Room 4.

But I saw the Zhang Brothers

leave Canglu Garden together

last night.

They should have come back together.

Why did they separate on the way?

So how come you lost them?

I'll show you.

I followed them here last night

and lost them.

I see.

Let's re-enact it.

Li Lianhua?

You're going the wrong way.

That's the secret of last night?

It's very foggy here,

which makes this place suitable for employing the Qi Men Dun Jia technique.

A master doesn't have to do much.

It only takes a few simple steps to get people astray.

Li Lianhua?

Zhang Qinghu and his elder brother

were separated in this manner.

I see.

That's pretty much what happened last night.

I see.

I thought my brother just went ahead

because I was drunk and too slow.

Unlike a sober person, your steps are unsteady

when you are drunk.

The two of you were intentionally separated,

and when you were back,

you went into different rooms.

The two of us stayed in the same room.

Did you hear your brother's voice?

No.

I was drunk and sleepy,

and fell asleep as soon as I was back.

So your brother was in Room 4,

and you were in Room 5.

On their way back from the banquet last night,

the Zhang Brothers were separated by the flagstone path.

Zhang Qingshi was ahead of Zhang Qinghu.

After a long wait for Zhang Qinghu, Zhang Qingshi went ahead

and returned to Room 4 first.

At this moment, the murderer

switched the signs through putting mud

and white powder on them,

and then entered Room 4

and killed Zhang Qingshi while he was alone.

When Zhang Qinghu was back,

as it was dark and he was drunk,

he saw the door signs that had been tampered with

and naturally went into Room 5.

After killing him,

the murderer broke the air vent on the back wall

to make people suspect the kid,

and then cleaned the signs.

When Zhang Qinghu

got up to use the bathroom, the signs had been switched back.

He was transferred to Room 4,

and finally saw that his brother had been killed.

Please tell me

who killed my brother.

That person could think of adjusting the gaps between the flagstones,

as well as

this method of leading people away from a fork in the road.

In my opinion,

this person knows the Qi Men Dun Jia technique.

Gu Fengxin,

isn't that what you learned before you entered the sect?

I've heard a lot about you, Scholar Sushou.

Now I see you're indeed quite extraordinary.

That's right.

It was me who killed Zhang Qingshi.

Gu,

we have done nothing to you,

why did you kill my brother?

Done nothing to me?

Do you remember the name Yu Wanwan?

"The Dusty Butterfly," Yu Wanwan?

I heard that she entered this trade quite late following her cousin.

Her cousin... is you?

Dun Jia Qi Men is hard to learn and master.

You put in a lot of hard work, but rarely get to use it.

That's why most of the disciples of that sect are poor.

By chance,

I started stealing treasure from tombs

and found that I could apply what I had learned

and even make a fortune through that.

I got carried away

and had my cousin join me and become a tomb robber as well.

But five years ago,

while she was collaborating with the Zhang Brothers,

my cousin was raped and killed by a drunken Zhang Qingshi.

I kept looking for opportunities for revenge,

but the Zhang Brothers were too powerful together

and I couldn't do anything.

I finally got this chance today

and avenged my cousin.

Zhang Qingshi was stabbed at the throat with my cousin's jade hairpin.

I had a great time killing him.

And he very much deserved it.

But I didn't chop off his head.

I'll kill you and avenge my brother!

Duan Hai, help me!

Stop!

We've found the murderer of my brother.

What are you trying to do, Master Wei?

I asked you to come for the purpose of entering Yipin Tomb.

Put aside your personal grudges for now.

When we're done,

you can do whatever you want.

Wei,

what's wrong with you today?

What I said just now

is for everyone here.

Do as I say and enter Yipin Tomb,

or you might not make it out of Mount Puchu alive.

Master Wei,

we came here for the banquet.

You think these servants of yours

will get us to work for you like slaves?

The servants, no.

But Ghost Wail Potion will.

Everyone,

you enjoyed the wine last night, didn't you?

Now feel your Shenque and Guanyuan acupoints.

Very sore, aren't they?

That means the Ghost Wail Potion is taking effect.

You poisoned the wine?

Ghost Wail Potion is colorless and tasteless.

It's not hard to cure at the beginning,

but six hours later, the poison enters the bone marrow

and can only

be cured by the poisoner.

To wait for the poison to take effect,

I had to put up with your noise all night.

It was so annoying.

Master Wei,

why did you do that?

You guys haven't stopped arguing

since you entered my manor yesterday.

How will you unite?

Now it's easy.

If you want to live, do as I say

and help me enter Yipin Tomb.

Give me the antidote!

Thread of Netherworld?

The weapon of the Fourteen Thieves of the Netherworld?

How did you get it?

The weapon of the Fourteen Thieves of the Netherworld

was taken

from the bodies of the Fourteen Thieves, of course.

You and your brother are descendants

of Fourteen Thieves' member Zhang Qianhuang.

I've known it for a long time.

The seven headless bodies on Mount Puchu

-The Fourteen Thieves of the Netherworld? -are seven of the Fourteen Thieves.

I beheaded them

because I didn't want you to find out

that even the Fourteen Thieves died here,

and then get too scared to come.

How did you kill the Fourteen Thieves?

Don't get the wrong idea.

I didn't lie at the banquet.

It's been ten years since the seven of them

died in Yipin Tomb.

I only cut off their heads

to hide their identity.

The head is a very strange thing.

It leaks a lot of secrets,

whether one is dead or alive.

The Fourteen Thieves have been dead for ten years?

Did you think that the Fourteen Thieves disappeared

because they got rich and ran away?

You and your brother

showed your devotion looking for them with the badge.

But it's easy now.

As long as you do as I say

and help me enter Yipin Tomb,

you might actually see the remains of your late father.

Wei is sinister and ruthless.

Everyone,

let's fight him together.

We still have a chance to win.

Hurry up!

The poison has reached the internal organs

and your stomach is churning.

It hurts a lot.

Master,

please show mercy.

I'll enter the tomb.

I will do everything I can to help you.

Please spare my life.

We're all in the same trade.

I don't want to hurt you.

As long as you do as I say,

I'll give you half of the antidote,

which can put off the poison's taking effect for three days.

When we're done,

I'll give you the other half of the antidote

and distribute the treasure in Yipin Tomb according to the work you've done.

We'll all be happy.

I promise I'll do as you say.

Please give me the antidote.

You're very sensible.

Please... give me... the antidote.

Please... please give me the antidote.

Please give me the antidote.

Please give us the antidote.

Please give us the antidote.

Good.

When you have taken the antidote,

go to the storehouse and pick some handy tools,

and get ready to set out.

Li Lianhua,

there're fewer guards in the northeast corner,

it'll be easier for you to leave from there.

Leave?

Master Wei has spent his life on Mount Puchu.

If he were really capable of entering the tomb

and getting the Fourteen Thieves' bodies out,

why would he have waited until now?

There must be someone powerful behind the seven thieves' corpses case,

who's trying to lure people into the tomb through Master Wei.

This trip into Yipin Tomb is going to be dangerous.

You don't know martial arts yet.

You should leave now.

If I leave,

won't you be found out?

No need to worry about me.

It'll be too late if you don't leave now.

Hurry up.

Come on.

Don't fret. Listen to me.

To be honest,

actually,

I'm just like them.

I'm here for Yipin Tomb too.

You want the Weeping Guanyin too?

How do you know that?

You may be stingy,

but you've never been greedy.

So you're definitely not after the treasure

in Yipin Tomb.

I'm standing right in front of you,

but I've never heard you seek advice on martial arts.

So you're not after the books on martial arts either.

Also,

you don't even care about Yinzhu Armor,

which means you're not interested

in sophisticated weapons.

So it can only be the Weeping Guanyin.

What exactly

is the Weeping Guanyin?

How come everyone wants it?

Even you want it.

The Weeping Guanyin is a rare elixir.

The Zhang Brothers wanted it

because they wanted to become more powerful.

I...

need it as a cure.

A cure?

Are you injured? Are you ill?

It's just that when I was little,

I had heart disease.

I couldn't sleep or eat well in the evening,

and had severe chest pain.

Only the Weeping Guanyin

can cure this disease.

The Weeping Guanyin is just a medicine that's been hidden for a century.

What's the point if it can't save people?

Besides,

I'm not an ungrateful person.

Don't worry.

I'll find a way

to get the Weeping Guanyin for you.

Actually, I don't really have to get it.

Then let's make it fair.

I'll get the medicine for you,

and you'll help me investigate the case.

What do you think?

It's a deal.

Who do you think that kid is?

Master Wei used poison to control everyone,

but is very nice to him.

The kid is being carried up the mountain.

Maybe Master Wei is afraid that he'll be difficult to deal with when he grows up.

I don't believe that.

Now,

I need to find a chance to try him out.

Don't do that.

Why?

Don't you think Zhang Qinghu is weird?

Why don't you pay more attention to him?

[Wei Manor's Yipin Tomb]

Something's going on here.

The Qi Men technique is being used over there.

Look.

That pearl is big

and pierced.

It must have fallen from a piece of jewelry.

Judging from that,

this should be the place.

The seven thieves' corpses are here.

Yipin Tomb is also here.

The person behind this is probably nearby,

waiting for us to enter the tomb.

Everyone,

as you can see,

this is Yipin Tomb.

Unfortunately,

it's blocked by the Qi Men technique.

Mr. Gu,

please.

This Qi Men formation is really something.

It drew all the fog around here to hide the mountain.

But the core of the formation seems to have been cracked recently.

Otherwise, even my mentor wouldn't have been able

to find this place.

That precipice over there is not natural.

It's probably a secret mechanical gate,

which must be the entrance to Yipin Tomb.

The craftsmen of Nanyin must have worked really hard

to make a tomb gate out of a mountain.

Unless we cut into the mountain,

we'll hardly be able to open it.

There's a breach over there.

If someone can get in,

we might be able to open the gate from inside.

The breach is dozens of meters above the ground.

No one can get up there.

Everyone,

you see?

Now you know why we can't enter Yipin Tomb

without my little master.

Did you see that?

Don't be so amazed.

His flying skill

is not bad.

It's far more than that.

With that flying skill,

his name will appear in the who's who of martial arts.

Why are you not at all impressed?

I just can't tell if it's real

or if it's good.

Keep learning then.

Watch out!

Duan Hai was unlucky.

Being in this trade,

surely you've all seen dead people before.

Now the tomb gate is open,

don't waste time.

Iron Slave,

you stay here and keep guard.

Give us a signal if any stranger comes.

Let's go.

What are you laughing about?

About luck and human relationships.

Looks like someone turned the boulder around

with palm power.

Could it be Zhang Qinghu?

If nobody touched it,

it would have hit between the two and caused only minor injuries.

Zhang Qinghu killed his friend Duan Hai.

Zhang Qinghu's palm power is very strong.

All right now, let's go.

[Wei Manor's Yipin Tomb]

[Mysterious Lotus Casebook]

There is gold leaf on the ever-burning lamps.

Yipin Tomb is so ornate.

Everyone,

you won't be disappointed.

When we're done, you won't have to

do this kind of underground work anymore.

Th-This is going up?

A sky-facing tomb?

It's indeed a sky-facing tomb.

All other tombs go down,

while sky-facing tombs are built on mountains.

Their burial chambers are built on mountaintops,

so that the buried are exposed to sunlight.

In this way,

the buried are punished for their disloyalty,

and the mausoleums on the mountains

can highlight the majesty of the imperial family.

The craftsmen of Nanyin really put a lot of thought into it.

Strange.

Why is this tomb gate open?

Don't move!

Dad!

Dad!

Dad!

Dad!

Dad!

"The One-Armed Thief," Liang Buming.

"The Purple-Robed King of Thieves," Yue Sanqiu.

They're the other members of the Fourteen Thieves of the Netherworld.

I told you it's been ten years

since the Fourteen Thieves

died in this tomb.

Zhang Qinghu,

I didn't lie to you.

The bodies haven't really decomposed.

I suppose this is a special tomb.

That's why the seven corpses at the foot of the mountain

look like new deaths.

Apparently the Fourteen Thieves of the Netherworld

came here ten years ago.

If they were trapped and died here,

why is that half of them are in the tomb,

and half are at the foot of the mountain?

How should I know?

But the Fourteen Thieves

managed to inform us

about the existence of Yipin Tomb.

We must not let them down.

Everyone,

let's take a look.

Come on, open it.

Everyone.

Hold on.

By the look of it,

there's probably no corpse inside this coffin,

which means this is a fake burial chamber.

There's so much treasure

even in a fake burial chamber.

How much treasure will there be

in the real burial chamber where Prince Fangji is buried?

Everyone,

aren't you curious?

About what?

Get the treasure first!

Too small.

Too small-minded.

Why bother with this second-class stuff?

When we find the real burial chamber,

you'll need more pockets than you have.

We're at the end of the tomb passage.

The real entrance must be somewhere around here.

Whoever finds the entrance first

gets to pick their treasure first.

Do your best if you want to make a fortune.

Most of the tomb gates here are intact.

So how did the person behind all this

throw the seven bodies out of the tomb?

The easiest way

is to just toss them out.

Toss them out?

Yipin Tomb is not on the ground,

but on the top of a mountain, remember?

Hold out your hand.

What do you feel?

Why is there wind?

There's indeed a breach here.

Now I see.

The seven bodies were tossed out from here.

The local folks who were getting married on a full moon night

stumbled across them and saw their decayed

and twisted look under the moon,

and thought they were still alive.

It's exactly the same.

I mean

the breach here

is exactly the same as the one on the gate of the fake tomb.

Both were made with a smack.

So the person behind this

is extremely powerful.

He came here

but didn't find the real burial chamber,

so he threw the bodies out,

and then broke the tomb gate,

to lure other people in

to help him find the real burial chamber.

You have a point there.

So we came,

just as he expected.

Interesting.

Ge Pan,

what do you want?

Everyone, we were poisoned and threatened,

have you forgotten?

Wei poisoned us,

why would he give us the antidote when we're done?

It'll be much safer for him

to kill us and take all the treasure alone.

I don't want to be your enemy.

I just want to live.

If we catch and torture him,

he will have to give us the antidote.

Won't it be better to divide the treasure equally

among yourselves?

Keeping me waiting for so long.

So you rebelled!

Be good.

Don't court death.

This kid.

Tomb robbers are very discreet.

It's normal for them to know a trick or two,

right?

Besides,

you should take a closer look.

The skin between his thumb and forefinger is not calloused,

but his fingers are.

Maybe he's a master of hidden weapons too.

Mr. Ge,

are you OK?

Let me help you up.

Come on.

Mr. Ge,

are you alright?

Thank you, Mr. Fang.

We were all poisoned by Master Wei.

We're in the same boat.

If we can't get the antidote this time,

please take us back to Baichuan Court

and ask Master Bai to save us.

Of course.

Thank you.

I hope you've all realized now

that whoever vexes my little master will die.

Hurry up and look for it!

No need.

The machines here

correspond to six of the eight directions.

Only Heaven and Earth are missing.

This is a sky-facing tomb.

Heaven and Earth are reversed.

So we only need to find a Heaven direction

to connect the other machines.

This is a Flying Ape Claw.

When you're in danger,

use it to climb up high and escape.

I'll find a way to get the Weeping Guanyin for you.

OK.

I'm counting on you.

Let's go.

Guanyin Gate.

We've found Yipin Tomb.

Finally!

Trying to kill us all?

Quite some tactics indeed.

The Plum Blossom Darts came from the side where you three are standing.

Tell me,

who did it?

I was almost killed by a hidden weapon just now.

My inner breath got impaired.

I can't use my martial arts skills anymore.

Zhang Qinghu,

between you and your brother, I remember you were the one who used hidden weapons.

All the lights went out at the same time

just now.

Exactly.

I used Tiger Tooth Darts,

and have never used Plum Blossom Darts.

But the Zhang Brothers are actually quite good at acting.

Still not tired?

What do you mean?

I mean

it must be tiring to play your younger brother.

Do you ever forget who you are,

Zhang Qingshi?

Zhang Qingshi?

But I have killed him.

You did kill someone,

but it doesn't mean

that you killed Zhang Qingshi.

I followed Zhang Qingshi back to the room last night.

I couldn't have gotten it wrong.

The Zhang Brothers,

as we all know,

are identical twins.

So how did you distinguish between the two of them?

Zhang Qingshi had two hammers in his hands

and was in black.

Zhang Qinghu used a dart pouch

and was in white.

A glance was enough.

Let me ask you,

what if they exchanged their clothes and weapons?

Why would they do that?

It was a coincidence.

Master Wei said at the banquet

that between the Zhang Brothers,

Zhang Qingshi

loved hard liquor,

and the drink being served that night was Xifeng Liquor.

That's right.

Yes.

How much did they drink respectively yesterday?

Zhang Qingshi drank half a jar

and got drunk.

Zhang Qinghu drank less than half a cup,

and then changed to tea instead.

Now you've probably realized that you got it wrong.

The Zhang Qingshi you followed last night

was very sober.

On the contrary, Zhang Qinghu, who was following behind,

was terribly drunk.

Besides, you told us

you killed him by stabbing a jade hairpin into his throat.

I'd like to ask you,

after you killed him,

where did his head go?

I found that strange too.

Why was he beheaded?

It's simple.

With his head gone,

people can't tell who that person is.

What happened last night

was an accident from the beginning.

It's hot.

Here, brother, put it on.

Last night at the banquet,

Zhang Qingshi got drunk on Xifeng Liquor

and felt hot.

So he took off his black gown

and put it on his younger brother, Zhang Qinghu.

His white gown underneath was shown.

His hammers were carried by his brother as well.

Gu Fengxin, who kept himself hidden in the dark,

mistook Zhang Qinghu, who was in black and had the hammers in his hands,

for Zhang Qingshi,

went into Room 4 and killed him.

The real Zhang Qingshi

went into Room 5 and survived.

What was originally an accident

soon became a scheme.

When Zhang Qingshi in Room 5

got up to use the bathroom, the door signs were back to normal.

He turned around

and went back to Room 4 following the correct door sign,

and finally saw that his brother had been stabbed at the throat with a hairpin and died.

His black gown and hammers on the floor

made him realize

that it was a disaster caused by his alcoholism and lust,

and that his brother had been made a scapegoat.

Thinking that the murderer wouldn't stop there if he found out

that he'd got the wrong person,

while he himself was on his own now

and no match for his enemy,

he cut off and hid away his brother's head,

and pretended to be Zhang Qinghu,

both to protect himself

and find out the murderer.

The corpse being headless,

no one would know who it was that died.

Brother!

Zhang Qingshi,

am I right?

If you like,

I'll analyze it for you a bit further.

You've probably read too many novels, Mr. Sushou.

All this empty talk,

with absolutely no evidence.

Look, he's still in denial.

I'll go on then.

Outside the gate,

the boulder suddenly turned around and killed Duan Hai.

It required a lot of arm strength.

Zhang Qinghu wouldn't have been able to do it,

but only Zhang Qingshi could.

Look,

this fake freckle that you drew on your face

to impersonate Zhang Qinghu

is coming off.

Why are you so nervous?

I was just kidding.

Zhang Qingshi,

is Zhang Qinghu's head in your room?

So you're still alive!

Zhang Qingshi doesn't know how to use hidden weapons.

So these Plum Blossom Darts...

Mr. Ge, let's stop acting now.

Although you have internal injuries,

the crossbow at your cuff can still kill, can't it?

You found out that he was pretending to be his brother

and blackmailed him into cooperating with you.

So this weapon that you have now

is from Zhang Qingshi, isn't it?

I coerced Zhang Qingshi under the order of Baichuan Court

to eliminate you thieves.

The other detectives will soon surround this place.

If you want to live,

you'll have to rely on me to put in a good word for you.

I'd advise you to be good and let me go.

Under the order of Baichuan Court?

Your gown is lined with gray moire.

Only trainees who haven't passed the preliminary exam

dress like that.

I asked you to beg Master Bai for the antidote

and you agreed,

not knowing that Master Bai

is not at all good with poisons.

You are clearly a new trainee.

Also,

while these thieves are criminals,

their crimes are not capital.

But you killed them all.

You're so despicable and greedy.

Come back to Baichuan Court with me

and we'll let Fo, Bi, Bai, Shi interrogate you!

You hit him so hard.

Who are you exactly?

Detective at Baichuan Court,

Fang Duobing.

I'd advise you to forget it.

You don't get to decide

how the treasure here will be used.

Master,

I gathered people for you

and forced my friends to take poison,

it was all to help you enter this Yipin Tomb.

Master,

perhaps you could do me a small favor today

and kill these two people for me?

How dare you make a request?

So you're the one who's behind this?