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很好的问题。
非常感谢还有朋友愿意探讨情节。

首先，梁长老没有死，这一集一开始躺在床上的老头就是梁长老，目前是中毒状态，如果没有解药，一个时辰（两个小时）之后会死。

在P187黄蓉承认自己是暗算梁长老的主谋（当然，我们都知道她没有做这件事，她是被冤枉的），原因有点复杂，简单说，有一个表面原因，还有一个隐藏原因。

表面原因是：黄蓉知道自己是一个重度受虐体质的女生，由于她的高强武功会提供保护，这样残酷的鞭刑，对她造成不了伤害，但是却会大大激发她的情欲。鞭刑持续下去，黄蓉很快就会面临连续出现性高潮的麻烦，这是她绝对不想面对的处境。权衡之下，她只好先承认下来，看看后面能不能找机会脱身。

隐藏原因是：梁长老还有两个小时就会死。如果黄蓉一直不承认，鞭刑或其它虐待手段会持续，但是李春来 —— 那位反叛的头领 —— 是不敢对黄蓉进行性侵犯的。因为他们的帮派是个正义帮派，在没有足够理由的情况下，帮派的成员绝对不允许自己的头领去强奸女人。这样的话，双方僵持不下，最后的结果就是梁长老死。梁长老死，黄蓉的第二个挑战就失败了，她的女徒弟也会死。因为很明显，黄蓉要找的钥匙，线索在梁长老身上。

Great questions.
Thank you very much for having friends who are still willing to explore the plot.

First of all, Elder Liang is not dead, the old man lying on the bed at the beginning of this episode is Elder Liang, who is currently in a poisoned state, and will die after “一个时辰” (two hours) if there is no antidote.

In P187 Huang Rong admitted that she is the mastermind of the assassination of Liang Elder (of course, we all know that she did not do this, she was wrongly accused), the reason is a bit complicated, in short, there is a surface reason, there is a hidden reason.

The surface reason is: Huang Rong knows that she is a heavily masochistic girl, and because of the protection her high level of martial arts will provide, such a brutal whipping will do her no harm, but it will greatly stimulate her lust. As the whipping continued, Huang Rong would soon face the trouble of having consecutive orgasms, a situation she definitely did not want to face. On balance, she had no choice but to admit it first and see if she could find a chance to get out later.

The hidden reason was: Elder Liang would die in two hours. If Huang Rong never admitted it, the whipping or other abuses would continue, but Li Chunlai — that rebel leader — wouldn’t dare to sexually assault Huang Rong. Because theirs is a righteous gang, the gang members would never allow their leader to rape a woman without a good reason. In that case, the two sides were at a stalemate and the end result was the death of Elder Liang. If Elder Liang died, Huang Rong’s second challenge would fail, and her female disciple would die as well. Because it was obvious that the key Huang Rong was looking for, the clue was on Elder Liang.