Detective in the Red Chamber

Chapter 430 Dilemma

"The murderer is among the few of you!"

As soon as these words came out, the room was immediately quiet.

Sun Shaozong didn't wait for them to react, he stepped forward and picked up the dagger, looked at it briefly, then waved his hand and said, "Except for the mother and child on this bed, take the rest down for interrogation separately, be sure to put them in the dark Every move in the middle, what you hear, ask clearly, and then compare each other!"

Lin Delu and Zhou Da hurriedly responded from behind, calling to the female prisoners outside the door to come forward to arrest them.

"Wait a minute!"

At this time, the head monk suddenly clasped his palms together, and asked with a serious face, "Dare to ask Mr. Sun, what is your intention to leave this monstrous mother and son alone? Could it be that you also want to protect them?!"

Listening to the sound, this monk was the culprit who made a cry in the dark and caused the chaos.

While looking up and down, Sun Shaozong asked, "I don't know what the great monk is called?"

The monk gave a slight salute, and said with a bit of pride, "Little monk, quit anger, and occupy the first place in the precepts of Fayuan Temple."

It turned out that he was in charge of the rules and regulations in the temple, no wonder he was always thinking about getting rid of demons and defending the way.

Sun Shaozong slandered in his heart, spread the dagger on the palm of his hand, and said with a sneer, "Although house arrest is not comparable to a serious prison, the prisoner will definitely not have such a murder weapon hidden on him, so we can rule out her suspicion."

The great monk Jiechen still said solemnly, "Since she is the mother of evildoers, how can she be treated with common sense? Maybe..."

Maybe your sister!

Seeing that the great monk was focused on leaning on the monsters and goblins, Sun Shaozong didn't bother to talk to him, and then raised his voice and ordered, "Why are you standing there? Why don't you ask the great monk to 'get out' for interrogation!"

Hearing the impatience in these words, Lin Delu and Zhou Dana dare to neglect?

He didn't care about ordering a few more female prisoners, so he hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed the big monk, and dragged him out. Just like that, the monk Jiechen kept yelling 'monster' one after another.

The rest of the monks were consciously tight, and before the female prisoner made a move, they all bowed their heads and followed out.

Seeing that the female prisoners were swarming to follow him out, Sun Shaozong hurriedly called to stop the last two, and said to Wei Ruolan, "Since the Wei Tong Judgment is involved in it, I'm afraid they have to cooperate and record a statement."

Knowing that this is the rule of questioning, Wei Ruolan didn't refuse, but told the two women with a cold face, first go find a clean dress for Miaoyu to change into, and then protect Miaoyu and go out .

When everyone was gone, only the mother and son were left in the room, and Sun Shaozong's stern expression suddenly collapsed.

This is really a house leak and it rains overnight!

The case itself is fine, but the trouble is that if the monk dies, the child will be regarded as a bad omen!

"What are you looking at?!"

Just not knowing how to deal with it, the kinky nun on the bed yelled again, "Even if you are the king of Hades who judges the sun by day and judges the yin by night, how can you get the boundless mana of Joyful Bodhisattva? If you are wise, escort the Bodhisattva out as soon as possible." May you be rich and happy in the next life!"

tsk~

Coupled with such a mother who is insane and talking nonsense, it is really strange that this child is not regarded as possessed by a demon!

Sun Shaozong didn't bother to pay attention to the crazy nun, he just stared at the child, thinking about how to choose - keep him, not to mention the risk is too great, and there is no benefit at all.

But to say that he watched an innocent baby lose his life, but Sun Shaozong's conscience was really troubled.

He hesitated like this, and after an unknown amount of time, he suddenly felt a blur of light and darkness behind him. Looking back, he saw Miaoyu walking in with a pale complexion. Forgive me, keep this child alive!"

Sun Shaozong turned around and frowned and looked at her a few times. He was about to speak, but he heard the lewd nun behind him giggling and saying, "You really want to be Bodhisattva of Huanxi, and my hard work in teaching and enlightening you in the past is not in vain!"

Sure enough, mental patients are much happier!

Sun Shaozong just took these words as deaf ears, frowned and said, "It's not your turn to raise this baby boy, why do you insist on getting involved and asking for trouble?"

Miaoyu raised her neck, revealing a white and crystal-clear collarbone, and said sonorously, "A monk should be merciful, if he refuses to help an innocent baby, this Buddha, it doesn't matter if he doesn't cultivate!"

oops~

I haven't seen her for a long time, but instead of breaking her heart, she has become more determined!

Compared with the great monk next door who is all about eliminating demons and defending Taoism, it really is...

"What can you do with such dry rhetoric?!"

At this time, the obscene nun behind him was not happy, and angrily clamored, "Since you want to find a Dharma protector for Huanxi Bodhisattva, you should get rid of this burden, show the 'dharma body' bestowed by the Bodhisattva, and save him well." One time! As long as he tastes the bliss in the world, he will naturally sincerely surrender to my Buddha!"

ok~

In fact, Sun Shaozong still supports this kind of teaching, but right now is not the time to discuss 'Happiness Chan'.

After hesitating for a while, he took Miaoyu out of the house of house arrest, called two female prisoners to guard the door, and led her to a secluded place, saying seriously, "Do you really want to save this child?"

Miao Yu naturally nodded without hesitation.

However, Sun Shaozong was still a little worried, and further confirmed, "Even if you need to personally take risks, do you still have no regrets?"

This time Miaoyu did not answer right away, she lowered her head and pondered for a long time without saying a word.

Sure enough, it is still fake compassion!

Sun Shaozong was a little discouraged, and was about to break up with her, but saw Miaoyu gritted her silver teeth, and suddenly stretched out her hand to unbutton her collar!

You must know that this dress was borrowed temporarily, and it was very fluffy on Miaoyu's body. The button was unbuttoned twice, and the clothes also fell down, revealing a bulging apricot yellow bellyband.

This……

Where did her misunderstanding go?

What I said was personally involved in danger, not personally dedicated!

Sun Shaozong wanted to explain, but his eyes fell on the swollen apron, and his tongue refused to obey orders.

It wasn't until Miaoyu took off his clothes and covered his chest with two arms that looked like tender lotus roots, that he cleared his throat in a still unsatisfied way: "Cough, it seems that you really want to save it. If that's the case, I also I won't joke with you anymore."

As he said that, Sun Shaozong took two steps forward, accidentally stepped on the clothes, and said seriously, "Follow your ears, this matter is very important, you must not let others know!"

Miaoyu hesitated for a moment, but still leaned sideways and obediently put her ears together.

tsk~

Although the timing is a bit wrong right now, this condescending angle still made Sun Shaozong think of the phrase "Looking horizontally, it looks like a mountain, and the side forms a peak, and the distance and height are different".

Chapter 431

Watching Miaoyu leave the house in a hurry, Sun Shaozong calmed down and returned to the scene of the murder, trying to find some clues.

The first to be inspected was naturally the body of Jiexian.

I have to say that this monk is really fat and tight, with a height of about 1.6 meters and a weight of about 230 kilograms conservatively. No wonder Miaoyu was pressed down by his body, and it was difficult to break free for a while.

His fatal wound was on the right side of the neck. The wound ran upward at a 25-degree angle, from above the throat to below the earlobe, cutting off the throat and carotid artery along the way, causing massive bleeding and suffocation at the same time.

From the perspective of the wound, the murderer should have launched a surprise attack from the rear, so the murderer was not stained with blood.

In addition, it shouldn't be difficult to recognize Jiexian in the dark—with his fat body, it is not difficult to recognize him with a little touch.

After inspecting the wound, Sun Shaozong immediately took out the dagger again, tested the sharpness of the blade, and found that it was just an ordinary thing.

In this way, the person who killed Jiexian should be a tall and strong man.

It was tall because of the oblique upward angle of the wound, and strong because of the fat on the neck of the deceased, which was as thick as a circle of flesh pads. It was not so easy to cut his larynx and arteries at the same time.

but……

Sun Shaozong recalled it carefully, it seems that including Jie Chen, the head of the Discipline Academy, among the other four monks, three are tall and burly people.

Of course, Wei Ruolan also meets these two conditions, but he basically has no motive for committing the crime, and it just so happens that he will come in a hurry, even if he is impulsive, it should be a frontal wound, and it is unlikely to use this kind of backstab to cut his throat means.

While sorting out his thoughts, he examined the corpse carefully.

When the waist was inspected, a palm-sized gourd was found on the layers of fat. This gourd was half-waisted with a red rope, and a cork was plugged into its mouth. When it was shaken lightly, it rattled inside. ring.

Sun Shaozong pulled out the cork, twisted the gourd and poured it into the palm of his hand, and saw several orange-yellow pills the size of peanuts rolling out of the gourd.

This……

It's supposed to be a pill, right?

Could it be that the fat monk suffered from some serious disease during his lifetime, so he had to carry pills with him to save his life?

Just thinking like this, the naughty nun who had been silent on the bed for a long time suddenly said, "Bring me that pill and let me see it!"

Sun Shaozong looked back, and saw the kinky nun staring at him with a look of urgency.

After a little hesitation, Sun Shaozong took one, and the naughty nun snatched it immediately, sniffed and licked it in the palm of his hand, and suddenly giggled for a while and said, "Giggle... I can't imagine that the apprentice of the crazy monk is also Followers of Huanxi Bodhisattva!

Followers of Huanxi Bodhisattva?

Sun Shaozong suddenly had a clear understanding in his heart, and blurted out, "Is this medicine for aphrodisiac?"

Unexpectedly, the harlot shook her head and said, "This is for those disobedient women, only one grain is needed, no matter what kind of chaste and strong woman she is, she will bow down to Huanxi Bodhisattva."

It turned out to be an aphrodisiac!

This is even dirtier than Sun Shaozong thought.

It seems that Monk Jiexian was afraid that he was not a good bird during his lifetime. He probably did not do less of stealing incense and jade, maybe he even forcibly...

In this way, the suspicion of being angry with Jie, the first member of the Discipline Academy, is even greater—in order to maintain the reputation of Fayuan Temple, it is inconvenient to deal with Jiexian explicitly, so he waited for an opportunity to kill him to silence him, which can be called a reasonable inference.

However, these still need evidence to support, and for the time being, they can only be regarded as having motives.

Putting these conjectures to the bottom of his heart, Sun Shaozong re-examined the corpse, and soon found three banknotes on the soles of the deceased's shoes.

Such an amount...

If Jiexian was in charge of any duties in the temple, it would be reasonable, but if he was just an ordinary disciple, he would be suspected of having a huge fortune of unknown origin.

Holding the three smelly banknotes with a handkerchief, Sun Shaozong was pinching his nose and muttering silently, when someone outside shouted loudly, "Where is that evildoer, hand it over!"

"Yes, hand over the evildoer who killed the eminent monk of Fayuan Temple!"

"Kill that evildoer, kill that evildoer, we can't let it continue to harm people!"

Sun Shaozong's heart tightened when he heard that, he rushed to the door and pushed open the iron gate to look outside, but he saw the bustling people outside, and I don't know how many people poured in, all of them were holding shovels, picks, hammers and sickles, etc. The crowd was excited and shouted to fight and kill.

damn~

How did the wind leak out so quickly?

"What, what are you doing?!"

At this moment, a middle-aged official with a pockmarked face jumped out and yelled loudly, "The mansion is heavily guarded, how can you idlers just trespass at will?!"

This person is Zhou Da, the jailer. As Sun Shaozong's former number one loyal dog and the direct supervisor of the house arrest, he naturally knows that he must not shrink back at this time, and let Master Zhizhong charge forward.

To say that Zhou Da's yelling was not completely useless, at least the most aggressive people in the front all stopped their flags and became timid.

It's just that throughout the ages, the idea of ​​"the law does not blame the public" has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so although the front is withered, the people behind are all clamoring loudly

"We don't care about old or not, as long as we can kill that evildoer!"

"Yes, we want to avenge the master of Fayuan Temple!"

"If you don't hurry up and kill that evildoer, when God brings a disaster, no one will be in the best of luck!"

Noisily pushing forward from behind, the few people at the head of the row could not help but push forward.

Seeing these hundreds of people pushing in, Zhou Da's face was so pockmarked that he trembled, and he couldn't stop shrinking back while asking "what do you want to do" in a trembling voice.

But when he retreated, those ordinary people made even bigger strides!

Seeing that it was impossible to rely on Zhou Da, Sun Shaozong immediately stood up and came out of the room, and shouted angrily, "Bold and unreasonable! You trespassed on the government prison, is it because you want to rob the prison?!"

While speaking, he greeted him with his head held high and his chest held high. His mighty figure like an iron tower, paired with a blue official uniform, immediately forced the crowd to turn back.

In addition, many people recognized Sun Shaozong's identity, and even threw away the 'weapon' in their hands in a hurry.

But of course there are also those who are unwilling to give up, mingling in the crowd and shouting, "Master Qingtian, you always insist that all evils do not invade, we ordinary people can't stand the famine, please take pity on us, and treat that evil... ..."

"shut up!"

Sun Shaozong yelled again, cast Linglie's gaze to the direction of the voice, and said coldly, "Whether this son is reincarnated or not, the imperial court has its own opinion, how can you wait to make a judgment?!"

The noise on this side was suppressed, but on the other side came a polite tone, "Your Excellency's words are wrong. Although we are mortals with naked eyes, the Master Jiean of Fayuan Temple personally asserted that The child is the reincarnation of an evildoer, how can this be false?! Please don’t mistake yourself, and quickly hand over that evildoer, so that the masters can save it as soon as possible!"

As if waiting for these words, Jie An led several juniors and also came out from a nearby room, and Baoxiang stood solemnly under the eaves.

These actors!

Sun Shaozong cursed secretly, and said coldly, "I don't care if it is Fayuan Temple or Fahai Temple, the right and left are no more important than the royal law of the imperial court - I have said that how to deal with this matter is up to the imperial court to make its own decisions." Public opinion, how can you wait for random comments?"

With that said, he turned and went back to the door of the cell, and under the inexplicable eyes of everyone, he grabbed the iron door and slammed it into his arms!