Detective in the Red Chamber

Hearing Master Qi came here, Sun Shaozong couldn't help questioning, "Such a bad habit, if it is in those remote places, it's fine, but Fayuan Temple is located at the foot of the Emperor, and it is the most famous temple in the capital, how dare you dare to risk the world? , to do such a bad thing?"

Wei Ruolan shook her head, "That's not what Fayuan Temple meant, but that monk Jiexian did it in private."

But it turned out that the Jiexian monk was originally a prodigal son in the suburbs of Beijing, and he loved sleeping in flowers and sleeping in willows most in his life. Later, for some unknown reason, he went to Fayuan Temple to be ordained as a monk.

At the beginning, this Jiexian was quite satisfactory, nothing out of the ordinary.

But since the spring of this year, there have been some rumors in the temple, saying that the virtuous monk Jie started a pimp business secretly, often matchmaking for the monks in the temple, introducing young women and eldest daughters from good families, who are the essence of Na Huanxi Zen.

This rumor naturally attracted the attention of the Discipline Academy, but Jie Nian, the chief student of Zhike Academy, Monk Liao Chi's intrusion, proved that the matter was purely fictional, and saved the virtuous monk Jie.

"However, according to our investigation today, the monk Jie Xian did indeed do a pimp business, and the first batch of so-called Fansao were actually pilgrims whose bodies were ruined by him with drugs."

"Those pilgrims were also coerced by him, so they had to make peace with the monks in the temple."

"In addition, Jie Chen, the head of the Precept Academy, has not given up on investigating this matter, and has been secretly investigating whether there is some ulterior relationship between Jie Xian and Jie Nian."

"It's just that Jie Nian has always been cautious in dealing with things, and he hasn't taken advantage of it until now."

Everyone's narration finally came to an end temporarily.

Sun Shaozong lowered his head and pondered for a long while before asking, "From what you mean, it seems that you are doubting the monk Jiechen, but since he already has a goal, there has been no progress these days—could it be that Jiechen has a clear alibi?"

"exactly."

Master Qi spread his hands, and said with a wry smile, "On the night when Jie Chi died, Monk Jie Chen was leading an apprentice to patrol the night."

"And the night that Monk Jieming was crucified in front of the mountain gate, he happened to meet with another disciple to discuss the Tao."

Wei Ruolan hastily added, "But those two young monks are both orphans brought up by Jie Chen, so it is very likely that they are covering up their crimes for him."

Master Qi was noncommittal about his supplement, and continued, "As for the monk Jiexiu, although he had no obvious alibi when Jie Ming died--but when Jie Chi was killed before, he was ordered to stay in the hospital because he violated the precept of anger. Kneeling in the main hall all night, so all the monks on duty in the temple can testify for it.”

That is to say, the suspicion of resignation can basically be ruled out now, and although the monk of resignation has an alibi twice, there is a suspicion of being close relatives.

Sun Shaozong pondered for a while, then looked through the case file that Wei Ruolan brought over carefully twice, then got up and said, "Seeing is believing, so let's go to the scene first."

If in the past, Sun Shaozong took the initiative to take over the case that she was investigating, Wei Ruolan would definitely be a little awkward, but today she cooperated closely. Hearing Sun Shaozong said that he was going to inspect the scene, he sent someone to prepare the means of transportation without saying a word.

If it is said that he had to make a compromise in order to find out the truth, it doesn't look like that.

Sun Shaozong was wondering about his change, but Wei Ruolan, taking advantage of the busyness of the crowd, came up to him and said mysteriously, "The child has already been sent out of the capital."

tsk~

Could it be that he thought that the two rescued the 'baby' at the same time, and they were considered comrades in the trenches?

He is indeed a proud and innocent young man!

Sun Shaozong was deeply moved, but his face was puzzled, "What child? Is Wei Tongpan talking to me?"

The complacent expression on Wei Ruolan's face froze, and then flushed with embarrassment.

Just as he was about to say something unpleasant, and to take the grievance back, Qiu Yunfei and Master Qi had already packed up and urged them to rush to Fayuan Temple to investigate the case.

Wei Ruolan had no choice but to swallow her words again, and with a constipated expression on her face, she walked out of the gate of the Criminal Division.

Speechless all the way.

When we arrived at Fayuan Temple, we saw that the square in front of the mountain gate was deserted, with only a few believers kowtowing at the mountain gate.

Although it rained yesterday and the road was not very easy to walk, the reputation of Fayuan Temple in Beijing should not be limited to this few believers—it seems that the death of three monks in a row is not a big blow to the reputation of Fayuan Temple small.

When they climbed up the 81 steps, they saw a magnificent monastery in front of them, and several zhigu monks also greeted them with palms together, but Sun Shaozong suddenly stopped and squatted on the ground to observe carefully.

"The monk Jieming died here?"

After repeated washing by the torrential rain last night, the blood on the ground has long since disappeared, but the chisel marks made by the iron brazing are still clearly left on the bluestone board.

"Yes."

Master Qi also squatted aside, gesticulating and said, "The two-foot-long, thumb-thin iron drill pierced through Jie Ming's chest, pierced through the chest cavity and heart, and left shallow holes on the ground. Shallow marks."

Sun Shaozong stretched out his hand to caress the shallow chisel marks, then looked up at the resplendent temple gate not far away, pondered for a while, and then asked, "During the autopsy, did you really find no other scars, let alone signs of being bound or drugged?"

"No, apart from some cotton threads found in his mouth, there were no other wounds, and no drugs were found—and judging from the blood stained on his hands, he should have been awake at the time."

"In addition, after repeated inspections, it was determined that the body had not been moved. This is indeed the scene of the crime."

Speaking of this, Master Qi couldn't help but smiled wryly and said, "This is also the reason why the student was puzzled. Since he is awake, why didn't he resist desperately? You must know that the iron rod is not very sharp. If you don't hit it hard with a hammer Hit, it's hard to pierce the heart with one blow."

"And if the murderer held the iron rod in one hand and the hammer in the other, how could he suppress the dead?"

Chapter 454

Sun Shaozong stroked the slightly round dent, feeling suspicious in his heart.

According to the autopsy report, the penetrating wound on Jie Ming's chest was indeed caused by repeated gouging, which basically conformed to Master Qi's inference of "one hand with an iron braze and the other with a hammer".

Why didn't Kejie Ming resist?

Or……

When the murderer attacked, Monk Jie Ming was still in a coma. Although he regained consciousness due to the severe pain, he was already powerless and only had time to desperately grab the iron rod in front of his chest?

How was he transported out of Fayuan Temple while he was in a coma?

Sun Shaozong was contemplating here, but the two Zhigu monks who came up couldn't bear their temper, and bowed together and said, "Amitabha, I dare to ask you to come here, but what clues have you found?"

"Is that what you can ask?"

Qiu Yunfei gave them a twisted look, and scolded, "Go, go, quickly call Jie Chen and Jie Xiu to the main hall..."

"Let them wait in the precept room."

Sun Shaozong got up and patted the dust off his hands, and interjected, "I'm going to take a look at the meditation room of Jieji and Jieming first."

The two young monks looked at each other, and one of them immediately turned around and entered the temple.

The remaining one gave his hand inward, and said in a neutral tone, "Then you all come with the little monk."

It is said that the shop bullies customers, and this temple is no exception when it is famous. Even the young monk who guards the door is good at temper. After Qiu Yunfei yelled at him, even the "adult" refused to call.

However, after more than half a month of investigation, none of the hairs were found, and two monks died instead. It is no wonder that Fayuan Temple is dissatisfied with Shuntian Mansion.

So Sun Shaozong restrained Qiu Yunfei's urge to go mad with his eyes, and led the crowd into Fayuan Temple in silence.

As the number one treasure temple in the capital, Fayuan Temple naturally occupies a large area. After entering the gate, head west all the way, passing the main hall, side hall, bamboo forest, rockery, clear stream, and small bridge. The little monk pointed to the few rows of houses in front of him. Said, "Uncle Jieji lives in the second row, and Uncle Jieming lives in the third row, but I don't know which one do you want to see first?"

Hearing this, Sun Shaozong first looked back at the main hall hidden by the bamboo forest, measured it in his heart, and found that the distance between the meditation room and the gate was at least one mile, and there was a Taoist courtyard wall in the middle.

"Apart from the courtyard gate just now, is there any other entrances and exits to this meditation room?"

"Of course not."

The young monk who led the way shook his head decisively and said, "Don't say that there is no other entrance and exit. At the second watch, even the only gate of the courtyard will be locked."

tsk~

According to the autopsy report, Jie Ming probably died between the third watch and the fourth watch, most likely around midnight—since the second watch is about to be locked up, if you want to get Jie Ming out and kill him without anyone noticing, The difficulty is even greater.

It seems that only Jiechen who holds the key is possible...

Shaking his head, temporarily suppressing this preconceived judgment in his heart, Sun Shaozong tapped the third row of courtyards with his chin, and said, "Let's go to Jieming Room to have a look first."

It is said that all living beings are equal, but the monks in the temple are treated differently according to their status.

For example, the young monks of the Xuanzi generation who lead the way usually sleep in a Datong bunk for 16 people. As for the monks of the Jiezi generation, they are assigned to four-person rooms or double rooms according to their duties-only the Jiezi generation Only the first disciples such as anger and Jie Nian are eligible to have a meditation room of their own.

The four monks who followed Jie An to the house arrest that day all had duties in Zhike Yuan, so naturally they lived in a double room.

But when it came to Jieming's meditation room, he saw the seals of Shuntian Mansion on the doors and windows, Zhao Wuwei led a few yamen servants to go up, inspected it carefully, and confirmed that no one had demolished it before cutting it off with a waist knife The door was sealed.

Sun Shaozong stretched out his hand and pushed it, and saw that it was empty, except for tables, chairs, beds and a half-person-high cabinet, there was almost no other furniture.

But he still scanned it carefully a few times before stepping in.

Master Qi followed closely behind, pointing to the two beds and said, "The bed on the left is Jie Ming's bed, and the right is Jie Xiu's bed."

"Retired?"

Sun Shaozong frowned, and said in a deep voice, "So, Jie Xiu also lives here? Then why didn't you indicate this in the case file?"

Master Qi was a little embarrassed by his questioning, but he still explained truthfully, "After all, Jie Xiu has a conclusive alibi, and after Jie Ming's death, he also temporarily moved to the guest room of Dongkuayuan, and did not sleep in this room. In the meditation room, so..."

Sun Shaozong nodded, barely agreeing with his explanation, but turned around and asked about the relationship between Jieming and Jiexiu.

"It is said that these two people were young before they became monks, and they were ordained ordained in Faming Temple almost at the same time, so the relationship is very good, otherwise they would not live in the same meditation room."

"However, after Jie Chi's death, because only Jie Ming did not have an alibi, he was identified as the first suspect. Jie Xiu inevitably had some doubts and fears about him, so he moved to Dongkuayuan for a temporary stay."

While listening to Master Qi's explanation, Sun Shaozong searched around - he found nothing elsewhere, only a stack of hand-copied scriptures on the desk, about twenty pages long.

The handwriting on the ten or so pages above was messy, but when it was turned to the back, the handwriting gradually became neat and orderly.

At the end of the scriptures, there is also the words "Jieming of Fayuan Temple, transcribed on July 11, [-]th year of Guangde" - and this was the day before Jieming was killed.

Seeing Sun Shaozong flipping through the scriptures, Master Qi said, "This must be the scriptures that Monk Jie Ming transcribed in order to calm his mind while he was panicking, so the transcriptions at the beginning were messy, but later on when he calmed down, he wrote them neatly. "

Sun Shaozong was noncommittal about his reasoning, but took the stack of scriptures outside the door, and looked at it repeatedly in the sun.

"grown ups."

Qiu Yunfei leaned over curiously, and looked at it a few times, but he really couldn't see anything interesting, so he couldn't help wondering, "You look so carefully, what is so rare?"

"Rare is not."

Sun Shaozong said indifferently, "However, these scriptures did not come out on the same day, but were written over several days—in addition, he didn't become calmer as he wrote, but more irritable as he wrote. It has nothing to do with the scripture itself."

After hearing the words, Master Qi hurriedly gathered up, asked Sun Shaozong for the scriptures, followed his example, and carefully screened them line by line.

Not long after, he yelled "Oops" and said angrily, "Sure enough, it was not written on the same day! The student was really careless. He flipped through it twice in a hurry. Seeing that it was just an ordinary scripture, it was not too much." An idea, who would come up with an idea..."

At the side, Qiu Yunfei still couldn't see what happened, and wondered, "How do you know that this scripture wasn't written in a day? Besides, even if you know it wasn't written in a day, what's the use?"

"Please take a look in the yamen."

Master Qi naturally didn't dare to neglect him, and quickly pointed to the scripture and explained, "Although there is no difference at first glance, but if you look closely under the sun, you can still vaguely distinguish a little difference in the ink color between the words—these The chromatic aberration should be caused by re-studying ink and writing after a considerable period of time."

"And in these places with color difference, the neatness of the upper and lower characters is also greater than other places-and it is obvious that the characters above the color difference are more chaotic. It can be seen that the more he writes, the more upset he is. I can finish copying this scripture.”

"As for knowing the usefulness of these..."

"Since copying the scriptures didn't play a role, then Monk Jieming must have encountered something to suppress the anxiety in his heart."

"In the future, as long as we can find out what caused his emotional changes, it is possible to follow the clues to find clues to solve the case."

As he said that, he cupped his hands in both shame and admiration, "Sir's ability to see things in a small way really makes the students feel ashamed."

Chapter 455 The Fourth Monk

In Jieming's meditation room, apart from the scriptures, there was no information worthy of attention.

Therefore, Sun Shaozong led the people to leave Jieming's meditation room, and walked around to the second row of houses. Although it is also a double room, the environment here is undoubtedly better than the third row.

It seems that class is really everywhere.

When I got outside the meditation room of precepts, I saw that the head of the Precepts Academy, Jieqiu, and the Zhike monk, Jiexiu, had been waiting in front of the door for a long time.

Seeing that it was Sun Shaozong leading the team to arrive, Jie An's face immediately became gloomy, but Jie Xiu hurriedly greeted him, bowed and asked, "Dare to ask my lords, but the murderer who killed Jie Ming has been found out." Already?!"

Master Qi and Wei Ruolan who asked this question were both a little embarrassed, but Qiu Yunfei said confidently from the side, "The real murderer is so easy to find out?! But don't worry, today my family's master Zhizhong will personally go out and find out in just a moment." I have found an important clue, and it will not take long before the truth will be revealed!"

"An important clue was found?!"

Jie Xiu's voice trembled with surprise, he folded his palms together and recited the Buddha's name, "Amitabha, there is knowledge under Jie Mingquan..."

Before he could finish speaking, Sun Shaozong suddenly asked, "When was the last time you saw Jie Ming?"

Jie Xiu was taken aback by the question, kept his palms folded, and answered after a long while, "On the morning of July [-]th, the poor monk and Brother Jie Ming met once during the morning class. After that..."

He shook his head and said with a disappointed face, "After that, when I saw him again, he had already been crucified in front of the mountain gate."

"Then when you saw him, what was his mood at that time? Was he more frightened than the previous few days, or..."

"mood?"

Jie Xiu tried his best to recall, then shook his head and said, "Because we separated without saying a few words, I really can't see if he is more panicked than before."

There is nothing wrong with these words, and it seems that only a secret investigation can confirm whether what he said is true.

Sun Shaozong nodded noncommittally, seeing that Zhao Wuwei had already pushed the door open after checking the seal, he raised his voice and said, "Master Jiechen, please go in and tell me about the situation when the corpse was found."

The first person who discovered it was actually Jie Yi, who was in the same room with Jie Ji. He was ordered to lead two young monks that night to guard the retired monk who violated the precept of anger, so he did not return to the meditation room until the sky was about to light. Get ready for morning class.