0574 Missing persons in nunnery
Shuanghu County is located near the main road of Gyeonggi, although the population of more than 100,000 is not much, but the degree of wealth is undoubted, the Zhang family where the crown princess was born is a scholarly family, the Shilin family, there have been three champions alone, and the prince wants to abolish her have to be considered.
"Crown Princess, you go home to send the spirit, and the eldest emperor Ji will come with me......"
Zhao Guanren rode on his horse and shouted, and Changdi Ji immediately jumped out of the carriage and jumped on a white horse to follow him, at this time they had already entered the county seat of Shuanghu, not only the city gate was closed by a large number of officers and soldiers, but also the surrounding villages and towns.
"Big head, lead the way to the east of the city......"
Zhao Guanren only led fifty dragoons, and the rest of the men and horses were stationed outside the city, although the sun had not yet set at this time, but there were not many people on the main road, and the common people were afraid of getting into trouble, so they hid at home and peeked at them galloping on horseback.
"I've circled a few suspicious locations, and Minister Qiu should still be searching......"
Lu Datou is familiar with the way to fight horses, the city of more than 100,000 people is not too big, at most a district of a small city, you can see the city gate at the other end after running for more than ten minutes, but Qiu Ning is very careful, and specially arranged for dragoons to meet on the side of the road.
"Your Highness, Minister Qiu, they are in the west, please come with me......"
The two cavalrymen led them to the west, and soon came to a temple, a large number of officers and soldiers were searching in a carpet way, and they saw Qiu Ning standing outside the temple gate from a distance, Yuan Laosan leaned around her and laughed, Qiu Ning frowned impatiently.
"You're here, sir......"
Qiu Ning suddenly jumped down the steps with a smile on his face, rushed to the side of the road and grabbed Zhao Guanren's horse, Zhao Guanren jumped down and said with a smile: "Qiu Meiren seems to be very popular!"
"I'm disgusted to death, Yuan Laosan follows me like a fly......"
Qiu Ning said disdainfully: "At first, I was tempted by a lot of money, but when I saw that I was unmoved, I began to threaten again, saying that I would exchange ten beautiful concubines for one night, the six princes and Er Nan were doing business, and he was the only one who was doing nothing, as if it had nothing to do with his family!"
"Isn't that a good thing, how much fun it is to do things with fools......
Zhao Guanren walked towards Yuan Laosan with a smile and said, "Third child, don't smirk at your hands, delay your father's big event, beware of him picking your skin, but after the matter is completed, you have to be a treat, and your father will definitely reward you for such a great achievement!"
"Ahh......h
Yuan Laosan looked at him with a confused face, Zhao Guanren hurriedly looked left and right, and said in surprise: "You can't be an ornament, you don't know such an important matter, hurry up and let the principal come to see me!"
"Lord Zhao, what can I say to the lower officials......
A middle-aged civil official came over to salute, but Yuan Laosan kicked him away, and said angrily: "Do you have the right to speak here, come and intervene in everything, this place is the third master, I am in charge, don't let me see you again, otherwise the military law will deal with it!"
"Yo~ The little third master is so majestic, he has really grown up......"
Ye Ji'er walked over with a smile, and her disdainful attitude made Yuan Laosan even more annoyed, he quickly pulled Zhao Guanren aside, and said urgently: "Brother Zhao Xian!
"Don't mess it up, it's not ......a trivial matter."
Zhao Guanren pretended to hesitate and deliberated for a while, and then whispered in his ear for a while, only to see Yuan Laosan nodded with a shocked face, and said in a low voice: "You can rest assured, I never dare to be sloppy in serious matters, and I will be the east when I return to Beijing after the matter is completed, good brother-in-law!"
"Uncle, you must keep a low profile, call the horse master in front of outsiders......"
Zhao Guanren patted him on the shoulder and walked to the temple, Yuan Laosan immediately called the guards and ran away, Zhao Guanren chuckled at Qiu Ning and said: "Look, how fun it is to play with a fool, it's a pity that there is a big fool here, otherwise I will turn the clouds and rain!"
"Hehe~ Ning'er has been taught again......"
Qiu Ning smiled and followed him into the temple, who knew that this was actually a nunnery, more than 20 nuns gathered in the Buddhist hall, closed their eyes and meditated and chanted, the officers and soldiers were scraping the ground and searching, and even the bluestone slabs were pried open.
"The front of the temple is poor, the back of the temple is rich, the left and right of the temple are widows, let's go to the back and take a look......"
Zhao Guanren turned around left and right, but he didn't find anything abnormal, but just wanted to enter the Buddhist hall to take a look, he suddenly asked, "Qiu Ning! Where did Ji Xiaoshou go?"
"Master Pony!"
Ji Xiaoshou suddenly walked in from outside the door, and said angrily: "Why is the poor monk a, which eye do you see that I like men?"
"Oh yo~ It turns out that the great monk likes women, it's really Amitabha, it's good, it's good......"
Zhao Guanren raised a single palm with an exaggerated face, and the angry Ji Xiaoshou blushed, and waved his hand and said: "That's it! The poor monk is asking for hardship with you, but the poor monk does not agree with Minister Qiu's point of view, this is a pure place of Buddhism, how can it hide dead qi and harm people!"
"The master didn't know when he first came, this is not a pure place......
Ye Ji'er also came over with the six princes, and the six princes said: "Many people reported to the officials that there are beautiful nuns who secretly trade in skin and meat under the guise of Kaiguang, and it is said that Zhang Shugui, the nephew of the crown princess, and friends surnamed Zhou have also haunted here many times!"
"Is there any evidence? Your Highness can't listen to the wind or the rain......
Ji Xiaoshou opened his hand a little angrily, and the sixth prince said: "If this kind of thing is not caught, it will naturally be denied to death, but since there are many people who have reported to the official, it means that it is not rumors and slander, and the two deceased scholars both said that after the two enter the temple, they will go straight to the back hall!"
"I'll see!"
Zhao Guanren strode to the front of the Buddha hall, looking back and forth at more than 20 female nuns with peach blossom eyes, although some female nuns are no longer virgins, it is not strange, there are many nuns who are halfway monks, and at most they have three times of experience.
"Which one is the host teacher, please come out and talk about ......"
Zhao Guanren stood politely outside the door and bowed his hand, and an old nun stood up from the futon and came out to salute with sadness.
"Master, are all the nuns here, and are there any laymen or anything like that......?"
Zhao Guanren stared at her carefully, and the old nun shook her head and said: "As the so-called widow has many rights and wrongs in front of the door, our nunnery is the same in the city, in order to avoid gossip, no outsiders are left to stay here overnight, and the laymen are all worshipping the Buddha together, and no one will do that dirty thing!"
"It can be seen that all of you are real Buddhist disciples, so you don't have to worry about gossip......
Zhao Guanren bowed respectfully and asked: "Have there been any female nuns who have escaped recently, or there are laymen who have secretly met with outsiders here, some people say that Zhang Shugui and Zhou Gongzi often come here, and as soon as they come, they will go straight to the back hall, but is there such a thing?"
"It's true! But it's not a straight trip to the back hall, it's a vegetable garden......
The old nun said: "There is a niece in Zhang's house, because her father is seriously ill, she is here to practice, I see her beautiful appearance, six impure roots, but it is not good to refuse Mrs. Zhang, so let her live alone in the vegetable garden, the two little sons also often come to visit her, gossip may be because of her!"
"Where is this woman, and what is her name......
Zhao Guanren hurriedly took half a step forward, and the old nun replied, "Zhou Xiaolin! I finished my cultivation more than two months ago, and I heard that she died of female tuberculosis!"
"Zhang's family, where is Zhou Xiaolin......"
Zhao Guanren strode to the gate of the temple, and a steward ran over and said: "If you go back to your lordship, Zhou Xiaolin is the niece and granddaughter of my lord, who suffered from female tuberculosis when she practiced here, and was buried in the middle of last month!"
"Take me to Zhou Xiaolin's grave, and all the epidemic prevention brigades will be on the horse......"
Zhao Guanren picked him up and ran out, Ye Ji'er and the others looked at each other in surprise, and hurriedly chased him out and got on the horse together.
Who knew that Zhou Xiaolin's tomb was actually outside the city, and it took more than half an hour to come to the bottom of a mountain, and the whole mountain was the Zhang family's cemetery, and there were special people guarding the cemetery.
"Boss! can't be ...... here."
Lu Datou jumped off the horse and said: "We have been running for more than half an hour on horseback, and it takes at least more than an hour to walk, but the two little dead ghosts are both on foot, and the city gate will be locked at night, even if they can get out, someone must open the city gate!"
"Let's see what I'm talking about......"
Zhao Guanren followed the steward to the mountain, the Zhang family is buried in the best position of feng shui, the big family of hundreds of years has buried countless people, and relatives and the like can only be buried on both sides, Zhou Xiaolin's tomb is next to an inconspicuous bamboo forest.
"It's not this, go into the woods and look at ......."
Zhao Guanren walked into the bamboo forest with Lu Datou, but it was almost dark and he found nothing, but when he came out, he found that Zhou Xiaolin's tomb had not been worshiped for a long time, and grass had grown on the grave.
"Isn't Zhou Xiaolin on good terms with your son-in-law, why don't you come to worship when you die......
Zhao Guanren looked at the steward of Zhangfu, and the steward shook his head to say that he didn't know, so Zhao Guanren circled around the grave again, and suddenly found that there was a rabbit hole behind the grave.
"The epidemic prevention brigade came up and dug up the grave for me......"
Zhao Guanren extinguished the flashlight and shouted, but everyone was stunned by these words, and the steward exclaimed: "My lord, you must not, without the consent of the head of the Zhou family, how can you open the coffin without authorization, if the Zhou family learns that something big will happen!"
"I'm not digging their ancestral graves, I'm ...... if something happens."
Zhao Guanren pushed him away with a big grin, and the epidemic prevention brigade was naturally unequivocal, taking shovels and other tools to go up the mountain to dig graves.
Ye Ji'er said suspiciously: "Could it be that Zhou Xiaolin cheated the corpse in the tomb, and the dead air emitted just made the two boys smell it?"
"I'll surprise you, don't go away......"
Zhao Guanren pushed aside a few steps and took an oil lamp, and more than a dozen people quickly dug up the grave, revealing a new black coffin, but something had already made a hole in the side, and everyone suddenly exclaimed, and a nest of bamboo rats actually came out of the coffin.
"Catch it! It's game ......."
Zhao Guanren hurriedly stepped on a big fat rat, and the others looked at him like a madman, and even Lu Datou said disgustingly: "How disgusting is the mouse that eats the corpse, you should let it go quickly!"
"Open the coffin! Let them see the corpse ......"
Zhao Guanren grabbed the bamboo rat and waved his hand, the steward hurriedly ran over and inserted a few sandalwoods, Ji Xiaoshou stepped forward to chant the mantra in person, and the epidemic prevention team members often deal with corpses, and after putting on masks and gloves, they pried the coffin lid open in a few clicks.
"Knock~"
The coffin lid slid abruptly to the side, everyone's eyes burst together, there were no bones in the empty coffin, not even a burial item or clothes, Ye Ji'er stepped forward directly and was shocked: "How is it an empty coffin, what about the corpse?"