Lin Lei took a shallow sip of tea, his eyes narrowed slightly, and his mind quickly thought about the case.

There happened to be a general temple where the headless ghost case occurred, and the general temple enshrined a headless general who had his head cut off, and the most important thing is that the time of the crime was before and after the headless general's sacrifice ceremony five years ago.

Could there be any correlation between the two?

It's just that General Zheng's incident happened during the Kangxi period, hundreds of years ago - hundreds of years have passed, the vicissitudes of life, the situation has changed, if it is said that the murderer is to avenge General Zheng hundreds of years ago, it obviously only exists in TV dramas, and in reality, this possibility is extremely low.

If the deceased Gu Yuchang is really the descendant of the traitor who betrayed General Zheng back then, I believe that the T police will definitely investigate it.

Lin Lei looked at the case file just now, but in fact, he mainly looked at Gu Yuchang's identity background.

The T police don't eat white rice, and some of them have thought of the clue of "revenge", so they carefully investigated Gu Yuchang's ancestors for more than ten generations.

According to the genealogy of the Gu clan, Gu Yuchang's ancestral home is Nanyue Province, and his father came to T on the eve of liberation.

Further back to the roots, Gu Yuchang's ancestors have lived in Nanyue for generations, and they have nothing to do with T, let alone the traitor who betrayed General Zheng in Tianchang Town.

EVEN GU YUCHANG'S ANCESTORS HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE MILITARY CAMPAIGN OF THE QING COURT TO CONQUER T - THE BASE CAMP OF THE QING ARMY'S ATTACK ON T IS NOT NANYUE, BUT FUJIAN......

Lin Lei stood up and walked straight in the direction of the old man at the tea stall.

When he came to the old man, Lin Lei took out the money from his pocket, paid for the tea, and asked the location of the General's Temple by the way.

The old man of the tea stall pointed out the direction to Lin Lei - the General's Temple is on a hill not far away, and the straight-line distance is only two or three kilometers, counting the winding path, it is only three or four kilometers, not too far.

After Lin Lei left from the big banyan tree tea stall, he walked slowly towards the General Temple.

About halfway through, Lin Lei saw a middle-aged man with sunglasses in front of him taking pictures on the side of the road.

The man, about forty, wearing a jacket and holding a Canon SLR camera in his hand, was taking pictures of the surrounding scenery.

When the middle-aged man saw Lin Lei coming over, he nodded in a friendly manner, which was regarded as saying hello to Lin Lei.

Lin Lei stopped, smiled slightly, and said, "The scenery here is really good, very suitable for photography." ”

The man took out a cigarette from his pocket and handed it to Lin Lei: "Are you here to play in Tianchang Town?"

Lin Lei didn't take the cigarette and replied: "I quit smoking - I heard that there is a sacrifice ceremony for General Zheng tomorrow, so I came to see the excitement." ”

Seeing that Lin Lei didn't smoke, the man lit a cigarette by himself, and after slowly spitting out a smoke ring, he said: "General Zheng's sacrificial ceremony is held every five years, which is very local characteristics. ”

As soon as he heard the words "entering the industry" and "taking materials", Lin Lei probably knew the identity of this person.

Lin Lei glanced at the middle-aged man and asked, "Are you a reporter?"

The middle-aged man's eyes lit up, and he laughed: "You have a really good eye! I am a photojournalist at the newspaper, specializing in reporting on humanities and geography. I have reported on General Zheng's sacrificial ceremony four times, and each time it is full of pictures and texts, and the report five years ago won a gold medal!"

Since this person is a perennial reporter of General Zheng's sacrificial ceremony, he is obviously a person who is familiar with the inside story, so Lin Lei took the initiative to chat with him.

After some pleasantries, Lin Lei knew the background of this person.

The middle-aged man, Du Chengming, is a columnist who has been covering General Zheng's sacrificial ceremony for 20 years, and this is the fifth time he has come to report.

It just so happened that Du Chengming was also going to the General's Temple to shoot materials, so he went with Lin Lei.

The road leading to the General's Temple is a field path with some gravel paved in the middle to prevent mud on rainy days.

Both sides of the road are full of fruit groves, and the trees are full of fruits, which are not yet ripe, and most of the fruits have an astringent green color.

The two talked as they walked, and quickly turned over a small hill. There is a large bamboo forest behind the hill, and the General Temple is located among the bamboo forests.

This is a small temple with a brick and stone structure, and there is only one courtyard, which makes Lin Lei quite disappointed.

Originally, Lin Lei thought that the temple would have at least two or three entrances, but he didn't expect it to be so small.

There is a dam of about four or five hundred square meters in front of the temple, and there are many people on the scene who are arranging all kinds of things needed for tomorrow's sacrificial ceremony.

It seems that the main venue of this sacrificial ceremony is not held in the temple, but in this flat dam outside the temple - this is also the proper meaning, such a small temple can not accommodate many people at all, and there is no condition to be the main venue.

At this time, Du Chengming seemed to be very interested in the people who set up the venue, and began to photograph their preparations.

Lin Lei saw that Du Chengming was taking pictures, and it was inconvenient to disturb the work in the world, so he walked into the small temple by himself.

Traces of cement repair and whitewash can be seen everywhere in the temple, and it is clear that the temple has also done a lot of renovation work on the building for this ceremony.

The temple is not big, and after Lin Lei looked around, he walked straight to the Buddha hall.

It can only be called the Buddha Hall, not the Mahavira Hall, because it is too small.

There is a seated statue of a general in the Buddhist hall, which is quite majestic, and Lin Lei estimates that this is the general Zheng who resisted the Manchu Qing. In front of the statue of the general there is a red incense table, on which is placed an incense burner and several plates of fresh offerings.

There were several believers in the Buddhist hall who were kowtowing on the futon and praying, and Lin Lei withdrew from the Buddhist hall and looked around again.

I saw that the eaves on the top of the temple were anti-Yu, and the five spines and six beasts were actually quite exquisitely cultivated.

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps behind Lin Lei, and Lin Lei immediately turned his head to look, but saw a kind old Taoist priest looking at him.

"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, this donor, because the temple will hold a sacrificial ceremony tomorrow, will soon be cleared, and please move outside the temple and come back tomorrow. ”

It turned out that this temple was not inhabited by monks, but Taoist priests, and the old Taoist priest euphemistically ordered the expulsion of guests.

Since people want to clear the scene to prepare for tomorrow's sacrificial ceremony, it is inconvenient for Lin Lei to stay.

Lin Lei nodded, indicating that he understood what the old Taoist priest meant, and said to the old Taoist priest while walking outside the temple: "Daoist, can you take a step to speak?"

The old Taoist priest's face was embarrassed, and it seemed that he didn't want to chat with Lin Lei more.

Lin Lei took out his police officer ID card - this was prepared by Police Inspector Chen for Lin Lei - and shook it in front of the old Taoist, the old Taoist was stunned for a moment, and said repeatedly: "Officer, you ......"

Lin Lei glanced at the outside of the temple and turned to leave.

The old Taoist priest had no choice but to follow Lin Lei to a secluded place outside the temple gate.

Seeing the puzzled look on the old Taoist priest's face, Lin Lei didn't ink, and asked directly to the point: "Daoist, how long have you been the abbot of this Taoist temple?"

The Taoist chief groaned for a moment and replied, "It's been thirty years......"

Lin Lei nodded slightly, and suddenly asked, "There was a murder here five years ago, Dao Chief must have heard of it, right?"

The old Dao's expression was grim, and he nodded: "Poor Dao has heard of one or two ......."

Lin Lei suddenly stopped talking, and only stared at Lao Dao.

After a long time, Lin Lei asked again: "Daoist, how many Taoist priests are there in the General's Temple?"

The old Taoist elder smiled and replied, "It's just a poor Dao person. Police officer, as you can see, the General's Temple is small...... Every five years, when the sacrificial ceremony is approaching, many good men and women from the neighborhood come to help Zhang Luo. ”