What is the meaning of the rose cotton cloth used to pad the table legs?

Or is it just a coincidence that the killer happens to have this particular hobby?

After Wuwei and the flowers came back, Zhanyan showed the rose red cotton cloth to Wuwei, and asked Wuwei if he had ever seen this kind of cotton cloth padded the table legs in the temple, and Wuwei said no, he had never seen it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Hua Zilai asked the pilgrims in the two guest houses when they came back after asking, and they also spread their hands and said, there was no gain, and they generally said that they had not heard any movement before.

Even if there were, it was the sound of a few cat meows.

Yin Seventeen asked, "There are still cats in the temple?" ”

Wuwei said: "There are no cats in the temple, but a pilgrim brought a cat to live in the courtyard cabin. ”

Hua Zilai asked Wuwei: "But that Miss Ying, who should be the daughter of a rich and noble family, but is dressed very simply and plainly?" ”

Wuwei nodded and said, "It's Miss Ying." ”

In the afternoon, I will go to the Longmen Inn in the neighboring county, and Yin Seventeen plans to see the dead words of the deceased at noon.

Before it was noon, she wanted to meet this young lady.

As soon as Yin Seventeen said that Wuwei led the way, Hua Zilai had an opinion:

"I just asked, there is nothing wrong with the pilgrim Miss Ying, she only heard a few cat meows during the night, and did not hear any more movement from the side......"

Yin Seventeen interrupted Hua Zilai's words: "Do you know under what circumstances a cat will bark?" ”

Hua Zilai was a little confused: "This has to do with the case...... What's at stake? ”

Yin Seventeen said: "Ask again to know if there is anything to do!" ”

After Wuwei left the array room with Yin Seventeen, Hua Zilai looked at Zhan Yan blankly:

"What the hell does seventeen mean?"

Zhan Yan handed the four small pieces of rose cotton cloth in his palm to Hua Zilai, and after Hua Zilai took it, he replied:

"Cats bark when they are hungry, spoiled, and springy, and in addition to that, there is another situation."

After Hua Zilai put away the evidence, he asked, "What's the situation?" ”

Zhanyan said: "When you are afraid, angry, and threatened. ”

Hua Zilai was stunned for a long time before he found his voice and asked, "How do you know?" ”

Zhan Yan said: "Seventeen said it." ”

Hua Zilai asked again: "When did Seventeen say that?" How did I not know? ”

Zhan Yan glanced at Hua Zilai and said, "What were you doing in the days after Widow Miao's case ended?" ”

The flowers came to mind.

At that time, the case was finally closed, Zhan Yan has never been reading books when there is no case, Yin Seventeen is abnormal, depressed all day long, in addition to facing an expressionless bookworm in the headcatcher's room, he also has to face a sullen and unhappy Yin Seventeen who seems to owe her hundreds of taels of silver all over the world.

In desperation, in those few days, he ran out all day long, either to the two fast catcher rooms next door to run the door, or to go outside the yamen to find fun and listen to new things.

It's not that Yin Seventeen excludes him, but that he himself misses out a lot of things?

The flowers are beyond words.

Like the Chess Academy, there are eight guest compartments, which are named after "loyalty, faithfulness, courtesy, righteousness, honesty, shame, filial piety, and piety".

As soon as you enter the academy, you can see a towering ancient tree that is very old, and the thick trunk is as thick as ten adult men holding hands and hugging each other.

There are four stone pillar lampstands around the ancient tree, forming a square quadrangular shape around the ancient tree, and each stone pillar lampstand will be lit up at dusk.

After Chinese New Year's Eve, the two guest houses have never been interrupted.

Yin Seventeen asked Wuwei: "How far can the light of these four lampstands shine, and how often do you add lamp oil?" ”

Wu Wei said: "Every day, and because the eight passenger compartments are built around ancient trees, when the lampstand is lit at night, it can basically shine under the porch of the passenger compartment." ”

Yin Seventeen said: "In other words, the light can't shine in the corridor?" ”

Wu Wei said: "Yes." ”

In the corridor in front of the passenger compartments, the light did not shine, and when the murderer walked back and forth, it would be easy to hide his figure if he was wearing a black night suit.

Even if some pilgrims heard the movement and came out to watch, it was difficult to see the murderer's appearance unless they were close to each other.

Three of the eight guest rooms of the academy were occupied, except for the two masters and servants of Miss Ying in the letter wing, only the Yi wing room and the cheap wing room were occupied by pilgrims, and the rest of the guest rooms were empty.

Wuwei said: "Now is not the time when the incense is at its peak, and there are still more than enough passenger compartments." ”

There are five pilgrims in the Chess Academy, while there are only three pilgrims in the Academy, and a total of eight pilgrims have now died, leaving only seven pilgrims.

Is it possible that one of the seven pilgrims was the murderer?

With this question in mind, Yin Seventeen and Wuwei knocked on Miss Ying's door.

It was Miss Ying's maid Xiaozhi who opened the door.

Wuwei is a monk, and the monks are all wary of men and women, not to mention that now it is a man's Yin Seventeen Kuaishou, and both of them are well-behaved.

After entering the letter room, Xiao Zhi went to pour tea for Yin Seventeen and Wuwei, and then stood behind Miss Ying.

Miss Ying is a small family of about 16 years old, her father is a businessman, and he is also a well-known wealthy businessman in Hongsha County.

Miss Ying's mother died of illness less than a month ago, so she moved to this Qianguang Temple to recite sutras for her mother who died of illness, hoping that her mother would no longer be plagued by illness in the next life.

When Yin Seventeen and Wuwei entered the wing, they did see Miss Ying copying the "Dizang Bodhisattva Sutra", and when they came, Miss Ying put down her pen.

Yin Seventeen asked, "The female pilgrim in the passenger compartment of the chess courtyard was killed, isn't Miss Ying afraid?" ”

Miss Ying said: "I'm afraid, but I have been fasting in the temple for three days, and it will take seven days to copy scriptures for my mother. ”

Fasting for ten days, copying Buddhist scriptures, not afraid of danger, only dedicated to her mother who died of illness, this Miss Ying is really a filial person.

Yin Qi's gaze moved downward, she looked at the white cat who was sitting on the round stool where Miss Ying was sitting, and asked:

"Listen to our flower catcher, Miss Ying's cat barked a few times on the night the deceased was killed, didn't it?"

Miss Ying is also a cat lover, and when she heard Yin Seventeen, she picked up the white cat that had been rubbing at her feet:

"Yes, then we slept soundly, this cat suddenly barked, listening to Xiaozhi, and kept barking at the door, I don't know what's going on?"

Yin Seventeen asked, "Have you gotten up to check?" For example...... Open the door? ”

Miss Ying looked at Xiao Zhi, who had been waiting quietly behind her, and Yin Seventeen also looked at Xiao Zhi.

Xiao Zhi immediately understood and began to recall:

"At night, the white cat suddenly barked, the sound sounded a little scary, disturbing the lady's sleep, the slave maid got up and wanted to let the white cat quiet down, don't bark anymore, but the white cat who is very well-behaved and obedient on weekdays always barks at the door, and the slave thinks there is something outside the door, so she opens the door......"

But outside the door, there was nothing.

At this time, the white cat also stopped barking, walked back to Miss Ying's bed and lay down on its side, and the cat shrank into a peaceful sleep.

Yin Seventeen asked Xiao Zhi, "Didn't see anything?" ”

Xiao Zhi shook his head and said, "No, I only saw the ancient tree outside the door, and the four stone pillar lampstands have been lit." ”

Yin Seventeen asked again without giving up: "What about the corridor?" The hallway in front of the letter room or the hallway opposite? ”

Xiao Zhi still shook her head and said that she didn't see anything.

Yin Seventeen fell silent as she pondered.

The abnormal performance of the white cat that night, Xiao Zhi can't describe it, the white cat is as well-behaved as usual at the moment, how can I reproduce the abnormality of the white cat?

didn't ask anything important, Yin Seventeen and Wuwei got up to say goodbye, Miss Ying's master and servant also got up to see each other, and the white cat was put down by Miss Ying, and followed Miss Ying to the door in small steps.

After Yin Seventeen and Wuwei stepped out of the letter room, Xiao Zhi closed the room again.

When he walked with Wuwei to the gate of the academy, Yin Seventeen suddenly reversed and walked back to the corridor of the wing room.

The layout of the guest house is arranged from left to right, with three rooms on the left, three rooms on the right, two rooms facing the courtyard gate in the middle, and eight rooms around the ancient tree.

In addition to the direction of the courtyard gate, there are passenger compartments in the other three directions.

The order of the three carriages on the left is loyalty, faithfulness and righteousness, except for the middle chamber where Miss Ying's master and servant live, the left and right compartments are not occupied by pilgrims.

Before stepping onto the corridor of the wing room on the left, Yin Seventeen drew his sword.

Wu Wei stood at the gate of the courtyard, looking at Yin Seventeen with some incomprehension as he suddenly walked back and looked strange.

He didn't move, he didn't make a sound, he just stood quietly at the gate of the courtyard and watched Yin Seventeen's movements.

Yin Seventeen had just walked through the Zhongxiang room with a knife, two steps before stepping through the porch of the letter wing, and only three steps away from returning to the position in front of the door of the letter wing, when the white cat's high-pitched screaming as if he had taken a stimulant rang out from inside the wing.

Xiao Zhi's surprised voice also came from the letter room: "Miss, I don't know what happened to this cat?" Why did you suddenly scream like last night's meeting? ”

Miss Ying was also a little worried: "The cat can't be sick, right?" ”

Yin Qiqi held the scabbard in one hand and the silver dangling knife in the other, and stood in front of the door of the letter room for a while, then she reached out and knocked on the door.

Xiao Zhi soon came to open the door, and her mouth was still mixed with the chatter of dissatisfaction with the white cat, and when she opened the door at first glance, she saw Yin Seventeen standing outside the door with a knife and eyebrows raised, she was almost scared and screamed.

Xiao Zhi covered her mouth and stuffed the screams that were suddenly frightened back into her stomach.

Miss Ying also looked at Yin Seventeen in a daze, not understanding why Yin Seventeen would go and return, or with such a fierce and vicious appearance?

And after Xiao Zhi opened the door, the white cat hissed even more happily at Yin Seventeen outside the door.

Its whole body was fried, and it arched itself like a cheetah ready to attack, and its mouth constantly let out a vicious whine that rose and fell, like a sharp scream when it was scared, and like a self-protection when it was threatened.

It used all its body and all its strength to express its fearlessness and its rise to fight, which was the most direct resistance to the sudden feeling of danger.

It's warning people outside that it thinks it's dangerous - don't come in and hurt anyone inside the door, or it will tear off anyone it thinks dangerous with its claws!

Except for Yin Seventeen, no one understood what was wrong with the white cat, and even the inaction that suddenly heard the white cat's sharp hissing and had to follow back to the door of the letter room, he also didn't understand it.

In just half a moment, Yin Seventeen had already tried out the answer she wanted.

She slowly put away the malice she had deliberately let out, and then slowly withdrew the knife back into its scabbard.

The knife was back in its sheath, and Yin Seventeen was still blowing up, but it was obviously much lighter, and she squatted down in front of the white cat, listening to the white cat's sharp neighing getting quieter and gentler, and she laughed slowly.

Yin Seventeen praised gently: "It's a good cat, it's a pity that I can't understand what you said, otherwise maybe you can still provide me with some clues, it's a pity." ”

At the end, she reached out and touched the white cat's head gently, and quickly retracted her hand when the white cat stretched out its claws to scratch her.

It's fast and thrilling.

Miss Ying, the master and servant and Wu Wei, who were watching from the sidelines, made Yin Seventeen's actions scared enough, if this white cat really scratched two or three bloodshots on Yin Seventeen's hand, then this white cat would definitely have to be tied up and beaten on the board, right?

Of course, it is impossible to beat the cat's board, but if Zhan Yan knows that it scratched the blood of Yin Seventeen's hand, then it will probably be even more miserable than being hit by the board.

Yin Seventeen deliberately fiddled with this hand, Miss Ying's master and servant, and Wuwei all saw it a little foggy.

After leaving the academy, Yin Qiqi walked directly back to the chess courtyard room.

The array room is the innermost room of the three rooms on the right after the admission of the chess courtyard, and as soon as Yin Seventeen stepped into the corridor on the right, the voice of Wuwei came behind her:

"Seventeen donors, did you do that in front of the letter room of the academy to confirm whether the murderer had ever been to the academy?"

Yin Qiqi paused and looked back at Wuwei, who finally figured out why she wanted to do that, and she replied clearly and simply:

"Yes."

Wuwei Shuangten folded his hands: "Amitabha! My Buddha is compassionate! ”

Is the Buddha really compassionate?

If it is really compassionate, then why doesn't the Buddha bless the deceased?

Without saying anything, and without saying the two rhetorical questions in his heart, Yin Seventeen turned around and walked quickly to the innermost array room.

Zhan Yan was standing in front of the red azaleas that Yin Seventeen had seen before, and she approached the high point at the end of the bed, standing side by side with him, looking at the red azaleas in full bloom in the green bamboo porcelain vase.

Zhan Yan said: "There are azaleas on the bedding, and there are azaleas in the porcelain vase, and I understand that there are no azaleas in the temple at all, and not even a single plant has been planted. ”

Yin Seventeen said: "Well, not only azaleas, but also black cloth windows, cotton cloth for table legs...... Perhaps there are other things in this chamber that we have not yet discovered and overlooked, and these all represent some kind of meaning, and these meanings may be what the murderer wants to tell us, and the black cloth window may represent the night as we think, but what about the others? ”

As soon as Wu Wei returned to the array room, he stood alone and waited, so quiet that it seemed to be non-existent.

But unlike before, Wu Wei was no longer simply standing and waiting, he took off the Buddhist beads hanging around his neck, put one hand up, and the other hand held the Buddha beads unslow, rhythmically turning, and began to close his eyes and chant the scriptures wholeheartedly.

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