A temple in the western suburbs of Qizhou City has long been abandoned, I don't know whether it was the Buddha or the Tao or the Ming Zun, the tile roof is incomplete, the brick wall is collapsed and dilapidated, the steps are covered with moss, and wild grass grows in the stone crevices.

In the woods outside the temple gate, the noise of the old crow is in response to the sentence of the dead vine and old tree, which decorates the declining and dilapidated temple more and more desolate.

There was a click, someone stepped on the dead branch and made a sound, and suddenly there was a loud crow, and a flock of crows flapped their wings and soared into the air, and black shadows flew and hovered in the air, like resentful spirits from the netherworld.

Wang Cai walked towards the ruined temple very quickly and very carefully, he was wearing a densely buttoned shirt, tied around his waist, leggings, and cowhide boots.

Seeing that there was no one around, Wang Cai cautiously walked into the temple gate.

In the dilapidated hall, someone had been waiting for a long time, but when they saw that this person was extremely burly but thin, it seemed that there was only a skeleton of auxiliary bones left in his body, his hair was gray, and the hands he was carrying were the size of a fan, his knuckles were protruding, and his muscles were knotted.

The burly old man was looking at the scattered statues on the main hall and wandering out of the world, with his back to the temple gate, but he seemed to have eyes behind him, Wang Cai just walked into the temple gate, and said miserably: "I've been waiting for you for half an hour." ”

Wang Cai's expression was a little lonely: "I've been here for more than ten years, and it takes some time to erase all the clues." Elder Wei, what are the arrangements for the next step in the hall? ”

Elder Wei didn't answer immediately, lowered his head and thought for a while before saying, "You have been in the Wang family for so long, and you haven't stolen the seal letter of the commander, and the hall master is very dissatisfied. ”

Wang Cai's expression changed greatly, and he hurriedly defended: "Wang Jinxian doesn't care much about anything else, he only pinched the seal letter very tightly, and his subordinates have never found a chance...... That's right, that's why my subordinates designed a handle to catch the little rabbit cub and forced him to steal the anti-seal letter for us. ”

Elder Wei's voice still didn't have a trace of emotion: "But you shouldn't lead that brocade guard away. ”

"At that time, his subordinates couldn't prevaricate, and I thought that he would not dare to let him bluff the commander, and let him bluff, maybe we could hold the little rabbit cub better," Wang Cai said, his voice becoming more and more depressed: "But I never thought that a young captain would dare to search the commander's house, and he really solved the case......"

In fact, Wang Huan's strength and body were hollowed out by wine, and her strength was extremely small, so she didn't strangle the catkins to death at all, she just fainted, and soon woke up again, and slowly crawled to the door to call for help.

At this time, Wang Cai, who had been monitoring the progress of the situation, strangled Liu Fu to death, and then picked it up and threw it on the bed, not caring that the body was prone on his stomach.

Qin Lin deduced from the location of the corpse spot that the corpse was not facing the sky on its back as Wang Huan said, and thus discovered the clue.

Wang Cai never imagined that he had been thinking about it for more than ten years, but because of a small mistake in the details, he finally fell short.

At this moment, he sighed that his luck was not good, how did he know that there was a destiny in the dark?

Even Elder Wei, who was standing in the main hall, seemed to bow his head and sighed softly, and said after a while: "Two months ago, Senior Nephew Gao suddenly lost his whereabouts in Qizhou, and you are in command of the embassy, do you have any news of him?" ”

Wang Cai shook his head: "My subordinates don't know." It is said that Senior Brother Gao's movement to open the altar to preach is also too big - because of the relationship between the sect leader, Senior Brother Gao always wants to make a great contribution to the sect, and his subordinates also understand this thought, so the guard tried his best to find convenience for him, but later he was targeted by Jinyi Wei, and his subordinates couldn't help, and since he escaped from the south gate of Qizhou, he completely lost contact. ”

There was a hole in the top of the main hall, and Elder Wei looked up at the sky at the entrance of the cave, and was silent for a long time before he said slowly: "It's a pity. Gao Zuo Envoy has been tracking down his son's whereabouts, originally if you found out the news of Gao Shi's nephew, this elder is clear to Gao Zuo, maybe you don't have to die. Since you have achieved nothing, and your identity has been revealed by Jinyiwei, it is unbelievable. ”

Wang Cai was shocked, and then smiled bitterly: "It's not a pity that my subordinates died, but it's a pity that I have worked hard in Qizhou for more than ten years, but it was bad in the hands of a small captain!" ”

Elder Wei said coldly: "It's okay, Gao Zuo's envoy and the hall master have other arrangements, and they always make it impossible for the imperial court officials and soldiers to reach Mayang." ”

"Just those stray hairs who pretend to be ghosts?" Wang Cai said it with great disdain.

Elder Wei's voice was like a hacksaw scraping through an iron plate, and it was extremely unpleasant: "I have given you the opportunity to return to your vacuum hometown, return to the land of bliss, and enjoy the endless immortal blessings, what are you not satisfied with?" ”

Good, good! Wang Cai gritted his teeth and asked, "That subordinate ......"

Elder Wei rubbed his hands impatiently: "The hall master has his own arrangements. There is pen and ink here, and with your cleverness, you naturally know how to write to Talon Sun. ”

Wang Cai understood the methods of the sect, and his face changed a few times, but when he saw Elder Wei's terrible hands, all his resistance disappeared, so he had to sigh and pick up the paper and brush to brush the book.

At the same time, his left hand quietly took out an object from his bosom, and held back the pain and slammed it into his palm.

After a few moments of writing, put the pen and paper on the offering table.

After Elder Wei read the text, he nodded, and said, "You should always know the rules of the sect, right?" ”

Wang Cai handed over the thing he was holding in his hand, a small yellow and clear lotus flower, which was exactly the same as the lotus shape obtained by Qin Lin before, except that one was carved from mutton fat white jade, and Wang Cai's was cast with brass.

Elder Wei's hand crossed a strange arc in the air, and somehow the bronze lotus flower in Wang Cai's hand disappeared, and there was a small porcelain vase in the palm of the open palm.

From beginning to end, Elder Wei didn't even look back once.

"Okay, what a slap of the Heaven and Earth Net!" Wang Cai smiled miserably, knowing that Elder Wei's actions were not without warning.

Without delay, he immediately uncorked the porcelain vase, threw up his neck and drank it, and in a moment he trembled and fell limp, and after a few convulsions on the ground, he spat out the last breath of air in his life.

Elder Wei still carried his hands behind his back, slowly stomped to the side of the collapsed wall, suddenly raised his arms and shook his toes, and his toes tapped on the wall, and his figure flew up in the air like a big bird, submerging into the dense forest outside the temple.

Wow - the crows are flying.

…………

It didn't take long for the crows to welcome a second wave of guests.

There are many people in Qizhou who know the steward of the king of the palace under the command of Wei, and Jinyiwei and the state government make every effort to search and arrest, and soon find the witnesses who have seen him along the way, and find the broken temple on the road.

Qin Lin identified the footprints on the ground, and even found the dead branch that Wang Cai had stepped on, and he made a gesture to indicate that the target was in the temple.

The brocade-clothed guards embroidered spring knives out of their sheaths, and Han Feilian sent the remnants of the army to scatter around the temple and personally lead a few brothers to kill through the main gate, while Qin Lin also led people to rush into the temple through the gap in the wall.

In front of the main hall, in the atrium covered with wild grass, the corpse of Wang Cai lay impressively, and there were pens and papers scattered next to it.

Qin Lin picked up the piece of paper and looked at it carefully, and Wang Cai confessed to the crime in this suicide note: Liu Wu was just stunned by Wang Huan that night, and it was Wang Cai who tried to fish in troubled waters when he saw the color, and when he saw Liu Wu trying his best to resist, he strangled her to death in a moment of anger, and took the opportunity to push it on the young master Wang Huan.

When the brothers in Jinyi saw Qin Lin pick up the paper and look at it, they all showed envy, they were either hereditary military households or front-line meritorious service, most of the school captains and even Xiaoqi were illiterate, and the admiration of the people of the Ming Dynasty for scholars was simply deep in the bone marrow.

Han Feilian asked what he wrote, Qin Lin read it to everyone, Han Feilian slapped his hand on his shoulder, and said happily: "Okay, now the case has been investigated, and the murderer himself took poison and died, so he can even save the case by opening a court to ask about the case." ”

Qin Lin nodded, then squatted down to carefully examine the corpse, and as soon as he picked up the small porcelain bottle containing the poison, his brows furrowed into Sichuan characters - the poison Wang Cai took was exactly the same as the one he got from Gao Jackal Yu!

Is this just a coincidence?

An angry voice sounded at the door: "Wang Cai, this dog slave, dares to be so rude, the official wants to screw off his head and use it as a night pot!" ”

The commander Wang Jinxian hurried with his own soldiers on horseback, his wife Liu Shi also rode on the horse, and Wang Huan was carried by two sturdy personal soldiers with sliding rods, and his face turned pale.

A little later, Zhang Gongyu took the people of the state government, and Shi Wei led the general flags and small flags of the hundred households to also rush over after hearing the news.

Wang Jinxian walked into the temple violently, and was taken aback when he saw Wang Cai lying on the ground, as a hereditary commander, he could recognize the words, and he knew what was going on at a glance at the suicide note.

Seeing Qin Lin rummaging for inspection on the dead body, Wang Jinxian snorted heavily in his nose, according to which Qin Lin should be thanked for clearing his son's grievances, but he felt that he was not the one his son killed in the first place, Jinyiwei was a dog and a mouse to meddle in things, and secondly, he offended his dignified commander Hu Wei in public, and now he didn't trouble Qin Lin.

Instead, Liu patted his son: "Don't thank you Chief Qin?" If it weren't for Chief Qin finding the real culprit, you would be 'hanging' now!" ”

Wang Huan walked around and came back after the ghost gate was closed, and he was grateful to Qin Lin in his heart, and he also admired his strength to find out the real murderer without reluctance, so this attitude was very sincere, and he slammed it to the ground: "Thank you Chief Qin for saving your life!" ”

Qin Lin had a bad impression of him, so he nodded and answered.

Zhang Gongyu walked in panting, his eyes lit up when he saw the suicide note, and he hurriedly ordered the case to be closed, and shouted to the earth to pull the body to be buried.

Everyone wondered, why did Qin Lin squat next to the corpse and examine it carefully? Isn't this clear, that is, Wang Cai killed Liu Fu, and knowing that he was tracked down by Qin Lin, he committed suicide in fear of crime.

It wasn't until Shi Wei arrived with a large number of Jinyi guards that Qin Lin stood up and said to Shi Wei: "Lord Shi, please give an order to let everyone except Master Zhang, Commander Wang, and our Jinyi brothers withdraw from the courtyard. ”

Shi Wei's mouth opened slightly, and his eyes suddenly shone brightly.