Chapter 40: The White Lotus

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His cannibalistic gaze swept through the mortuary and landed on the corpse on the ground, and then stared at Gongsun He and Yi Xingchen who were standing there in a panic, and snorted coldly: "Take these two down for me!" ”

Several Jinyi guards following him immediately rushed up to arrest people.

Yi Xingchen put his hands behind his back and said lightly: "My lord, do you want to catch the murderer?" ”

As soon as he heard this, the Jinyi guard official was slightly stunned, and immediately shouted: "Wait! Retire! ”

The captain of the brocade guard hurriedly stopped and stood on both sides.

The official took two steps forward, looked Yi Xingchen up and down, and said, "Who are you?" ”

Yi Xingchen calculated a hexagram just now, and wanted to think about a way to relieve the danger in front of him from the first and third hexagrams of the "Book of Changes", but the time was too short, and the words that flashed in an instant made him feel dangerous, but he didn't sort out the key to solving the problem for a while.

Just when this Jinyi guard official appeared at the door of the mortuary with a group of Jinyi guards and a yamen to catch him, a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind: these brocade guards appeared in the yamen mortuary, and there were only two bodies in the mortuary, Xinghua girl and her maid, indicating that the purpose of their trip must be related to the death of Xinghua girl. A woman in the Qinglou was killed and took away her money, how could such an ordinary murder case alarm the emperor's secret service Jinyiwei? There must be something strange in it, it should be the case of the Xinghua girl that involves the scope of the Jinyi Guard's investigation!

In this case, if you want to impress the other party and attract the attention of the other party, you can only do what they like, since they are here to solve the case, of course, they must use the case to resolve this crisis.

This thought had just flashed through him, and it was immediately confirmed by the hexagram. Because he thought of the sentence said in the third hexagram of the Great Zhuang Hexagram in the Book of Changes: "The villain uses the strong, and the gentleman uses the reckless." Among them, the gentleman used the word "reckless", which has two interpretations, one interpretation is "nothing", and the other interpretation refers to the "net" of the net of heaven and earth. And the net of heaven and earth generally refers to the arrest of murderers, which just confirms his previous inference. -- To resolve the immediate crisis is to help the other party catch the murderer.

Yi Xingchen didn't care about further scrutiny, because the other party had already ordered them to be arrested, so he blurted out and asked him if he wanted to catch the murderer.

Yi Xingchen saw that after the brocade guard official heard his words, the expression on his face was stunned and then he was happy, and he knew that the other party was very interested in his own question, and this treasure was right.

The Jinyi guard official took two steps forward, and when he arrived in front of Yi Xingchen, he was a head taller than Yi Xingchen, almost looking down at Yi Xingchen, and asked who they were.

Yi Xingchen said: "My master's name is Gongsun He, my name is Yi Xingchen, and we are fortune tellers on the streets of Tunzhou." ”

"Do you know who the murderer is?"

Yi Xingchen shook his head, then nodded again.

The Jinyi Wei official's face turned cold: "Do you know?" ”

"I don't know, but we can figure out who the murderer is by calculating the fortune telling, or how to find the murderer."

"Fortune telling? Use fortune telling to find the murderer? The Jinyi guard official laughed angrily, "Hahaha, have you eaten the gall of an ambitious leopard?" Dare to come and entertain the uncle! ”

Yi Xingchen didn't panic, looked at him, and waited for his laughter to stop before he continued: "There is something in this case that has aroused the interest of your Jinyiwei, my lord, and I have already calculated what this thing is through fortune telling. Adults believe it or not? ”

The sneer on the official's face froze obviously, his eyes narrowed into a slit, and through the gap, a cold light locked on Yi Xingchen, and slowly squeezed out two words from between his teeth: "Okay, you say!" What caught our attention in this case? ”

Yi Xingchen smiled slightly, took another half step forward, almost against the official, raised his head, and said three words in a very slight voice that could only be heard by the other party: "White-lotus-flower!" ”

The Jinyi guard official shook his body, shocked by Yi Xingchen's answer.

Because, the murder scene did find a very delicate white lotus made of silver. And it was this white lotus that caught the attention of their brocade guards and intervened in this originally ordinary robbery and murder case. Just because this White Lotus, after identification, is a token of the equivalent level of the White Lotus Sect.

The White Lotus Sect is famous in history, it is a kind of religious organization that has prevailed among the people since the Song and Yuan dynasties, and often becomes the organizational form of the rebellion against the imperial court in the past dynasties, although the teachings of the White Lotus Sect are derived from Buddhism, but they are greatly simplified, the teachings are simple and easy to understand, and the description of the afterlife is full of temptation, so it is very tempting for the ordinary people who are illiterate and do not understand the profound teachings of Buddhism but are full of admiration for the Buddhist scriptures, so the White Lotus Sect is very easy to develop believers, and can quickly form a scale, Therefore, it has also become the best form of organization for those rebels who rebelled against the imperial court to develop their power, and the White Lotus Sect has existed as a folk religious organization for nearly a thousand years.

Because of this characteristic of the White Lotus Sect, the emperors of all dynasties had a headache with the White Lotus Sect, and most of the means to deal with it were to suppress and recruit peace, and even encouraged development in short times such as the Yuan Dynasty, and wanted to collect it for their own use, but failed. No matter how the imperial court struck, the White Lotus Sect always burned and grew like weeds. In the Ming Dynasty, the White Lotus Sect was banned by Emperor Taizu as a cult, and of course the White Lotus Sect resolutely confronted the imperial court, and organized more than a dozen White Lotus riots in the early and middle Ming Dynasty, all of which were suppressed successively, which made the imperial court even more determined to resolutely crack down on the White Lotus Sect.

Serving as the pursuit and capture of the White Lotus Sect is one of the main responsibilities of the Jinyi Guard. This time, at the scene of the murder of Xinghua in Cuixianglou, the token of the upper leader of the White Lotus Sect was found, which immediately attracted the attention of Jinyiwei and interfered in this case.

And there are few people who know that this white lotus was left at the scene, because this white lotus flower is placed in the dark compartment under the bed of the apricot blossom girl, not in a place that can be seen at the scene. Therefore, the turtle prince and the others who found the Qinglou where the Xinghua girl died did not see this white lotus. When investigating the scene, it was Cui Zhutou who accidentally discovered the secret compartment under the bed, and after opening it, in addition to finding some valuable gold and silver jewelry inside, he found this white lotus of the White Lotus Sect.

Of course, Cui Zhutou knew what this meant, and immediately felt that the situation was serious, and immediately blocked the scene, prohibiting anyone from entering or leaving, and then personally rushed to the Jinyi Wei Yamen to report directly to the Jinyi Wei official. So, after the Jinyi Wei officials rushed to the scene to check it, they confirmed that it was indeed the token of the upper leader of the White Lotus Sect, and no other useful clues were found after the scene, so the leader of the Jinyi Wei rushed to the Yamen mortuary with people, ready to personally inspect the corpse and look for new clues.

Therefore, counting it, only the two people who knew about this matter were the Jinyiwei official and Cui Zhutou, and the others did not know.

However, this shabby-dressed fortune teller actually accurately said that the thing that caught his attention was a white lotus, which couldn't help but make him extremely shocked.

Yi Xingchen said this result, and it was indeed deduced from the three-dimensional hexagram in his mind.

When he used words to suppress the Jinyi Wei officials, he was surprised to find that the three-dimensional big Zhuang hexagram in his mind had been decomposed into five hexagrams, namely the body hexagram Zhenmu hexagram, the use of the hexagram to dry the gold hexagram, the lower mutual hexagram to the gold hexagram, the upper mutual hexagram to the gold hexagram, and the change hexagram Kanshui hexagram. The three-dimensional hexagram flashes at the same time as the first and third hexagrams, and it is the mutual change of yin and yang, so he knows that the change of the hexagram should be a change in both lines.

This is inconsistent with the general plum blossom easy to count hexagram, because in the usual plum blossom easy to count hexagram, there is only one change in the hexagram, and there will be no two. But there were two changes in his head. He naturally had to follow this change, so after the first and third lines changed yin and yang, the change of hexagram became Kanshui hexagram.

This time, the hexagram did not flicker, except for the previous flickering of the first and third hexagrams. Since the other hexagrams did not flicker, and there was no hint of which hexagram he should analyze from which hexagram, he could only analyze from the whole hexagram synthesis.

His head was spinning rapidly, and the hexagrams, the lower hexagrams, and the upper hexagrams were all gold. Gold represents the blade. And this hexagram is the Zhenmu hexagram, Jin Kemu is the main murderer, this time it is miserable!

His back spine was cold for a while, but when his attention fell on the final hexagram, he couldn't help laughing, because the hexagram is Kanshui, and the aquatic wood is auspicious, so today's things, although there will be danger after it, but the result is auspicious, therefore, there is no danger.

Seeing this result, he was very sure in his heart, although the process would be very thrilling, but judging from the results, he would definitely be able to turn evil into good fortune and be auspicious, and his heart was settled, and a smile appeared on his face, so he told the Jinyi guard official that he could help him find the murderer through fortune telling. (My novel "Ming Dynasty Hexagram Master" will have more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, and there will also be a 100% lottery gift for everyone!) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner to "add friends", search for the official account "qdread" and follow, hurry up! )