"The king of the county?"

"Huh?"

Li Bai leaned over hopefully: "What did you find?" ”

Li Tao shook his head and glanced at Li Bai lazily: "No." ”

Li Bai wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything.

Li Tao walked two steps along the stream and looked at the sink spliced with bamboo pipes.

"What's wrong?"

"Don't make a sound!"

Li Bai hurriedly closed his mouth and looked at the other party's gaze, only to see that the sink had been winding to the foot of the mountain, divided into two streams, one went around the Qianshan Temple, and the other led to the Tianci Temple Tower, thinking that it was designed for the convenience of getting water. The spring water flows through the bamboo tube with a crisp sound, and occasionally some splashes of water, showing a colorful refraction in the sunlight. There is nothing special about anything else, but Li Tao's eyes are shining.

"It turned out to be ......"

Before he finished speaking, he suddenly paused, and his eyes fell on the sink, where there was a black thing, scattered among the grass, which at first glance looked like a dead branch.

"Bun pin!" Looking at the thing in Li Tao's hand, Li Bai blurted out. That's right, it's a bun pin.

Li Tao quickly picked up the blades of grass covering the ground, and his movements were similar to those of two people. Beneath the deliberately piled up leaves, there is a newly dug floating soil, which seems to have only recently moved.

"Here, dig up here!"

Hearing this, Li Bai pulled out his sword and dug it with the sword sheath. The soil was so soft that after digging a few times, I saw an embroidered shoe, and the foot in the shoe was grayish and white.

"It's a woman!" Li Tao nodded, his expression solemn.

Li Bai continued to dig. After a short time, a female corpse appeared in front of the two. Face down, hair in a loose bun. There is a blue package next to him. Looking at it, it was a very young woman, and her originally unremarkable appearance became quite terrifying at the moment, with her godless eyes wide open and her tongue sticking out slightly. If there is a bruise mark between the throat, it should be strangulation.

"This ...... What's going on here?! ”

Li Tao opened the package, and it was just some clothes that he had to carry inside. There is no money or jewelry.

"Do you remember the middle-aged woman you met on the bridge that day?"

Li Bai's eyes flashed the scene of that day: "Yes, she said that her daughter eloped with someone......"

"Hmm. On the same day, the escaping woman pulled Xuanzang into the top cylinder. It was wrapped in such a blue cloth. ”

"You mean, she's the woman's daughter?"

"Look at this corpse, the time of death is about two or three days. The woman had said that she had found a rosary in her daughter's cupboard. Therefore, it is determined that the adulterer must be a monk. It is likely that the two who were cheating on each other used the Tianci Temple Tower as a tryst location. Sighing, Li Tao said: "It seems that the monk who abducted her and fled later regretted it, and was afraid that the matter would be revealed, so he killed her." ”

Li Bai clapped his hands indignantly: "Breaking the rules of the Qing Dynasty and taking people's lives, what Buddhist disciples, it's really better than pigs and dogs!" ”

"Don't be angry. This person is probably reaping the consequences now. ”

"You mean?"

Li Tao was just about to answer, but suddenly his eyes froze. Looking from afar, there is a step into the temple gate. He smiled: "Let's go, our reinforcements are coming!" ”

"Reinforcements?" Li Bai was stunned.

"It's Jingzhao Yin Chen Shi!"

"Huh? How did he come? Li Bai still didn't react.

"You haven't seen Uncle Yue today, have you?" Li Tao asked suddenly.

"Didn't you see ......it," Li Bai replied casually, suddenly understanding that it must be Pei Yue who went to rescue the soldiers.

Sure enough, as soon as the words fell, Pei Yue seemed to emerge from the ground, he just nodded to Li Tao and stopped talking.

……

"Amitabha, Chen Fuyin has not arrived far away, forgive your sins and forgive your sins." Zhike monk Yuan Hongcheng said in fear, in front of him, it was Chen Shi himself.

"You're welcome, I don't know if the abbot can be in the temple?"

"In, in, but ......"

"Huh?"

"This, in the temple last night...... Something's wrong......"

"What's the matter?"

"Uh...... Actually, it's actually ......"

"Actually, it's the abbot who is unwell." One person walked out of the back of the hall Shi Shiran and took the next word for the monk who knew the guest, the green shirt was scattered, and the smile was lovely, it was Li Tao.

Chen Shi pretended not to know, "Lantian King, why are you here?" ”

"If you have nothing to do, just come to the temple and stroll around." Li Tao quietly pushed Li Bai, who was stunned behind him, forward, "Since it is inconvenient for the abbot to meet guests, Chen Fuyin doesn't have to be strong." ”

"That's right." Chen Shi rolled his eyes: "Since I am fortunate to meet here, how about I accompany King Lantian to visit this temple?" ”

Li Tao bowed: "Fortunately, what a blessing." ”

Chen Shi, Li Tao and others walked out of the door.

Zhike was relieved and very grateful. In any case, the two murders in the holy land of Buddhism are extremely unfavorable for spreading the word. Especially in the face of a distinguished guest like Jing Zhaoyin, he is naturally reluctant to confide.

"Lantian King, what happened?" As soon as he walked out of the sight of the monk who knew the guest, Chen Shi asked directly.

"Yesterday, a monk was killed in the tower of the temple."

"What does a dead monk look like? How old is it? ”

"In his early thirties, his name is Yuan Jue, and he has been a monk in the temple since he was a child."

"Who killed him?"

"I don't know. When I arrived, he had been shot in the head. Murderer ......"

Speaking of this, Li Tao suddenly stopped, turned his head sideways, his lips opened slightly, and seemed to think of something.

"What happened to the murderer?"

"Follow me!" Li Tao said thoughtlessly and went straight to the temple tower.

Chen Shi, Li Bai, and Pei Yue didn't know what was going on, so they had to follow. As soon as they arrived at the back mountain, two monks had already blocked the way.

"Guests stay, the floating temple is under repair, please do not enter."

Li Tao glanced at the monk and said in a deep voice: "Although the temple is a place outside the square, the monks are not outsiders. Is it okay not to report a murder case to the police? ”

As soon as these words came out, the monk was suddenly discolored.

Chen Shi also rushed and shouted: "Official business is in the body, you must not stop it!" ”

When they walked over first, Li Tao and the others followed closely and walked all the way to the bottom of the tower.

It is still the wind that moves the bell, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, but there seems to be a hint of blood in the air, and there is a kind of indescribable danger.

"This is it." Turning his head, Li Tao asked Li Bai, "Do you remember, after Master Pure Cultivation was killed that day, what did Yuan Jue do?" ”

"He? By the way, he stayed here and didn't let us go up to the tower. ”

"Hmm. Not long after Jingxiu was killed, he was also poisoned. Both of them died in the same way, both of them were hit in the head by a heavy object, much like the same person. In this way, there are two possibilities: first, Yuan Jue was originally the target of the murderer, and second, Yuan Jue was killed for other reasons. Judging from Yuan Jue's reaction after Jing Xiu's death, he didn't seem to know that he would be the next victim, and the second possibility was even greater. Li Tao took out a peanut fruit from his sleeve, threw it up and caught it casually: "So, what did he do that day, or what did he do to let the murderer know that he had discovered the truth?" (To be continued......)