"Good luck." Li Tao whispered, and Fang Cai's lazy attitude was already like two people.

Li Bai was also very excited and said, "What should I do?" ”

Li Tao waved his hand and waited to see what happened.

After a few moments, the figure was already in the tower.

A little later, a faint light came through the top of the tower, and it seemed as if someone had lit a candle there. The dim light flickered in the tower, flickering left and right, as if the man was looking for something, and occasionally a clear figure could be seen.

Suddenly, the figure flickered, and the candlelight went out.

"Not good!" Li Tao blurted out, and the person immediately rushed out of the hiding place.

Pei Yue and Li Bai followed closely, the door of the tower was really open, Li Tao rushed straight in, ran all the way to the top floor, and when he reached the staircase, he burned the ignition wood in his hand, and then saw a terrifying scene in front of him: in the corner of the top of the tower, there was a gray-robed monk lying with blood flowing from his head, it was the monk Yuanjue. A piece of candle fell out and fell at his feet.

Almost at the same time, a noise was heard outside the tower. Looking down from the window, more than a dozen monks rushed over with Zen sticks, brooms and other objects, and in the chaos, they only heard people shouting "there are thieves".

"Oops!" Li Bai couldn't help but complain.

Looking at Li Tao again, he didn't hear it, his eyes were shining, he walked up to the corpse, broke his palm, and held something he didn't know what it was.

"County King, let's run!" Li Bai paused and sweated profusely.

In fact, if he really wanted to fight, Li Bai was not afraid of these monks, but Li Tao didn't know martial arts, and at this moment he was killed by this monk. Once caught, it's hard to argue.

"Uncle Yue, this person is handed over to you. Take him to Hua Lang Zhong and be sure to revive him! ”

"I see, little master!"

Pei Yue took out a rope from his arms and tied it, threw it out of the tower, picked up Yuan Jue and disappeared outside the tower along the rope.

"King Jun, let's go too!" Li Bai urged.

"It's too late."

"What?"

Without answering his words, Li Tao suddenly stretched out the firewood in his hand and shook it outside the window, and shouted coldly: "Someone! Come on! The thief has killed! ”

Li Bai couldn't help but be distracted. Before he had time to make a sound, Li Tao had already "exhaled" to blow out the open flame in his hand and pulled Li Bai. Run down the tower and hide behind the tower gate on the first floor.

Outside, the monks saw a fire coming from the top of the tower, and heard people shouting that someone had been killed, and they were in a panic. Most of them didn't have time to think about it, and went straight to the seventh floor. I heard a lot of footsteps in my ears. Cold sweat broke out on Li Bai's forehead. Fortunately, many people have habitual thinking, and their first reaction is to rush to the place where the accident occurred, but no one pays attention to the rest.

Quietly listening to the footsteps going up, Li Bai said in a low voice: "Don't go quickly!" ”

Immediately afterwards, he pushed Li Bai out.

Caught off guard, he almost hit someone's nose. When I looked closely, that person was the monk Purun.

"No wonder everyone doesn't want to be a monk." Li Tao, who occupied the only meditation bed in the room, but was still talking cool words, complained. "I had to meditate in this place, and I couldn't even sleep well. Cultivation is really hard work. ”

Li Tao and Li Bai are in the Purun room at the moment, and they are finally out of danger temporarily.

Seeing that Li Bai was still a little apprehensive, Li Tao smiled and said, "Don't worry, as long as you don't get caught, you will be fine if you leave the scene." Wait until tomorrow morning when the pilgrims enter the incense and slip through the crowd. ”

The door knocked softly, revealing Purun's bald head, "Amitabha." ”

"Well, it came just in time. How's it going to be on the outside? ”

Pu Runmu walked in without squinting: "The deacon is in the abbot's meeting, and the rest of the monks have returned to the monk's room." Yuan Jue is missing, and there are several people guarding the tower, and he will report to the official tomorrow. ”

In just a few words, the explanation was extremely clear, Li Bai didn't realize that this monk looked at him differently again, got up and shook his chest, and said solemnly: "Thank you Master for hiding it for the two of us." ”

"Amitabha, sins and sins." Unexpectedly, the monk immediately covered his ears with his hands, and his face also showed a look of distress, "The poor monk has never spoken, but no one asked, so he naturally abides by the precept of lying and will not say much, but he has never concealed it." The benefactor said that the Buddha was to blame. ”

There are words in his mouth, his palms are folded, and he bows to the west, and his demeanor is extremely pious. Li Bai was dumbfounded when he heard this.

"That's right." Jumping up from the meditation bed, Li Tao said, "If no one asks, don't say it, it's not a deliberate 'concealment'." I said, Purun, where is the pure cultivation master's stoppage, you should have said it, right? ”

"In the back mountain, in the auspicious house."

Under the cover of night, the two were led down to the back mountain in Purun, where the monks in the temple rested after their deaths.

Jing Xiu's body had been placed in the niche, because it was not sitting normally, and his legs were crossed later, which looked quite unnatural. The blood stains on the skull have been wiped clean, and the clothes, shoes and socks have been replaced with brand new, and there is no trace to be found all the way.

"Where is his garment?"

"It's been burned first."

Li Tao sighed, a look of disappointment on his face. Suddenly remembering something, he pulled the corpse's hands apart, and looked at it carefully, and his eyes suddenly shone brightly. It was an abrasion, from the bone joint of the left wrist to the palm of the palm, especially on the white skin of the household. The deceased's hands were naturally bent and clenched, and the scrubbing of the body did not straighten his hands, leaving stains and blood stains there.

"Moss."

"What?"

Li Tao pointed to the blue and black stains around the wound and said, "This is a trace of moss." ”

"Oh......"

Seeing Li Bai's confused face, Li Tao said, "Didn't you notice?" The tower of Tianci Temple is built on the hillside, the terrain is originally dry, the tower is rebuilt later, the ground is paved with square bricks, the monks clean every day, and there is no moss to grow. ”

Li Bai recalled what he saw at the time, and it was indeed the case: "What does this mean? ”

"I have said that the place where the murder occurred must be very close to the pagoda of the Temple of Mercy and Grace, and now that I know that there is a high probability that moss will grow there, then the place where the murder was killed ......"

Without waiting for Li Bai to finish speaking, the captain's eyes lit up, and he suddenly realized, and said, "On the mountain!" ”

……

The morning light peeks out from the gaps between the trees, dappling the mountains and forests. The air is moist, as if you can smell the cool smell of dew. The birdsong is so graceful and enjoyable that even the bell of the morning class cannot disturb their rhythm. A stream of water flows down from the mountain, making a gurgling sound, until it flows into a long pipe made of bamboo tubes, and is transported to the bottom of the mountain, which is the source of water in the temple.

Li Bai wandered through the forest, sometimes leaning over the stones, sometimes looking up at the trees. The ground was covered with moss, greenery, and occasionally there were some messy footprints, which looked like they were left by monk's shoes, but there were no traces of blood or anything that would indicate a bad omen.

was about to turn his head to greet Li Tao, but he saw him leaning against the tree with his hands up, pursing his lips and whistling, and greeting a white-feathered thrush on the tree one by one, looking very leisurely. (To be continued......)