"He Wendong, do you know the person under the Dharma Hall of Bao'en Temple?" Meng Yan asked

"I know, he is my cousin, his name is He Wenhai!"

"Your cousin?"

"Yes, in fact, he is my younger brother, but he was passed on to my uncle since he was a child, so the two of us look alike, but I don't know how they found him......"

"Mark Liu Hongsheng and see the patrol envoy Master Meng!"

"Liu Xiaoqi, please get up, tell the official about your journey to Hejian Mansion carefully!" Meng Yan commanded.

"Oh, Master Meng!" Liu Hongsheng nodded and said, "It was the night of the twenty-sixth day of the lunar month, and Zhu Chun and I suddenly received an order that the judge personally assigned a secret task for the two of us to complete......"

"You don't know that He Wendong is related to Bai Suxin's case, right?"

"I didn't know it beforehand!"

"And what do you know?"

"We arrived at Hejian Mansion, and after connecting with the local Jinyiwei brothers, we asked them for help, and soon found He Wendong, and the judge had an explanation, this time it was not an arrest, so we asked He Wendong out, told him our identity, and asked him to go back to Beijing with us!" Liu Hongsheng said, "Maybe he sensed the purpose of our coming, and he didn't refuse, but said to go back and explain it to his family, and then go with us!" ”

"He Wendong went back to explain to his family, and then set off with us to return to Beijing, and we were present in all the process."

"And how did the news leak?" Zhou Wencai was very strange.

"He Wendong, you are honest. It's better to wait for the official to find out, and if you say it again, it will be too late! ”

"I said, I said, my lord, when I go home, I secretly let my Hun family go to the Yiyang Inn in Hejian Mansion, where is a wharf in Dongchang, this is what Jiao Hong told me, if there is an emergency. You can go there and find someone with the surname Ma......"

"Yiyang Inn!" Zhou Wencai was slightly startled. This is obviously a stronghold of the East Factory that Jinyiwei did not grasp.

"Master Meng, I'll report to Master Sai right away!"

"Old Zhou, it's late, they won't wait for us to find them. This Yiyang Inn should have been empty for a long time! Meng Yan stopped Zhou Wencai and said.

"Hey......"

"The problem is not on our side. I didn't expect you to be quite clever. But you don't know that they didn't intend to save you at all, but wanted to use your cousin to disguise your identity and then deceive us. As long as He Wenhai gets our trust, one of your lives will be gone, and even your family will be wiped out! ”

When He Wendong heard this, he was immediately frightened.

"Don't worry, now that you are in the hands of this official, they will not dare to do anything to your family, otherwise there will be no three hundred taels of silver here." Meng Yan Road.

"As long as you obediently cooperate with the official and tell what you know, the official will intercede with the Holy Lord for you at that time."

"Yes, the grass people must cooperate and tell everything they know!" He Wendong nodded busily.

"Tianxing, I'll leave it to you, protect this He Wendong for me, I want him to enter the patrol envoy's yamen intact!"

"Son, you can rest assured!" Lin Tianxing patted his chest and agreed.

"Then we should go back too!" Meng Yan waved his hand and ordered to return.

"Lord Meng, Lord Meng......"

"Mr. Fuji Qian, is there something wrong?" Meng Yan grabbed the reins, looked back, and asked Fujiyi, who was sweating profusely after him.

"Lord Meng, you gave one to the lower officials yesterday, what ......?"

"Oh, I almost forgot, Mr. Fuji Qian, in fact, it is not a poison, it is an aconite qi regulating pill, I see that your tongue is dark red, and your stomach is not good, this pill can cure your disease, for the sake of your being obedient last night, this official will not charge you for medicine!" Meng Yan laughed.

When Fuji Yi heard this, he was as stunned as a wooden chicken!

"Lord Meng, it's really not poison?"

"Of course not, to poison an official of the imperial court, that is not a small crime, blame that Fujiyi is too afraid of death!" Meng Yan said with a smile.

"Also, even I scared you!" Zhou Wencai said with a smile.

Bao'en Temple, after a day of cleaning, the loss is basically counted out, the Daxiong Treasure Hall was burned into a ruin, fortunately there was no wind last night, the fire area is not large, otherwise, the wind borrows the fire, a fire is not just the Daxiong Temple, but the entire Bao'en Temple.

"Your Excellency, you're back!" Tang Xiao ran out of the mountain gate and greeted him.

"Well, how is the screening of the monks in the temple?" Meng Yan turned over and dismounted, walked over and asked.

Tang Xiao's face was embarrassed, and he didn't know what he wanted to say.

"What's going on,?" Meng Yan frowned, and reprimanded him very unhappily.

Let go of Na Richi, he has always felt uncomfortable.

"I've committed suicide!"

"Suicide!" Meng Yan was shocked, this guy was really ruthless to himself.

"How did you commit suicide?"

"Taking poison, it's arsenic, and his two disciples, the two who were in the Fa Hall the night before yesterday, also died together, both of them were taking poison!" Don laughed.

"Where did the poison come from?" Meng Yan frowned deeply, the small Bao'en Temple, this water is really unfathomable.

"It may have been hidden in advance, none of us thought of this!"

Meng Yan expressed his understanding, this is Bao'en Temple, not the patrol envoy Yamen, if this is according to the procedure, arrest people, detain people, they must change into prisoners' prison uniforms, and then they will be officially detained, before detention, there must be a procedure, that is, body search.

But this is in Bao'en Temple, and there are no prison uniforms to change, so the procedure of body search is ignored.

Of course, it is not excluded that someone secretly gave them poison.

"Has anyone come into contact with them during this time of detention?" As Meng Yan walked, he wanted Tang Xiao to understand the situation.

"Probably not, except for the one who brought them food."

"Is it our people or the monks in the temple who deliver the meal?"

"It's an old monk, but he didn't have any contact with the three of them, and the food was brought in by our people!"

"Where's the food?"

"Eat them all!"

"To be a prisoner, and to have such a good appetite?" Meng Yan was a little surprised.

"Let's go. Take me to see the corpse! ”

"Whoa!"

The corpses were parked in the underground chamber beneath the Dharma Hall, and the three bodies were placed side by side on the ground, covered with white gauze.

"Masks, my lord!" After Meng Yan took the mask and put on the gloves, he walked over, squatted down, and gently lifted the corner of the gauze.

But when he saw that, his eyes were bulging, his lips were cracked, his ears were swollen, and his belly was swollen. The nails of the ten fingers are blue-black.

This is indeed a symptom of death from arsenic poisoning.

"Fetch the silver needle!"

A silver needle was handed over. Meng Yan stabbed directly into Yin's abdomen, and after a while, he pulled it out.

The tip of the needle is blue-black, scrub with soap water. Does not fade. It can be preliminarily judged to be poisoning.

The two corpses of Faben and Fawu are in the same way. The signs of poisoning are the same, and it can be judged that the same is the death of the poison from arsenic.

"My lord, Master Abbot, please!"

"Hmm. I'll be here soon! ”

In the abbot's room, the abbot seemed to be ten years old all of a sudden, and there were more wrinkles on his forehead.

This fire not only burned down the Bao'en Temple, but also burned his spirit.

"Master Abbot!" Although Meng Yan is not very interested in Buddhism, the other party is also an elder, and he should respect the elders.

"Master Meng, the old man is ashamed!"

"Master, don't say that, you are also deceived by the cause." Meng Yan was relieved.

"Lord Meng, don't comfort the old man, Bao'en Temple suffered this disaster, the old man can't escape the blame, this position of abbot is no longer shameless." A side of the road.

Meng Yan was silent, Bao'en Temple was robbed by fire, and the abbot of the party is indeed responsible, if it weren't for the fact that you don't know people and use people improperly, how could there be today's disaster?

That reason is not the monk you single-handedly promoted, if the cause is not in the position of the guest, how can you lure the wolf into the room so lightly?

"Today, Lao Wei wants to ask Master Meng to be a witness, and Lao Gao will pass on the position of the abbot to Fa Yan."

"Amitabha, Fayan, you come in."

"Master, how can disciple He De be able to assume the position of abbot?" I thought that the middle-aged monk knelt in front of a square man.

"Idiot, you have committed a sin for your teacher, you have no face to see the Buddha, and the temple of Bao'en has been passed on to you, but don't be like a teacher, make a good temple like it is now!"

"Disciple obeys Master's decree!"

"This is the purple gold robe and the abbot Dumu, from today onwards, you will be the host of the Bao'en Temple!"

The abbot took out the inheritance token and handed it to Fa Yandao.

"Master!"

"The limit for the teacher is up, and I can't participate in your inauguration ceremony, but fortunately, Master Meng has testified, and the teacher can go with peace of mind!"

"Amitabha!"

"Master!" Fa Yan cried bitterly, a generation of monks, Bao'en Temple presided over a sitting like this.

It was the first time for Meng Yan to see a monk sit down, and he knew that if there was no fire, the host would not feel guilty and sharply consume his vitality to sit down.

But this time he went, it could be regarded as a relief.

Fa Yan became the host of Bao'en Temple and took over Bao'en Temple under the witness of Meng Yan, but this still needs the approval of the imperial court, and then there is the inauguration ceremony, which is all a matter of the future.

The matter of Bao'en Temple is almost over, and there is no need for Meng Yan to stay, there are still a bunch of things waiting for him to go back and deal with in the capital!

After cleaning up a little, Meng Yan led people back to Beijing, and everything that could be taken away from the bones of the sacrificed Jinyi Wei was loaded in a cart and brought back.

Those who were injured, those who could be taken away as much as possible, and those who could not be taken away should stay in Bao'en Temple to recuperate, and Meng Yan Ming left a sum of money for Bao'en Temple to pay for the medical expenses of the wounded.

"Mr. Cai, you can deal with the materials of the Red Camel Team that day, and distribute all of them to the sacrificed Jinyi Wei family as an additional pension!"

"Son, is your love not high?"

"Some things, the clue is broken, there is a mysterious big hand behind it, and we can only be its pawns, fate is at its mercy, Mr. Cai, you call me, how to catch this very mysterious big hand, jump out of this chessboard, and be a chess player, not a chess piece!" Meng Yan had been depressed for a long time, and this question had been hovering in his mind for a long time.

"Son, if you want to be a chess player, you have to have the strength of a chess player, if you don't have the strength, you can only be a chess piece first, is the pawn who crosses the river still a pawn?" Cai Jin smiled slightly.

"Strength, pawn?"

"Son, if you want to become powerful, the strength of one person is not enough!"

"Does Mr. Cai want me to make friends?"

"Making friends is only one of them, the most important thing is to have available people, as the saying goes, the sedan chair carries people, everyone collects firewood and the flame is high, and it is difficult for one person to support alone!"

"Mr. Cai, Meng has been taught!" If it weren't for the carriage, Meng Yan would definitely stand up and bow to Cai Jin to the end.

"Actually, Gongzi also understands this truth and has been doing it, but he doesn't have a clear direction!" A flash of brilliance flashed in Cai Jin's eyes.

Meng Yan nodded, and he began to think about what kind of path he was going to take. (To be continued......)