"Master Abbot, in order to find out the truth, this official wants to ask Master Abbot to authorize the investigation of all the monks in the temple?" Meng Yan pleaded.

"Well, the old man promised Master Meng that it is!" After thinking for a while, he nodded and agreed!

"Thank you, Master Abbot!"

"Master Meng Shi doesn't have to be polite, Lao Wei also wants to find out what the hell is going on with this qiē!" Said solemnly.

"Abbot, the fire has been extinguished, all the Daxiong Treasure Hall has been burned, part of the Tianwang Hall has been burned, and the other halls have suffered little loss, thanks to the officers and soldiers brought by Lord Meng to help put out the fire, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable!" The monk came to report.

"Master Meng, the old man thanks you for your great kindness for the whole temple!" The abbot walked down the futon and bowed deeply to Meng Yan.

"Master Abbot, please get up!"

"Come on, this official is going to open a court in this Bao'en Temple today to ask about the case, you go and arrange it quickly!" Meng Yan shouted.

"Whoa!"

"My lord, Patrol Lin is back!"

"Tianxing, how is it, have you caught it?" Meng Yan led people to help Sai Xiaoyu, went to Bao'en Temple all the way, and let Lin Tianxing lead him to chase him in the direction where Richi fled.

"After the strong man broke his arm and left a team of men and horses broken, we fought hard and finally wiped out all these people, but we lost the trace of that day!" Lin Tianxing appeared in front of Meng Yan with a bloody stain.

It was close to noon.

"Have you brought back all the corpses?"

"Brought back, a total of forty-seven, all bald!" Lin Tianxingdao.

"Okay, hard work. Take the brethren down to heal their wounds and rest! Meng Yan commanded.

"Yes, Childe!"

A fire, the huge Bao'en Temple was almost completely destroyed, but if you want to rebuild, I am afraid that it will be difficult.

Looking at the ruins of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, which was still emitting white smoke, the surviving monks gathered in a circle, clasped their palms together, and kept reciting the scriptures silently.

"Uncle Sai, how are your injuries?"

"It doesn't matter. It scratched a little bit of skin. Sai Xiaoyu said.

"Do you want your little nephew to help you deal with it?"

"No, I don't. This little injury, I will deal with it myself, how are you going to deal with the case of Bao'en Temple? Sai Xiaoyu said.

"Such a big thing, I'm afraid I can't hide it. But if you tell the truth. I'm afraid it won't end then. Meng Yan said.

"That's what you mean. Don't plan to report it truthfully? ”

"The report is to be reported, but what to do, how much truth to report. To grasp this degree well, the most important thing at the moment is that we must first figure out the truth of the matter! Meng Yan said.

"Yes, this matter does reveal a bit of weirdness, and it counts you and me, which is not something that ordinary people can do."

"Maybe people are just targeting me, Uncle Sai is just unintentionally inserting willows!"

"This sentence was said to me that day, but Uncle Sai, I don't believe it very much. Sai Xiaoyu said slowly.

"Then find out the truth!" Meng Yan gritted his teeth and said.

"Well, I'll leave it to you to find out the truth, uncle, I can't stay here for long, I'll leave Wencai to you, he is a master of tracking, maybe he can help you!" Sai Xiaoyu Road.

"Uncle Sai, you want to go back to Beijing?"

"Yes, I want to go back first, for such a big matter, I will report the situation to Master Guo in detail, and discuss what to do next." Sai Xiaoyu explained.

"I'll send someone to escort Uncle Sai back!" Meng Yan Road.

"No need, you don't have a lot of people here, this daylight, it should be fine!" Sai Xiaoyu Road.

"No, since someone is planning against us behind our backs, then we have to guard against it, I will let Tianxing go back with you, he has good martial arts."

"It's okay, then let that Lin boy go back with me!" Sai Xiaoyu thought for a moment and nodded.

"Tianxing, I'll give you a task to escort Lord Sai back to Beijing, and don't go on a business trip!" Meng Yan called Lin Tianxing and ordered strictly.

"Whoa!" Lin Tianxing agreed without hesitation.

There were only seven people left who followed Sai Xiaoyu, including Zhou Wencai, all of whom were injured and couldn't leave for the time being, so they stayed to recuperate.

Zhou Wencai injured his arm and his face was bruised, which was considered a minor injury among the seven people, at least he could still walk and speak, and stayed to become Meng Yan's assistant.

Meng Yan also wanted to know what happened to Sai Xiaoyu along the way after leaving the capital, as well as the whole process of entering Bao'en Temple.

Zhou Wencai has always been by Sai Xiaoyu's side, he is the one who knows the whole process, if this is Sai Xiaoyu's purpose for leaving him!

"Tang Xiao, did the Wolf Guards under Chi's men live that day?" Meng Yan finally focused all his energy on dealing with the aftermath of Bao'en Temple, and had figured out the truth of the whole matter.

"No, the wounded Wolf Guard were burned beyond recognition in the fire, and some were even unrecognizable, so ......"

"Alright, these people are just victims, you can find a place to bury them." Meng Yan commanded.

"Oh, sir!"

"My lord, that's the cause of waking up!"

"Well, I know, I will be informed, and I can be promoted." Meng Yan nodded, "Has Mr. Cai arrived?" ”

The Dharma Hall of Bao'en Temple was temporarily transformed into a public hall, Jinyiwei made a temporary cameo appearance, and a group of monks of Bao'en Temple became the targets of interrogation.

"Smack!"

"Ascension!"

"Mighty ......"

It is not the first time for Meng Yan to ask about the case in this hall, but this is the first time in this Buddhist Dharma Hall.

"Bringing people to commit a crime!"

The monk was escorted in by two brocade guards.

"Get on your knees!"

Li Yin glanced at Meng Yan, closed his eyes, and let Jin Yiwei scold, he didn't have any kneeling movements.

"Be bold, don't kneel yet!"

"Because he is a member of the Buddhist sect, he does not kneel to anyone except the Buddha." Cause said slowly.

"Bastard ......"

"Forget it, you guys go down!" Meng Yan ordered with a wave of his hand.

"Because of this, there are some problems with this officer. Can you explain this question? Meng Yan walked down from above and asked.

"Whatever Master Meng wants to ask, just ask." The cause of the way.

"Cause, when did you become a monk at Bao'en Temple?"

"The poor monk is the Bao'en Temple in the first year of Xuande!"

"So you've been at Bao'en Temple for twenty years?"

"Well, it's been twenty years!"

"Are you expensive this year?"

"The poor monk is thirty or six years old this Chinese New Year's Eve!"

"I remember it so clearly, how can a monk remember his age so clearly?" Meng Yan asked.

"What's wrong with a person remembering his age?"

"Yes, but you remember it too clearly, you were only sixteen years old twenty years ago, and this official wants to know, why did you leave home?"

"My family is poor. No way. I can't live anymore! ”

"Well, that's a reason." Meng Yan said, "But this official wants to know, when did you come from the palace?" ”

From the palace!

Meng Yan asked with this sentence. Everyone in the hall was stunned.

And the originally calm and composed, because of the instant, his face turned pale. The secret was obviously too heavy for him.

"Lord Meng. How do you know? Cause asked.

"It was the official who asked you first, and you answered the official's question first." Meng Yan said.

"Now that this secret has been discovered by you, Lord Meng, the poor monk will no longer hide it. When I was ten years old, there was a famine in my hometown, and my family wanted to sell me to a big family in the county, but I didn't want to be a slave to others, so I escaped and came to the capital, I was very young at the time, I didn't know anything, I heard people say that after purifying, you can enter the palace as a eunuch......"

"If you want to enter the palace to be a eunuch, it is not an easy thing, every year so many people want to enter the palace by themselves, how many may be able to enter the palace?"

"What Lord Meng said was right, but unfortunately I didn't know this truth at the time, so I stupidly bought a knife to cleanse my body, and then I told Lord Meng that I almost died because of my own purification, but in the end I still survived, but I missed the time to enter the palace......"

"This official wants to ask, in that case, you are a small child, and the probability of survival is very small, did someone help you?"

"Master Meng is really amazing, yes, there is indeed a kind person who helped me, otherwise I wouldn't have survived those days at all, and there would be no reason for today!"

"That person not only helped you, but did not help you enter the palace, but arranged for you to enter the Bao'en Temple to become a monk after you recovered your body, right?"

"It was my own idea to become a monk, and no one arranged it." Cause paused slightly, and then said slowly.

"Yes, you know that these officials can be found, and if you lie, the officials can debunk you at any time."

"Master Meng can go and check, the poor monk has never lied except for hiding the secret of his purification." The cause of the way.

"Okay, this official asks you, the freedom of movement of the other monks in the Bao'en Temple has been restricted, but you are the only one who has free access to the temple, why is this?" Meng Yan asked.

"The poor monk is a guest of Bao'en Temple, many pilgrims know, if the poor monk can't see the guest freely, it will inevitably be suspected by the outside world, so they will let me go in and out freely, but they send people to follow me all the time."

"When you meet a guest, is there anyone who follows you?"

"Yes."

"Who can prove it?"

"This ......"

"This question is also known to be difficult for you to answer, the next question, since they are going to escape, why did they set fire to the temple, it doesn't seem to do them any good?"

"The poor monk guessed that they were doing this to vent their anger, and second, they might want to use the firefighting to drag Lord Meng from chasing them."

"Yes, the analysis makes a lot of sense, but that Richi's retreat was not hasty, and they had time to take He Wendong with them, but why didn't they do it?" Meng Yan continued to ask.

"Maybe I forgot."

"How many people in the temple know about the dungeon under the Dharma Hall?" Meng Yan asked.

Yes, this dungeon has not been used for many years, even the monks in the temple don't know much, because it is indeed one of the insiders.

"Because of the junior brother, this seat did not tell you that the entrance to the dungeon is under the Dharma Hall, how do you know?" Fang asked in a deep voice.

"Back to the abbot master, the junior brother found a record about the dungeon in the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion." Cause explained.

"That's right."

"Has the Scripture Pavilion burned down?"

"No, the Scripture Pavilion is intact!"

"Hello, because of this, you sue the official that you found the record of the dungeon in what scripture book in the Zangjing Pavilion?"

"This, Master Meng, let me think about it?" The cause of the way.

After a while, he said: "In the third row on the second floor, in the fifth grid, there is a copy of "The Annual Examination of Bao'en Temple", and the poor monk can't remember it clearly on that page. ”

"Tang Xiao!"

"Your Excellency!"

"According to what Master Yin said, go to the "Hidden Scripture Pavilion" and get the book!"

"Whoa!"

After waiting for a cup of tea, Tang Xiaozhen took a copy of "The Annual Examination of Bao'en Temple", and after looking through the inspection, he found an introduction to the entrance to the dungeon under the Dharma Hall Dharma Seat.

The cause did not lie, of course, from another point of view, this cause did its homework and did not leak.

Intuition told Meng Yan that there was a problem with this cause, and there was a big problem.

But how could he find conclusive evidence to confirm his guesses and suspicions?

"It's been twenty years, and Master Liyin has never left Bao'en Temple?"

"As a monk who knows the guest, the poor monk has a lot of chores to deal with, and it is normal to go down the mountain."

"Master Meng, what are you suspicious of?" The abbot asked, "Because of what the senior brother did in the Bao'en Temple, the old man and the monks can see it. ”

"No, there are things that have to be figured out, and that's good for everyone, right?" Meng Yan smiled slightly.

"Lord Cao!"

"Master Meng, what are your orders?" Cao Wencai stepped forward and asked.

"The corpses of the two brocade guards?"

"Unrecognizable, the stab wounds all over the body are deliberate, although I haven't seen those two people, there should be no problem."

"No problem, why did they cut the faces of those two brothers?" Meng Yan asked.

"I don't know." After Cao Wencai saw the two corpses, he was also puzzled.

"Do any of our brothers know how to perform an autopsy?"

"There is a way, but I died in last night's battle......"

"It seems that I am the only one who has come." Meng Yan said.

"Master Meng also understands the autopsy?"

"A little bit!"

"Come on, bring the bodies of the two Jinyi Wei brothers over!" Meng Yan waved his hand and commanded.

"Mr. Cai, please fill in the corpse grid."

"Yes, Childe." Cai Jin walked over with the corpse and prepared to record.

"The clothes on the body were damaged, suspected to have been committed by a long knife, and there were one or two stab wounds to the chest...... There are nine in total, the fatal wound is the third rib on the left side of the chest, the knife is about three finger ...... deep, there are six wounds on the face, one on the forehead, two on the left cheek, one on the right cheek, one on the right cheek, and one finger of the wound, hey, the time of death of this corpse ......"

"My lord, what's wrong?"

Meng Yan unbuttoned his clothes, saw the corpse spots on the lower body of the corpse, stretched out his hand and pressed it, and his eyes suddenly sharpened.

The corpse spot had reached the infiltration stage, and it was obvious that this corpse had been dead for at least two days, and the two brocade guards had been dead for half a day. (To be continued......)