Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Murder Weapon Found
Jing Wan'er suddenly spoke: "If you don't take us there, we will directly ask to see Abbot Xuanlian." ”
Xuan Tai, who was about to leave, immediately paused and turned to stare at Jing Wan'er.
Jing Wan'er looked at him fearlessly.
Xuan Tai said coldly: "If it is really you who disturb Huigen's peace, Master will not forgive you." ”
It's just a hard mouth, Xuanlian personally promised them to move freely, and Xuantai didn't dare to disobey his master's orders. Jing Wan'er glanced at Pei Tan, and the two immediately got up and followed Xuantai.
The group hurried to the courtyard of the attic, and saw that the door was locked and held on top, and there was no trace of passivity.
Xuan Tai looked at the little monk behind him with a cold face, "Whose hand is the key?" ”
Jing Wan'er's brain tingled again, because when she came last night, the lock was vaguely open.
Seeing that these little monks looked even more strange, they lowered their heads: "Senior brother, you personally locked this door, and the key has been handed over to the master." ”
Xuantai's face couldn't be hung up, his door was locked, did he want to go to Master Xuanlian to get the key because of this?
Jing Wan'er's heart was beating, could it be again... Last night was dim and unknown, and she was dazzled?
The little monk who followed Xuantai subconsciously said: "Master's spirit has not been very good these days, and he has been resting in the abbot's room. ”
Xuantai looked at the monks: "I smashed the door lock, I want to see what is inside." ”
The monks looked at each other, and even Pei Tan said, "Master Xuantai, isn't this okay?" ”
Jing Wan'er glanced at it, still thinking about last night's incident, but she didn't expect this Xuantai to be so savage.
Seeing that no one dared to step forward, Xuantai snorted from his nose, his eyes swept over the door lock, and suddenly he drank softly, and he grabbed the rectangular lock with his hand and pulled it hard, and the lock fell in response. was really savagely dragged away by him.
Before the rest of the people had time to be shocked, Hyun Tai immediately pushed open the door and stepped in.
Jing Wan'er and Pei Tan also paused, and followed closely.
It was still as empty as before, and nothing unusual was noticed, except for a staircase that led straight to the attic on the third floor
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Hyun Tae looked at the attic.
The little monk's voice trembled a little: "Senior brother, it's just, right here." ”
Where to discover the ghost of Hyegen?
Hyun Tai gave them a cold look, "Come with me upstairs and have a look." ”
Not surprisingly, the door lock upstairs was also locked, Xuantai raised his hand and shook it, and the lock was quite strong.
When they got here, they all chose to bow their heads, the two doors were locked so strongly, there was no trace of being pried open, of course it was impossible for mortals to enter, only ghosts remained, right?
The little monk explained in a trembling voice: "Since the events of the day before yesterday, in order to ensure that no one breaks in again, all the attics have been changed with new locks, and the keys are only kept by the master. "After reading this, I can understand why the Warrior Monk Hall only sends one monk to stay here, because it is impossible for someone to sneak in under this situation.
Jing Wan'er was just wondering if Xuantai should even smash the door open, but as soon as he grasped the lock, he suddenly twisted the lock from the middle like a spring.
Jing Wan'er took a breath. If you twist your neck, it's so neat.
Hyun Tae stared at the door, then reached out and pushed it open.
Obviously said that he would no longer disturb Huigen's soul rest, but the things in the world are really slapping his face everywhere.
The familiar furnishings were once again revealed in front of Jing Wan'er and Pei Tan's eyes. The difference is that on the bed directly opposite, there is no corpse of the first horror, but dark red blood stains can be seen on the bed.
Nothing had been touched in the room, and it was all in place.
"If there's really someone here, then he can't get out at all." Hyun Tae said coldly.
The room had windows, but it was welded to the ground. Even in this room, there is a trace of sweetness and blood left by the lack of air circulation.
"But when I found out that Hye-geun was dead, the door was locked like the window. It shows that the murderer who killed Huigen still escaped from here. "Jing
Wan'er didn't want to dismantle the stage, but it was obviously this so-called secret room, which was not so thorough.
Hyun Tai grimaced, looked at the windowsill, and walked over slowly.
"Was it here yesterday?"
The little monk immediately said with a trembling: "Yes, yes." ”
Xuantai turned around from the window for a moment and stared at the little monk: "What time did you see it yesterday?" ”
The little monk immediately said: "Ugly, ugly." ”
After Xuan Tai paused, he suddenly squinted at him: "Remember so clearly? ”
When you don't see well at night and are flustered and scared, can you keep your consciousness awake?
But the little monk nodded like pounding garlic: "Because, because the bell in the temple rang at that time." ”
This is like the watchman on Chang'an Street, every time Qinglong Temple is on time, there will be a monk who keeps vigil to ring the bell, and when the bell strikes five times, it means that it is time to get up and practice.
Xuantai didn't say anything more at this time.
Pei Tan felt that his sleeve was being pulled, and when he looked down, Jing Wan'er's eyes were gloomy.
Pei Tan walked to the other side of the bed, where there was a small incense table, on which was placed an incense burner, as well as Buddhist beads and wooden fish. This should be when Li Xiuqi used it to practice, especially when he still put the holy fruit on offering.
Pei Tan stretched out his hand and wiped the incense case.
Then he looked at his fingertips.
Jing Wan'er bit her lip at this time, her face was a little pale.
Pei Tan put the hand just now into his sleeve and continued to surround the room.
They are all entangled in whether there are ghosts, but what Pei Tan and Jing Wan'er want to find is evidence. The little monk said that she heard the bell ringing when she was ugly, but at that time, Jing Wan'er had already returned to the courtyard, and when she lay down and was about to fall asleep, she vaguely heard such a bell ringing.
So the so-called ghost is definitely not Jing Wan'er. Even after Jing Wan'er had already left, it appeared.
"Master has already performed a transcendent ceremony for Senior Brother Huigen, and Senior Brother is still here, he must be deeply wronged."
Even Xuantai was a little unstable: "Today is the third day of purification, and after noon, Huigen will be cremated and buried under the pagoda on the mountain behind my temple." ”
Qinglong Temple is built in the place of Lingxiu, and the pagoda is the gas of heaven and earth, after all, the news that the temple is haunted has no benefit at all. is about to suppress the soul of Huigen so soon, it seems that these monks don't have much friendship in their hearts.
Jing Wan'er looked at them: "But as soon as the body is destroyed, you will never find the murderer again." ”
A monk immediately said, "If you let Senior Brother Huigen's soul haunt here, it will go against the reputation of our temple." ”
In terms of self-preservation, Jing Wan'er actually lost to this group of monks.
Pei Tan said quietly: "It's not clear whether it is a ghost now, so it is too arbitrary to be so hasty." ”
This Xuantai seems to be impatient every time, even though he is a warrior monk and a monk, how can he be so uncalm.
Xuantai looked at Pei Tan: "The time of the three-day cleansing ceremony was set by the master himself, if you don't bury after the ceremony, you will let Huigen linger in this world forever and not enter reincarnation." ”
Ordinary people don't dare to put their bodies in the wilderness at will, let alone a monk who has practiced.
Xuantai coldly looked at the monks who followed: "You all stay behind to guard and wait for Huigen's ceremony to end." ”
Pei Tan didn't say anything more, Jing Wan'er's expression at this time was obviously unwilling to stay longer, and they followed Xuantai out of the place of right and wrong.
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If there is only one monk lying from beginning to end, he will always show flaws. But she deliberately divided it for a few days, and none of these monks who were randomly tested fell into her trap. There are hundreds of monks in the entire Qinglong Temple, these people have different identities and responsibilities, Jing Wan'er felt shuddered, could it be that the entire Qinglong Temple is telling a big lie?
There was a sound of footsteps behind her, which made Jing Wan'er turn around suddenly!
Her terrifying gaze was just colliding with Pei Tan.
Pei Tan paused.
He stared at the girl's pale face, as if he had been frightened since yesterday, "What's wrong with you?" ”
The surprise on Jing Wan'er's face seemed to have retreated slightly, but she didn't know what to say.
Pei Tan looked at her, since she came to Qinglong Temple, Jing Wan'er was more prone to mood swings than usual, and what touched her just now.
"What did you find in that yard last night?" Pei Tan asked.
If Pei Tan had asked this sentence before returning to the attic just now, Jing Wan'er would naturally have replied that she hadn't found anything, and she hadn't even been able to enter that room last night, so she was blocked.
But now, Jing Wan'er only felt that she was being grabbed by a strange feeling.
"Yesterday I was outside the attic and met a monk, so far away that I could only see his clothes." Because the clothes are monk's robes, I have a preconceived idea that I am a monk.
In other words, who is the person wearing a monk's robe in Qinglong Temple, who is not a monk?
Pei Tan stared at Jing Wan'er's appearance and couldn't help frowning..."What's wrong?" ”
"My lord, the murder weapon has always been in front of us." Jing Wan'er finally said this.
She believed that Pei Tan also knew, and Pei Tan had obviously understood her hint just now.
When they saw the attic again, the small incense table placed on the other side of the bed, and saw the things on it, they finally understood what it meant that they were blinded by the so-called leaf.
The injury on the back of Huigen's head was hit by something as hard as a stone, and in the temple, even a piece of rubble was cleaned clean, something that could kill people, and even completely unnoticed, deceived the eyes of Jing Wan'er and Dali Siqing.
"It's a wooden fish." Jing Wan'er said word by word.
The wooden fish used by the monks, chanting and tapping every day, the most ordinary things in the temple, are so ordinary and can be seen everywhere that no one will take a second look.
Pei Tan looked at the girl's expression, "I just saw the incense case, the wooden fish, not placed in the original place." The wooden fish shifted his position, because he saw that there was a very clean place on the incense table, and it was the outline of a wooden fish.
Before the wooden fish was placed, it was there, and it was there for a long time.
"Do you remember what Huigen's body looked like on the incense case on the day you found it?" Jing Wan'er suddenly asked.
Pei Tan understood what she meant, and said with a faint look in his eyes: "The placement of the wooden fish that day was not unusual. ”
… So where there are ghosts and gods, they are clearly man-made.