There was red blood dripping from the chopsticks, and Pei Tan turned his wrist to look at this thing from different angles.

At this time, Jing Wan'er found that the end of the chopsticks touching the "bead" began to slowly turn black. She exclaimed, "My lord! ”

Pei Tan saw it quickly, and saw Pei Guard's sudden step over, "Son, be careful!" ”

Pei Tan let go of the chopsticks, and the thing fell on the table with the chopsticks.

"Your hand, my lord?" Jing Wan'er looked at the past in shock.

Just look at Pei Tan opening his palm, he was holding chopsticks with his right hand just now, and at the moment his palm was clean and clean, and there was no sign of poison.

Jing Wan'er and the others were relieved, and they still looked at the "thing" with palpitations, this thing was so poisonous, which was beyond their expectations.

"Should Master Xuanlian be notified?"

Jing Wan'er looked at Pei Tan again, finding such a highly toxic substance from his apprentice's throat, I was afraid that the entire Qinglong Temple would be shocked.

Moreover, now that this poison has been discovered, how can the heavy blow to the back of Huigen's head make people understand it in an instant?

Pei Tan didn't speak for a while, and if he changed anyone, he couldn't make any decision immediately at the moment.

Jing Wan'er said to herself, "How can there be such a thing? ”

Pei Tan looked at the table: "We have to know first, what is this." ”

Everyone in the room was silent, this substance was probably more toxic than arsenic, and its rarity was unexpected.

Everyone was thinking about the possibility, and Guard Pei said in a deep voice at this time: "If we talk about this matter, our suspicion will only be greater." ”

When he said this, Jing Wan'er and Pei Tan were stunned, but then their expressions changed.

The reason is that this is Qinglong Temple, and every object in the temple cannot be related to poison.

The only possibility is a foreign poison.

Outsiders... It's still just them.

Pei Tan said slowly: "The prince came to the temple half a month ago, and he will be completely purified before the retreat, so the suspicion of the prince can be ruled out."

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That is the three of them in the house at this moment, and the ten servants brought by Dali Temple outside.

Is this the more you check, the more you find out to your own head?

Jing Wan'er felt a cold gaze staring coldly at her face.

She looked up and met Pei Guard's gaze, and there was no trust in his gaze.

Jing Wan'er's lips moved: "You doubt me? ”

Pei Guard said a little coldly: "I only know that among all the people in Dali Temple, only you are not from Dali Temple." ”

Jing Wan'er was blocked and speechless, she was indeed not a person from Dali Temple, especially before she came, the ten officials were personally selected by Pei Tan, so she can be regarded as a cronie.

Pei Tan said: "Don't be suspicious until you have evidence. ”

Jing Wan'er didn't squeak, she knew that it was normal for her to be suspected, as long as something happened, it was probably her fault.

The voice of a monk at the door interrupted the silence in the room, "Pei Siqing, one of your subordinates asks to see you." ”

Men? It is the official of Dali Temple who lives in the front yard at the moment.

Pei Tan said, "Let him in." ”

Soon, a servant pushed the door in, and hurriedly saluted Pei Tan: "My lord." ”

"What's wrong?" Pei Tan asked.

The official lowered his head: "Lord Hui, His Royal Highness King Changle is unwilling to return to Beijing with me." ”

Pei Tan looked at him, and he had ordered the officials to pack up and escort Li Xiuqi back in accordance with the previous intentions.

After a while, Pei Tan said to the officer: "Got it." Since the prince is unwilling to go back, you should settle in the front yard first. ”

And the servant withdrew. Jing Wan'er saw that there was no surprise on Pei Tan's face, and couldn't help but say, "Did the adults expect it a long time ago?" ”

Pei Tan offered to let ten officials escort Li Xiuqi, but he didn't know that at that time, it was not to retreat as advance. And now, sure enough, Li Xiuqi doesn't want to go like this now.

Pei Tan said for a while: "King Changle, the royal family, and the Li Tang royal family are not deeply involved, just because they are basically not involved in court politics.

That's why he is known as the idle prince. "But among the people, the name of His Royal Highness King Teng has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Prince Jie of the early Tang Dynasty, Lu Zhaolin of the palace pawn, and Luo Binwang, the genius of the imperial capital! They were all guests of King Teng's mansion.

Yuzhang Ancient County, Hongdu New Mansion, full of friends, thousands of miles to welcome.

Pei Tan's words may be understood to mean that the royal family, who is known as the Tang Dynasty, is unwilling to bear the charge of murder suspects.

"If this matter has nothing to do with King Changle," Jing Wan'er's eyes moved slightly, "My lord must return the prince's innocence." ”

Because of the friendship with talented and famous people, King Teng's lineage has long been different from the current royal family, because now Daming Palace is so cold and high.

Jing Wan'er was silent for a moment, but still chose to look at Pei Tan: "My lord, can Wan'er say a few words to you alone?" ”

Jing Wan'er may not trust everyone here, or she has her concerns.

Pei Tan didn't reply to Jing Wan'er immediately, standing next to him was the most trusted guard, even if he avoided him, he shouldn't be shunned.

He looked at the girl: "What did you think of?" ”

Jing Wan'er had no choice but to say: "Wan'er just thought of it, maybe we are not the only outsiders." ”

Pei Tan's expression moved, and after a while, he signaled to Pei Guard, and Pei Guard glanced at Jing Wan'er coldly, turned around and walked out of the door.

"What the hell does that mean?" Pei Tan spoke.

There was a slight flickering light in Jing Wan'er's eyes: "In addition to the servants brought by the adults, the outsiders should naturally also include the one in the carriage... Isn't that right? ”

Pei Tan's expression moved.

He looked at Jing Wan'er: "I know what you want to say, but that one is impossible." ”

Jing Wan'er asked rhetorically: "Isn't it even more impossible to kill a young monk in the Protector God Temple?" ”

If they hadn't come to the Gokokushin Temple, hadn't witnessed a murder with their own eyes, and even Huigen's body had been examined in person. If any citizen of Datang knows about this matter, he will find it incredible.

"The monks of Qinglong Temple have already provided testimony that Huigen has been practicing with Xuanlian since he was a child, and his skills should be no less than that of any warrior monk."

But Huigen died a little easily, and when Jing Wan'er said these words word by word, she had already included all the unbelievable things.

Pei Tanliang said for a long time: "Do you know that the status of the Protector Temple is not inferior to any officialdom in the Tang Dynasty. His Majesty would not allow anyone to get involved in the temple, let alone the people he personally ordered to be sent to the temple. ”

When Dali Temple came into contact with the carriage, even the door outside the carriage was sealed, not to mention the identity of that person, it was impossible for her to bring anything out of the Daming Palace.

Jing Wan'er said slowly: "Wan'er is just talking about any possibility, even if you want to exclude outsiders, at least you shouldn't only focus on adults and Dali Temple." ”

Pei Tan didn't speak again, Jing Wan'er's words are indeed reasonable, so many seemingly unbelievable cases can't be speculated on with ordinary thinking.

A thought suddenly flashed in Jing Wan'er's mind, and her eyes flickered as she looked at the "beads" on the table: "Who said that you can't directly ask Abbot Xuanlian about the origin of this thing?" ”

Pei Tan was still a little familiar with Jing Wan'er's expression of suddenly thinking of something, "Ask Xuanlian directly, if you can't ask about the history, it may increase the risk in the shadows." ”

Jing Wan'er and Pei Tan looked at each other: "But except for me and adults, no one knows that this thing was taken out of Huigen's throat." "Especially those monks who were guarding outside the ice cellar, they must not have the time to check what was wrong with Huigen's corpse now, and they didn't see what Jing Wan'er and Pei Tan brought out of the ice cellar.

Jing Wan'er used her handkerchief again, twisted up the "thing", looked at Pei Tan and said, "We just need to take the thing and ask Xuanlian and ask him to tell him what it is, or whether it is something in Qinglong Temple, and everything will be clear." ”

People are most likely to have a mindset when they are thinking, and Jing Wan'er just rescued them from this stereotype.

Pei talked about his eyes, and he no longer had doubts.

But to see the abbot, it is not so easy to see at any time. When they asked the little monk, they were told that the abbot would probably retreat again after the purification ceremony.

And seriously, the abbot of the Protector Temple is really a bit old.

The previous abbot was in office for only five years, catching up with the turbulent years of the Tang Dynasty, and the queen of heaven came to the dynasty and died in the meditation room at the age of fifty. Now Xuanlian is more than sixty years old, even if she is a holy monk, she can't escape the limits of the world.

As Huigen, after Xuanlian passed away, he would have become the youngest abbot of Qinglong Temple since its establishment.

"If you go directly to the abbot, it's too solemn." Even if Jing Wan'er doesn't say the origin of things, it will inevitably give people the suspicion of being deliberate.

Pei Tan was thoughtful and cautious, and had to let Jing Wan'er think about it a little more.

If there is any benefit to being left in Qinglong Temple, it is that Jing Wan'er has a second chance to go to the Daxiong Treasure Hall.

The difference is that this time there is no warrior monk chasing her and shouting the demon girl, she came to the outside of the treasure hall and looked at the two monks: "The abbot has given permission, and the people of Dali Temple can walk around the inner courtyard at will for three days." ”

Although the two monks were still expressionless, they obviously didn't want to stop Jing Wan'er's movements.

Jing Wan'er swaggered in.

Sure enough, in the incense jar, there was no incense yet.

Jing Wan'er took a few steps and walked to the incense and candle case, and looked up at the dignified Shakyamuni Buddha.

"It is said that you are purifying all sentient beings, why can't the disciples in your temple protect you?"

Of course, the Buddha statue would not respond to Jing Wan'er, but she had already taken out a stick of incense from the cylinder next to her and lit it on the candlestick.

Closing her eyes, Jing Wan'er's mind went blank.

After standing silently for a moment, she opened her eyes and inserted the incense into the censer.

She looked at the empty hall again, and the sentence that Xuan Lian said was a nun dug up the memories she had once buried, even if she was on this pillar of incense, her heart was not at peace.

If she had really chosen to take refuge in Buddhism, I am afraid that the peace of mind in her heart would not have come as she thought.

Even if you are in Buddhism, your heart is full of red dust.