The next day, Xuanlian called Pei Tan over, "Huigen's body will be placed in the ice cellar in the temple for a three-day cleansing ceremony." ”

As soon as he finished saying this, Pei Tan, who was about to come to ask Master Xuanlian a question, immediately subconsciously stopped talking.

Jing Wan'er immediately looked at Xuan Lian.

After reciting the scriptures all night, Xuan Lian Hao's white face looked even more dry, but he closed his palms to Pei Tan, "If Siqing wants to go and see Huigen, you can go by yourself." ”

They didn't understand what this ritual was, but at least they understood that Huigen would not be buried in the earth now, and even the ice cellar itself had the effect of keeping the corpse intact.

Master Xuanlian explained and left in a hurry, followed by the monks, who seemed to be those monks who had been overtaken last night.

Jing Wan'er looked at Pei Tan: "My lord, what are we doing?" ”

Pei Tan looked at a man and a woman beside him.

In the ice cellar, Pei's guards guarded the door as usual, and Jing Wan'er followed Pei Tan to this ice room.

The ice in Qinglong Temple was transported directly from the palace, and seeing the pale world inside, it was really as if I had arrived in another dust-free space.

Huigen's body was lying on a hospital bed, Jing Wan'er thought that she would get better after a night, but when she touched Huigen's cheek again, her chest was still squeezed.

This man is really dead.

Jing Wan'er's palm squeezed.

Jing Wan'er stood straight beside Pei Tan, Pei Tan didn't notice Jing Wan'er's abnormality, his mind had been attracted by Huigen.

He lifted the white cloth of the corpse, and Huigen's skin was already blue, because he was extremely white, better than a woman, and the color of the skin after being eroded at this moment was particularly strange.

Jing Wan'er inexplicably felt a chill rush up her spine, and her eyes couldn't take her eyes off the corpse's cold and indifferent expression.

But after looking at Pei Tan, after examining the corpse's face, he continued to pull the white cloth down to the corpse's feet.

Jing Wan'er couldn't help but say: "My lord, there are no other external injuries on the corpse, the injury on the back of the head is bone, and the cause of death seems to be a little too obvious." "Cases with too obvious clues are not necessarily bad, but for this case, somehow it is unconvincing.

Maybe it's because the place where it happened was the Protector Temple, and it was a young monk who died.

Pei Tan's eyes kept searching the corpse inch by inch, obviously not letting go of any abnormalities on Huigen's body. Jing Wan'er also stood beside him and observed for a long time.

If she had to say it, the surrounding Sen Han was like a snake burrowing into her spine, and Jing Wan'er stared at Huigen's expression blankly.

The corners of Huigen's mouth turned up, vaguely as if he was laughing.

Jing Wan'er took a breath, and Pei Tan said, "Huigen wasn't like this before. ”

And the monks who spent the whole night for him, Master Xuanlian, why didn't they see the change in Huigen.

When he was in the attic before, Hye-geun's body had just been turned over, and there was more of a painful expression on that face.

This is consistent with the characteristics of painful struggles before death.

But Jing Wan'er quickly remembered that on the bed, the bedding was so neat, and the sheets under it were almost unmessy, and Huigen had a painful expression, but there seemed to be no trace of struggle.

Jing Wan'er said, "Wan'er wants to see his tongue. ”

Pei Tan glanced at her, and did not stop it, but acquiesced.

I watched Jing Wan'er take out a handkerchief from her sleeve, shake it off gently, and wrap it around her hand. There were no autopsy tools at the moment, so she used the two onion fingers wrapped in a handkerchief to pinch Huigen's cheeks and clasp his jaws open.

Seeing Huigen's mouth open in front of her, Jing Wan'er frowned slightly, and even tightened her handkerchief again, and reached out a finger into Huigen's mouth to grope for it.

Then she withdrew her hand, and after a moment said, "It's cleaner than I thought." ”

Huigen hadn't eaten, and as long as he chewed, there was residue in his mouth, but there was still nothing.

Jing Wan'er's appearance of this corpse was not taboo, which made Pei Tan look at her twice, there was no professional work at the moment, Jing Wan'er was specialized

Practitioners.

Pei Tan looks humble and gentle like jade, although because of the position of Dali Siqing, coupled with the false rumors of people with hearts, everyone in the capital is called the plague god, but Pei Tan's appearance is a bright and beautiful son who is difficult to see in the capital.

His hands are also slender and delicate with finger bones, so it is not enough to make women envious.

"If the back of the head is really the only fatal injury, as long as the murder weapon is found, it is the key to solving the case." Jing Wan'er began to reason.

No matter how terrible the dead are, they are dead after all, and what is even more terrible is the living person who committed the murder, and the monks who came out of Qinglong Temple are these outsiders, if the holy monks who practice Buddhism have any murderous hatred for Huigen, it is even more unreasonable. That's why the suspicion all fell on them outsiders.

Jing Wan'er was still thinking about it, and Pei Tan suddenly stretched out his hand and seemed to touch Huigen's neck.

His hand was not like Jing Wan'er wrapped in a handkerchief, so he used his moist fingertips to touch the circle of carrion in Huigen's neck.

This made Jing Wan'er cry out in surprise: "My lord! ”

Even if she usually collects corpses in the palace, she knows that she changes into linen cloth and covers her mouth and nose, Pei Tan actually touches the corpse directly with her fleshy palm.

Although Huigen's body had just died, it was now stored in an ice cellar, so there was little risk of corpse poison. But no matter how small, it is still not advisable to touch the corpse directly.

Pei Tan pulled down the collar of the corpse, exposing his neck and chest.

"The skin on the neck seems darker than elsewhere?" Pei talked out loud.

Jing Wan'er also saw it, and it should be said that she didn't fail to find out, "These monks have morning classes every day, exposed to the sun and rain, and the skin on their necks is often exposed, and it should be normal for the color to be dark." ”

Pei Tan frowned, and after a while, he used two fingers to hold on to the corpse's throat again, pressed it a little harder, and pressed it back and forth a few times, the carrion of the corpse bulged up piece by piece under his press, and Miss Jing couldn't stand the cold hair.

"What's wrong with you, sir..."

Pei Tan's hand suddenly stopped, and he saw that where his two fingers were pressing, he touched a bulge, he looked at the place with a faint gaze, and slowly withdrew his hand.

"What is this?" It looks like a piece of meat has grown inside the throat.

Originally, due to the position of the head when Huigen died, the skin and flesh of the throat were uneven, and the bulge was not obvious.

Jing Wan'er stared at it for a long time, and then she glanced at Pei Tan.

There is only one way, and that is to cut Kein's throat and find out. Is it just that they are too sensitive, or is it really at the throat of the corpse.

However, destroying Huigen's corpse is something that Qinglong Temple will not back down.

Jing Wan'er said: "Huigen's body showed no signs of poisoning or suffocation, and the wound on the back of his head was the only explanation. Maybe... It was just a bulging piece of cartilage in the throat. ”

Their eyes looked at each other.

What if it weren't. Whether such an explanation convinces themselves.

Pei Tan said: "What we mean by keeping a whole corpse means that as long as the limbs and head are in place and the body is not damaged, it will not be damaged and reincarnated in the next life. ”

Jing Wan'er knew that this Dali Siqing had a heart to investigate the case.

To slit the throat, a knife is needed.

Pei Tan walked to the door of the ice cellar, and Jing Wan'er saw him directly stretch out his hand and pull out the saber on Pei Guard's waist.

He walked back with his knife in his hand.

From Pei Tan's posture of holding the knife, Jing Wan'er's eyes moved, and it could be seen that Pei Tan had practiced martial arts.

Pei Tan raised his knife, "Stand farther away." ”

Jing Wan'er retreated as she said, this long knife is not like the kind of thin knife that is made, and if the knife goes wrong, it will make the corpse blood splash on the spot again.

Seeing Pei Tan's wrist flip, Jing Wan'er felt that her eyes were dazzled, and when she looked at it again, Pei Tan had already thrown the knife on the ground.

On Huigen's throat, a thin incision was faintly visible.

Not even a trace of blood was shed.

Before Jing Wan'er could be surprised, Pei Tan had already reached out and hooked something out of the corpse's throat.

The thing looked round and jade, like a bead, but it was black, and Jing Wan'er reacted quickly to untie the handkerchief in her hand

, carefully catch the thing, and then quickly wrap it up.

Pei Tan said: "Take it out first." ”

The round thing, dug out of Huigen's throat, was covered in blood and other soft tissues.

Jing Wan'er looked back at Huigen's corpse, and she had to say that if she didn't look closely, she wouldn't even be able to find that small opening.

Jing Wan'er had seen Pei Guard's skills, and he was definitely at the top level of Ouchi, but Pei Tan's hand just now didn't feel like a weak boy at all.

The three of them quickly left the ice cellar and returned to the courtyard where they were. Seeing the little monk at the door, Pei Tan said, "I'm tired of the little master, help get a basin of water." ”

From time to time, the little monk brought a basin of water into the house.

The three of them closed the doors and windows, and there were still Pei guards guarding the side of the door.

Jing Wan'er opened the handkerchief and immediately threw the bloodstained bead into it.

I saw that in the water, the black of the beads floated layer by layer, but the color of the beads itself became darker and darker, and finally became bright red.

Pei Tan picked up the chopsticks on the table and took out the "beads".