Chapter 79 Poplar Ditch of Bodhi Temple
Because of the loss, the raging flame on Zhen Bei's body was also extinguished immediately.
Seeing this, Nangong He felt a little smug in his heart, he withdrew his victorious gaze from her face, and said unhurriedly: "I wanted to tell you that Ying Tian has been found!" β
"What, where is he now? But have you confessed? Zhen Bei put Fang Cai's embarrassment behind her for a moment and hurriedly asked.
"He's dead!" Nangong Hedao.
"Dead?" Zhen Bei lost her voice and said, "But find out the cause of death?" β
"He was found from the well by a man who was fetching water, and it was initially inferred that the time of death was around noon last night, and that there was a stab wound on his right arm on his body, and there were no other wounds. It is suspected that after the matter was revealed, he had no face to see the lord and committed suicide. "Nangong Hedao.
"Wounded in the right arm? Could it really be that he was the one who attacked us? Zhen Bei was surprised.
Nangong He once said that he had stabbed the other party's right arm with a sword.
"Looking at the depth of the knife edge and the angle of the inchement, it is somewhat similar!" Nangong He nodded.
When Zhen Bei and Nangong He rushed to the scene of the crime, Ying Tian's body was thrown on the open space next to the well.
Qin Wuchen, Yue Rushuang and others were all surrounded there.
Seeing Zhenbei and them coming, Qin Wuchen bowed slightly, which was regarded as a greeting, and then lowered his head and continued to study the wound on the corpse's arm.
Zhen Bei took the autopsy record that she had made, and Nangong He also looked at it.
In addition to the wounds on his arms, there were several other bruises on the deceased's body, which appeared to have been wounded in the fight.
She couldn't help but look at Nangong He, seeing that his sword eyebrows frowned slightly, knowing that those few injuries must not be caused by them, because of the many people present, it was inconvenient to ask each other directly, so she quietly put the autopsy record back in its original place.
Yue Rushuang shook her head gently: "Mother Feng, you don't have to worry about me. You haven't rested either, so please go back to your room and take a rest! β
"Childe, this Ying Tian has also committed suicide, so you will leave the aftermath to Lord Qin and the old slave to deal with, don't worry about going and resting!" Feng's mother is still persuading her mother-in-law.
It turned out that after Yue Rushuang returned to the room, it was difficult to fall asleep after tossing and turning, so she simply got up again to find Qin Wuchen to discuss everything in detail, and she still hasn't slept yet.
Feng Ma sighed and turned to leave.
After a while, she came back with three maids holding trays in her hands: "The old slave let the kitchen stew some ginseng and chicken soup, Lord Qin, you and others have also worked hard all night and day, please drink a bowl of soup to refresh yourself!" β
Qin Wuchen still had the post-mortem mask on his hand, he raised his eyes and smiled at her, and said, "There is Lao Feng's mother!" β
After Zhen Bei thanked her, she reached out to take the porcelain bowl brought by the maid, but she didn't drink it immediately, and in the face of a soaked corpse that couldn't see its original appearance, the chicken soup in the bowl seemed to have changed its taste.
Nangong He directly refused: "Who knows if there is poison in it!" β
The crowd has gone from anger to ignorance of his arrogant and rude behavior.
It just so happened that Feng's mother was handing the porcelain bowl in her hand to Yue Rushuang: "Childe, you haven't eaten for a day, so you can take a sip, your body is important!"
Perhaps seeing that everyone didn't drink the ginseng soup, worried that Feng's mother's mind would be wasted, Yue Rushuang glanced at Nangong He unhappily, picked up the porcelain bowl, and drank it all.
Before he could put down the bowl in his hand, he closed his eyes and fell straight to the ground.
Mama Feng seemed to be prepared, and at the moment when he leaned sideways, she had already stretched out her left hand to catch the porcelain bowl, and her right arm firmly caught his body.
Yue Rushuang was tall, Feng's mother snorted, and it seemed to be quite difficult to help him, and the subordinates next to him saw this and hurriedly helped to help him up.
"Mama Feng, what's going on with Yue Gongzi?" Qin Wuchen said in surprise.
Mother Feng wiped the sweat on her forehead with her sleeve and sighed, "Lord Qin, please rest assured, our son is fine!" It's just that the old slave is good at making an assertion, and in this bowl of ginseng soup of the son, some soothing herbs are put in it. β
She saw Qin Wuchen's puzzled look, and then explained: "Childe, when he was in the rivers and lakes before, he was severely poisoned, although he was saved by the divine doctor and saved a life, but the toxin has not been completely removed, and the remaining part is sealed in the acupuncture points far away from the vital point, just waiting for a long time, it can be slowly and automatically discharged from the body." The miracle doctor said that before the toxin is completely exhausted, if the son is overtired or overly emotional in the future, it may induce the meridians to be disordered, so that the poison will take the opportunity to attack the heart! β
Qin Wuchen was slightly stunned, and then sighed: "Mother Feng has good intentions!" How fortunate Yue Gongzi is to have you by your side! β
Feng Ma said: "Lord Qin is too famous!" β
Zhenbei looked at Feng Ma commanding the servants, and was very careful to help Yue Rushuang upstairs, and suddenly remembered the dream, the words that Lychee said in the dream.
She hurriedly pulled Nangong Hela to the side and whispered to him, "You go to a place with me!" β
Bodhi Temple is an abandoned temple on the outskirts of the city.
The tall and spacious hall and the wide incense burner all show that it was also beautiful in the early years, and the incense was also prosperous, and there were countless pilgrims who came to worship!
Today, however, the temple is in a dilapidated state, and the outer walls of the monastery have been broken into several sections by the wind and rain.
The entire Buddha hall is also crumbling with the wind, and there is a danger that it will turn into ruins in the next moment.
The only remaining old monk in this monastery lived in a thatched hut far away from the Buddha hall.
The house was kindly built by the people in the neighborhood, and he opened up a few plots of land in front of the thatched hut to grow some food and vegetables for his own sufficiency, and fenced a few plots of land, and raised some chickens, ducks, geese and other livestock.
He has no taboos about food, eats big fish and meat, and never steps into the Buddha hall for half a step, nor does he chant sutras and meditate, if it were not for his shiny head and robe, it would be almost difficult to distinguish that he was a monk!
It is precisely because of this monk that he is too shocking and does not meet the public's definition of a monk.
People seem to have expected that no matter how much they can help this monk, they will not be blessed by the Buddha, so they resolutely stop bringing alms, and decide to stay away from this place, so that this monk will not suffer from unjustified disasters when he is punished by heaven!
Gradually, it has become a forbidden place that people dare not cross!
At this time, some people came here without knowing whether they were alive or dead, and looked at the evil monk oppositely.
Zhenbei had to ask again: "Master, is there a poplar ditch here?" β
The old monk looked at her in confusion, and for a while, pointed to his ears and mouth.
"He can't hear you, and he can't answer you!" Nangong Hedao.
In fact, this old monk was originally able to listen and speak, but as he got older, his ears became deaf, and after so many years of no contact with outsiders, his language function seems to have been lost!
Zhenbei picked up a branch from the ground and wrote the words "Poplar Ditch" on the ground, and the old monk seemed to finally understand, and he gestured towards the west.
Zhen Bei and the two said goodbye to the old monk and went west, and after about half a pillar of incense, they saw a poplar forest in the distance.
A large sunken flat area beneath the woods was dotted with a dozen families.
Zhen Bei frowned and thought for a moment, and said, "Let's go down and find someone and ask." β
In front of the house at the head of the village, there sat an old woman drying dried potatoes.
Zhenbei stepped forward and saluted, "Mother-in-law, is there a Zhang Feng and Zhang Gongzi in this village?" β
The mother-in-law raised her eyes to see the two young men, and her face showed a look of astonishment and shock.
After a long time, she seemed to come back to her senses and said, "Are you looking for Zhang Feng?" β
Zhenbei smiled at her and said, "Yes, mother-in-law, we are friends of Zhang Feng, and we came to visit today, do you know where he lives?" β
The name Zhang Feng happened to be seen when Zhen Bei checked the information of the people in the building, and she took a few more glances at it and remembered it in her heart, never thinking that it would come in handy at this time!
The mother-in-law seemed to think that these two unusually good-looking sons did not look like villains, so she gradually let down her guard, she pointed to the courtyard next to her, and said, "This is his home!" It's just that he and his wife went out to the town to buy something, and he hasn't come back yet! β
This Zhang Feng and Lychee have a marriage contract, and Lychee is even more so that after the two get married, they can live a richer life, so they are willing to say a hundred, flowers, and a maidservant, when did this person have a wife?
Zhen Bei was suspicious, but said with a smile in her mouth: "Brother Zhang is already married, last time he said that he was still alone, and his fiancΓ©e has not yet completed the service!" I never thought that this kid was lying to us! β
The mother-in-law smiled and said, "Ah Feng, this kid, is a blessed one!" His lady really didn't go through the door, and the lady the old woman said now was another concubine who was straightened! β
Zhen Bei looked suddenly enlightened and said, "That's the case." β
She glanced at the thatched hut behind her mother-in-law, and then looked at the tiled house next to her, which was much more spacious and magnificent.
Zhen Bei retracted her gaze, squatted down, helped her mother-in-law flip the dried potatoes, and said with a smile as if at random: "I heard that the real sister-in-law Zhang is a hot temper, how can she agree that she has not yet passed the door, and there is an equal sister in the family?" β
The mother-in-law saw that she was gorgeously dressed, but she did not have the arrogance of the children of the noble family at all, and the smile on her face became a little more sincere: "That girl with lychee can be regarded as my mother-in-law, I grew up watching!" Her temper is a little anxious, but this girl is not an unreasonable person. If she knew that this little concubine was pregnant, nine times out of ten she would agree to straighten her up! β
When Zhen Bei heard this, she quickly exchanged glances with Nangong He: "Mother-in-law, you said that this little concubine is pregnant?" β
The mother-in-law nodded and said, "Not really." It's a happy event, but it's not fair to the lychee girl. Hey, in the end, this is also a woman's fate! β
Zhenbei listened to her chatter, and then asked, "Mother-in-law, has our sister-in-law of lychee come back recently?" β
The mother-in-law shook her hand and said with a smile: "She signed a contract with someone, and she can't come back until the first day!" Speaking of which, the old woman hasn't seen her for more than half a year, I don't know if Ah Feng told her about the things at home! β
Also, Lychee came back in the middle of the night, so naturally her mother-in-law wouldn't see her.
It's just, counting the time, she should have lived here for two days, and she shouldn't have been undiscovered!
Was she imprisoned in her room for the last two days, or was she killed not long after she returned?