Shortly after the conclusion of the Lengyue Temple case, the criminal investigation team received a report from the Jianshui District Public Security Bureau, which was roughly as follows:

The Liu Gongjing Police Station received a report from Lian Leya and Lan Simeng, residents of the jurisdiction: their 24-year-old daughter Lian Luodan suddenly disappeared from Mingchen Nunnery. The family, along with their relatives, searched for several days without success.

There is also a special background to the disappearance of Lian Luodan: in the autumn of 1991, the leader of the unit sent someone to visit Lian Luodan, because Lian Luodan had not been to work in the unit for a week, and the leader thought that there was something wrong with Lian Luodan's body, or that there was a special situation at home, so he sent someone to visit Lian's family, and the result was that Lian Luodan was not at home at all - she was missing.

After many searches by family and relatives, I finally learned that Lian Luodan had become a monk in Mingchen Nunnery, and after her mother Lan Simeng learned the news, she was like five thunderbolts and fell seriously ill.

Mother Lan Simeng couldn't give up, and after her health improved slightly, she took the opportunity to burn incense and worship Buddha in Mingchen Nunnery to visit her daughter to refine Luodan, she wanted to know the reason why her daughter, who had always been well-behaved and sensible, escaped from the mortal world and entered the empty door.

For the first time, my daughter never showed up.

A month later, her daughter finally appeared in the nunnery, but as soon as she saw her mother, Lan Simeng, she would leave quickly.

Lan Simeng went to Mingchen Nunnery many times, but only got the following information from her daughter: After her daughter refined Luo Dan and cut her hair to become a nun, she was given the Dharma name Jingping, and in addition to chanting in the nunnery every day, she cleaned the temple and went to the well to carry water and wash clothes, and never spoke to anyone.

Lan Simeng once met with the abbot Jue Hui Shitai, and Jue Hui Shi Tai only said three words to Lan Simeng:

"The fate of Jingping is over, with my Buddha's support, Lord Lan Shi can rest assured."

"If a daughter doesn't want to tell her parents, she naturally won't tell the Buddha, and the poor nuns are helpless."

"To have is nothing, to have nothing is to have, to live is to die, to die is to live. Everything in the world, without exception, is the best. ”

Born in a declining capitalist family, how could he understand the profound and obscure Sanskrit Zen words of Master Juehui, who had only studied in private school for a few years.

Of course, this is not the real reason why Lian Le Ya and Lan Simeng went to the sect to report the crime, the last few times, Lan Simeng did not see Jingping again, she asked the abbot Huijue Shitai and other nuns to inquire, Huijue Shitai and other nuns said in unison: Jingping has left Mingchen Nunnery, as for where Jingping went? Nobody knows.

Daughter Lian Luo Dan suddenly disappeared, this is not a trivial matter! The couple chose to report the crime.

After receiving the report from Lian Le Ya and Lan Simeng, the police station sent two people to Mingchen Nunnery to investigate and secretly visit, and the two of them only learned from the mouth of a young nun that one morning, she saw Jingping walking out of the nunnery, and she did not see her again. Other than that, the two of them did not get any information about Lian Luodan's disappearance. In desperation, the couple reported to the District Public Security Bureau, and the District Public Security Bureau reported the situation to the Criminal Investigation Team of the Municipal Public Security Bureau.

Lian Luo Dan disappeared mysteriously, and the world evaporated.

More than a month has passed from Lan Simeng's discovery that Lian Luodan is missing, the second disappearance, to the couple's report.

This kind of case is the first time that Zhao Zimeng and his comrades have encountered it.

Zhao Zimeng was not sure whether this was a case or not.

Is Alchemist missing, or is he missing by suicide, or is he missing from homicide? Is it possible that in order to get rid of the entanglement of his mother and completely cut off the fate of the earth, he chose another place?

The police station asked Lan Simeng for a photo of Lian Luodan's ID before he became a monk, and sent a notice to the public security organs across the country in the name of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, focusing on the nunnery in various places (if you want to completely cut off the dust, there are only two paths, one is to go to the nunnery, and the other is to go to heaven).

A month has passed, but there is still no news of refining Luo Dan.

Why did Alchemist Luo Dan escape into the empty door? Does her disappearance have anything to do with the reason for her escape?

Before deciding whether to intervene in the case, Zhao Zimeng planned to send someone to meet with the Lian family and Juehui Shitai, and after learning some information, he would decide whether to take over the case.

On the evening of January 9, 1992, Xiang Daimo and Lin Di walked into Lian's house accompanied by the director of the police station.

Director Ma introduced: Lianjia lives at No. 278-6, Sanshan Street, Baixia Road. No. 278 is a very large courtyard, there are six families living in the courtyard, No. 278 courtyard is the current name - this is the name after liberation, before liberation, No. 278 courtyard is called Pengjia compound.

The Peng family was an official family in history, and after the family fell into the middle of the road, with a little savings and family foundation, the Peng family began to do furniture business - it was the kind of high-end furniture such as mahogany, red sandalwood and huanghuali.

Peng family to the last generation of Peng Zude's generation, the incense was suddenly interrupted, Peng Zude gave birth to a total of four daughters, in order to continue the incense, Peng Zude asked the second daughter Peng Huilan to recruit a son-in-law, this son-in-law is one of the informants, Lian Leya.

Lian Leya's condition for joining the Peng family is that if she gives birth to a boy, she will have the surname Peng, and if she gives birth to a girl, she will have the surname Lian. If two boys are born, the first boy will be surnamed Peng and the second boy will be surnamed Lian.

It can be seen that the Peng family is acting fairly. After Lian Le Ya joined the Peng family, she gave birth to two daughters in a row. Because Peng Zude wanted a boy with a handle, he forced his daughter and son-in-law to continue the man-making movement.

The hard work paid off, and soon, Peng Huilan finally became pregnant with a boy - Peng Zude asked three old Chinese medicine doctors to give Peng Huilan a pulse, and the conclusions of the three old Chinese medicine doctors were the same - Peng Huilan was pregnant with a boy in her belly, and the incense of the Peng family finally had an heir.

Peng Huilan suffered a dystocia and died of a blood collapse during childbirth, and the doctor immediately took measures to break the abdomen and took out a dying baby boy from Peng Huilan's belly, named Peng Yaozong. In order to continue the incense of the Peng family - to meet her father's lifelong wish, Peng Huilan took her own life.

Two months later, Peng Zude, who blamed himself, died of depression.

In the third year, Lian Le Ya married another wife, her name was Lan Simeng - one of the informants, when she married Lian Le Ya, she also had a daughter by her side, and this daughter was Lian Luodan. Lian Luodan's original surname was Zhao, and after her mother married Lian Leya, in order to straighten out the family relationship, erase the shadow in her daughter's heart, and make up for her daughter's premature lack of fatherly love, Lan Simeng asked her daughter to change her surname to Lian.

Before Lian Le Ya married Lan Simeng, Peng Huilan's sister and two younger sisters were resolutely opposed and obstructed in every possible way - they were worried that the only little ancestral property of the Peng family would fall into the hands of outsiders - in fact, the ancestral property of the Peng family had changed its name and surname - fell into the hands of Lian Le Ya. In the end, the efforts of the Peng sisters still failed to make Lian Le Ya change her mind, and in this case, Peng Huilan's eldest sister Peng Huimei moved her family back to Courtyard 278 and occupied the third and two east wings - that is, No. 287-5.

From the above situation, it can be seen that the family relationship of the Lian family is very complicated, does the disappearance of Lian Luodan have anything to do with this complicated family relationship? Lian Leya came to the Peng family, and his own confidence is insufficient, and as a refining Luo Dan who drags oil bottles, his identity is even more embarrassing. The status of Lian Luodan's two sisters in the Lian family is not high (the surname itself determines this, in the Lian family, there is only one person surnamed Peng, and he is Peng Yaozong), and the status of Lian Luodan's in the family can be imagined.

Soon after the turbulent years began, I don't know where a yin wind blew, and in the blink of an eye, most of the houses in the Peng family's compound were handed over. Originally, the Peng family, including Peng Zude's married daughters, lived on rent. The furniture store run by the Peng family was dismissed by the Red Guards in the turbulent years, on the grounds that the furniture operated by the Peng family belonged to the "feudal capital repair", and in the turbulent years, those classical furniture carved with dragons and phoenixes brought bad luck and disaster to the Peng family - the Peng family went bankrupt, and the bankruptcy was equivalent to the collapse of the family.

Now, the Lian family lives in the last two west wings of Courtyard 278, which is the only property left by the Peng family that belongs to them.

Courtyard No. 278 has a total of three houses.

Three people walked through the two aisles and into the last courtyard.

From the kitchen of the Lian family, the sound of washing pots and dishes came out, and the door of the east wing was half covered.

The three of them had just stood in front of the door of the wing room, and a woman came out of the kitchen: "Who are you looking for?" "This person is Lan Simeng.

"Excuse me—is this the Alchemist family?"

"Who?" A man's shrill voice came from inside the room.

"I'm Ma Changfeng from the police station!"

"It's the director of the horse! Come in. ”

The door of the wing room was completely open, and a sixty-year-old *** was at the door: "Director Ma, please come in." "This person is the informant Lian Leya.

Lian Leya invited the three of them into the room and sat down on some mahogany chairs.

The woman untied her apron around her waist and walked into the room. After a while, she brought three cups of tea.

"Who are these two comrades?" Lian Le Ya looked at Xiang Daimo and Lin Didao.

"These two comrades from the district bureau are here to find out the situation first, and things may not have developed as you imagined." Before the case was officially filed, Director Ma did not want to reveal the true identities of Xiang Daimo and Lin Di.

"Thank you very much, you guys opened the case so quickly." Lan Simeng didn't understand Director Ma's words.

Director Ma must emphasize again: "The situation is like this, our police station has already reported the situation you have reported to the above, whether to file a case or not, and when to file a case, depends on the specific situation." ”

"Director Ma, you must file a case as soon as possible, since Luo Dan disappeared, my lover can't eat sweetly, can't sleep at night, a person who is alive and jumping, if he can't see it, he will disappear, he won't see anyone alive, he won't see his body dead, and he really doesn't know how to live his family's life." Lian Le Ya said with a melancholy expression.

"We can understand your feelings, aren't we here? You can live your life as you should, and since things have happened, it's useless to be anxious. We also want to file a case right away, but we have to find some reason to file a case! "Director Ma has made it very clear.