Outside the Qionglian Palace, the trees are shady, and the palaces and pavilions in the palace are faintly visible. It was already twilight, and the Qionglian Palace under the sunset added to the ethereal fairy atmosphere.

Hu Xianxian knocked lightly on the palace door, and after a while, a little Daogu came to open the door. That little Dao Gu was Qi Chuluan's eldest apprentice Zeng Wenxia, she screamed when she saw Hu Xianxian, and then shrank her head and stretched out her hand to invite Hu Xianxian to enter the door.

"Ah Xia, seeing me is like seeing a ghost, don't you welcome me?" Hu Xianxian didn't step into the door, rubbing his chin and looking at Zeng Wenxia.

"No...... Don't ......" Zeng Wenxia waved her hand in a panic, blushing and eagerly explained, "It's the teacher and uncle who came too timely, and if you are talking about you, you will come......"

"Hehe, you're saying bad things about me, right? Alas, don't call me Uncle Teacher, this string sounds awkward. Well, just call me Hu Laozu for short? Haha...... nonsense about ancestors, invincible in the world! ”

Zeng Wenxia rolled her eyes when she heard this, but because of the elders and juniors, she still stood aside respectfully with her head bowed and her hands down, and let her enter the door.

When he got here, Hu Xianxian felt much more relaxed, and after a few jokes, he wanted to go in and find a guest room to rest.

She walked around the main hall to the back garden, Zeng Wenxia walked to the main hall, as soon as she entered the palace gate, Zeng Wenxia cheered: "Hu Laozu is here......"

Her exclamation provoked Ruan Wenyue, Sang Wenxiu, Tang Wenzhao and other new generation disciples of Qionglian Palace to run out and catch up with Hu Xianxian, who had just stepped into the door of the Moon Cave in the back garden.

Hu Xianxian was surrounded by them, and was stunned and at a loss, the palace master Qi Chuluan personally greeted him, and Qiao Chushi and Fan Chuyao also followed behind Qi Chuluan to greet him.

They were so enthusiastic that she was a little dazed, and after greeting each other, Ye Saiying led the crying Sanhua to her. Hu Xianxian was even more confused, why is Sanhua here?

A group of middle-aged beauties and young girls surrounded Hu Xianxian and talked nonsense, but she didn't hear a word.

Hu Xianxian smiled bitterly, feeling that he was a bit like a rich businessman who finally returned home after going out for a long time. As soon as they entered the house, the ladies in the deep house rushed out to offer their courtesy, wanting to drag the old man into their room......

Her thoughts gave her goosebumps to the cold, and she quickly shook her head, and said, "Let me rest for a while, you are each busy with your own business." You don't have to rush to talk to me, and you don't want everyone to say a few words. After I rested, Sai Ying told me what happened. ”

After giving the order, she didn't care about their attitudes, she went straight to a quiet room, bolted the door and went to bed to meditate.

When Hu Xianxian's aura gradually recovered, he was refreshed, and it was already in the middle of the moon.

Hu Xianxian called Ye Saiying to the room and asked her to tell her in detail what happened.

Ye Saiying poured a cup of tea for Hu Xianxian first, and then poured a cup of tea for herself, and said slowly: "You know Pingle Nunnery, right? Pingle Nunnery and Qionglian Palace are both in Qiongguang County, and this matter should start with Master Cikong of Pingle Nunnery accepting apprentices......"

Hu Xianxian knew about Pingle Nunnery, the nunnery was not large, but because it was the abbot of Master Cikong, who was good at arguing about scriptures, it was famous far and wide. It's just that Hu Xianxian has his own beliefs with them and has no intersection with them.

Ye Saiying said that Cikong had always wanted to accept a well-understood and diligent disciple, and finally had the fate to accept an apprentice when he traveled to the Northern Wilderness Province a few years ago.

Cikong gave his disciples the Dharma name "Undoubtedly", which meant that the disciples should strengthen their faith and not be suspicious. This is undoubtedly really smart and wise, and it is very popular with the nuns of Pingle Nunnery.

Unfortunately, the fly in the ointment is that there is undoubtedly a gambler father. Back then, when Cikong took it away, he gave the gambler a large sum of money, but after a few years, the gambler lost all his money and came to find his daughter.

This gambler, who is called "Hang Lao Bao", is an out-and-out gambler, and he is still a cheeky and oily person.

Hang Lao came from Beihuang Province to join his daughter, and asked his daughter to give her money for three days. There is no doubt that the money is a little pocket money given by her master, where is there enough for Hang Lao to gamble?

Cikong thought that Hang Lao always went to Pingle Nunnery, there was no doubt that there was no way to purify the six roots, and he always harassed him, which also damaged the reputation of the nuns in the nunnery, so he had to find a way to let him come to Pingle Nunnery less.

So, Cikong asked Ci Wei, who was in charge of the incense cupboard, to deduct the silver taels from the food, and she gave the silver taels to Hang Laojiao. When sending the silver two, she repeatedly asked Hang Lao to swear not to disturb Qingxiu again.

The daily consumption of the nunnery is based on the incense money given by the pilgrims, and the money they grow some fruits and vegetables themselves. After Ci gave Hang Lao two pieces of silver, he didn't use enough, so he had to save rice and oil when cooking.

The nuns eat lightly, but no matter how light it is, they have to fill their bellies. The Ci Xuan who was in charge of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion first blamed Ci or not, and everyone else followed suit.

Ci Wei said that the abbot Cikong asked her to deduct the silver taels and secretly give Hang Lao a lie. After hearing this, all the nuns were indignant and wanted to go to Hang Lao Bao to get back the silver taels.

Undoubtedly, I saw that the uncles and sisters left the nunnery angrily and went to the rented residence of the county town of Hanglao, and they also followed. After she learned what her father had done, she told her uncles and sisters that she would definitely ask her father to hand over the silver taels.

But when they arrived at the hut rented by Hang Laopai, they learned that Hang Laopai had gone to the big casino in Yizhou City to gamble. The other nuns had no choice but to return to the nunnery, and undoubtedly stubbornly insisted on going to Yizhou alone to find their father.

Undoubtedly, I went to every casino in Yizhou to ask about my father's whereabouts. Because Nahang Lao Bao is a lame man and often comes to gamble, the people in the casino have some impressions of him.

When asked about the last casino, the person in charge said that Hang Laojiao had very good luck that day, won a lot of money, and had returned to Qiongguang County.

Undoubtedly, I thought that fortunately my father did not lose all the money, and he won the money, and he was finally able to give an explanation to the uncles and sisters in the nunnery.

She was in a hurry to go out of the city and return to Qiongguang County, and she was waiting at the gate of the city at the end of the hour. Outside the city gate of Yizhou leading to Qiongguang County, there was no doubt that she had already put her heart at ease, but she saw a scene that made her hang her heart and couldn't let go of it anymore.

At the corner of the city wall, there was an alley leading to the vegetable market, and the secluded mud floor that connected the corner of the alley and the city wall was full of rotten bones and rotten vegetable leaves. A few wild dogs were digging through the piles of garbage, and the smell was strong.

Suddenly, the wild dogs bared their teeth and roared, and they all blew up their neck hairs and pounced on each other. The wild dogs were biting frantically, as if they were fighting for something supreme.

Undoubtedly, seeing this scene, I thought that Master often said that we should persuade others to fight, so that there would be less hatred in the world. She picked up a stick and tried to break up the wild dogs that were tearing and biting each other.

She carried the stick and waved it wildly, drove away the wild dogs, and when she looked back, she saw bloody corpses lying on the garbage heap!

Undoubtedly, he was so frightened that he threw the stick, pulled his legs and ran, and after running away, he suddenly remembered that the corpse had a sense of familiarity. She hurried back again, and when she ran back, she gritted her teeth and brushed away the stray hair from the corpse's face.

Through the fainting morning light, she undoubtedly saw the corpse's face clearly, it was her father Hang Laojiao!

Hang Lao lay down in the garbage heap by the city wall, his body was stiff, he was covered in the wounds of wild dogs, and he had almost become a shredded carrion that could not be seen in human form.

She looked at her father again, and he did not blink his eyes, bulging out his eyes like a dead fish; He clutched in his hand a rag that had been torn from the money bag that her mother had sewn for her father when she was alive; Except for the bite of a wild dog, there were no other man-made injuries on his body, and he did not know why he died.

Undoubtedly, crying and screaming, turning and shaking his father's corpse. The crying attracted the attention of the guards of the city, and when they saw that there was a murder, they sent a soldier to the state government to report the case.

On the one hand, the prefect of Yizhou Sun sent someone to investigate Hang Lao's interpersonal relationship and sort out who he had a grudge with, and on the other hand, he asked him to conduct a detailed autopsy.

After learning that the nuns of Pingle Nunnery had many complaints about Hang Laojiao, Governor Sun temporarily detained Cikong, and the rest of the nuns were confined to the nunnery.

In addition to the bite of the wild dog, there was an injury on the back of the head, which is the key to finding the murderer!

Just as he was waiting for further examination, a strange fire broke out in the mortuary, burning only Hang Lao's body.

As soon as this incident came out, rumors arose. It is said that this old man Hang is gambling and his sex is difficult to change, and he dares to forcibly take the incense money of Buddhist disciples, which provokes the anger of Jizo Bodhisattva and sends a little ghost to collect his life.

The people who listened to the rumors also complained that the people in the state government did not know the inside story, and regarded Hang Laojiao as the wronged person who was killed. In order to remind the government and warn the world, Jizo Bodhisattva burned the corpse of Hang Lao with a ghost fire.

The rumor of "ghosts killing gambling ghosts" first spread from Yizhou, and then spread all over nearby Taixing Mansion, Lingzhou, Yuezhou and other places.

The villagers began to believe that Hang Lao was punished by hell and died, and they petitioned for Governor Sun to release Master Cikong......

Hearing this, Hu Xianxian sipped tea and smiled. Ye Saiying also smiled and asked, "You have already guessed the outcome of the case, haven't you?" ”

Hu Xianxian replied: "Yes, a person who is a suspicious gambler is so dead, who will really sympathize with him?" Even if it was his daughter, she would definitely not watch her master suffer in prison for the sake of her gambling father. Under pressure from the public, the government could of course have no choice but to settle the case hastily. ”

Ye Saiying acquiesced in Hu Xianxian's speculation, and said: "But after all, the father and daughter are connected, after a few days, I undoubtedly remembered that my father held a money bag with strips of rags when he died, and I thought that even if this ghost wants to kill the gambling ghost, it is impossible to rob the money." As a result, he undoubtedly went to the Yizhou Prefecture to request a retrial. ”

Hu Xianxian frowned slightly and asked her, "Oh?" This little nun is undoubtedly really smart, did she find out the real murderer during the retrial? ”

"No, instead of finding out the real culprit, it has made the case more and more complicated."

Ye Saiying became full of sorrow, and whispered: "Qionglian Palace was also implicated in the retrial......

Ye Saiying talked to Hu Xianxian in detail again, and first talked about how Qionglian Palace was involved. Sun Zhanou, the prefect of Yizhou, has always had a love for Qiao Chushi, how can Qiao Chushi be wholeheartedly Taoist, Sun Zhanou has already had a wife, and the two are just confidants and friends, and there is no overstepping the courtesy.

Sun Zhanou had been transferred to other regions for a few years and had been promoted, but last year he asked the Ministry of Officials to return to Yizhou to become the prefect.

In order to repay his admiration, Qiao Chushi tried his best to help him deal with all kinds of troubles, and even everyone in Qionglian Palace became his think tank.

Undoubtedly, when a retrial was requested, all the nuns of Pingle Nunnery strongly opposed it. Cikong said to no doubt that if there was a rebirth incident, he would not recognize her as an apprentice. However, he undoubtedly did not listen to dissuasion, and insisted on finding out the murderer to pay for his father's life.

Qiao Chushi deduced that perhaps Cikong deliberately tolerated it first, then quietly killed him with a spell, and finally used a spell to destroy the corpse.

Based on this, Sun Zhanou deduced that if Cikong was taken into custody again, he could be tried again and again, but no result was found. Cikong said that she didn't know magic at all, and that if she did, she couldn't kill people with magic.

The people were extremely concerned about this matter, and there were many discussions, and some people said that the Taoist aunt of Qionglian Palace couldn't get used to the nuns of Pingle Nunnery, so they killed Hang Lao and planted the blame to Cikong.

Hu Xianxian laughed out loud when he heard this, and only after a long time could he hold back his laughter. She slowed down her tone and analyzed Ye Saiying: "I heard you say this, and I think the case should have been quite simple."

According to my inference, Hang Lao Bao won a lot of money, which angered other gamblers and caused money disputes.

Since Hang Lao was holding a money bag with strips of rags in his hand, it was likely that he was killed in the robbery. ”

Ye Saiying sighed twice: "Alas, no matter how it was, now Qionglian Palace is the people's hearts are lost!" ”

"Even if the people's hearts are lost, it doesn't seem to have much to do with me, right? Why do you mention me? ”