Xiao Tong's face changed, and the little monk who was lying in front of Master Ning Yuan's corpse immediately rushed to his side, shouting: "Please Your Highness the Crown Prince to uphold justice, please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to seek justice for my master!" ”

Xiao Tong looked at Xie Ling, as if he was about to ask something, but he closed his lips again, and after thinking for a while, he asked the little monk: "Tell me the details." ”

The little monk was about to speak, but Xie Ling intercepted: "Wait! She bowed to Xiao Tong, "Please allow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to allow me to take a look at Master Ning Yuan's body." ”

Xiao Tong's face darkened slightly, and he said, "Accurate!" ”

Xie Ling walked to the corpse of Master Ning Yuan, opened the curtain that covered it, and everyone's eyes followed Xiao Tongyi and looked at it, and saw a long arrow diagonally passing through the heart of the old monk, the old monk still had black blood on the corner of his mouth, and his eyes were round, as if he couldn't believe it, and the death was really a little terrifying.

Many people hid their faces and didn't dare to look at it anymore, and Princess Yongxing even covered her face with a fan, and said in disgust: "It's scary, don't cover it quickly!" ”

Xiao Tong's gaze was fixed on the arrow-tailed Mink Ling, this Mink Ling was unknown to others, he was deeply impressed, and was about to speak, when he heard Xie Ling say: "His Royal Highness the Prince, you can ask now, but Ling has another suggestion." ”

"Please?"

Xie Ling looked at the people here and asked, "How many people here have seen me kill people with their own eyes, and how many people can prove that I am a murderer?" ”

The little monk looked at a few people in the room, and two more little monks stood up and said in unison: "We, we can all prove that you came here today to make an appointment with the master to argue, and if you can't argue, you will kill the master." ”

"Because it is difficult to argue, he has a murderous intention, how can Xie Wulangjun be such a narrow-minded person?" Xiao Tong asked.

The little monk still didn't change his words, and his face was sad: "The little monk didn't dare to deceive His Royal Highness the Prince, maybe this Xie Wulangjun had other intentions, when the little monk heard her arguing with the master, he said that he was here to ask the master for someone, maybe the master was unwilling, so she killed the master." ”

Xiao Tong looked at Xie Ling again: "What is Xie Wulangjun's defense?" ”

Xie Ling said: "Please ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to give Ling pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and Ling has a way to prove whether their confession is true." ”

"Why don't you just say it, but ask for pen, ink, paper and inkstone, does she want to write it down?" Someone in the crowd couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know, maybe I don't want those three little monks to know!"

Xiao Tong didn't hesitate and said, "Okay, give him pen, ink, paper, and inkstone." Then he ordered a small servant next to him to take the four treasures of the study room and handed them to Xie Ling.

Xie Ling only wrote a line of words on a case, and then presented the silk paper to Xiao Tong's hand, Xiao Tong looked stunned, his eyes showed a deep light that was incomprehensible, and Chen Qingzhi on the side also leaned over curiously to look at it, and saw that only one word was written on the paper: "Points!" I don't understand the meaning of this word, but I feel that the word is very cleverly written, and at first glance I can't move it.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, what does this mean?" Chen Qingzhi asked in a low voice on the side.

Xiao Tong whispered a sentence in his ear, this sentence was inaudible to everyone, but Chen Qingzhi seemed to have understood, he nodded slightly, pointed to the two little monks among them, and instructed the two horsemen beside him: "Go and invite those two little monks to the backyard of the temple, and bring them in a quarter of an hour." ”

The two riders said in unison, "Yes! Then he strode over, grabbed the two little monks, and quickly left the place.

Xiao Tong gestured to the little monk who stayed behind and said, "You can say it now, describe everything you see in detail, and you will judge alone." ”

The little monk said, "Yes." Then he said, "Xie Wulangjun suddenly visited today, saying that he was going to argue with our master, and he also took a Buddhist scripture, the Tao is the scripture annotated by Xie Lingyun, the ancestor of their Xie family, the master readily agreed, and sat opposite Xie Wulangjun, and after a few words of argument, the two had a dispute, and finally, the little monk saw Xie Wulangjun holding an arrow straight into the master's chest. ”

Xiao Tong asked again: "Since you saw him holding an arrow, then his hand holding an arrow is left or right." ”

The little monk's eyes flickered, and he muttered, "It's the right ...... Right hand. ”

"Okay, you can go down."

Xiao Tong suddenly ordered, the little monk looked dazed, and was taken down by a tiqi pointed out by Chen Qingzhi, and then another little monk was brought up.

Xiao Tong still asked the same thing, and the little monk's answer was exactly the same as the previous little monk, but when Xiao Tong asked: "Is his hand holding the arrow left or right?" The little monk hesitated for a while, and replied: "It seems to be left...... Left hand! ”

So he asked the third monk again about the same question, but he heard the little monk answer first: "Right hand!" After hesitating for a while, he changed his words, "Left hand." ”

At this point in the interrogation, everyone was already aware of it, and they all sighed and discussed, Xiao Tong called the three little monks together and asked: "Since you said that you saw Xie Wulangjun kill someone, why did you ask you how she killed someone, but your answers were different?" ”

Xiao Tong asked, two of the little monks showed timidity, and the other one was still indignant and insisted: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the situation at that time was too sudden, no one expected it, maybe they didn't see it clearly, but the little monk saw it clearly, that is, he held an arrow in his right hand and pierced the master's chest. ”

Xiao Tong looked at Xie Ling: "What do you justify?" ”

Wang Yun came over a little anxiously and saluted Xiao Tong: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has interrogated so far, everyone has seen that these three little monks are clearly lying and wronging Xie Ling, Yun thinks that there is no need to interrogate again." ”

Xie Ling pulled Wang Yun aside and said, "Everything must pay attention to one evidence, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince just wants a piece of evidence that can convince everyone present." ”

After saying that, Xie Ling walked to Master Ning Yuan's corpse, knelt down on one knee, and then pointed to the arrow that pierced his chest, and said: "You can see the angle of this arrow's inclination, the body of the arrow is tilted through the chest for three inches, and to pierce a person's chest in an instant and exceed three inches, it takes at least four stones of arm strength." ”

Speaking of this, she looked at the little monk again, "You just said that I sat opposite Master Ning Yuan and argued, three steps away, may I ask how I pierced Master Ning Yuan's chest with the power of four stones with my arm strength at a distance of three steps?" How many of the people present can do it? And if I stab him with my right hand, it will be right in his chest, and how can the arrow be tilted? ”

At this point, everyone present couldn't help but be surprised and stunned, and some even became indignant.

"Yes, not to mention a weak and delicate person like Xie Wulangjun, even a general who has been practicing martial arts all year round, it is impossible to be at a distance of three steps, empty-handed, piercing people's hearts by more than three inches, these three little monks are clearly framing this Xie Wulangjun."

"I really didn't expect that there would be such a treacherous villain in the land of Buddhism."

In the midst of everyone's discussions, another burst of applause came: "Yes, it's really wonderful!" Xie Xiaolangjun really deserves to be the son of the prince Xie Jingxiang, who is smart and beautiful, and has excellent eloquence. ”

"Saving one life is not compassion, saving a hundred lives is not compassion, and it is compassion to purify all sentient beings. It's the most brilliant debate I've ever heard. ”

As soon as this voice came, everyone looked at the people again, and saw that it was also a young man in a dark blue prince's uniform walking towards this side, this man was even a little similar to Xiao Tong, with a handsome face, handsome facial features, and a kind of royal nobility of a superior exuded from the inside out, but it was different from Xiao Tong's tolerance and elegance, and this man had an indescribable melancholy chill.

After the man glanced at Xie Ling, he immediately turned to Xiao Tong, raised his hand and saluted: "Imperial brother, my brother can testify, when this Xie Xiaolangjun was arguing with Master Ning Yuan here, my brother happened to pass by the gate of the temple, and he happened to hear an extremely wonderful debate, so he didn't make this trip in vain." ”

"It turned out to be His Royal Highness King Jin'an." At this time, Wang Yun also went to greet him.

Xie Ling is still a little stunned, yes, this man is Xiao Gang, the third son of Emperor Liang, was named King of Jin'an when he was three years old, and Xiao Tong and the fifth prince Xiao Xu is a mother and compatriots, all born to Ding Guifei, after the death of Xiao Tong in the previous life, Xiao Gang was named the prince caused the dissatisfaction of many Xiao family princes, and what is even more ridiculous is that even in this case, Emperor Xiao Yan of Liang still did not implement any policy like cutting Pan in order to keep Xiao Gang's position as the prince, not only that, but he also put Jingzhou, Jiangzhou, The military power of Yizhou and other important towns was handed over to the seventh son Xiao Yi and the eighth son Xiao Ji.

When Hou Jing attacked Jiankang, Xiao Yan sent a distress edict to his favorite seventh son Xiao Yi and eighth son Xiao Ji, but unfortunately what he didn't expect was that the two most favored sons didn't care about his life or death at all, but played a life-and-death battle game outside the city.

After the death of Emperor Liang, Hou Jing supported Xiao Gang as a puppet emperor, Xiao Gang was weak, and in order to please Hou Jing, he even gave his favorite Princess Liyang to Hou Jing to play with.

At that time, Princess Liyang was only about to be fourteen years old.

Thinking of that innocent girl, Xie Ling felt an unusual dull pain in his heart, and sometimes even wondered if she had agreed to Emperor Liang's marriage and married Liyang as a man, would she be able to change her fate.

The affection of the Xiao family is really outrageous.

While Xie Ling was thinking about this, the voices of several people came from outside the courtyard.

"Why is it so lively here, like something is going on? Fourth brother, let's go in and have a look! ”

When Xie Ling heard this, he saw that the three people who came from outside the courtyard were the fourth prince Xiao Ji, the fifth prince Xiao Xu, and the sixth prince Xiao Lun.

When the three princes were still young, they were full of spirit, and when they saw Xiao Tong, they saluted one after another, and behaved extremely brotherly and brotherly.

"Brother Huang, what happened, why are so many people gathered here?" The one who asked was Xiao Xu, the fifth prince, who was also the half-brother of Xiao Tong and Xiao Gang, Xu didn't notice that there were dead people here, Xiao Xu's face was actually full of smiles and bright spirits.

Xiao Gang hurriedly gave him a look, and only then did he glance at the corpse placed in front of the temple, and couldn't help but be startled, as if he was frightened, this look didn't look like a fake.

I really didn't expect that in addition to Xiao Yi, the seventh son of the emperor, Xiao Ji, the eighth son of the emperor, and Xiao Zong, the second prince who was still a traitor in the Northern Wei Dynasty, several princes of Emperor Liang actually arrived.

So was it one of them who was behind the assassination of the crown prince and her father?

Xie Ling looked at these princes and thought secretly.