There are more than a dozen little monks in the courtyard who are holding brooms in their hands to sweep the fallen leaves that float from nowhere, and a few of them have good eyesight, but they just pause and bow to them and sing the Buddha's name.

In order not to attract their attention, Lin Yuner deliberately took Ziwei in a circle in the square, the sweeping monks seemed to be not surprised, but ordinary pilgrims wanted to come and shop, to the west of the courtyard, Lin Yuner saw a dark alley in the distance, there is a small corner gate at the end of the dark alley, and on both sides of this corner gate, there are two people guarding, these two people are dressed almost the same as the prison of Dali Temple, I think they are the errand servants in Dali Temple.

There is no road on both sides of the dark alley, and there is only this dark alley at the corner gate, no matter how it passes, it will definitely be discovered by the two errands at the corner gate, how is this good? Is it true that you can't get in? It was getting late, and Lin Yun'er just walked around, and then entered the largest main hall in the middle, the Shoulu Hall.

When Lin Yun'er entered the door, he saw the bright yellow wall in the innermost part of the hall, and there was a big word "law" written on the wall, which made the law hall solemn in an instant. Just as Lin Yun'er was about to go inside, a monk came to him, this monk was a head taller than Lin Yun'er, with a beautiful face, estimated to be eighteen or nineteen years old, and when she got closer, she saw that this person was Hui Xin, who took the lead in capturing Long Wu that day, and he was followed by a little monk, who looked only seven or eight years old, and was Hui Yuan, who testified against Long Wu that day.

Lin Yun'er took the lead in saluting and said, "Master Huixin, you're polite." ”

Huixin clasped his hands together and sang a Buddha name, "Lord Huang Shi, your family is innocent under the investigation of the prince and Bi Shaoqing of Dali Temple. Isn't the donor coming to call what? ”

Lin Yun'er smiled and said, "That guard is innocent, I have never doubted this, but the prince has allowed the child to live in the temple tonight, the weather is hot, I just want to ask your temple for some ice, I wonder if Master Huixin can agree?" ”

Huixin clasped his hands together, lowered his eyes, and said, "This temple does have an ice cellar, but it is hot in summer, and it is not easy to store ice. ”

"It's okay, just have ice." Lin Yuner said.

Hui Xin continued, "Then please ask the donor to go back to the guest house first, and the ice can be served." ”

"Thank you, Master Huixin." Lin Yun'er bowed in thanks, then turned her head and left.

Less than a hundred steps out of the Shoulu Academy, Ziwei followed behind her and asked softly, "Lady, aren't we going?" ”

Lin Wan'er shook her head, "No, let's wait." ”

"What are you waiting for?" Ziwei Road.

"Wait for the little master to send the ice over." Lin Yun'er smiled and knocked on Ziwei's head.

It didn't take long for a little monk to really come to Lin Yun'er's room with a basin of ice, Ziwei took the basin, but saw that the ice in the basin was only a small piece of broken ice, and her mouth was full of disgust, "Lady, you see, this Master Huixin is really picking on the door, but there are only some broken ice." ”

Lin Yun'er didn't dislike it, and said, "There are nobles in the temple, and they should give the best to the most noble people, and it's already very good to be able to take our turn." As she spoke, she stuffed two candles and a fire breaker into her bosom, "Girl, I'm about to pour the ice." ”

"Why?" Ziwei was puzzled and at a loss for what to do with the pot.

"Let you pour it, pour it, and when you pour it, bring the basin up." Then she walked out the door.

At this time, the sky had already been dark, if it weren't for the moonlight, Lin Yun'er would have been unable to find the north, about half a pillar of incense time, the two of them came to the door of the Shoulu Academy, Lin Yun'er probed inside, there was really no one in the courtyard, counting the time, about to go to the evening class, not far away there were bursts of wooden fish accompanied by the sound of chanting, the abbot's body was placed in the universal hall, the monks would not have much more thought to care about her strengths.

Lin Wan'er walked to the dark alley in the west, and the two errand guards at the corner door in the depths of the dark alley were still standing, Lin Yun'er paused, and whispered to Ziwei, "For a while, you just don't have to be nervous, everything has me." ”

"Yes, lady." Ziwei looked like she was at home, which made Lin Yun'er angry and funny.

The two of them paused, and Lin Yun'er walked steadily towards the dark alley.

When he walked to the corner gate, he was stopped by the two messengers. "Who's coming?"

Lin Yun'er bowed and said, "The two officials, the son is the aunt of the Huang family who is authorized by the prince to live in the temple today, just because the weather is hot, in the evening, I asked Master Huixin for a basin of ice, but unfortunately it ran out, so I asked the little master in the temple, saying that Master Huixin led the masters to chant to the abbot. ”

There are no female dependents in the temple, and there is only one female dependent in the temple today, and there is no second ice cellar in the temple, so the two messengers glanced at each other, and one of them said, "Since the Huang family lady came in person, then please do it." The other man took the key from his waist and opened the little corner door with a "click".

The door squeaked open, and the errand who spoke wanted to take over the basin, "Yellow lady, it's cold inside, let's do it for you." ”

Ziwei hurriedly put the basin on her chest and said, "It's just a few pieces of ice, so I won't bother the two officials." ”

"This ......" the man was speechless for a while, and Lin Yun'er said, "Don't blame this official, I really want to see how much ice there is in the ice cellar of this Jifu Temple, compared to my Huangfu." ”

The servants thought that Lin Yun'er was their daughter's family, so they laughed and said, "This mountain temple doesn't need to serve Lang's Mansion, the lady should go and come back quickly, don't freeze." ”

"Thank you, two officials."

As soon as she took a step further, Lin Yun'er felt a piercing coldness, it was pitch black inside, Ziwei carried a lantern from the hands of the two errand officers, and guided her in front, the cold wall seemed to be an endless abyss, she had never seen an ice cellar like this.

A few steps into the door is a flat ground, and if you go inside, you have to walk down a number of steps, not many steps, about a dozen, but a little steep, so she both leaned against the wall and walked down one after the other.

Lin Yun'er touched the wall, it was a little uneven, she motioned for Ziwei to bring the light closer, and she saw that this ice cellar was actually a huge rock cave, this cave is impermeable on all sides, and the temperature is constant all year round, so it can just store ice. She looked at the ground again, and it was smooth, and she tried to crouch down and tap it with her hand, and it was a whole piece of marble, neat and smooth natural marble. Although the marble is natural, the smoothness of the ground is considered to be smooth. For a moment she admired the Creator, which was obviously a natural ice cellar.

Walk to the last step, a radius of ten steps in a vacant space, a few steps into the inside are a wooden box, this wooden box is about the same size, about four feet long, about three feet wide, about two feet high, it is estimated that there are about fifty or sixty, these wooden boxes are sealed, this is the temple people to store ice, in the middle is the aisle, the aisle is on both sides of the box, Ziwei found an open box, said, "Lady, come and see, I see that the little master is taking the crushed ice in this box for us." ”

Lin Yun'er stepped forward to take a look, and sure enough, the entire box was full of broken ice.

Ziwei placed the candle flame in her hand on a protrusion on the wall, and the candle flame instantly lit up the entire ice cellar as if it was reflected, and this moment of lighting made Lin Yun'er be surprised.

With the help of the reflected light, Lin Yun'er probed deeper into the ice cellar, but found that there were five or six large boxes in the depths, Lin Yun'er pointed to those boxes and said to Ziwei, "Girl, go inside and see which boxes are empty." ”

"Whoa!" Ziwei responded crisply, and hurriedly trotted to the big boxes inside. knocked on the wall of the box, but heard that it was hollow inside, and she excitedly shouted to Lin Yun'er, "Lady, these boxes are empty." ”

Lin Yun'er followed the sound and motioned to Ziwei to open the boxes together, which were empty, but Lin Yun'er actually smelled a little different when she opened the boxes, "Girl, do you smell something else?" ”

Ziwei sniffed and nodded, she pointed to one of them, "The smell seems to be only after opening this box, like the smell of pine and cypress laurel trees, lady, this temple is full of the smell of pine and cypress laurel trees, what is so strange about some of these smells here?" ”

A smile flashed on Lin Yun'er's face, "It's really not unusual. This is the first time in her life that she has been so close to the scene of the crime, and if she is not nervous, it must be negative, but she does not know that this crime scene is so cold.

She probed into the box, and she didn't see half of the ice in it, but she found a few cotton threads of monk's robes at the junction of the wood of the box, Lin Yun'er rummaged through several other empty boxes, they were empty, she was slightly disappointed, the abbot died in the ice cellar was said by the prince, and the prince should not joke about this matter, but this place has obviously been checked, and it is already extremely good to be able to find a few cotton threads, but Lin Yun'er feels that there seems to be something strange in it.

"Lady, we found the evidence." Ziwei saw that Lin Yun'er was a little worried, and hurriedly pointed to the thread in Lin Yun'er's hand to make her happy.

Lin Yun'er fell into deep thought, first, there is only one ice cellar, why did the abbot come here? Second, the prince said that the abbot was dragged to the ice cellar after being stunned by the medicine, which barely makes sense, but there is only one road to the west of the ice cellar, why does no one see it? Third, even if the above makes sense, but what about the time to kill? What about motivation? First dizzy, and then dragged in to freeze to death, I am afraid that it was premeditated, the abbot was born as a martial artist, and Jifu Temple has many ways to strengthen the body, and was frozen to death? I'm afraid it's mysterious.

Thinking of this, Lin Yun'er got up angrily, "Ziwei, let's go back." ”

Ziwei immediately got up, and when she saw the anger on her mother's face, she only said that her own lady was annoyed because she couldn't find a clue, so she hurriedly followed and comforted, "Lady, don't worry, there are no clues here, let's go to other places to find it." ”

As soon as he walked from the bottom to the highest step, the door was pulled out by a very powerful force, and there was a muffled "bang", and then there was a "click" outside the door. The door seemed to be locked.

Ziwei hurriedly stepped forward and pulled the door in, but she didn't move.