The murder came to the door, and now the question of where the murderer is hiding has become a thorny one.

When he withdrew from the murderer's house, Gao Zhan stared at the lock on the door and asked, "Where do you think this person will be hiding at this moment?" ”

"Beggars." Bai Li also stared at the lock: "There is no dust on this door lock, and the surface of the copper lock has been touched and stained with oil." These oils are not the kind of oil used for ordinary meals and cooking, but the oil that flows from the bodies of animals. To be clear, it should have been left over from eating something like pig's trotters. Because the grease was on the hands and the hands were not cleaned, there were other things mixed in the grease, such as this soot. ”

"Carbon ash?" Xiao Yu quickly approached the door lock, and sure enough, he found something on the door lock. "This door lock is quite new, the keyhole is not worn high, it should have been specially bought by the murderer before he left the house, and it has never been opened since it was locked. The surface of the lock body does have the oil stain that the white girl just said. Well, there are some air-dried meat crumbs, and judging by the shape, they must have been bitten by teeth. There is indeed soot in the oil. ”

"The girl was killed after Bai Ze and I left Huaxi Town, and in that season, ordinary people don't use charcoal stoves. Think about it, where would this soot come from? ”

"In the ruined temple." Gao Zhan's eyes lit up: "In addition to the Yiyi Temple, there is also an abandoned temple in this town. This temple is called Huayuan Temple, which was originally used for people to seek marriage. Later, for some reason, this Huayuan Temple was dilapidated, and the incense withered not to mention, even the temple became dilapidated. The beggars in the town and some people who were homeless because of illness would stay at the temple for a while. The original kitchen in the temple was burned down in a natural fire, because no one took the money to repair it, these people living in the temple had no place to cook, they all gathered some charcoal fires, and used these charcoal fires to make some simple food, such as roasting steamed buns, boiling water, etc. ”

"You know so well, haven't you been?" Bai Li asked jokingly.

"What's so strange about being there?" Gao Zhan glanced back at her: "This beggar is found in every town, and he belongs to the kind of people who are both annoying and hateful, but have to ask when they encounter something." For they roam the streets all day long, seeing many people and hearing many things, and they know almost all the things they can know and what they cannot know. Sometimes, in order to solve the case as soon as possible, I will also go to Huayuan Temple to chat with those beggars, and I have a small harvest. ”

"In that case, then please lead the way." Bai Li made a gesture of invitation, and when Gao Zhan passed by him, he said to himself: "Why does this Huayuan Temple sound so familiar?" I remember, is this temple related to a fox demon? ”

"There is no fox demon in this world, it's just an infatuated woman who meets a negative man." The little catcher who followed behind Bai Li quickly curled the corners of his mouth in disdain. "The people in this town know that Huayuan Temple is for marriage, but they don't know why this temple can ask for marriage."

"You know?" Bai Li looked at the little catcher.

"Of course I do." Xiao Yu quickly raised his chin: "My grandmother has taken care of Huayuan Temple for many years. ”

"Tell me about it." Bai Li smiled, and made the little catcher blush suddenly.

"This is a very common story. What's unusual about it is that it's not all stories, because some of the things in it are true.

It is said that a long, long time ago, a white fox who was injured by Orion met a scholar who was about to go to Beijing to take the exam. When the scholar saw that the white fox was injured, he couldn't bear to leave it in the mountains and forests to die, so he picked it up and took it back to the inn. When the white fox recovered, the scholar released it back into the forest, and said that he would come to see it again and share the joy with it when he came to high school in Japan. ”

"This scholar is in high school?" Bai Li asked, vaguely feeling that this story was inexplicably familiar.

"No, he's gone. The depressed scholar did not forget the agreement between him and the white fox, and he returned to the mountain forest where the white fox was released with a heart full of loneliness. At first, he didn't see the white fox, but complained to the whole mountain forest with a full depression. In the end, he was so unbearable that he wanted to end his life in the mountains and forests.

It turned out that this scholar had already lost his parents, and in order to be able to scrape together enough silver taels to go to Beijing to catch the exam, he had already sold his family's farm house before leaving his hometown. If you can go to high school, you don't have to worry about where to go and where to go. But he fell behind, this Luodi Xiucai was penniless, and he had no land to rely on, even if he went home, he was just waiting for death in the countryside, which made people laugh at it.

Just as he put his head into the rope made of his belt, the rope suddenly loosened.

It turned out that it was a beautiful girl dressed as a hunter who saved him.

This beautiful girl is actually changed by the white fox, and the reason why she saved the scholar is to repay his former lifesaver.

The scholar didn't know the true identity of the white fox, and was not only surprised by her beauty, but also grateful for her life-saving grace, and fell in love with her at first sight. After getting along for a few days, the two married with heaven and earth as a matchmaker.

In the following three years, the two were very affectionate, but the scholar had a slight regret. Because of the three-year marriage, the wife has never come out. Scholar, who is considered to be ambitious, has never given up studying for the examination in the past three years, and has never forgotten the glorious lintel. The wife conjured up by the white fox is to take care of him with all her heart.

Three years later, the imperial court held the imperial examination again, and the scholar went to high school in one fell swoop and became the top champion of the year.

The protégé of the Son of Heaven, the scenery is infinite, and the young and promising scholar was immediately favored by a powerful minister in the court. The minister wanted to marry his only beloved daughter to him.

The scholar politely refused, and indicated to the minister that he already had a wife in the family. The daughter of a powerful minister is a daughter, how can she serve a husband with others.

Since the minister is a minister, it means that this person is not easy to offend, and he cannot be offended. Since he took a fancy to the scholar, how could he change his mind because the scholar already had a wife in his family. So he hinted to the scholar that if he still wanted to make a big show, he would divorce the bad wife in the family. If not, even if he is a protégé of the Son of Heaven, the ministers have a way to make him have a bleak future and be depressed for a lifetime.

The scholar is in a dilemma, on the one hand, he is reluctant to have a beautiful wife at home, and on the other hand, he is reluctant to get the top prize after ten years of hard study.

In the end, the scholar failed to resist the grace and power of the ministers, let alone the temptation of fame and fortune, glory and wealth, he divorced his wife on the grounds that his wife had not come out for three years and had no queen in the family, and then married the daughter of the minister.

The white fox was suspended, and he was in pain. Although she is a fox, she is a person who is infatuated, and after three years of getting along day and night, she has long regarded scholars as the most important person in her life. But she is a fox after all, and she can't give birth to a scholar. Therefore, even if he knew that the scholar was empathetic and greedy for wealth, he couldn't bear to poke it and waited silently.

However, there were unforeseen storms, and the daughter of the powerful minister died of dystocia in the second year of marrying the scholar, and both mother and daughter died. Quan Chen lost his beloved daughter, and in grief, he asked the scholar to bury his daughter and granddaughter. ”

"Is this book dead or dead?"

"I didn't die, I was saved by the white fox." Xiao Yu quickly pouted: "But the scholar who was rescued lied that his wife and daughter were killed by the white fox, sent the white fox to the minister's mansion, and asked the minister to execute him to avenge his wife and daughter." ”

"Is this white fox dead?"

"There are two endings to the story. This first one, it was said that the white fox was angry, and led the demon fire to burn the mansion of the minister, burned the minister and the scholar to death, and then fled into the mountains and forests, without a trace. The second is that it was a ploy for the scholar to send the white fox to the minister's mansion, in order to kill the minister and avoid future troubles. After the death of the minister, the white fox and the scholar returned to the mountains and forests and became a fairy couple who did not love the world. ”

"According to the scholar's conduct, I think this first one is more like the real one." Bai Li pondered.

"None of it is true." Xiao Yu shook his head quickly: "White girl, do you remember what I said before I told this story?" I said, this story is half true and half false. A hundred years ago, there was indeed a champion in Huaxi Town, and this champion was indeed favored by the ministers and selected as a son-in-law. He did have a poor wife, who relied on making tofu and selling tofu to send him to the position of champion Lang. But after all, he failed his wife for the sake of glory and wealth.

If it's just a disappointment, it's okay, what's even more hateful is that when his wife and daughter had a difficult birth and the minister scolded him, he pushed all this on his wife who had already been divorced, and lied that his wife was the reincarnation of the demon fox, and the reason why the daughter of the minister had a difficult birth was all the devil's fox.

Quan Chen didn't care about human life, not to mention that this person was still the wife of his son-in-law, no matter whether what the son-in-law said was true or not, it was always right to take the opportunity to kill him. The weather is dry and dry, and it is inevitable that there will be water, but the poor woman was burned alive like this. ”

"And then?"

Then a plant suddenly grew on the scorched earth, the rhizome and leaves were red, but it bloomed a palm-sized white flower. Everyone said that the white fox apparition, so they built a temple on the scorched earth and named it Huayuan Temple. And because the name of this temple has a flower in it, it has inexplicably become a place for women in the town to seek marriage. To this kind of place to seek marriage, how can it work, after a long time, this Huayuan Temple will be dilapidated and lonely. If the white girl is interested, she can go to the backyard of the flower temple to have a look, and it is said that the flowers are still there. ”