Not long after, the three of them came to Zenko-in.

There were many people gathered outside the temple, and there were hundreds of devotees who came to worship, most of them crowded near the entrance, blocking seven or eight monks in the courtyard, and the crowd shouted and cursed excitedly, as if the murderous Pure Land Shinshu monks were the victims, while the Shingon monks who had died of their companions were heinous.

Seeing that it was completely different from the tragic scene of the monks and soldiers killing the ring as imagined, the three of them breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as there is no trouble and corpses are everywhere, there is still a way to deal with this matter.

Zhuang had seen three loan companions here before, and they were watching the excitement from the sidelines at this time.

Seeing everyone in the village, he hurriedly came over to greet him, and Gao Shisheng asked strangely, "Didn't the three of you go to buy wine and meat?" Couldn't you just be passing through here? ”

"The villain and the others came to the temple town to buy alcohol, but I didn't expect to encounter such a thing!" It was the oldest merchant who replied.

Machiba means market, market, etc., and the temple town of Zenko-in Temple is a place where villagers from several nearby villages buy and sell goods, and many merchants have set up stalls here.

"There are many people, and the villain opens the way for the insurance company."

After that, he helped Beizhuang Manjiro separate everyone, and shouted loudly in his mouth: "Zhuang Tou is here!" Hurry up and avoid it! Hurry up and avoid it! ”

Aoki Daizen also lifted the gong in his hand, and the "bell bell" slammed for a while before the hundreds of people gradually quieted down.

Gao Shisheng turned over and dismounted, pushed and shoved by the three loan companions in front, separated by a narrow road, and Aoki Daizen and Kitazhuang Manjiro followed behind, squeezed into the crowd, and arrived in the courtyard.

There was a mess in front of the altar, and there was a corpse lying directly underneath, with a monk's robe and a bald head, and it seemed that it should be the slain Shingon Sect ordination master.

Aoki Daizen is quite experienced in dealing with this kind of thing, and when he stepped forward, he was about to peel off the monk's shirt, and the other monks of the Shingon Sect saw him so unpolite, and their faces were a little worried, but they also knew that it was necessary to investigate the corpse at the scene, so it was not easy to disturb, so they didn't say anything.

Perhaps the murder scene was different from what he imagined, Gao Shisheng's performance was quite calm, squatting down to carefully examine the cause of the monk's death.

This monk was stabbed in the chest with a knife, the entire placket was soaked with blood, and the surrounding curtains and futons were stained with blood, except for the knife wound, there were no other serious wounds, other abrasions, cuts, etc. were not fatal, it seems that he was stabbed to death in the chest before falling from the stage, not by Shinzu Sun Ichiro who slashed to death with a knife.

Although the gap is very large, Gao Shisheng doesn't think that Sun Ichiro Shinjin lied, he was guarding the corner of the courtyard at the time, obviously far away from the stage, plus the murder was an emergency, and there was chaos after the killing, it was normal to see the difference, and there was no need for him to lie.

However, although Niizu Sun Ichiro did not lie, he obviously exaggerated the facts, and indeed died, but there were not dozens of people from the Shingon Sect, only seven or eight people, and there were only three or four monks dressed as soldiers, and the remaining dozen or so were also ordinary people, and they should be believers from the Shingon Sect.

When describing certain things, people can't help but exaggerate and add non-existent details in order to win the approval and belief of others in their words, and this is the case with Nichiro Shintsu.

Although Gao Shisheng would not punish him for this, he also gave him the impression of being careless and incompetent in his heart, and his words were from time to time.

According to his judgment, the monks of Shingon Buddhism rushed to the altar at that time, probably not desperately with the monks of Zenko-in, but to save people.

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The people were afraid of the officials, and when they saw the officers of the customs office coming to deal with it, the surrounding crowd gradually quieted down, turning from noise to whispering.

"This is the new head of the Hoji Sho?"

"Looks so young."

"I don't know how he will deal with it this time, the murder case will definitely not be solved, not to mention that the murderous official has already run away, and he doesn't dare to arrest it here."

Gao Shisheng got up, looked around, and said loudly: "Everyone, please be quiet! ”

As soon as he finished saying the word "silence", Aoki Dashan struck the gong twice, and the people saw that his face was sinking like water, so they silenced one after another, although there were still small muttering behind the crowd, at least it would not affect the normal questioning.

"Manjiro, you go to the meditation room to get pen and ink paper." After Gao Shisheng finished speaking, there was no need for him to give any more orders, and the two messengers who stayed here took the initiative to set up an offering table.

"Villain, Heiroku Kimura."

"Villain, Heihachi Kimura."

The errand officer who stayed at the scene knew that the head of the new village was coming, and took the initiative to come to greet him, the two were short and strong, with dark complexions, although they were brothers, they were not of the same birth, and the age difference was five or six years old.

Gao Shisheng nodded, signaling the two of them to step back for the time being.

"You are all the masters, please nominate someone to come and answer." Gao Shisheng turned around and said to the monks of the two families of Zenko-in and Umegawa-in.

It is obviously unrealistic to send someone to find the relatives of the slain monk now. The monks took the temple as their home and the Buddha as their business, and the companions who practiced together in Umegawain were considered to be relatives, and they witnessed the whole killing process, and they had to ask questions as usual.

The monks of Zenko-in Temple are on the murderer's side, and listening to the words of the onlookers, they should have run away, and without the other monks of Zenko-in Temple, these people would not have the courage to surround the monks of Umegawa-in, and the accomplice would definitely not be able to escape.

"The little monk is empty, and I have seen the head of Bao Si Zhuang." The Meichuan Academy didn't need to be elected, a monk of the same age as Gao Shisheng took the initiative to stand up and reply.

"Poor monk Zhenghong, you are polite here." The owner of Zenko-in Temple, a middle-aged monk, replied with a sad face.

"This matter, but it was caused by your two sects?"

The two glanced at each other, nodded yes in unison, and Gao Shisheng spread out the paper, ready to take notes to inquire.

"Junfu Fadu, the order prohibits the "sectarian theory", have you two ever known? ”

The two of them didn't know what he meant, but nodded.

"At the time of the crime, both of you took the initiative to participate, right?"

This time, the two shook their heads together, denying death.

The two sects caused the fight and the death was purely accidental, not deliberate, and of course I don't want to admit it.

"Where's the murderer?" After a pause, he continued to ask.

"I fled with people, and the little monk wanted to take people to chase after me, but someone among the people took the lead in blocking us in the courtyard." Gao Shisheng asked that it was Zhenghong, the head of Zenko-in-ain, but it was the monk of Meichuan Temple who replied, and his words were indignant.

"Those leaders, please step forward, I have a few questions to ask?"

This time, no one responded at all, not only did no one come forward, but a few timid people even moved back, and the crowd shook again.

The Kimura brothers volunteered and stepped forward to arrest them.

Taking advantage of this time, he asked again: "Master Zhenghong Academy, Master Pure Sky, do you two want the county officials to judge this matter, or are you private?" ”

"You must know the laws of Junfu: the noise is a failure! The lawyer of the fight lawsuit is the first to talk about the subject of fighting, and the second is to sue for lawsuits. Fadu said: Fighting is fighting, and striking each other is fighting. If a man who strikes with his hands and feet has 30 rods, and if he hurts with something else has 60 rods, and if he sees blood as a wound, then those who are not siblings are all other things, even if they are not blades. Speaking of this, he looked around at the people around him and said coldly: "The murderer is a thief, and the thief deserves death!" ”

Since Huan Wu to the present, it is as follows, and the law of training is the law of fighting. As far as Kamakura, most of the people are falsely accusing each other with lawsuits, which is called fighting lawsuits. In the early years of the founding of Muromachi, litigation became commonplace, and the harm was especially that of thieves, and it was necessary to prevent lawsuits, so the crime was second to that of thieves.

The Toe Gao clan was born in the Musashi Ueno high-level clan, and since Kamakura was in charge of the samurai law, the high-ranking people in the clan such as the brothers of the high master, who once followed the Ashikaga clan to the Southern Dynasty, and was in power, and many laws and regulations were compulsory family studies for the children of the Gao family.

The law of the Sunfu is mostly based on the old Kamakura precepts, and all the parties to the fight, regardless of whether it is right or wrong, must first take the scepter of 30 each for the crime of fighting, and the main reason is that at the beginning of the samurai, there was a tradition of fighting and fighting.

Since the Heidai Prime Minister Kiyomori took control of the government, the wealthy families of various countries vied with each other to serve the powerful and used each other's lawsuits and private fights as a way to publicize their own origins and the power of the lord behind them, so the casualties caused were even more serious than the thieves' rebellions, and the shogunate simply raised the charge of suing and fighting to the point of being second only to the thieves' rebellion for the sake of the stability of the government and the opposition, and severely punished them.

The facts of the case are clear, and there is no need for excessive investigation. Now it depends on the plans of the two monasteries, but it is more difficult to deal with these people who are gathered and scattered.

The Kimura brothers had already dragged out the two people who had taken the lead in making trouble before, and waited for Gao Shisheng to interrogate.

Note 1: The law is from the eighth volume of the Tang Laws and Discussions, with slight changes.

Mainly on the Internet, the "Kamakura Documentary" is a scanned version of the picture version, it is difficult to find the information you want accurately, the author simply quoted the legal provisions of the Tang Dynasty, but the wealthy families were among each other, and private lawsuits and private fights were common until the Edo Shogunate, and the Kamakura Shogunate dealt with it, and the scattered people were not very clear, but the Tokugawa family has always been a serious crime.

Note 2: It is not surprising that the Ueno Takashi clan was a well-known scholar of the Shogunate of the Three Dynasties in Kamakura, Muromachi, and Edo, and was a leader of the samurai family in modern times.