Volume 2: The Red Lotus Case of the Ancient Temple Chapter 46: The Arsonist
"It was the twentieth day of the seventh month, about four o'clock. I couldn't sleep, so I planned to walk around and just look at the night view of the temple. Li Wan'er said while reminiscing.
"Uncle Meng accompanied me to wander around the Daxiong Treasure Hall, after all, it has the widest view."
"However, since my existence cannot be known to the abbot and anyone outside of the Pure Heart and Pure Dharma, we carefully avoided the three monks on patrol."
"I wandered around for a long time, that is, around midnight, and was about to go back to the south courtyard to rest, when I saw a monk sneakily walking towards the Daxiong Treasure Hall."
"Wait, around the hour? Isn't it a moment? Duan Ming asked.
"Well, I can't remember the time." Li Wan'er tried hard to recall, and then looked at Meng Lao: "Uncle Meng, do you remember?" ”
"The old man didn't care at the time." Meng Lao shook his head.
"Okay, let's ask the county lord to continue." Duan Ming nodded.
"I didn't care about it at the time, and I was a little tired, so I went straight back to the wing." Li Wan'er said.
"Just as I was about to rest, the flames rose and lit up half of the sky."
"When we arrived, we found that it was the Daxiong Treasure Hall that caught fire, so I thought of the monk on that day."
"I've been secretly searching for the monk's whereabouts for the last few days, and I finally found him the night before yesterday." The more Li Wan'er spoke, the brighter her eyes became: "By the way, on the night when your room where the corpse was on fire, I saw him sneaking around in your yard. ”
"So, the morgue is on fire, and this man did it!" Duan Ming's eyes narrowed slightly: "And the female bodhisattva that the little monk Mingde said is the county lord." ”
"I guess too! So I've been following him for the past two days! Li Wan'er sighed: "But he hasn't done anything in the past two days, and he doesn't look the slightest different from other monks." ”
"County Lord, who is that person?" Xing Qianqiu said in a deep voice.
"The fire-headed monk in the kitchen, Fakong!" Li Wan'er said.
"Thank you." Xing Qianqiu nodded, then looked at Duan Ming: "Mr. Duan." ”
"Let's go! Thank you for the clues! Duan Ming nodded, and after thanking Li Wan'er, they went to the West Courtyard together.
Soon Duan Ming and Xing Qianqiu had already come to the West Courtyard, and happened to meet the little monk Mingde.
The little monk Mingde wanted to run when he saw the two, but he was caught by Xing Qianqiu.
"Little Master Mingde, what are you running for?" Duan Ming asked with a smile.
"Amitabha, Master Pure Heart said that when you see someone you don't want to see, just run away." The little monk Mingde said: "The little monk didn't want to see you, so he naturally ran away. ”
"You're direct." Duan Ming smiled and shook his head: "We are not here to find you this time, we are looking for Fakong, do you know where he is?" ”
"Master Fakong? You're looking for him too? The little monk Mingde said suspiciously.
"Looking for it too? Who else is looking for him? Duan Ming frowned.
"Master of Pure Heart!" The little monk Mingde said, "Master Fakong went down the mountain early in the morning to purchase, but he hasn't come back until now, and Master Pure Heart is worried about him." ”
"Coming down early in the morning?" Duan Ming and Xing Qianqiu glanced at each other, then let go of the little monk Mingde and quickly rushed back to the north courtyard.
Returning to the North Courtyard, after Xing Qianqiu sent Duan Ming back to the wing, he directly led people down the mountain to arrest Fakong.
Looking at Xing Qianqiu, who had left in a hurry, Duan Ming sighed deeply, and then prepared to rest.
Wait until tomorrow when Torture Qianqiu will arrest Fa Ming back, maybe all the truth will be revealed!
The sky was full of dark clouds, and there was no starlight, and Duan Ming slowly walked along the rugged mountain road with the lantern in his hand.
He didn't know where he was, he didn't know where he was going, he just knew he needed to move on.
Walking, walking, walking, I don't know how long I walked, a ruined temple appeared in front of Duan Ming's eyes.
Duan Ming walked into the ruined temple and lit the candles in the temple, the dim candlelight flickered, illuminating the scene in the temple.
A huge ancient Buddha stands in the center of the ruined temple, the ancient Buddha's eyes are slightly narrowed, and there is a faint smile on his face, which makes people feel at peace when they look at it.
Suddenly, a gust of wind blew in, and the candle fell to the ground, and the candle lit the hay on the ground, and the flame burst into flames.
Duan Ming wanted to run, but he couldn't run at all, he felt as if he had been hit by the immobilization technique, and he couldn't move at all.
Soon, a raging fire was already burning around, and under the light of the fire, the originally kind Buddha turned into a piece of gold!
The slightly narrowed eyes slowly opened, revealing the blood-red eyes inside, looking at Duan Ming's chest.
Duan Ming felt that his body had regained consciousness at this time, and when he looked down, he saw that there was already an extra pattern of a blood lotus on his chest!
In the next second, the flames burned brightly, engulfing him.
"Ahh Duan Ming sat up suddenly, his forehead was covered with sweat, what he had just done was a nightmare.
However, before Duan Ming could breathe a sigh of relief, a scorching breath came to his face, followed by a choking smell.
Duan Ming turned his head and saw that his entire wing room had already burned!
"Oops!" As soon as Duan Ming's face changed, he wanted to escape from here quickly, but at this moment, the fire was already very dangerous, and he couldn't escape at all!
At this moment, the outside of the wing room was already in chaos, and Xu Shizhong was sweating profusely and commanding everyone to extinguish the fire.
Although the Spiegel Division had made a lot of preparations to prevent another fire, firstly, many officials of the Spiegel Division had been taken away by Xing Qianqiu to arrest Fakong, and secondly, this unprovoked fire was too big, so they couldn't contain the fire for a while!
"Mr. Duan, Mr. Duan!" Xu Shizhong shouted desperately while splashing water, his eyes full of despair.
Duan Ming was invited by them, and the guards were also made by them, if Duan Ming died here......
Xu Shizhong didn't dare to imagine what would happen if he learned of Duan Ming's death when Xing Qianqiu came back!
And at this moment, Duan Ming in the wing room was also about to despair, he held a cloth soaked with his own urine and blocked his mouth and nose, trying to find a way out, but there was no way out at all.
"Haha, hahaha......" Suddenly Duan Ming suddenly laughed, leaning back and laughing, laughing out of tears.
He is most afraid of death, whether it is in the previous life or in this life, he has tried his best to live.
Especially since the last time he was attacked in the Spiegel Division and saw Sun Cheng die, he was even more afraid of death.
Therefore, in this case, except for taking a little risk when tracking Li Wan'er, he has always been extremely careful.
And yet in spite of this, he was still going to die!
Just as Duan Ming was thinking wildly, he felt that his brain was getting heavier and heavier, and his consciousness began to become blurry.
The cloth that was wet in a hurry couldn't last long after all, and Duan Ming knew what would happen next.
He would have been knocked unconscious from inhaling an overdose of smoke, and then quietly burned to death in this room, and there was no other possibility.
And just when Duan Ming was about to lose consciousness, a muffled sound of "bang" came into his ears, and then a figure broke through the window and rushed in......