Standing on the shore of the small lake in the backyard, Li Xuan looked around, his eyes fell on the well in the backyard, and nodded suddenly.

He now knew how Ming Chongyan had dug up this secret room.

As soon as Li Xuan raised his head, Zhao Gong shook his head and said, "I have asked, the servants and subordinates in the courtyard don't know anything about the secret room here." ”

"Then have they seen anyone come here, come to this mansion, stay for more than half an hour before leaving?" Li Xuan asked subconsciously.

"No, Shiyin Zhenren rarely brings any friends here, and other official affairs are basically handled in the palace, as for the people of the Ming family, Shiyin Zhenren is not allowed to come to Luoyang with them on weekdays." Zhao Gong shook his head, these situations have already been investigated by the secret guards.

"In this way, there are a lot of secrets in this mansion." Li Xuan looked at the secret room at his feet, his eyes narrowing slightly.

Before, he had been focusing on the incident where Li Jingye helped Li Xian get rid of the crime, and did not pay attention to other aspects of him.

Now it seems that Ming Chongyan may have a big secret here.

"You're thinking too much." Zhao Gong unceremoniously pointed out the mistake in Li Xuan's thoughts, shook his head, and said: "This is just a place used by Shiyin Zhenren to meditate and rest for himself, and occasionally try some pills, and even if it is alchemy, he is more in the palace." ”

"So, the guards have already searched this place inside and out?" Li Xuan understood the hidden meaning of Zhao Gong's words.

Yuan Wanqing has been in charge of this case for such a long time, and everything that should be investigated and can be investigated has been investigated clearly.

Where will there be much leeway for Li Xuan.

"It seems that the nephew's only chance is this secret room." Li Xuan smiled bitterly and walked to the well, his eyes fell, and he couldn't see the location of the secret room at a glance.

But the reflection from the bottom of the water exposed a ray of fire.

"Let's go." Zhao Gong was the first to climb down, and soon came to the entrance of the secret door, and he pushed three wall tiles in turn.

In the next moment, a brick wall that was one person high had slid open in both directions.

Li Xuan's footsteps stopped at the door, stretched out his hand and touched it, and said as if he had realized something: "The mechanism here is quite ingenious. ”

In fact, it is clever, but it is just an ordinary method.

But this ordinary means is also relative, some masters can easily open this secret door, but except for those masters, it is not so easy for other craftsmen to make it so smooth.

Zhao Gong stopped, looked at the position where Li Xuan was standing, nodded solemnly and said: "We haven't thought about the direction you said, we have asked the neighbors around us, asked Fang Zheng, and also asked the officials of Henan County, the master book, no one knows that a secret room was excavated here, and then we didn't check it again." ”

"The secret guard did a good job, and this matter is actually not easy to investigate." Li Xuan shook his head and said: "The Ministry of Works, the prison will be the prison, the inner house, the mausoleum, there are countless masters in the world, it is indeed not easy to find the craftsmen who built here." ”

"But it's also a direction." Zhao Gong shook his head slightly, no matter how he can investigate, he can make progress, even if the direction is crooked, he can explain to the above.

"Then it's up to the guards to investigate." Li Xuan smiled, and then reminded: "Uncle, I haven't known about this matter for so long, so either the craftsmen who built the mausoleum were used here, or the Shaofu did it by the way when he was building Luoyang City. ”

"Hmm!" Zhao Gong nodded and wrote it down, and said, "Let's go, let's take a look inside." ”

Zhao Gong took the lead, and at the end of the passage less than one zhang, there was a secret room with a length and width of about three zhang.

On both sides of the chamber were eight medicine shelves, on which were placed dense medicinal herbs, some of which had even dried up completely.

Li Xuan stood next to the medicine tripod in the center of the secret room, looked at the medicinal materials on both sides, sighed lightly, and said: "Shiyin Zhenren should usually come here and maintain the medicinal materials by himself, but looking at the current situation of these medicinal materials, it can be roughly inferred that the accident time of Shiyin Zhenren." ”

"Yes, it should be after he left Chang'an in the first month of the year, and two months later." Zhao Gong nodded, such an obvious clue, they wouldn't fail to find out.

"The last time to maintain the herbs should be in January, and after January, either they don't come again, or they come again, and there is no chance." Li Xuan sighed softly.

"You still suspect that corpse, not Ming Chongyan?" Zhao Gong stood on the position of the futon in the depths of the secret room.

Li Xuan shook his head calmly and said, "It's just hard for my nephew to accept that the famous Shiyin Zhenren died silently in such a secret room, and there are no wounds on his body. ”

"His death doesn't have to be so earth-shattering." Zhao Gong couldn't help but smile, looked around, and said: "In the entire secret room, the secret guards, Dali Temple, Qianniuwei and the Criminal Department have all checked in detail more than once, and it was not easy for my uncle to restore everything." ”

Li Xuan nodded silently and said, "There are always some things that others have neglected, uncle, don't worry." ”

In this case, it was nominally Zhao Gong who was investigating and Li Xuan assisted, but in fact, it was Li Xuan who was investigating and Zhao Gong assisted.

Although Zhao Gong also has ability, his ability is not in the investigation of cases.

"It's these three books that make people feel that the real people in the world are crazy and died." Zhao Gong's eyes fell on the "Diamond Sutra", "Tao Te Ching" and "Spring and Autumn" in front of the futon, and his expression was complicated for a while.

The foundation of Ming Chongyan's practice is "Yi".

Daomen and Confucianism both have the absorption and induction of Yi, although there are differences, but there are still a lot of Confucianism and Taoism.

But with the addition of the Diamond Sutra, this is more troublesome.

The unity of the three religions is not impossible, but it is in a rather weak position.

Among them, the three classics themselves have their own self.

Trying to find commonalities among the three selves is far from being something that one person can do.

It takes generations, painstaking research, and even generations of dedication, even sacrifice.

"It looks like that, but it's not at all." Li Xuan shook his head slightly and said: "The Ming family does study Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism, but when it comes to the integration of the three religions, they have not achieved much. ”

Li Xuan looked up at Zhao Gong and said seriously: "If this method is done in a remote place, but if it is put in Chang'an, once it is detected, no one will tolerate him from Taoism, Buddhism, or Confucianism...... How smart Shiyin Zhenren is, how could he do such a thing, and he did it at the risk of life and death. ”

Ming Chongyan is ambitious, very ambitious, and it is precisely because of this that he will never easily try anything to integrate the three religions.

Even Wang Chongyang in later generations was only able to achieve something in the turbulent times of the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty.

Now that the prosperous world, Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism are all prominent in the world, how can they let others integrate the three religions.

Ming Chongyan thought about it secretly, if he was mainly Taoist and did not endanger himself, it would be slightly easier to think of Confucianism and Buddhism, which was no problem, but let him forcibly unite the three religions, and if there was no way, the three religions would be one, and he would simply be looking for death.

If he really did such a thing, the first Empress Wu would not let him go.

"Okay, if you have any thoughts in your heart, let's talk about them." Zhao Gong looked at Li Xuan, at the moment, this case must have a clear idea if it is to be solved.

"First of all, whether the dead person is a real person in the world, the nephew has not seen the corpse, and he does not make a conclusion, so there are two possibilities, yes or no." Li Xuan groaned and said carefully: "If yes, then is it suicide, or is it murder?" ”

Zhao Gong nodded and motioned for Li Xuan to continue.

Li Xuan took a light breath and said, "If it is suicide, how can the meridians conflict; If he killed, who killed it, this is obviously not the place where the crime occurred, then where is the place where the crime occurred.

Second, if that person is not a real person, then who is he, how did he die, when did he die, and where? ”

"You actually said one thing." Zhao Gong looked at Li Xuan, directly inducted, and said: "Before seeing the corpse, investigating Shiyin Zhenren is the possibility that he killed, who killed it, how it was killed, and where it was killed; After seeing the corpse, judge whether it is a real person in the world, if yes, how did he die due to meridian conflict, no, who is he? ”

"Yes." Li Xuan nodded slightly, of course he knew that this person was not Ming Chongyan, but who was this person, where did he come from, and how did he die.

"So now that we're here, what can you find?" Zhao Gong looked at the secret room in front of him that had been turned over countless times, and there was a trace of surprise in his eyes.

Before the body is seen, what evidence is there to prove that the man was killed by someone else?

Li Xuan walked to Zhao Gong's side, side by side with him, looked at the entire secret room, and said softly: "Uncle, this secret room, I'm afraid you have checked almost everything, even if it is underground, you are afraid that you have turned it over more than once, but there is only one thing, you haven't moved." ”

"The Ding." Zhao Gong's gaze instantly fell on the tripod in the center of the secret room.

There is only that Ding, although they have also studied it carefully, but in fact, it is an ordinary Danding.

In the same way, it is also as heavy as other Danding.

Li Xuan's gaze also fell on Danding, he knew that the corpse had been hidden by Li Jingye for a long time, and Li Jingye had found it here long before that.

It's just that even he can't be sure that Ming Chongyan will die, what if Ming Chongyan suddenly comes back one day and when, what should he do?

Therefore, he must hide the corpse, and in this secret room, there is only one place where the corpse can really be hidden.

……

Li Xuan sighed lightly, arrived in front of the danding, and then took off the dingding cover vigorously.

Zhao Gong stood on the side with a torch, the fire shone in the ding, there was nothing inside, not even the dregs of medicine.

It can be seen that Ming Chongyan loves deeply.

Looking at this tripod, a trace of sadness inexplicably rose on Li Xuan's face, and then he took the torch from Zhao Gong's hand and threw it directly into the danding.

Although Zhao Gong was surprised, he still looked at the Danding with blazing eyes, and under the scorching firelight, everything in the Danding was clearly visible.

But at this time, a stain suddenly appeared on the wall of Danding, and then a strong smell came out.

"What does it smell like?" Zhao Gong suddenly couldn't help but cover his nose.

"It's the smell of corpses." Li Xuan's faint words made Zhao Gong's eyes widen suddenly, and he looked at Ding Nei in disbelief.

Immediately, Zhao Gong raised his head, looked at Li Xuan, and said, "When you stood on the edge of the Ding just now, you already smelled it?" ”

Li Xuan smiled a little pale, and said: "My nephew is a little bit of a doctor, and he has been on the plateau all these years, and he has been preparing medicines that can treat plateau miasma all year round, so the pure smell of medicine is mixed with the smell of corpses, and my nephew smells it as soon as possible." ”

"Corpse stench." Zhao Gong looked at Li Xuan and nodded slowly, in this world, there are not many people who are sensitive to the smell of corpses, I am afraid that there are not many people who can surpass him.

"So, there was once a corpse hidden here." Li Xuan pressed the Danding with one hand, and turned his head to look at Zhao Gong: "So, uncle, who is it that took out the corpse here, and where did the corpse here go?" ”

Zhao Gong subconsciously looked at the futon.

(End of chapter)