I followed the sound, but I saw a high stone platform in the reeds, and a huge Buddha's foot remained on the stone platform!

Oh......

Xu Zhen only glanced at it and understood that the eight achievements here were the original Daxiong Treasure Hall of the Great Xiangguo Temple, and there should have been a Buddha statue standing on the stone platform before.

Only a stone platform is three or four meters high, and a Buddha's foot is so huge, so you can imagine how majestic the Daxiong Treasure Hall was back then?

There are no walls on the perimeter, and only a few broken stone pillars remain.

Of course, Shen Yu didn't call out because he found the remnants of the temple.

When Xu Zhen and the others came closer, they saw that at the bottom of the stone platform, there was a person kneeling!!

The man was dressed in a white brocade coat and knelt at the feet of the Buddha in a very strange posture.

His body was tilted, one arm pinned to his back, the other arm hanging from the ground, his head bowed and not moving, he should have no signs of life.

"Huh?" Lao Duan was dumbfounded, but Fu Bin was surprised, "Really...... Is there really a person? ”

"yes, he looks like he's dead!" Shen Yu was already standing next to the man, and he was about to step forward to check as he spoke.

"Don't move!" Xu Zhen hurriedly shouted, "Don't destroy the scene!" ”

Hearing Xu Zhen's words, Shen Yu hurriedly froze like a wooden man, but for some reason, the kneeling man still had a crooked body and fell to the ground.

"No......" Shen Yu's face was full of innocence, "It's none of my business, you all saw it, I really didn't touch him!" ”

Xu Zhen hurriedly came closer, only to find that the ground was full of broken stone slabs, some of which were stacked on top of each other, and Shen Yu stepped on it, which naturally caused a vibration, which made the man in white fall to the ground.

In this era, there were no cameras and no sample collection, so Xu Zhen could only quickly observe the scene, and then came to the man in white who fell to the ground.

It was a man of no small age, with wrinkled skin and a long white beard.

The brocade fur he wore was an expensive white-haired fox fur, which was not something that ordinary people could afford to wear.

And then, when Xu Zhen looked at this person's face, he couldn't help but pause, because he saw that this person's left eye was only a bloody hole with flesh turned out, and he was actually blinded by someone!

Judging by the blood stains from the wound, it should have been stabbed blind not long ago.

Seeing that Xu Zhen began to check the corpse, Shen Yu, Fu Bin and the others also cautiously surrounded him.

Shen Yu's eyes were sharp, and he pointed to a place in front of him and shouted, "Wow, look! Look! ”

Everyone looked at it and was shocked at the same time.

But I saw that on a stone slab in front of the man, there were many fingers and toes neatly placed!!

Yes?

Xu Zhen hurriedly raised the corpse's arm, and sure enough, all ten of this person's fingers were cut off.

Look at your feet, too.

"Oh my God," Lao Duan stepped back in fright, trembling all over, "this ...... What's going on? That...... The monk...... Don't...... Is it ......?"

Lao Duan's meaning is obvious, since it was the clue provided by the monk, and he said that he went to the yamen to surrender, then the man in white in front of him must have been killed by the monk?

Xu Zhen looked at the man's wound, and his brows couldn't help but furrow.

He found that the man's fingers and toes had been cut off with something like a soldering iron, leaving burn marks.

Why do you need to get a perm?

Is it to increase the pain, or is it to stop the bleeding and sterilize?

Looking behind him, he saw a wooden stake stuck behind the man, which was buried deep in the ground. It turned out that this person was tied to a wooden stake, so he kept kneeling posture.

It's just that the man shouldn't have died when he was tied, he was still struggling, and his left hand had broken free.

But in the end, due to the exhaustion of his physical strength and the freezing weather, he still couldn't break free, so he caused the weird posture just now.

All his fingers and toes were cut off, and one of his eyes was stabbed......

That monk is really a ruthless man!

Xu Zhen judged from experience that there are only two situations for such behavior: one is revenge, and the monk has a grudge against the deceased! The other is to extort a confession by torture, and the monk wants to ask something from this person's mouth.

So, he looked at the deceased's face again and soon made a new discovery, but saw blood in both ears of the deceased. The blood had clotted and scabbed, blocking the entire ear canal.

Oh......

It seems that the ears are also pierced deaf!

Case...... Xu Zhen deduced that the reason for the monk's murder should belong to the former, because deafing people's ears is not conducive to interrogation.

Therefore, the monk should have tortured this person like this, it should have been just for revenge, and it was definitely not ordinary hatred.

Thinking of this, the facts seem to be clear: the monks are merciful, and the monk can't pass the conscience after killing people, so he went to the yamen to surrender.

But......

Xu Zhen shook his head secretly, feeling that the case should not be so simple.

Let's ask which criminal who surrendered himself to the yamen and is still in the mood to make a word puzzle? Moreover, the monk's chilling eyes also indicate that this case is unusual.

"Huh? Hey, hey, hey......" Just as Xu Zhen was checking the corpse, Lao Duan, who was bold again, pointed to the corpse like Parkinson's and said, "This ...... This person...... Isn't this person the one who? ”

"Huh?" Xu Zhen and the others immediately looked at Lao Duan, and Shen Yu hurriedly asked, "Who is that?" Do you know him? ”

"Yes, yes......" Lao Duan trembled, trembling for a long time before he remembered, "This person is the Tong County Order, it is the Tong County Order!" ”

What?

Xu Zhen and the three of them looked at each other, obviously not hearing of this name.

"It's the front of the Song County Order, and then the county order in front!" Lao Duan said, "He has been away from Yanping County for many years!" ”

"What?" Xu Zhen comprehended relatively quickly, and hurriedly asked, "What do you mean, this person used to be the county magistrate of Yanping County?" ”

"That's right," Lao Duan nodded, "That was more than ten years ago, he was a county magistrate in Yanping County for five or six years, and after he left, it was the Bai County Order, and after the Bai County Order, it was the current Song County Order." ”

"He's not too young, isn't he?" Xu Zhen asked.

"No, it's older than me, it's more than sixty, right?" Lao Duan said, "He should have been promoted back then, and I heard that he went to the state capital to become an official, and he became an official later." His hometown...... Gee...... Where is his hometown? Anyway, he's not from Songzhou......"

"Not from Songzhou?"

Xu Zhen suddenly remembered that when he first saw the monk, he found that the monk had a feeling of being in the dust.

Could it be ...... This Tong County Order, was he kidnapped from another state?

Broken!

Suddenly, Xu Zhen felt bad.

If it was just revenge, where could he kill people, why did he take a huge risk to tie Tong County Ling back to Yanping County, and kill him in this dilapidated Daxiangguo Temple?

Tong County's order used to be the county order of Yanping County, could it be that the monk was targeting ......

"Ahem......"

At that moment, the corpse suddenly coughed.

Oh......

Everyone was suddenly shocked, even Xu Zhen was no exception.

"Ahem...... Ahem......"

looked over again, but saw that the "corpse" not only coughed, but also made a hoarse sound of "woo woo", and then blood overflowed from the corner of his mouth, and his body also trembled.

"Ah!?h

Only then did everyone realize that this person was not dead at all, but was still alive!

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