With a little uneasiness, Ye Feng came to the mountain gate of Shaolin Temple.

Somehow, as soon as he saw the two Zhike monks standing in front of the door, Ye Feng felt a strange nervousness on them.

Knowing that it was Tang Da, the eldest young master of the Tang Sect in Shuzhong, who came to visit, and Ye Feng, who was famous all over the world, one of the monks rushed in to report.

Ye Feng pretended to be careless and walked up, and accosted another monk who knew the guest: "Master, has something big happened in this temple?"

The monk glanced at Ye Feng nervously, and stopped talking, but finally shook his head and didn't say a word.

From his nervous expression full of fear, Ye Feng couldn't help but sigh in his heart, something must have happened!

After a while, I saw several figures hurrying out of the temple.

Ye Feng fixed his eyes and saw that an old monk in the lead, Bao Xiang, was solemn and kind-eyed, it was Master Renshan Yigong, the contemporary abbot of Shaolin.

The dignified abbot would personally greet him, which made people feel a little surprised, Ye Feng and Tang Da couldn't help but glance at each other, and they both felt a little flattered in their hearts.

Master Renshan stepped forward and saluted Ye Feng and Tang Da, and the two hurriedly bowed back.

Master Renshan looked at Ye Feng's complexion, smiled and said: "After a few months, I see that Ye Gongzi's complexion is very different from when he temporarily lived in the temple before, and he is full of benefits, I think there must be an adventure, can the poisonous wounds on his body be healed?"

Ye Feng replied again: "Master Domeng is worried, and his body is no longer in trouble. ”

He glanced up at Master Renshan, although there was a smile on his face, but between the master's eyebrows, there was clearly a look of anxiety, Ye Feng was even more sure of his judgment, it seems that something important must have happened in Shaolin Temple.

At this moment, he saw that among the people behind Master Renshan, there was a tall and burly monk with a bearded face.

He knew this monk, and he had seen it in the capital, and it was Master Empty who had sent a letter to Master Ning Ran in the first place.

Standing behind the abbot, he didn't speak, just smiled at Ye Feng and nodded, which was regarded as a greeting.

Ye Feng also smiled back.

Master Renshan exchanged a few words of greeting and asked, "I don't know why Ye Gongzi and Tang Gongzi came to the temple this time?"

Ye Feng replied respectfully: "I waited to come this time, just to ask to see Master Ning Ran, and there is nothing else to do." ”

Master Renshan nodded: "This is easy to do, the old man will immediately send someone to pass it on, but the senior brother will live in a simple place, and when he will meet you, he will wait for his instructions." ”

Ye Feng and the others all nodded and said, "This is natural." ”

Master Renshan suddenly sighed, as if talking to himself, "Ye Gongzi and Tang Gongzi, you have come to the temple at this moment, I really don't know if it is a coincidence or the will of heaven. ”

Ye Feng felt that he had something to say, and asked casually: "Seeing that there seems to be a melancholy color between the master's eyebrows, I don't know what is going on in your temple?"

Master Renshan lowered his head and hesitated for a moment before replying: "There is a big event happening in the temple today, and the temple is in a panic. ”

Ye Feng asked, "I don't know what happened?"

Master Renshan sighed and said, "Last night, there was a monk in the temple who passed away and died in bliss. ”

It turned out that a high-ranking monk died, and Ye Feng asked casually, "I don't know which master passed away?"

Master Renshan shook his head and sighed: "You also know this senior monk Ye Gongzi, and it is Senior Brother Chen. ”

Master Chen?Ye Feng was stunned for a moment.

At the beginning of the Songshan Tingtao Villa, he met Master Chen for the first time, and Master Chen, at that time, came to investigate the news for the murder of his lay disciple Jiangnan scholar Yang Jun.

However, after later revealing the true face of Lin Suifeng, the world's number one swordsman, it was with Master Chen's advice and his help that Ye Feng was able to have the opportunity to enter the Shaolin Temple and practice the secret of Shaolin as an unprecedented, Yijin Jing.

Without the help of Yi Jin Jing, no matter how good Miss Cheng's medical skills are, I am afraid that it will be difficult to control the golden toad poison on Ye Feng's body, I am afraid that he will already die.

Speaking of which, Master Lichen is really kind to Ye Feng. Now that he suddenly heard that Master Chen had suddenly passed away, Ye Feng's heart was really a little sad.

He asked, "How did Master Lichen pass away?"

Master Renshan's face sank, and the worry between his eyebrows became heavier, and he said slowly: "Senior Brother Lichen was poisoned and died!"

What? Poisoning?

A Shaolin monk would be poisoned to death in the Shaolin Temple?

Ye Feng and the others didn't feel that they were stunned and stunned in place.

After a while, Ye Feng opened his mouth and asked, "Was Master Lichen's death an accident, or some other reason?"

He didn't dare to say "murdered", so he undoubtedly accused the Shaolin Temple of having traitors poisoned and murdered, which was a great insult to the century-old reputation of the Shaolin Temple.

Master Renshan shook his head and sighed: "The trouble is here, last night Senior Brother Lichen was poisoned and killed in his meditation room, and Lao Wei really can't tell whether he was poisoned by someone or not. ”

Master Renshan did not shy away from saying things like "being poisoned", which shows that his mind is confused and he can't take care of a lot anymore.

Ye Feng and Tang Da glanced at each other, and they were both very puzzled in their hearts, if he killed such a simple thing, why would Master Renshan say that he couldn't judge?

Tang Da thought for a while, and suddenly said in a deep voice: "I don't know if it's convenient to go to the scene to have a look, maybe I can solve the master's doubts." ”

Master Renshan's face suddenly relaxed, it seemed that he had been waiting for their words for a long time, and said at the moment: "Tang Gongzi was born in the Tang Sect, and he has a deep research on poisons, Ye Gongzi's intelligence and wit are known to the world, plus a Cheng girl with superb medical skills, if you are willing to help, it is really something that the temple cannot ask for, what is inconvenient?"

He turned to one side, stretched out his hand and invited, "Everyone, please come in!"

The moment Ye Feng stepped into the gate, he suddenly remembered Master Renshan's previous words, "You have come to the temple at this moment, I really don't know if it is a coincidence or the will of heaven. ”

It seems that this old abbot has already planned and wants to invite Ye Feng and them to help investigate this matter.

It's no wonder that as soon as he heard that Ye Feng and Tang Da asked to meet, he immediately led the crowd to greet him, it turned out that he had made this wishful thinking at that time.

It's also a shame that he keeps talking around and around, but he is afraid of the face of Shaolin Temple, so he can't take the initiative to ask outsiders for help, just waiting for Ye Feng and them to take the initiative to come forward.

To make the dignified abbot of Shaolin Temple like this, this ** must be very tricky, Ye Feng felt that there was some meaning.

The Shaolin Temple is not too big, the meditation room where Master Lichen lives is in the northwest corner of the Shaolin Temple, and it didn't take long for Ye Feng and them to come to the scene.

All the monks stayed in the courtyard outside the house, and only Master Renshan accompanied Ye Feng in the room, and they were carefully inspecting.

The room is not big, very simple, and very tidy, only a meditation bed, and a desk in front of it, on which there is a small stove that has been extinguished, a small kettle on it, and a tea set.

Other than that, there was not even a single extra chair in the house, except for a simple wooden box containing several years' worth of clothes.

It can be seen that Master Lichen not only lives a very simple life, but also is not a sociable person, and there should be no one in his meditation room.

At this moment, Master Lichen was sitting cross-legged on the meditation bed, his eyes closed, his face dark, and his whole body was already stiff.

Cheng Nianzhen stepped forward to check Master Chen's body, and nodded affirmatively: "That's right, he was poisoned, and it was an extremely toxic poison, and he was killed on the spot." ”

She used a silver needle to probe the kettle and tea set on the detective table, nodded again, and said, "The poison is in the water, and the kettle and the tea are poisonous." ”

That is, being poisoned?

Ye Feng turned to Master Renshan and asked, "Does Master Lichen have to cook tea here every night?

Master Renshan nodded and said: "Senior Brother Lichen has always been simple and has no other hobbies, but every night when he returns from evening class, he will cook fragrant tea in the meditation room and study Buddhist scriptures until late at night. ”

Everyone knows that this range is too big, Ye Feng couldn't help but shake his head.

He asked again, "Who found Master Chen's body this morning?"

Master Renshan replied: "It is Qi Bin, who is in charge of the room and meals, he is a disciple of Senior Brother Lichang, because he found out this morning that Senior Brother Chen did not come to have breakfast, and Senior Brother Chen's usual life is very regular, and he has never violated the hour for decades, he feels strange, so he came to check." ”

When I came to Senior Brother Chen's meditation room, I found that the doors and windows were closed, and they were all locked from the inside, and there was no response after knocking on the door for a long time, so I forcibly knocked open the door and entered, and found that Senior Brother Chen had passed away. ”

Ye Feng listened to Master Renshan's introduction, and turned around to check the room, it was true that the windows everywhere were closed, and the latches were inserted from the inside, and the two open doors, the latches were broken, and it seemed that it was indeed forcibly knocked open from the outside.

Then when he was poisoned, there was only one in the room

With the dust master alone?

Ye Feng carefully looked at the stove, kettle and tea set on the desk, and even lay on the ground to see if there were any traces of movement on the desk, looked at it for a long time, and shook his head.

There was only one teacup on the desk, and it seemed that Master Dust was indeed the only one in the room.

So could it be that the murderer knew in advance that Master Chen had to cook tea every night, so he put the poison in the kettle in advance?

But as soon as Ye Feng raised this question, he was denied by Master Renshan: "Senior Brother Lichen has always loved cleanliness very much, and every night before cooking tea, he will personally clean the kettle and tea set next to the well in the courtyard. ”

The well in the courtyard is connected with other wells in the temple, and the water from these wells is used for drinking and cooking every day in the temple. ”

Ye Feng nodded a little helplessly, and had to admit that Master Renshan had a point.

He looked around and had no other clues, so he could only knock on the copper kettle on the small stove with no lid and a large open spout, and asked, "Why does this kettle have no lid?"

Master Renshan was stunned for a moment, and replied casually: "Senior Brother Lichen has always been thrifty, and the lid of this copper kettle was broken a long time ago, but he always felt that it could still be used, so he never replaced it, and has been using this copper kettle without a lid. ”

Ye Feng looked up at the top of his head, and there was nothing else outside of a beam lying across his head.

He glanced at Tang Da, Tang Da was concerned, went up to check it carefully, and even carefully checked the tiles on the roof, and then shook his head at Ye Feng.

There was no sign of anyone hiding on the beams, not even the tiles had been moved.

Ye Feng smiled bitterly, Master Lichen's martial arts are not weak, and his internal strength is particularly profound, he already knew it when he was in Songshan Tingtao Villa.

Even if someone was hiding in the house, waiting for an opportunity to poison him, how could he not notice it with the skills of Master Chen? There was no trace of any movement at the scene, and this point could be ruled out.

Ye Feng shook his head helplessly, since it was impossible to poison in advance, when he was poisoned, Master Lichen must have stayed alone in the meditation room, the doors and windows were closed, and they were locked from the inside, this was clearly a secret room.

And how did this murderer poison him?

Ye Feng felt that he had some headaches.

......

Almost at the same time, in the grove on the edge of the tower outside the temple, in front of the gate of the bamboo nunnery, a middle-aged monk was waiting silently.

After a while, an old voice came from inside the bamboo nunnery: "Is it Qi Bin?

This middle-aged monk is the apprentice of Master Ning Ran, the monk Qibin.

Hearing the call, Qi Bin lowered his head and walked quickly into the bamboo hermitage.

The light in the bamboo hermitage was dim, and there were candles in the daytime, and under the candlelight, the master of the change was holding a scroll in his hand, sitting behind the table and looking at him with a smile: "Come here in such a hurry, is there anything important?"

Qi Bin still hung his head: "Uncle Chen, he passed away." ”

The smile on Master Change's face disappeared, and he nodded: "I already know such a big thing." Master Abbot, do you have anything to say?"

Qi Bin shook his head: "No, Master Renshan didn't find anything, didn't say anything, he only knew that Uncle Shi was poisoned and died." ”

Master Likai sighed: "This is also expected, even if he sees something, he will never tell it." ”

After a moment of silence, he asked Qi Bin, "Do you have anything else?"

Qi Bin suddenly raised his head and said with some hesitation: "That Ye Feng Ye Gongzi, as well as Tang Da, the eldest young master of the Tang Sect in Shuzhong, they also arrived in the temple just now. ”

"Oh?" the Master of Change's eyes flashed with a hint of doubt, "Such a coincidence? They actually came at this time, I really don't know if it's a blessing or a curse?"

Monk Qibin lowered his head and didn't speak, and only hesitated for a long time before he hesitated and said: "That Ye Feng Ye Gongzi is said to be smart and witty, unparalleled in the world, will he be able to find out something?"

Master Ligai thought for a while and said: "It's okay, if he wants to check, he can check, not to mention that this matter should be the master abbot who has the final say, and we can't control it." ”

Qi Bin closed his mouth and stopped talking.

Master Likai waved his hand at him: "You go, don't worry, you have everything to worry about for the teacher." ”

Qi Bin bowed and retreated.

There was only one person left in the bamboo hermitage, and he lowered his head in contemplation, and there seemed to be a light flashing in his eyes.