Chapter Seventy-One

Fan Shijin, Xiong Jingchong and Wei Shujin in the other guest room, several people had already prepared a pot of warm wine, spread out a map on the table, and talked eloquently in front of the pattern on the map.

When a few more people opened their eyes, it was already the next morning, and the previous few people heard a noise from time to time outside the door, this sound was not from the casino, but the sound of a large number of people passing by the door, mighty, this sound should sound like a lot of people, and you can hear the sound of armor in this sound, the sound of heavy armor when marching and fighting.

Just when the group was half awake and half asleep, there was finally a knock at the door, as if someone who had been looking for a long time had finally been found.

"Have a few guest officers woken up?" The shopkeeper knocked on Fan Shijin's door, and then knocked on Wen Renxing's door, and then repeated the same words.

Wen Renxing and Liu Cong lay on the bed and had no intention of getting up, Liu Cong, who originally liked to turn over and over, didn't move all night last night, and as soon as there was a knock on the door, Liu Cong immediately sat up.

"What's the matter?" Liu Cong shouted towards the door.

"A few of you got up and came to the hall of yesterday's dinner!" said to the shopkeeper when he heard that someone in the door answered.

After Uncle Wei got dressed, he opened the door directly, looked at the little two and asked, "What the hell is going on?"

"The guest officer doesn't know, there was a homicide case in a boat in this lake yesterday, and the government sent someone to investigate the matter, and is checking the nearby boats one by one!"

After saying that, the little two walked away, walked to the staircase of the corridor and walked up. You can see that there is light at the entrance of the staircase, although there is light shining in from other places, but it is obviously not as bright as the light, which must not have been filtered by any object.

This incident is not unexpected, the homicide on the lake should refer to yesterday's boat, Wei Shujin thought so while closing the door, and when he turned his head, this Fan Shijin and Xiong Jingchong had already sat up, this sitting posture was the same as last night, but the two of them would make a pot of hot tea, not warm wine.

"Brother Fan... It seems that we are involved in an unknown incident again..."Uncle Wei entered this passage like a sigh.

"It's my fault for this, I rushed over in a hurry, I didn't expect to encounter this. Fan Shijin blew the tea in front of him.

Wen Renxing, Bai Xiyue, and Liu Cong in the next room had already dressed, knocked on Fan Shijin's door, and sat down with a few people.

"It's just in time, we have to discuss this matter well!" Xiong Jingchong said to Wen Renxing and the others.

"You don't have to sit here at this point, just go up and take a look. Wei Shujin proposed.

Fan Shijin also nodded, and after drinking the tea in front of him, he walked out of the guest room with everyone and walked up from the place where the light shone in.

The hall was already full of officers and soldiers, and the cloth was silver, the color of white, except for the armor.

Seeing the color of the clothes of the officers and soldiers, Liu Cong immediately muttered: "The color of the clothes of these soldiers of these countries, I am more satisfied with the white color of the Northern Zhou Dynasty." ”

"These five kingdoms correspond to gold, wood, water, fire, and earth, Shu is fire, Jin is earth, Tang is water, and Chu is wood, and this week is gold, so this dress is naturally the color according to the five elements!" Fan Shi explained.

"Shouldn't gold be golden?" Liu Cong said.

"It's indeed gold, but only princes and nobles can wear this gold in this world, let alone soldiers, and white can also represent gold!" Xiong Jingyi bowed his head and whispered in Liu Cong's ear.

After finishing speaking, Fan Shijin and the others found a vacant seat and sat down, but the atmosphere at this time was different from the atmosphere of yesterday's dinner, no one dared to speak, and they all waited for the officers and soldiers sitting in front of them to speak.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there was a murder in a shipbuilding yesterday, and more than 100 people were present, all of whom died on the ship. That's why I invited all of you to come over and investigate them one by one. The leading officers and soldiers looked around at everyone, and then said: "Everyone rest assured, after the investigation is clear, you will naturally be free, so you must cooperate with me and wait!"

The audience didn't say anything else, but they came here to watch the scenery and play, and when they encountered such things, it was very bad for the scenery, and the mood for this play was gone, and the expression on their faces was also very unhappy.

"Then according to what the official said, if this is not clear, I can't leave this place later?"

"Don't worry, I will do our best to investigate! Even if you continue to watch the scenery or enter the city to play, I promise you that there will be a result within seven days, and if there is no result, you will still be allowed to leave within the time limit!" This leading officer and soldier is quite reasonable.

Everyone in the audience has no opinion when they hear it, this is all play anyway, and it won't delay anything if you play for a few more days and play less, and you can let yourself go out freely inside and outside the city, and I was relieved when I thought of this.

"All right, let's go to the front one by one, tell me where you were that night, what you did, and so on!" With that, the officer and soldier began to beckon everyone to cooperate with their investigation.

The people also lined up and went forward one by one to register, such as who the surname was, where they lived, and the purpose of coming here.

"Where did you come from?" said the officers and soldiers looking at Fan Shijin and the others in front of them.

"We are waiting for the envoy from Shu Kingdom, this trip is to Youzhou, passing through here for a short stay, I never thought that I would encounter this matter. Fan Shijin told the actual situation of the mission.

After hearing the words, the officers and soldiers obviously lit up their eyes, propped up the steel helmets above their heads, looked at the people in front of them and said: "That's a distinguished guest, a few people are really not in a hurry, when you encounter this kind of thing, you might as well ...... Let's go to the city and find our Taishou to explain the situation. ”

This officer and soldier was very sensible, and after reading the document handed over by Fan Shijin, he suggested that the party go into the city to find the Taishou, and for this reason, he specially wrote an order and handed it to a few people, and this book should be able to flow unimpeded in Xiapi.

"Thank you!" Fan Shijin hurriedly thanked the officer and soldier.

Immediately, he pulled a few people out of the ship, and the whole ship had already been surrounded by officers and soldiers, but with this order in hand, it was indeed unimpeded.

"This is really a coincidence, no book!" Xiong Jingyi said with a happy face.

"It's been a long time since I've waited so smoothly!" Liu never forgot to add.

"This city is not far from here, so I'll walk there. Fan Shijin's appearance full of spring is the same as this scorching sun.

Although there is no boat lamp on the lake, it is also sparkling under the sun, if a huge mirror reflects the blue sky and white clouds in the sky, and a group of people walk in the place where the lake and river intersect, as if walking in the clouds.

A few people who were in a good mood, even if there was a scorching sun, they were still beaming, and when they walked to the Xiapi City Gate, the city guards originally wanted to interrogate one or two, but when they saw the order in Fan Shijin's hand, they directly let a few people go.

Now Liu Cong and the others were even more proud, the smiles on their faces did not disperse for a long time, and the passers-by on both sides looked at it and thought that something happy had happened to this pedestrian.

"Then where is this Taishou, but in this mansion?" Fan Shijin asked with a smile.

The gatekeeper didn't know what the group was doing, so he touched his face with his hand to make sure that nothing was sticking to his face and said, "Worship the Buddha in the Futu Temple! The Futu Temple is in the south of the city!"

Liu Cong and others went to the south of the city, before they arrived in the south of the city, they could hear the sound of chanting the Buddha from a distance, the sound of religious recitation and the sound of private school recitation has a huge difference, this sound is like a song but not a song, like a poem is not a poem, the empty valley is long and continuous, as if this sound is not into the human ear, but in the heart.

This is the second time that several people have felt this way, the previous time was at the pavilion of the dust shelter door, and the white-bone monk also gave everyone a similar feeling.

There is a little more smell of burning incense in the air, this should be the incense in the temple, and then you can see a tower in the direction of the temple, which is the "Nine Mirror Tower" that several people said before.

"Why is this temple so big?" Bai Xiyue's eyes widened.

This temple every time to bathe Buddha meeting, the roadside set up a banquet to entertain the people who believe in the Buddha, the banquet is as long as ten miles, come to visit, worship the Buddha people up to 10,000 people, although today is not the day of bathing Buddha, the crowd of people who come and go is also endless, originally a few people in the city pass by the bazaar, this time it is like entering another bazaar, the crowd of people, only to squeeze the people in front of the forward.

"Don't be scattered by the crowd!" Fan Shijin beckoned several people together, and the group was like a boat shuttling through the sea of people.

However, a few people crowded in front of the temple, and found that this group of people were waiting outside the door, and they did not rush in.

Liu jumped from the spot and saw that there were people guarding the front of the temple, so these people did not enter in front of the door.

"Brother Fan seems to be in front of him and there are people guarding him. Liu Cong said.

"This should not be a day to worship the Buddha, how can there be so many people!" Fan Shijin was a little puzzled by the situation.

"Don't we have an order, maybe we can go in!" said Wei Shujin as he squeezed through the crowd.

"Brother Wei, where was your horse squeezed to?" Liu Cong looked at the horse that Uncle Wei had entered, and he didn't know where to go.

"My horse has been handed over to the previous passenger ship to take care of, and this trip is very inconvenient, after all, this horse may not be able to enter the temple. Uncle Wei replied.

"I'll wait to squeeze over and try it, I must see this Picheng Taishou today. ”

Fan Shijin squeezed over, and several people who followed behind also followed, and finally squeezed through the crowd, and when they reached the front, the soldier stopped everyone.

"We are the envoys of Shu, and we have important matters to discuss with Taishou, and I hope to tell you. Fan Shijin handed over the order book in his hand.

The soldier guarding the door took a closer look at the order, then took back the weapon in his hand and let Liu Cong and the others go.

"This order book is too effective, isn't it! It's just a flower blooming!" Liu Cong said happily.

As soon as a few people entered the temple, they saw not far away, Taishou and a monk were talking something.

However, the monk was not an ordinary monk, he was dressed in a pitch-black robe, and only the corners of the whole robe were sewn with gold material.

Seeing this person dressed up, Liu Cong's head buzzed, and suddenly remembered the scene when he arrived in Xiapi City that day, he was choked by the neck at that time, but he couldn't break free no matter how hard he tried, and then a person in a black and gold robe appeared to rescue him.

"I never thought that the noble monk of [Dongjue Temple] would visit this Xiapi, which really made my Xiapi City shine!"

Taishou looked very respectful, and when he said the name of the temple, he was a little in awe, and he also nodded at the monk, as if he was treating a high-ranking official.

And Liu Cong and the others on the side looked at it very incomprehensibly, it was obvious that the person wearing the robe was not too guarded, but this was too respectful, and then turned to look at Fan Shijin, Fan Shijin's face was also mixed, not because of surprise, but because of an indescribable expression. Liu never thought about Fan Shijin's thoughts anymore, and looked at Xiong Jingyi and Wei Shujin, their faces were not so good-looking, and their expressions were very solemn, as if they were going to encounter some great enemy, only Wen Renxing, Bai Xiyue and his own expressions were normal.

"Brother Fan, is there anything wrong?" Liu Cong still decided to ask clearly.

Fan Shijin came back to his senses at this time, but his eyes still did not take his eyes off the monk, and then he said: "No one has been called emperor in the Five Kingdoms so far, and the reason is not that he dare but can't, and the emperor must be recognized by two religions, one of which is this Dongjue Temple. ”