Chapter 13: Palm Prints
The empty monk said: "Void, there is some truth in what you said. But these are all your words, and who can prove that you are telling the truth? The man in black you spoke of has never been seen by anyone but you. So, I'm serious, these are all falsehoods that you made up in order to exonerate yourself?"
"But how can you prove that what I said is not the truth, Uncle Kongse? Besides, if I hadn't really experienced it, how could I have come up with such a reasonable explanation or should it be said to be something for a while?" said the Void Monk's mouth slightly upturned.
"Okay! I have a point. But don't be too happy too soon, after all, I don't have the only evidence of this. Listen slowly to me as I explain the suspicious things in detail. ”
"Because of the land where the empty ring and the void were buried and the three martial arts secret books in Shangguan Lingxue's house, we couldn't find them with all our hard work, but the void was discovered inadvertently every time at the last moment. Such a thing must be difficult to convince people by the word 'coincidence' alone. Therefore, I also have every reason to suspect that he already knew that the three martial arts cheats were stored there, and he also knew that the Void Ring and Xucheng were buried there. ”
"Uncle Kongse, this statement is very good, but it has always been an unconfirmed conjecture, how can it be true? Besides, the so-called no coincidence is not a book, there are no wonders in the world, there are no coincidences. Didn't Jiang Taigong be able to catch fish without using a fishing hook back then? In today's world, I don't know how many women there are, why did your mother give birth to you instead of other women? Isn't it a coincidence that these things are not coincidental?"
After listening to Void's words, the empty monk was not discouraged, and he was not angry or angry, because he knew that he had enough evidence to point out that Void was the murderer, so the empty monk just stood there fixedly, with a look of sudden realization on his face, chewing on what Void said carefully and intently in his heart.
The time was quiet for a while, and the empty monk and the void didn't say anything, but the silence of each other turned into a mass of gas, colliding with each other and confronting each other.
Time passes little by little, like the passing of life, although it seems difficult and slow, but one day you will find that they are all passing away so fast, so fast that we simply don't have time to say goodbye to those who are important or unimportant, concerned or unconcerned.
I don't know how long it has been, but the empty monk came back to his senses and said calmly: "Since these things and things do not prove that you are the murderer of the two of them, and since I have spoken so brightly, you still refuse to admit the things you have done. ”
"Well, I have to convince you and everyone at the scene, lest it be spread later that I am empty and confused, and that I know that I have wronged people. ”
The empty monk let go of his steps and slowly came to the corpses of the two of them, he first carefully fiddled with the corpse of the empty ring, and then said: "Everyone, please see, although the poor monk's senior brother is dead, his corpse still says a lot of problems. ”
Almost all of the people at the scene were Jianghu people, and of course they understood what the empty monk just said meant - the so-called people would lie for various reasons, but the corpses would not. If we are careful and broad-minded, we can often examine the corpse and learn many things, such as what kind of weapon the murderer used, whether the murderer's habitual hand is left or right, and where the murderer's martial arts are first-rate.
Of course, the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper at the scene didn't know much about these things, but at this moment, the two of them were so afraid that they didn't want to, where did they dare to speak?
The shopkeeper was now as scared as he was on the outside, and although the shopkeeper's face was calm, his slightly trembling hands and feet had betrayed him, which made people see how scared he was at the moment.
Xuan Que continued: "I have carefully examined the bodies of Senior Brother Void Ring and Void Cheng, and found that Senior Brother Void Ring had been poisoned by a large amount of poison before he died. It seems that he has also been hit, but the amount is very small or the side effects are not obvious. Both of them were poisoned and then struck to death by heavy killer hands. Look, Uncle Void has a scar on his right index finger, which looks like it has been bleeding a lot, and it seems to have been cut with the nail of his thumb!"
"Let's look at it again, on the back of Uncle Void Ring, near the monk's robe on his buttocks, we can see that there are some things written on it, although it is not the whole word, but it still seems to represent a certain meaning. In fact, as long as you look carefully, you will find that the blood stains on the monk's robe are the first two strokes of the word 'missing'. At that time, when I first found out, I didn't think much of it, but when I pointed the finger of suspicion at the deficiency, and then connected everything back and forth, I found that the word 'lack' was written in blood on the monk's robe. Before he died, he wrote these things down with one purpose, and that was to point out the murderer. ”
"As for why the empty ring didn't write out his full name, but just crossed the first two strokes of the word 'missing' on the monk's robe, I don't know very well, maybe it's too late, maybe it's because the empty ring is too obvious, and the murderer is easy to find out, and then destroy these things. ”
But when did the empty ring write the first two strokes of the word "missing" on the monk's robe on the back?
It turned out that after the monk of the empty ring knew that he had been poisoned, he thought that he would probably not be able to escape again, so he took advantage of the lack of triumphant speech, and secretly used the little internal force and true qi that his whole body could drive, cut his index finger with his thumb, and wrote the first two strokes of the word "missing" on the monk's robe behind him.
Originally, he wanted to write the full name of the void monk, but after thinking about it, he knew that it would be easy for the other party to find out, so he destroyed those handwritings. Therefore, the monk of the empty ring only wrote two strokes in the end, and as for whether he can prove that the void is the murderer who killed himself and the void, then he can only resign himself to fate.
Void retorted: "What can be explained by just two strokes? Maybe it is a little trick deliberately used by some people in order to blame me." Uncle Kongse, why do you want to bite me and let me go? The real murderers are Shangguan Little Demon Girl and Lu Shizhu! Not only do we have all kinds of physical evidence, but I and Dian Xiaoer have also seen this with our own eyes. Isn't this still enough to convict Shangguan Little Demon Girl and Lu Shizhu of their crimes?"
"Void, since your accomplice was able to put the three martial arts cheats in Shangguan Girl's house, it must be very easy to come up with those so-called evidence out of nothing. Moreover, what the shopkeeper and the shopkeeper said were even more inaccurate. As soon as I saw the shopkeeper's hands and feet trembling slightly and the shopkeeper's face full of horror, helplessness, shame and self-blame, I had already guessed that the two of them were very likely to have been controlled by you. ”
"This is just a piece of your words, Uncle Kongse, what is accurate? Uncle Shi, do you have any proof that what you said is 100% true? By the way, Uncle Shi, you are also amazing, you can already see so many things just by your face and hands and feet, why don't you go to see the face? Uncle Shi, you are really too condescending in the Shaolin Temple, if you go to the shop to see the face, I will be the first to take care of it. Seeing that the empty uncle in front of him was fighting against him everywhere, he had already become annoyed and ashamed in his heart, and he couldn't bear it anymore at the moment, and mocked loudly.
As soon as the words came out, he realized that he seemed to have spoken too much, his eyes rolled, and he looked around, and sure enough, there were many people looking at him strangely.
The empty monk said: "Now I say that you can't, but I still have the most important evidence, I see how you can still talk about lotus flowers and fool us characters." ”
As he spoke, the empty monk stretched out his hands and carefully untied the clothes of the two people, revealing the palm prints printed on the bodies of the two of them.
Seeing the empty monk's movements, his empty head turned for a while, and he immediately reflected on it, knowing that things were going to be bad, this time he couldn't quibble anymore, his face couldn't help but change greatly, his body was stiff, dizzy and sweaty, and he blamed himself for being too careless in his heart, and he forgot to deal with such a deadly thing left.
The empty monk looked at it with sparkling eyes: "Void, you are a little clever, but you are not a great wisdom after all." The game you set up seems to be seamless, but in fact there are countless loopholes, and the worst and most fatal point is that you have forgotten the palm prints left on your empty ring and the body of the void. Whether you are the murderer of the two of them or not, you only need to know with a pair of palm prints. Because according to the existing situation and phenomenon, it can be clearly concluded that although the amount of poison in the two people is different, in the end, they were both slapped to death. ”
The crowd at the scene listened to the empty monk's words, turned their heads one after another, stared at the void, and finally stopped on his hands, waiting for the void's reaction.
(To be continued.) )