Luoyang Buddha Society Volume 18 The night is cold and melancholy until dawn
In the iron house, the light is dim, and the time is completely unknown. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info could only see through the cracks in the curtains that there were already a few stars in the sky outside. What Su Zhuo and Wei Xiu have experienced, the two of them don't seem to remember anything, but they seem to be unforgettable, and they won't forget it until the day they die.
Yet none of them spoke. Wei Xiu silently put on her dress, shrunk into the corner of the room, and hugged her knees tightly. That look, like a frightened lamb, makes people can't help but love and pity. However, the stubbornness and strength in her bones make people feel awe-inspiring and inviolable, and they don't even dare to get close.
Su Zhuo was at a loss, leaning against the wall, and with a little starlight, he could see Wei Xiu's outline. He wanted to come up and comfort her, or just hug her and let her cry in his arms. However, Su Zhuo's clever eloquence when he solved the case in the past is useless at this time.
Su Zhuo realized at this time that he was very useless. First of all, he was self-righteous and fell into the trap of scheming, which caused the two of them to be trapped here. Later, he couldn't restrain the evil thoughts in his heart and did such a thing, which harmed Wei Xiu's innocence in his life. He wanted to muster up the courage and say loudly to Wei Xiu: "Marry me!"
However, is Wei Xiu willing to marry him? Is what she said true or is she being controlled by poison? Even though Su Zhuo has seven tricks in his heart, he can't keep sorting out this complicated love thread. Although Wei Xiu never expressed love in the past, the two could still become friends. Now, I'm afraid that if I don't become an enemy, it's good.
The two of them just sat dumbfounded, and they didn't know how long they had been sitting, and they were silent all the time. Su Zhuo raised his eyes and looked at Wei Xiu carefully. But I saw that her face was shining, reflecting the starlight, and I saw the tears rolling down her face.
Su Zhuo's heart trembled, his voice hoarse, and said, "I ......" As soon as the words came out, he didn't know what to say. He scolded himself thousands of times in his heart, if he could restrain himself, Wei Xiu would not be hurt like this. If you don't let your guard down, you won't fall for the poisonous trick of scheming. Even if it weren't for the fact that I loved to join in the fun, and I didn't come to Luoyang, so many things wouldn't have happened at all......
It turned out that all the pain and hurt were brought by himself! But everything will not come again, Su Zhuo can only regret deeply. He looked at Wei Xiu and said in a trembling voice: "Wei Xiu, you beat me and scold me, I will never fight back......"
Wei Xiu was still silent, not even moving. A sudden anger suddenly arose in Su Zhuo's chest, and he stood up suddenly, punched hard, and hammered it on the iron window. As the medicinal properties passed, his internal strength finally recovered. This punch was sent out with internal force, and it actually bent the iron railing a few inches.
Wei Xiu was not startled by Su Zhuo's movements, in her eyes, it seemed that nothing was enough to make her heart move. Su Zhuo still punched the railing one by one, and the railing became more and more bent inch by inch. The epithelia of the fist was also broken, the flesh was rotten, and the blood finally flowed out, but Su Zhuo didn't feel any pain at all.
The iron railing finally couldn't withstand Su Zhuo's fist, and broke with a bang. Like a madman, Su Zhuo continued to pound the second railing. Straight broke three railings, finally revealing a gap, and his hands were already bloody and fleshy.
Su Zhuo turned back to Wei Xiu and said, "Don't worry, I'll take you away......" said and got out of the crack. Suddenly, only Wei Xiu was left in the room. However, this sudden loneliness still didn't make her feel a little scared. She was still like wood, cowering in the corner.
Su Zhuo fumbled around the door frame for a long time before finally finding the mechanism and opening the iron door. He couldn't wait to rush into the house. Wei Xiu didn't get happy because he was gone and returned. Su Zhuo said gloomily: "Wei Xiu, I'll take you away......"
Wei Xiu neither shook his head nor nodded. Su Zhuo waited for a long time, and finally mustered up the courage, put his coat on Wei Xiu's body, and reached out to hug her horizontally. Wei Xiu didn't resist, as if he wasn't hugging himself at all. The two walked to the small courtyard again, and Su Zhuo saw that there was a pile of firewood piled up outside the iron house. After a moment's thought, it suddenly dawned on him that Ji Shumad wanted to set fire to trap them in the house.
But why did he give up again? Su Zhuo felt a little strange. Walking out again, I realized that Ji Shumad had fallen in the aisle into the back hall and had been dead for a long time. However, Su Zhuo no longer had the heart to care about him at the moment, and he didn't even give Ji Shufang a second look. He just wanted to get out of here with Wei Xiu quickly.
The door of the teahouse was open, and the guy didn't know where to go. It was dark outside, and there was not a single pedestrian on the street. Su Zhuo tried his best to keep his steps steady and fast, and walked in the direction of the White Horse Temple. A glow appeared in the eastern sky, and the streets in the distance gradually became clearer in the eyes. The shopkeepers opened the door one after another, and the number of pedestrians began to increase.
Su Zhuo didn't want people to see Wei Xiu's appearance, so he started his light work, passing quickly through the inaccessible alleys and roofs. When he arrived at the White Horse Temple, he also tried his best to avoid the nearby monks in the temple and jumped in from outside the courtyard wall.
Jingchen was already sitting in the house chanting scriptures, and when he heard the movement in the courtyard, he shouted, "What person!"
His shout also alarmed the people in the other rooms. Yan Linglong and Su Qin saw the appearance of the two, Wei Xiu was disheveled, her hair was scattered, and an embroidered shoe on her foot had fallen somewhere. The two of them skipped a beat in their hearts and seemed to understand something. They glanced at each other, didn't say anything, stepped forward to take Wei Xiu from Su Zhuo's arms, helped him to the room, and closed the door tightly.
Ling Shuang and Hua Ping looked at Su Zhuo, and stopped talking, but just sighed. Only Duan Lihua was still young, ignorant, and didn't know why, so she said to Su Clumsily: "Master, are you bullying Sister Xiu again?"
Ling Shuang hurriedly pulled her away and whispered, "You don't say a word!"
Duan Lihua was stunned, and when she saw Ling Shuang, who usually laughed with her, she suddenly became serious. Only then did she realize that something big must have happened, and she didn't dare to speak again. Hua Ping couldn't help but ask, "Su Zhuo, what happened?"
Su Zhuo said in a dumb voice: "We found the flower thief ...... twenty years ago."
Several people around him were taken aback and exclaimed, "Flower thief, isn't he even dead?"
Su Zhuo shook his head and said, "But he is dead now......
Duan Lihua hurriedly said, "Master, yesterday you asked me to check the file of that year. I found out that every time the flower thief committed a crime, he gave an aphrodisiac to the victim woman, so it was so easy to get it!"
Su Zhuo sighed slightly, in fact, there was no need for Duan Lihua to say, he already knew the methods of Ji Shufang back then.
Duan Lihua said again: "It is recorded in the dossier that this aphrodisiac is violently toxic, but it is not good. Anyone who gets this aphrodisiac, whether they take it or take it, will have a unique fragrance on their bodies. It was with this unique fragrance that Luo Shen found the trace of the flower thief!"
Su Zhuo remembered that when he saw Ji Shufang yesterday, he did smell a faint fragrance, but because of the fragrance of tea, he didn't notice the fragrance of spring love. His heart suddenly moved, and he said, "Those two female corpses don't have that kind of fragrance on them!"
Duan Lihua said strangely: "What kind of fragrance? Do you know what it smells like?"
Su Zhuo didn't answer, turned to Hua Ping, and asked, "How did you investigate the case of Gu Buddha's disappearance yesterday?"
Hua Ping shook his head helplessly and said, "Every person present has been interrogated, and no one is likely to approach that ancient Buddha. Your speculation is not wrong, the ancient Buddha must have been stolen the night before. ”
Su Zhuo nodded, trying his best to devote all his attention to these two cases, it seemed that only in this way could he escape the guilt and sin in his heart.
Ling Shuang continued: "Yesterday, those people have been put back, and Luo Shenzhu only left those senior monks of Fanbang to live in the meditation room in the temple. Without his consent, no one was allowed to go out for the time being. ”
Su Zhuo nodded and said: "Luo Zhutou's approach is right, it is indeed possible to steal the ancient Buddha, and indeed only those so-called high monks." He paused, deliberately pretending to be careless and asked, "Has that selfless master of the Bodhi Gate also been in the temple all along?" )