Chapter 986: Verify

Jingci Temple is not a thousand-year-old temple, but it has a history of two or three hundred years, and this kind of thing has never happened in the temple.

Everyone says that practicing Buddhism can calm the mind and reduce disputes.

But in fact, it doesn’t matter what you practice, the unpredictable human heart is the root of trouble.

The monks other than the Xuan generation talked about it, some did not believe it, some discussed it, and some were confused.

However, the monks of the Xuan generation were very calm. After all, what Yang Yiyi said was the aspect that they were most reluctant to think about.

"Good! Miss Yang really didn't disappoint me!"

The only person who still maintained a strong state of watching the show was Princess Mingzhu.

"Amitabha, although I don't want to admit it, it seems that the murderer is indeed among us."

Xuan Ci looked back at his fellow apprentices and sighed:

"If the lady has the ability to find the murderer, just tell me what you need."

There are not only Xuan Ku, Xuan Bei and Xuan Ci, but more than ten monks of the Xuan generation, but they are older and more prominent.

Except for these three, more than half of the remaining Xuan generation monks are openly martial arts, and the other half claim that they don't know martial arts, maybe they are actually hiding their incompetence.

This needs to be checked.

So Yang Yiyi asked:

"Master Xuanci, where were you last night?"

"I was chanting in my room last night."

"Are there any witnesses?"

"Only a young monk came in, and there were no witnesses."

Yang Yiyi asked Xuan Ku again, and the latter said:

"I was practicing martial arts in the Dharma Courtyard last night."

"All night?"

"All night, but there were no witnesses."

It was Xuanbei's turn. He was more important. Xuanbei's Zen room was closest to Xuanku's Zen room, separated only by a wall and a small courtyard.

"I was chanting and worshiping Buddha in the main hall last night."

"Are there any witnesses?"

"Alas, there were quite a few."

Several monks immediately jumped out and said they saw Xuanbei in the main hall, and some even chanted with Xuanbei, which clearly indicated that Xuanbei did not leave all night and knocked the wooden fish in front of the Buddha all night.

Xuanbei sighed because if he was in his own Zen room last night, he might have heard the noise and caught the murderer in the act.

This also proves that the murderer must be someone from the temple, and he calculated that there was no one nearby to interfere.

He asked a few other monks of the Xuan generation, and the answers were basically the same. Except for Xuan Bei, no one had an alibi.

"Does Miss Yang have any clues?"

"No, I am not very knowledgeable, so I dare not make a conclusion. I need to think about it and investigate again."

"Miss, don't worry, I just hope that the murderer can be found as soon as possible and return peace to my Buddhist sect."

It is indeed unlikely to find the murderer just by asking. After all, this person's actions are very clean and neat. If he doesn't attack, it's fine. If he attacks, it's just one blow. Xuan Ku was not prepared and didn't resist at all.

Besides, Yang Yiyi was not the first to enter the scene. When she came, many people had already entered the scene, at least the dozen monks of the Xuan generation had entered. Even if there were footprints or some information that could slightly lead to who the murderer was, they would probably be destroyed.

At present, the only clue about the murderer is that it must be someone familiar in the temple who committed the crime. It is highly likely that among the monks of the Xuan generation, there is a vicious palm technique that has been lost for nearly 40 years. Apart from this, there is no information that indicates who the murderer is.

After asking around, they went to check Xuan Ku's body together. After confirming that there were no more clues, everyone moved the body out.

As for this Zen room, it can only be closed temporarily, and everyone dispersed and went to do their own things.

However, in this matter, Yang Yiyi lied about one thing, or Li Chengxi asked Yang Yiyi to lie.

That is the secret room.

Secret room murders often appear in detective novels, but the murderer does not use this method for fun.

Basically, secret room murders are either disguised as suicide or to clear suspicion.

But if you look at the way Xuan Ku died, it doesn't look like suicide at all, which is different from the situation of the host.

And since it was not disguised as suicide, was it to clear suspicion?

No.

After all, this secret room has no function of clearing suspicion. Except for Xuan Bei, most of the monks of the Xuan generation have no alibi. If you want to pretend that it was done by someone outside the temple, then you should leave some traces at the scene.

For example, branches, grass leaves, soil, etc. in the back mountain, but there are none at the scene, and there is no need to make a secret room.

But the fact is that the murderer arranged the scene as a secret room. This situation of taking off pants to fart is very puzzling.

So Li Chengxi thought about it and thought that he might have fallen into a misunderstanding.

He always thought that the murderer and the secret room were bound together, and it was the murderer who arranged the secret room, but he couldn't figure it out no matter how he thought about it.

There is no need, and there is no way to arrange it. After all, this secret room really cannot be locked from the inside, even if the classic fishing line is used. The angle is not right and the bolt cannot be hung up.

The secret room exists and is seamless, which can only be two possible situations.

One is that the victim was fatally injured, locked the door himself and went back to sit and wait for death.

This guess is not reasonable, at least it is nonsense.

Second, the person who arranged the secret room is not the same as the murderer.

In other words, someone turned the room into a secret room after the victim died, or at least after the murderer left.

It sounds outrageous. There is one more person. Since the secret room is seamless, how did this person do it?

Remember the ventilation window?

As mentioned before, the size of the ventilation window can only accommodate children to crawl through. Adults cannot pass unless they can shrink their bones.

Li Chengxi had asked Yang Yiyi to get close to the ventilation window to observe and found decisive evidence.

A toffee with a filling.

This thing can only be given by Li Chengxi as a snack to Yang Yiyi, and Yang Yiyi gave these toffees to the children she met in the back mountain yesterday.

In other words, one or several of those children must have appeared in Xuan Ku's Zen room before, and when they climbed up to drill through the ventilation window, they accidentally stained the sugar on their clothes on the wall.

Of course, it is also possible that when Xuan Ku was still alive, several children came to the Zen room and accidentally rubbed it. This is a question of probability.

As for whether it is true or not, we can only find them and ask them to know.

The reason why he didn't say it openly was because Li Chengxi felt that the murderer must be among the crowd of onlookers, and the murder scene turned into a secret room, which might have exceeded the murderer's expectations.

If he knew that several children might have come after he left, their end would probably not be very beautiful.

So Li Chengxi told Yang Yiyi that this matter could not be said, and she should find a time when she tried not to attract other people's attention and go to those children to verify it.