Chapter 986: Please verify
Jingci Temple cannot be said to be a thousand-year-old temple, but it has a history of two to three hundred years. This kind of thing has never happened in the temple.
Everyone says that practicing Buddhism can calm the mind and reduce conflicts.
But in fact, it doesn’t matter what you cultivate. The unpredictability of people’s hearts is the root of the problem.
The monks other than the Xuan generation started talking about it. Some didn't believe it, some were discussing it, and some were confused.
However, several monks of the Xuan generation were very calm. After all, what Yang Yiyi said was the aspect that they least wanted to think about.
"Okay! Miss Yang really did not disappoint me!"
The only person who still maintains a strong state of watching the show is Princess Mingzhu.
"Amitabha, although I don't want to admit it, it seems that the murderer is indeed among us."
Xuanci looked back at his junior brothers and sighed: "If the heroine has the ability to find out the murderer, just say whatever you need."
There are not only Xuan Cui, Xuan Bei and Xuan Ci monks of the Xuan generation, but there are more than ten in total, but the three of them are older and more prominent.
Excluding the three of them, more than half of the remaining monks of the Xuan generation had martial arts skills on the surface. Besides, the other half claimed not to know martial arts, so maybe they were actually hiding their clumsiness.
This needs to be investigated.
So Yang Yiyi asked:
"Master Xuanci, where were you last night?"
"Last night the poor monk was chanting sutras in his room."
"Are there any witnesses?"
"Only a young novice came in, and there were no witnesses."
Yang Yiyi asked Xuanku again, and the latter said:
"I practiced martial arts at Bodhidharma Academy last night."
"All night?"
"It went on all night, but there were no witnesses."
It was Xuanbei's turn, and he was more important. Xuanbei's meditation room was the closest to Xuanku's, separated only by a wall and a small courtyard.
"Last night the poor monk was chanting sutras and worshiping the Buddha in the main hall."
"Are there any witnesses?"
"Oh, it's quite a lot."
Several monks immediately jumped out and said that they saw Xuan Bei in the main hall, and some even chanted sutras with Xuan Bei. It was very clear that Xuan Bei did not leave the whole night, and spent the whole night knocking wooden fish in front of the Buddha. .
Xuanbei sighed because if he had been in his meditation room last night, he might have heard the noise and caught the murderer.
This also further proves that the murderer must be someone from the temple, and there is no one nearby to interfere.
I asked several other monks of the Xuan generation, and the answers were basically the same. Except for Xuan Bei, no one had an alibi.
"Does Nvxia Yang have any clue?"
"It's never happened before. I have little talent and knowledge. I dare not jump to conclusions. I need to think about it again and investigate again."
"The heroine doesn't have to worry about it. I just hope that the murderer can be found out as soon as possible and my Buddhist family can be clean."
It is indeed impossible to find the murderer just by asking. After all, this person strikes very cleanly and neatly. If he doesn't take action, it will only be one blow. Xuanku has no defense and no resistance at all.
What's more, Yang Yiyi was not the first one to enter the scene. When she came, many people had already entered the scene. At least a dozen monks of the Xuan generation had gone in. Even if there were footprints or some traces on the ground that could lead to clues, The information about who the murderer is is also likely to be destroyed. At present, the only clues about the murderer are that it must be an acquaintance in the temple who committed the crime. There is a high probability that among the monks of the Xuan generation, there is a vicious palm technique that has been lost for almost forty years. In addition, there is no information that could mark who the murderer is. None.
After asking around, they went together to check Xuan Ku's body and confirmed that there were no more clues before everyone removed the body.
As for this Zen room, it can only be temporarily closed, and everyone should disperse first and go about their own business.
But in this matter, Yang Yiyi lied, or Li Chengqi told Yang Yiyi to lie.
That's the secret room.
Secret room murders often appear in detective novels, but the murderer doesn't do it for fun when he uses this method.
Basically, locked room killings are either done to look like suicide or to avoid suspicion.
But if you look at Xuan Ku's way of death, it doesn't look like suicide. It's different from the host's situation.
And since it's not a disguised suicide, are you trying to avoid suspicion?
No.
After all, this secret room does not have the function of clearing suspicion. Except for Xuan Bei, most monks of the Xuan generation have no alibi. If you want to pretend that someone outside the temple did it, you should leave some traces at the scene.
For example, there are branches, grass, leaves, soil, etc. in the back mountain, but they are not available on site, and there is no need to make a secret room.
But the fact is that the murderer arranged the scene as a secret room. It is very puzzling to take off his pants and fart in a unnecessary way.
So Li Chengqi changed his mind and thought that he might have fallen into a misunderstanding.
He always believed that the murderer and the secret room were bound to each other and that the murderer arranged the secret room, but he couldn't figure it out no matter how hard he tried.
It's not necessary, and there's no way to arrange it. After all, there's really no way to lock this secret room from the inside, even if you put on a classic fishing line. The angle is wrong, and the door bolt can't be hung.
The secret room exists and is seamless, so there are only two possible situations.
First, after the victim was fatally injured, he locked the door and went back to sit and wait to die.
This guess is not reasonable, at least it is nonsense.
The second is that 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, and there is one more person. Since the secret room is seamless, how did this person do it?
Remember the ventilation windows?
As mentioned before, the ventilation window is only large enough for children to crawl through. Unless adults can shrink their bones, it will be impossible for them to pass through.
Li Chengqi had previously asked Yang Yiyi to observe the ventilation window and found decisive evidence.
A toffee-filled strip with a sugar center.
This thing could only be given by Li Chengqi as a snack to Yang Yiyi, and Yang Yiyi gave these sandwich toffees to the children she met in the back mountain yesterday.
In other words, one or a few of those children must have appeared in Xuanku's meditation room. When they climbed up to get through the ventilation window, they accidentally got the candy on their clothes. on the wall.
Of course, it is also possible that when Xuan Ku was still alive, a few children came to the meditation room and accidentally got involved. This is a question of possibility.
As for whether it is true, we can only know if we find them and ask them.
The reason why he didn't say it openly was because Li Chengqi felt that the murderer must be among the crowd of people watching. The fact that the murder scene turned into a secret room may have exceeded the murderer's expectations.
If he had known that several children might come here after he left, their fate would probably not be too pretty.
So Li Chengqi told Yang Yiyi that this matter cannot be discussed. Find a time when you try not to attract other people's attention and go find those children for verification.
(End of chapter)