Since he failed to identify the mechanism arranged by the murderer, Sun Shaozong carefully examined the area around the corpse without destroying the scene of the crime as much as possible.

After making sure that no details were missing, he picked up the body of the ring, and left the center of the clearing with the footprints he had taken.

"Your Excellency."

As soon as he put the corpse on the door panel found by the officials, Qiu Yunfei immediately stepped forward and asked, "How did the murderer kill people, have you figured it out?" ”

Then, he lowered his voice again and said, "You can't really be bitten to death by wild dogs, right?" ”

Sun Shaozong slanted at him silently, until Wei Ruolan, Master Qi, and Zhao Wuxing all surrounded him, and then said, "Let's talk about the results of this official simple inspection first." ”

"The deceased's legal name is Jiexian, which is the first seat of the Zhike Temple of Fayuan Temple, and judging from the stiffness of the corpse, the time of death is about between Chenzheng and Sizheng [eight o'clock in the morning to ten o'clock in the morning]."

"The fatal wound on the neck of the deceased was a horizontal wound of about two and a half inches, from left to right, and according to the cross-section of the wound and the damage to the cervical vertebrae, the murder weapon seems to be a one-handed blade like a firewood knife, which is conducive to chopping."

"After the death of the deceased, the murderer tried to create the illusion of being bitten to death by a wild dog on the wound of the deceased."

"The posture of the five fingers of the deceased's right hand is very incongruous, and it is very likely that after death, someone forcibly broke the deceased's fingers and took something."

"There is a fresh scratch on the inside of the sleeve of the deceased's right arm, which is not very obvious, which seems to have been scratched by some sharp object, but the force and speed are not very fast, and it should be a mark accidentally left by taking out a sharp object from the sleeve pocket."

"In addition to the footprints of the deceased himself, no footprints of other people were found at the scene, and because the deceased had fallen halfway, a fault of about four feet appeared in the middle of the footprints, so it was impossible to carry the deceased to the scene to commit the murder, and then step on the footprints and leave the way backwards."

"On the stone tablets on both sides, there are no traces of ropes ever erected."

Summing up this, Sun Shaozong stopped, silently waiting for everyone to digest this information, or ask their own questions.

said that Wei Ruolan listened, but she frowned and groaned on the side, but Master Qi and Qiu Yunfei stepped forward almost at the same time and checked the corpse of the ring.

It's not that Sun Shaozong can't be trusted, but some details are still believing.

After all, he often went to Lao Xu to steal the teacher, Qiu Yunfei's autopsy method was more skilled than Master Qi's, and he quickly finished inspecting the fatal wound on his neck, and began to look at the gestures of his right hand and the scratches in his sleeve.

"This seems to be ......"

He muttered to himself, bent down and pulled out a dagger with a cat's eye from the boot, and after a few strokes back and forth in the palm of his hand, he said firmly: "If my guess is correct, he should have a dagger in his hand!" ”

"Tut-tut!"

Qiu Yunfei exaggerated and said: "It seems that this monk doesn't have any good intentions, but it's a pity that he is one step slower than others when he does it, otherwise he may be the murderer lying here." ”

Master Qi also echoed on the side: "Judging from the angle and length of the scratches on his sleeve, and the arc outlined by his tail finger and ring finger, it does look like a dagger." ”

However, he then said: "It's just that it's not certain at the moment, whether he took out the dagger after the other party showed his bad intentions, or whether he held the dagger in his hand early in the morning, so whether he has bad intentions or not, I'm afraid it still needs to be discussed." ”

Wei Ruolan frowned on the side and said, "Then why did the murderer take away the dagger of the ring?" ”

"Naturally, it is also to create the illusion that wild dogs hurt people."

Sun Shaozong opened his mouth to explain: "Otherwise, wouldn't it be abrupt to hold a dagger in his hand, but there is no sign of fighting with wild dogs at all? ”

After a pause, and seeing that everyone had no other questions, he raised his voice again and called out to Jienian and Jiexiu, and asked them when the last time they saw the monk Jienian.

Jiexiu replied honestly, saying that he had seen Jienian in the Daxiong Treasure Hall during the morning class, but he only said hello in a hurry, and did not stop to talk in detail.

After listening to Sun Shaozong's question, he seemed a little impatient, first muttered a set of theories of 'evil and harming people', and finally reluctantly said under Qiu Yunfei's repeated questioning: "I have seen it, but Senior Brother Jienian has always suspected that the poor monk is the real murderer behind the scenes, so he avoided it from afar." ”

When Sun Shaozong heard this, he solemnly asked for confirmation from Jiexiu: "Master Jiexiu, has Jienian been deliberately avoiding him since his lifetime, as Master Jiexiu said?" ”

"This ......"

It was rare to hesitate a little, and it was only after a while that he shook his head apologetically and said: "Because of the accidental death of the junior brother of the precept, the little monk is depressed, and he rarely asks about trivial matters in the temple, so he ......."

Jie interjected impatiently: "If you don't believe it, just ask the other monks in the temple, or simply ask the family teacher!" ”

"Amitabha."

Before the words fell, I heard someone preach the Buddha's number, and then from behind the merit monument in the southeast, more than a dozen monks poured out bustlingly, and the leader was not someone else, it was the Zen master with five willows and white hair.

And the little monk who was so excited that his face was flushed, and he was the first to find the corpse of the little monk Xuanci, who had just gone to the people of Tianfu to conduct an expanded search, and when the little monk saw that no one was paying attention to him, he went to the temple and called someone again.

"Master."

"Abbot."

The two of them hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

But the idiot walked over them, and when he arrived at the corpse of the precept of Nian, he silently lowered his head for a long time, and his lips, which were almost covered by a white beard, trembled a few times, as if he wanted to say something, but suddenly his feet were soft, and he fell backwards with his head up!

Thanks to the monk behind him, he quickly supported him, otherwise at his ancient age, he might have gone straight to the Western Elysium.

"Master?!"

"Abbot?!"

But even so, the foolish monk was blind-eyed and unconscious, and the monks were in a mess.

In the chaos, I don't know who shouted: "Master is like this, the Fushou meeting on the first day of August is designated to be gone!" ”

"That's nature! Hurriedly sent someone to inform the palace, saying that the senior brother of Jienian died unexpectedly, and the master was physically and mentally injured, and he really couldn't preside over the emperor's blessing party! ”

"Wouldn't this be disrespectful to the Emperor......

"I can't care so much! There are three monks in the temple, the government doesn't even have a statement, and now even the senior brother is dead, the emperor wants to blame, and he can't blame us! ”

When everyone in Shuntianfu heard this, their faces sank.