Dongdu Pavilion Case Record

In the early morning of the second day, the bells in the temple were melodious, and the rain outside the house had stopped.

All of a sudden, all the monks in the temple ran back and forth, as if there was something urgent.Tang Wuyi was about to ask someone to inquire, and a young monk came to inform Tang Wuyi and Wen Tao: "Pavilion Master Tang, Master Wen Dao, the disciple who went to the mountain to chop firewood today saw a person floating in the stream of the mountain stream, who is organizing Disciples go to investigate. Master Mingxin asked the young monk to inform Pavilion Master Tang and Master Wen Dao to go there together."

Tang Wuyi and Wen Tao looked at each other with a sense of foreboding, so they hurriedly followed the monks to the mountain.

It rained all day last night, and the roads in the mountains were slippery and muddy, making it difficult to walk.That's all for Tang Wuyi, but Wen Wentao's light-colored Taoist robe with open sleeves was already stained with mud.Tang Wuyi stopped, took out a loop, and helped Wentao tie up his open sleeves so that he could walk easily, and said, "It's my fault, next time I ask you for help, I will prepare some sleeves for you to move around. clothes."

While the two were talking, the monks in front of them shouted, "It's there, it's there!"

Tang Wuyi and Wen Tao hurried over to check it out. They were standing on top of the rock at the moment, and they could just see the stream below the mountain.The stream originally had very little water, but after a night of rain, the water volume soared and the current was turbulent.Seen from here, a figure is floating on the water, caught by rocks, wearing the monk's robe of Shaolin.

Seeing this, Tang Wuyi knew that this was already a corpse, but the rocks here were so steep that it was difficult to get close to the stream and fish up the corpse.

The monks were at a loss as well, they couldn't see who that person was, and they couldn't get down the mountain wall.

Tang Wuyi said: "Hurry up and inform Master Mingxin, the place is dangerous, I am afraid that only the Eighteen Arhats under him can fish out the corpse."

After hearing this, the monks hurried back to the temple to report to the abbot and Master Mingxin. Soon, Master Mingxin came with several monks with outstanding martial arts skills.Several people flew over the eaves and walls, and descended into the mountain stream with light work.Tang Wuyi and Wen Tao also flew down together.

Fortunately, the body was stuck by rocks and was not washed away by the current.Several monks worked together and finally retrieved the corpse.Tang Wuyi and Wen Tao took a hasty look, only to see that the corpse was so badly decomposed that it was difficult to recognize its face.The monks hurriedly covered the corpse with a white cloth, flew up the rocks above it again, and sent the corpse back to Shaolin Temple.

Tang Wuyi and Wen Tao stayed for a while at the place where the body was found.The water here was still rising, and there was almost no place to stand. The two found a stone out of the water and barely stood, with cliffs on both sides.

Wen Tao said: "It seems that apart from being able to do light work, there is no way to come down here to throw the corpse."

Tang Wuyi nodded and said: "At present, we can only throw the corpse down from above."

Wen Tao said: "If the corpse is thrown from a high place, the corpse will suffer a heavy blow, and there will definitely be fractures, especially the ribs and limbs. We will know when we go back and examine the corpse."

Tang Wuyi nodded, and the two lifted their breaths, and flew to the rocks on the mountain just now with light work, and returned to Shaolin with the monks.

When approaching the mountain gate, Tang Wuyi suddenly said: "Wait a minute."

Wen Tao stopped, and Tang Wuyi walked to the side of a towering old pine, only then did Wen Tao see a magpie under the tree, to be precise, it was the corpse of a magpie.I saw that magpie with bright coat and plump body was stabbed to death by a sharp arrow.Wen Tao couldn't bear it, he touched it with his hands, and said in a deep voice: "It's a pregnant female magpie."

"It seems that this is the dissatisfaction that Master Mingli punished his disciples." Tang Wuyi lightly held the arrow, and saw that the arrow was meticulously crafted, very delicate, easy to carry, and it was not an ordinary thing at first glance, "Although The princes and children are keen on hunting, but it is really inappropriate for Prince Jin to kill in this Buddhist pure place, no wonder Master Mingli is angry, and the other disciples in the temple are also not convinced." He put the arrow in his sleeve and entered Shaolin together with Wen Tao.

In the past, only Shaolin disciples disappeared, but now that the body is found, the murder case is confirmed.The atmosphere in the temple suddenly became serious.Abbot Wuxiang, who was still in training, also showed up and summoned all the monks in the Dharma Hall.Tang Wuyi and Wen Tao waited outside because they were not from the temple and it was difficult for them to enter the Dharma hall.

After a while, Master Wuxiang came out first. He was already more than seventy years old, his beard and hair were all white. When he saw the two of them, he clasped his hands together and said, "Thank you for your help. Just now several elders have identified the corpse inside. In terms of stature, it wasn't Xuan Jing and Xuan Ding, it should be the first Xuan Yi who disappeared. He has been missing for more than a month. If you can find out why Xuan Yi was murdered, and the whereabouts of Xuan Jing and Xuan Ding, I will thank you very much. !" Master Wuxiang spoke earnestly.

Tang Wuyi hurriedly said: "The abbot is serious. Since there is a murder case, Dongdu Pavilion will take over. I hope the abbot will allow us to conduct an autopsy."

Master Wuxiang said: "Please do what you want."

"In addition, since a murder case has occurred in the temple, if there is no urgent matter, everyone in the temple should not go down the mountain these few days." Tang Wuyi said.

"I have already ordered it." Master Wuxiang has given Dongdu Pavilion the greatest convenience in investigating the case.

After the monks left the Dharma hall, Tang Wuyi and Wen Tao went in to check the corpse.This person is not tall, his body has decayed in many places, and his face is difficult to distinguish.

Wen Tao said: "According to this degree of decay, it should indeed be the body of Xuanyi who disappeared the first time. And he has died since then."

"Well," Tang Wuyi nodded, looked carefully and said: "The rot has already started to rot, but it has not been soaked in water for a long time. What is the cause of death? Can you tell?"

Wen Tao removed the clothes from the corpse and said: "There are a lot of external injuries, as if caused by external force, let's test the internal organs in a while to see if there is any poison."

"Could his trauma be caused by being hit by a rock after being dumped?" Tang Wuyi asked.

Wen Tao shook his head: "Look, his wounds are mainly bruises, which are bluish-purple, which means that he was injured during his lifetime. If he was injured after death, especially after more than 30 days after his death, he will not be injured after throwing the body away. There will be these traces."

Tang Wuyi nodded in agreement and said: "Speaking of throwing the corpse, hurry up and see if there are any broken bones."

Wen Tao checked carefully and said, "The bones are not damaged."

Tang Wuyi was shocked: "Then it wasn't thrown from the mountain!"

"That's right. Where the murderer threw the body from is indeed a big question." Wen Tao said, he sighed, and began the autopsy. The lungs and stomach of the corpse were clean, neither drowned nor drowned. Nor was it poisoned.

"This case is a bit tricky." Wen Tao said to Tang Wuyi, "Just looking at the corpse, there are already a lot of doubts. First, what is the cause of death? The corpse is too decomposed, and it can only be roughly inferred that the death was caused by trauma, but we can't find it. Fatal injury; second, what is the method of throwing the corpse? The mountain stream cannot go down without light work, even a monk can hardly reach it with such a heavy corpse. And judging from the bones, it is not thrown from the mountain."

Tang Wuyi nodded: "This is just a corpse. If the other two were also killed, where are their corpses?"