I am imprisoned in Kaifeng Mansion

A small blue snake landed on the ground, twisted its body curvyly, and quickly crawled away.Seeing this, the yamen servant immediately tried to catch the snake and put it in a bamboo basket.

Cui Tao first sealed the acupoints of Daoist Wuyou with silver needles, and then asked Li Cai and others to check the lower back of Daoist Wuyou.The stab wound was red, swollen and swelled rapidly, Taoist Wuyou had already fallen into a coma, his lips were blue and purple, his whole body was twitching, and he was in a state of slight suffocation.

Zhang Le was immediately controlled, he was escorted severely, his body was forced to lean forward, but his eyes kept staring in the direction of Taoist Wuyou, as if confirming his death.

The Taoist priests moved Taoist Master Wuyou into the room, and hurriedly wanted to invite the doctor.

Zhao Zongqing looked at Cui Tao at this time: "I heard that someone in Kaifeng Mansion was poisoned, and it was Mrs. Cui who detoxified in time to save him?"

When the Taoist priests heard this, they naturally would not doubt the words of the royal relatives, and they knelt down and begged Cui Tao to detoxify Taoist Wuyou.

Daoist Wuyou on the bed began to tremble all over, his body temperature rose, and it was obviously more difficult to breathe.

After Cui Tao took the pulse of Taoist Master Wuyou, she told Zhao Zongqing, "This snake is extremely poisonous, and the effect of acupuncture alone is limited. The most important thing is to use detoxification soup."

Cui Tao said a prescription for detoxification and asked the Taoists to grab the medicine.But there are three kinds of medicine Taoist temples that don't have them. If you go to the nearest pharmacy to get medicine, it will take nearly two sticks of incense to ride a fast horse, and it will take four sticks of incense to go back and forth.

But it is still not sure whether the pharmacy has such precious medicines as Ganoderma lucidum. If not, I will go to Bianjing to buy them, and it will take longer.

"Long time will inevitably increase the risk, but I don't know if it will survive until then." Cui Tao sighed.

Zhao Zongqing told Cui Tao at this time that he knew a little about how to detoxify snakes.When he was reading Taoist scriptures, there would be some Taoist masters and real people summing up some prescriptions for curing diseases.For example, "Sun Zhenrenfang" records the method of dealing with snake bites: "It is very good to apply human dung to the bite, and new dung is especially good."

Cui Tao looked back at Zhao Zongqing in surprise.

Zhao Zongqing: "It may sound absurd, but in fact this prescription is recorded in many medical books."

"Then what are you waiting for, arrange it quickly, and use the freshest ones." Cui Tao said immediately.

Human life is at stake, since there is a way to try, let's try!The world is so big, there is always knowledge beyond our reach, and we are about to learn more!

Zhao Zongqing originally thought that Cui Tao would object, but he didn't expect her to react so quickly.Zhao Zongqing immediately ordered those Taoist priests to do it quickly.Taoist Master Wuyou has always been their most revered master.

Cui Tao really couldn't help but wonder if this human dung, especially fresh human dung, is really effective in detoxifying snakes?

This matter is easy to cause people to think deeply, and people can't help but think carefully, if this is the dung formed by eating different meals, will the effect be the same?For example, is it better to eat vegetables and other vegetables for detoxification, or is it better to eat meat and fishy foods?What about sweet, spicy, and numb?Will there be differences and impacts?

After hearing what Zhao Zongqing said, the Taoist priests felt embarrassed, but they have spoken. At this critical moment, can they still play tricks?

Their master's situation is already in critical condition, this smearing of human feces will definitely not kill anyone, so why not try it?Once it works.Sincerely filial to the master, then you shouldn't dislike the smell of feces and urine, come on!

Cui Tao did not participate in the onlookers for this kind of therapeutic method with taste.

Zhang Le was being interrogated by Han Zong. He knelt on the ground and said with a smile that he finally avenged his mother.

"Those things about my mother came to me when I was 13 years old, and I happened to meet people in Zhangjia Village talking about it."

Cui Tao listened to what he said was a bit broad, and asked Zhang Le to explain the specific time and place.

"On May [-]th, I took willow weaves to sell in Taikang County. I was drinking tea in a tea shop. I overheard people in Zhangjia Village mentioning this. I wanted to avenge my dead mother because I was not worth it." Zhang Le explained.

"It's been two years since you came to Sanqing Temple, why did you have to wait until this time to take risks in front of everyone?" Cui Tao asked again.

Zhang Le lowered his head silently, and did not say a word.

Since he knew about it a long time ago, in two years, he obviously had many opportunities to do it in private, why wait until now?

Cui Tao found it abnormal that Zhang Le dared not answer this question.

Cui Tao wanted to know whether Zhang Le had killed people on the spur of the moment or had planned it for a long time, so he asked where the snake came from.

Li Cai immediately informed Cui Tao of her investigation, that the little green snake was raised by Zhang Le and had been raised for a year, and everyone in the temple knew about it.

At that time, Zhang Le and several Taoist priests went up the mountain to collect herbs together. They encountered three children who went up the mountain to play and stepped on a nest of snake eggs, leaving only one egg intact.Zhang Le picked it up, and unexpectedly, two days later, a little green snake hatched out.

Snakes are not animals that can recognize their masters, but this little green snake has a good relationship with Zhang Le. Zhang Le often hides it in his sleeve pocket, and the little green snake follows him well.Originally, other Taoist priests were a little scared and wanted to stop him from raising snakes like this.But Taoist Master Wuyou exaggerated that Le's move has the virtue of good life, which is a good thing, and no one dared to object.

After getting along for a long time, this little green snake didn't affect everyone, so no one cares about it.

Now if Zhang Le hadn't used the little green snake to poison Taoist Wuyou, everyone would have almost forgotten about Zhang Le raising the little green snake.

"It's like a sudden murder. When I asked about Plum Blossom Temple, he did it suddenly."

At this moment, when Cui Tao was talking about the Plum Blossom Temple, he found that Zhang Le's complexion was getting worse, and he was even more sure that the matter had something to do with the Plum Blossom Temple.

Zhang Le has a heart of benevolence for a snake.When Cui Tao suspected that Zhang Le was the murderer, Taoist Wuyou immediately said without hesitation that it would not be him.Presumably Zhang Le usually performed well in Taoist temples, and this was confirmed by Li Cai and others in subsequent investigations.

Zhang Le is a good old man in Sanqingguan, he would rather suffer a loss than let others.He has such a good temper that there is nothing to say, and he works hard without complaint, and never complains about anything.

So even if Taoist Master Wuyou is particularly fond of him, the other Taoist priests in the Taoist temple have no opinion. They all think that Zhang Le deserves this kind of favor, and they also think that a person like him may be the second Taoist priest of Wuyou in the future. , even Degao surpassed Wuyou Daochang.

Not only Taoist Wuyou believed in Zhang Le, but other Taoist priests would not have believed that Zhang Le dared to kill people if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes.

"I killed people, as you saw just now. I did it for revenge." Zhang Le emphasized again.

"You said you killed everyone, what do you mean?" Cui Tao asked.

"The two female corpses in Bianjing were also done by me." Zhang Le admitted.

"But according to our investigation, you have no time to commit the crime."

"Of course I have, why do you think I don't?" Zhang Le asked Cui Tao.

Cui Tao explained, she estimated the time of death based on the condition of the corpse.Although the time of death of the No. 2 victim has not been determined due to excessive decay, the time range of No. 1 has been estimated very accurately.

"What if ice is added to the corpse?" Zhang Le immediately asked, looking at Cui Tao.

Cui Tao was stunned for a while, but she didn't expect Zhang Le to refute herself like this.

"Storing in ice will naturally affect Shibiao's judgment, but can you get the ice?"

"Of course, there is an ice cellar in Sanqing Temple. Sometimes Taoist priests and elders will need ice to make alchemy. Taoist Wuyou has always treated me well, letting me get whatever I want, and using ice is nothing at all." Zhang Le explained.

"Okay, let's talk about it, how did you meet and kill the two victims? What was your motive? And you haven't answered the question I asked you before." Cui Tao asked repeatedly.

Zhang Le lowered his head, "Kill them all, what are you talking about?"

"Of course we have to say it. Only when we make it clear can we understand how beastly you are. You, a monk, would do that to them! Let alone rape and then kill, and goug out your eyes and tongue!" Cui Tao's voice suddenly became sharp.

Zhang Le stared at Cui Tao in surprise, "Rape first and then kill? This is impossible!"

"How is it impossible? I don't know about it after the autopsy?" Cui Tao still insisted on her original statement.

Zhang Le: "Impossible, I have never done such a thing!"

"Do you think your denial is interesting? I don't know what you have done? I said rape first and then kill. You should just deny it and say that you didn't do it. But you first questioned and asked, and then said it was impossible. It was only in the end that I reacted and denied it.”

Cui Tao asked Zhang Le if she could understand that the real murderer was a woman.

Zhang Le's expression changed slightly. In order not to let Cui Tao observe more, he lowered his head very deeply.

Han Zong didn't understand why Cui Tao mistakenly said that he raped first and then killed, but now he realized that it was just a means of interrogation.In fact, thinking about it carefully, she had used this tactic against him before, and it really caught him off guard, making it impossible to react in time.

Seeing Zhang Le, Cui Tao began to shrink her neck and lower her head to pretend to be a quail again.

"It's justifiable for you to kill Taoist Priest Wuyou for revenge, but how did those two women offend you? They didn't even spare pregnant women, are you worthy of being human?

It’s fine for you to die and go to hell and not be reborn, but you still have to embarrass your mother.To say that your mother is the worst, she was wronged and stigmatized while she was alive, and gave up her life to prove her innocence.What a ghost, it should be better, right?But because of such a bastard son as you, I still can't lift my head up.

Your mother decided to be a widow back then, probably because of you, right?And what are you doing, trying to grow up, turning yourself into a bloody murderer to pay her back? "

It can be seen that the muscles of Zhang Le's cheeks are tightening, his body is shaking slightly, and his hands are fisted and pressed to the ground.

"No matter who you are committing crimes for, will this person be more important than your mother? You will bear the infamy like this, and then be said, no wonder Mrs. Sun chose to commit suicide and refused to live to raise his son. It turns out that his son is Such a bastard, I deserve it! Your mother’s self-proved innocence in exchange for the name of innocence will be ruined by you now." Cui Tao lamented that Zhang Le is really a 'filial son'.

Zhang Le was shaken even more by Cui Tou's scolding, and after careful observation, he found tears streaming down his cheeks.

Cui Tao waited for a while, and when the surroundings were so quiet that only Zhang Le could be heard crying, she spoke again, with clear words.

"You have to explain the whole process of committing the crime in detail."

Zhang Le closed his eyes, moved his lips, but finally did not open his mouth.

"Then tell me about your ten-inch-three feet, how did you step on the ten-inch-two footprints at the corpse site?" Cui Tao's tone was as gentle as a discussion.

Zhang Le still hangs his head.

"What did you use to goug out your eyes and cut your tongue?" Cui Tao asked again.

Zhang Le lowered his head even deeper, as if he wanted to dig a hole and bury his head in the ground.

"The child is three months old and has just formed. What a sin this pregnant woman is. You must attack her at this time, then goug her eyes, cut her tongue, and put her in that kind of place in midsummer." In a desolate haunted house, flies were allowed to grow maggots in her gouged eye sockets. When we found the body, the whole face was so blistered!"

Cui Tao measured it with his hands, and then described to him how fat the maggots were, and how they freely swayed their fat bodies in the victim's rotting eye sockets.

When Zhao Zongqing came to look for Cui Tao, he met Zhang Le, who was kneeling in the middle of the hall, throwing up.

At first, Zhao Zongqing thought that the Kaifeng government had invented some new type of punishment, so he whispered to Li Cai who was next to him.

Li Cai, who had a bad complexion, tried his best to suppress the turbulence in his stomach, and told Zhao Zongqing politely: "There is no use of punishment, because Mrs. Cui vomited."

Zhao Zongqing: "..."

He then looked at Cui Tao who was walking over with his hands covering his nose.

The smell of vomit permeated, and Zhao Zongqing immediately covered his nose with his hand, exited the door, took out the handkerchief and continued to cover his mouth.

After Cui Tao came out, she glanced at the handkerchief in Zhao Zongqing's hand, and her eyes fell on the embroidery on the corner of the handkerchief, "What kind of flower is this?"

Zhao Zongqing was stunned for a moment, looked at the small yellow flower in the corner of the handkerchief, and said with a smile: "Fushou flowers grow in cold places, where even plum blossoms can't live."

"People often embroider plums, orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums on top of handkerchiefs. This is the first time I have seen this kind of longevity flower. The name is also very nice. It can be auspicious." Cui Tao sighed.

Zhao Zongqing chuckled lightly, noncommittal.In fact, blessing longevity flowers are the most poisonous, and it doesn't take much to make people lose their happiness and longevity in an instant.

"How is Taoist Master Wuyou?" Cui Tao asked.

Only then did Zhao Zongqing remember his reason for coming: "It's still the same, I'm a little worried, so I want to invite Mrs. Cui to have a look again."

Logically speaking, Cui Tao should have gone to Plum Blossom Temple to search and arrest people at this moment, but she stayed because she had to take into account the situation of Taoist Wuyou.However, the Plum Blossom Temple did not delay, they had already sent yamen servants to control all the people surrounding the Plum Blossom Temple, only allowed to enter but not to leave.

Cui Tao turned back to Daoist Wuyou's bed again, the naked eyes could see that the bruise of Daoist Wuyou's lips had faded, and his breathing was not as suffocating as before.Cui Tao felt his pulse immediately and found that his condition had indeed improved.

Could it be that human feces really work?

Zhao Zongqing nodded in relief when he heard that Taoist Master Wuyou had improved slightly.After instructing the people around him to continue to take good care of Daoist Wuyou, he followed Cui Tao out.

"Didn't you plead guilty? Why is there still a trial? What happened to Plum Blossom Temple?" Zhao Zongqing couldn't help asking curiously.

"It's just a false confession. He didn't kill people." Cui Tao asked the priest to ask for brush and ink, thought for a while, and then drew Wang Siniang and Ping'er.

"How can you be sure that the person didn't kill him? Maybe he just wanted to pretend to be crazy and foolish, so that you misunderstood like this? People will be unwavering in their conclusions, and it is good to do so." Zhao Zongqing said.

Cui Tao focused on painting, and didn't listen to Zhao Zongqing's words too much, until she heard him say the last sentence, Cui Tao stopped her hand and looked at Zhao Zongqing suspiciously.Immediately, the pen in his hand tapped on Pinger's portrait.

Cui Tao immediately withdrew the pen.

Zhao Zongqing glanced, "It looks even better with it."

Coincidentally, this mole happened to be in the corner of Ping'er's right eye, which inexplicably added a bit of charm.It is indeed as Zhao Zongqing said, but it looks better.

Anyway, it is used to deceive Zhang Le, so there is no need to redraw it.Cui Tao put together the facial features of Wang Zhao, Li Yuan and others, and drew two portraits of women to continue making up the numbers.

When Cui Tao was about to leave with the painting, she was still a little concerned about what Zhao Zongqing said just now, so she couldn't help turning around and asking Zhao Zongqing.

"When we first met in the Taoist temple—"

"You want to ask me why my temperament at that time was so different from what it looks like now?" Zhao Zongqing took the lead to cut off the conversation, expressing what Cui Tao thought in his heart.

Cui Tao nodded.

"It's my joy to taste all kinds of things in the world." Zhao Zongqing explained.

Cui Tao pondered for a while, and probably understood what Zhao Zongqing meant. It turned out that he wanted to try to experience the lives of different people.Sure enough, he is a high-status royal family. He has too many rich and noble days, and he likes to experience life.

However, Zhao Zongqing's experience of life is a real experience, unlike other people who follow the formalities.He really doesn't have a follower around him, and he can even starve himself out of stomach problems.

Look at what he said casually just now, and he has a profound insight.This Zhao Zongqing is definitely not a simple character.

Cui Tao immediately bid farewell to Zhao Zongqing and continued to interrogate Zhang Le.

Cui Tao put the four portraits in front of Zhang Le and asked him to identify which two were the victims.

Now Han Zong, Li Cai and others basically know that Zhang Le should not be the murderer of the eye-gouging and tongue-cutting case, but Zhang Le has always insisted on denying it.

Anyway, Cui Tao couldn't go to Plum Blossom Temple yet, so she tried her best to break Zhang Le's line of defense and break his last string.Even if it cannot collapse, it is extremely useful to narrow the scope of investigation from the interrogation as much as possible.

Of course, the identification of the portraits has another function. It can be observed and judged whether Zhang Le really knew the two victims.

Looking at the four portraits, Zhang Le glanced over each portrait at a constant speed, and finally he calmly said that he did not remember.

"Do you kill without looking at your face? Or do you kill with your eyes closed?"

The reason for lying is too poor.

"Don't look at your face."

Zhang Le pursed his lips, staring straight at the ground in front of him, looking very stubborn, like a dead pig who is not afraid of boiling water.

Cui Tao felt that he might not be able to hold on any longer, so he kept looking at the ground because he was too guilty to look at her.

"I'm curious, you would rather let your mother bear the infamy, but also protect this person, what is the relationship with you? The relationship between men and women should be ruled out, otherwise you would not have become a monk, and you have not returned to the vulgar.

Look at her method of committing the crime, gouging her eyes and cutting her tongue, it is very likely that it has something to do with your mother's death back then.Could she also be from Zhangjiacun?We were very close with your mother back then?Or have been cared for by your mother?But because she witnessed the scene back then, and accumulated hatred over the years, was she able to carry out such a cruel murder? "

Killing a person is not an easy matter, and it is even more difficult to remove the corpse after killing a person, dig out the eyes and cut out the tongue.The murderer is either naturally cold-blooded enough, or hates enough.

After listening to Cui Tao's analysis, Zhang Le's expression became more and more disturbed. It was obvious that Cui Tao had got the facts right.

Looking back now, during Cui Tao's autopsy, gray powder was found in the shoe seam of victim No. 2, which should be incense ash.

"All kinds of evidence point to the fact that the murderer has something to do with the Plum Blossom Temple, and there is a very high possibility that it is a woman. But I really can't imagine how there can be a woman with a foot length of ten inches, even if there is, it is extremely rare. Then Don't you know who it is if you go to Plum Blossom Temple and ask?"

When Cui Tao said this, Zhang Le's uneasy expression was not as obvious as before.

It seems that the murderer's feet may not be ten inches two.

If not, it means that the murderer had a certain anti-detection ability when committing the crime, and those dusty footprints in the haunted house were left on purpose by her, in order to make the investigators mistakenly believe that the murderer was a man.

What needs to be determined now is whether the murderer is the female crown in Plum Blossom Temple, or one of the poor women who have been taken in?What triggers her to suddenly start killing people, gouging her eyes and cutting her tongue?What made Zhang Le keep silent and willing to die for her?

With her hands behind her back, Cui Tao walked slowly in front of Zhang Le.

"When I did the autopsy on the scene, I came to a conclusion: the murderer despises life, and also despises ghosts. Then what kind of characters in Plum Blossom Temple are not afraid of ghosts? Naturally, they are monks who can exorcise evil spirits!"

Zhang Le shuddered violently when he heard these words, and suddenly raised his head to look at Cui Tao.

At this time, someone from Taoist Wuyou came to spread the word that the medicine had been bought, and after taking it, Taoist priest's condition gradually improved a lot.

Cui Tao looked at Zhang Le and found that Zhang Le didn't react too much after hearing the news.If he is a person who is eager to let Taoist Wuyou die, why is he not excited at all when he heard that Taoist Wuyou has survived?Not angry?

Cui Tao asked Li Cai if the little green snake was still there.

"Yes, I caught him in a bamboo basket." Li Cai said.

"Find an animal that weighs about the same as a human, and test the poison." Cui Tao ordered.

Hearing this, Zhang Le looked at Cui Tao again, with unspeakable surprise still in his eyes.

"Isn't that a waste of a beast?" Li Cai felt it was a pity, but he still had to follow Master's instructions.

"There's no need to go, this snake venom will give people the illusion of being paralyzed and suffocated for a short time, but it will be relieved in a short time, and they can't die." Zhang Le, who had been taciturn all this time, suddenly spoke out.

As soon as Li Cai heard this, he didn't intend to go.Immediately seeing Cui Tao winking at him, Li finally understood, no matter whether Zhang Le confessed or not, he had to give it a try.He didn't say that he wanted to test whether the onset of the poison was what Mrs. Cui had speculated.He said that he would also try to see if the onset of the poison was really as he stated.

Li Cai took the snake and went obediently.

If the situation is as Zhang Le said, then he doesn't really have the heart to kill Taoist Wuyou, but he has a very sincere heart to take the blame for the murderer.

This kind of Zhang Le made Cui Tao think of himself, but he was forced to do it, and Zhang Le was completely voluntary.

But it was precisely because he was voluntary that it was in line with his previous behavior of saving snakes.

For a person who is full of love for snake eggs, Cui Tao doesn't really believe that he will really kill people.

"How do you know that after this kind of snake bites a person, it will 'die' first and then live?"

"I was accidentally bitten by him twice, and both times I recovered after a period of slowing down." Zhang Le said.

How benevolent is this person?After being bitten by a snake twice, he still managed to kill the snake and kept it by his side.

"Who is that person?" Cui Tao asked directly.

Zhang Le lowered his eyes, his lips moved, and finally pursed, it was obvious that he still couldn't speak.

This is not incomprehensible, after all, this is a kind person who has been bitten by a snake twice and will continue to raise snakes.This is true for snakes, let alone people. This person should be very special to him.

"It can be seen that you have a kind heart, but have you ever thought about how cruel your behavior is to the two victims? One of them is still pregnant with a child."

"It's wrong to kill people. If you want to pay your life for your life, it will be easier for me to pay for your life." After Zhang Le said, he kowtowed to Cui Tao and Han Zong.

Han Zong has been sitting obediently by the side, arranging himself as a novice.He listened to Cui Tao's reasoning and interrogation, and witnessed the twists and turns of the plot of the case.He secretly marveled and rubbed his chin, feeling that he really had a lot to learn.

At this moment, Han Zong was very amazed at Zhang Le's kindness. He didn't expect such a person to exist in the world, and he didn't know how to describe it.

Stupid is really stupid, and a little bit annoying, hated, but people can't hate him.

"Even if you don't tell it, you can still find out, and now you can save yourself from the crime if you tell it." As expected, Zhang Le still didn't say anything.

Cui Tao asked him something else, whether he knew that Taoist Wuyou was the source of the rumors that caused his mother to suffer.

"I have this feeling, but I'm not sure, but seeing him persist in going to save the ghost house these two days, I'm sure. I saw you came with him today, and you still need to investigate me, so I'm completely sure." Zhang Le Honestly explained.

Cui Tao asked Zhang Le again to hate Taoist priest Wuyou.

Zhang Le hesitated and shook his head.

Cui Tao didn't ask any further questions. After confirming that Taoist Master Wuyou had woken up and that the poisoning reaction on her body was indeed showing signs of improvement, she immediately set off for Plum Blossom Temple.Zhang Le, as an important person involved, naturally has to take him with him, so that he can confront him when he finds the murderer.

Zhao Zongqing stayed and continued to take care of the situation of Taoist Master Wuyou.

When Cui Tao left, the Taoist priests in the temple lamented that since the poison would have been resolved on its own, wouldn't they have wasted their efforts to apply fresh human feces to the bite?

When they arrived at the Plum Blossom Temple, the yamen servants who arrived in advance to control the Plum Blossom Temple came to report to Cui Tao. They had already asked the female crowns and temporary pilgrims in the temple, and they all said that two women had disappeared in the temple recently. Shaw.

Among them, Shao Shi was pregnant. Shao Shi was originally a concubine in a wealthy family, but was kicked out by the master's family for stealing money.After leaving, she found out that she was pregnant, and Shaw proudly went back to find her. The master thought her character was too bad, and Ji Ji didn't like the child in her womb, so they forced her to drink abortion pills to abort the fetus.Of course Shao was unwilling, and ran away after fierce resistance, so he came to Plum Blossom Temple for help, planning to go to the owner's house after the child was born.At that time, the child will be a real person, and they will have to recognize it even if they don't, and they will give her a sum of money no matter what.

Yin's family is a widow. After her husband died, she became a matchmaker, but she was lazy, greedy for drinking and gambling, and hid in Bianjing after she owed a whole lot of debts and was chased.

Because she heard that Plum Blossom Temple took in poor women, she lied and pretended to be a bullied widow, and came to ask Master Yunfeng to take her in. Since then, she has lived in Plum Blossom Temple for more than half a year.

Because of the smell of corpses in Midsummer, the two victims had already been buried in the ground first.

Li Cai asked Yin and Shao about the clothes they wore when they disappeared, and they all matched those of the two victims.Yin's appearance and characteristics, as well as the fact that there are head lice on his head, can also be matched with the No.1 victim found in Kaifeng Mansion.

From this, it can be basically confirmed that the two victims whose corpses were abandoned in the haunted house were indeed the Yin family and the Shao family who were missing from Plum Blossom View.

"It sounds like the two victims were not very good people." Li Cai and Cui Tao said with emotion, "It seems that they didn't goug their eyes for no reason."

"No matter how wrong the two are, they will not be guilty of death, not to mention they will be humiliated after death, their eyes and tongues will be gouged out." Cui Tao said.

Li Cai nodded, and immediately responded to Cui Tao's words, indeed.After death, his face was disfigured, his eyes and tongue were missing, and he didn't even leave the whole body. It was really too cruel.

The host of Plum Blossom Temple is Taoist Master Yunfeng, and there are three other elders, Yunyue, Yundan and Yunyu.

The four are from the same generation, and they are all over 30 years old, among which Yun Fengdao is the oldest.Yuan also had an older generation of master uncle, who just passed away two months ago.

At present, there are 34 female champions in Guannei, all of whom are between the ages of eight and 22, and none of them are too old.

Both Yin and Shao disappeared on June 23, and the last person who saw Yin and Shao in Guannei was after lunch on the 23rd, when everyone was about to take a nap.

Shaw said that she had an important person to meet and asked everyone to rest first, she would come as soon as she went, she seemed very happy at the time.Everyone also saw that Yin went with Shao.After that, everyone didn't see Shao Shi and Yin Shi, and they wondered if Shao Shi's former concubine's master had changed his mind and decided to take Shao Shi back so that she could have a son and enjoy the blessings.

"Then you are not surprised, she didn't even pack her things, and left without even saying hello?" Han Zong was puzzled why they didn't report missing after so long.

The women taken in in Plum Blossom Temple are all free to move.If you want to live in Guannei, you have to do some work such as growing vegetables, weaving cloth, sweeping...and adding oil to the long-burning lamps.If you don't want to live, no one will force you to stay.

"Judge Han may not understand that there is really nothing to clean up. When most people come here, they don't even have a change of clothes, and there is no good piece of clothes on their bodies. Patch on patch.

The clothes we all wear today are old clothes donated by pilgrims. Although most of them are scratched and hooked, they may not fit well, so these are good things for us!But this is nothing compared to Mrs. Shao's master's house. She can't wear silk and satin when she goes back?Who would care to come back and get these. "

Song Shi, the woman who lived in the same house with Shao Shi, said.

"Yes, Mrs. Shao herself said that life in Guannei is too hard. If anyone is willing to take her away and provide her with food and clothing, she will follow immediately without saying a word. She can do whatever she wants." Another Jia Shi, the woman who lived in the same house as Shao Shi, agreed.

"Ms. Shao and Mrs. Yin have the best relationship. They will sleep next to each other. I thought Mrs. Yin went to enjoy the blessing with Mrs. Shao."

They live in a room with ten people, Datong shop, so Yin and Shao can sleep next to each other.The two were likely killed by the same murderer because they knew the same secret.However, the two disappeared at the same time, but it took two or three days before they were killed, which is a bit strange.

Cui Tao and Han Zong roughly interrogated all the young women in the Taoist temple, and Cui Tao felt that none of these women were murderers.

Afterwards, by asking for proof of alibi, the possibility of committing crimes by most of the women's crowns in the temple was ruled out.This is also due to the Datong shop.Because it is the Christmas of several gods these days, everyone has to work together, so most of them will get together to do things in groups of three or four, and it is easy to prove each other.The remaining few who did not have enough alibi to prove that they were either weak in stature or insufficient in qualifications and morals.The qualifications are still young, not ruthless enough, and he doesn't have the courage to despise ghosts, all of which are ruled out.

In the end, only the alibi of Taoist Master Yunfeng and the three elders remained, which needs to be verified.They were all busy with their own business during their break at noon on the 23rd, but none of them could provide enough evidence.

Cui Tao looked at the figures of these four people. Yunyue and Yundan were relatively stronger, Yunfeng Daochang was the second, and Yunyu was the weakest.

The murderer can break the victim's neck deftly. At the same time, after the murder, he still needs to transport the corpse to the haunted house. Even if there is a donkey to help carry it, it needs enough strength to move it up and down.

Therefore, Elder Yunyu has suffered from heart disease for a long time, and his body is weak, so she can be ruled out as a suspect.

Cui Tao then asked who came from Meihua Temple to take in the poor woman.

"It's the poor Taoist's idea." Taoist Master Yunfeng then explained to Cui Tao that the reason why she had such an idea was because she often met some poor women who came to the temple to pray and complain. Help as much as you can.

People with a heart of benevolence generally would not go so far as to commit such brutal and murderous acts, so we can rule out the suspicion of Daoist Yunfeng for the time being.

The remaining two elders, Yunyue and Yundan, heard that both of them practice martial arts, and they are good at exorcising ghosts and evil spirits. Many pilgrims will specially invite them to perform deeds.Both of them have the ability to break the neck, and they both committed the crime on the 23rd. They either retreated alone to practice alchemy, or they went to the mountains to collect herbs.

Cui Tao calculated that according to the ages of the two elders, when the widow of Zhangjiacun had an accident 20 years ago, the murderer was only a child in his early ten years old.But don't underestimate the early ten years old, just a sensible age, but also an age that hates the world and easily accumulates anger.

Only by determining which of the two people is more likely to have something to do with Zhang Le can we determine who is the most likely suspect.

Cui Tao immediately used a simple elimination method, which is really very simple.

"May I ask the two elders, what were your common names before you became a monk?"

Those who came out of Zhangjiacun must have the surname Zhang.I'm not worried that these two people will lie, every monk in Bianjing has Taoism, and there are archives in the government office.

"Bai Cuihua." Yunyue said.

When Cui Tao heard the name, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She was afraid that in the worst case, both of them would have the surname Zhang, so she still had to think of a way.

After Yun Dan was silent for a while, he slowly opened his mouth and said, "Zhang Xiuqiao."

"Why did you kill Shao and Yin successively, and dump their bodies in the haunted house, gouging out their eyes and cutting out their tongues?" Cui Tao asked straight to the point without talking nonsense.

Yun Dan frowned, then raised her eyebrows suddenly.

She immediately raised her head, staring straight at Cui Tao, with the corners of her mouth slightly raised, revealing a weird smile.

"Because of you."