Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty
Chapter 122 Princess Jinyang of the Tang Dynasty
Bai Tianming was stunned, his heart skipped a beat, although what he said was different from what he thought, but the meaning was similar.Why does Princess Jinyang seem to see through his mind?Tian Ming has always regarded himself as a veteran, although he is respectful to Li Mingda on the surface, but in his heart he does not want to deal with some brats who make trouble because of his noble status, especially this one is a girl.He had also heard about the strange cases that Princess Jinyang had solved before, but he believed in his heart that these were just the credit of others.There are too many things like this, but because of their special status, as long as they run around and get involved, they will take credit for themselves.That's why Princess Jinyang insists on bringing Fang Yizhi, the famous No. [-] strategist in Chang'an City, every time she decides a case.
Today, Tianming took a special look at it, Fang Yizhi was not there, Princess Jinyang was afraid that she was starting to be proud, and felt that she could "become a teacher", so she wanted to make a fuss with Jingzhao Mansion.Bai Ming sighed again and again, this princess is really a little ancestor, after the quarrel with the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, she came to quarrel with Jingzhao Mansion again, and the Dali Temple had to accompany her to play.If things go on like this, a good country will be turned upside down by this little ancestor.
Bai Ming immediately settled down in his heart, he will definitely not show mercy to the princess in today's case, if he is wrong, he is wrong, he will not only make the princess's face disgraced, but also write a letter to the saint, preventing Princess Jinyang from getting involved in the future any case.Good girl, just play the piano and play chess at home, if you are more naughty, let her go for a walk and look around, it is already the limit.It's really a muddled decision to get involved in the affairs of the court.The sage doted too much on this daughter, and if no one reminded her, it would cause trouble every day.If the audience really had to start with bloodshed, he would rather be No.1.
At this time, nun Hui Ning and others heard the news and came to greet her.
Before Bai Ming could open his mouth to ask again, Li Mingda had already blocked him with words: "If you have anything to say, we'll talk about it in the nunnery."
Bai Tianming nodded unhappily, still respecting the princess, and held back his words at this moment.
Naturally, Li Mingda was not in the mood to care about Bai Ming's mood, and asked with a smile about the situation in Hui Ning Nunnery, Hui Ning answered everything one by one.
"Now everything is still the same as before, except that the three teachers are missing. If something happens in the nunnery, there will be no one to make decisions."
"What's so difficult about it, you just elect a virtuous person to be the abbot." Hearing this, Tianming suggested immediately.
"But we are all young, and we don't have any high morals, and there is no suitable candidate." Hui Ning turned to look at the several nuns who came behind him, and those nuns immediately nodded, approving of Hui Ning's proposal statement.
"After that, if something happens in your nunnery, how should you deal with it?" Li Mingda asked in surprise.
Hui Ning shook his head.
An Ning said from the side: "If it's really not possible, we can only discuss it together, and use less to serve more."
Hui Ning then asked Li Mingda: "What do you think of this method?"
"Not bad."
After Li Mingda finished speaking, nuns such as Hui Ning and An Ning all smiled lightly, as if the problem that had caused them distress for many days had finally been resolved.With the words of the princess, it is enough for them to block the mouths of some little people.
Bai Ming nodded beside him, thinking that this way of dealing with it was not bad.
"Has anyone among you already known about the relationship between Taoist Zhang Xuanzhen and Master Yong'an?" Tian Hanxuan shouted loudly after receiving Li Mingda's order.
Li Mingda was standing in front of the Daxiong Palace, his eyes were usually looking straight ahead, which was where the hundreds of nuns gathered here.
The nuns all shook their heads.
Li Mingda looked towards Hui Ning and An Ning.
Hui Ning hurriedly explained to Li Mingda in a low voice: "Most people in the nunnery don't know, only a few of us know. It was only because of your lord's investigation at the beginning. Later, Jingzhao Mansion also notified, so we know some specific details."
Bai Ming also agreed, saying that after the verdict, he did send someone to notify the nuns in Meihua Nunnery.
"Before the three masters died, did you already know that Jian Wenshan was Henry Zhangzhen's son?" Tian Hanshan asked again.
All the nuns looked bewildered.
Li Mingda's eyes were still looking straight ahead.
When Tian Ming heard these two questions, he was really speechless.It turns out that this is how the princess solves the case, just by asking everyone two insignificant questions?
Tian Hanshan then looked at Li Mingda, saw the princess nodded, and sent these nuns to disperse.
Hui Ning turned around and let the nuns behind An Ning disperse, saving too many people and making a fuss in front of the princess.
"Don't leave yet." After Li Mingda finished speaking, he said to Cheng Chubi, "Bring Jian Wenshan here."
"Jian Wenshan? Wasn't he already sentenced to death and executed yesterday?" Huian asked in surprise.
Not only her, but the nuns behind Hui'an were all surprised.
"I came here today to settle this case and convict him." Tian Hanshan explained.
After Hui'an heard the words, he looked at Baiming with more doubts.
Bai Tianming smiled, and explained yesterday's incident to Hui'an, "It just so happened that someone reported a case yesterday and sued Jian Wenshan for defrauding his family property. Due to the trial of this case, his execution was temporarily postponed. Coincidentally, today the princess is going to sue Jian Wenshan in the name of Der Spiegel. The case of Jian Wenshan's murder has been questioned, and a retrial is required, which is hard to do, and now everyone has come to Plum Blossom Temple to investigate the case again."
Hui Ning nodded, then looked at Li Mingda, "Your lord thinks the murderer is someone else?"
"I always thought that Jian Wenshan was not the murderer, and I always thought that the murderer was still in the nunnery." Li Mingda said flatly.
Bai Ming hurriedly cupped his hands: "Then please tell the princess who is this 'murderer' hiding in the nunnery?"
Li Mingda didn't speak, turned his back to the crowd, and looked up at the Buddha statue enshrined in the Daxiong Hall.
"I remember that you monks have a few precepts, among them are, 'Don't kill, don't commit adultery, don't steal, don't double tongue, and tell lies', but is that so?"
Hui Ning nodded and agreed: "Exactly."
"Now in front of the Buddha, can you all guarantee that you are not lying?" Li Mingda asked again.
Hui Ning didn't understand why Li Mingda asked this question, but nodded in agreement, "Everyone in the nunnery has always followed the precepts."
"Where's Baifu Yin?" Li Mingda looked at Hui Ning and the others, and suddenly looked at Bai Ming, making it hard to understand who he was targeting.
Bai Bai pointed to himself inexplicably, "Xiaguan? Your lord, Xiaguan really has nothing to do with this matter. I have never met Jian Wenshan and Mrs. Yong'an in Meihua Nunnery. And Xiaguan I feel that the little nuns in the Plum Blossom Nunnery also don’t know about it, and it has nothing to do with Jian Wenshan’s feud with Mrs. Yong’an.”
"According to what you said, Jian Wenshan is Henry Zhangzhen's child. For what reason did he hate and come to kill Mr. Yong'an. What about Ren'an, Mrs. Ci'an? What is the motive for the murder?"
"This is because Jian Wenshan has always refused to explain, but the nun guarding the gate has confirmed that Jian Wenshan has indeed been here, calling for Zhao Furong, which is the lay name of Master Ci'an. It can be seen that they know each other. What is the reason for the grudge. And Master Ci'an has always worked with Master Ren'an, so if you want to kill, you will naturally kill two."
"But Jian Wenshan does have a fiancée named Zhao Furong, how do you explain it?" Li Mingda said.
Bai Ming: "At this point, when the officer sent someone to Dingzhou, he also went to find Zhao Furong's aunt and uncle. It was confirmed that Zhao Furong did not run away from home at all, but left a letter and eloped with someone. His aunt and uncle felt ashamed, so they said to the outside world that they were sad because of the marriage. I think Jian Wenshan knew about this a long time ago. It happened that Mrs. Ci'an had the same name as his former fiancée. He must have some reason to find Master Ci'an. Tai, and then killed him. So when everyone found out that he was a murderer, he used this coincidence to talk nonsense to get rid of his guilt. To tell you the truth, this kind of prisoner has too much experience in officials, in order to escape Guilty, any lie they can make up."
"That's weird, what you checked is not quite the same as what I checked." Li Mingda sighed.
Ming Ming saluted solemnly during the day, but there was a sense of dissatisfaction in his eyes, "I also ask your lord to enlighten me."
"Let's talk about the brother-sister relationship between Master Yong'an and Henry Zhang first." Li Mingda said.
"How do you know they are brothers and sisters?" Bai Ming asked in surprise.
Li Mingda asked Jian Wenshan: "Does the White House Governor have conclusive evidence to prove that there must be adultery between them?"
"The female steward of Cui's family, that is, Yuan'an, a fellow apprentice of Master Yong'an, has already given a statement at Xiaguan. This Master Yong'an not only has a close relationship with Zhang Xuanzhen, but also ordered bandits to wipe out her fellow disciples. How sinister." Tianming sighed.
"Just relying on Yuan'an's one-sided statement is not enough to constitute conclusive evidence. Whether Mr. Yong'an colluded with the bandits in the matter of bandits, because it has been a long time since the person concerned cannot be found, there is no conclusion at all. Yuan'an just thinks that Mr. Yong'an left, and they She encountered bandits, and things were strange, so she was skeptical, but what if it was just a coincidence, and the bandits happened to attack at that time? And the reason why she suspected that Master Yong'an would use bandits was because the nunnery Everyone in the family thinks that Mrs. Yong’an has something to do with Henry Zhang. Their relationship is shameful, so they became angry and silenced, but this is not the case.” Li Mingda then asked Henry Zhang’s self-portrait to air out.
"This portrait was painted by King Han, and the person in the painting is Zhang Xuanzhen himself."
Bai Ming then looked over, in the painting is a Taoist priest with a Taoist spirit, but it is just a back view, holding a dust whisk in his hand, standing under a pine tree, and there is a crane standing there not far in front of him. Tilting his head towards the Taoist priest, the two sides seem to be looking at each other.Looking at the inscription on the edge of the painting, there is indeed a clear mention of Taoist Xuanzhen on it, and the inscription has Han Wang's own seal.
"What's so special about this painting?" Bai Ming asked puzzled.
Li Mingda pointed to the head of the character's back in the painting, "Look carefully."
Bai Tianming squinted his eyes and looked carefully, "There seems to be a circle behind the ear, is it a clerical error?"
"It's not a typo. I sent someone to ask Han Wang. The 'circle meaning' behind the ear reflects a scar behind Zhang Xuanzhen's long ear, a small ring-shaped scar. When Han Wang painted this painting, he felt that this Don't let it fall at all, this happens to be the special feature of Daoist Xuanzhen, so I put a thin circle behind his ear on purpose."
"So that's the case, but what does this have to do with Mrs. Yong'an?" Bai Ming was still puzzled.
"Master Yong'an also has a scar like this behind her ear. On the day of Master Yong'an's death, she didn't look very well, so I advised her to leave first, so I happened to see this scar behind her ear." Li Mingda continued, " This is also the reason why after I saw this portrait, I was [-]% sure that the two of them were not related to each other. I also asked the female steward of the Cui family you mentioned. According to her, the scar behind the ear of Master Yongan It has been there since childhood, and they grew up together in Plum Blossom Temple, there is nothing wrong with that. In other words, she had this ring-shaped scar long before she knew Zhang Xuanzhen. Coincidentally, Zhang Xuanzhen There are also behind the ears. Inquiring from his old acquaintances also confirmed this point, the scar of Taoist Xuanzhen has also been carried since childhood."
Bai Tianming was stunned, "Why is this, could it be a coincidence..."
"It's a coincidence that Baifu Yin is here. Both of them are orphans. They were both sent to nunneries and Taoist temples when they were young. There is a five-year difference between them, but they both have the same mark on the back of their ears."
"But this is not enough to prove that the relationship between the two is brother and sister." Bai Ming continued, "I remember that your lord said that before there is no conclusive evidence, some inferences are just speculation."
"Yes, I did say that. Since there is a five-year difference between the two, they were sent out. I think if they are really brothers and sisters, then their parents must be near Chang'an City, and their residence is probably not too far away from Plum Blossom Temple and Qingshan Temple. So far. So I sent people to inquire carefully in the past two days, and it was really rewarding. I inquired about a family in Shijia Village not far from Qingshan Temple. This old couple with the surname Shi had given birth to eight children in a row. Later, because they were born and couldn’t support themselves, they had to send all the offspring out. It was a bad year, and no one wanted to adopt them, so they had to send the children to the gate of the Taoist temple. Five years later, they encountered the same situation, and they were still children. The daughter was sent to the nunnery. Now the older children in this family know about it, and they also know that when the baby was sent out, the scar was scalded behind the ear so that we could recognize each other in the future. Back then, Master Yong’an went to beg for alms When she was recognized as a relative, Mrs. Yong'an did not recognize her, so she lost contact with her. Presumably, Mrs. Yong'an later saw the same scar behind the ears of Taoist Xuanzhen, and recognized that the Taoist was as miserable as her. Son, I went to meet him now. After that, it is reasonable for brothers and sisters to support each other."
After listening to Li Mingda's reasoning, Bai Tianming frowned and squeezed his upper and lower lips several times. It was a complex feeling of unwillingness to be convinced.
Li Mingda took out the envelope that he had found from the scriptures of Mrs. Yong'an before, and showed Bai Ming the painting by Zhang Xuanzhen inside the envelope that said "There is a hole in the sky".
"What's wrong with this painting?" After Tianming looked at it, he felt that the content in the painting was just a messy scene, and then he realized, "Could it be that there is some mystery in this cave? Master Ren'an died there! "
Immediately after Tianming had the intention of asking someone to check the cave.
Li Mingda shook his head, signaling that he didn't need to waste his time, "I've had someone check it out a long time ago, and there's nothing special about that cave. The mystery of this painting lies in the painting itself."
"There are no inscriptions, and the paintings are also messy. What mystery can there be?"
"Look at the back." This method of seeing the mystery in the painting was obtained by Li Mingda from the mutual help case.
Tianming held up the painting, and looking from the back, he could vaguely see a few words on the back of the painting.He was puzzled to look at the front of the painting again, and then looked at the characters on the back. It turned out that the heavy pen on the front could penetrate the back of the paper, so when he saw it from the back, there were characters in the places where the pen was heavy.When I vaguely read it, it turned out to be the words "My sister Yong'an".
The exquisite use of these four characters not only explained the identity of Mrs. Yong'an, but also meant the elder brother's best wishes to the younger sister.
Tianming opened his mouth, his face turned gray in an instant, and he looked at Li Mingda in embarrassment and surprise. He was always eloquent and didn't know what to say for a while.He really didn't expect Princess Jinyang to be able to observe such details contained in these two paintings keenly, and dissect the true identities of Zhang Xuanzhen and Mrs. Yong'an with reason and evidence.
Not to mention anything else, just that the princess's insight into the details is a hundred times better than his.Not to mention that the princess's meticulous deduction based on these clues is also thoughtful, comprehensive and impeccable.Now if someone again puts the so-called 'considerate' and 'careful handling' on him as an evaluation, Tian Ming will only feel ashamed and ashamed.
Bai Tianming's face was red, and he was so ashamed that he couldn't bear it. Reflecting on how he misunderstood the princess before, he felt even more hateful.He joked that she was a little girl, but in the end he was not as good as her, what face did he have!
During the day, Ming hurriedly knelt down to Li Mingda, kowtowed sincerely, and apologized to Li Mingda for his previous misjudgment and misunderstanding.
"Master Bai is a rare person who knows how to reflect on himself." Speaking of self-examination, Li Mingda couldn't help but think of another person, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch, and she immediately asked Governor Bai to stand up.
Bai Tianming knew that the princess's words to him were full of sarcasm, because he knew that the princess was aware of his emotions towards her, so he was dissatisfied with her attitude.Now he admits his mistake, the princess doesn't have the complacency of a 'winner', and takes the opportunity to belittle and suppress him.This made Bai Ming have to admire the princess's bearing.
Today, the princess taught herself a very good lesson, so that others will benefit a lot when they are in their forties.
During the day, he felt ashamed, sighed, kowtowed, and apologized again and again.
Li Mingda smiled, and felt that Tianming was a bit like Wei Zheng, with an upright and strong personality, but sometimes he was a bit rigid and stubborn, but once they realized their mistakes, they would correct them in time and admit them frankly and humbly mistake.This is still a very rare quality.
Seeing that Tian Ming couldn't get up, Li Mingda winked at Tian Hanshan.Tian Hanshan personally supported Tian Ming, and comforted him softly, and then comforted him.
Bai Ming became respectful to Li Mingda, bowed his body slightly, and begged the princess to retry Jian Wenshan's case.
Hui Ning, An Ning and other nuns in that room had complex expressions, as if they were frightened by the upright and upright Bai Fu Yin's kowtow to apologize for his mistakes.
"Master Yong'an is really Taoist Priest Xuanzhen's sister?" An Ning sighed in disbelief and looked at Hui Ning.
Hui Ning also frowned and nodded, feeling that she hadn't thought of that either.
At this time, outsiders spread the word that Jian Wenshan had arrived.
Hui Ning waited for a few nuns to stand up again, lowered their heads, and continued to wait for the follow-up.
Not long after, Jian Wenshan was taken to the Daxiong Hall.Jian Wenshan looked up at the Buddha and sighed with a sneer: "What's the use of worshiping the Buddha? I have been wronged, and no one can repay my innocence."
"Hu Qin, our lord is about to clear up your grievances right now." The guard scolded.
Jian Wenshan was taken aback, and went to see Princess Jinyang standing in the center of the hall. He was so excited that he immediately knelt down and crawled to Li Mingda, begging him to save him.
Jian Wenshan's hair was disheveled, and he had only lived in a prison cell for two or three days in Jingzhao Mansion, but now he has lost half of his life.
Li Mingda probably looked around Jian Wenshan and saw that he didn't have any serious injuries. He knew that it was okay to start the trial before dawn. Even if Jian Wenshan didn't confess, he didn't use any vicious methods of torture.
Jian Wenshan knew that when Meihua was investigating, Princess Jinyang felt that he was innocent. Later, he was sentenced to death and despaired. He even complained that Princess Jinyang didn't mean anything.Now that he failed to die, when he saw the princess again, he naturally felt that the delay in the previous execution was probably due to the help of the princess.So he had more hope for him, kowtowed and begged desperately, hoping that his grievance could really arouse the sympathy of Princess Jinyang and vindicate his grievance.
Jian Wenshan was ordered by Tian Hanshu, and after calming down for a while, he kowtowed again, asking the princess to ask questions, he must know everything.
"Get up." Li Mingda said, and then motioned Jian Wenshan to look in the direction of Hui Ning and other nuns, "See if there is anyone you know in here."
Jian Wenshan was stunned for a moment, then got up, looked at Hui Ning and the others, but saw that these nuns all lowered their heads, and could only see their foreheads and noses.
Li Mingda made all the nuns look up.
Bai Ming now knew that every word and every action of the princess contained deep meaning.So at this moment, he opened his eyes curiously, and looked at the nuns as well.These nuns are all in their early [-]s to early [-]s, very young.After counting, there were exactly ten people.
The nuns obeyed and all raised their heads, only one was a little slow when he raised his head.Li Mingda took a look and saw that it was An Ning, the nun who lived in the same room as Hui Ning.An Ning has an oval face, covered with a layer of brown spots, her appearance is not outstanding.
After seeing the nuns in front of him, Jian Wenshan shook his head, expressing that he didn't know them.
Li Mingda asked Jian Wenshan to take a look at An Ning and see if he felt familiar.
As soon as the words fell, Li Mingda felt the tension of An Ning and the other nuns.And this kind of tension had been felt before when Tian Hanshan asked all the nuns in the nunnery.At that time, although Li Mingda was looking straight ahead, seemingly looking at the hundreds of nuns in front of the Daxiong Palace, she was actually observing Hui Ning and the others from the corner of her eye.
After Jian Wenshan looked at An Ning carefully, he shook his head uncertainly and said, "I don't think I've seen it before."
"Say something." Li Mingda instructed An Ning.
An Ning was so panicked that her face turned pale and she broke out in a cold sweat. She looked at Hui Ning begging for help.
Hui Ning hurriedly said to Li Mingda: "Her voice is a bit hoarse these days, it's better to have a cough."
An Ning nodded hurriedly, opened her mouth, and could only make that small breathing sound.
Li Mingda glanced at Cheng Chubi.
At this moment, Cheng Chubi paced quietly, casually tied a silk handkerchief in his arms into a knot, and threw it onto An Ning's neck from behind.
"mouse!"
An Ning screamed, clutching her neck.Immediately, she realized that it was a silk handkerchief that had fallen on the ground. She froze for a moment and was dumbfounded.Hui Ning and the others also panicked, and everyone was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say.
"A few months ago, an orphan girl surnamed Zhao just happened to come to the Plum Blossom Nunnery. Because she was bullied by the wicked halfway, she wanted to marry as a nun. After she became a nun, she found out that she was pregnant, so she committed suicide in shame and indignation. .This matter is not considered a secret in the nunnery, do you recognize it?"
Hui Ning hesitated for a while, then nodded, confirming that this was indeed the case.
"This woman was taking three attendants with her, and she was going from Jinzhou to Dingzhou to join her relatives. But she encountered bad guys on the way, and all the people around her ran away and disappeared. Um, right?"
Hui Ning nodded.
"The aunt and uncle of this woman surnamed Zhao are Jian Wenshan's neighbor."
When Li Mingda said this, Hui Ning stopped nodding and denied the matter.
Jian Wenshan was stunned for a while, then looked at An Ning in surprise, looking at her figure and his hands, Jian Wenshan widened his eyes, got up and rushed towards An Ning.An Ning screamed in fright, and hurriedly pushed Jian Wenshan away, telling him to get away.
After speaking, Jian Wenshan immediately recognized An Ning's voice.
"You, you are Furong?"
An Ning immediately covered her mouth and shook her head, expressing that she was not.
"You are Zhao Furong, the Zhao Furong I know, and your voice is exactly the same. But I didn't recognize you like this," Jian Wenshan couldn't help feeling, "Without hair, without rouge, rouge, powder, and eyebrows, your face looks like It has changed. But I recognize your delicate hands, your figure and your voice. It’s strange, why didn’t I see you when I lived in Plum Blossom Temple?”
"Of course we have to avoid taboos, otherwise we'll be in trouble." Tian Hanshan sighed.
At this time, Zuo Qingmei quietly entered the hall, walked to Li Mingda and whispered a few words, and then sent a note with Jian Wenshan's birthday and where he lived to Li Mingda's hand.
Li Mingda opened it for a look, and then continued, "I'm afraid Furong is just a fake name. It just so happened that the woman who committed suicide was named Zhao. She brought a letter with her. It was originally a letter from her aunt's house to prove her identity." The letter. This letter was sent to Dingzhou, and Miss Zhao’s aunt didn’t know that his niece was a fake. I guess you also saw the content of the letter, and you can see that Miss Zhao didn’t talk to her aunt. If you have met, you can pretend to be. It just so happens that there is a child of Taoist Xuanzhen in Dingzhou. The combination of coincidences and coincidences makes you realize that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so you little nuns who have become monks I'm ready to move, I really have the idea of killing people."
"They killed people?" Bai Ming still couldn't believe it, so he hurriedly saluted and asked Li Mingda to clarify his doubts.
Li Mingda asked Zuo Qingmei to smear An Ning with the rouge and gouache she brought with her, so that Jian Wenshan could confirm An Ning's appearance.Then Li Mingda showed the note in his hand to Bai Ming.
Bai Ming only saw Jian Wenshan's date of birth and address, and there was a note beside it as "Son of Xuanzhen".Bai Ming was still a little puzzled, and looked at Li Mingda questioningly.
"The paper is a little yellow and old. It was written a long time ago, in the handwriting of Mrs. Yong'an."
Tianming looked at the paper again, blinked his eyes, recalled the handwriting of Mrs. Yong'an, but couldn't distinguish it, and then realized how different he was from Princess Jinyang.People can tell Mrs. Yong'an's handwriting at a glance, so we can see how hard she understands this case.
Tian Mingzhen felt that as the governor of Jingzhao Mansion, his abilities were too poor, and he was so ashamed that he should really get into a hole in the ground.
"It should be that Henry Zhang left a message to Mrs. Yong'an before his death, hoping that she can help take care of his son in the future. Mrs. Yong'an has always kept this note with Jian Wenshan's birth date and address." Li Mingda transferred Looking at the nuns behind Huining, one of them is the nun who is in charge of managing the Sutra Pavilion in Meihua Temple, "Master Yong'an probably likes to put things she thinks are important in the scriptures on the third floor. When you were sorting or cleaning, you found this piece, didn’t you?”
The nun lowered her head and remained silent in fear, as a tacit consent.
At this time, An Ning's face was also dressed up. She covered the brown spots on her face with powder, darkened her sparse eyebrows, and outlined a small cherry lip with red rouge. The whole person seemed to have completely changed.
"Half a year ago, she was still a lay disciple with hair, but later she said that she decided to become a nun completely, and she wanted to go home and report the situation, so she left the nunnery for three months." Zuo Qingmei informed everyone of the confirmed situation.
Jian Wenshan looked over and shouted in surprise and excitement: "Zhao Furong, she is really Zhao Furong."
Jian Wenshan scolded An Ning for nothing and lied to him.Seeing An Ning crying and kneeling on the ground, he opened his mouth, covered his head and started crying, and stopped scolding her.He was so emotionally shocked at this moment that he no longer knew how to express his feelings.
"Do you plead guilty?" Li Mingda asked Hui Ning and others.
Hui Ning waited for a few nuns to kneel down, and some of them were already trembling.But none of them dared to nod their heads and plead guilty, because they all knew that once they nodded their heads, there was no turning back.
Li Mingda said to Zuo Qingmei: "Continue to report."
Zuo Qingmei clapped her hands, and asked someone to throw the things that were just searched in the residence of this real-name nun to the center of the ground.A pair of muddy men's shoes, with wooden feet inside the shoes, it looks like it is convenient for stepping on the shoe prints.There is also a bundle of ropes, which is the same as the ropes that hang the three masters.
"With many people committing the crime, the murderer may leave more traces. Do you think these things will not be discovered if they are hidden on the beams?" Zuo Qingmei asked.
Seeing this, the nuns were all trembling and had to admit it.
"You guys really did it, why?" Although Bai Ming had already guessed that the princess meant this direction, he still couldn't believe it was the nuns in front of him who committed the crime together.However, this solves the problem of moving the corpse and committing the crime.They were a group of people whose alibi was ignored.Moreover, Bai Tian clearly remembered that among the ten nuns, two were guarding Master Yong'an's room.In other words, the so-called situation of the two of them at that time was probably not true.
"Master Yong'an's secret room has indeed given us the wrong direction. Since this case has been planned for half a year, the ten of them have come up with their own ideas, and they will inevitably come up with a more perfect method of committing the crime. In all cases, the so-called The evidence is actually forged by them. The big shoe prints on the ground, the hair on the branches, and the secret room of Master Yong’an.” Li Mingda explained, “The hole in the roof of Master Yong’an was indeed true earlier. It was a repair. Later, when you started planning to kill the two teachers half a year ago, you found an excuse to take the opportunity to renovate the roof. When you deceived or transported the unconscious Yong’an teacher to the back mountain, one of them took himself Locked in Master Yong’an’s house, bolted all the doors and windows, then hung a rope, climbed to the beam, ran out from the roof, and threw the wooden tenons to the back mountain. So we misled us into thinking that Master Yong’an was too deceitful Running out was caused by some secret matter. Later, Cui Liulang didn’t disclose the matter of Mrs. Yong’an and Henry Zhang, I’m afraid you would reveal it yourself, but it just happened to be a good opportunity for you to meet again.”
Li Mingda's words hit the hearts of all the nuns present, and they became more and more frightened, not knowing how to deal with themselves kneeling there.
"This, this..." Bai Ming was so surprised that he could not speak. He calmed down and turned to Hui Ning and the others. Disguise your identity to seduce Jian Wenshan!"
The nuns present were silent.
"Talk! You have the guts to kill, but you don't have the guts to speak?" Bai Tianming yelled, making Hui Ning and the others tremble in fright, and then they cried even louder.Then someone whispered that it was Hui Ning's idea, and then someone echoed it.
Hui Ning knelt at the front in a dull manner. Although tears were streaming from her eyes, she and An Ning were much calmer than their nuns.An Ning leaned against Hui Ning, crying a little more fiercely.It can be seen from this that the most instigator of the whole matter is most likely Hui Ning.
"Why is that so?" Li Mingda looked at Hui Ning calmly, and the volume of the question was the same as usual, but the majesty was irresistible.
Li Mingda turned to look at the other nuns, "And you, why did you partner with her to do this?"
Hui Ning spoke first: "Since your lord has made such a clear investigation, he must remember the banditry in Plum Blossom Nunnery 18 years ago. Just like what Yuan'an, who was lucky enough to escape to Cui's house, said, the dozen or so people in the nunnery at that time They were all kidnapped by bandits. Later, they were forcibly taken to the mountain stronghold and served as rewards for bandits—what...how should I call this, I don’t know. I don’t know who is the biological father of An Ning and I Bandit, what kind of beast. In short, we were born and lived with the hatred of our mothers. Later, the bandit died and was wiped out by the court. We pretended to be peasant girls and were lucky enough to be released, so we defected to Meihua Um. Seeing Mrs. Yong'an who has been enshrined and admired for a long time and lived a very nourishing and unrestrained life, how could we sisters let her die of old age with peace of mind. As for the method and process of committing the crime, as your lord deduced, it was me Instigated a few of them to kill together. Originally, I wanted to take advantage of the excitement on the [-]th day to make something astonishing and make things as chaotic as possible, but I didn't expect your lord and King Jin to go back. But at that time, the other two mistresses had already Dead, Mrs. Yong'an was also drugged and had an attack, and Jian Wenshan just appeared, the timing was just right, we can only do one thing and keep doing it. After all, do we feel confident and feel that such a murder plan is planned, Even if Master Yong'an and Henry Zhangzhen can't be wronged, no one will doubt us."
Hui Ning explained these in tears, but there was a self-deprecating sneer on his lips.At this moment, she has long lost the simple and honest look she usually shows.
Bai Ming opened his mouth in surprise again, feeling that he has not encountered as many surprises in his 40 years of life as today.
"What about Ren'an and Ci'an, these two teachers have nothing to do with what happened to Yong'an, why did you kill them both?"
Today, Tianming took a special look at it, Fang Yizhi was not there, Princess Jinyang was afraid that she was starting to be proud, and felt that she could "become a teacher", so she wanted to make a fuss with Jingzhao Mansion.Bai Ming sighed again and again, this princess is really a little ancestor, after the quarrel with the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, she came to quarrel with Jingzhao Mansion again, and the Dali Temple had to accompany her to play.If things go on like this, a good country will be turned upside down by this little ancestor.
Bai Ming immediately settled down in his heart, he will definitely not show mercy to the princess in today's case, if he is wrong, he is wrong, he will not only make the princess's face disgraced, but also write a letter to the saint, preventing Princess Jinyang from getting involved in the future any case.Good girl, just play the piano and play chess at home, if you are more naughty, let her go for a walk and look around, it is already the limit.It's really a muddled decision to get involved in the affairs of the court.The sage doted too much on this daughter, and if no one reminded her, it would cause trouble every day.If the audience really had to start with bloodshed, he would rather be No.1.
At this time, nun Hui Ning and others heard the news and came to greet her.
Before Bai Ming could open his mouth to ask again, Li Mingda had already blocked him with words: "If you have anything to say, we'll talk about it in the nunnery."
Bai Tianming nodded unhappily, still respecting the princess, and held back his words at this moment.
Naturally, Li Mingda was not in the mood to care about Bai Ming's mood, and asked with a smile about the situation in Hui Ning Nunnery, Hui Ning answered everything one by one.
"Now everything is still the same as before, except that the three teachers are missing. If something happens in the nunnery, there will be no one to make decisions."
"What's so difficult about it, you just elect a virtuous person to be the abbot." Hearing this, Tianming suggested immediately.
"But we are all young, and we don't have any high morals, and there is no suitable candidate." Hui Ning turned to look at the several nuns who came behind him, and those nuns immediately nodded, approving of Hui Ning's proposal statement.
"After that, if something happens in your nunnery, how should you deal with it?" Li Mingda asked in surprise.
Hui Ning shook his head.
An Ning said from the side: "If it's really not possible, we can only discuss it together, and use less to serve more."
Hui Ning then asked Li Mingda: "What do you think of this method?"
"Not bad."
After Li Mingda finished speaking, nuns such as Hui Ning and An Ning all smiled lightly, as if the problem that had caused them distress for many days had finally been resolved.With the words of the princess, it is enough for them to block the mouths of some little people.
Bai Ming nodded beside him, thinking that this way of dealing with it was not bad.
"Has anyone among you already known about the relationship between Taoist Zhang Xuanzhen and Master Yong'an?" Tian Hanxuan shouted loudly after receiving Li Mingda's order.
Li Mingda was standing in front of the Daxiong Palace, his eyes were usually looking straight ahead, which was where the hundreds of nuns gathered here.
The nuns all shook their heads.
Li Mingda looked towards Hui Ning and An Ning.
Hui Ning hurriedly explained to Li Mingda in a low voice: "Most people in the nunnery don't know, only a few of us know. It was only because of your lord's investigation at the beginning. Later, Jingzhao Mansion also notified, so we know some specific details."
Bai Ming also agreed, saying that after the verdict, he did send someone to notify the nuns in Meihua Nunnery.
"Before the three masters died, did you already know that Jian Wenshan was Henry Zhangzhen's son?" Tian Hanshan asked again.
All the nuns looked bewildered.
Li Mingda's eyes were still looking straight ahead.
When Tian Ming heard these two questions, he was really speechless.It turns out that this is how the princess solves the case, just by asking everyone two insignificant questions?
Tian Hanshan then looked at Li Mingda, saw the princess nodded, and sent these nuns to disperse.
Hui Ning turned around and let the nuns behind An Ning disperse, saving too many people and making a fuss in front of the princess.
"Don't leave yet." After Li Mingda finished speaking, he said to Cheng Chubi, "Bring Jian Wenshan here."
"Jian Wenshan? Wasn't he already sentenced to death and executed yesterday?" Huian asked in surprise.
Not only her, but the nuns behind Hui'an were all surprised.
"I came here today to settle this case and convict him." Tian Hanshan explained.
After Hui'an heard the words, he looked at Baiming with more doubts.
Bai Tianming smiled, and explained yesterday's incident to Hui'an, "It just so happened that someone reported a case yesterday and sued Jian Wenshan for defrauding his family property. Due to the trial of this case, his execution was temporarily postponed. Coincidentally, today the princess is going to sue Jian Wenshan in the name of Der Spiegel. The case of Jian Wenshan's murder has been questioned, and a retrial is required, which is hard to do, and now everyone has come to Plum Blossom Temple to investigate the case again."
Hui Ning nodded, then looked at Li Mingda, "Your lord thinks the murderer is someone else?"
"I always thought that Jian Wenshan was not the murderer, and I always thought that the murderer was still in the nunnery." Li Mingda said flatly.
Bai Ming hurriedly cupped his hands: "Then please tell the princess who is this 'murderer' hiding in the nunnery?"
Li Mingda didn't speak, turned his back to the crowd, and looked up at the Buddha statue enshrined in the Daxiong Hall.
"I remember that you monks have a few precepts, among them are, 'Don't kill, don't commit adultery, don't steal, don't double tongue, and tell lies', but is that so?"
Hui Ning nodded and agreed: "Exactly."
"Now in front of the Buddha, can you all guarantee that you are not lying?" Li Mingda asked again.
Hui Ning didn't understand why Li Mingda asked this question, but nodded in agreement, "Everyone in the nunnery has always followed the precepts."
"Where's Baifu Yin?" Li Mingda looked at Hui Ning and the others, and suddenly looked at Bai Ming, making it hard to understand who he was targeting.
Bai Bai pointed to himself inexplicably, "Xiaguan? Your lord, Xiaguan really has nothing to do with this matter. I have never met Jian Wenshan and Mrs. Yong'an in Meihua Nunnery. And Xiaguan I feel that the little nuns in the Plum Blossom Nunnery also don’t know about it, and it has nothing to do with Jian Wenshan’s feud with Mrs. Yong’an.”
"According to what you said, Jian Wenshan is Henry Zhangzhen's child. For what reason did he hate and come to kill Mr. Yong'an. What about Ren'an, Mrs. Ci'an? What is the motive for the murder?"
"This is because Jian Wenshan has always refused to explain, but the nun guarding the gate has confirmed that Jian Wenshan has indeed been here, calling for Zhao Furong, which is the lay name of Master Ci'an. It can be seen that they know each other. What is the reason for the grudge. And Master Ci'an has always worked with Master Ren'an, so if you want to kill, you will naturally kill two."
"But Jian Wenshan does have a fiancée named Zhao Furong, how do you explain it?" Li Mingda said.
Bai Ming: "At this point, when the officer sent someone to Dingzhou, he also went to find Zhao Furong's aunt and uncle. It was confirmed that Zhao Furong did not run away from home at all, but left a letter and eloped with someone. His aunt and uncle felt ashamed, so they said to the outside world that they were sad because of the marriage. I think Jian Wenshan knew about this a long time ago. It happened that Mrs. Ci'an had the same name as his former fiancée. He must have some reason to find Master Ci'an. Tai, and then killed him. So when everyone found out that he was a murderer, he used this coincidence to talk nonsense to get rid of his guilt. To tell you the truth, this kind of prisoner has too much experience in officials, in order to escape Guilty, any lie they can make up."
"That's weird, what you checked is not quite the same as what I checked." Li Mingda sighed.
Ming Ming saluted solemnly during the day, but there was a sense of dissatisfaction in his eyes, "I also ask your lord to enlighten me."
"Let's talk about the brother-sister relationship between Master Yong'an and Henry Zhang first." Li Mingda said.
"How do you know they are brothers and sisters?" Bai Ming asked in surprise.
Li Mingda asked Jian Wenshan: "Does the White House Governor have conclusive evidence to prove that there must be adultery between them?"
"The female steward of Cui's family, that is, Yuan'an, a fellow apprentice of Master Yong'an, has already given a statement at Xiaguan. This Master Yong'an not only has a close relationship with Zhang Xuanzhen, but also ordered bandits to wipe out her fellow disciples. How sinister." Tianming sighed.
"Just relying on Yuan'an's one-sided statement is not enough to constitute conclusive evidence. Whether Mr. Yong'an colluded with the bandits in the matter of bandits, because it has been a long time since the person concerned cannot be found, there is no conclusion at all. Yuan'an just thinks that Mr. Yong'an left, and they She encountered bandits, and things were strange, so she was skeptical, but what if it was just a coincidence, and the bandits happened to attack at that time? And the reason why she suspected that Master Yong'an would use bandits was because the nunnery Everyone in the family thinks that Mrs. Yong’an has something to do with Henry Zhang. Their relationship is shameful, so they became angry and silenced, but this is not the case.” Li Mingda then asked Henry Zhang’s self-portrait to air out.
"This portrait was painted by King Han, and the person in the painting is Zhang Xuanzhen himself."
Bai Ming then looked over, in the painting is a Taoist priest with a Taoist spirit, but it is just a back view, holding a dust whisk in his hand, standing under a pine tree, and there is a crane standing there not far in front of him. Tilting his head towards the Taoist priest, the two sides seem to be looking at each other.Looking at the inscription on the edge of the painting, there is indeed a clear mention of Taoist Xuanzhen on it, and the inscription has Han Wang's own seal.
"What's so special about this painting?" Bai Ming asked puzzled.
Li Mingda pointed to the head of the character's back in the painting, "Look carefully."
Bai Tianming squinted his eyes and looked carefully, "There seems to be a circle behind the ear, is it a clerical error?"
"It's not a typo. I sent someone to ask Han Wang. The 'circle meaning' behind the ear reflects a scar behind Zhang Xuanzhen's long ear, a small ring-shaped scar. When Han Wang painted this painting, he felt that this Don't let it fall at all, this happens to be the special feature of Daoist Xuanzhen, so I put a thin circle behind his ear on purpose."
"So that's the case, but what does this have to do with Mrs. Yong'an?" Bai Ming was still puzzled.
"Master Yong'an also has a scar like this behind her ear. On the day of Master Yong'an's death, she didn't look very well, so I advised her to leave first, so I happened to see this scar behind her ear." Li Mingda continued, " This is also the reason why after I saw this portrait, I was [-]% sure that the two of them were not related to each other. I also asked the female steward of the Cui family you mentioned. According to her, the scar behind the ear of Master Yongan It has been there since childhood, and they grew up together in Plum Blossom Temple, there is nothing wrong with that. In other words, she had this ring-shaped scar long before she knew Zhang Xuanzhen. Coincidentally, Zhang Xuanzhen There are also behind the ears. Inquiring from his old acquaintances also confirmed this point, the scar of Taoist Xuanzhen has also been carried since childhood."
Bai Tianming was stunned, "Why is this, could it be a coincidence..."
"It's a coincidence that Baifu Yin is here. Both of them are orphans. They were both sent to nunneries and Taoist temples when they were young. There is a five-year difference between them, but they both have the same mark on the back of their ears."
"But this is not enough to prove that the relationship between the two is brother and sister." Bai Ming continued, "I remember that your lord said that before there is no conclusive evidence, some inferences are just speculation."
"Yes, I did say that. Since there is a five-year difference between the two, they were sent out. I think if they are really brothers and sisters, then their parents must be near Chang'an City, and their residence is probably not too far away from Plum Blossom Temple and Qingshan Temple. So far. So I sent people to inquire carefully in the past two days, and it was really rewarding. I inquired about a family in Shijia Village not far from Qingshan Temple. This old couple with the surname Shi had given birth to eight children in a row. Later, because they were born and couldn’t support themselves, they had to send all the offspring out. It was a bad year, and no one wanted to adopt them, so they had to send the children to the gate of the Taoist temple. Five years later, they encountered the same situation, and they were still children. The daughter was sent to the nunnery. Now the older children in this family know about it, and they also know that when the baby was sent out, the scar was scalded behind the ear so that we could recognize each other in the future. Back then, Master Yong’an went to beg for alms When she was recognized as a relative, Mrs. Yong'an did not recognize her, so she lost contact with her. Presumably, Mrs. Yong'an later saw the same scar behind the ears of Taoist Xuanzhen, and recognized that the Taoist was as miserable as her. Son, I went to meet him now. After that, it is reasonable for brothers and sisters to support each other."
After listening to Li Mingda's reasoning, Bai Tianming frowned and squeezed his upper and lower lips several times. It was a complex feeling of unwillingness to be convinced.
Li Mingda took out the envelope that he had found from the scriptures of Mrs. Yong'an before, and showed Bai Ming the painting by Zhang Xuanzhen inside the envelope that said "There is a hole in the sky".
"What's wrong with this painting?" After Tianming looked at it, he felt that the content in the painting was just a messy scene, and then he realized, "Could it be that there is some mystery in this cave? Master Ren'an died there! "
Immediately after Tianming had the intention of asking someone to check the cave.
Li Mingda shook his head, signaling that he didn't need to waste his time, "I've had someone check it out a long time ago, and there's nothing special about that cave. The mystery of this painting lies in the painting itself."
"There are no inscriptions, and the paintings are also messy. What mystery can there be?"
"Look at the back." This method of seeing the mystery in the painting was obtained by Li Mingda from the mutual help case.
Tianming held up the painting, and looking from the back, he could vaguely see a few words on the back of the painting.He was puzzled to look at the front of the painting again, and then looked at the characters on the back. It turned out that the heavy pen on the front could penetrate the back of the paper, so when he saw it from the back, there were characters in the places where the pen was heavy.When I vaguely read it, it turned out to be the words "My sister Yong'an".
The exquisite use of these four characters not only explained the identity of Mrs. Yong'an, but also meant the elder brother's best wishes to the younger sister.
Tianming opened his mouth, his face turned gray in an instant, and he looked at Li Mingda in embarrassment and surprise. He was always eloquent and didn't know what to say for a while.He really didn't expect Princess Jinyang to be able to observe such details contained in these two paintings keenly, and dissect the true identities of Zhang Xuanzhen and Mrs. Yong'an with reason and evidence.
Not to mention anything else, just that the princess's insight into the details is a hundred times better than his.Not to mention that the princess's meticulous deduction based on these clues is also thoughtful, comprehensive and impeccable.Now if someone again puts the so-called 'considerate' and 'careful handling' on him as an evaluation, Tian Ming will only feel ashamed and ashamed.
Bai Tianming's face was red, and he was so ashamed that he couldn't bear it. Reflecting on how he misunderstood the princess before, he felt even more hateful.He joked that she was a little girl, but in the end he was not as good as her, what face did he have!
During the day, Ming hurriedly knelt down to Li Mingda, kowtowed sincerely, and apologized to Li Mingda for his previous misjudgment and misunderstanding.
"Master Bai is a rare person who knows how to reflect on himself." Speaking of self-examination, Li Mingda couldn't help but think of another person, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but twitch, and she immediately asked Governor Bai to stand up.
Bai Tianming knew that the princess's words to him were full of sarcasm, because he knew that the princess was aware of his emotions towards her, so he was dissatisfied with her attitude.Now he admits his mistake, the princess doesn't have the complacency of a 'winner', and takes the opportunity to belittle and suppress him.This made Bai Ming have to admire the princess's bearing.
Today, the princess taught herself a very good lesson, so that others will benefit a lot when they are in their forties.
During the day, he felt ashamed, sighed, kowtowed, and apologized again and again.
Li Mingda smiled, and felt that Tianming was a bit like Wei Zheng, with an upright and strong personality, but sometimes he was a bit rigid and stubborn, but once they realized their mistakes, they would correct them in time and admit them frankly and humbly mistake.This is still a very rare quality.
Seeing that Tian Ming couldn't get up, Li Mingda winked at Tian Hanshan.Tian Hanshan personally supported Tian Ming, and comforted him softly, and then comforted him.
Bai Ming became respectful to Li Mingda, bowed his body slightly, and begged the princess to retry Jian Wenshan's case.
Hui Ning, An Ning and other nuns in that room had complex expressions, as if they were frightened by the upright and upright Bai Fu Yin's kowtow to apologize for his mistakes.
"Master Yong'an is really Taoist Priest Xuanzhen's sister?" An Ning sighed in disbelief and looked at Hui Ning.
Hui Ning also frowned and nodded, feeling that she hadn't thought of that either.
At this time, outsiders spread the word that Jian Wenshan had arrived.
Hui Ning waited for a few nuns to stand up again, lowered their heads, and continued to wait for the follow-up.
Not long after, Jian Wenshan was taken to the Daxiong Hall.Jian Wenshan looked up at the Buddha and sighed with a sneer: "What's the use of worshiping the Buddha? I have been wronged, and no one can repay my innocence."
"Hu Qin, our lord is about to clear up your grievances right now." The guard scolded.
Jian Wenshan was taken aback, and went to see Princess Jinyang standing in the center of the hall. He was so excited that he immediately knelt down and crawled to Li Mingda, begging him to save him.
Jian Wenshan's hair was disheveled, and he had only lived in a prison cell for two or three days in Jingzhao Mansion, but now he has lost half of his life.
Li Mingda probably looked around Jian Wenshan and saw that he didn't have any serious injuries. He knew that it was okay to start the trial before dawn. Even if Jian Wenshan didn't confess, he didn't use any vicious methods of torture.
Jian Wenshan knew that when Meihua was investigating, Princess Jinyang felt that he was innocent. Later, he was sentenced to death and despaired. He even complained that Princess Jinyang didn't mean anything.Now that he failed to die, when he saw the princess again, he naturally felt that the delay in the previous execution was probably due to the help of the princess.So he had more hope for him, kowtowed and begged desperately, hoping that his grievance could really arouse the sympathy of Princess Jinyang and vindicate his grievance.
Jian Wenshan was ordered by Tian Hanshu, and after calming down for a while, he kowtowed again, asking the princess to ask questions, he must know everything.
"Get up." Li Mingda said, and then motioned Jian Wenshan to look in the direction of Hui Ning and other nuns, "See if there is anyone you know in here."
Jian Wenshan was stunned for a moment, then got up, looked at Hui Ning and the others, but saw that these nuns all lowered their heads, and could only see their foreheads and noses.
Li Mingda made all the nuns look up.
Bai Ming now knew that every word and every action of the princess contained deep meaning.So at this moment, he opened his eyes curiously, and looked at the nuns as well.These nuns are all in their early [-]s to early [-]s, very young.After counting, there were exactly ten people.
The nuns obeyed and all raised their heads, only one was a little slow when he raised his head.Li Mingda took a look and saw that it was An Ning, the nun who lived in the same room as Hui Ning.An Ning has an oval face, covered with a layer of brown spots, her appearance is not outstanding.
After seeing the nuns in front of him, Jian Wenshan shook his head, expressing that he didn't know them.
Li Mingda asked Jian Wenshan to take a look at An Ning and see if he felt familiar.
As soon as the words fell, Li Mingda felt the tension of An Ning and the other nuns.And this kind of tension had been felt before when Tian Hanshan asked all the nuns in the nunnery.At that time, although Li Mingda was looking straight ahead, seemingly looking at the hundreds of nuns in front of the Daxiong Palace, she was actually observing Hui Ning and the others from the corner of her eye.
After Jian Wenshan looked at An Ning carefully, he shook his head uncertainly and said, "I don't think I've seen it before."
"Say something." Li Mingda instructed An Ning.
An Ning was so panicked that her face turned pale and she broke out in a cold sweat. She looked at Hui Ning begging for help.
Hui Ning hurriedly said to Li Mingda: "Her voice is a bit hoarse these days, it's better to have a cough."
An Ning nodded hurriedly, opened her mouth, and could only make that small breathing sound.
Li Mingda glanced at Cheng Chubi.
At this moment, Cheng Chubi paced quietly, casually tied a silk handkerchief in his arms into a knot, and threw it onto An Ning's neck from behind.
"mouse!"
An Ning screamed, clutching her neck.Immediately, she realized that it was a silk handkerchief that had fallen on the ground. She froze for a moment and was dumbfounded.Hui Ning and the others also panicked, and everyone was stunned for a moment, not knowing what to say.
"A few months ago, an orphan girl surnamed Zhao just happened to come to the Plum Blossom Nunnery. Because she was bullied by the wicked halfway, she wanted to marry as a nun. After she became a nun, she found out that she was pregnant, so she committed suicide in shame and indignation. .This matter is not considered a secret in the nunnery, do you recognize it?"
Hui Ning hesitated for a while, then nodded, confirming that this was indeed the case.
"This woman was taking three attendants with her, and she was going from Jinzhou to Dingzhou to join her relatives. But she encountered bad guys on the way, and all the people around her ran away and disappeared. Um, right?"
Hui Ning nodded.
"The aunt and uncle of this woman surnamed Zhao are Jian Wenshan's neighbor."
When Li Mingda said this, Hui Ning stopped nodding and denied the matter.
Jian Wenshan was stunned for a while, then looked at An Ning in surprise, looking at her figure and his hands, Jian Wenshan widened his eyes, got up and rushed towards An Ning.An Ning screamed in fright, and hurriedly pushed Jian Wenshan away, telling him to get away.
After speaking, Jian Wenshan immediately recognized An Ning's voice.
"You, you are Furong?"
An Ning immediately covered her mouth and shook her head, expressing that she was not.
"You are Zhao Furong, the Zhao Furong I know, and your voice is exactly the same. But I didn't recognize you like this," Jian Wenshan couldn't help feeling, "Without hair, without rouge, rouge, powder, and eyebrows, your face looks like It has changed. But I recognize your delicate hands, your figure and your voice. It’s strange, why didn’t I see you when I lived in Plum Blossom Temple?”
"Of course we have to avoid taboos, otherwise we'll be in trouble." Tian Hanshan sighed.
At this time, Zuo Qingmei quietly entered the hall, walked to Li Mingda and whispered a few words, and then sent a note with Jian Wenshan's birthday and where he lived to Li Mingda's hand.
Li Mingda opened it for a look, and then continued, "I'm afraid Furong is just a fake name. It just so happened that the woman who committed suicide was named Zhao. She brought a letter with her. It was originally a letter from her aunt's house to prove her identity." The letter. This letter was sent to Dingzhou, and Miss Zhao’s aunt didn’t know that his niece was a fake. I guess you also saw the content of the letter, and you can see that Miss Zhao didn’t talk to her aunt. If you have met, you can pretend to be. It just so happens that there is a child of Taoist Xuanzhen in Dingzhou. The combination of coincidences and coincidences makes you realize that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so you little nuns who have become monks I'm ready to move, I really have the idea of killing people."
"They killed people?" Bai Ming still couldn't believe it, so he hurriedly saluted and asked Li Mingda to clarify his doubts.
Li Mingda asked Zuo Qingmei to smear An Ning with the rouge and gouache she brought with her, so that Jian Wenshan could confirm An Ning's appearance.Then Li Mingda showed the note in his hand to Bai Ming.
Bai Ming only saw Jian Wenshan's date of birth and address, and there was a note beside it as "Son of Xuanzhen".Bai Ming was still a little puzzled, and looked at Li Mingda questioningly.
"The paper is a little yellow and old. It was written a long time ago, in the handwriting of Mrs. Yong'an."
Tianming looked at the paper again, blinked his eyes, recalled the handwriting of Mrs. Yong'an, but couldn't distinguish it, and then realized how different he was from Princess Jinyang.People can tell Mrs. Yong'an's handwriting at a glance, so we can see how hard she understands this case.
Tian Mingzhen felt that as the governor of Jingzhao Mansion, his abilities were too poor, and he was so ashamed that he should really get into a hole in the ground.
"It should be that Henry Zhang left a message to Mrs. Yong'an before his death, hoping that she can help take care of his son in the future. Mrs. Yong'an has always kept this note with Jian Wenshan's birth date and address." Li Mingda transferred Looking at the nuns behind Huining, one of them is the nun who is in charge of managing the Sutra Pavilion in Meihua Temple, "Master Yong'an probably likes to put things she thinks are important in the scriptures on the third floor. When you were sorting or cleaning, you found this piece, didn’t you?”
The nun lowered her head and remained silent in fear, as a tacit consent.
At this time, An Ning's face was also dressed up. She covered the brown spots on her face with powder, darkened her sparse eyebrows, and outlined a small cherry lip with red rouge. The whole person seemed to have completely changed.
"Half a year ago, she was still a lay disciple with hair, but later she said that she decided to become a nun completely, and she wanted to go home and report the situation, so she left the nunnery for three months." Zuo Qingmei informed everyone of the confirmed situation.
Jian Wenshan looked over and shouted in surprise and excitement: "Zhao Furong, she is really Zhao Furong."
Jian Wenshan scolded An Ning for nothing and lied to him.Seeing An Ning crying and kneeling on the ground, he opened his mouth, covered his head and started crying, and stopped scolding her.He was so emotionally shocked at this moment that he no longer knew how to express his feelings.
"Do you plead guilty?" Li Mingda asked Hui Ning and others.
Hui Ning waited for a few nuns to kneel down, and some of them were already trembling.But none of them dared to nod their heads and plead guilty, because they all knew that once they nodded their heads, there was no turning back.
Li Mingda said to Zuo Qingmei: "Continue to report."
Zuo Qingmei clapped her hands, and asked someone to throw the things that were just searched in the residence of this real-name nun to the center of the ground.A pair of muddy men's shoes, with wooden feet inside the shoes, it looks like it is convenient for stepping on the shoe prints.There is also a bundle of ropes, which is the same as the ropes that hang the three masters.
"With many people committing the crime, the murderer may leave more traces. Do you think these things will not be discovered if they are hidden on the beams?" Zuo Qingmei asked.
Seeing this, the nuns were all trembling and had to admit it.
"You guys really did it, why?" Although Bai Ming had already guessed that the princess meant this direction, he still couldn't believe it was the nuns in front of him who committed the crime together.However, this solves the problem of moving the corpse and committing the crime.They were a group of people whose alibi was ignored.Moreover, Bai Tian clearly remembered that among the ten nuns, two were guarding Master Yong'an's room.In other words, the so-called situation of the two of them at that time was probably not true.
"Master Yong'an's secret room has indeed given us the wrong direction. Since this case has been planned for half a year, the ten of them have come up with their own ideas, and they will inevitably come up with a more perfect method of committing the crime. In all cases, the so-called The evidence is actually forged by them. The big shoe prints on the ground, the hair on the branches, and the secret room of Master Yong’an.” Li Mingda explained, “The hole in the roof of Master Yong’an was indeed true earlier. It was a repair. Later, when you started planning to kill the two teachers half a year ago, you found an excuse to take the opportunity to renovate the roof. When you deceived or transported the unconscious Yong’an teacher to the back mountain, one of them took himself Locked in Master Yong’an’s house, bolted all the doors and windows, then hung a rope, climbed to the beam, ran out from the roof, and threw the wooden tenons to the back mountain. So we misled us into thinking that Master Yong’an was too deceitful Running out was caused by some secret matter. Later, Cui Liulang didn’t disclose the matter of Mrs. Yong’an and Henry Zhang, I’m afraid you would reveal it yourself, but it just happened to be a good opportunity for you to meet again.”
Li Mingda's words hit the hearts of all the nuns present, and they became more and more frightened, not knowing how to deal with themselves kneeling there.
"This, this..." Bai Ming was so surprised that he could not speak. He calmed down and turned to Hui Ning and the others. Disguise your identity to seduce Jian Wenshan!"
The nuns present were silent.
"Talk! You have the guts to kill, but you don't have the guts to speak?" Bai Tianming yelled, making Hui Ning and the others tremble in fright, and then they cried even louder.Then someone whispered that it was Hui Ning's idea, and then someone echoed it.
Hui Ning knelt at the front in a dull manner. Although tears were streaming from her eyes, she and An Ning were much calmer than their nuns.An Ning leaned against Hui Ning, crying a little more fiercely.It can be seen from this that the most instigator of the whole matter is most likely Hui Ning.
"Why is that so?" Li Mingda looked at Hui Ning calmly, and the volume of the question was the same as usual, but the majesty was irresistible.
Li Mingda turned to look at the other nuns, "And you, why did you partner with her to do this?"
Hui Ning spoke first: "Since your lord has made such a clear investigation, he must remember the banditry in Plum Blossom Nunnery 18 years ago. Just like what Yuan'an, who was lucky enough to escape to Cui's house, said, the dozen or so people in the nunnery at that time They were all kidnapped by bandits. Later, they were forcibly taken to the mountain stronghold and served as rewards for bandits—what...how should I call this, I don’t know. I don’t know who is the biological father of An Ning and I Bandit, what kind of beast. In short, we were born and lived with the hatred of our mothers. Later, the bandit died and was wiped out by the court. We pretended to be peasant girls and were lucky enough to be released, so we defected to Meihua Um. Seeing Mrs. Yong'an who has been enshrined and admired for a long time and lived a very nourishing and unrestrained life, how could we sisters let her die of old age with peace of mind. As for the method and process of committing the crime, as your lord deduced, it was me Instigated a few of them to kill together. Originally, I wanted to take advantage of the excitement on the [-]th day to make something astonishing and make things as chaotic as possible, but I didn't expect your lord and King Jin to go back. But at that time, the other two mistresses had already Dead, Mrs. Yong'an was also drugged and had an attack, and Jian Wenshan just appeared, the timing was just right, we can only do one thing and keep doing it. After all, do we feel confident and feel that such a murder plan is planned, Even if Master Yong'an and Henry Zhangzhen can't be wronged, no one will doubt us."
Hui Ning explained these in tears, but there was a self-deprecating sneer on his lips.At this moment, she has long lost the simple and honest look she usually shows.
Bai Ming opened his mouth in surprise again, feeling that he has not encountered as many surprises in his 40 years of life as today.
"What about Ren'an and Ci'an, these two teachers have nothing to do with what happened to Yong'an, why did you kill them both?"
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