Li Huaiyun pointed at the middle-aged woman and said seriously, "Auntie, I hope every word you say is true, so that we can continue to investigate this case. This is about human life, and there is no room for falsehood. Otherwise, the consequences will be conceited!"
When the middle-aged woman heard this, she became a little anxious, fearing that she had said the wrong thing, "Oh, I just heard what others said! I don't know anything!"
"Auntie! You have already collected the money!"
"I only charged you so much money! If you make a mistake, I will be held responsible!"
"If you accept it, accept it. You can't go back on it," Li Huaiyun frowned and asked again, "Are you sure that Widow Sun is dead?"
"I also heard from people that they even went to the widow's house and sealed the well!"
"But we just met Mr. Sun last night!"
When the middle-aged woman heard this, she looked at him with horror on her face, "You... you are in hell!"
"Why didn't anyone report the crime?"
"The steward said that everything here must be prayed to the gods. They don't believe in the government!"
Li Huaiyun said, "They are just trying to cover up their crimes!"
The middle-aged woman suddenly covered her mouth and said, "Sure enough, that rumor is true."
"Ah! What rumors?"
"In the past half month, people often saw the ghost of Widow Sun in the alleys at night, demanding her life from those who forced her to throw herself into the well! And since her death, people have often disappeared inexplicably around here. , and no one dares to report the crime!”
"So many rituals have been done in the temple these days, but nothing works. It's really scary."
Li Huai turned his head and looked at the young disciple, "In the past half month, there have been many rituals in the temple? Don't you know?"
The young disciple said, "I know, but when I asked the master, he said that it was for the birthday of the gods that he held so many rituals."
"Several times, he went out to perform rituals in the middle of the night without taking me with him!"
Li Huaiyun analyzed, "It seems obvious that after Ms. Sun committed suicide by throwing herself into a well, your master went to her home and sealed the well with a Taoist talisman in order to hide her from others."
"Those who persecuted the Sun family also asked your master to perform rituals because they were afraid of being haunted by evil spirits. The purpose was to make themselves feel at ease."
"Look at the evil you have done!"
The young disciple was said to be ashamed of himself. In fact, he had also done things that were sorry to Mr. Sun.
Mu Yuan asked slightly curiously, "Then what's going on with the deprivation meal at the steward's house?"
"There must be someone among these people who is proficient in a special way."
"You are referring to Taoist Yin Technique!" Mu Yuan said.
"What about the ghost she was talking about?"
"I don't know! Maybe we will know when we meet again," Li Huaiyun looked at the middle-aged woman, "By the way! Auntie, who did you hear that rumor you mentioned!"
When the middle-aged woman heard what they said, her face turned pale, she waved her hands desperately, and then shouted loudly, "I don't know! I don't know!"
She shivered with fear and closed the door directly.
Before Li Huaiyun finished asking, the other party was so frightened that he avoided talking. He knocked hard on the door, "Who told you?"
There was no movement inside the house.
Mu Yuan asked, "What should we do next?"
Li Huaiyun looked at the young disciple and pointed at him, "The steward's home should have records of the money donated by those people. Just find those people."
"Although you don't know them, you should have seen them. It's up to you to find these people."
The young disciple was still hesitant, "But the master doesn't allow me..."
"Forget your master!" Li Huaiyun admonished, "He must have been killed. What else do you have to fear? You can only rely on yourself for everything now."
"Oh!" The young disciple responded expressionlessly, and then told everyone, "From now on, I really can only rely on myself!"
"Who is that woman we saw last night?" Mu Yuan curled her lips. She couldn't understand why a living person last night had been dead for half a month?
"I have also been in contact with that woman. There is no problem at all. She is a real person." Mu Yuan said with some confusion, "Could it be that the aunt remembered it wrongly, or had a misremembering, and that woman was not dead at all?"
"According to what the steward did, the Widow Sun should be dead! As for the person we saw last night, he must be a Taoist of some kind that we have never seen before."
Li Huaiyun and Mu Yuan asked several families nearby, but they all remained tight-lipped about this matter. They had no other meaning to express except shaking their heads.
However, there are different explanations for Sun's death. Some said that he was dead, and some said that he saw the widow on the street a few days ago.
They all had the same view. They believed that this woman's current experience was entirely her own fault. They also felt that this woman was inappropriate in many ways and was once again ignored by everyone.
And to serve the gods is also a manifestation of one's own atonement.
Li Huaiyun and Mu Yuan stood by the street, still quite angry at what these people had done.
Mu Yuan said in an angry tone, "If you ask me, everyone here is the murderer of that widow." She glanced at the young disciple behind her, "That temple of yours is really harmful to people, good one Women, want to be ruined by you like this."
The young disciple lowered his head, "This was Master's idea, and we didn't want to. Someone who gave me a lot of money for incense asked me to name the Sun family."
"Master felt that the money for incense was too much and it was not practical to get it, so he thought of this method!"
Mu Yuan clenched her fists, "So you all deserve to die."
"Don't convict them here yet. Let's go to the steward's house quickly and get the list. We will look for them one by one. We will definitely be able to find some clues."
They returned to the steward's home again and searched for a long time before they found the list of people who had contributed incense.
They spent some time looking for the people on the incense list, only to find that all of them had disappeared.
Moreover, the time of disappearance was just after Sun fell into the well.
Li Huaiyun pressed the paper tightly in his hand, "This is definitely not a coincidence!"
Mu Yuan thought for a while, "No wonder that temple has to do so many rituals. It seems they know that this disappearance case is related to Sun's death!"
"Yes, it seems that those who have had their essence sucked dry in the past two days have the same reason!"
The young disciple was a little confused about this, "Why is it so accurate!"
Mu Yuan sneered, "Probably these people all have the same personality, they are lustful!" She glanced at the young disciple seriously, "Maybe you will be next!"
The young disciple shrank down and smiled helplessly.
"Don't scare him!" Li Huaiyun said, and he also looked at the young disciple, "What is there in the temple? I saw you were quite worried when you left just now!"
"No! It's nothing! With so many customers coming here, I can make a lot of money. I can't bear to part with the incense money."
Li Huaiyun had a look of disdain on his face, "I didn't expect that it's like this now. Why are you still protecting me? Do you still think your master will come back to punish you?"
"You should break this restriction. Your master is gone, and the heir to the temple is probably you! If you don't explain the matter clearly, the temple will be accused of being a monster and be demolished! Then you will have nothing. ”
As soon as the young disciple thought of this ending, he immediately informed Li Huaiyun of the matter. In fact, he didn't know much.
"Have you been to the main hall?"
"I went there, took a look, and came out. Is there anything wrong with the stone statue?"
"Yes!" said the young disciple, "There is a big problem. Master has been supplying human blood to that stone statue!"
"What?" Li Huaiyun and Mu Yuan said in unison, "Supplying blood to stone statues is too crazy."
"Then do you know what that stone statue is used for?"
"I don't know! The master only said that supplying human blood to this stone statue can protect ourselves at specific times."
Li Huaiyun felt confused about this, "Supply essence and blood to the stone statue, and then bless yourself. What is the principle?"
He felt that he had encountered some kind of cult organization again, "Is that stone statue a vampire?"
The young disciple also shook his head, not knowing what this meant.
Li Huaiyun and Mu Yuan returned to the temple again and wanted to see the stone statue again. Before that, they did not pay much attention to the stone statue.
At this time, there were only a few believers in the temple, burning things and kneeling in the main hall.
Mu Yuan suggested, "We really don't need to go outside. If we look for the manager again, we might be able to find the body."
Li Huaiyun thought for a moment and then said, "I don't think so. The steward's body should be in the temple!"
Mu Yuan glanced at him and said, "How do you know that the steward's body will be in this temple?"
"Because the stone statue feeds human essence and blood, then the steward who has been given the Soul-Ending Rice must be here too."
Li Huaiyun said, "Do you still remember the sound that suddenly came when we were leaving last night?"
"heard it!"
"I think this sound must be coming from the stone statues inside!" Li Huaiyun walked inside and stood at the incense burner in the middle of the yard. "At first, I thought it was strange why there was a smell in the place where the steward lived. Spicy,"
He picked up an incense stick from the incense burner and said, "This is the scent in the house."
Mu Yuan couldn't quite understand what he said, "What does that mean? He is the manager here. Isn't it normal to bring two sticks of incense back?"
Li Huaiyun walked to the main hall of the temple, "Of course this is normal, but this is what's abnormal!"
Mu Yuan followed behind, with a puzzled look on her face, wondering what clues this old guy had found. She and Li Huaiyun saw the same thing, but she couldn't deduce anything.
Li Huaiyun walked into the main hall and stared at the statue, "There was some dirt where the steward lived. At first I thought it was brought in from outside, but I was wrong. The dirt is unique to this stone statue. "
"The steward of this temple should be in the belly of the stone statue now!"
"Ah!" Mu Yuan looked solemn, what did this guy say? "Are you trying to say that this statue ate the steward?"
