Sui Yi frowned slightly, picked up a thin wooden stick and examined it carefully.
Xing Pengyue continued to report on the case, "Each of the three corpses had a different Diamond Sutra in their intestines. Except for Gao Fuyun, the landowner in the south of the city, whose abdomen was ruptured when he died, the other two corpses had no wounds in their abdomens and no foreign matter in their intestines and stomachs."
"Magic cultivation technique?"
Li Wei raised his head and asked, "Can there be evil power across the belly that can achieve this effect without causing trauma?"
"We have compared the techniques of various schools, and there are as many as nineteen types with similar effects.
Including but not limited to mind magic, witchcraft, poison, evil thoughts, curses, etc.
Thirteen of the techniques have now been lost, and four were confiscated by the Academy and the Zhenfu Division respectively. Only a handful of Zhenfu Division soldiers have dabbled in them. "
Xing Pengyue did not hide it and said: "But their locations are all traceable, and there is no time when the crime was committed."
Sometimes, in order to deal with special types of demons, the soldiers of the Zhenfu Division would practice heretical ways under strict supervision.
Affected by alienated objects, these people are unable to write the exercises in their minds into words, nor can they teach the exercises to others.
Li Ang asked, "What about the other two?"
"One is the body-beating and bone-carving technique of the Taihao Mountain Judgment Court. They will hang prisoners who have committed the most heinous crimes and disobeyed Haotian's will, and beat them with special whips, supplemented by reciting incantations.
With each beating, the prisoner's body will be imprinted with the confession curse of Haotian Dao Sect.
Every time the mantra is recited, the confession mantra will penetrate deep into the body. First the lower layer of the skin, then the bones, and finally the internal organs. "
Xing Pengyue said: "The other is the Sutra of Repentance of Tiantai Mountain Tantra. Monks who violate the rules and precepts recite mantras to themselves, causing the precepts words to appear on their bodies.
The words of the precepts will not fade until the monk regains inner peace. "
Tiantai Mountain Tantra?
Li Ang raised his eyebrows. Mount Tiantai is now the leader of the Zen sect in the Yu Kingdom, and its abbot, Monk Jianquan, became famous all over the world thirty years ago.
Tantric Buddhism is the inner gate of Tiantai Mountain, and only eminent monks and great virtues widely recognized by the monks can enter it to practice.
Seemingly guessing what Li Ang and others were thinking, Xing Pengyue added: "There are no monks from Tiantai Mountain in the temples around Xingzhou, but we do not rule out the possibility that outsiders might disguise themselves and sneak into Xingzhou."
He Fanshuang thought for a moment and asked, "Are there any similar cases before?"
Xing Pengyue shook his head, "We checked the case files of Hedong Road, Henan Road, and Hebei Road through the Xianxian in the Fusi of Taiyuan Prefecture. No similar cases were found in the past thirty years."
Serial deaths with strange causes and lack of clues.
Sui Yi pinched his chin, raised his head and said, "Please send a few people, Captain, to lead us to the scene where the body was found and to investigate the address of the deceased."
It's still broad daylight, the Yang energy is strong, and evil spirits don't dare to cause trouble.
Even if there was some kind of demonic cultivator behind the case, he would not dare to act rashly after seeing the officers of the Town Fu Division dispatched to investigate.
Sui Yi divided everyone into three teams.
She, Qiu Feng, Li Leling, and Zhang Yuyan went to investigate the newly deceased wife of a rich man in the city.
A team of Li Wei, Yang Yu, and Yong Hongzhong went to investigate Huang Yusan who died of suffocation.
Li Ang, He Fanshuang and Ji Linglang went to investigate the landlord Gao Fuyun who died of overeating in the south of the city.
The three teams all carried warning fireworks and were followed by the pacification officers. Once they encountered danger, they would immediately launch the fireworks and receive immediate support.
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Compared with the prosperous and prosperous places of Chang'an and Luoyang, Xingzhou is much inferior.
Especially when leaving the city and heading to the farm outside the city. Everywhere you look, you can see pits, sallow-looking tenant farmers, dilapidated thatched houses, and cow and horse excrement everywhere.
However, at the highest point of the low hillside, there is a magnificent mansion with carved beams and painted beams, which is in sharp contrast to the surrounding low houses.
"Gaofu..."
Li Ang looked at the plaque with flying calligraphy hanging high on the door of the mansion, and his eyes twitched, knowing that this was another wealthy country squire.
Sure enough, as soon as he stepped into the mansion, he heard a lot of quarrels, the sound of broken porcelain, and the sound of curses being exchanged.
In the mourning hall hung with white cloth, men and women in mourning clothes quarreled fiercely, scolding each other for being unfilial, scolding each other for being lazy, or scolding each other for having a tryst with their lover during the wake.
These people are Gao Fuyun’s wives, concubines, children, and relatives.
Gao Fuyun's family was extremely wealthy. As soon as he died, family members immediately started to fight over their share of the inheritance.
It is difficult for an upright official to deal with household chores, and Li Ang has no interest in dramas about bloody competition for production.
As soon as he showed the Zhenfusi sign, he led people into the bedroom where Gao Fuyun was staying when he died.
Two days ago in the afternoon, Gao Fuyun was found dead alone in his bedroom by a servant. The servant quickly reported the matter to the police. The Zhenfu Department sent people to protect the scene and used the Liliang Talisman to lower the room temperature, keeping the bedroom in its original state.
"There is a lot of wine and meat on the table, but there is only one wine glass, one rice bowl, and a pair of chopsticks."
Ji Linglang checked the table and asked the servant of the Gao Mansion: "Is your master receiving guests that day? Or has he not eaten for a long time?"
"If you please, this is how much our master can eat for lunch."
The servant carefully replied: "Our master likes to eat. He spends a lot of money to hire famous chefs. One meal requires seven or eight hot and cold dishes, cold meats, snacks, and fruits."
Gaofu's family banquet is famous throughout Xingzhou City. "
Li Ang skillfully put on his mask and gloves, checked the dried blood under the table, and said calmly: "The blood spattered outwards from the center of the chair, and then accumulated into a pool of blood under the chair.
There were traces of yellow-green bile around the pool of blood, and it certainly looked like death from a split stomach.
Of course, it is also possible that someone assassinated him. "
He Fanshuang glanced around the bedroom, checked the bed, the wardrobe, and finally came to the dressing table, where he stopped on a flat wooden box with exquisite workmanship and a faint fragrance.
The wooden box had been opened by Zhenfusi people before. He Fanshuang used his mind to open the wooden box. What was inside the box was not jewelry and toys, but bird feather dusters.
"Um?"
He Fanshuang squinted his eyes. These dusters were two fingers long and half a finger thick. The bird feathers on them were of different colors and were extremely gorgeous.
It doesn't look like a feather duster that can be used to dust clothes normally, nor does it look like a decoration worn on clothes.
"What's this?"
He Fanshuang asked.
The quarrels between Gao Fuyun's family members outside the door became louder and louder, and the servant looked embarrassed and said: "Reporting to your noble lord, this is the throat duster collected by my master."
"Throat duster?"
He Fanshuang, who had never heard of this name, frowned slightly, "What does it mean?"
"It's the duster used to induce vomiting."
Ji Linglang said: "Some wealthy country squires love banquets the most.
In order to satisfy the appetite and eat as much as possible, someone will be hired to customize a feather duster that can be inserted into the throat.
Whenever he is full, he will stick a feather duster into his throat to induce vomiting to empty his stomach. After gargling for a while, he will continue to eat delicacies from the mountains and seas.
Sometimes a banquet can last for three days. "
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