Following the sound, I saw a tall stone platform suddenly appeared among the reeds. There was still a huge Buddha's foot on the stone platform!
oh……
Xu Zhen only took one look and understood that this place was probably the original Daxiong Hall of Daxiangguo Temple. There should be a Buddha statue standing in front of the stone platform.
Just a stone platform is three to four meters high, and a Buddha's feet are so huge. From this, you can imagine how majestic the Mahavira Palace must have been back then.
There are no walls around, only a few broken stone pillars remain here.
Of course, Shen Yu didn't call out because he discovered the remaining palace.
When Xu Zhen and others came closer, they were shocked to see a person kneeling under the stone platform! ! !
The man was wearing white brocade fur and kneeling at the feet of the Buddha in a very strange posture.
His body was tilted, one arm was pinned behind his back, and the other arm was hanging on the ground. His head was lowered and motionless. There should be no signs of life.
"Ah?" Lao Duan was dumbfounded, while Fu Bin was surprised, "Is there really... someone?"
"Yes, he seems to be dead!" Shen Yu was already standing next to the man and was about to step forward to check as he spoke.
"Don't move!" Xu Zhen shouted quickly, "Don't destroy the scene!"
Hearing Xu Zhen's words, Shen Yu quickly froze like a wooden man, but for some reason, the kneeling man still tilted his body and fell to the ground.
"No..." Shen Yu looked innocent, "It's none of my business. You all saw that I really didn't touch him!"
Xu Zhen hurriedly came closer and discovered that the ground was covered with gravel slabs, some of which were stacked on top of each other. When Shen Yu stepped on it, it would naturally cause a shock, causing the man in white to fall to the ground.
There were no cameras or sampling in this era. Xu Zhen could only quickly observe the scene and then came to the man in white who fell to the ground.
This is a man of considerable age, with wrinkled skin and a long beard that has turned white.
The brocade fur he was wearing was an expensive white fur fox fur, which an ordinary person could not afford.
And next, when Xu Zhen looked at this person's face, he couldn't help but be stunned, because he saw that this person's left eye only had a blood hole with flesh and blood turned out, and he was actually stabbed blind!
Judging from the blood stains on the wound, he must have been stabbed blind not long ago.
Seeing Xu Zhen starting to check the body, Shen Yu, Fu Bin and others also cautiously gathered around.
Shen Yu had sharp eyes and immediately pointed to somewhere in front and shouted: "Wow, look! Look!"
Everyone looked at it and were shocked at the same time.
But on a stone slab in front of the man, there were many people's fingers and toes neatly placed! ! !
ah?
Xu Zhen quickly raised the corpse's arm, and sure enough, all ten of the man's fingers had been cut off.
Looking at the feet again, the same is true.
"Oh my God," Old Duan backed away in fright, trembling all over, "What...what's going on? Then...that monk...could...could it be..."
Lao Duan's meaning was obvious. Since the monk provided the clue and said that he went to the Yamen to surrender, then the man in white in front of him must have been killed by the monk?
Xu Zhen looked at the man's wounds and frowned tightly.
He found that after the man's fingers and toes were cut off, they were burned with a soldering iron or something like that, leaving traces of burns.
Why do you want to perm it?
Is it to increase pain, or to stop bleeding and disinfect?
Looking back again, I saw a wooden stake stuck behind the man, which was buried deep in the ground. It turned out that this person was tied to a wooden stake, so he kept kneeling.
However, the man was probably not dead when he was tied. He was still struggling and his left hand had already broken free.
But in the end, due to exhaustion of physical strength and the cold weather, he still couldn't get out completely, so he ended up in the weird posture just now.
All the fingers and toes were cut off, and one eye was stabbed out...
That monk is indeed a ruthless person!
Xu Zhen judged based on experience that there are only two situations for such behavior: one is revenge, the monk has a grudge against the deceased! The other is to torture someone to extract a confession. The monk wants to ask something from the person's mouth.
So, he looked at the face of the deceased again and soon made a new discovery, but he saw blood in the two ears of the deceased. The blood had solidified and scabbed, blocking the entire ear canal.
oh……
It seems that the ears were also pricked and deafened!
In this case... Xu Zhen deduced that the monk's reason for killing should belong to the former, because deafening people's ears is not conducive to interrogation.
Therefore, the monk's torture on this man should be just for revenge, and it was definitely not ordinary hatred.
Thinking of this, the facts seem to be clear: the monks are compassionate, but the monk could not pass the test of conscience after killing someone, so he went to the Yamen to surrender.
But……
Xu Zhen shook his head secretly, feeling that the case should not be that simple.
I would like to ask which criminal who surrenders himself to the Yamen is still in the mood to solve crossword puzzles? Moreover, the monk's chilling eyes also indicate that this case is unusual.
"Hey? Hey hey hey..." Just as Xu Zhen was checking the body, Lao Duan, who had the courage to come up again, pointed at the body like a Parkinson's disease and said, "This... this person... this person is not Who is that?"
"Ah?" Xu Zhen and the others immediately looked at Lao Duan, and Shen Yu hurriedly asked, "Who is that? Do you know him?"
"Yes, yes..." Old Duan trembled all over and shivered for a long time before he remembered, "This person is Magistrate Tong, Magistrate Tong!"
What?
Xu Zhen and the other two looked at each other, obviously they had never heard of this name.
"That's the magistrate in front of Magistrate Song!" Lao Duan said, "He has left Yanping County for many years!"
"What?" Xu Zhen understood quickly and asked hurriedly, "What do you mean, this person used to be the magistrate of Yanping County?"
"Yes," Lao Duan nodded, "That was more than ten years ago. He served as the county magistrate in Yanping County for five or six years. After he left, he was the Bai County Magistrate. After Bai County Magistrate, he is the current magistrate. Magistrate Song."
"Isn't he too young?" Xu Zhen asked.
"No, he's older than me, over sixty, right?" Lao Duan said, "He must have been promoted high back then. I heard he went to the state capital to become an official, and then became an official. His hometown... tsk tsk... ...Where is his hometown from? Anyway, he is not from Songzhou..."
"Not from Songzhou?"
Xu Zhen suddenly remembered that when he first saw the monk, he noticed that the monk had a dusty feeling about him.
Could it be that... this Magistrate Tong was kidnapped from another state?
broken!
Suddenly, Xu Zhen felt something bad.
If it was just revenge, why would he take the huge risk to kidnap Magistrate Tong back to Yanping County and kill him in the dilapidated Daxiangguo Temple if he couldn't kill him anywhere?
Magistrate Tong used to be the magistrate of Yanping County. Could it be that the monk was targeting...
"Ahem..."
At this moment, the corpse suddenly coughed.
oh……
Everyone suddenly felt as if they had seen a ghost, and they were all frightened, even Xu Zhen was no exception.
"Cough cough... cough cough..."
Looking over again, I saw that the "corpse" not only coughed, but also made a hoarse sound of "wuwuwu", and then blood spilled from the corner of its mouth, and its body began to shake.
"ah!!?"
Only then did everyone realize that this person was not dead at all, but was actually still alive!
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