Shu Blossoms

Chapter 115
"Lord Li!"

Yuan Wang stood up and saluted Li Min, but Li Min didn't dare to be too condescending in front of the eldest princess, and politely reached out to help the young man in front of him.

"This is Yuan Wang, and that woman is his mother, Mrs. Yuan!"

The eldest princess gave a brief introduction and then left, leaving them to talk by themselves.

"Yuan Langjun, this time I'm here for the case of the Luoxia Temple's cellar, I don't know if the Lingtang has something to tell you!"

Seeing that Yuan Wang was silent, Li Min asked first.

Yuan Wang shook his head, "Mother is too weak to wake up, and I only had time to say a few words to my mother before she fell into a coma again and never woke up again!"

Li Min nodded. He could see the despair on Madam Yuan's face. He was afraid that she was really helpless, and he couldn't force others to make things difficult for her.

"However, Cao Min has something to say to Lord Li!"

Yuan Wang looked at his mother, and then at Li Minze with firm eyes.

"Speaking!"

Li Min also became serious.

"In the past two days, I have carefully recalled the situation when my mother and sister were lost. At that time, my mother was saddened by the death of my father and brother, and took my sister to Luoxia Temple, hoping to light an everlasting lamp for my father and brother in the Buddhist hall. After that day, my mother And my sister never came back."

"Did you go to Luoxia Temple to look for it back then?"

Li Min asked.

"Naturally, neither my mother nor my sister came back after the curfew that day, so I went to Luoxia Temple to look for it early the next morning. Master Yuan Zang of Luoxia Temple told me that my mother and sister had left Luoxia Temple at Shenshi yesterday. "

"I then asked many masters of Luoxia Temple. Many of them saw my mother and sister leaving Luoxia Temple, but the groom at home was on leave that day, and mother and sister rented a carriage to go out of the city. I found out The groom on that day asked him, and he said that he drove home when his mother and younger sister went down the mountain when it was almost sunset."

"That is to say, Lingtang left Luoxia Temple but did not go down to Luoxia Mountain."

Li Min thought for a moment and asked, "There are dozens of Buddhist temples in Jiankang City, and Waguan Temple is closer to your house. Do you know why your mother would look far away?"

Yuan Wang twitched the corner of his mouth, and praised softly: "Master Li is very observant! At that time, because Luoxia Temple has a lot of connection with my Yuan family."

Yuan Wang explained in detail the origin of Luoxia Temple and the contacts between Luoxia Temple and the Yuan family of Chen Jun in these years.

"Due to obsession in the past two years, the grass-roots have been paying a lot of attention to Luoxia Temple. The grass-roots accidentally discovered that when the golden autumn scenery of the Luoxia Temple is at its peak, there are always young girls who get lost in the Luoxia Temple. The grass-folk have also asked secretly. None of the childish girls were found."

Li Min heard something suddenly flashed in his mind, and hurriedly got up to say goodbye.

When he walked to the door, Yuan Wang said again: "My lord, if you want to find out something, you can interrogate the eminent monks of Luoxia Temple. The grassroots don't believe how innocent they are after being fed by Yuan's family for so many years!"

Li Min paused in his footsteps, looked at Yuan Wang with a young and thin body, but pure and cold eyes, and bowed to Yuan Wang, "If Lingtang has something to say, please let me know!"

Yuan Wang saluted and Li Min left quickly.

He had been the chief register of Jingzhao Mansion Yin for more than [-] years before, and he was the one who knew the most about the big and small cases in Jingzhao Mansion Yin.

However, there are at least a hundred or even hundreds of cases that Jingzhao Mansion needs to keep on file every year. He really can't remember clearly.

It had to be reorganized, and Li Min went back to Jingzhao Mansion and did not go directly to see the court lieutenant and the capital officer, but plunged into the Jingzhao Mansion's warehouse to look through the files over the years.

From this year, to last year, two years ago, five years ago, even ten years ago
For a whole day, he crawled out of the file covered in dust, and then he was terrified!
"Come and come!"

Li Min opened his mouth to shout, only to realize that he hadn't had rice water for a day, and his throat was speechless.

The yamen servants outside heard Li Minze's hoarse shouts and hurried in.

"Find someone to carry these files to the front hall!"

The yamen servant took the order, found two more people, and carried a box full of files out of the warehouse.

Li Min, on the other hand, only drank a bowl of hot soup in a hurry, and ran to see Ting Wei and the capital officer without hesitation in tidying up his appearance.

"My lords, I'm afraid we will have to stay up all night again tonight!"

Seeing Li Min's distress, Ting Wei not only didn't blame him, but smiled and said: "Wen Zhong, but there is another breakthrough?"

"Yeah, seeing your terrified and faintly excited face, I'm afraid there is a lot hidden behind this case!"

The governor also laughed.

"Tonight, the two adults and the lower officials are going to interrogate the abbot of Luoxia Temple and a group of eminent monks and mages. Of course, it is no small matter!"

Ting Wei and the capital officer were surprised when they heard the words, but also became solemn.

"Are they all involved?"

Although the incident happened in Luoxia Temple, the exit was in the belly of Luoxia Mountain after all. They just routinely questioned the monks in Luoxia Temple at the beginning, and did not interrogate them strictly.

Moreover, Luoxia Temple has a good reputation in Jiankang City, and many mages are involved with various gentry clans. If it is not done well, it will be really troublesome!

But at this time, Emperor Zhou had made a decree and must be strictly investigated. The battle outside the city is raging, and they can't hold back!
So the three of them entered the palace overnight to ask for orders, and went to the place where the monks of Luoxia Temple were imprisoned.

They were not imprisoned in the prison of Jingzhao Mansion, but Emperor Zhou personally sent private soldiers to imprison them.

Because there are many masters in Luoxia Temple, the three of them were interrogated separately this time.

Master Yuan Yi, the presiding officer of Luoxia Temple, locked himself in a room alone. After Ting Wei came in, he knelt and sat beside Master Yuan Yi. beads of sweat.

Ting Wei smiled knowingly.

Duguan went to examine the most famous Dharma master of Hui Temple in Luoxia Temple. Du Guan usually likes Buddhism. Seeing that Master Hui Temple was seriously studying a Sanskrit Buddhist scripture, he asked him for advice.

Only the governor of Jingzhao went to see Master Yuan Zang, whom Yuan Wang said was the closest to the Yuan family, and then behind him a yamen servant carried the case case slowly and landed in front of Master Yuan Zang with a bang.

Master Yuan Zang glanced at it, but there was no disturbance, so the governor of Jingzhao Mansion sat down, got himself a glass of water, picked up the case file and read it, "On the tenth day of the eighth lunar month in the fourth year of Yuanjia, Li Chengqi reported the case to Jingzhao Mansion. His daughter was four years old, and she accidentally got lost while visiting Luoxia Temple to pray for blessings."

"On the [-]th day of the fourth month in the spring of the third year of Yuanjia, Zhu Xu reported the case to his daughter."

"August [-]th in autumn of the third year of Yuanjia"

"September third day in the autumn of the second year of the last junior high school"

Li Min read for a quarter of an hour, feeling a little dry, so he took up some cold water and drank it all in one gulp. He only felt that the anger in his stomach gradually subsided and he felt better. He stared at Yuan Zang every word. Question: "I don't know if the master has a sense of familiarity when listening to these case files?"

Yuan Zang recited the beads, and slowly replied, "No way!"

Li Min choked, and then smiled slowly: "It doesn't matter, this is the tip of the iceberg, I will read it to Master slowly, maybe Master can remember one or two of the poor children or the sad and painful parents!"

"On the last day of August in the autumn of the second year of Yuanjia, two grandparents and grandchildren of the Yuan family in Runan reported to Jingzhao Mansion that their son, wife and daughter disappeared in Luoxia Temple. Yuan Zang, an eminent monk of the temple, said that his mother and daughter had left Luoxia Temple at Shenshi on August 28, is there anything wrong?"

(End of this chapter)