Demon detective

Chapter 61 Magistrate
Following the sound, I saw a tall stone platform suddenly appeared in the reeds, and there was still a huge Buddha's foot left on the stone platform!

Oh……

Xu Zhen understood it after just one glance. This is probably the original Daxiong Hall of Daxiangguo Temple, and there should be a Buddha statue standing in front of the stone platform.

Just a stone platform is three or four meters high, and a Buddha's foot is so huge. From this, one can imagine how majestic the Daxiong Palace was back then?
There are no walls around, only a few broken stone pillars remain here.

Of course, Shen Yu didn't call out because of the discovery of the remaining palace.

When Xu Zhen and the others approached, they suddenly saw a person kneeling under the stone platform—a person! ! !

The man was wearing a white brocade fur coat and knelt down at the Buddha's feet in a strange posture.

His body was tilted, one arm was pinned behind his back, the other arm was hanging on the ground, his head was lowered and motionless, he should have lost any signs of life.

"Ah?" Old Duan was dumbfounded, while Fu Bin was surprised, "Is there really... really someone?"

"Yeah, he seems to be dead!" Shen Yu had already stood beside the man, and was about to step forward to check while speaking.

"Don't move!" Xu Zhen hurriedly shouted, "Don't destroy the scene!"

Hearing Xu Zhen's words, Shen Yu quickly stopped like a wooden man, but for some reason, the kneeling man still tilted his body and fell to the ground.

"No..." Shen Yu had an innocent face, "It's none of my business, you all saw it, I really didn't touch him!"

Xu Zhen hurriedly came to the front, only to find that the ground was covered with gravel slabs, some of which were stacked on top of each other, and when Shen Yu stepped on it, it would naturally cause vibrations, which made the man in white fall to the ground.

In this era, there were no cameras and no sampling. Xu Zhen could only quickly observe the scene, and then came to the fallen man in white.

This is a man who is not young, his skin is full of wrinkles, and his long beard has turned white.

The brocade fur he was wearing was an expensive white fox fur, not something an ordinary person could afford.

And then, when Xu Zhen looked at this person's face, he couldn't help but froze for a moment, because he saw that there was only a bloody hole left in this person's left eye, and he was stabbed blind!

Judging from the blood from the wound, he should have been stabbed blind not long ago.

Seeing Xu Zhen start to inspect the corpse, Shen Yu, Fu Bin and others also carefully surrounded him.

Shen Yu's eyes were sharp, and she pointed to somewhere in front of her and shouted, "Wow, look quickly! Look quickly!"

Everyone looked at it and turned pale with shock at the same time.

But seeing a stone slab in front of the man, many people's fingers and toes were neatly placed! ! !
what?
Xu Zhen quickly raised the corpse's arm, and sure enough, all ten fingers of this person were cut off.

Look at the feet again, the same is true.

"God," Old Duan backed away in fright, trembling all over, "What...what's going on? Then...that monk...could...could be..."

The meaning of the old Duan is obvious. Since the monk provided the clue and said that he surrendered himself to the Yamen, then the man in white in front of him must have been killed by the monk?
Xu Zhen looked at the man's wound, and couldn't help frowning tightly.

He found that after the man's fingers and toes were cut off, they were scalded with something like a soldering iron, leaving scald marks.

Why burn it?
Is it to increase pain, or to stop bleeding and disinfect?

Looking back, I saw a wooden stake inserted into the man's back, and the wooden stake was buried deep in the ground.It turned out that this person was tied to a wooden stake, so he kept his kneeling posture.

However, the man should not have died when he was tied up, he was still struggling, and his left hand had already been freed.

But in the end, due to the exhaustion of his physical strength and the freezing weather, he still couldn't break free completely, which is why he was in the weird posture just now.

All fingers and toes were cut off, and one eye was stabbed blind...

That monk is indeed a ruthless man!
According to Xu Zhen's judgment based on experience, there are only two situations for such behavior: one is revenge, and the monk has a grudge against the deceased!The other is torture to extract a confession, and the monk wants to ask something from this population.

So, he checked the face of the deceased again, and soon made a new discovery, but saw blood in both ears of the deceased.The blood had coagulated and scabbed, blocking the entire ear canal.

Oh……

It seems that the ears are also deaf!
That being the case... Xu Zhen infers that the reason for the monk's murder should belong to the former, because deafening a person's ears is not conducive to interrogation.

Therefore, the monk who tortured this person should be just for revenge, and it is definitely not ordinary hatred.

Thinking of this, the facts seem to be clear: monks are merciful, and monks can't pass the test of conscience after killing people, so they went to the Yamen to surrender.

but……

Xu Zhen shook his head secretly, feeling that the case should not be so simple.

May I ask which criminal who surrendered himself to the yamen is still in the mood to solve an anagram?Moreover, the chilling look in the monk's eyes also indicates that this case is unusual.

"Hey? Hey hey..." Just as Xu Zhen was inspecting the corpse, the old Duan who boldly approached the corpse again pointed at the corpse like Parkinson and said, "This...this person...isn't this person Who is that?"

"Ah?" The three of Xu Zhen immediately looked at Lao Duan, and Shen Yu hurriedly asked, "Who is that? Do you know him?"

"Yes, yes..." Lao Duan was trembling all over, and it took him a long time to remember, "This person is Tong County Magistrate, Tong County Magistrate!"

what?
Xu Zhen and the three looked at each other, obviously they had never heard of this name.

"It's the county magistrate in front of County Magistrate Song, and the county magistrate in front!" Old Duan said, "He has been away from Yanping County for many years!"

"What?" Xu Zhen comprehended quickly, and quickly asked, "What do you mean, this person used to be the county magistrate of Yanping County?"

"Yes," Lao Duan nodded, "That happened more than ten years ago. He had been the county magistrate in Yanping County for five or six years. Song county magistrate."

"Then he is not young, is he?" Xu Zhen asked.

"No, he's older than me, more than 60, right?" Lao Duan said, "He should have been promoted back then. I heard that he went to the state capital to become an official, and then he became an official. His hometown... tsk tsk... Where is his hometown? Anyway, he is not from Songzhou..."

"Not from Songzhou?"

Xu Zhen suddenly remembered that when he saw the monk for the first time, he found that the monk had a dusty feeling on him.

Could it be that... this county magistrate Tong was kidnapped from another state?

broken!

Suddenly, Xu Zhen felt bad.

If it's just revenge, he can't kill people anywhere, so why take the huge risk of kidnapping County Magistrate Tong back to Yanping County and kill him in this dilapidated Daxiangguo Temple?
Tong county magistrate used to be the county magistrate of Yanping County. Could it be that the monk is targeting...

"Cough cough..."

At this moment, the corpse suddenly coughed.

Oh……

Everyone was shocked as if they had seen a ghost, even Xu Zhen was no exception.

"Cough...cough..."

Looking over again, I saw that the "corpse" not only coughed, but also made a hoarse sound of "woo woo woo", and then blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, and his body trembled accordingly.

"what!!?"

Only then did everyone realize that this person was not dead at all, but was still alive!
……

(End of this chapter)