A little weak chicken came to Dali Temple

Three days later, Pei Jingning arrived at Jingling with Ye Zhi and others.

Four years ago, the owner of Jiang's family, the largest medicine merchant in Jingling, was kidnapped. The murderer wanted 10 taels of silver to redeem him. Torn ticket.

From then on, the Jiang family without the Patriarch fell into discord.

But Jiang Yunlei, the eldest son of the Jiang family, has never given up on chasing the murderer, and has always hoped to avenge his father in his lifetime.

As soon as Pei Jingning brought Ye Zhi and others to Jingling, he went to the Jingling government office and retrieved all the confessions and interrogation records from four years ago.

Yeats read it all day and night, and dealt with all the cases about Jiang Haochuan. The case was a sensation back then, and the Jingling Mansion handled it very seriously. Everyone who knew that Jiang Haochuan went to Jiming Temple to meet friends checked it at least three times. Suspicious, as if he was kidnapped while traveling was just an accident.

If it is said that there is a robbery on the road, Yeats thinks that the relationship between the bandit and the robbed is accidental, but in cases such as kidnapping, all cases such as kidnapping will go through finding the target, stepping on the spot, confirming the behavior of the kidnapped person, and then finally doing it. The process is very meticulous, [-]% The deterministic crime cannot be an accidental event.

Judging from the case file, this kidnapping case did not involve internal and external collusion. It seems that the outside murderer found the target and then found an opportunity to attack and finally succeeded.

If this case is like that found by Pei Shaoqing, it may be committed by a middle-aged man with white beard, is he from the vicinity of Jingling, or has he fled to Jingling to commit crimes?

Although the Jiang family is a big medicine merchant in Jingling, with a lot of wealth, there are actually quite a few merchants like the Jiang family. Why did the white-bearded middle-aged man choose the Jiang family only?

Or did they choose a few at the same time, and the Jiang family happened to fall into their net?

Yeats needed to know something that wasn't in the case file?
"Do you need to ask Jiang's family?"

Before Yeats asked, Pei Shaoqing, who had been sitting next to her, pushed the warm tea and already knew what she was thinking.

"..."

Is he too good at understanding people, or is there a tacit cooperation between them?

Yeats held the cup in both hands to warm his hands, and drank with his head down. It must be the first type. Although Mr. Pei is young, the environment he lived in since he was a child has already made it easy for him to gain insight into human nature.

Once Ye Xiaozhi entered the investigation state, her whole body shone with a dazzling light that people couldn't help admiring, but once she got out of this state and was caught in her thoughts, her eyelashes would flicker like a little girl. The lady generally becomes confused, which makes people laugh.

Out of the corner of her eye, Yeats noticed that the boss was smiling and his whole body was unbelievably gentle. Under the oil lamp, her heart jumped inexplicably like a lamp.

"My lord, it's getting late, let's go to rest..."

She put down the cup and got up from the desk. The moment she stood up, she suddenly realized that the sentence 'let's go to rest' was extremely inappropriate, making them look like a young couple.

Suddenly, she said with a guilty conscience, "My lord, this subordinate will leave first." It didn't matter if Boss Pei stopped resting or not, she ran away embarrassingly anyway.

Pei Jingning was still smiling, and kept following Ye Xiaozhi until she ran out of the room and turned into the corridor.

The next day, Pei Jingning took Ye Zhi and others to find Jiang Yunlei, the eldest son of the Jiang family.

When he was found, his family was in ruins, and he was making portraits in a painting gallery. When he heard that Dali Temple came to investigate the murder of his father, he knelt on the ground excitedly and roared, "Heaven opened his eyes... really, heaven opened his eyes, father... son Unfilial..."

After waiting for him to cry enough, Yeats and others invited him to the teahouse and listened to him talk about the case back then.

"My Jiang family runs a medicine store for five generations. My family has ancestral precepts. I don't stock up on new year's goods and don't make money in disaster years. Therefore, my Jiang family is well-known in Beijing. The business is booming, and the family business is getting bigger and bigger. My father is a low-key, introverted man. People who make Zhang Yang, it stands to reason that they shouldn't encounter such a disaster, but I didn't expect... to be succeeded by the villain..."

Jiang Yunlei would cry uncontrollably whenever he thought of his father being kidnapped and torn up by the gangsters, "why...why...we obviously did the right thing and did the right thing, why did we suffer such a disaster..."

Yeats and the others waited for him to cry enough before they had a chance to speak.

She could see that the sixth-generation Jiang family's son-in-law was not good at doing business, and even read too many books, which made him a little pedantic. If nothing happened to the Jiang family, he probably wouldn't be the heir to the position of patriarch!
Closer to home, this is not the purpose of her visit today.

Jiang Haochuan went to meet an old friend near the Jiming Temple. By the way, he and his old friend entered the Jiming Temple to play two games of chess with the abbot. Unexpectedly, the old friend didn't show up, and he didn't play chess. He was tied up halfway.

Yeats asked: "Young Master Jiang, besides the people mentioned in the case investigation back then, who knows that your father is going to meet old friends, does anyone else know?"

"Others?" Four years have passed, and the events of that year seem to be as clear as yesterday, but at the same time they seem to be blurred.

"Yes." Yeats reminded him: "The family members, stewards, servants, and the driver of the carriage, everyone who knows about this matter, are you sure you have informed the people who investigated the case in the government? They all Have you checked one by one?"

Jiang Yunlei fell into deep memories, muttering: "In addition to grandmother and mother, there is also myself..."

Yeats' eyes moved.

He continued: "Even my aunt, concubine and concubine have been examined one by one. My father went to Jiming Temple even on a whim. Well, the yamen has checked them several times, and found nothing."

"Do you think your father will break the news to a friend or anyone else?"

"Father's friend?"

Yeats nodded.

"This..." Jiang Yunlei was uncertain, "I asked my father's most useful steward, and they said that they didn't tell anyone except Uncle Mo who asked my father about it."

Yeats said: "It is said in the case that your father's friend Mo Yannian swore on his life that he never told anyone else that he had an appointment to go to Jiming Temple that day, do you believe it?"

Jiang Yunlei was noncommittal, "People from the yamen checked him and found nothing wrong with him, and in order to prove his innocence, he entered Jiming Temple and became a monk at that time."

Yeats asked again: "How often did your father meet Mo Yannian? How many times did you go to Jiming Temple to play chess with the abbot in a year?"

Jiang Yunlei replied, "During the off-peak season of the pharmacy, I see you once every two or three months when you are busy, and two or three times a month when you are not busy. Every time you see Uncle Mo, the two of them will go to Jiming Temple together to meet him." Keep playing chess."

……

Yeats asked some more questions, which were similar to what was written in the case file, and found almost nothing useful.

Today, I can only ask here first. Yeats got up and looked at the art gallery. It is a small and inconspicuous art gallery. I don't know how much a painting can sell.

After leaving the gallery, Yeats looked up at the cold sky, "My lord, your purpose now is to find a middle-aged man with white beard, right?"

"Yes."

"Come to Jingling to revisit the case of Jiang's family in order to find clues about the white-bearded man's middle age?"

Pei Jingning did not deny it, "Just like the Pinghu Lei family case, this white-bearded man appeared for no reason and then disappeared mysteriously. There was no trace of him at all."

I asked Jiang Yunlei just now, but there was no clue at all.

Teng Chong was also anxious, "Why don't we go back to the capital and look for clues from the yard where the two corpses were found." This case is new and there are many traces of evidence left.

Yeats looked at him.

Teng Chong explained, "Four years have passed since the case of Jiang's family. There is no crime scene. Except for Jiang Haochuan who turned into bones, there is not even a decent evidence. How can we investigate? It happened recently in the capital, and someone has seen it." For those three, it is easier to find a middle-aged man with white beard."

Pei Jingning glanced at Teng Chong.

Teng Chong shrank his shoulders in fright, not daring to say any more.

Yeats smiled slightly, "Brother Teng, Mr. Pei has already found out that the white-bearded man is in the Jiangnan area, but he doesn't know where he is hiding in Jiangnan. He came to Jingling... and the few cases that happened in other places are all to find out about these cases. The common denominator in the case is to find out the hidden white-bearded middle-aged man."

"Then what do the Jiang family's case have in common with the Pinghu Lei family's case?"

Yeats looked up at the sky again, "It's a monk who cast the spell for Mrs. Lei Liu..."

"You mean, there is also a monk in the case of the Jiang family?" Teng Chong seemed to have a sudden epiphany, "Could it be that the surname Mo knows the middle-aged man with white beard?"

"He may not know the existence of the middle-aged man with white beard."

Teng Chong was confused, "Why are you so sure, could it be..." He turned to look at the small art gallery behind him, "You suspect that Mr. Jiang colluded with the kidnappers to kill his father?"

"Brother Teng..." Yeats wanted to cover his face.

"Who told you to speak so vaguely?" Teng Chong looked aggrieved.

"Get in the carriage." Pei Jingning put his hand behind his back, reminding Yeats to get on the carriage.

Yeats patted his face, the middle-aged white-bearded man was hiding too deeply, there was no flaw in the two cases, and she was also impatient.

In the carriage, Yeats patted his face again, "My lord, I want to go to Jiming Temple to meet Mo Yannian."

Pei Jingning said bluntly to the outside, "Go to Jiming Temple."

"Yes, my lord."

When we arrived at Jiming Temple, it was already dark.

Someone had already arranged for the Jiming Temple. When Ye Zhi and the others arrived, they were directly led to the guest room to have a hot meal. After eating, Pei Jingning took Ye Zhi to meet the abbot.

The old monk was kind-hearted, and he had a match with Pei Jingning, which was a draw. Yeats didn't understand this, but after looking at the old abbot's meditation room, he came up with the idea that this is the real Buddhism.

She agrees with the abbot and the temple from the bottom of her heart, and she can't find anything wrong with the temple or has the idea of ​​investigating crimes. Unknowingly, she began to doze off little by little while sitting on the side.

Pei Jingning was afraid that Yeats' head would be hard and uncomfortable, so she already stretched out her palm to let her head tilt in his palm.

The old monk smiled like a Maitreya Buddha, "Little friend Pei is quite interesting!"

Pei Jingning looked calm and calm, "Master told me that a middle-aged white-bearded man appeared before, so I came here."

"The little novice in the temple saw the kidnappers, but unfortunately he was the only one carrying water at that time, and he didn't have time to call for help, so the benefactor Jiang was killed. It's a sin..." The calm Master Shaoqing suddenly sighed, "Every case, There was a person who saw a middle-aged man with white beard. The master didn't think that this man was deliberately seen by others. He deliberately told the world that he was the one who did this case. He let us know but couldn't find out. In the eyes."

The old monk was not in the mood to play chess. He put down the sunspots and shook his head, "It will rain if you are crazy, and there will be disaster if you are crazy. Since Pei Shaoqing has arrived in Jingling, I think you will get something."

"According to Master's auspicious words." Pei Jingning also put down the other chess piece.

Yeats seemed to have sensed it. He was startled suddenly, woke up, and glanced at the chessboard, "My lord, master, are you finished playing?"

The old monk smiled and said, "Did Ye Xiaoyou gain something today?"

Yeats was so sleepy from his laughter, "Master, how do you know?"

"I do not know."

"..." She wasn't sure, she didn't even say anything to Pei Jingning.

The old monk smiled and said, "I know how to read."

"..."

"Looking at the stretching of your eyebrows and eyes, you must gain something."

"..." This one...Ye Zhi thought to herself, then she can also set up a fortune telling fortune.

The old monk was provoked by Yeats' little gesture of puffing his mouth, "Ye Xiaoyou is really interesting."

"..." This one looks like a monk, why does it sound like an old urchin, Yeats pursed his lips.

The old monk's cheerful laughter never stopped.

After leaving the meditation room, Pei Jingning walked slowly back to the guest room with Yeats behind his back.

"What Master said is true?" Pei Jingning turned to look at her.

Yeats sighed, "As the eldest son of the Jiang family, Jiang Yunlei must be the plaintiff in the case. The plaintiff is the sufferer. Everyone in the Yamen and the Jiang family unconsciously proved to the sufferer that we had no motive to kill your father, but everyone ignored it. Who did Jiang Yunlei accidentally reveal his father's whereabouts to?"

Reverse thinking?

Pei Jingning asked directly: "Why not Mrs. Jiang, or his mother?"

"A small meeting, Jiang Haochuan may not tell the old lady and his wife."

Pei Jingning did not answer the call.

Yeats sighed again, "During the four long years, Mr. Jiang may have taken stock of all the people and things around him, and he may have remembered that he said in front of someone that I'm afraid he won't be able to bear the bias of his choice and memory, so it's better to let him Uncle Qin went to investigate first, and after Uncle Qin finished the investigation, even if he couldn't bear the memory deviation, I wouldn't let him escape."

The next day, Yeats met Mo Yannian who was dating Jiang Haochuan.

He was wearing an old monk's robe, simple and clean.When he saw Pei Jingning wearing the official uniform of Dali Temple, he didn't panic, and even stepped forward calmly and politely, "Xiaomin has met Mr. Pei."

Yeats found that his eyes were open and frank, his manners were well-behaved, and his attitude towards others was measured.

Jiming Temple is different from other temples of the Great Wei Dynasty that Yeats has seen. This is really a place for self-cultivation and compassion.

"If I hadn't invited Brother Jiang back then, he wouldn't have had this catastrophe."

"Amitabha!" The master abbot stood behind them at some point, "It's God's will, so why do you have to hug Fang Wu?"

"This is also my will." He clasped his hands together, relaxed and calm, with the virtue of cultivating the mind and character.

Another day later, at noon, Qin Dachuan returned to Jiming Temple from the center of Jingling, "Master Pei...Master Ye..."

Teng Chong asked him anxiously, "Have you heard about it?"

"There was an inconspicuous episode."

Everyone looked at Qin Dachuan in unison.