Judgement

Chapter 72 A Burnt Corpse

Chapter 72 A Burnt Corpse

Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaotian followed Shangguan Yanran's shout and looked at a charred beam lying on the ruins more than ten feet away.The small part of the girder was exposed outside, and the large part was buried in the bricks and tiles.On the side of the girder, there was a chi-deep and dark gap, and some unknown weeds were growing out of the gap.

"Junior Sister, what's the matter?" Chen Mengsheng came over and asked.

Shangguan smiled and replied: "The red mud you are looking for should be under the girder, but it is buried. Tomorrow, I will ask someone to dig up the bricks and tiles to see the five-color soil. I don't know if it is what the brother is looking for." .”

Chen Mengsheng hugged the girder with both hands and lifted it vigorously, the dusty girder was lifted up a few inches abruptly. "Junior Sister, back up now. Together with Big Brother, I should be able to lift this girder." Shangguan Yanran retreated more than ten feet after hearing this, watching Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaotian hugging the girder together...

"Clatter!" The bricks and tiles on the girder scattered like a waterfall, raising dust all over the sky.The girder was moved aside, revealing a row of iron shelves for candles.Xiang Xiaotian fiddled with the residue on the iron frame and said: "Brother, this fire was set on purpose. You see, these iron residues are burnt oil cups. If there is a fire, it must not be burned like this. "

Shangguan Yanran leaned aside to look at the broken pieces and said, "Brother Xiang, the iron lamp holding the candle caught fire and turned into slag. Do you think someone set the fire?"

"Hehe, Junior Sister, Brother Xiang is right. In the temples, fire-proof candle wax oil melts and overflows, causing fires. There are always oil-filled cups. If the candle is not scratched out, it will burn out, and the wax wick will be in the container. The oil in the oil cup burns out and extinguishes itself. If the oil cup can be burned, someone must have poured oil on fire."

"But brother, it was midnight when the Guandi Temple was on fire. The Guandi Temple was closed before dark, and no pilgrims were accepted. How could someone set fire to it?"

Xiang Xiaotian teased and said: "Could it be that the monks in the temple can't set fire? You are not a monk in this temple, how do you know?"

Shangguan Yanran retorted: "There are only five monks in the Guandi Temple. Besides the abbot Huiyuan, there is also a prison temple Guangyuan and three Zhike monks. After the fire broke out, almost all the people in Pingyang Prefecture came to fight the fire." , It’s a pity that the fire was too much and only five charred corpses were cleared out of the ruins. Master Zhang, the magistrate of Pingyang County, also invited people to perform a ritual ceremony, and my father was also invited.”

"Uncle Yun found something strange?"

"No, my father just doesn't understand why there is a big fire in the temple. Master Huiyuan, who understands Zen and Buddhism, is doing good things but suffers from this disaster. The monk that Brother Xiang said set fire to himself and burned himself to death inside. ?"

"This..., this... I don't know." Xiang Xiaotian said with a sneer.

"No, there must be something strange here. Since the person who has been saved by doing things in vain, he should have entered the six realms of reincarnation and reincarnated. How could there be a resentful soul on Xue's body? Brother, let's put this Let’s clean up the scorched earth and broken tiles, and let’s talk about finding the five-color soil.” Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaotian kept flying their four hands to clean up the debris, and Shangguan Yanran pointed out the direction while helping to move some small objects.

After the three of them worked together for a while, spots of red and yellow appeared under the rubble.Shangguan Yanran found a bamboo broom from the ruins, and cleaned up an area of ​​more than ten feet.

On the ground, with the loess as the center, there are other four colors distributed on the four places of the loess, each of which is five feet square, and is surrounded by bluestones.

Chen Mengsheng probed carefully in the red soil with the subduing magic ruler in his hand, and the subduing magic ruler extended several feet in the soil and plowed on the ground.If there are bones in the ground, it will be impossible to escape the detection of the magic ruler...

Xiang Xiaotian said: "Brother, you have to plow all the ruins of hundreds of feet in this area for you to investigate like this. The soil where the dead have been dug and buried must be new, and the color of the soil next to it is different."

"Brother, you only know one thing but not the other. The newly dug soil does have a different color, but after being baked by the fire, the outer layer of the soil will become lumpy and the color will become the same."

Shangguan Yanran was afraid that Chen Mengsheng would really dig up a dead body, but also wanted to see how Chen Mengsheng used the corpse to investigate the case.The contradictory mood made her in a dilemma, she struggled for a long time and said: "Brother, aren't you afraid?"

Chen Mengsheng looked up at Shangguan Yanran, unable to laugh or cry, and said, "I used to be afraid of ghosts just like you, but I've gotten used to it since I've seen too many ghosts in the Underworld. As long as you have a clear conscience, why bother?" Fear, when I was on the banks of the Qiantang River a few years ago, I had no relatives and no reason, but Uncle Sun, a water ghost who drowned in the river, accompanied me."

Shangguan Yanran suddenly said: "Then can Big Brother Xiang and I see it too?"

"Impossible, neither you nor Big Brother Xiang have opened their eyes, nor are they yin and yang eyes."

"Hehe, brother, then you can help us open our eyes." Xiang Xiaotian said carelessly.

Chen Mengsheng said sternly: "With my current cultivation base, it is possible to help you open the sky eyes, but if you open the sky eyes, you will no longer be able to live an ordinary life. You will inevitably see some evil spirits every day and night, I don't think it is necessary? "

Xiang Xiaotian laughed loudly and said: "Thinking about it, you're right, sleeping in the middle of the night and suddenly finding a ghost smiling at you next to you, floating around is quite scary."

Shangguan Yanran's face turned pale from being frightened by Xiang Xiaotian's words, and said Jiaozha, "Senior Brother, look at Big Brother Xiang coming to scare people again, go back and give him that glutinous rice cake."

Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaowu laughed when they heard this, and it was the first time that Chen Mengsheng felt that he was no longer so lonely.After an hour of investigation, no dead person was found in the five-color soil.Chen Mengsheng asked: "Junior Sister, how are the dead bodies that have been saved?"

Shangguan Yanran thought for a while and said: "When father is invited to perform errands, he will take his brothers with him, and he never takes me. It is said that girls are easy to be shocked when they see such dirty things. That day, father and brothers After saving the five charred corpses in the temple, they were burned and buried together because it was hard to distinguish the five sense organs that had already been burned."

"Does Junior Sister know where those charred corpses were found?"

"I've heard from my father that the five corpses were all cleaned up in the meditation room in the backyard."

"Brother, you are asking too much. Of course the monk in the middle of the night is sleeping in the monastery. Where else can he go?"

Chen Mengsheng said with a smile: "If they were all burned to death in the meditation room, then there must be some articles in it. Did a fire break out and all five people fell asleep?"

"Brother, don't you know if there are resentful souls by reciting the soul-calling spell?"

"The soul can't see the light. When it sees the light, it will fly away. Xue's body is just a remnant soul. Only when three souls and seven souls are gathered can we ask the soul to investigate the case. Junior sister, please take me to the Buddhist monastery to have a look."

The three of them came to the monastery on scorched earth and rubble, and the monastery clearly showed signs of being cleaned up.The two sides and the middle are piled up with broken stones and tiles in the shape of Xiangpin, and the center of the courtyard is a piece of scorched earth after cleaning.

Shangguan Yanran said: "Senior brother, the nearest Zen room on the east is where three Zhike monks live, the west is the Zen room of Jiansi Guangyuan, and the south of the center is the Zen room of the presiding abbot. I came with my father to find Abbot Huiyuan to play chess, so I am very familiar with the Buddhist monastery here."

Chen Mengsheng looked around in the Zen courtyard, and there were fire extinguishing ditches on the ground.After walking around, I found a blackened low wall behind the West Meditation Room. "Where does this wall lead to, Junior Sister?"

"This is the wall of the backyard. Behind the wall is a vegetable garden cultivated in the temple."

Xiang Xiaotian asked: "Is there anything to see in the vegetable garden?"

But Chen Mengsheng said: "The monastery has already been cleared of gullies, and the clues are also hard to find. It may not be possible to have unexpected harvest in the vegetable garden. If it is really impossible, the only way is to come here at night to perform spiritualism."

The vegetable garden has been neglected for more than a year, and the weeds are taller than people.The three of them pushed through the grass and came to a high spot in the vegetable garden. It can be seen that there are green vegetables, leeks, etc. in the vegetable garden...

Shangguan Yanran said: "Brother, look at the corner of the courtyard. There is neither vegetables nor soil, but why are you throwing a hoe?"

Xiang Xiaotian said: "Maybe the monk is planning to open a ridge to grow vegetables there?"

"No way, the vegetable garden is taken care of by the three Zhike monks in turn. The hoes and shovels are all placed in the monastery, so how could they be left on the vegetable patch in the corner."

Chen Mengsheng and Xiang Xiaotian suddenly felt suspicious, and went to pick up the iron pick.The iron hoe is stained with rust, if it wasn't for the crushed blue stones of the foundation of the West Zen House on the corner of the wall, where no grass can grow, it would be extremely difficult to find this iron hoe.

Xiang Xiaotian stepped on a few blue stones, stomped lightly with his foot and shouted loudly: "Brother, this stone is obviously a finger higher than the other blue stones, it must be because no one has stepped on it for a long time, Could it be that this rock has been dug?"

Xiang Xiaotian picked up the iron hoe and went down to shovel up the blue stone...

"Wow..." There were white wriggling bugs under the green strip stone, Shangguan Yanran spit out all the glutinous rice cakes she just ate in the morning when she saw it, turned her head and stopped looking.

Xiang Xiaotian hoeed further down, and the centipedes and maggots in the soil scattered and fled in dense numbers. "Brother, look there is a human hand..."

After a stick of incense, Xiang Xiaotian has already dug a big hole.There was a charred corpse lying in the pit, Shangguan Yanran covered her face with her hands, and watched secretly through her fingers.All I saw was that the scorched corpse had been burned beyond recognition, and the skin of the whole body of the hunched body had turned into charcoal black.Stomach full of wriggling worms crawling in and out of the sticky green liquid...

Chen Mengsheng jumped into the big pit, looked carefully for a while and said to Xiang Xiaotian: "This person's fatal injury is on the head. There is a finger-wide crack on the left forehead bone. It is expected that his brain burst and died on the spot. The front teeth are missing. One, only a half-broken tooth root." At this point, Chen Mengsheng took out a small porcelain bottle from his sleeve, and poured out a tooth from the bottle.After a comparison, it was undoubtedly the same person.Now that the body has been found, the next thing is simple.Chen Mengsheng chanted the spell to cast the requiem spell on the corpse, and then used the soul-inducing spell to capture the soul of the corpse into a soul-absorbing bottle to join with the remnant soul.

"Brother, what are you talking to that dead ghost?"

Chen Mengsheng stepped out of the big pit, and burned the scorched corpse in the pit to ashes. "Brother, Junior Sister, let's fill in this hole. It's not difficult to know the cause of death with a soul..."