Peach Blossom at the Bottom of the Fan

Chapter 175
The rain didn't stop, but it kept getting bigger and bigger.

When going up the mountain, it was already dark, and the rain was too heavy to light torches, and the people who went up the mountain were all carrying wind lanterns.

We staggered all the way to Guiyuan Temple.

Although it was a violent storm and the sky was already dark, when you entered the temple, you could still vaguely hear the sound of Zen singing, and under the flickering ever-burning lamp, the monks sitting cross-legged in the Daxiong Hall were still chanting devoutly.

The Zhike monk welcomed the crowd into the temple, but did not give way to the hall, "The small temple has been doing its best to do the Buddhist rituals of the benefactor Mu. You can rest assured that you will not be delayed by the matter of Mr. Li."

"Mr. Li?" Pausing, Gu Sixiao turned to look at the Zhike monk, "But Li Chongyang?"

Staring at the Zhike monk, Gu Sixiao asked in a deep voice: "What did Li Chongyang ask you to do? Why did you delay the ritual?"

"Ah, Mr. Li asked several senior brothers to recite the "Diamond Sutra" to him—but only when he came..."

""Diamond Sutra"?" snorting coldly, Gu Sixiao asked directly: "Where is my sister? Where is the second lady of the Xue family now?"

"It should be in the Buddhist hall at the back. The lady said she wanted to be alone, and told us not to disturb her..."

Before the Zhike monk finished speaking, Gu Sixiao had already rushed out.

Quickly rushing to the back courtyard, Gu Sixiao felt a little uneasy when he entered the main hall.

The hall was too quiet, there was no sound at all, as if there was no one in it at all.

Indeed, there was no one there. The flickering candlelight reflected the benevolent face of the Buddha statue, but Xue Wanhua, who was supposed to meditate on the Buddha here, was nowhere to be seen.

"Sister?!" Turning around the apse, but still seeing no one, Gu Sixiao was really anxious.

Turning around, staring at the Zhike monk who followed, she asked loudly, "Where is the person?"

"This, I don't even know about it! The second lady was here before—ah, look, there is still incense burning here!"

In the censer in the hall, sandalwood is faintly scented, and three sticks of incense are plugged into the censer. The soot has accumulated for a long time, but it has not been burned out yet.

"The incense hasn't gone out yet, and it hasn't gone very far."

Su Jingchun said something lightly, and wanted to comfort Gu Sixiao again, but someone behind him approached and whispered a few words in his ear.

Seeing Su Jingchun frown, Gu Sixiao asked directly: "What's the matter? Don't hide it from me."

This kind of thing really can't be kept secret, Su Jingchun pulled Gu Sixiao, without saying a word, directly brought her over.

"There's blood here..."

With a shock in his heart, Gu Sixiao squatted down to take a closer look, and finally found the blood on the ground.It should have been cleaned up, the bloodstains are not obvious, but if you look closely, you can still see a bloodstain.

"This should have been left for a while..." Su Jingchun didn't say it clearly, but Gu Sixiao already understood.

The bloodstains had been left for a while, but the incense didn't burn for long.No matter who the injured person is, it is not the one who burned the incense.

Biting her lip, Gu Sixiao's breathing was a little short, but she suppressed the urge to cry.

"Jingchun, please help me search this Guiyuan Temple—no matter who is injured, we must find it!"

Su Jingchun nodded, turned around to give Su Zhu a few words, and then turned back to accompany Gu Sixiao.

Neither of them spoke, just stood in the hall like that, listening to the chaos in the courtyards of the temple.

After a while, the Zhike monk came in with the abbot.

"Amitabha, the two benefactors, it is really a sin to disturb people's pure cultivation..."

After seeing the ceremony, the abbot asked Su Jingchun to call him back.

Su Jingchun ignored him, but said indifferently: "Abbot, please be safe and don't be impatient. I have people searched to restore your Guiyuan Temple's innocence. If someone is killed in your temple, wouldn't it kill all the monks in the temple? "

"The small temple has always followed the rules, and the temple is full of monks, how could it be..."

Before the old abbot finished speaking, Gu Sixiao took a step forward and asked in a deep voice: "Are you injured? Or was he injured? Or was it a monk in your temple who was injured and bled in this temple?! Abbot, If you don't know who the injured person is, just keep quiet and wait for the result!"

Gu Sixiao pushed his face down, the old abbot wanted to refute, but felt that it was inappropriate, he hummed heavily, he turned his head to look at the monk Zhike.

"Little lady, this blood..." He just said half a sentence, Su Zhu has already led people in from outside.

"My lord, I found it! It's in the well at the back..." Gu Sixiao subconsciously took two steps forward, looking at the person who was lifted up by a wooden frame from behind.When she saw that it was a man, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

Su Jingchun took two steps closer, and squatted down to look at the man.

"Killed with one knife, the technique is very fast-the blood should not flow a lot." It just fits the blood stains in the temple.

As soon as the man was carried into the hall, the expressions of the abbot and the Zhike monk also changed.

When Su Jingchun raised his head and asked: "This man is from your temple", the two of them shook their heads violently.

"The monks really don't know this benefactor. I've never seen it before..."

Clenching her fists tightly, Gu Sixiao finally grabbed Su Jingchun, "Take a step to speak."

When Su Jingchun and her walked to the corner, Gu Sixiao said in a low voice: "I told you before, the carriage I saw when I went down the mountain, although I didn't see this man, could he just be in the carriage?" The one in..."

One sentence reminded Su Jingchun, Su Jingchun immediately turned around and called someone, "Call Su Song over here!"

Su Song quickly entered the hall, and after just one glance, he was sure, "This guy is nicknamed Weasel, and he is considered a ruffian in Jinan. The previous small investigation found that it was this Weasel who set the fire."

It really was him!It was the murderer who killed Mu Feng.Before being brought up the mountain, Xue Wanhua should be here to get rid of this villain.

Now the murderer who set the fire was dead, but what about Xue Wanhua and Li Chongyang?Where is the big man she saw?
Gu Sixiao's heart tugged.

Frowning and pondering for a moment, Su Jingchun ordered directly, "Call everyone and search the mountain immediately—this corpse is not completely hard, and the incense has not been burned before. No matter who it is, it should not have gone down the mountain yet. Immediately search the mountain, maybe the murderer can be caught..."

Turning around, he called the old abbot, "Abbot, if you want to prove the innocence of your Guiyuan Temple, call all the monks to search the mountain together. If you catch the murderer, you Guiyuan Temple will be cleared of the crime. If you can't catch it, you Guiyuan Temple I'm afraid it will be difficult to get rid of the relationship, and when the time comes, it will be rumored that your Guiyuan Temple is a den of thieves who seek wealth and murder, and I am afraid that none of the believers in Jinan Prefecture will dare to come to the door."

When the old abbot heard the words, his face flushed red with anxiety, he didn't care about debating right now, so he directly ordered the Zhike monk to gather people.

But for a moment, the monks in the temple had already stood in the courtyard.

Although it is not the largest temple in Jinan, there are at least a hundred monks in Guiyuan Temple.

Mixed with the servants of the Su family, a group of several people searched the mountains all over the mountains.

Su Jingchun persuaded Gu Sixiao to stay in the temple and wait for news, but Gu Sixiao couldn't sit still.

Lifting the lantern, she insisted on going to search the mountain herself.There was no way, Su Jingchun accompanied Gu Sixiao to search all the way.

"That man, it would be fine if my sister killed him. But if it wasn't my sister who killed her, and she was in danger—how would she go?"

Gu Sixiao stood on the mountain road, thought and thought, and finally turned to the trail.

If it was her, she would not dare to take the main road, but turned to the small road, so as to avoid her captors.

Although it was Soushan, Gu Sixiao didn't understand this at all. In the storm, she saw that the surroundings were pitch black, and she couldn't find anything unusual at all.

Fortunately, those who followed her and Su Jingchun were all masters.Not long after walking, a guard came to report and found footprints ahead.

After quickly catching up, I realized that it was a man's footprints.Looking at the footprints, they were big and deep, and they were clearly tall and burly people.

When Gu Sixiao saw the footprints, he remembered the man he saw before.

"My sister must be nearby, search again!"

Taking the first step, she walked all the way without stopping.

After walking for almost two quarters of an hour, Gu Sixiao raised his head inadvertently, and suddenly saw a cornice.

"There is a temple there!" Maybe someone...

After walking quickly into the pine forest, I realized that it was an abandoned mountain temple.

A little disappointed, but Gu Sixiao still walked in.

After entering the mountain temple, I saw half footprints printed on the steps.

It seemed that as soon as he reached the steps, he turned around and walked down in a hurry.

"They've been here."

Why did you turn around suddenly?Who did you see? !
"They're chasing sister..."

Gu Sixiao almost fell to the ground.

He must have spotted Xue Wanhua's figure, so he suddenly turned around and chased after him, so that he didn't even enter the mountain temple.

"I have to find it..." Turning around, Gu Sixiao suddenly stopped.

Is it her illusion? !Why do I feel that there seems to be crying in the half-collapsed temple.Not crying like an adult, but like a kitten...

"Yes—baby!"

Running quickly into the temple, Gu Sixiao walked around for a long time, but didn't notice.Just as she was wondering if she had heard it wrong, the crying sounded again.

Searching for the sound, I finally found a small baby under the mysterious case.

The baby's eyes were barely open, and blood was still smeared on its crumpled little face.The little mouth twitched and choked up from time to time, not like a baby crying, but like a kitten crying.

Looking at the clothes wrapped around the baby, Gu Sixiao burst into tears.

"This is my sister's child, my sister's child."

No wonder such a small, weak child, who has not yet been born at full term, is inherently deficient.

She stretched out her hand to touch the baby's face, feeling her nose was sore, and she was about to withdraw her hand, but her fingertips were already caught in the baby's small mouth, sucking instinctively.

He just sucked for a while, but there was no milk he wanted. The baby's mouth was flattened and he started to cry, the voice was still so weak that Gu Sixiao felt that his whole heart would be broken by his crying.

"Be good, be good... I'll be home soon, it's okay, we'll go home when we find our mother, don't cry..."

She coaxed the child, feeling at a loss, but Su Jingchun leaned over and said warmly: "Go back to the temple first, let the monk make some rice soup, and feed this child, if this continues, I'm afraid..."

He didn't go on, but Gu Sixiao already understood.

Born with insufficiency, if you don't feed some food in time, I'm afraid the child will not be able to support him.

Not caring about looking for Xue Wanhua again, she strode out with the baby in her arms.Just about to walk out of the mountain temple, I suddenly heard someone shouting outside: "Who is it?!"

(End of this chapter)