Detective Di Renjie's legend of Wu Dynasty

Chapter 288 Headless Male Corpse
Ruyan was meditating in her room when Li Yuanfang opened the door and entered.

Ruyan was surprised and surprised, she stared at Li Yuanfang blankly, her eyes filled with tears.

After a while, she cried "wow" and plunged into Li Yuanfang's arms.

Two months of longing and worry were melted into this cry.

Li Yuanfang patted her lightly, and comforted her: "I started crying before I even said a good word when we met."

Ruyan pushed him away, and said angrily: "I'm not worried about you, it's really a dog biting Lu Dongbin."

Soon, she restrained her angry expression, and turned Li Yuanfang's head: "Let me take a good look at you."

Li Yuanfang looked at her with a smile: "How about it, is it okay?"

Ruyan said, "You've lost weight."

Li Yuanfang took Ruyan's hand: "Ruyan, I have something to tell you."

Ruyan raised her head strangely, and asked: "What's the matter, are you still so serious?

Li Yuanfang let out a long sigh, and said falteringly: "Xiaomei, Xiaomei..."

Ruyan immediately guessed something, and her face changed drastically: "What's wrong with Xiaomei?"

Li Yuanfang let out an "ah", took out the snake-shaped wooden sign from his bosom, and said softly, "She, she's dead..."

Ruyan screamed in surprise, and took two steps back.

Li Yuanfang held up the snake-shaped wooden plaque: "I took this from Xiaomei. Ruyan, I will give it to you, remember her."

Ruyan took the wooden sign tremblingly, crying sadly.

She murmured, "She saved my life and is my only friend..."

Li Yuanfang said guiltily: "I was incompetent and failed to keep her."

Ruyan sobbed and shook her head: "How can I blame you, you have tried your best."

Li Yuanfang let out a long sigh: "I really didn't expect to find nothing in two months. It was hard to find Xiaomei, but she died in the ancient temple before she could find anything."

Ruyan raised her head, and she said word by word: "From today onwards, I will never feel ashamed towards 'Snake Spirit' or Xiao Qingfang, and I will never hide again. They will have to pay the price, ten Double the price!"

……

In the back garden of Hanguang Temple, the headless male corpse lay quietly on the ground, gently took the left hand of the corpse with one hand, and inspected it carefully.

This person is Di Renjie.

A piece of skin next to the index finger of the corpse's left hand is very smooth, which is quite different from other places.

Di Renjie put down the deceased's left hand and stood up: "Judging from the degree of rotten wound, the deceased has been dead for more than ten days."

Huan Bin nodded.

Di Renjie looked at the monk standing not far away: "Are you the monk in the temple?"

The monk hurriedly bowed and put his hands together: "Exactly, the poor monk is quiet."

Di Renjie nodded: "In the past few days, has the temple lost its population?"

The monk shook his head: "Returning to my lord, there has never been one. Just now when the generals of Qianniuwei dug up this corpse, the poor monk was very surprised, and didn't know where it came from."

Di Renjie raised his eyebrows: "Are you sure that this corpse is not a monk from the temple?"

The monk said categorically: "My lord, absolutely not! There are 530 great monks, 300 novice monks, and 120 Taoists and miscellaneous servants in Hanguang Temple. Because the emperor will come tomorrow, so this morning, the abbot brother and the poor monk I just checked, and there are not many."

Di Renjie asked: "Aren't there any monks in the monastery who are hanging out from other places?"

The monk replied: "My lord, due to the visit of the Holy One, more than a dozen hanging monks were sent out of Hanguang Temple half a month ago."

Di Renjie took a deep breath, did not speak, and looked at the male corpse again.

Huan Bin said strangely: "This is really strange. There were many people in the temple, but a male corpse came out out of nowhere. Did it fall from the sky?"

The monk said with a wry smile: "Well, who is not? The poor monk also finds this extremely strange."

Di Renjie said: "There is nothing strange, this corpse is the monk in the temple."

The monk was stunned: "This, how is this possible?"

Huan Bin said strangely: "Master Ge, but the monks in the monastery are not lost."

Di Renjie leaned down again and grabbed the left hand of the deceased, pointing to the smooth piece of skin next to the index finger: "Did you see, this piece of skin is very smooth, very different from the skin on other parts of the left hand, why is that?"

Huan Bin and Seng Zhi looked at each other and shook their heads.

Di Renjie said to the monk: "Look at the index finger of your left hand."

The monk was taken aback, quickly put down the rosary in his left hand, and looked intently at his index finger.

Sure enough, the skin next to the index finger was very smooth, which was quite different from other places.

The monk was dumbfounded, and Huan Bin was also stunned: "This, this..."

Di Renjie said: "In fact, the reason is very simple. It's just that monks do this every day, so they don't pay attention to it. Master Jingkong, when you are chanting sutras, you pinch the rosary and the rosary keeps rolling. Rubbing the skin next to the index finger, after years, the skin will be very smooth."

The monk was taken aback, and quickly picked up the rosary, and sure enough, the bead got stuck next to his index finger!
The monk smiled, and he patted his head: "Not bad, not bad. My lord is really careful, it's the poor monk who is stupid."

Huan Bin respected him in awe: "The general has heard about Di Renjie's ability for a long time, and only saw it today!"

The monk suddenly exclaimed, and then stammered: "Master, you are, this headless corpse is the monk in the temple?"

Di Renjie asked back, "What do you think?"

The monk nodded slowly: "That's right, that's right, this person's left index finger is the same as mine, it must be caused by the friction of the rosary. But, but, there is no shortage of people in the temple. What's going on..."

Huan Bin looked at Di Renjie with a confused look on his face.

Di Renjie ordered: "General, Master Jingkong. This matter must be kept strictly confidential, and it must not be spread before the case is solved!"

The two answered yes in unison.

……

The backyard of Di Mansion.

After Li Yuanfang and Ruyan talked about their lovesickness, suddenly, Li Yuanfang slapped his forehead: "By the way, Jingyang is still waiting for me in the main hall!"

Ruyan raised her head: "The prince is here?"

Li Yuanfang nodded: "I heard from Di Chun that the adults told him to come here."

Ruyan nodded slightly: "Uncle and I haven't seen you coming back, so I wanted to inquire from the prince to see if there is any news about you, but I didn't expect you to come."

Li Yuanfang nodded slightly: "Okay, let's go and see Jing Yang first!"

Ruyan nodded.

Besides, in the courtyard, Wang Mang looked at Li Yuanfang's gradually leaving back and felt a little restless in his heart. He didn't know why he felt this way.

Looking at Li Yuanfang's appearance just now, it seems that his search for the snake spirit did not go well this time, so does this matter have anything to do with him?

There are only a few people in the snake spirit who are related to him, could it be...

"Master Hou, Master Hou?"

Di Chun looked at Wang Mang who was lost in thought, and called out a few times.

It wasn't until Di Chun yelled a few times that Wang Mang realized: "Oh, Di Chun, what's the matter?"

Di Chun looked at Wang Mang's appearance and said, "Master Hou, why don't you sit in the main hall first?"

Wang Mang nodded and walked slowly into the main hall.

(End of this chapter)