Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 168
A moment later, a pitch-black stone appeared.

There are patterns carved on this stone, the exposed part is only half a finger long, Li Canghai doesn't know what it is.

After pondering for a while, Li Canghai moved the body aside and ordered someone to dig it up.

He carefully inspected the corpse. Judging from the clothing worn by the deceased, it should be a coolie here.

After the body was blistered, it turned pale, but it was not swollen, indicating that the death time of the deceased was very short, no more than three hours.

Three hours ago, it was late at night, and at that time, except for a few people who were still digging stones, most of them were exhausted and rested.

However, since it was determined that the deceased was a coolie here, he had an investigation direction.

Carefully opening the eyelids of the deceased, he found that the eyeballs of the deceased were turned up, and some red spots appeared on the lower eyelids, as if he died of suffocation.

In addition, there is a circle of obvious black and purple pinch marks around the neck of the corpse.

Li Canghai made a preliminary judgment that this person was strangled to death.

"Does any of you recognize the deceased?" Li Canghai asked, scanning the crowd.

"My lord, I recognize him. His name is Lin Laosan." A coolie replied.

Li Canghai nodded and said, "When was the last time you saw him?"

"Before midnight last night. I saw him with several other people at that time." The coolie replied honestly.

"Do you recognize those people?"

"I recognize it. One of them has a scar on his face, and the other has a severed finger."

Li Canghai pondered for a while, then ordered the soldiers to conduct an investigation. After a while, the soldiers ran over and reported, "My lord, no two people were found."

"Give orders to Chang Feng, let him try his best to find the whereabouts of the two of them." Li Canghai pondered.

The soldier bowed in response, and then trotted away from the Dragon King Temple.

Since last night, Chang Feng led people to dig soil on the isolated mountain, and the surrounding area of ​​the Dragon King Temple was submerged by the torrent, and there was only one road behind to leave, and that road meandered from the foot of the isolated mountain.

Li Canghai guessed that if those two people killed people and escaped, they would probably pass the road at the foot of the lonely mountain. Chang Feng and others digging at the foot of the lonely mountain might find some clues.

At this time, the black stone was completely excavated.

Li Canghai hurried over and found that the black stone turned out to be a half-person-high stone tablet.

The whole body of the stele is pitch black, with several strange chilongs engraved on the head of the stele, and a turtle under the stele.

Li Canghai knew that this tortoise was actually called 'Ba Xia', one of the nine sons of the legendary dragon, shaped like a tortoise, and liked to carry heavy loads, and was often used to carry steles.

However, this 'Ba Xia' was quite different from what he knew.

There is a snake's tail behind this 'Baxia', and the snake's tail is wrapped around the stone tablet. It looks very much like 'Xuanwu'.

But he had never heard of the use of 'Xuanwu' to carry the stele, so Li Canghai couldn't help feeling a little strange.

At this moment, someone suddenly pointed at the back of the stele and shouted in horror: "Look, the stele is bleeding!"

Those who were facing the back of the stele knelt on the ground in horror and shouted: "The Dragon Lord is angry, the Dragon Lord is angry!"

Li Canghai hurriedly walked to the back of the stele, his sharp eyes swept over the stele, and he was suddenly taken aback.

Indeed, as everyone said, the stele is bleeding!
The bright red blood flowed from the top of the stone tablet, instantly staining the entire stone tablet.

The originally pitch-black stele exuded a cold and strange aura after being drenched in blood. Even under the scorching sun, everyone couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Those coolies had never seen such a strange thing, they all believed that the Dragon Lord was angry, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed to the stone tablet for a while.

Li Canghai didn't believe in ghosts and gods, he raised his eyebrows, stepped forward and began to observe carefully.

He found that on the back of the stele, there was a hovering five-clawed golden dragon carved with clouds and countless lightning bolts in the clouds.

Those lightning bolts struck the golden dragon, and one of the lightning bolts with the thickness of an arm split the golden dragon in half.

The five-clawed golden dragon roared ferociously towards the sky, and half of its body fell downwards.

Li Canghai looked down, but found that the bottom of the dragon's body was carved with countless corpses and bones.

The five-clawed golden dragon represents the emperor. The meaning of this stone carving is obvious, that is, the emperor was punished by heaven.

And the three ancient seal characters 'Broken Dragon Stone' he found next to the stone carving clearly showed the meaning.

Li Canghai looked stern. He walked to the front and wiped the front carefully, revealing the writing on the stele.

The font on the stele is Xiaozhuan. After carefully identifying it, Li Canghai found that it was a line of gatha: the emperor is not the emperor, the king is not the king, the gods are angry and bring disasters.

Li Canghai didn't understand what it meant, he continued to look at the stele.

In the lower left corner of the stele, there is also a line of small characters engraved: Tianbao 11th July [-]th.

Li Canghai frowned suddenly, July [-]th was the day when the Yellow River broke its embankment.

"It turns out...the flooding of the Yellow River is a punishment from heaven!"

"That's right. Look at this stele for some years. Is it true that, as it says above, it was the emperor who committed a crime against the heavens, which caused the Yellow River to flood?"

"The current emperor favors treacherous ministers, is obsessed with beauty, and ignores the important affairs of the court. Maybe there is a real reason for this!"

……

Among the crowd, discussions began.

Listening to the voice of discussion, Li Canghai's expression became extremely solemn.

The appearance of this stele seems to be for people to discover and spread the contents on it.

Since ancient times, human beings have been full of fear of unknown events, and in the name of gods, there are too many things that have disrupted the world.

The content on this stele clearly means that the current emperor is a fool, that's why God let the Yellow River burst its embankment to punish the emperor.

In addition, the stele had indeed been buried underground for an unknown number of years, and the date of the Yellow River's embankment breach was engraved on it, which made everyone have no doubts about the authenticity of the stele.

"Don't talk nonsense, don't you dare to say such treasonous words, are you not afraid of offending the heavens?" Li Canghai worried that the rumor would spread, so he hurriedly stopped.

Everyone shrank their necks and looked at him in fear. One of the elders said cautiously: "My lord, it's not me who said such rebellious words, but the fact is so! He must have offended Lord Dragon." , will be dragged into the water to die miserably, if we stay here again, we will definitely be taken away by the Dragon King."

The man went up to Lin Laosan's body with a terrified expression.

Everyone was afraid and wanted to leave Dragon King Temple one after another.

"Stop, where do you want to go?" Seeing that they were leaving, Li Canghai's heart tightened and he shouted.

There was fear in the man's eyes, and he said fearfully: "My lord, we... We have old and young, and we don't want to die here in a daze!"

"You are gone, who will block the breach? If the gap is not blocked, even if you have a home, it will be difficult for you to return. Is this what you hope for?" Li Canghai stopped in front of the crowd and said sharply.

(End of this chapter)