Chu Yunxi snorted coldly, "I'm afraid it's not that Guanyin Temple is less vigilant, but that Jingkong is actually someone they know."

"You mean, Jingkong is from Guanyin Temple?" Xiao Mubei was quite surprised. "If so, Master Xuanhong is lying, isn't he?"

Although he always believed in Chu Yunxi's judgment, this news still greatly shocked Xiao Mubei. He couldn't believe that the highly respected Master Xuan Hong would lie.

Chu Yunxi sighed, "I don't want to believe it either, but the evidence now all points to Guanyin Temple. Why did the two murderers deliberately report false Buddhist names? Because they are from Guanyin Temple. Only in this way can we divert our attention. If they are monks from other places, there is no need for them to tell you fake names. It's better not to say it directly. Anyway, it's not that easy to investigate."

Xiao Mubei said: "But Ah Cheng said that he had never seen Jingkong in the temple before. How do you explain this?"

Chu Yunxi thought for a while, "I think it was because we went to Guanyin Temple that day that the murderer changed his method of committing the crime."

"How to say?"

Chu Yunxi said, "The families of the four pairs of skeletons we found earlier said that they disappeared on the day they went up the mountain to fulfill their vows, and never came back. But Shan Ruoheng and his wife came back for three days. Why?"

Xiao Mubei suddenly realized, "That day you said that we had alerted the enemy?"

"That's right," Chu Yunxi nodded. "Because the murderer was prepared, they didn't take action that day. Instead, they asked Shan Ruoheng and his wife to light ten ever-burning lanterns in Guanyin Temple. The intention was to confuse our sight. But it was not easy for them to find a suitable target, so they didn't want to give up the couple. So I suspect that they agreed to meet again in three days."

The inference was reasonable, Xiao Mubei nodded in approval, and sighed, "So, Master Xuanhong is also an accomplice? The day we just met Master Xuanhong, the fortune teller was on guard. I can't believe that such a highly respected abbot would actually treat human life as worthless."

"Master Xuanhong... maybe he was forced to do so." Chu Yunxi said slowly.

"Whether he was forced or not, as long as he helped the murderer, he cannot escape the blame."

Chu Yunxi was silent for a while. "Actually, these are just speculations now. There is not enough evidence to support them. And there are still some things I haven't figured out. For example, where do these two murderers usually stay? They are definitely not in the Guanyin Temple. And the monk that Ah Cheng has heard of before, do they really exist? What is their purpose in taking Yin and giving birth to a child?"

These questions may only be answered after the murderer is caught.

Early the next morning, Shan Ruoheng woke up first. He was confused for a moment, not knowing what had happened. After gradually seeing the environment clearly, he suddenly stood up and looked to the side. Seeing Yu Shanhu lying next to him, he breathed a sigh of relief and bent down to call her softly.

Yu Shanhu also slowly woke up. She saw Shan Ruoheng and asked, "Ruoheng, where is this?"

"I don't know either," Shan Ruoheng looked around and saw two people lying in another corner of the room. He immediately became nervous again.

Because the room was too small and there was only one bed inside, after putting Shan Ruoheng and his wife on it, the two constables from the Dali Temple had no place to lie down. Ah Cheng took a lot of straw and a quilt, made a bed on the floor in the corner of the room, and let the two constables lie down on it to rest.

Shan Ruoheng watched for a while and found that the two people were motionless, so he comforted the frightened Yu Shanhu, stood up, picked up a wooden stick beside the bed, and slowly walked to the corner.

Before he reached the door, it was pushed open without warning. Shan Ruoheng happened to be at the door and was startled. He subconsciously hit it with a stick, but Bai Yu, who came in, grabbed the stick and took it away. Yu Shanhu also fell to the ground. Yu Shanhu screamed and crawled to Shan Ruoheng's side, crying, "Don't kill my husband, please."

Bai Yu threw the stick in his hand and said, "You have been rescued. Don't be afraid. We are from the Dali Temple."

Yu Shanhu stopped crying and looked at Bai Yu with doubt. Shan Ruoheng asked, "Really?"

Bai Yu said: "Do I have to lie to you? If our prince hadn't arrived in time yesterday, you would probably have to reunite in the underworld now."

Shan Ruoheng looked outside the door and saw Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi were walking towards this side after hearing the sound. He saw that they were indeed not the two monks from yesterday. He gradually believed Bai Yu's words and asked, "Prince?"

"That's right," Bai Yu said proudly, "Our prince is the Minister of the Dali Temple, the dignified King of Dingbei, and our princess, she guessed that you were tricked into coming to Longyu Mountain yesterday, so we rushed up the mountain to rescue you."

Xiao Mubei and Chu Yunxi had already come into the room. Upon hearing this, Chu Yunxi smiled and said, "Bai Yu, stop praising me and get down to business."

Shan Ruoheng believed Bai Yu's words at this moment. He hurriedly pulled Yu Shanhu down to kneel down, "Thank you, my Lord and Princess, for saving my life."

"Get up, your wife is still pregnant and the ground is cold." Xiao Mubei said lightly, and pulled Chu Yunxi to sit down on the wooden chair.

Shan Ruoheng and Yu Shanhu stood up. Xiao Mubei motioned for them to sit down. The two sat down tremblingly. Chu Yunxi said, "Tell me, what happened?"

Shan Ruoheng held Yu Shanhu's hand and said, "My Lord, Princess, I still don't quite understand what's going on. Shanhu and I came to Guanyin Temple to fulfill a vow and had our fortune told. The fortune teller said that our child will have a great disaster in the future, and we definitely want to resolve it. So the fortune teller told us to first offer ten ever-burning lamps in the temple, and someone will take us up the mountain in three days to find a Taoist monk to resolve the child's grievances. But we can't tell anyone about this, otherwise it will reveal the secret, and the child will have a great disaster. We can't go out in three days without being seen by others. So we, husband and wife, My wife and I waited at home for three days as he said. After three days, we went out on the pretext of getting clothes. While waiting to get clothes, someone really showed up. It was the younger master. He told us that he would take us up the mountain to find a high monk, so we followed him. He first took us to the Guanyin Temple and worshiped the ever-bright lamps we offered. Then another older master came out. The young master said to follow him to see the monk, so we didn't suspect anything and followed him. We also met two people on the way." He paused, looked back at the two constables lying in the corner, and seemed a little confused.

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