Colleagues here are all white lotus [Rebirth]

"But where did the relic go?" Xie Yin propped his chin sullenly.Shuntian Mansion sealed off the Lingguang Temple in time, searched the whole temple up and down, but still did not find the stolen Buddhist relics.

But Jueming would never change his words no matter how much he interrogated him.He came here to expose Huikong's true face, not for relics.As for whether anyone else took the relics after opening the underground palace, he didn't know.

As for the old events back then, no third person knew, and the information obtained was all the words of Huikong's family, and no one could confirm it.Chu Yan invited the imperial physician from the Imperial Hospital to the underground palace to verify whether there are any secrets hidden in the Buddhist treasures. Because there are a large number of Buddhist treasures, and no drugs commonly used in the Central Plains have been found, there is no result yet.

Five days after the arson case, the aftermath of the Lingguang Temple has almost been completed. Although Huikong and Jueming are monks, they still hand over criminal cases to the yamen for adjudication.

Shuntian Mansion allocated tents for the monks to live in temporarily, and planned to resettle them after a new temple was built on the spot.After four or five days of day and night inspections at the Tai Hospital, the news finally came.

It was already night when the news was delivered. Xie Yin had just eaten his meal and ran up the mountain again. He practiced the Heart Sutra for several days, and his health has improved a lot.Chu Yan didn't know where he was naughty, but Chu Yan came alone.Shuntian Fu Yin was getting old, so he didn't come here for a while.

The two entered the underground palace, and the imperial doctor Wang who was in charge of the inspection saluted, put a little gold powder on a piece of tin foil, and said, "His Royal Highness Zhao Wang, thank you, this is the gold powder scraped from the golden Buddha by the lower officials, look at it. "

He moved the tinfoil closer, and Xie Yin leaned forward curiously, but a hand grabbed the sleeve.Looking back, it was His Royal Highness King Zhao who had an upright, serious and innocent face. Xie Yin curled his lips, so he could only stretch his neck eagerly to look at the powder by the light of the torch.

The gold powder is not pure, there are some black and blue fine powder mixed in it.

Doctor Wang said, "According to my experience, this medicinal powder was mixed into the golden Buddha when it was first made. It is black and blue in color and has a lotus smell. It can be made from a herbal medicine called dead leaf lotus in the Western Regions." This kind of powder is generally used by some rich and noble families for pleasure, but if it is used too much, it will cause people to have hallucinations. Although the medicinal powder on the Golden Buddha has been weakened over time, the will is weak and the mood is weak. Those who are violent, or those who are recovering from a serious illness and their spirits are unstable, will be confused by this and have hallucinations."

Xie Yin's heart skipped a beat. It seemed that he had a short hallucination because he was just recovering from a serious illness and his mind was unstable.Fortunately, he didn't fall as deep as Hui Kong did back then.

The Golden Buddha was also built by artisans 52 years ago to enshrine the Buddhist treasure relics and sealed in the underground palace together. Now that the age is far away, it is difficult to truly see the specific situation of the year, and the fire destroyed more than half of the temple. Looking for the Golden Buddha The artisan list is even harder.

This matter was handled by the people of Shuntian Mansion. Xie Yin and Chu Yan came out of the underground palace and walked slowly along the corridor of the temple that had not been destroyed.The temple is built on the mountain, and the corridor gradually goes up. Standing at a slightly higher place, you can see the bright moon and starry sky and the scenery of the whole temple.

But today there are no stars and no moon, and the dark night sky is like an abyss, absorbing all the light.

"There are still five days." Chu Yan said suddenly.

Xie Yin was holding on to the railing of the cloister to look down, and he was very excited. He turned his head and remembered that what Chu Yan said was that the emperor gave him only five days to find the relics, and he almost forgot about it.

But the schadenfreude smile in this tone that couldn't be ignored made Xie Yin very angry, he turned around abruptly and glared at the person opposite, but was stunned the moment he turned around.

The silhouette of the person facing him is like a sculpture. Against the background of this dark night, his eyes become deeper and deeper. When he is concentrating, he seems to want to take away all the light and deprive him of all vision until the prey is completely plunged into the abyss.

The hidden guards had already avoided Wumi. Although His Royal Highness King Zhao and Lord Xie Houye didn't say anything confidential, the atmosphere between the two seemed a little strange.

The playful smile on the corner of Chu Yan's mouth got deeper and deeper, and after a long time like this, Xie Yin realized that he was fascinated by staring at a man's face, and his face turned red quickly.His eyeballs flicked left and right, and he wanted to find something to break this embarrassing situation.

Just as Chu Yan was about to speak, Xie Yin immediately pointed behind him and said, "Wow, that star shines so brightly!"

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The corners of Chu Yan's mouth froze, and he turned his head subconsciously. Xie Yin actually found a shining star behind him, on the top of the Buddha stupa.

The two of them stared at the "star" for a few seconds before they suddenly wondered: how could there be stars because of the dark clouds tonight?

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A dark guard with high lightness skills cannot fly up to the top of the relic tower without any help, because the top of the tower is thin and straight, there is no place to rely on, and a scaffolding is still needed to go up.

When the dark guard jumped off the stupa, he was holding a piece of yellow brocade cloth in his hand, and there was something on it, which was amber in color, and his whole body exuded a faint golden light.It was just above the spire, and its light seemed to be as bright as the stars, but now that it has been taken down, the light is softer.

After Huijing's appraisal, this is indeed the Buddha's relic that was sealed into the underground palace 52 years ago.

It's just that no one knows how it avoided everyone's search and appeared on the top of the stupa.

Go up the hidden guard road on the top of the stupa, "There are small nail scratches on the top of the stupa, and the traces are very new."

Xie Yin looked at the tall spire, which was painted with white lime.The rest of the temple is mostly wooden buildings with red paint and blue tiles.

A scene suddenly appeared in his mind, Xie Yin almost jumped up and ran to the back of the temple.

There is a place where the corpses of four monks are stored. The temperature is low in winter and the corpses are well preserved.In order to facilitate the investigation by Shuntian Prefecture, the cremation has not yet been superseded.

Xie Yin took a torch when he ran to the place, enduring physical discomfort and slowly approaching the last corpse that he always thought was very strange.The posture of the corpse was distorted, and there were bloodstains in many places on the body, as if it was hit by some heavy object, or - fell to death.

Chu Yan also followed, and when he saw the corpse, he understood what Xie Yin was thinking, and asked someone to call the monk who found the corpse to ask, "Where did this corpse appear?"

The monk clasped his hands together, recited Amitabha Buddha, and said with downcast eyes, "Under the Stupa."

At this time, Xie Yin had turned over the corpse's fingers, and in the light of the fire, the white lime that was only found on the stupa was impressively stained in his fingernails.

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According to speculations based on various signs, when Jue Ming opened the underground palace to find Jue Yuan, this monk named Jue Zhi avoided the firefighting brothers and went to the stupa alone, found the opened underground palace and walked in .As for whether it was his intention or an illusion to take out the Buddha's relic in the stone box, it is impossible to speculate.

However, Xie Yin felt that for those who are indifferent, those who do not have strong obsessions or greed, it is difficult for those medicinal powders that are gradually losing their properties to confuse them.So Jue Chi probably wanted to take the relic.

However, under the influence of hallucinations, no one knows how he climbed to the top of the stupa in the dark night, which even the hidden guards could not climb up with bare hands, and put the relics on it.

And when he fell off the stupa, perhaps it was the time when the hallucination disappeared and he suddenly became sober.

Xie Yin was startled suddenly and shivered.

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The relic case came to a successful conclusion. Although everyone agreed that Xie Shaoqing played abnormally in the arson case and did not play any key role that could be explained, but in the search for relics, the blind cat met a dead mouse. He found it.So the colleagues ridiculed the ridicule, but the ridicule was very bad.

Xie Yin was careless, and didn't feel anything unusual. It was only when the Left Prime Minister Liang Taifu Shangshu of the Ministry of Punishment successively praised and secretly criticized Xie Shaoqing's "case-handling ability" with vitriol when he was in court, he felt a little bit sour.

However, when he looked at the white-haired and trembling bodies of his colleagues who were worried about the country, he generously left them behind, but the appearance of not being able to hear what you said was even more irritating. up.