As soon as Li Zhang's question came out, Xuan Yue's face changed drastically, and even a little panic appeared in her eyes. However, at this time, he pretended to be calm and said, "What is the noble man asking this?"

Seeing that the other party was unwilling to answer, Li Zhang's face turned cold and immediately revealed his identity and said, "I am the supervisor and censor whom His Majesty was personally appointed by the emperor. I am ordered by the emperor to come to Xijing to investigate the matter of the hat demon. Do you want to answer here, or do you want me to catch you in the yamen for interrogation?"

Li Zhang was not scaring Xuan Yue. Before he came to Luoyang, he temporarily served as the supervisor of the censor. Originally, the supervisor of the censor had functions such as supervising officials, inspecting counties and counties, and correcting criminal prisons. However, in the Song Dynasty, the supervisor of the censor had become a servant official and had no actual power. However, in order to investigate the matter of the hat demon, Zhao Zhen deliberately restored the supervisor of the censor and asked Li Zhang to fully handle the matter.

When Xuan Yue heard Li Zhang's identity, she was so scared that she trembled all over. She no longer dared to hide it. She replied hesitantly: "Qi Bian... Qi Bian Bian, the story of the hat demon happened after the temple was changed to Xianghuo Temple!"

"Very good!" Li Zhang's eyes became more sharp when he heard this, and then raised his voice and asked again, "Xuanyue, I will ask you again, can you be related to the hat demon?"

"It's unjust, I'm wronged. The matter of the hat demon must have nothing to do with this temple. Please ask the censor to investigate!" Xuan Yue shouted injustice when he heard Li Zhang's words, but he didn't dare to look at Li Zhang when he spoke, and his forehead and temples were filled with cold sweat. At this time, even Ouyang Xiu next to him could see something was wrong.

"Hmph, block the temple, no monks in the temple are allowed to escape!" Li Zhang immediately ordered that all the followers behind him were the imperial guards sent to him by Zhao Zhen, and he immediately controlled all the monks. Although Li Zhang came out this time, he only brought dozens of followers, there were only a dozen monks in the temple, so it was too easy to control them.

It is said that officials in ancient society were indeed powerful. For example, Li Zhang did not require arrest warrants or search warrants to arrest and search warrants. After controlling the monks, Li Zhang immediately asked someone to search the temple.

However, what surprised Li Zhang was that although he searched Hongfa Temple, he did not find any useful evidence. Instead, when interrogating the monks in the temple, some people were unable to withstand the pressure and admitted that in order to attract pilgrims, they directed and acted as a good show of reappearing the hat demon a few months ago.

After receiving the confession of the monk in the temple, Li Zhang immediately slapped him in front of him and asked coldly: "Xuanyue, your disciples have already confessed. Do you still want to be stubborn?"

Xuan Yue was already scared and her whole body trembled, and her fat face was covered with oil and sweat. In fact, he was not a brave person at all. At this time, he was even more frightened when facing Li Zhang, the censor who held the power of life and death. Therefore, he immediately knelt down on the ground, snot and tears, and confessed all his crimes.

It turned out that Xuanyue had just taken over Hongfa Temple at the beginning of this year. It was called Mingxin Temple before. However, compared to the previous host, Xuanyue did not want to stay in this small temple to practice cultivation. Instead, she wanted to make money through the temple. After all, all the four elements of monks are empty, and most of them are ordinary people.

However, Mingxin Temple is a temple of cultivation. The most expensive property in the temple is only dozens of acres of thin fields at the foot of the mountain. If you want to make money by farming, it is simply whimsical. So Xuanyue wanted to change the temple of cultivation to a temple of incense. If the incense is abundant, there will be a lot of money for incense a year. And if you have too much money, you can lend money. This is a common method for making money in the Buddhist temple.

When they thought of it, they went to do it. So under Xuanyue's advice, Mingxin Temple was renamed Hongfa Temple and changed from Xiuxing Temple to Incense Temple. However, their temple was nicknamed "Big" and it was in the suburbs of Luoyang. There were no pilgrims coming at all, so naturally they could not receive incense money.

Faced with this situation, Xuan Yue finally had a bad idea. He thought of the hat demon that had caused chaos in the world many years ago. If the hat demon reappeared in Qingfengling, it would definitely make the entire Luoyang notice this. Then he would secretly spread rumors, such as the peace talisman in the temple can ensure safety, which would definitely make the incense in the temple flourish.

In fact, Xuanyue also succeeded. Since the so-called "hat demon" appeared in Qingfengling, the whole of Luoyang has been shocked. Many curious young people have also come to watch. The Hongfa Temple has also gained fame with the east wind of the hat demon. Now there are endless pilgrims coming every day, and the incense money collected in one day is worth the rent they had in the past one year.

"What are you using to pretend to be a hat demon?" Li Zhang slapped the table hard when he heard this, and then asked again.

"Kong... Kongming lantern, before I became a monk, I was a paper craftsman, so I made a large Kongming lantern as the legendary hat demon, and then let the disciples fly at night, so that many villagers around me could see the hat demon." Xuan Yue replied again tremblingly.

Li Zhang was not surprised after hearing this. In fact, he had had this kind of guess before, so he asked again: "Where is that lamp?"

"Burn... it's burning. I originally wanted to make the temple famous by using the hat demon, but I didn't expect that the hat demon's incident became more and more serious. I was worried that the government would suspect it, so I burned the lamp. And I only used it once. The hat demons that appeared later must have nothing to do with the villain!" Xuan Yue said at the end and shouted again.

"Hmph, I think you want to shirk your guilt. Later, the hat demon was found in many places in the city. It must be your fault!" Ouyang Xiu finally couldn't help it at this time and stepped forward and scolded angrily. He thought that the hat demon really appeared, but he didn't expect that it was the monk who was the one who did it. Although the other party strongly denied what happened next, he didn't believe it at all.

When Li Zhang heard this, he showed a thoughtful expression, and then he asked someone to escort all the monks Xuan Yue and others back to Luoyang. As a result, Xuan Yue was frightened and thought that Li Zhang wanted to pay him off. He immediately cried and shouted injustice again, but Li Zhang directly blocked his mouth so that he would not be upset if he heard it.

"Vice Li Duwei is indeed worthy of being the censor appointed by His Majesty. He solved the case as soon as he arrived in Luoyang, and even the culprit was arrested. I admire him!" Ouyang Xiu also bowed to Li Zhang at this time and said happily. The case of the hat demon had already made Luoyang feel embarrassed, and now he could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"Brother Yong, don't be too happy too early. Although Xuan Yue is the initiator, she may not be the culprit of this case. I suspect there is a deeper hidden black hand behind the scenes!" Li Zhang shook his head with a serious expression at this time.
Chapter completed!