In order to find out the whole story of the ogre, Zuo Peiyang made a bold decision.
The person who told others why the dealer did not speak also told him that there was a temple in Langya City called Bodhi Temple. Because the Southern Dynasty was driven south by the Northern Dynasty with the help of Buddhism, in the past the imperial court suppressed Buddhism and Buddhism did not flourish.
But the Bodhi Temple survived in a remote alley in the city, and after the imperial court gradually forgot all the hatred, the Bodhi Temple began to become famous.
The reason is that the Bodhi Temple near the window is said to be very effective in praying for a child.
Later, for some reason, after the child-eating demon had been causing trouble for a long time, about ten years ago, a secret rumor spread in Bodhi Temple that not only one could beg for a child, but one could also beg for a child.
The difference is that the former Qiuzi is asking for the fetus in the belly, while the latter Qiuzi is asking for the missing child.
Lu Bai frowned when he saw this.
A monk again.
He couldn't help but think of the face-masking monk in Yancheng. He wondered if this monk from Bodhi Temple was related to the face-masking monk.
There is a statue of Avalokitesvara in Bodhi Temple.
The man told Zuo Peiyang that as long as you write down your family's place of origin on a piece of paper and stuff it in the merit box, someone will tell you where and who to redeem your children after kidnapping them.
As for how this person knew such secrets.
The dealer told Zuo Peiyang that some of the pilgrims of the Face-Mounting Monk were spreading the message that the Bodhi Temple could redeem the children stolen by the food-eating demon. They would spread the efficaciousness of the Bodhi Temple orally and guide the parents who had lost their children to burn incense and worship the Buddha in the Bodhi Temple.
Do this as your own merit.
Each of these pilgrims also has a secret code set by himself.
Only when this code matches, can we be considered a real connection.
When Lu Bai saw this, he felt that it was a bit like an illegal organization that he had seen in his previous life was developing and going offline.
As for who to hand over the abducted children to, the trafficker didn't know.
The only thing he knew was that the place and people to take in children were uncertain, and sometimes they even left Langya City and went to the capital.
Seeing that Zuo Peiyang couldn't come up with anything to say, he had an idea in mind.
He picked one of the recent cases of child-eating demons abducting children, pretended to be the child's father, and went for a walk near a pilgrim provided by the trafficker. He had lost his child and was looking for the child anxiously.
The pilgrim really took the bait.
She was a woman who was convinced that she was doing merit. She gave Zuo Peiyang a secret code and asked Zuo Peiyang to go to the statue of Avalokitesvara Guanyin in Bodhi Temple and stuff a piece of paper into the merit box, stating that she had lost her child.
’s place of origin.
Three days later, the family he pretended to be the father of the child received a note in the middle of the night.
The content on the note was beyond Zuo Peiyang's expectation. Instead of asking someone to abduct the child, they asked the child's father to catch a carriage three miles outside the neighboring city at a certain time, and then drove the carriage at a certain time and a certain time.
He immediately arrived three miles north of Langya City and left immediately.
Zuo Peiyang went there personally to find out the truth of the case.
However, when he saw what was being pulled in the car, he felt chills all over - four children with their hands and feet tied!
Zuo Peiyang wanted to let go of the child at that time, but in order to investigate the case, he decided not to alert the snake.
He drove the carriage three miles north of Langya City, and then lurked secretly, waiting for someone to respond.
The responder showed up quickly.
He was ordinary and sneaky. When he saw the carriage, he would drive the carriage away without looking at the people on the carriage.
Zuo Peiyang hurriedly stepped forward and caught him.
When the man saw Zuo Peiyang, he was so frightened that he went limp. After another threat from Zuo Peiyang, the man said with tears that he had to do this for the sake of the children who were kidnapped by the ogre.
.
When Zuo Peiyang checked this, he suddenly understood something.
That is, in this case of kidnapping children, many parents who lost their children are colluding with each other, causing more families to lose their children, and after that, there is a huge hand controlling everyone.
Zuo Peiyang immediately took him and his child back to Langya City.
He also took advantage of the opportunity to alert the enemy and led a few royal guards to raid the Bodhi Temple overnight and captured the only two monks of the Bodhi Temple, hoping to pry something out of their mouths.
However, before Zuo Peiyang could interrogate him severely, he had to stop - the Jinyi Guards from the neighboring city tracked down and said that someone saw Zuo Peiyang driving a carriage from the neighboring city to Langya City, and there happened to be four people in the carriage.
A child.
Zuo Peiyang was a little confused at this time.
And because he was the Jinyiwei of Nanzhen Fusi, he had no right to investigate the case. Under the two-pronged punishment, Zuo Peiyang fell into trouble. Not to mention investigating the case, he almost dragged the Jinyiwei down.
As for the case, it was handed over to a member of the Jinyiwei Baihu family.
When he finally got out of the quagmire and went to investigate the case again, he found that the clues were broken——
The old monk from Bodhi Temple died in Jinyiweizhao Prison. According to legend, he was stubborn and refused to speak, so he was accidentally beaten to death by Jinyiwei to extract a confession. As for the other monk, he was a young novice and didn't know much.
, and very little is known about the case of the Ogre.
The investigation lost its direction again.
However, Zuo Peiyang is not a person who gives up easily.
He mentioned in the file that after the clues were cut off, not only the number of cases of child abduction and child exchange in Langya City decreased a lot, but the number of cases of child-eating demons abducting children also decreased a lot.
But the calmer the situation became, the more Zuo Peiyang knew that there must be something fishy going on.
If it was really the Ogre who committed the crime, I'm afraid he wouldn't be so careful.
Zuo Peiyang once again immersed himself in the pile of old papers, hoping to find some clues in the numerous cases of missing children and cases of child-eating demons abducting children.
But he searched a lot, but couldn't find anything. One day, he suddenly had a new clue - since there were no clues from the unsuccessful cases of abducting children to exchange for his own children, what about the case of the child abducted by the ogre demon and the other cases?
We don’t know how to investigate the cases of missing children, but we don’t know how to investigate them. Why not start with the cases of missing children who were later found?
These people who successfully exchanged children undoubtedly know more about the case of the child-eating demon.
Zuo Peiyang followed this line of thinking and found out something incredible - the pilgrim who had been his introducer had a child who disappeared and later came back.
Thinking of the connection between the pilgrims and the Bodhi Temple, Zuo Peiyang had no doubt that her child had been exchanged.
This time, Zuo Peiyang did not rush to use pilgrims as a breakthrough point, but continued to investigate. While looking through the case files in Jinyiwei and Mingzhengsi, he also visited Langya City to find out whose children had returned after missing.
A month later, Zuo Peiyang accidentally discovered a piece of news that frightened him: the son of the Baihu of their Baihu Office, who took over his case to interrogate the old monk of Bodhi Temple, had also disappeared! (To be completed.)