To the north of Beishan, there is a group of tombs that are rumored to be thousands of years old. Countless unmarked tombs are scattered all over the mountainside. In the end, they were all reduced to scorched earth in the flames of war.
Nowadays, people in the world have abandoned shamanism rituals in accordance with Buddhism. Those with names and surnames can leave their names on this monument and be worshiped by others, while those without names and surnames are buried together.
For ordinary people, being able to leave their names after death is already a rich burial, while more people rot into ashes and grind into dust with other nameless corpses.
It was a foggy and rainy night, and a group of unknown guests hurried out of the city on a starry night to arrive at this place. Partly not to worship, and not partly to steal, they went straight around the stone tablets dedicated to Buddha and Taoism, and came to the nameless tomb.
"This is it, I remember it was buried here!" The beggar-like old man affirmed as if he could identify clearly without relying on light: "This is what happened two days ago, I will never remember it wrong!"
The two young men with shovels finally breathed a sigh of relief, and one of them asked: "How did you know? Could it be that you accidentally bumped into it while robbing the tomb?"
The old beggar smiled awkwardly: "This is not just to make a living." After saying that, he went over to pick up the shovel and start working, but was scolded back mercilessly.
"Stop, what do you want to do!" The old beggar didn't dare to move.
Another young man then said: "If my father knew that I was reduced to digging other people's graves, he would definitely skin me alive. Brother Yuchi, is it really necessary to do this?"
Yuchi pushed the old beggar away and came to the slightly raised mound, which had obviously been filled with new soil just now. He said, "Although I don't believe it is such a coincidence that a tomb robber just happened to meet him."
, can such a coincidence really happen?"
"You said the same thing when we were in Guanghan Pavilion. Didn't you finally make the decision?" Tongyun said: "It is indeed impossible for such a coincidence to happen. Someone is simply guiding us step by step to find the Buddha thief."
After hearing this, the old beggar stepped forward and retorted: "Do you still want to solve the case? You are worrying about whether you have it or not, and it is delaying my business!"
"Why, you still want to steal things from the deceased?" Yuchizhen glared at him.
The old beggar said: "If no one sees it, doesn't it count as stolen? Dead bodies can't talk. They can't go to hell with these valuable things. Why don't you give me an advantage?"
"Really..." Tongyun may have wanted to criticize the tomb robbers for their bad behavior, but he quickly gave up. There was no chance to defend himself in his current position: "Come on, start working!"
The old beggar stood aside and watched, but the two young men did not allow him to get closer to the tomb.
The shovel dug into the new soil, and soon there was a stream of corpse air pouring out of the soil.
"It stinks!" The old beggar standing far away immediately covered his mouth and nose.
"Next, dig with your hands. Don't damage the corpse." Yuchi Zhen continued, without any suspicion of the corpse in his words. He started digging the hole with his bare hands as if he was more accustomed to this than tomb robbers.
Tongyun hesitated for a moment, then reluctantly threw down the shovel and complained: "No matter before or now, I hate meeting corpses!"
Seeing that Yu Chizhen had started digging, Tong Yun was too embarrassed to stop.
The two worked together and finally lifted the body out of the pit.
——The body was unrecognizable, the face was smashed and covered with blood.
——Maggots began to grow on the body, squirming and devouring the carrion.
——The palms of my hands are very clean, and there is no foreign matter on my body except dirt.
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Yuchizhen suddenly said: "Brother, help turn the body over."
——Under the illumination of the moonlight and candlelight lanterns, the back and neck of the corpse shone with a strange light.
Yuchi really reached out to take it out, but failed.
"Is it stuck in the bone?"
"Maybe, come on, I'll hold on tight."
Tong Yun greeted the old beggar: "Hurry up and help! You hold the body, and I will hold the head."
The old beggar stuffed his nose with the cloth strips he had prepared, but he still couldn't bear the smell of corpses.
"Come closer, you old guy. If you don't want to be punished, just cooperate with the case!" Yu Chizhen scolded angrily, and the old beggar became calmer.
Something sparkling and transparent like glass?
Yuchizhen got a fingertip-sized fragment from behind the corpse that looked both blue and green. The sharp protruding part was still stained with dried blood.
"What is this?"
"Porcelain? No, it's more like glass. I heard that there is a wine glass made of glass that can glow at night."
Tong Yun recalled all the magnificent scenes he had experienced, and he had indeed seen similar things, but he had no impression of this glass cup with blue in the green and green in the blue.
"This is a high-end product." Tong Yun continued: "The color level is ambiguous, like two kinds of colored glaze growing together naturally, but they are incompatible with each other."
Yuchizhen laughed and said, "Brother, now is not the time to appreciate treasures."
"Old guy, do you know this person?" Yuchizhen asked: "The murderer deliberately destroyed his face, making it clear that he did not want people to find out who he was, but this also proves that this person is likely to have disappeared recently. .”
"I don't know him! I told you we met him by chance!" The old beggar was a little angry at being treated like this by the two "patrons". He was obviously kind-hearted in helping them: "You have found him, how about I leave first?"
Tong Yun took out a few taels of silver from his pocket and said respectfully: "Old sir, do you know who brought the body here?"
The old beggar said: "I know, they are all Hu Jie'er's boys! I thought you suddenly came to Huangliang Yimeng just to find this unknown corpse? But it turns out that you don't even know who you are looking for."
Tong Yun said to Yuchi Zhen: "Brother Yuchi, do you want to find these boys?"
"Yes, but it's not important to confirm who is the murderer." Yuchizhen looked at the body and continued: "If there is no accident, the body now is Liu Neng, the son of Foreman Liu who has been missing for a few days, but even if we can prove this We can't do anything with Hu Jie'er."
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Yu Chizhen said: "This murder case was caused by the case of stealing the Buddha. We can only find a way to convict Hu Jie'er by solving the case of theft of the Buddha."
The head catcher of Dali Temple looked at the old beggar and said, "Old guy, do you know who is the most frequent broker in the gambling house recently?"
"I hang around there every day. It's not difficult at all to know this kind of thing, but..." He stretched out his hand and made a gesture of begging for money.
Tong Yun simply gave the other party another ten taels.
"You are right. Recently there was indeed a man who came to Huangliang Yimeng Shenming. He did not go into the gambling house for pleasure, but only for business. Every time he came, he brought several donkey carts and several large boxes with him. He came in and out. , and then came out alone, without bringing anything with me.”
"Yes, it looks like it belongs to the old Liu family in the east of the city. They are carving craftsmen."
"I really don't know what kind of business craftsmen can do in a place like this... Huang Liang has not even dreamed of expanding it recently?"
Yuchi Zhen, Tongyun, please listen and return to Guanghan Pavilion for the time being to discuss further.
The next day, the barren tomb in the north of Beishan was surrounded by shadow guards, making it airtight. Like a frightened bird, Huang Liang Yimeng suddenly announced that he would close down indefinitely. Hu Jie'er thought he could use this to get through, but his cleverness turned out to be a mistake. Wrong, this move indirectly caused many people who relied on gambling houses to live in poverty and have nowhere to go, and lived on the streets all day long.
In the next few days, Yu Chizhen, Tong Yun, and Mei Xinghe from Guanghan Pavilion quickly found the boy who was doing business with the "Old Liu Family" under the identification of the old beggar.
When the young man saw that he was under the command of Mr. Mei, he immediately confessed in Guanghan Pavilion.
"This batch of goods was bought low and sold high by Hu Jie'er and sent directly to the Taiping Taoists."
At first, everyone was a little confused. Isn't this the waste material Liu Neng brought out from the purple bamboo forest? How can it be sold at a price?
The boy shook his head and said he didn't know either.
Yu Chizhen suddenly realized at this time, and continued: "Of course it is discarded materials, but there are also usable materials mixed in."
He asked Tong Yun and Mei Xinghe to recall the entire process of the theft of the Buddha statue.
"First of all, Gongtou Liu made a plan on the first day he came to Zizhulin to prevent other parts of the Buddha statue from being damaged during this period. He chose to wrap his body in cloth, leaving only the head exposed. He thought that as long as he checked regularly every day, There will never be an accident."
"Who would have thought that his son would actually deceive himself? Liu Neng deliberately showed only the remaining part of the Buddha statue every time he inspected it. In fact, he continued to transport the 'Buddha statue' out every day and night. The specific method was' Dismemberment', like this."
Yuchizhen brought a candlestick, covered part of the candles with cloth, and exposed only one of them, and then told everyone: "I claim that all the candles in it are still there. Do you have any questions?"
Everyone nodded in confirmation.
Then Yuchi really opened the cloth, only to find that all the candles under the cloth had been broken.
"It was such a simple deception that deceived Foreman Liu and deceived everyone. Only this method can match the testimonies of all the eyewitnesses."
Tong Yun echoed: "The so-called usable material turned out to be the Buddha statue itself? Hu Jie'er clearly sold the Buddha statue to the court, but now he is still trying to sneak it back. He is really greedy!"
Mei Xinghe first arranged for all the witnesses to go back, and then came back to discuss with the two people: "What should we do next?"
"The easiest way is to find the remaining parts of the Buddha statue." Yuchi Zhen said: "If the Buddha statue has really been smelted into scrap copper and scrap iron, then we are really helpless."
Mei Xinghe showed admiration in his eyes and asked: "Looking for Taipingdao?"
"But my status is low and I can't do anything well." Yuchi lowered his head in embarrassment and sat on the ground in distress.
Tong Yun stood up and told him: "Leave this matter to me!"
"And me." Mei Xinghe said: "I can still consider myself as Mr. Mei's confidant."
The three reached a consensus and officially started this life-threatening gamble.