Senior Brother Wei Zhizhen approached Zhao Ran and said, "It seems that Song Fan is not at peace either. Why don't you let Third Junior Brother stay with you and take care of you at all times in the past two years?"
Zhao Ran hesitated for a moment, shook his head and said: "Such words will delay the third senior brother's practice too much, and it is inappropriate."
Wei Zhizhen added: "No matter what, you need to bring some manpower around. I'll talk to Fairy Toad Palace and let her allocate manpower."
Wei Zhizhen directly intervened, found the Toad Palace Fairy, and asked the Toad Palace Fairy to deploy spirit demons to guard Zhao Ran.
In line with the principle of not shocking the world and affecting Zhao Ran's daily life and work, and not interfering with the normal affairs of Dajun Cave Heaven, Nangui Taoist and Shen Jiangzi were selected, and from then on they followed Zhao Ran to protect him. One was flying in the sky at any time.
, and one is waiting within three miles of Zhao Ran. The two spirit demons cooperate with each other, which can greatly increase Zhao Ran's safety factor.
Zhao Ran asked the Fairy of Toad Palace: "Didn't the Fairy say that Yuyang, who is entrenched in the swamp, should come to see me? Let's hurry up and just give him a few words. I have to go down the mountain and there are many things to deal with."
Fairy Toad Palace curled her lips and said, "Let's talk about it next time. I asked that lustful deer to go back first, and he was a little injured."
Zhao Ran was curious: "Huh? Injured? Who did you fight with? Or did you guys beat him up? Fairy, the Zongsheng Hall has just been established, and we should be more tolerant towards those who surrender..."
Fairy Toad Palace covered her face with her little paws and said disgustedly: "The injury he suffered... ugh! It's so disgusting, so don't mention it!"
Zhao Ran blinked, not knowing why.
On the first day of February, Zhao Ran sent Zheng Yutong to Guishouyuan in Xiaohe County. He stood next to Du Tenghui and watched her being enthroned. During the enthronement ceremony, Zheng Yutong performed a ritual on the spot and showed herself holy in the daytime.
, immediately caused a sensation in the entire Guishouyuan and all the congratulators who came to watch the ceremony. Zhao Ran knew that her position as abbot was initially secured.
At the end of February, one month after the Baihuapo murder case occurred, just when Zhao Ran thought that the matter would go unsolved, Dongji Pavilion Tianshi Li Junyang personally led the team, including Dongji Pavilion Elder Qiu, the resident of Dongji Pavilion
Yuntengmo and Hua Tengming of Yuhuang Pavilion, Elder Zhuo of Sanqing Pavilion, Dongfang Li, the master of the West Hall of Sanqing Pavilion, and a group of six people came to Songfan.
Zhao Ran received the news and rushed to the Zongsheng Hall to pick him up. Together with Wei Zhizhen, he accompanied the Dongji Pavilion and Sanqing Pavilion joint task force to start the investigation of the murder case again.
Seeing these experts lying on the table where evidence and files were piled up, flipping through and searching, Zhao Ran pulled Dongfang Li aside and asked: "Brother Li, why have you started investigating again? Are there any clues?"
Dongfang Li said: "This case was originally difficult to detect. When Uncle Hua and I came to investigate the case last month, we found no evidence that the murderer had done anything. So we speculated at that time that the murderer did not want to kill you."
Zhao Ran nodded: "I think so too."
Dongfang Li smiled half-heartedly: "But it's different now. We suspect that you are the target of the murderer. He lurked in the felt bag of party member Archi in order to kill you. As for why he didn't take action... we can't help but
I know, maybe your fighting skills are very strong and the criminal has no chance to take action."
Zhao Ran said: "Senior Brother Li, don't be joking, haha... Then why do you suspect that you are targeting me now?"
Dongfang Li said: "The problem is that someone recognized the golden box we took back. Dongji Pavilion drew a picture of the golden box and sent it to various provinces. Master Jingda of Guansheng Pavilion recognized it.
"
Guansheng Pavilion is the pavilion in charge of Guizhou. There is an elder named Jing, who is a great alchemist. He was born in Chongde Pavilion of Sinan Prefecture and is a branch of the Jing family. After seeing the figure, the great alchemist Jing felt that
He looked familiar, so he hurriedly asked Chongde Hall for confirmation, and immediately alerted Jing Yunyi, the chief elder of Chongde Hall.
Two great refiners rushed to Lushan to see with their own eyes and confirmed the origin of this golden box. This box was called "Youfu Golden Needle Box" and was the magic weapon used by the missing teacher Jing Zhiwu. Jing Zhimo's case was from Dongji.
It was a major case registered by the Pavilion, so Dongji Pavilion, together with Sanqing Pavilion, and the two pavilions formed a task force and came to Songfan to investigate the case.
"So, it is very possible that the murderer who died is Jing Zhiwu?"
"I can't say, I can only say that it is related to Jing Zhiwu. Maybe it is indeed Jing Zhiwu, or maybe Jing Zhiwu also died at the hands of this person. Everything needs to be investigated."
Zhao Ran looked at the task force and asked, "Why don't you see anyone from the Jing family?"
Dongfang Li said: "We will not allow them to intervene for the time being. This is the rule in handling cases. However, the Chongde Hall is on standby at any time, waiting for our call."
Because of the direction of the investigation, the unmarked dagger was also included as important evidence. Yuntengmo took it with him to the Chongde Hall for verification. It was confirmed that this dagger was probably used by Jing Zhiwu during his lifetime.
Although there is also the possibility that Jing Zhiwu was killed to seize the treasure as evidence of the dagger, the progress of the case has made it increasingly clear that the possibility of the murderer being Jing Zhiwu himself is quite high.
After re-examining the case files and exhibits, Zhao Ran once again led the task force to the scene of the incident and told the story exactly as it happened. This time, under the constant questioning of Dongji Pavilion Master Li and Elder Qiu, the story became more clear than before.
The last time was much more rigorous and detailed, and the scene of that day was almost completely reproduced.
After listening, Elder Qiu asked: "Zhiran just said that you were planning to go straight back to Maharaja Mountain, so why did you go to Zhanbao to visit Aqi again?"
Zhao Ran replied: "It must have been an idea. The main reason is that I often go to him to understand the public sentiment and public opinion."
Elder Qiu was not satisfied with this answer and continued to ask: "Why did you get the idea? Is there anything that prompted you to go to Archie's felt bag? Think about it carefully, what did you see? Or what did you hear? This is very important and cannot be missed.
Pass."
Zhao Ran was sweating a little. The art of counting plum blossoms was a skill he learned from Patriarch Long Yang. Patriarch Long Yang told him not to talk nonsense. He himself felt that this skill was a bit mysterious and instinctively didn't want to mention it, so he went on.
When Hua Tengming came to investigate the case, he neither asked nor wanted to talk about it - because until now, he still couldn't tell whether the relationship between the murderer's death and his calculation was active or passive.
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But under Elder Qiu's questioning, he had no choice but to say, "It's because I used the Plum Blossom Number to divine fortune, and the conclusion I came to was not very good, so I planned to delay my return to the mountain for a while to avoid this time."
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Elder Qiu was stunned: "Plum blossoms are easy to count?"
Li Junyang was also very curious: "Zhiran, where did you learn the art of counting plum blossoms? What is your relationship with Patriarch Tieguan?"
Zhao Ran said helplessly: "I have met Patriarch Tieguan, but I haven't spoken to him much. I learned the Plum Blossom Number from Patriarch Long Yang." Forced to this point, he had no choice but to kill Patriarch Long Yang.
If he did it, the Patriarch would surely forgive him, right?
Li Junyang thought thoughtfully and said: "The Plum Blossom Book is extremely clever and can be mastered. There are very few monks who have learned it. Zhiran is very talented. However, I heard that this Taoist skill is very harmful to longevity. Zhiran will not need it in the future."
It’s better not to use it as much as possible.”
Zhao Ran said hurriedly: "Thank you very much, Master Li. I don't usually use it, but I suddenly used it on a whim that day."
Elder Qiu grasped the key to Zhao Ran's words and asked: "What's the whim? Zhiran made it clear that this matter is of great importance and there should be no veiled words."
Zhao Ran sweated again: "Yes, yes. Well, let me think about how to say it... The reason is this. When I was walking on the road, I accidentally tripped and fell. On a whim, I couldn't help but make a fortune.
” Then he also explained the hexagrams he had occupied.