The meditation room was empty, and that musty smell should not appear in a place where people live.
Yi Fei immediately asked the team to fire the searchlights in, only to see dust floating in the air under the strong light. The ground, table, and bed were covered with a uniform layer of dust. Judging from the situation, it doesn't look like someone has come in recently.
Wu Shi ran over, very angry, "How can you..."
"Where's Master Kuichen?" Yi Fei interrupted: "Didn't you say he retreated in the meditation room in the backyard? Where did he go to? It looks like someone lives here?"
Wu Shi was startled, and he was about to rush into the meditation room, but was stopped by Yi Fei at the door.
However, even just standing at the door, you can see what's inside under the light of the searchlight.
"Teacher, Master?" Wu Shi's eyes, which were not always open, widened immediately, as if he couldn't believe that Master Chen Chen was not there.
A person who should have appeared somewhere is not there, and according to the judgment on the scene, this person has been absent for a long time. This is a strange thing, not to mention that this happened in Qiyue Mountain, where three bodies have been found.
The trace examiners entered the backyard meditation room to investigate, and the five monks of Haijing Temple were questioned one by one.
Wu Shi was 52 years old, the oldest among the monks who were still in Haijing Temple. I don't know if he lived in isolation for too long. He didn't know anything about the rules of the outside world and was very contradictory. He believed that the police came to investigate the case to disturb the peace of the Buddhist holy place. He insisted that he did not know who did the case on Qiyue Mountain. I don't know why and when Master Chen Chen disappeared.
"But when did Master Guanchen start retreating, you should know that?" Yi Fei said, "Anyway, you are also the monk who has been in Haijing Temple for the longest time."
Wu Shi said, "This June."
Yi Fei asked: "After June, you never saw Master Peeping Chen again?"
Wu Shi shook his head.
Yi Fei asked again: "Where is Master Chen Chen from, and what is the name of the layman, do you know?"
Wu Shi put his palms together, "I don't have the right to ask Master about what happened before his practice."
Yi Fei stared at Wu Shi for a while, "What about the others? You both live in Haijing Temple together. I don't believe you don't know each other at all."
Wu Shi was silent for a few minutes, and suddenly said: "If you want to investigate, go and learn about Wu Hao's past."
Yi Fei said: "Enlightenment?"
Wu Hao, whose real name is Fang Pingxu, is 24 years old. He was the one who showed Lu Chen and Zhao Siyan the way on October 13. Fang Yuanhang has always suspected that there is something wrong with him. It has been found out that he has no parents. He grew up in a welfare dean called "Da Ai" in Los Angeles. He studied at Los Angeles Teachers College. The graduate student applied for Dongye University, but he finally fell off the list. Frustrated, he didn't even receive a degree certificate, so he became a monk at Haijing Temple nearby.
"There are also Wu Nian and Wu Yu." Wu Shi shook his head. "They are all weird young people. They are not really worshipping Buddha when they come here."
"What about you?" Yi Fei asked, "None of your junior and senior disciples really worship Buddha. Your master said that he was in retreat, but he was not in Haijing Temple for a long time. Are you the only one who truly worships Buddha in this temple?"
Wu Shi's drooping eyes widened again, "Don't be unreasonable!"
Yi Fei said firmly: "What's wrong with the police investigating the case according to the regulations?"
The police from the Shouquan Township Police Station reconciled, "Yi Dui, Yi Dui, they are monks, calm down. If they don't tell me, you can ask me at any time."
Yi Fei has obtained the registration information of the five monks in Haijing Temple from the police station, but the information lacks Master Peeping Chen.
The police explained: "This Haijing Temple has existed for a long time. There was a group of monks a few decades ago. Some families gave birth to children, but later they couldn't afford them, so they threw the children at the entrance of the temple, and some homeless people were walking. I walked into the temple and became a monk. The household registration verification has only been done in the past few years. Fang Pingxu and the others have serious ID cards, so they all registered. It's been ten years since he was a Buddha, and he doesn't even know who he is. As an old monk, we can't force others to do anything, it's too troublesome to deal with."
Yi Fei said, "So you just open one eye and close the other?"
"Hey, you're right!" The police almost got angry, but when he thought that the group of people in front of him were from the Municipal Bureau, he was able to suppress the fire and reluctantly said: "Anyway, all the information we have is here. Check it out, if there is anything else you need to mention to our leaders."
Yi Fei frowned, not bothering with the police.
From the registration information, Wu Shi's real name is Liu Sui, a native of Shouquan Town, and the only monk who was not named by him, Wu Han, whose real name is Tang Yuan, is also a native of Shouquan Town. The teacher of Zhen No. 2 Primary School, Liu Sui taught Chinese, and Tang Yuan taught physical education.
27 years ago, the two became monks one after the other.
"Strange." Yi Fei said, "Wu Shi and Wu Han are colleagues, and they became monks in the same year, but if you ignore this relationship, just from the perspective of their living conditions in Haijing Temple, they don't seem to know each other at all."
A team member said: "Do you need to thoroughly investigate the details of these two?"
Yi Fei thought for a while and hesitated.
It is natural to investigate, this Haijing Temple is suspicious everywhere, and the loopholes in law enforcement may have made this so-called "Buddhist clean land" a place to hide and hide.
But at present, the serious crime team has too many cases, and there are really not enough people on his side, and Mingshu can't tell the difference at all.
"Check." Thinking left and right, Yi Fei decided not to let go of any doubts. He would be too busy at that time, and he could apply to Bureau Xiao.
Facing the police, Wu Han—that is, Tang Yuan—was more reluctant to say more than Wu Shi. His eyelids were always drooping, and his sitting posture was quite imposing, "After Master Jingchen retreated, I never went to the backyard again. When did he leave Haijing Temple, I don't know."
Yi Fei asked, "How can you be sure that Master Chen Chen left Haijing Temple by himself?"
The lines of Wuhan's cheeks moved slightly, but he still didn't lift his eyelids, "Do you mean that Master Guanchen was taken away? Or was he killed like those on the mountain?"
Yi Fei said: "I don't know, I want to hear your opinion."
Wuhan shook his head, "Master Kuanchen is merciful and generous, who would have the intention of harming him?"
"But Master Chen Chen suddenly disappeared. You and your senior brother Wu Shi seem to be very calm?" Yi Fei deliberately re-read the words "Senior Brother Wu Shi", and sure enough, Wu Han's eyelids moved slightly.
"Everything has a reason." Wuhan said: "Since Master Jingchen is not in the temple, there is a reason why he is not there. I don't want to speculate too much."
Yi Fei has been investigating cases in the serious crime team for so many years. This is the first time he has dealt with monks, and he feels like he has punched cotton. If he was given a choice, he would rather chase ten perverted murderers than dig clues about the crime from the monks.
But the task is the task, and there is no possibility of letting go of the burden in the middle.
Yi Fei said: "I don't want to speculate on others, okay, let's leave it to us to speculate. Wu Shi pointed out three people who are worthy of our focus. How about you, do you think any monk is behaving strangely?"
Wuhan shook his head, "I don't care about others."
"Really?" After saying these simple and profound words, Yi Fei didn't say anything, neither leaving nor letting Wu Han leave.
The atmosphere became more and more stagnant, Wu Han finally raised his head that had never raised his head, and a cluster of old eyes shot at Yi Fei.
Wu Han said: "You are actually right to check Haijing Temple."
Yi Fei said, "Huh?"
"Because the people who live here are not good-hearted people." Wuhan's lips suddenly evoked a trembling smile. This smile was helpless, sinister, and cramped. It seemed that it shouldn't appear on the face of a person wearing a monk's robe. .
Yi Fei was startled.
Wu Han raised his hand and pointed to his heart, "We all have a devil living here."
After saying this, Wu Han lowered his head again.
Yi Fei asked: "'We' include Master Chen Chen?"
Wu Han remained silent.
"Team Yi! Team Yi!" Xiao Man came out of the meditation room in the backyard with a physical evidence bag in his hand.
Yi Fei saw at a glance that the evidence bag contained a rusted iron nail.
"Look what I found!" Xiao Man handed the evidence bag to Yi Fei, "There are such nails in the meditation room!"
Yi Fei took it and took a closer look. The iron nails in the evidence bag were very similar to the ten nails on Lu Chen and Zhao Siyan!
At the beginning, in order to find similar nails, the serious crime team traveled all over the construction site and building materials market in the main urban area and Shouquan Town, and the feedback they got was that this kind of nails have long been eliminated.
Now it was found in the meditation room of Haijing Temple!
"Whether it's the same batch or not, we'll have to go back and test it before we can find out." Xiao Man said, "But looking at the rust situation, it's almost inseparable. I just looked at all the nails in the backyard meditation room, and they were all there. It is this kind of nails, but the house in the front yard uses relatively new nails. The front yard has been repaired in recent years, but there is no trace of repair in the back yard, and there are seven identical nails left in the toolbox. , seven spare nails are too few."
Yi Fei said, "So there should be seventeen nails in the toolbox?"
Xiao Man nodded, "I think so!"
"But when you first entered the meditation room, didn't you say that no one has entered it for at least three months?" Yi Fei asked, "What about the toolbox? Are there any signs of being touched recently?"
Xiao Man responded, "No, the dust on it is very smooth."
"That's weird." Yi Fei said, "If the person who killed Lv Chen and Zhao Siyan took the iron nails from the toolbox, this person either jumped off the eaves, or took ten iron nails months in advance. Logically It doesn't make sense."
Xiao Man said, "The murderer had a plan early in the day? The nails were not originally prepared for Lu and Zhao, but they were used on Lu and Zhao in the end?"
Yi Fei said, "Then who should these ten iron nails be nailed to?"
Xiao Man shook his head fiercely, "Fei Zi, don't stare at me like this, I thought I was going to be nailed!"
Yi Fei sighed, "Let's identify the nails and toolbox first."
Mingshu didn't rush to Qiyue Mountain any more, he just waited at the Criminal Investigation Bureau.
No one from the serious crime team and the first criminal investigation team rested. In the middle of the night, all the windows were still lit.
After identification, the ten iron nails on Lv Chen and Zhao Siyan's body belonged to the same batch as those used in the meditation room in the backyard of Haijing Temple, and there was not a single fingerprint inside or outside the toolbox containing the iron nails.
If the serious crime team only suspected that the case of Lv Chen and Zhao Siyan was related to Haijing Temple, the current evidence has completely brought the two together.
"No one will deliberately erase the fingerprints on an ordinary toolbox." Xiao Man said: "Unless the person understands, his fingerprints must not be left on the toolbox."
"I still have the same question from before." Yi Fei said, "If the toolbox shows signs of being used recently, it means that the murderer took the iron nails after killing Lv Chen and Zhao Siyan. But the iron nails have been taken away long ago, and the murderer How can this behavior be explained?"
Ming Shu lightly punched Yi Fei's back, "It's on the tip of the bull's horn."
Yi Fei wiped his face, "I know, but..."
Mingshu knew what Yi Fei wanted to say.
Now the serious crime team has three cases, and the clues are so many that at first glance, people don't know where to start. Everywhere should be checked, everyone is suspicious, and drilling any line may be a bull's-eye, but it is impossible to place any line now.
"The most suspicious ones are those five monks." Yi Fei was silent for a moment, "Wuhan said something very interesting to me, to the effect that those who worship Buddha in Haijing Temple are not good people."
Mingshu's eyes deepened, "He said that?"
"It's weird, isn't it?" Yi Fei said: "And I vaguely feel that he still wants to express to me that Master Kuichen is not a good person. Xiao Ming, Wuhan, these five people are easy to check, and their household registration information is at the police station. There are all there, and the brothers are already investigating. But that Master Peeping Chen, we can't find him for a day, so we don't know where he is."
Mingshu said, "Are you sure you find him, so we can determine his identity?"
Yi Fei smiled bitterly, "His identity is that he has no identity. Even Wu Shi, who has been in Haijing Temple the longest, can't tell what the origin of this Master Peeping Chen is. However, from the perspective of age, this seventy-year-old In fact, the old man no longer has the ability to commit crimes."
Mingshu said, "Is this missing Jingchen the one who has lived in Haijing Temple for decades?"
"What do you think..." Yi Fei blinked his eyes hard, "Guanchen isn't really a peeping dust. Someone played a civet cat for a prince at Haijing Temple?"
Mingshu rummaged through the drawer, took out a bottle of eye drops and threw it to Yi Fei, "Officer Xiao said I used idioms indiscriminately, why do I think your language is not very good?"
"Is there?" Yi Fei took the eye drops and looked at it, "Fuck, you are all overdue!"
Mingshu said, "Then don't use it."
Yi Fei's eyes were really uncomfortable, so he couldn't care less about it, he picked it up and poured it into his eyes.
"For the three victims on Qiyue Mountain, Lv Chen and Zhao Siyan's interpersonal network investigation has been completed. The biggest possibility for them to be killed is that they ran into Qiu Min's murderer." Mingshu calmly said: "So to investigate these two cases, The starting point should be on Qiu Min. And the iron nails on Lu and Zhao pointed the clues to Haijing Temple. Did the people in Haijing Temple want Qiu Min's life? The details of these monks in Haijing Temple, and those The details of the pilgrims must be found out. Jingchen has no identity, but there are so many people who have seen him, we can make a portrait of him."
Yi Fei's face was wet with eye drops, and he hurriedly looked for a tissue, "Those monks don't seem to have anything to do with Qiu Min, Qiu Min is an Internet celebrity blogger, and Zhao Ren is also for people like Hong Chuanfei. I really can't think of any motives they could have. By the way, Luo Ganfeng in our last case also appeared in the 'Qiushan Sleepless' video?"
After learning from Lan Qiao that "Li Feichang" was favored by Qiu Min, Mingshu personally contacted Luo Ganfeng.
It's not that he is suspicious of Luo Ganfeng, but a little worried.
Luo Ganfeng was selected by the deranged Qin Guo Province, and almost ended his life in a trap just like Wu Zhen and Sha Chun. Because of Xiaojun's only concern, he struggled out of the quagmire and reluctantly started a new life.
It's only been so long, and it would be too embarrassing to be targeted by another vicious person again for some reason.
On the phone, Luo Ganfeng was very calm, saying that he had not encountered anything suspicious recently.
When it comes to Hong Chuanfei, who has a competitive relationship with him, Luo Ganfeng's answer surprised Mingshu.
"Isn't the boss of 'Hong Lucai'? I know him. After the video of 'Qiu Shan's Sleeplessness' was broadcast, he came to me to observe a few times. I should have affected his business. But you don't have to worry about it. I will handle it myself. Now that his shop is closed, if it reopens in the future, I will close the shop for a period of time and return some of the customers to him. By the way, I will also take Xiaojun out for a trip. He is so old, he has never Go out and see the scenery."
Mingshu said: "Everyone else wants to attract customers when they do business. When you were an intermediary, you worked day and night, but now you want to drive customers to competitors?"
"After what happened last time, I also figured it out." Luo Ganfeng smiled open-mindedly, "You can't make enough money, as much as you can, you can make as much money as you can, it's not good to be too early, everyone is neighbors. , I don't need to squeeze 'Hong Lucai', and I don't want to be too famous now, I just want to live my life in peace. 'Qiu Shan Sleep' recommended me, I thank him, but if I can choose for myself, I I'd rather he didn't recommend me."
"Not everyone recommended by Qiu Min wants to be recommended by Qiu Min." Mingshu said to himself naturally.
Yi Fei didn't hear it clearly and asked, "What were you reading just now?"
"The reason why Qiyue Mountain has become an Internet celebrity scenic spot is because of the recommendation of Qiu Min and one Internet celebrity." Mingshu said: "From the perspective of most people, it is a good thing to be recommended. I don't know Qiu Min's recommendation. How many unnamed restaurants and scenic spots in Dongye City have become popular, and the beneficiaries of these restaurants and scenic spots are all grateful to 'Sleep in the Hills'."
Yi Fei said: "That's right. Popularity and passenger flow both mean skyrocketing income."
Mingshu asked: "Then Qiyue Mountain became popular, who enjoyed the benefits?"
"Of course it's the people of Shouquan Town. Now the Qiyue Mountain autumn tour is not yet a system, there is no charge on the mountain, and there is no corresponding travel bus. The local car owners drive their cars out to solicit customers in autumn and make a lot of money. There are also farmers below Qiyue Mountain, didn't we see them last time, they put up a few plastic stools and a big umbrella, it's a simple 'farm stay', sitting on the ground to collect money." Yi Fei said: "These people We should all be grateful to a group of internet celebrities headed by 'Qiu Shan Sleeping Sleep'."
Mingshu said: "Then no one was hurt by the popularity of Qiyue Mountain?"
"There are, but there are. 'Cheng Jianghu' became popular, and 'Baby Shrimp' suffered heavy losses." Yi Fei said: "Qiyue Mountain has become popular, and other autumn tourist attractions in Dongye are bound to be affected... No!"
Yi Fei's eyes changed suddenly, "And Haijing Temple!"
"Yes, there is also Haijing Temple." Mingshu said: "The arrival of a large number of tourists has added vitality to Qiyue Mountain and added incense to Haijing Temple, but the long-term peaceful life of the monks has been disturbed. The quality of tourists varies. It is uneven, most of them are people who don't believe in Buddhism and even more rude to Buddha. As soon as they get to the middle of the mountain, they want to take pictures of the 'Ginkgo Ancient Temple' in Haijing Temple like Da V. In the last two years, from January to autumn, Qiyue Mountain and Haijing Temple They are all overrun by tourists.”
Yi Fei frowned, "Maybe it's more than that. If Wuhan's words are not alarmist, the monks in the temple have secrets, and the more fire Qiyue Mountain is, the more they will be exposed to the public's attention. At that time, some of them will not What you want to be known by the outside world will also be discovered by the outside world.”
"If we discuss the motives, these are the motives for the monks to commit crimes." Mingshu frowned, "As for the evidence, the iron nail is one, but it is not conclusive evidence. Peeking into the dust has disappeared, and now we can only find the five The famous monk is looking for a breakthrough."
Yi Fei said: "That comprehension desire..."
Mingshu understood, "The last case dealt with the people of the Chu family, and this case has to deal with the people of the Chu family. If you don't inherit a good family business, you have to become a monk. Why did Chu Xin become a monk? Have you checked it out? "
"Chu Xin is a condescending person, running a train with his mouth, and I don't know which sentence is true and which is false." Yi Fei said, "But we have learned one thing - Chu Xin is nominally the nephew of Chu Linxiong, the head of the Chu family. But his status in the Chu family is actually equivalent to that of Chu Linxiong's other four sons. Do you remember Chu Can?"
Ming Shu smiled, "I have such a poor memory in your mind? You can forget the case you just handled."
"That's not what I meant." Yi Fei said, "After all, you weren't with Chu Can at the time, so it's understandable that you didn't have a deep impression."
Mingshu tapped his temples, "Nothing, every case handled by the serious crime team is with me. Chu Can, the illegitimate son of Chu Linxiong, illegally detained Liu Mei and killed a Liu Meiwei. The girl he was looking for. The Chu family gave up on him long ago."
"Yes, this is Chu Can." Yi Fei said, "Compared with Chu Can, the son, Chu Xin, the nephew, is more concerned by Chu Linxiong. There has always been a saying within the Chu family that Chu Xin is actually Chu Lin. Xiong's own flesh and blood. Now Chu Linxiong is retreating, the next four sons are fighting for power, Chu Qing - the one who was implicated by Chu Can last time - is the most popular, but before Chu Xin became a monk, Chu Qing was everywhere. Chu Xin pressed his head down, not as beautiful as it is now."
"It's an infighting of the giants again." Mingshu sighed.
Ordinary people are keen to understand the gossip of wealthy families, but most of the police do not like to handle wealthy and wealthy cases.
"Since you are so talented, and you are favored by Chu Linxiong, why did you suddenly become a monk?" Mingshu said: "Is it really like what he said to Fang Yuanhang, all handsome men and beautiful women have slept, and suddenly see through the world?"
Yi Fei said: "He has a bad heart."
Mingshu raised his eyes, "Huh?"
"Seven years ago, Chu Xin had a doctor abroad." Yi Fei said, "What he did was probably a heart transplant."