After listening to Sun Shaozong's seemingly simple, yet miraculous inference, everyone's eyes fell on the feet of Jiehan and Jiexiu.
Jie anger was refreshingly tight, he supported the apprentice beside him, cleaned his shoes and socks in three or two times, and lifted a pig's trotter that smelled sour and rancid up to Lao Gao.
"Look, look carefully! Look at the poor monk's feet to see if there are any streaks!"
The smell was so irritating that everyone fell down, and even Sun Shaozong couldn't resist.
Then, all eyes were focused on Jie Xiu, but only saw his face ashen, and he didn't move at all for a long time.
At this time, everyone was naturally suspicious, and Liao Chi scolded sharply: "Jie Xiu, don't take off the shoes and socks on your feet quickly!"
Jiexi gritted his teeth, bent down and took off the shoes and socks on his feet, revealing two feet with several red and swollen marks, but in the exclamations of everyone, he protested loudly: "Even if there are streak marks on my feet What can I do?! Don't forget, the night Xie Zhi was killed, I was sentenced to kneel in the hall until dawn, how could it be possible..."
"Your trick has long been seen by our adults!"
Qiu Yunfei interrupted him disdainfully, and sneered: "That monk Jiannian was actually your accomplice, he was the one who killed Jijie that day, but the two of you were at odds afterwards, so you nailed Jiannian to death again. Outside the mountain gate!"
The people in Shuntian Prefecture basically knew about this inference, but the monks in the hall heard it for the first time, and they suddenly started to discuss it in an uproar.
"Yes, yes, Jienian has always been obedient to Jiexiu!"
"But this is murder after all..."
"So what? When Ji Nian's temper comes up, not to mention killing people at night, I dare to kill you during the day!"
"Amitabha!"
Seeing the chaos in the hall, the monk Liaochi shouted a Buddha's name, first suppressed the discussion of the crowd, and then squinted his eyes and questioned Jiexiu: "Jiexiu, what Master Qiu just said is the truth?!"
Jiexiu opened his mouth and continued to defend himself, but when he saw the confident appearance of Sun Shaozong on the other side, he felt that no matter how much he argued, it was useless.
So he simply broke the jar, and roared in anger: "Yes, I killed a few of them! But so what?! I'm doing things for the heavens, and I'm cleaning up the shameless blasphemy for the Buddha. Scum!"
Having said that, he no longer cares about his honor and inferiority, and pointed at the idiot with gnashing teeth: "Originally, I didn't want to kill like this. I was forced to do this!"
"shut up!"
"Bold!"
"rude!"
"how dare you… "
Before he finished speaking, several loyal monks who were protecting the master jumped out in a row, yelling at Jiexu.
After hearing this, Chi Chi naturally had a gloomy expression on his face, but he still managed to maintain his high-level monk's bearing, and asked calmly with his palms folded together, "Jie Xiu, you keep saying that you are practicing the Tao for the heavens and exterminating the scum of Buddhism. But I don't know if there is any evidence?"
"evidence?"
Jiexiu sneered and said, "I've heard it with my own ears, can it still be fake?! More than a month ago, when Jienian and I went to the city to do errands, we accidentally met..."
But it turned out that more than a month ago, when the two were out, they accidentally met a girl who was a childhood sweetheart when they were young. The two were waiting to talk to each other, but the woman turned her head and ran away in a panic.
If this woman really ran away, there would be nothing to do later.
But it was such a coincidence that she turned around and ran a few steps before she tripped over the hitching post and lay on the ground, covering her face and sobbing.
So Jie Xiu and Jie Nian hurriedly stepped forward to help her, and repeatedly asked her what happened.
After listening to the woman crying, she realized that when she was offering incense last winter, she was unfortunately abused by the monk Jie Xian, and was later 'recommended' to become the exclusive Buddhist sister-in-law of Jie Ji.
In fact, the reason why this woman became a pilgrim of Fayuan Temple was because two playmates of the same year became ordained in Fayuan Temple.
As a result, the two were angry and ashamed, so they went back and quietly spread the news, intending to let the Disciplinary Academy investigate the matter thoroughly—who would have thought that Jie Yan had just started the investigation and was stopped by Jie Nian.
When all the monks heard this, they were all silent, but Jiehan stomped his feet anxiously and said: "Since you have a witness, you can call the woman to the precepts institute, but why do you have to..."
"Call the witnesses to the Disciplinary Institute?"
Jiexiu sneered disdainfully: "Let's not talk about whether she is willing to stand up and testify, just talk about the hundreds of pairs of eyes in this temple, how can you ensure that she will not be known to everyone when she falls into a thief. ?!"
"She also has a husband's family and children now. Once this is leaked out, how should you let her and her family deal with themselves?"
"At that time, although the world is big, I'm afraid there will be no place for her anymore!"
"It's better to let the poor monk get rid of these evil obstacles with his own hands. First, let them pay for their sins with death, and secondly, they can protect her comprehensively!"
"Amitabha!"
Having said that, he folded his palms together and recited the Buddha's name, revealing some dignified taste of treasures, and said with a grand face: "The Buddha said that if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell - I'm just a Dharma-protecting monk, I should do it. that's all."
Deterred by the devotion on his face, all the monks were dumbfounded and speechless.
At this time, he heard Sun Shaozong laughing and said: "So, if you get rid of your closest friends, you also follow the meaning of the Buddha?"
Hearing him talk about this, the dignified look on Jiexiu's face suddenly turned into a hideous look, he raised his neck and hissed: "I don't want to, I don't want to kill him! But he... but he But I don't know how to get rid of evil! I actually want to let go of Jienian, the culprit behind the scenes, and pull me out of the capital!"
"Seeing that I refused to agree, he even threatened me with surrendering to the government!"
"I was also forced to do nothing, just, only..."
"So you killed him?"
Sun Shaozong said curiously: "But even if you want to kill him, you don't need to go to great lengths to pierce his heart with iron nails, right? Is there any special meaning to doing this?"
Seeing that Sun Shaozong didn't care how he defended himself, he was only curious about the way he killed and what mystery was hidden.
Jiexi's aura couldn't help weakening a bit, he gritted his teeth and said, "I originally made up my mind to write blood next to his body, and take the opportunity to lead the suspect to Senior Brother Jiehan."
"But I didn't expect... I didn't expect that when Ji Nian found out that I was going to kill him, he didn't even mean to resist at all, instead he looked like he was about to be released!"
"So after I killed him, I panicked inexplicably, and I forgot to write the bloody words."
rely on ~
No wonder Sun Shaozong thought hard and couldn't guess the intention of Jiexi doing this. The emotional plan was only halfway through and aborted!
Thanks to the book friend 'Banana Pineapple Orange 666' for the tip.