Chapter 203: Brothers Killing Each Other in Shuiyue Temple
night.
It was windy and snowy.
Touch~
Qiu Yunfei kicked open the door of the main room, and the hot air in the room rushed out, but was immediately blown back by the wind and snow, blowing the official documents on the desk into the air.
Cheng Rixing subconsciously suppressed a few of them. Seeing Qiu Yunfei's face turn pale, he no longer cared about the official documents and hurriedly smiled and bowed, saying, "Young Master..."
However, before he could finish the formalities, Qiu Yunfei kicked open the door to the inner room and rushed in angrily, cursing, "Sun, you are the only one who can fool people like this! What a bullshit one-armed nun! I've been to more than 20 nunneries in a row, my legs are almost worn out, but I didn't get anything!"
Sun Shaozong didn't care about his rudeness this time, and frowned and said, "Didn't find any clues?"
“I haven’t found any.”
Zhao Wuwei, who followed in, reported carefully: "The inspector took us to visit more than a dozen nunneries and Taoist temples in the capital, and screened all the monks and Taoists. There was no one with a disabled right arm among them - but there was an old nun who was missing her left leg."
After a pause, he saw that Sun Shaozong didn't look embarrassed or angry, so he added, "Perhaps the murderer didn't hurt his right arm, so..."
"No!"
Sun Shaozong shook his head firmly: "After you left, I carefully compared and determined that the injuries on the bodies of several dead people were all on their left hands. This is consistent with my previous inference, so it should not be wrong."
"Then you guessed the wrong place . The murderer is not in the temple at all!"
Qiu Yunfei said, and frankly slumped down in his chair, complaining: "You are just bragging, we were running around the city in this heavy snow, and we almost froze to death outside!"
Although his attitude was still very bad, the cloak on his shoulders was wet, and the deerskin boots on his feet were covered with mud, which showed that he was trying hard.
So Sun Shaozong ignored the guy's complaints, spread out the simple city map he made on the desk, and ordered in a deep voice: "Zhao Wuwei, mark all the temples and Taoist temples you have checked on the map."
Zhao Wuwei said with some embarrassment: "East City and South City are under the supervision of the inspector and me, while West City and North City are handed over to the chief constables of Daxing and Wanping counties, so..."
"No problem, just mark the ones you checked first."
Zhao Wuwei then agreed, picked up the brush and marked the map one .
Seeing the two of them busying themselves, Qiu Yunfei ignored him and rubbed his frozen earlobes with both hands. He couldn't help but sneered, "I went to check it myself, and I didn't find anything wrong. What can your theoretical talk do..."
"etc!"
Before he could finish his words, Sun Shaozong suddenly pointed at a nunnery that Zhao Wuwei had just marked and murmured, "Shuiyue Nunnery, Shuiyue Nunnery—this seems to be the ancestral temple of Rongguo Mansion, right?"
"My Lord, it is the ancestral temple of the Rongguo Mansion."
Sun Shaozong immediately asked again: "Since it is a family temple, there should be a manager in charge of the temple. Did you see the manager during the search?!"
"this……"
Zhao Wuwei hesitated and said, "I have never seen this before, but I heard that the steward is a close relative of the Rongguo Mansion, not some nun..."
Before she could even finish the word "nun", Sun Shaozong suddenly stood up and walked out without saying a word, shouting, "Gather your men and horses, and follow me to Rongguo Mansion!"
——Dividing line——
Shuiyue Temple.
Although the doors and windows were closed, the candlelight in front of the Buddhist shrine was still flickering, making the solemn Buddhist hall appear eerie and dark.
And right in the middle of this hall, a handsome young man with a jade-like face was lying on his back on the bluestone floor, snoring softly from between his lips and teeth.
Suddenly.
A thick laundry pestle was held high, casting a long shadow in front of the altar, and then it was swung down fiercely, hitting the young man's left knee!
"Uh~"
After an indistinct groan, the young man suddenly widened his eyes, subconsciously straightened his back, and was about to sit up from the ground.
However, when he exerted force, he found that his whole body was as soft as if he had no bones. Not to mention his waist, even straightening his neck required a hundred times the strength of the past!
What on earth is going on? !
"hehe……"
The young man was feeling panic and confusion when he suddenly heard laughter beside him. He looked up and saw a familiar yet unfamiliar face.
We are familiar with each other because we are relatives. Although we don’t visit each other often, we always have some interactions.
The reason why it was said to be strange was that the face that usually smiled at everyone now looked ferocious, almost like a man-eating devil.
The young man became even more panicked, and said in a trembling voice: "Fourth...Fourth Brother, what are you...doing? I...I have never offended you before!"
"You haven't offended me? Ha...hahaha..."
The man raised his head and laughed wildly for a few times. Suddenly, he raised the pestle and smashed it viciously on the young man's right arm, cursing, "You've never offended me before! Jia Yun, have you forgotten who took your job from?!"
It turned out that this young man was Jia Yun, a close relative of the Rongguo Mansion.
“Ah~!”
Jia Yun screamed miserably. After all, his body was still numb, so the pain was not that severe, but he was frightened to death. He said in a sad voice, "Fourth brother, you are wrongly accusing me. The job was given to me by Second Aunt. How can it be considered as robbery? Besides, I have been asked to pay a lot of money recently... Ah~ Fourth brother, please spare me, spare me!"
"You bastard, I've wronged you, haven't I?! I've wronged you, haven't I?! I've wronged you..."
The man cursed while hitting Jia Yun's head more than ten times, breaking the bones and tendons in his right arm. Then he stopped, gasping for breath.
With a sickly and crazy look on his face, he approached Jia Yun and said with a sinister smile: "I originally wanted to kill a few irrelevant people first, so that I could make a profit - but who can blame Shuntian Prefecture for having set its sights on this place? I have no choice but to send you to heaven early."
"Fourth brother, fourth brother!"
Jia Yun curled up desperately, his face covered with snot and tears, no longer looking like a romantic young man, but he still spoke in a coherent manner, crying, "Brother, I am willing to help you escape from the city. I know a place where the government will not be able to find you...ah!"
Touch~
Another stick hit Jia Yun's right arm. The man said disdainfully, "Who said I was going to run away? Why would I run away?"
As he spoke, he leaned forward and stared at Jia Yun with a piercing gaze, baring his white teeth as he said, "Brother, I just want to stay here and watch you struggle like a maggot and finally freeze to death in this snowstorm."
Jia Yun finally became desperate, and stretched his neck as hard as he could, roaring, "Aren't you afraid of being beheaded by the government for doing this?!"
"Behead? Ha...hahahaha..."
The man laughed crazily for a few times, then asked with a grin, "Do you want to know why I'm not afraid of being beheaded?"
Jia Yun hesitated for a moment, then gritted his teeth and nodded.
But what responded to him was another hard blow!
The man laughed smugly and said, "But I want you to die unclearly and without any clear reason! Ha...hahahaha..."
Boom!
At this moment, there was a loud noise like thunder, and the door with the bolt on it suddenly broke into countless pieces as if it was made of paper!
Then a towering figure walked in and said in a deep voice, "Jia Qin, if you are really not afraid of death, you should come after me. What's the point of taking your anger out on others?"
Under the flickering candlelight, the man slowly turned around, holding the laundry pestle in his left hand, with his right arm hanging at his side. But who else could it be but Jia Qin, the Fourth Master Jia, whose right arm was broken by Sun Shaozong in the Grand View Garden? !