Volume 2: Female Corpse in Monk's Clothes Chapter 118: The Two-Faced Master
“Master Xu,” Ju Ran reported to Xu Zun after the first few rounds of interrogation, “something is not right about this matter.
"The people I interrogated were all new Taoists. They said that in the entire Taoist temple, only the temple master Yu Yangzi and a dean named Luo Yu knew the most."
"It's almost the same here," Zhao Yu said, "There was a guy called the eldest senior brother who I gave a good beating to. According to him, after Xu Tianshi passed away, this Yu Yangzi drove away Xu Tianshi's disciples and occupied the entire Chongtian Temple!
"Also, he said that the magistrate of Xingchuan County would often come to Chongtian Temple to burn incense and pray for blessings. When he left, the carriage was full. I guess he could bring back a lot of good things every time he came, right?"
"Oh?" Xu Zun asked hurriedly, "Has the county magistrate been to their training room?"
"No," Zhao Yu waved his hand. "I've asked about this. Only the Taoist priests of this temple can enter the training room! But...even though the county magistrate doesn't go to the training room, who can guarantee that they won't send women to the county magistrate's guest room?"
"Oh, right," Ju Ran recalled something and said, "One of the altar masters I interrogated said that those women were indeed bought from various places. Some were from brothels, some from the Music Bureau, some were used as collateral for debts, etc...."
"He was involved?" Xu Zun asked hurriedly.
"No," Ju Ran replied, "He said he heard it from the women themselves. As for who bought it, it should be the abbot and the dean, as well as the previous altar masters..."
Um……
It seems that the confessions of these people are indeed similar.
"Most of these Taoists in Chongtian Temple were selected from various places. Some of them have criminal records, while others live in poverty," Zhao Yu added, "but they all have one thing in common: they are young and strong!"
good!
During the fight, Xu Zun discovered that these Taoists were indeed very strong and sturdy.
What on earth is this place?
The abbot and the dean kept a group of strong men, set up a "training room" in the temple, and bribed the government. What exactly do they want to do?
Xu Jinhu said that Chongtian Temple should not be so rich just by the money from incense offerings.
So...where does their wealth come from?
Um……
Xu Zun calmed down and pondered carefully. After connecting these clues together, he seemed to have figured out something.
First of all, Yu Yangzi has a vicious heart and insatiable desires, and is not satisfied with ordinary incense money.
Therefore, he appears to be a sage, but secretly does the business of a bandit!
He recruited talents from all over, and ostensibly asked them to chant scriptures and practice Taoism, but in fact they were practicing martial arts hard to prepare for his evil deeds.
Setting up a "training room" in the temple for them to enjoy themselves is most likely intended to assimilate these subordinates, making them greedy for enjoyment and their desires expand, so that there will be no traitors to report them.
When the time is right, they will appoint those with higher martial arts skills as the chief of the sect, and follow them to do big business!
After that, they might kill them and replace them with a new batch.
As for what kind of business it is, we can see from the Lu Family Bookstore case that it must be a murder and robbery business!
If my guess is correct, Lu Xiaofeng's family might have met with a tragedy long ago!
Not only did they rob Lu Xiaofeng's family of nine, they also sent people to Lu's bookstore to plunder their money. In order to prevent being exposed, they burned down the bookstore.
Later, Yu Yangzi saw that Lu Xiaofeng was really beautiful, so he took her into his harem.
As for the money houses at Lu's Bookstore that require tickets, they must be preparing to go to money houses in other counties to withdraw the money.
But...from this time on, accidents started happening.
A man stole the ticket and deliberately went to Shangyuan City, leaving traces, which attracted the search of Xu Zun and others. This led to a fierce battle in Chongtian Temple last night!
This person took advantage of the chaos to stab Yu Yangzi to death, snatched Yu Yangzi's treasure, and fled ...
In this way, all doubts have been reasonably explained.
Otherwise, this sudden solution to the case would seem too deliberate!
And if his guess was correct, the person who killed Yu Yangzi was most likely the dean - Luo Yu!
In Chongtian Temple, this person is the only one who is most trusted by Yu Yangzi, and only this person can get the ticket to Lu's Bookstore, so there is a high possibility that he was ambushed by Luo Yu.
Um……
If this is really what I guessed, then the outline of this case is roughly clear.
Next, they just need to focus on searching for Luo Yu and the Taoist who escaped.
As long as we catch Luo Yu, we will know how Lu Xiaofeng and his family were killed!
I can’t believe that Chongtian Temple is actually a den of thieves!
Yuyangzi was a really hateful person. Lu Xiaofeng and the little girl in blue gauze might just be two of the people in his palace.
Before this, no one knew how many girls he had ruined.
What Xu Zun thought was exactly what Ju Ran, Wei Beihui and others thought. When everyone got together to discuss it, this inference became more certain.
Therefore, Xu Zun issued a wanted order on the spot, requiring all counties and prefectures to make every effort to hunt down the dean Luo Yu and those Taoists who had escaped.
After the wanted order was issued, Huo Anu also rushed over to report the situation.
Through questioning the trapped women, it was confirmed that they were indeed bought.
They come from all over the country, and most of them are miserable women.
Some of them were sent to the Jiaofangsi after their homes were confiscated, some were forced to make a living in brothels, and some had to use people to pay off gambling debts at home!
These women had miserable life stories, but they were different from Lu Xiaofeng. Lu Xiaofeng was simply robbed, while they were bought with money.
However, they were also victims of deception because the people who bought them did so in the name of "redeeming them".
In other words, they thought they could escape from the sea of suffering, but they never expected that they would end up in hell!
He was imprisoned in this Taoist temple and was brutally tortured. Every day he lived a life worse than death, and he had even lost his freedom.
If they had not been rescued through this case, who knows what would have happened to them in the future? Would they have been killed directly when they were old and ugly?
By the time the case was heard here, it was almost dawn!
Xu Zun and others were also feeling extremely tired, so they each found a place to rest.
After the reinforcements arrive at daybreak, a large-scale search will be conducted here, and there will certainly be many things to deal with by then .
So Xu Zun returned to the residence of the temple master Yu Yangzi, wanting to rest there.
At this moment, Lu Mingyue was still taking care of the two rescued beautiful girls, who were still in a coma.
According to Wei Beihui's diagnosis, although the lives of these two people are not in danger, they have been seriously damaged by the refining stone and need to be slowly recuperated before they can recover.
Seeing Xu Zun coming, Lu Mingyue hurriedly asked about the situation, and Xu Zun told her the results of the interrogation.
After hearing this, Lu Mingyue was extremely angry and pointed at Yu Yangzi's body and cursed:
"This guy, who has a beastly heart in human form, deserves no pity to die. It would be a pity for him to die like this!"
call……
Looking at Yu Yangzi's body, Xu Zun, who wanted to take a nap, suddenly had something flash through his mind, causing him to frown.
Why?
Isn't that right?
Lu Xiaofeng was found, which might explain the disappearance of the Lu family, but... what about the 17 missing girls! ! ?
Apart from Lu Xiaofeng, where are the other 16 girls?
