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Chapter 88 Three Portraits

The host smiled apologetically and said, "Whenever you go to my temple to worship incense and worship Buddha, and give more than ten ounces of charity, you must leave your name on the merit book. However, no matter what I say, the three of them just refuse to leave their names, and do not mention their address. They only say that worshiping the Buddha comes from sincerity, but not for anything else, so there is no need to leave their name. Tsk, such lay Buddhists who sincerely respect the Buddha and practice are really rare!"

Situ Ce also nodded repeatedly and said, "I originally thought that if I could know their names and addresses, I came to visit them but I wished. Now I heard from Master that the three of them left their public morals and not their names. These are the real great good people. They must visit them. Does Master know how to find these three great good people?"

The host stroked his beard and pondered for a moment, saying, "I heard that their accent doesn't look like locals, uh--, it looks like people from the capital."

In the capital city? In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the capital had moved its capital to Shuntian Prefecture in the north. No wonder the young wife of the farmer said that they were talking, but she did not expect that it was from the capital. The people from the capital ran to Zhenhai County to kill people? Why?

Situ Ce vaguely felt that this matter was not that simple.

After pondering for a while, Situ Ce said to the host: "My housekeeper is good at portraits. I wonder if the host can tell the appearance of the three people. I draw the housekeeper and we can follow the pictures to find it. I wonder if it is possible?"

"This..." The old host glanced at Situ Ce and pondered, "It's been half a month, I can't remember them very well, and I don't know if they can still remember..."

Situ Ce smiled and took out a small piece of silver, which cost about seven or eight coins, put it on the table, and pushed it in front of the host.

The old host also smiled: "Young Master is also a great charity who devotes himself to worshiping Buddha. If you can get to know Donor Yan, that would be a great good thing. Why do I have to help you find them? Hahaha."

When Tang Tang saw him jealous of money, he curled his lips and said, "Don't you remember it?"

"Haha, I will try my best to recall it. If I really can't remember it, there are still disciples in the temple. They are young and should be able to remember it! Please rest assured, please!" As he said, the old host put the broken silver on the lectern into his sleeves as if nothing had happened.

Situ Ce said again: "Can the money donated by these three great charity be given to me? I exchange it for the same money, - alas! If such a great charity cannot be seen, it will be a lifelong regret. However, if you can't find someone and see the money you don't have to give, it will be a relief."

The host praised: "The donor is really a fool. The heaven has eyes, so he will definitely let the donor find them." After that, he ordered the monks in the temple to take out all the money. Situ Ce also said he would go and get them in person, so that he would show his piety. Then he took all the money with rubber gloves, and then exchanged his money for them.

Then, the presiding officer ordered the monks to call all the monks in the temple to the lobby to recall the appearance of the three people together, and recall the appearance of the three people with painter Qi.

At this moment, Situ Ce just said that he was tired and wanted to find a room to rest for a while. When they were portraits, the host immediately took him to an empty room with quaint furnishings.

After the host left, Situ Ceshuan came to the door and immediately inspected the collected copper coins and looked for the same fingerprints. This idea is very simple, - these silver coins were donated by the suspect named Yan, and all the silver coins must have fingerprints left by him. Even if some monks who accepted the silver coins accidentally erased them, most of the silver coins should be left. Just find the same fingerprints on most of the silver coins, and you can confirm that they are fingerprints left by the man named Yan.

At the beginning of this work, you need to compare more fingerprints, but once you find two identical fingerprints on different silver coins, the work becomes simple. Next, you only need to find whether the same fingerprints exist on other silver coins.

The work went smoothly and he quickly found the same fingerprint on most of the money!

He immediately took a photo and fixed the same fingerprint.

After finishing my work, the portrait there was almost done.

The fine brushwork of Master Qi is really magical. According to the appearance described by everyone, after repeated modifications, it took less than an hour to draw the portraits of the three people. The monks in the temple said that it was right, and the paintings were very similar.

Situ Ce took the portrait and saw that the leader, Yan, had a kind-looking middle-aged man, the other tall man had a triangular eyes, the third one was a strong man with a beard.

After Situ Ce thanked him, he took the portrait out of the temple and the group took a car to continue moving forward.

Tang Tang's eyes were full of reverence and said to Situ Ce: "Young Master, you are more pious to Buddha than my grandmother. Although my grandmother is also very pious, she knows who donated more money than her, so she can only mutter and never come to meet and visit. When you practice together, you are the true meaning of broad-mindedness and good-heartedness in Buddhism."

Situ Ce smiled but didn't explain. The case involved the Jinyiwei, and there was no way to explain it.

Along the way, I heard Tang Tang praise him endlessly, and at dusk, I arrived at the second temple.

Situ Ce repeated the same trick, and donated another donation, and received a meeting from the presidency. Situ Ce still said the same thing, and the presidency also said that three people had come half a month ago and gave them one by one. Situ Ce asked them to recall and let Master Qi draw it. At the same time, he asked to exchange his own money for the money that the donor gave.

The host didn't believe Situ Ce admired the donor Yan's words, but he didn't know what Situ Ce did to exchange for these silver coins. The money he gave was identified was true. The host was a little confused.

Situ Ce asked another room for fingerprint extraction and identification. The same fingerprint was found on the silver coins, and the same fingerprint was the same as the silver coins in the previous temple! It was certain that it was the donor who gave the donor.

The portraits drawn by the monk in the temple were almost the same as those drawn by the temple in front of him! It was confirmed that they were the same three people!

After leaving the temple, before dark, they arrived at the last temple and repeated the previous events and rhetoric.

This time, Situ Ce asked about the three people's appearance and the description was the same as the portrait in front. He took out three portraits for the host and the monks to identify them, and confirmed that the three people on the portrait were the three people who had gone to the temple to make donations half a month ago.

He changed the money that the man gave, and then identified it again to confirm that the same person's fingerprint was left on it!

When we left the temple, it was already dark and the group rushed back.

Yin Yadan asked Situ Ce silly: "Young Master, since we have already obtained the portraits of these three great charitable people in front, why do we have to go to the two temples behind?"

Tang Tang rushed to answer for Situ Ce: "I don't know this? The young master has already said that this time I came to the temple to donate, otherwise, what should I do if I exchange so much scattered silver? Of course, I will go to the two temples to donate, and verify the appearance of these three great charity people by the way, so that I won't find the wrong person at that time."

"So that's the case, now I understand."

Situ Ce didn't explain, and looked at them with a smile.

When he returned to the county town, it was already the second day. Situ Ce asked the coachman to take the three of them home, and then returned to the yamen.

Back at the inner yamen, Situ Ce looked at the three scrolls on the table, wondering whether he would take this thing to Zhong Bingzhi and the others.

However, if you give them the portrait, you must explain what happened. You must also talk about the source of the clue, which will implicate the old farmer's family. The portrait alone may not find the real murderer. The Jinyiwei may conduct a secret interrogation of the old farmer's family again. This time, you will definitely kill someone to silence him and then find a scapegoat to excuse him.

Although this possibility is not very high, once the real murderer is found through the portrait, there is no need to interrogate him. However, even if there is a one-ten thousand chance, Situ Ce cannot make this possibility a reality. He saw the tragic phenomenon of the old farmer's family reminding him that he must not make mistakes again. When dealing with Jinyiwei and the East Factory, he must be very energetic, not only to protect himself, but also to protect those who must be protected.

Therefore, before thinking about a complete plan, Situ Ce did not intend to hand over this thing that might endanger the life safety of the old peasant family to the Jinyiwei. Anyway, Zhong Bingzhi and Long Xiang’s black hats were not worth it to him.

After figuring this out, Situ Ce went to bed.

However, after he interfered with the Jinyiwei's affairs, he was destined to have a good life. So, at the fourth update, he was woken up by Linglong's nervous voice again, and Linglong shouted outside: "Sir! Get up quickly, Mr. Long from the Jinyiwei's Jinyiwei has something urgent to ask you, he is waiting outside."

Situ Ce cursed in his stomach, and had to force himself to get up, put on his clothes, and opened the door silently. Seeing Linglong standing outside the door with a lantern in her dress, she also looked at him sleepily and smiled apologetically: "It's delaying your rest. It's okay, give me the lantern, just go back to sleep."

Linglong shook her head and said, "I'd better illuminate the teacher. It's dark and it's hard to walk on the road, so as not to stop the teacher from falling and no one will care."

Situ Ce smiled and said, "If I fall, can you help me?"

Linglong said seriously: "You can't help me...you can go and call someone."
Chapter completed!
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