Following the sound, I saw a tall stone platform suddenly appeared among the reeds. There was still a huge Buddha's foot on the stone platform!
oh……
Xu Zhen only took one look and understood that this place was probably the original Daxiong Hall of Daxiangguo Temple. There should be a Buddha statue standing in front of the stone platform.
Just a stone platform is three to four meters high, and a Buddha's feet are so huge. From this, you can imagine how majestic the main hall must have been back then.
There are no walls around, only a few broken stone pillars remain here.
Of course, Shen Yu did not make the call because he discovered the remaining palace.
When Xu Zhen and others came closer, they were shocked to see a person kneeling under the stone platform!!!
The man was dressed in white brocade fur and knelt at the feet of the Buddha in a very strange posture.
His body was tilted, one arm was pinned behind his back, and the other arm was hanging on the ground. His head was lowered and motionless. There should be no signs of life.
"Ah?" Lao Duan was dumbfounded, and Fu Bin was surprised, "Is there really... someone?"
"Yes, he seems to be dead!" Shen Yu was already standing next to the man and was about to step forward to check as he spoke.
I would like to ask which criminal who surrenders to the Yamen is still in the mood to solve the crossword puzzle? Moreover, the monk's chilling eyes also indicate that this case is unusual.
But……
All the fingers and toes were cut off, and one of the eyes was blinded...
oh……
"Ahem..."
He found that after the man's fingers and toes were cut off, they were burned with a soldering iron or something like that, leaving burn marks.
"Isn't he too young?" Xu Zhen asked.
At this moment, the corpse suddenly coughed.
Thinking of this, the facts seem to be clear: monks are merciful, but the monk could not stand the test of conscience after killing someone, so he went to the Yamen to surrender.
Seeing Xu Zhen starting to check the body, Shen Yu, Fu Bin and others also cautiously gathered around.
And next, when Xu Zhen looked at this person's face, he couldn't help but be stunned, because he saw that this person's left eye only had a blood hole with flesh and blood turned out, and he was actually stabbed blind!
Looking at the feet again, the same is true.
oh……
"Don't move!" Xu Zhen shouted quickly, "Don't destroy the scene!"
Could it be that...this Magistrate Tong was kidnapped from another state?
But on a stone slab in front of the man, there were many people's fingers and toes neatly placed!!!
ah?
Xu Zhen quickly raised the corpse's arm, and sure enough, all ten of the man's fingers had been cut off.
Xu Zhen suddenly remembered that when he first saw the monk, he noticed that the monk had a dusty appearance.
"Not from Songzhou?"
If it was just revenge, why would he take the huge risk to kidnap Magistrate Tong back to Yanping County and kill him in the dilapidated Daxiangguo Temple if he couldn't kill him anywhere?
Magistrate Tong used to be the magistrate of Yanping County. Could it be that the monk was targeting...
"What?" Xu Zhen understood quickly and asked hurriedly, "What do you mean, this person used to be the magistrate of Yanping County?"
Judging from the blood stains on the wound, he must have been stabbed blind not long ago.
The brocade fur he was wearing was an expensive white fur fox fur, which an ordinary person could not afford.
"Oh my God," Old Duan backed away in fright, trembling all over, "What...what's going on? Then...that monk...could...could it be..."
It seems that the ears were also pricked and deafened!
In this case... Xu Zhen concluded that the monk's reason for killing people should be the former, because deafening people's ears is not conducive to interrogation.
Therefore, the monk who tortured this man probably was just for revenge, and it was definitely not an ordinary hatred.
Suddenly, Xu Zhen felt something bad.
Xu Zhen hurriedly came closer and discovered that the ground was covered with gravel slabs, some of which were stacked on top of each other. When Shen Yu stepped on it, it would naturally cause a shock, causing the man in white to fall to the ground.
Xu Zhen shook his head secretly, feeling that the case should not be that simple.
"Hey? Hey hey hey..." Just as Xu Zhen was checking the body, Lao Duan, who had the courage to come up again, pointed at the body like a Parkinson's disease and said, "This... this person... this person is not
Who is that?"
Everyone felt as if they had seen a ghost. They were all frightened, including Xu Zhen.
Shen Yu had sharp eyes and immediately pointed to somewhere in front and shouted: "Wow, look! Look!"
That monk is indeed a ruthless person!
Xu Zhen judged based on experience that there are only two situations for such behavior: one is revenge, the monk has a grudge against the deceased! The other is torture to extract a confession, and the monk wants to ask something from the person's mouth.
Why do you need to perm it?
Is it to increase pain, or to stop bleeding and disinfect?
Lao Duan's meaning is very obvious. Since the monk provided the clue and said that he went to the Yamen to surrender, then the man in white in front of him must have been killed by the monk?
Xu Zhen looked at the man's wounds and couldn't help but frown tightly.
So he looked at the deceased's face again and soon made a new discovery, but he saw blood in the two ears of the deceased. The blood had solidified and scabbed, blocking the entire ear canal.
"Yes," Lao Duan nodded, "that was more than ten years ago. He served as the county magistrate in Yanping County for five or six years. After he left, he was the Bai County Magistrate. After Bai County Magistrate, he is the current magistrate.
Magistrate of Song County."
Looking back again, I saw a wooden stake stuck behind the man's back, which was buried deep in the ground. It turned out that the man was tied to the wooden stake, so he kept kneeling.
"That's the county magistrate in front of Magistrate Song!" Lao Duan said, "He has left Yanping County for many years!"
This is a man of quite a young age, with wrinkled skin and a long beard that has turned white.
broken!
However, the man was probably not dead when he was tied. He was still struggling and his left hand had already broken free.
Everyone looked at it and were shocked at the same time.
Hearing Xu Zhen's words, Shen Yu quickly froze like a wooden figure, but for some reason, the kneeling man still tilted his body and fell to the ground.
"No..." Shen Yu looked innocent, "It's none of my business. You all saw that I really didn't touch him!"
"No, he's older than me, over sixty, right?" Lao Duan said, "He must have been promoted high back then. I heard he went to the state government to become an official, and then became an official. His hometown... tsk tsk...
...Where is his hometown from? Anyway, he is not from Songzhou..."
"Ah?" Xu Zhen and the others immediately looked at Lao Duan, and Shen Yu hurriedly asked, "Who is that? Do you know him?"
What?
Xu Zhen and the other two looked at each other, obviously they had never heard of this name.
"Yes, yes..." Lao Duan trembled all over and shivered for a long time before he remembered, "This person is Magistrate Tong, Magistrate Tong!"
But in the end, due to exhaustion of physical strength and the cold weather, he still couldn't get out completely, so he ended up in the weird posture just now.
In this era, there were no cameras or sampling. Xu Zhen could only quickly observe the scene and then came to the man in white who fell to the ground.
"Cough cough... cough cough..."
Looking over again, I saw that the "corpse" not only coughed, but also made a hoarse sound of "wuwuwu", and then blood spilled from the corner of its mouth, and its body began to shake.
"ah!!?"
Only then did everyone realize that this person was not dead at all, but was actually still alive!