"They are all strange things carved with human faces, such as human-faced stones, human-faced square tripods, human-faced night pearls, human-faced statues, human-faced bronze mirrors, etc..."
"On the contrary, a box of gold has become the most inconspicuous thing inside."
Fatty Li clapped his fingers and said, counting the family treasures.
"A box of gold?" The old Taoist priest's eyes lit up and he immediately became energetic.
You have to say this, I don’t have backache or sleepiness today.
Fatty Li frowned and thought: "Come to think of it, that box of gold is quite strange."
Jin An looked over: "What kind of weird method?"
"There is a fishy smell of the sea, which is similar to the smell of the fish killing chopping board in the fish market. It can be smelled from a long distance away. It is like having been soaked in the sea for hundreds of thousands of years and just fished out of the sea. The smell of the sea is strong.
It cannot be dispersed." Fatty Li described it vividly.
Jin An has not yet spoken. He is not stable enough at all at his age. He likes to be surprised. The old Taoist priest was the first to shout in surprise: "This box of gold was also handed over by someone from below? No one has seen this box of gold."
Are you interested in wealth?"
According to Fatty Li, this box of gold was found in a fishing village. The fishermen deliberately broke open the gold and wanted to secretly take it out to spend. However, those gold metals have a strong smell, and no matter how careful they are, they will attract the attention of interested people. In addition,
It's not like a fisherman from a wealthy family took out gold ingots and flowers. It looked like his identity was suspicious, especially if he met some murderer selling stolen goods. So someone reported the case and the box of gold was confiscated by the Yamen.
Well.
The old Taoist priest and Jin An both took a strange look at Fatty Li, who was an official.
I don't know if Fatty Li is thick-skinned or if he doesn't think too much, but he looks normal when facing the gazes of the two people.
Jin An lowered his eyebrows and thought: "Since ancient times, ships have been sunk in storms. It is said that some people make a living by salvaging such sunken commercial ships."
Fatty Li replied humbly: "We usually call this kind of sea monkey. These people grew up by the sea. They are good at water and are as agile as sea monkeys."
Jin'an asked Fatty Li to describe those human-faced objects in detail to see if he could get any clues. Unfortunately, this time even the experienced Taoist priest who had traveled around the world couldn't tell anything after hearing Fatty Li's description.
The origin of these strange and strange things.
"By the way, I almost forgot one thing. There are a few gold silk scrolls among those things. They look like they were torn into many pieces. They have something like scriptures written on them." Fatty Li.
Something suddenly came up.
Then he said depressedly: "It's a pity that those scriptures know me, Fat Master, but I don't know those scriptures that are like reading from heaven. How could I know that they would be taken away before I could take them out to be translated by someone who knows how to make rubbings?"
Already."
Hearing this, the old Taoist priest asked Fatty Li to try to recall and write a few scriptures for him to read. As a result, what Fatty Li drew was as ugly as a ghost painting. It was too abstract. The old Taoist priest and Jin An looked at it for a long time.
I can’t figure out which language this painting is in.
Fatty Li shouted aggrieved: "It can't rely on me for this matter. Who knew someone would stop me halfway? Who has nothing to remember these things?"
Jin'an, an old Taoist priest: "Isn't it the basic professional quality of the Criminal Investigation Department to handle cases without forgetting the past?"
Fatty Li looked at his colleagues: "Does our Criminal Investigation Department have this requirement?"
The colleagues shook their heads decisively, refusing to admit that they had no professional qualities.
Fatty Li spread his hands towards Jin An and the old Taoist priest, and smiled, making them both roll their eyes in amusement.
This matter was put aside for the time being, and several people turned their attention back to the mummified children. The old Taoist priest made a suggestion: "They can be regarded as innocent people who were brutally murdered. It is pitiful to keep their corpses exposed like this, and the corpses are more likely to rot and spread when exposed to the tide."
Odor is tantamount to destroying evidence in disguise. In my opinion, the government built a coffin for each of these victims, which can be regarded as a home first. It can also prevent the spread of odor and prevent the breeding of mosquito plagues in summer. At the same time, the coffins are suspended in the air.
On the bench, sprinkle some lime powder on the ground to absorb moisture and keep the air dry, which is beneficial to the corpse's anti-corrosion and moisture-proofing."
After hearing what the old Taoist said, Fatty Li clapped his hands and said, Taoist Chen, what you said makes so much sense, and he will do it right away.
"These children died miserably, and they have no father or mother to claim their bodies. Our government should fund their funeral arrangements, and the court will definitely seek justice for them. I don't think there is any need to look far away when it comes to custom-made coffins, Wu Zang
The Taoist temple happened to run a shop selling coffins and other ghost objects such as paper money and paper to pierce people, so I directly asked the government office to go to the Wu Zang Taoist Temple to buy them."
"I remember that the Wu Zang Taoist Temple also provides one-stop services for funerals and rituals? How about asking the government to ask Taoist Master Chen to perform a salvation ritual for these poor children and tell them to sleep quietly first. Uncle Li will definitely avenge them.
Wash away grudges."
Old Taoist priest: "Good."
Jin An: "Good."
In one sentence, Fatty Li handed over the government's external procurement business to the Wu Zang Taoist Temple. This time, the Wu Zang Taoist Temple not only gained popularity among the people, but also wanted to do business with the Jiangzhou government in the future.
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The custom-made coffins were completed the next day. Jin An and the old Taoist priests personally delivered the goods to the door to bury the mummified bodies of several children, and performed a salvation ceremony.
It was already dark at this time, but it still couldn't stop the unbearable summer heat. Although there was no physical work, the old Taoist priest, Fatty Li, and some of the night watchmen were still so hot that they were sticky with sweat.
After finishing the ritual, Jin An did not rush to close the coffin, but looked up at the night sky above him. The old Taoist priest curiously asked what happened?
Jin An had some feelings and said that when he was reciting sutras to save them just now, he had an idea. Old Taoist, do you think the people and places they missed the most during their lifetime were their parents in their hometown?
Then he said that he could try to see if he could fulfill their wishes and let the dead souls rest in peace. If this could really happen, he might be able to directly find their hometown identities and help the government solve this unresolved case as soon as possible.
Fatty Li was overjoyed when he heard this: "Sure enough, we found the right people this time to find Taoist Jin An and Taoist Chen! I didn't expect that Taoist Jin An has such ability! Jin An, do you have any way to make the dead speak?"
The conversation here also attracted other government officials, who came around curiously to watch the fun.
Jin An smiled and nodded and said, "I know a technique called 'Corpse Exorcism', you can give it a try."
The old Taoist priest looked at Jin An in surprise, thinking that none of his younger brothers had used it before. When did he learn a new Taoist method?
Fatty Li was surprised: "I heard about this art of exorcism. Taoist priest Jin'an also knows how to exorcise corpses in Western Hunan? It is said that there is a kind of corpse exorcism called corpse exorcism. They can send dead foreigners back home for burial, sleeping day and night all the way."
, the corpse will not rot in a month or two.”
"I don't know how to drive away corpses like those in Western Hunan, but the principles are similar." Jin An didn't explain too much, and then started to do it directly.
The corpse exorcism technique he was talking about was the eighth transformation corpse exorcism technique he just learned when he broke through to the third realm!
The function of the exorcism technique is to bring people who have died in a foreign land back to life, return to the human body for a short period of time, go home to take care of the funeral affairs, and finally reincarnate with peace of mind.
This was obtained from the "Seventy-two Transformations of the Taoist Description" in the tomb of the God of Dongtian Fudi Mountain. It is infinitely superior to the folk trades of the Yinmen. It is like the light of the sun, the moon and the fireflies. How can they be the same? It's just that this time in Jin'an too
It was my first time to cast a spell, so I didn’t know the specific effect, so I didn’t give a definite promise.
Jin An walked to one of the coffins. He raised his palm and gently patted the child's mummy on the heart. A magical scene happened. In the government office at night, a golden light burst out, and the heaven and earth burst out with vigorous Yang Qi. A Yang Qi
Entering the heart of the mummy.
Boom, boom, the sound of a heart beating came from the calm coffin. The coffin was no longer calm. Everyone present opened their mouths in shock. The most courageous old Taoist priest and Fatty Li ran directly to the coffin and stretched their heads to look inside.
Ah! The two people exclaimed, dumbfounded on the spot.
I saw that the shriveled corpse in the coffin was growing white bones and living muscles at a speed visible to the body, and the body was filled with skin and flesh, and finally turned into a child with red lips, white teeth, and a rosy complexion.
Not to mention that the two of them were dumbfounded, even Jin An, who was casting a corpse exorcism spell for the first time, was also surprised by this magical scene. His eyes flashed when he looked at the still alive child in the coffin.
This scene was too shocking and unheard of. Just when the old Taoist priest and Fatty Li were still dumbfounded and didn't react, the "living child" in the coffin had already opened his eyes. He seemed to have just woken up from sleep, and his eyes were still bleary.
Waking up in confusion, looking at the three human faces that were about to touch his face, he screamed in fear. Under Jin An's driving, the old Taoist priest and Fatty Li reluctantly moved away from the two big faces, lest they happen again.
Scary children.
These two are also amazing.
Not only were they not afraid, but they seemed reluctant to leave and walked away, which was different from normal people's reactions. For example, when the government officials saw the "living child" coming back from the dead, they were so frightened that goosebumps spread all over their bodies.
They called Mom to pretend to be a corpse, and everyone's face was so frightened that they looked pale as ghosts.
"Officer, Sir, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have bumped into Sir, please go around me, please don't arrest me and put me in jail, I'm afraid of the dark... I, I kowtow to you, please don't arrest me, Sir"
Me." The child was so frightened by a group of howling government servants that he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed. The tears in his eyes rolled down and wet the ground beneath him, which was really distressing.
Like, like, so fucking similar! Fatty Li was dumbfounded! He meant that the child looked so much like a living person that it was impossible to tell that he was still rotten and smelly just a moment ago, and was suffocated to death in the Zhenhai stone by someone driving a stake.
The gruesome mummy!
Jin An did not dislike the smell of the child's tattered clothes. He gently lifted the child up, knelt down and wiped the child's tears with the sleeves of his Taoist robe, and said in a soft tone that a man would only kneel to his parents in addition to the sky and the ground.
He went on to say that we were not here to arrest you. We took you back to the Yamen because we found you sleeping alone on the roadside. We came here specifically to protect your good brother and uncle.
The old Taoist priest and Fatty Li watched Jin An's gentle conversation with the child, and nodded, saying that we are all good brothers and uncles, not bad people who want to harm you. As he said this, Fatty Li glared at those hot-blooded people who were not as courageous as an old man.
Young government officials.
To be continued...