Chapter 108: motivation

Because of the bad news about her son, the woman became emotional, but she was stuck in her throat and couldn't speak. In a flash, her pale face turned red, as if she was caught in the neck.
"Sister-in-law, how are you?" The county lieutenant sighed secretly, but the situation of the woman is not realistic at all, so she can only apologize.
The woman's eyes were wide, her face was stiff and trembling, and she strenuously stretched out her fingers to Xuanci.
The eyes of everyone looking at Xuanci became more and more strange.
Under this circumstance, Xuanzai still maintained the style of a high monk. He stepped forward and said the Buddha's name to the woman with her hands folded: "Amitabha, the female donor has something to say to the poor monk? The female donor can rest assured, as long as you kill you. The son’s murderer was in the monastery. As the temporary abbot, the poor monk must be punished severely!"
The woman's lips trembled, as if she was about to say something, she suddenly became stiff, and her outstretched hand was let down.
"Sister-in-law!"
The woman lay on the bed with her eyes open, and she died.
The county lieutenant and others looked at the suffocating woman in silence, while the monks chanted the name of the Buddha: "Amitabha."
"Mother, mother, wake up--" The little maid pounced beside the woman and wept bitterly.
The woman didn't say anything about the murderer herself, which seemed to put the case in a dilemma for a while.
The county lieutenant looked at Xuanci deeply.
"Amitabha, if the adults need help, the poor monk will definitely lead the monks in the temple to cooperate." Xuan Ci said with a calm expression. It was obvious that although the woman pointed her finger at him just now, he did not panic.
This is not surprising, Xuanci is the temporary abbot, if there is no conclusive evidence that he is the murderer, people like the county lieutenant don't want to get out of Lingwu Temple.
Lingwu Temple, where incense has flourished for nearly two decades, has long been a tiger entrenched, and extraordinary hunters can shake it.
"Go and invite the people outside the gate of the temple. The officer has to ask more questions." The county lieutenant looked very calm and ordered Zhao to catch his head.
Soon a group of people rushed in, filling the courtyard for questioning in an instant.
The night has never been able to stop the people’s enthusiasm for watching the excitement. What's more, this time the excitement was full of twists and turns. First, the Li family in the next town came to collect the corpse, and then fished out the young master of the Liu family cloth shop in the town. People chopped.
I regretted thirty years if I missed this excitement!
"The villagers are invited in because Liu Sheng's mother was also seriously injured and killed. The two lives are of great importance, and the officer has to ask the villagers something more." The county lieutenant whispered a few words to his hands and walked into the room with his hands in.
Soon the subordinate pointed out a person from the crowd and called him in.
The man was very inexplicable: "Chapter, Xiaomin lives in the west of the town. It is a nodding friendship with Liu Sheng, I don't know anything."
"If you ask you to go in, you just go in, so much nonsense!"
As soon as the people in the yamen play sideways, the ordinary people naturally become honest and walk into the room nervously.
Several people went in one by one, and Jiang Zhan wondered: "Why do I think they asked people to go in indiscriminately?"
"What I want is randomness." Jiang Si stared at the door and whispered.
Just now the woman’s finger Xuanci was very suspicious, but he was the temporary abbot, and the woman’s finger alone was not enough to convict him. At this time, the county lieutenant needed more information to kill him.
However, it is not easy to deal with such a person with great status in Qingniu Town. It is not easy to ask what the people say. This kind of irregular questioning is used to make the people questioned feel at ease.
As the night got darker, a string of lanterns under the eaves of the corridor exudes a soft light. The cool summer night is more comfortable than the day, but the mosquitoes are annoying.
Finally the door was pushed open, and the county lieutenant strode out.
There is fatigue between his brows, but his eyes are clear.
Immediately a government officer moved a chair and placed it in the courtyard. The county lieutenant sat down and looked around at the people slowly, and then drew a deep voice at the county lieutenant: "Xuanci, do you still plead guilty?"
Xuanci did not panic: "Amitabha, what is the sin of the poor monk?"
The monks stared at the county lieutenant, staring at him, and the crowd was in a riot.
These people who came in later did not know about the mysterious things of the woman's fingers.
The county veteran Yang said: "Liu Sheng's mother pointed at you before she died, does Master Xuanci want to deny it?"
"The poor monk does not deny it."
"Did you forget that the official wanted Liu Sheng's mother to point out the murderer of her son, so she pointed her finger at you, as everyone just saw."
Xuan Ci smiled faintly: "She pointed to the poor monk because she didn't know who the murderer was. Naturally, she had to ask the poor monk who was the temporary abbot for an explanation."
"Then why did the monk who you sent to protect Liu Sheng's mother attacked her?"
Xuanci looked at the Four Commandments.
Because of the words of the little maid who had previously served Liu Sheng's mother, Si Jie had been quietly surrounded by several yamen, and at this time, his face was earthy and looked straight at Xuanci.
Xuanci sighed: "Four Commandments, you are so disappointed as a teacher! For the teacher, you have ordered you to invite Liu Sheng's mother, why would you hurt others?"
Si Jie shook his whole body and shook his lips for a long time and fell to his knees: "Liu Sheng... Liu Sheng was killed by a disciple. The master sent the disciple to invite Liu Sheng's mother. The disciple was afraid that things would be exposed, so he just kept doing nothing. "
The crowd of onlookers suddenly rang out in exclamation, and it was obvious that they had heard that the monks in the monastery killed people with their own ears.
"Why did you kill Liu Sheng?"
"I--" Sijing's eyes turned straight, and his left hand quickly turned the Buddhist beads. "He ran into the back mountain sneakily. The poor monk thought he had stolen and drove him away, but he beat and scolded the poor monk for a while. Impulsively killed him by wrong hand, and saw that the big mistake had been made and pushed him into the well—"
"Papa Papa." There was a crisp applause, and the county lieutenant's face was dark.
He suddenly looked at the four seas: "Which hand does the Four Commandments use for food?"
"Left hand." Under tension, Sihai blurted out, and touched his bald head with chagrin after speaking.
"The left hand that I have been using when I saw Sijie turning the Buddha beads, plus Sihai, is enough to prove Sijie is a left-handed person?"
"Yes, so what?" Sijie asked for help and looked at Xuanci, but Xuanci remained indifferent.
"Waiting!"
Soon Wu Zuo came forward and bent over: "The murderer jammed the deceased’s neck from behind, and the finger marks on the deceased’s neck were deep and shallow to the right, proving that the murderer used his right hand."
"The murderer is right-handed, and Sijie is left-handed, which means that the murderer is someone else. And if Sijie would rather admit that he is the murderer and also defend it, it must be clear who it is?" The county captain stared at Xuanci , Asked every word.
Probably it was a monk’s habit. Xuan Ci also rubbed the Buddhist beads, and asked calmly, "What about the motive? Just as the adult said before that Jiang Er had no motive, so I will rule out his suspicion for the time being. May I ask the poor monk as a temporary abbot to harm an ordinary What is the motive of the pilgrims?"
"Motivation? You have!"