Abyss of ignorance

Chapter 266 Two pairs of shoes

"You see the point." Lin Xiaodong whispered, "Long sleeves, no one knows if your arm is injured."

Although Yue Jianfeng didn't know why Lin Xiaodong suddenly wanted to look at Chenghuang Temple to investigate, but after so many years of partnering, he trusted Lin Xiaodong, not to mention the incident at the lottery shop a while ago, which proved that Lin Xiaodong was indeed right.

Only this time, he didn't understand why it was so mysterious. This was very unlike Lin Xiaodong's style.

"The few questions you raised last time have been rectified. I'll take you to have a look." The Taoist priest said.

Lin Xiaodong and Yue Jianfeng looked at each other in blank dismay, they didn't expect this Taoist priest to be quite "into the world" when he opened his mouth.

Wang Dui was obviously familiar with this Taoist priest, and said, "Daoist Master Dong, can I trouble you to show us around today?"

"Where is it, it should be." Dong Daochang said and led them to go in. Lin Xiaodong took the opportunity to pat him on the arm and said politely: "Thanks for your hard work."

"Oh, you're welcome." Daoist Dong didn't change his face. It seems that there is no injury on his hand. It is indeed too philistine to speak like this, and it fits well with the fireworks of the Town God's Temple.

"Are you a Taoist priest since childhood?" Yue Jianfeng couldn't help asking curiously.

Dong Daochang smiled and said: "Pindao is a monk halfway, and he used to be a bus driver."

"So that's how it is..." Yue Jianfeng nodded, "How many Taoist priests do you have here?"

Daoist Dong expressed a little doubt that the person in front of him who came to inspect the fire protection didn't care about fire prevention, but cared about the Taoist priest, but he still replied: "There are only three of us including the poor Taoist.

"Oh, where are the other two people today?" Lin Xiaodong stepped forward and asked.

"Here, isn't the one right there?" Dong Daochang pointed, and sure enough, not far away, a Taoist priest in his twenties was sorting out the tributes of the City God.

"The other one probably went out to do errands early in the morning and hasn't come back yet," he continued.

Although the City God's Temple in Laoximen is old, it is not large in area. Team Wang, who led the team, looked at it carefully and explained the hidden dangers to Taoist Dong.Lin Xiaodong and Yue Jianfeng were obviously absent-minded. Lin Xiaodong pretended to walk behind the young Taoist priest casually, bumped into his arm, and then grasped the place where he hit him just now to "apologize": "Oh! I'm sorry, are you okay?"

"It's okay, it's okay." The little Taoist replied politely, it seemed that it wasn't him, not to mention that his age didn't match.

"Wang Dui, shall we go to the backyard to have a look?" Lin Xiaodong walked over and said.

Team Wang understood the situation and said to Taoist Dong: "Since we are here, let's take a look. It's also for your own good."

Dong Daochang didn't mind: "The backyard is the wing room where the three of us live. I'll take you there, but it shouldn't be a problem."

"Practitioners live in a relatively simple way." Dong Daochang opened the doors of the three wing rooms, and the furnishings inside were indeed very simple.

"Which one is the room of the priest who hasn't come back yet?" Lin Xiaodong asked.

"You said Daoist Ding, this is the one." Daoist Dong pointed.

After Lin Xiaodong walked in, he went straight to look at the shoes beside the bed. There were two pairs in total, both of which were cloth shoes.

Yue Jianfeng followed behind him, and the moment they saw the sole of the shoe, they looked at each other tacitly.

The soles of cloth shoes are different from other shoes. The dotted lines on them are exactly the same as the shoe prints extracted at the Dongshi site.

In this bedroom, only Lin Xiaodong and Yue Jianfeng knew what this discovery meant.

However, Lin Xiaodong looked at the two pairs of shoes neatly placed, and asked Dong Daochang another question: "I see that there is only one pair of shoes in the other two rooms, why does Ding Daochang have two pairs here?"

Dong Daochang listened and said as usual: "Oh, we usually only have two pairs of cloth shoes..." As he spoke, he suddenly realized something and murmured, "Strange, why are his two pairs of shoes still there?"

Lin Xiaodong couldn't help but frown: "Are you sure that Daoist Ding only has two pairs of shoes? Are there other shoes for going out?"

Dong Daochang shook his head: "I haven't seen him with other shoes. Could it be that he went out barefoot today?"

"It's also possible that he didn't go out at all." Lin Xiaodong said in a deep voice, stood up and looked carefully at every place in the bedroom, "Did someone clean his room today?"

"We all cleaned it ourselves, what's the matter?" Dong Daochang obviously felt that the two "firefighters" in front of him were very strange, but besides the strangeness, there seemed to be an indescribable uneasiness at the moment, and he didn't know where it came from.

"There are no footprints on the ground. It has been cleaned..." Lin Xiaodong looked at the ground and then back at the bed. "He was taken away from the bed without shoes. Even the quilt was folded..." he said He squinted his eyes, knowing that the visitor was not good.

"When was the last time you saw Daoist Ding?" Yue Jianfeng hurriedly asked Daoist Dong.

"Ah, last night, before going to bed, this is..." He looked blankly at the two people in front of him.

"What about in the temple? Did you hear any special sounds last night?" Lin Xiaodong asked.

Dong Daochang looked at the two people blankly, and finally couldn't help asking: "Who are you?"

Lin Xiaodong tore off his mask and showed his ID: "We are from the Criminal Police Brigade. I suspect that Daoist Ding of yours is related to a criminal case. He didn't want to startle the snake. It seems that this 'snake' has an accident by itself now." .”

"Wait? You said Daoist Ding broke the law? Or something happened?" For Daochang Dong, the amount of information was too much.

"Both are possible. The most urgent thing is to find him. If he only has these two pairs of shoes according to what you said, either he walked barefoot, or he didn't walk by himself at all." Yue Jianfeng also said He took off his mask and said to Daochang Dong while breathing.

"Let's think about it first. Did you hear anything special last night?" Lin Xiaodong asked again.

Dong Daochang finally thought about it seriously: "Speaking of which, there is indeed a sound in the hall in the middle of the night, just the sound of things being knocked over. However, sometimes wild cats and wild dogs will come to dig tributes to eat at night, and it is normal to have noises. I didn't think much about it..."

After hearing this, Lin Xiaodong immediately walked towards the main hall.

The little Taoist priest was still in the main hall. Seeing that, Lin Xiaodong stepped forward and grabbed him and asked, "You were the first one to come here this morning to sort out the offerings, right?"

The little Taoist priest was confused by this sudden question, and nodded in confusion: "Ah, yes..."

"Did the tribute be overturned when you came?" Lin Xiaodong continued to ask.

The little Taoist shook his head: "No, everything is fine, I just noticed that some fruits are not fresh, so I replaced them with new ones..."

(End of this chapter)