Soft and cute female mage

Chapter 105 Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva

Hongyan'er hasn't come up with any tricks yet, but everyone has discovered some clues.

Yu Xiaoting, who was the leader in front, stopped first and lowered the torch, only to see clear ruts and chaotic and orderly footprints faintly on the thin snow on the ground.

It's cold and cold in the mountains, and the snow accumulates thicker and deeper deeper into the mountains.In the first half of the journey, there was less and no difference, but when we reached the depths, the snow on the ground was already half an inch thick, so the traces were already very obvious.

Yu Xiaoting squatted down, roughly measured the marks on the ground with his hands and said:
"The footprints are less than eight inches long and four inches wide, and the stride length is about one foot eight. Considering that this person brought a heavy load here, and the place is a gentle slope, the stride length must be shorter than normal.

According to this calculation, this person is about five feet tall, male, and slightly thin.

From the rut marks, it can be seen that this is a very common two-wheeled trolley. The distance between the two wheels is about [-] feet [-] inches. The vehicle should be very small, and it is often used by mountain porters.

If there is anything special about it, it is that the vehicle may have some damage, because the tracks will obviously deepen every time, very regularly. "

Fang Ling seemed to recall some scattered memories in his heart, but a man of this height who pushed such an ordinary cart was nothing more than ordinary in the town, and he would meet ten or eight whenever he went out. That kind of people.

Ordinary is ordinary, but according to this article, it is absolutely possible to rule out that this person is Li Ruixi.

Li Ruixi was less than five feet tall and short and fat. Fang Ling could still remember his plump face and the arrogance and disdain that often appeared on his face.

At that time, it was just because his attitude towards Su'er's family was quite modest, and he thought he was doing his best to diagnose and treat Su'er.

If not, with Fang Ling's magnanimity, even if he wouldn't embarrass him, he would definitely have a few words with him.

After Yu Xiaoting inspected the marks on the ground, he led everyone to avoid the marks on the road and carefully headed towards the ruined temple.

The journey of eleven or twelve miles, and in this dark night with the howling wind and the roaring of jackals and foxes, made everyone walk out in a thin sweat.

When everyone finally arrived at their destination, they saw the dark temple door wide open, like a man-eating monster alone in the dark night with its mouth wide open.The door panel leans to one side and has long been weathered into disarray.

A huge Bodhisattva statue enshrined in the hall can be vaguely discerned among the torches.Due to the passage of time, it has long been faded, damaged and dilapidated.

And what made the crowd gasp was that with the howling north wind, the dilapidated prayer flags hanging on the beams in the temple were swaggering, but they saw a row of figures facing the Bodhisattva devoutly. Kneel in the hall.

Yu Xiaoting frowned, holding a torch and entering the hall first.I saw that the people kneeling in front of the Buddha in the hall were He Zhinian, Wang Zongli, Yang Ruquan who had been missing for a few days, and Wu Po who was kidnapped last night.

The four people's eyes were closed, their bodies were tied with ropes, and their bodies were stiff.Except for Wu Po, whose complexion was still bright red, several others were already gray-blue.

After Yu Xiaoting carefully inspected the corpse, he said:

"Po Wu's face was bright red, while the other three corpses were dirty blue. It seemed that they all froze to death.

Judging from the spots on the corpse, he should have been beaten during his lifetime.Both are head or back force, but the strength is not enough to kill, but it seems to be subdued by one move.

Because there was no obvious resistance injury except for a blow injury and a rope scratch.

The binding marks were all white in color and there were no body spots, indicating that they had been tied before death.Skin abrasions and clothing damage were caused by movement after death.

When they were dying, their bodies were lying on their stomachs or on their sides. It was obvious that they were put into this position after death.This can be seen from the location of the clusters of corpse spots.

A small amount of brown flocculent fabric was found in the nails, mouth and nose of several people, which should be cotton and linen. "

Sun Maoxing couldn't help but said after hearing this: "The murderer has that female ghost standing guard. Even if he scares them, he can scare them into unconsciousness. Naturally, he can defeat the enemy with one move."

When he thought of the female ghost, Sun Maoxing was still a little frightened. He glanced up and down, left and right, and suddenly felt a chill running down his spine and said:
"There are so many dead people here, are there ghosts too?"

Hearing the words, Red Eye suddenly poked his head out from his shoulder and said eeriely:

"Isn't that what I am?"

Sun Maoxing suddenly seemed to be faced with a looming ghost face. He jumped three feet high and jumped behind Yu Xiaoting with a scream. His movements were done in one go and very quickly.

Fang Ling cast a red eye and whispered:

"You who are in the barren mountains and wild mountains don't want to scare people anymore! People scare people and scare people to death, let alone you are not alone."

Hongyan'er slandered inwardly with great displeasure, feeling more and more that Fang Ling discriminated against him.

Yu Xiaoting raised his leg and held on to him tightly. Sun Maoxing, who was shrinking into a ball, kicked him and said:

"A worthless piece of goods is worse than a girl!"

Turning to the crowd who roared with laughter, he said:

"Okay, now that the body has been found, let's start working quickly."

Sun Maoxing, who was ridiculed by everyone, looked around helplessly, feeling that he had not made a mistake just now.

Seeing Yu Xiaoting's words, all the government officials began to hold up torches in cooperation and began to survey around.

Yu Xiaoting frowned and stared at the four corpses.

"Why did the murderer go to all the trouble to tie the four of them here and freeze them alive? If he just wanted to take their lives, he could have chosen a more trouble-free method.

Now that it has been subdued, wouldn't it be more straightforward to end it with a knife? "

Fang Ling was holding a torch to study the statues in the temple. When he heard what Yu Xiaoting said, he turned around and said:

"I think it may have something to do with this Bodhisattva."

Yu Xiaoting was puzzled: "How do you say that?"

Fang Ling pointed to the mottled statue, "I don't know what I know, but the Bodhisattva enshrined in the temple is Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

It is said that when he rescued his mother from trouble, he saw great suffering in the netherworld, so he made a vow that "until hell is empty, I will never become a Buddha until all sentient beings are saved, and then I can achieve Bodhi."

After that, he entered the nether world alone, crossing all the evil spirits and evil spirits in the nether world to escape from the darkness and suffering.

Therefore, the halls dedicated to Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva are all sentient beings in the netherworld.

But this has led to folk rumors mistakenly believing that Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is the Bodhisattva who rules over evil spirits in the underworld and rules the endless hell.

I think the reason why the murderer tied up these four people and forced them to kneel in front of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is because he felt that these four people were extremely sinful people and should go to hell after death, so he forced them to repent here forever. . "

Yu Xiaoting thought, "In order to obtain the Zihe Car, Po Wu conspired with Li Ruixi to kill many unborn fetuses.

He Zhinian had purchased Zihe cars from Li Ruixi many times, which was the culprit of the sin.

Yang Ruquan and Wang Zongli were also considered guilty by the murderer when they wanted to buy Zihe cars. "

Fang Ling was also a little confused, "But the source of all this, Li Ruixi is not here? Who killed them because they thought they were just?"

"If the prediction is correct, it is very likely that he is a relative of the victim. The murderer should be among the people for whom Po Wu delivered the baby but had an accident.

As for Li Ruixi, he was the first to disappear, and he was probably the first to be killed.

Do you think there is anything strange about the arrangement of these four people? "

(End of this chapter)