Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 22 Mysterious Ice Gu
Li Canghai also fell silent. He searched through the knowledge in his mind, but couldn't find any information about this zerg.

"Miss Qing, you have been walking in the rivers and lakes for many years and have seen a lot. Have you ever heard of these insects?" Li Canghai suddenly asked Di Qing. Since there is no official history, there may be clues in the wild history to solve the case. Tao is to start from different aspects.

Di Qing tilted her head, her right hand continued to play with the hair on her shoulders, after a while, she clapped her hands suddenly, and said: "Oh, I remembered, I once heard from the master that there is a kind of Gu worm in this world. , named 'Xuan Ice Gu Worm', seems to be able to produce ice."

Mysterious ice Gu worm?Several people showed astonishment, it is hard to believe that there are such strange insects in the world.

"Where can this kind of Gu be found?" Knowing that all the information might be the key to solving the case, Li Canghai asked hastily.

Di Qing shook her head and said: "I only heard about it, but I never thought that this Gu insect really existed. However, it is said that there is a Tianzhu monk in the White Horse Temple who has identified poisonous insects in the world, maybe he will know something. "

Di Qing's statement brought a breakthrough to the whole case, Li Canghai thought for a while, and said, "Miss Qing, I need your help with something."

Li Canghai asked Di Ying for the direction of the ice room, and then asked him to gather everyone at noon to do it outside the clan hall, and then took Di Qing away.

In ancient times, unlike modern times, in order to avoid the scorching heat, rich families usually built ice houses.

"Why did you bring me to the ice room?" In the ice room, Di Qing rubbed her hands and asked in a puzzled way.

Li Canghai took an ice chisel in his hand, found a piece of ice and chiseled it.

"That Gu worm is weird, it will wake up when it comes into contact with the outside temperature, or even melt directly. I got some ice cubes, and I want you to help take them to the White Horse Temple, so that the eminent monk can identify them."

Di Qing suddenly let out a sigh, and while Li Canghai was digging ice, she wandered around the ice room bored.

She had never been in this ice room since it was built, and it was very hot at this time, and the temperature in the ice room made her feel very comfortable.

Suddenly, Di Qing noticed something strange, and hurriedly shouted: "Li Canghai, come quickly!"

Hearing Di Qing's yell, he thought Di Qing was in danger, so he hurried over.

But she saw Di Qing squatting in a corner, observing something carefully.

"Look, why is this piece of ice not smooth and flat, but sunken! The second brother is really, I don't know how to let those craftsmen smooth the ice surface, it will destroy the beauty!" Di Qing pointed at the ice in front of her, Very disappointed to accuse those craftsmen of negligence.

Li Canghai rolled his eyes, when will this little girl get rid of her fussy character!

He shook his head, and was about to turn around and leave when he caught a glimpse of the ice wall inadvertently, and his whole body shivered suddenly.

He found that those depressions resembled the outline of a person!
Li Canghai squatted down hastily, and gestured towards the depression. After a while, he exhaled and thought, "As expected, this so-called depression is actually the outline of a human body.

"You mean, this depression was made by someone leaning on it?" Di Qing asked with a look of astonishment.

Li Canghai nodded solemnly, and said, "This depression just forms an outline, which should be melted by the temperature of the human body." He closed his eyes and touched the unclear marks, and then said, "The depression melts." The ice is very shallow, indicating that the body temperature of this person is not high, and it is likely to be caused by the residual heat left on the body of the person who just died."

Li Canghai's mind was spinning rapidly, he suddenly jumped up as if suddenly enlightened, and said in a low voice: "Could it be him who is the murderer?"

"Do you know who the murderer is?" Di Qing asked curiously.

Li Canghai breathed a sigh of relief, rubbed his hands together and said, "Now everything is just speculation, and there is no evidence to prove what I think. Miss Qing, I still need to trouble you to go to the White Horse Temple, and it would be best to invite an eminent monk here."

Di Qing puffed out her chest, and said proudly: "With this heroine on board, there is no one who cannot be invited when this heroine goes out."

Li Canghai smiled, he had locked the murderer in his heart, what was missing now was conclusive evidence.

Near noon, Li Canghai once again set up the altar in front of the Di family hall.

There are about [-] people in Di's family, all of them are here.

Different from the last time, when he did it this time, he asked everyone to take off their shoes and stand barefoot on the stone slab.

Everyone obeyed his command and put their shoes behind them. Li Canghai then walked up behind everyone with the 'Sacred Water' with burning yellow talismans, dipped in the water and sprinkled it one by one.

Li Canghai observed those shoes while sprinkling water.

Among these shoes, except for the women of the Di family, the rest of the shoes were more or less stained with mud or a little flour, and only one pair of shoes was exceptionally clean.

The owner of this pair of shoes was the servant who discovered the body in the first place.

Li Canghai continued to sprinkle water expressionlessly. After sprinkled water, he led the crowd to pray. The whole process lasted for less than half an hour.

It wasn't until a yamen servant walked up to Liang Xiu and said something to him, and Liang Xiu nodded to Li Canghai again, that Li Canghai stopped.

"The Yin and Yang of the heaven and the earth, everything transforms into shape, opens into the darkness, ghosts and gods escape. Infinite Heavenly Venerable!" Li Canghai murmured for a few times, but suddenly he trembled all over, his eyes turned white, and he shook desperately as if in hysteria. stand up.

The sudden change frightened everyone, Di Ying stood up in a panic, and was about to go up to see what happened, when Li Canghai yelled: "Sit down!"

Di Ying was stunned instantly. He saw that Li Canghai had returned to his original state, but his eyes were full of sternness and majesty.

"This seat is the Heavenly Venerable of Nine Heavens Responding to the Thunder of the Yuan, who came from the Pantao Society. The way I met here was blocked by resentment. I knew there was grievance here, so I came here to save the dead!"

At this time, just as a thunderbolt sounded from the sky, Li Canghai immediately shouted loudly in the name of the gods.

The sound of thunder was so coincidental that everyone was stunned and fell to their knees in fright.

"You wait for mortals and listen to yourself. Killing people to pay for their lives is the way of heaven. Although I know who the murderer is, I think there is a virtue in heaven. I hope the murderer can admit it himself."

Li Canghai's eyes widened with anger, his face was livid, his eyes swept across the crowd, bringing out a coercion that made everyone panic.

"No one admits it, so I have no choice but to point it out myself." Li Canghai's face was stiff, without any emotional fluctuations.

He walked up to the crowd, pointed with his hand, and said, "The murderer is you!"

"Me? No, it wasn't me, the murderer wasn't me!" That person was the owner of the new shoes, the servant who found the body, Li Er.

Li Er panicked and almost cried, he turned to Di Ying for help and said, "Master, I didn't kill anyone, you have to make the decision for the little one!"

Di Ying was also a little puzzled. He bent down and tremblingly said: "Tianzun, are you mistaken? Li Er is simple in character and hardworking. How could he commit murder? Besides, Wang You is not Died of the curse?"

(End of this chapter)