"Please help me spread the word, fellow villagers. Someone was so bold as to kill my junior brother in broad daylight. No matter who it was, Tianlong Temple will investigate this matter thoroughly. I will go to see the king immediately. If you know the inside story, please come to my Tianlong Temple for a cup of cold tea and tell me in detail. Whoever can find the murderer will be my benefactor."
Although Master Jinghong is panicking now, he still has to finish his role. After all, this man is his own junior fellow apprentice. If he dies here without saying anything, people outside will probably say that he is too cold-hearted. Including his own apprentices, I am afraid no one will continue to follow him.
But after saying these words, he also knew that it was useless. These people outside were just ordinary people. He had already sent many people to investigate, but in the end they found nothing. If these ordinary people knew about it, it would not be a secret.
This incident quickly spread throughout the entire Nanzhao Royal City. Including the palace guards, many people came to the vicinity to check it out. Many people also wanted to solve the case. After all, Tianlong Temple offered a reward of 5,000 strings of cash, which was not a small amount of money for ordinary people. But unfortunately, they didn't find any information. People from all sides made an enthusiastic appearance, and then dispersed extremely helplessly.
The king of Nanzhao was also puzzled. When the Shangqing Temple caught fire some time ago, he felt that the whole situation was unstable. But who knew that half a month had passed and no one had moved during this half a month. Everyone continued to watch in the dark. They thought that this matter would just pass, but they didn't expect that something would happen to someone.
If we were to say who needs stability now, the King of Nanzhao is the one who needs it the most. If Master Jinghong's junior brother was secretly sent back to Tianlong Temple, even if it was just a corpse, the King of Nanzhao would never let the news leak out. But now it is directly hung in front of the door, and even if he wanted to suppress it, he couldn't. Now most people in Nanzhao know about it.
Killing a Buddhist monk is no small matter. Many people have already said that no matter who killed Master Jingren, as long as this person can be found, he must be torn into pieces.
From the government to the people, everyone is condemning this group of thieves. First, they burned down Shangqing Temple, and then killed Master Jingren. They have no way to survive in this country.
Just when these people were denouncing him, another bombshell was revealed: Master Jingren actually had a family.
There is a small village about thirty miles away from Shangqing Temple. In the village lives a family. They are not a wealthy family in the village, but they live better than ordinary people. There is only a widow and a child in the family.
No one knew how the news spread, saying that this child was the son of Master Jingren. No one believed it at first, but when people came to see in an endless stream, everyone finally saw it. The child's eyebrows and eyes were so similar to Master Jingren's. If he had shaved his head, the resemblance would be almost 90%. If it was said that this child had no relationship with Master Jingren, how could that be possible?
Look at the age of this child, he was only eight or nine years old at most. At that time, Master Jingren was already a respected Buddhist master. Could it be that he had a child with someone else at that time?
It's like someone has been coaxed into believing in their idol, and you've placed it on a high pedestal. But this person, like any ordinary person, is forcing a woman to bear his child. How on earth is this happening? Can these devout believers accept this?
"This woman must have seduced Master Jingren..."
Devout believers can always find reasons to justify their beliefs, so before the woman could even begin to speak, they immediately condemned her for blaspheming the Buddhist master...
Originally, the woman was reluctant to speak, but after hearing the shouting outside, which was really one after another, the woman immediately stood up and told the story of the child...
It turned out that this woman was also from a poor family. Master Jingren spent fifteen taels of silver to buy her. Later, this woman also refused to obey him even if she died. After all, Master Jingren was a high monk in the temple. How could he do such a thing? It would shorten his life.
But Master Jingren was also cruel and beat the woman until her skin was torn and flesh was broken. In the end, she had no choice but to do it, and the child was born.
But just saying this was useless, as many people simply didn't believe her. The woman immediately told her story, including her hometown and other things. She also took out several large wooden boxes from her home, which contained all the money that the police master had saved...
When these things were pulled out, everyone didn't know what to say. From the outside, the house looked like an ordinary farmer's house. How could there be so much money? And many people were sharp-eyed. Some of the things inside had been seen at Master Jingren's place. If the woman was saying that she had stolen them, it was probably unlikely.
Although not many monks go to Shangqing Temple, if you want to go in and steal something, it is impossible for a weak woman to do it alone.
"This evidence is still a little insufficient. If there were more evidence, the development speed would be faster."
Long Jiu and Qian Ping were also among the crowd at the back, but they were standing on a high place and not crowded with everyone else, otherwise they wouldn't dare to talk about this so openly.
"Don't worry, these two brothers have families. If we throw this out, the senior monk in Tianlong Temple will definitely be anxious. He will definitely go and move his family away in the next two days. Then we can catch them red-handed. Will we still need evidence?"
Qian Ping said cheerfully that sometimes you don't need too much evidence, just an introduction will do. Some people are willing to spend effort on this. If you lay out everything, I'm afraid they won't be happy. They are willing to investigate on their own and the evidence they find is the real thing. The evidence found by others may be fabricated.
Seeing Qian Ping's sinister expression beside him, Long Jiu didn't know what to say. His Highness had sent this guy here to carry out the mission. He had really chosen the right person. This guy's first step was simple, which was to destroy the reputation of Tianlong Temple in this country...
