Holy Bone

Chapter 1545: Another rise to fame after Jinan Little People's Book

Jinan was greatly moved by Fatty Li's suggestion.

Eager to find out the truth of what happened more than a decade ago, he immediately decided to go to the Criminal Investigation Department's file library to investigate for clues. At this point, he couldn't wait even a moment.

But just as he was about to leave, Fatty Li raised his finger and pointed at the human flesh cushion that was still pressed by the old dog's big buttocks, and asked hesitantly: "Master Jin'an, what about this nobleman?"

Deputy Eunuch Wei, who was frightened to madness by his inner demon, had his shit and urine flowing out, his crotch was smelly, his nose and tears were rolling, he was crying and screaming, and he was shouting nonsense, "Your Majesty, please forgive me, little princess, please forgive me..."

  Looking at the Deputy Eunuch Wei who was talking nonsense, Fatty Li's eyes flashed with a fierce look. He raised his hand and made a gesture of wiping his neck, meaning whether he should kill him and avenge the late emperor?

indeed.

Keeping Deputy Eunuch Wei is a big trouble. It is not right to keep him, nor is it right to send him back to the Queen. Once he is sent back, it will undoubtedly expose himself and others.

Killing him once and for all is the best solution.

Anyway, this Deputy Eunuch Wei was not a good person either. He had done many evil things. Just the fact that he ordered the bone collector to raise a zombie named Liu Yun was enough to cause him to die dozens of times.

Perhaps it was because he had done so many bad things and had a guilty conscience, so when he saw the ghost of the late emperor coming to claim his life, he was frightened and turned into a mentally ill lunatic.

Jin'an looked with disgust at Deputy Eunuch Wei, who was being used as a human cushion by the old dog, and ordered Fatty Li to go to the vegetable market to buy a recently dead turtle.

Fatty Li was very fast. He left in a hurry and came back in a hurry, bringing back a smelly dead turtle in his hand.

The old Taoist priest covered his nose and said, "What a smelly turtle. Fatty Li, are you sure this turtle just died today?"

Fatty Li said as a matter of course, "Of course, I am wearing the uniform of the Criminal Investigation Department. Who dares to defraud me, the Criminal Investigation Department, if they think that I have been wearing a head on my neck for too long? Isn't this like an old man hanging himself in the Criminal Investigation Department, looking for death?"

The old Taoist priest was groping at the dead turtle with doubt. It was a green-headed turtle, commonly known as the flower turtle. It got its name from the green and yellow stripes on its head, neck and limbs. It was about a foot long.

The old Taoist priest suddenly grabbed the tail of an old dog nearby, and then used it as a horse brush to roughly brush back and forth on the turtle's back. After wiping off the thick moss, a copper coin was revealed. The copper coin was covered with verdigris because it was too old, and it was rusted together with the turtle's back.

It was precisely because the copper coin was covered with copper rust green, which was similar in color to the turtleback moss, that no one noticed it at first.

The old Taoist priest glanced at Fatty Li and said, "It's obvious that this turtle was stolen from a wishing pond in some temple. The copper coin on its back is the best evidence."

Pilgrims have the habit of throwing coins into the wishing well to make a wish, so the old Taoist priest said this.

  The old Taoist priest continued to ask Fatty Li where this dead turtle came from?

Even Jin An watched with great interest.

The old dog took back its tail in one bite and rescued it from the old Taoist priest. At the end, it sniffed its tail, then stuck out its tongue and began to retch.

I don’t know how long the wishing pool has not been cleaned. The water is turbid and the moss is thick. No wonder it can kill a longevity turtle.

Fatty Li coughed awkwardly at first, then cried out in injustice: "This damn turtle, I did buy it at the market..."

"I just arrived at the market, and I saw someone selling turtles. The price was cheap, and I was worried that someone else would snatch it away if I acted too late. I was also concerned about you, Taoist Jin'an, who was anxious to buy it, so I bought it after asking a few simple questions... After all, Taoist Jin'an didn't say that he was buying the turtle at public expense, and I haven't married yet, so I can save as much as I can..."

"But I really didn't know that this dead turtle was a wishing turtle from a temple. I saw that they were all turtles and thought they were caught from some reservoir, so I bought them without asking where they came from."

"Fatty, I'm going to Caishikou right now to catch the thief who stole the temple's wishing turtle and sold it."

Fatty Li turned around angrily and was about to leave, but after waiting for a long time, there was no movement behind him. He turned around and saw Jin An standing there with a smile on his face: "Master Jin An, why didn't you stop me, Fatty?"

Jin An was amused by Fatty Li's antics and said, "Okay, if you buy it, then buy it. If you really want to go back and arrest people, others will mistakenly think that our Criminal Investigation Department is abusing public resources for private purposes, forcing people to buy and sell, and bullying the people."

Although Fatty Li is thick-skinned, he would never do anything that would bring shame to the Criminal Investigation Department. What Fatty Li said just now was just a roundabout way of provoking them, hoping that Jin'an and the old Taoist priest could keep him.

What he met instead was an old fox and a little fox, who were very good at understanding people's minds and saw through his little thoughts at a glance. They just stood there and did not stop him.

Jin An didn't let Fatty Li continue to be embarrassed. He took the dead turtle from the wishing pond and gave it a quick inspection. It was indeed dead today, but the water quality where it lived was too poor. It smelled pungent, as if it had been dead for many days.

Of course Jin'an suddenly had an appetite and wanted to eat the tonic soup made from turtles. He cut open the turtle's body, then rescued the deputy eunuch Wei from under the old dog's big butt, and used the art of animal creation. In front of everyone, a living person was transformed into a large green-headed turtle with rusty copper coins on its back.

Seeing that Jin'an did not kill Deputy Eunuch Wei to silence him and destroy the clues, but instead turned into a big green-headed turtle, the old Taoist and Fatty Li looked puzzled.

Jin An said with a smile: "The Xiangshan Wuzang Taoist Temple that Emperor Kang Zhao gave us has been built. It just so happens that the rockery and pond are in need of a few golden dragon fish and turtles for pilgrims to enjoy. This flower turtle is just right."

In fact, Jin'an spared the eunuch's life for his own selfish reasons.

He hoped that one day the eunuch would regain consciousness and allow him to re-interrogate the many secrets from more than a decade ago.

The situation of Deputy Eunuch Wei is different from that of Li Yan of Youpeng Inn.

The latter is when one of the three souls and seven spirits is destroyed, leaving the soul and spirit incomplete, leading to dementia and being hopeless.

Deputy Eunuch Wei was frightened to the point of madness, with his three souls and seven spirits still intact.

"How many?"

The old Taoist priest and Fatty Li focused their attention on this quantifier, and couldn't help but wonder how many more people would be unlucky enough to be kept as fish...

Speaking of Xiangshan, the old Taoist priest immediately became excited: "Little brother, you don't know, Xiangshan Wuzang Taoist Temple is built in a very impressive manner. After all, a whole mountain was given to you! Xiangshan Wuzang Taoist Temple occupies a larger area than the Taoist temples in Wuzhou Prefecture, Jiangzhou Prefecture, and the capital combined. It is so magnificent!"

Jinan smiled and nodded.

The old Taoist priest suddenly realized something and slapped his head: "I forgot that you can leave your body and tour the whole city."

Jin An handed the green-headed turtle back to Fatty Li and said, "Before the Xiangshan Wuzang Taoist Temple opens, this turtle will be temporarily kept in the Criminal Investigation Department as a Feng Shui turtle. I hope that with the help of this Feng Shui turtle, the Criminal Investigation Department will be able to investigate cases smoothly in the future." "Since Fatty Li bought this turtle cheaply, Fatty Li, you should give it a good bath before using it as a Feng Shui turtle. If the Feng Shui turtle is a stinky turtle, it will make our Criminal Investigation Department stink and make those who come to report a case to the Criminal Investigation Department mistakenly think that our Criminal Investigation Department is a filthy place."

Fatty Li, who had witnessed Jin'an's transformation into a turtle, was so impressed by the green-headed turtle that he nodded quickly.

Thinking that what he was holding was not a turtle but a human, Fatty Li felt warm in his heart. The more he looked at it, the more curious it became, which fully satisfied his curiosity.

Jin An: "Fatty Li, I have one more thing to tell you. Go to the Ministry of Works tomorrow. I want to add two more temples to the Five Zang Taoist Temple in Beijing and the Five Zang Taoist Temple in Xiangshan, the Tubo Temple and the Beiji Four Saints Tianpeng Zhenjun Temple."

"Once the temples are built, we will hold the grand opening ceremony of the Xiangshan Wuzang Taoist Temple."

Fatty Li, whose mind was entirely focused on the turtle in his hand, nodded in agreement without asking why.

"It seems that my little brother had many adventures on this trip to the Taoist Huangting inner scene." The old Taoist said with a smile, twirling his beard.

Jin An smiled and said, "I will tell you in detail after I return to Wuzang Taoist Temple."

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Criminal Investigation Department Case Files Library.

This place is hidden deep in the basement of the Criminal Investigation Department, and it collects files from all over the country. Rows of huge cabinets are filled with files. People deep in it are like tiny grains of sand in the vast ocean, with no end in sight.

Jin'an walked through rows of cabinets, smelling the elegant fragrance of bamboo slips, the aroma of rice paper and ink, and the smell of anti-corrosion and moisture-proof lime powder... Finally, he found the mountain of files accumulated in the capital.

Afterwards, he sacrificed the holy fetus of lead and mercury, and created six clones, a total of seven people including his original body and clones. He began to quickly read through various files in the capital from more than ten years ago, hoping to find some clues from these files.

As long as one is a human being, there will be traces to be found.

It can't really be wiped out completely.

Here again, the magic of Qianxin Jie's ability to use dozens of things at once is demonstrated. The original body and the clone flip through the files at the same time without disturbing their minds in the slightest, and they achieve non-interference and order in every aspect.

However, so many old case files have been piled up here like a sea of ​​files. Even if seven people go without food or drink and work day and night to review the files, they cannot finish reviewing them all in just a few days.

Time passed day by day. During the few days when Jin'an was silent, the discussion about the Criminal Investigation Department in the outside world not only did not calm down, but instead gained momentum and became more and more mysterious. The shocking news that the Criminal Investigation Department forcibly abducted a popular noblewoman around the Queen in front of the Imperial Guards, and that the Queen summoned the Marquis of Shenwu to the palace three times but to no avail, had already spread beyond the capital and spread across the country like a whirlwind, causing an uproar.

Some people say that the Criminal Investigation Department is extremely bold and self-satisfied.

Some people said that since Marquis Shenwu dared to be appointed as an imperial envoy by Emperor Kang Zhao, he began to overshadow his master and abused his power for personal gain.

There were not many such remarks and they were limited to small-scale discussions. More public voices were calling for belief in the reputation that Jin'an had accumulated, for support for the Criminal Investigation Department to investigate the matter to the end, and for unanimous external support for the thorough investigation of traitors.

Some businessmen with a keen eye saw the huge interests behind the turmoil in the Criminal Investigation Department. Taking advantage of the fact that Jinan's popularity among the people had reached its peak and the whole country was hotly discussing Jinan and the Criminal Investigation Department, they engraved words overnight and rushed to print Jinan's reading materials.

But this time, we are not printing comic books such as "Jin'an Taoist Priest Fights the Headless Rain Fairy Seven Sisters" and "Jin'an Taoist Priest Riding a Peacock to Read the Spring and Autumn Annals"... Last year, the capital city inexplicably cracked down on banned books, and many booksellers were thrown into prison. The profound lesson is still fresh in our minds...

It has become a recognized fact that Jin'an Xiaorenshu is a banned book in the capital. This is a red line that must not be crossed. The government jails are open to you.

The stories that were rushed to print overnight this time were "The Case of Cannibalism and Bone Picking by the Marquis of Shenwu", "The Case of Tomb Robbery at Guimo Mountain by the Marquis of Shenwu", "The Case of Divine Religion of Incense Avenue by the Marquis of Shenwu", "The Case of Strange Incense at Tiangong Miaoge by the Marquis of Shenwu", "The Case of Tongtianxuan by the Marquis of Shenwu", "The Case of the Holy Land of Wusheng by the Taoist Priest of Jin'an", "The Case of the Immortal Mountain by the Taoist Priest of Jin'an"...

Although the businessmen smelled the interests behind it, they still underestimated the popularity of Jin'an among the people, or rather, they underestimated the popularity of the Imperial Hospital, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Queen among the people. Once these stories of solving cases were released, they were immediately snapped up and could not be bought even after several rounds of price increases. You can imagine how popular they were.

  The business in Jiangzhou Prefecture was as prosperous as that in Beijing. Merchants from Jiangzhou Prefecture traveled between Jiangzhou Prefecture and Beijing all year round. When they saw that Jin'an's strange stories about solving cases were selling so well in Beijing, even local merchants in Jiangzhou Prefecture began to get jealous! Afterwards, these merchants from Jiangzhou Prefecture successively introduced the strange cases that Jin'an had solved in Jiangzhou Prefecture!

"The Legend of Shenwu Hou Jiangzhou: The Case of the Poisonous Woman Devouring Her Child", "The Legend of Shenwu Hou Jiangzhou: The Case of the Framing after the Coffin was Covered", "The Legend of Shenwu Hou Jiangzhou: The Case of the Kidnapping and Selling of Livestock", "The Legend of Shenwu Hou Jiangzhou: The Case of the Sea-Guarding Divine Beast", "The Legend of Shenwu Hou Jiangzhou: The Case of the Rain Fairy God", "The Legend of Shenwu Hou Jiangzhou: The Case of the East China Sea Mutation", "The Legend of Shenwu Hou Jiangzhou: The Case of the Japanese in Japan", "The Legend of Shenwu Hou Jiangzhou: The Case of the South and North Money that Can Pass Through the Sky"...

Jiangzhou Prefecture originally sent a naval fleet to assist the princes in landing on the Japanese island to quell the rebellion. The Jiangzhou navy had a lot of experience along the way, and with so many sailors, there were always a few who leaked the news, and Jin'an Donghai's deeds spread among the people.

People were very curious about the future. They saw that Jin'an had already made a name for himself when he was in Jiangzhou Prefecture, even before he was conferred the title of Divine Marquis. He had frequently solved strange and unjust cases, and everyone was scrambling to get his hands on him, with demand exceeding supply.

When the booksellers in the capital saw that the merchants from Jiangzhou Prefecture were also coming to compete for their business, they began to suppress them ruthlessly, hoping to have the food all to themselves.

It is said that things are valuable because they are scarce. Looking at the scene of people bidding up prices and scrambling to buy goods, and the streets being deserted, which businessman would be willing to give away the fat meat that is already in his mouth?

  Moreover, every time Jiangnan merchants took away a local engraver or printer from the capital, they would lose a engraver or printer.

In the first few days, the merchants in Jiangzhou Prefecture were indeed severely suppressed, but as they formed alliances and combined their connections and resources in the capital, they gradually gained a firm foothold among the booksellers in the capital. The two sides fought back and forth, and if you had a divine case, I also had a divine case; if you had a Tongtian case, I also had a Tongtian case.

This dispute between northern and southern booksellers ultimately benefited the common people, the Criminal Investigation Department, and Jin'an.

The Criminal Investigation Department saw that someone was building up reputation for itself, so it adopted a lenient policy of turning a blind eye to those booksellers who printed books privately, as long as they did not print the Jin'an comic books which were banned.

In this carnival of civil and commercial activities, Jin'an benefited the most, because Jin'an's popularity was pushed to a higher level. The world knows that the current Shenwu Hou is a martial arts immortal, who is a master of calculations and strategies, a genius in the court, a master of solving cases, the number one detective, who can settle unjust, false and wrong cases and plead for the people, and can solve the eternal strange cases and set the world right.

He is observant, hates evil, is not afraid of power, and is loyal and courageous.

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While the outside world was in turmoil, the Wuzang Taoist Temple was peaceful and calm, because Jin An had been staying in the document library and had not come out, and the old Taoist priest was still working hard all night to make three thousand unique detoxification pills.

"There are three thousand beauties in the harem, it's not something a human can do!"

"Little brother, you are misleading me!"

The old Taoist raised his old face that was blackened by the smoke from the stove, let out a long sigh toward the sky, and then continued to concentrate on making his detoxification pills.