Dali Temple Conspiracy Records

Chapter 49 Infiltrate
According to Li Guan's arrangement, Murong Ke ostentatiously went up the mountain to build roads with the villagers, while Li Guan and Bai Sanxiu went up from the back of the mountain, and after confirming that the old woman had gone to the front to greet the villagers, they sneaked into the mountain temple.

The two went to the kitchen to check first, and the sugar on the stove overflowed again, attracting a large group of insects and ants.The ground was quite clean, and it was hard to see if the japonica rice was still floating around.It seems that even if there is a case monster, the obsession is not very strong.

After the investigation, the two came to the main house in the backyard, where the old woman lived.Just as Bai Sanxiu said, the furnishings in this room are also very simple, an earthen kang occupies the main space of the room, and the rest of the furniture includes an old wooden cabinet, a square table and a wooden bench.The whole room can be seen through at a glance.

Li Quan walked around the room and knocked on the walls, but found nothing as expected.

"Do you still smell that stinking damp?" he asked.

Bai Sanxiu nodded: "Well, it's more obvious than before."

"It's true, I smell it too. Where do you think it's the strongest?"

Bai Sanxiu sniffed around earnestly, finally pointed to the kang, and said uncertainly: "Over there. I just opened the window to let in the wind, so it's a little scattered."

"Pay attention to the movement on the other side of the temple." As he spoke, Li Quan climbed onto the kang and lifted off the bedding.

This earth kang is built with mud and residual bricks, covered with a layer of mud boards, followed by kang mats and bedding.Li Quan explored around the edge of the kang, and suddenly stopped at the southeast corner, groping carefully.Then he touched a flap.

This cover plate is actually a thin stone slab, but because it is covered with a layer of mud, it is integrated with the whole kang, and it is difficult to see without careful identification.He found a gap and pushed hard——

"vomit!"

The strong and pungent smell burst into his nose suddenly, Bai Sanxiu's stomach turned violently, and he almost vomited it out on the spot.She finally suppressed the urge to vomit, and heard Li Quan say: "Candle."

She quickly lit a candle, held her breath and handed it over, and saw that Li Quan had calmly covered his mouth and nose with a cloth handkerchief.She stretched her neck and looked, only to see that there was a black hole under the lifted cover, and there was a strong, damp, rancid smell wafting out, like a bottomless abyss.Seeing that Li Quan was about to go down, she couldn't help asking worriedly: "What's down there? Do you want to call Shangguan to come again?"

"It's just a cellar, not deep." Li Guan first leaned forward to test the cellar entrance with a candle, and then went down holding the candle.Bai Sanxiu stood guard at the door of the main house, looking worriedly at the kang, wanting to go down more than once to make sure he was safe.After about a cup of tea, Li Quan came up again, carefully covered the cover, spread out the bedding, blew out the candles and put them back in their original positions.Everything is back to normal, and looks like nothing out of the ordinary.

Obviously, the smell inside the cellar was stronger than outside, even if Li Quan had handled too many cases, his face turned pale from the smoke.

"Are you all right, Si Zhi?"

"It's okay." He and Bai Sanxiu left the main house together, took off the cloth towel and walked all the way to the back mountain, only to breathe deeply several times.After expelling all the filth in his lungs, his complexion eased. "Go, go to the county government office."

"Is there anything down here?"

"There are two corpses. One has long been boned, and the other is still swollen and decayed. It didn't take long to die." He said seriously.

Bai Sanxiu suddenly had an ominous premonition.

(End of this chapter)