Awakening Day Collection

Chapter 19 Bloody Birthday (4)
"Please leave immediately!" The temple master waved his hand violently, turned around and left while leaning on his cane.Feng Si wanted to follow, but was stopped by the one-eyed Taoist priest.This Taoist priest was quite strong, Feng Si stretched out his hand and pushed, but he didn't push it away.

"Why can't you tell me?" Fons shouted. "I just want to know who he is, and I'm not interested in anything else!"

"All the things in the past have long since vanished," said the temple master, "Please don't disturb the place of Taoism with common things anymore!"

"Master Qingxiu!" Feng Si yelled, "Do you think I can't guess what happened? That Xuan Hezi is not a Taoist priest at all, but just pretending to be a Taoist priest. Although you know this, you still take him in." Kill him because he promised you benefits!"

The temple master shuddered and stopped in his tracks. Feng Si knew that he had guessed right, so he simply continued: "He just needs an identity so that he can stay here for a long time and look for what he wants. Limited by the level of education, people tend to be more superstitious, and it is easier to deceive others by pretending to be a Taoist priest. And you have become his accomplice! You are his accomplice, so you dare not answer me!"

The temple master stood there, silent for a long time, and finally turned around.He gestured, and the one-eyed Taoist left Feng Si and dragged a chair over.The temple master sat down and said in a low voice, "Xuan Hezi's adopted child is over there. Be careful not to frighten him, he is very afraid of strangers."

The temple master pointed to the lame little Taoist priest.Feng Si's heart moved, and he looked at the little Taoist priest, only to realize that he was not only lame, but also had a dull expression on his face, as if he had a congenital mental defect.The little Taoist seemed to be interested in Feng Si, and got very close, but when he saw Feng Si looking at him, he immediately looked very afraid, and suddenly shrank behind a pillar, and the cuffs of the Taoist robe exposed outside the pillar showed his figure The incongruity is large, and it is still patched, obviously it was modified from an adult's old Daoist robe.

This little Taoist priest is actually a little older than me, Feng Si thought, but he still looks like a child.

"When Xuan Hezi adopted him, we knew that he had bad intentions, because he was not a Taoist priest in our Taoist temple at all." The master said, "Just half a year before that incident, he came to our Taoist temple and promised Give us a sum of money every month, and ask us to let him live in the temple as a Taoist priest. Not only did he pay the money for a year on the spot, but he also promised to give us an extra gift before leaving. You also saw , Qiyun Temple is poor and dilapidated, and I wanted to repair it since my master's time, but I just couldn't find the money. So I... didn't think much about it, so I agreed to him. "

"I can't blame you. The world is difficult, and survival is not easy. Anyone else would be tempted." Feng Si held the hot tea brought by the one-eyed Taoist priest, and spoke more politely.

"Of course I also asked him why he wanted to live in our poor and difficult place, and for a long time. He told me that he just needed to find something nearby." The viewer said, "Probably because he was worried that we would also get up. Unnecessary greed, he said a few more words, saying that what he was looking for was not some valuable treasure, but a person or some people. We don't need to do anything, just cover his identity. "

"Looking for someone, or some people..." Feng Si suddenly had a flash of inspiration, "What he is looking for is actually a baby, right? He must often go to the nearby mountain villages in the temple to find out where there are pregnant women. right?"

"How do you know?" The temple master was very surprised, "Could it be that you...could you..."

"I guess, I might be the person he really wants to find." Feng Si smiled slightly.

The host was dumbfounded, subconsciously wanted to stand up, Feng Si waved his hand: "Don't bother, your body is tiring enough to move. Don't worry, the person he is looking for may not be the ogre king, the ogre king I might not be happy to eat your old meat, right?"

"That's...that's true," the temple master scratched his scalp, "You still donated money for incense, and those who give money are good people... Let me continue—where did I go?"

"I'm asking you, does he care much about the pregnant women around here?" Fons said.

"That's right, he pretended to be a kind-hearted Taoist priest, visited pregnant women everywhere, and gave them anti-birth charms, so the nearby villagers respected him very much." The temple master said, "I once suspected that he was a criminal who trafficked people. But the few children born in the village were not in any danger. On the contrary, he even delivered medicine, so we gradually let go of our suspicions. Until he adopted Huixin..."

"How did he adopt this child? Did he pick it up?" Feng Si asked.

The viewer shook his head: "No, the child was a posthumous child. The mother was an ordinary peasant woman in a mountain village. When she was six months pregnant, her husband was working at a construction site in the city and died in a construction accident. It is said that the wound on his body was very strange. , It doesn’t seem to be caused by accident, it seems that there is a possibility of murder. However, no one paid special attention to the death of such a migrant worker from other places. The construction company and the developer tried their best to calm the matter, so in the end it was handled as an accident gone."

"If I'm not mistaken, after the child was born, his mother also died in an accident, right?" Feng Si's eyes sparkled.

"Well, half a month later, a cold that didn't look serious turned into acute pneumonia, or it just looked like acute pneumonia," the master sighed, "and the relatives of that family in the local area also He was very poor, and no one was willing to raise another child, so Xuan Hezi took him back logically. He probably had great expectations for Huixin, and even stayed by Huixin's side when he was sleeping. Later, Huiming— It was me, the one-eyed apprentice, who once discovered that Xuan Hezi had a secret conversation with some pilgrims who came up the mountain. Those people should actually be his accomplices, and they probably came to inquire about Huixin's situation.

"But as Huixin grew up, we found that his intelligence was obviously abnormal, and one of his legs gradually lost function. It could be seen that it was a congenital defect. This disappointed Xuan Hezi very much. He became very irritable and restless. He spoke harsh words to Huiming and me. It’s just that the money he promised has been paid all the time, so I have been tolerating him all the time. Greed is at work, alas!
"Then came the day when the bloody case happened... Yes, it was the case that happened in the private clinic in the city. Half a month before the case happened, an accomplice came to the mountain to find Xuan Hezi, and Xuan Hezi talked with him He was very excited after the incident. In the next few days, he went down the mountain frequently, and the last time he went down the mountain was five days before the murder. After that, we never saw him again, and we never mentioned it to any outsiders. , I thought this matter would pass like this. Sigh, it’s that Zhai talkative..."

Feng Si gradually figured out some clues. It seemed that he was not the only target in this bizarre incident whose origin could not be found for the time being.The fake Taoist Xuan Hezi obviously has a certain screening method and standard, so he will locate the mountain near Qiyun Temple, and look for the baby he wants to find here.In addition, this method is not perfect, and it cannot be locked for him [-]%, so he wasted a year or two on Huixin, who was born with mental defects.But in the end, he found his biological mother, and on the night of delivery, he caused a tragedy.

What kind of baby is what this group of people need?

"What is Xuan Hezi's real name?" Feng Si asked, "Did he leave anything behind when he left?"

"He never mentioned his name from the beginning to the end, so I can only use that false dao name to call him. As for things, he was very cautious and left nothing behind."

It seemed that the old Taoist priest hadn't lied. Feng Si thanked him and left.After taking two steps, he stopped suddenly, hesitated for a moment, and opened his mouth to ask: "Monastery Master, I want to ask you, do you think... do ghosts and gods exist in the world? You must never use the phrase "ghosts and gods are only in people's hearts" This kind of bullshit line to fool me. I want to hear the truth."

"I used to watch a pirated CD, a Taiwanese movie, a horror movie called "Double Eyes." The viewer smiled leisurely, showing his incomplete yellow front teeth. "There is a line in the movie, which I think is quite interesting. .”

"What line?"

"If you asked me whether I believe in gods or aliens, I would definitely not choose the latter."

"This is more nonsense than what I just said..."

(End of this chapter)