Conan: The Self-cultivation of Fake Wine

There is nothing much to say about this villa itself. At first glance, the room seems empty, with nothing but a layer of tatami mats.

And judging from the yellowish and dull color of the tatami, it seems that it has been used for a long time.

The only thing worth noting is that the old monk also ordered it in advance.

A statue in a glass case sits in the corner of the room.

Looking at this statue, the old monk seemed to be quite emotional. After a moment of silence, he pointed at the statue and said slowly: "This is King Duowen, one of the Four Heavenly Kings."

Oh, the four heavenly kings who just made cameo appearances in Journey to the West.

However, although they are just supporting roles in Journey to the West, in Buddhist scriptures, they are famous Buddhist guardians, four gods among the twenty heavens, located in the first heaven.

"Other rooms contain the King of Dhrita, the King of Growth, and the King of Guangmu. Donors must be careful not to damage these statues. They are statues of gods that have been passed down in our temple for several generations."

"No problem, don't worry, Master." Lu Ren pulled Conan over, "I will definitely keep an eye on them."

A child of seven or eight is the time when people hate dogs. Perhaps this was what the old monk was worried about. Seeing Lu Ren's assurance, he clasped his hands together and recited the Buddha's name.

"The poor monk has evening classes to do, so I'll take my leave now. The quilt will be delivered after a while."

"Master, walk slowly."

Watching the old monk leave, Lu Ren held his chin and said thoughtfully: "I feel like being a monk is quite convenient sometimes."

"!"

Huiyuan was immediately alert. Could it be that this guy was stimulated by something and wanted to end the world of mortals?

She glanced at Conan, who immediately understood and asked loudly: "Brother Ren, why do you say that?"

"It depends on the old monk's performance just now." Lu Ren also clasped his hands, "When someone talks to you and you don't know how to reply, just say Amitabha. This is simply a universal reply, and the person being replied does not Would be offended."

"Huh?" Conan thought for a while, "It seems that this is really the case."

It's you!

Haiyuan's eyes became sharper. Conan reacted belatedly and forcibly changed the topic, "But I think it wouldn't be a good idea to become a monk just for this reason, right?"

"Who said I was going to become a monk?" Lu Ren felt puzzled, "I just mentioned it casually."

"That's fine, that's fine."

While several people were talking, Chuanjiu came over holding a large pile of quilts.

Hattori took the quilt and put it on the tatami. "Let's get down to business, shall we? Do you still remember where the body fell? Is it this room?"

"It's this room." Chuanjiu pointed, "She fell in the upper right corner of this room."

And that's exactly where Xiaolan and Ye were standing. After learning the news, the two were shocked and hurried away from there.

Upon seeing this, Lu Ren said to them: "You go to the next room to rest first. Xiao Ai, you can go too."

"Ah."

After the three people left, Hattori and Conan immediately squatted down and reached out to lift up the tatami.

"This tatami is one-sided and cannot be turned over. And no blood was found."

"If it could be discovered so easily, the police wouldn't have found nothing."

Although the capabilities of the Tokyo police are not very good, their attitude is still good. Some basic investigations are not enough to fish in troubled waters and muddle through at will.

Lu Ren ignored Conan and the others and turned to look at the young monk.

This person also squatted down at this time, as if he wanted to look for evidence like Conan.

Lu Ren reached out and pulled him up, "Leave the evidence to them first. I have something to ask you."

"You say."

"We came from the temple, but we didn't see anyone else on the way? Where are your senior brothers?"

"It's been a long time since I've had any senior brothers. There are only two people in the temple, me and my master."

what?

Such a big temple also has a separate courtyard. There were only two monks in the end?

Just cleaning every day makes me exhausted.

No, now is not the time to talk about this.

The key is that if there are only two monks in the temple, then his previous hypothesis will not be valid.

There is no so-called third party coming out to kill people.

In this case, why did the old monk secretly hide the body?

Lu Ren continued to ask: "It's always been just the two of you?"

Chuanjiu: "That's not true. There were two senior brothers Wenjiu and Lin Jiu before Chuanjiu. It's just that they left the mountain two months ago."

Lu Ren: "Are they returning to secular life and never coming back? Or are they leaving temporarily? Please make it clearer."

"The two senior brothers have been violating the commandments. After they were reprimanded by their master two months ago, they found that their salutes were missing the next day."

Chuanjiu hesitated for a while, thinking of what Lu Ren said to explain as clearly as possible, he added: "Before they left, they also took away the incense money from the temple."

take?

Is it right to steal?

To put it this way, the chances of them coming back are not high.

And even if they really killed the person, the old monk would not choose to protect such traitors who even dared to steal incense and money.

So back to the original question, there is no such thing as a third party.

Who killed that man? Why did the old monk hide the body?

Lu Ren couldn't figure it out for a while. He looked at the equally confused little monk and sighed secretly, "You should go back first. Staying for too long will easily make your master suspicious. If we find anything, we will go look for him again." you."

"Ah."

The young monk said goodbye and left.

Lu Ren turned around and looked at the two detectives who were still lying on the ground, "What should I say? Did you find anything?"

"Yes." Conan stood up, opened his palms to Lu Ren, pointed to something in his hand and said, "This is an earring clasp, used to fix earrings."

"So a woman did lie here."

"Well, it's just that the blood stains haven't been found yet."

"Is it possible that he changed the tatami?"

"This possibility is not high." Conan pointed to the tatami mats on the ground. "These tatami mats are very old. It can be easily distinguished by replacing them with new ones."

"That means the tatami stained with blood is probably still spread here."

"That's right. It's just that no blood has been found yet."

"Then let's keep looking."

Ten minutes later, Lu Ren called for a stop.

"Stop, don't look for it yet."

Lu Ren: "Since the police have searched before and found no blood stains, then we can also search for blood stains according to conventional methods. The possibility of finding blood stains is very low."

Hattori: "What should we do?"

"Change your thinking. In fact, even if we find blood stains, we probably won't be able to convict the old monk. Because we can't be sure whether the blood stains belong to the deceased. We don't know the identity of the deceased. Even if we find blood stains, we can't compare and test it."

"But this is all we can do now. You can't go looking for the body, right? It's been three days, and the body may have been lost somewhere."

After retorting, Hattori continued: "If we find blood stains, we can prove that Denku is not lying. We can call the police and have the police interrogate the abbot and restart a large-scale search."

"If it's just for the police to re-investigate, it doesn't necessarily have to find blood stains. Because maybe those tatami mats have been disposed of. We are probably doing a useless job."

"It took us thirty minutes to drive here from the city, and another thirty minutes to go up the mountain, for a total of one hour. The police will rush here after receiving the report, and they should be able to compress the time within forty minutes."

"Then within these forty minutes, after the abbot has processed the traces at the scene, he has to hide the body again. Where can he, a skinny little old man who is less than 1.6 meters tall, hide the body in such a short time?"

"It is definitely impossible to dig a hole and bury the body. There was not enough time, and his physical strength did not support high-intensity work in a short period of time."

Hattori: "What do you mean?"

"There must be a temporary hiding place to hide the body from the police search. And the hiding place is near this house. After the police leave, he will deal with it separately at night."

"What we have to do is find this temporary body hiding place. I think there are also residual blood stains in that place. Compared with the blood stains on the tatami, he probably did not clean up the blood stains in the body hiding place."

"What you said makes sense." Hattori thought for a moment, "Well, Conan and I will continue to look for blood stains in the room. You and Uncle Mouri are responsible for finding the hiding place, and we will split up."

"Okay."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 458 The Land of Right and Wrong

The idea of ​​splitting up is like being defeated one by one in a horror movie.

However... looking at Xiaoyou, the bracelet elf who looked like Sadako floating beside him, Lu Ren felt that he might be more like the villain who harmed people.

Prior to this, Lu Ren accepted the suggestion of the military department to split up the operation, but he did not let Maori Kogoro come with him, but chose to investigate alone.

After all, his next move was hard to explain with common sense. Too many people would be bad.

"Xiaoyou, scan the house and its surroundings. See if there are any mechanisms or secret compartments that can hide an adult woman."

[Found it. The specific location is...]

Under Xiaoyou's guidance, Lu Ren quickly found a place to hide the body.

The yard is surrounded by a corridor enclosed by wooden boards, which is actually hollow inside, large enough to hide people.

At the same time, Xiaoyou also pointed out where the wooden board showed signs of looseness.

Lu Ren walked over and removed the wooden board, and successfully found dark red bloodstains on the edges of the board and on the soil.

He returned to the room with the board, "Found it."

"what?"

Hattori was stunned.

Did Lu Ren stay out for five minutes? He had already found it? Was it a police dog?

Lu Ren naturally responded to the questions from several people with a smile.

He closed the door, put the wooden board aside, and pulled a few people to sit on the tatami. "Okay, the evidence has been found to prove that the old monk once hid the body. Now the question is, why did he do this? Did he kill the person?"

Since the so-called third party could not be found, everything returned to the beginning.

Lu Ren then expressed his previous doubts and thoughts.

After listening to it, Hattori was the first to speak: "There are two possibilities. First, the abbot did kill him. Three days ago in the morning, before Chuanjiu arrived at the other courtyard, the abbot had already arrived here in advance."

"Then he had some conflicts with the woman and accidentally killed her. Then he noticed Chuanjiu's arrival and hid in another room. After Chuanjiu found the body, he hurried back to look for the abbot."

"At this time, the abbot left the room and returned to the temple. However, if we explain it this way, there is an unavoidable problem, which is time."

"In order to avoid being discovered by Chuanjiu, the abbot will probably choose to go through the forest and take the small path to return to the temple. This will undoubtedly be slower than Chuanjiu. In addition, he is old, so his legs and feet are definitely not as agile as Chuanjiu."

"It is difficult or even impossible for him to return to the temple before Chuanjiu. Of course, he can also choose to return to the temple a little later and let Chuanjiu look for it first."

"But this period of time cannot be too long. If it is too long, people will start to suspect something. After all, there are only two people in the temple, and if one of them disappears for a long time, there is undoubtedly a problem."

"What you said makes sense." Lu Ren nodded and then asked, "What's the other possibility?"

"Let me tell you." Conan took over the topic and continued, "Another possibility is that the female donor actually committed suicide."

Lu Ren asked: "If it was suicide, why did the old monk hide the body? Was he afraid that the death would affect the reputation of the temple? And thus affect the incense offerings?"

"Unlikely. As you know, there is a cherry blossom festival going on at the foot of the mountain. This event has attracted the floating population from Tokyo and even the surrounding areas. With such a large population base, we haven't seen anyone going up the mountain to worship Buddha. From this, we can infer that this temple is not very popular on weekdays."

"Besides, if the incense is really good, there won't be only four monks in the temple. Two of them have already run away."

"My guess is that the deceased may have some special identity. Didn't Chuanjiu say before that he was an orphan who grew up in a temple since childhood?"

"But he might not be an orphan in the true sense. He might have been abandoned at the temple gate, and his parents might still be alive."

Lu Ren thought for a moment and understood Conan's implication, "You mean, the deceased might be Chuanjiu's mother?"