Records of the Cattle and Horses of Chang'an

Chapter 329 Sizzling Oil

Outside the Dali Temple, Wang Mingqian and a group of Jinwu Guards had been waiting for a long time. When they saw him come out with his men, they leaned over from their horses and reached into his chest: "Did you get it?"

"How dare you touch me!" Cui Bianxu slapped him on the back of his hand, making a loud and crisp sound.

Wang Mingqian didn't have time to retract his hand immediately. The back of his white hand immediately turned red. He pointed at him angrily and cursed, "You reckless man!"

Xiao Cui patted his chest proudly, glanced at him, shook his head, and jumped on the horse: "Let's go!"

"drive!"

Wang Mingqian took several deep breaths to calm himself down. He patted his horse's butt and followed him, sharing the news from the Jinwu Guards with him. "No one in the blacksmith shops in Chang'an City has made something like this. Could it be that we guessed wrong..."

If this is the case, then one of the clues will be broken.

When it came to serious matters, the two of them didn't fight.

"There are countless people coming and going in Chang'an City every day. The murderer might be from outside the city." After repeated research on the murder weapon, Cui Bianxu and Ding Yuan still believed that it was a claw-like weapon.

As for piecing together the body, Ding Yuan had already done it in one night. He was now so experienced that ordinary coroners could not match him.

Xingyun's only missing internal organs were his heart, a piece of his left lung was missing, and one-third of his left kidney were missing; the rest were intact.

As a very creative and tidy coroner, when Cui Bianxu went to the morgue this morning, he saw two wooden boards covered with linen, one on the left and one on the right.

On one side was Xingyun's body with a sunken abdominal cavity, and on the other side were Xingyun's internal organs neatly arranged according to the structure of his body.

He was actually quite impressed.

Xiao Cui also had to admit that this fat person's internal organs were bigger than those of a thin person.

"Ding Yuan said that the missing part of Xing Yun's internal organs should be a tooth mark judging by the fracture."

"Eating human flesh..."

Wang Mingqian swallowed, feeling nauseous and unable to stop drooling. "Could this murderer be some wild animal?"

If it wasn't a wild animal, how could a human being do such a thing?

Cui Bianxu shook his head: "If the murderer has a habit of cannibalism, he will soon commit another crime..."

Homicide generally falls into three categories: love killings, revenge killings, and murders for money. These all have traceable clues, but there is another type: random killings...

This type of murder is the most difficult to catch because we have no idea why the murderer chooses his victims, nor do we know when the murderer will kill again.

And this murderer who likes to eat people's hearts...

"I guess..."

Cui Bianxu glanced at the oblivious people on the street and said in a low voice, "The murderer likes to eat human hearts, especially the hearts of fat people."

This morning, when Ding Yuan showed him the fruits of his labor, he said: The human fat wrapped around Xing Yun's heart must be thicker than all the corpses he had examined before. It might be too greasy to eat raw, but it would taste slightly better if it was sliced ​​and roasted until it sizzled with oil.

This was a bit perverted, but it also gave him some inspiration.

Wang Mingqian swallowed hard to suppress the nausea in his stomach. "Though obese people like Xingyun are rare, there are many in the vast city of Chang'an..."

Let’s not talk about the distant past, let’s talk about the recent past. The physique of Li Tai, the King of Wei, is comparable to that of Xing Yunyou.

It would be impossible to find these fat people one by one and take care of them. Where would we find so many people?

The two had known each other for years, and they knew each other's thoughts with just a glance. Cui Bianxu was speechless: "Who knows how many people are around him? How could he be so easily approached by the villains?"

Moreover, in order to show his performance, the King of Wei started compiling the Comprehensive Geography this year. Although he did not have to personally revise the book, it had only just begun and he would pretend to do it. Why would he run around outside?

"It's not common for a family to raise a monk this fat. Most of them have guards at home. Let's have someone check the temples in the city to see if there are any other monks as fat as Xingyun."

It is difficult for ordinary people to eat to achieve this physique, but it is easier for monks.

Wang Mingqian nodded in agreement and added, "We haven't found anything unusual at Xingjing Temple."

Although a murder occurred, there was nothing particularly suspicious about the people in the temple. Early this morning, several pilgrims came to ask about the closure of the temple during the Ullambana Festival, and the monks in the temple just chanted "Amitabha".

Wang Leisheng, following behind them, interrupted, "My two superiors, in my opinion, we should capture all the monks in that temple and treat them well. Will we be able to find the murderer? According to the news you heard yesterday, Xingyun was greedy, lustful, and domineering. He also bullied the other monks in the temple. These monks are undoubtedly responsible for his death."

He pondered these words all night last night, and put himself in the position of the other monks. He immediately became angry!

Why can he eat as much as he wants every day while I can only eat two meals?!

Just thinking about it made him sit up in the middle of the night, not to mention being bullied like this every day?

"Perhaps the monks couldn't bear the humiliation and killed the man together, then lied and said it was a Yaksha ghost who killed him."

"Then why did they report to the authorities?" Wang Mingqian looked at Cui Bianxu with some sympathy. What kind of subordinate was this? His brain was really out of control.

Cui Bianxu gritted his teeth and said, "If it was them who did it, couldn't they just make it look like an accidental death?"

"This...this..." Wang Leisheng scratched his head. He had never thought about this.

Although according to the Tang Dynasty law, every monk has a certificate of ordination, but a monk just died. If it was an accidental death, such as falling into the water or falling off a cliff, how could Wannian County seek help from the Dali Temple?

If Wannian County confirms that it was an accidental death, wouldn't the matter be over?

Why make it so complicated? Why would a Yaksha ghost kill people?

Not only did he lose a good opportunity to earn money from incense offerings, but he also got himself into trouble. If this were to be made public, who knows how desolate the small Xingjing Temple would become!

"Ding Yuan, have you seen the things scraped off the mural?" Wang Mingqian remembered that he had destroyed the mural yesterday.

"Ning Yuye and Ding Yuan both took a look. It was just dried human blood. Nothing special. It was still fresh." This was also the point that Cui Bianxu couldn't understand. After killing someone, the murderer didn't run away immediately. Instead, he ran to the main hall and put some blood on the murals. Why?

You know, Huaizhen stayed in the hall all night, and only left for a while when the monks came to call him because of Xingyun's murder.

Huaizhen did not see the murderer, which only means that when the murderer entered the hall, it happened to be the time when Huaizhen went to the monastery. The timing was too good. I don’t know whether to say that the murderer was full or Huaizhen was lucky.

"If the abbot had arrived a moment later, wouldn't he have run into the murderer?" Wang Leisheng curled his lips. "This murderer is so brutal, if we had run into him, he would have died too."

What kind of money could a skinny old man have?