Strange News About Dali Temple: the Investigation of Shaoqing

During the Yuanhe period of the Tang Dynasty, on a snowy night in Chang'an, blood and tears flowed from the broken head of the thousand-year-old Buddha in Tongtuo Temple. The young minister of Dali Temple Shen Yan, who was standing at the age of 10, wore plain clothes like the moon, and his eyes were covered with ink and frost. He was good at rubbing the remains of corpses with the technique of "inkstone ice", and he could also identify people's heart and soul by the ink marks. The Buddha's head wept with blood, and the government and the public were in a state of uproar. Shen Yan was ordered to investigate the case and found out that the tears were bittern mixed with Hu Nu's lipstick. He followed the traces to the Zoroastrian Temple in the Western Market and unearthed the corpse of a tongueless woman under a Persian carpet. The throat bone was embedded with silver coins, and the year number "Tianshou" was minted, which was an old coin of the Wu Zhou Dynasty. The broken neck of the Buddha's head was re-examined, and the fine blade scratches on the wood surface showed that it was a "hundred steel-making" tool and could not be obtained in the market. Shen Yan visited the Ordnance Supervisor at night and found out that the only sword was given to Li Heng, the military governor of Qian Shuofang. Li Heng had died in battle three years ago, and his mansion had become a deserted garden. The plum tree in Li Mansion withered early, but its branches are hung with new red damask. After breaking off the branch with an inkstone, you can smell the light fragrance, which is recognized as the "soul-returning fragrance". Only Huihe shamans can refine it. He then went to Uihe, where he met the witch Alan in the snowy plains. Alan divined his fortune, saying that "when the blood moon shines on Chang'an and the Buddha's head weeps again, the old master will return." Returning to the capital, Shen Yan discovered that Li Heng's son, Li Yi, was now a palace guard, secretly forging weapons in an attempt to use the case of Buddha's death to inspire the emperor to kill the monk and avenge his father. Shen Yan set up another plan at Tongtuo Temple and used inkstone to trace the lines on Li Yi's palm. He compared them with the marks on the Buddha's head and found that the lines were consistent. Li Yi was captured, but he said with a smile: The Buddha's head weeping blood is actually a sign that the emperor will kill his father. Shen Yan, you abide by the law of the country, how dare you judge the emperor? Shen Yan was silent, sheathed the sword, sealed Li Yi's confession in a copper box, and sank it in the ancient well of Dali Temple, covered with three stones. The next day, the emperor issued an edict