White Cat Legend 大理寺少卿游 Episode 18

Several people from Mingjing Hall analyzed that Cui Bei and Yuan Bu'er were familiar with each other. They must have listened to the rumors that Qingming was evil. To solve the problem, during the Qingming Festival, find a place with a mountain to stay for a few days, and try to stay away from the crowd, so that you will not be infected with evil spirits.

Li Bing took a few people back to Dali Temple and went to Cui Bei's room to search. Sun Bao found that Cui Bei had brought out two pieces of clothing. It seemed that he was going to spend the night outside. Wang Qi suddenly remembered that after the Qingming Festival last year, Cui Bei returned to In Dali Temple, the clothes were a little damp, and the Yinshan Mountain with water nearby could only be Tianchi Mountain. When Li Cake was looking through some of Cui Bei's notes, a yamen officer came to report that the prison was struck by lightning a few days ago, and the prisoners fled in all directions. After a period of In the time pursuit, almost all of them have been arrested. Only a criminal thief who committed murder and swindled goods was on the run. He had just received a secret message and was seen hijacking a carriage and driving to the foot of Tianchi Mountain. He abandoned the carriage and went up the mountain alone. Li Cake immediately ordered that he arrive. Tianchi Mountain hunts down Jiangyang robbers together.

Several people went to the foot of Tianchi Mountain and found that there were three paths up the mountain. Based on common sense, Li Bing found the one with fewer fallen leaves. Since Cui Bei had been to Tianchi Mountain almost every year and was familiar with the terrain, he focused on hunting down fugitives and walked halfway up the mountain. , the plum cake was almost empty, and there was a smell under the thick leaf litter. Chen Shi could tell it was the smell of horse manure. After a long period of fermentation, the horse manure had basically evaporated all its water, leaving only dry powder. , Chen Shi stepped on horse manure, and the fallen leaves were stained with colored dry powder. There were also several footprint-shaped traces nearby, indicating that the fugitive also took the same road.

Cui Bei walked to the back of the mountain and knocked on a gate. Master Zhang stepped forward to greet him. Cui Bei picked up a jade pendant and asked if it belonged to Master Zhang. Master Zhang took the jade pendant and urged the obscurity removal ceremony to be held as soon as possible. After Cui Bei cleaned up the room, he took out the silver and presented it. Master Zhang held a ceremony for Cui Bei to remove the obscurity by the river. Cui Bei felt that the ceremony was shorter than in previous years, and Master Zhang said that it would not affect the effect of removing the obscurity.

Li Cake walked to the top of the mountain and climbed a big tree. He saw a Taoist temple on the back of the mountain. Suddenly a kitten crawled next to him. Li Cake was distracted and fell from the tree. Everyone interpreted it as Li Cake being contaminated. Li Bing didn't take it seriously. Since there were kittens, it meant that there were people living and raising them nearby. The Taoist temple we just saw probably had cat owners living there.

The fugitive knocked on the door of the Taoist temple first. Cui Bei said that Master Zhang had gone to the mountain to collect herbs, so the fugitive stayed in the Taoist temple to wait. In the evening, a fire broke out in the guest room of the Taoist temple. Master Zhang had nothing to do. Cui Bei wet his clothes and rushed into the sea of ​​​​fire to rescue the fugitive. It happened that Li The cakes and others arrived.

The next day, Wang Qi brought the fugitive back to Dali Temple. Cui Bei thought it was his own evil spirit that had washed away the Taoist temple, and blamed himself. Li Cake went to the fire room to check and found a secret passage. Master Zhang seemed not to want the others to stay in the room for a long time. Li Bing directly exposed Zhang Zhenren. He deliberately set the fire because he wanted to burn the fugitive to death. Zhang Zhenren looked innocent. Li Bing further explained that the fugitive specifically came to find Zhang Zhenren, indicating that the two had a close relationship. Zhang Zhenren had been hiding in the mountains for many years. It was because they were evading pursuit by the government that the two of them must have hijacked the official silver. When they were dividing the stolen goods, the other person was caught, so Zhang Zhenren hid in the mountains and did not dare to show his face. Admit it honestly.

Cui Bei was deeply moved when he learned that Ming Jing's cousins ​​came to the mountain specifically to find him. He couldn't help but miss the past when his father took him on an outing when he was a child. Because his mother died in childbirth, Cui Bei always thought that he was unlucky and deliberately kept a distance from others. Until he left Taixue, he was alone. Cui Bei had a copy of his father's death on his bedside. Worried that he would be too evil to kill his father, Cui Bei never dared to open it. As a young minister of Dali Temple, Li Cake ordered Cui Bei to clarify the case and restore the truth.