At 4 pm, Tian Dongmin, an old expert from Qinshan Municipal Cultural Relics Bureau, arrived at the scene. After checking the items excavated on the scene, he said to Zhao Yu:

"There may be a temple below this!"

One sentence made Zhao Yu and others stunned, as if they were falling into fog.

"Medal!?" Because of curiosity, Cui Lizhu even missed the last helicopter back to Qinshan and was still at the scene, "Is the kind of temple that burns incense?"

"Yes," Tian Dongmin said, pointing to the first unicorn excavated, "This thing is called a shaving. It should be a kind of auspicious beast embedded on the eaves!

"And these..." He pointed to the few broken stone beasts that were excavated later, as well as various tiles, and said, "These are all materials used in ancient buildings!

"What else can be found in the mountain besides the temple?"

"There turns out there is a temple on this hillside..." Zhao Yu pinched his waist and said, "Why hasn't anyone ever told us? Didn't anyone know?"

"The landslide destroyed the temple," Miao Ying pondered. "The landslide occurred in the early 1990s...it was equivalent to the temple being buried under it for nearly 30 years. In addition, it was located in the deep forest. If it is unknown, it seems reasonable, right?"

Temple, well, corpse...

Zhao Yu couldn't help scratching his head. He thought that the case would make a major progress after he dug up the thing below, but now it seems that it is even more confusing.

"Professor Tian," Miao Ying asked, pointing to the excavated items, "Can you judge the age of this temple?"

"Well..." Tian Dongmin looked at the excavated items carefully and said, "From the shape of the instrument, it will not be too long. At most, it was from the late Qing Dynasty or the Republic of China."

"I think so..." Choi Lizhu said, "It's definitely not worth it if it's done rough enough!"

"I think it may be a mountain temple, right?" Professor Tian said, "In the area near the inhabited Qinling Mountains, many mountain temples have been discovered before, all of which are very small in scale.

"This has something to do with the terroir culture in Longxi area.

"In fact, it should not be difficult to understand that the residents of coastal areas believe in the goddess of the sea, so we people in the mountains will certainly respect the god of the mountain.

“In order to pray for good weather or to be able to catch prey, people will build mountain temples deep in the mountains.

"So, it is normal to dig a mountain temple here."

"Mountain God Temple...Lin Chong Xueye Mountain Temple..." Cui Lizhu patted her forehead, "Good, why do you still remember the Water Margin?"

"So...is it big?" Miao Ying pointed to the deep pit and asked again.

"It's not certain, but such a remote mountain should be too big, right?" Professor Tian asked curiously after analyzing, "By the way, aren't you criminal police? Have you... found another case related to archaeology?

"This girl is right," he pointed to Cui Lizhu and pointed to Xie Zhi again. "This kind of rough folk products are not too old and have no collection value."

"Well, no matter what..." Zhao Yu said, "Thank you for a while! We will excavate overnight tonight. If you dig out something, you have to help identify it!"

"Okay, no problem, no problem, you saved my life," Tian Dongmin said politely to Zhao Yu and Miao Ying, "I will do my best in public and private!"

"Thank you!"

After Miao Ying was polite, the three of them left Professor Tian and turned to the side of the excavation site.

"So amazing," Cui Lizhu asked Zhao Yu curiously, "You two have saved his life? Can you tell me? It must be very exciting, right?"

"Of course, my sister Miao and I fought against tomb robbers, and found the Golden Buddha who had been missing for hundreds of years, and saved the old expert," Zhao Yu said without blushing, "However, I, Zhao Yu, take it as my mission to save the people. There is so many people I have saved, and there is nothing to be proud of."

"Okay, now isn't the time to talk about this," Miao Ying said to Cui Lizhu with a serious look on her face, "Little Cui, since you missed the last helicopter back to Qinshan, will you still go to Fu'an tomorrow?

"If I don't go, I'll let Wu Xiumin go."

"Go, you have to go!" Cui Lizhu said, "Sister Wu still has to find the identity of the deceased No. 3!

"Let me do this. I will go with the people from the Forest Station tomorrow. From here to Xixia Province, and then take a long-distance bus from Zhangze to get to Fu'an. This will be faster!"

"Well, that's good!" Zhao Yu pointed to the tent in the distance, "We'll stay in the wild for another night tonight!"

...

On the hillside, more than a dozen generators roared, providing electrical lighting to the excavation site.

It was already 8 o'clock in the evening. The armed police officers and soldiers stopped working and were still digging the scene in full swing.

The big pit gradually digged from more than 20 meters to more than 30 meters.

Further down, they dug out more building materials, such as blue bricks, tiles and stone pillars. As the things dig more and more, the situation became clearer and clearer.

Professor Tian Dongmin speculated that it was good that an old temple was buried under the hillside.

Moreover, through the comparison of unearthed items, the professor was more convinced that this was a mountain temple built in the Republic of China or the early days of liberation.

"Let me guess first..." At this moment, in a tent on the side of the hillside, Cui Lizhu held Zhao Yu's notebook and said, "Since the murderer dug a well from here and buried the dead alive in the well, then... this person must know that there is a mountain temple buried under the hillside?

"So... why did he kill someone?" Cui Lizhu drew a big question mark on her notebook, "Is it impossible to say that there are living people in the mountain temple?

"Hey, don't draw any tricks, okay?" Zhao Yu snatched the notebook, "This is my notebook, why are you drawing blindly?"

"The landslide was 30 years ago, which means that the murderer in this case must be 30 years old, but..." Cui Lizhu continued to pinch her chin and guessed, "If you have any feelings for the mountain temple, it means that when the landslide, he would have to be 10 years old or 20 years old...

"That is to say... the murderer should be in his forties or fifties, or older!"

"The key is... why kill someone?" Zhao Yu said, "Miao Ying and I had previously guessed that the murderer was going to take revenge, so the deceased must have offended the murderer during his lifetime!

"But...the mountain temple...has the meaning?"

"You said...will it..." Cui Lizhu used her brain, "A landslide is not a natural disaster, but an accident?"

"ACCIDENT?"

"For example... it was those four dead who used explosives to blow up the mountain in order to obtain what benefits, causing a landslide?" Cui Lizhu guessed.

"Blast the mountain?" Zhao Yu scratched his head, "There is no mine in the mountains, what mountain is blowing up?"

As soon as Zhao Yugang finished speaking, his walkie-talkie suddenly rang.

"Zhao Yu, Zhao Yu..." Miao Ying's voice came from the walkie-talkie, "Don't be busy analyzing the case first, let's call Zhang Peipei as soon as possible!"

"Ah? What's wrong?" Zhao Yu was surprised, "Where are you?"
Chapter completed!