It is said to be sweet glutinous rice, but it is actually eight-treasure rice. It is just called differently and has some differences in its preparation.

This kind of food could only be seen during festivals in the past, and it had to be eaten by monks.

Hu Pingtao had a good impression of this young novice monk and deliberately teased him: "Do you usually listen to the master in the temple? Do you run around?"

Yanpa blinked his big black eyes and said mischievously: "I know what you are checking."

Hu Pingtao couldn't help but asked deliberately: "Why, you know more things than me?"

Yanpa nodded, slid the candy in his mouth onto his tongue, sucked it and said, "I met Yanzai last night."

Suddenly, everyone in the room focused their attention on him.

Zhang Qingwei's face was filled with joy. He was about to ask questions impatiently, but was blocked by Hu Pingtao, who was sitting next to him. The latter quickly organized the words in his mind and pretended not to care and said: "In the village

We're already half way through, and everyone said they didn't see Yanzai last night... Haha, little kid, you have to be honest, and you can't lie to others."

"I'm not lying to you, I really met Yanzai!" Yanpa's young self-esteem suddenly felt hurt. He stood up and pouted angrily: "I will be the Great Buddha in the future, and I will never lie.

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(Note: The Dai people believe in Hinayana Buddhism, and those who practice it are commonly known as Big Buddha.)

Hu Pingtao firmly grasped the other party's psychology from the beginning of the questioning, and the rhythm of the questioning followed Yanpa closely, without giving him time to think: "What time did you meet Yanzai last night? Where did you see it?"

"

"It's past twelve o'clock, a little sooner." Children all like to show off in front of adults, and Yanpa is no exception.

Although Hu Pingtao's work unit is at the Xiluo Border Inspection Station, he has stayed here for a long time and has some understanding of local ethnic customs: "The Buddhist temple has evening classes every day and goes to bed at eleven o'clock. How can you be twelve

Are you still awake after 1 o'clock?"

"...I...I got up to pee." Yanpa blushed, lowered his head, and said sheepishly: "Yuxiang gave me a watermelon yesterday, and each of us ate half of it...I had an urgent need to urinate until midnight.

I got up to go to the toilet, and when I was going down the stairs, I happened to see Iwazai walking past the outside of the Buddhist temple."

Hu Pingtao continued to ask: "How did you know it was almost a hour?"

"There is a bell in the temple." After all, Yanpa was young and had no scheming intentions. He replied with a sad face: "The watermelon I had during the day was too big. I had a bad stomach and squatted in the hut to have diarrhea... When I got up, there was a bell in the temple.

The bell rang, and it was one o'clock."

The "bell" he refers to refers to a special electronic clock. The bell is an electronically synthesized metal impact sound, which is specially used to tell the time in special occasions such as temples.

In Hu Pingtao's mind, he pictured a little boy holding up his pants in a hurry... He suppressed his laughter and asked seriously: "Tell me the specific location of Yanzai at that time! Also, which direction did he come from?"

Yanpa answered quickly: "It's the road from the south of the village. There was another person next to Yanzai at the time."

Zhang Qingwei quickly asked: "Who?"

Yanpa shook his head: "I don't know...it's dark, I can't see clearly."

Hu Pingtao was a little confused: "Since you can't see clearly, how do you know that the other person is Yanzai?"

"The man was holding his cell phone and looking at the road." Yanpa explained: "There are all dirt roads in the village, especially the section from the south. It is difficult to walk. When you go out at night, you either use a flashlight or use your cell phone. That man was

My face was turned away, and the phone was pointed towards Iwazai, and there was light shining on it, so I could tell it was Iwazai."

Listening to Yanpa's description, Hu Pingtao subconsciously made a gesture of holding a mobile phone with his right hand.

He turned sideways and whispered to a policeman from the police station sitting behind him: "Xiao Li, go to the nearby canteen and buy some snacks."

Xiao Li nodded knowingly, turned around and left.

Hu Pingtao had a hunch that the breakthrough in this case was the young novice Yanpa.

Turning around, he looked at Yanpa and asked with a smile: "Can you tell me what that person looked like when he was with Yanpa? Well... I mean, what posture did the two of them look like when they were walking on the road?

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Hu Pingtao knew the road to the south of the village. He had been to Mengsuo Village before. Zhang Qingbao brought him here last year. Zhang Qingbao had a friend in the village and killed a sheep and invited them to drink.

Hu Pingtao also knew the location of the Buddhist temple, so as soon as Yanpa told him, he knew that the little novice got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet and saw the general direction of Yanzai - there were many banana trees planted in the south direction of the Buddhist temple, and the walls of the temple were covered with

It was made of a fence. Through the gap, Yanpa happened to see Yanzai and another person walking by on the road.

The crux of the question is: Why can Yanpa be able to see that it is Yanzai, but cannot see the face of another person?

There are no street lights in the village, and it is already dark after midnight. There are no residential buildings near the Buddhist temple, so there is no way to "borrow light." When walking on the dark road, if you want to avoid falling, you must use a flashlight.

type of equipment.

Mobile phones have exactly this function.

When two people are walking together in a dark environment, under normal circumstances, the person holding the mobile phone should be lighting the way, and most of the light will be concentrated under his or her feet. If it is facing sideways in the direction of the person next to him, the other person's identity should be higher than that of the person lighting the phone, or

It's an elder or maybe a girlfriend.

Posture is important!

The little novice monk thought for a while, raised his hands to scratch his head, stood up from the floor, struck a pose, and said uncertainly: "It seems...that's it..."

He leaned half sideways, stretched out his left hand, put his right hand underneath, and tilted his upper body slightly to the left.

After all, Yanpa was young, and his movements were not very standard, and there were some uncertainties in them. However, everyone present could see that this movement was to hug another person sideways and try his best to hold him.

At this time, Xiao Li came back.

Hu Pingtao took the plastic bag in his hand, took out a piece of chocolate and handed it to Yanpa, smiling: "Kid, what you said is very helpful to us. Take it, this is a reward for you."

The little novice shook his head repeatedly: "I don't want it."

Hu Pingtao suddenly realized: This is equivalent to a reward to a certain extent.

"I said something wrong. This is not a reward, haha, I made a mistake." He quickly changed his words: "It should be a gift."

Monks in Southeast Asia only accept alms.

Things like chocolate have an extremely strong temptation for children. Although Yanpa refused, his stomach was full of greedy insects. When Hu Pingtao changed his mind, he quickly took it, with a happy expression on his face.

Hu Pingtao struck while the iron was hot: "When you saw Yanzai, were his eyes open or closed?"

The little novice monk who was tearing apart the chocolate packaging stopped and felt a little embarrassed: "I really didn't pay attention to this...but Iwazai looked a little strange at that time."

Hu Pingtao quickly asked: "What kind of strange method?"

The little novice stood up again and gestured: "He walked very slowly, as if he had no strength. Hmm... I have seen him like this before. He must have drunk too much wine."

Hu Pingtao asked enlighteningly: "You mean, he was helped by the person next to him to move forward?"

"Yes, yes, that's it." The little novice nodded repeatedly.

Hu Pingtao, Zhang Qingwei and others were greatly encouraged. Zhang Qingwei directly delivered the whole bag of snacks to the little novice monk and laughed loudly: "Yanpa, the information you provided is very useful. I have to thank you very much!"

The little boy was a little strange. He looked at him and then at Hu Pingtao sitting opposite: "Didn't you just say that this was not a thank you gift?"

"This is a gift." Hu Pingtao nudged Zhang Qingwei with his elbow: "This is really a gift from us."

Yanpa's father looked on with a smile and said nothing, and didn't point out anything.

Zhang Qingwei wanted to dig out more clues from the novice monk: "Think carefully, what else is there? Tell me everything you know."

Yanpa frowned and thought for a long time: "No. I have told you everything I know."

He innocently added: "I swore an oath in front of the Buddha not to lie."

Hu Pingtao stood up and teased this interesting little boy with a smile: "I believe you will definitely become a Buddha in the future."

Yanpa's eyes were filled with little stars of surprise: "Really?"

"Really!" Hu Pingtao said sincerely.

Zhang Qingwei said goodbye to the little novice's father.

Next, the focus of the inspection will shift to the south of the village, where there are six families.

When he was about to go out, the young novice suddenly called out.

"Wait a minute, I remembered who the person was with Ianzai last night."

"...That one, I'm not sure, but it looks like it's Dao Yong."

…

Dao Yong is not tall, but has a strong build.

He is a young man in his twenties.

Hu Pingtao's question went straight to the point: "Where were you last night?"

"Sleeping at home." Dao Yong answered quickly and without thinking.

Hu Pingtao has already thought of different questioning procedures: "What time did you go to bed?"

"It's past ten o'clock." Dao Yong spoke quickly and smoothly: "It seems to be about half past ten."

Hu Pingtao raised his head, looked around at the furnishings in the room, and asked casually, "I heard that you usually like to play cards and go out every night. Why did you change your temper last night?"

Dao Yong didn't pause for a second: "I recently watched a TV series on my mobile phone. "Game of Thrones". It was quite interesting, so I didn't play cards."

His appearance is full of tropical atmosphere, his brown-black skin is tight, and the masseter muscles on both sides of his cheeks bulge outward, making him look extremely tough.

Hu Pingtao stood up and paced back and forth in the room, carefully looking at various objects, including every detail in the room.
To be continued...