Ho Jiahui and Ma Jun, led the Crime Team and their group to the Chinese University again.

"Uncle Hua, go and confirm the identities of these fourteen suspects. I went to the School of Literature with Sir He to ask the professor about the five elements of Taoism." Ma Jun ordered.

Chinese University has courses in religious studies and theology, all of which belong to the School of Literature.

The two came to the School of Literature, and the person in charge of the School of Literature recommended a professor named Wei to them.

"Our Literature School has offered a course in religious studies, but our scholars' research is not religion itself, but the relationship between the development of religion and human society.

For example, religion and politics, religion and culture, religion and science, religion and living customs, etc., these are actually more inclined to sociology than to explore the content of religion itself.

If two Asirs had no choice but to understand the Taoist theory of the Five Elements, they had to go to Professor Wei. We only have Professor Wei here, and we have had a profound study of Chinese Taoist culture.

Professor Wei's grandfather was originally a Taoist priest, but later came to Xiangjiang due to war, and became a vulgar man and married his own children. Therefore, Professor Wei has some family backgrounds.

Professor Wei himself also likes Taoist culture. He has been to many Taoist holy sites in the mainland, and has had in-depth discussions with local Taoist priests. He has also practiced in Taoist temples in the mainland for a period of time."

The person in charge introduced that he and He Jiahui and others came to Professor Wei's office.

"Professor Wei, these two are police officers from the General District Crime Team. They came to have some Taoism issues and wanted to ask for advice." The person in charge introduced Professor Wei to the two.

After introducing each other, He Jiahui took the lead in asking: "Professor Wei, we are here this time to ask you some questions about Taoism about the five elements of Taoism."

"Five elements, what are you referring to?" Professor Wei asked.

"Aren't the five elements just gold, wood, water, fire and earth? Does it contain many aspects?" Ma Jun asked.

"Of course. The five elements are very complicated to talk about!" Professor Wei saw that both of them were laymen, so he took the initiative to introduce:

"The theory of the Five Elements is generally metal, wood, water, fire and earth, but in subdivided, it includes direction, yin and yang, Bagua, time, season, heavenly stems, earthly branches, human body, etc.

For example, the direction is wood in the east, fire in the south, gold in the west, water in the north, earth in the center; for example, the Bagua, Qian and Dui are metal, Li are fire, Zhen, Xun is wood, Kan is water, Gen and Kun are earth.

It is also like seasons. Spring belongs to wood, summer belongs to fire, long summer belongs to earth, autumn belongs to metal, and winter belongs to water. This is what the ancients said about the five seasons of the year.

There are also time, Yin, Mao, and Chen months belong to wood, Si, Wu, and Wei months belong to fire, Shen, You, and Xu months belong to metal, Hai, Zi, and Chou months belong to water, Chen, Wei, Xu, and Chou are earth.

There are many types of the five elements above the human body. The common ones are the five internal organs in traditional Chinese medicine, such as the heart belongs to fire, the spleen belongs to earth, the lung belongs to metal, the kidney belongs to water, and the liver belongs to wood.

There are also five senses saying that the tongue belongs to fire, the mouth belongs to earth, the nose belongs to metal, the ear belongs to water, and the eyes belong to wood; the five body saying that the veins belong to fire, the flesh belongs to earth, the skin belongs to metal, the bone belongs to water, and the tendon belongs to wood..."

Professor Wei only gave a preliminary introduction and said a lot.

He Jiahui was a little lucky. Fortunately, he brought his own recording pen. If he used it to record it, he would not talk about the content. He would not even write words like "Xun".

"Sir, what you are talking about is the case that happened in our university, right?" Professor Wei asked.

If you don’t go out for good things, you will go through bad things thousands of miles. There have been three murders in Chinese universities in a row, and Professor Wei must have heard of them.

"We think the way of dying three people should not be a coincidence, so we thought about whether this would be related to the five elements of Taoism, so we came to ask for advice," said He Jiahui.

Professor Wei thought for a while and answered: "After more than two thousand years of development, Taoism has many schools. There are Zhengyi Dao, Quanzhen Dao, Zhendao, Taiyi Dao, etc. And one Zhengyi sect is divided into Zhengyi, Lingbao, Shangqing, Jingming, etc.

All the things I said are still serious schools of the mountain gate. These schools are spread among the people and gradually evolve into different inheritances. What forms will eventually be formed are definitely strange and no one can say.

Maybe there will be a inheritance that will create a ritual or sacrificial activity, which is to kill living people according to the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, earth.

So if you ask me, will the death of these three students be caused by someone who is in a ritual according to the five elements and performing some kind of ritual?”

Professor Wei did not give a definite answer, and He Jiahui was a little disappointed.

Professor Wei continued: "If the murderer really kills people according to the five elements, then he must be someone who has some understanding of this aspect. There are actually not many such people in our Chinese universities.

Both of you should know that most of our courses are taught in English. People who come here to receive higher education will receive more English education since childhood.

They do not know much about Taoism, and are not very interested in it. Many students' families believe in Christianity, and they will not come into contact with Taoist culture.

I remember last year, I once held an elective course to preach Taoist culture. There were 20,000 students in the school, but only more than 20 people signed up, including three of them foreigners who were simply curious.”

Professor Wei’s last few words instantly made He Jiahui point out the key points. He immediately asked: “Professor Wei, does your elective course talk about the theory of the Five Elements?”

"Of course there are, yin and yang, eight trigrams, and five elements, all these are topics that cannot be avoided by Taoist culture." Professor Wei answered.

"Professor Wei, can you copy the courseware of the Five Elements class you taught?" He Jiahui asked.

"No problem, I'm all in the computer. Give me some time and let me find it." Professor Wei agreed.

"Please give me a list of the more than 20 students who have chosen this course." He Jiahui continued.

"No problem, do you need anything else? Let me find it for you together." Professor Wei asked.

"That's all for the time being. I'll bother Professor Wei."

...

He Jiahui took the list of more than 20 people and looked at it. There were indeed three foreign names. He Jiahui directly crossed out the names of the three people with a pen.

Seeing this scene, Ma Jun asked, "Is it that they are suspicious because they are foreigners? What if they meet a foreigner who understands the mutual generation of the five elements?"

"I remember that among the fourteen suspects who entered that building on Saturday, there were no foreigners, right?" He Jiahui paused and continued;

Ma Jun nodded deeply: "Okay, just do what you said!"

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