Xiangshan Temple, located in the east of the city five miles away on the hill, although the Great Song Dynasty worships the Tao and suppresses the Buddha, but the temple is still full of incense, there are not many monks in the temple, a host, a monk who knows the guest, more than ten disciples, the morning bell and the dusk drum, the days are also some Zen.

As soon as Jiang Lintian and his entourage walked to the front of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, they saw a little novice step forward, clasped his hands together, and asked: "In front of me, Uncle Jingkong is invited!" ”

Jiang Lin Tianjue was very strange and asked, "Little Master, how did you know that I was coming?" ”

"Uncle Shi, don't dare. The ancestor instructed him to wait for his uncle in front of the mountain gate on the day of Jiayin of this month, and as soon as he saw his uncle coming, he immediately took him to the ancestor. The little novice replied.

Jiang Lintian thought to himself, pretending to be mysterious, what kind of medicine is being sold in this Jingzhi Mage's gourd.

"Official, when did you become a master and ancestor?" Mei Xiang expressed the doubts in everyone's hearts.

"Haha, the poor monk has long been a monk in Xiangshan Temple, and the two girls still have plans early!" Before he finished speaking, the left and right sides of his face were punched by the sisters.

Jiang Lintian had a bitter face: "I said two, the gentleman doesn't move." ”

The two sisters raised their faces and ignored Jiang Lintian.

Jiang Lintian had no choice but to snort at Chai Jin: "Chai Daguan, please, I'll take you to meet my senior brother." ”

Chai Jin took his two daughters and followed Jiang Lintian into the meditation hall where the host was located.

"Senior brother, how did you know I would come?" As soon as he saw Master Jingzhi, he hurriedly asked.

"Little junior brother, I have a small class every day and a big lesson every month, of course I know that my junior brother is coming." Jing Zhi is solemn, and his hands are folded.

Isn't this nonsense? Fortune-telling is a Taoist patent, what kind of hexagram are you a monk?

"Senior brother, this time I brought this Chai official here, he has something to ask senior brother for advice."

Hearing Jiang Lintian mention himself, Chai Jin stepped forward and bowed deeply to Master Jingzhi.

"Master, Chai Mou just has something to ask?"

"If the donor has something, you might as well say it clearly, and the monks don't talk about it." Jingzhi noticed the jade pendant on Chai Jin's waist.

"I don't know if the master can get this picture." Chai Jin decided not to waste any more time, and went straight in, taking out the half of the parchment map from his bosom and handing it to Master Jingzhi.

Jing Zhi took the parchment roll, and by the sunlight shining through the window, he was shocked in his heart, and asked: "I heard that the donor's surname is Chai, I don't know if it is the Cangzhou Chai family or the Weinan Chai family?" ”

Chai Jin asked: "Isn't it the Cangzhou Chai family, I don't know why the master asks this?" ”

Jiang Lintian looked at the two of them, a little puzzled, and said directly if he had something to say, why bother playing any dumb riddles.

"Oh, Cangzhou Chai family, I don't know what's going on here?" Jingzhi took a lesson this morning, knowing that the junior brother had something to come, but he didn't expect that the Cangzhou Chai family came with the junior brother, the Chai family is a descendant of the previous dynasty, Jingzhi still knows something, although it is related to the duties of the previous dynasties, but the stakes are very high, and he can't help but be imprudent.

"If the master can recognize this picture, he will definitely know the purpose of my trip. Chai came in here, one is to take the half of the picture, and the other is to figure out why a picture is divided into two halves, so I can only refer to one or two details with all my efforts. Chai Jin laughed self-deprecatingly.

"Daddy, it's not a detailed reference, it's still a credit to the sky." Gu Meixiang argued.

Jing Zhi glanced back at Jiang Lintian and asked, "Jing Kong, is that really the case?" ”

Jiang Lintian nodded and said, "Senior brother, we have cracked this half of the map and learned that the other half of the map is in the hands of a monk from Xiangshan Temple. No, we're coming to Xiangshan Temple, senior brother, you shouldn't know anything about it, right? ”

"The poor monk knows something, but you have to ask the senior brother for the specific situation, and he will know the details?" Jingzhi said with a smile.

"Senior brother, senior brother, how did I not know that there is another senior brother in the temple?" Jiang Lintian was stunned.

"Jingkong, it's normal that you don't know, Senior Brother has been in retreat for more than 30 years. Speaking of senior brother, his law name is Jingcheng, and he has some relationship with the master of firewood. ”

"It's related to me!" Chai Jin exclaimed.

"Yes, several, please follow me!"

Saying that, Master Jingzhi walked out of the back hall with the four of them, came to a mountain wall, lightly buckled the stone wall three times with his hand, and then patted the depression of the stone wall, and with a bang, the stone wall automatically opened from the middle, and when Jiang Lintian and a few people walked into the stone wall, Jingzhi lightly buckled the stone wall again, and the stone wall automatically closed.

Although everyone was stunned, but seeing Master Jingzhi's solemn face, he bowed down and led everyone forward, and kept walking along the path.

"Senior brother." Jiang Lintian wanted to express the question in his heart.

"Silence." Jingzhi glared back at him.

After walking for two or three quarters of an hour, you will finally reach the end of the cave, and you will enter the mountain valley by walking up the steps.

Jiang Lintian was amazed, he knew that there was a place of peach here, and he still went to Yuncheng to do something, so it was better to live here.

The canyon is flat, there are more than a dozen thatched huts, a large platform, an old monk with white eyebrows sits on the grass mound, and seven old monks with white eyebrows sit at the bottom.

Jiang Lintian listened carefully, and the master sitting at the top was talking to the master below about one of the most important Buddhist scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism: "The Theory of the Land of Yogis".

When Jiang Lintian was young, he listened to Master Jingzhi read it, so he remembered that this "Treatise on the Land of Yogis" was the most important scripture that Master Sanzang personally obtained from Tianzhu in the Tang Dynasty.

The old master's chanting was in Pali, which made Jiang Lintian's soul wander unconsciously, and he didn't feel that he was staying for a while, and the Sanskrit chanting made his soul also bathe in the light of Buddhism.

"Senior brother, also follow me to send eight senior brothers." Jingzhi reminded.

Jiang Lintian came back to his senses, followed behind Jing Zhi, and came to the pedestal, and Chai Jin also took his two daughters to follow behind.

"Senior brother, senior brothers, junior brother, I have brought someone who is destined." Jing Zhi clasped his hands together and saluted the eight senior brothers.

Master Jingcheng on the pedestal opened his eyes slightly, carefully looked at Jiang Lintian and his party, his eyes swept over everyone, and only stopped for a moment on Jiang Lintian's face and the jade pendant that Chai Jin was carrying.

"Senior Brother Jingzhi, can you have faith?"

"Yes." Jing Zhi stepped forward and handed half of the parchment map to Jing Cheng's hands.

Jingcheng held up the map with trembling hands, and after carefully looking at it in the sunlight, he put the map down and proclaimed the Buddha's name, "Which of you is the descendant of the Chai family in Cangzhou?" ”

"Mage, I'll wait for the three of you." Chai Jin bowed with his two daughters.

"Finally waiting for you, no need to be polite, I am the descendant of the Weinan Chai family."

This time it was Jiang Lintian's turn to be surprised, and Master Jingcheng told the story of the cause of the two hundred years of events. It turned out that after the Chai family lost the world, although the official family of the Great Song Dynasty gave glory and wealth to the Chai family, the head of the Chai family felt that it was not safe, so he found a large number of treasures taken from the palace to be buried in a secret place, and then drew a map of the burial location, divided it into two parts, and handed it over to his two most talented sons for safekeeping.

Despite this, the head of the Chai family was still not at ease and let his two sons move to Cangzhou, Hebei and Weinan, Shaanxi respectively, so now they are known as the Cangzhou Chai family and the Weinan Chai family.

The main task of the Weinan Chai family is to send the most trusted son in the family to become a monk in the Xiangshan Temple every 30 years, and the task is to guard the safety of the treasures of the Xiangshan Temple, but unfortunately the Weinan Chai family is withering day by day, and when it comes to Jingcheng's generation, he takes seven servants to guard the Xiangshan Temple, and the Weinan Chai family has no descendants.

When he learned that the following three people were the Chai family in Cangzhou, Master Jingcheng, who had always had a high level of Buddhist cultivation, couldn't help but burst into tears, and he could finally explain to his ancestors.

Chai Jin did not hide it, and explained the purpose of this trip, how to crack the secret of the map, and the judgment of the three words "will be in the sky" to Master Jingcheng, and after listening to Chai Jin's explanation, Master Jingcheng carefully looked at Jiang Lintian.

"You are the little junior brother Jingkong?"

Jiang Lintian's relationship with Xiangshan Temple comes from following his mother Xu to incense when he was a child, as soon as he saw Master Jingzhi, he jokingly called his senior brother, and then when he and Song Yunpeng cheated the sesame oil money in Xiangshan Temple, Master Jingzhi pretended to be deaf and dumb, and deliberately indulged the master and servant.

"Senior brother, I am the still space, and the still space is me." Jiang Lintian replied.

"Hey, every time my Weinan Chai family becomes a monk, there are eight masters and servants, called Tianlong Babu, guarding the treasures of the Chai family, but I didn't expect the meaning of the ancestor's sentence 'will be in the sky' by the little junior brother to solve the problem, but it's just ......"

Master Jingcheng paused, looked at Chai Jin's father and daughter, and asked with a smile, "What do you Cangzhou Chai family think?" Do you really want to give up the dream of dominating the world? ”

"Master Jingcheng, presumably the mage is set as the elder of my Chai family, Chai Jin has no ambition to dominate the world, the Cangzhou Chai family is also withered, the younger generation only has two daughters, now the two daughters love Jiang Lintian, if the mage is willing to tell the whereabouts of the treasure, the younger generation will also hand it over to Jiang Lintian to deal with, let him establish a career in Yuncheng, if the mage is unwilling, Chai Jin will immediately withdraw from the Xiangshan Temple, never mention it again in the future, and will not come to disturb the mage Qingxiu again." Chai Jin bowed and replied.

Master Jingcheng smiled and shouted: "Ah Mida Buddha, the donor is worthy of being a member of my Chai family, elegant and elegant!" ”

"A few junior brothers, protect the Dharma for senior brothers!"

The seven old monks in the audience roared out the thick Buddha name: "Eight Heavenly Dragons, Protect the Dragon Clan!" ”

"Senior brother, bring them with me." Jing Cheng turned back to Jing Zhi and commanded.

Master Jingcheng led everyone into a thatched hut, it seems that this is the place where the monks usually chant and worship the Buddha, Jingcheng twisted the head of a bronze Buddha on the Buddha table downward, the wall of the thatched hut automatically opened, Jiang Lintian followed Jingcheng behind, and walked into the secret room.

Jiang Lintian and Chai Jin felt even more incredible, although the space of this secret room was large, there was only one big stove standing abruptly in the center of the room, but seeing Jingcheng take the huge iron pot up, put it aside, and pressed a button next to it again, the sound of trembling sounded, and after a while, a small lifting frame rose above the stove.

Jiang Lintian was shocked, "Senior brother, is this an elevator?" ”

Master Jingcheng glanced back at Jiang Lintian and said with a smile: "Little junior brother, this is an automatic lifting mechanism designed by the ancestors, hurry up and wait with me." ”