"It's not yet ripe to control Abbot Huijue, we need evidence, and Lian Luodan's diary alone is far from enough." Linghu Yunfei said.

"Yunfei is right, we don't have direct evidence in our hands." Zhao Zimeng and Linghu Yunfei had the same idea.

"Now, what should we do?" Lin Di Dao.

"Isn't Master Yan here? After Master Yan opens the stone door, of course, at night, we will continue to monitor the quiet courtyard and continue to follow Abbot Huijue. After we entered the temple, a lot of things happened, especially last night, but Abbot Ke Huijue was like an outsider, and this was obviously a difficult character to deal with. Linghu Yunfei said.

With the second note in hand, Zhao Zimeng already had a bottom in his heart, and Zhao Zimeng even thought of the second move.

After breakfast, Zhao Zimeng and his entourage went to the Tibetan Scripture Hall, and the craftsman had just finished breakfast.

Xiang Daimo and Ma Jianping turned on the flashlight, Lu Qian turned on the emergency light, there was an emergency light and two flashlights, the problem of lighting was solved, and it was far from enough to rely on the flashlight to work in the dark passage.

Zhao Zimeng, Ling Hu Yunfei, Master Chen, and Master Yan walked down the stone steps, and because the entrance space of the secret passage was narrow, the others stayed on it.

A few craftsmen had no intention of doing things, standing by and watching the excitement.

Master Yan took the flashlight from Xiang Daimo's hand and shone it on the stone slab from different angles.

Master Yan is looking for the texture on the slate.

If you want to smash the slate open, you must figure out the texture of the slate, because the slate has been in a dark and damp environment for a long time, the surface of the slate has an oxide layer, and the color of the surface of the slate has also changed greatly, and the oxide layer and color cover up the texture of the surface of the slate.

Master Yan rubbed his hand on the slate a few times, then took a hammer from Master Chen's hand with a square end and a conical end at the other, and lightly knocked it on the lower right corner of the slate a few times, and then knocked it down diagonally.

Master Yan only knocked on the slate three times, and several corrugated cracks appeared in the lower left corner of the slate—the corrugated cracks were the texture of the slate.

Next, Master Yan slowly moved the striking point to the upper right corner, and without much effort, several nearly parallel corrugated cracks appeared on the slab—these corrugated cracks completely penetrated the entire stone slab.

When the hammer hit near the top corner of the stone slab, Master Yan stopped tapping.

"Deshun, bring me the iron hook."

Master Chen had already held the iron hook in his hand.

Master Yan inserted the iron hook into a relatively wide crack, and then exerted force outward, a long strip of stone slab slowly moved outward, and finally, Master Yan forcefully hooked outward, and the long strip of stone separated from the whole stone slab.

The long stone fell to the ground and broke into three pieces.

Master Yan took the long strip of stone in his hand and looked at it.

The thickness of the stone is about 12 centimeters and the width is about 7 centimeters.

Zhao Zimeng and Linghu Yunfei were more concerned about the back of the slate, and Zhao Zimeng aimed the light pillar of the flashlight at a gap about seven centimeters wide.

Linghu Yunfei lay on the ground and looked at the gap about seven centimeters wide, and there was darkness behind the slate, which meant that there was no shelter behind the slate.

After taking out a long stone, the other long stones will not be a problem.

Master Yan pried off more than a dozen long stones that had been separated from the stone slabs, and twenty minutes later, a triangular black hole appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Ling Hu Yunfei used a flashlight to shine into the black hole.

On the other side of the black hole, there is no end in sight.

At the bottom of the slab, where the back of the slab is located, a dozen large stones lie. These large stones are used against large stone slabs.

Master Yan motioned for everyone to take a few steps back, and after everyone retreated to the mouth of the pit, Master Yan picked up the hammer in his hand and knocked a few times on the other half of the stone slab, and the stone fell in response, and soon, a square stone slab came to naught.

Master Chen and several craftsmen moved the stones out of the dark passage one by one.

In the end, Master Chen and a few craftsmen moved a dozen stones to the edge of the tunnel, and these stones were the stones that were against the back of the large stone slabs—the stones were so large and heavy that one person could only move them, and two people could only move them.

Xiang Daimo took the emergency light and walked towards the depths of the dark passage, followed by the others.

The height of the dark passage is only about one meter six, so everyone must bow their heads and bend down and walk forward slowly.

The path of the dark passage runs from south to north.

Walking forward about three meters, the height of the secret passage increases to about one point and eight meters, and everyone can walk upright.

The width of the tunnel has not changed, it is the same as the entrance.

The bottom of the tunnel is completely made of stones, the top is a whole long stone, and the ground and the walls on both sides are made of stones about 45 centimeters long and 30 centimeters wide.

Judging from the height of the secret passage and the building materials alone, it is clear that the scale of the secret room is not small.

After walking more than ten meters forward, the dark road turned right and turned east.

Master Chen said: The direction of the dark path is towards the meditation room of the abbot of the quiet and secluded courtyard. Therefore, he can be sure that there must be an entrance to the secret room in the meditation room of the abbot Huijue.

Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei also thought so.

Every five or six steps, you can see a rectangular stone cave on the left and right walls, and there is a candlestick in the stone cave, the candlestick has no candles, but there are some candle solids around the base of the candlestick, and the body of the candlestick is also covered with some dripping candle oil.

Zhao Zimeng felt that there was a foreign object under his feet, so he shone it with a flashlight, and there was some black soil on the ground, which was the same color as the black soil that the comrades dug up at the entrance of the first secret passage last night.

"Stop." Ling Hu Yunfei said loudly.

Zhao Zimeng stopped advancing, squatted down, and looked carefully on the ground.

"Zimeng, there's a shoe print here." Linghu Yunfei pointed the light of the flashlight at a shoe print.

The location of the shoe print is about five centimeters close to the east wall, and there is a layer of soil below and around the shoe print, and there are some scattered overlapping shoe prints next to this shoe print, but this shoe print is relatively complete.

There was no pattern on the shoe print, and it was the same size as the large shoe print that the comrades found when they entered the meditation room last night, and the size was also about forty-two yards. Only the shoes of monks and nuns leave such shoe prints on the soil.

Obviously, the earth used to seal the secret passage came from the secret room, and similarly, the stones used to block the secret passage also came from the secret room.

Zhao Zimeng, Ling Hu Yunfei and Xiang Daimo took a closer look at the scattered overlapping shoe prints, and the direction of the toe toe was both east and west. As it turned out, someone had been busy in this secret passage for a while the night before yesterday - probably not alone.

When you walk forward about five meters, a curve appears, and the dark path turns north, and after four meters, it turns south.

After turning the corner, two passages appear not far away, one to the south and the other to the east.

Everyone stopped at the three-way intersection.

Xiang Daimo used a flashlight to shine on the south and then to the east.

"Yunfei, this dark passage faces south, and this passage faces east." Zhao Zimeng said.

"Captain, this passage seems to be eastward, and this passage seems to be westward." Lin Di said, Lin Di's sense of direction is relatively poor.

Master Yan corrected Lin Di's statement: "Comrade Captain is right, this one is south, and this one is east. ”

Ling Hu Yunfei also has a strong sense of direction: "This dark passage seems to lead to the West Zen Temple," Ling Hu Yunfei pointed to the dark passage to the south, and then pointed to the dark passage to the east, "This dark passage seems to lead to the quiet courtyard." ”

"Let's take a look at this dark passage first." Zhao Zimeng walked into the dark passage to the south, "According to the direction and location of this secret passage, the entrance is very likely to be in the quiet meditation room. ”

Under the guidance of emergency lights and flashlights, everyone walked more than 20 meters to the south, and the dark passage began to turn to the west, and at a distance of about three meters from the bend, four stone steps appeared, and there were several stone steps below the first entrance.

At the top of the stone steps, there is a square exit made of long stones with a side length of 60 centimeters.

Xiang Daimo walked up the stone steps and aimed the light of the flashlight at the square hole, which was topped by a wooden plank.

Xiang Daimo held the plank with his right hand and tried to move it, but the plank seemed to be pressed by some heavy object and did not move.

"Xiang Daimo, Xiao Luhan, you go to Jingping's meditation room, Master Chen, you go too. You first lift all the floors on the meditation bed, then listen to the sounds, determine the approximate location, and try to open the entrance to the secret passage. We'll start knocking on the planks in five minutes," Zhao Zimeng rolled up his sleeves and looked at his watch, "It's eight and five o'clock—we'll start knocking on the planks at eight and ten o'clock." ”

Xiang Daimo and Xiao Luhan took the order and left, followed by Master Chen.

At 8:00, Ling Hu Yunfei took the hammer from Master Chen's hand and struck it hard three times on the wooden board.

Everyone was quiet and listened to the reaction from above, and a minute passed, and there was still no reaction from above.

Linghu Yunfei knocked three more times.

After a while, there was a dull sound above the wooden board, and Zhao Zimeng held the wooden board with his hand, and his hand obviously felt the vibration.

After a while, some chaotic sounds came from above, although the sound was not loud, but relatively clear.

One minute, two minutes, three minutes, the clutter of sound became clearer and clearer.

Twenty minutes later, there were three rings above the plank.

After a jumbled sound, one side of the plank began to tilt upwards, and as the plank was warped, some dirt fell.

Immediately afterwards, the people below saw the light, first a line, and then the area of the light became larger and larger.

At the same time, the people below could already hear the voices of Xiang Daimo, Xiao Luhan, and Master Chen.

When the planks are lifted completely, a square hole is revealed.

Ling Hu Yunfei walked to the stone steps, stretched his head out of the square hole, and stacked a lot of green bricks around the cave entrance.

Several craftsmen stand on either side of the cave with shovels in hand.

There is no doubt that in this meditation room where Jingping once lived, there was indeed an entrance to a secret passage.