"No one in the nunnery will know."

"Why is that?"

"We are all people who have neither a past nor a future, and if we want to leave, we have to leave cleanly, if we leave our whereabouts, how can we walk cleanly? If you want to cut off the edge of the dust, you have to go clean. ”

"After Qing Shui left, did her father come to the mountain to find Abbot Huijue?"

"I came to find it, and it was received by Abbot Huijue."

"What did Abbot Huijue say?"

"I don't know, they're talking in the Quiet Courtyard."

"You've been in Mingchen'an for so many years, have you noticed anything strange about Mingchen'an?"

"Nope. As the saying goes, be a monk for a day and hit the clock for a day, why not a nun? ”

"When-when-when-"

As if to make a special annotation for Master Ning He's words, a low bell sounded outside the meditation room, and the bell sounded melodiously, as if it was both close and far away.

Xiang Daimo looked around the meditation room, and finally fell on the bed.

"Master Ninghe, is there an empty bed underneath?" Xiang Daimo said.

"It's empty."

Linghu Yunfei understood what Xiang Daimo meant, he stood up and knocked on the mat with his fist, the voice was very weak, and the straw mat should be paved underneath.

Xiang Daimo lifted the straw mat.

Sure enough, there was a plank underneath the mat. Xiang Daimo pried open a plank, and the bottom of the plank was empty.

Ling Hu Yunfei pried open two more paving boards.

Xiao Luhan took out a flashlight from his bag and handed it to Ling Hu Yunfei.

Linghu Yunfei turned on the flashlight and reached under the bed.

Linghu Yunfei suddenly took out his hand. At the same time, everyone also heard the "chirping" of mice.

"What's the situation?" Zhao Zimeng said.

"There are a few rats down there." Linghu Yunfei stretched the flashlight under the paving board again.

Linghu Yunfei saw that a mouse had burrowed into a hole in the wall.

"What's that?" Xiao Luhan suddenly said loudly.

Xiang Daimo and Linghu Yunfei also saw it. Zhao Zimeng and Ning He also walked to the bed.

What Xiao Luhan saw was triangular, like the corner of a book. It was located on the north wall, under the diagonal pillows to be precise—the nuns slept, most of them with their heads facing north.

Xiao Luhan climbed onto the bed, lay face down on the bed, and then reached underneath his hand.

When Xiao Luhan's right hand was taken out, everyone could see it clearly, Xiao Luhan's hand was holding a diary with a blue cover.

There is a lot of dirt on the diary.

"The diary is buried in the earth, with only one corner exposed." Xiao Luhan patted the soil off the diary.

Xiao Luhan took some scraps of paper.

Confetti fell from the inside of the diary. The confetti is supposed to be eaten by rats – hungry rats eat even wood and paper.

Xiao Luhan opened the cover of the diary, and the corner of the inner shell had been eaten by rats - the corner of the diary should have been dug out by mice.

Zhao Zimeng took the notebook, the notebook is about 20 centimeters long, about 15 centimeters wide, and about 2.5 centimeters thick, the cover of the notebook is very exquisite, and a red plum is embroidered on the blue brocade.

Zhao Zimeng was just about to open the inner part of the notebook, when he suddenly heard Xiao Luhan shout again: "Captain, there seems to be a fountain pen underneath." ”

Linghu Yunfei also saw it: "It is indeed a fountain pen." ”

In a corner a dozen centimeters away from the notebook, there was a fountain pen – a fountain pen buried in the soil, to be exact. Xiao Luhan reached out to grab it, but couldn't grasp it - only a small part of the pen was exposed.

So, Ling Hu Yunfei lifted two more paving boards.

Xiao Luhan finally caught the pen.

Linghu Yunfei took the pen from Xiao Luhan's hand, unscrewed the steel sleeve, looked at the tip of the pen, and then handed it to Zhao Zimeng's hand.

Everyone should remember that Lian Le Ya and Lan Simeng once mentioned a hero brand fountain pen, and when Alchem Luo Dan left home, he only took the notebook and this fountain pen with him.

Zhao Zimeng and Linghu Yunfei both saw clearly, this is a hero brand fountain pen.

"This should be the fountain pen that Lian Luo Dan took from home." Xiang Daimo said.

"Captain Zhao, open it and see what is written in the diary."

Ning He stood aside in a daze.

Zhao Zimeng walked to the door of the meditation room, which was darkly lit, and opened the diary to the last page.

The contents of the diary are shown below:

On December 27, 1979, the weather was cloudy and rainy.

Here's the text:

Although the weather was terrible today, I was in a good mood, the math test paper came down, and I scored 99 points, although I was the first in the class, but I was not very happy, if I had not made a careless mistake, I should have scored 100 points.

The teacher praised me, but at the same time criticized me, saying that this point should not be lost. However, the teacher finally comforted me and said that it would be good to get rid of my carelessness in the future. I took my teacher's words to heart.

Today, there is another thing that makes me happy, the Chinese teacher showed my composition in the class, he said that my writing is very neat and beautiful, he knows at a glance that I have practiced calligraphy, and he also asked his classmates to learn from me. After class, several classmates asked me what posts I practiced.

The pen writing of Lian Luodan is indeed very beautiful. According to the time, at that time, Lian Luo Dan should have been about eleven years old.

"Team Zhao, at this time, Lian Luo Dan was about eleven years old, and her personality changed when she was twelve years old." Xiang Daimo said.

Everyone was very excited, and on the first day of the comrades' stationing in the monastery, they found Alchemist Luodan's diary and pen.

The notebook and pen revealed a very important piece of information to the comrades: judging from the materials in the hands of the comrades, Alchemy Luo Dan had left Ming Chen'an, but the comrades found what she had been carrying with them under the bed where Jie Luo Dan had slept in her.

If Alchemist Luo Dan wanted to sever all ties with the past, it only made sense that she should destroy all the diaries.

What does it mean to destroy them all? It means ending one's own life. Unless she was terminated, if she was terminated, then she would definitely not leave Mingchen'an, and only if there was a possibility that her life would be ended, she would secretly hide a childhood diary and a fountain pen.

She wasn't trying to tell anyone something. In the case of the urgency of the situation, helplessness and helplessness, the only thing you can do is to leave a little of your own belongings to prove that you are still in the monastery.

The only things that Alchem Luo Dan carried with him were a diary and a fountain pen, and according to common sense, Alchem Luo Dan would definitely take these two things with him when he left Ming Chen'an.

Next, the comrades also discovered a new situation: in Alchemist Luo Dan's diary, more than a dozen pages were cut - they were cut with a very sharp knife - located at the back of the diary. Zhao Zimeng counted it, and there were thirteen in total. There must be something very secret involved in the thirteen sheets.

Judging from the time of the previous diaries, these dozen pieces of paper were in the autumn of 1980 - at this time, the age of refining Luo Dan was about twelve years old.

Why did Lian Luo Dan cut off these dozen pieces of paper?

Zhao Zimeng hoped to read something valuable from the contents of the diary, but he couldn't do it for the time being, because Lin Di led Master Nian Ci into the meditation room.

When Master Nian Ci walked into the West Zen Temple, Ning He withdrew from the meditation room.

The first thing Master Nian Ci said when she walked into the meditation room was: "Abbot Huijue has returned to the quiet courtyard. ”

"Okay, let's ask the teacher a few questions first, and then we will go to the secluded courtyard."

Mrs. Nian Ci sat down on the chair: "Poor nuns listen to me. ”

"Master Nianci, as far as we know, it was Abbot Huijue who personally shaved Jingping."

"Not bad."

"Where did you shave it?"

"In the meditation room of Abbot Huijue."

"We heard that you led Jingping to the Quiet Courtyard."

"Yes, it was the poor nun who led Jingping to the quiet courtyard."

"Very good, when you led Jingping to Jingyouyuan, did Jingping have anything on his body—such as a package or something?"

"Brought something."

"What's that?"

"A school bag."

"What kind of school bag?"

"It's a yellow-colored schoolbag—the kind that soldiers carry—with a five-pointed star rusted with red thread on it."

"Xiang Daimo, did Lian Luodan's parents mention this schoolbag?" Zhao Zimeng asked Xiang Daimo in a low voice.

"I didn't mention it, today, I plan to take time to go to the refiner's house, and the notebook and pen still have to be identified by them, and by the way, I will ask about the schoolbag."

There is no doubt that Refining Luodan's schoolbag must have contained a diary and a pen.

"We heard that Jingping first worked in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and then went to the Jingyou Temple."

"Not bad."

"Does Abbot Huijue care about Jingping very much?"

"Everyone in the temple cares about her."

"Why?"

Although Jingping entered the Buddhist gate, but the dust seems to be over, she is depressed all day long, tea and dinner do not think, the abbot of Huijue will keep her by his side, so as to enlighten her at any time. Abbot Huijue also took care of other masters and made more moves. ”

"We heard that before Jingping left the monastery—" Now, Zhao Zimeng could only ask, "there were also people who chose to leave, right?" ”

"Not bad."

"Who are they? Can you tell us about it? ”

"Clear water."

"Anything else?"

"And don't worry."

"Is there another nun named Xiuzhu?"

"Yes, Xiuzhu is also one."

"Why did they leave the Ming Chen'an?"

"This—the poor nun doesn't know, but if the poor nun were to guess, there are no more than two reasons."

"What are the two reasons?"

"First, the family is entangled, refuses to stop, and wants to try their best to redeem it; The second is that he can't bear the hardship and loneliness in the monastery.

"These nuns, including Jingping, seem to be young girls, what's going on?"

"It's understandable."

"I want to hear about it."

"Once a girl chooses to become a monk, the first few years are very difficult, the life in the monastery, you have also seen, if you don't have a chance with the Buddha, even if you come in, sooner or later you will leave, but as long as you survive the first few years, and slowly adapt to the life here, you can realize the benefits."