Ever since Jingping left the temple – or disappeared – Lan Simeng reported the crime, the entrance to the secret passage has been sealed. The person who blocked the entrance to the secret passage also arranged for two nuns to live in the meditation room.

Xiang Daimo's words confirmed Ling Hu Yunfei's judgment: "There is a very thick layer of soil above the entrance of the cave. ”

Needless to say, Lian Luo Dan did not leave Mingchen Nunnery. Similarly, Shimizu and several other missing young nuns never left Mingchen'an.

Ling Hu Yunfei and Zhao Zimeng climbed out of the cave one after another.

The color of the soil sealing the entrance of the cave is the same as the color of the sealed soil at the entrance of the utility room of the Tibetan scripture hall, the location of the cave is on the right side of the meditation bed, last time, the comrades found the place where the diary is on the left side of the meditation bed, and there is a wall in the middle of the meditation bed, which divides the meditation bed into two.

In addition to Xiang Daimo, Xiao Luhan, Master Chen and several other craftsmen in the meditation room, there is another person, she is Master Ning He.

Master Ning and Master were as stunned as a wooden chicken, standing at the door of the meditation room with a pale face. She never dreamed that there would be an entrance to a secret passage in her meditation room.

Zhao Zimeng patted the dirt on his body: "Xiang Daimo, Xiao Luhan, now is the time to control Abbot Huijue." ”

"Zimeng, after taking Abbot Huijue under control, where do we lock her up?" Linghu Yunfei said.

"Just let her stay in her meditation room." Zhao Zimeng said, "We will soon find the secret passage of the quiet courtyard. ”

"Handcuffs or not?"

"Handcuffs, be careful, she seems to be good at martial arts. Lu Qian, you go too. You watched her in the secluded courtyard. There must be an entrance to the secret passage in Huijue's meditation room, you two pay attention to the sound, we knock a few times, you knock a few times, after determining the specific location, knock a few more times. ”

Xiang Daimo, Xiao Luhan, and Lu Qian took the order and left; Zhao Zimeng, Ling Hu Yunfei, Ma Jianping, and Lin Di returned to the dark passage, and Master Yan and Master Chen also followed.

The six men returned to the three-way intersection, then walked eastward, and after walking more than twenty steps, a T-shaped fork appeared, one of which continued to the east, and the other to the south.

The group headed south.

After walking about a dozen steps, four stone steps appeared in front of him - this kind of four-level stone steps, everyone has seen it three times, and the entrances of the first two dark passages are all four-level stone steps. Even the stone steps are the same length, width and height.

Master Chen is worthy of being a craftsman who has dealt with the temple for decades, and he has a very strong sense of direction: "Captain Zhao, this secret path should be under the Jingwu Palace. ”

"Zimeng, this should be below Guanyin Bodhisattva." Linghu Yunfei said.

"I'll go up and have a look." Master Yan said, "My grandfather and father are both begging for a living in the monastery. The implication of Master Yan's words was that he was familiar with the general secret path organs.

Zhao Zimeng handed the flashlight to Master Yan: "Master Yan, be careful. ”

"It's fine." Master Yan said. On one side of the stone steps, the old man was very agile.

Ma Jianping raised the emergency lights; Lin Di aimed the light pillar of the flashlight at the stone steps.

There was a square stone slab above Master Yan's head, with a side length of about sixty centimeters.

Master Yan tapped the slate with his fingers, and then turned the light of the flashlight twice under the slate - very slowly.

The frame under the slab is made of long strips of stone, which are about sixty-five centimeters long and thirty centimeters wide.

In the middle of each long stone there is a square hole.

"These four square holes are the mechanism that opens this stone door." Master Yan looked at Zhao Zimeng and said, "In the twenty-first year of the Republic of China, when I was working in Qixia Temple, I also saw this kind of institution. My grandfather and father pondered this all their lives. ”

Master Yan said as he put the handle of the hammer into the hole in a long stone on the south side, and then pushed it upward.

A few people heard a "click", and the slate began to move eastward.

After more than ten seconds, the slate completely disappeared into the wall.

Master Yan put the flashlight into the square hole, swept it around, and then shouted to the people below: "There is a Bodhisattva above." The entrance to the secret path is inside the bodhisattva's belly. ”

Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei stood on the second stone step and looked above the entrance of the cave.

About a meter above the entrance to the cave, there were strips of wood tied horizontally and vertically, which were fastened with wire, and around the wooden shelves, there were exposed hair, grass and hemp fibers.

The bodhisattvas we usually see are dignified and majestic, but in fact, they are all supported by wooden shelves, and they are molded with mud and hair, grass, and hemp fibers.

Looking at the diameter and height of the wooden shelf, the Bodhisattva will not be a small Bodhisattva.

"It should be Guanyin Bodhisattva above." Zhao Zimeng said.

Everyone was very excited, the night before yesterday - that is, the night of the first day when the comrades were stationed in Mingchen Nunnery, when Zhao Zimeng and his entourage passed by the Jingwu Hall when they went to the Tibetan Scripture Hall, they were followed, and this person was at the entrance of this secret passage to monitor and follow everyone, and slipped through the entrance of this secret passage.

So, how did the entrance to this secret passage become seamless?

"Captain Zhao, there should be an entrance up there." Master Yan said.

"Master Yan, you go up there and have a look first."

Master Yan climbed the upper cave and groped for a while on the south side of the Buddha statue - in the Jingwu Hall, in the position of the central axis, there are two Bodhisattvas of respect, the Bodhisattva facing south and north is Maitreya Buddha, and he lies on a half-meter-high pedestal; Facing north and facing south is Guanyin Bodhisattva, who stands on a lotus throne about one meter high.

Therefore, the south side of Guanyin Bodhisattva should be the back.

After a while, Master Yan opened a square door with a side length of about 60 centimeters, Master Yan pushed the shelter outward with his right hand, and the person standing under the square hole instantly saw the light, and the right side of the square door was fixed on the wooden shelf inside the Bodhisattva's belly.

Master Yan was the first to drill out of the back of Guanyin Bodhisattva, and Zhao Zimeng and others drilled out of the back of Guanyin Bodhisattva in turn.

Master Yan's judgment was not wrong, the entrance to the secret path was indeed on the back of Guanyin Bodhisattva.

There are two entrances to the tunnel, and the outermost entrance is cleverly designed, with a layer of mud pasted on the square door, and some hair, grass, and hemp fibers stuck to the mud. When the mud door was closed, the mud door and the Bodhisattva's mud body were completely one, and all the gaps were completely covered by hair, grass, and hemp fibers in the same direction.

There are many layers of clothes on the Bodhisattva's body, layer by layer, and there is a very long, multi-layered cloak on the outermost part, so it is difficult to get the entrance on the back of Guanyin Bodhisattva outside.

The platform between the back of Maitreya Buddha and Guanyin Bodhisattva should be a relatively ideal observation point, standing here, the situation inside the main hall is clear at a glance. A floor-to-ceiling cloak hides all the signs. If it weren't for the fact that the comrades had discovered that the cloak was fluttering in the absence of wind, no one would have thought that behind the cloak was hiding an entrance to a secret passage - at that time, the comrades did not think of this.

Needless to say, the entrance to the secret passage was already considered when the predecessors built the temple, so what did the builders consider when designing the secret room and the secret passage?

Master Yan said that when the general temple is built, the underground palace will be taken into account, but the main purpose is to collect some very important things, such as the treasure of the temple; There are also yellow and white things.

In addition to relying on donors to maintain incense, the temple must also have some savings, and the Buddha cannot cut off the cooking; The secret room can also house the relics of the monks of the past dynasties.

The entrance to the secret passage was designed inside the Bodhisattva's belly, and Master Yan had never seen it, nor had he heard it from his grandfather and father.

The temple is indeed a good place for self-cultivation and staying away from the mortal world, but it is not that after entering the Buddhist gate, they have become enlightened good people, people have seven emotions and six desires, and the door of the temple alone cannot be imprisoned.

It can be seen how powerful the vitality of people's seven emotions and six desires is, just by knocking on the wooden fish, hitting the bronze bell, wearing a gray monk's robe from beginning to end, and eating a lifetime of coarse tea and light food, it can only be regarded as a joke.

A group of people returned to the secret passage from the original way, and if there is a secret passage, there will definitely be a secret room, where is the secret room?

The next task is to find the secret chamber, and of course the other entrances to the dark passages, mainly the entrance to the Quiet Courtyard, and the second note suggests that it should have something to do with the Quiet Courtyard.

The group returned to the T-junction and continued eastward.

After walking for about ten meters, the light of the flashlight caught an iron door in advance, and there was a string of iron chains on the iron gate, and there was an iron lock on the iron chain.

The iron door was rusty, and some green paint could be faintly seen—the paint was almost gone.

The iron gate is about 1.7 meters high and about 70 centimeters wide, and a ring with a diameter of about 5 centimeters is welded on the side of the iron gate and on the iron door frame. The chains were worn on these two rings.

Is this the Chamber of Secrets?

Ling Hu Yunfei pushed the iron door, and the iron door only opened a crack.

Master Yan raised the hammer and smashed it down against the lock.

With a bang, the chain was broken, but the lock was intact.

Zhao Zimeng picked up the iron lock, and there was no rust on the iron lock at all - this iron lock should be used very frequently.

Ling Hu Yunfei untied the iron chain and pushed open the iron door—the iron chain was wrapped around the door several times.

Xiang Daimo walked into the iron gate with an emergency light; Lin Di and Ling Hu Yunfei also walked in, each holding a flashlight in their hands.

Everyone was stunned: what came into view was some furniture. Wooden beds, wardrobes, bedside tables, tables, chairs, round stools are all available.

There are also two wooden basins in the corner, one of which is a tall wooden basin. All the furnishings are very high-grade mahogany furniture.