"Twenty-four years ago, in the spring, when you left the Cold Moon Temple, how many people were there?"

"It's fourteen people, and with me, it's fifteen people in total. Why did Captain Zhao ask? Jiang Zihai is inexplicable.

"Where are Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao?"

"The two of them went back to Xiutian a few days early."

"They are doing a good job in the Cold Moon Temple, what are they going to do when they go back to Xiutian in advance?"

"That's the case, Ge Zhenggen's family asked someone to bring a letter to Lengyue Temple, the letter said that Ge Zhenggen's mother was seriously ill and would die soon, so Ge Zhenggen should return to his hometown to see him for the last time. Ge Zhenggen's mother is Liu Abao's aunt, and after hearing the news, she also followed Ge Zhenggen back to Xiutian. ”

"Have you seen the letter from Ge Zhenggen's family?"

"See. I asked He Daniu to deliver the letter to Ge Zhenggen. At that time, we lived in the third family of Teng Laosan in Shizhai and partnered with his family, and Ge Zhenggen's family only knew that we went to Lengyue Temple to work, so the messenger sent the letter to Lengyue Temple. ”

The complexity of the case is beyond the imagination of Zhao Zimeng, Xiao Luhan and Lu Qian.

"To whom did the messenger give the letter?"

"The messenger handed over the letter to the supervisor of Jiecheng, and it was the supervisor who handed over the letter to me."

"Why didn't that person just hand over the letter to Ge Zhenggen?"

"I don't know about that."

"What was Ge Zhenggen's reaction when he got the letter?"

When he saw the words on the letter, he was very sad and cried a lot, and his cousin Liu Abao was also sad. The two of them were about to return to Xiutian. At that time, the well of the temple was almost dug up, so I agreed to let them go, but I could not leave until the last bit of work was done. ”

"And then they stayed in the Cold Moon Temple for a few more days?"

"Two days later, I asked them to wash the walls of the well—this is what Supervisor Cheng meant. I also re-laid the floor tiles around the edge of the well. In order to let them leave early, I also sent two apprentices to help them for a day. We work in the temple, relying on craftsmanship and reputation, the temple is not satisfied, and it is difficult for us to take the money and leave. ”

"Are the apprentices of the two gangs you mentioned still in your engineering team?"

"Yes."

"What's the name of these two?"

"One is called Cao Lianzhu, and the other is Xu Tongsuo."

"We'd like to talk to these two later."

"Master Water Purification, please call Cao Lianzhu and Xu Tongsuo now—they paint on the mountain gate." Jiang Zihai looked at the acolyte standing beside Abbot Fangzheng.

Abbot Fangzheng nodded, and Purified Water walked out of the meditation room.

"Master Jiang, did Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao leave from Teng's house, or did they leave from the monastery?"

"It's straight from inside the temple. They went straight down the mountain after they were busy with their business. ”

"They went back to Xiutian, does the Teng family know?"

"I don't know."

"Suddenly there are two less people to eat and sleep, how can the Teng family not know?"

"There were too many of us - fifteen of them, plus the two of them were seventeen. Teng Laosan only cooks, and in the last few days, Aunt Teng was not in good health, so we served the rice by ourselves. The old couple didn't ask, and we didn't have time to mention it. We were very busy, except for eating, sleeping, and going to the hut, just to work. ”

"The key is that in the last few days, I was in a hurry, and I didn't have time to talk to the old couple. Even in normal times, we rarely talk to the Teng family, except for Ge Zhenggen who plays a few games of chess with Teng Ergui when he is free, others rarely talk to the Teng family. ”

"We are grateful that the Teng family can accept us to eat and live, so I told the apprentices to abide by the rules, except for going to the temple to work, usually stay in the house, and don't quarrel with the Teng family. The Teng family also has a bedridden son. ”

Teng Laosan, Teng Damiang and Teng Ergui also said the same.

"Our people have already been to Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao's house, and the Ge family and Liu family have not seen Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao for fifteen years."

"That's weird, did they have an accident in the middle of the road? It's unlikely! When they left, the monastery first advanced some wages, and more than a dozen craftsmen also expressed some of them, five yuan per person, which is not much money in total, and killed people for these few dollars. This is unlikely. ”

"That's right, we found Ge Zhenggen's body in the belly of the statue of Shakyamuni Buddha in the Daxiong Treasure Hall of Lengyue Temple."

Jiang Zihai's face changed suddenly: "This-how is this possible!" I obviously watched the two of them go down the mountain, comrade policeman, are you mistaken! ”

Zhao Zimeng took out a simulated portrait of Ge Zhenggen from his bag.

Jiang Zihai took the portrait and said without a moment's hesitation: "He is Ge Zhenggen." This is appalling, Ge Zhenggen obviously left the Cold Moon Temple, how could his body be in the Bodhisattva's belly? ”

"So, did Master Jiang watch them leave with his own eyes?" Zhao Zimeng said.

"I watched them leave the Cold Moon Temple with my own eyes, I sent them outside the mountain gate, and I asked He Da Niu to send them down the mountain! This is even more strange, could it be that they are back in Cold Moon Temple again? What are they going to do when they go back? I'm getting more and more confused. If Ge Zhenggen dies in Lengyue Temple, then Liu Abao should also be more auspicious. Jiang Zihai seemed to be talking to himself for a while.

He picked up the teacup and drank a few sips of water, then said: "After the work of Lengyue Temple was finished, we went to Jinshan Temple in Jingjiang, and this Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao knew it. We stayed at Jinshan Temple for more than three months, and these two people did not come to Jingjiang Jinshan Temple to look for us. ”

"I thought they had found another livelihood. We do this line of work, all year round, not a few days to stay at home, it is really hard, and we can't make a few dollars, and the two of us are already past the age of starting a family, and they should have married and had children. ”

Ge Zhenggen was thirty years old at the time, and Liu Abao was also twenty-five years old. They should have gotten married a long time ago. Fortunately, there were a lot of people who wanted to work with me, so I didn't send anyone to them—and I didn't have time to find them. Everyone has their own aspirations, and this kind of thing can't be forced. ”

"Master Jiang, is He Daniu you just mentioned in Wanghe Temple?"

"Yes! I'll call He Da Niu later. Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao are ordinary craftsmen, who will kill them? Is it just for the little money on them? ”

"There has always been a rumor in the Cold Moon Temple." Zhao Zimeng interrupted him.

"What rumors?"

"It is rumored that there is an underground palace in the Cold Moon Temple, and there is a half-human-tall golden Buddha hidden in the underground palace."

"The half-human height of the Golden Buddha? We worked hard in the Cold Moon Temple, and never spoke to the monks, what does this rumor have to do with Ge Zhenggen's death? Could it be that the two of them found some treasure when they were digging a well, could this treasure be the Golden Buddha? Jiang Zihai's eyes widened, as if he had heard some earth-shattering secret.

"According to the monks of Lengyue Temple, in the more than ten years before the overhaul, there were often masked black-clothed people looking everywhere when they were in deeper silence, and they should be looking for the rumored underground palace and the golden Buddha."

"I've seen this—I've seen it with my own eyes." Jiang Zihai said suddenly.

"You saw the masked man in black too?"

"Not only did I see it, but several craftsmen who were working in the Daxiong Treasure Hall and the Abbot's Zen Monastery saw it, and when we were doing our work, people often peeked at us in secret."

"The underground palace will only be in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, the Yingxia Hall and the Abbot Zen Temple, could it be that the entrance to the underground palace is in the well of the East Zen Temple?" It seems that these craftsmen knew the architectural construction of the temple inside and out.

Zhao Zimeng also thought so, but he didn't say it.

Jiang Zihai immediately denied his idea: "Hiding the entrance of the underground palace in the well, we have been working in the temple for decades, and we know that most temples have underground palaces, but it is unheard of to hide the entrance of the underground palace in the well." Who would have thought? ”

"It's just that if you can't think of it." Abbot Fangzheng, who had been silent, suddenly whispered softly.

All eyes were focused on Abbot Founder's face.

"Abbot Fangzheng, what do you mean by that?" Eko Kaido.

"If the Cold Moon Temple really has the treasure of the town temple, it must be hidden in a very secret place. The Secret Passage Mechanism must also be a place that ordinary people can't think of. ”

"It's the same as when people hide things in their homes, one person hides something, and ten people can't find it. But the place of home is limited, and I can't find it, let alone a huge temple? Abbot Fangzheng said unhurriedly.

"Abbot Fangzheng is right." Eko Kaido.

"People hide things, sooner or later they have to take them out, the treasure of the temple is born with the temple, and dies with the temple, and it will never provoke the eyes of the world."

"Abbot Fangzheng, since this is the case, why do you want to set up a secret channel mechanism?" Zhao Zimeng asked.

"Accompanying the temple to live and die with the temple is just the wish of the people who built the temple. The reality is that as long as it is something that exists in this world, it is impossible to keep it a secret forever. The treasure of the cold moon temple should be targeted by someone. ”

"According to this, the secret passage mechanism of the underground palace of Lengyue Temple is hidden in the well, and Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao discovered the secret passage mechanism that entered the underground palace in the process of digging the well." Zhao Zimeng said.

He suddenly remembered which untitled poem on the Linggu Tower, so he turned the first few pages of the notebook,

"Abbot Fangzheng, this is an untitled poem on the Linggu Tower of Lengyue Temple, which lasted for more than a thousand years, and it is said that no one can understand the Zen meaning."

Zhao Zimeng stood up and handed the notebook to Abbot Fangzheng's hand.

Abbot Founder's hand took a reading glasses from the monk's hand, put them on the bridge of his nose, and looked at them carefully.

Everyone was waiting for the answer from Abbot Founder.

Zhao Zimeng seemed to have an understanding, and he was very much looking forward to the answer from the abbot of Fang Zheng.

"Master Jiang, what is the largest building from the well?" Founder Abbot said.

"It's the Mahavira Palace."

"Is the well on the east side of the Mahavira Hall?"

"There are two temples on the east and west sides of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and there is a well in the east and west temples. The well in the temple is located on the east side of the Daeungbojeon. "Jiangzi Haidao.

"The underground palace should be under the Daxiong Treasure Hall." Founder Abbot said.

As soon as the abbot said this, the people present were taken aback.