"Captain Zhao, please sit down and talk." Abbot Huijue whispered softly.

Abbot Huijue walked to the Arhat bed with the support of Master Nianci and motioned for the four of them to sit on the chairs.

Abbot Huijue picked up the monk's robe and slowly sat down on the Luohan bed: "Nian Ci, turn on the lamp - the light in this room is too dim." Captain Zhao, what's the matter—please tell me! ”

Mrs. Nian Ci walked up to the incense table, picked up something like a needle, but much longer than a needle, from the candlestick and dialed the wick. The lights did turn on a bit, but the inside of the meditation room was still unusually dim.

"Presiding over Huijue, as far as we know, in addition to Jingping, there are also young nuns such as Zhishui and Xiuzhu."

"Didn't the poor nun say it! Buddhism is compassionate, and whoever wants to leave, the Buddha will not stop him. Not everyone is related to the Buddha, and those who can accompany the green lantern and yellow scroll for life are a minority after all. ”

"Abbot Huijue, we found a secret passage in the room where Zhishui and Xiuzhu once lived."

"Poor nuns have been in this Ming Chen Nunnery for decades, and they are unheard of. Have you gone down? What's inside the tunnel? Does this have anything to do with the case you're investigating? ”

"The secret passage is sealed by a large stone slab, we estimate that there must be a secret room under the secret passage, and a series of disappearances that occurred in Mingchen Nunnery may have something to do with this secret room."

"Unheard of, unbelievable - Amitabha."

"The night before, a craftsman had heard a strange noise—it was coming from the room where Shisui and Shuzhu had lived, and we suspected that someone had taken advantage of our departure from the temple to hide the entrance to the secret passage. It must have been discovered by the other party that we were exploring the Tibetan Scripture Hall at night. ”

"Nian Ci, have you heard of the fact that there is a secret room in Mingchen Nunnery?"

"Poor nuns are unheard of."

"Captain Zhao, let's do it! The poor nuns will go with you and see. ”

Zhao Zimeng sat on a Taishi chair closest to the Luohan bed, and he saw that under the brim of Abbot Huijue's hat, at the sideburns, there were some fine beads of sweat; There are also some fine beads of sweat on both sides of the nose.

Originally, Zhao Zimeng didn't notice these beads of sweat, because the light in the room was indeed too dark, but the two actions that Abbot Huijue often repeated attracted Zhao Zimeng's attention.

Every once in a while, Abbot Huijue would toss the hat on her head—just like the soldiers who wear hats, they like to tidy up their hats, and they are afraid that the hat will affect the appearance of the army.

While moving his hat, Abbot Huijue would also take the opportunity to rub his long sleeves on his nose a few times.

However, Abbot Huijue's hat has no visor, and no matter how he wears it, it will not be crooked, so Abbot Huijue's action of tossing the hat is a bit redundant.

It is very obvious that Abbot Huijue wants to take the opportunity of tidying up his hat to wipe the sweat off his sideburns, forehead and nose by the way.

In late November, the temperature at night was much lower than during the day, not to mention in the mountains, Zhao Zimeng also felt a burst of cold, so the sweat on the head of the abbot of Huijue was strange, everyone should not forget that the abbot of Huijue had just talked to the Buddha, and she was not doing any intense exercise.

Zhao Zimeng did not answer Abbot Huijue's words: "Abbot Huijue, we suspect that the meditation room where Jingping once lived also has an entrance to a secret room. ”

"Amitabha."

The Buddha is indeed smart, and the sentence "Amitabha" is like a **** that can open all the locks, and it can deal with all problems. As long as it is a question that Abbot Huijue does not want to answer, he can deal with it with a sentence of "Amitabha".

"Abbot Huijue, we even suspect that there is an entrance to a secret room in your meditation room."

Abbot Huijue's mind turned quickly: "Poor nuns also have the entrance to the secret room here?" Then bother Captain Zhao to help find it. Whether you say this or not, the poor nun's heart cannot be calmed down. ”

"If there is a secret passage here, then the poor nuns will not be able to live here." Abbot Huijue said as he stood up and looked here and there in the meditation room, as if he was looking for something.

Since Abbot Huijue is so cooperative, it would be wrong not to appreciate it. Zhao Zimeng looked at Ling Hu Yunfei, Xiao Luhan, and Lin Di, and then walked to the Buddha shrine.

The width of the shrine is about 1.2 meters, the height is about 1.9 meters, the depth of the inlay on the wall should be about 30 centimeters, and the width of the protrusion to the outside is about 60 centimeters.

Although the three people did not know who the Bodhisattva sitting in the Buddha shrine was, they could determine that he was a male Bodhisattva, with two eyes slightly open, a high nose, a wide forehead, big ears, a square mouth, a purple and gold crown on his head, his hands interlocked, and naturally fell in the middle of his thighs, and his upper body exposed his right shoulder and arm. Just looking at the appearance, this should be regarded as a very handsome and handsome bodhisattva.

Zhao Zimeng carefully touched the Bodhisattva's left and right, including the back, and on the Bodhisattva's body, Zhao Zimeng did not find a single gap - not even a gap for his fingers to stick into.

Linghu Yunfei carefully checked the hollow carvings on the Buddhist shrine again, and found no problems.

Zhao Zimeng also twisted the Bodhisattva's ears, pulled the Bodhisattva's right and left hands, and turned, shaked, pressed, and lifted two candlesticks - the candlesticks were fixed on the Buddha shrine, and still no mechanism was found.

"Abbot Huijue, what's outside the meditation room?" Zhao Zimeng pointed to the north wall.

Abbot Huijue walked up to Zhao Zimeng and Linghu Yunfei: "Outside is the mountains and forests. ”

Zhao Zimeng stood on the chair and carefully inspected the top of the Buddhist shrine, the top of the Buddhist shrine, except for some dust, were two spider webs. In the middle of one of the spider's webs, a spider rests. When the spider saw Zhao Zimeng, it quickly crawled towards the other end of the spider's web.

The cobwebs connect the top of the shrine to the wall, indicating that there is no possibility of the shrine moving. Therefore, the body of the Buddhist shrine itself cannot be a secret door to the entrance of the secret room. If there is a problem, it can only be in the bodhisattva's body. It's a pity that Zhao Zimeng and Linghu Yunfei couldn't find the problem from the Bodhisattva.

Zhao Zimeng carefully inspected the floor at the bottom of the shrine and on the left and right sides, each of which was fixed to the supporting wood with iron nails.

There is not a single gap between the bottom of the shrine and the floor, so the mechanism will definitely not be at the bottom of the shrine.

The three of them carefully inspected the two rows of bookshelves, and the three of them worked together to move the two rows of bookshelves out of the way, and behind the bookshelves was the wall.

The three of them moved the two beds away, and the floor was under the bed, and Abbot Huijue was very cooperative, and when the four of them moved the two beds, Abbot Huijue and Master Nian Ci also took two hands. Before that, she and Master Nian Ci carefully inspected every piece of floor.

In the northeast corner of the meditation room, there were two water chestnut-colored wooden cabinets, Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei moved the two wooden cabinets, and the floor was still under the wooden cabinets.

"Look at it again—" Abbot Huijue said, pointing to the incense case.

The incense case is about 1.5 meters long, about 50 centimeters wide, there are two doors under the incense case, Lin Di opened the door of the incense case, and there are some monk clothes neatly arranged in the door, and more than a dozen monk clothes are placed in two stacks.

Linghu Yunfei wanted to move the incense case away, but the incense case did not move.

"Abbot Huijue, is the incense case fixed on the floor?"

"Yes." Abbot Huijue replied.

Zhao Zimeng used an electrician's knife to pry open the floor under and around the incense case one by one.

Zhao Zimeng and Linghu Yunfei had already realized that tonight's actions would be fruitless—this could be seen from the expression of Abbot Huijue—it was unlikely that Abbot Huijue would do the stupid thing of "there are no three hundred taels of silver here".

But the four of them still have a glimmer of hope, and everyone should be able to see that Zhao Zimeng has a showdown with Abbot Huijue, and Abbot Huijue is not a vegetarian, she turned passive into active, which made Zhao Zimeng and Linghu Yunfei a little confused.

There are two possibilities, either there is really no entrance to the secret passage in the meditation room, or the mechanism of the secret passage is very cleverly designed, and it is impossible to find this mechanism with ordinary people's thinking and judgment, otherwise, Abbot Huijue would not be so calm and calm.

If there was no diary to foreshadow in front, Zhao Zimeng and Ling Hu Yunfei would most likely be bluffed by Abbot Huijue.

Could it be that the entrance to the secret room is in the courtyard outside the meditation room? After thinking about it, what happened tonight was too strange and strange, and Zhao Zimeng had to rack his brains and think more deeply.

Did Abbot Huijue walk into the meditation room after his comrades and then sit in front of the shrine? At that time, the light inside and outside the meditation room was very dim, and under the cover of darkness, it should not be difficult for Abbot Huijue to walk into the meditation room.

The key is that the door of the meditation room is inserted from the inside, how did Abbot Huijue insert the latch back outside the door? What is the purpose of Abbot Hui Jue's doing?

In the end, Zhao Zimeng was sure that if Abbot Huijue was indeed not in the meditation room when Nian Ci Shi Tai and Ling Hu Yunfei knocked on the courtyard door, then the entrance to the secret room must be in the meditation room.

Ling Hu Yunfei walked to the candlestick and looked at his watch, the time was 2:25.

Zhao Zimeng understood what Linghu Yunfei meant, and it was not too early: "Yunfei, let's withdraw!" Abbot Huijue, disturbed in the middle of the night, there is a lot of offense, and I ask Abbot Huijue to bear with me. ”

"Captain Zhao is polite, assisting comrades in handling cases is also our obligation, not to mention any offense. It's really not early, comrades are working hard, and it's time to rest. ”

The four of them said goodbye to Abbot Huijue and walked out of the meditation room.

Abbot Huijue sent everyone out of the round door, and after watching the five people walk away, he closed the round door and inserted the latch.

The four of them quickly returned to the Jingwu Hall after breaking up with Nian Ci Shitai at the foot of the steps of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and now is not the time to rest, the key is that the four of them are not sleepy yet, and the work of monitoring the abbot of Huijue cannot be interrupted. Originally, Zhao Zimeng told Lin Di to go back to the meditation room to rest, but Lin Di insisted on refusing, there was no way, Zhao Zimeng could only let her accompany her.

The four returned to their original surveillance points.

It was late at night, and the temperature was relatively low, but fortunately, the temperature in the temple was higher.