Chapter 17 Insight into the Mysteries
"Please make it clear to Abbot Fangzheng." Zhao Zimeng said.
"The secret passage mechanism to enter the underground palace should be on the wall of the well in the East Zen Temple."
"On the wall of a well?" Jiang Zihai's eyes widened.
"People are not as good as heaven, if you don't dig that well, it is impossible to find the secret passage mechanism on the wall of the well. The well in the monastery should be clean, but if it takes too long, it will have to be dug up. ”
"Our ancestors didn't think of this when they built the monastery. Of course, perhaps there have been some changes in the secret door on the wall of the well, and the person digging the well accidentally found that the bricks on the secret door were loosening when going down and going up the well. ”
"Abbot Fangzheng, how did you guess that?" Zhao Zimeng said.
"It's not Lao Ge who guessed it, it's this untitled poem that told Lao Ge. If I hadn't heard you say so much, I wouldn't have been able to understand the deep meaning of this poem. ”
"Please tell us about it."
"With purple gas, there will be Buddha light. Purple gas comes from the east, passes through the well into the dark passage, and then enters the underground palace, the purple gas is always there, and the Buddha's light is naturally forever. This mirror is the water in the well, the wind does not blow into the well, the well water is naturally calm as a mirror, the mirror may cause dust, but the well water that is calm as a mirror will not be contaminated with dust. ”
"Abbot Fangzheng is really a monk who has attained the Tao, and when you say this, I also understand a little." Eko Kaido.
"According to this view, Liu Abao also died in Lengyue Temple, and Ge Zhenggen's body is in the belly of Shakyamuni Buddha, so where will Liu Abao's body be?" Zhao Zimeng said.
"Could it be that Liu Abao killed Ge Zhenggen, and then flew away with the things in the dungeon. Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao's families haven't seen them for more than ten years, so why don't they look for them? They should be looking for me, right! Jiang Zihai muttered to himself again.
"Ge Zhenggen only has one mother and two younger sisters, his mother later died, and the two younger sisters also got married, as for why Liu Abao's family didn't look for Liu Abao everywhere, we won't know until we go to Liu Abao's house and meet Director Liu." Zhao Zimeng said.
"Captain Zhao, there is one thing I don't understand." Eko Kaido.
"Master Jiang, please speak."
"Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao are digging a well in the East Zen Courtyard, and Supervisor Cheng and Master Fazheng are often staring, even Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao have discovered the things in the secret path mechanism and the underground palace, and they have no chance to do it!"
"Master Jiang is saying that Supervisor Jiecheng and Little Master Fazheng are staring at them inch by inch?"
"That's not it, I mean, the Supervisor is very uncomfortable with the craftsmen. He's always going around here and there, like a ghost, and he'll pop up behind you. ”
"I know he's afraid we're going to cut corners, he's afraid we're going to be rough. But they also keep an eye on it too closely, and they keep an eye on it as long as we do, and they are not too tired. ”
"Judging from the information provided by the abbot of Xiuneng and the supervisor of Jueshui, the supervisor of Jiecheng and Fazheng spent the most time in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, the Yingxia Hall and the Abbot Zen Temple, and the time spent in the East Zen Temple was relatively short." Xiao Luhan said.
"Abbot Xiuneng and Supervisor Jueshui are right." Lu Qiandao.
"There are many places for overhaul, and Supervisor Cheng and Fa Zheng are lacking in skills, so Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao should have a chance." Zhao Zimeng said.
Jiang Zihai seemed to think of something again: "Captain Zhao, that Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao are like brothers, when they are working, Ge Zhenggen takes good care of Liu Abao, and the work under the well is done by Ge Zhenggen, he only lets Liu Abao be on the well." ”
"Liu Abao is usually very honest in his life, and he is still timid, he is not likely to do that kind of thing."
"That's what these two discovered, but someone else saw." Founder Abbot said.
"Maybe they found the secret passage mechanism, and they found the things in the dungeon, and wanted to sneak them down the mountain. The result was that the praying mantis caught the cicada, and the yellow finch was behind, and it was targeted by others. Didn't you just say that masked men in black often appear in the monastery? ”
"Yes, there are indeed masked men in black in the temple, as if they are looking for something." Eko Kaido.
"Master Jiang just said that the person surnamed Ge received a letter from home saying that his mother was critically ill, and the two of them went down the mountain ahead of schedule?" Zhao Zimeng said.
"That's what I said."
"The letter may be an excuse for them to make up, so that they can leave the Cold Moon Temple justifiably, maybe something has already reached them? But they didn't expect to be targeted by others again. Zhao Zimeng boldly speculated.
"Is it the Supervisor Jiecheng and the little master Fazheng who are eyeing them? Could it be the two of them who often appear in the masked black-clad men who often appear in the monastery? Jiang Zihai said this coldly, but he didn't seem to be very sure.
"Why did Master Jiang say that?" Zhao Zimeng asked.
"When we were working in the monastery, only Supervisor Jiecheng and Master Fazheng were with us." Eko Kaido.
"Aren't there masked men in black spying on you in the dark? That's what you just said. Xiao Luhan said.
"Most of the people who are eyeing Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao are monks in the temple."
"I've heard that the abbot of Xiuneng also often travels around." Zhao Zimeng said.
"Yes, Abbot Xiuneng is often around, but he just walks around casually, and the only ones who have been staring at us are Supervisor Jiecheng and Master Fazheng."
"There is a situation that Master Jiang may not know."
"What's the situation?"
"Soon after you left, Jie Cheng fell ill and died."
"Sick and dead? No way! I don't think there's anything wrong with him! Otherwise, he wouldn't have kept an eye on us, and we had to work until about twelve o'clock almost every night in order to meet the deadline, and he kept an eye on us until we finished work. If you are not in good health, can you keep an eye on us for nearly half a year? Jiang Zihai disagreed.
"Abbot Xiu Neng said, the reason for the admonition is to stare at you too tightly and too hard, so the body is tired, and it is the meaning of the abbot to let the supervisor of the admonition stare at you. It's not that they don't trust you, the monastery has finally waited for an opportunity to overhaul it, and they don't want to leave any regrets - these monks are devout Buddhists after all. Xiao Luhan said.
"Since Supervisor Cheng is dead, Fa Zheng is very suspicious. Have you found the Fa Rectification? "Jiangzi Haidao.
"Fa Zheng is no longer in the Cold Moon Temple." Lu Qiandao.
"Not in the Cold Moon Temple? This is even more suspicious, eighty percent of him took things away and flew away! When did he leave Cold Moon Temple? ”
"He left the Cold Moon Temple in March twelve years ago."
"Why did he leave the Cold Moon Temple?"
"It is said that after the death of Supervisor Jiecheng, Fa Zheng was very sad." Lu Qiandao.
"That's right?" Eko Kaido.
"What does Master Jiang mean by this?" Zhao Zimeng said.
"I think that Cheng and Fa Zheng are very much like a father and son. Not only is the relationship between them similar, but the appearance is also a bit similar, the same height, the same white skin, and even the temperament is a bit similar. ”
This statement is very novel and aroused Zhao Zimeng's strong interest.
"Abbot Xiuneng and Master Jueshui said that the Fa was picked up by Supervisor Cheng on the way to turn into a fate - at the entrance of Mengdong Village near Lengyue Temple. At that time, Fa Zheng was only a few months old, and later, Supervisor Jiecheng helped Fa Zheng find his biological mother, and after Supervisor Jiecheng died of illness, Fa Zheng, who had lost his support, went down the mountain to find his biological mother. Xiao Luhan added.
"Could it be that Fa Zheng is the son of Supervisor Cheng Cheng?" Eko Kaido.
"Zen Master Puji once said, we see. Not everything you hear is true. Yes or no, no yes. Is Puji Zen Master referring to the matter of admonishing the supervisor and the Fazheng? Xiao Luhan said.
Zhao Zimeng felt that the words of Zen Master Puji were indeed profound, and they were worth pondering carefully.
"If Fa Zheng had something to do with Ge Zhenggen's death, he should have left as soon as he got the things, so why did he leave in March of that year?" Eko Kaido.
This is also the doubt in the hearts of Zhao Zimeng, Xiao Luhan and Lu Qian.
When another acolyte came in to add water, Jiang Zihai said, "Little master, you go and call He Da Niu." ”
The little acolyte finished adding water and walked out of the meditation room.
Jiang Zihai picked up the teacup and took a few sips of water, then said, "Now that I think about it, some things are indeed very strange. ”
Jiang Zihai was seriously recalling, and his words didn't seem to be finished.
"Master Jiang might as well say all the doubts in his heart." Zhao Zimeng said.
"We stayed in Lengyue Temple for nearly half a year, and in the first two or three months, Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao finished work with us every night, and in order to catch up with the deadline, we rushed to eleven or twelve o'clock every night."
"In the first two or three months, did they dig a well in the West Zen Temple?"
"Yes. For the next two or three months, they worked in the temple, and soon after they arrived at the temple, the two of them often finished work at one or two o'clock in the evening. I advised them not to do that. But Ge Zhenggen said that compared with others, they do lighter work, and they want to finish their work sooner, so that they can free up time to help others. ”
"After listening to Ge Zhenggen's words, I was very moved, these babies follow me everywhere, I am responsible, I don't want them to have accidents, they work for more than ten hours a day, and no one's body can stand it."
So I advised them to call it a day with everyone. But Ge Zheng said that they are young and in good health, and it is not in the way to do more work. ”
"The monks in the monastery fell asleep at eight or nine o'clock, and after we finished work, only Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao worked in the monastery, and if the guess was correct, their work was definitely not the work of digging wells."
"I just can't figure out what they're doing after we're gone?" Jiang Zihai held his chin and pondered.
Zhao Zimeng guessed: Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao must be pondering the mechanisms in the secret passage, and there must be mechanisms in the secret passage to enter the underground palace, and it takes time to ponder these mechanisms.
It is possible that soon after Ge Zhenggen and Liu Abao arrived at the Eastern Zen Temple, they discovered the entrance hidden in the wall of the well.
"There's another thing that's also very strange." Jiang Zi also said thoughtfully.
"Master Jiang, please speak."