"As long as I pick up my glass, I can't leave." Teng Laosan smiled helplessly.

"Why?"

"I'm a chef, and I know everyone well, so if someone toasts, can I say a 'no'? Shoujiu, people respect you, that is, people look up to you, and it is not okay not to drink it. Besides, tonight's business can't be put on the table. ”

Teng Laosan continued: "There is an opportunity to drink, but the Deng family doesn't want to let me go. But your business is a big deal, and you have to put it aside for a while, and the Deng family saw that they couldn't help me, so they let me go home. Let's go, I'll take you to Zangjiazhai now. Teng Laosan hurriedly turned around and led the way.

"Uncle Teng, have you had dinner?" Zhao Zimeng couldn't help but care.

"I've eaten it! Lao Shouxing and Deng Laosi couldn't help it, so they forced me to eat some. Deng Laosi also asked his third son-in-law, Zang Youde, to go to Zangjiazhai with us - Zang Youde is from Zangjiazhai, and his cousin Zang Mantang is the accountant of Zangjiazhai, and his cousin may know some things. ”

"Zang Mantang has been an accountant in Zangjiazhai for more than 30 years, with high moral prestige, good popularity, Zhang's family, Li Jiaxiao, there is nothing he doesn't know."

"Zang Youde is the commander of the militia battalion of the brigade, it will be more convenient for him to lead us."

"Great." Zhao Zimeng didn't expect Teng Laosan to be so enthusiastic and thoughtful, and he couldn't help but feel a burst of heat in his heart.

"Let's go, Zang Youde is waiting at my house?" Teng Laosan couldn't help but say that he was going to open the way.

Zhao Zimeng looked at his watch, and the time was half past six.

The sun had just set over the mountain, and the sky was already dark, and night was about to fall.

He beckoned his teammates and walked out of the mountain gate after Teng Laosan.

When they walked out of the meditation room, Ling Hu Yunfei and Xiao Luhan each took a flashlight and put it in their pockets.

They have experience, the mountain road here is not easy to walk, there is a flashlight to shine, the road will walk more steadily.

When the group was about to walk to the gate of Teng's courtyard, a man about forty years old ran out of the courtyard, this person was Zang Youde.

Zang Youde was dressed in a yellow military uniform, wearing a faded military hat on his head, and his body was as strong as a cow.

"Captain Zhao, this is Zang Youde, he used to be a soldier, and now he is the commander of the militia battalion of the brigade."

Zhao Zimeng took a step forward and grabbed Zang Youde's hand: "Battalion Commander Zang, I have also been in the army for a few years, and we are comrades-in-arms." ”

Zang Youde held Zhao Zimeng's hand and warmly saluted with his right hand, Zhao Zimeng obviously felt that the power that Zang Youde transmitted through his hand was worthy of being a soldier and had a bit of strength.

"Captain Zhao, we have all heard about the fact that you gave Ergui a wheelchair, and I am as happy as the third uncle to be able to do things for you."

"Camp Commander Zang, I'm delaying your drinking."

"Don't get in the way, your affairs are big things, and you can't delay them." Zang Youde smiled.

Zhao Zimeng likes Zang Youde's cheerfulness very much.

To the east of the temple is the vegetable garden, and there is a road up the hill that leads to the road behind the temple.

When the monks of Lengyue Temple go out to make a relationship, they either take the road in front of the temple or the road behind the temple.

If you go from the eastern foot of Huishan to Zangjiazhai, you have to take a long detour, and the road on the mountain is much closer.

Half an hour later, everyone set foot on the road behind the Cold Moon Temple.

From afar, everyone saw the slightly black outline of the Linggu Pagoda behind the Cold Moon Temple in the moonlight, and walked a little further, which was Tallinn and the cemetery next to Tallinn.

"Captain Zhao, that's the back door of the Cold Moon Temple." Teng Laosan pointed to a forest road.

On the other side of the woods is the back door of Cold Moon Temple.

A mountain road leads all the way to Mengdong Village.

This Mengdong village is about four miles away from Lengyue Temple.

A road that is not wide obliquely passes through Mengdong Village, there are some people living on both sides of the road, walking on this road, you can see the sporadic lights of people.

On the right side of Nanzhaikou is a community field, there are several tile houses and a few piles of grass on the community field, and on the left side of the community field is a large pond, and five cows are tied under the big trees on the side of the pond.

Two cows, one large and one small, were grazing, one was tickling on the trunk, one was wagging its tail, and one was mooing with its head up, and these animals enjoyed the leisure and comfort of the evening.

The cry of the buffalo added to the tranquility of the night.

Nanzhaikou is really the only way in and out of Mengdong Village.

Xiao Luhan and Ling Hu Yunfei turned on the flashlight to illuminate everyone, and Teng Laosan kept reminding him to be careful about his step.

At the feet of everyone is a three-arch stone bridge, and under the bridge is a small river running east-west.

The river is not wide, but it is deep, and the water is fast, and the sound of flowing water is incessant.

There were large and small stones lying on the riverbed, and the river roared from west to east, through the gaps between the stones.

The south bank of the river is a steep stone cliff, and the north bank of the river is a gentle forest.

Zang Youde said that there are more than 40 households in Mengdong Village.

After passing through Mengdong Village, after walking for more than ten minutes, I saw a village again, and the village was completely shrouded by big trees, which was Zangjiazhai. Zangjiazhai is surrounded by dense forests and high mountains.

By this time, it was already dark.

Zang Youde said: There are 67 families in Zang's village, and these families are scattered in more than a dozen mountain passes.

Some of the cols are home to more than a dozen families, while others have only a few thin families.

Regarding the rumors mentioned by Teng Laosan, Camp Commander Zang said that he had not heard of it, because thirty-four years ago, he was a child.

When I was a child, my parents and adults never told me about it in front of them, mainly because they were afraid that children would learn badly - this kind of thing is not a good thing after all.

When he grew up, he went to join the army, and only returned a few years ago.

Soon after his return, the commune made him the commander of the militia battalion, and after a serious errand, he rarely stayed in Zangjiazhai.

Teng Laosan led everyone to his sister Teng Juying's house first.

Teng Juying's family was having dinner.

Seeing his brother and Zang Youde leading a few strangers into the courtyard gate, Teng Juying, who was eating in the kitchen, put down the dishes and chopsticks and led everyone into the hall.

Teng Juying is also an old woman in her sixties, with gray temples and a patched apron tied around her waist.

Teng Juying took off the apron on her waist, wiped it on the chair and bench one by one, and then warmly beckoned everyone to sit down on the chair and bench.

At this time, a man about the same age as Teng Laosan walked into the hall with a cigarette, this person was Teng Juying's man, Teng Laosan's brother-in-law Zang Nongsheng.

Zang Nongsheng wore a blue hat on his head and a gray gown on his body, with an indifferent expression.

Ling Hu Yunfei took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and slapped a shuttle of cigarettes.

As soon as the cigarette was lit, Teng Juying and the two girls brought in a few cups of tea.

"Third brother, you must have something important when you come at this time." Teng Juying said.

"Ju Ying, do you remember what happened in Zangjiazhai more than thirty years ago?"

"Thirty years ago? What's the matter? ”

"The daughter of a family got pregnant before getting married, and later married away from home."

“…… The third brother is here for this matter? Teng Juying was stunned for a moment.

"yes."

Teng Juying looked at his man, and then at Zang Youde and Zhao Zimeng: "This was a few decades ago, why do you ask this?" ”

"Third brother, you came to Zangjiazhai at this time, I'm afraid it's not just because of the rumors of decades ago!" Zang Nongsheng squinted his eyes and said.

"Ju Ying, brother-in-law, these are comrades from the Criminal Investigation Team of the Municipal Public Security Bureau, and this is Captain Zhao." Teng Laosan said, "They want to ask you something." Teng Lao Sandao.

"Third brother, could it be that you are here for the matter of Cold Moon Temple." Zang Nongsheng said.

"Uncle, aunt, we are here for the case of Cold Moon Temple." Zhao Zimeng said.

"The situation is like this, we found two crystal Buddha beads at the scene of the crime, and after investigation, we learned that in Lengyue Temple, only the abbot of Xiuneng and the supervisor of Jiecheng have crystal Buddha beads."

"We also heard that 34 years ago, on the way back to the temple, Supervisor Jiecheng picked up a baby boy a few months old at the side of the community at the mouth of Nanzhai in Mengdong Village."

"After that, this baby boy has been raised by Supervisor Cheng Cheng, and when he grew up, Supervisor Cheng named him Fa Zheng, after the temple overhaul twenty-five years ago, Jie Cheng died of illness, and two years later, Fa Zheng left the Cold Moon Temple."

"Isn't it that the matter of Cold Moon Temple has something to do with this Fazheng master?" Zang Nongsheng opened his eyes, and he could already hear a little eyebrows.

"You're right, we're here today to find out about Fazheng's whereabouts. We suspect that Fa Zheng may be the baby boy born to the girl in the legend of Zang Jiazhai. I heard that this woman married away from home? ”

"We estimate that after Fa Zheng went down the mountain, it is likely that he is looking for his biological mother, and we are here today to know who the legendary woman is and where she married."

"Third brother, you know, as the old saying goes: family ugliness is not publicized. The people of Zang Jiazhai have always hugged tightly and kept their mouths tight, this kind of thing will not be known to people outside the village, "Zang Nongsheng has a difficult face.

"Back then, we didn't know which girl's daughter it was, and now, we don't know even more." Teng Juying continued.

"The case of Cold Moon Temple is related to two lives, and it is also related to the legendary treasure of Zhensi, otherwise, I would not rashly lead Captain Zhao and them to ask you." Teng Lao Sandao.

"Thirty-four years ago, there was such a thing, did I still tell the third brother about this matter?" Zang Nongsheng took a puff of cigarette and continued.

"In our Zangjiazhai, many people know about this, but we really don't know who the girl is."

"As the old saying goes, you don't hit someone in the face, and you don't expose your skin. Many people know about this, but they don't know who the person involved is? Teng Juying said.

"Yes! Our Zangjiazhai is a surname, the ugliness of the family is not publicized, no matter which family has such a disgraceful thing, everyone will keep their mouths shut, the ugly thing of the family, spread out is the ugly thing of the people of the village. So, very few people really know the truth. ”

"From pregnancy to childbirth, it takes several months, and the people in the village should know if the girl doesn't work in the field, or suddenly leaves the village for a period of time." Battalion Commander Zang suddenly interjected.

"Battalion Commander Zang, you are a member of our Zang Jiazhai, or a cadre of the brigade, it stands to reason that you should know! But you know what? Zang Nongsheng asked rhetorically.