Sheng Linyun and Xu Shangao walked into the side room, and the monk was burning the fire.

"Master, have you heard any sounds at night when no one is around?" Sheng Linyun asked softly.

The monk paused and recalled for a while, "Yes, yes, there is often some movement in this room and the firewood room next door, but the poor monk can't see it, can't see it, and can only go with it!" ”

Sheng Linyun carefully inspected the two rooms and found that the hay was spread on the ground in a regular manner, as if it was treated as a sleeper

"There should be only one person!" Sheng Linyun thoughtfully: "Is it just a simple rubbing to eat and drink?" ”。

"He lives in the temple, he eats and lives secretly but doesn't want to come out to meet people, even you avoid the master, it must be really difficult to see people, will he be a fugitive?" Xu Shangao turned around and glanced at Sheng Linyun, "Why do you have to wait for the night, I can catch one person now!" ”

"I know you have what it takes, but what if your kung fu can't handle it? I just think that since the other party has no malicious intent, we can just wait for it to come out on its own! Sheng Linyun booed and motioned for Xu Shangao's voice to be softer.

"How long will it take?" Xu Shan asked in a high-pressure low voice.

"I think it's probably going to be night! Goo~" Sheng Linyun's stomach protested again as he spoke.

"Let's wait for the porridge first~ You two don't have to be so nervous" The monk stood up in front of the kang and walked to the stove and began to knead the dough, "The poor monk told you about this, just to know what it is, since you hide in this temple and don't go home, it must be something unspeakable, I want to help it!" ”

"Hmm~" Sheng Linyun and Xu Shan Gao shrugged their shoulders to show the meaning of following the monk.

It didn't take long for the monk to make the steamed buns and put them in the steamer, "Master Xu, have you been waiting for a long time?" How about we play chess in the courtyard? ”

"It's all up to you," Xu Shangao quickly tapped his fan excitedly.

"Then I'll go get the chessboard!" The monk walked out of the room and walked towards the main hall.

Xu Shangao looked a little worried and wanted to follow, but was stopped by Sheng Linyun, "It's okay, let it be, and I feel that the master should know something, but he told us about it because he couldn't do anything, did you say anything when you played chess with the master?" ”

Xu Shangao turned his head as if reciting, "Almost everything I saw and heard in Chang'an was slightly revealed~"

When the two were talking, the monk took out the chessboard from the main hall, and accidentally kicked the bowl of porridge after crossing the threshold, the sound of the clanging did not make the monk feel the slightest panic, the original two-handed drag of the chessboard was changed to one-handed support, and touched the bowl on the ground by the sound, Xu Shangao and Sheng Linyun immediately ran over to take the chessboard and bowl in the monk's hand, and their eyes took the opportunity to glance at the main hall, revealing the Buddha flag, and saw a black shadow poking out of the head from behind the Buddha statue to watch, and retracted it in an instant.

"You two play chess, I'll take the bowl~" Sheng Linyun took the bowl and looked at it, then looked at the main hall, and then returned to the room, and immediately began to check the stove, barrel and other places, in the short observation, he found that the stove, wood, bowl and other places have more or less black handprints, and the Buddha flag is stained with a large piece of black dirt.

'It's coal~ That's right! Sheng Linyun ran his finger through the black blot, put it under his nose and sniffed it.

'The habits of the master must have been a man of great cleanliness, and judging by the number of these seals, that person must have stayed in the monastery for a long time; The large black patches on the Buddha flag must have been stained by the person when he walked back and forth, but who would be covered in soot? Criminals of the imperial court? Wrong! He hides in this temple, he doesn't ask for money or kills, and he doesn't look like a thief for incense money, but why is he so afraid to see people? Coal ash? Absenteeism? Sheng Linyun thought about it, and his thumb unconsciously reached out to his mouth and bit it.

Walking out of the room, I saw Xu Shangao and the monk sitting under the locust tree, the master sat quietly and said something from time to time, but Xu Shangao was more busy, often took chess pieces into the monk's chess cup and put them on the chessboard, I didn't know and thought that Xu Shangao couldn't see the cheating by relying on the monk.

"So that's the case~" Sheng Linyun walked over curiously.

"Go to the three-six!" "Knock"!

"Then I'll go down to four or three!"

Sheng Linyun took a closer look, and the number engraved on the side of the chessboard was 'Go up to Ping!' The chessboard is divided into four areas, and the horizontal and vertical positions of each area are determined by one to nine, so it turns out that the master's memory is too different from ordinary people~'

Every time the monk said a word, Xu Shangao helped the monk to drop the chess pieces after knowing the meaning, saying that he was helping the monk, but in fact, Xu Shangao was helping himself more, but he didn't have to remember the direction of so many chess pieces in his mind.

Sheng Linyun said that he didn't know how to play chess, but he just hadn't played against anyone, and he still knew the rules of Go.