Elder Te Hui Ben continued, "As long as we are devout in Zen meditation and devote ourselves to the Buddha, there is no need for the so-called 'treasure of the temple' to take care of it. Only by revealing the secrets hidden in the underground palace can Lingguang Temple enjoy peace and tranquility forever. ”

So, with the help of Ouyang Ping and Lu Yunpeng, Yan Jianhua slowly rode on the wooden barrel and slowly went down to the well.

Li Wenhua and Liu Wenbin were responsible for rocking the wheels and putting the ropes.

Before Li Wenhua shook his wheel and put the rope, Zhiren carefully checked the rope, a bucket of water, full, about sixty or seventy catties, Yan Jianhua and Zuo Xiangdong's weight was estimated to be about one hundred and forty catties.

Supervisor Zhiren and Ouyang Ping let go of all the ropes on the reels and carefully inspected them one by one.

After making sure there was no problem, Yan Jianhua rode onto the bucket. Ouyang Ping put a flashlight in Yan Jianhua's right pocket and put an electrician's knife into Yan Jianhua's left pocket.

When the rope was lowered to about three meters, Yan Jianhua's voice came from the well: "Stop-stop." ”

Li Wenhua stopped shaking the wheel and took control of the rocker in his hand.

Ouyang Ping and Lu Yunpeng were lying on the edge of the well and looking down.

Yan Jianhua used a flashlight to look for the three ordinary-sized round stones that Elder Huiben had said were next to each other.

Two minutes passed, but Yan Jianhua still didn't find three round stones of general size next to each other.

"Lao Yan, you look for it slowly, don't worry."

"Ouyang, there is a layer of moss on the wall of the well, and the moss completely covers the wall of the well."

This is exactly what Ouyang Ping was worried about: this well was there when the temple was built, and the environment, humidity and temperature of the well wall are very suitable for the growth of moss. Ouyang Ping noticed that there was not only moss underneath the well, but also a small amount of moss on the inner edge of the well.

The depth of the well is about five meters (the distance between the upper mouth of the well and the water surface), and it is not easy to find three round stones of general size next to each other in such a long area, if there is no moss on the wall of the well, it is not easy to find some, and nowadays, the wall of the well is covered with a thick layer of moss.

"Lao Yan, you can use an electrician's knife to try to scratch - see if you can scrape the moss away." Ouyang Ping said.

Elder Huiben walked to the edge of the well and lay down on the edge of the well: "Yes, just scrape down from there." ”

Yan Jianhua's location is about three meters away from the edge of the well.

Yan Jianhua scraped down about 1.5 meters with an electrician's knife, and its width was about 80 centimeters, and the edge of the well was indeed made of stones, but there were no three large round stones next to each other as Elder Huiben said.

According to common sense, the entrance of the underground palace is unlikely to be below four and a half meters, with the season and change, the water level in the well is different, autumn and winter, the water level will be relatively low, spring and summer, the water level will be relatively high, before going down the well, Yan Jianhua, specially asked two monks who were washing vegetables on the edge of the well just now, they all said that in summer, the water surface is about four meters away from the edge of the well.

So, Yan Jianhua returned to the starting point and began to scrape upward.

Finally, Yan Jianhua found the mark that Elder Huiben had said about 2.5 meters away from the edge of the well—that is, three round stones of similar size next to each other.

Three round stones are arranged in a triangular pattern.