Mountain and Sea Demon Tomb Chapter 4 Dust Washing Temple (2)
"It's me." I replied quietly. Shirley Yang hesitated for a while and didn't make a sound, and after a while opened the door and asked, "Old Hu, what are you doing in my room in the middle of the night?" I secretly laughed: "I have no intention of sleeping for a long night, and I invite you to enjoy the moon together." Shirley Yang said disdainfully: "If you have the leisure and elegance of admiring the moon, you are not Hu Bayi, I think you are only interested in eating moon cakes." I saw that she saw through it, so I quickly said: "No kidding, the fat man is gone." ”
Shirley Yang was shocked: "Didn't you two sleep in the same room?" When did he disappear? I said helplessly: "I don't know, I just found that he was missing when I got up to go to the toilet." Shirley Yang nodded and said, "It's already midnight, it's inconvenient to disturb the abbot, let's find it ourselves first." "Shirley Yang and I went to find the fat man together.
This temple is not big, the entrance is a small courtyard, the north side of the courtyard is the Buddha hall, the east and west sides are side rooms, the kitchen is in the northeast corner, and the northwest corner is the toilet. In the middle of the night, the whole temple was dark, there was no light, only the moon overhead cast a little light. After a while, we searched all over the courtyard, the Buddhist hall and the toilet, but we didn't see the fat man, so we walked to the kitchen. As soon as I entered the kitchen, I heard a rustling sound. Shirley Young grabbed me, and I nodded, meaning I heard it too. Just as I turned my head and saw a burning stick on the stove next to me, I picked it up and tiptoed towards the place where the sound came from. When I got closer, I saw a black shadow cowering in the corner, and without saying a word, I picked up the burning stick and struck at the black shadow.
"Ouch! Ahem! Damn, old Hu, you're going to kill me! The fat man's voice shouted. When Shirley Yang and I heard that it was a fat man, we were immediately relieved. I grabbed the fat man and asked, "What are you doing without sleeping in the middle of the night, running this sneaky thing!" Recruit it quickly, or I will be punished. ”
The fat man hummed and chirped while rubbing the sore part of my beating: "The monks in this temple are really good enough, just give such a mouthful of food, who can eat enough!" I didn't sleep long before I woke up hungry, so I went to the kitchen to find something to eat, otherwise I would sleep hungry. Lao Hu, you bastard, fat man, I'm sending steamed buns to my mouth, you almost didn't stuff the whole steamed bun into my mouth, choked me to death. "Ever since I knew that this black shadow was fat, I had already guessed what he was doing, and I was not surprised, it seemed like he could do something.
Shirley Yang whispered: "Wang Kaixuan, you are too ...... Lao Hu and I are worried about you, and we have been looking for you for a long time. The fat man didn't appreciate it, and said reluctantly: "You two are too cautious, what kind of skills is my fat master, the role of descending demons from the sky and capturing dragons in the water, can there be an accident?" After a pause, he said, "Hey old Hu, when I was looking for something to eat in the kitchen just now, I found a secret door behind the cupboard, I was busy looking for food, and I didn't have a flashlight at hand, so I couldn't see anything clearly, so I didn't go in." You say that this temple is a place to concentrate on cultivation, what do you mean by secretly building a secret door? ”
What the fat man said also surprised me, and my curiosity suddenly soared. Turning his head to look at Shirley Yang, although she was reserved, I could see that she was also curious, so I said to the fat man: "Revolutionary work cannot be just words, it must be put into action and practice." What's strange about this secret door, let's go and find out. With that, he walked to the cupboard first.
Standing in the northeast corner of the deepest part of the kitchen, this cupboard is actually a simple shelf nailed out of wood, and each layer is filled with thick bowls and plates. Through the gap between the bowl and the plate, I could barely see a crack in the wall, and it seemed that the secret door was embedded in the wall. If you don't look closely at the cupboard, you can barely see this secret door behind the cupboard.
The fat man and I both gently moved the bowl from the cupboard to the board, and in a few moments Shirley Young came back from the room with a wolf-eye flashlight. The fat man and I worked together to move the cupboard about a man away from the wall. The fat man was so tired that he panted and said: "There are not a few monks in this broken temple, why do you put so many bowls on the shelves, you can't use them, they are all dusty." ”
I took the wolf's eye flashlight and looked carefully at the secret door on the wall and said, "Isn't it obvious, so many bowls and plates have two functions, one is to block the view and prevent people from discovering this secret door behind the cupboard; Second, if someone wants to move the cupboard, these fragile bowls are the best alarm device. Chubby, you don't understand how to carry out revolutionary work. ”
The color of the door is the same as that of the wall, and there is no handle to open the door, and it looks like someone has carved the shape of a door into the wall, which looks strange under the strong light of the wolf's eyes.
I asked the fat man, "How did you find such a hidden door and a cupboard blocking it?" The fat man said with some pride: "This is due to my revolutionary actions of fighting wits and courage with my mother for many years, when I was a child, I always stole brown sugar and jujube from my mother's unit, and when I stole them, I hid them in the cupboard and used the bowl to block them." Years of professional habits made me unconsciously rummage through the cupboards as soon as I entered this kitchen, and sure enough, I found a steamed bun behind the bowl on the last floor. ”
"Where's the door? I asked you how you found the door, and you told me that you used your years of intuition and keen judgment to find the steamed buns, Comrade Wang Kaixuan, please answer the questions of the organization seriously. "I was also hungry, and I was furious at the thought of the fat man swallowing three steamed buns by himself.
"The door is not simple, take the bowl and take the steamed bun and see it!" The fat man said disapprovingly.
Shirley Young observed the door for a long time and then said to me, "I have carefully observed and judged that there are any mechanisms on the door, so I think let's try to get in." I nodded, and Shirley Young slammed the door with the burning stick I had given the fat man a stick, and it creaked open. Shirley Young swept the door around with a wolf's eye, and the five-foot-square room was black and dark, without any light or furnishings, it was an empty room.
"Why is the empty house so mysterious, I thought there was some treasure in it!" When the fat man saw that it was an empty house, he was disappointed. Shirley and I looked at each other, and there was nothing in the room, which was really unexpected for us.
Just when we wanted to go into the house to observe further, we suddenly heard the sound of roosters crowing in the distance, and it turned out that it was about to dawn before we knew it. The fat man and I quickly moved the cupboard back to its original position and put the bowl back in the cupboard with all hands and feet. Shirley Yang hurriedly cleaned up the traces on the ground. After doing this, I heard the sound of the morning bell coming from the backyard of the temple. In a short time the monks were about to get up for their morning lessons, and we quickly sneaked back to our rooms.