Chapter 28 is mysterious

Qijiawu, the concept of longevity.

The sky was bright and the col was filled with fog and cold.

"Ahh......h

Huo Anu, a woman from the Western Regions, walked out of the leeward, yawned, and stretched again.

The reason for practicing all year round is that when you stretch your waist, your bones click.

In the next second, she wrapped her clothes tightly, held up an iron umbrella, lowered her head and went into the narrow room of the Immortal Temple, looking for the dark doorway, and entering the innermost secret room.

Seeing the situation in the secret room, she couldn't help but be surprised for a while.

But I saw Xu Zun sitting in the middle of the room, as if he was meditating.

In front of him lay a clean white piece of paper, which, if paired with a katana, looked as if it was going to be disemboweled.

Looking at the entire room, the scorched black on the walls has long since been erased, revealing its true face.

But the walls and the roof were all densely covered with words!

The words are vigorous and powerful, but unfortunately a large part of them have been deliberately scratched, and even a few places have been chiseled and cut by axes, which are difficult to read.

Last night, Zhao Yu and the others searched several times from the Immortal Temple, and only finally left after they found nothing more.

In the end, I don't know, did they find the words on the wall?

When they left, Xu Zun impatiently found moss and other things, and began to wipe those blackened marks, so that the words were revealed one by one.

Then, Xu Zun began to study these words, and he studied them all night!

"Oops......" Huo Anu looked at Xu Zun, who was motionless, and couldn't help but say, "Are you sitting still?" Oh...... No...... How do you say in the Central Plains, to understand the heavenly machine, to participate in Zen and enlightenment? ”

Seeing that Xu Zun didn't take a stubble, Huo Anu came closer, thinking that Xu Zun might be asleep.

But just as she was approaching, Xu Zun suddenly spoke:

"This room...... It is made of granite, and it may have been the base of a huge stone statue of Taoism in the past! ”

"I'll cut!" Huo Anu was startled.

The words engraved on this are not easy to erase, perhaps, the murderer didn't want to spend that effort, so he simply set a fire!

"Cover it with soot so we don't find it."

"What do you mean...... Huo Anu asked, pondering, "can these words give us an answer?" However, I also know how to read and write, and what is written on it seems to be meaningless Chinese characters, right? ”

Indeed, the walls are engraved with Chinese characters with different fonts and meanings, no phrases and no sentences, and the carvings are horizontal and vertical, and the distance and distance are different.

Among them, there are many words that are obscure and difficult to read, a bit like scriptures.

"Heh," Xu Zun smiled slightly, "If the answer is on this, then how can the murderer let it stay?" No matter how hard it takes, you have to erase it! ”

"And what the hell do you mean?" Huo Anu asked impatiently, "Did you find out?" Don't pretend to be a ghost here, like you're in the dark! ”

"I'm not evil," Xu Zun said seriously, "it's just a little cool!" Because, I've discovered, there's a mystery hidden in these words! ”

"Oh?" Huo Anu became interested at this time, "Where is the mystery?" ”

Xu Zun calmly replied with four words: "Enlightenment!" ”

"You!?" Huo Anu shook his fist, "Although Master Shen has instructed me to accommodate you, you'd better not challenge my bottom line!" ”

"Look," Xu Zun said suddenly when he got up and pointed to the groove in the doorway, "Do you know what these hollows are for?" ”

"Huh?" Huo Anu obviously couldn't keep up with the rhythm.

"If my guess is right, here!" Xu Zun pointed to the secret room, "It should be a granite cell!" There used to be a person locked up in this! ”

"Huh?" Huo Anu became confused, "What person?" That Taoist priest? ”

"These words must have been written by this imprisoned man," Xu Zun continued, "He wants to ask for help from the outside world through these words, or he wants to explain the truth, but he is afraid that he will be checked by those prisoners, so he can only cover it up with this room full of handwriting!" ”

"......" Huo Anu stared at Xu Zun and muttered, "It's the same as the truth, as if you saw it!" Since you can't figure it out, then don't talk about it like this, hum! ”

"Who says I can't figure it out?" Xu Zun said solemnly, "Last night, I spent the whole night arranging various combinations, and the result was ......"

"What was the result?"

"The result...... Failed! ”

"I'll cut!" Huo Anu was almost dodged to the ground, and quickly supported it with an iron umbrella.

"However, I realized later that I was overthinking!" Xu Zun suddenly turned over the blank paper on the ground, pointed to it and said, "It turns out that the answer is not as complicated as I thought!" ”

"Oh?"

Huo Anu looked over curiously, but saw that there were four big characters written on the other side of the white paper, namely:

"Female", "Fang", "Paper", "Non", and there is a side "亻" painted on the back.

"This ......," Huo Anu read, "the female house flies?" Is there a person in the back, a female flyer? What do you mean? ”

"The words engraved on the wall," Xu Zun explained, "have different fonts and different directions, but they have the same rule, that is, most of the characters are about the same size, except for these few characters, which are slightly larger than the others!" ”

After speaking, Xu Zun waved his arm and found the corresponding words from the wall, which were the four words "woman", "square", "paper", and "fly".

And the latter "亻" is because the text has been badly damaged, and only such a side can be recognized.

"I don't understand, these words still don't make any sense!" Huo Anu shook his head and said, "Don't bully me into being a foreigner, I also learned Chinese since I was a child, I think you made a mistake!" ”

"Hehe, the words are mysterious, not the wise can understand it, only by experiencing the author's state of mind, can you succeed, but ......" Xu Zun suddenly showed a look of floating outside the world, and said quietly, "I really hope that I made a mistake!" ”

"You ......" Huo Anu looked strange, and she couldn't see through this man who had been beaten by herself and couldn't get out of bed.

"But if I'm not mistaken," Xu Zun said word by word, "then we're in big trouble!" ”

"Hey, I'm straight, can you make it clear?" Huo Anu asked impatiently, "If you really understand the mystery, then tell me quickly, what the hell is going on?" If you don't know, then don't pretend to be garlic! ”

"I can't tell you until I can truly believe in you!" Xu Zun turned his head and said very solemnly, "And before that, even if you kill me, I won't say it!" ”

"You!? You ......" Huo Anu became more and more irritable, and stomped his feet in anger, "Why don't you change your nickname, don't call Xu Xiao paralyzed, call Xu Lao Tuo!"

"I think you're just pretending to be garlic, and the last word is only one side, and you don't know what it is, so you say it's thorough? What about liars! ”

"That word, it doesn't matter anymore!" Xu Zun squinted his eyes and said, "The most important thing now is that we need to find out all the truth before the disaster happens!" ”

"It's crazy, it's crazy, it's nerve!" Huo Anu said anxiously, "Didn't you say that you have penetrated the mystery, how can you find out the truth?" ”

"This is a mistake, penetrating the mystery and finding out the truth are two different things!" As he spoke, Xu Zun actually put the blank paper on the torch and burned it!

"Okay, then you say," Huo Anu asked with a force of rage, "what are we going to do now?" ”

"Hmm......" Xu Zun thought for a moment and asked, "Do you have a good relationship with the bandits?" ”

"......" Huo Anu was completely speechless.

Xu Zun added: "Robbers, liars or thieves or something is fine!" ”

Who knows, this time without waiting for Huo Anu to react, Xu Zun said to himself: "I almost forgot, I am the county lieutenant myself......