Zong Zhenlei and Li Ruhui finished their work in the capital and went to Mr. Hong's studio before leaving, but they did not see Mr. Hong, and he returned to Singapore.

Li Ruhui dialed Mr. Hong and said goodbye to him. Mr. Hong first expressed his apologies on the phone, explained that he didn't want to disturb the two of them's investigation ideas, so he said goodbye, and said that he would go back quickly, and it was estimated that we would meet again at the next video conference.

The train runs on the Keihara Line. Li Ruhui, who was sitting against the train window, remembered one thing when she saw the stop sign passing by Yunju Temple Station, turned her head and asked Zong Zhenlei next to her: "When you looked at Yunju Temple, you said that Zen Master Miaofeng knew the source of the Buddha relic, and this issue will be analyzed later; Does this moment count as the 'future' you say? ”

Zong Zhenlei smiled and said, "Of course it can be counted, and at the same time, it also let me know that you still have the ability to use this kind of cliché." ”

Li Ruhui also smiled and said, "No way, who let your guanzi sell for so long, if I don't remind you, you will forget it a long time ago." ”

"It's not mature to think about it, since you want to know, then I don't care about raw and cooked." Zong Zhenlei said: "Whether Zen Master Miaofeng knows the source of the Buddha relics involves two questions, the first is how to give this Buddha relics to him, or who gave him the Buddha relics; The second is whether the two monks involved have told him the ins and outs of this Buddha relic, and the two monks have contact with Miaofeng Zen Master before they have the opportunity to tell him about the gains and losses of the Buddha relics; These two questions depend on who Zen Master Miaofeng met with after the loss of the Buddha relics and before the completion of the Xuanwen Pagoda. ”

Li Ruhui asked a childish question as soon as she said it: "Do you have to meet?" Why can't you write to tell? ”

Zong Zhenlei heard Li Ruhui ask, so he took her hand and wrote two words with his fingers on her palm. She asked, "East Factory?" ”

Zong Zhenlei nodded: "Yes, how can you write a letter!" It will leave a text handle for the pervasive whole organization East Factory, and it will be turned out as evidence of the crime, and it will be connected to the nine clans! ”

"Okay." Li Ruhui was said by Zong Zhenlei, and found that the question she asked didn't seem to have gone through her brain, so she quickly fanned her face with her hand, as if trying to delete something; She then asked, "So, did Empress Dowager Li personally hand over the Buddha relics to Zen Master Miaofeng?" ”

"Are you stupid? How could the Queen Mother, who had such a distinguished status, do such a thing in person? Zong Zhenlei said with a smile: "Maybe every move she makes to the outside world will be recorded by the eunuchs in the palace." I don't think she's going to hide it from the world, so she won't do it openly. I noticed that when Empress Dowager Li sent off the Buddha relics, she always sent her courtier Chen Ru to handle it......"

Li Ruhui remembered the name she had seen him say: "Chen Ru? It is the inscription on the outside of the white marble letter cover, which one is remembered by Hanshan? ”

Zong Zhenlei took out his mobile phone and opened it, saying, "Yes, it's him." Therefore, just look at the period from the discovery of the Buddha relics to the construction of Yongzuo Temple, especially before the construction of the Xuanwen Stupa of Yongzuo Temple, whether Chen Ru had intersected with Miaofeng Zen Master. ”

Li Ruhui asked eagerly: "Is there an intersection?" ”

Zong Zhenlei read the information on his mobile phone and said his thoughts: "There has been an intersection. Hanshan has such a passage in "The Biography of Miaofeng Zen Master Deng Zen Master of Shengguang Temple, the Great Protector of Wutai Mountain": "Yi Sichun, the master bowed to send Wutai, and negotiated to set up Taihuai Xiantong Temple. Hearing this, the imperial horse eunuch Wang Zhong was sent, and the Holy Mother sent the eunuch Chen Ru to the courtesy, and each of them paid money to look at it. 'Here is talking about the Miaofeng Zen Master to place the bronze hall of the Xiantong Temple on Wutai Mountain; The year of Yisi is 1605, that year Miaofeng Zen Master will cast the bronze hall to Wutai Mountain, Shenzong and Empress Dowager Li learned about it, they all sent people to reward, Empress Dowager Li is to send the courtier Chen Ru to Wutai Mountain. Master Miaofeng began to prepare for the construction of Yongzuo Temple, and it took some time to measure, design, and prepare materials in the early stage, so from 1605 to 1608, I think three years is just right. However, how much time is not our concern, we just need to prove that before the construction of Yongzuo Temple, Chen Ru and Miaofeng Zen Master met. The Buddha relics were enlightened in 1592, and in chronological order, it was before Chen Ru saw Miaofeng. ”

Li Ruhui listened, thought for a moment and said: "The Chen Ru you are talking about, he is like the special manager of the Buddha relics designated by the Empress Dowager Li. ”

Zong Zhenlei smiled and said, "Your analogy is very good. There is another thing about this Chen Ru, which makes people feel the subtle thoughts of Empress Dowager Li in dealing with the matter of Buddha relics; After Miaofeng Zen Master built Yongzuo Temple, he returned to Wutai Mountain and passed away shortly after, after that, it was still this Chen Ru who went to Wutai Mountain to mourn and send gold silk at the behest of Empress Dowager Li; Speaking of subtle thoughts, that is to send Chen Ru to mourn, because only Chen Ru recognizes the small golden bottle containing the Buddha relics, so I estimate that he will also have another task, to check whether there is a small gold bottle containing the Buddha relics in the relics of Zen Master Miaofeng, so as to monitor whether the Buddha relics have indeed entered the Xuanwen Pagoda. ”

Li Ruhui felt that Zong Zhenlei was so magical, and asked, "How do you know that it is in a small gold bottle?" ”

"When the two monks found the three Buddha relics, they were contained in a small gold bottle the size of a bean." Zong Zhenlei flipped out a text recorded on his mobile phone: "The text of the high monk Hanshan's "Zhuozhou Xishi Jingshan Lei Yin Hori Relic" records that 'the small gold bottle is stored in the middle, such as Hu bean grains, three Zhong'an Buddha relics, such as corn, purple red, Such as King Kong', and when returning the Buddha relics, the senior monk only recorded the outer packaging of the small white jade letter added by the Empress Dowager Li, and did not say whether it was still three Buddha relics, nor did it say whether the small gold bottle was still there; until the excavation in 1981, it was found that the two Buddha relics and two small pearls were directly placed in the small white jade letter, so the lost Buddha relics should be placed in the small gold bottle of the Sui Dynasty; the Buddha relics were very small, and it was not easy to lose them in the small gold bottle. ”

"Assuming your speculation can be valid, will Chen Ru tell the source of the Buddha relic when he gives it to Zen Master Miaofeng? Because the Buddha's relics should be recorded, so that future generations can identify and pass them on. Li Ruhui didn't want to let go of every suspicion.

Zong Zhenlei said: "I estimate that even if Chen Ru wants to tell, he can only say that it is a Buddha relic given by the Empress Dowager Li, and he will not say that he is from Yunju Temple. ”

After a pause, he said, "Zen Master Miaofeng has another intersection with the people of the imperial court, and from the perspective of time, it is more like the time to hand over the Buddha relics to him. ”

Li Ruhui asked: "Or did Chen Ru do it?" ”

"This time it's more peculiar, I didn't say who did it, I didn't say where I did it, I just said what I did. In the inscription written by Su Weilin for Miaofeng Zen Master, "The Imperial Gift of the True Buddha Miaofeng Zen Master Ancestor Record" records: "Forty years of summer, give the golden Buddha embroidered crown, a thousand Buddhas and purple clothes", it is said that Miaofeng Zen Master was given some items, this time is the summer of 1612, it should be the time when the project of Yongzuo Temple is nearing completion, because Miaofeng Zen Master returned to Wutai Mountain in September of that year; ”

"Well, what can't be said is really mysterious everywhere. Tell me more, will those two eminent monks tell Zen Master Miaofeng? They're all friends. ”

"After experiencing the gains and losses of the Buddha relics, it still depends on whether they have met."

Li Ruhui thought for a while and said: "Hanshan was busy fighting a lawsuit in the capital after being enlightened, and was imprisoned not long after, and then he was sent to the Leizhou Peninsula to fill the army. ”

Zong Zhenlei nodded: "It's true that you said so, among the two senior monks, it is estimated that only Zibai and Zen Master Miaofeng have met." He flipped out a text on his mobile phone: "Master Miaofeng presided over the construction of the Ninghua Ten Thousand Buddha Caves from 1591 to 1597, six years before and after, and the loss of the relic occurred in 1592; In Zibai's poetry collection, when Zibai passed by there to go to the south, he inscribed a poem to the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave: "A piece of cliff ancient Buddha fetus. Diligently chisel out all the like. This shows that when Zibai met with Zen Master Miaofeng, the construction of the Ten Thousand Buddha Caves had entered the middle and late stages, and the carved Buddha statues could already be seen, so that period must have been after the loss of the Buddha relics. ”

Li Ruhui listened to the poem that Zong Zhenlei said, and suddenly remembered that she had also read this poem, and said: "The poem you said reminds me that I read Zibai's poetry collection when I checked the information, and the poem he wrote wrote two poems at the same time, and you said the latter poem; The one in front is: 'The cold clouds overlap and the peaks are deep, who comforts the pearl far away.'" I'm afraid that Zhilang has not glimpsed, and pressing the sword in the dream is a bosom friend', when I read this poem at the time, I was very touched, and I felt that the two sentences behind his poem have a deep meaning. ”

"Meaningful? Let's talk about how deep. ”

"I interpret the last two sentences like this: you know, 'Zhilang' refers to monks, I won't explain much; the word 'press the sword' comes from Wang Wei's "Drinking Wine and Pei Di" in the Tang Dynasty: "Drinking wine and the gentleman's self-indulgence, human feelings are overturned like waves." Prime Minister Bai knows that he still presses the sword, and Zhu Men Xianda laughs and plays the crown'. The original meaning is that the relationship between acquaintances and friends who are all white-headed is still sinister, not to mention other people, implying that any friendship can turn against each other for their own interests. Zibai used 'pressing the sword in a dream' to emphasize that the secret calculation was done by a bosom friend, in order to remind not to be confused by human feelings and be calculated. ”

"Makes sense!"

"I didn't quite understand what the 'pearl' in the first two lines of his poem meant, but now according to your speculation, the time he saw the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave was after the loss of the relic, so the 'pearl' should be an allusion to the lost Buddha relic."

"yes, you can think so."

This is his concern that the Buddha relics are elsewhere, but there is nothing he can do. From this, the second half is actually what was said in the first half, as a reminder to friends! ”

Zong Zhenlei nodded and said, "Well explained!" I didn't pay attention to the previous one of the poems, so it is more indicative that Zibai told Zen Master Miaofeng about the Buddha relic. ”

Li Ruhui thought of one thing: "I still haven't figured out something, when did the relationship between Zibai and Empress Dowager Li and the court deteriorate?" ”

Zong Zhenlei analyzed: "After Zibai was awarded the relic, according to Hanshan, first 'please play the Queen Mother', and then the Empress Dowager Li welcomed back to the palace to support for three days, indicating that Zibai had a good relationship with the royal family and the Empress Dowager Li; Hanshan was sentenced by the imperial court, so the first major negative he mentioned showed his dissatisfaction with the imperial court; In addition, Zibai's grievance for the Nankang Taishou Wu Baoxiu mining tax case is the second biggest negative, and the mine tax envoy was determined by the imperial court, which greatly increased Zibai's dissatisfaction with the imperial court; The third big negative is that he was going to write a book with Hanshan, but the court did not let Hanshan return, so you can imagine his annoyance. ”

Zong Zhenlei seems to be open-minded, and it seems that he wants to introduce more to Li Ruhui some of the relevant history of the people he knows: "Later, he returned to the capital and wrote a poem "Crested Song", "The former crested head. Now crested. Who is the crested head of the present is the crested head of the past. Those who came did not arrive. Those who go are not allowed to stay. Comes and goes. Crested in the eyes. Sigh the people of the world. Face to face crest. Crested crested crest. The horizontal gauge is like a rushing stream. There is no return. There is no wind to fight for the ship. I can't bear to look at it. Hang your hands to help the crazy cow. Luminous and dark. Whoever presses the sword is not an enemy. Sigh the people of the world. Who knows the crested head. Because the name of the Empress Dowager Li is Li Caifeng, and in front of this poem, he lamented the past when the phoenix was kind to him in the past, I think this poem seems to allude to the Empress Dowager Li, implicitly expressing his dissatisfaction with the Empress Dowager Li. Far from it, in fact, the starting point of the relationship becoming sour, I am afraid that Zibai found the loss of this Buddha relic. He is a man of a hard and straight nature, and since he is dissatisfied, he will reveal it; His friend Tang Xianzu, a great dramatist of the Ming Dynasty, persuaded him for this. ”

Li Ruhui took advantage of his pause and quickly pulled the topic back: "Understood, you haven't finished talking about the rest of the opportunities for the two monks to meet, right?" ”

Zong Zhenlei smiled, he probably found that he was far away, so he turned the topic back: "Zibai's opportunity to see Zen Master Miaofeng is other than the time in the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave; During that time, Zibai often traveled back and forth between the north and the south, and the last time he went to the capital from Jiangxi, he passed through Wutai Mountain, and lived there for a while; He has a deep relationship with Mount Wutai, and in the early days he often traveled there for the engraving of Tibetan scriptures, and later he socialized with friends. In 1599, after Miaofeng Zen Master built the Xuanhua Guanghui Bridge, with the support of King Shen of Luzhou, he began to prepare for the construction of Emei, Putuo, Wutai Sanshan Copper Palace. ”

"This passage is a bit far-fetched, did Zen Master Miaofeng live in Luya Mountain or Wutai Mountain at that time?" Li Ruhui got serious and had to compare.

"No matter where they live, the two of them should have met, and I have another speculation to prove that Zibai may have seen Miaofeng after returning to the north from the south." Zong Zhenlei turned his head to look out, the scene outside the car window had changed, and the city buildings had become patches.

"What speculation?" Li Ruhui didn't bother outside the car window, still wanting to know the answer to that question.

At this time, the train was already making a braking sound.

"It's not formed yet, so let's listen to the next breakdown. Look, the train is coming in. ”

"I hate it, this train is going too fast!"

"Ha~ Look at this posture, someone is going to complain about me for letting the train go fast?"

"What? Don't let? ”

Zong Zhenlei and Li Ruhui teased their mouths and walked out of the train station, at this time the lights were on; While waiting for a taxi, Li Ruhui called Professor Li and made an appointment to report to him about the trip to Beijing. But Professor Li said on the phone that he was not at the school; I have just arrived in Datong City with friends from afar, and I am going to go to Huayan Temple and Yungang Grottoes to go around, and I want to stay for a day or two; He also said that anyway, there will be a video report in three days, and it will be okay to report together at that time.

Li Ruhui told Zong Zhenlei, and Zong Zhenlei said happily: "It just so happens that I still want to go to Yongzuo Temple to make up for a lesson, or let's go to Yongzuo Temple tomorrow?" ”

Li Ruhui pursed her mouth and said in the tone of the queen mother in the court drama on TV: "Accurate! ”