When the heavens and the earth slowly woke up in the morning light, the morning class time of the Mida Monastery was approaching.

Before dawn, the people who searched for Iijima Chiya searched the entire temple and could not find the whereabouts of Iijima Chiya, so everyone had to give up the search and prepare for the day's morning class.

The Zen monastery has built a mourning hall for the old abbot, and the old monks in the temple have begun to do supernatural rituals for the old abbot.

Guan Hao stood quietly in front of the old abbot's body and bowed deeply nine times.

After the salute, Guan Hao silently looked at this kind old man who had only met yesterday and was familiar at first sight, thinking of the old man's everything, Guan Hao couldn't help crying bitterly.

Guan Hao knew that this Mida Zen Temple could not stay for a long time at this time, after all, Iijima Chi was also a Japanese and a guest who came to invest.

With the disappearance of Iijima Chiya, if it is made bigger, it will be an international incident, and all the people who live in the village of Tai O will be investigated.

Guan Hao wanted to rush back in advance before the sky was completely bright, and first reach a consensus with the old village chief that he must come up with an alibi.

Because the old abbot's funeral affairs must not be leaked, the daily activities in the temple are as usual.

Guan Hao listened to the melodious morning bell in the temple and quickly returned to the inn in the village.

The rules of the temple are: the bell is struck in the morning and the drum is played in the evening. The bell is sung three times, and the drums are played three times.

In the morning, the drums are played and the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra is recited, and in the evening the Great Compassion Mantra is recited.

In the morning, after beating the bell and drum, the water is offered with pure water incense, and then the morning class is followed by the morning offering. At half past four in the afternoon, he began to offer incense and water, and then worship the eighty-eight Buddhas. The drum bell starts at eight o'clock in the evening.

Guan Hao carefully avoided the villagers who got up early, and before the morning sun rose, he went back to his room, and before he could change his clothes and backpack when he entered the door, he heard a deep voice behind him say, "Good boy, where have you been all night?" ”

Guan Hao's memory is amazing, and he naturally remembers that this voice is the voice of the old village chief.

"Old village chief, I'm scared to death! How are you in my room. When Guan Hao heard that it was the old village, he calmed down in his heart and asked the old village calmly.

"Good boy, the temple secretly sent someone to report to me, saying that the old abbot has passed away, have you been involved in this matter?"

"The old village, the old abbot was killed by the widow who lived next door, and I was there at the time." Guan Hao retold the whole story to the old village chief again: Guan Hao started from following Iijima Chiya secretly out at night and being bumped into by Guan Hao, who was convenient to go out, all the way to the mass grave cemetery, until the old abbot was killed and the search in the temple ended.

After listening to this, the old village chief pondered for a moment, and then said to Guan Hao: "Good boy, this widow may have a lot of background, I heard you say that he is very familiar with my Tai O Village, and he should have been here to step on it." I hate the Japanese people the most in Tai O, and our village has a bitter enmity with the Japanese people. ”

"Are you saying that when the shipwreck was salvaged in 1938, the Japanese people made a stumbling block and made the two of us fail in salvaging the shipwreck?"

"Yes, it was about to succeed back then, but Xiaori sent a warship to block the sunken sea area, if it weren't for your Guan family's desperate rescue, our entire Guan family would be a catastrophe."

"Kid, you know what? In that incident, 357 people were killed and injured in my Huang family in Tai O, and there were no men in the whole village who could stand, you see! The more the old village spoke, the more excited he became, and he couldn't help but tear off his shirt and leak two shocking fist-sized scars on his stomach.

"This is the shot of the little days, I lay in bed for 4 months, God blessed to pick up a life, my father, four uncles and more than 20 brothers, all left me forever in that devil attack."

"I once swore that I would take revenge on the devils of the country who harmed our Huang family in my lifetime."

"Old village, don't get excited, it's not too late for the Huang family to find a suitable time to avenge this vengeance, and I will do my best to assist when the time comes. Last night, Iijima Chi also dug up a wooden box in an ancient tomb in the mass graveyard, and he found the underground exit of the Guanyin Hall with the map inside the wooden box. ”

"Good boy!"

"You mean, that little devil dug up the map of the temple to find the tunnel entrance of the Guanyin Temple?"

"Yes, how can there be a map on a small day? Where did you get this map? By the way, the old village chief, there is also a copper key engraved with the words "Shu Wangfu" in that small wooden box, and when Iijima Chiya was injured and escaped, he left a backpack behind, and the key was left in the backpack. ”

"Ah..... you mean, that little devil also found the key to the Shu Palace?"

"Yes, it was dug up in an ancient tomb in a mass grave along with the map of Mida Zen Temple. To give! That's the key. Guan Hao took out the key from his backpack and handed it to the old village chief.

The old village chief took the key with a trembling hand, and said emotionally: "Child, this key is the one that the main family asked me to keep in Daao, on March 23, the 27th year of the Republic of China, Mazu's birthday, the whole village went to participate in the seaside celebrations, and held a banquet in the evening, and the family was robbed that night, and the key was gone, and it has been 57 years!" In order to retrieve this key, we searched all over China, and finally we learned through secret investigation that the disappearance of the key was related to the Cao family of Suicheng Heluo and a small day organization called the East Asian Traditional Culture Exchange Association, because Xiao Ri occupied Suicheng that year, and the Cao family had close contacts with Xiao Rizi, and we never had a chance to recover this key. ”

The old village almost gritted his teeth, and after a while he added, "So I have made an internal rule that no one surnamed Cao is ever welcome in our village." ”

When Guan Hao heard it, it turned out that what the taxi driver said was really true, Tai O really didn't welcome the Cao family!

"You see, this photo was also found in the backpack that Chiya Iijima left behind." Guan Hao took out a yellowed old photo from his bag and handed it to the old village, who didn't have a good look at the old village's eyes, only glanced at the photo at the electric light at the head of the bed, and said with certainty: "This person's name is Fan Zheping, and the photo was taken under the hundred-year-old good tree in the village." This Fan Zheping is a traveling doctor who came to our Tai O, knows Japanese, and he acts as a translator and guide when people come to the village. Later, when he was doing something with Xiao Ri, he was shot and killed by our people, and his body was buried in the mass graveyard. The old village said with certainty.

After seeing the old photos, the old village chief handed the photo back to Guan Hao, and inadvertently, Guan Hao faced the light and found that there was a line of small words behind the photo, which was difficult to see if it was not illuminated by the light.

So Guan Hao picked up the photo and looked carefully at the small line written in Japanese against the light: Taken in Lingnan Tai O in March of the 13th year of Showa, Fan Dao Ichiro of the East Asian Cultural Exchange Association.

"The old village chief, this is written in the Japanese language, the name of the person in the photo is Ichiro Iijima, he works for an organization called the East Asian Cultural Exchange Association, and the time taken is the thirteenth year of the Showa of the small day, which is ...... 1938 year. It was the year of the shipwreck! ”

"Ichiro Iijima? Fan Zheping? I know how to heal and ....... Japanese," muttered the old villager.

"Old village chief, I remember, before dinner yesterday, when Xiao Yu took that little day to the village for a walk, he saw the hundred-year-old good tree, and that Iijima Chi was also very excited, obviously he recognized the tree that appeared in the photo, maybe the purpose of his trip was to find Fan Zeping. This Fan Zeping (Ichiro Iijima) should be someone in Iijima's Chiya family. Looking at the age, Iijima Chi is also in his 40s, and it is obvious that Fan Zeping cannot be his father. ”

"Well, good boy, I want to thank you! In any case, if you can find the lost key this time, it can be regarded as the end of a major event in our Tai O Village. ”

"Old village chief, now Iijima Chi is also missing, he came to Tai O in the name of business investigation, if Mayor Luo finds out that Iijima Chi is also missing for no reason, the law enforcement department will definitely investigate, and many of our secrets will not be able to be kept at that time, so the top priority is to quickly think of countermeasures, how to deal with the disappearance of Xiao Ri, if you don't get it, it will be treated as an international incident."

The old village chief, without responding, pondered for a long time. Then he said to Guan Hao: "Child, you are our guest in Tai O, and we will do our best to protect you, not to mention that you are still the hero who found our lost key." You'll rest in your room, I'll arrange that. ”

After the old village chief finished speaking, he was about to say goodbye, and he was ready to arrange the countermeasures for Iijima Chiya's disappearance for no reason.

Guan Hao looked at the old photos left by Iijima Chiya, and suddenly had an idea: "Old village chief, I have a suggestion, I don't know if it's appropriate?" ”

"Child, don't look outside, you say, as long as it can solve the problem, it's appropriate!"

"Old village chief, you make arrangements, wake up Mayor Luo immediately, find him to report the case, and say that a valuable old object was lost in the village, and an old photo was also found at the scene."

When the old village chief heard this, he thought about it carefully, and the pickpocket praised: "Good idea, I'll arrange it!" ”

"Old village chief, when necessary, Wan'er and I, as well as Xiaoyu, can all testify, including the translator, we have all seen Iijima Chi also take out this photo under the hundred-year-old good tree. And Iijima Chi also insisted on staying in Tai O, this is the motive, and Mayor Luo can also testify. We report the case first and turn the passive into the proactive. ”

"It's a good one to turn passive into active, there are successors to the old Guan family! Good - good ——- good! ”

The old village chief decisively went out to arrange the arrangements, Guan Hao's worries were properly handled, and the people were much more relaxed, and after a night of high-intensity fighting, people were also a little sleepy, just to make up for sleep, so Guan Hao packed up his things, lay on the bed, and fell into a sweet sleep after a while.

At this time, the window of the ancient council hall was pried open, and a landscape painting on the wall disappeared, leaving a yellowed photograph at the scene.

At this time, the old village chief had already knocked on the door of Mayor Luo's house with someone.

"Mayor Mare, no! Our village was robbed, and an ancient painting of the Ming Dynasty left by our ancestors was stolen! ”