The sky was bright and mist filled the mountain valley, making it extremely cold.
"Oh..."
Huo Anu, a woman from the Western Region, walked out from the leeward position, yawned and stretched again.
The reason for practicing Qigong all year round is that when I stretch my waist, my bones make a cracking sound.
The next second, she wrapped her clothes tightly, held up the iron umbrella, lowered her head and got into the small room of Changsheng Temple, looking for the dark doorway, and entered the innermost secret room.
Seeing the situation in the secret room, she couldn't help but be surprised for a moment.
But I saw Xu Zun sitting in the middle of the room, as still as if he was meditating.
There was a piece of clean white paper placed in front of him. If paired with a samurai sword, it looked as if he was about to have his belly disemboweled.
Looking at the entire room, the charred blackness on the walls has long been wiped away, revealing its original appearance.
But I saw that the walls and roof were all densely covered with writing!
The words are vigorous and powerful, and the writing is vigorous. Unfortunately, most of them have been deliberately scratched, and there are even a few places that have been chiseled with axes, making them difficult to read.
Last night, the head catcher Zhao Yu and others searched the Changsheng Temple several times, and finally left after finding nothing more.
In the end, I didn’t know whether they found the writing on the wall?
After they left, Xu Zun impatiently found moss and other materials and began to wipe away the scorched marks to reveal the words one by one.
Then, Xu Zun began to study these words, and he studied them all night long!
"Ouch..." Huo Anu looked at the motionless Xu Zun and couldn't help but said, "Have you passed away and sat down? Oh... no... how do you say in Zhongyuan dialect, you have learned about heaven's secrets and meditated on Zen to enlighten you?
?”
Seeing that Xu Zun didn't answer, Huo Anu moved closer, thinking that Xu Zun might have fallen asleep.
But just as she was approaching, Xu Zun suddenly spoke:
"This room... is made of granite. It may have been the base of a huge Taoist stone statue in the past!"
"I'll cut it!" Huo Anu was startled.
"The words engraved on it are not easy to erase. Perhaps the murderer didn't want to put in the effort, so he just set a fire!
"Cover it with soot so we won't find it."
"What do you mean..." Huo Anu pondered and asked, "Can these words give us the answer? But, I also know how to read. The words written on them seem to be meaningless Chinese characters, right?"
Indeed, the Chinese characters carved on the walls are all Chinese characters with different fonts and meanings. There are no phrases or sentences, and they are carved horizontally and vertically, with different distances and distances.
Among them, many words are obscure and difficult to decipher, a bit like a scripture.
"Ha," Xu Zun smiled slightly, "if the answer lies here, how could the murderer let it stay? No matter how hard he tries, he has to erase it!"
"Then what do you mean?" Huo Anu asked impatiently, "Have you noticed it? Don't pretend to be a ghost here, as if you were possessed!"
"I'm not possessed by evil spirits," Xu Zun said seriously, "It's just a bit cool! Because I have discovered that there is a mystery hidden in these words!"
"Oh?" Huo Anu became interested, "Where is the mystery?"
Xu Zun replied calmly with four words: "I'm studying!"
"You!?" Huo Anu waved his fist, "Although Master Shen has asked me to accommodate you, you'd better not challenge my bottom line!"
"Look," Xu Zun suddenly stood up and pointed at the grooves in the doorway and said, "do you know what these grooves are for?"
"Ah?" Huo Anu obviously couldn't keep up with the rhythm.
"If my guess is correct, this place!" Xu Zun pointed to the secret room, "It should be a granite cell! A person was once imprisoned in here!"
"Huh?" Huo Anu became confused, "Who is it? That Taoist priest?"
"These words should have been written by this imprisoned person," Xu Zun continued. "He wanted to ask for help from the outside world through these words, or he wanted to explain the truth, but he was worried about being investigated by the imprisoned people, so he could only
Use this room full of writing to cover it up!"
"..." Huo Anu stared at Xu Zun closely and murmured, "It sounds like it's true, as if you saw it! Since you can't understand, don't say it so arrogantly, hum!"
"Who said I can't figure it out?" Xu Zun said seriously, "Last night, I spent the whole night arranging various combinations, and the result..."
"What's the result?"
"The result...failed!"
"I'll cut it!" Huo Anu was almost knocked to the ground and quickly used an iron umbrella to support him.
"However, I later realized that I was overthinking it!" Xu Zun suddenly turned over the white paper on the ground, pointed at it and said, "It turns out that the answer is not as complicated as I thought!"
"oh?"
Huo Anu looked over curiously, but saw four big characters written on the other side of the white paper, which were:
"Nv", "Fang", "Zhi", "Fei", followed by the radical "任".
"This..." Huo Anu thought, "Female house flying? Is there a person behind, a female flying person? What does it mean?"
"These words engraved on the wall," Xu Zun explained, "are in different fonts and directions, but they have the same pattern, that is, most of the words are about the same size. Only these few words are larger than
Other words should be slightly larger!”
After saying that, Xu Zun waved his arm and found the corresponding words on the wall. It was the four words female, square, paper, and flying.
As for the "任" at the back, because the character has been severely damaged, only such a radical can be recognized.
"I don't understand, these words still don't have any meaning!" Huo Anu shook his head and said, "Don't bully me for being a foreigner. I also learned Chinese since I was a child. I think you made a mistake!"
"Haha, it's not just a wise person who can understand the mystery behind the words. Only by understanding the author's state of mind can we succeed. But..." Xu Zun suddenly showed a worldly look and said quietly, "I really do
I hope I made a mistake!"
"You..." Huo Anu's eyes looked strange. She could not see through this man who had been beaten so hard that she could not get out of bed.
"But if I'm not mistaken," Xu Zun said again and again, "then we will be in big trouble!"
"Hey, I'm a straightforward person, can you speak more clearly?" Huo Anu asked impatiently, "If you really understand the mystery of this, then tell me quickly, what is going on?
What’s the same thing? If you don’t know, then stop pretending!”
"I can only tell you when I can truly believe you!" Xu Zun turned his head and said extremely solemnly, "But before that, even if you beat me to death, I won't tell you!"
"You!? You..." Huo Anu became more and more irritable and stamped his feet angrily, "Why don't you just change your nickname? Instead of calling it Xu Xiaopan, call it Xu Laola!
"I think you're just pretending. The last word only has one radical, and you don't even know what it is, so you just say you've got it? What a liar!"
"That word is irrelevant!" Xu Zun squinted his eyes and said, "The most important thing now is that we must find out all the truth before disaster occurs!"
"Crazy, crazy, crazy!" Huo Anu said anxiously, "Didn't you say that you have understood the mystery? How can you find out the truth?"
"That's wrong. Understanding the mysteries and finding out the truth are completely different things!" As he spoke, Xu Zun actually put the white paper on the torch and burned it!
"Okay, then tell me," Huo Anu suppressed his anger and asked, "What should we do now?"
"Hmm..." Xu Zun thought for a while and asked, "Do you have any bandits that you have good relations with?"
"..." Huo Anu was completely speechless.
Xu Zun added: "It can be a robber, a liar or a thief!"
Unexpectedly, this time, without waiting for Huo Anu's reaction, Xu Zun said as if he was asking a question: "I almost forgot, I am the county captain myself..."
