The national teacher does not practice

Chapter 241 The Temple on the Top of the Mountain, An Old Man Surnamed "Wei" ([-] words for subscription)
Abbot invitation?
In the dining hall, the early autumn sunlight shines on the thick brown wooden table.

Yu Yu and Ye Hongling turned their heads "swipe" at the same time, looking at Ji Ping'an in surprise, only to see the latter's face was calm.

It seems that this has been expected.

"How do you know Master Yihong wants to see you?"

The female martial artist almost spit out this question, but she swallowed it forcefully.

But Ji Pingan didn't explain at all, got up and followed the Zhike monk to leave, and disappeared behind the bamboo forest outside the hall.

It wasn't until the person left that Yu Yu licked his lips calmly, and rolled the rice porridge with white flowers at the corner of his mouth into his mouth with his small tongue, with a look of no surprise:

"Oh, don't pay attention to him. This person always likes to pretend to be a ghost, and all star officials are like this. He looks like he has no plans."

Is that so... Ye Hongling was not sure.

She has only worked with Ji Pingan very few times. The last time she went to Xishan Residence, Ji Pingan had a conversation with Qi Nian, a strong swordsman, and she was already amazed.

Unexpectedly, as the contact deepened, not only did the fog on the other party not dissipate, but it became more and more difficult for her to see clearly.

Arouse intense curiosity.

Ye Hongling suddenly said:
"Your Highness, can you tell me about Ji Sichen's stay in the capital?"

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"Si Chen, please come in, the abbot is waiting for you in the meditation room."

In another courtyard, the Zhike monk stopped and pointed to the meditation room ahead.

Immediately backed away knowingly.

When Ji Pingan pushed open the door, he saw the elegant and elegant Master Yihong, who was in his fifties and was wearing a white monk's robe, sitting cross-legged and meditating.

A pot of tea was boiling on the low table in front of him, and he was carefully filling up two teacups.

Ji Pingan stepped lightly, looked at it, and praised:
"Good tea."

Master Yihong pushed one to the front, looked up with brown eyes:

"Si Chen has never drank, why praise him?"

Ji Pingan walked over, sat down cross-legged, and said:
"The leaves of the horse chestnut tree are the best tea in the world, even better than the tribute from the Great Zhou Palace, but few people know about it."

Master Yihong was slightly surprised and said with emotion:
"It seems that Si Chen has tasted it in the gods. No wonder he can recognize it by the fragrance of tea."

No... To be precise, your Lord Buddha brewed it for me when I went to Southern Tang... Ji Pingan thought to himself, and acquiesced.

Picking up the teacup, regardless of the boiling heat, he took a sip, and his mouth was full of fragrance and refreshing.

Master Yihong didn't speak, just sipping tea slowly, the two sides in the meditation room were quiet and didn't speak.

After a long time, Master Yihong finally spoke first with some helplessness:
"Si Chen went to the Buddhist hall to investigate the case yesterday, but found nothing. How are you going to prepare for today?"

Ji Pingan smiled and asked:

"Is this why the abbot called me here?"

Master Yihong said:
"Since our Buddhist monastery is involved in the case and involves many pilgrims, we should cooperate with the investigation in order to return the reputation of Buddhism as an important place."

Ji Pingan let out an "oh", put down the teacup suddenly, and sighed:

"But it looks like the abbot may be disappointed."

Master Yihong looked at him: "Si Chen, but it's okay to say. Or is this the reason why the three sneaked into my Buddhist pagoda last night?"

He said this sentence plainly, but abruptly, if Ye Hongling and Yu Yu were present, his complexion would change drastically and he would have a stress reaction.

But Ji Pingan didn't care, and nodded happily:
"Yes."

Just admitting it like this... Master Yihong was also stunned for a while, hesitant to speak, thinking that you shouldn't be wronged?
Ji Pingan stared at him:
"Even if the abbot doesn't say anything, I still have to ask. Last night, I witnessed the flower-picking monk escape into the pagoda. How can I explain it?"

Then, he said a few simple words, saying that there would be villains who wanted to slander Mrs. Pei, but he had been on guard for a long time, and he would block them one by one, without hiding anything.

Master Yihong didn't expect that the star official was so open, he was taken aback.But when he heard the incident clearly, his face became obviously serious:

"Sure?"

Ji Pingan said slowly:

"Or do you think it is necessary for us to cheat on this kind of thing?"

After a pause, he stared at the mage in white in front of him:
"So, I need an explanation from the monastery. Who has the ability to pass through the barrier and enter the tower? Under the Leiyin Tower, where does the portal lead to? Why was it built? What is its function?"

Anti-customer main!

Master Yihong was silent for a while, finally sighed softly, and replied:

"That's all. If Ye Hongling said it, the poor monk really didn't believe it. After all, the Great Zhou court did a lot of things."

Emperor Yuanqing: Don't cue!

The monk in white continued:
"But since Ji Sichen testified, this incident was indeed beyond the poor monk's expectations. Although the Leiyin Pagoda is not a very important place, there are not many people who are qualified to enter it in the monastery, except for the monks who clean it every day. , they are all at the level of Zhike monk.

This matter can be checked later to see who left the bedroom last night... But the poor monk still firmly believes that there may be something wrong with this matter, and it is definitely not the work of the monks in my temple. "

He added:
"As for the door in the well, it's not a secret. It's just an escape route."

Ji Pingan was curious: "The escape route?"

Master Yihong nodded:
"In the old days, when the two races of humans and monsters fought each other, the strong monsters flooded the Qiantang, and countless monks in the Zen monastery were killed and injured. Even the Liuli Bodhisattva was in trouble. Later, when the temple was rebuilt, the monks who worked at that time took this into consideration to prevent the passing of time, so they arranged in the well. One end of the formation is connected to the temple, and the other end is in a small temple higher up in the mountain.

There will be some food stored in the small temple. Once the monks in the temple are in trouble, they can use this to escape...

However, hundreds of years have passed, and the dispute between the two clans has long since ended, so this passage has hardly been used. As for the small temple on the mountain, it is only used to store some ice cubes and other things in winter and use them in summer.It is not difficult to pass, as long as you practice the authentic Buddhist root method. "

Ji Pingan nodded slightly, not surprised.

People who were born in peaceful times may find this arrangement a bit absurd and funny.

But you must know that in those days, no one knew how the situation would change in the future.

So let's not talk about Zen gardens, but all ordinary people with some wealth are used to digging tunnels in the yard.

"So, the abbot also said that this person is indeed a Buddhist." Ji Pingan said.

Master Yihong was silent and said:

"Those who practice Buddhism are not necessarily Buddhist disciples."

This is a hard mouth... However, it is not completely unreasonable.For example, those Jianghu monks who teach on alms bowls are expelled from the "Buddhism" by Buddhism.

And if it is a "reborn person", the situation is even more complicated.

Who knows, in which era and what kind of status a "historical figure" was reborn.

With the ability of those reborn, it is entirely possible to sneak into the temple in reverse through this "survival channel", and even use some Buddhist secret methods to bypass authority and enter the "enchantment".

Combined with the previous reasoning, either the thief is indeed hiding in the Zen courtyard...but this possibility is not great.

On the one hand, there are too many people in the temple, and the Buddhist sect is well aware of the existence of the "return of the stars" event.

Certainly for some suspicious people, will pay extra attention.

On the other hand, it is the timing of "committing the crime"... If it is true as the reasoning is, those female fragrances were violated on the way back from the Buddhist monastery.

It would be inconvenient if this person hid in the Buddhist monastery.

Which monk can afford to run out of the outer temple every day, inject Buddhist elements, and then run back...and not be found for a long time?

Therefore, there is a high probability that they are hiding outside the Buddhist monastery.

But it's not far away, and the "prey" can be locked and acted by methods such as spells or observation.

As for sneaking into the monastery, it is very likely that he was very itchy after learning of Li Xiangjun's arrival.

After all, Mrs. Pei is always guarded by family masters, so it may not be feasible to do it on the way back.

On the contrary, in the monastery, Pei's guards will not be too close, and their defenses will be lax, but there will be "opportunities to take advantage of".

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Ji Pingan lightly tapped the table with his fingers, and said:
"Where is that small temple on the other side of the portal?"

Master Yihong is also extremely intelligent, and at this moment he also understood Ji Ping'an's thoughts, got up and said:

"The poor monk can bring Si Chen there in person."

Ji Pingan stood up with a smile: "That's very good."

After the agreement was completed, the two quickly walked out of the meditation room and ordered the Zhike monk to find the other two women in the dining hall.

Not long after, Ye Hongling and Yu Yu rushed over, and everyone returned to the Leiyin Pagoda again.

Yu Yu had an indifferent expression on his face, and looked a little unworthy of a beating.

Ye Hongling, on the other hand, seemed a little embarrassed. The female warrior had an unusually high moral standard, so she still felt a little guilty about sneaking into his important place.

"Everyone, please follow me." Master Yihong said, leading the three people to the well, and immediately took out three strings of Buddhist beads and handed them to them:

"Wearing this item can also pass through for a short time."

After all, he took the lead in stepping into the portal.

The person disappeared in an instant.

Ye Hongling held the Buddhist beads, inspected them, and said cautiously:
"I'll go take a look."

Saying that, the female warrior also disappeared through the door with a knife in her hand.

Seeing this, Yu Yucai and Ji Pingan stepped in.

Light and shadow change.

When the surrounding scenery became clear again, Ji Pingan found himself in a courtyard.

Surrounded by a vigilant and curious dramatist girl, a female martial artist scanning the surroundings with a knife, and a white-clothed mage with an awe-inspiring expression.

The courtyard is old and quiet, surrounded by courtyard-like buildings, houses made of blue-black bricks and stones, which have been in disrepair for a long time, and the appearance of a temple can be vaguely seen.

Outside the building, there are pines and cypresses. Yu Yu jumped onto the ridge of the roof, looked at it, and said:
"We are halfway up the mountain, and the Buddhist monastery is below."

Ye Hongling released her consciousness, and shook her head towards Ji Pingan:

"There are no enemies."

Master Yihong said:
"This is the other end of the portal. I may not have been here for a long time."

As he said that, he led the three of them to walk in the building, and sure enough, he found that there was no one around, most of the doors were locked, and the inside was empty.

However, when everyone stepped into the second small courtyard, they cast their eyes on one of the better-preserved houses at the same time, and saw that the door leaf was wide open, the iron lock was twisted, and it was thrown on the ground.

"There is a problem here!"

Ye Hongling was shocked, stepped into it first, and said:
"There are traces of life!"

Everyone filed in, this is a bedroom.

Although the furnishings are extremely shabby, compared with others, there are more daily necessities stored in temples, such as basins, bedding and so on.

"Not long ago, someone lived here."

Ye Hongling said, "If there are no accidents, it's that person from last night, and everything makes sense."

A reborn person suspected of being a Buddhist came to the Buddhist monastery, followed the past memory, found this small temple to live in, and occasionally sneaked into the temple through the teleportation circle, and "hunted for beauty"...

And this kind of behavior is very likely to restore cultivation.

It is not uncommon to collect yin and supplement yang.

Moreover, this place is also well chosen. On the one hand, there are endless women to choose from, and it is almost a good place to wait and see.

Moreover, most of these women are young and married as wives. Even if they find something is wrong afterwards, in this era, it is impossible to tell others with great fanfare.

In addition, there is a Buddhist monastery in the front, even if someone doubts it, they can be pushed to seek the Buddha sincerely.

"Damn it! Let the other party run away! After such a long time, it's impossible to chase after him." Yu Yu was furious.

However, Ji Pingan remained calm, without hesitation, he immediately started astrology, a vortex appeared in his pupils, and then an illusory astrolabe rotated.

In the small temple, the light began to flow backwards, returning to last night.

He "saw" with his own eyes that the formations flickered in the courtyard of the temple, and a vague figure came out, and rushed into the house briskly, and began to remove the traces.

Then he carried a small burden on his back, jumped away from here, leaped onto the ridge of the roof, identified the direction, fled in the opposite direction to the monastery, turned into green smoke, and disappeared into the forest.

And when he escaped, the direction he locked was the former site of the ancient Qiantang City, the current "Qiantang County" city!

boom--

The screen was shattered, and Ji Ping'an ended the astrology and left the magic state.

"How is it?" Yu Yu stared at him and asked anxiously.

Ye Hongling and Master Yihong also looked over.

Ji Pingan thought for a while and said:
"If there is no accident, he should have fled to Qiantang County."

Yunlin Temple is located in the outskirts of Qiantang County, just a short walk away. The county is densely populated, so it is undoubtedly a good place to hide yourself.

Qiantang County...Ye Hongling heard the words and wished she could go down the mountain immediately to arrest her.

Master Yihong sighed:
"How to find the dripping water that melts into the sea? I'm afraid it will be difficult."

Yu Yu pursed his lips and sang against the bald donkey:
"If you don't do it, how do you know you can't find it? Besides, do you Buddhists want to stay out of it? You have to bear a heavy responsibility for this matter, don't you know?"

Master Yihong was speechless.

Ji Pingan ignored the quarrel and went straight to a clay pot in the corner of the house.

Among them, there is a piece of paper that was burnt to ashes. These are all the "traces" that the "obscene monk" burned with a candle last night and cleaned it away.

"Why does a person who lives alone and hides in this deep mountain have writing that needs to be erased? Is it because it contains content that would expose him?" Ji Pingan was thinking.

"What's wrong?" Ye Hongling came over and asked.

After learning the situation, his expression became serious, and he frowned and said:

"However, it has been burnt to such an extent that it is almost impossible to restore it. Hey, how come there are traces of charcoal here?"

The female martial artist squatted down, stretched out her well-knit hands, and picked up a few unburned, completely carbonized bamboo-like wood parts from a pile of ashes:
"Something like a frame of some kind."

Yu Yu came over, looked down, and frowned, as if he also found it difficult.

Although there are spells in Taoist spells that can restore burned things, they are of a very high level, and ordinary Taoists who sit in a well do not know it, and she has not yet mastered it.

But staring at it for a while, the girl's small nose wrinkled, feeling that something was wrong, so she simply raised her pale finger and wiped it on her eyes.

brush--

The girl's pupils shone with golden light, opening the Taoist Heavenly Eye.

Immediately, she sighed lightly and said, "There is something left."

Then, under the gaze of everyone, she raised her small hand and grabbed the ashes. Immediately, the ashes in the pottery basin flickered red suddenly, like coals being blown into flames.

Then, she pulled out a translucent phantom of a "lantern" that was about to collapse.

Yes, lanterns!
A square red paper lantern with a classic shape!
"What is this?" Ye Hongling, as a vulgar warrior, had never seen this before.

"It's a spirit." Master Yihong said, with a wise light in his brown eyes:
"After some spiritual items are destroyed, the spirit of the item will remain within a certain period of time... It is almost completely different from the spirit of the magic weapon. It is a more natural spirituality, similar to the legendary mountains and rivers. Spirits, or lonely ghosts and the like."

As he said that, the old monk gave Yu Yu a meaningful look: "I didn't expect that he is still a genius of Taoism."

Yu Yu's vest was pierced, and he kept a stern face and didn't speak.

Ye Hongling smoothed things over and said:
"So, not long ago, the murderer burned a spiritual lantern? Why is that? Also, how did this lantern come about?"

She was at a loss for words.

Habitually looking at Ji Ping'an, he was stunned, and saw the young star official squatting down at some point, quietly staring at the slowly rotating red lantern in the air, his eyes focused.

It seemed to see something on the red paper of the lantern.

And with his gaze, a very blurry, almost indistinguishable outline of a "human face" really emerged from one side of the lantern phantom.

It's a pity that in the next second, the remaining "spirit" couldn't hold on any longer, it shattered and disappeared in a wisp of green smoke.

Ye Hongling was taken aback, and looked at Yu Yu: "Why is it gone?"

Yu Yu pouted and said:
"This has almost dissipated, and I forced it to manifest for a moment, which is already very remarkable."

Master Yihong looked at Ji Pingan:

"Could Si Chen see something?"

Ji Pingan was silent for a while, pinched the center of his eyebrows, then raised his head and smiled:

"It's nothing, I just feel...somewhat familiar."

Well, what he didn't say was that he remembered an old friend.

I also know the identity of the owner of this lantern... But, why did that old man get mixed up with that monk?Could it be that she is also in Qiantang County?
Ji Ping'an's thoughts were chaotic, and he was a little distracted.

It wasn't until he was woken up by Yu Yu that he came back to his senses and heard the saintess bluffing:

"What is familiar? How familiar is it? Do you know this thing? Have you read it from a book?"

Ji Pingan said "En", and borrowed the slope to get off the donkey:

"I saw it in a book."

Immediately, facing everyone's gaze, he slowly said a name:
"Have you ever heard of Mrs. Wei?"

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Qiantang County.

In the early morning, the sunshine of early autumn illuminates the whole ancient city.

In a certain street, a figure wearing a cloak and carrying a bag hurriedly walked, and finally came to the door of a mansion, stepped on the steps, and knocked on the door.

Not long after, the door was opened a crack, and a man with the appearance of a housekeeper looked over coldly:

"Who are you looking for?"

The man in the cloak smiled and said, "Young monk, I want to see Mrs. Wei."

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