Chapter 96 Chapter Nine The Strange Screen

There is indeed a dilapidated temple in the black pine forest, with "Jin Wanzang" written in ancient characters on it. I don't know how this temple is related to my name?The gate of the ancient temple was tightly closed, but the front of the gate was blocked because there was a male corpse lying in front of the gate.In this Buddhist pure land, there was such a bloody thing, we really stayed for a long time. The gate of the nunnery is made of red lacquer, with small black patterns in it, which looks very depressing and solemn.The wooden door of the nunnery was half open, and there was a blurred bloody palm print on it. It seemed that someone opened it in a hurry and fled in.If the vermilion lacquer had not been mottled and faded, it would be difficult for us to find a bloody palm print on it.I thought to myself, someone must have killed the man on the ground, but I heard someone down the mountain, so I had to open the door and escape.From this point of view, they are robbing the red box, and the silk scroll inside the box must be what they all want.

I took a closer look at the male corpse on the ground. He was wearing a thick cotton padded jacket, and his face belonged to the public. He had been stabbed five times in the abdomen and chest. At this moment, the red blood had stained the soil around him.He is strong and tall, if we three big men may not be able to knock him down, it is probably done by an acquaintance.However, there was a nun's nunnery in front of him, how could this man be familiar with nuns? We couldn't figure it out, but we didn't see anyone going down along the way, so we all concluded that the murderer hid in the nunnery, so everyone stepped in through the half-open wooden door without hesitation.The nunnery seems to have experienced a big raid, many decorations were destroyed, the inside was empty, not even a person.Fan Li said that it is estimated that the four old ones were destroyed when they were broken, or the antiquities were taken away during the Japanese invasion.

The strange thing is that there is a gray screen outside the lobby of the nunnery, which is against common sense.A lake is depicted on the screen, and there seems to be a woman on the water combing her hair with a mirror, or holding a biscuit and eating it.Because the screen is weather-beaten and seems to have suffered from man-made damage, the patterns on it are not clear.In ancient times and even now, many families would erect a screen in front of their hall, saying that it could block evil spirits from outside and keep the owner safe, but they have never seen such a building in a temple.The six roots of monks are pure, and it is a pure place of Buddhism. There is no evil infestation, and there is no need to sit on a screen here.

Xu Shaode looked at the screen and said contemptuously: "These nuns are still too shy, put something to block it, sir, I don't care to look at it!" "What do you know? Maybe they are appreciating art. This is a work of art. It doesn't look like you are all rough and have no ink!" I said and walked over, wanting to get a glimpse of the mystery of the screen. "You said that the screen should be very old, and it should be sold for one or two thousand?" Xu Shaode looked at the screen and said. "Don't be greedy for petty gains. Let's see what beauties there are in the temple. The doors are closed in broad daylight. Could it be that they are all beautiful and beautiful?" I joked.

"That's even better. I'm feeling lonely. Now it's a civilized society. Nuns should return to the common life. I will go home with the young master and become a young mistress, second mistress, third mistress..." "Where do you get so many young grandmas? There is only one old grandma in the new society." I hurriedly asked Xu Shaode to stop, lest he blaspheme the gods and pollute the pure land of Buddhism. "Shh, don't talk, there are people inside!" Fan Li kept his eyes on the lobby and didn't even look at us when he spoke. Although it is broad daylight, Dalian in spring is still overcast, and there are dense black pines on the hills, so the light is not very good.The inside of the Buddhist hall was cloudy, and I couldn't see clearly, but it seemed that a woman was moving her lotus steps lightly.I thought, it must be the nuns. Now that they killed someone and were bumped into by some of us big men, do they want to kill people to silence them?

Xu Shaode is worthy of his name, and just as I was thinking wildly, he burst out: "This is too bad, I didn't bring a gun or cannon, I ran into the scandal of these nuns, now they will rape and then kill !" "Come on, just like you, people still don't want to suffer!" I smiled wryly. During the conversation, Fan Li saw us messing around endlessly, so he hummed in a low voice, but he seemed to have seen who was coming, so he took a light breath in surprise, but this movement was very slight, and it didn't seem to happen Same thing.When I was curious to see who the murderous nun was, I saw a woman who surprised me too.A delicate beauty walked out of the Buddhist hall. When I saw this beautiful girl thoroughly, I blurted out immediately and shouted: "When did you become a nun!"

The beauty in the door heard this and said with a smile: "Well, you Jin Wanzang, you haven't seen me for a few days, and you think I'm a nun?" "Isn't this Xiaoguang?" Xu Shaode pointed to Xiaoguang in the door and said.That day when Xiaoguang swept away the Ye Mingzhu in Jinzhu Canyon, Xu Shaode was very worried about it. I am afraid that Xiaoguang's appearance has been engraved in his heart, so Xu Shaode is the person who is least likely to forget Xiaoguang. Fan Li was quite surprised by Xiaoguang's appearance, but he calmed down immediately. He didn't make a sound, just looked at Xiaoguang, and then walked into the Buddhist hall on his own.Xiaoguang's clothes are not nun's clothes, but a little plain, but they look fresh and elegant, like clear water.Before I could make another sound, Xu Shaode burst out another sentence: "Give me back the Ye Mingzhu!"

"Don't stare out the eyeballs, I have a use for the beads, and I will give them to you after I'm done." Xiaoguang was noncommittal, and did not admit that the Ye Mingzhu belonged to Xu Shaode. I also wondered why Xiaoguang took Ye Mingzhu and left without saying goodbye that night, so I thought it was God's will, since we met again, why not ask to clarify, so as to solve the confusion in my heart.But before I could speak, Xiaoguang threw out another sentence: "There was a lot of noise outside the door just now, but you guys are acting strange?" "We are talking, what's the matter, did it disturb the nun's sister's rest?" Xu Shaode said relentlessly.

"Be serious, I listened carefully to the fight outside the door just now, but when I came out, it was the three of you?" Xiaoguang asked suspiciously. It sounded strange to me, just now I heard the noise here when I was down the hill, and then the red box rolled down, but when I came up, there was no one around.Either people hid in the ancient temple, or ran away from other places, but judging from Xiaoguang's appearance, the fighters didn't seem to bump into her.Although I don't know Xiaoguang's origin, but I believe she will not kill people casually, or she could have taken care of us as early as in Jinzhu Canyon.

Before Fan Li had gone far, he turned around and came back. I thought he had seen something dangerous, but he kept his face, secretly took the red box from my hand, and then hid it in his arms as if nothing had happened.Xu Shaode took the box just now, I was worried that he would lose it, so I took it back.Now that Fan Li puts away the box, I think he doesn't want to show his landscape in front of Xiao Guang, so I will be happy not to mention what happened just now.I was worried that Xu Shaode had slipped his words, how could I know that he only remembered the night pearl, and he couldn't do without the pearl in ten sentences.

Seeing that the atmosphere had eased, I immediately asked Xiao Guang, "Why are you here?" "Could it be that there are night pearls here too!?" Xu Shaode asked stubbornly. "I'm just staying here, but..." Xiao Guang seemed to have something hard to say, and he didn't make up his mind to tell the reason. I saw her haggling, and thought it was a bit weird. There are thousands of elegant places in the land of China, so why stay here?Could it be that he saw through the world of mortals and was about to become a monk? If so, it would be a pity that he had a good appearance.But looking at her long blue hair, she doesn't look like a monk. It seems that there must be articles in this nunnery. Xiaoguang hesitated for a while, then whispered to us again: "There are goblins in this temple!" When I heard it, I felt that Xiaoguang Yide was complaining that others provided accommodation, but she spread rumors that there were goblins here.However, I immediately thought of Zhuo Hai's experience here when he was a child, so I felt that what Xiaoguang said was true.Whether Zhuo Hai exaggerated his experience is not known, but we have encountered strange things before entering the temple, and I am afraid that this ancient temple has a lot of background. I said to Xiaoguang: "Don't scare us, Buddhist Pure Land, where is the goblin!" "I know you don't believe it, I'll take you to see it later!" Seeing that we didn't believe it, Xiao Guang immediately replied with a face of disbelief. "Don't break the cowhide." I replied, and stepped through the gate of the temple. There are no complicated buildings in the ancient temple. Within six meters, it is a temple.It is really strange that there is no enshrining any idol in it, and it is at noon, and it is hanging high during the day, but no monks are seen knocking on the scriptures and praising the Buddha. Could it be that they have already taken their lunch break on time?I was eager to hand over Albert's relics to the abbot of the temple, regardless of whether there were goblins, so I asked Xiaoguang, "Is there an old monk in the temple?" "This is a nunnery, where did the monks come from? Do you think this is a place of obscenity?" Xiaoguang turned pale with anger, thinking that I was harboring evil intentions. "Miss misunderstood!" I told the matter, and Xiaoguang remembered the scene that day, but she insisted that there is no monk here, so I had no choice but to do it boringly. "I came here for..." Xiaoguang saw that we were born and died together, so he made it clear, "I came here to recover the silk book!" "Oh?" I was really guilty, so I didn't dare to say more, for fear of revealing my flaws. Xiaoguang didn't think much about it, and then said the reason for coming here.It turned out that on the way to transport those cultural relics from Xinjiang to Beijing, there was a car accident. A group of thieves happened to pass by. The cultural relics were looted and all the transporters were killed on the spot.This batch of cultural relics has been circulated several times, and finally arrived in Dalian.Xiaoguang asked us to steal the silk books that night, but I refused to be a thief, so I shied away.I don't know that people's calculations are not as good as heaven's calculations, and the silk book has returned to my hands, but I don't know all about the twists and turns.Xiaoguang also said that she followed the gang of thieves to this place, but lost them.She was sure that the group of people disappeared here, thinking that there was a secret passage here, and saw that there was a nunnery here, so she stayed here with an excuse to find out the truth. I was shocked again and again, I never imagined that a petite woman would dare to do such a thing, if one is not paying attention, the consequences would be unimaginable.I admire it, but feel a little guilty, after all, others have worked so hard to find the silk scrolls, but I keep them for myself, which seems a little too much. Fan Li and Xiaoguang seldom communicated. Maybe he felt a little sorry when he heard Xiaoguang say this, so he asked: "Then the nun here didn't tell you about the terrain here? Maybe there is nowhere to hide people?" "If I could ask, I would have asked!" Xiaoguang shrugged and replied helplessly. "How do you say this, is there no one here?" I was surprised. "It's true that there are people, but even if the Emperor and I come, it is impossible to ask the ugly Yin Maochen!" Xiaoguang replied regretfully. I saw that the ancient temple was covered with cobwebs and covered with moss. It didn't look like a place to live at all. Could it be that these nuns are not human?Listening to Xiaoguang's tone, these nuns were as stubborn as iron and refused to vent.This kind of backbone should be respected, but it's just to see if there is any hiding place here, why don't you want to speak?Could it be that someone with the same virtue as Xu Shaode would only be willing to speak out after taking a lot of money? Thinking of this, I replied: "People in the Buddhist sect should be kind to others, so don't lie to them!" "I knew you would answer this way, if you have the ability to ask yourself." Xiaoguang smiled faintly, as if saying that there was a good show to watch. Xu Shaode was listening to our chatter and couldn't interrupt for a while, so he stepped into the Buddhist hall first.As soon as he entered, he shouted, "Where is the Buddha, I want to worship Buddha."I also wondered that there were no Buddhas or gods in the ancient nunnery, and I wanted to take a look at it for a long time, but when I heard Xu Shaode shouting, I followed in.I wanted to find a nun to ask questions, but there were only a few cushions inside, not even a person, let alone a nun.The temple was empty and dark, and there was a musty smell that couldn't be stopped.The altar is empty, but looking at the traces on it, it seems that there used to be a huge monster here.This altar is also unusual. It is connected to the temple as a whole. It is a stubborn stone here. After being polished and smooth, it becomes a altar. I thought the stone platform had traps, but there isn't even a lump on it, and it's solid, so there's no way to hide things.I yelled a few times, but no one responded. Is it true that nuns are not willing to open their mouths easily, as Xiaoguang said?There is only an empty altar and a few blackened cushions in the temple. I think the cushions are so black that you can scrape off several layers of mud, so I don’t go to kneel down. Anyway, even the idols are gone, and kneeling is useless. . "Forget about the nuns in the nunnery, there is a dead man lying outside the door, what should I do, I can't pretend I didn't see it?" I wondered. "It's really bad luck. Why are we the first to see the dead? I really feel a little guilty. Even if we didn't kill them, I feel a little uneasy." Xu Shaode was also a little depressed. "Let's go out and have a look." After Xiaoguang finished speaking, he went out first, regardless of whether we agreed or not. Xu Shaode was worried that Xiaoguang would run away again, so he hurriedly followed. Fan Li and I didn't want Xiaoguang to disappear suddenly, so we also turned back.Xiaoguang was stunned for a while as soon as she walked out the door, I thought she might know the dead man, but when we all walked out the door and looked at the ground, we all murmured in surprise: "This... how is this possible!?"