Chapter 25 first quarter

The next morning, we had our first breakfast with some of the Buddha artists.After drinking someone else's wine last night, it would be too unreasonable to stay in bed this morning. It was five o'clock in the morning, and the sky outside the window was still dark. "Ugh, what's the matter, I feel a little nauseous——Aunt Yi, can you cook some porridge for me?" "You must have had too much to drink." "It's not that I drank too much, it's that I didn't get enough sleep." Father Tang Jianmu deliberately half-closed his eyes in front of Aunt Yi.

Last night, it was past one o'clock in the morning when everyone returned to their rooms, and everyone was sleep deprived.Songyue and Maya sat face to face at the next table, but they barely talked, eating breakfast in silence.Torii, who was sitting at the same table as them, was still drinking turnip miso soup with a gloomy expression on his face.He seems to have lost weight these days. "—Huh?" I suddenly realized something was wrong, and looked around in the restaurant, "Why didn't Mr. Wei Ze come?" Zhenbei nodded slightly, and Rin asked anxiously in a low voice: "Should I take a look?"

Matsuzuki also looked up at Torii. "Tori, what happened to Wei Ze?" Torii looked around, showing a surprised expression.He didn't seem to notice that his colleagues hadn't come for breakfast. "I'll take a look." Maya was about to get up, but Songyue stopped her. "No, he should be down right away. If you haven't seen him during working hours, just call him when the time comes." After breakfast, Songyue was the first to walk out of the restaurant.Then, Maya also stood up, and Tang Jianmu's father said "Hey" and left his seat.

"What the hell is he doing?" Torii muttered, walked out, and rushed up the stairs.He seemed to be planning to find Wei Ze in his room on the second floor. "Really, what shall we do?" "Let's go take a look too." At this time, I heard "Huh?", and Tang Jianmu's father's strange voice came from the entrance. "Abbot, why are you so early today?" "Ah Tang, I occasionally want to see your face early in the morning." "Please, I'm already nauseated, don't provoke me anymore, what's the matter?" "Little amulets, little amulets. There are still a lot of small amulets that have not yet entered the soul-ah, good morning."

The abbot of Ci'an saw us coming to the corridor and smiled kindly at us.We greeted him one after another. At this time, there was the sound of an engine in the distance, and then there were two "bang, bang" sounds of closing the car door. "Abbot, is that the criminal police from last time?" "Let me see, it's too dark to see clearly—ah, it's really them." What are the two policemen doing here so early in the morning?We glanced at each other and walked towards the entrance, only to find that Songyue and Maya were also at the door.I didn't see them just now because it was too dark.

Detective Guwei came over from the gravel road, and Detective Zhuli followed closely behind him.The car's engine was still on, and the headlights were still on, probably to replace the flashlight. "Good morning to you." When Detective Tanio walked up to us, he bent his back and put his hands on his face.Detective Tanio, who was illuminated by the headlights from directly behind, looked like a different person. "Let's return what we borrowed yesterday." Under the signal of Detective Tanio, Detective Takenashi standing behind took out a rectangular machine about the size of a booklet from his handbag.It should be the recorder of the surveillance camera discussed last night.Songyue reached out and took it.

"We have read it very carefully, and copied it at the police station without authorization. It should be no problem!" Songyue nodded silently, and looked at detective Guwei in surprise.He should be wondering, the criminal police should come to the door early in the morning not just to return the recorder. "By the way, everyone just happened to be here." Detective Tani's eyes swept over everyone, and then stopped at a certain point.Then, he said in a tone that seemed to be admonishing the other party: "I'm sorry, can I trouble you to visit our bureau?"

The air suddenly condensed. Everyone present, including the abbot of Ci'an who greeted his sharp gaze, couldn't figure out what the old criminal policeman meant by this sentence. "Are you talking to me?" The voice of the abbot of Ci'an was low and calm. "Yes—it's you." Detective Guwei replied: "At present, I just want to invite you to accept the interview as a witness, and there is no mandatory binding force. However, from various perspectives, I still hope that you will cooperate as much as possible." "Abbot, what good deed have you done?"

Father Tang Jianmu looked back at the abbot of Ci'an, staring at him intently; the abbot of Ci'an looked at his old friend, raised his face and said: "A Tang, I didn't do anything. I didn't do what you were worried about." It was the first time I heard the abbot of Ci'an use "I" to refer to himself.He turned his head to look at the two detectives and nodded calmly. "No problem, whether it's the police station or anywhere, I will follow you obediently. If you want to interrogate me, you can interrogate me as much as you want. However, I cannot guarantee that my answer will be helpful to you."

"Whether it is helpful or not is up to us to judge. Besides, as I said just now, the interview is not as a suspect, but as a witness—then I will trouble you." Under the urging of the Guwei criminal policeman, the abbot of Ci'an walked towards the stone road.On the right is Detective Tanio, and on the left is Detective Zhuli, walking slowly towards the headlights, as if being taken to another space.The sound of the three footsteps walking on the gravel road gradually faded away. When the three of them walked out of the range of the headlights, the dazzling light hit our faces immediately.When I couldn't help closing my eyes, I heard the sound of the car door closing three times.The headlights moved, and darkness enveloped us again.After a while, the sound of the engine was heard like the flapping of beetle wings disappearing into the mountains.

"Teacher, what's going on? Why did they take away the abbot of Ci'an?" Rin asked Zhenbei. "Mabi, what did the abbot of Ji'an do? Could it have something to do with Okajima-san—" "Stupid, don't talk nonsense!" Father Tang Jianmu yelled, and I couldn't help shrinking my neck. "Ah—I'm sorry, how can I call the customer an idiot. I panicked too...I'm really sorry...because I was also scared..." Father Tang Jianmu seemed to be confused, his thick lips moved for a long time, and finally showed Songyue his eyes for help.With a serious expression on Songyue's fair face, she stared at the police car that disappeared into the distant night. What exactly is going on? The only possibility is that surveillance cameras come in handy.The criminal police checked the contents of the recorder in Songyue's hand last night, and found that there was something in it, so they decided to interview the abbot of Ci'an.but-- What exactly did you capture? "Mr. Tang Jianmu, don't worry, the abbot will come back safely." Maya pulled the sleeve of Tang Jianmu's work clothes and said, "There must be some misunderstanding." At this time, there was a sound of messy footsteps behind us, and everyone looked back. "master!" Torii walked barefoot to the concrete floor of the entrance, his thin body trembling non-stop. "Weize is gone! I can't find him anywhere!" After Torii finished speaking loudly, he covered his mouth with his hands and bent down. "Master, I can't stand it anymore—I can't stand it anymore—I can't stand it anymore—Weize either escaped—or was killed—either escaped—or was killed..." He repeated this inexplicable words, and then his whole body collapsed like a balloon deflated, his legs knelt on the ground, his head was downcast, his lips trembled, as if he was possessed by a ghost.