Chapter 33 fourth quarter

Mabe turned from the small path planted with Japanese camellias to the steep mountain road, and kept walking.Detective Zhuli repeated the same words over and over behind him. "Mr. Mabi, we are the police." "I know." "You are an ordinary civilian." "I know." "In this case—Brother Guwei, why don't you speak? Can we allow this to happen? The old house owner of Songyue seems to know the murderer of this incident, but a commoner instructed us not to pursue it. Mr. Zhenbei may rely on him Isn’t it the citizen’s duty to provide us with certain conclusions drawn from the information we have collected? Even if he tells us to shut up, we—”

"I didn't tell you to shut up, I just asked you to give me a little more time." Detective Zhuli moved quickly with his leather shoes on, and looked at him with a sad face.Detective Tanio hadn't spoken since just now, and his expression seemed to be lost in thought.His attitude made his colleague Zhuli detective even more impetuous. "Is it your intuition again? Brother Guwei, this time I can—" Just as the Zhuli detective was pressing the Guwei detective again, we had already arrived at the gate of Ruixiang Temple.Mabe walked in quickly and walked towards the majestic temple that appeared in front of him.The tall cedar trees around the building towered into the sky, and the black ground was scattered with cedar leaves that had turned tea-brown.

——Fir leaves. Where have I seen it. ——Fir leaves. "Abbot of Ci'an!" When Mabe walked through the black soil and stepped on the cobblestones towards the main hall, he called out the abbot's name loudly, and then rushed up the wooden stairs.He stood in the center of the outer formation and called the abbot's name again.We stood at the bottom of the stairs, watching the situation inside through Mabe's back.The light in the inner array is a bit dim, and the overall design is solemn and solemn.Sitting in the center of the shinning Buddha statue is the highest god Dainichi Tathagata enshrined in Tantric Buddhism.

The abbot of Ci'an slowly walked out from the depths of the inner formation, shaking his huge body.He didn't wear colorful cassocks today, nor did he wear a scarf-like pure white silk. He was wearing a plain dark blue kimono with a cassock hanging around his neck. "Oh, there are so many people here." The abbot of Ji'an glanced at us, then turned to look at Mabi standing directly in front of him.His figure is very soft, but his eyes hide a sharp aura that tries to intimidate the man in front of him. "Abbot of Ci'an, I want to ask you something." Zhenbei said suddenly.

"Twenty years ago, did you teach Mr. Chirazawa the 'Changing Boy Method'?" The abbot of Ji'an looked a little flustered, staring at Mabi who was about the same height as him, then narrowed his eyes.What did you just say? "Abbot of Ci'an, did I make a mistake?" Zhenbei asked again.The abbot of Ci'an moved his lips slightly, but he didn't speak.He seemed to be guessing what Mabe really meant. "Indeed——" the abbot of Ci'an finally spoke, "Twenty years ago, I taught Mr. Jiu Ze, because he begged me very earnestly. I told him the method and copied the scriptures to him. ——Although I told him that he must become a monk of the Tiantai sect to practice, otherwise the optical society method will not work..."

The abbot of Ji'an paused and looked at Mabei's face. "Why—how did you know about it?" Zhenbei did not answer, but bowed respectfully to the abbot of Ji'an. "Abbot of Ci'an, please come to Ruixiang room immediately." After Mabe finished speaking, he left the abbot of Jian with a blank face, walked down the steps of the main hall, looked at my face and asked: "Daowei, did the mosquito come from the left?" "--mosquito?" For a moment I didn't know what he was asking.Mabi walked towards me and asked again. "Did the swarm of mosquitoes you saw in your dream come from the left?"

Dream—is that bizarre dream we had when we sat by the fire with Father Tang Jianmu when the two criminal policemen came to the door for the first time? "Sure, why are you asking—" "This is very important, you think about it carefully. Where did the mosquitoes fly from?" I close my eyes and remember.Mabi, Rin, and everyone in Mizushobo appeared in that dream—a mosquito flew over from nowhere—and landed on my left arm— I open my eyes. "Well, it did come from the left. But, this—" Before I could finish my sentence, Zhenbei had already picked up the phone.

"Mr. Torii? I'm Makoto, I'm asking you something. Do you know the contact number of the waste worker? No, no, that young man's phone number is—oh, is it? That's great. Yes , okay, please." When he ended the call, Mabe immediately dialed the number he had just found out. "Damn, I can't get through." There was the faint sound of relaying voicemail on the telephone loudspeaker.The other party is either turned off or cannot receive a signal.Impatiently, I redialed the number, but the result was the same.After dialing a few times, Mabi seemed to decide to leave a message.After a beep came through the loudspeaker, he said into the phone:

"I'm Songyue from Ruixiangfang. If I forgot something, please take it away. It's very important, please come back immediately."

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