Reading: Beginning as the Dean of the Academy

Chapter 66 The Secret of Town God's Temple
The New Year Festival of the City God in Laofeng Village is very grand.

On the day of the New Year's Day, all the villagers will be commanded by the Temple Celebration to carry the City God out of the temple, circle the whole village, and then carry it back to the temple.

The villagers stayed at home at first, followed the statue of the City God past the house and followed the team until they finally came to the square in front of the Temple of the City God.

It was almost evening when the statue of the City God was carried back to the temple. At this time, the temple congratulatory meeting asked people to carry an iron box out and put the iron box in the square at the temple gate.

Immediately afterwards, the village head came forward to worship the Lord of the City God on behalf of the villagers. After the worship, the village head would come out and enter the iron box, and then Miaozhu closed the box, and then asked the villagers to arrange the firewood and put the box in the box. On the firewood, Miao Zhu personally ignites the fire.

When the firewood is burning, a male from every household will follow Miaozhu into the temple to pay respects to the City God. After everyone has finished worshiping, Miaozhu will come out and close the temple door.

But at this time, the firewood was almost burned, and the temple wished to open the box in full view, but the box was empty, and then the temple door opened, and the figure of the village chief came out of the temple.

"This is the whole process of the New Year Festival. You have also visited the Temple of the City God. Let's discuss it. How did the village chief and Miaozhu do the trick?"

Zuo Chen's words made Zhang Yingying and the others fall into thinking. They had also visited the City God Temple just now. Except for a few stone pillars, there was no shelter in the whole square.

The villagers standing outside the square could clearly see the movement at the gate of the temple. That is to say, it was impossible for the village chief to sneak into the gate of the temple in full view.

In addition, there is only such a door in the entire Town God's Temple. Although there are a few paper windows under the eaves, they are all in front, and it is difficult for people to climb up the entire height.

"Could it be that there is a secret passage under the firewood that leads directly to the Temple of the City God, and there is a mechanism at the bottom of the box that can slide open, and the village chief slipped back into the temple through the secret passage." Liu Jun put forward his own guess.

"Impossible. After the firewood is piled up, the iron box is off the ground. Even if there is a hidden compartment at the bottom of the iron box, there will be movement when it is pressed on the firewood after it comes out."

Zuo Chen shook his head, Zhou Yue thought for a while and said, "If it wasn't for the secret passage, then the village chief probably didn't enter the iron box at all. I understand why the temple wanted to use the iron box, because the iron box is already heavy. , the weight of one person is missing, and those who lift the iron box will not find it."

Zhou Yue became more and more excited as he talked, and then pointed to the sketch drawn by Zuo Chen for the City God's New Year Festival.

"Look here, after the village chief paid homage to the City God, he walked out of the temple gate, and the iron box was placed not far from the temple gate. It is very likely that the secret passage is here. The village chief entered the box and opened the bottom of the box directly. Then open the underground tunnel to enter the temple, at this time the box is actually empty.”

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Cui Yang applauded, and said excitedly: "That's it, because Miao Zhu was the one who closed the box. Seeing the village chief enter the secret compartment, Miao Zhu closed the iron box and locked it, and the villagers who carried the box because of the iron box The weight of the box itself makes it impossible to tell whether there is someone in the box."

Everyone was very excited, because they felt that they had solved the trick of the village head and Miao Zhu.

"Your speculation seems reasonable, but there is a loophole. I'm not sure if there are secret passages in the square, but there must be no secret passages in the temple, because the underground of the Chenghuang Temple is thick rock. I asked the old people in the village whether the Chenghuang Temple It was built on the rock at the earliest, but it was built later, but the foundation has not been changed."

"It is almost impossible to build a tunnel underground without being discovered by the villagers. The amount of work is too large. I have entered the Temple of the City God and observed it carefully, but there is no sign of a hidden compartment."

Zuo Chen's words made Zhang Yingying and the others lose their excitement all of a sudden.

If it wasn't a hidden compartment, then how did the village head change from a box to a temple?
Everyone fell into silence. Zhang Yingying stared at the blueprint. After a while, she seemed to think of something. She took the blueprint and studied it carefully for a while.

"Yingying, did you find anything?" Zhang Qian asked curiously when she saw Zhang Yingying drawing with a pen and paper.

"I have a guess, but I'm not 100% sure yet."

"Tell me."

Zhang Yingying put down her pen and said: "I don't know if you have seen the magic through the wall. The magician stands on one side of the wall, and then the assistant covers it with a screen. Then the assistant removes the screen, and the magician disappears. Then the assistant moves the screen." On the other side of the wall, the magician came out of the wall again."

"We all know that the wall-penetrating technique definitely doesn't exist. The magician has been hiding in the screen all the time, but because of the visual gap and the magician's moving steps following the stretching of the screen, the audience can't find it."

Seeing that everyone was still a little puzzled, Zhang Yingying pointed to the stone pillar on the drawing.

"At first I wondered why so many stone pillars were built in the square, but I suddenly discovered that if the villagers were watching from outside the square, it was actually the same as the audience watching the magic from the stage. These stone pillars are very It may be used to block the villagers' sight."

"Look at this iron box, it's about one meter high. If the side of the iron box can be opened, it can completely block a person crawling on the ground and onto the stone pillar on the side of the box. With the height and width of the stone pillar, it is impossible to hide One is more than enough."

"When other villagers come to carry the box, everyone's attention will be attracted by the box, and they will not notice that there is someone hiding on the stone pillar behind the box. At the same time, when the villagers' attention is on the box, He sneaked into the temple again."

"Your guess is reasonable, but what if some villagers look at the temple gate at this time, this is too random, I feel that the village chief and the temple will not take a big risk." Liu Jun shook his head, a little displeased agree.

"No, even if some villagers look at the temple gate at this time, they can't see the village chief, because their sight is blocked by stone pillars and villagers carrying boxes."

Zhang Yingying was very sure, and continued: "Just like the magic through the wall, the magician's footsteps move with the stretching and moving of the screen, and the village chief also moves with the angle of the person carrying the box."

"The box can cover his figure, and with the blind spot that the stone pillar brings to the villagers, it can be done as long as the calculation is accurate."

"Don't forget what Zuo Chen said, Miao Zhu is at the front of the box-carrying team and leads the way. Miao Zhu can control the direction and speed of the box-carrying team."

Liu Jun and the others were shocked by Zhang Yingying's guess. If this is true, then the village head and Miao Zhu of Laofeng Village are too powerful.

"I think Zhang Yingying's guess is very likely, but that's the question. Where is the village chief hiding? When the box is placed on the firewood and burned, the villagers will all go to the temple to worship. If the village chief goes in one step earlier, It will be discovered by the villagers who worshiped, if you wait until the villagers come out after the worship, then there will be no blind spots, and you will not be able to hide from the eyes of the surrounding villagers.”

Zuo Chen opened his mouth, but his question didn't bother Zhang Yingying. Zhang Yingying pointed to the photo Zuo Chen took in the Town God's Temple.

"Statues, there are three statues in the Town God's Temple. The statues of child prodigies on the left and right are a bit small, but if the statue of the God of God in the middle is hollow, wouldn't it just be able to hide a person?"

Zhang Yingying was very excited, and concluded: "If you guessed right, the village head of Laofeng Village used stone pillars to cause the villagers to have a blind spot, then flowed into the Town God's Temple, and then hid in the statue. Close the temple door, and he can come out of the statue and open the temple door swaggeringly."

"Yingying, you are amazing, you are simply the Chinese version of Sherlock Holmes."

Zhang Qian hugged Zhang Yingying exaggeratedly, and the others also gave Zhang Yingying a thumbs up, which made Zhang Yingying a little embarrassed.

"This is just my guess, and it hasn't been verified yet."

"I think it should be like this. As for the verification, it is very simple. We just need to go to the Temple of the City God to see if the statue of the God of the City God is hollow."

"City God's Temple is empty at night. We can go there at night. The lock of Town God's Temple is very old, and it can be opened by pulling it. This is how I went in to take pictures." Zuo Chen proposed a method, and everyone agreed, and now we will wait for the night. Arrived.

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"Dean help!"

In Xinzhou Academy, Su Le is now thinking about the meaning of the words in the letter. Besides a note, there is also an illustration in the envelope. The illustration shows a Town God's Temple.

This Town God's Temple is exactly the same as the Town God's Temple under the bowing old man he saw when he broke through to the second rank.

In other words, this letter was written by the old man to himself, and he wanted to seek his help to save him.

But where is the Town God's Temple?
He checked many pictures of Chenghuang Temple on the Internet, but none of them matched.

If you can't find it, Su Le won't look for it. It's because you didn't write it clearly, not because I didn't help you.

Stretching, Su Le turned off the phone's image search, clicked on Moments, swiped a few pages, and was about to give up, when she was suddenly attracted by a photo.

Town God's Temple, the Town God's Temple in that illustration appeared.

Zhang Yingying posted the photo.

Su Le still has an impression of himself as the blind date. Although the blind date ended halfway because of Chen Xinyu's incident, the two added WeChat before that, but they didn't chat.

"Are you there?"

After waiting for half an hour, there was no reply. Su Le returned to Moments and glanced at Zhang Yingying's location under Moments.

Laofeng Village.

After searching on his mobile phone, he found that Laofeng Village was a hundred kilometers away from his side, so he decided to drive there himself.

Before leaving, Su Le thought for a while and sent a message to Zhang Yingying.

"If you see the news, call me back immediately, and if you encounter anything related to this Town God's Temple, don't act rashly."

(End of this chapter)