Riding the wind of rebirth

Chapter 448 Speculation
"I don't think so." Zhou Zhi said, "Yuanxiu's kung fu is superb, plus something happened to Master, it's impossible not to be more cautious, and if Yuanxiu had a conflict with others, it would definitely be recorded in the county annals."

"The county annals listed several tyrants who invaded the real estate of Fawang Temple, but the monks who fought against them were Langkong and Ciping, and there was no record of Yuanxiu, who was supposed to be famous. suspicious."

"So you think Yuanxiu is doing more important things, such as... hiding the "Dragon Canon"?"

"That's right, otherwise I can't explain Yuanxiu's whereabouts. I'm more inclined...in addition to hiding, there is also...protection."

"Protection? Does he have that ability?"

"If you want to do it, you can do it, you just need to... change your identity." Zhou Zhi smiled slightly.

"How does a monk who practices martial arts and sees the mountain gate change his identity? What identity?" Godfather felt strange.

"It's very simple..." Zhou Zhi smiled and said, "Falling grass is a bandit."

"I'll go..." Godfather raised his eyebrows, "A monk is a bandit?"

"Monks are bandits, there is a tradition in "Water Margin"..."

"What! Do you think this is a storyteller? Where's the evidence?!"

"There is some evidence..."

"Let's talk about ideas first."

"Uh, well, the way of thinking is this..." Zhou Zhi said, "First of all, in the hearts of the monks of Fawang Temple, what temple property is the most valuable?"

"Obviously it's the "Dragon Canon", so Dongfang was about to die, and before Yuanyin left, he asked Yuanxiu to protect the 'temple property'. I'm afraid it didn't refer to the surrounding fields, the gold and silver in the temple, but these scriptures. "

"That makes sense..." Godfather agreed.

"So, at that time, Yuan Xiu said that he was facing a big problem, how to protect the "Dragon Canon"."

"However, there are more than 600 volumes and more than 7000 volumes of the Dragon Canon. When they were transported from the capital to Jiachuan, they were packed in 36 bookcases."

"It is very difficult to transfer so many scriptures to a distant place, and we also know the current situation, that is, those book boxes are still displayed in Fawang Temple, but the scriptures inside have been replaced with bamboo paper."

"That's right." Godfather nodded.

"I asked my fourth cousin to research the production age of those bamboo papers." Zhou Zhi said: "My fourth cousin said that the 36 boxes of bamboo paper were produced in the same place and age, and they were produced in Jiachuan."

"That is to say..." Godfather understood a little bit: "Exchanging paper for books is a unified, overall action, not piecemeal and piecemeal!"

"That's right!" Zhou Zhi said, "In this way, a problem arises: the bookcase is not taken away, it can be said to avoid people's eyes and ears, but what happens after the scriptures are replaced?"

"There are so many scriptures, Yuanxiu will never be able to take them all to a distant place, and must only hide them not far from Fawang Temple!"

"It makes sense!" Godfather said: "If you want to deceive people, you can only move it secretly, and there are so many scriptures, so you can't move them too far away..."

"Since we can't move too far away, we have to take good care of it, and the best way to take care of it is to turn that place into a place that ordinary people dare not set foot in..." Zhou Zhi continued secretly.

"Hehehehe..." Godfather couldn't help scratching his head: "Aside from becoming a bandit, it seems that there is really no other way, huh?"

"Although these are all my speculations." Zhou Zhi said, "But after much deliberation, based on Yuanxiu's own conditions and environment at the time, there are really not many ways to preserve the Dragon Canon."

"Of course, these are still wishful thinking. The premise must be that Yuan Xiu really values ​​the "Dragon Canon". He will put in all his efforts and abandon all self-esteem to protect it."

"As long as there is a little detail in the middle that is different from what we inferred, even if Yuanxiu was infected by a wasp sting in the mountains, it is entirely possible to change the direction of historical events."

"Until now, these inferences are also the last sustenance of hope, made on the premise of good wishes, or far from the truth."

"No matter what, this is still a direction. Even if it is slim, it is better than any other method." Godfather said: "Then the scope of the information we need to inquire will have to be expanded. Search it again."

"Yes, there are also some small local place names that often contain such rich clues." Zhou Zhi said: "As far as I know, many place names called 'Dianjiangtai' are often the mounds of large tombs, such as Ju The Qijiazhuang tomb group in the county is called Wangfen Mountain where it was discovered."

"Another example is the Sanxingdui site, which is named after the three large mounds in the south. The central part of the site is called Moon Bay, Zhenwu Palace; the east is called Shiziyan; the north is called Xiquankan; the west is called Hengliangzi, Dayan Village."

"Through these place names, we can roughly conclude that this is actually a distribution map of the geographical environment of a large settlement in the central and eastern regions, where the south is mainly for warning, the west is for defense, and the north is for water diversion."

"The Yangshao ruins, there is a 'ghost repair city' nearby, which is actually a fortification built by Feng Yi in the Eastern Han Dynasty."

"In fact, these place names may have nothing to do with the earliest ruins, but it is not a coincidence."

"It can only be said that after a thousand years, the wise men have the same concerns."

"That makes sense." The godfather nodded: "So I'm making a map of Jiachuan, and I'll mark those small places for you, to see if you can think of anything with this stupid brain."

"Well," Zhou Zhi said, "after the summer vacation, please ask my brother-in-law to take me to the grandpa in Erli Township. He and the second uncle must know more."

In the following days, I entered the step-by-step routine again.

It is not accurate to say that it is step by step, because there are many things at home.

Mom is now taking care of big things, that is, building a fund-raising house.

Nominally, this matter is under the management of the "Zaolingqiao Old Textile Factory Workers' Small Courtyard Fund-raising Housing Reform Management Committee", but in fact, they are all old men and women with high morals who raise chickens and breed flowers, and the specific business has to be run by the mother.

Although this building is not very big, the project will take more than half a year.

Therefore, my mother often sneaked around and went to Luo Yuxiang's construction site to work as a supervisor.

Luo Yuxiang is the contractor who built the fund-raising housing, the chief engineer of the Jiachuan County Design Bureau, the brother-in-law of his parents and classmate Gu Cunhou, and will be the neighbor of Zhou Zhi’s house in the future, and the owner of the first two “stacked houses” in Jiachuan County one.

If you want to say that there is no relationship at all, it is impossible. Today's Jiachuan has such an ecology, and there are not many foreign crossing dragons and local land tigers who can compete in the ring. There are not many choices available.

But it's a great thing to keep mom busy. When she's busy, she can't care about supervision.

Otherwise, my mother would be furious if she knew that Zhou Zhi was only doing self-study and catching exercises on the ground for two nights besides the daytime.

(End of this chapter)