Commander's Destiny

Chapter 100
The old abbot was not annoyed at Bai Wuyan, who was ignorant and still stalking. He always kept a victorious smile, and said calmly, "Benefactor, if you have any questions, just ask."

"I heard before that the treasure of the temple in Lumen Temple was left by the eminent monk who rescued Guan Yu when he passed five passes and killed six generals. Is this true?" Bai Wuyan thought of it , the legend told by the innkeeper at the foot of the mountain earlier.

And the old abbot replied without thinking, which just confirmed Bai Wuyan's speculation: "That's right, the treasure of our temple is said to be left by that eminent monk."

"That eminent monk, did he come to your temple alone?" Bai Wuyan asked again, but in fact this question has become less important.

"It should be, but I don't know." The old abbot hesitated, and his answer became very hesitant, as if he also noticed the contradiction between what he said and the rumors.

Bai Wuyan saw that the time was almost up, so he made a conclusion: "Please forgive me, old abbot, I don't know if you were deceived by others, or we were deceived by you. , it is simply impossible, as you said, to be a set of ancient bamboo slips lost more than ten years ago."

When the old abbot was told about his sore spot, he jumped up from the couch, the veins on his head burst out, he stood up and shouted loudly: "Bold, why do you say that?"

Now it's Bai Wuyan's turn to analyze calmly: "Also regardless of whether Guan Yu was able to take a whole set of history books made of bamboo slips with him when he fought all over the world and killed six generals, and just talk about the one who saved him later. It is impossible for an eminent monk to bring a few carts of bamboo slips to Lumen Temple to give lectures and lectures. That’s why I said that if the treasure of the temple in Lumen Temple was left by that eminent monk, it is absolutely impossible to Bamboo slips from ancient books filled half the room."

After listening to Bai Wuyan's analysis, the old abbot stopped being angry, and laughed loudly: "Hahaha, the benefactor is really quick-witted and logical. That's right, more than ten years ago, the Lumen Temple did lose the entire set of " The ancient books on the bamboo slips of "The Legend of the Zuo Family in the Spring and Autumn Period", but those ancient books were just copied by the previous generation monks of this temple in imitation of the treasure of the town temple. It was left at the eminent monk who saved his life when he passed five passes and killed six generals. After the death of Guan Gong, he was given to this temple by that eminent monk. It has been properly preserved by the abbots of this temple. Treasure man, I didn’t expect you to be defeated by the benefactor today, maybe this is the Buddha’s fate. But I don’t know, all the benefactors, why do you want to inquire about the relics of Guan Gong?”

Bai Wuyanguang was thinking about how to find the soul object that trapped Guan Yu's soul, but he didn't think about how to get this soul object from the hands of mortals. Thanks to the eccentric Zhai Lingxiu, he opened his mouth with a few half-truths Just came, and fooled the old abbot in two strokes: "It's not that we have to want this relic of Guan Gong, but that we accidentally encountered his old man's resentful spirit. Guan Gong wants us to help him find this relic from his previous life , we have no other choice. This girl is holding a soul flute, if you don’t believe me, Abbot, I’ll ask her to attract some ghosts to chat with you.”

The old abbot repeatedly waved his hands and said: "No need, no need, the vast world is really beyond imagination, I don't want to live to see a ghost, let's just believe it. Now that this treasure has the chance to meet someone who is looking for it, I also hope that it will come true one day. It can be returned to the original owner, all benefactors, you have the right to come with me."

After the old abbot finished speaking, he led the crowd to the tallest pagoda behind the temple.

This pagoda is about [-] meters high and has a hexagonal shape with seven levels.

The old abbot came to the front of the pagoda, and after turning the two stone deer carved on the wall of the pagoda in a certain order for a few times, he heard a loud bang, and a stone door appeared in the middle of the pagoda, facing towards the pagoda. One side began to move slowly.

When the stone door was fully opened, the abbot took out a fire pocket from his sleeve pocket, lit it, and tentatively inserted it into the door. Seeing that the fire pocket hadn't gone out, he turned around and said to everyone: " Come in with me."

Everyone stepped forward to observe hesitantly, and found that there was a passage of stone steps in the pagoda, extending down into the darkness.

Below this, it should be the underground palace of the pagoda.

Thinking of this, everyone no longer hesitated, and followed the old abbot into the room.

The old abbot walked in front and lit the oil lamps on both sides of the passage successively from memory.

Bai Wuyan and others followed behind, and couldn't help but look forward to what they would see in the underground palace after a while.

When the old abbot lit No.18 lamp, a bluestone door appeared in front of Bai Wuyan and others.

However, what is unbelievable is that in front of the blue stone gate, there is a stone platform with a height of half a person and a square of one foot.

Everyone couldn't help but stepped forward and found a round white jade disc engraved with cloud patterns on the stone platform.

But what is even more surprising is that there is a hollowed-out deer-shaped pattern in the middle of the white jade biscuit.

The old abbot didn't pay attention to everyone's surprised eyes, but carefully took out a deer-shaped white jade from his bosom that could fit perfectly with the white jade wall, and gently placed it in the middle of the jade on the stone platform in front of the door.

After a while, the intact jade disc on the stone platform triggered the mechanism of the Qingshi Gate, and the Qingshi Gate was slowly opened.

Behind the Qingshi Gate, a huge white marble reclining Buddha caught everyone's eyes.I saw the reclining Buddha with kind eyebrows and kind eyes, with peach blossoms on his face, Yukou often laughed at the world, raised a big hand, and pointed his index finger towards the tallest one of the various stupas of Buddha bones on both sides.

The old abbot ignored the reclining Buddha, but went straight to the tallest stupa.

This stupa is not made of copper and silver lacquer or five-color colored glass commonly used in later generations, but is made of more simple and luxurious bronze and gilt craftsmanship.

The old abbot put his hand under the base of the stupa, removed a bluestone brick in front of it, took out a red-lacquered mahogany box, handed it to Bai Wuyan and said: "It is said that this stupa is the place where the temple was built for the right person. It was made by the gracious monk Guan Gong, and the contents of this mahogany box are the ancient book left by Guan Gong."

Bai Wuyan took the mahogany box, opened it, and it was indeed a volume of "Spring and Autumn Zuo Shi Biography" written on bamboo slips, except that in addition to the main text of the history book, there was also a line of small characters engraved on the front of the volume: Xuande gifted my brother Yun Chang .

Moreover, near the strokes of the seal carving, there are faint ink marks of handwritten characters, which must have been written by Liu Bei himself, and then carved by Guan Yu as a souvenir.

(End of this chapter)