The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 93 The Ugly Slave (2)

"Mount Sumeru is hidden in mustard seeds! Mount Sumeru is hidden in mustard seeds!"

Mount Sumeru is a Buddhist saying, which means huge, but the mustard seed is so small that it is hidden in the smallest, which is a Buddhist esoteric meaning.As soon as I walked into the hall of Ji's house, I saw the owner of Ji's house, Ji Youjie, twisting a mustard seed in his hand, with his eyes on it, as if he wanted to see if he could get in.

When I approached the hall, he didn't even lift his head, just kept mumbling there.The master didn't speak, and my guest had to stand and admire his feat of headbutting mustard seeds.He ignored me after standing there for a long time, I thought to myself, Mount Sumeru can be hidden in mustard seeds, but his head can't get in, it's really admirable.

After a while, he sighed, put the mustard seeds on the table, and glanced at me.Because Jindi said that I am actually a letter that doesn’t need to be opened. When Ji Youjie saw me, he knew what I was here for, so when I came in, I took out the sign on my neck so that he could read it at a glance. know my identity.

Sure enough, Ji Youjie glanced at me and said, "You're here. Sit down."

I sat down as promised, and was about to speak when he suddenly picked up the mustard seeds on the table and handed them over, saying, "Do you know the saying that 'Mount Sumeru is hidden in the mustard seeds'?"

"Yes." I replied, but didn't reach out to take it.This mustard seed is not much bigger than booger, if you lose it, you will have to search for it on the ground for a long time.

Seeing that I didn't answer, Ji Youjie smiled and said, "Are you afraid that I will use it to plot against you?"

"Don't dare. I'm afraid that Mount Sumeru is hidden in it, and I won't be able to catch it." I replied.

Ji Youjie was taken aback for a moment, as if he didn't realize it. He said "oh" after a long time, and took his hand back. He didn't know what he was thinking, then threw the mustard seeds on the table, knocked on the table and said, "You came here Just right. A strange thing happened in the town recently, come and help me check it out."

"Ah?" I was also taken aback, I don't know why he didn't say a word about the organization when he saw me, but kept talking about irrelevant things.

"This matter has a lot to do with you." He said, briefly explaining the matter.There is a big family named Xin in Meihua Town. The head of the family, Xin Ruyi, believes in Buddhism and does good deeds. He is a well-known benevolent person far and near.Xin Ru's only daughter is Xin Fuzhen. Under the influence of her father, she has become a believer.

One day, Xin Fuzhen and his family went out to offer incense, and came to a magnificent temple, and met a strange monk.The monk told her that the reason why he became a monk was that one day he ran into the monk's house by mistake and had a fight with the abbot old monk, so he was chosen as the successor.And the old abbot just sat down after fighting with him. If he didn't agree to take over the mantle of the abbot, he would become a murderer.He had no choice but to become a monk.

After hearing such absurd things, Xin Fuzhen naturally wouldn't believe it, thinking it was a story about a Zen koan.Seeing that she didn't believe it, the monk took her to the original monk's house and replayed the original incident, including the fact that there was a bush of plants outside the window of the monk's house back then, suddenly roses, pomegranates, and bamboos, all of which were unpredictable.

Xin Fuzhen witnessed this miraculous thing happen before his eyes, so he believed his words a little bit.At this time, the monk told her that although he became a monk, all he was thinking about was returning to the secular world, and he claimed that as long as there was another Zen disciple in the temple, he would be able to return to the secular life.

After hearing this, Xin Fuzhen thought to herself, isn't her father a Zen believer? As long as Xin Ruyi arrives at the temple, wouldn't this monk be able to return to secular life?So she went home and told Xin Ruyi about it.Xin Ruyi was very surprised when she heard that, and immediately rushed to the monastery together with her, and had an extremely speculative conversation with the monk, and stayed until late at night.

The father and daughter spent the night in the monastery. Xin Fuzhen was inexplicably happy when he thought that the monk would be able to return to secular life the next day. He slept soundly and did not wake up until dawn.But when she woke up and came out to take a look, she found that the extremely splendid monastery from yesterday had disappeared, leaving only a ruined ruin.

Xin Fuzhen collapsed at that time, and ran out of the room to search around, but Xin Ruyi and the monk seemed to have evaporated and never appeared again.Xin Fuzhen wandered around for a whole day, and only found a mustard seed on the ruins.

"What do you think about this matter after listening to it?" Ji Youjie asked me after finishing speaking.

"Nonsense!" When I was a teenager, I read so many strange things in Zhigua books. I was very interested at first, but later I felt that it was not worth mentioning.Ji Youjie said that this matter has a lot to do with me, which is also worthless.I glanced at him, and suddenly said: "This matter may not be related to me, but is it true that it is closely related to Mr. Ji?"

"Hehe." Ji Youjie seemed a little embarrassed when I told him, "You have already asked about me since you arrived in town, right?"

I did inquire as soon as I got here, he is the mayor of Plum Blossom Town.The matter he mentioned just now involves missing persons, which is exactly the scope of his management.But this matter is so bizarre that he probably has no clue what to do, so he wants me to help him.

In fact, if he really wanted my help, Xuncheng Ma has always been kind to others, and I would naturally not refuse to do what I can.But he said that this matter was related to me as soon as he came up, and he wanted to trick me into the game, which made me feel a little unhappy.

Looking at my expression, Ji Youjie probably knew what I was thinking, smiled slightly, and said quietly: "This matter sounds really unbelievable, but things in the world are often so wonderful, sometimes you clearly feel that this matter has nothing to do with you, but it happens It's about you."

He clearly saw what I was thinking, but he still emphasized that this matter was related to me. I couldn't help being a little skeptical. No matter how I looked at it, this matter would have nothing to do with me, so why did he insist on it?
"You help me to investigate first, even if it has nothing to do with you in the end, it's just doing me a favor, and I accept your kindness, how about it?" He said with my questioning eyes, "But if you want to Ask how this matter has anything to do with you, but I can't tell you right now."

"Oh, why is that?"

"Because once you know that this matter is related to you, I'm afraid you won't have the heart to investigate this matter."

I didn't know for a moment whether what he said was true, or if he was just trying to trick me into the game.But as he said, even if the matter had nothing to do with me in the end, it was just doing him a favor.He is also a member of the organization, so to speak, he is also my elder, and it is his duty to help wherever he can, so he nodded.

Seeing me nodding, Ji Youjie added some details of the matter to me.Since I agreed to him, I listened carefully, and after he finished speaking, I asked, "You just kept saying that 'Mount Sumeru is hidden in mustard seeds'. Is this related to this matter?"

"Related. If you want to use the shortest sentence to describe this matter, it is this sentence." Ji Youjie said, "The temple where the flat ground disappeared is called Mount Sumeru."

"Mt. Sumeru Temple?" I was taken aback for a moment, and then suddenly realized, "Xin Fuzhen found a mustard seed on the ruins, so the whole thing seems to be that Mount Sumeru Temple, together with Xin Ruyi and the monk, were hidden in the mustard seed." go!"

"That's right." Ji Youjie said, picked up the mustard seeds on the table again and handed them over, "This is the mustard seed that Xin Fuzhen found, take a look."

I reached out to take the mustard seed, looked at it for a long time, and weighed it in my hand again, but I still didn't find any difference between it and ordinary mustard seeds, so I put it near my mouth and blew, thinking that if Xu Mi The mountain temple is really here, and if I blow this breath, I think there should be a strong wind in the mustard seed.In life, there is not always a chance to blow people away with your mouth, and this opportunity should not be easily let go.

Naturally, Ji Youjie wouldn't know about my small thoughts, seeing me blowing air on the mustard seed, she felt a little bewildered.I pretended to examine the mustard seeds seriously, and handed them back to him, then got up and said, "I can't see anything from the mustard seeds, let's go to Xin's house to have a look. Is Xin Fuzhen at home?"

"At home. She doesn't think about food and drink these days. After experiencing such a strange thing, she has fallen into madness." Ji Youjie walked out of Ji's house with me, and on the way to Xin's house, I asked Xin Ruyi in detail life.Ji Youjie told me that Xin Ruyi came to Meihua Town many years ago, and later married a woman from the town, and stayed here.

"So, the people in the town don't know much about his life, do they?"

"That's right. I also thought that this matter might be related to his life, but in any case, it's too puzzling that a huge monastery disappeared without a trace overnight. Unless there is really a mountain-moving technique in this world A kind of magic technique can move the temple around, otherwise how will this matter be explained?"

"Is this disappeared temple famous in the local area?" I asked him.

"That's the weird thing." Ji Youjie stopped suddenly, "There is no such temple in Meihua Town, but the family members who accompanied Xin Fuzhen to Mount Sumeru Temple all swore that they saw the temple with their own eyes. The eaves and painted buildings of the temple are full of grandeur. If only one of them said that, I would still be a little skeptical, but so many people said that at the same time, and Xin Fuzhen himself said the same, so people couldn’t help but believe it—could it be that Xin Fuzhen would collude Did the family murder her father?"

"Although it's unlikely, it's still a possibility." Since I became a city patrol horse, I haven't gained much experience along the way, but I've seen a lot of people with various attitudes.Father's kindness and son's filial piety are the norm in the world, but sometimes it is caused by profit or hatred. Even parents and children turn their faces against each other.

But if this is the case, it is really a human tragedy.So Ji Youjie sighed slightly when he heard the words, and didn't answer my words.We walked all the way to Xin's house, asked the family who opened the door to inform Xin Fuzhen, and then waited in the hall of Xin's house.Xin Fuzhen didn't show up until after a cup of tea.

She has encountered such a major event, so she is naturally a little numb and slow, and we all understand it in our hearts.But when she appeared in the hall, I was taken aback, not because of anything else, but because of the appearance of this young lady of the Xin family, it is really hard to bear to look at.Her appearance is a bit different than that of ordinary people, and she has a sense of deformity, probably because she is born with it.

I asked myself that I have never judged a person by appearance in my life, but seeing her looks like this, and she is seventeen or eighteen years old, I feel a little sympathetic in my heart.At this time, Xin Fuzhen's eyes were slightly red and swollen, as if she had just cried.Ji Youjie and I hurriedly greeted her, and she also bowed down to pay the respects, she looked like a dignified lady.

After the guests and hosts were seated, Ji Youjie said that I was here to assist in the investigation of Mount Sumeru Temple, and asked her to tell me what happened again.Xin Fuzhen told the story again in a low voice, which was not significantly different from what Ji Youjie said.I also asked who had accompanied her to Mount Sumeru Temple, and asked them all to come out.

Xin Fuzhen said in a low voice: "There's no one there, just Mama Yu and Uncle Qian." After saying that, he sent someone to call these two people over.

Qian Bo soon arrived at the hall, but Mama Yu did not come.Qian Bo first told us that Mama Yu went out to buy vegetables for dinner, and then swore that he had seen the grandeur of Mount Sumeru Temple with his own eyes, and that Mama Yu was with him. Saw.

I couldn't hear anything from his words, so I asked him to go down first, and then asked Xin Fuzhen the first question: "This Mount Sumeru Temple did not exist in Plum Blossom Town at all. In this case, it is the first time you go to When, how did you get there?"

(End of this chapter)