The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 95 The Ugly Slave (4)

Saying this is tantamount to not saying it.But after I thought about it carefully, Xin Ruyi believed in Zen Buddhism, which is in line with the consistent style of Zen Buddhism.

"Hearing what he said, the old man felt that he might have something to hide or a sad past, so he stopped asking." Mama Yu continued, "So after so many years, no one in the whole family knows about his life experience."

I was silent. Obviously, the disappearance of Xin Ruyi was either related to his life experience or related to Xin Fuzhen's emotional entanglement.But no matter what it is related to, a big temple appeared out of thin air and then disappeared out of thin air. What is going on?
When Mama Yu heard me asking about Xin Ruyi's origin, she obviously guessed that we were suspecting that the Mount Sumeru Temple matter was related to it. She hesitated for a moment and said, "Xin's family has a meditation hall, and only the master has entered it since it was established. My family The girl wanted to go in to play when she was a child, but the master loved her the most in his life, but he was furious and scolded her severely. I guess, this meditation hall may be related to the experience of the master in the first half of his life."

I was shocked when I heard the words, but then I had a question, since Xin's family has such a meditation hall, why did Xin Fuzhen not mention it at all.Ji Youjie also had a suspicious face, obviously he didn't know anything about the meditation hall during the previous inquiry.We all want to go back to Xin's house again to take a look at the meditation hall, but Xin Fuzhen didn't mention the meditation room just now, maybe we won't gain anything if we turn back again.

I was still hesitating, so Ji Youjie said to Mama Yu, Xin Ruyi has been very kind to the entire Qin family, and now he has disappeared for no apparent reason, since this meditation hall may be related to his disappearance, please ask her to find a way Take us in and have a look.

When Mama Yu heard this, she naturally knew that he didn't want Xin Fuzhen to know about it. After hesitating for a while, she agreed, saying that she would go back to Xin's house first, and let us wait at the back door of Xin's house after dark, and she would let us in.After Ji Youjie thanked her, Mama Yu got up from her seat and left.

We watched her off from behind, and when she was gone, Ji Youjie said, "What do you think?"

"You made such a request hastily. I thought she would refuse, but I didn't expect that she would agree." I also said thoughtfully, "If there is really Xin Ruyi's secret hidden in that Zen room, then Mama Yu won't let you down. To do so is to betray the Xin family—could she also be suspicious of Xin Fuzhen?"

"No matter what the situation is, as an old man who has been in Xin's family for more than 20 years, she should not easily agree to such a request." Ji Youjie smiled slightly, "It's almost night now, let's have dinner first, and wait until we finish eating Go and see what this Yu Mama has to do with this matter."

I nodded, then ordered a few small dishes in the store, had dinner with Ji Youjie, settled the bill when it was almost nightfall, and then walked together to the alley at the back door of Xin's house, waiting Mama Yu came to open the door.After a while, the door opened, and Mama Yu took a look out with a lantern and let us into the backyard of the Xin family.

There are not many Xin family members, but the courtyard is rather large. Apart from the Xin family father and daughter, there are only a few helpers such as Qian Bo and Yu Ma, so we walked through the courtyard without disturbing anyone.The meditation hall is at the farthest corner of the courtyard, and there are many flowers and plants in the courtyard, which means "the winding path leads to a secluded place, and the meditation room is deep in flowers and trees".

The meditation hall was locked, and Mama Yu led us outside the meditation hall, took out a key from her pocket, inserted it into the lock, twisted it a few times before opening the door.Watching her open the door, Ji Youjie and I exchanged glances, which were quite meaningful.Mama Yu said herself that Xin Ruyi does not allow anyone to enter this meditation hall, but she has the key.

Seeing her opening the door seems to be quite laborious, which means that this key does not often open this lock, and it may be newly assigned, which is unknown.Not long after Xin Ruyi disappeared, she was given the key to this meditation hall. What does she want to do?
Mama Yu opened the door, and the meditation hall was dark and gloomy.We walked into the meditation hall and observed the room through the lantern in Mama Yu's hand, but we were surprised to find that it was an empty room with nothing but a futon and an incense burner.

The incense burner was placed on the ground, not far from the futon. It seemed that Xin Ruyi usually meditated on the futon after burning incense.However, there must always be someone to burn incense to. The front of the incense burner is empty. What is Xin Ruyi burning incense to?

Mama Yu obviously didn't expect such a scene in the meditation room, she was taken aback for a moment, walked over and carefully illuminated the lantern on the incense burner, then turned around and said to us: "There is nothing."

"No, there is something." I had good eyesight, and I saw a small object on the ground at once, so I squatted down and twisted it up, and then looked at it close to my eyes.Unexpectedly, I almost screamed out when I saw it, because this small thing turned out to be a mustard seed!
Ji Youjie was also very surprised, frowned and said: "Xin Ruyi...are you offering incense to a mustard seed?"

After Mount Sumeru Temple appeared and disappeared, a mustard seed was left on the ruins.If this meditation hall was really set up by Xin Ruyi for the past, then there is no doubt that this matter is really related to the first half of his life.However, what does a mustard seed have to do with the first half of a person's life?
Ji Youjie and I were both confused, and we couldn't figure it out, when suddenly there was a knocking sound in the meditation hall, which was particularly abrupt in the empty room.We were all taken aback, especially Yu Ma, who trembled so much that the lantern almost fell to the ground.If you listen carefully to this knocking sound, you can hear someone knocking on the window, as if beckoning the people in the room to open the window.

This is the Xin family, who else would knock on the window besides the Xin family?Ji Youjie and I couldn't help being a little embarrassed, we sneaked into Xin's mansion without telling Xin Fuzhen, although there was no ulterior purpose, but being caught straight, it was inevitable that we would look a little ugly.

The beating sound continued, unyielding, I coughed lightly, and couldn't run away, so I went to open the window with the cheek, and while walking, I was talking in my stomach, how to explain how I appeared here in the middle of the night.Unexpectedly, as soon as the window was opened, a pale and pale hand suddenly stretched out of the window, as if protruding from a tomb, suddenly hanging in from the window.

I was so frightened, I suddenly saw a hand that didn't look like a living person in the night, and my courage seemed to be pinched by this hand, so I couldn't bear it and let out a loud cry to vent my fear.Ji Youjie heard me scream, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?"

As he said that, he rushed over, and immediately saw the hand hanging outside the window, he was also taken aback for a moment, and said dumbfoundedly: "Yes... a dead man is knocking on the window?"

When Mama Yu heard what he said, she was terrified and ran out of the meditation hall.She took the lantern away, and the meditation room was immediately dark.Fortunately, my scream just now was loud enough to alert the rest of the Xin family. Qian Bo arrived soon with a lantern, and Xin Fuzhen also appeared with him.

I stood in the meditation hall and repaired the remaining courage, and then I regained my breath and walked out of the room with Ji Youjie, and went out of the window.When Xin Fuzhen and Qian Bo saw us walking out of the room, they were both stunned.We didn't care about explaining anything, so we hurriedly turned around the corner and went to the window, but we saw a person lying outside the window, with one hand stuck into the window, but the whole person was motionless.

"Father!" Xin Fuzhen glanced over there and screamed, staggered and rushed over.

Ji Youjie and I were horrified when we heard that the person who knocked on the window was actually Xin Ruyi!

Xin Ruyi had obviously been dead for a long time, but somehow he was still able to knock on the window with his hand.Thinking of this, I couldn't help feeling terrified, but Ji Youjie was quite courageous, Xin Fuzhen couldn't move Xin Ruyi's body by himself, so he went over to move the body away from the window with Chamberlain and put it flat on the ground.

The back of Xin Ruyi's head was stained with blood, Ji Youjie glanced at me, then turned the body over, and I also leaned forward and squatted down to check.There is a small hole in the back of Xin Ruyi's head, and there is a circle of indentations around it, and the small hole is in the middle of the circle.

The wound looked like it was left by a murder weapon, but what kind of murder weapon would leave such a wound?And Xin Ruyi, who had been dead for a long time, why would he climb outside the meditation hall and knock on the window?
I stood up from the ground, and looked into the meditation hall through the window again in amazement, only to see a person appeared in the dark meditation hall.This person seemed to be bald, holding a candlestick in his hand, and was crying silently in the meditation hall with tears streaming down his face!

This person seemed to be conceived by darkness, and suddenly appeared in the meditation hall.I was terrified all of a sudden, not knowing how he appeared so quietly.But as soon as I saw the candlestick in his hand, I immediately knew what happened to Xin Ruyi's wound.

There is an iron tip in the middle of the candlestick, and a round table around it is used to hold candle tears. This shape just fits Xin Ruyi's wound.Xin Ruyi was killed by this candlestick, so the person who appeared in the meditation hall is probably the murderer.But why did the murderer appear here? Since he killed Xin Ruyi, why did he cry bitterly?

Ji Youjie saw that I was staring at the meditation hall in a daze, so he immediately stood up and turned around, and also saw the person in the darkness.Seeing that we were all looking into the meditation hall, Xin Fuzhen and Qian Bo naturally followed suit.Seeing this, Xin Fuzhen screamed immediately, and Qian Bo was shivered by her scream, and the lantern in his hand fell to the ground and burned.

I hastily took out the flint and the fire sickle on my body and started fighting. The faint light was on, but it couldn't shine into the meditation hall.Qian Bo quickly ran to bring two more lanterns, I took a lantern from Qian Bo, and the four of us walked into the meditation hall together.But at the moment the meditation hall is empty, where is the figure of that person just now.

However, because there are two lanterns lighting up at this time, the meditation hall is much brighter than before, but we discovered one thing-it turns out that the meditation hall is not empty as we thought, but there are murals on the walls and figures It is about the size of a real person, with lifelike eyebrows.

We were all surprised, so we looked at the past one by one from the beginning.The first mural depicts a monk's house, a cluster of gorgeous roses is planted outside the monk's house, a young man is peeking out the window, and an old monk is sleeping soundly in the monk's house.

In the second painting, the young man is stepping in from the window, while the plant outside the window has turned into a pomegranate.

The third painting is an old monk talking with a young man in the monk's house. While the young man turned his head to talk, he stepped his foot on the window.

The fourth painting shows that the old monk has sat down peacefully, and a little novice appeared in the monk's house, bowing to the young man and putting his palms together.

In the fifth painting, the young man followed the little monk out of the monastery, and the plants outside the window had turned into bamboo.

In the sixth painting, the young man has already shaved off his hair and put on a monk's robe.

In the seventh painting, the monk's house is on fire. The young man who has become a monk is standing in front of the monk's house, holding a candlestick in his hand, tears streaming down his face, and his eyes are blank.

In the eighth painting, the young man turned around and walked out of the painting, as if he stepped into something.

In the ninth painting, the young man stands on the ruins, and he can clearly see a mustard seed in front of the ruins.In connection with the previous pictures, it seems that the first eight paintings all took place in the mustard, and in the ninth picture, the young man stepped from the mustard to the real world.

The tenth painting has no background, it depicts a young man poking himself with a stick of red incense, with a painful expression on his face.It can be seen from the picture that his body is already covered with dense scars.

After looking at these ten paintings, Ji Youjie and I looked at each other, and the more we looked at them, the more amazed we became.These murals on the wall are up to the sixth one, which are exactly the same as those described by the monks in Mount Sumeru Temple.The murals are obviously nearly 20 years old, and they were probably painted at the beginning of the meditation hall's construction, and some places have been blurred and peeled off.

(End of this chapter)