The Republic of China Conspiracy Records

Chapter 97 The Ugly Slave (6)

"So that person appeared just to show you Mount Sumeru Temple?" I told Ji Youjie what happened last night, and he asked.

"I don't think so." I frowned, "He seems to have misunderstood me as someone from the town hall, and told me that Xin Ruyi's death was related to a public case 20 years ago, because Xin Ruyi burned the mustard seeds. Shansi, so he went to the world beyond Mustard Seed to kill him."

Ji Youjie didn't speak, and after a while he said, "Did you really see that temple?"

"It's true." I thought for a while and replied, "But I haven't been in it."

"Then do you think there is any possibility of fraud in this matter?"

"Supposedly, I've seen it with my own eyes, but this matter is so bizarre that I dare not say it. Oh, yes," I suddenly remembered, "Last night in the alley, he seemed to want to surrender himself to me. But at this moment, I fainted, and it looked like someone was stopping him."

"So you two were not the only ones in the alley at that time?"

After thinking about it, I nodded affirmatively, because I was standing face to face with that person, but the blow that made me faint came from behind.If there was a third person present at the time, it was naturally his accomplice who prevented him from turning himself in, fearing that he would implicate himself if he turned himself in.

Therefore, in Xin Ruyi's case, there may be more than one murderer.But who could this person be?Ji Youjie and I looked at each other, thinking that after hearing what Xin Fuzhen said, Xin Ruyi knew it was someone from Mount Sumeru Temple who came to look for him, but he still followed her, and the dead body finally appeared in Xin's house.

Now things are divided into two situations.One is that there is really a world in the mustard seed, and the murderer can come and go freely through the mustard seed, so it will be easy to bring Xin Ruyi's body back to Xin's house.

The second situation is that the world in Mustard Seed does not exist at all, so how did Xin Ruyi's corpse return to Xin's house?
The biggest possibility in this situation is that Xin Ruyi never left the Xin family at all, and he died at home.But in this way, everyone in the Xin family is suspected of being an accomplice, otherwise why would they fabricate such a set of excuses, saying that Xin Ruyi disappeared together with Mount Sumeru?

The man personally admitted that Xin Ruyi's death was related to the public case at Mount Sumeru 20 years ago.That being the case, why did the entire Xin family join forces to murder Xin Ruyi? They obviously had nothing to do with the case 20 years ago, otherwise they wouldn't have waited 20 years.Moreover, one of them is Xin Ruyi's own daughter.

"After I left Xin's house, was Mama Yu in Xin's house?" The matter became more and more confusing, I communicated all my thoughts with Ji Youjie, and then asked him.Mama Yu ran out of the meditation hall at that time, and we didn't pay attention to whether she was still staying at Xin's house.

"You suspect that the third person in the alley might be Mama Yu?" Ji Youjie frowned, "Mama Yu was indeed not at Xin's house at the time, but I thought she was frightened by the sound of knocking on the window, and she was afraid that Xin Fuzhen would see her He took people to the meditation hall, so he ran out of Xin's house."

"We all thought that Mama Yu had something wrong with the Xin family, but have you ever thought that Mama Yu has been in the Xin family for decades, not to mention being loyal, how could she betray the Xin family so easily?"

"You suspect that Mama Yu led us into the meditation hall on purpose. The Xin family wanted us to see those murals? But what is this for?"

"Now the whole thing seems to be pointing in one direction, that is, there is a world in the mustard seed. Once Xinru dies, there must be a murderer. If we can make us feel that the murderer is hidden in the mustard world, and we are beyond our reach, then this matter Is it possible to let it go?"

"So the purpose of Mama Yu or Xin's family is to close this case?"

"At present, this is just my guess. If there is really a world in the mustard seed, then these are naturally not true." Although I have seen Mount Sumeru Temple with my own eyes, for some reason, I still don't believe it is true. of.

"So now we need to figure out two things. One is whether there is Mount Sumeru Temple in Mustard Seed, and the other is what happened to the case back then, why Xin Ruyi set fire to Mount Sumeru Temple." Ji Youjie road.

"The combination of these two things is actually one thing. The monk showed signs of surrendering himself when he came to me last night. As long as we find him, maybe all of this will be revealed."

"But where are we going to find him? Find a mustard seed to get in?"

I muttered to myself: "The monk was weeping bitterly in the meditation hall at that time. Perhaps it was because he broke the precepts and killed people. It is probably because of this reason that he claimed to be a layman. I guess he may have become a monk since he was a child, so he is extremely pious. If he does not live in In the mustard seed, it is very likely that he will lodge in a nearby monastery."

"At that time, Xin Fuzhen and others met that monk on the way back from Yunmen Temple. Since that's the case, let's go to Yunmen Temple to have a look."

As he said that, he went out to ask Xiangyong to set up a car, and came in to call me after a while, but he didn't ask Xiangyong to accompany him.This is what I mean, since the monk has the tendency to turn himself in, there is no need to mobilize people to make it look like he is going to arrest people.I got into the carriage with him and drove all the way to Yunmen Temple, and we arrived in about half an hour.

Yunmen Temple is built on the mountainside. Although the temple is not big, it is quite magnificent because of its commanding height.Ji Youjie parked the carriage at the door and walked into the temple gate with me.There is only one abbot monk in Yunmen Temple, and no one else.Ji Youjie found him in the main hall and asked him if there were any monks from outside the temple who placed orders here.

The abbot monk was quite old, and he sat on the chair and swayed, as if he would go to see the Buddha at any time. Hearing the words, he just smiled and said, "burn incense and rejoice, each according to his heart, the Buddha will not be offended."

What I said was wrong, and Ji Youjie and I looked at each other in blank dismay.I suspected that he hadn't heard what Ji Youjie said at all, so he said in a more emphatic tone: "Dare to ask Master, has Monk Youfang placed an order here recently?"

The master gave me a respectful look, and said with a smile: "Burning incense and rejoicing, each according to his heart, the Buddha will not be offended."

Dare to feel that he is really deaf, no matter what people ask, he always says this sentence.We couldn't laugh or cry immediately, so we had to salute him with palms together, and turned to leave.Unexpectedly, as soon as we turned around, he said abruptly, "The Buddha holds the flower, and Kasyapa smiles. Guess what the Buddha said?"

I turned around and said, "What did the Buddha say?"

"The Buddha said that the monk is in the backyard."

It turned out that the man had really placed an order in the monastery. Since he wanted to tell us, he didn't know why he refused to tell us.This temple is called Yunmen Temple, and Yunmen Sect is one of the five schools and seven schools of Zen. This temple must also be a temple of Zen, so the monks' words are also very mysterious.

I was stunned for a moment, and said to him: "Thank Buddha for me."

The abbot monk closed his eyes and stopped answering.Both Ji Youjie and I felt a little baffled, so we turned around and left the hall, and came to the monk's house in the backyard.The monk's house is a row of rather simple bungalows. As soon as we walked to one of the rooms, we saw through the window a man inside who was cleaning his body, with his upper body naked.

There is not a single intact part of his upper body, and it is densely packed with scars from burning incense sticks.I gasped when I saw it, as if I heard the chi-chi sound of the incense head piercing into the flesh.The man's face was calm, and he didn't panic when he heard our footsteps. He just looked up at us, nodded to us, and signaled us to go in.

Ji Youjie glanced at me, walked in first, and I followed behind.The man put the cloth aside and said while putting on his clothes, "You are here."

"Are you waiting for us?" I asked him, pointing to the scar on his body, "How much hatred did you have with Xin Ruyi, so much so that he died, and you still have to burn the scar on your body to remember this hatred?" .”

"This is not to remember hatred," the man said calmly, "but to curb desire. Do you know that desire is alive, and once it penetrates into a person's body, it will take root and burn forever."

"But, can a person really cut off the seven emotions and eliminate the six desires?" I retorted, "When a person is alive, he needs to eat when he is hungry, and wear clothes when he is cold. These are all desires. If you cut off desires, wouldn't you just die?"

"You are right. People are born to be slaves of desire. But even if they are slaves, they can be dignified and upright, such as dressing, eating, and earning a living. But some people are ugly when they are slaves, and they cater to desires in every possible way. , an ugly slave to desire."

This is the first time I have heard of this kind of statement, but it is not unreasonable to think about it carefully. "So you are so obsessed with revenge, are you also an ugly slave to desire?"

"That's right." He said quietly, "Over the years, I have been bitten by hatred every day and have no peace at night. I am really the ugliest ugly slave."

"Although I have seen Mount Sumeru Temple with my own eyes, I still don't believe it. Can you tell me, is there really a world in the mustard seed?"

"No. 'Mount Sumeru is hidden in Mustard Seed' is just a Buddhist esoteric meaning, and our Mount Sumeru Temple is deep in the mountain of Mustard Seed."

I suddenly realized that there really is a temple called Mount Sumeru Temple, which is not in the mustard seed, but in a mountain called the mustard seed mountain in reality.Ji Youjie also understood, and naturally he had many questions, but he glanced at me and didn't open his mouth, obviously he was going to let me ask.

"Why did Xin Ruyi set fire to Mount Sumeru Temple?" I asked the man.Since he is waiting for us here, he must have nothing to hide.

After the man put on his clothes, he folded the cloth carefully, then he lost his mind for a while, and then said: "My name is Xin Shouyi, and this is my Dharma name, just as Xin Ruyi is his Dharma name. This name is Master took it for us, and Master is the abbot monk of Mount Sumeru Temple.”

"You... are you brothers?" These two dharma names are so similar that anyone can guess it.That being the case, Xin Ruyi setting fire to the Mount Sumeru Temple was tantamount to deceiving the master and destroying the ancestors. No wonder Xin Shouyi wanted to kill him.

"I grew up in a temple, but he wasn't." Xin Shouyi said silently for a while. The so-called "Mount Sumeru is hidden in the mustard seed" is because Mount Sumeru Temple is located in the mustard seed mountain, so the temple always thinks that the temple is in the mustard seed. This is just a metaphor.Mount Sumeru Temple is hidden in the depths of Mount Jiezi. Originally, he and his master were the only two people, farming and farming by themselves.

One day, a young man walked into the depths of Mount Mustard because he was avoiding the war.Something happened when he entered the temple, as depicted in the murals in the Xin Family Meditation Hall.The master thought that he was very intelligent, so he did not hesitate to fake his death in order to teach him the Dharma.At that time, the soldiers outside the mountains were in turmoil, and he had nowhere to go, so he accepted it half-heartedly, and his master gave him the Dharma name Xin Ruyi.

Although Mount Sumeru Temple is hidden from the world, the wealth accumulated over hundreds of years is extremely considerable. Since the master taught the Dharma to Xin Ruyi, he also handed over these wealth to him.After a few years like this, Xin Ruyi suddenly proposed to return to vulgarity and go out to the mountains.Master couldn't stop him, so he had no choice but to let him go, but he could go out of the mountain, but he couldn't take the wealth in the temple out of the mountain.

Xin Ruyi agreed, but that night he smashed the master to death with a candlestick, then set fire to burn down Mount Sumeru Temple, and left the mountain with the wealth in the temple.

After listening to his narration, Ji Youjie and I realized why Xin Ru didn't mention a word about his life experience.He did this kind of thing. After leaving the mountain, he first rescued Mrs. Qin, and then took care of the unattractive Ms. Qin for the rest of her life. He even drew the whole incident in the meditation hall, which may be a sign of redemption and regret Think about it.

Therefore, what Xin Fuzhen said and the mural paintings in the meditation hall were actually about Xin Ruyi himself, but we always thought it was Xin Shouyi before.As for who Xin Shouyi was, I asked him, and he replied that he was actually the little monk in the temple.

"What about the ever-changing flowers outside the window, and the monk's house that will rise one level, are they also some kind of metaphor?" I still didn't understand some things, so I asked him together.

(End of this chapter)