436. Insidious
"Otherwise, how do you think Longtou disappeared? How did they rely on to find Yuxi?"
"Wait, does that mean these four Buddha statues are not the only ones?" Su Butong seemed to have grasped the key to the problem, but he still couldn't figure out why.
"When Jianwen went to sea, there were rumors that he was looking for the jade seal to reunite the destiny of the country. After many hardships, he finally found the jade seal in Nanyang. Unexpectedly, he suddenly fell ill and died. It happened that Zheng Sanbao passed through Nanyang, and the local people sold the remnants of Emperor Jianwen in order to seek glory. Those
In order to prevent the jade seal from being captured by Zheng Sanbao and Zhu Di, the remnants hid the jade seal somewhere in Nanyang, and then each person took away a part of the treasure map. In this way, even if someone was arrested, the location of the treasure map would not be revealed. Therefore, these could only be
Only by putting the scattered treasure maps together can we know where the jade seal is hidden.
"The treasure map that appeared decades ago is authentic. The Japanese used it to find the Jade Seal. Unexpectedly, the current situation was difficult. After the Feilong transported back the Jade Seal and a batch of valuable Chinese cultural relics, it was asked to go to Midway Island to participate in the war. Even with the blessing of the Jade Seal,
, the Feilong could not withstand the fate of the ship being destroyed. After that, the Jade Seal disappeared."
"Then where did these four Buddha statues come from?" Su Butong was surprised. Since the Japanese people had found the Jade Seal, how could the treasure maps in these four Buddha statues be determined to be the Jade Seal Treasure Map?
"Although Feilong sank, some of the wounded and personnel were transferred to the Arashi and Nobun ships. At that time, they were afraid of being pursued by the American army, so they followed Jianwen's old example and secretly hid the jade seal somewhere on the way back to the country, dividing the map.
For four, it was hidden in the Chinese Buddha statues they collected. At that time, Su Jianglong was hiding on the Lan ship and wanted to perform another mission. He learned the news by chance, so he made some inquiries and found the right opportunity.
He killed one of them, summoned him to Hongmen, and then returned to Japan to search for the whereabouts of the remaining three Buddha statues, but he died in the end. Things changed, and the remaining three people learned that their companions were dead, so they hid back to China and were captured by the Chinese.
Later, the Buddha statues they carried were circulated among the people again..."
The ins and outs, explained clearly.
"Why did we return to Wanping City?"
"Of course we are looking for clues," Jin Wuzhen said.
"Don't we have a map now? What clues will there be in Wanping City?" Su Butong couldn't figure out the logic for a while.
"This is my inference. The Japanese Japs were stationed here for a period of time. I saw these four Buddha statues in Xinglong Temple when I was a child. I suspect that these four Buddha statues were built by the old Jianwen Ministry. That's why the Japs hid the map here.
Among the four Buddha statues.”
"But the map..."
"I know we already have the map, but it's still not possible to assemble the map and decipher the code."
"code word?"
"I saw the fragments of the map. They did double encryption. The map was divided into four and it was the first level of encryption. They also used code words to do the second level of encryption."
"The Japanese are very careful," Su Butong sneered.
Chen Xuance glanced at him, his expression seemed to say that you were scolding yourself.
Su Butong rolled his eyes at him, I am a Chinese, not a Japanese devil!
The three of them came to Xinglong Temple. The place had been deserted for a long time. When they opened the door and walked in, they found spider webs everywhere and no incense.
"After the Republic of China, this place became increasingly dilapidated, and many items in the temple were taken away by monks who returned to secular life." The old lady lamented.
"How can we find clues when we get here?" Su Butong always felt like he was a headless fly, being led along by others.
"Look at him." Jin Wuzhen pointed at Chen Xuance.
Chen Xuance took out the turtle shell, put in three Qianlong Tongbao, shook it a few times, and got the hexagram "Earth and Water Master".
"Nine two, good fortune in the division, no blame, Wang Sanxi's destiny."
"We want science!" Su Butong said speechlessly. Although he had witnessed Feng Shui and divination several times, Su Butong still felt that this stuff was unreliable.
Chen Xuance pointed to the Arhat Subduing the Dragon among the Eighteen Arhats, "Go there and see if there is anything."
Su Butong had no choice but to push away the dust as he was the middle-aged and powerful one among the three. He went behind the Buddha statue and took a look. "No," Su Butong said speechlessly.
"Feel again to see if there are any mechanisms." Jin Wuzhen said dissatisfied.
Subudong touched the base a few times, but didn't touch anything.
He touched the Dragon Subduing Arhat all over and found that the arms were movable mechanisms. He pushed forward and heard a click.
The temple suddenly shook. Something opened.
The three people searched carefully in the main hall and found a cave step behind the Buddha statue in the middle.
"Go down?"
"Aren't you afraid of lack of oxygen?" Su Butong had read many novels and knew that this kind of cellar was most deprived of oxygen.
Chen Xuance took out a candle, lit it and looked down.
After a while, the candle did not go out.
He said: "The bottom is connected to the outside."
After saying that, he handed the candle to Jin Wuzhen and asked Su Butong to help him go down.
Not long after going down, the three people came to a carved wall.
I only saw the words written on the wall: "In the beginning of my practice, I was close to the virtuous and eager to learn. When I failed to control the emperor's uncle, the world was in disarray. In the autumn of great chaos, I gathered the people and used force, and lost the world. I rushed to Nanyang, eager to return home, for
Among the monks in the grass field, Daoyan saw me, and I also saw Daoyan. I asked Yan, "Worship the Buddha or me first?" Daoyan answered me: "Neither you nor the Buddha will bow."
Daoyan Su Budong looked at Chen Xuance in confusion.
"Dao Yan is Yao Guangxiao." Jin Wuzhen saw Su Butong's doubts.
"Yao Guangxiao!" The name Su Butong is too familiar. This man is Zhu Di's main adviser, known as the prime minister in black. If this inscription was engraved by Jianwen, then why did Yao Guangxiao not report him when he met him?
"There is no record of this period of history." Chen Xuance was also puzzled. Wanping was too close to Zhu Di's Forbidden City. Why did Emperor Jianwen live in seclusion here when he returned from Nanyang? And how did Yao Guangxiao discover him? And this
In this conversation between the two, it seems that Yao Guangxiao is not
"There is another inscription here!"
Subudong then dimmed the light and found another inscription.
Jin Wuzhen started to read: "I asked Yan: 'Will you go to hell?'" The monk went in first! "I was puzzled, "How can you go to hell if you steal the throne and gain enlightenment? Dao Yan replied, 'I won't go down.
Hell, who will save you?' This inscription is more colloquial.
"There are more!" Several people found more and more inscriptions.
"Dreams are hard to come true. The earthly world is possessed by magic and confused by the nature of wood; it is easy to wake up without wind. Enlightenment through caves and springs calms the ordinary mind."
"My family came from the capital, and looking back at the Five Mountains and Emei, these mountains and rivers are the best in the world. The emperors were like Yao and Shun, and the couple cherished the Qin Emperor and Han Wu, just like my king Sun Kuang in ancient times and today."
"The monk is the emperor, and the emperor is also the monk. It has been passed down again and again, and the mantle and mantle are passed on to each other, and the verses are left and transformed. The uncle takes care of his nephew, and the nephew does not take his uncle away. For three hundred years, the country remains unchanged, and it will be empty when he grows old."
…………
Most of these inscriptions are written in the tone of Jianwen. But they are obviously not from the same era. It seems that this is a place where he specially meditated and comprehended. Each inscription is a journey of his enlightenment, from being ambitious to escaping into Buddhism. I don’t know how he lived here.
How many years has it been?
It's just that the whereabouts of the jade seal that they are most concerned about has no answer in this inscription.
"Come and see here." Chen Xuance discovered something strange.
Jin Wuzhen and Su Budong went over and found a candlestick with four small holes on it. It seemed to be a base, similar in size to the four Buddha statues.
Chen Xuance took out the Buddha statues and placed them on the pedestals one by one.
But after waiting for a while, there was no response.
"Are you too worried?" Jin Wuzhen asked.
"Probably not." Chen Xuance thought for a moment, "Maybe we can think differently."
"What I mean is that I have a big brain. Just wait for me and I can figure it out right away." Su Butong said.
"There are 24 ways to place the four Buddha statues." Subudong calculated it using factorial.
"That's right." Chen Xuance approved the algorithm.
"You two keep it quiet for now, I'll go look elsewhere." Jin Wuzhen thought this was nonsense.
Su Butong and Chen Xuance began to try stupid methods. They divided the numbers of the four Buddha statues into 1, 2, 3, 4. They arranged them in this order: 1234, 1243, 1324, 1342, 1423, 1432...
When I finally reached the number 2413, I heard a soft "bang".
"This is..." Jin Wuzhen's expression changed.
"The whereabouts of the jade seal!" Su Butong and Chen Xuance were also stunned by the content in front of them, and couldn't help but sigh that the Japanese devils are here!
Chapter completed!