Volume 2: The Case of the Red Lotus in the Ancient Temple Chapter 31: Seeing Weizhi
"Simple?" Xing Qianqiu was slightly startled.
He knew that Duan Ming was extraordinary, but their Mirror Division had been investigating for several days but there were no clues. Duan Ming knew the result at a glance?
"Come with me." Duan Ming smiled and took Xing Qianqiu directly to the kitchen without explaining.
It is very troublesome to do many things in this world. After all, there are no professional chemical instruments in this world.
That's why Duan Ming was so surprised that the Immortality Cult could produce such extremely high chemical substances as "dry ice".
Duan Ming worked in the kitchen for a long time before building a "structure" similar to a small kiln. Then he carefully took out the items scraped from the giant Buddha and placed them inside the "small kiln".
Then a fire was lit, and the fierce burning fire instantly enveloped the fragments.
After a while, under the burning fire, the black fragments turned red little by little!
"How is it? Isn't it magical?" Duan Ming showed a smile on his face, raised his head and said to Xing Qianqiu: "This thing is called..."
"Copper!" However, Xing Qianqiu said directly.
"Ahem..." Duan Ming choked at Xing Qianqiu's words, and the pride he felt just now was wiped away.
At this time, Duan Ming remembered that this world also has smelting technology. Although compared with modern society, it is like primitive people, but it does exist.
Iron ore, copper ore and other items are even among the most important strategic materials in the world.
Therefore, it is very normal for Xing Qianqiu to know copper and understand some changes in copper.
"Mr. Duan, do you mean that the golden Buddha is made of copper?" Xing Qianqiu glanced at Duan Ming. Although he didn't understand why Duan Ming looked like he had eaten a fly, he was amazed at Duan Ming's thoughts.
So fast.
Even though they had been investigating here for so long, they never thought of linking the blackening of the Golden Buddha to copper.
"That's right." Duan Ming sighed and nodded: "There is something called oxygen in our air. Copper will react with oxygen and turn into copper oxide. Copper oxide is black."
"Well, I've heard that copper mines will turn black if left for too long, but I've never heard of the so-called oxygen. What is that?" Xing Qianqiu asked doubtfully.
"All things in the world are in various shapes and forms. Some are so vast that even the territory of Daqi is as insignificant as dust in his eyes; some are so small that even a speck of dust is as difficult to see as the sun in his eyes.
The whole picture." Duan Ming explained: "There is no limit to human power, and there is no limit to vision. Just like this piece of copper, it is also composed of countless smaller 'coppers'."
"Yeah." Although Xing Qianqiu couldn't fully understand Duan Ming's words, he could roughly understand what Duan Ming meant.
"Human power is limited, and vision is also limited." Duan Ming said, "The so-called oxygen is something that people cannot see with their eyesight."
"I understand." Xing Qianqiu nodded: "Mr. Duan means that the reason why copper turns black is because of this thing called 'oxygen', right?"
"That's right." Duan Ming nodded.
"But I have also heard that copper will turn black if it is left outside for a long time. But no monk found that the golden Buddha had a tendency to turn black that day. How could such a big golden Buddha suddenly turn black in just over an hour?
Is it dark?" Xing Qianqiu said doubtfully.
"High temperature." Duan Ming explained: "The oxidation of copper is slow, but at high temperatures it will accelerate the oxidation rate!"
"That's right." Duan Ming nodded: "It was that fire! Under the high temperature generated by the fire, copper turned into copper oxide and black, which are the fragments just now. And copper oxide and carbon
When it experiences high temperature again, it will turn back to copper, so it will turn red again."
"But that's wrong. Copper is red, and the Buddha was not red before the fire..." Xing Qianqiu narrowed his eyes and said thoughtfully, "Maybe I should investigate it carefully."
"That's right." Duan Ming nodded.
Duan Ming and Xing Qianqiu then left the kitchen, and Xing Qianqiu went to investigate about the Golden Buddha.
Duan Ming went directly to Xing Qianqiu's room and looked through the clues Xing Qianqiu had collected recently, including information about the monks in the temple.
The more Duan Ming looked at it, the more he frowned. The word "Brahma" in the Brahma Temple means "pure, noble, praiseworthy behavior" and is taken from the "Dhammapada", that is:
To clear one's body from chaos, to maintain kindness and benevolence, to be able to endure anger, this is the holy life.
To be sincere and calm, to speak without any nonsense, and not to be angry at others, this is called the holy life.
Being humble and doing nothing, not harming sentient beings, not causing any trouble, is the way to live the holy life.
There are many monks in the temple, with a total of 321 monks in the whole temple. In addition to Abbot Xuanbei, the most respected ones are Xuanku, Xuannan and Xuanjing, who are in charge of all matters in the temple.
Under the Xuanzi generation is the Jingzi generation, among which the Purification of Dharma and the Purification of Heart are the first.
Below the Jingzi generation is the Fazi generation, and there is no particularly outstanding person among the Fazi generation.
Further down from the Fa generation is the Ming generation, which is the junior generation, mostly young monks aged seven or eight.
Just when Duan Ming was checking the specific information, there was a knock on the door.
"Please come in." Duan Ming frowned. It was already getting late. Who would come to see Xing Qianqiu at this time?
"Creak..." The door was slowly pushed open, and a very burly looking monk walked in. He was slightly startled when he saw Duan Ming sitting in the room.
Earlier, he saw Duan Ming and Xing Qianqiu walking in the temple together, but he never thought that he would be here at this moment.
"Mr. Duan." At this moment, a Mirror Officer came in from outside the door and cupped his fist slightly at Duan Ming: "This is the Jingfa monk from the Fanxing Temple. He said he has something to talk to Commander Xing. Command.
Before leaving, I said that you can decide everything here, so my subordinates made their own decisions and let me in."
"It's okay." Duan Ming shook his head, then looked at the monk named Jingfa: "What's the matter with you?"
"This, can the donor really make the decision for Commander Xing?" Jingfa looked at Duan Ming, hesitated and said.
"This is natural." Duan Ming nodded: "Can the people from the Mirror Division still lie to you?"
"Okay!" Jingfa looked around, hesitated and said, "I know what you are investigating today. I have something to tell you!"
"Oh?" Duan Ming narrowed his eyes slightly: "Please speak."
"Hmm..." Jingfa gritted his teeth and said, "Maybe the donor didn't believe it. On the day of the fire, the young monk saw the Red Lotus Virgin Mother!" This chapter has been completed!
