So all the adult monks outside were fake? Mingzhi stared at the monk in the coffin and frowned without saying a word.
The monk who guards the Sutra Pavilion would say a few words every day when he went to borrow books.
The other person's voice, appearance, smile and appearance are nothing different from ordinary people, but he didn't expect that his true body would die here!
Wait... It's not completely different.
The appearance of haggardness, withered color, weak speech, and more whites of eyes than pupils are all the most obvious strange symptoms. But after seeing it a lot, I subconsciously ignored it.
What is the connection between these symptoms and fake monks?
After confirming that he had not left any trace, Mingzhi silently returned to the east wing.
When I passed by the main hall, I could hear that the ceremony over there was not over yet, and no one seemed to have discovered me.
The next morning, Mingzhi woke up slowly from entering into meditation and heard the little novice monk knocking on the door outside.
The large array of Jinchan Temple is almost omnipresent. Even Mingzhi asked casually on the roadside before, and could be quickly known by the host. If he saw the nature frequently, the host would inevitably be suspicious.
Mingzhi has the magic of Ajing to protect himself, so he can go to all parts of the temple; but the detailed work of Hell Road No. 2 is not that great, so he just puts aside the name of cleaning up the Zen room for Master Mingzhi, every other time
Come here to clean once in the second day, secretly send messages to communicate information.
No. 9 went to the back hall last night. When he saw the spirit, he cleaned the floor with a broom and asked in a voice.
Well, Mingzhi held the Buddhist scriptures in his hand and replied calmly, how do you know?
I guessed that I saw the nature and said, it was already this time. If you don’t go and explore it, I really thought you were a monk and studied Buddhism.
As long as it doesn’t reveal any flaws, it’s good that they are seen. Mingzhi breathed a sigh of relief.
What is the scene in the back hall? I continued to ask.
Haven't you found it? Mingzhi asked him back.
After exploring and seeing the nature, I said, the reason why I practice this secret technique to conceal the breath is to avoid the eyes and ears in the temple and explore the back hall.
But the mystery in the back hall was not clear, but instead made my breath weak... Not to mention this, what did you see in the back hall? We will verify what we see, check for the omissions and make up for the shortcomings, and analyze it as soon as possible
It’s like a son, Chou, Yin and Mao.
This second-digit work is usually stuttering when speaking normally, and it can be said with sensation through the secret. Mingzhi smiled secretly and said:
Since that's the case, I'll talk first.
I went to the back hall and saw many sandalwood coffins.
It was exactly that he said with emotion, and the bodies of monks in the temple were lying in the coffin!
Not bad! Mingzhi continued, but only saw adult monks, but there were no children, and the body of the abbot was not included.
Just like what I saw, I had a gloomy tone. The huge Golden Cicada Temple has long been occupied by magpies' nest. It's really strange!
Even so, there are still many doubts. Mingzhi said slowly, first, since you have killed someone, you should destroy the corpses. But why should you preserve these corpses and deliberately display the back hall clearly without doing it
Any concealment?
I think it was for us to show it on purpose. Seeing the nature said, "The cunning rabbit has three holes, and it is a layer of confusion." You are not allowed to see it as the first floor, but what you see is the second floor, and the real third floor is still hidden below!
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The second is the number of issues. Mingzhi continued, if you kill someone to replace him, why do you only kill adult monks and not children? In addition, the abbot's body has not been seen, is it not dead or hidden alone?
I know a little about this. I answered by nature and said that the adult monks in the temple were all born inside this cave; while many children and novice monks were adopted from the outside world.
Oh? Mingzhi asked in surprise when he heard this, "Why can you still have children if you don't allow marriage in Buddhism?"
You don’t know anything about Nine. Seeing the nature and sighed, “Ordinary Buddhism is indeed not allowed to marry, but instead accept Buddhists outside and join them.
The temple practice. If the age of the year is approaching and the number of people is reduced, then recruit people from outside, so as to maintain the stability of the number of monks in the temple.
But this Jinchan Temple is different. The monk is the father passing on his son, and the son stepfather. After the child is born, his mother is raised in a small town at the foot of the mountain.
When he was twenty years old, he would marry and have children. When he was thirty years old, he left the town and went up the mountain, came to the temple to become a monk, and became a monk to practice.
This is repeated over and over again, so that Jinchan Temple does not need to communicate with the outside world, and can also ensure the normal replacement of new and old monks in the temple.
But for some reason, about seven or eight years ago, an earthquake suddenly occurred in the cave.
Earthquake? Mingzhi asked in surprise.
Your cave has been isolated from China and has become an independent world. How could there be an earthquake?
Well, I don’t know the specific situation. I said quietly, in short, the earthquake almost destroyed all the towns at the foot of the mountain, and none of the residents survived.
Not only did the source of monks, but even the supply of many supplies was cut off. Jinchan Temple had to open the gate of the cave, ask for help from the Buddhist sects outside, and adopt children from the outside to go to the temple to raise them, as a novice monk... Our sect also came from
It was only then that I discovered the traces of Jinchan Temple, which allowed me to sneak into it to spy on the information.
So that's it. Mingzhi immediately knew it.
In other words, the monks in Jinchan Temple were actually divided into two groups.
Some of them are adult monks, that is, the monks who were killed in the back hall, were born and raised in this cave.
The other part is the underage novice monks, all of whom are adopted from the outside world.
Thinking of this, there is a very natural answer that emerges from the depths of my heart.
The earthquake seven or eight years ago seemed to have another hidden secret, which not only took the lives of the residents of the small town at the foot of the mountain, but also killed the monks in Jinchan Temple.
Then...for some reason, a large number of guys who occupied the magpie's nest came, pretending to be dead monks and continuing to open the Jinchan Temple.
Speaking of which, No. 2. Akechi suddenly asked, have you noticed that all the monks outside look very wrong?
You mean you have no blood and energy, right? When you say that you see the nature, you said, indeed, I thought they were practicing dead wood Zen, but it was strange to practice this kind of life and energy without any blood and energy.
Dead Wood Zen? Mingzhi thought for a little while and then denied this possibility.
Dead Wood Zen is to train the body to exhaustion, but the origin of the soul is getting stronger and stronger. It is a kind of side door that feeds the soul with the body.
These fake monks in Jinchan Temple not only have their bodies and bones, but also their souls are very weak. If the dead wood Zen can be practiced to this extent, it is recommended to change the name to suicide Zen.
It seems... I still have to find an opportunity to go to the abandoned town at the foot of the mountain to find out what happened.