Chapter 449 Speculation
“I don’t think so.” Zhou Zhi said: “Yuanxiu is very skilled in kung fu, and something happened to his master, so it’s impossible not to be more cautious. And if Yuanxiu conflicts with others, It will definitely be recorded in the county annals.”
“The powerful men who occupied Fawang Temple’s real estate are listed in the county annals, but the monk who fought against them was Langkong. , Cixiang and others, but Yuanxiu, who was supposed to be in charge, has no record of it, which makes this matter suspicious."
"So you think that Yuanxiu is doing more important things, such as. ...Hide the "Dragon Hidden Sutra"? "
"Yes, otherwise it cannot explain Yuanxiu's whereabouts. I prefer...in addition to hiding, there is also...protection."
"Protection? What ability does he have?"
"You can still do it, you just need to...change your identity." Zhou Zhi smiled slightly.
"How can a monk who practices martial arts change his identity? To what identity?" The godfather felt strange.
"It's very simple..." Zhou Zhi smiled and said: "A fallen grass becomes a bandit."
"I'll go..." The godfather's eyebrows raised: "A monk becomes a bandit?"
"A monk becomes a bandit. There is a tradition in "Water Margin"..."
"What! Do you think this is a storyteller? Where is the evidence?!"
"There is some evidence... "
"Let’s talk about the idea first."
"Well, okay, the idea is like this..." Zhou Zhi said: "First of all, in the minds of the monks of Fawang Temple, what temple property is the most important. Expensive? ”
"It's obviously the "Dragon Tibetan Sutra", so when Dongfang was dying, before Yuanyin left, he asked Yuanxiu to protect the 'temple property'. I'm afraid it didn't mean the surrounding fields, the gold and silver in the temple, but these scriptures. "
"That makes sense..." Godfather agreed.
“So, what Yuan Xiu said at that time was faced with a big problem, how to protect the Dragon Tibetan Sutra.”
“But there are more than 1,600 Dragon Tibetan Sutras in total. More than seven thousand volumes were transported from the capital to Jiachuan. Sixteen book boxes.”
“It is difficult to move so many scriptures to distant places, and we also know the current situation, that is, those book boxes are still on display at Fawang Temple, but the ones inside The scriptures have been replaced with bamboo paper.”
"That's right." Godfather nodded.
“I asked my fourth cousin to study the production age of those bamboo papers.” Zhou Zhi said: “My fourth cousin said that the thirty-six boxes of bamboo paper have the same origin and age, and they are produced locally in Jiachuan. . "
"That is to say..." The godfather understood something: "Exchanging paper for books is a unified and overall action, not a piecemeal action like chickens and dogs! "
"Yes!" Zhou Zhi said: "This raises a question: It can be said that the book box is not taken away to avoid people's attention, but what about replacing the scriptures?"
“With so many scriptures, Yuanxiu will never be able to carry them all far away. They must hide them not far from Howang Temple!”
"It makes sense!" said the godfather: "If you want to hide people's eyes, you can only move it secretly, and there are so many scriptures, so you can't move it too far away..."
"Since you can't move too far away... The only way to take good care of the place is to take good care of it, and the best way to take care of it is to make that place a place where ordinary people dare not set foot..." Zhou Zhian continued with a twist.
"Hehehehe..." The godfather couldn't help scratching his head: "Besides Luocao becoming a bandit, it seems that there is really no other way, huh?" "Although these are all my speculations." Zhou Zhi said: "But After much deliberation, based on Yuanxiu's own conditions and environment at the time, he was able to keep "Dragon" There are really not many ways to "Long Zang Sutra". "
"Of course, these are still wishful thinking, and the premise must be that Yuanxiu really values the "Long Zang Sutra". No matter how hard you think about it, put aside all your self-esteem and protect it.”
"As long as there are a few details that are different from what we inferred, even if Yuanxiu was bitten by a wasp in the mountains and became infected, it is entirely possible that historical events will take another direction."
"So far, These inferences also belong to the final sustenance of hope, which lies behind good wishes. It may be far from the truth."
"No matter what, this is a direction, even if it is slim, it is better than no method at all." The godfather said: "Then what we are going to do. The scope of the inquiry must be expanded to include historical events that occurred in the mountain villages around Fawang Temple. , also need to search."
"Yes, there are also some local small place names, which often contain rich clues." Zhou Zhi said: "As far as I know, many are called 'Dianjiangtai'. The place names are often the mounds of large tombs, such as the Qijiazhuang Tombs in Ju County, where they were discovered. The site is called Wangfenshan.”
“Another example is the Sanxingdui site, which is named after the three large mounds with three stars in the south. The center of the site is called Moon Bay and Zhenwu Palace; the east is called Shiziyan; and the north is called Shiziyan. Xiquankan; the west is called Hengliangzi and Dayan Village.”
"From these place names, we can roughly conclude that this is actually a geographical environment distribution map of a large settlement with the southern part focusing on warning, the west focusing on defense, and the north focusing on water diversion, and introducing water conservancy into the central and eastern parts."
"There is a 'Ghost Cultivation City' nearby the Yangshao ruins, which was actually a fortification built by Feng Yi in the Eastern Han Dynasty."
"In fact, these place names are related to The earliest ruins may have nothing to do with each other, but it’s not a coincidence.”
“It can only be said that the wise people think the same after thousands of years.”
“It makes sense. Dad nodded: "So I'm making a map of Jiachuan. I'll mark out the small places for you and see if you, the stupid guy, can think of anything."
"Well," Zhou Zhi said, "When the summer vacation is over, I'll ask my sworn brother to take me to my grandpa's place in Erli Township. He and my second uncle must know more."
In the following days, again Got into step by step.
It is not accurate to say that it is step by step, because there are many things at home.
Mom is taking care of a big thing now, which is building a fund-raising house.
Nominally, this matter is under the management of the "Zaolingqiao Old Textile Factory Employees' Small Courtyard Fund-raising Housing Reform Management Committee", but in fact they are all highly respected old men and women who raise chickens and flowers, and the specific business is still Mom has to run.
Although this building is not very big, the construction will take more than half a year.
So my mother often took advantage of the situation and came to work as a supervisor at Luo Yuxiang's construction site.
Luo Yuxiang is the contractor who built the fund-raising housing, the chief engineer of the Jiachuan County Design Bureau, the brother-in-law of his parents’ classmate Gu Cunhou, and will be Zhou Zhi’s neighbor in the future. One of the owners of "Houseshare".
You want to say that there is no relationship at all, that is impossible. With the ecology of Jiachuan today, there are not many foreign cross-river dragons who can compete with local local tigers. There weren't many choices.
But it is a good thing to keep my mother busy. When she is busy, she can no longer care about supervising.
Otherwise, my mother would not have become furious if she had known that Zhou Zhi had only spent two nights in the morning studying on his own and studying exercises besides the daytime.
(End of this chapter)