treasure hunter

"This..." Monk Zhizang shook his head when he heard the words, and said, "This monk doesn't know."

Although he was already mentally prepared, Pei Miao still felt his heart sink. After a few seconds of silence, he asked, "Then what do you... know?"

"Didn't I tell you all the stories?" Monk Zhizang thought for a while and said, "Oh, you are a robber, do you also want to unravel Hei Tianjie?"

"Yes." Pei Miao nodded.

Monk Zhizang nodded thoughtfully: "Then let me think about it, let me think about it..."

Monk Zhizang thought for a long time, then shook his head helplessly: "I can't remember, there really aren't many stories about Patriarch Lu, and I haven't heard any specific stories about him from Master at all. However, the monk doesn’t like to read books, by the way...books! The monk’s family has some books handed down by the ancestors, and there may be some records in them.”

Hearing this, Pei Miao hurriedly asked excitedly, "Where is it?"

"In the capital city." Monk Zhizang said, "Although the monk has settled in the capital now, the old house is still in the capital city. After the monk's master passed away, the monk moved all his things into the old house."

Pei Miao said: "Then quickly take me to your old house, I want to read those books."

"Let's go now?" Zhizang said with his eyes wide open, a little bit reluctant, "The monk's roasted whole lamb isn't ready yet."

Pei Miao said: "Pack it up and take it there, let's eat on the way, is that okay?"

"That's no problem." Monk Zhizang nodded happily, "It happens that the monk hasn't visited the old house for some years, so it's good to go back and have a look."

Pei Miao immediately called the waiter, paid the bill first, and then told the waiter that they wanted to take away the whole roasted lamb.

After waiting for a while, the roasted whole lamb was packed. Although it was roasted whole lamb, there were not as many as I imagined. After a sheep was slaughtered and its internal organs were removed, it was not very big. Packed, just enough to fill two large plastic packing boxes.

Monk Zhizang held the packing box in each hand, walked out of the hotel with Pei Miao, got into Pei Miao's car, sat in the back and began to eat.

Pei Miao drove directly onto the expressway and headed straight for Shanghai.

The speed of the car was 110, and the wind from the car window was blowing. While blowing the wind, the monk Zhizang ate roasted whole lamb and drank delicious wine. He was so happy that he kept sighing: "This is what life should have. Looks, happy, comfortable..."

Pei Miao drove very seriously. To be honest, he was really envious when he saw Monk Zhizang like this. He had nothing to worry about. He drank a lot of alcohol and ate a lot of meat. In a word, it was cool. This is probably the fantasy of many people in life, but There are only a few who can really do it, that's why Pei Miao envies him very much.

Being bored on the road, Pei Miao chatted with Monk Zhizang and asked him about his life and his teacher.

From the mouth of the monk Zhizang, Pei Miao learned that the monk Zhizang was an orphan. When he was seven years old, his parents died in a car accident. His grandparents brought him up. Because his life was difficult when he was a child, his relatives did not help , only the neighbors’ uncles and aunts would occasionally help out, so after the death of his grandparents, Monk Zhizang severed all ties with all his relatives.

Monk Zhizang originally harbored resentment towards this world. When he was 20 years old, he went out to work, and was wrongly accused by his boss of stealing things, humiliating him in various ways, and withholding his salary. Monk Zhizang had a demon in his heart and planned to sneak into the boss at night. At home, the hand-knife boss.

Fortunately, monk Zhizang was lucky. At the moment he climbed over the wall, he was spotted by an old monk. The old monk stopped him. This old monk later became Zhizang's master. After some enlightenment, he repented and worshiped under the Vajra sect, becoming the No. 20 sixth-generation descendant of Vajra.

Later, Monk Zhizang learned martial arts from his master. This learning lasted for 20 years. The master also became old and fell ill. The deadline is approaching.

Monk Zhizang's master passed away in less than half a year after falling ill, and monk Zhizang became alone again.

Later, Monk Zhizang's martial arts was discovered by the National Special Operations Department, and the Special Operations Department invited him to serve the country. Of course, the treatment was quite generous.

Monk Zhizang joined the National Special Operations Department to perform special tasks. He said frankly that after he entered the Special Operations Department, he carried out two missions, both of which were protection missions.

And every time after completing the task, there will be a one-month vacation. This time he took advantage of the vacation to go out and play, and came all the way from Kyoto to Jinling.

There were people chatting, so the road would not be boring. Soon, we arrived at Shanghai. After getting off the highway, Monk Zhizang showed Pei Miao the way, and the car drove into the old city.

Magic City is a bustling city. Although the old city does not look prosperous, it can be seen that it is popular. The houses are very dense, and Ming Dynasty-style buildings can be seen everywhere. There are even many teahouses and hotels, which are specially designed in the style of the Republic of China. theme.

In such old streets and alleys, there are many time-honored delicacies and snacks hidden, and many tourists come here admiringly. They can not only taste the food, but also appreciate the street scene and architectural style of the Republic of China.

The place where Zhizang lives is a bit out of the way. It is in an old alley. After going in and walking around for a long time, there are quite a lot of people, but most of them are elderly people. Young people will definitely not give priority to this kind of place when renting a house. .

Zhizang pointed to the houses passing by as he walked, and said, "This room is empty. Grandma Qian who lived here left ten years ago... This room is also empty, Zhang The old man lived to be 99 years old, failed to pass the 100-year-old mark, and left five years ago... This room used to be lived in by Grandpa Li and Grandma Li, who was taken to a foreign country by his son eight years ago..."

Along the way, although not ten rooms are empty, more than half of them are unoccupied.

Pei Miao asked, "If these old houses are demolished, they should be able to lose a lot of money, right?"

"It can't be demolished." Zhizang said, "The houses here are so dense, which developer can afford to demolish them."

"Indeed..." Pei Miao saw that the houses here are like pigeon cages, one by one, very densely packed, don't look at the fact that many houses are unoccupied, once they are about to be demolished, the place will be full immediately People, if you don't give enough money, you can't move a tile.

Finally, Zhizang happily called out: "I'm home!"

He turned around and walked into a small courtyard in front of him. The courtyard was very small, and there were many flower pots in the corner. There were only soil and weeds in the flower pots, and no flowers could be seen.

Zhizang took out a bunch of keys, found a small key, and went up to open the door. Because the lock was corroded, after inserting the key, it took a long time to fiddle with it before opening it. "

Zhizang pushed the door open and walked in, followed by Pei Miao, who was greeted by a faint musty smell.

Pei Miao looked around, the room was about [-] square meters, the furniture was covered with dust-proof cloth, and there was a door inside, probably it was the inner room.

Zhizang said: "The room is small, there are only two rooms. This is the living room, inside is the room and the kitchen." While talking, he led Pei Miao into the room, and saw that the kitchen and the room were facing each other, and then a small alley led to the outdoors , A temporary small toilet was built. Obviously, this test was rebuilt later.

Zhizang took out the key again, opened the door of the room, pushed the door in, and said, "It's here."

Pei Miao followed in. The musty smell in the room was even stronger. After all, the space was very small, only a dozen or so square meters. There was a very old-fashioned bed in the corner. The bed was covered with a big dustproof cloth. An old-fashioned table, facing two cabinets, one cabinet is full of books, and the other cabinet...is still books.

Needless to say, Zhizang, Pei Miao went to the cabinet, started to read the books on it, and asked at the same time, "Is it here?"

"Yes, they are all in these two cabinets." Zhizang said, "It's just that they are messed up, so you have to search carefully."

"Okay, I'll look for it carefully." Pei Miao opened up the domain of all minds as he spoke, covering all the books in the two cabinets, and all the books appeared in his mind.

He searched quickly, and soon found a book, which was a thread-bound book, and it was hand-copied. The white cover had already turned yellow, obviously it had been there for many years. The title of this book was "Notes of Monk Yuan" , should be the notes of a patriarch of the Vajra Gate.

He continued to search, and soon found one. This book was called "Zen Buddhism". As long as it was related to the Vajra Gate, he picked out all the books.

In the end, Pei Miao picked out a total of sixteen books, each of which was very old, and some were even eaten by moths.

Pei Miao put the dozen or so books side by side on the table, and saw that seven of them had no titles, and then he started to read one by one.

Pei Miao's reading ability is much better than that of ordinary people, and she reads books very quickly, but these books are all recorded in ancient Chinese, which seems somewhat difficult.

Soon, I finished reading the first book. "On Zen Buddhism" is all about the theory of Buddhist Zen, and there is no content related to Hei Tianjie. Then I will read the next book - "Humble Monk Handbook".

Most of the records in "Humble Monk's Notes" are the knowledge and experience of the thirteenth generation Patriarch of the Vajra Gate, Master Zhuo, who traveled the rivers and lakes. The second half tells some of his understanding of the Vajra Gate martial arts, and there is no mention of the Black Sky Book.

Pei Miao continued to read the next book.

When she saw the fifth book, Pei Miao was overjoyed. It was written by someone from the Vajra Sect named Venerable Xiao Lin. Venerable Lin respectfully called his master a mentor, but when introducing him to his mentor, he mentioned that his surname was Lu, he had not entered Buddhism, and had a wife and son, which fully fit the characteristics of Patriarch Lu.

It's a pity that Venerable Xiaolin's records about Patriarch Lu's deeds are all after he met Patriarch Lu, and there are only a few hundred words.

The matter of Hei Tianshu is just mentioned in passing, the original text is like this: "The master's magical powers are profound, and there is no opponent in this world. He eliminates the strong and supports the weak, and is full of chivalry. I heard the master's dictation. When I was young, I was made by a monster. A slave who has lived overseas for several years and has encountered many catastrophes. By chance, he met Master Yu. He received the great grace of Master Yu for saving his life. He was entrusted by Master Yu to return to Middle Earth with his relics. After going through all kinds of hardships, his teacher finally returned to Tianzhu Mountain. , the burial of the fish patriarch relic is in the place where the patriarch is buried..."

In other places, I can no longer find any content related to the Heitian Book.

Pei Miao was not reconciled, and continued to read other books. One of the other books also mentioned Patriarch Lu. Seemingly humble and wise, with a nature like a real Buddha, Patriarch Lu became a Buddha by seeing his nature, regardless of whether he is inside or outside the Buddhist gate..."

It was just a random mention of Patriarch Lu, without any further introduction.

After working for nearly three hours, Pei Miao finished reading more than a dozen books, but he couldn't find any record of cracking Hei Tianjie, which made him very discouraged.

Seeing that Pei Miao was downcast, Monk Zhizang had already guessed the result, he didn't know how to comfort Pei Miao, and said, "How about...read it again?"

"No need." Pei Miao sighed softly, stacked all the books together, put them back in the cabinet, and said, "If there is no book, there is no book. It is useless to read it ten times."

After he finished speaking, he turned and walked out.

Zhizang locked the door and went to lock the door again, Pei Miao just stood in the yard waiting, staring at the weeds all over the yard in a daze.

After locking the door, Zhizang came to Pei Miao and said, "Why don't we go eat something, it's already afternoon, you haven't eaten lunch, you must be hungry."

"Okay." Pei Miao nodded, and walked out of the yard with him.

As soon as I went out, I saw a few people coming from the east and happened to pass by their yard.

Zhizang looked at the other party, and suddenly called out with a smile: "Pennie?"

There were three people on the other side, one of them was a thin, tall, middle-aged man who was nearly fifty years old, he was stunned for a moment, he fixed his eyes on Monk Zhizang, after a moment of stunned, he exclaimed joyfully: "Big cow?"

Zhizang smiled and nodded: "Long time no see."

Pei Miao knew that Zhizang was meeting an old friend, and even if he wasn't an old friend, he wouldn't be able to call him such a nickname.

The two met each other happily, and said excitedly: "Oh, it's been too long, almost 30 years, you... how did you become a monk?"

"Life is forced, and the monks will not starve to death."

The two exchanged pleasantries, but the other two became impatient. One of them, wearing black-rimmed glasses and casual clothes, frowned and asked, "Li Jin, do you still sell things?"

Zhizang hurriedly said, "You have business to do, so you should do it first, haha, if he hadn't called your name, I wouldn't even remember your name."

Li Jin smiled awkwardly, and said: "Then I'll go to work first, alas, do you still remember the picture I read at my house when I was a child, the one my grandfather regarded as a treasure, it turned out to be very valuable, it is an antique! These two bosses If you want to buy it, stay at home and don’t go out. When I sell that calligraphy, I’ll come back to you and treat you to dinner, haha.”

Just as Zhizang was about to agree, Pei Miao suddenly asked, "Can we go and have a look?"

After all, Pei Miao is an antique dealer. When he heard that there were antiques, his first reaction was to have a look.

Li Jin said without hesitation: "Yes, of course, let's take a look."

The two people who wanted to buy calligraphy and paintings were not very happy about Li Jin's behavior, but they had no right to stop them, so they could only let Pei Miao and Zhizang follow.

Li Jin took them for a long time in the alley, and finally arrived home.

Unlike Zhizang's family, there are people living in Li Jin's old house, and Li Jin's parents live here.

When they arrived at their home, they first greeted Li Jin's elderly parents, but Li Jin's mother was already demented, and Li Jin's father was in good health, so he poured tea to entertain them.

After exchanging pleasantries, Li Jin took them to look at the calligraphy and painting in his grandfather's study.

Calligraphy and paintings are kept in a painting box. Li Jin took out the painting box from the drawer, took out the scroll, and slowly unfolded it on the table. Suddenly, a copybook appeared in front of them. The words on this copybook were very unusual. Every stroke is like a sharp blade, exuding endless sharpness, majestic and powerful.

Seeing this, Pei Miao narrowed her eyes and frowned.

The face of the person who wanted to buy this copybook flashed with ecstasy.

Although Zhizang didn't know calligraphy, when he saw this copybook, he couldn't help praising: "What a hard calligraphy!"