Traveling through the Republic of China, I married a dead person

The abbot's question made Su Bai's heart tremble. He actually knew that he was not telling the truth!

What the master didn't have time to finish explaining before his death must be something very important, and most people would think of this.

There is a possibility that the abbot knew what the master wanted to tell future generations, and this matter had nothing to do with Dongtian Temple, so he concluded that these three words were lies.

Based on this, Su Bai inferred that the treasure was not in Dongtian Temple.

But, this abbot should know something.

"Then, in the abbot's opinion, what should the master tell me?" Using offense as defense, Su Bai asked the abbot in return.

"This is the family affair of the Confucius family. How would I know about it?" Huijing stroked his beard again.

"Then how did the abbot know that I wasn't telling the truth?"

"Uh..." Huijing began to hesitate, and finally told Su Bai that he didn't know, it was just his feeling.

Feel?

Monks are also having fun?

Do you dare to tell the descendant of a great benefactor of the temple face to face that he is not telling the truth and is lying?

Next, no matter what method Su Bai used or what topic he used to try to get some useful information from Huijing, he got nothing.

He always changed the subject immediately and even asked Su Bai a few questions.

This monk must know some secrets about where Confucius hid his treasures during his lifetime, and he might even be a complete insider.

Perhaps, he was waiting for me to make some gesture next before he could tell the truth. The gesture was certainly not money. Su Bai thought of the seal.

"In fact, before he died, the master left me not only the three words Dongtian Temple, but also..." Su Bai deliberately stopped here and observed Huijing's reaction.

She saw Huijing's eyes, which had been slightly closed, open. They only opened for a moment and then immediately returned to their original state. "What else is left?"

"I think the master should know."

"Uh...this..." Huijing began to hesitate again. Judging from the movement of his eyes under his eyelids, he was quickly recalling something, or thinking about something.

Su Bai felt someone gently pulling her clothes from behind. It was Zi Yan.

Zi Yan was reminding her not to tell the monk anything.

In fact, Su Bai also thought so. Before Huijing gave him some useful clues, he must not tell him about the seal, including the key hidden in it.

There will be no result, Su Bai was disappointed.

Hui Jing seemed to want to get something from Su Bai from the beginning to the end. He did not provide any clues that Su Bai considered valuable. What he said made Su Bai feel like he was flying in the clouds, and there was no follow-up at every critical point.

The two chatted for nearly an hour and a half, and the conversation almost always revolved around testing each other.

Su Bai didn't feel any sincerity at all.

When Su Bai got up to say goodbye, Hui Jing tried to persuade him to stay for a vegetarian meal, but Su Bai refused.

However, Su Bai answered Hui Jingqi's question and told her what she knew. Apart from those three words, what Mr. Kong left to him was the Kong family's property.

Monk Huijing was stunned by what he heard.

After Su Bai and Zi Yan left Dongtian Temple, Zi Yan told Su Bai that there were problems with this Dongtian Temple, including the abbot.

"Of course there is a problem, otherwise why would I talk to him for so long?"

But what Zi Yan said next shocked Su Bai so much that he couldn't help but sigh inwardly at how meticulous Zi Yan was.

When Su Bai was burning incense, Zi Yan discovered something unusual in Dongtian Temple.

The floor of the Great Hall is paved with large green square bricks. Due to its age and the coming and going of people, the surface of these bricks have more or less left traces of time, but Zi Yan discovered that these bricks are both new and old.

The surface of the new brick is smooth, slightly rough, and gray-green in color.

The surface of the old bricks is smooth, with dents caused by years of wear and tear, and the color is earthy gray.

It is normal for the temple to replace the bricks with new ones because the bricks are severely worn, but what is abnormal is that if bricks are to be replaced, it should be done in batches. Even if not all of them are replaced, they cannot be replaced here and there as Zi Yan saw.

Moreover, Zi Yan also noticed that several bricks that were severely worn out by trampling had not been replaced.

If this doesn't explain anything, then the stone bricks in the temple courtyard are equally strange. Zi Yan discovered that many of the stone bricks in the courtyard were raised, as if the craftsmen had done a rough job and did not lay the bricks flat when they were first paved.

"You mean..." Su Bai only said half of the sentence and understood what Zi Yan meant.

"Yes, the bricks in the yard must have been pried up and then replaced later!"

As for the blue bricks inside the hall, they would be damaged if pried up, so they were replaced with new ones.

Zi Yan also discovered that even on the floor of the room where Su Bai and the abbot were chatting, there were several signs of prying.

What are you doing by prying up the bricks?

Obviously, they were digging a hole, or more precisely, digging up the ground to find something!

Could it be that... the master's gold bars are really hidden in Dongtian Temple?

The abbot named Huijing should have known that the gold bars were hidden in Dongtian Temple, but he didn't know where exactly they were, so he dug everywhere.

Judging from the way he kept hiding things and trying to get some information out of me when he was talking to me, he hasn't dug up the gold bars yet.

its not right?

Su Bai thought again, if Mr. Kong really hid the gold bars in Dongtian Temple, how could the monks in the temple not know?

Master Kong had killed all of his own guards in order to silence them. How could he have let the monks know the situation and left anyone alive?

It doesn't make sense.

But Su Bai was basically certain that no matter whether this batch of gold bars was hidden in Dongtian Temple, this monk Huijing must know some inside information, and he wanted to monopolize this batch of gold bars!

Then I thought again, no matter whether there are 500 or 5000 gold bars, they will not take up too much space. If Mr. Kong wants to bury them in the ground, he only needs to dig a small hole, and does not require much space.

The steps of controlling the pit, burying the treasure and sealing it may take less than half a day to complete. It is very likely that Mr. Kong temporarily sent the monks in the courtyard away to complete the treasure hiding operation.

There are so many courtyards in Dongtian Temple, so it is easy for the monks to retreat for a while.

Maybe... Su Bai had another guess. Mr. Kong entrusted this treasure to Huijing, but did not tell him the detailed information, including the exact address of the treasure and there may be some kind of mechanism. The key in the seal is probably used to open this mechanism.

Can we think of it this way, Huijing knows a little information about the treasure, but he cannot find or open the treasure place by himself, so he must have the key in Su Bai's hand to get the gold bars?

Thinking of this, Su Bai smiled. She laughed at herself for having too broad a mindset. This line of reasoning made sense, but it was inconsistent and had many loopholes, and could not stand up to scrutiny.

One of the loopholes can completely overturn Su Bai's speculation. If it is true as Su Bai guessed, Su Bai has the key in his hand, then Huijing should at least know what this key is used, right?

If he knew where it was, why did he dig everywhere in the temple?

Although his inference was untenable, Su Bai still felt that Huijing was highly suspicious.