Daxuanti criminal officer

Chapter 28
Qijiawu, the concept of longevity.

The sky was bright, and the mountain depression was filled with mist, which was very cold.

"Ah oh..."

Huo Anu, a woman from the Western Regions, walked out from the lee, yawned, and stretched.

Because of years of practice, when I stretched my waist, my bones creaked.

In the next second, she wrapped her clothes tightly, held up the iron umbrella, and lowered her head into the small room of the Temple of Longevity. She searched for the dark doorway and entered the innermost secret room.

Seeing the situation in the secret room, she couldn't help being a little surprised.

But seeing Xu Zun sitting in the middle of the room, he remained motionless as if he was meditating.

There was a clean white paper in front of him, and if it was paired with a samurai sword, it would look like it was going to be cut open.

Looking at the entire room again, the scorched black on the wall has long been erased, revealing its original appearance.

But seeing the walls and the roof, all densely filled with words!
Those characters are vigorous and vigorous, but unfortunately, most of them have been deliberately scratched, and even a few places have been chopped with an axe, making it difficult to recognize.

Last night, the head catcher Zhao Yu and the others searched the Temple of Longevity several times, and finally left after finding nothing.

In the end, I don't know, did they find the writing on the wall?

After they left, Xu Zun impatiently found moss and other things, and began to wipe the scorched black marks, so that the words could be revealed one by one.

Then, Xu Zun began to study these words, and actually studied them all night!
"Hey..." Huo Anu looked at the motionless Xu Zun, and couldn't help saying, "Are you sitting in meditation? Oh... no... how do you say in the Central Plains dialect, comprehend the secrets of heaven, practice Zen and enlightened the Tao ?”

Seeing that Xu Zun didn't argue with each other, Huo Anu moved closer, thinking that Xu Zun might have fallen asleep.

But just when she was approaching, Xu Zun suddenly spoke:
"This room... is made of granite. It may have been the base of a huge Taoist stone statue in the past!"

"I'll cut it!" Huo Anu was startled.

"The text engraved on it is not easy to erase, perhaps, the murderer didn't want to make that effort, so he just set it on fire!
"Cover it with soot so it won't be seen by us."

"I hear what you mean..." Huo Anu asked ponderingly, "Can these words give us an answer? But, I can also read, so the words written on it seem to be some meaningless Chinese characters, right?"

Indeed, the walls are engraved with Chinese characters with different fonts and meanings. There are no phrases and no sentences, and the engravings are all in disorder, and the distances are different.

Among them, there are many obscure characters, which are a bit like scriptures.

"Oh," Xu Zun smiled slightly, "If the answer lies in this, how can the murderer let it stay? No matter how hard you try, you have to erase it!"

"Then what do you mean?" Huo Anu asked impatiently, "Did you find out? Don't play tricks here, it's like being possessed by an evil spirit!"

"I'm not bewitched," Xu Zun said seriously, "It's just a little bit cool! Because, I have already discovered that there is a mystery hidden in these words!"

"Oh?" Huo Anu became interested, "Where is the mystery?"

Xu Zun calmly replied with four words: "Enlightenment!"

"You!?" Huo Anu waved his fist, "Although Master Shen told me to accommodate you, you'd better not challenge my bottom line!"

"Look," Xu Zun stood up suddenly, pointed to the groove on the door opening, "do you know what these grooves are for?"

"Huh?" Huo Anu obviously couldn't keep up with the rhythm.

"If my guess is right, here!" Xu Zun pointed to the secret room, "It should be a granite cell! There was once a person imprisoned here!"

"Huh?" Huo Anu became confused, "Who? That Taoist priest?"

"These words should be written by this imprisoned person," Xu Zun continued, "He wants to use these words to ask for help from the outside world, or he wants to explain the truth, but he is worried about being investigated by those prisoners, so he can only Use this room full of handwriting to cover up!"

"..." Huo Anu stared at Xu Zun and muttered, "It's true, as if you saw it! Since you can't figure it out, then don't talk so much, huh!"

"Who said I can't figure it out?" Xu Zun said solemnly, "Last night, I spent the whole night arranging various combinations, and the result..."

"What was the result?"

"The result...failed!"

"I'll cut it!" Huo Anu almost fell to the ground in a flash, and quickly supported it with an iron umbrella.

"However, I realized later that I was thinking too much!" Xu Zun suddenly turned over the white paper on the ground, pointed to it and said, "So the answer is not as complicated as I thought!"

"Oh?"

Huo Anu looked over curiously, but saw four large characters written on the other side of the white paper, which were:

"Female", "Fang", "Paper", "Nei", and a radical "亻" is drawn behind it.

"This..." Huo Anu read, "Flying female house? Is there a person behind, female flying person? What do you mean?"

"These words carved on the wall," Xu Zun explained, "have different fonts and different directions, but they have the same rule, that is, most of the words are of the same size. Other characters should be slightly bigger!"

After finishing speaking, Xu Zun waved his arm and found the corresponding words on the wall, which were the words "Nv", "Fang", "Zhi" and "Fei".

And the latter "亻" is because the text has been severely damaged, and only such a radical can be recognized.

"I don't understand, these words still don't have any meaning!" Huo Anu shook his head and said, "Don't bully me as a foreigner. I also learned Chinese since I was a child. I think you made a mistake!"

"Hehe, the mystery in words cannot be understood by a wise man. Only by understanding the author's state of mind can he succeed, but..." Xu Zun suddenly revealed a detached expression, and said quietly, "I am really Hope, I was wrong!"

"You..." Huo Anu's eyes showed strangeness, she couldn't see through this man who was beaten by her so much that she couldn't get out of bed.

"But if I'm not mistaken," Xu Zun said again, "then we're in big trouble!"

"Hey, I'm a straightforward person, can you make your words clearer?" Huo Anu asked impatiently, "If you really understand the mystery of this, then tell me quickly, what is going on here? The same thing? If you don’t know, then don’t play tricks!”

"I can only tell you when I can truly believe in you!" Xu Zun turned his head and said solemnly, "Before that, even if you beat me to death, I wouldn't tell you!"

"You!? You..." Huo Anu became more irritable and stomped his feet angrily, "You might as well change your nickname from Xu Xiaotan to Xu Laoya!

"I think you are pretending. The last word has only one radical. You don't even know what it is, so you just say you have understood it? You are lying!"

"That word is irrelevant!" Xu Zun squinted his eyes and said, "The most important thing now is that we have to find out all the truth before the disaster happens!"

"Crazy, crazy, crazy!" Huo Anu said anxiously, "Didn't you say that you have understood the mystery, why do you want to find out the truth?"

"This statement is wrong. Seeing out the mystery and finding out the truth are two different things!" As he spoke, Xu Zun actually put the blank paper on the torch and burned it!
"Okay, then tell me," Huo Anu asked angrily, "what should we do now?"

"Hmm..." Xu Zun thought for a while and asked, "Do you have a good relationship with bandits?"

"..." Huo Anu was completely speechless.

Xu Zun added: "Bandits, liars, or thieves are also fine!"

Who knows, this time without waiting for Huo Anu to respond, Xu Zun asked himself and said: "I almost forgot, I am the county captain..."

(End of this chapter)