Chapter 71 Unexpected
A shrill scream sounded outside the courtyard, and the monks on duty who were holding wooden signs in the courtyard were startled. One of them boldly opened the gate and said, "Who is making a noise outside? Don't you know that this is my uncle's room?"
There was only dim moonlight outside the courtyard, and under the moonlight a trembling figure sat on the ground
“Who! Who are you?!”
Gao Xu slowly turned his head and looked at the monk inside the door, revealing a mournful face: "Senior Brother, Grandmaster Uncle!"
After two days of investigation, Zhao Yushu and his team had already figured out that, except for outsiders like them, everyone in the temple knew everything about raising pigs and the golden body. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been so gloating when they heard that Zhao Yushu, a junior brother Huiming, was assigned to feed pigs.
Therefore, Gao Xu came up with a plan to use his uncle, who everyone knew but everyone hated and even feared, as bait to lure these monks out.
As expected, upon hearing Gao Xu's words, the monk who had shown his head inside retracted his head with a bang, and then after a moment he bravely came out again: "Are you fucking blind? That old guy is now in the back mountain, how could he be here?"
Gao Xu said in a trembling voice: "I was scared because I knew he was in the back mountain. He is so fat that he can't even walk. How could he come here? Brother, why don't you go and take a look?"
"Why should I go and see?" The gatekeeper monk was a little panicked.
"Master uncle is obviously coming back, I don't care, I'm leaving first," Gao Xu got up from the ground and ran back.
The monks guarding the gate were even more frightened. The courtyard they were guarding was the former residence of their great-uncle master. The old monk didn't have many days left to live, and now he suddenly appeared here. Could he have turned into a ghost?
It's funny that the ghost monks in the temple are afraid of ghosts at this time. This is also what Zhao Yushu has always been puzzled about. After these monks discover outsiders, they will instantly become fierce ghosts, but before they discover outsiders and after eating people, they are completely a group of lazy monks who eat and wait for death. It seems that they are not ghosts. Only when this rule is triggered will they become ghosts for a short time.
This is also the main reason why Zhao Yushu was able to survive these few days.
"Hey, don't go, let's go and take a look together. Even if he really comes down, he is so fat, how can we not beat him?" When the gatekeeper saw Gao Xu was about to leave, he hurried forward and grabbed him.
"I won't go. With his weight, if he falls on us both will die. I won't go!" Gao Xu pretended to struggle hard to run away.
"We are many, come together, come out!" The gatekeeper shouted, and immediately four more monks ran out.
When the gatekeeper monk explained the situation, the four monks looked at each other in bewilderment, all wanting to retreat. The gatekeeper monk was obviously the leader, and he immediately became angry when he saw the situation: "You idiots, don't you think that this yard is the old man's territory? If he really waits for him to enter the house, there will be no way for us to survive! Come with me now, and we will catch him on the way and throw him back to the back mountain. You can also ask your uncle for credit."
After hearing what he said, the four monks were still reluctant, but they were finally scared. They went back to their rooms and got some sticks to boost their courage.
"My junior brother, where is that old guy?"
"It was in that forest. I was looking at this side just now. I thought it was a wild cat in the tree or something, until the moon came out. I knew it was him as soon as I saw the size of the cat."
"Let's go and have a look together."
The six monks, each holding a wooden stick, bent over and quietly groped into the woods not far away. Zhao Yushu flashed into the courtyard.
At this moment, he missed his Shadow Step so much. If he still had the skills, he could have been in the house with just one step. There would be no need to go through so much trouble.
The small courtyard was quiet. The lonely little house was the meditation room of his former great-uncle master and current uncle. Whenever Zhao Yushu thought of these two, he wanted to laugh: Why are they both uncles? Where are the master and uncle-in-law?
Without pushing open the wooden door, Zhao Yushu climbed in through the half-open window. He had been here twice before and was quite familiar with this small room, so he didn't need to turn on the light. He just ducked under the bed.
Following the instructions of his uncle, Zhao Yushu crawled under the bed and lifted up a leg at the innermost side of the bed. The wooden bed was very light and it was not difficult to lift it up.
He supported the bed with one hand and used the other hand to pull out the blue brick pressing on the foot of the bed, then the second brick, and the third brick.
After removing a layer of soil from the bottom of the third brick, there was another blue brick. Damn, this old monk hides things just like a jade rat. He can't find anything even if he digs three feet underground.
Picking up the green brick, Zhao Yushu reached in and dug forward. This direction was under the wall.
I guess normal people would never think that the old monk would dig a hole in the foundation under the wall to hide something. Fortunately, this is just a one-story house. If it were two stories high, the house would collapse.
The feeling in his hand changed, and a small wooden box was taken out. Zhao Yushu opened the wooden box and found a green porcelain bottle lying quietly inside.
This is the invisible poison that kills people.
Zhao Yushu wanted to sprinkle a few drops on the bed, but the old monk clearly said that it must be swallowed to be effective. It might not be easy to kill the old ghost Jueshan.
Putting the porcelain bottle in his arms, Lao Zhao put the wooden box back to its original place. What if the old ghost Jueshan happened to dig it up one day, and opened the wooden box excitedly to see that it was empty? The huge difference in surprise might cause his blood pressure to soar and he might die.
Climb out from under the bed. Today's main mission is completed. Next is the side mission.
I barely looked around in the moonlight. There was only a bed, a table, a chair, and a chamber pot. It was so clean and tidy that I could almost describe it as a bare house.
So Zhao Yushu thought of an idea in the book "A Hundred Solutions to Mechanisms". People have inertial thinking, so the same person's method of setting up mechanisms is roughly the same, and it is difficult to break away from his usual habits. This idea can be described in modern terms as: comfort zone
So Zhao Yushu crawled under the bed again, this time changing direction, and went to the foot of the bed.
Same method, same amount, same location
Just like a mirror image, this pitifully small residence has a bed that is right against the walls on both sides, and the walls are indeed hollow underneath.
Another small wooden box was taken out, and inside it was a small booklet.
I can't see what's inside in the darkness, but it must be very important. Maybe Jueshan is here looking for this thing.
He put the wooden box back, climbed out of the wooden bed, jumped out of the window, and outside the courtyard, he looked up to the sky and let out a few ghostly howls.
Gao Xu, who was walking in circles with his men in the woods, threw down his stick as soon as he heard the sound and said, "Oh my god, it's a ghost!" Then he ran away.
The five monks were already very nervous, and when they were frightened by him, they immediately screamed and fled in all directions, rolling and crawling to who knows where.
Gao Xu walked around a few times and returned to the place they had agreed on. He saw Zhao Yushu squatting in the corner, holding something like a book in the moonlight.
"Did you make it?"
Zhao Yushu nodded: "It was more successful than I imagined."
Gao Xu came closer curiously: "What is this?"
Zhao Yushu closed the book and turned the cover towards Gao Xu, who slowly widened his eyes.
"The Monk in Mirage Amuses Himself"