As they came to a place without the cover of tall trees, Miao Ying asked everyone to stop and observe for a while. After no danger was found, he allowed everyone to pass there quickly.
"Okay, you can continue!" After getting into the dense trees again, Miao Ying said to the two old people, "Tell us what happened next!"
"Two old men," Zhao Yuze urged, "we are in an emergency situation now, can you please pick up the important things? Let's try to be as less sensational as possible, okay?"
"Go and have some fun!" Miao Ying glanced at Zhao Yu and said to the old people, "Don't listen to him. Tell me everything you know about the situation!"
"Okay, okay!" Professor Tian Dongmin continued, "Since then, the three of us have established a secret studio specifically to study the whereabouts of the Golden Buddha treasure!
"We believe that the piece of ancient jade left by Qiu Cheng to future generations can no longer be found! If we want to uncover the mystery of this treasure, we must start with another piece of ancient jade that is engraved with a treasure map!"
"The suicide note said that another piece of ancient jade was used to bury Qiu Cheng and was taken into the tomb by him!" Wang Taiming added, "We checked the information and did not find that Qiu Cheng's tomb had been discovered! Therefore, our first priority The goal is to find Qiu Cheng’s tomb first. As long as we can find the treasure map on Qiu Cheng’s body, finding the Golden Buddha will be just around the corner!”
"But, obviously you didn't find it!" Zhao Yu said.
"Yes!" Tian Dongmin admitted, "At first, we were still a little conceited, because we have been dealing with ancient tombs and cultural relics for so many years, and Qiu Cheng is buried in Qinshan, so it should not be difficult to find!
“But the fact is that for 20 years, we have visited almost every corner of Yunyang County, but still found nothing!
"Later, we guessed that either Qiu Cheng's tomb had been robbed in ancient times and could no longer be found. Or he had hidden himself in a very hard-to-find place!
"If it is the former, it means that we will never have a chance to meet the Golden Buddha in this life!
"But... what if it's the latter?"
"Obviously, it's the latter!" Zhao Yu said again.
"Lao Wang and I are doing better," Tian Dongmin ignored Zhao Yu and continued, "The most anxious person is Dong Peizhuo! He is older than the two of us, and in recent years, his health has been poor and he has been moving. After several major surgeries, my legs are no longer good!
"Mr. Dong knows that if no clues are found, he will never be able to fulfill Section Chief Fan's long-cherished wish with a golden Buddha!
"Mr. Dong is a persistent person. For many years, he has always remembered Section Chief Fan and has never forgotten it! It is the belief in finding the Golden Buddha that has sustained him until now!
"So, one day at the beginning of this year, Mr. Dong made an astonishing move!" Tian Dongmin said with some frustration, "He took a long trip and finally found a person through many connections! This person is called Taoist Priest! "
oh!
Zhao Yu and Miao Ying looked at each other. It turned out that this is how this so-called Taoist priest came to be!
"Yes!" Tian Dongmin continued, "We two didn't know it at the time, but Mr. Dong must have known it! That Taoist priest was actually a very skilled tomb robber! However, Mr. Dong told us that the Taoist priest was a Feng Shui master can help us find Qiu Cheng’s tomb!
“However, this Taoist priest is really amazing. It only took him and his team five months to find something that we couldn’t find in 20 years!
"However, although the tomb was found at that time, it was not certain that it was the tomb of Prefect Qiu Cheng. We had to dig a hole first, open the tomb, and go in to find the epitaph to confirm it!
"Alas!" Tian Dongmin shook his head and sighed, "Mr. Dong's original intention is that as long as we can confirm that the tomb found by the Taoist priest is the tomb of Prefect Qiu Cheng, then we will pay them a large sum of money to let them withdraw!
"Then, we will report it to the Cultural Relics Bureau and use formal methods to excavate and organize it. After we find the ancient jade with the treasure map engraved on it, we can study the Golden Buddha treasure through formal channels and covertly. The burial place!
"Who knew, that was just our wishful thinking! That Taoist priest is simply a devil!" Tian Dongmin said angrily, "I don't know what method that man used, but he actually knew the real reason why we were looking for the prefect's tomb early on. Purpose! Even what happened when we were in the cave is clear!"
"Nonsense!" Zhao Yu couldn't help but complain, "That's a tomb robber! As long as he has a little bit of brains, he will find out that there is something fishy about you! Think about it, three old experts from the Cultural Relics Bureau went to find a tomb robber for help. If you are not suffering from mental illness, then there must be something wrong!"
"That's true when I think about it now, but at the time, we couldn't have thought too much at all!" Tian Dongmin continued, "On the day when the robbery hole was opened, the three of us lied to our family about going out for inspection, but we actually went there!
"In order to confirm for himself, Mr. Dong followed the Taoist priest down to the tomb. However, we never expected that he never came out after going in!
"At that time, when we saw Mr. Dong didn't come out, we wanted to ask about the situation, but we were controlled by those tomb robbers!
"A tomb robber told us that after Mr. Dong confirmed the tomb, he made a deal with the Taoist Priest at the original price! Unexpectedly, the Taoist Priest not only broke the contract, but also found the piece from Qiu Cheng's coffin. A jade pendant engraved with a treasure map!
"Mr. Dong realized that he had been deceived by the Taoist priest, and immediately started a dispute with him. In the end, he was killed by the man named Taoist priest...!
"It wasn't until that moment that we both finally realized it! It turns out that the Taoist priest and the others are extremely vicious tomb robbers, and they already knew that we were looking for the Golden Buddha!
"When I heard that Mr. Dong was dead, the two of us were naturally frightened. We thought we were doomed! But what we didn't expect was that the treasure map on the ancient jade was a bit complicated and the Taoist priest couldn't decipher it, so he stayed Our two lives require us to help them find the treasure of the Golden Buddha!"
"Oh... I see," Zhao Yu nodded silently, not expecting that things would turn out like this.
"Then..." Miao Ying asked curiously, "What is written on that piece of ancient jade?"
"It's a Buddhist scripture!" Tian Dongmin said tiredly, and Wang Taiming took it and continued, "Oh! We have no other way but to help them decipher it! The treasure map on the ancient jade is actually not a map, but There are many words and numbers related to Buddhist scriptures!
"Later, we finally analyzed it and found that there were many names of Buddhist scriptures written on it, and there were numbers under each name, indicating which volume and which word of which Buddhist scripture!
“For example, the first one asked us to find three related words from the Galangshiya Sutra, but we searched it on the Internet and found that the corresponding three words were completely meaningless.
"Later, after several searches, we discovered the problem. It turns out that the Buddhist scriptures in our Qinshan area are different from those in the Central Plains area, and there are slight discrepancies in the words in the scriptures. Therefore, we need to search for Qinshan as much as possible Only local Buddhist scripture materials will do!”
"So, you first thought of the Documentation Library of the Cultural Relics Bureau," Zhao Yu continued, "Then, the Taoist Priest and the others stole those epigraphic documents! Later, you went through all the troubles and did not hesitate to let go of the documents. The water of the ancient lotus pond in the Buddhist temple was even tampered with in the museum?"
"Well..." Wang Taiming looked at Zhao Yu with wide eyes and said in surprise, "So you know all this? It seems that you are really the police!"
"Nonsense!" Zhao Yu urged, "Hurry up, what is written on the treasure map?"
"Press... Searching according to ancient books, we finally found some clues, such as the "Galunshiye Sutra" at the front. Based on the later information, we found three words - General Ridge!"
Wang Taiming might have been frightened by Zhao Yu, so he hesitated in his words: "As a result, after searching the ancient map of Qinshan Mountain, we found the corresponding place in the mountainous area! What's more, the place where we originally found the corpse was also in General Ridge area!"
oh…
Speaking of this, Zhao Yu's heartbeat couldn't help but speed up, and he quickly asked: "Speak quickly, what's behind? Then... what else is behind?"
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