Chapter Seventy-One: The Vegetable Cellar of the Temple
"Yingying, let's also participate in the search together." Watching teams of scouts go in and out of the temple's various halls and meditation halls, Gao Quan was itchy for a while, and pulled Hong Yingying to participate in the search. Hong Yingying was not a quiet person in the first place, Gao Quan didn't say that she was itching to watch it from the side, and now that she has the order of the military seat, what else is there to say, search!
Dongchan Temple, like most Buddhist temples in our country, is facing the temple gate of the largest Buddhist hall is the Daxiong Treasure Hall, which enshrines the statue of the Buddha. The golden body of the Buddha statue is mottled, and some places have fallen off the skin, obviously in disrepair, and I don't know how many years no one has painted the Buddha with gold paint.
Circling around the Buddha statue, Gao Quan also stretched out his hand and pushed the Buddha statue, not moving. So a big Buddha statue, even if it is hollow inside, it must weigh thousands of catties, which person can push if he says that he can push it? Observe the floor one by one to see if the bluestone floor in the main hall has any signs of recent turning, Gao Quan wants to find a tunnel in the main hall.
Hong Yingying was observing the walls and beams of the Buddhist hall, and Liu Qi and Biao Zi were also looking here and knocking there, looking like Di Renjie, an expert in solving the case. A group of people looked through the Daxiong Treasure Hall for more than half an hour, but still found nothing. If it was so easy to find the flaw, the scouts would have found it long ago!
After inspecting all the corners of the Daxiong Treasure Palace, he didn't even find the slightest suspicious clue, and Gao Quan led the people out of the hall with a disgraced face. It's really grizzled, this place has not been cleaned for a long time, they are rummaging around in it, can they not rub their heads of dust and cobwebs?
After searching the main hall and searching the side hall, three Buddha halls were searched in a row, and more than two hours passed, except for the scout Xiaolong who led the way, he told everyone about the scene of the battle at that time, and pointed out the location of the sacrifice of the two scouts, and there were no other valuable clues.
Could it be that those spies really just settled in Dongchan Temple temporarily? Gao Quan still didn't believe it in his heart. In the meditation room, there is not even a cabinet for clothes other than the bed, and you can see the head at a glance when it is empty. These beds are quite neatly packed, and it is estimated that the left-behind soldiers used the meditation room as a dormitory at night.
There were so many rooms in the temple, and the soldiers of the reconnaissance company searched them one by one, and in some places even pried up the floor, but did not find any suspicious clues. If Gao Quan hadn't stopped him, it is estimated that the soldiers would have pushed the Buddha statue into the courtyard. How can it be said that these Buddha statues also seem to be religious relics, and it would be a pity if they were destroyed? Gao Quan's awareness of the protection of cultural relics is probably the highest on this mountain.
There are no clues in the temple, so there are only Jin Feilong and them waiting to search the surrounding mountains. Gao Quan walked out of the meditation room and stood in the courtyard and looked around. A few steps away from the meditation room is a large water tank, and a few meters away from the water tank there is a square wooden board on the ground, which looks like a large pot lid, almost more than a meter square.
This thing is also common, it is the lid of the vegetable cellar that every family in the countryside has, and the farmer digs a vegetable cellar in the yard, and stores some grain and vegetables in it, which is a natural fresh-keeping box. Gao Quan has seen this kind of equipment in many farmhouses.
Walked over and lifted the lid to look down, there was a slight musty smell of black rumbling below, and a cool and moist air rushed out of the hole. The cellar is like this, warm in winter and cool in summer, and now it is May, it is summer, and there is air conditioning in the cave.
"Bring me a flashlight."
Although he knew that there would be nothing suspicious in the cellar, Gao Quan still asked the scout for a flashlight and shone it in the cellar. As expected, there was nothing inside, and the flashlight could shine directly on the bottom of the vegetable cellar. Even if you put a few vegetables such as radish and cabbage in it, you can go down and take a look, but now you can see that your head is empty, and there is nothing but stones and soil, so what else is there to look at?
Gao Quan returned the flashlight to the scout with a disappointed face, and took the lid to cover the vegetable cellar. There's such a big hole here, what if someone accidentally falls down and falls out of a bad hole? For this kind of good things that can be done at hand, Gao Quan is never stingy.
"There's something wrong with this cellar!" Hong Yingying watched it for a long time, and suddenly said such a sentence in a surprising voice.
"What's wrong?" Gao Quan was taken aback, instinctively took two steps back, and the biaozi next to him took a few steps, standing directly in Gao Quan and the cellar! The eyes of everyone in the courtyard were on Hong Yingying.
Director Hong has seen a big scene, when he was the master of the village, his subordinates had at most thousands of heroes, and it was common to kill and make decisions in front of hundreds of people, so many people in the yard looked at her, Director Hong not only did not have a trace of nervousness or unnaturalness, but people held their heads high, the corners of their clothes fluttered in the wind, and they were so elegant, and they were so dusty.
"This cellar is not a place to build!" Hong Yingying was proud of the audience, and finally her eyes fell on Gao's body, and people still felt that Gao Junchang was eye-catching.
"There's nothing wrong with building a vegetable cellar to store vegetables, right? Even if the temple lives in a monk, the monk also has to eat vegetables, it is inconvenient to transport the vegetables here from the county, and it is not convenient to transport them here at a time, and eat them slowly, digging a vegetable cellar to keep them fresh, is there anything wrong? This is what Gao Quan asked, and he really couldn't see what could be wrong with a vegetable cellar.
"The military seat may not be too familiar with the mountains yet." Hong Yingying smiled softly at Gao Quan, and Commander Gao's eyes were a little straight at that time, "The mountains are not as good as the plains, and of course farmers can dig vegetable cellars in their yards on the plains." People on the mountain generally don't dig vegetable cellars, and if they really want to dig, they have to choose a place where the soil is thick enough, like around the county seat. But you look at this Dongchan Temple, the temple itself is built on the top of the mountain, and there are big stones under the feet, and the monks smashed the stones to dig a hole, just to be a vegetable cellar? ”
Vegetable cellar? Stone? Gao Quan's mind was as bright as opening two windows! "Go down and have a look!" As he spoke, he leaned forward, and he wanted to go down to the cellar to check.
"I'll go down!" None of the people present were stupid, and as soon as Hong Yingying finished speaking, everyone present knew what was going on. Gao Quan wanted to go down, naturally someone wanted to grab in front of him, there were so many people standing in the courtyard, and the good luck and evil in the vegetable cellar were unknown, how could he let the military seat go down to explore? It was Liu Qi who grabbed the front of Gao Quan.
"The general is in the back, the brigade commander is still waiting above, I'll go down and have a look first." Shi Lei stepped forward and grabbed Liu Qi, bent down and went into the vegetable cellar.
The crowd hula came up and surrounded the entrance of the vegetable cellar.
"All backwards, all backwards, don't block the air at the entrance of the cave!" Gao Quan saw that so many people gathered around the entrance of the vegetable cellar, and hurriedly drove the crowd back, the mouth of the vegetable cellar is so big, there are many people, the air flow is slow, and the people below must not lack oxygen?