159. Chapter 78 A Secret Door Behind the Cloak The Taoist Monk Harbors Evil Intentions
When the long stone is moved to the top, the square slab is also fully opened.
Master Yan put the flashlight into the square hole, swept it around, and then shouted to the people below: "There is a Bodhisattva above." The entrance to the secret path is inside the bodhisattva's belly. ”
Ouyang Ping and Liu Dayu stood on the second stone step and looked above the entrance of the cave, about a meter above the entrance of the cave, there were some wooden strips tied horizontally and vertically, the wooden strips were fixed with iron wires, and around the wooden shelves, there were some exposed hair, grass and hemp fibers.
The bodhisattvas we usually see are dignified, majestic, vivid, and dignified, but in fact they are all propped up with wooden frames, and pasted with mud and hair, grass, and hemp fibers. I don't know what the ancestors thought, making one giant after another out of mud, but they have to deceive themselves and say that they are supreme gods; People know that these bodhisattvas sitting on the altar are nothing, but they still have to prostrate on the ground and worship.
Looking at the diameter and height of the wooden shelf, the Bodhisattva will not be a small Bodhisattva
"It should be Guanyin Bodhisattva above." Ouyang Ping said.
Everyone was very excited, the night before yesterday, that is, the night of the first day when the comrades were stationed in the Mingchen Temple, when Ouyang Ping and his entourage went to the Tibetan Scripture Hall and passed by the Jingwu Temple, they must have been followed, and this person was at the entrance of this secret passage to monitor and follow everyone, and slipped through the entrance of this secret passage.
So, how did the entrance to this secret passage become seamless?
"Captain Ouyang, there should be an entrance up there." Master Yan said.
"Master Yan, you go up there and have a look first."
Master Yan climbed the upper cave and groped for a while on the south side of the Buddha statue - in the Jingwu Hall, in the two important positions in the north and south, there are two Bodhisattvas of respect, the Bodhisattva facing south and north is Maitreya Buddha, and he lies on a half-meter-high pedestal; Facing north and facing south is Guanyin Bodhisattva, who stands on a lotus throne about one meter high.
Therefore, the south side of Guanyin Bodhisattva should be the back.
After a while, Master Yan opened a square door with a side length of about 60 centimeters, Master Yan pushed the shield outward with his right hand, and the person standing under the square hole instantly saw the light, the right side of the square door was fixed on the Bodhisattva's mud tire with hinges, and the wooden frame that played a supporting role in the mud tire was fixed on a wooden strip.
Master Yan was the first to drill out of Guanyin Bodhisattva's back, and Ouyang Ping and others drilled out of Guanyin Bodhisattva's back in turn.
Master Yan's judgment was not wrong, the entrance to the secret path was indeed in the stomach of Guanyin Bodhisattva. There are two entrances to the tunnels, and the outermost one is cleverly designed, with a layer of mud on top of the square door, and some hair, grass, and hemp fibers stuck to the mud. When the mud door was closed, the mud door and the Bodhisattva's mud body were completely one, and all the gaps were completely covered by hair, grass, and hemp fibers in the same direction. There are many layers of clothes on the bodhisattva's body, layer by layer, and there is a cloak on the outermost, so it is difficult to find the first entrance to the secret passage outside. The lotus throne should be a relatively ideal observation point, standing here, the situation inside the main hall is clear at a glance. A floor-to-ceiling cloak hides all the signs. If it weren't for the fact that the comrades had discovered that the cloak was fluttering in the absence of wind, no one would have thought that behind the cloak was hiding an entrance to a secret passage - at that time, the comrades did not think of this.