Chapter 86: Another Half-Parchment

Zhou Shaoyu understood immediately. He drew his sword from his waist, stood in front of Xie Yanyan, and pulled her behind him.

Xu Wenrong also knew what was going on, and immediately stood beside her, with Zhou Shaoyu standing back to back to protect Xie Yanyan.

Zhou Jin stood beside Zhou Shaoyu, blocking in front of him.

Xie Yanyan suddenly said: "Let's go!"

Originally, she "saw" several people standing on the third and fourth floors of the tower, searching for something.

Probably because they noticed them coming in, those people immediately jumped away, but according to Xie Yanyan's current scanning range, those people did not go far and were still about 500 meters away.

Xu Wenrong asked in a low voice: "Which direction did the person go?"

Xie Yanyan pointed to the mountain: "On those trees."

The man in black on the tree: |||! Is this a person? How can we see him hiding here?

Zhou Shaoyu:?

[Her eyesight is so sharp? She can see 500 steps away]

[No, her hearing is very good, she must have heard the other person's breathing]

Xie Yanyan: You are right!

The old abbot had just gone to see the sick child. When he learned that Xie Yanyan had given medicine and money, he was excited and followed him again.

“This is what the man left behind.”

He held a box and handed a parchment scroll to Zhou Shaoyu. The parchment scroll looked quite old, with the picture half torn and very worn.

Zhou Jin kept staring at the trees over there, and Zhou Shaoyu took the parchment scroll.

The parchment scroll is well preserved and the picture is clear, depicting the Solitary Moon Temple, the mountain, the main hall and the pagoda.

There are two strange trees in front of the pagoda. The two trees are entangled like snakes, and there are two holes on the trunks.

It says above: North of Solitary Moon Temple and west of the fake pavilion.

Signature seal: The moon is brightest in my hometown

The time is the 25th year of Emperor Cheng

Xie Yanyan:

Could it be that some senior died and traveled through time to the Han Dynasty?

"What does this mean?"

Is there a place called Jiatingxi to the north of Guyue Temple?

The abbot shook his head. There was no such thing as a fake pavilion. There was no place called a fake pavilion, not even a real pavilion.

But what's the point of keeping this parchment scroll?

Xie Yanyan took a look at the parchment scroll and felt that it looked familiar.

Pointing to the two trees on the parchment scroll, he said, "These trees are so strange."

The old abbot said something shocking: "These two trees are in the temple."

The old abbot led them to the side courtyard northwest of the Solitary Moon Pagoda, opened the gate, and saw two strange entwined trees.

One of the trees had been struck by lightning, leaving only half of its crown and a dark trunk with the bark gone, now covered with moss and parasitic vines.

The peculiar thing is that the two trees grow together, entangled from the roots, but at a height of more than three meters, the two trees separate, with a distance of about one meter between them, and then go up and entangled again.

It forms a strange bracket () shape.

At the position of the brackets, there is a tree hole in the trunk of each tree. The two tree holes, one on the east side is slightly higher, and the other on the west side is slightly lower, face each other.

The abbot said that there is a legend about these two trees: if you take a copper coin and throw it from one side to the other, if you throw it accurately, you will open a treasure.

Although it is a legend, many people have come here to try their luck. The old abbot said that two hundred years ago, this place was bustling with people every day, from high-ranking officials to ordinary people, all of whom came here with copper coins or silver to try their luck.

But none of them succeeded. It was too difficult to pass from one tree hole to another. A young man once succeeded, but he didn't find any treasure.

Since then, people have been rumored that the treasure story is a gimmick, a scam to increase the number of visitors to the temple.

Gradually, fewer and fewer people came, until now the place is deserted and almost no one cares about coming. Even the monks are only four of them. It doesn't feel like a temple, but more like a dilapidated mountain dwelling.

Xie Yanyan: I guess Emperor Xuanwen didn’t hit the target either, otherwise this temple wouldn’t be so dilapidated!

Xu Wenrong asked with a smile: "Do you want to vote, Prince?"

Zhou Shaoyu said confidently: "I won't shoot. It would be too embarrassing if I miss."

Xu Wenrong smiled and said, "If you don't vote, I will."

In the light of the lantern, he took out a coin and threw it through the hole on the side. Everyone watched him throw the coin, and saw the coin hit something with a "bang".

Before I could react, the money fell to the ground.

Several people burst into laughter.

Zhou Jin used his inner strength to throw it again, but it also failed.

Zhou Shaoyu looked at Xie Yanyan.

Xie Yanyan picked up a coin and said, it didn’t matter. She would just play for fun. After all, she was a woman and wouldn’t need any treasure to be the overlord.

Everyone was waiting to see her throw the money in, when suddenly a "click" sound was heard in the distance. Everyone instinctively turned to look and saw that it was the big tree where the men in black were hiding. Suddenly the crown of the tree broke, and some people were unable to dodge and fell from the tree.

At the moment when everyone turned their heads to look, Xie Yanyan aimed at the tree hole and threw the coin lightly, and the coin fell into the tree hole.

? Where is the money?

It neither fell from its side nor from the opposite side.

As soon as Xie Yanyan threw it out, the scanner immediately tracked the copper coin, but it could not track it. Since the copper coin fell into the tree hole, it seemed to have entered a light and could no longer be seen.

Xu Wenrong, Zhou Jin and the old abbot were all attracted by the sudden breakage of the trees in the distance.

Her action of throwing money was only seen by Zhou Shaoyu.

Zhou Shaoyu did not look at the place where the man in black fell in the distance like others did, but instead focused his eyes on her.

He saw her throw the money in for a split second, and it never came out.

Everyone turned around to look, and Xie Yanyan was already standing there calmly.

"Cousin, do you want to vote too?"

"No more voting."

Xie Yanyan looked at the two tree holes indifferently. Not to mention opening the treasure, she even put in a penny.

Everyone looked at the tree hole and saw the treasure gourd on the top of the Solitary Moon Tower opposite. Under the moonlight, the small hole formed an image, which fell from the tree hole on the opposite side to the ground from the tree hole on this side along with the moonlight. It was round like two copper coins.

The old abbot said that the Solitary Moon Pagoda is dark and gloomy at night, but everyone can go in and have some fun during the day.

Everyone sighed for a while, then walked around at night with candles, and then went to the main hall to burn incense and worship.

Xie Yanyan has been secretly recording videos since entering the Solitary Moon Temple, covering the layout, scale, monks' customs, the Solitary Moon Tower, the two strange trees, and even the Buddha worship in the main hall.

The deity enshrined in the main hall is Sakyamuni. The incense burner is completely different from the one in her previous life. It is very exquisite, a Boshan incense burner, like a bud about to bloom.

The fragrance is also very pleasant.

The old abbot said ashamedly: "The temple is too poor and can't afford incense."

The incense they burned was the last remaining incense in the temple.

There was a wooden merit box in front of the main hall. Zhou Shaoyu took out a few pieces of silver from his arms, Zhou Jin took out one piece, and Xu Wenrong also took out one piece.

After throwing it down and hearing the sound of it hitting the wooden floor, you know the merit box is empty.

Xie Yanyan did not donate, but he had just given Huiming two ingots of silver, 100 taels in total.

The old abbot's face was splitting with laughter. He received several hundred taels of silver today. If he spent it frugally, it would be enough to cover the temple's living expenses for several years.

He was happy and led everyone to the back.

Unlocking the rusty iron locks on the doors, the old abbot said, "Only the emperor or the prince are qualified to enter here. No one else can enter."

(End of this chapter)