This was also Xie Jing's first time in Zhou Jida's room. She quickly looked around and saw that the room was simply decorated. It didn't look like a five-year-old child's bedroom at all, but more like an adult's residence.
Zhou Jida put away all the clothes, shoes, etc., then opened a secret door in the wardrobe and carefully took out... a photo album.
Xie Jing was a little disappointed. It wasn't the necklace? But Zhou Jida also hid a photo album in the room? If Fang Qin knew, she would go crazy.
"You have to hide it well. If your aunt finds out, she will be angry." Xie Jing reminded him out of kindness.
Zhou Jida nodded: "I'm being careful. Mom told me to hide it. No one knows about it except my sister-in-law. Mom also told me not to tell anyone about these photos."
"But I like my sister-in-law so much, and I also hope that she can meet my mother."
Xie Jing patted the back of his head: "So this is... our little secret?"
Sure enough, as soon as you told him the little secret, Zhou Jida immediately became happy: "Yes, it's a little secret between me and my sister-in-law."
He flipped through the photo album and said, "These photos are all places my mother took me to."
He clicked on the first photo: "Mom said this was a photo of me when I was just one month old..."
Xie Jing sat next to him and said, "You were so small when you were born? You had handsome features from a young age."
Zhou Jida was so happy that he kept shaking his legs: "My mother also said that I am pretty."
The two sat together for a long time looking at the photos. Most of the photos in the album were of Zhou Jida and Lin Nan, but there were also some landscape photos. For example, Xie Jing saw many photos of temples.
Xie Jing was curious: "Your mother...believes in Buddhism?"
The mistress believed in Buddhism? Xie Jing couldn't help but feel a little surprised, but after thinking about it, she felt that she was a little narrow-minded. There are many Buddhists, and not everyone has a moral bottom line.
Zhou Jida shook his head: "I don't know either, but my mother often goes to Jingye Temple and often goes there to donate... incense money."
He smiled and said, "I overheard that my mother lit a long-burning lamp in Jingye Temple. I heard her say that lighting a long-burning lamp for people can eliminate sins."
"Eternal lamp?" Xie Jing's ears twitched slightly. As far as she knew, Lin Nan was an orphan. She had no elder relatives, so who could she light the eternal lamp for?
"Yeah," Zhou Jida carefully put the photo album away. "My mother used to go to Jingye Temple almost every month. She didn't take me when I was little, but as I grew older, she started taking me."
Xie Jing only felt that some thoughts flashed through her mind, but they disappeared in a flash, and she couldn't remember them no matter how hard she tried.
She pondered for a long time: "Where is Jingye Temple? If it is possible to light a perpetual lamp, my eldest sister-in-law would also like to light a couple for the elders."
Zhou Jida was still too young to explain it clearly. "I don't know, but it's in N City, near my hometown."
Xie Jing understood: "I understand."
Although she didn't see the pendant from Zhou Jida, after knowing the arrangements Lin Nan had made in Jingye Temple, Xie Jing knew that if they could dig out the secret behind the eternal lamp, perhaps they could break the deadlock.
After having lunch at the old house, Yun Zhao left the Zhou family's old house on the pretext of going to the Chinese medicine clinic for treatment in the afternoon. Of course, he also took Zhou Jiyun and Xie Jing with him.
As soon as they got in the car, Yun Zhao asked, "What's wrong? You seem a little distracted."
Xie Jing simply told him about Jingye Temple and the eternal lamp: "The more I think about it, the more I feel something is wrong. You said Lin Nan has no elder relatives, so who is she lighting the eternal lamp for?"
"It's a pity that Zhou Jida is too young to get to the bottom of it."
Zhou Jiyun drummed his fingers on the steering wheel and suddenly asked, "How many eternal lamps did Lin Nan light?"
Xie Jing sat up straight abruptly: "I didn't ask."
Yun Zhao and Yun Xu had obviously guessed something. They looked at each other and said, "Let's not go back. Let's go directly to Jingye Temple."
Xie Jing looked at the bodyguards' car following behind her. "Generally speaking, when we're going to get important evidence, it's very easy for things to go wrong. If others want to take action, they usually choose this time."
Zhou Jiyun was startled. Ever since he read all sorts of rebirth stories, time travel stories, and system stories, he'd become incredibly interested in low-probability events. Zhou Jiyun always felt that what seemed like a low-probability event to others was definitely a high-probability event to him.
So, half an hour after driving, Zhou Jiyun met up with Zhang Yifan, Siezi, Liuzi, and Sixi at the highway entrance. Together with the bodyguards brought by Yunxu and Yunzhao, they formed a convoy of about 20 people and headed straight for Jingye Temple.
In movies and TV shows, bodyguards usually wear black suits and sunglasses, looking very stylish.
But in real life, close protection is rarely like this, except for those who pretend to be so. For example, Brother Feng, as Yun Xu mentioned, has been hiding in the dark to protect Xie Jing.
The people he brought with him usually dressed normally and hid in the dark, so no one could tell they were bodyguards. The same was true for Zhang Yifan and others. They usually looked cynical and unruly, but in fact they were all very capable.
City N is only three hours away from City S. They set out at one o'clock and arrived near Jingye Temple at four o'clock.
Yun Xu looked at the message on his phone: "Jingye Temple is quite famous. I heard that it has a lot of pilgrims. The temple closes at 5 pm. We have to hurry."
Zhou Jiyun quickened his pace as instructed, arriving at the main gate of Jingye Temple at 4:55. Xie Jing clutched Zhou Jiyun's arm, panting heavily. Was it easy for her? Climbing the stairs all the way up from halfway up the mountain was truly difficult.
For someone who doesn't exercise much, this was really too difficult for her. Zhou Jiyun patted Xie Jing's back, helping her breathe more and more. "Are you okay?"
Xie Jing drank from his hand and said, "Not bad, let's get down to business first. If we're any later, the temple will be closed."
I've already taken ninety-nine steps. How can I retreat at the last one? If I want to rest, there will be plenty of time to rest later.
Seeing that she looked okay, Zhou Jiyun was reluctantly relieved. He was about to continue speaking when a monk came over and said, "I'm sorry, but our temple is about to close. Why don't you come back tomorrow?"
Yun Xu wanted to say something, but Zhou Jiyun had already spoken: "I'm so sorry, we heard that Jingye Temple is very effective, so we came all the way from S City."
"We came here today to light two eternal lamps according to your temple's highest standards..."
As he spoke, the monk's eyes lit up more and more. When Zhou Jiyun talked about the highest standards, the monk clasped his hands and sighed: "Amitabha, all donors, please follow me to see the abbot."
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