When the two came down from Qingzhao Temple, Ye Chen kept holding the agarwood bracelet in his hand. He wanted to know the meaning of the bracelet left for him, but after thinking about it, he still couldn’t figure it out.
Let’s go by what Lin Wan’er said. The twenty-eight beads on this bracelet represent her current age. The other party put the twenty-eight beads into the bracelet, knowing that Lin Wan’er would notice something unusual and return to Qingzhao’an to investigate. After all, what message did you want to convey to yourself by deliberately leaving this bracelet to yourself?
In doubt, the two of them went down the mountain and climbed back up the mountain road again.
When we were going up the mountain again, we happened to meet some local old ladies. They were walking together and slowly walking down the mountain. Each of them was carrying a basket made of vines, and there were still some things in the basket. I put a lot of sesame oil, paper money and earthen incense.
Seeing this, Lin Wan’er stepped forward and asked politely: “Where are these old ladies going?”
One of the old ladies said, “I heard that Qingzhao Temple has reopened. Let’s go to Qingzhao Temple to worship Buddha and burn incense.”
Lin Wan’er asked curiously: “Has Qingzhao’an been locked up for a long time?”
The old lady nodded: “It hasn’t been opened for about ten or twenty years. There are fewer and fewer people in the mountains, and there is no incense in the temple. All the previous nuns have left. Yesterday, I heard from the villagers that new nuns have arrived. We Let’s go and pay homage together.”
Lin Wan’er said quickly: “You guys had better not go, the new nun from Qingzhao Temple has also left.”
“Leaving again?” Several old ladies looked disappointed: “Why did you leave just a few days ago?”
Lin Wan’er said: “Maybe I think there is not much incense here.”
Several old ladies were a little depressed, and they were a little undecided for a while.
One of the old ladies said: “The nun is gone, but the Buddha statue is still there. We have all come here, why don’t we go burn a few sticks of incense!”
Several other old ladies thought that this was indeed the case, so they agreed one after another.
Lin Wan’er saw that several people were worshiping Buddha sincerely, so she didn’t try to persuade them any more and warned, “Then please be safe, we’ll leave first.”
After bidding farewell to several old ladies, Lin Wan’er said to Ye Chen: “It seems that they came to Qingzhao’an temporarily. They probably arrived yesterday.”
Ye Chen agreed and said: “It’s possible that he noticed that we were here, or that Wu Feiyan was here, so he came over in advance to prepare.”
With that said, Ye Chen added: “What is certain now is that they know both us and Wu Feiyan very well. Maybe they are also monitoring us in some way at this moment.”
Lin Wan’er sighed and said helplessly: “Every mountain is higher than the other. If you have the opportunity to meet the person in charge behind them in the future, you must humbly ask her for advice.”
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