I said, "It doesn't matter if there are lamas guarding in the temple. I can steal under their noses. But I can't do anything about those three copper locks."

Lao Tong said: "I can teach you how to unlock the lock. Any lock is made by man; everything made by man has a way to crack it."

After the old couple finished speaking, they asked me to support me to the iron fence gate. He held the lock with one hand and gestured to me with the other. He said, "The lock is like a castle. The weakest link of the castle is at the city gate, and the weakest link of the lock is at the key jack. When attacking the castle, they always concentrate their superior forces to attack the city gate; to open the lock, they can only think of ways from the key jack. Generally, locks will have key jacks."

I said, "As the saying goes, if a key opens a lock, the lock changes continuously, how can it be opened?"

Lao Tong said: "It's not entirely true. Some locks do not have keys, such as the one in Chifeng Temple."

Lao Tong continued: "There are three doors in the basement of Chifeng Temple, and the locks on each door are different. The first door uses a keyless lock, the second door uses a secret door lock, and the third door uses a password lock. The only one who knows the secret of the three locks except the abbot of the temple."

I was very curious about what this old Tong did, how could he know the secrets in the temple. People outside the basement of the temple must not be able to enter, and outsiders do not know the secret of the lock. I wanted to ask him, but I felt that Lao Tong was too mysterious. He kept scolding people from the public, obviously not from the public; he knew nothing about slander, obviously not from the Jianghu. He was not from the public, nor from the Jianghu. Then he was ordinary people, but how could ordinary people unlock locks? How could they know so many things on the grassland?

The old couple continued: "After you enter Chifeng Temple, you walk to the back hall. The back hall enshrines a large black god. There is a wooden board under the shrine. When you uncover the wooden board, you enter the basement..."

I asked, "What is the Great Black God?"

Laotong said: "The Great Black God is the incarnation of Shiva of Brahmanism, with three heads and six arms, and a hideous face. He is the guardian god in Buddhism and the doctor god in Brahmanism."

I nodded.

Lao Tong continued: "The first door in the basement uses a keyless lock. It has no key, and it does not need to open it. There is only one way to open it. Use the thumb, index finger and middle finger of the right hand to hold the lock shell, and use the three fingers of the left hand to hold the lock beam. The lock shell and lock beam are gently squeezed, and then gently pull it open. If you master the fulcrum and focus point, you can use skill to open it..."

As the old couple was talking, suddenly there was a shout in the yard. A black shadow flashed outside the iron fence gate like lightning. Then, two gunshots and the slow footsteps of pursuit were heard. The prison guards fired. Just listening to their footsteps, they knew that they could not catch up with the person in front.

Who is that person? Is it one of those people I saw the last night? Or is it a prison escaper who was locked in prison? This person is very skilled and obviously a person in the world.

Two gunshots caused a great commotion in the prison. I heard sounds in almost every cell, shouting, speaking, getting up, and asking... It sounded like a few torches and walked into the prison. A group of guards waved swords and guns, shouting fiercely: "Shut up, shut up."

It took a long time before the prison cell was resting and the guards left.

Lao Tong took over the topic just now and said: "The first door lock is a keyless lock, and the second door lock is a secret door lock."

I asked, "What is a secret door lock?"

Lao Tong said: "The secret door lock is further than the ordinary lock. Its keyhole is hidden in the mechanism. A secret door lock, if you don't understand, you can't find the keyhole. However, those who know how to knock on the door will easily open it. The secret door lock in Chifeng Temple has an evil-proof sword carved on the lock beam. As long as you hold the hilt of the sword, the copper piece at the bottom of the lock will be removed to reveal the keyhole. In this way, the secret door lock becomes an ordinary lock."

I asked, "Even a normal lock, I can't open it."

Lao Tong said: "A lock like a cell is the most common lock. You only need to find an iron wire, and one end of the wire is bent into an arc, and the wire is tilted into the lock hole, and then tentatively pick and hook it, and then pull it again and then the lock will be opened."

Lao Tong took out the wire from the sole of his shoes, twisted it with his fingers, and handed it to me. I saw that the front end was indeed curved, like a spoon. I put the front end into the iron lock, thinking that I would be able to open the iron lock soon, but no matter how I hooked it, the lock could not be opened.

The old couple took the wire, shook their wrists and the lock opened. He said: "It takes skill to open the lock. Your fingers must be able to feel the subtle changes in the front end through the wire. When the arc-shaped top of the wire presses against the lock spring, there will be a slight vibration. When the lock is pulled again, the lock will open."

I asked: "The first lock is a keyless lock, the second lock is a secret door lock, and the third lock is a password lock. What is a password lock?"

Lao Tong said: "The password lock is a horizontal cylindrical lock. There are five plucks arranged on the circular column core. The wheels can rotate. Each wheel is engraved with four Chinese characters, a total of twenty Chinese characters. When the five Chinese characters on the left and right can form a password, the lock will open."

I asked, "What password should I form?"

Lao Tong said: "The password of each password lock is different. The password is generally some verses of right and wrong. The password of this password lock is 'The fire soup is self-destructed'."

I said: "The fire soup is destroyed by itself. This is from a poem in "The Great Compassion Mantra". The difference is that the two lines of poetry are combined into one. The original text is as follows: If I go to the sword mountain, the sword mountain will be destroyed by itself; if I go to the fire soup, the fire soup will be exhausted."

Lao Tong said: "Yes, people in the empty sect can guess the Great Compassion Mantra correctly, but they can't guess correctly, 'The fire soup will be destroyed by itself'. As for people in the world, they don't know what the Great Compassion Mantra means. Hey, how could you know the Great Compassion Mantra?"

I said, "I have been a monk."

I thought that Lao Tonghui continued to ask about my monk, but he did not ask. He said, "I have told you the secrets of the three locks. You can carefully study them and try to take out the copper helmet as soon as possible. I will also help you find the big diamond."

I nodded.

The old couple said again: "You can only go out at night and come back at dawn. When the wind is blowing in the morning, you will count the number of people, and when the meal is on, you will also count the number of people."

I said, "I will."

It was dawn, and the guards shouted in the yard, and I said, "I will go out tonight and check the terrain first."

The old couple said, "I will unlock the lock tonight and let you go."

The prison lets the air flow once a day and eats two meals. When it is letting the air flow, everyone comes to the yard to breathe; when eating, the porridge made of moldy rice is handed in through the iron fence door, and we eat in the cell with the smell of urine, shit and shit. A few years ago, I watched the American TV series "Prison Break" and the American movie "Shawshank Redemption". Compared with the prisons we have squatting, the American prison is paradise.

Finally, I stayed up late. My co-worker opened the lock and I came to the yard of the prison.

There was a big tree near the wall of the prison. I climbed up the branches in a few seconds. Seeing that there was no movement in the yard, I walked along the branches to the roof. I thought that if I slipped down the roof, it would be outside the prison. However, I didn't expect that under these houses was the place where the guards lived. I saw guards shuttle and go, and I lay on the roof, not daring to make any sound.

I don’t know how long I waited, but there was no movement in the houses where the guards lived. The moon showed a pale face from the clouds. I hanged the rafters in front of the eaves of the house and gently jumped into the small courtyard where the guards lived.

There was a door in the guarded courtyard, but the door was not closed that night, and they might not have expected anyone to escape from their courtyard.

I opened the door and came outside the yard. Looking at the moonlight falling all over the ground, I felt that I was about to fly, and the breath of freedom was so fragrant.

Outside the prison is the grassland. The grassland under the moonlight, the grasslands float like the rough sea. I rolled on the grassland and rolled out a long way, startling an unknown little animal and screaming and escaping far away.

There is nothing more precious than freedom.

Later, when I got tired, I got up panting and walked aimlessly. I forgot to ask my elder brothers where is Chifeng Temple. Anyway, I don’t have to go to Chifeng Temple tonight, so I will walk around first.

After walking about ten miles, I saw a yurt. There was a tranquility inside the yurt. There was a horse house outside the yurt. I went in and heard the sound of horses sniffing. This horse house was fed. I listened to my old friends telling those stories for a few days and nights, which made me very sleepy. I would have a sleep in this yurt tonight.

I touched a pile of weeds, spread the weeds under me, and fell asleep quickly while lying.

In the midst of the storm, I heard the sound of rustling footsteps in the horse house. Could it be that the owner came to the horse house to add grass? I suddenly lost all sleepiness and sat up gently. However, because there were dry weeds under my body, it still made a sound.

The rustling footsteps suddenly stopped, and the horse's house fell into a dead silence. Occasionally, only the sound of horses sounded wet. I knew that the other party was in the dark horse's house, and the other party knew that I was in the dark horse's house. I was thinking about the other party, and the other party was thinking about me. None of us dared to move, nor did we make a sound.

Time seems to solidify, and the air is so tight that it can be ignited by scratching the fire.

Later, the other party couldn't help it anymore. I heard him move out the door gently. I judged that he was not the master. If he was the master, he would have shouted a long time ago. He might be a horse thief.

I spoke out and tentatively said, "Did you eat the thoughts?"

The other party let out a long sigh and said, "It turned out to be a piano."

I asked him if he was a man in the world, and he said he was a brother.
Chapter completed!