Huang Jinrong sent the two of them out of the office. After Cheng Shi and Shao Dengke walked out of the door, they sat in his private car.
Half an hour later, the car drove to the boundary of the concession and entered a garden covering an area of several acres. This was the Shao family.
The car stopped near the Buddhist temple. Both sides of the gravel road leading to the Buddhist temple were already lined with servants who bowed their heads and remained silent.
In the middle of the road stood a middle-aged man wearing a butler's clothes. When he saw the two people getting off the car, he quickly took a few steps forward to greet them.
"Master, you are finally back. The old lady has not eaten even a few bites of these two meals. If this continues, it will not be good for your health!"
Shao Dengke said hurriedly: "The old lady is there now, take me there!"
The butler said: "Buddha Hall!"
Shao Dengke then took Cheng Shi towards the Buddhist hall. As he walked, he looked at Cheng Shi beside him and said helplessly.
"My mother won't listen to what I say. I also hope that Agent Cheng will find the scripture quickly. If my mother doesn't eat, that won't work!"
Cheng Shi saw Shao Dengke's anxious look and could see that the other party was a filial person, so he said comfortingly.
"I will try my best to find scriptures. As for the problem of the old lady not eating, it is the first problem that needs to be solved at the moment!"
Shao Dengke shook his head and said helplessly: "But I can't persuade my mother to do what she believes. She must think that the loss of the Buddhist scriptures is her fault, and she is punishing herself!"
The two of them had arrived at the entrance of the Buddhist hall, and an old woman was sitting on her knees in the middle of the Buddhist hall.
Cheng Shi stopped Shao Dengke who was about to step forward, made another silent gesture, and then walked into the Buddhist hall.
Cheng Shi walked to the old lady's side. The old lady naturally felt someone coming next to her, but the other party remained silent.
The old lady opened her eyes and turned to look at Cheng Shi beside her. When she saw a stranger, she did not scream or show any fear.
Instead, he said with some confusion: "Who are you?!"
Cheng Shi smiled and said calmly: "A person who believes in Buddhism!"
"Since you believe in Buddhism, why don't you kneel down when you see him?"
"Kneeling down and worshiping is just a formality. It doesn't mean that I don't believe in Buddhism!"
"How can you prove that you really believe in Buddhism if you don't even follow the formalities?"
"I don't need to prove what I'm thinking. Buddha knows everything, so I don't kneel because it's something that happens many times in one fell swoop!"
The old lady stopped talking, Cheng Shi smiled, and then said: "Are you kneeling here to do this as a formality?"
"I came here to atone for my sins because I did something wrong!"
Cheng Shi continued: "If you really think you have done something wrong, can you atone for your sin by kneeling here?!
Do you think that the Buddha doesn’t know what you are thinking, so you come here to kneel down and let the Buddha know that you have realized your mistake? ! "
When the old lady heard this, she immediately retorted: "No, of course the Buddha knows!"
Cheng Shi continued: "That's because you don't think you did anything wrong, so you're afraid that the Buddha will know your true thoughts?!"
The old lady continued: "I didn't, I know I did something wrong, so... so..."
Cheng Shi continued: "If you really know that you are wrong, go and make up for it instead of kneeling here!
Moreover, you think that the Buddha will punish your family because of your unintentional mistakes, so you come here to kneel and worship.
Unless you are a false believer and don’t know that you are wrong, so the Buddha will punish you because of your fault! "
The old lady was stunned, then took a deep breath, clasped her hands together, and said to Cheng Shi calmly.
"Thank you. The state I was in just now was wrong. I was really possessed by a demon. Thank you for pulling me back from the state of being possessed!"
Cheng Shi continued: "You did make a mistake. What you did wrong was not losing the Buddhist scriptures, but because you took the Buddhist scriptures so seriously!
You don't go to eat very much because of the loss of a Buddhist scripture. The person you punish is not you, but your son! "
When the old lady heard this, she stared at Cheng Shi with some doubts. Cheng Shi then motioned to the old lady to look back.
Only then did the old lady see her anxious son at the door. The old lady breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to get up.
When Shao Dengke saw this, he quickly stepped forward and helped his mother up. The old woman looked at her son with a kind face.
The old lady said: "Son, my mother shouldn't have punished you by skipping meals. Fortunately, you have the master you invited to enlighten me!"
Otherwise, my mother would not have woken up so quickly. Where did you invite this master because of that Buddhist scripture? "
Shao Dengke was stunned for a moment, and quickly explained: "I came here because of the Buddhist scriptures, but this is not a master, but an agent from the patrol room, Cheng Shi, Agent Cheng!"
The old woman was stunned for a moment, then she came to her senses, and then said: "It's my fault, just now the woman was in a state of mind again. She has a Buddha in her heart, and it doesn't make any difference whether she is a master or not!"
Cheng Shi didn't say much, but changed the subject and said, "Where did you put the Buddhist scriptures, and who was guarding them in the Buddhist hall?!"
Shao Dengke then signaled to the housekeeper behind him to find the person who was looking after the Buddhist hall, and then pointed to the table under the Buddha statue.
The old lady said: "After I got the Buddhist sutra, I kept it on the Buddhist altar, and I would come over and recite it every morning.
When I got up early this morning, the maid discovered that the Buddhist scriptures were missing, so I didn’t react for a while! "
Cheng Shi nodded and walked to the Buddhist case. After the old lady pointed it out, Cheng Shi looked at the place where the Buddhist scriptures were originally placed.
At first glance, this place was constantly disturbed and spotless. Cheng Shixin wandered around the Buddhist hall and found no clues.
When Shao Dengke was observing Cheng Shi, he had already sent the old lady back to have a meal, and then returned.
"How's it going, Agent Cheng, did you find anything?!"
Cheng Shi shook his head and continued: "No discovery was made. However, the biggest discovery is that no discovery was made. There must be insiders involved."
Then the housekeeper also brought in three people, an old lady's personal maid, and two servants guarding the temple.
Cheng Shi first came to the maid and asked directly: "How many keys are there and how many people are in charge of this place? Did anything wrong happen when you came today?"
The maid replied nervously: "There is only one key here, and the key has always been hanging in the old lady's house.
The old lady said that the Buddhist hall is not suitable for people to come and go, so I am the only one responsible for cleaning here.
After I helped the old lady get up in the morning, I took the key to the Buddhist hall and entered the Buddhist hall as usual. There was nothing wrong! "
