The superstition of rural people has been around for a long time, and within a few years of reform and opening up, the activities of burning incense and worshiping gods among the common people have been born again in the spring breeze.

The New Year's Day of 1989 was approaching, and the villagers of Yuchi Village, Zhoujiazhuang Village, Hongshuigou Village, Chen Village, and Wangjiawan Village on the east and west banks of the Jinling River raised funds to build the newly built Sansheng Temple. The temple is built on a plateau on the west bank of the Jinling River, which is relatively close to several nearby villages.

It is rumored that the wheat milling field was opened up by several large landlords in the early days, but then it was somehow abandoned, and it became a mass grave, and after liberation, it became a public trial and an execution ground for shooting prisoners, and then the execution ground was also abandoned, and this field was completely reduced to a wasteland overgrown with weeds and no one set foot on it.

If it's just wasteland, on the mountains on both sides of the Jinling River, there are a lot of abandoned and barren land, and there is not much of this piece, but there are many strange things happening in this wasteland alone.

As the saying goes, since ancient times, the folk are so weird, and there have been rumors about the strange things about this wasteland, and after the reform and opening up, especially in the late eighties in the past few years, there is a tendency to burn the prairies, and more than a dozen villages in the entire Jinhe Township have been said conclusively, and there are indeed strange things.

Of course, the most rumored are the villagers of the five villages near the wasteland, the wasteland is on the half of the Jinling River, Yuchi Village, Zhoujiazhuang Village, Hongshuigou Village, Chen Village, Wangjiawan Village are either adjacent to it, or they are facing each other, in short, the people in the five villages can always see the wasteland from a distance day and night, and there are more strange things about it.

It is rumored that this wasteland is located in the extreme yin, and over the past few decades, many ownerless dead people have been buried, and when it was used as a place of execution, it was contaminated with a lot of blood, and it gradually became a haunt of demons and monsters. Not only that, but these demons and monsters can also swim into nearby villages to harm people.

"Yan Bao'er" of Yuchi Village had a stomach problem in the middle of the night, and when he got up to go to the toilet, he was hooked by ghosts and ghosts, and he was still crazy and stupid; "Zhou Laoshi" of Zhoujiazhuang Village went to the hill to graze sheep in broad daylight, and in the evening the sheep went home by themselves, but his people were gone, and a few days later he found his body in the grass of the wasteland, and his whole body was dried up like firewood, and it was said that he had been sucked dry of his essence and blood by goblins; and "Hu Daring" of Hongshuigou Village Self-sustaining and strong, bold as a tiger, making a bet with others to dare to sleep in the wasteland for a night, the next day was found to be in a trance back home, for several days without eating or drinking, and finally starved to death, when he died, he vomited yellow water on the ground, and it was rumored that he was frightened and vomited out of the bile; Chen Village's "Chen Jixiang" came back from playing mahjong in the middle of the night, and saw a woman in white with long hair fluttering in the corner of the wall crying in the distance, he approached to inquire about the reason, how did he know that the woman had no facial features when she looked up, and he was so frightened that he stumbled home. In hindsight, the reason why he saved his life was because he was wearing a peace charm that his mother had asked for him; "Wang Qiaoying" in Wangjiawan Village had been dead for six or seven years, and she was buried near the wasteland, and it was rumored that someone had met her on the way back to the village, and they chatted all the way together, and when they went back to the village and talked about it with their families, they knew that this person had died, and they were so frightened that they went to Wang Qiaoying's house to burn a lot of paper money the next day.

These strange stories were all heard intermittently from the old people in the neighborhood, and he was afraid for a while, and he didn't even dare to go to his yard at night. Because his house is on the high ground on the east bank of the Jinling River, the closest to the entrance of the village, standing in the courtyard, you can see the wasteland on the opposite bank at a glance. What's more, the courtyard wall of his house is low, and there is no courtyard gate, and there is a small slope in the gap that is set aside for entry and exit, and at night that place is pitch black, which makes him feel furious.

Ye Shifang has also heard these rumors, but the old man always smiles, he said to his family, our family believes in the three saints of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, and the gods and goddesses in the sky and the earth are all their disciples. Besides, as long as people are kind-hearted, act rightly, and sit upright, even if there are these demons and monsters, they will not dare to come to our house.

The fear in Cultivator's heart was slightly reduced, but he still didn't dare to go to the yard alone at night, even if he couldn't help but go to the toilet, he had to go out, and he would beg his mother to accompany him with a flashlight.

Since the reform and opening up, the state has maintained a relatively open policy for the religious beliefs of the common people, and the countryside has gradually repaired or rebuilt those abandoned land temples, mountain temples, dragon king temples and so on. On the fifteenth day of the new year, during the New Year's Festival, the incense of each small temple continues, and the tributes are also continuous. If it coincides with the temple fair celebration, the stage is set up again, and the people of these ten miles and eight towns will gather at the temple fair celebration, the kind of crowded, you hug me and crowd the scene, it is spectacular.

In view of the strange things that were said about that wasteland, in order to calm the hearts of the people and for the long-term peace of the five villages, the clan elders in the village got together to discuss and unanimously agreed to hire a feng shui master or a Maoshan master to come and find a solution.

Under the heavy reward, there was indeed a brave man, and a young Taoist priest really came behind, and after he carefully looked at this wasteland, he said that it was indeed evil here. Originally, there should be a city god temple in this place to suppress the demons, but now that this temple is gone, it is naturally strange things.

The villagers were not optimistic about the young Taoist priest, fearing that he was a liar in disguise, but when they heard him say that there was a city god temple in this place, they were even more disbelieving. They are all natives, older, and have lived for seventy or eighty years, and have never seen or heard of the City God Temple on the wasteland, so they naturally do not take the words of the Taoist priest seriously. Who knew that there was an old gentleman over 100 years old in Zhoujiazhuang Village who was carried out by his family, saying that the words of the Taoist priest were true, and that wasteland did have a city god temple hundreds of years ago, and the villagers of the five villages were convinced in surprise.

The Taoist priest gave a strategy to solve the problem, saying that there are three kinds of upper, middle and lower: the best strategy is that the villagers of the five villages have the money to contribute, and they have the strength to contribute, and everyone raises funds to build a temple on the wasteland, so that the gods in the temple can suppress the demons and evil spirits on this land. This is a one-and-done method, but it takes longer and costs more; the middle strategy is that he draws a talisman for every household for everyone, and as long as the villagers do not come out at night to run around, they are absolutely safe in their own homes. Of course, although the money for each talisman is not much, it still has to be collected, after all, drawing the talisman is to consume the mana of the Daoist, and the next strategy is that the people of the five villages will either relocate, or stay away from here, or ignore it, anyway, the demons and monsters will not necessarily come to the door. This is the most cost-effective way to pay for this viewing.

The elders of the five villages met together to discuss, and the final result was to choose the best policy, which was to be done once and for all. So according to the plans and architectural drawings given by the Taoist priests, the approximate cost was calculated, although it was not mandatory, but each household was more or less apportioned some labor or money.

During the construction process, the Taoist priest supervised the whole process, cleared the barren grass, leveled the site, and excavated the foundation. Sure enough, when digging the foundation, I dug up the architectural traces of the previous City God Temple. However, the strange thing is that as a rumored mass grave, from the beginning of construction to the completion of the temple, not a single human skeleton has been cleaned up. However, there are two or three pairs of white bones of animals, and from the teeth of Sen Sen, you can know that they are from wolves or dogs.

The Taoist priest said that there is no need to wonder why there are no people's bones, because he used the Five Elements Relocation Dafa to move the bones under the foundation of the temple, and only in this way can those demons and monsters be suppressed.

The villagers are naturally convinced of this, and no one can demolish the temple that is about to be built in order to prove this, and then dig up the foundation to see if there are any white bones. Besides, the young Taoist priest is not a local, but he actually knows that there was a city god temple here, and in the process of construction, the ruins have indeed been dug up, in view of this, the villagers are naturally happy and convinced of the Taoist priest.

The cultivator's family did not contribute labor, but donated a big unity, which is a lot of money, and the name of Niu Chuanqing, the old man of the Niu family, was engraved on the stone tablet of the temple. And on the day when the temple was built to the main beam, Niu Chuanqing was also invited to participate in the ceremony, and the cultivator also followed to see the excitement. Who knew that in the middle of the night when he came back, he didn't know what was wrong? The two ears of the cultivator always heard a group of people shouting for help, and he was so frightened that he got into the bed of his father-in-law Ye Shifang and did not dare to come out.

"Father-in-law, I heard a lot of people calling me, it sounds so scary, is there really a ghost?"

Ye Shifang hugged him and comforted: "Cultivate, don't be afraid, your father-in-law and your grandmother are here." You must not agree, our family has the blessing of Buddha and Bodhisattva, even if there are really ghosts, we are not afraid!"