Older people can't sleep at night and can't wake up during the day. Grandpa talked to Jiang Shuiyuan for a while, and in a blink of an eye, sleepiness surged, sat on the chair and began to doze. Jiang Shuiyuan couldn't help but be overjoyed when he saw this, tiptoed out of the yard, and after casually finding someone in the village to ask for the route to Shuibeixu, he embarked on the road of praying to God and making a wish without hesitation.

The mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk, but the water source of the river with dreams is unaware, like a wild horse that has taken off the leash, spreading its feet and running all the way. People who have walked through the mountain road know that it is best to walk leisurely without knowing the distance of the distance, especially at the beginning of the period when the body is full of energy and vigorous, and you can't run and jump violently, otherwise the body will be exhausted, the legs and feet will be sore, and the second half of the journey can be suffered! After this period of excitement, sweating like pulp, and his legs began to be sore, Jiang Shuiyuan was honest, and walked forward step by step.

There are few people in the mountains, and I didn't see anyone else after walking for more than half an hour, but I could only hear the flowing water and the birds chirping everywhere, and the river water source felt that it was so tasteless, so I had to roar twice from time to time, or recite a few ancient poems and a text to entertain myself and relieve my loneliness.

After walking for more than an hour, I saw that the sun had gradually turned west, and according to my grandfather's description, I should have arrived a long time ago, but the water source of the river still did not see the shadow of Shuibeixu. It is said that Shuibeixu is a small village and town, and I should not miss it, but why hasn't I arrived yet?

Just when Jiang Shuiyuan was secretly suspicious, a middle-aged woman came over, and he hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Auntie, how do you go to Shuibeixu?"

"Oh, Shuibei Market, just follow this road!"

"How far is that?"

"I guess there's still four or five miles, right?"

Jiang Shuiyuan was a little speechless: Has Grandpa ever been to Shuibeixu? This sense of distance is too bad, isn't it? He said that Jiangjiawan is only 13 or 4 miles away from Shuibeixu, and he has walked for half an afternoon, but there are still four or five miles to go, and it is estimated that the whole journey will add up to more than 20 miles! Could it be that the one mile of the people in the mountains is longer than the one mile on the plains? Thinking that he will have to return the same way after a while, Jiang Shuiyuan's heart is a little weak. But the thought that he could become a handsome guy immediately after asking God to make a wish, his spirit immediately lifted up, and he continued to move forward without hesitation.

This aunt didn't fool the water source of the river, and after walking for more than ten or twenty minutes, she saw a small village and town, which was the end of his trip. But where is the temple of Shuibei Niangniang?

In Shuibeixu, Jiang Shuiyuan shook his head and said he didn't know after asking several people. Jiang Shuiyuan was a little depressed: Could it be that the so-called Shuibei Niangniang was made up by his grandfather casually to coax him? It seems that his old man has already shook himself a little bit in the distance just now, does his old man think that it is harmless to pit his own grandson again? It was not until Jiang Shuiyuan asked an old woman who was over 80 years old that he found out that his grandfather was not a man of his own words.

The white-haired, somewhat deaf old woman seemed to remember some distant memory, and it took a long time to look at Jiang Shuiyuan with dizzy old eyes and said: "Yazi (Hakka dialect, meaning boy, son), are you asking about the Niangniang Temple? The temple was abandoned and collapsed decades ago, and few locals even knew, what are you doing in that place?"

Jiang Shuiyuan is happy and worried, happy is that there is indeed a place of Niangniang Temple, it seems that what Grandpa said is true; worrying is that Niangniang Temple has long been destroyed, I am afraid that it is not as effective as before, but there is always a trace of hope in his heart. He replied respectfully: "Mother-in-law, I heard my grandfather say that there is a Niangniang temple here, so I came to take a look." If you know where it is, tell me!"

The old grandmother shook her head: "That place has long been collapsed and abandoned, full of mud and wild weeds, what is there to see?

"Mother-in-law, you just sue me! If you don't sue me, I won't leave!" Although Jiang Shuiyuan has passed the age of selling cuteness, and it is not a suitable gender for selling cuteness, but in order to realize his lofty ideals, he had to lower his face and lower his body to pretend to be tender and cute. I don't know if it was the soft grinding and hard foaming that worked, or the old grandmother really couldn't stand the clumsy performance of Jiang Shuiyuan, and finally sued Sù for the route to Niangniang Temple.

"What? There are still seven or eight miles of mountain roads from here?" Jiang Shuiyuan couldn't help but gasp after hearing this.

The old woman nodded: "Yes, no one has been there for so many years, and it is estimated that the road is covered with grass, and you can't get down." Moreover, the Niangniang Temple is on the edge of the pond, which is unfathomable, and it may slip down if you are not careful. In the past, when the incense was in full bloom, several people drowned every year, and there was nowhere to find a corpse. Son, listen to your mother-in-law's advice and go back early!"

Jiang Shuiyuan looked at the sky, and it was estimated that it was almost five o'clock in the afternoon. If you go now, it is estimated that it will be almost dark when you get there, and at most you will be able to walk back to Shuibeixu after worshipping, and Jiangjiawan will definitely not be able to go back. But what if you don't go? I am afraid that it has violated the rules of heaven by sneaking out behind my family's back this time, and it may not be enough to be crushed under the Five Elements Mountain for hundreds of years, but if I want to walk out again before returning to Jiangsu to take the high school entrance examination, it is absolutely impossible!

After a little weighing, Jiang Shuiyuan gritted his teeth: Go, go now! It's a big deal to rush back to Jiangjiawan overnight!

Jiang Shuiyuan said goodbye to his grandmother, and resolutely embarked on the journey to visit Niangniang Temple despite the pain in his legs. As the old grandmother said, it took less than two miles to enter the mountain, and the mountain road was difficult to walk, and countless tenacious weeds grew in the cracks of the stone slabs, almost flooding the original road, and even a few trees with bad backgrounds actually settled down in the middle of the road, and no one took care of them in recent decades, and now it has become a towering tree, and the river water source can only be sideways to avoid it.

These are not too important, the key is that there are still a lot of thorny plants such as thorns, soil pepper, and wild roses along the way, which makes the river water source wearing short-sleeved clothes suffer a lot. And every time you pass by the river source, there will be a sound of rustling in the grass, and I don't know if it's a snake or a lizard, just thinking about it is enough to make people feel cold all over the body.

But none of this is enough to stop Jiang Shuiyuan's determination to become a handsome guy, especially now that hope is just around the corner!

When the light in the mountains gradually faded, Jiang Shuiyuan finally saw the pond described by the old woman. To be honest, the sudden appearance of a bottomless pond with a radius of one acre between the mountains where the green peaks stand is very abrupt, especially the thousands of walls around it are like knife cutting, which feels like it is artificially chiseled, rather than the work of creation.

The sky is dark, the moss is slippery, the stone steps are narrow, and there is no land, all of which make the river water source cautious. Slowly rubbed to the north of the reservoir in front of the Niangniang Temple, found that the temple is not very big, before and after only one into the courtyard, the wing room and the inverted house have already collapsed, Jiang Shuiyuan saw with his own eyes that the plaque of "Niangniang Temple in the north of the water was built in the north of the water" obliquely stood between a pile of broken bricks and tiles. Although one or two houses remain in the middle of the main hall and are relatively intact, rafters and earthen walls are exposed on both sides. As the grandmother said, this place has indeed long been collapsed and abandoned, and it is estimated that no one has worshiped it for at least a few decades!

This Shuibei Niangniang can't even shelter her own temple, can she bless others and become a beautiful woman and a handsome guy? Jiang Shuiyuan couldn't help but muttered in his heart.

Twenty-four bows were bowed, and it was not bad for the last trembling! Climbed over the earthen wall that was only half a meter high and entered the main courtyard, and then Jiang Shuiyuan imitated the etiquette of visiting the temple on television, straightened out his somewhat messy clothes, and respectfully pushed open the door of the main hall. I saw that the cobwebs inside were dense and the dust was piled up, but fortunately, there were no foreign objects such as rat dung and snake molts in it, which made Jiang Shuiyuan secretly relieved in his heart.

As for the appearance of Shuibei Niangniang, because it was late and the house was dark, Jiang Shuiyuan didn't see it very clearly, but only roughly saw that there should be a woman sitting on her knees in the middle. On the left is a fierce man in armor, presumably a Dharma protector or a guard. On the right is a woman standing with a scroll in her hand, presumably a maid who belongs to a secretary or something.

After a general observation, Jiang Shuiyuan ignored the dust on the ground, knelt on the ground, kowtowed three times in a proper manner, and prayed loudly: "I beg Shuibei Niangniang to show mercy, send kindness, and turn me into a handsome guy!"

As soon as he finished reading it for the second time, Jiang Shuiyuan heard a young woman's crisp laughter ringing in his ears: "To this day, there is still someone who can remember me?