Chapter 118: Lanruo Temple shelters from the rain
The rain gradually subsided, Yan Chixia opened the door, and a cold wind blew in, which made Yan Chixia feel excited.
"Scholar, do you know why I came to Lanruo Temple?" Yan Chixia turned around and asked.
Jiang Zhou shook his head, in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, there were broken wood scattered everywhere, he picked up some, lit a fire, took off his green robe, and put it in front of the fire to roast.
"Scholar, why did you pass through here?" Yan Chixia closed the door of the temple and sat on the opposite side of the fire to roast the fire.
"Xiaosheng participated in the township test, passed through here, encountered wolves chasing after him, and coincided with a thunderstorm, so he had to take refuge here."
The heat rose from the green robe, covering his vision, and there was a fire in the middle, so he couldn't see Yan Chixia's expression at this time.
"So, you're still a showman, aren't you? But you don't have a background, no matter how good your essay is, you won't be able to get famous. Yan Chixia took out a wine gourd from her waist, unscrewed the lid, raised her hand, and said, "Scholar, can you drink something to warm up?" ”
Jiangzhou has not drunk this ancient wine yet, the green robe has dried, but the underwear is still wet, but Yan Chixia is there, and he can't take it off to dry. I had to put it on first.
went around to Yan Chixia, looked like the ancients, hugged his fists and said: "The Taoist chief's good intentions, Xiaosheng has received it." ”
Yan Chixia handed over the wine gourd, Jiang Zhou took it in his hand, heavyly, raised the wine gourd, raised his head and drank it.
After the wine is entered, the wine has a mellow aroma, some sweet taste, and the aftertaste is even more mellow, which makes people want to take a sip. A warmth rose from the stomach, and in an instant, it swept all over the body, and the body, which was originally a little cold, became warm at this time. Compared with those liquors in later generations, this wine does not have a bit of scorching sensation, and there is no alcohol blending.
"Good wine, Dao Chief, what kind of wine is this?" Jiang Zhou couldn't help but ask happily.
"It's a burning knife."
"Is there a burning knife at this point?" Jiangzhou remembered that the distilled liquor of burning knives was brought into the Central Plains after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs.
"This is a wine from the Manchus in the north, the Central Plains generation can rarely get it, after drinking this wine, you can leave Lanruo Temple as much as possible."
"Why?" Jiangzhou returned the wine gourd to Yan Chixia.
"You don't have to ask, just leave, go east out of Lanruo Temple, avoid Montenegro and wolves." Yan Chixia explained carefully.
Jiangzhou didn't know where Yan Chixia came for the purpose, but he pretended to know nothing.
How could he leave like this, he hadn't figured out why he appeared in Lanruo Temple hundreds of years ago and met Yan Chixia.
"Dao Chief, you see that although there is no heavy rain outside, it is still raining lightly, and it is night, I am out of here, and I don't even have a place to rest, so I should stay for one night and leave tomorrow morning."
Yan Chixia poured all the wine in the wine gourd into her stomach, put away the wine gourd, and said: "Scholar, don't blame me for not reminding you, if something happens at night, I can't take care of you, you have to leave Lanruo Temple quickly." ”
"Thank you for your kindness, but what can happen to this broken temple?"
"Scholar, have you ever seen a demon?" Yan Chixia's tiger eyes were wide open, and her big palm was holding her beard like a mess of grass.
"I've heard of it, but I've never seen it."
"Have you ever seen a ghost?"
"I haven't seen it yet."
Seeing that Jiang Zhou didn't have a frightened expression, Yan Chixia was strange.
"Don't you feel scared?"
"Xiaosheng behaves rightly, sits upright, has never done anything bad in his life, and is not afraid of ghosts knocking on the door in the middle of the night."
"It's really pedantic, literati are pedantic, if ghosts want to harm people, how can you be a good person or a bad person, aren't they all the same?"
Jiangzhou is in full swing, and he is really getting more and more involved in this role, why does he suddenly feel like Ning Caichen is possessed!
"Dao Chief, I know that you have good intentions, if there are really ghosts and monsters that harm me, I will escape."
"That's right, but don't worry, it's really a ghost, I'll stop it, I can't stop it, I'll protect you and escape."
"Thank you, chief!"
"Okay, you can find a place to sleep first, and I'll wake you up if there's anything."
Jiangzhou picked up some hay and spread it at the foot of the Buddha statue.
It seems that people often stay in Lanruo Temple, so there are things like hay and firewood in this temple, and even candlesticks. In ancient times, this was really an excellent free hotel in the wilderness.
It's just that the atmosphere of this Lanruo Temple is always gloomy and lifeless. It's fine during the day, but who dares to come to this place at night?
Jiang Zhou was lying on a haystack and pretending to sleep, with many questions in his head that could not be answered, and he kept wandering around in his head.
Maybe Jiangzhou's acting skills are too good, Yan Chixia never doubted Jiangzhou's identity at all, just regarded him as an ordinary scholar.
The candle flame on the altar suddenly flickered and almost went out, but there was no wind in this hall.
Yan Chixia knew that something was wrong, and Lian Sheng was alert, and turned on the feet of the Buddha statue with her heels, took down a box from it, and carried it on her back.
Jiang Zhou knew at first sight that this was not the sword box of the Heaven and Earth Infinite Sword.
A window creaked, as if someone was about to push the window open, but Yan Chixia had already been blocked from the inside with a wooden stick, and people couldn't push it open from the outside.
"Scholar, get up quickly." Yan Chixia's foot kicked lightly on Jiang Zhou's body.
"What's the matter?" Jiang Zhou sat up, in fact, he had already heard a strange sound.
"It's coming!" Yan Chixia is colorful.
"What's coming?"
"Ghosts!"
"So what should I do?" Jiang Zhou pretended to be very flustered.
"Outside, I'm in the way, you hide behind the Buddha statue first, and then come out when it's safe."
Jiang Zhou listened to Yan Chixia's words and said, "Dao Chief, be careful! He retreated behind the Buddha statue and quietly showed his head to observe.
The tiles above the main hall sounded, and Jiang Zhou looked up, only to see that one tile was removed, and then several more tiles were removed. Looking out of the exposed gap, it seemed that the sky had cleared, and a few stars twinkled in the gap.
Suddenly, a gray shadow came down from the void and floated down.
"Just in time!" Yan Chixia blasted out a palm thunder, the gray shadow had not yet landed, it had already hit the palm thunder, the thunder exploded, the whole black shadow was surrounded by thunder and fire, and a "crackling" sound came out from the gray shadow.
The gray shadow let out a high-pitched, terrible cry that should not have been humanly screaming, and in a moment, the gray shadow dissipated, the sound was gone, and the flames were extinguished.
"The Taoist has good skills." Jiangzhou exclaimed behind the Buddha statue.
"Stupid, don't reveal your position. There are a lot of ghosts on this roof, and if they all come down, I'm afraid I won't have time to take care of you. I'm on the roof, except for those ghosts, you have to be careful, and if anything dangerous happens, call me. ”
Without waiting for Jiangzhou to respond, Yan Chixia rose into the sky and shattered a few tiles.
Suddenly, there were screams from the rooftop.
At this time, Yan Chixia did not hate Jiangzhou, but admired this bold and chivalrous middle-aged Taoist priest very much.
But hundreds of years later, Yan Chixia has completely changed as a person, becoming domineering, impersonal, and pedantic.
Jiang Zhou was thinking about things, and suddenly felt something climb up his shoulder, he looked sideways, but saw that it was a dry palm like dead wood, which was resting on his shoulder, and emitted a rancid smell.
"Just a dry corpse, you dare to bother me." Jiangzhou took out a sword, turned around and slashed, and a head flew out, and the headless dried corpse fell to the ground in response, and after falling to the ground, it turned into a dark dust.
Afterwards, there were two dried corpses, with wrinkled skin, clinging to the bones, two black holes deep in the eye sockets, no more noses, only two nostrils, no upper and lower lips, and two rows of black teeth leaking out.
The two dried corpses were a little surprised, and before they could react, Jiangzhou slashed them off with another sword, and the heads of the two dried corpses were also cut to the ground.
In the darkness, there were still a few dried corpses about to come over, and when they saw the three dried corpses fall down in one face, they hurriedly retreated into the darkness in fright.
Jiangzhou is a person who can't tolerate sand in his eyes, where can they escape, he rushed over with a sword in his hand, and several dried corpses fled in all directions in a panic, but the sword in Jiangzhou's hand flew out of his hand and flew in the air, and in an instant, all the dried corpses had been killed, and they all turned into dust.
The battle has ended on the Jiangzhou side, but there is still a constant sound on the roof, it seems that Yan Chixia has not yet settled those ghosts.
After a while, there was no sound on the roof, and Jiang Zhou was about to ask, but he heard Yan Chixia shouting: "It's the old demon of Montenegro, this trip is worth it!" Scholar, I'll come when I go, if you can't wait for me to come back, go alone tomorrow morning. ”
"Dao Chief, let's go!" Jiangzhou responded.
Jiang Zhou sat alone on the haystack, thinking about it and feeling funny.
Obviously, the old demon of the Black Mountain has turned into one of his doppelgangers, and it is clear that Yan Chixia was killed by himself and received his Heaven and Earth Infinite Sword, but here, they appeared again.
"Puffy Puff!" A few brisk knocks sounded on the door, and Jiang Zhou got up and asked, "Who is outside?" ”
"Childe, please open the door!"
It was a cold female voice, as if there was a kind of magic in the voice, which made people eager to see the true face of Lushan.
However, Jiangzhou is all too familiar with this voice.
"It's Xiaoqian!" Jiangzhou said happily.
quarreled with Nie Xiaoqian that day, and since then Xiaoqian has never returned, Jiangzhou has always been worried about it in his heart, and he regrets it very much.
Although it is Xiaoqian hundreds of years ago, her voice has not changed in any way.
It's just that the current Xiaoqian definitely doesn't know herself.
"How does Childe know my name?" Nie Xiaoqian outside was a little panicked.
Jiang Zhou couldn't wait to open the door, who else could it be if it wasn't Nie Xiaoqian outside.
"Xiaoqian, you don't know me, but I know you, come with me." Jiang Zhou was about to grab Nie Xiaoqian's hand, but Nie Xiaoqian hurriedly dodged.
"Childe, please respect yourself!"