From Lukou town to the river upstream, five kilometers away, there is a long oasis in the heart of the Xiangjiang River, because its shape resembles an arrow, and gets the name of "Arrow Island", the grass is everywhere on the continent, the weeping willows are still around, the mulberry trees are in rows, more than a dozen households live in it, fishing, mulberry picking, weaving, self-sufficiency, enjoy it.

On the opposite bank to the west of Jianzhou, it is a cliff about 100 zhang high, nine mountains are connected, in the middle of the cliff, a three-storey temple with three floors up and down, the temple of the heavy eaves of the mountain is built by the river, and is built by the mountain. Although looking at it from afar, the temple is dilapidated, and even many collapses can be seen, but the carved beams and painted buildings, the eaves and corners all show its former elegance, in the middle of the top floor of the temple, the three big characters of "Ethereal Temple" are more vigorous and powerful, and they are about to come out.

The brothers stood at the bow of the boat, looking at the ethereal temple that was once full of incense and is now so dilapidated, and they felt a lot of emotion.

The rowing fisherman was a middle-aged man in his forties, shirtless and upper-body, who had lived on the water all year round, making his skin dark and strong. But this does not affect his talkativeness, seeing that the two brothers talk well, they are only tourists from other places, plus Jiang Haoran is also arrogant, this less than five kilometers of waterway, back and forth to a piece of the ocean, so that he spared no effort to be a tour guide, and even the origin of the ethereal shore is the first to say.

Legend has it that a long time ago, nine fierce and fearful lions ran out of the reckless Kunlun and caused harm in the area of the west bank of the Xiangjiang River in the area of Lei Dashi and Xiashi Wharf (built by Guo Songlin). Destroying the lives of the people and destroying the crops. Everywhere I went, the fertile fields suddenly turned into deserts, and the downtown areas instantly turned into ruins. One day, the nine evil animals rushed to the Xiashi River, intending to wade east of the river. When the people of Hedong Township heard the news, they were terrified, and the sound of howling shook the heavens and the earth. Every household burns incense with candles and asks for the protection of the gods of the upper realm. When the South China Sea Guanyin Bodhisattva passed by here, he ordered the gods to stand by. The nine animals did not know that the Bodhisattva was coming, but they still held their heads and tails high, roared proudly, opened their teeth and danced their claws, and wanted to wade across the river. At that moment, "whoosh, whoosh......" nine divine arrows fell from the sky, and the branches were in the branches. But when he saw nine fierce lions, they instantly turned into nine piles of stubborn stones, lying or standing, and they were listed on the riverside in turn. Among them, the fierce lion headed by the divine arrow was shot off and hung in the river, and the blood stained the mountain rock, so it was called "red cliff". Because its severed head resembles a hanging bell and beats like a drum, it is also called "ethereal shore". After the arrow shot off the head of the first lion, it fell into the heart of the river and became an arrow island. In order to commemorate the merits of Guanyin Bodhisattva, the descendants built this temple, although it was named "Ethereal Temple", but the locals called it "Guanyin Rock".

Jiang Haoran came here, of course, not for fun, according to the master, Guo Songlin's treasure is at the bottom of the well of this Guanyin Rock, for more than a hundred years, no one has discovered it, which shows how ingenious its secret should be.

Arrange the fisherman to wait on this shore, the brothers laughed and went ashore, from the south side of the mountain gate to climb the steps, the ethereal temple does not have a temple gate, only a memorial archway, on the book "ethereal shore" three words. After the archway, it is a long about 100 meters, the stone wall plank road along the river with twists and turns, leading directly to the temple. The brothers entered the temple, only to see Guanyin Bodhisattva holding a net bottle of willow, sitting on the lotus seat, on both sides are gods of different shapes, there are no incense and candle offerings in front of the case, there is no Sanskrit sound in the room, an old monk is sitting on the futon without expression, and does not make any reaction because of the arrival of the brothers. Jiang Haocang suddenly felt that something was wrong, and shouted twice, to no avail. stepped forward and pushed the old monk again, but without thinking, the old monk leaned back directly. Jiang Haocang hurriedly dragged it and sniffed, fortunately, he didn't travel immortally.

Jiang Haocang took out a few white flour cakes from his arms, and said to Jiang Haoran eagerly: "Look at this posture, it is estimated that I am hungry, there is a well behind, hurry up, get some water!" ”

Jiang Haoran did not dare to slack off, immediately walked towards the back of the temple, behind the temple is a stone cave, about ten meters deep, about three meters high, no more than ten meters wide, the entrance of the cave and the temple communicate. There is a stone platform protruding in the hole, about half a meter high, resembling a bed, a lotus seat is carved out in the middle, the stone statue of Guanyin Dashi is enshrined in the middle, just like nature. Behind the Buddha statue, there is a clear spring trickling that does not dry up, and the spring water goes all the way down to a square stone well outside the cave.

Jiang Haoran endured the excitement in his heart, picked up the wooden spoon by the well, filled a spoonful of water, and hurriedly sent it in, and immediately flashed out, staring at the well and studying it.

A square well, about one meter in diameter, overflowing well water bubbling from the side of the river, it can be seen from the surface, the stone well and the mountain stone are integrated, clearly artificially hewn, although there is a thin layer of moss on the inner wall, but the chisel marks are still clearly visible, the well water is crystal clear, the four corners are distinct and there are no gaps. Jiang Haoran found a tree and stabbed it hard at the bottom of the well, his voice was solid, and there was no hollow sound.

Jiang Haoran threw the tree in his hand, and was immediately disappointed, with the rigor of the master, he should not be untargeted, but the bottom of this well does not seem to have any mystery. Could it be that there are other wells in this Guanyin Rock?

Helpless, Jiang Haoran had to return to the temple, the old monk had woken up, was talking to Jiang Haocang, roughly said, the only way up the mountain in the temple, because the landslide was blocked, the original incense that was not prosperous, completely unsustained, the young monks in the temple all went out to make fate, hoping to open up the road, and then have a little spare money to sell some bricks and tiles, wood, repair the temple, otherwise, I don't know when, the ancient temple will collapse.

As soon as Jiang Haoran came in, Jiang Haocang immediately made an introduction, knowing that the old monk was the presiding officer of the temple, and the Dharma name was meditation, because of the inconvenience of his legs and feet, the food left by the apprentices was all cheap, and he had been hungry for four days.

Jiang Haoran didn't have the heart to care about these, and asked very bluntly, are there other wells in this temple? But it was denied by the meditation master.

Jiang Haoran suddenly felt lost, but meditated on the stone well all the way to say, don't look at this temple was built in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, but this stone well is only fifty or sixty years old, that year when the governor of Hubei Guo Songlin returned to his hometown, donated thousands of taels of silver, the entire temple was rebuilt, it took a year, but also specially sent stone from Wuhan, hundreds of stonemasons, there was originally only a "fairy bed" of the stone cave, carved a Guanyin Bodhisattva, chiseled this stone well, time has passed, the general Guo has been ancient, But I didn't know that there would be a good person in this ethereal temple who could donate money to rebuild it.

The speaker had no intention of listening, and when Jiang Haoran heard this, he was immediately overjoyed. Since this stone well was built by Guo Songlin, then Master's words must not be fake, most of this treasure is under the bottom of this well, although it can't find the entrance, it's a big deal to blast it open with explosives. Although he thought so, he was still curious, and he just wanted to know how Guo Songlin did it seamlessly. Then he ran out without a sound.