Chapter 160: Foothold
"Rest assured, keep him asleep until noon tomorrow. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info" Bai Lun returned, Tang Xu nodded and pondered that maybe Yang Ximei would wake up tonight. The carriage continued on its way, and finally came to a stop in front of a ruined temple.
"It's really strange, why is there a temple in this place where there is no village in front of the village and no store in the back?" Bai Lun sighed. Since he arrived in the Central Plains, he has seen a lot of temples, but they are all built in the city or in a prosperous place, and it is very strange to suddenly see one in this wilderness, although it looks like a place where he can temporarily settle down, but it makes people feel terrible and dare not approach rashly.
"What's weird? Otherwise, why is it not in the city, there is no figure in this radius, how can anyone come to worship and worship. Bai Lun said to Tang Xu that it would be better to find another place and not disturb the unclean things.
"Brother Bai, don't panic, let's go and have a look first." Tang Xu naturally didn't believe in ghosts and gods, but he didn't dare to draw a categorical conclusion, even if there would be no ghosts, it would be unbearable if a few bandits and robbers were hidden, and whether it was suitable for Yang Ximei and Yan Ji to be placed here would have to wait until they went in to see the situation. Tang Xu said as he went to the carriage to find a short knife and put it on his body to get off the train. Seeing this, Feng Axi became nervous and hurriedly stopped him and asked him what he was doing, he was worried that Tang Xu and Bai Lun would abandon the car, but Yang Ximei's life and death were uncertain now, and he couldn't just leave it like this, which made him very embarrassed.
"Don't worry, there is a temple in front, Brother Bai and I will go in and have a look, if there is no problem, put Madame here, I estimate that Madame will get better in the evening." Feng Axi's dilemma made Tang Xu a little moved, maybe if it were someone else, he would not have believed that Yang Ximei would come back to life, and he would have been desperate with himself and Bai Lun for a long time. Feng Axi lifted the curtain, and sure enough, he saw a ruined temple more than a dozen steps away, so he believed it, and quietly returned to Yang Ximei's side to guard.
Tang Xu jumped down from the car, Bai Lun didn't dare to delay for fear that he would be in danger alone, so he drove the carriage under a tree and tied the reins, turned around and instructed Feng Axi to walk into the broken temple with him.
When the two came to the temple, they pushed the dusty wooden door, and the temple door creaked open, and a smell of decay spread, and the air that had not been exposed to sunlight for a long time was full of floating dust.
When the air was a little clearer, Tang Xu walked in first, Bai Lun also followed behind him with a short knife, the two walked into the broken temple, and saw several statues towering in front of them, covered with thick cobwebs, and thick dust on them, which looked like some kind of gods and Buddhas, Tang Xu did not study or care about these. He thought about it, pinned the knife to his waist and bowed with his hands folded, and then continued to check, after all, it didn't hurt to be respectful to the gods and Buddhas. On the table in front of the Buddha statue is an incense burner the size of a basin, dark black incense ash has almost accumulated to the mouth of the stove, and some long-rotten fruits and food are placed on the left and right of the incense burner.
"Yichi, I didn't expect you to believe in gods and Buddhas?" Bai Lun was surprised, but he still did the same action as Tang Xu.
"There's no harm in staying away from ghosts and gods, not to mention that we're on someone's territory now." Tang Xu replied.
"But it looks like it's been abandoned for a long time." Tang Xu continued.
"Desolate? Did it have thrived here before? Bai Lun stammered, how gloomy this place looks, how can anyone really come.
"Look at this incense burner, the incense ashes have been accumulated, and there is so much food and fruit, there must have been many people who came to worship incense before, but then it was abandoned." Tang Xu pointed to the incense burner and said. Bai Lun suddenly realized and admired Tang Xu's meticulous thinking.
"Brother Bai has won the prize." Tang Xu waved his hand embarrassedly, what kind of skills are these, Bai Lun is an ethnic minority, so he naturally doesn't know much about these things, so he can't think of it.
Tang Xu then went around the ruined temple with Bai Lun to check and make sure that no one was hiding or setting a trap before he finally felt at ease.
"Let's rest here tonight, I estimate that Mrs. Yang will wake up at night or in the middle of the night." Tang Xu made a decision with Bai Lun. Bai Lun thought it was okay, so he went back and told Feng Axi, so the two of them worked together to lift Yang Ximei off the carriage and put her in the temple, where a pile of hay had been prepared and a bonfire was built. It's still cold outside, and it's still a bit hard to get through at night if you don't make a fire to keep warm.
"Madame, will she wake up tonight?" Feng Axi looked at Yang Ximei. About 2 hours have passed since I left the city, and it is getting late, and the stench emitted by Yang Ximei's body seems to have become lighter, but her complexion is still dull and lifeless.
"Mrs. Yang will be fine, don't worry." Bai Lun comforted him, and then went out with him to get Yan Ji in and put him a little further away from the fire. Although Bai Lun didn't want to get close to Yan Ji, he didn't want him to be frozen to death in his sleep.
Soon after, the sun gradually sank in the west, and the light in the broken temple became darker and darker, Tang Xu found an oil lamp from the corner, the oil lamp had turned black and dried up, he took out a knife and smashed the lumpy lamp oil, picked out the wick from it and lit it, although it was still relatively dim, but at least there was some light. There was nothing to do for a long time to come, and Tang Xu was thinking about where Yang Ximei and Feng Axi would go tomorrow and how to deal with Yan Ji. Bai Lun wandered around the temple in his spare time, and felt quite fresh when he saw everything. Feng Axi was still very nervous by Yang Ximei's side.
After Bai Lun came back and sat down to rest, Tang Xu got up and went to the carriage to take out some food and tools to prepare dinner for a few people, and when he went out, he suddenly found a gray rabbit, Tang Xu temporarily put down the things in his hand and chased the rabbit, he followed the rabbit out for a long distance before catching it in a pit. In fact, it wasn't Tang Xu who caught it himself, but the poor rabbit happened to fall into the big pit, which was about half a person high, and the sharp bamboo pieces at the bottom of the pit passed through the rabbit corpse. Tang Xu was startled when he first saw the big pit, thinking that someone had really set up a trap here, but when he looked around, there were only a few thatched huts that didn't seem to be inhabited, probably because the people who lived nearby in the past caught animals. Tang Xu lay on the edge of the pit and carefully avoided the bamboo chips to fish out the rabbit, and then walked back to the carriage to get other food and things back to the temple. Then he disemboweled, skinned, put on a twig, and roasted it on the campfire, and the aroma of meat gradually spread throughout the space. Although the roasted rabbit meat did not have more seasoning, it still made the three hungry people eat very deliciously, Bai Lun was full of praise while eating, and Tang Xu was very embarrassed.