Chapter 31 (3) Water Cloud Taoist Temple

Zhang Xiaoliu and the little wit covered their noses, endured the pungent smell of "horse manure on fire", looked into the door, and was faced with a spacious hall, next to a wooden staircase, leading to the upstairs, at this time the hall was empty, the young man took the little wit and Zhang Xiaoliu, entered the threshold, and found that there were a few ropes pulled behind the door, tied to the stick, if someone broke in, stepped on the trigger mechanism in the threshold, the stick would fall.

"It's a hell of a hell here." Little Ghost said.

The young man slapped the horse manure with a dung fork to extinguish the remaining smoke, but the three of them were still choked and coughed a few times, although they had medicine in their mouths, they still felt a little swollen, Zhang Xiaoliu said: "Your horse manure is really powerful." ”

"Watch out upstairs." Little Clever Reminder.

At the top of the stairs, there was a squeak, like the sound of an old and dilapidated door opening, Zhang Xiaoliu flashed under the stairs, but he didn't find any enemies appearing, and he didn't see the hidden weapon falling. The young man checked the hall first, but found nothing else except the smell, he waved his dung fork, "Let's go upstairs, you two follow me." ”

The young man stepped on the stairs and said, "Attention, only step on the odd-numbered stairs, not the even-numbered ones...... Look at my feet, and you will step on whatever board I step on. Zhang Xiaoliu behind him and both of them were a little frightened, for fear that they would step on the wrong trap, and the stairs made of wood were also old. After turning a corner, I saw the upstairs room, with two portals, both of which were closed. On the door of a room on the left, there is a door god with an iron whip drawn, grinning teeth, very vicious, originally the farmer painted the door god, are outside the gate, take the intention of deterring the evil demon and dare not enter the door, there are few people who paste the door god in the inner room, not to mention that this is a Taoist temple, but the door god is painted upstairs. It feels a bit nondescript.

The boy went upstairs and went straight to the door of the room where the door god was drawn, and slapped it on the door god with a dung fork, and the wooden door made a "pop" sound. After beating for a while, the boy raised his fork and poked the wooden door with the tip of the dung fork. It wasn't sharp, it couldn't be poked into the wood, and the little ghost reached out and handed the dagger over, "Here." ”

The young man took the dagger, quickly cut a layer of wood on the door, and dug a small hole, at this time, Zhang Xiaoliu was idle, walked to the door of another room, and pushed it. The door did not move, he kicked it with his foot again, the door did not move, but his foot hurt, the young man said: "It's useless, it's not a door, it's a wall, the door is fake." ”

If you look closely, no matter how you shake it, there is still no movement. Sure enough, the door was just a fake door glued to the wall.

The boy returned the dagger to the little ghost, turned the dung fork upside down, and used the wooden handle of the fork to reach into the small hole that had just been dug out, stirring it from side to side a few times. I only heard a chaotic sound of "crackling, sparse" in the door, as if some shelf was scattered, Xiao Jiling and Zhang Xiaoliu knew that there must be some mechanism in the door that was broken by this young man, and they were happy in their hearts, and they watched him stir the dung fork happily. The little wit said: "Fortunately, you know these things, if you were a layman, you would have caught them." ”

"That bangzi head and black spider, did they let them catch it?" Zhang Xiaoliu suddenly remembered the object of his tracking.

No one could answer his question, the young man pulled out the fork rod and kicked the door with his foot, the door shook a little, did not kick open, Zhang Xiaoliu stepped forward and kicked the ground, the door opened, and the wooden strips, ropes, and winches were scattered all over the ground, and a large net was also thrown on the ground messily, obviously, if you rush into the door, you will definitely be injured or caught.

Entering the door, I found that this is not a house, just a passage, and then look inside is extending in all directions, divided into two branches, there are large and small rooms on both sides of the passage, this building is not like an ordinary house built square or elongated, the upstairs room is not divided into directions, at a glance into a mess, Zhang Xiaoliu and the little wit are naturally confused, followed by the dung pick-up boy step by step, walked a few steps, saw two rooms, the door was wide open, there were beds and furniture and other things inside, but there was no one.

I walked through a few more rooms, but I didn't see anyone, and there was a cup of tea on the table in one room, and it was still steaming, and it seemed that someone had just drunk it. Most of these rooms are very narrow, only about half of the usual rooms, and some of the smallest ones are only three feet square, and they can't live at all. Why are there no windows? ”

The little ghost also looked confused, these rooms did not have windows, even if it was daytime, they were also very dark, and the young man replied: "These are the houses on the inner floor, naturally there are no windows, there are windows, in the outer floor, we haven't found them yet." ”

The corridors and aisles, the various rooms, were quiet, there was a feeling of being sick, and suddenly Zhang Xiaoliu heard a slight abnormal noise in his ears, and at the same time, the young man shouted, "Be careful." ”

"Whoosh," several bamboo arrows shot from overhead.

On the wall in front, there was a hanging wooden box, which suddenly opened, and the bamboo arrows were shot from there, and the three people hurriedly dodged to dodge, and at the same time, the young man used a dung fork and Zhang Xiaoliu used a three-section stick to dial the bamboo arrows, and several bamboo arrows fell to the ground one after another, but fortunately no one was hurt.

"Someone opened this arrow box, and they're watching us." The teenager said.

The three of them were more careful, searching and walking forward, there was a small room, locked, Zhang Xiaoliu knocked down the iron lock with three sticks, pushed the door open, but found that there were two people sitting in the room, tied up by five flowers, gagged their mouths, sat on the ground, and when they saw the three people coming in, they stared at the big eyes and screamed "woo", and when they looked at it, it turned out to be a black spider and a bangzitou.

Zhang Xiaoliu laughed, stepped forward to untie the rope of the two, took out the rags in his mouth, and the black spider opened his mouth and scolded: "****** stinky Taoist priest, seeking money and killing people, you can't die well." ”

"How did you offend them?" The little ghost asked.

"Where are you offended," Bang Zitou also said indignantly: "We politely came to Wang Daochang, and told the Zhike Taoist people clearly, they looked treacherous and led us here, but they secretly made a black hand, searched the money on their bodies, and said that they would kill us, chop us into meat filling, and wrap human meat buns, and they didn't listen to our explanation at all, these bastards." ”

"You only spent six yuan, and you want to see Wang Daochang, this is too cheap." The dung picker teased the two of them.

"What six dollars, dozens of dollars in your pocket. They all let the ****** stinky Taoist priest search for them. Bangzitou scolded with a glare. A few people came out of the hut and walked around for a while, but they only felt dim. Unable to find a way to the outside, Zhang Xiaoliu said: "It's not okay to go around like this, let's go back the same way." ”

The boy did not answer, and repeatedly looked at a wall, which was not straight. The young man squatted down and observed the root of the wall, sure enough, the cracks at the root of the wall were very large, and he said to Zhang Xiaoliu: "Come, let's push and see." ”

Zhang Xiaoliu and Xiao Clever both came over to push the wall together. The three of them worked together, the wall actually moved slowly, it turned out to be a door, disguised in the shape of a wall, brushed with plaster, if you don't look closely, mixed in the old wall full of cracks, it is really not easy to distinguish, this door is pushed open, and the eyes suddenly open up. A ray of light shone in, and it turned out to be a portal to the outside.

The black spider and the bangzi were in a hurry, so they pulled their legs and ran out, and the young man shouted, "Stop." ”

These two guys ran in a hurry. didn't shout, Bangzitou who was running in front felt that his feet slipped, and he "slipped out" and fell down.

Outside, there is a winding corridor that leads to both sides. In front is a doorway, very wide, but there is neither a door, nor a threshold, the head of the bang is falling out of the door, looking into the distance, but it is the mountains and mountains, it turns out, here is the back of the small building.

Zhang Xiaoliu and others walked out, holding on to the door frame to look out, from here down, there is a steep wooden ladder, which can lead to downstairs, downstairs, more than two zhang away from the building, there is a fence on the ground, outside the fence, is the cliff. Below the second floor, there is a fishing net hanging under the eaves, and in the fishing net, it is the head of the bang that has just fallen, struggling, while shouting: "Help." ”

The little ghost said: "Don't move, if you move again, you will fall and fall to your death." Bangzitou was startled, stopped struggling, and shouted upward, "Help me." ”

The dung-picking boy laughed, turned his head and said to Zhang Xiaoliu and the others, "Let's go downstairs, follow me, or take the odd ladder." ”

The boy was in front, and the other three were behind, slowly descending the steep wooden ladder, and halfway through, the boy stretched out his dung fork and stretched it out in front of the fishing net with the head of the bang, "You hold my fork." ”

The fork head was stained with horse dung, and the head of the bang didn't care about being dirty, he barely stretched out his hand from the net, and held it tightly, the young man and the little ghost behind him worked hard together, pulling the fishing net in front of him, and the little ghost used a dagger to cut the net rope and save the head of the bangzi.

The wooden ladder is narrow, and can only take the odd ladder, everyone can only pull away from the distance, slowly walk down, fall to the ground, fortunately, they are all safe and sound, Bangzi can't help but scold, the young man smiled: "Don't scold, they are around, be careful and let people catch them, chop them into stuffed human meat buns." ”

They're around? Several people next to him were startled, looking around, but there was no one, the young man turned around and pointed to Xiaolou and said, "Look." ”

Everyone looks, the back of the small building, there is a door, there are two windows on the wall on both sides of the door, the pattern is like the front door, here two zhang away is the cliff, open a door, it is not necessary, but everyone for the strange situation in this building, have seen a lot, see the back of the building out of the strange door, no longer surprised, the young man stared at the door, said to everyone: "This is the real door." ”

The door and the two windows were closed, and Zhang Xiaoliu asked the young man, "How about I smash it open?" ”

The young man shook his head and said loudly to the door, "Wang Dao Chief, please show up." ”

There was no echo inside, and the young man said again: "Wang Daochang, if you are a turtle with a shrunken head, I will set fire to the building." ”

This said, sure enough, it had an effect, the door slowly opened, and a little Taoist came out, it turned out to be the person who led Bangzi into the gate, he gave a salute to everyone, and said, "My master has invited you." ”

Bangzitou and the black spider were angry and frowned, eager to beat this servant, the servant was not seen, lowered his eyebrows, and made a "please come in" gesture, the boy was in front, Zhang Xiaoliu and the little wit were behind, Bangzitou and the black spider hesitated, and followed in.

Enter the door through the hall, turn to the left, the Taoist servant led everyone into a big house, the room is wide, it is a living room, there are eight immortal tables, Taishi chairs, very neat, on the chair in the middle, sit a middle-aged old man, wearing a crown of the top road, cotton clothes covered with a Taoist robe, swarthy skin, the face is spotted, full of pockmarks, Xing Mazi under the iron million has a pockmarked face, but compared with this old road, it is a small thing, the face of the old road is pitted, and the pockmarks can not be counted, just like "the rain hits the beach ten thousand pits." "Same.

Zhang Xiaoliu grabbed the front, sitting in the position closest to Lao Dao, he calculated in his heart, this building is extremely dangerous, if the situation in the house changes, his three-section stick can immediately attack Lao Dao, although the dung picker is clever in cracking the mechanism, when it comes to fighting desperately, he should bear the brunt.

The young man leaned the dung fork next to the chair, the hall was very neat, his dung fork was dirty and dirty, leaning on the spotless hardwood Taishi chair, extremely incongruous. When everyone was seated, Lao Dao rolled his eyelids and asked the young man, "What are you doing here?" The tone seemed to be an acquaintance.

"My master told me to retrieve the book." The boy said lightly.

"As I said earlier, books are not with me. Go back. ”

The young man sneered, "Uncle Shi, what you said, I'm afraid no one in the world has ever believed it." The most untrustworthy and unrighteous person in the world, I'm afraid that Uncle Shi can be at the top of the list. ”

The people in the seats next to them were all taken aback, this old Taoist turned out to be the young man's "uncle", no wonder this young man who picked up dung was well aware of the ambush in this Taoist temple, and the conversation between their uncle and nephew was completely hostile, and there must be a reason for it.

"What do you want?" The old man's tone hardened.

The young man smiled, "Wang Daochang, since I came, I didn't want to go back empty-handed, you refused to give it, my master had already expected it, and when he came, he told me that if I can't get the book, I don't care, just burn down this small building. He is not young, but when he speaks, he is full of power, a half-grown man with a dung fork, who said the words "picked the water cloud view", turned out to be a fearless and understated appearance, and when he spoke, he called the old Taoist "Wang Dao Chang", and even the uncle was not called, obviously he didn't treat him as an elder at all.

"Fire burns water clouds? You're blowing too much, kid. Lao Dao snorted with his nose, "Don't think that if you break a few mechanisms, you can pedal the ladder to the sky, is your master here?" ”

"My master didn't come, but I brought the borrowed car made by his old man." The young man said with some smugness on his face: "Borrowing a car, you have probably heard of it." ”

"Borrowing a car? Where is it? There was a look of surprise on the old man's face, and he didn't wait for the young man to answer, he hurriedly stood up, left the Taishi's chair, and walked outside the house. (To be continued.) )