Every city will have a city god temple, the city god temple is a place to worship the city god, the so-called city god, is the guardian god of the place, in folklore, the city god is in charge of people's life and death, good and evil, reward good and punish evil.

I looked at the city god order in my hand, this city god order looks simple, as long as a ring ruler, not light, it looks like it is cast in bronze, the front side of the city god order is written three ancient seal characters, and the reverse side is a fairy palace pattern.

At the beginning, Xiaobai told me that her master Qin Liangyu was a city god in the Zhongzhou area, but she left suddenly before the merit was completed, and told her to find a successor, but the specific Xiaobai didn't make it clear, whose successor am I holding the city god order?

"Change!"

I shouted at the water cup on the table with the Chenghuang Order, but the water cup didn't respond at all.

"Let's go!"

I poured Dao Qi into the Chenghuang Order, and then shouted at the piggy bank on the table, but there was still no response.

I thought about it for a while, and decided to find an old bachelor to go to Chungju to have a look, otherwise there is no work to do now, and we are also eating and waiting for death in our village, and we don't even have a job to deliver food in this broken place except for farming, feeding pigs, raising chickens, and raising fish.

So we embarked on the train from Henan to Sichuan.

After arriving in Chungju County in Sichuan, we immediately arrived at the Chenghuang Temple near the pedestrian street of Chungju County.

The old man and I stood in front of the main temple of the City God Temple, looked up at the City God in the temple, and asked, "What is the origin of this City God God, I see that the Guanyin statue is enshrined in the corner of the temple, can she sit here safely?" ”

The old bachelor grinned and said: "You don't know this, Chenghuang is the magistrate of the underworld, and his authority is equivalent to the county magistrate of the yang world, the living have yang energy, and accumulate merit during his lifetime, and the city god treats everyone differently according to the amount of merit of the person, and the city god has a very special status in folklore, not only can manage the affairs of the underworld, but also the affairs of the yang world, so even if the Buddha Guanyin or Taoist gods are not worshiped in various places, at least there must be a city god temple to worship the city god." ”

"And the city gods are different from place to place?" I asked.

"Nonsense, of course it's different." The old bachelor said. "The ancient city gods were all elected by the local people, especially those generals who died in the war years to protect the people of the city, after their deaths, they were remembered by all the people, and their souls were immortal, and they became the local protectors, and the local people would shape the golden body for the city gods and worship them from generation to generation, but I seemed to have heard our master say before, saying that more than 1,600 counties in China have enshrined more than 1,600 city gods, but there are only 12 real city god temples."

"Why?"

"I don't know why, the master said so, and eighty percent of it was also seen from which ancient books."

I looked at the merit plaque next to the statue of the main temple of the City God, and the name written on it was Qin Liangyu.

Qin Liangyu is a female general at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the only female general in history who has entered the official history, she has fought all her life, made great achievements, led troops to suppress bandits, resisted the Qing army, and even entered Beijing to quell the rebellion, killed traitorous ministers, and saved Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen, so Zhu Youzhen wrote a special poem for Qin Liangyu.

Qin Liangyu's husband was the hereditary Tusi of Shizhu County, Sichuan, was framed and imprisoned for neglecting the eunuch, and soon died of illness, and then there was a rebellion in Sichuan and Shu, Qin Liangyu's son was too young to fight, she marched on behalf of her husband, bravely did not lose to the man, won the first battle, and then led the troops to quell the chaos everywhere, and his reputation became bigger and bigger.

It is said that the most mourning after death in history is the suspicious Zhu Yuanzhang, who has twenty-four mournings after his death, but Qin Liangyu has forty-eight mournings, which has to make people feel strange.

I took the Chenghuang Order and shook it in front of the statue of the Chenghuang God, and the old man looked at me in surprise and asked, "What are you doing?" ”

"I'll see if there's any reaction."

As soon as I finished speaking, the incense burner offered in front of the statue of the god suddenly fell to the ground.

"What a reaction!" The old bachelor and I said in unison.

The abnormal behavior of me and the old bachelor attracted the sideways of the passers-by, so I quickly put away the city god order and pulled the old bachelor out of the city god temple.

I opened a double room in a hotel near the temple and prepared to visit the temple at night when no one was around.

In the early hours of the morning, I and the old man arrived at the temple again, when there was no one on the street, we climbed over the fence and entered the temple, I shook the city god order again, only to hear the sound of the city god statue knocking.

"It seems that Xiaobai said that what her master left behind is not only the Chenghuang Order in my hand, but also something hidden in the Chenghuang Statue, which echoes this Chenghuang Order." I said.

The statue was as tall as a three-story building, and the old man and I looked around her but couldn't find an entrance to the statue.

"I inquired today, I heard that this statue has existed for a hundred years, the locals say that the spirit is very good, there were many warlords in Sichuan and Shaanxi, it is said that there was a warlord who passed by the city god temple when he saw the people in the city worshipping the city god, so he insulted the city god statue, overturned the offering platform, and smashed the statue, which caused the city god to be furious, and sent a fox fairy to slaughter all the warlords, thinking that it should be Xiaobai's doing."

As he spoke, the old man took a flashlight and shone it on the wall behind the statue of the god Chenghuang, and I found that there was a painted mural on the wall, and the content of the mural was a picture of a female general accepting the worship of all the people, and in front of the female general, there was a white fox sitting.

"Looks like we'll have to smash this statue, or we'll not be able to get what it's in." I said.

"The statue is too big, and after many years of repair, it has been coated with layers of mud, and I am afraid that there will be a lot of noise, so let's dig a hole first and see what is inside, and then decide how big the hole to expand." The old bachelor said, pulling out a pile of miscellaneous tools from his backpack.

I tinkled with him for a long time, trying to keep the sound to a minimum, and it took me more than half an hour to dig a hole, and I shone my flashlight on the inside of the statue of the god of the city, but I found nothing suspicious, so I widened the hole until I could climb into it the width of a person.

I used my flashlight to shine a flashlight on the inside of the statue again, and found that the interior space was not small, as spacious as a small bedroom, and at the bottom of the statue there was a clay table, and there was an iron box on the platform, which was exactly the same as the one that Xiaobai had left for me.

I reached in to get the tin box, but found that the tin box seemed to be stuck on the clay table, the old bachelor was dragging my feet outside, and I got into it for most of the time, and I didn't break the tin box off the clay table even though I had used all my strength to eat.

"It looks like mud is on it, bring the chisel."

The old bachelor answered and shoved the chisel through my ass, and then I suddenly felt that something was wrong, because I could faintly hear a hissing sound, and I raised my flashlight and shone it above my head, almost scaring the shit out.

It's a black python with a head as big as a shovel!

"And then!" The old bachelor outside said.

"No need, pull me out." I tried to be as calm as I could, but my voice trembled.

"What's wrong?" The old bachelor pulled me out of the idol and asked.

I turned pale, pushed him back a few steps, and then shone my flashlight on the tin box inside the idol, only to see a black python crawling along the edge of the idol to the bottom of the clay table, swallowing the tin box in one gulp, and then crawling out of the hole we had chiseled.

During the whole process, the old bachelor and I were so frightened that we didn't dare to move, until the black python crawled out of the City God Temple.

"What Xiaobai asked me to find must be in the iron box, this black python has lived in the statue of the city god for I don't know how many years, it must have spirituality, we have to follow it." I said and chased out.

The old bachelor also chased after me, and chased the black python all the way out of Chungju County and to the deserted suburbs.

Tired and half dead with the old bachelor, I ran to a wide man-made river, and watched the black python burrow into the river and swim down the river to a bridge.

The old man and I guarded the bridge for a long time and didn't see the black python swim out again, and now it was dark, and both of us were scared half to death, and looked at each other for a while, and I asked, "Go down?" ”

"Then go down." The old bachelor said.

The two of us went into the water in fear, and the bridge hole was full of snake skins, but fortunately the water in the bridge hole was not deep, and under the bridge where the black python disappeared, there was a hole the size of a bucket.

"That's the black python that got into this hole." The old bachelor said. "Shall we go in?"

"If you drill into such a small space, you must be looking for death." As I spoke, I shone my flashlight around the bridge. "This black python didn't hurt us, but swallowed the iron box directly, it should have been left by Xiaobai back then."

As I spoke, I saw a small groove in the wall of the cave in front of me, so I tried to insert the Chenghuang Order in my hand into the groove.

After the city god order was inserted into the groove, the click sound was faintly heard, followed by a wave of shaking mountains, water waves, the sound of turning from the bridge, and a whirlpool appeared on the bottom of the foot in an instant, and the old bachelor was directly rolled in!

At the last moment, I grabbed the old man's hand, and the other hand tightly grasped the Chenghuang Order inserted in the groove, but the tearing force of the water was too great, although I tried my best to hold the Chenghuang Order, but the Chenghuang Order was spit out by the groove, and the old bachelor and I were swept into the vortex.

The underwater whirlpool was pitch black, like a spiral ladder specially designed by someone, and the old bachelor and I slid all the way down the current until we were both planted in a pool of water.

The old man and I were stunned to see the light as we fell and crawled out of the pool to the shore in horror.

I raised the Castle God Order in my hand and looked at the outline of the Asgard diagram on the back of the Castle Order.

It's exactly what we see.

It's a magnificent underground fairy palace!