Dangdangdang......

It is said that the morning bell and the dusk drum are drums, but I see that the sky is now almost late, and it is not the sound of drums, but the sound of bells, which is somewhat contrary to common sense.

But I heard the second master say that the caretaker in the temple is already very old, maybe he is confused, right?

People are always confused.

Zhongshan reverberates among the mountain passes, mixed with the sound of rain, and has a bit of a fairyland flavor.

As I listened to the bell, a thought suddenly arose in my heart, when I had money, I must also build a glorious temple for Jingmei on Heavenly Mountain.

As for the exact location, it should be built next to the reservoir embankment.

Of course, this thought only flashed through my mind, and after the sound of the bell and the moss-covered staircase, we finally came to the outside of the temple.

When I looked at it from a distance before, I found that the scale of this mountain temple was okay. But when I came to look closer, I found that the temple was dilapidated, the stone walls had collapsed, and the houses had collapsed.

The front of the temple gate was full of dead leaves, the broken walls, and even the stone slab above the gate fell to the ground and fell into countless pieces.

The two words on it are faintly recognizable: "Xilu ......"

Let's call it Xilu Temple for the time being!

It stands to reason that if this temple is guarded, even if few people come to worship incense, it will not be abandoned like this?

The temple was originally a sacred, majestic, and solemn place, but the Xilu Temple gave me the feeling that it was exactly the same, without a solemn atmosphere, but made people feel ghostly, and the separation was terrifying.

As soon as I set foot here, I felt the temperature around me drop a little.

As we hesitated, the half-hidden wooden door creaked open from within, and we saw an old woman in a gray monk's robe coming out of it tremblingly.

I know from the second master that the temple keeper is aging, but when I see her appearance at this moment, I can't help but be secretly frightened.

The old woman in front of her, with most of her snow-white hair falling out, her face wrinkled like rolling waves, and many black age spots, hunched over, thin as a child, walking on a cane, walking like a sieve.

She looks like she's at least in her nineties, right?

It's hard to imagine that an old man like her has been guarding this deserted mountain temple alone for decades, how has she spent these decades?

This old man must have had an unforgettable experience and life experience? Otherwise, how could she stay here by herself?

What about her loved ones? What about her children? How can she be willing to live alone in the mountains? In the company of wild beasts?

Maybe she was a monk or nun and had no children, but she must have parents.

Maybe the four monks are empty, but how can they be empty of their relatives?

"That...... Old woman, the two of us want to go into the temple to take shelter from the rain, is that okay?"

Seeing the old man's appearance, we didn't dare to ask for food at all, and said that we went into the temple to avoid the rain......

The old man nodded, as if he didn't like to talk, opened the temple door a little, beckoned to us, and then walked inside with a tattered oil-paper umbrella and a cane.

Liu Xiaojiao and I glanced at each other, and hurriedly followed in, and after the careful Liu Xiaojiao entered the door, she closed the temple door lightly.

Inside the door was an empty floor overgrown with weeds, and in front of it was a large hall dedicated to the gods, but the door was tightly closed so that you could not see what was inside.

The main hall is lined with porch houses, but most of them have collapsed.

The old man led us not towards the hall, but towards a relatively intact building on the right.

When I stepped into the floor, I suddenly felt a little strange, because in addition to the overgrown weeds, there were many yellow paper coins scattered on the floor.

The paper money has been soaked and eroded by the rain, probably a strong wind, and the value of this money has been blown out of the lobby.

I didn't think much of it, and followed the old man to the door of the house.

The old man gently pushed the door open, in fact, it was not a door anymore, only a few bars.

Liu Xiaojiao and I looked inside, and immediately smelled a musty smell coming in, and it was dark and damp inside.

The old man pointed into the room and motioned for us to rest inside, and then she walked tremblingly towards the temple hall with an oil-paper umbrella, ignoring us.

Liu Xiaojiao watched the old man leave, glanced at the messy scene in the room again, and said with disgust: "How can we rest in this kind of place, it is better to be outside in the rain." ”

"People are under the eaves, and it is already very good to have a tile to cover the rain, and we are not here to travel, where is there so much attention."

"Besides, this place is pretty good, at least the leakage is not serious."

I saw that the sky was getting dark outside, and said to Liu Xiaojiao: "The rain has not stopped, it is dark again, it seems that we have to be trapped here tonight, and we can't go down the mountain for the time being." ”

"It doesn't matter if you don't go down the mountain tonight, it's just that we have to find the murderer of Xiaoling and the old village chief, that passage leads all the way to this place, that is, at this moment, the murderer is very likely to hide in a corner of Centipede Ridge."

"In this situation, we can't take care of ourselves, but you think about solving the case again."

I shook my head and said, "I saw that little girl say to me before that doesn't look like a fake, if she really finds it, I'm afraid it will turn us into real ghosts!" ”

"It's just that even if I am a ghost, I don't want to be a starving ghost! Let's clean up the room first, and I'll ask the old woman if she has any food to satisfy her hunger. ”

"Hmm...... Tianyan, don't you think what the old village chief said is right, is Xiaoling really pitiful? Liu Xiaojiao said suddenly.

I was cleaning up the clutter in the room, and when I heard the words, I sighed and said, "What can I do, poor her, she has now become a water fish." ”

"Didn't you think about helping her?" Liu Xiaojiao asked again.

"Help her? How can it help? We can't even fully identify the real murderer yet, and besides...... Forget it, don't mention those, your leg hurts, I'll show you first. ”

As I spoke, I took out a few leaves that I had just picked halfway and handed them to Liu Xiaojiao.

"What is this?" Liu Xiaojiao looked at the leaves in my hand and asked curiously.

I replied, "This is a leaf of an herb that can often be found in the mountains, and it can stop bleeding and thicken it, and it is very effective." Didn't you just say that the wound hurts? It should be better with the medicine. ”

"How do you know this herb works? Have you tried it yourself? ”

Seeing Liu Xiaojiao's skeptical attitude, I rolled my eyes and said, "My father is a village doctor, and he used to go up the mountain with him to pick herbs when he was a child, so I know it." ”

"Oh, I see."

When Liu Xiaojiao heard this, she took the herbal leaves from my hand.

Seeing this, I was about to end down and examine the wound on her calf, but Liu Xiaojiao shrank her leg and said, "The injury I suffered is not too serious, just come by yourself, you better clean up the room quickly." ”

"Alright! Remember to put the herbs in your mouth and chew them before applying them to the wound, so that the effect is greater. ”

I told Liu Xiaojiao, and I vaguely felt that something was not quite right, since she came out of the passage, her personality seemed to have changed. Something is wrong, but what is wrong is not clear for a while.

All in all, she gave me a strange feeling of being speechless.

Maybe I thought too much about myself, I shook my head and ignored Liu Xiaojiao, turned around to clean up the room, threw all the sundries aside, and then picked up some broken beams and came back to make a fire.

The wooden strips were damp, and it took a long time before a bonfire was lit, and by this time Liu Xiaojiao had already finished treating her wounds and gathered around the fire to roast the fire.

I glanced at Liu Xiaojiao, and said in a ghostly manner: "If you feel uncomfortable, you can take off your pants too." ”

I didn't realize it was wrong until I finished speaking, but it was too late.

"Let me take off my pants...... You...... What do you want? Liu Xiaojiao pointed at me with her finger, and her delicate body trembled lightly: "I'll tell you, you...... Don't mess around, or I'll be unkind to you! After speaking, he took out a pistol from his waist, and his face was full of vigilance.

"You misunderstood!"

I was embarrassed and said, "I just want your pants to be wet, and they must feel uncomfortable wearing them, so let you take them off to dry, what's the point?" Aren't I naked and undressed? Everyone is an adult, what are you afraid of? ”

"It's because everyone is an adult that I'm afraid of you messing around!" Liu Xiaojiao glared at me and snorted.

I spread my hands and said, "Whatever you think, I'm going to worship the statue enshrined in the temple now, and by the way, I'll ask the old woman if she has anything to eat, and you can sit here and have a good fire!" ”

I walked out of the room and muttered dissatisfiedly, "With your bloated body and bucket-like thighs, you wouldn't like to show me." ”

"Lao Tianyan, you bastard!"

Hearing the angry voice of the tigress behind me, I ran towards the temple lobby as if I were running away.

When I came to the door of the lobby, I found that there was a candle flame burning inside, but the door was closed, I don't know if the old woman guarding the temple was inside?

I looked down at myself, hesitating to push the door in. Not for anything else, just because my current appearance is too much.

Because he rescued the injured old village chief in the passage before, now he has only a pair of pants left on his body. I didn't think there was anything before, but now standing outside the temple door, I don't feel right.

After all, the temple is dedicated to the gods, and it is a solemn place, and I am afraid that it will be unseemly to go in and worship without covering my clothes.

In fact, I wasn't afraid that the gods would be angry, but that the old woman would out with a stick.

I think this is also the reason why her old man didn't take us into the temple to worship just now, but went directly to the side room, right?

It's also a shame that this is a dilapidated temple, if you go to a temple with strict rules, and the monks see me and Liu Xiaojiao's dress, they will definitely talk about sin, where will they take us in?

I hesitated to go in, and by this time it was getting dark.

Through the dim sky, I caught a glimpse of an abandoned tarpaulin among the wild grass on the floor. Immediately walked over, picked up the tarpaulin, and cut it with a dagger.

After dividing five by two, I wrapped myself in a tarpaulin strip that I thought was pretty good, and came to the temple door again.

Looking at the tarpaulin on my body, I felt a little proud in my heart, and secretly said that I was really that ingenious......

I was in a good mood at the moment, and without hesitation, I pushed the door and walked into the temple......