"Nan Wu Amitabha, then the little donor, please come in."

The old monk recited the Buddha's name, and the hand on the crack of the door was withdrawn, and Chen Xiaodonkey hurriedly slipped in when he saw this.

Bang dang!

The door was closed from the inside, and the temple was suddenly pitch black, and it was almost impossible to see the five fingers. The old monk turned around and lit an oil lamp, and Chen Xiaodonkey could barely see the layout in the Buddha hall.

In the middle of the position stands a Buddha statue about two people high, and the incense case futon is placed in front of the Buddha statue, which is no different from other temples.

Following the old monk to the small courtyard at the back of the Buddha hall, looking at the very simple side rooms on the left and right, Chen Xiaodonkey said, "Master, may I ask where Master Juehong lives?" ”

The old monk touched his bald head and said, "I am." ”

"Huh?"

This is a reply that Chen Xiaodonkey didn't expect, looking at the other party, believing but not believing, he didn't know what to say for a while.

Juehong saw Chen Xiaodonkey's embarrassment, but he didn't say hello, and after inviting him to sit down on the stone bench in the small courtyard, he said: "It's getting dark, I won't invite the little donor to tea, let me see the seal." ”

Chen Xiaodonkey nodded, pulled open the collar on his left shoulder, revealing the strange blue-black handprint on his shoulder.

Juehong looked at the blot twice and asked, "When did it appear?" ”

"Yesterday at dawn." Chen Xiaodonkey replied truthfully, seeing that there was no expression on the other party's face, his heart suddenly hung up, and he hurriedly said, "Master, can you solve it?" ”

"Out of the way, wait a moment." Juehong nodded, got up and entered a room.

The courtyard was surrounded by walls, and the sun could no longer be seen when I looked up, and it seemed that the sky could get dark at any moment.

Chen Xiaodonkey clenched his fists slightly, thinking about what Zhang Wuye said to him, like sitting on pins and needles.

However, the master did not make him wait long, and soon came out of the house with two more things in his hand, a string of dark blue beads and half a piece of white coarse wax.

"This string of beads is worn on the left hand." Handing the dark blue bead string to Chen Xiaodonkey, Juehong admonished: "From now on, until dawn tomorrow, don't take it off no matter what happens." ”

Seeing that the other party's face was serious and solemn, and it was a matter of his own life, Chen Xiaodonkey didn't dare to be careless, and nodded and said yes.

Seeing him put on the bead string with his own eyes, Juehong handed him the half of the candle in his hand and said, "When you go back, light the candle at the head of the bed, and before the rooster crows, you must protect the candle flame and not extinguish it, and you can't sleep the little donor." ”

"Point it at the head of the bed, the fire can't be extinguished before the rooster crows, and you can't sleep---- Chen Xiaodonkey repeated, wrote it down carefully, and said, "Master, is there anything else to pay attention to?" ”

"No, as long as nothing goes wrong, the little donor will pass safely tonight and relax. Okay, it's going to be dark, little donor, hurry up---- alas, forget it, I'll send you out. ”

Juehong shook his head, and after explaining, he began to drive people away, and his tone was eager.

Chen Xiaodonkey didn't know why the master was in such a hurry, and walked out quickly, he suddenly remembered, as if the uncle who had just shown him the way deliberately emphasized that it would be almost dark after a while.

And Master Juehong also emphasized that the sky is about to get dark, could it be that as soon as it gets dark, something terrible will happen here?

The main hall dedicated to the Buddha statue was still dark, and when Juehong walked to the Buddha statue with a lamp, his footsteps suddenly stopped. Chen Xiaodonkey stopped, and when he saw a wooden box in front of him that donated sesame oil money, he immediately reacted, and secretly scolded himself for forgetting this stubble, which is really not good. But he was stunned when he followed, and after he went back to change his clothes, he came out in a hurry, and he didn't bring a big boy with him at all!

He said embarrassedly: "Master, I came out too quickly today, and the sesame oil money will come over tomorrow to make up for the Buddha, okay?" ”

"That's not it. Forgot to ask, the place where you want to go back, little donor, is not far from here? ”

"It's a long way off, I'm going back to the city." Chen Xiaodonkey replied, looking at the slight change in the face of the master under the lamplight, he suddenly hung his heart and asked, "What's wrong with the master?" Any questions? ”

"As soon as it gets dark, that evil will be looking for you everywhere! Tonight is the time when your yang energy is at its weakest, unless you are in your own residence, no matter where it is found, there will be no way to live, let alone go back to the wilderness. ”

Deflated calf!

When Chen Xiaodonkey heard this, he was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "What should I do then?" ”

Juehong seemed to hesitate, and sighed after a while, "There's a way, I don't know if it will work, let's give it a try." ”

Give it a try. That's a terrible answer, but there's no better way for Chen Xiaodonkey. He watched Master Juehong take a small piece of yellow table paper from the incense table and wrap some ash from the incense burner.

When he took the things, he listened to the master's advice: "On the way back, if you hear someone calling your name, don't look back, sprinkle a little incense ash in front of you and hurry away." ”

"Thank you."

Except for thanking him, Chen Xiaodonkey didn't know what to say.

Master Juehong waved his hand and opened the temple door through a gap, but he did not put down the oil lamp, and Chen Xiaodonkey followed behind, and as soon as he went out, he was shocked by what he saw.

On both sides of the path in front of the True Law Temple, there were suddenly more than a dozen strangely colored paper figures standing there.

And he didn't know if it was an illusion, he felt that the moment he and Master Juehong walked out, those paper figures turned their heads and stared at them at the same time.

"Little donor!" Master Kakuhiro suddenly slapped him the shoulder.

Chen Xiaodonkey let out an 'ah' as if he was frightened, and came out with a cold sweat. Just now, he didn't know what was going on, and his brain suddenly went blank.

"Master, this ----"

You don't have to think about it to know that these paper people are doing the trick! Chen Xiaodonkey asked himself, after so many years of abduction and abduction, it is not that he has never encountered evil things, but this kind of scary and strange battle, he has really seen it for the first time.

"Don't ask, let's go, stare at the lights and don't look at them."

Master Juehong obviously didn't want to talk about it, so he quickened his pace with the lamp, and Chen Xiaodonkey hurriedly followed, staring at the flames burning on the wick, not even daring to turn his head.

"Nearby villagers call this place Laojiangdao, saying that the Huangpu River turned here in the past, but then the river broke the embankment, and it became the current direction."

After walking in front of more than a dozen paper people, Master Juehong took the initiative to speak, and Chen Xiaodonkey said 'um' absentmindedly. He agrees with this statement, things come and go, and they have their own roots, otherwise this town would not be called 'Puwan'.

"By the way, little donor, who did you start saying asked you to come to me?" Master Juehong asked suddenly.

Chen Xiaodonkey said: "An elder." Seeing Juehong's inquiring eyes, he added: "Zhang Wuye in a broken Taoist temple in the west of the city, you should know the master, right?" ”

However, what Chen Xiaodonkey didn't expect was that Master Juehong shook his head.

Although the temple is in the center of the old river road, it is not far from the shore wall, and the effort of saying two words has come to an end.

Master Juehong held the oil lamp in his hand very steadily, nodded to Chen Xiaodonkey, and said, "Go up quickly, go up quickly, don't look back." ”

In front of him was a dilapidated soft ladder hanging on an almost vertical bank wall, but it was very strong, Chen Xiaodonkey nodded in agreement, and after thanking Master Juehong again, he grabbed the soft ladder three times and divided five by two and climbed up.

It was already slightly dark at this time, and he was relieved to see that the bicycle he was riding was still in place.

But as soon as he walked over to help the car up, he heard someone talking to him.

"Who did you just talk to, young man?"

Chen Xiaodonkey was startled when he heard the sound, and instinctively grabbed the dagger hidden in his back and did not leave his body, and when he turned around, he saw a middle-aged man, squatting on the other side of the road with a cigarette pot in his hand, and the hoe was placed beside him.

"Uncle, it's you." Chen Xiaodonkey smiled awkwardly at the other party, it was the one he met before and showed him the way, just now his reaction was a little excessive, "And Master Juehong in the temple, who else can there be." ”

"Master Kakuhiro?" The middle-aged man knocked the cigarette stick on the ground twice, pulled out an intriguing arc at the corner of his mouth, and said, "Turn your head and see, is there anyone?" ”

Chen Xiaodonkey was shocked when he heard this, and quickly looked back, followed by a cold air 'whoosh' to the top of his head.

The old river road is overgrown with weeds and empty, not to mention Master Juehong, who should be walking back at this time, there is not even a ghost, the path he just walked on, the path that seemed to have been stepped on by someone, is also gone.

Looking farther away, the temple is still there, but the red outside is gone, and the main hall is a little tilted, that is, a dilapidated wild temple with the door ajar open, and it looks like it will collapse at any time.

What's going on!?