Chapter 51: The Ancient Shrine
The carriage swayed, making Li Jiangwei dizzy, and leaned on the soft cushions in the carriage. Lu Jiangfeng glanced at her helplessly and sighed.
After exchanging information in the Huaixing Marquis Mansion, the two sisters set a time to go to Shangyang. Now the two of them have arrived at the realm of Shangyang and are ready to stay in the inn.
"Would you like to take a break?"
The subordinates of the Huaixing Marquis Mansion had already entered the inn to check in, and the carriage stopped outside the door. Lu Jiangfeng lifted the curtains, intending to let the breeze blow into the carriage and relieve Li Jiangwei's motion sickness.
"You can go up and sleep for a while."
Li Jiangwei gasped, gently patted her chest and breathed smoothly, and took a few deep breaths before sitting up straight.
"I'm better." Li Jiangwei reluctantly said: "Just get out of the car and take a walk." ”
Pale face, lost bloody lips. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Li Jiangwei's state is very bad, and even these two sentences are said forcefully.
Lu Jiangfeng frowned and asked, "Xia Jiang will be like this?" ”
"No ......," Li Jiangwei said weakly, "occasionally...... ...... inoften"
Li Jiangwei was afraid that Lu Jiangfeng would not believe it, so she moved to the door curtain. He smiled at Lu Jiangfeng and cautiously left the carriage. Lu Jiangfeng was helpless against Li Jiangwei's stubbornness, so he could only go with her.
Lu Jiangfeng jumped off the carriage lightly, and today she was dressed up energetically, high-spirited and heroic. In comparison, Li Jiangwei looked a little embarrassed.
"Sister, the shrine...... Where? ”
"Really not resting?" Lu Jiangfeng asked again.
"It's not going to be any better...... Instead of wasting time here, it's better to go to the shrine early. ”
Seeing that Li Jiangwei had made up her mind, Lu Jiangfeng stretched out his right hand in front of Li Jiangwei. Li Jiangwei stared at the calloused hand in front of her in surprise, and slowly put the other hand that was not holding the carriage on Lu Jiangfeng's hand.
"Is it okay to walk over?"
"Hmmm......"
The shrine of the dragon god is located to the east of Shangyang, not far from the inn. The building of the shrine is red throughout, and the outermost gate is open and unguarded. Stepping over the threshold of the gate, a shadow wall was facing Li Jiangwei's gaze as she continued to peep in. Bypassing the shadow wall with Lu Jiangfeng, he saw a man in white and blue clothes sweeping the fallen flowers on the ground with a broom.
The man turned a deaf ear to Li Jiangwei and Lu Jiangxiung and continued to do his own thing. The rustle of the broom touching the stone bricks broke the peace of the shrine, but it could not change the bleakness of the courtyard.
Lu Jiangfeng took off the jade pendant on his waist and walked in front of the man.
"Can you introduce the priest of your shrine?"
The man finally stopped what he was doing and looked at Lu Jiangfeng indifferently.
"When we meet, we will go by ourselves."
With that, he pointed to the trail to the right.
"From there, into the backyard, the innermost room is the priest's quarters."
"Thank you, brother."
Li Jiangwei followed behind Lu Jiangxio, and Li Jiangwei, who had eased up, looked around restlessly. The outermost color of the shrine is red, but the further you go, the less red you have, and the more cyan you have.
"It's a strange ...... color matching"
"Cyan is the positive color of the dragon god. This shrine should have been dominated by cyan. ”
"Then why is it red on the outside?"
"Seventeen hundred years ago, it was a time of trouble. The shrine was hit hard in the war, and the outer courtyard was almost destroyed, but only this backyard remained in its original appearance. After the Hubei Dynasty unified the country, it allocated silver to rebuild the shrine. The Hubei Dynasty respected red, and the exterior walls and outer courtyards were dominated by red. ”
"Then all we can find out is the backyard."
Lu Jiangfeng bowed his head and said, "What you said is good. ”
The backyard was not large, and with the help of another witch, he came to the priest's quarters. Lu Jiangfeng knocked lightly on the door and said loudly outside: "Under the Taibu Order, Lu Jiangfeng came to visit the priest of the Xunlong Shrine. ”
With a creak, the wooden door opened. Behind the door stood a middle-aged man with a goatee. Fine wrinkles were already on his face and his eye sockets were sunken.
"Taibu's order?" The priest looked at the woman in front of him who was a head shorter than him in surprise, "You said you were the Taibu Order?" ”
Lu Jiangfeng saluted him and said, "Exactly." ”
"It's been a long time."
The priest stepped back, gave up his place, and invited the two into the house.
"The house is shabby, please forgive me."
It's not a big room, but the sparrows have everything they need to have. It's just that things are simpler, there are scratches on the objects, and the paint surface of some lacquered furniture has peeling marks.
"What is the so-called special visit of the two of you?"
Taibu signed the order, a vacant position that was vacated and only had a name, and others did not need to be respectful to it at all. But in Li Jiangwei's eyes, after this priest learned Lu Jiangfeng's identity, his attitude and tone became much more respectful. Li Jiangwei suddenly wondered what kind of existence the Taibu Agency was.
"I came here today to ask about the dragon god."
With that, Lu Jiangfeng took out a note from his arms and handed it to the goatee priest, and the note recorded the boy's prayer in front of Li Jiangwei.
"Do you have any impression of such a prayer?"
The goatee priest took the note closer, squinted his eyes, and said, "It should be a prayer related to the dragon god." ”
"Can you find out who wrote it?"
The goatee priest gasped and said in shock: "Do you know how many prayers have been written in the past few thousand years? It is not easy to find similarities in the prayers of the ages! How much more is to find the person who wrote it! This...... It's impossible to find! ”
"Don't worry, I've sifted it for you. The style of this prayer should have been written by the Xun Dynasty. Or the ...... of the retro movement"
When Lu Jiangfeng began to explain grammar knowledge to the goatee priest, Li Jiangwei's attention was attracted by the bookcase in the room. In addition to the most common thread-bound books, there are also rolled-up bamboo slips on the bookcase.
Then I looked up and found that there seemed to be a pattern drawn on the beams in the room, but unfortunately it was mottled and peeled off. The window lattices show signs of decay, and various small places show the antiquity of the building.
I don't know if three hundred years later, this ancient building called the Xunlong Shrine is still standing here, watching the ups and downs of the world.
"Rose."
Li Jiangwei was stunned.
"Follow me somewhere else."
"Yes!"
Li Jiangwei obediently followed behind Lu Jiangfeng and left the priest's residence.
"Sister, where are we going next?"
"Go to the warehouse to look for facsimiles and see the patterns of the carved frescoes of the shrines of the ages. In terms of text, there are people from the shrine to help, and we can just look at the pictures. ”
After two troubled times, most of the picture books have been scattered. Most of the existing picture books are works after the An Dynasty, and the original picture book of the Xunlong Shrine has disappeared.
"During the Xun Dynasty, the Taibu Department was also called the Taibu Temple. It controlled the promotion and transfer of the shrine spirit officials in the land at that time. Therefore, we still have some power to speak in front of the priests of the shrine. ”