11. Fengxue Mountain Temple

The people who were watching TV in the courtyard heard the bells coming from the mountains, and they all knew that this was a warning of urgency in the village. But Wu Song's kung fu is too cool, and the plot of Water Margin is too attractive, they all watched TV one by one, pretending not to hear.

Zhang Datou, who had already stripped and slept in the main room, was pleasantly surprised by the rhythmic bell. He immediately ran up and listened to a few sounds with his ears pricked up, making sure it was the alarm in the village. As the patriarch, he naturally didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly dressed and went to the kang.

Zhang Datou walked out of the door wearing a sheepskin jacket, and he saw a full crowd of people sitting in the courtyard, watching TV with wide eyes, and they even ignored Zhang Datou when he came out. Zhang Datou looked at this group of people who seemed to be sick, and he was angry.

He didn't say a word, and walked over to the power strip with a kick. The latch on the TV was kicked open, and as soon as the TV was powered off, the screen went black. The courtyard of the Zhang family was brightly illuminated by the lights from Zhang Datou's room, and everyone was stunned along with the expressions of amazement.

After all, he is the head of a clan, and his non-angry and self-righteous facial features are already very uncomfortable on weekdays, but now he is extremely angry, the muscles under the wrinkles on his face have been tensed, the arteries and blood vessels in his neck are also thick and scary, and the bamboo crutch in his hand has also been pinched and creaked. Zhang Datou stood in front of everyone like a volcano before the eruption.

Sitting in the courtyard without the attraction of the TV, looking at the shaking TV table, and then looking at the anger of Zhang Datou, he sat in place one by one and didn't know what to do, and his eyes drifted for a while.

At this time, Zhang Chunhe, a nephew who was sitting in the crowd with a big head, shouted: "cough cough, don't be stunned, I heard the bell ringing in the temple just now, everyone go home first to settle down the women and children, and the person in charge of the family hurry to the temple." ”

Everyone heard Zhang Chunhe's words as if they had just woken up from a dream. Quickly stood up, picked up his bench and walked out the door.

The two brothers Zhang Zhen, who had paused the discussion in the room, heard the sudden dead silence outside the house, and hurriedly came out to check. The brothers knew that something was wrong at a glance, and they began to worry in their hearts. Didn't Li Deaf see it just now, or was he heard by Zhang Blind?

The situation is urgent, and there is no time to think about it. At night, the road was slippery when it was dark, and Zhang Zhen and his brothers helped Zhang Datou to go up the mountain.

When Zhang Datou's group arrived, Li Slender Monkey had already taken the important people of the Li family to stand in the temple courtyard for more than ten minutes. Li Slender Monkey doesn't like to be lively, and he doesn't have the arrogance of Zhang Datou, let alone the atmosphere that Zhang Datou doesn't care about the so-called electricity bill of a few yuan. Li Ke, the granddaughter of Li Slender Monkey, won back the TV, which seems to be adding an extra vase to the family. He didn't speak, and no one dared to look at it.

Li Slender Monkey has the same routine as most rural people, and goes to bed early as soon as it gets dark. When I woke up from my sleep, I heard a bell from the mountain. Li Slender Monkey, who had nourished his spirits, immediately summoned the Li family to go up the mountain together.

Besides, this temple is built on the mountainside of the south side of the Whimpering River, and the Li family is all on the south side of the river, so the distance to the temple is shorter, and it is naturally faster.

Li Slender Monkey saw that Zhang Datou was coming with everyone, and relied on the advantage of arriving first. didn't discuss with Zhang Datou, so he said directly: "We heard the bell just now, so we hurried up." The deaf and blind man also briefly described what had happened to me. When encountering this kind of thing, it is related to the personal and property safety of the whole village, so we cannot ignore it. Besides, tonight's movement has alarmed the mountain god, and we can't afford it.

Although, the people who came up first already had a rough idea of what had happened, but the heads of the newcomers were still empty. So the deaf and the blind will describe it again. ”

Gengzhuang is nominally an administrative village, but both the Zhang and Li families have patriarchs, and the patriarchs are in charge of one clan, and they hinder each other for the sake of power fairness. The head of the Zhang family and the head of the Li family are the village chief and secretary of this village, respectively. Li Slender Monkey studied and worked in the county when he was young, so he has always been a secretary. Although the secretary is older than the village, Li Slender Monkey alone does not count the affairs in the village, and the Zhang family and the Li family are still in charge of their own affairs.

Today, Li Slender Monkey took the lead, and he took advantage of his first arrival in the temple to steal the limelight from Zhang Datou at once. On weekdays, he only spoke in front of the Li family, but this time he spoke in front of the whole village, and he felt a little more glory on his face. Just kill Zhang Datou's sharp spirit!

After Li Slender Monkey said that, he asked Zhang Blind and Li Deaf to describe what happened again. Li is deaf and can see with his eyes, but he is deaf and dumb, and he can't hear or speak. Just dance and make a gesture. Zhang was blind but had a keen sense of hearing, and he told everyone what he heard and what he heard.

By the time the two of them tossed, it was already late at night. It was getting darker and darker, and the oil lamps in the main hall of the temple were swaying in the cold air. With a gust of cold wind, snowflakes flew in the sky.

Zhang Datou stood in the courtyard in a sheepskin jacket, and the snowflakes fell on the tips of his silver-white hair and the standing lion's eyebrows. Zhang Datou listened to the words of the blind and deaf, and sweated in his hands. He knows his duty, and he can't let his ancestors be disgraced and let the villains succeed!

The wind and snow were getting heavier and heavier, and after a while, the yard was dyed white. Without further ado, Zhang Datou and Li Slender Monkey each sent someone to count their own outfits. After the inventory, except for the Li family who said that the box was turned over, nothing was found. The things of the Zhang family have no trace of being passive at all.

Zhang Datou and Li Slender Monkey glanced at each other, and then looked at the snow outside. I muttered in my heart, this weather is really not at the right time, and a heavy snow has covered up the whereabouts of the thieves. They did not speak, and after a long time.

However, Zhang Zhen and Zhang Lei, who had accompanied Zhang Datou to the temple just now, were frightened by the huge formation in front of them. However, they looked at the snowflakes floating in the sky, and they had the opposite idea of Zhang Datou Li Thin Monkey. Their tense nerves relaxed, and the snow could hide not only the mysterious shadow, but also the whereabouts of the two of them.

When it snows in the middle of the night, the snow will only get heavier and heavier. It's late at night, and when the snow falls heavily, it's not safe to go down. Li Shouhou and Zhang Datou first asked the people standing in the courtyard to go home, and tomorrow a few presidents will go to the village committee for a meeting.

When the others were almost gone, only Zhang Zhen's brothers and Zhang Datou, Li Slender Monkey and his grandson Li Gen were left in the temple. Calm suddenly returned to the temple, and the group walked into the main hall and burned incense for the idol. Zhang Datou muttered a few words in his mouth that he couldn't hear clearly, and then asked Zhang Zhen to remove the key held in the hand of the god statue and open the locked box placed in the Li family's box. They were going to check if the ancestral purple gold lamp was still intact.

The incandescent lights in the hall were dim, and Zhang Lei held a flashlight in his hand to unlock the lock for Zhang Zhen. Zhang Zhen took the large, strange-looking key, inserted it into the huge lock on the box, twisted it a few times, and opened it. The light of the flashlight and the light of the incandescent lamp, the double light shined on the purple gold lamp in the box, and the purple gold lamp suddenly emitted a wonderful brilliance, but it was not so dazzling, but it seemed so deep.

Except for Li Slender Monkey and Zhang Datou, none of the three children present had observed the Zijin Lantern so closely.

Zhang Lei looked at the purple gold lamp and didn't feel anything, just felt that it was an oily broken oil lamp. He was thinking: how can such an ordinary thing deserve to be protected so solemnly.

Li Gen, who was standing next to Li Slender Monkey, was also the first time to see the Zijin Lantern at such a close distance, and he was still quite excited. He looked at the lines on the lamp body very strangely, like mysterious characters written on it. Those characters circle around the body of the lamp, and even the oily lamp bowl has characters, which looks very mysterious! Li Gen was amazed, and he felt the urge to pick it up and dry it and look at those characters.

Zhang Zhen, who opened the box, was closest to the purple gold lamp, and he looked at the glowing purple gold lamp, and suddenly felt that the lamp seemed to have a soul. Although the lamp now has no wick, it does not affect his dignity in the slightest. is like the blind man who guards the temple in this temple, although he is blind, he is very clear in his heart.

Zhang Zhen stared at the purple gold lamp again, and suddenly he found that he was very impressed by the patterns and characters on the purple gold lamp. A flash of inspiration flashed in his head, and he suddenly thought of what he had seen when he was about to go out just now, and goosebumps suddenly appeared all over his body.

Zhang Zhen never imagined that he would be able to see through objects in the dark, and he could see the contents of the box, and what was even more amazing was that what he saw was not just the side of the object facing him, but a 360-degree view without dead ends. It's simply amazing!

However, the strange thing is, why can't I see it when I first enter the temple gate? That darkness, if you had this ability earlier, you wouldn't have to bother to open the box to find the faucet. Could it really be that there is really the help of the gods?

Seeing that the purple gold lamp was intact, Zhang Datou and Li Slender Monkey both breathed a sigh of relief. After all, this is one of the few things handed down from the ancestors, and it is also the most precious thing.

Zhang Datou asked Zhang Zhen to take out the purple gold lamp and hand it to Li Slender Monkey, then locked the box and hung the key in the idol's hand again. Zhang Zhen was curious about his unintentional extra abilities, but he didn't care about the purple gold lamp. He locked the box with no things, and then he and Li Slender Monkey and his party left the temple one after another.

The snow was falling heavily, and the way down the mountain had long been covered by snow. Fortunately, both old people were taken care of by young people, so there was no danger.

Li Monkey's skinny skin and bones were carried down the mountain by the strong Li Gen with one hand. Li Gen's physique is different from all the thin men of the Li family, he is naturally strong. He was born half older than other children, and his body developed well. In addition, the food of Li Slender Monkey's family is not bad, and Li Gen, who has just turned fifteen years old, is already an adult, and even stronger than ordinary adults in the village.

Zhang Datou's body is stiff, he has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, he didn't admit defeat so quickly, he was stunned and didn't let Zhang Zhen and Zhang Lei support him. The road down the mountain was slippery, and the two of them walked down in front, and they stepped on the road in the snow, and the snow was a little slippery when it was trampled.

It is true that Zhang Datou has practiced martial arts, but after all, he is old. Trembling and trembling, he walked a few steps on the snow and slid on all fours, but fortunately, Zhang Lei quickly grabbed his sheepskin jacket, otherwise he would have been hospitalized for a few days. After being trained on the snow, Zhang Datou became honest and acquiesced to letting Zhang Zhen carry him down the mountain. He lay on Zhang Zhen's back and muttered: "Alas, people are useless when they are old!" ”

In the second half of the night, the temple that had been noisy for a long time suddenly became quiet. The snow was falling, and the heavens and the earth were asleep. The sound of snow falling was heard clearly in the silence of the night.

At this time, at the corner next to the temple gate, a person was standing against the wall. He was dressed in black, wore a hat on his head, and wore a long scarf around his neck. The snow on the hat was as thick as the snow on the ground. His eyes were fixed on Li Slender Monkey and Zhang Datou and others who were going down the mountain, their eyes were like torches, and they were like glowing in the snow in the dark night.

Inside the temple, the blind and deaf who had been tossing all night were also very sleepy at this time, and they cleaned up, and they had to get up early the next day to sweep the snow and burn incense.

The man standing against the wall stood motionless for a long time. It seems to have been connected to the wall for a long time, just like Japanese ninjutsu, and no one can find him in the dark.

Everything was silent, and the dark shadow finally moved. He slowly removed his hat and shook off the snow that had accumulated on it. I don't know when I suddenly had a crutch or something like that in my hand. He squinted and smiled, and a deep voice came out of his throat: "Two fools, still being the patriarch? But your grandchildren are much better than you. Hahaha"

The sound is low, and the volume is very low, to be exact. The voice came from his throat and disappeared from his lips, as if it were for himself. If someone wants to hear clearly, they need to put their ears to his mouth.

It was already the second half of the night, and at this time all the people in Gengzhuang were also asleep, and the family dog was snoring. The village, without a single light, stood at this time and looked down from the mountain, it was quiet and peaceful!

The black shadow shook off the snow on his body, suddenly turned around, stepped on the wall, and jumped into the temple courtyard at once. Miraculously, there were no footprints on the wall, except for a small scratch mark.

This black shadow seemed to be very familiar with the temple, and stepped on the snow a few steps to the entrance of the main hall. The incense from the incense burner in the main hall had burned out, and the air was filled with a faint scent of sandalwood, dry and cold.

The black figure took off his scarf, and the scarf flicked back and forth in his hand, and suddenly it became two. He wrapped his feet in the two cloths, then pushed the door open and walked into the main hall.

At the entrance of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, the black shadow glanced left and right. Sure there was no danger, he took out his crutches and pulled out a wire-like object from the base of the crutches. Holding a cane in his hand, he stretched out one end of the wire. Go under the idol, put the wire straight into the idol's hand, and remove the key from the idol's hand.

He made a flurry of movements, as if he had done them many times. The black shadow put away his crutches and took the key in his hand to the place where the purple gold lamp was placed. His purpose is very simple, it is to take away the purple gold lamp!

The shadow crouched down and slowly inserted the key into the lock. The silence in the hall was terrifying, and any sound could alarm the attention of others. The shadow moved slowly, and the action of inserting the key was also moving a little. The huge key rubbed against the lock cylinder and made a faint sound in the main hall. But the voice disappeared before he could reach the hall under his slow movements. He took the key and squeezed in slowly, little by little.

This black shadow was also patient enough, and it was only locked for more than ten minutes. Squatting there motionless, like a freeze-frame picture. Finally, with a "click", the lock opened. The black shadow was not in a hurry to open the box, he slowly removed the lock, and then stood up and slowly opened the lid of the box.

He did every move with great care, like a spy who steals information, professional and discreet. This box looks a little old, and the hinge connecting the box and the lid has not been smooth because of the age. No matter how careful you are, it squeaks.

Fortunately, the black shadow was skillful, and he moved extremely slowly, holding his breath and slowly opening the box. When the box was two-thirds open, he couldn't help but look down at the box.

I suddenly said secretly in my heart: "It's not good, I've been tricked." ”