Walking side by side with the village chief on the path of the village, it was already a cold winter, and the ground had begun to be barren, only some broken weeds, rolling everywhere with the wind, looking a little desolate.

Looking at the village, the village chief sighed with emotion, "Since there was such an incident, people in this village are panicked, and few people go out during the day." ”

Shi Xing nodded, and saw if only a few young people in the village were passing by him, and rarely saw people appear on the path.

Soon, the three of them followed the village chief back to their home, and after a simple peasant banquet, Shi Xing wiped his mouth, sat on the kang and chatted with the village chief about the temple on the mountain outside the village.

"Village Chief, do you know the strange temple in the old man's mouth?"

Hearing the words of the punishment, the village chief took a puff of his cigarette, quickly pinched it off again, and said in a somewhat low voice, "If I don't know about that temple, I must be lying to you." In fact, when Wan Lao told me about that temple, I had a feeling in my heart that that temple was probably the strange temple I had seen when I was a child. ”

"Strange temple, village chief, you tell us about it, so we can also listen to the story and consume food." Wang An immediately took out a plate of peanuts and sat down next to Shi Xing.

The village chief looked at the rolling mountains outside the window, was silent for a while, and said, "Many years ago, at that time, there were five people in our family, in addition to my parents, I also had two older brothers, when I was very young, I often played with my two elder brothers, going up the mountain to catch rabbits, down the river to catch shrimp ......and so on."

Decades ago, when the village chief was still a child, almost eight or nine years old, one day, the village chief's parents went to the town to set up a stall, leaving only the village chief and his two older brothers in the house.

The two elder brothers were only a few years older than the village elders at that time, which was the age when teenagers were active and fun, and they were really idle and bored to stay at home, so the two elder brothers decided to take the village chief, who was still a child at the time, to dig some wild vegetables in the mountains.

Since many of the villagers in this village dig wild vegetables in the surrounding mountains, the three children decided to go to the back of the village, the back hill that is rarely visited.

The back mountain is very high, and the trees in the forest are much larger than the other mountains, and the grass is relatively lush, except for the traces of some wild beasts.

As if they had arrived at a treasure land, the three children immediately found many wild vegetables on the mountain, and in a short time they filled the baskets they had brought with them.

"Let's go back." It felt that the sky was already getting a little dark, and the youngest village chief was a little scared and hoped to go home early.

"What are you afraid of, it's still early after dark, let's dig a little and go back." The eldest brother patted his small basket and walked over to a nearby hill again.

There was no way, so the village chief had to follow behind his two elder brothers, and soon the three of them came to a strange place.

It was a mountain depression, with a large area of man-made flatland, overgrown with weeds, apparently uncleared for a long time, the tallest of which was no longer than the knees of an adult male.

"Hey, what kind of place is this?" The boss looked around with some curiosity and slowly walked into the weeds.

"Big brother, look, there's a temple there." The second child suddenly pointed to a temple in the distance and shouted loudly.

"Hey, it's true, let's go over and have a look." The boss looked for prestige, and immediately saw the temple, and ran towards the temple with great interest.

The village chief had no choice but to run along, but perhaps because the sky had begun to turn dark and the weeds were too long, the village chief soon lost the trace of his two elder brothers.

Seeing that there was no one around, quietly, although the village chief was afraid, he still had the courage to walk towards the temple, and when he walked to the temple, the village chief looked at the closed door, knocked on it, and shouted loudly. "Brother, are you inside, I was a little scared when I heard me."

However, no matter how much the village chief shouted, there was no response from behind the door as if there was no one.

"I'm in." There was no way, after cheering himself up and encouraging his courage, the village chief slowly opened the door.

There were no lights in the temple, and it was a little dark everywhere, and only the outlines of some things could be faintly seen, and the village chief walked forward cautiously.

With a "bang", the originally open temple door suddenly closed, and the frightened village chief immediately screamed and hid under a table, and after waiting for a long time, he found that no one had climbed out again.

"Brothers, where the hell are you? Whining. The village chief, who was crying and looking for his brother, looked around, and his heart was even more scared.

Just when the village chief began to cry in a hurry, suddenly two candles lit up behind the village chief, and the village chief instinctively screamed and fell to the ground.

"Hahaha, I'll just say it, the third child will definitely cry." The eldest and second looked at the embarrassed village chief and laughed happily.

"Brother, you're finally out." The village chief, who saw his brothers, was not angry because of the prank just now, and immediately got up and grabbed his brother's hand.

"Alright, alright." comforted the eldest of the village chief, raised his head and said to the second child, "You said that this temple is strange enough, you don't worship Buddha, and you put such a ghost thing." ”

By the candlelight in the boss's hand, the village chief vaguely saw that in the middle of this temple, what was enshrined was not an Arhat or a Bodhisattva, but a monster with a fierce appearance and bared teeth.

"Brother, be careful what you say." When the second child heard it, he immediately reminded him.

"Oh, okay, okay, got it." The boss looked at the second child indifferently, and before he finished speaking, the boss suddenly said "oops".

"What's wrong?" The second child immediately stepped forward and asked with concern.

"It's okay, it's okay, it's just that I suddenly felt a pain in my chest just now, and now it's okay." The boss rubbed his chest and said, "Don't say it, the more you look at this place, the more evil it becomes, let's go." ”

"Yes, go home." Hearing that he could go home, the village chief immediately nodded.

"Later." Speaking of this, the village chief suddenly lit a cigarette again and smoked it, and Wang An immediately asked anxiously.

"The evil thing is that later, not long after our three brothers came home, my eldest brother suddenly had a heart attack and died."

"Dead?"

The village chief nodded, "It's dead, it's suddenly dead." With that, the village chief took another deep puff of his cigarette.

After Shi Xing and Wang An glanced at each other, Shi Xing asked, "Village Chief, do you remember where that temple is?" ”

The village chief shook his head, "After so many years, how can I still remember, but it should be about the south of the back mountain." ”

"Southside." Shi Xing thought about it for a while, and said to Wang An and Liudao, "Then we'll set off in a while." ”

Wang An and Liudao heard Shi Xing's words, nodded, and packed their things and prepared to leave.

The door of the village chief's house.

"Can't you go again tomorrow morning, it's dangerous to go up the mountain at night." The village chief put some water and food in the backpacks of the three of them, and whispered persuasion.

Shi Xing shook his head, "Some things only come at night, and besides, what we originally did was to work at night. ”

Seeing that persuasion was hopeless, the village chief had no choice but to advise, "Then you should set off now, so that when you reach the mountains, it will not be too late." ”

After saying goodbye to the village chief, they followed the path of the village, and soon the three of them came to the foot of the back mountain, where there was only one rugged path to go up the mountain.