Chapter Eighty-Five: Coming Home
"A female Taoist priest surnamed Li?" When I asked him, I actually wanted to determine the gender of the Taoist priest surnamed Li.
The old man nodded and said, "The surname is Li, female." ”
Chen Yihua and I glanced at each other, and my first reaction in my heart was Uncle Li, but he was sure that he was a female Taoist, which made me confused, I don't know what it is.
Chen Yihua didn't say anything, as if he was thinking about something, and kept frowning.
"Uncle, do you remember what that female Taoist priest looks like?" Chen Yihua asked.
"A round face, very blessed, some thick lips, a mole on the left side of the chin, about one meter five or six tall, and there is no particularly conspicuous place." The uncle thought about it carefully and said to Chen Yihua.
"What excuse did she make for you to agree to ask the headless god to be the god of the mountain?" I asked.
"I don't remember what she said at the time, what it means is probably that this statue was originally a great god in the sky, but it violated the rules of heaven, and the emperor of heaven took his head and left it in the heavenly realm, and beat his body into the mortal world to be a small mountain god.
As soon as I heard what he said, I knew that the female Taoist priest was not well-intentioned, and deceived the simple mountain people under this pretense, thinking that the kind countrymen didn't understand anything, and if they could deceive one person, the gods who violated the vows would be demoted to the mortal world to reincarnate and practice, or suppressed, but it would not be like the official demotion to the third rank in the real society.
I was pondering this matter, and Chen Yihua whispered to me: "My master once lent "Taoist Experience" to a friend surnamed Li. ”
"Is it the same as the old man's description?" I asked.
Chen Yihua said: "Seven or eight points, I was too young at that time to remember very clearly, I have to go back and ask my sister." ”
I said okay, if the female Taoist priest surnamed Li is really an old friend of Master Chen Yihua, this matter is complicated again, she trekked through mountains and rivers to build a headless mountain temple in this remote ravine in Guizhou, what is it for, does Master Chen Yihua know about this?
I remember Chen Yihua said that her master has a book "Taoist Experience", which is a very powerful book.
And the people who have read this book in this world should only be Master Chen Yihua and the female Taoist priest surnamed Li, and the book was burned later, but the female Taoist priest borrowed it, it could not be for a simple read, she wanted to study the Taoism in the book, so she naturally had to write down all the contents of the book before returning the book, and the best way was to copy the book.
"Could it be that what happened in Shijie Village has something to do with this book?" I thought to myself, but I haven't read that book, and I'm not sure if the female Taoist priest who invited the headless mountain god is a friend of Master Chen Yihua, so I can only be curious.
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We walked all the way to the town, the yellow mud road in the mountains was potholed, but the bones that gave Lin Lao Bumps were scattered, the old man who drove the car saw that I didn't speak, he didn't say much, thinking of the old things, the old man's face was ugly, I thought about it, too, let the whole village cut off their children and grandchildren, this kind of practice of going against the sky, it is simply angry with people and gods, although I am very angry, I want to do the right thing for the sky, but my current ability, is really more than enough and not enough.
Came to the town, we said goodbye to the uncle, Lin Lao took out the last twenty yuan from the body and handed it to the old man, the old man was not sure to want it, but he couldn't stand Lin Lao's enthusiasm, and then we found a bank to withdraw the money on the passbook, bought a ticket to the county, and then Lin Lao called the institute, he called for a long time, I don't know who he reported the situation to, about half an hour to return to me, and then took the car to the city, and finally bought a ticket home.
It's been a long journey!
As soon as we got off the plane, there were two young men who greeted Lin Lao and welcomed us to the black car, Lin Lao went directly to the hospital, I accompanied Chen Yihua for a while, and said goodbye to Lin Lao, he asked me to keep in touch, maybe one day the organization will have a task, I said okay, I thought you don't want to contact me, there is Xin Yaojie, the judge, what can you do?
After leaving the hospital, there was a special car to take me and Chen Yihua back to the village, although I didn't stay long outside, but I would see the familiar road, smell the dirt in the field, I was at ease, and led Chen Yihua to run directly in the direction of home.
There was no one at home, I estimated that I was working in the field, I asked Chen Yihua to rest at home, and ran out to find my mother, just walked a short distance, met some villagers on the road, and when I came back, they were very surprised, and greeted me one after another, saying that I was the most promising person in our village, and I had seen the world outside, I smiled and chatted with them, and asked them where my mother works?
As soon as they heard this, their faces suddenly changed a little, and they didn't answer me directly, but only said, "Guoqiang, your mother is sick." ”
"What's wrong? I don't see anyone at home, huh? In the hospital? "I was shocked, my father's illness still didn't know what to do, my mother was sick again, and I suddenly felt an indescribable discomfort in my heart, and I felt that my sky was about to fall.
"Not at home, not in the hospital, in Xishan!"
"Nishiyama?"
My scalp is numb, how can a sick person go to Xishan, and Xishan is very evil, only the broken temple, where did she go?
To be honest, in addition to thinking about my mother at this time, I was also a little angry, they knew that Xishan couldn't go, why didn't they stop my mother and bring her back!
I didn't stop running to the west mountain, and when I saw the ruined temple from afar, I felt a chill in my heart.
"Mom, Mom, I'm back!" I shouted loudly, and there were only echoes and startled bird calls in the valley.
I ran to the ruined temple, shouting as I ran, "Mom, where are you?" ”
There are traces left by Lin Lao around the broken temple, I pushed open the temple door, the courtyard was cleaned up very clean, there was only the gray old offering platform in the temple, I shouted a few more mom, still no one answered me, I looked around, it turned out that there were murals on the walls all around, and now it is gone, there are obvious traces of artificial erasure on the wall, I didn't have the heart to think about it, the front hall and the back hall have been searched, not even a ghost.
I will regret it a little, I didn't ask just now, they only said that my mother was in Xishan, and they didn't clearly say that it was in this deserted temple, I was anxious, and wanted to find it somewhere else, and at this time, I vaguely heard my mother shouting to me: "Guoqiang, here, mom is here." ”
The sound came into my ears very erratically, and there was an echo, it sounded like it was coming from a tunnel.
"Mom."
I looked up anxiously, she was a traditional and uneducated mountain village woman, sick and still staying in this ghost place, I don't know how she endured it, she should be very scared, when she was at home, my mother was very timid, when I was a child, my dad was sometimes not at home at night, my mother heard the mouse squeak, she would let Li Yan sleep with her, and now, how helpless she has to be, will stay alone in the broken temple of Xishan.
I heard in my heart what Ma Laodao often told me, "I'd rather sleep in a lonely grave than live in a broken temple", the meaning of this sentence is outside, if you encounter a ruined temple, don't live, sleeping in a cemetery is safer than in a broken temple, because the abandoned temple has no incense, there is no god to protect it, and the mountain spirits, lonely souls and wild ghosts are all gathered in the broken temple to stay.
"Here, Guoqiang is here, Mom is here."
The fluttering voice came again, and I always felt very uncomfortable when I heard it, but it was really my mother's voice, and I didn't have any other thoughts, I just wanted to see her as soon as possible and take her home, and I thought about it carefully, if there was still a Tibetan place in this place, it could only be that barren well.
At that time, there was a coffin on the wellhead, and later the coffin was taken back by Lin Lao to study, but the well was quietly there.
I lay at the mouth of the well and looked down, I couldn't see anything in the black rumbling, I thought to myself, I can't do it, my mother is just sick, not crazy, how can I jump into the well?
Just when I was puzzled, a cool breeze poured out from the mouth of the well, blowing cold as water on my face, and then I faintly heard my mother shouting again, saying here, now I can hear clearly, the sound is not from the bottom of the well!
I yelled anxiously, saying Mom, wait a minute, I'll bring you up.
I searched around the house, and saw a bundle of ropes under the altar, which was still new, it should have been left by the archaeological team before Lin Lao, I untied the rope, tied one end to the pillar, and the other end stretched into the bottom of the well, I said, "Mom, you tie the rope to your body, and I will pull you up." ”
The rope moved slightly, but my mother didn't make any sound, I asked two more words, the bottom of the swarthy well has not sounded, this can give me a hurry, a thought, I pulled the rope and wanted to go down to the bottom of the well, just put the leg to the well, want to kick the wall of the well down, suddenly a force hugged my arm, I haven't come back to my senses, I heard: "Guoqiang, what are you doing?" ”
When I looked back, I saw an unkempt and ragged woman, she gritted her teeth, dragged me back desperately, and kept shouting: "Don't go down, Guoqiang, can't go down, mom is here!" ”
I was dragged back by her, and as soon as she said that my mother was here, my brain was excited, and I could see her face clearly, and my heart was broken all of a sudden!
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