Chapter 54: A New Guest from the Temple

Strangely, his child did not seem to be affected by him in any way, and that child often played in the mud and sparrows outside the house, giving a hearty smile when he saw people passing by. It's too late for others to dodge his smiles, and he doesn't care. Naturally, the children of other families did not dare to play with him. Later I heard that the kid was doing very well in his studies.

However, I didn't have time to think about what the future holds for that child. In addition to the normal class time, I spent the rest of my time reading the book "Hundred Techniques", which contained many words and phrases that were not found in junior high school Chinese textbooks. It was very difficult for me to learn, almost word by word.

Sometimes on the way out of school, I want to go over to find a crooked Taoist priest for guidance. But either the crooked Taoist priest was not in the broken temple, or he heard a sound in the broken temple but did not dare to enter.

I also want to go over to find the fourth grandmother who guards the Land Temple. But my mother told me that the fourth grandmother had never read in the old days, and she didn't know a single word in Douda. For example, when writing the tablet of her father-in-law, she asked the primary school students in the village to help write it, and gave a rock candy for one word.

It was the first half of the ancient book that I was difficult to learn, so I temporarily put down the mind of finding the second half, and didn't think much about the meaning of the words "move the chair and lean on the tong and admire the moon".

Once, in a Chinese class, I wrote these seven characters on a piece of straw paper. When the Chinese teacher passed by me, he saw it and asked curiously, "Isn't this the last sentence of a couplet?" What are you writing this for? "At that time, I was nervous, and the teacher blamed me for not paying attention in class and not daring to answer.

After running to the temple a few times and not meeting a crooked Taoist, I can't help but think, where does this eccentric Taoist priest have so much communication? Is someone looking for him or is he looking for someone else? He always went out alone early in the morning and came back alone in the evening. No one knows where he was that day or what he did.

Later, many of us saw that the crooked Taoist priest brought a woman back to the temple. We were all surprised by this sudden change.

I've seen the woman with my own eyes. Her appearance is also quite peculiar, her hair is pale when she is not yet thirty, and even the hairs on her face are white. The skin is white and transparent, and you can see the complex capillaries underneath the skin. Her eyes are not black like ours, her eyes are pale yellow, and it seems that she will see things differently than we see.

Because the ruined temple was very close to the school, several teachers also saw the woman. The teacher also said, "The structure of her eyes is different from that of ordinary people, and what she sees is not the same as what we see." "I don't know if the teacher was joking or serious.

I told my mom about it when I got back. I didn't expect my mother to know about this woman.

"She's from Wentian Village." My mother said, "My father and mother died very early, and I left the village at the age of twelve or thirteen to learn art from a group of Taoist priests. Some funeral people will invite her to sing filial piety songs. She is very good at singing filial piety songs. During Qingming, she would go back to Wentian Village to hang Qingming, and I saw it a few times. You didn't pay attention. ”

Singing filial piety songs is also a custom in this area. During the seven days of the funeral, a filial piety song is sung in the evening, and the content of the filial piety song is the main deeds experienced by the deceased from childhood to adulthood. Singing filial piety songs should be a little crying, and singing well can make the listeners cry. It is said that the woman can sing and cry to everyone who passes by, and her singing skills are very powerful.