Chapter 26: Childhood Memories
"The god of the land?" Xu Tian muttered.
Hearing Yu Yi talk about the land god, Xu Tian suddenly thought of something that happened when he was a child.
At that time, Xu Tian lived in the mountain village of his hometown, and his grandmother would often take Xu Tian to the mountains to dig some wild vegetables and pick mushrooms.
Xu Tian remembered that his grandmother said that there was an abandoned land temple in the back mountain of his hometown, and a very spiritual land god was enshrined in the land temple.
When Xu Tian was five years old, on the morning of early autumn, Xu Tian followed his grandmother to the back mountain to pick mushrooms.
As he walked, Xu Tian suddenly felt drowsy, and he didn't get up when he lay on the ground.
Grandma, who has experience in traditional Chinese medicine, immediately picked up Xu Tian and even dropped the basket on her back.
Just when my grandmother was carrying Xu Tian to the village, she suddenly ran into an old man on the way.
At that time, Xu Tian remembered very clearly that when his grandmother saw the old man, she was very surprised, and her grandmother seemed to be very afraid of the old man.
Just when grandma was about to carry Xu Tian on her back and forcibly run to the village, grandma's legs and feet suddenly became inflexible, and she almost threw Xu Tian out.
Fortunately, the old man caught Xu Tian, otherwise Xu Tian would have knocked his head on the stone on the side of the road at that time.
Xu Tian's grandmother gave the old man a big thank you gift at that time, and promised to thank the old man with a heavy gift the next day, but the old man didn't have anything at that time, just let out a burst of laughter, and then walked into the mountains.
Xu Tian didn't remember this very clearly, but Xu Tian always remembered it when he was a teenager, but Xu Tian sometimes didn't think that this incident had really happened, and in Xu Tian's memory, this incident was more like a dream, a very strange dream.
Why did Xu Tian think of this as a dream?
That's because the day after that incident, Xu Tian saw his grandmother carrying a lot of eggs and fruits to the mountain, and Xu Tian was still wondering, why didn't he keep these delicious foods for himself?
Xu Tian, who had a great opinion of his grandmother, followed his grandmother all the way up the mountain, but Xu Tian, who was walking in the deep mountains, accidentally got lost, and Xu Tian couldn't find the way to the village at that time.
In this way, Xu Tian walked aimlessly in the deep mountains and old forests, and I don't know how long it took, Xu Tian saw a very sloppy land temple.
Because his grandmother had described the existence of this land temple to Xu Tian, the curious Xu Tian walked up to the land temple and opened the temple door to see that there were many fruits and eggs in the land temple.
Xu Tian took a closer look, and those fruits and eggs were all the ones that his grandmother carried up the mountain on her back.
The young Xu Tian felt a very frightened psychological reaction at that time, could it be that the old man he met the day before was this land god?
Xu Tian closed the small door of the Land Temple and ran to a small road in a panic.
Along the way, Xu Tian felt that someone was following him behind him, but every time Xu Tian looked back, he didn't see the person behind him.
Xu Tian ran aimlessly on the mountain with fear like this, and he didn't know how long he had been running, until he couldn't run, Xu Tian's whole body was paralyzed on the mountain road.
After that, Xu Tian had no memory, how he escaped from that mountain road, Xu Tian couldn't remember.
Not only did he not remember what happened that day, Xu Tian remembered that not long after that incident, Xu Tian followed his parents into the city.
It can be said that Xu Tian can't remember what he experienced during the time before Xu Tian entered the city.
The statue of the god Tai Sui who is now enshrined in front of Xu Tian is very similar to the statue of the earth god that Xu Tian saw in the mountains of his hometown when he was a child.
Because of the statue of the land god when he was a child, Xu Tian was afraid when he was in elementary school in the city.
From the first grade to the third grade of elementary school, Xu Tian had terrifying thoughts about almost every cloudy day he spent at school.
Xu Tian always felt that when it was cloudy, he would meet the land god statue he saw when he was a child, and he didn't know what was going on, Xu Tian would always have a very resistant idea of the land god in his mind.
"What are you thinking? Looking at you, you seem to have seen this statue of the god who is too old. Yu Yi said.
"I'm not sure if I've ever seen it, but I seem to have a slight impression of this statue in my memory." Xu Tian said.
"What's the impression? Have you ever seen this statue of the god of the land? Yu Yi asked.
"Can I see what your master looks like?" Xu Tian asked.
"My master? There should be photos here, I remember that Master left two chapters of photos, as if Xiao Ai put them away. Yu Yi said.
"I'll find it for you." Xiao Ai said, and turned back to it.
About five minutes later, Xiao Ai walked down with two brand-new photos.
"The photo is new, and it was in the album before, right?" Xu Tian asked.
"Don't look at the photos you shouldn't see, what you want to see is Yu Yi's master, then I can only bring you these two photos." Xiao Ai said.
Xu Tian shone the light of his mobile phone on Master Yi's photo, and the moment he saw Yu Yi's master, Xu Tian burst out almost all the memories of his childhood.
This old man is the same old man that my grandmother met in the mountains, and this old man once saved himself.
Now Xu Tian understands that the memory of his childhood is not a dream at all, but a real thing.
So that is to say, the old man I met with my grandmother on the mountain road is not the god of the land at all, nor is he the god of the old man, the old man is a living person, a lay monk, and Yu Yi's master.
If this is the case, then there is nothing to be afraid of, at this time, Xu Tian couldn't help but feel in his heart how ridiculous he was in elementary school.
"Look at this picture again." Yu Yi handed it to Xu Tian and said.
Xu Tian took the photo handed over by Tai Yi and shone the light of the mobile phone on the photo again.
This second chapter photo is a group photo of Yu Yi and his master, and in the group photo there is also Xiao Ai and another woman.
"Who is this woman? Could it be that she's the third shopkeeper here? Xu Tian asked.
"Yes, she is indeed the owner of our shop, but we have long since separated." Yu Yi said.
"This woman...... Why do I look so much like a person? Xu Tian said.
"Do you feel familiar again?" Yu Yi looked at Xu Tian with surprised eyes and said.
"Familiar! Familiar! But I can't remember where I've seen this woman. Xu Tian said.
"Impossible! There's no way you've met this woman, and I can pack a ticket for this. Yu Yi said confidently.