After walking a few steps, my grandmother suddenly realized that the bright light emitted by the lantern was likely to be discovered by the people on the mountain, so she hurriedly turned around and blew out the lantern in her hand and put it on the side of the road.

The mountain is not high, and the two highlights on the mountain are not too steep.

Soon, my grandmother helped my grandfather to climb to one-third of the mountainside, into the eye, there is a small platform, the platform is the innermost close to the mountain sits a big house, is the kind of Taoist style house, in front of the door with a hanging corner eaves, under the eaves hanging a large plaque. At this time, the doors and windows of the Taoist temple were all closed, and the entire platform seemed to be quiet and dark, and I didn't know if there was anyone in this Taoist temple.

After my grandmother helped my grandfather to board the platform, with the consent of my grandfather, she walked to the door of the Taoist temple and looked up, by the moonlight that was not bright, she vaguely saw that the plaque under the eaves had three big characters written on it, "Huanghuaguan", and then looked back, six or seven feet away on the platform, facing the door, there was a stone trough-shaped incense burner the size of a grinding plate, and the incense burner looked simple and old.

My grandmother walked to the incense burner and looked inside, there was a little half of the incense ash in it, it seemed to be all old ash, and the incense ash in some places in the corner of the incense burner had condensed into lumps, indicating that no one had come here for a long time to offer incense.

Looking at the Taoist incense burner on the platform, my grandmother felt a lonely and cold taste in her heart, she couldn't help but sigh lightly in her heart, in this chaotic world, the lives of the common people are in dire straits, who can take care of the immortals in these temples.

After coming back to her senses, my grandmother took a few more steps forward, stood behind the incense burner, and looked over the top of the Taoist temple with her eyes over the top of the Taoist temple. The two small highlights were on the mountainside above the Taoist temple, because the distance was much closer at the moment, and it seemed that the two bright spots had been countless times larger at this time, which made my grandmother feel strange that the two bright spots were just above the Taoist temple on the platform, and the Taoist temple was a straight three-point line, and the distance between the "three points" was about the same, and I don't know if it was a coincidence or deliberately artificial.

My grandfather saw my grandmother watching on the platform endlessly, and he couldn't help but spin on the platform, originally thinking that even if he reached the end of the platform, he didn't want to find a path at the root of the west wall, one foot wide, and it seemed that the path could lead to the two bright spots on the mountain.

My grandfather waved at my grandmother and motioned for my grandmother to stop looking and continue up the mountain.

The two men snaked up again, this time the road was steep and narrow, not to mention, it was a mess of gravel, and it was extremely difficult to walk.

My grandmother had to walk behind my grandfather, while being careful of her own feet, while supporting my grandfather's back with her hands, for fear that something would happen to my grandfather, after all, my grandfather was almost eighty years old at this time.

When they were about to sweat on their foreheads, they finally approached the first bright spot, and after climbing up, they found that there was another small platform, and behind the platform was still a house close to the mountain, this house was also in the form of a Taoist temple, but it was a little smaller than the one below.

I saw the light of the torch at the bottom of the mountain before, but then I realized that it was not a torch, but the bright light came from the window of this Taoist temple, and with the continuous beating of the flames inside, the light seemed to flicker and flicker.

My grandmother and my grandfather stood on the edge of the platform and gasped, and looked up at the window, since there was a bright light, it meant that there were people in the house, but there was no figure in the house, just like the house below, it seemed quiet, except for the fire dancing inside, the whole house seemed to be asleep.

After panting evenly, my grandfather pulled out the mirror box from his waist, opened the bracket with his thumb, and loaded the bullet.

My grandmother took a deep breath at this time, walked lightly to the window, put her index finger in her mouth and dipped it in some saliva, and twisted it on the window paper, and the window paper immediately broke a small hole, and bright light shot out of the hole for the first time.

My grandmother held her breath, closed one eye and looked in through the small hole, but she didn't know what she saw, her eyes left the small hole, and she waved her hand sideways for my grandfather to pass.

When my grandfather saw that my grandmother asked him to pass, he cautiously looked around the platform with a large box, and saw that there was nothing unusual around, so he walked to my grandmother's side in a few steps. My grandmother raised her hand and pointed to the small hole in the window paper, looking quite anxious, which meant that my grandfather should hurry up and look into the room.

My grandfather gave my grandmother a puzzled look, followed suit, pressed his face to the window, rested one eye on the little hole, and squinted into the room.

The room was as bright as day, and the first thing that caught my grandfather's eye was the four waist-thick stone pillars in the room. My grandfather understands that the reason why a small Taoist temple takes great pains to erect stone pillars is to use stone pillars to support the beams of the house, and second, to use stone pillars to set off the solemn momentum in the Taoist temple.

Different from other Taoist temples, each stone pillar here is hung with a tray-type big oil lamp, the size of a rice pot, about six feet high from the ground, the lamp twist poking out of the oil lamp is enough to be the thickness of a thumb, my grandfather sighed secretly, such a thick lamp twist, how much lamp oil has to be burned overnight, and four were lit at once, even the big rich man in the city did not dare to do this.

Not only that, there are no statues of gods in this Taoist temple, and there is no offering table, so it can be said that there are no decorations in the air, but the whole son is covered with thick straw on the ground.

My grandfather looked at the straw, and his squinted eyes immediately widened!

On top of the thick straw, head to head, there were two rows of children, some boys and some girls, some big and some small, at first glance, there were thirty!

My grandfather slowly looked away from the window, turned his head and looked at my grandmother face to face.

Where did so many children come from in this Huanghua Cave Taoist Temple?

My grandfather and my grandmother were speechless for a long time, and none of them could understand how there were so many children in the Taoist temple, where did these children come from, and what were they doing here?

"Dad, could these children be the boys and girls captured by the Taoist priest?" After a long time, my grandmother whispered to my grandfather.

My grandfather shook his head slowly, "I don't think so, if the boys and girls captured by that person, these children would not be so honest, it is impossible not to cry or make trouble, I see that they sleep very soundly in it, there are no ropes on their bodies, and there are no tears on their faces...... Besides, even if you want to catch so many children and boys, you can't catch so many children at once, unless that person doesn't want to stay here. Saying that, my grandfather actually withdrew the bracket on the big box in his hand, and said to my grandmother: "I think there is something else strange about this matter, this person is afraid that it is not as simple as we guessed." ”

"Then these children......" My grandfather raised his hand, but interrupted before my grandmother could finish speaking. Then, my grandfather looked up at the bright light above, "The mystery may be up there, so it's better to go up there and take a look." ”

Hearing what my grandfather said, my grandmother looked into the window with nostalgia, obviously reluctant to let go of these children.

My grandfather found a path at the base of the west wall of the house, and I raised my feet to go up, and my grandmother had to hurry after my grandfather.

The path was still difficult to navigate, and by the time we reached the second light, the eastern sky was already white, and before I knew it, the sky was about to dawn.

At the end of the second light is still a small platform, and on the small platform is a Taoist temple, slightly larger than the two below, and there are two small low rooms on the left and right sides of it, which look like wing rooms.

This time, unlike the previous two times, the gate of the Taoist temple was actually open, and the bright lights inside shot out from the gate and fell on the platform, making the platform extremely well-lit.

My grandfather and my grandmother boarded the platform, and did not rush to the middle, standing on the edge of the platform and gasping again, but before they could breathe evenly, a series of hearty laughter suddenly came from the Taoist temple.

My grandfather and my grandmother were shocked, all the way over, the two of them had long been accustomed to being quiet, and the laughter at this time made them feel particularly abrupt.

Before the laughter fell, I saw a figure appear on the ground at the door, and the figure shook slowly outward from the head to the shoulder, and after a while, a man walked out of the door, and the laughter was made by this person.

Because it was backlit, my grandfather and my grandmother couldn't see the faces and clothes of the people who came, but judging from their figures, they should be the Taoist people they saw in the village yesterday.

The man glanced at my grandfather and my grandmother, stopped laughing, and said loudly: "The two nobles are finally here, and the poor road has been waiting for a long time......

As soon as I heard this voice, my grandfather and my grandmother were completely sure that it was the Taoist priest from yesterday.

My grandfather and my grandmother didn't answer anything, and the Taoist walked up to my grandfather and my grandmother in a few steps, and my grandfather and my grandmother looked at him coldly.

With a warm smile on his face, the Taoist bowed to the end after slapping my grandfather and my grandmother. This surprised my grandfather and my grandmother, because only the younger generations bow to the elders, so it can be said that this etiquette is a bit too big.

My grandfather finally spoke at this time, and said coldly: "Master Dao, our father and daughter can't afford your big gift, if you have something to say, just say it, if we offend you somewhere in the family, my father and daughter will accompany you." As he spoke, my grandfather inserted the big box in his hand back into his waist.

My grandmother peeked at my grandfather, because my grandfather's action of inserting a gun at this time was obviously for the Taoist to see, and everyone understands that in these years, anyone with a gun on his body is not a master to be messed with.

When the Taoist heard this, he lowered his eyes, glanced at the big box in my grandfather's waist, and hurriedly crossed his hands and waved, "Don't dare, Senior Liu, what are you talking about, that is, your family really offended Poor Dao, and Poor Dao didn't dare to let the two of you accompany you." ”

Hearing what the Taoist said, my grandmother glanced at the Taoist unhappily and said, "Master Dao, don't be so polite, you better make it clear about the ghost entering our house......