Chapter 35: Night Exploration of the Land Temple
If you hit someone and then make up for it, if you hit someone and become a vegetative person or paralyzed or something, or hit too hard and have been seeing a doctor, the amount of compensation is indeed a lot or it may be a bottomless pit, and if you hit it, they think that the money they accompany is at least a certain number, which is the loss of humanity and morality. People are doing, the sky is watching, and there is always a time to get retribution. I have heard of such a real thing, an old man was hit by a car on the road, and the impact was not serious, for fear of being killed, he quickly got up and said: "I'm okay, I'm fine." "At the time, I thought it was very funny, but when I laughed, I thought it was sad. This is the situation I was in when I was a child, and I hope that even if such a tragic thing happens, it will be found out and justice will be done.
The next day, Nong Mo took the jade to find the old man, everyone in our town knows that there is a powerful little Taoist priest who solved the terrifying dragon lantern and found out the truth of the matter, of course, I am just an ordinary girl, a little helper, so it is not suspicious. But the old ghost is gone, and I haven't figured this out to thick ink, and I don't know if I'll see you again in the future, I hope not. The next step is the question of the return of the real dragon, the truth of the grievances is revealed, Zhao Qin has also surrendered, and the real dragon will come back! I just don't know how to come back, will I come back by myself or will we go to find it?
On Saturday, my grandmother went to the lake to wash her clothes, and I went with her, and I could see the land temple and the ancient tree in the distance. The grandmother held the mallet, I carried a bucket of clothes, and after finding a bunk by the lake, the grandmother began to hammer the clothes. She wouldn't let me help, I was idle and bored, so I wanted to go to the Land Temple, which always gave me an inexplicable feeling.
"Grandma, I'll go over there to see the plum blossoms, and call me when I leave in a while." So I quietly slipped to the side of the Land Temple in the name of watching plum blossoms. The branches of that ancient tree are luxuriant, and even after the cold winter, the leaves are very lush, and I don't go into the land temple, just look at the ancient tree, I said to myself.
Approaching the ancient tree step by step, the wind blew, I felt cold on my face, I touched it, and I cried again, is this related to the snake? Didn't you say that the snake was a demon and couldn't approach the temple? If it's a place that snakes are familiar with, then how can it be explained? I had the urge to reach out and touch it, but before I could react, my hand had already touched it, the rough bark, the familiar touch, seemed to tell endless thoughts, tears were still flowing, these were not my tears, no, but it felt really familiar, it seemed that just yesterday, I had hugged this rough trunk. "Xuan Little Snake ~ Xuan Little Snake ......" Who is calling me?
"Xuanzi, Xuanzi, go home, come here." It turned out that I heard it wrong, and it was obviously the voice of the grandmother.
I hurriedly retracted my hand, wiped my tears, and emerged from the bushes, "Hey, I'm here!" "The grandmother is carrying the bucket by herself again, how many times have I said that I don't want her to mention it when I am here, but she doesn't listen.
After lunch at noon, I was forced to take a nap, when I was a child, I was too energetic, I just didn't like to take a nap, I felt that taking a nap was the most wasteful thing, how much time was wasted to play, all kinds of unwillingness, when I grew up, I felt that it was really the happiest thing to be able to take a nap, how to sleep not enough, this is the difference between when I was a child and when I grew up.
I rolled over in bed countless times, and I didn't know when I fell asleep in a daze. In the dream, I saw my forked tongue again, well, this is a snake again, I have become a snake again, but I am in a good mood. I swam happily with my body, it was a moonlit night, my body looked very low in a grass and trees, but this did not interfere with me looking at the moon, I looked up at the moon, stuck out my tongue, my whole body was very comfortable, I swam happily again, I didn't pay attention to hit a wall, before I could retract my tongue, I was smashed in the face, I struggled to pull my face off my tongue, and then I struggled to pull my tongue off the wall, and then shook my head, "Lulalala~~" The tongue didn't have time to retract and swung with it, There was a sound in the wind, and suddenly a red embroidered shoe stopped in front of my eyes.
I looked up and saw that it was a beautiful woman, like a fairy descending to earth, I had never seen such a beautiful woman, she looked at me with a smile, I shook my tongue again, trying to make sure I was not mistaken, "Lulalula~" She grabbed my tongue and pulled it a few times, I was almost torn and vomited, "Little snake, don't cultivate immortals today, are you lazy?" "Who is she? Give me back my tongue, I want to pull out my tongue, she just pulled my tongue and picked up my body on the spot, don't, it's so ugly! When I died like this, people thought I was hanged, it hurts, and my eyes are full of stars! I wanted to bite down, but she broke my mouth with her other hand, and it looked so ugly!
Then she wrapped me around a big tree, let go of my mouth and tongue, and I just slid down, and I didn't even enclose the whole tree, I struggled to hold the trunk, and looked at the woman with grief, she sighed, and said, "Climb up, climb to the top to absorb the essence, and still want to become an immortal under this?" I listened to this, I didn't dare to let me hold the tree, I adjusted my posture, swam to the top of the tree, I wrapped myself around the small branch, looked at the moon from afar, shook my head, the moonlight shone on me like an energy wave, so comfortable, I just remembered that there was a woman underneath, look down, it was gone, I continued to squint and enjoy the moonlight.
When I woke up, it was already past two o'clock in the afternoon, and I slept for too long. I shouted to my grandmother, "Grandma, is the thick ink back?" ”
The grandmother came in with an apron, "Nongmo will come back tomorrow, and you can go to school when you come back, your uncle said that it was all done." "He hasn't come back yet, I may have to go to the Land Temple again in the evening to see what is going on, and I can only be alone. I'm an anxious person, just like a sparrow, my grandmother said that if you catch a sparrow, you have to let it go, you can't raise it, the sparrow's temperament is too anxious, and it will eventually die in a hurry, if you hold it in your hand, it will die in a while, so the person who can feed the sparrow is really a master. I'm the kind of person who dies if I don't do something, except for my homework, of course...... So I'm going to sleep at my uncle's house tonight. I slept at my uncle's house these nights, but tonight I was not there, so there was no good excuse. After dinner, I stayed at their house, and then pretended to be asleep, and my uncle carried me in and went to sleep after a while.
At ten o'clock, my uncle and aunt were asleep, and I tiptoed out the door. I fumbled for the bag on my back, which had been dug out of the thick ink room. When Thick Ink left, he carried a part of it away, and there was still something left. All I brought with me was the one that I had seen used in thick ink, and I could learn from it, but I didn't find the one wrapped in red cloth.
When I approached the door of the Land Temple, my heart fluttered, and now that there was no one, I would go in for a while, go in and take a look, and then come out. Will I, the so-called demon, be turned into scum by the gods in seconds? Or was it pierced through the heart by ten thousand arrows? Or was it beaten into a prototype? Try it again, take a step further, slowly put my feet into the threshold, close my eyes and prepare to be hit by some light, wait and wait, it's okay. Hey? The gods haven't discovered me yet? My other foot stepped in too, and now it's fully in, and I'm holding my head and getting ready to be kicked out, and who knows if it's okay, huh? Is the land commons asleep?
I'm really coming in, I'm looking left and right, looking up and down, I'm sure it's really coming in! I followed the incense stand, found a match, lit two candles, the whole land temple was lit up, usually the land temple is not the night also incense is bright, every fifteenth day of the new year will also be there people in the night to add incense, why do I know so clearly? My grandmother is an incense burner for ten years, and she will get up early on the fifteenth day of the new year, just like the first day of the new year. I finally saw two statues of immortals, the land man held a tablet in his hand, and the land woman also held a tablet in his hand, and both of them smiled kindly, but for some reason I felt a little frightened, as if I had seen it.
I saw two kowtow mats on the ground, and there were two half-and-a-half black wood lying in front of the mat, I knelt on a mat, picked up the wood and took a look, the two pieces of wood looked very similar, both were round on one side and flat on the other, and they could be closed together. When they come to the temple to burn incense, one of the things they must do every time is to ask the hexagram, to ask themselves, take this divination together, put the pointed end up, put it in the air to draw a circle, and then read the thing to be asked in the mouth, let go of the hand, and the divination on the ground is right if it is positive and negative, and both are positive or negative is wrong. Generally, if you ask three times, two times is right, and of course, what is better is that three times are one positive and one negative, which shows that there is no doubt about it.
I'll try it too, I have to burn incense first, well, I got up, took out three sticks of incense from the incense box next to me, lit them, and inserted them into the incense burner. Then I got down on my knees, and I was so excited! This is the first time I have come to the Land Temple, and it is also the first time to burn incense and ask hexagrams, I bowed three times and said, "O land princess, I didn't mean to bring incense, money, or oil, so don't worry about this matter with me." "If you don't bring your own incense to burn incense, you have to press money, the Bodhisattva doesn't care how much money you have, just press it, there are special management people here, responsible for cleaning and buying incense and other things, in case people don't bring it, I haven't prepared.
I picked up the divination, put it together, and circled it as I asked, "Father-in-law of the land, may I ask, do I have anything to do with here?" "Let go of your hand," bang-"one positive and one negative." I've tried it three times and it's the same, it's really there, so ask something else, "Land in-laws, is the real dragon still in the town?" "It's three more times, one positive and one negative, and I wonder, can't it be one positive and one negative! I asked again, "Am I smart?" And then "Bang-" Both are opposites, no, I asked again, "Am I not stupid?" Then, it's all right, I'm angry, what kind of divination is this, and I was just about to throw them, and I was kicked in the ass, "Oops, who?!" "Who attacked me?
As soon as I turned around, I saw a beautiful woman in a bright red ancient dress, it was the one in the dream, in the land temple, a woman in ancient clothes, a fairy? I actually met a fairy! Which way is the fairy? I swallowed my saliva and tried to calm my mood, would I be blamed for being disrespectful when I entered the temple without permission?
"Xuan Little Snake, you still know to come back!" She really knew the snake! Isn't she a fairy, how could she not know that I am not the snake, and the snake is dead! I don't care why she appeared in the Land Temple, ghosts can appear in the Dragon Lantern Ancestral Hall, and strange things can also appear in the temple, my hand slowly touched the backpack behind me......