Chapter 6: The General's Temple
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Our village is also in the mountains, the village has a big temple, or the kind of gray bricks, listen to my father, that temple does not know which dynasty and which generation, it is said that when my great-grandfather fled from other places to here, there was already that temple, but at that time there was no one to manage, and I don't know which dynasty and which generation, after the 100 years passed, it looked even more dilapidated.
During the Cultural Revolution, a large part of this temple was set on fire by the Red Guards, and the entire temple wall bricks were burned red, but the main hall was not burned down, gradually, later there were man-made houses or something, so I went there to pick bricks to build a house, but I don't know how to do it, the house built with the wall bricks in these temples is easy to fall, and a family has been stoned to death.
I also have a brick there, that brick was broken when I was a child, that brick is very heavy and heavy, one side is carved with a unicorn, the other side is bare, according to the current idea, it should be a relief brick, which was picked up by my father when he was a child, and it was destroyed in my hands. 、
Listen to the older generation of people that the temple is called the General Temple, as for what generals have been out of our poor ravine, I really don't know, there are hundreds of families in the village, but basically they are all migrated from other places, the original people here are said to have been killed during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so no one knows the origin of the General Temple, fortunately, standing there is neither in the way, nor in the way, everyone is used to its existence.
Rural children, when they were young, in addition to digging birds' nests on trees, they went into the water to fish and shrimp, or they were hiding from cats, I was born bold, and I don't know what it means to be afraid, I have a good friend who is a day apart, called Li Yi, because he was thin when he was a child, we called him nicknamed Monkey.
I once went to the General's Temple with the monkey to play, the temple always has a smell, I can't say, a bit similar to the smell of mold, if anyone has an old ancestral hall at home, especially the place where there is Yizhuang, the kind of place that is very empty but the gate is closed, you can also smell a similar smell, but I was very curious about that smell at that time, and I always wanted to find out where the source was.
That day, I went there with the monkey to play with Xiao Hongxia, who was one year younger than me, in fact, we were both little villains, three of us played games, that is, to learn from doctors to play injections, how to play?
Usually the monkey and I take turns to be the doctor, and Xiaohongxia is the patient, examining her...... At that time, I didn't know anything about men and women, I only knew that the posture of female dolls was different from that of our male dolls, so this kind of game of doctors checking the body appeared, checking Xiao Hongxia's body and giving her injections was a game, and secondly, it was a game to let us know why the posture of peeing was different.
This kind of game, although we are still very young, but we also know that we can't see people, and even coaxed and deceived Xiao Hongxia to the back of the General Temple, and then used a glass marble to reach an agreement with Xiao Hongxia, she is a patient, I am a doctor, and the monkey is watching from the side, and when I was about to take off Xiao Hongxia's pants, there was a roar from Xiao Hongxia's mother outside: "What are you little bastards hiding over there?!" You goddamn little bastards, see if I don't come to clean you up! ”
Before I could cover Xiao Hongxia's mouth, she agreed: "Mom, they take off my pants and play a game of injections." ”
At this shout, the three souls of the monkey and I were frightened out of two and a half, and we turned around to find a place to hide, and saw where to hide except for the walls and bare stone walls all around; Just when the footsteps of Xiao Hongxia's mother were getting closer and closer, the monkey shouted to me: Quick, there is a hole here, get in!
When I turned around, there was a hole in the bottom brick of the temple wall behind us, just the size of a six-year-old child, and the monkey and I got into it......
When we got in, Xiao Hongxia's mother had already arrived murderously, and while scolding us two for being little hooligans, she dragged Xiao Hongxia out, and the monkey and I sat on the ground and didn't dare to come out;
At this time and a half, the two of us didn't dare to go out, because if we wanted to go home, we would definitely pass by the door of Hongxia's house, where to escape, the monkey suggested that I would wait until it was dark before we went back, it should be more than 4 o'clock in the afternoon, Xiao Hongxia's mother actually came to her for dinner, and dinner in the countryside was relatively early.
When Hongxia's mother left, we suddenly found ourselves in the ancient temple, at first came in only to pay attention to the outside, now look up, Miao's wall has a lot of traces of smoke and fire, but most of the appearance is still vaguely recognizable, this hall should be the main hall at that time, the ceiling part is made of hollow wood carving, carved Tai Chi gossip, gourd, crane, etc., the door of the hall is tightly closed, because the door is on the outside of a big copper lock, I don't know who it is, or which age on the lock, Anyway, I haven't seen the door of this temple open, so I don't know what is going on inside this temple.
There are murals painted on all sides of the wall, and the murals on both sides of them can no longer tell who it is, only the people on the mural on the right can still distinguish the general appearance, the old man on the mural is holding the dust, it should be the old gentleman!
After a long time, there are Taoist murals in this so-called general temple, which shows that this temple should have been a Taoist temple before!
What makes the two of us feel even more terrifying is that the whole hall is empty, except for a large vermilion coffin in the middle, the ash on it has fallen full of a layer, the musty smell in this room seems to be very heavy, fortunately, there is a bright tile overhead, and the light outside can shoot out of the bright tile, and we can still distinguish a lot of things, but in this environment, we two children are scared enough to be bold, especially the monkey, the monkey turned around and ran, and drilled out from the small hole, When I was leaving, I took a look at the blackened wall, it seemed that the lines of the wall seemed to be composed of words or symbols, which seemed very peculiar, and I couldn't help but look at it a few more times, at that time I was not in school, I couldn't read, but I was attracted by those things that looked like words, and my mind was blank.
The monkey's urging sound outside sounded, pulling me into reality, and looking at the big coffin again, I couldn't help but get out, and the monkey asked me why I stayed inside for so long and didn't come out, thinking that I had been caught by a ghost?
Did I say it for a long time? The monkey said, "You see the sun is going down," and that's when I realized that it had been nearly half an hour since the monkey came out, and I had been alone in it for half an hour...... But I wasn't impressed at all......
When the two of us passed by the door of Xiao Hongxia's house, we were inevitably scolded by her mother for being a little hooligan and shameless, but I didn't care at all, my mind was full of things I saw in the temple, those things that looked like words, the mural, and the big coffin. When we were very young, the adults told us not to go to the General's Temple, and when we asked why, the adults always said don't ask, just don't go there.
The strangest thing about me is that it is obviously a Taoist temple, why is it called the General's Temple? I said hello to the monkey and said that we should go back to the General's Temple, otherwise we would be beaten, and the monkey stuck out his tongue and said that he would not speak, and we also pulled the hook before going home.
After I got home, there was nothing unusual, my mother always thought that I had gone to the wild again, and I didn't care, until dinner, Xiao Hongxia's mother came to my house......
Now I knew it was over, and sure enough, her mother's big mouth began to say, how did I and the monkey treat her daughter, telling my mother to discipline me well, etc., in fact, I really didn't see Xiao Hongxia's ass that day, and her mother hadn't taken off her pants yet, her mother came, but no matter how powerful her mother was, she couldn't have imagined that a few years later, the monkey still took off Xiao Hongxia's pants......
My mother apologized to others, while twisting my ears, I was afraid of my mother, she had three tricks to deal with me: twisting my ears, sucking my ass with bamboo branches, and kneeling, looking at today's situation, I couldn't escape from the three, sure enough, after Xiao Hongxia's mother left, I had been twisted my ears and lifted into the air, and then I knelt, I knelt honestly, because at this time I want to resist, which is equivalent to calling Zhuya to pump me, my mother ignored me, just warned me not to go there again in the future, In the end, it was my grandfather who interceded and helped me stand up.
My grandfather felt very sorry for my grandson, in that era of material poverty, he always secretly bought some snacks for me to eat, or when he stewed meat, he gave me some to eat first, grandpa hugged me and rubbed my numb knees, I asked him why he couldn't go there?
Grandpa said that it was haunted, and when the Red Guards set the fire to it, they did not burn down the main hall, and it didn't take long for the person who took the lead in setting the fire to be found hanging from the girder of the main hall, and from then on, the village locked the gate of the temple.
I asked my grandfather whose coffin it was, but he was very taboo when he heard me mention the coffin, and he refused to say anything.
Within a few days, I began to have a rash on my body, and then I had a high fever, vomiting and diarrhea, my mother took me to the hospital, the doctor said it was a viral cold, and it was an injection and a medicine, but I was not as good as a day, I was already relatively thin, at that time there was only a skin and bones, and I was itchy all over my body, and I broke the skin when I scratched it
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