Chapter 35: The Ancient Temple (text)

Meng Changqing said this as if he was joking, but it was actually not funny at all, and it was very uncomfortable to listen to.

"What if you're going to die?" I asked.

Meng Changqing smiled and said that he lived a long life, and then said that it may be that some things that he offended before came to the door, and he had to avoid us temporarily, otherwise those things would not be avenged on him, and they would find us. Leave for a while for safety reasons.

I thought about it for a while, and said that Xiaoxiao and I both have low flames, and we don't know Taoism, so if we leave him, it may be even more dangerous.

I was making up a reason at random, but I didn't expect Meng Changqing to really hesitate, and he hesitated for a long time and didn't know how to make a decision.

I saw that he hesitated, thinking that there was hope for him to stay, so I came up with countless nonsense reasons, and I don't know where I got my eloquence at this time.

But he still said that if something happened to him, let us go to a nearby Taoist temple to ask for money, and then let them send us back to the countryside.

After finding a hotel to rest, Meng Changqing pinched his fingers a few times, and then rubbed his temples, telling us not to talk to anyone during this time, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble.

Meng Changqing then used a copper bell to buckle the note with his name on the table, and went to the side to set up the Nine Palace Phalanx, after arranging, Meng Changqing got up and said that he was going to use the method of walking yin to inquire about how long he lived.

Walking in the yin, as the name suggests, is that people go from the yang to the underworld, and the process is the same as going to the underworld after death.

If you encounter a few ghost pawns along the way in order to complete the task, the soul is likely to be recharged, so people who do not have certain skills rarely use this method.

Meng Changqing found a basin in the hotel, lit a fire in the basin, took out a few peach wood sticks from his bag and leaned against the edge of the basin, let us go outside and print a liter of rice back, pour the rice on the confetti ashes in the basin, and finally insert a few sticks of incense.

After making preparations, Meng Changqing told us to use a peach wood stick to insert his right middle finger when the incense was about to burn out, but not too early, otherwise he would come back without asking clearly, and go in vain.

I nodded in agreement, and Meng Changqing then sat up, with words in his mouth, and there was no sound in less than five minutes.

When I saw that he didn't move, I stared at the sandalwood in the basin, for fear that it would suddenly burn out.

When the sandalwood was halfway burned, the brass bell he had fastened to the table shook a little, and I knew that he might be in trouble, but fortunately it was only a matter of time to get back to normal.

After waiting anxiously for an hour, the sandalwood was about to burn out, and I thought that he should have finished asking all the things he wanted to ask, so I picked up the peach stick and poked it on his finger. Meng Changqing then opened his eyes.

We asked him what was going on, and Meng Changqing said that he had two names recorded in the book of life and death, the first one was unfinished, and the second one was killed tonight.

I listened and asked which one was true, and Meng Changqing said that both of them were true, and they were both his birthdays.

When asked what he was going to do, he said that if he only knew how he died, it would be a catastrophe and that he would be able to get through it safely.

After that, Meng Changqing was not in a hurry, and it was not until after eight o'clock in the evening that he said that someone had harmed him, either to destroy his body to the point that it could not be used by his soul, or to lure his soul out of his body and not be able to come back, there were only two ways.

For now, it is likely to be the second option. If someone else does something to his soul, he will follow him with the fugue technique, and maybe he will be able to find out who it is.

Whatever he says, I naturally follow.

The iQue step is not much different from walking yin, the only difference is that we don't need to poke with a peach wood stick at the end.

During Meng Changqing's fugue, the copper bell kept shaking, and I almost fell to the ground several times, but fortunately, I quickly pressed it with my hands and feet to be safe.

This time it took a long time, Meng Changqing's face also became pale, we changed the sandalwood in the basin three times, and when we were about to change it for the fourth time, Meng Changqing suddenly opened his eyes.

As soon as he opened his eyes, his eyes were already bloodshot, and he looked extremely haggard.

I put down the sandalwood and stepped forward to ask what was going on, he shook his head and sobered up, and said, "Fortunately, you kid is clever and held the copper bell, otherwise I would have to explain it today." ”

"Who is trying to harm you?" I asked him.

Meng Changqing glanced at Xiaoxiao and said mysteriously, "I saw your second grandmother." ”

I was stunned, thinking to myself, how could it be the second grandmother, didn't she just call Meng Changqing to help her take care of Xiaoxiao, if you want to harm him, you have to wait at least until she picks Xiaoxiao back, do it now, I'm not afraid that she will retaliate against Xiaoxiao.

Meng Changqing saw that I didn't believe it, so he smiled and said, "Your second grandmother should also use my soul for me, and she is in no less trouble than us now." What a warm-hearted. ”

"That means that the second grandmother is actually helping you, you think she is hurting you, so there is a misunderstanding, so if this is the case, how can you almost explain there?"

Meng Changqing glanced at me, patted me on the head, and said angrily: "Where did you kid get so many questions, and I didn't see you ask me if there was anything wrong with asking so much nonsense." ”

"Master, are you okay?" I immediately asked.

Meng Changqing glanced at me and scolded, "I'm playing with mud." ”

When I saw that he could still curse, I smiled and stepped aside.

He then put the basin away before going to bed to rest, lying on the bed with his head pillow and saying that when he came back, he met two ghosts and ghosts, he went to solve it, he hadn't tried it before, and he didn't adapt to it for a while, so he suffered a little loss.

Meng Changqing saw the location of the second grandmother, so we naturally couldn't be idle, so we left the room early the next morning and inquired about the place.

After jolting in the car for about two hours, the car finally stopped in a small town between Chongqing and Hubei.

After getting off the bus and eating, four young people in their twenties on the seat next to them were discussing an ancient temple here with great interest, they said that there was an ancient temple hidden in the mountains here, and the temple would hear the sound of chanting every March 3, Qingming Festival, July and a half, and the first day of October.

These four young people were college students, and they went out for a camping expedition during the holidays, and the destination of this trip was the old temple.

After hearing this, Meng Changqing muttered that our destination was also the old temple, let us eat, and he went over to inquire about the news.

After that, he asked the four young people about the old temple, and the four years of the person didn't know about it, but he heard that people here often said that there was such a magical old temple, and they were archaeology majors, so he was interested in going there to prepare for his graduation thesis.

Meng Changqing did not shy away from inviting them to go to any place, and said that he also knew a little about archaeology and might be able to help.

They were all high-level, and they readily agreed, and after dinner, they came to our table to talk to me and Xiaoxiao for a while.

Meng Changqing declared to them that the two of us were his son and daughter! And they are familiar with Meng Changqing, call Meng Changqing the eldest brother, and insist that we call them uncle during the joke on our side, otherwise it will mess up the generation.

The four of them are from a dormitory, and the head of the dormitory is called Wei Qing, a fat man with glasses, like a representative of the four. The other three jokingly made us call him Fat Wei, and he himself asked us to call him Uncle Wei.

Later, a man with half-long hair was named Chen Xiaosheng, and because of his feminine style, they all called him Chen Niangniang.

There are also two people, one is called Jiang Haijun, who is a muscular man. The last one is called Shen Fu, most of which are the same name as the literati in ancient times, and he is also literate, with a scholarly appearance, and he knows that he is a scholar at a glance.

After they introduced themselves, they naturally asked our names, Meng Changqing said that my name is Meng Hai, and Xiaoxiao's name is Meng Xiaoxiao!

He didn't tell the four of them that he was a Taoist priest, they were different from the villagers in the countryside, they were highly educated, and if they claimed to be Taoist priests in front of them, I am afraid that no one would want to deal with them.

After the meal, the fat man Wei Qing stepped forward and asked us when we would leave, so that we could take care of each other.

We had plenty of time, and we could do it at any time, and after a few discussions, we left the town and went out into the mountains.

The land of Chongqing and Hubei is already a big mountain, and now the road we are going to is a big mountain in the middle of a big mountain, and we can't stop moving forward before we enter the mountain.

There used to be a stone path here, but now it has been blocked by thorn bushes, and there is no way to get off the ground.

"Looking at the growth of the thorns and the size of the pine trees on the road, there should be no one here for decades." Wei Qing judged after seeing it.

Several of them were careless people, and only Shen Fu, who looked like a scholar, was more fully prepared, and took out a stainless steel knife about twenty centimeters long from his backpack off the road.

He stepped forward and cut for about ten minutes before giving up, so that he could enter the mountain in the year of the monkey.

After discussing it for a while, I changed my path, and instead of following the track of the previous road, I walked directly through the woods from one side to the other.

When we went in, Meng Changqing reminded us to be careful, there may be some snakes, insects, rats and ants under the leaves.

Everyone should continue to move forward, Xiaoxiao and I were sandwiched between them, naturally the safest, don't worry about anything.

I don't know how long this mountain stretched, and I couldn't see the bottom of it until the afternoon, and if it weren't for the guidance of the stone road that used to guide me, it was very likely that I would have been lost in this wilderness.

It was almost evening when we finally saw through the woods on a ridge a flat land surrounded by mountains, surrounded on all sides, which looked like a burial pit.

From above, the trees are even more lush, and at a glance there are all trees, and there are no ancient temples at all.

Chen Xiaosheng looked at it with a telescope for a while, then pointed ahead and said in surprise: "There, there is a village. Then he moved the telescope in one direction and said, "I see the ancient temple." ”

When the other three heard this, they hurriedly shouted loudly, startling all the birds in the jungle.

"Wait......" Chen Xiaosheng stopped them and said, "There seem to be three people hanging on the door of the ancient temple. ”