Chapter 19: The Strange Sounds of the Ancient Temple
The following is Le Wuming's first-person narration. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
When my fiancée and I came to the island by boat two years ago, the island was still full of ordinary human beings, and the villagers here were all very pleasant and welcoming to me as an outsider.
I went to my fiancée's house to ask her parents, but his father seemed to dislike me, and he thought that his daughter should marry a man from the island and not me as an outsider.
Although my father-in-law was not very approving of our marriage, my fiancée said that she would marry me no matter how much her father objected.
Later, my father-in-law finally agreed to my proposal, but he made a request, there is a custom on this island, and every woman from outside the island who wants to go to the island must go to an ancient temple on the island to worship.
My fiancée told me that there is a legend that says that this island is called Murder Island because there was a monster on this island that specialized in sucking human blood a long time ago.
Later, this monster was sealed in a temple by a master of the world using a spell, and since then this temple has become a forbidden place on this small island, and no one dares to enter that temple.
Before I went, my fiancée's mother told me that I could only worship outside the temple, because if I entered the temple, I would be cursed and never be at peace.
As a military cadet, I certainly wouldn't take my fiancée's mother's words seriously.
But people are curious, and if it weren't for my fiancée's mother, I wouldn't have been interested in that temple at all.
When others don't want you to do something, you want to do it.
Under the leadership of my fiancée, I came to the ancient temple, the surrounding area was deserted, but the open space in front of the temple was cleaned, but from the steps of the ancient temple to the entrance of the ancient temple was indeed covered with dust, and it looked like no one had been active for a long time, and this temple was indeed the forbidden land of this island.
I looked at this strange ancient temple, and driven by a strong curiosity, I couldn't help but walk towards the ancient temple.
"Ming! No! My fiancée exclaimed nervously.
"It's okay, I'm just looking at it, and if there's a monster, I'll catch it and keep you as a pet." I said.
I looked through the crack in the door of the ancient temple, what I saw was completely different from the general temple, this temple is not an ordinary Bodhisattva, but a clay statue similar to the terracotta warriors and horses of Xi'an Qin Shi Huang, the only difference is that the terracotta warriors and horses inside have a pair of fangs exposed outside.
Seeing this, my curiosity was even greater, and I pushed open the wooden door of the ancient temple.
"Ahh Clearly not! My fiancée, who was standing behind me, screamed.
My fiancée's voice did not stop my curiosity, and when I opened the door, I found that the so-called ancient temple, except that the building was the same as the temple, the inside was completely different from the traditional ancient temple, which was more like a storage room.
"It's all terracotta, and it's all tusked. Do you think these terracotta figurines, except for the fangs, are they very similar to the terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shi Huang? It's funny, it's really the first time I've seen terracotta figurines like this. I said and walked to the temple.
My fiancée followed me into the ancient temple, and she said tremblingly behind me, "Ming, it's so scary here... Let's go back! ”
I saw that my fiancée was scared, so I didn't force her to say, "It's a little scary, let's go back!"
Just as I was about to turn to leave, I stopped abruptly, for I seemed to hear a sound coming from inside the ancient temple. The sound was like a man whining in the depths of a well.
"Ming, let's go! What happened to you? My fiancée asked when she saw me stop abruptly.
"You... Do you hear people crying? ”
"Nasty! Don't scare me, let's get out! ”
"No... I really hear people crying..."
I looked around, there was nothing in this ancient temple except a cold terracotta figurine, where did this sound come from? But it seems that my fiancée didn't hear it at all, could it be that I was hallucinating?
In the main hall of this ancient temple, there is a lifelike terracotta warrior and horse, I carefully counted the whole five hundred, there are men and women, from the shape and clothing of these terracotta warriors and horses should be in the Qin and Han dynasties. These terracotta figurines are basically the same as the terracotta warriors and horses of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.
I examined the figurines a little and found nothing out of the ordinary.
"Help... Help me—" The cry turned into a cry for help.
"Didn't you really hear that?" I asked my fiancée.
"I really didn't hear anything, let's go quickly, if my father knew that we were in the ancient temple, we really wouldn't be married." It is already taboo for us to enter the ancient temple. I don't want to stay here anymore, we have to get out. The fiancée said nervously.
Under the constant urging and pulling of my fiancée, I finally got out of the ancient temple.
"Oh, you're back!" The mother-in-law was already waiting outside the door. "How is it, have you ever gone outside the ancient temple to worship?"
"Hehe, I've already worshipped." I said, of course, I didn't say anything about us entering the ancient temple.
"We'll be able to eat when your dad comes back, so let's go to the room and wait!" The mother-in-law said and welcomed us into the room.
Not long after we got inside, it started to rain, and it was getting heavier and heavier, and it looked like it was about to turn into a storm.
"In the ancient temple just now, didn't you really hear people's cries?" I asked as I looked out the window at the rain that was getting heavier and heavier, and my heart could never forget that voice.
"I really didn't listen to the sermon, Ming, since I was a child, adults have not allowed us to go to that ancient temple, that ancient temple is really evil, you have to promise me that you must not go there again, you have to promise me."
"Hmm!"
Although I promised my fiancée, I could never forget the voice I heard in the ancient temple, which kept echoing in my head and lingering.
After my father-in-law came back, we started to eat, and after a few days of getting along, my father-in-law's attitude towards me also changed a lot, and he had already accepted the fact that I was a foreign son-in-law.
"Hahahaha! Sure enough, it's a good son-in-law, drink quickly! "My father-in-law kept pouring me wine, and he himself was already a little drunk." I hate people who don't drink the most, and I it in one go. ”
My fiancée and mother-in-law went back to bed early, and my father-in-law dragged me to drink non-stop, and I drank until I was groggy on the table.
"Help me, save me......"