Chapter Forty-Eight: The Main Hall of the Medicine King
If there was no matter of Selyuba last night, I would have actually wanted to go to the main hall of the Yaowang Temple first. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The main hall is also the main building of this Yaowang Temple, from the appearance, it is built on the stone pedestal, there are five steps to connect, the eaves and arches, the momentum is extraordinary, it is much higher than the building of the east and west compartments, although the vicissitudes of life are undiminished, the years are ruthless, but looking up, there is still a feeling of standing out from the crowd.
Although the sculptures and portraits inside are not visible because the gate is closed, I can still vaguely recognize the exquisiteness of the temple through the remaining vermilion lacquer and the tiled cat with the spire.
Nearly 100 years ago, it was also in this place that the American explorer Jonson took his last picture of his sanity, and then plunged headlong into the mountains and rivers of Furong in northwest Guizhou, and then went completely crazy.
This Yaowang Temple is an origin and an end point.
With this apprehension, I walked step by step, and soon came to the door of the temple, which had faded and was overgrown with moss.
I wanted to reach out and push the temple door, but at the moment when I was just tempted, I heard the cold and dry voice of Selyupa from the door.
She said to me, "It's better not to come in, you will alarm the statue of the Medicine King, you will be punished, and you will not die well." ”
Selyupa's words were very unkind and made me feel like some kind of ultimatum.
I've heard Momiji say that this Seliupo has been locking herself and her child in the main hall of Yakuo Temple since the morning, and I don't know what she's doing, but now it seems that she has no intention of coming out, and she won't let me in.
It seems to me that she is either guarding something in the hall, or she is afraid that we will not be good for her, or ...... Both.
I knew that Selyuba would use Gu, and I knew that she had murderous intentions against us last night. Therefore, I had better not break through.
But unwillingly, I still replied: "I want to give Grandpa Wang a stick of incense." ”
"No! You're done with your work! "Selyuba is very determined.
I was naturally very annoyed by the old lady's appearance, and I understood that the more she was like this, the more problematic she was, and the more she was not allowed to enter the Yaowang Temple, the greater the problem would be in this temple.
But just as I was about to continue questioning her about the reason, there was a sudden noise outside the walled door of the Yaowang Temple, and it seemed that a large group of people were walking in.
I looked back and saw that seven or eight men with sticks had broken into the temple gates, led by a bald man.
When this group of people came in, they were full of murderous aura.
Among those people, I have met a few of them, and they seem to be villagers from the bloody village at the foot of the mountain. Only the bald man in black clothes and leather trousers, who was very large, stood out among the villagers in homespun clothes, and did not fit in with the villagers' homespun clothes.
I immediately realized that this man did not look like a local, but why did he mix with the villagers? And the villagers seemed to be quite submissive to him, as if they were the chief.
Baturu looked at the appearance of these people, and immediately blocked his stout body in front of the magnetic field detector.
Baturu gritted his teeth and asked, "What are you going to do?" ”
Facing Baturu, the bald man just shook his head and said inexplicably: "Lost lamb, we are not here to untie the ropes for you, but to stand aside and listen to the teachings from heaven. ”
The bald man's words, half-literate and half-white, pointed to everything, and Baturu was stupid when he heard it.
In the clouds, I walked over and patted Baturu on the shoulder, and said softly, "This thing doesn't speak in tune, but it doesn't seem to be looking for us." Let's ...... to the side first."
Afterwards, Baturu and I stood aside and watched the change, and the bald man didn't bother us.
After that, the man walked out of the villagers and went straight to the stone pedestal of the main hall of the Yaowang Temple.
After he stood still, he stretched out his hands, and without asking if anyone was there or not, he rushed into the temple of the medicine king and shouted, "Selyuba, the servant of the devil! We have come to redeem you, and by God's grace, you can choose to repent and give your soul to the Lord in the presence of your most beloved...... Amen! ”
The bald man said he wanted "Amen", and the seven or eight villagers behind him immediately put down the sticks in their hands, then knelt on the ground, folded their hands, and shouted in unison: "God Buddha bless, God Buddha bless......"
The words of the villagers drew a laugh from me.
God Buddha? It's the first time I've heard such a funny Buddha, and this bald man and the villagers are inexplicably talking too much nonsense? It's like...... A "rural mythology, religion, pioneer drama" like nonsense.
My laughter quickly spoiled the "poetic" atmosphere, and in the midst of the laughter, all the villagers suddenly raised their heads and looked at me with fanatical eyes, like seven or eight sharp arrows piercing my head at the same time.
It was enough to kill the cat's eyes, and they saw that my spine was cold, and they suddenly shut up, and at the same time compromised: "I was wrong, everyone go on." ”
After glaring at me, the big man turned around and continued to shout in the Medicine King Temple, "...... If the demons are obsessed, then they will surely betray their relatives, and the wrath of hell will also burn down the nest of sin, and God and Buddha will bring calamity......"
In the inexplicable words of the bald man, Xian Hongye Wang Roar and others also quietly walked into the Yaowang Temple, and everyone was confused by this wonderful scene.
Momiji tugged at the corner of my clothes and said, "What are they doing?" How is it the same as acting in a drama? ”
I smiled bitterly and quietly told Xian Hongye: "I think it looks like some kind of cult organization, just now it was fire, sword, and Buddha, and I guess I came to dismantle the Medicine King Temple." ”
My words are not nonsense, but I have made a preliminary judgment based on my observation of the bald man's every move and my experience.
I have known for a long time that in the countryside, with the advent of reform and opening up and the end of ****, many problems have been born, especially the confusion of modern people about reality, which has caused a crisis of faith.
As a result, in some remote rural areas, many people with ulterior motives take advantage of people's confusion to spread some heresies and engage in some "underground religions."
A large part of the reason why these things have been able to gain a foothold in remote mountainous areas is to take advantage of the ignorance of the villagers and the deception of scammers.
This bald head opened his mouth and closed his mouth about God Buddha, and with the fanatical and awe-inspiring expressions of the villagers, it was easy for me to associate these things. Moreover, cults are exclusive and destructive, and they like to tear down other people's dojos and establish their own prestige.
Thinking about it this way, the purpose of their coming to Yaowang Temple is clear.
After the bald man shouted a few words at the temple door, Selyuba did not answer. When the man saw this, he didn't seem surprised.
After he sneered, he shouted in the gate of the Yao Wang Temple: "O Selyuba, traitor to God, I know you are inside, look at it, who has come to see you?" ”
As the bald man spoke, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old child suddenly stood up among the kneeling villagers, and the child was holding a sharp knife in his hand.