Chapter 3: The Strange Thing of Jinshan Temple
Our Jinshan Temple there is actually just a small temple, there are only seventeen or eighteen monks in total, but the incense is quite vigorous. There are also some local residents next to the small temple, but the pilgrims are mostly foreigners. There are also locals who go to worship the Buddha, but most of them do small books to buy and sell, and make a living from the small temple.
The presiding officer of the temple is called Pure Heart Monk, and I have never met him, but I know a young monk called Zhenxing.
The real little monk has a little problem with his nose, he doesn't breathe much, it may be sinusitis or something, and he honks his horn as soon as he inhales before speaking, just like a train entering the station. His brothers and sisters all looked down on him a little because of this. I used to go there with my colleagues, wander outside the monastery, and meet monks sneaking around for money. A few older monks teamed up to cheat the real money, and I couldn't see the kind of bullying of honest children, so I pointed it out.
At that time, it was very fun, but a few monks hated me but didn't dare to do it, for fear that the host would know about their gambling. But I became friends with real ** because of this.
When I came to Jinshan Temple, I went straight to find the true nature. I told him what happened to me, and he felt that this matter was very important, so he took me directly to the main hall to find the old monk with a pure heart.
I repeated what I had encountered in the past few days to the old monk of pure heart, so it didn't matter, the old monk squinted his eyes and looked me up and down. I showed him goosebumps all over his body.
I wanted him to help me exorcise ghosts, and I felt like he was treating me like a ghost.
At that time, there were pilgrims in the main hall of the small temple. There was a trembling old woman who helped a young girl to enter the incense and bow, she was really very old, and it was very difficult to walk.
She bowed down, stood up, and then knelt down on the futon, and she could see that she was full of piety, and every time she struggled to complete those movements.
I have my own worries, and it's not easy to pay attention to other things, but this old woman is a little too special. I just didn't expect this old woman to notice me.
At that time, I was dissatisfied and complained about the strange look that the old monk looked at me, when I felt someone sneaking up on my arm.
I turned my head and saw the old woman standing beside me, looking me up and down, refreshed, and her eyes shining with what could be called a strange light.
"Young man, you're so handsome!" The old woman trembled, and praised me word by word.
I think I look pretty average. But when I say this to my face, I'm very happy.
I was about to say thank you, when suddenly the little old woman threw herself on me. My mind buzzed, I really didn't expect such an old person to be so tall and so athletic.
"I'm going to have a baby with you!" The old woman put her arms around my neck and hung on me.
The little girl who was with the old woman, presumably from her granddaughter, was scared to cry all of a sudden. Some of the other pilgrims at the scene also followed at once, and fled in all directions, but after running away for a while, they all hid from a distance, like curious ostriches.
I was a little dazed, realizing that the old woman was hanging around my neck, and I was horrified, and I pushed the old woman out in a panic like a conditioned reflex, and kept pulling it down.
But the old lady's hands are really strong.
Later, under the command of the old monk with a pure heart, two young monks came up to help, and finally got the old woman off me.
But the old lady still didn't give up, struggling to jump on her feet, and wanted to pounce on me. The two young monks couldn't hold her down a little.
While struggling with her mouth, she was talking nonsense, constantly yelling to sleep with me, knowing that she was an old lady, and it was really unseemly to say that. (Peach Blossom on the Pillow: Crazy Beauty Boss)
The old monk of Pure Heart was obviously a little embarrassed by all this suddenly. He asked the old woman to be pulled away from me, and in a panic, he organized seven or eight monks to surround me and the old woman, holding a wooden fish and reciting sutras.
I don't know what scripture they were reading, but as I read it, I tapped the wooden fish in my hand, and the sound grew louder and louder, which upset me. But the old lady gradually became less noisy.
On the surface, the old lady suddenly became a demonic obstacle, as if she had been covered by something dirty. I really didn't know the specific reason, so I asked the old monk with a pure heart, and he refused to tell me the truth. I always felt that this old monk was not honest, and he still looked strange when he looked at me. Not only him, but later all the monks became the same.
I don't know what happened to the old woman. But I think the monks chanted at that time to appease the old lady, guessing that she was ghosted or something. Actually, I've had a lot of that kind of experience, but all female ghosts want to fight that kind of idea on me. But it's quite awkward to suddenly move such a dying old woman on you.
After the incident subsided that day, the temple stopped welcoming guests and closed its doors early.
I lived in the temple for three days, and the monks wouldn't let me go if I wanted to go. The old monk said that he wanted to find time to talk alone, but in the end, he didn't look for me once.
I had the feeling that I was under house arrest, and I went out to pee and two monks followed. This was the case for two days in a row. On the third day, I couldn't bear it, I felt uncomfortable, and I hoped that the old monk would give me a solution to keep me safe. But what did he mean by hiding from me.
So I had a plan to leave the monastery and wanted to go to my grandmother and ask what had happened. When I wanted to go out, I found that the door was locked.
I was so annoyed that I was really locked up as a prisoner.
In the evening, the little monk secretly came to my room, didn't wait for me to get angry, directly covered my mouth to prevent me from making a sound, he first pulled the flute in his nose to brew emotions, and then said that he came to take me out of the monastery.
True sex really didn't lie to me, we sneaked out of the small temple, and as we walked forward, I asked him how the old lady was doing.
Zhenxing said that he let the family go home that day.
I figured it out a little bit in my mind. At first I thought they were going to deal with the old woman, and that they were keeping me in order to protect me from anything. I'm the one you're going to deal with after a long time.
I suddenly felt very angry, so I directly questioned the true nature and said, "How can you monks restrict the freedom of others?" In broad daylight, you blatantly locked me up for three days. ”
True pouted and said, "You'd better be content." If it weren't for me, you might be in a different place. ”
"What, you monks still dare to kill people."
"The master said that you may be the source of misfortune in the future, and he is plotting to get rid of you. But he couldn't make up his mind a little bit, and he was struggling for the past two days. I'm really afraid that if he really did that, then we little monks will be accomplices and will go to prison. In particular, my sin is even greater, after all, I introduced you. ”
When I heard him say that, I felt a little scared.
The meaning of those words is that this old monk probably wants to kill me even if he is shot and imprisoned. Damn, I have no grievances with him in the past and no enmity in the near future.
And wanting to kill people for no reason is even more terrifying.
I was somewhat silent and did not speak.
True nature turned to look at me and asked, "You can't really be some kind of scourge, why does the abbot say that you are the seed of sin?"
I showed him that my heart was furious, not to mention him, I was also frightened by what I was. I said, "If I knew about it, I would have delivered it myself."
True sex thought for a moment, "That's what you said. I let you go today, and I hope I'm doing the right thing. ”
Then he asked me what I was going to do, and I told him to go back to my hometown and find my grandmother.
I said that it seems that your old monk knows something about me, but if I go to him again, I have to take me as a demon, and I still go to find my grandmother's insurance.
"It's a trouble, you came to me for help so easily, and I almost hurt you." I really think it's a bit unreasonable.
I comforted him, saying that it wasn't all for nothing, at least I knew that it wasn't easy.
I found a small inn near the temple and prepared to leave tomorrow morning. I bought some daily necessities, and we didn't have dinner either, so I invited Zhenxing to have some food.
On the way back, Makai took me around for a while.
It's a suburban village, and it's not a big place. There is a family at the funeral, a makeshift funeral shed, where the custom is to keep a vigil at night.
There are many local villagers watching, which is quite lively. We also walked over to join in the fun.
But when I walked over and looked at it, my heart was nervous.
I know the deceased person, the old lady I met in the small temple three days ago, and her black-and-white enlarged photo was resting on the table in front of the coffin. I didn't expect to die in a blink of an eye. Thinking that I had just seen her alive, but now she was just a cold corpse, I had to sigh at the impermanence of life.
I saw her, and she saw me.
The old lady in the photo was originally serious, but gradually, her face in the photo seemed to show the weird and terrifying smile she had before.
I started to think I was dazzled, rubbed my eyes and looked again, yes, he smiled at me.
Realizing that the situation was beginning to change strangely, the first thing I was afraid of was to find the truth, he was a monk after all.
Suddenly, the wind blew fiercely.
The flames of the two lit candles on the table in front of the coffin suddenly rose high and burned, and black smoke flowed up. The incense that was inserted in the incense burner suddenly burned so badly that it was about to burn out to the end.