Bidding farewell to the second grandfather, when we had reached the bottom of the hillside where the village was located, we looked back again, but saw the second grandfather still looking at us on crutches.

I felt very uncomfortable, Jiang Li said to me: "There are eight sufferings in life, birth, old age, illness, death, long-term resentment, love and separation, can't ask for it, can't let go, all living beings are suffering, there will always be people around you who come and come, you will encounter more such things in the future, just get used to it." ”

I asked, "Master, are you used to it?" ”

Jiang Li smiled: "I don't have a habit, so I am a monk, and I have no worries, so there is no love and hate parting." ”

Jiang Li can say a lot about these truths, but many times I can see that although he can untie the knot in my heart, he still can't let go of these problems by himself.

Perhaps, this is the difference between being strong and being weak. Powerful people can mask their emotions, and we can only rely on them to untie the knots.

Walked all the way to the door of the Taoist temple again.

The entrance of the Taoist temple is already overgrown with weeds, and my fate with Jiang Li started here, and I came here again.

I looked at the stone trough at the door, which had been tightly covered by weeds, and remembered what my grandfather told me about this stone trough, and said that there was a large stone trough at the entrance of the temple. In the past, it was filled with white rice, but at that time it was poor, and those who ran out of food could go there to scoop a bowl for emergency relief, as long as they made up a bowl in the future.

Now that the stone trough is empty, and grandpa is gone, our Chen family is wrong. Just like this stone trough, from prosperity to decay and decline, now only a breath of antiquity remains.

Jiang Li saw me looking at the stone trough in a daze, and reached out and knocked on my forehead, "Silly boy." What do you think, don't go in yet. ”

I followed Jiang Li into the Taoist temple, although this place has been uninhabited for a long time, and it has become a ruin, but I have a special sense of intimacy with this place.

The scale of this temple is not large, there are only a few simple rooms. Corresponding to the gate of the Taoist temple is the Sanqing Hall of the Taoist Temple, and the pilgrims on weekdays go to incense and the Taoist priests do morning classes in the Sanqing Palace.

There are three houses next to the Sanqing Palace, one is where the Taoist priests used to live, one is a guest hall for guests to live, and the remaining one is the dining hall.

As for the bathing place, there is a stone tank in this courtyard, and the Taoist temples are all big men, and there is no taboo about bathing, just wash it in the yard.

Because it is a Taoist temple, blessed by Taoist gods, although it is overgrown with weeds, but there is no filth, standing in it is refreshing, much better than in our village.

Jiang Li and I stood in the courtyard for a while, Jiang Li looked at the grass in the courtyard and the dust and cobwebs in the temple, glanced at his lips with disgust, and said, "You may have to work hard today." ”

I asked, "Why?" ”

Jiang Li pressed my shoulder, then pointed to the yard, then pointed to the house here and said, "Clean up the weeds and clean the house again." ”

I bowed, "What about you?" ”

Jiang Li laughed: "Do you still want Master and me to do these jobs?" ”

I hurriedly said that I didn't dare, and immediately took the magic sword and went over to chop at the weeds, Jiang Li was actually not idle, cleaned up my messy yard, and carried the weeds outside the Taoist temple. A fire burned.

After the courtyard was cleaned, there was the Sanqing Hall and other houses, because there were not enough people, we wasted a whole day to clean up the Taoist temple inside and out.

By the evening, I was too tired to do it, I rushed directly into the guest hall, lying on the bed and didn't want to move, Jiang Li stood at the door and looked at me, and then shook his head: "I'll go to the bottom of the mountain to get some food and come back, there are many taboos in the Taoist temple, don't do anything to defile the gods." ”

"Got it." I replied weakly.

Jiang Li patted his forehead, put his things on the table in the room, changed into a robe and left.

Because this is a Taoist temple, I didn't worry about evil ghosts coming in, so I fell asleep not long after lying on my stomach.

I don't know how long I slept for a while, and I was awakened by the sound of Suo Suo in the room, I thought it was Jiang Li who came back, so I hurriedly opened my eyes and sat up, and before the master could shout, I was stuck in my throat.

It wasn't Jiang Li in this room, there were indeed a dozen men and women standing, all dressed strangely, and their eyes were even more weird when they looked at me.

When he saw me wake up, he pointed at me and said something I didn't understand at all.

I immediately gradually picked up the Fa next to me, and made an expression that if you dared to step forward, I would kill you.

They pointed me out, but they didn't move. I didn't have a reason to do it, but it was so strange to be pointed out by them, and finally I coughed dryly: "Who are you?" This is a Taoist temple, don't mess around here. ”

After I finished speaking, one of the older men looked me up and down a few times and asked, "Little doll." Where are you from? How did you get here? This place is already occupied, so let's get away when you've slept enough. ”

This Taoist temple was originally an old Taoist priest, Jiang Li lived here after the old Taoist priest died, although Jiang Li left during the period, but this Taoist temple should still be his, and I was also brought by him. I also cleaned up this temple, so why can't I live here?

Before I could explain, another person said to me, "You can go quickly." ”

Then they began to drive me away.

I saw that Jiang Li hadn't come back yet, and they were strange and a little panicked, so they put their fingers together. Recited the Spell of Destroying the Gods.

After reciting a few words of the God Destroying Mantra, the expressions of these people on the other side changed greatly, and they hurriedly shouted: "Run, this kid is a practitioner." ”

After speaking, he rushed out to the courtyard of the Taoist temple.

I immediately got up and chased them out, standing in the doorway and staring at them, my fingers still not down. As long as I recite a sentence of Taishang Laojun's urgency as a law now, this god-destroying spell can be cast, and when the time comes, they will say that one or two will be destroyed by this god-destroying spell.

However, Jiang Li didn't like to kill people at will, and I didn't dare to do it casually, so I said, "No matter who you are, this Taoist temple was originally where my master lived." My master has gone down the mountain, you should hurry up, otherwise don't blame me for being unkind. ”

Hearing my words, the eyes of the people in front of me widened, and this time they looked at me more curiously, and their eyes rolled for a long time. With a curious face, he asked, "Little doll, which one is your master?" ”

"Jiang Li, Jiang Daozu." I reported Jiang Li's name.

They listened to me for a moment, and then they laughed, and some of them even walked straight to me. No matter what I'm doing now, he walked up to me and reached out and touched my head, and said with a smile on his face: "It turned out to be Jiang Daochang's apprentice, what about your master?" ”

"Do you know my master?" I asked them.

They nodded en en: "We are the wandering spirits around here, we used to come to the Taoist temple to listen to Jiang Daochang's preaching, after he left, we helped guard this Taoist temple, I thought that Jiang Daochang would not come back, but I didn't expect to bring back a little doll." ”

They have done something excessive to me from beginning to end, and if there was malicious intent, they should have done it a long time ago, and I did not doubt their words and let my guard down.

They were about to say something more to me, when Jiang Li walked in from outside the Taoist temple, and when he saw the situation inside, he coughed dryly: "What are you doing?" ”

These wandering spirits immediately turned their heads and looked at Jiang Li with awe on their faces, and then bowed: "Meet Jiang Dao Chief." And he said, "When did you come back, Chief Jiang?" None of us found out. ”

Jiang Li looked at me and said, "You go back first." ”

They also didn't ask any more questions and withdrew from the Taoist temple.

After they left, I asked Jiang Li who they were, and what Jiang Li told me was exactly the same as what they told me, there was no difference, but some of the wandering ghosts that Jiang Li met when he was here were not harmful.

After entering the house and eating, and after chatting about what should be discussed, Jiang Li said to me: "Rest well, come with me to Xixuan Mountain for a while." ”

The purpose of our coming here is Xixuan Mountain, Eun nodded.

At about nine o'clock in the evening, Jiang Li found a relatively small Taoist robe in the Taoist temple and put it on for me, and then rushed to the next mountain with him.

There were trees on this mountain. However, when the diggers came, many of the trees were cut down, leaving the flat ground, and there were many tents left on the flat ground, but there was no one living in the tents.

Jiang Li and I walked around these tents and asked, "Why don't they stay here at night?" ”

"There's a Western Xuan Banshee. They don't dare to live here. ”

I talked to Jiang Li, walked across the tent and walked to the front, in front of which was the excavation site, piles of new mud were piled up beside it, and many pits had been dug in the middle, but there was no magnificent tomb as I imagined.

Jiang Li and I stood by this pit. I felt that there was a gap between what I thought, and I was a little disappointed, and said, "Is this the tomb of Guiguzi?" ”

Jiang Li shook his head: "Of course not, I just heard from the old Taoist master that this Xixuan Mountain may be the tomb of Guiguzi, but no one knows whether it is or not." In addition to the tomb of Guiguzi, this is also a battlefield in the Southern Song Dynasty, it seems that we are too worried, they did not dig out the tomb of Guiguzi, only excavated the battlefield of the Southern Song Dynasty. ”

There are only two things I'm curious about right now, and one is the Western Xuan Banshee. One is Guiguzi, since Guiguzi's grave is still in the mountains and has not been dug out, then the Xixuan Banshee has become my focus, so I asked Jiang Li: "Where is the Xixuan Banshee?" I didn't see her. ”

Jiang Li straightened up and looked around.

At night, there is a little moonlight, and you can see things within about 20 meters of the surroundings, except for the trees, which are new mud. There was nothing else at all, but Jiang Li gave me a trick: "You pick up four stones, throw them on the ground one by one, and the Xixuan Banshee will come out when she hears the sound." ”

I was extremely curious, and immediately bent down to pick up the four stones, and then asked Jiang Li, "Is the Xixuan Banshee powerful?" In case she comes out. What if you're not her opponent. ”

Jiang Li smiled: "Your master is always the most powerful." ”

I was relieved to hear this, and immediately threw the four stones in my hand into the distance, one after the other.

Knock knock knock!

Four stones fell to the ground, and the sound spread throughout the forest, and I held my breath and looked around, but I still didn't see the Banshee.

Just as he was about to tell Jiang Li, the Xixuan Banshee did not appear. When I got to the side of my throat, I got stuck back.

A beautiful white figure appeared on the east side of the forest, looking at us with a determined gaze.

Under the bright moonlight, her long white dress fluttered, and her long hair fluttered, I was stunned, and I pulled Jiang Li and said, "She is so beautiful." ”

Jiang Li smiled: "Her husband died on this battlefield, she has been waiting on the battlefield for more than a thousand years, but whenever she hears a sound similar to a horse's hooves, she will come out to check if it is her husband who has returned on a war horse. ”

I nodded her head, she's the best person I've ever met.

Jiang Li nodded with interest: "I think so too, but you should think about how to explain the sound of horses' hooves to her." ”