The road ahead is long, after leaving Gupao Town, we went all the way to the northwest, I don't know where Shanxi is, and I don't know where Tongyao Town is, Yang Yuanshan only knows how to go in Shanxi, but in a big province to find a small town, imagine how difficult it should be......

Now it has been more than half a month, because we have not much money on us, I still left the eighteen-mile village on Tuesday, Uncle Tue gave a few rings, Master Yang Yuanshan, but in response to that sentence, alone, and Taoism has things, but with money can not find a penny, in this way, we can only walk the mountain road day and night, hungry to eat some wild fruits and game, thirsty naturally drink some sweet and refreshing mountain spring water.

Another blood-red sunset came, and we finally walked out of the mountains at this time, looking at the endless plains in front of me, and I hurriedly asked happily, "Master, where have we been?" ”

Yang Yuanshan glanced left and right, and then looked back, and then said uncertainly: "Didn't you arrive at the boundary of Henan?" If so, then according to the original direction of the journey, we should now be in the north of Anyang, but there are really a lot of wasteland and waste hills in this area, and it is not easy to find a family to stay at night. ”

I suddenly touched my stomach, the Five Organs Temple had already been singing about the empty city plan a few days ago, but there was a meal without a body that really couldn't stand it, plus I was wearing two heavy gravel cloth bags on my two ankles, but fortunately, under the exercise of these days, the weight of the gravel has doubled, I just feel the same as at the beginning, so to speak, my legs and feet should be improving a little bit.

The sky soon darkened, we passed through a forest, and finally under the light of the stars and the moon, I saw a small village in the distance, I was happy and felt that my strength suddenly increased, and I ran to the front in three or two steps, at this time Yang Yuanshan was also really happy, think about it, my apprentice did not eat, then the master naturally has no food, to see a little hope at this time, we are not happy!

It seemed to be very close, but we still walked for nearly half an hour before we arrived at this small village, but the strange thing is that now under the dark sky, everyone here has closed their doors and turned off the lights, I looked around with some loss, and said: "This is good, I finally found a place to stay, but I didn't arrive at the good time, Master, I'm dying of hunger, it doesn't matter if we sleep or not, we should find a place to get something to eat, right?" ”

Yang Yuanshan nodded and said, "At this time, the people here must not be asleep yet, let's knock on the door and try." ”

In this way, Yang Yuanshan and I found a family nearby, but after knocking on the door for a long time, there was no response at all, and it is unreasonable to say that no one lives inside, because the latch on the outside is not on, but the latch on the inside.

Yang Yuanshan stopped and thought about it, and then we changed another family and continued to knock on the door and shout, but the result was the same as the previous one, not only did there be no reaction, but we couldn't even hear the slightest movement, now the two of us were really dumbfounded, obviously there were people in the house, but why didn't they open the door? Even if they don't want to take us in, at least it's good to make a sound, just at this moment, the courtyard of the neighboring houses suddenly sounded a burst of barking dogs, and the family was disturbed, then the family was lively, me and Master, you look at me, I look at you, but they are stunned in place.

After a while, the barking of the dogs had subsided, but not a single person from the house had come out to answer a word, not even a sign of a candle being lit.

I climbed up to the wall of a courtyard and glanced inside, and then said in distress, "It's been like this, and there hasn't been any movement, Master, could it be that the people here really haven't heard?" Or have they already fallen asleep? ”

Yang Yuanshan smiled bitterly and said: "Maybe it's the custom of the locals, let's go to bed early, especially at night, there is such a village within a radius here, maybe it's because they don't trust us, in short, we don't seem to be able to stay in this village, otherwise we will go to the back of the village to find out, and see if there is any place to block the cold at night." ”

I tilted my head and thought, there is no reason, how can there be a custom of going to bed early? Besides, we made such a big movement and didn't wake up a single person? This...... That's too much, isn't it?

But since the master said so, I had to endure hunger and follow behind, we first walked a long circle to the west, and found that there was no place to live, only a large area of cultivated fields, and then we looked north, and found a ruined temple in disrepair next to a barren hill two miles away, which is a little strange here, although the temple is broken, but the scale is still very magnificent, but why is it so deserted? Could it be that the people here have broken away from feudal superstition? Don't believe in ghosts?

I smiled at this, naturally I couldn't agree, because along the way, I met large and small villages and towns, but wherever there are temples, there has never been a break of incense, but here......

"It seems that it has been abandoned for some years...... Yang Yuanshan looked at the barren grass piles piled up around the broken temple, shook his head and sighed lightly: "Well, the seventh day of the first month, since there is a ruined temple here, we will stay here for one night tonight, and when it dawns tomorrow, we will go into the village to eat some food, and then hurry, okay?" ”

I was so tired that I shook my head, my whole body fluttered back and forth like a piece of wind chimes, I looked down at my shriveled stomach when I heard this, and nodded helplessly: "If you don't do this, you can't do it, you can only be hungry for the time being, Master, I didn't say you, when my mother gave me some travel expenses, you didn't let me take it, otherwise we bought some dry food and put it on our bodies, now, the two sleeves can be filled with a breeze, but the stomach can be filled with a fart......

Yang Yuanshan immediately glared and said, "How can you talk to Master?!" No big, no small! Come on! ”

I was often reprimanded by the master like this, and I was used to it, so I immediately stuck out my tongue and didn't say anything more.

"Wait-" Yang Yuanshan walked in front, but before he could get close to the broken temple, he suddenly stopped, and then said with a solemn expression for no reason: "There is something strange here, don't come forward first, I'll go first to see, how can it be ...... here?"

The master didn't say anything, so he cautiously walked into the gate of the broken temple, I took advantage of this time to hurriedly find a good stone to sit on, forget if I didn't eat, forget if I can't sleep for the time being, now I have to rest, right? I pounded my knees with my hands tiredly, panting a little out of breath.

I just sat like this, but after a long time I didn't see the master come out, I was faintly impatient, carefully looked in the direction of the broken temple, except for the black rumbling temple door, I really couldn't see anything, I didn't even know what kind of temple this was, inexplicable, a cool breeze swept in, I rested down the whole body slightly erected cold hairs, hurriedly glanced left and right, except for the small village that was vaguely recognizable two miles away, the end of the radius was pitch black, I suddenly had an inexplicable sense of fear, It's just that I saw a lot of strange things with the master, and I saw all the ghosts and gods that I didn't believe in, so now my courage is getting smaller and smaller.

If you want to say that the more urgent the person, the urgent things keep coming, unconsciously give me a bubble of urine out, this makes me uncomfortable, I used to hear the old people in the village say, if you are alone at night, the more afraid you are, the more you don't want to urinate, that is exhausting, if the gas is weaker, it is likely to provoke dirty things to approach!

I squeezed my legs and secretly scolded myself for being stupid, why didn't I ask Master if this legend was worth studying when I was with Master every day? But I can't see Master for a while, so I'm asking a fart!

Uncomfortable, I glanced around, then spat fiercely, reached out to remove the long whip from my waist, and held the nine-section long whip in one hand, thinking that if there was really some reason for peeing for a while, then throw out a crisp sound to calm the ground!

I made up my mind and hurried to a piece of grass to solve this important matter, and the other hand held the nine-section long whip and was ready to throw it out at any time, fortunately everything went well, and when I fastened my belt, I suddenly heard a voice from the broken temple, don't think about it, it must be the master who beckoned me in, as for what the master said, I didn't hear it clearly in a trance for a while.

I couldn't even refract the moonlight in the broken temple, and I really couldn't see my fingers, so I didn't put it away since I had taken off the long whip, and when I approached the gate of the broken temple, I hurriedly shouted: "Master? Why haven't you lit the lights yet? ”

After speaking, I waited for a while, but after a while, I didn't hear Yang Yuanshan's response, could it be that he was too tired to sleep first? It's impossible, although the master is a little stricter, he won't ignore me, so why is that?

I thought about it or couldn't help but shout again, this time I heard clearly, there was a burst of echoes in the broken temple, it was the echo of my own voice, I was a spirit, hurriedly retreated a few big steps, and then glanced left and right at this broken temple, the front and back left and right are not those few feet long and wide, how can there be an echo when shouting a word?

But Yang Yuanshan obviously went in, I saw it with my own eyes, just imagine that he is in it, what can a broken temple do, I immediately strengthened my courage, slowly stepped further, head-on, is an extremely cool breath blowing, it is not strange to think about it, here the sun is estimated to be impenetrable during the day, so it is normal to be cooler, I reluctantly settled down, there is a master in it as a comfort in my heart, I stepped further, so far, my whole person is considered to have walked into the broken temple, and it is dark in my eyes, The commonly known hand does not see the five fingers-

I clung to the long whip, ready to throw out a crisp sound at the right time, but when I thought that Master wasn't inside, my heart relaxed, and I shouted to Master while walking inside, but after I walked five or six steps, I suddenly turned around!

"Bang!"

Two heavy, dilapidated doors suddenly shut together—

I clenched my fists all at once, and my fingernails almost plucked my palms, which ...... How could this door close on its own? Isn't there a ...... Something dirty?! But what about Master?

"Master?!" I screamed in horror, but it was a reverberating echo in my ears, almost confusing my eardrums, and just as I was about to escape from the ruined temple, a strange scene appeared!

I saw a small boxy skylight on the roof above my head, and a thin beam of cold moonlight sprinkled down along the skylight, but what surprised me even more was how this moonlight was slightly different from the moonlight outside, and the moonlight here seemed to be still graying white, to be exact, it did not look like moonlight, but like white candlelight shining through a paper lantern......

Under the gray moonlight reflection, I saw a huge clay Bodhisattva statue not far in front of me, which way Bodhisattva I don't know, even if it is a Bodhisattva statue I can't see clearly, only see that there is a clay statue more than one person high placed on the high platform, there is a square long table under the high platform, these I didn't pay too much attention, but there is a place, the right side of the table against the wall, there is a small black doorway, very narrow, but through one person is more than enough, I stood in place and thought, Could it be that Master has walked into this small door?

Lifting the long whip in his hand and looking at it, and then thinking that the master must be inside, otherwise there would be no other exit here, I was bold again, and cautiously approached the small doorway, close to the ......

The gray moonlight seemed to illuminate only the road under my feet and the scene in front of me, but I turned a deaf ear to all this