Chapter 19: The Nether Master
Lao Tiantou has dealt with dead corpses for most of his life, and it is the first time he has encountered someone who is insidiously blackmailed. He wanted to be rude, but when he saw Li Yang and me, the two young men, weighing and weighing, he felt that there was a huge disparity in strength. And Li Yang, his expression is calm, revealing a sense of determination, it's better not to mess with such a person, he can do anything if he is in a hurry. The more you don't let go, the more you are holding back your big move.
Lao Tiantou sighed: "I'll go with you, but you guys let me call the museum." ”
"Hit on the road." Li Yang started the car as he spoke, and a puff of smoke flew out.
I sat in the passenger seat, looking at the backward scenery outside the car window, and I really couldn't think of what kind of master Li Yang could find. When I got out of the city and saw the familiar township, I suddenly woke up, Li Yang is the female master who took us to the Buddha Hall! I yelled at Li Yang: "Are you crazy? ”
Li Yang didn't even look at me: "What? ”
"Are you going to find the female master?"
"Exactly."
"Do you know what the relationship between her and grandma is? Grandma and her mother are old friends, she is like grandma's daughter, can she allow you to do this? "I think Li Yang is completely unfamiliar with human feelings, and he can't figure out such a simple truth.
Li Yang's face was expressionless: "Can you help, then you will know." ”
Lao Tiantou didn't speak, hugged his arms, closed his eyes and pretended to sleep, looking like he loved whoever he loved.
After driving for more than 40 minutes, he finally came to the familiar door of the Buddha hall. Li Yang got out of the car and knocked on the rear window: "Master Tian, don't sleep, it's here." ”
Lao Tiantou reluctantly got out of the car, followed the two of us, and entered the Buddhist hall.
The strange thing is that in broad daylight, there is no one in the empty temple. The lobby area is not small, but the activity area is very cramped. There are shelves in most places, on which all kinds of Bodhisattva and Buddha statues are densely stacked, and there are many cardboard boxes piled on the ground, and you can see what Buddha incense, lotus lamps, futons and other Buddhist household utensils are scattered inside. There is a fine Tibetan incense burning in the lobby somewhere, the smell is strong but not depressed, and there is a feeling of being like a sauna after smelling it for a long time. Tibetan incense is also a Buddhist utensil, has the effect of health and calming the nerves, I thought about it, thinking that I would buy some Tibetan incense after finishing my errands, and put it in the bedroom, I have been suffering from insomnia recently.
The lobby was silent, and the three of us looked at each other. Occasionally, you can hear the wind blowing in, and the wind chimes on the lintel ringing softly.
I scratched my head: "Strange, where did the female master go?" ”
Lao Tiantou was impatient: "Don't you look at what time it is, it's twelve o'clock at noon, and people have gone to eat." I said two little brothers, let's evacuate quickly, don't let people be arrested as thieves when the time comes. ”
Li Yang sat on a high chair next to the statue of the Bodhisattva and said calmly: "What is the panic, if you come, you will be safe." When you arrive at the holy land of Buddhism, you should put away your greed and hatred, don't stand, everyone sit, wait slowly, what we have is time. ”
I patted Lao Tiantou, that means you accept your fate, when you meet such a serious master as Li Yang, there is no way at all.
Lao Tiantou sat in the corner of the wall angrily, holding his arms and sulking.
I walked around the lobby twice with my trouser pocket in my trouser pocket, and I saw a business license hanging on the wall, on which was the identity photo of the female master. Good guy, this photo is taken like Zhong Kui. This woman is born with a manly appearance, clear and rough facial features, horizontal eyebrows and angry eyes, how to look at it. Which man married her, it was really sinful. Absolute Kiff.
Her name is written on the license: Hong Chen. I don't know if Lu Dao is a pseudonym, homophonic red dust, some meaning.
The treasure of the town shop in the lobby is the snow-white tall Bodhisattva statue, holding a water purification bottle, holding a willow branch, with a round and delicate face, full of love, and is holding a willow branch to sprinkle water droplets. I looked at it for a while, and I didn't know if it was hidden incense, or what, but I vaguely felt that this Bodhisattva seemed to be alive, as if it was alive. I felt a pang in my heart, and I didn't dare to look at it anymore, so I quickly sat down on the chair next to me.
Maybe my heart is not right, when I looked at the statue of the Bodhisattva just now, I always felt that her eyes seemed to be evil, the corners of her eyes were raised, and the eyes at that moment were a little like the photo of the female master on the wall.
I sat in my chair, sweat dripping from my forehead, my heart pounding, and I always felt restless, as if something was wrong.
None of the three of us spoke, so we sat and sat for twenty minutes, as if everyone was competing in endurance, and whoever spoke first would lose.
"Have you ever heard of that?" Suddenly, a gruff voice came from the back hall. I saw the coral curtain lifted, and the female master Hong Chen walked out. We quickly stood up, and Li Yang was respectful: "Auntie, master." ”
Hong Chen sat on the main seat, looked at us, and continued to ask: "Who of you knows that a group of people in Ludao are talking and suddenly everyone is silent, what does this mean?" ”
"There's a ghost coming in." Lao Tiantou interjected sullenly beside him.
Hong Chen's face sank, and then he smiled: "Ha Luha, yes, this is because everyone has a ghost hidden in their hearts, and that ghost silences everyone." Hey? This friend, you have a lot of evil spirits on you. And looking at your face, your eyes and eyebrows are heavy, you must be a person who is hard and lonely. If you were born in old age, you would definitely be an executioner. Now, it's hard to guess that it's either a butcher or a crematorium working in a cemetery. ”
**, cow.
Lao Tiantou sneered: "The master is amazing, I wear this work clothes, so everyone can see where I work." ”
Hong Chen ignored him and asked Li Yang, "What are you doing with me?" ”
Li Yang hung his head, and his eyes were red. Hong Chen looked at him straight and said in a trembling voice: "Qi ...... Aunt she, gone? ”
Li Yang nodded, crying and moving his shoulders.
Hong Chen sighed: "Okay, child, let's mourn." Birth, old age, sickness and death, human nature, no one can avoid it. You didn't come to me to ask for her old man's soul, did you? ”
**。 This Hongchen is a god, how can he know everything.
Seeing us looking at her stunned, Hong Chen said, "You don't have to think about it. It also occurred to me that you must have come all the way to me just to inform me of my death, but to have important things to trust. I don't have any other skills, I can only invite the great god in the northeast, so it's easy to think of it. ”
Li Yang nodded and wiped his tears: "Auntie, grandma has gone strangely, I am uneasy if she doesn't solve this matter, and now I can only beg you." ”
Hong Chen didn't say anything, just said, "Tell me everything that happened." ”
Lao Tiantou also only knew one and didn't know the other, and when there was a story to hear, he pulled the stool closer. Li Yang didn't reserve it, starting from Yin Qiufeng's visit to his grandmother, everything that happened in it was explained in detail.
When he finished speaking, Lao Tiantou was already stunned, swallowed his saliva frequently, and shouted **. Hong Chen's expression did not change, he kept squinting his eyes, pinching the Buddha beads in his hand, listening to it as if he hadn't heard it. Li Yang said later: "Please also ask my aunt and master to help us, please return grandma's soul to Yang, and figure out what is going on inside." ”
Hong Chen stood up and said, "It's noon, everyone is hungry." I usually don't eat at noon, and if you're going to be hungry, go to the bun shop next to you and buy some buns to eat. ”
Li Yang hurriedly said: "What kind of buns are you still eating, I'm so anxious now." ”
Hong Chen looked at the three of us, put the Buddha beads on the table, and asked, "Do you really want to invite?" ”
Lao Tiantou hurriedly waved his hand: "There is no ...... here It's nothing to do without me......" Before he finished speaking, Li Yang glared at him, bluffing the old man into stopping.
Hong Chen turned around in place a few times, and said lightly: "Since that's the case, come in with me." ”
She didn't look back, and strode to the back of the hall. Li Yang hurriedly followed. I sighed, looked at Lao Tiantou, and made a gesture of please: "Let's go, Master Tian." Once on this boat, you resign yourself to your fate. ”
Lao Tiantou had a bitter face and whispered, "Xiao Liu, you are a good boy." Why do I think you're not authentic as a friend, how can you be friends with him? And this Buddha hall, don't look at so many Buddha statues, I think it's eerie. I'm very sensitive to this, and if I want to say gloomy, it's absolutely evil. ”
I smiled: "With you, the true god of hard life, all evil will not invade." ”
As we spoke, we lifted the curtain and walked to the back. There is a courtyard in the back, there are quite a lot of wings on the left and right, and the female master Hong Chen led us to a room next to it. This room is very weird, there is no door! There was a thick curtain hanging at the door, and there were many shadows inside, and I don't know what it was.
Hong Chen said: "There is a special way to enter this door. It's almost the same as reincarnation! You must keep your faith pure, and those who have evil thoughts in your heart will be exposed as they are. ”
We looked at each other and we all got a little chill down our backs.
Hong Chen gave us three incense sticks for one person, saying that this was an open door incense. Then she took off her shoes, went barefoot, held three long incense sticks burning over her forehead, and walked into the room through the curtains. The three of us had to follow her example and walked in one after another.
There's not a lot of space inside, but the light is very dim, or there isn't much light coming in at all. The room was windowless on three sides, like a prison, and the only entrance was a thick curtain.
In the innermost part there is a tall shrine shelf against the wall, which can reach up to the ceiling. On the top shelves are several Arhat statues. I have a limited understanding of Buddhism and religion, and I can't tell the difference between Buddhas, Arhats, and Bodhisattvas, but I think these statues are very unusual! One by one, they are extremely fierce and weird, with raised eyebrows, angry eyes, and two sharp horns on their heads.
Each of these statues is more than half a meter high, with different movements, some hold a big cone in their arms, some sit cross-legged, some giggle and laugh, in the dark room, there are only a few flickering lotus red lights, the atmosphere is so strange and depressing, it is really evil to make you burst into pee.
I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but I feel that as soon as I step into this room, it seems that the eyes of these statues on the shrine all converge at once, looking down from the air, so strange and abnormal, that I can't lift my head.
At the bottom of the shrine shelf are black jars of various sizes, each with a blue charm sealed at the entrance. In the middle of the two jars, there are also some fruit bowls of food.
A huge bronze incense burner was placed in the center of the shrine, full of incense ash, and three thick and long incense sticks were inserted, slowly burning, billowing green smoke. The room was filled with an indescribable strange smell, which was so smoking that it was buzzing and wafting when I walked.
This place is so scary that none of us dare to speak.
I don't know what to say about others, anyway, my back is soaked, and my legs and stomach are a little tendoned, so I want to finish it and go back early.
Master Hong Chen put the three sticks of incense in his hand in the incense burner and said to us, "Come one by one, put the incense on." ”
Li Yang asked softly, "Auntie, what kind of place is this?" ”
Hong Chen's face was expressionless, and her face was clouded in the red light of the lotus lamp: "This is the Jizo King Bodhisattva Hall." Please all the ghosts of the underworld greet his old man. The Jizo King Bodhisattva is the Netherworld Master of the Ninefold Yin Land, and you will recite the Jizo Sutra with me for a while. It's all spiritual! No one is allowed to fall asleep. ”