I saw that the old lady was a little anxious, and hurriedly waved her hand: "Okay, I won't interject, you speak slowly." "

The old lady poured a bowl of water for one of us and said, "I know the Journey to the West you mentioned." I'm old and illiterate, but I'm not confused. I have also listened to the storytelling, and I also know the Tao of the Monkey King and Zhu Bajie. "

I turned my head to look at the statue enshrined on the table, and thought to myself, "Do you know the Tao?" Do you know what the Tao is still doing for Sun Wukong? "

But I just thought about it, and I didn't say it.

The old lady continued: "Tang Seng is a native of the Tang Dynasty, and there really is this person in history. "

I looked at the old lady giving me a serious lecture, and I had to nod helplessly.

The old lady said: "When Tang Seng went to learn scriptures, he took an apprentice. It's hard along the way, demons and monsters, and you have to eat people from time to time. Tang Seng was bold and walked to the western sky. But his apprentice was timid and ran back secretly. Then he returned to the vulgar and gave birth to a child. After hundreds of years of reproduction, generation after generation, you see that there is the Great Holy Village. "

I scratched my head and thought, "Where did this old lady hear these stories?" Mythology and historical facts are mixed together, some true and some false. "

I sighed and said, "So this little monk who escaped back is the ancestor of the Great Sage Village?" "

The old lady clapped her hands: "That's right." That's it. Hey, I thought you were stupid in school a long time ago, but now I look at it, and the reaction is quite fast. "

I laughed dryly, thinking, "Who is stupid and who knows the way." "

The old lady said seriously: "Later, Tang Seng went to the West Heaven, and the Buddha rewarded him for his meritorious deeds. This little monk also has a share. It is said that Tang Seng went to the west and met the Buddha, so he became a Buddha immediately. This little monk is different, he escaped halfway back, so he practiced halfway. The Buddha said, you have also traveled the road to learn the scriptures, which is considered meritorious, and you are allowed to go to the west to accept the incense offerings of the people. But you come back halfway, so you only have half the credit, so you will punish your body to become a monkey, and enjoy the incense of the world as a monkey. Later, some storytellers didn't know what was going on, saying that this little monk was a monkey, but in fact it was wrong. The little monk was originally human. The Buddha punished him for not being firm in his cultivation and turned him into a monkey. "

I nodded, and made a look of sudden realization: "I see." "

When the old lady saw that I agreed with her words, she was quite happy and said, "So now there are great temples everywhere, worshipping Sun Dasheng, in fact, these incense are all returned to the little monk of the year." Tell me, in this way, the descendants of the little monk should not preside, who should be the abbot? When someone with a different surname changes, can the little monk be happy? Will it bless us? "

I couldn't help but nodded, admiring in my heart: "Although this old lady has a bit of a peculiar thinking, she is self-contained and very rigorous." "

We sat at the old lady's house for a while. The fat man asked curiously, "You were just inviting the Great Sage?" What is the Great Sage? "

The old lady said, "Isn't this the Great Holy Temple going to be demolished?" But we didn't want the Great Sage to leave, so we had to invite him to our house. Then she pointed to the large icon on the table.

The fat man thought for a while and asked, "There is only one Great Sage, so many of you invited him just now, who is he following?" "

After the fat man asked this sentence, he grinned at us quite proudly, that means, look at me awesomely, right? The old lady asked.

But the old lady didn't take it seriously, and replied lightly: "Don't forget, the Great Sage can conjure thousands of little Great Sages with a single blow, and we people are enough." "

I sighed and gave the old lady a thumbs up: "Insightful." "

Wushuang looked at the big holy statue boredly, and then said, "Where did you buy this Buddha statue?" Why is it so ugly? "

The old lady looked flustered: "The little girl doesn't dare to talk nonsense." What was bought? This is please. Besides, this Buddha statue is not ugly, this is the golden body that the abbot master personally molded, and he opened it with his own hands. "

I smiled dumbly: "The abbot gave me the light?" "

The old lady looked pious: "Yes." "

I asked, "Surely you want money?" How much do you want? "

The old lady looked unhappy: "What do you mean by asking for money?" It's all incense offerings. Then she held out five fingers and said, "Five hundred for a family." "

I thought about it, there were at least 20 old ladies around the Great Holy Temple just now, and this abbot earned 10,000 yuan as soon as he changed hands. It's too easy to make money.

We talked for a while at the old lady's house, and seeing that it was getting late, we had finished asking all the questions. So we took our leave.

The fat man asked me with a curious face: "Xu You, is what this old lady said true?" Is that what the abbot really has any origin? "

I waved my hand: "Do you believe this kind of old lady's words?" I tell you, the abbot is a liar. The first time I saw him, he cheated him. What descendants of Sun Dasheng, who believes in who is brainless. "

The fat man agreed in a daze. I guess I didn't understand what it meant.

The thin man asked me, "Where are we going now?" Take advantage of the fact that the Dasheng Temple has not been demolished and get some sleep? "

Before I could answer, Wushuang asked first, "Are you sleepy?" "

Several of us shook our heads, we were really not sleepy, and we slept in the car for more than ten hours when we came back from Xi'an.

Wushuang said: "Since everyone is not sleepy, I want to go to the coffin shop to have a look, how about you go with you?" "

I was worried for a while: "It's scary enough to go back to Taiyuan, and now I have to go to the coffin shop." There's no such rush to die. "

Sure enough, Wen Yu persuaded: "We just came to Taiyuan, and we are not familiar with the place." Otherwise, prepare first, see the situation, and it's not too late to go tomorrow. "

Wushuang's temper came up, pointed at me and said, "You guys are not familiar, he is familiar, let him take us there." Seeing that this is about to be the Midyear Festival. If you're not in a hurry, can I not be in a hurry? "

As soon as Wushuang said this, I felt guilty in my heart. Zhang Yuan is my master after all. He was lying in the coffin shop, and I was always dodging and dodging, looking forward and backward, which was really undeserved.

I scratched my head, and I really wanted to promise Wushuang to go with her. But I had just taken two steps, and I felt that it was difficult, so I said to Wushuang: "Don't go, there must be their reasons for arresting you in the coffin shop back then, and if you go back now, aren't you throwing yourself into the net?" "

Wushuang was a little hesitant when he heard me say this. She is not stupid, and she knows that this impulse is a meaningless sacrifice.

I looked back at the thin man and the fat man, thought for a moment, and said, "Don't go to the two of you, the people in the underworld are looking for you two, I suspect that the dumb man has something to do with the underworld, you better hide." "

Wushuang's expression suddenly became very strange: "So you and Wen Yu are going together?" "

I looked at Wen Yu and said, "It seems that only the two of us can go." "

At this time, the thin man said lightly: "Actually, if I just look at the situation, I have a way not to be discovered." "

Wushuang Daxi: "What way?" "

The thin man casually took out a blank piece of paper from his body and asked me, "Xu You, what is your birthday?" "

I was a little curious: "What are you going to do?" Do you want to tie a paper man again? "

The thin man nodded.

I reported my birthday, and the thin man wrote it on the paper. Then, he tore the paper into three paper figures and dripped me with blood.

He then divided the paper figure into three parts. Skinny, fat, peerless. Took one of each.

The thin man said: "When we get to the coffin shop in a while, the three of us will restrain our breath, and those ghosts will think that we are Xu You, as long as we can find the breath of the three of us, we should not be able to find it." "

I was a little unnatural: "Does this mean that the paper figure has become my stand-in?" "

The thin man nodded: "It can be understood so." "

I asked nervously, "Then if this paper figure is damaged, won't I be finished?" "

The thin man waved his hand: "It's not that serious, it's just a little uncomfortable, chest tightness and shortness of breath, it will be fine in two days." After all, it's just a drop of blood, and there's no real soul on it. "

When I heard this, the more I thought about it, the more worried I became, and I reached out to get the paper figure back. But looking at the looks of the three of them, they didn't mean anything to me.

Especially Wushuang, he looked at the thin man excitedly, and then smiled at me gloomily. happily packed up the paper figures.

I sighed and led them to the coffin shop.

Revisiting the old place, don't have a taste in your heart.

As I approached the coffin shop, my heart rose to my throat.

It was already the middle of the night. The streets were quiet and empty. I'm afraid that with this coffin laid out, the people in this village have already developed the habit of going to bed early.

We hid around the corner of the cross street, slowly poked our heads out, and looked in the direction of the coffin shop.

There are two more lanterns hanging at the door of the coffin shop, and it seems that another soul has been sent here today.

I haven't seen it for a month, and the coffin shop is still the same as before, but the only difference is that there are two more paper figures at its door, one on the left and one on the right. Like a janitor. With the addition of these two paper figures, the coffin shop looks even more weird.

Wushuang stabbed me: "What should we do now?" "

I glanced at her, "Haven't you always been quite assertive?" Why are you asking me now? "

Wushuang gave me a blank look: "If I can enter this coffin shop, will I use you?" "

Wen Yu said lightly behind us, "Otherwise, I'll go and have a look." "

Wen Yu was about to leave, when suddenly the thin man stretched out his hand and dragged her: "Don't move, listen, what is this sound?" "

We listened with our ears pricked up, and sure enough, a voice came. It's a burst of music, and there's a cry in it.

I couldn't help but say, "It's like crying." "

As soon as I had finished saying this, I saw a line emerge from the other side of the alley. Dressed in white clothes and white trousers, these people slowly walked towards the coffin shop. Sure enough, it was a funeral procession.