Chapter 641: Coming to Tiemu Temple Again
Zhang Lehui knows limited things, and he has a grudge against both Lao Zhang and Xiao Nan, so there is no way to guarantee that he will tell us everything he knows. Xiong Wancheng and Lao Zhang are both dead again, but there is another person who may know about Lao Zhang going to find Xiong Wancheng.
This person is the rotten-faced Taoist priest who stayed in Tiemuguan with Xiong Wancheng. Until this moment, I knew that this case involved a wide range of people, not only the closest people around me, but also Lao Zhang, who was a criminal policeman. It's just that what I don't know is whether Lao Zhang was bewitched, or if he is also one of these cases.
But there is no doubt that if what Zhang Lehui said is true, then Lao Zhang has something to do with this case. However, Lao Zhang never mentioned it to me, and when I recalled the scene when I saw Lao Zhang again a year ago, I suddenly felt that something was wrong in my heart. Not only did Lao Zhang's personality change drastically, but he also often did things that sabotaged my plans.
The first was on the night of the suicide forest, Lao Zhang insisted that I leave the suicide forest and not let me investigate the weird scarecrow, at that time I only thought that Lao Zhang was afraid, so I didn't think much about it. But when he went to the police station the next day, Lao Zhang directly washed the blood stains on the car.
If you really want to compare with others, Lao Zhang is not a particularly good criminal policeman, so until he was about to retire, he still did not rise to a high position. But he has been a criminal policeman all his life, and he is diligent and diligent, and he has naturally accumulated a lot of experience.
Just ask, how could such a person be so inexperienced to wash the blood stains off the car directly. I thought it was strange at the time, but Lao Zhang looked frightened, and I just thought he was confused for a while. But after that, Lao Zhang made a series of strange behaviors, the most inexplicable of which was why Lao Zhang left Xiao Nan he cared about, went to the suicide forest alone, and finally committed suicide with a gun.
In order to make sure that what Zhang Lehui said was true or false, when I came out of Lao Zhang's house, I specially tore off some yellow charms from the wall of Lao Zhang's room. As long as I compare these charms with the charms on the Tiemu Temple, I can preliminarily determine whether these charms of Lao Zhang are from the Iron Mu Temple.
It was almost dark, and everyone was still more or less injured, especially Liu Jia and Dr. Zhou, who were weak, so I asked everyone to go back to my house to rest first. I found that none of our group were completely healthy, and Dr. Zhou and I were both seriously ill, needless to say, everyone else was also injured, and Jiang Jun was the only one who recovered the best.
After a night's rest, we boarded the bus to Xiangshan Forest. But somewhat unexpectedly, there were a little fewer people in the car. As far as I know, the Tiemuguan is very famous in the whole city of G, especially in the rural areas of the township generation, and those who have religious beliefs like to go to the Tiemuguan because they think this Taoist temple is very divine.
Xiong Wancheng and the rotten face Taoist priest are both known as masters, the difference is that after Xiong Wancheng was declared a murderer by the G City police, he was ruined. But this did not affect the reputation of the bad-faced Taoist priest, so there should be a lot of people who go to Xiangshan Forest every day. At the beginning, the grim-faced Taoist priest told us that there is a very terrifying legend in Xiangshan Forest: ghosts and people in the middle of the night.
Therefore, all the people will go down the mountain before dark, and because of this, people who come to Xiangshan Forest from far away will go early in the morning. But now, there are only a few of us on the bus. The others didn't know about the fame of Tiemuguan, so naturally they didn't notice anything.
Along the way, they all closed their eyes and recuperated, but I kept my eyes open, full of uneasiness. After a few hours of bumps, the car finally stopped, and we searched for a while and finally found our way up the mountain. The weather was fine, it was noon, and we felt a little hot, but as soon as we stepped up the steps, the mountain wind blew towards us.
The shade of the trees covered the entire path up the mountain, and the further we went, the cooler it became, the stronger the wind, and the sweat from my body was quickly dried. Inadvertently, Dr. Zhou said, "This place is really eerie. Dr. Zhou said, and everyone looked at both sides of the path.
I saw that the big trees there were gloomy, and people always felt that some monster would come out of the bottomless jungle. And the green color makes people feel full of vitality, but when the color is dark and the number is large, it will make people's scalp tingle unnaturally, and this is true of everything.
"This place has the legend of ghosts and people in the middle of the night." I said to everyone.
Of course, I don't believe in these things, but since everyone is here, I don't know when I will go down, so I will explain some things clearly and compare. I always think that there is no wind and no waves, and since there is a legend that everyone believes in this place, there may really be a reason.
For example, the topography of the mountain makes it easier for wind to form and the temperature is lower. If it is just some people who have no education level and do not know the common sense of geography, it is likely to spread falsehoods. When everyone heard the legend, they all scoffed, not only me, but also a few of them didn't believe in these things at all.
Finally, after climbing for a while, we arrived at the Temu Temple. From the foot of the mountain, my anxiety was even greater, because from the top of the mountain, not only did we not see anyone coming down, but we didn't even see anyone going up the mountain. For a very famous Taoist temple, this is almost inconceivable.
It wasn't until we got to the outside of Temuguan that we finally understood what was going on.
The huge iron and wood temple did not open the door at all. I remember that the rotten face Taoist priest once said that the Tiemuguan would only close when it was dark. I sensed that something was wrong, and quickly went up and knocked on the door, but I knocked for a long time, but no one opened. So I didn't knock anymore and just pushed hard.
I found that it was not locked, and with a push it opened. It was quiet in Temuguan, and there was no one. As we had done when we first visited, we first saw a courtyard, and then we saw the main hall in the Temukan. And outside the courtyard there are many brick houses, those are the rooms of former Taoist priests.
Of course, when he came last year, there was only one person left in the entire Tiemuguan with a bad face. The bad-faced Taoist priest told us the history of Tiemuguan, only he and Xiong Wancheng adhered to Tiemuguan, and finally Xiong Wancheng left. So most of those brick houses have been idle for a long time.
We immediately entered the main hall, which was much cooler than the outside. Most of the Taoist statues in the Tiemu Temple are dark, if you want to distinguish them by ferocity and goodness, these Taoist statues belong to fierce statues, and they do not have the appearance of Taoist immortals at all, but make people look stunned.
Many statues were staring at a few of us, and it wasn't the first time I've been here, but the strange feeling in my heart was still very strong. Everyone else was here for the first time, and Liu Jia was immediately frightened, and she complained about why there was such a fierce and vicious thing in the Taoist temple.
While Liu Jia was talking, Dr. Zhou was walking around the main hall, and suddenly, Dr. Zhou called us, and he told us to hurry over. I saw Dr. Zhou standing in front of a sacrificial platform with a lot of yellow charms on it, and Dr. Zhou asked me to take out the charms taken out of Lao Zhang's house and compare them.
I didn't say a word, I took it out immediately. After such a comparison, we have determined: Lao Zhang's charm was sought from this Tiemu Temple. Because, not only the pattern and text on it are the same, but even the paper of the spell is the same. Generally speaking, it is not uncommon for the patterns and words on the Daomen charms to be elaborate, but it would be strange if even the details of the patterns and words were exactly the same.
The yellow charm on the Tiemu Temple was obviously drawn by Xiong Wancheng or the bad-faced Taoist priest, because there were only two of them in the entire Taoist temple. And these yellow talismans placed on the sacrificial platform are obviously not used by people, but have been placed on the sacrificial platform for a long time, and the time has obviously been a long time.
Xiong Wancheng has also been away from Tiemuguan for a year, so I can't tell for a while whether these charms on the altar were painted by Xiong Wancheng or the bad-faced Taoist.