All the way to the west, I saw a very small temple, and there was a plaque hanging on the temple gate, on which were written with vigorous and powerful strokes, "嗟衣寺" three big characters. The temple door was open, and there was no grass in it, but the eaves of the porch were covered with cobwebs and dust.

The young man in white welcomed Bai Li and Old Man Tao into the temple very enthusiastically, and quickly sorted out a clean place with his hands and feet, skillfully took out a linen cloth from a corner, and laid it on the stone: "Although the place is cold, it can shelter from the wind and rain, if the two of you don't dislike it, you can rest first." ”

"You're staying here on weekdays?" Bai Li didn't think this place was cold, but he just felt that this white-clothed young man shouldn't live in this temple. Looking at his appearance, he doesn't look like the kind of person who would live on the streets and live in such a dilapidated temple.

"You have to make do when you're away from home." The young man in white said, and took out a yellow paper bag folded into a triangle shape from his pocket and handed it to Bai Li: "Although the one you wear on your hand is beautiful, it can only scare monsters, and this one is used to exorcise ghosts." ”

Bai Li looked down at the paper bag handed over by the young man, feeling that it was no different from the spell he had taken out at the door of Jiang's house earlier.

Seeing that she was silent, the young man simply took her hand, stuffed the paper bag into his hand, and then turned it up, and said to Bai Li with a smile: "I can't eat your half of the cake for nothing." ”

"You gave me this because you planned to pay for the cake?" Bai Li pinched the small paper bag.

"It's a little inappropriate, if you think it's inappropriate, it's okay if you don't top it, just treat this charm as if I gave it to you, and when I make money by telling fortunes another day, I'll give you the money to buy cakes." As he spoke, he glanced at the old man Tao, who was already sitting on the side, took the cake, and moved over with his fortune-telling things: "Senior, why don't I give you a hexagram?" ”

Old man Tao, who is always broken on weekdays, is rarely quiet today, and when he saw the young man in white coming up, he just squinted at him and said, "No! ”

"Are you hungry then? If you're hungry, I'll give you a little bit of the bread in my hand? The young man in white said, handing over the bread in his hand.

Old man Tao stretched out his hand and pinched it, squinted his eyes and said, "I have a big belly, I'm afraid it won't be enough for you to give me such a little bit." ”

As he spoke, the aura around him immediately changed, and in a place where Bai Li couldn't see, a huge fierce beast appeared. On the other side, it was also a white giant beast, but the light emitted from its body was different. Old man Tao exuded a black and red aura, and the young man in white emitted a faint white light that would not make people feel dazzling.

Just as the two giant beasts were about to start fighting, Bai Li suddenly stood up and took the piece of cloth cake that was between the two of them. The shadows of the two giant beasts that only faintly showed their silhouettes disappeared in an instant, leaving only an old man Tao who squinted and didn't smile, and a young man in white who squinted and smiled, looking harmless.

"It's just a cake, how can it be so hard." Bai Li vigorously divided the cake into two, one to the old man Tao, and the other to the young man in white: "Did you know each other before?" It's polite to divide the cake and make it whole. Oh, half of one person, it's gone after eating. ”

"Sister, this cake is so delicious."

"Who is your sister, my name is Bai Li, you can call me Bai Li." Glancing at the cake in the hand of the young man in white, Bai Li said: "Although this is a cloth cake, it is not a serious cloth cake." This is a full-fledged cake with butter cakes, also known as Wushan butter cakes, which need to be made of good white flour, white sugar, sesame oil, green and red silk, walnut kernels and other materials, layer upon layer, and the gold wire strips are distinct. If you look down from the top of the cake, you will feel that the middle of the cake is like a swirl of rapids, and the appearance looks like the clothes worn by farmers, so it is called the cake of the cloth. This finished cake is golden in color, fragrant, crispy and sweet when you bite into it, and you want to eat it again. ”

Bai Li said, couldn't help but suck his saliva first, and then said: "I make this cloth cake, but the method is similar, whether it is the appearance or taste, it is incomparable with the real cloth cake." It's not that I can't do it, it's that I don't have so many things at home, so I just do it indiscriminately, and I'm just hungry on the road. ”

"My sister's cooking skills are really good, if anyone marries her sister as a lady in the future, it will be a big mouth."

"I said I wasn't allowed to call my sister." Bai Li glared at the young man: "I don't lack a brother." ”

"Your name is Bai Li, my name is Bai Ze, and it seems that you are younger than me, and it is not wrong for me to call you sister." The young man in white came over: "If you really don't like it, how about I call you Li'er?" ”

"Ugly!" Old man Tao kicked one of the shoes on his feet: "You, stay away from my girl." ”

"Is it unpleasant? Why do I think it's so much better than he calls you a girl, Li'er, don't you say? Bai Ze raised his foot and kicked the shoes that Tao Lao had just kicked away a little farther.

It was getting dark, and Bai Ze found a tattered lamp out of nowhere and hung it in the temple. Bai Li was tossed by the ox cart for a day, and as soon as he sat down, he felt a little nauseous in his stomach, so he hurriedly got up and ran to a corner of the courtyard.

"White liar, is there anyone else living in this temple?"

"Someone else?" Bai Ze shook his head several times in a row: "Except for us, I'm afraid that no one else dares to come to this ruined place, and they are willing to come." Li'er, do you remember what I said to you when I was at the Jiang family before? This temple is not clean. The people in the town, don't say that when they enter the temple, they are all flustered when they pass by here. ”

"Since it is a temple, there is a Buddha or Bodhisattva to worship, where does this unclean thing come from?" Bai Li stroked his chest and looked at the temple where they temporarily stayed: "By the way, which Buddha or Bodhisattva is enshrined in this temple." ”

"Neither Buddha nor Bodhisattva are enshrined here, but leeches. This Yi Temple, originally not called the Yi Temple, but called the leech temple, just because the people in the town were afraid of this thing, after a master pointed out, the leech temple was changed to the Yi Temple. ”

"What is this leech? Why did the townspeople of Huaxi Town build a temple for it alone, and also worship it specially. ”

"This leech, according to legend, is something that resembles a dog, a fox, and a lion, and has nine heads and nine tails, and a voice like that of a baby, and often haunts the night, attracting those who are kind-hearted, especially the mother who is pregnant with her child, and when she lures them to her, she opens her mouth and swallows them in one gulp."

"There's a leech in this Huaxi town?"

"Nope." Bai Ze yawned gracefully, and lay on the ground with his arms on his back: "But there is a legend of a demon woman in this town. It is said that there was a woman who inadvertently lost her child, and became ill because of longing, and turned into a demon. Every dusk, he would look for his son on the street, and when he met a child of the same age, he would walk up and touch the top of the child's head gently. The child lost his soul, did not speak, and was led away by her, so far no one was alive or dead. Later, it was passed down that the demon woman was transformed by a leech and ate young children, so the townspeople raised money to build this leech temple, which is now the Yi Temple, hoping to bless the children in the town from being lost through their own pious offerings. But in fact, this leech and the demon woman's soul are two different things, and someone deliberately talked about them together. ”

"Someone deliberately talked about them together? So, do you know the truth, and you also know who this person is? ”

"Who am I, I am Bai Ze, who knows everything, and there are things in this world that I don't know." Bai Ze pinched the bridge of his nose, "It's getting late, it's not suitable to talk about such a scary thing, I'll talk to you again tomorrow morning." ”

Bai Li was about to urge him to tell the matter, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a dark shadow, turned his head to look, and saw a woman with loose hair on the side of the small door. At this time, the weather was still cold, but this woman was only wearing a thin black dress, and her feet were bare, standing there in white. Her eyes were narrow and long, and there seemed to be only black eyeballs in them, and she was staring directly at Bai Li with those eyes at this time.