It was a bit cold in the early morning, and there were few pedestrians on the road. Coming out of the station, Lin Junxuan walked down the street with a hiking bag on his back, while looking at this remote town. Because he had been here when he was a child, but he only had some vague impressions, but this town still made him a little strange.

In the rear, Du Ruoyao dragged the big gift box and followed behind Lin Junxuan without saying a word, Lin Junxuan walked and she also left, and Lin Junxuan stopped and she stopped.

Lin Junxuan didn't care about her, and walked in front alone. The Lin family also has a cousin in Yushan, three generations ago, the ancestors of the two families were brothers, but they didn't seem to be very harmonious. Mrs. Lin only went home once seven years ago, and the two families have not had any contact this time. Every year, Mrs. Lin would send some New Year's money to her cousin's house to express her thoughts. The cousin's family only knew that the Lin family seemed to be doing a big business outside, but it was not clear what kind of business they were doing. People in the mountains don't want so much!

There is still more than a week to worship the ancestors, Lin Junxuan is not in a hurry, he has not been here for a long time, and Lin Junxuan only knows the name of the place where the cousin lives, and the name of the cousin. When he first arrived, there were many things he was not familiar with, so Lin Junxuan decided to find a place to live first, learn about the situation here, and then decide what to do.

The county seat is not big, and it is not prosperous, Lin Junxuan has walked all the way, there are many cheap hotels on the roadside, but most of them are not very clean, and the people who come and go are a little miscellaneous, which is not what Lin Junxuan likes. Like any other remote place, the ruffians, hooligans, and scoundrels of Yushan have gathered in this small county town. Lin Junxuan could see the essence of these guys with just one glance. Lin Junxuan is not a very picky person, but even if the small hotel is dirty, it is not a problem, the real problem is that the small hotel is not very quiet.

After asking several people along the way, Lin Junxuan finally found the only hotel in the county next to a remote street. The large floor-to-ceiling windows were already covered in dust and uncleaned. Lin Junxuan glanced around, and then stepped in.

The business of the hotel is very deserted, behind the long wooden counter, the three uniformed waiters chatted with each other, and when they saw Lin Qingxuan coming in, the three of them were in good spirits, with a professional smile on their faces, and said with a smile: "Welcome, sir, do you want to stay?"

"Hmm," Lin Junxuan nodded.

"Sir, please show your ID. A waiter smiled.

Lin Junxuan walked to the counter, untied the backpack on his back, and then took out his ID card from it and handed it over.

"Shencheng?" The waitress took her ID card and looked up at Lin Junxuan in surprise: "How did you come to a small county like ours?"

"Provincial relatives. "Lin Junxuan is simple.

"Oh!" the waiter answered, and after Lin Junxuan handed over the deposit, the waiter quickly completed the formalities: "Here, sir, this is your key, and the room number is 403." ”

Lin Junxuan took the key and was about to go to the hotel, but found Du Ruoyao dragging the box and standing at the door, motionless, in Lin Junxuan's surprised gaze, Du Ruoyao hung her head and looked uneasy, this kind of look Lin Junxuan had never seen in this Miss Du.

"What's wrong with you?" Lin Junxuan walked over and asked.

"I ...... I ......" Miss Du's voice was like a mosquito, and she seemed to whisper something.

"What do you want to say?" Lin Junxuan frowned.

"You can't swipe your card here, I don't have a lot of cash on me!" Miss Du pointed to a sign posted on the glass door, said quickly, and lowered her head again, her face was already full of redness. On the glass door is a UnionPay sign, but a bar is crossed, which obviously means that the card cannot be swiped here. It's really embarrassing, Miss Du has never felt so embarrassed. When Lin Junxuan made the room card, she stood aside and watched, the gold was two hundred, and she only had one hundred and five in her pocket, and she had to eat!

Du Ruoyao usually wants what she wants, most of them are sent by her father, some of which she wants to buy, and Miss Du is a card that is swiped all over the major shopping malls. In Shencheng, there are basically no restrictions on her use of credit cards, where did she think that this hotel actually does not accept credit cards.

"Miss, may I ask where is the nearest ATM here?" Lin Junxuan turned to the waiter behind the counter and said.

"Not far from here, there is an ATM machine of the Agricultural Bank, but it broke down early, and the bank has not repaired it. Others, it's farther away. The waiter replied.

Lin Junxuan frowned and looked at Du Ruoyao, Miss Du looked at him with blank eyes, and the begging in her eyes was self-evident.

"Let's get a card for her too!" Lin Junxuan returned to the counter, took out five hundred from behind his back, handed two hundred to the counter, and handed three hundred to Du Ruoyao. This time he took a total of two thousand, and this time he used up almost eight hundred.

"No, you let me live in a room with a girl's family? How unsafe is that, I don't know anyone here?" Du Ruoyao didn't go to pick up the money handed over by Lin Junxuan, she was telling the truth, and being able to follow her all the way here was basically close to the maximum for her. Although she is extremely strong, she is only a girl after all, and she will be afraid in such a strange place.

Lin Junxuan raised his eyebrows: "You don't want to live with me, do you?"

"Uh, we can live in a double suite!" Du Ruoyao said, "Please!"

"It's impossible!" Lin Junxuan rejected her.

"Yes, yes! Our hotel is not so strict, I see that you are also acquaintances, although the rules do not allow it, but you can still do it. As soon as Lin Junxuan's words fell, the three waiters behind the counter interjected with great interest. The three of them have been idle for a long time, and there are never many people in the hotel. In the eyes of the three of them, the pair of young men and girls in front of them, the handsome men and the beautiful women, are obviously a little couple. Although they didn't come together, it was probably just a little awkwardness.

Lin Junxuan's brows furrowed, and Du Ruoyao was thinking that Lin Junxuan would refuse, but she heard an unexpected voice in her ear: "Okay!"

"Really!" Du Ruoyao looked at Lin Junxuan in surprise, a little unable to believe her ears.

"Hmm!" Lin Junxuan's answer once again made the counter attendants confirm that this was a little awkward little couple. After returning the key, Lin Junxuan reopened a double suite.

"Let's go!" took the big box in Du Ruoyao's hand, and the two of them walked upstairs along the stairs. Facing a waitress walking over, Du Ruoyao greeted her with a sweet smile: "Sister, may I ask where is the most fun place here?"

"Hehe!" said the waitress, who was about twenty years old, with a smile, "This is the first time you have been here." Of course, if you want to play, you have to go to the big city, and there is nothing fun in the small town. ”

Seeing Du Ruoyao's lost look, the waiter continued: "Go out from here, turn left, keep going forward, turn left at the intersection and go forward There is a forest, and there is a mountain in the depths of the woods, called Linggui Peak." There is an ancient temple on the peak, you may be interested, by the way, there is an ancient monument in the temple, it is said that it was carved during the Qianlong period, if you have time, you might as well go and see. ”

"Spirit Tortoise Peak!" Hearing this name, Lin Junxuan suddenly stopped, and a familiar feeling came to his heart. Some of the originally vague memories suddenly became clear--Linggui Peak, he had been to Linggui Peak before! When he was a child, he had been to the ancient temple on the mountain with his mother.

Shaking his head, when Lin Junxuan came back to his senses, he found that the waiter had already left, and Du Ruoyao was looking at himself with a strange look. Lin Junxuan didn't explain, and walked straight forward.

After a while, the two of them opened the room, Lin Junxuan threw his backpack on the bed and said, "I'll go out." ”

"Wait, I'll go too!" Seeing that Lin Junxuan went out as soon as he came in, Du Ruoyao hurriedly threw away her backpack and followed out.

"Master, go to Linggui Peak!" There were more and more pedestrians on the street, and when he opened the door of the car, Lin Junxuan sat in, and said to the driver in front of him at the same time.

"Great!" the driver replied.

"Spirit Turtle Peak, I'm going too!" Miss Du screamed, pulled the car door and sat in. Ten minutes later, the noodles stopped in a wooded area.

"Just go down this road, the road below is steep, and the car can't get in, so you can get off here!" the driver turned to the two of them.

Lin Junxuan didn't say anything, and paid the fare happily. The two men walked down the rugged stone path. There is an incense stall every other section on the stone road, and some monks in their 40s are selling incense on the mountainside, and they stop and ask if they want incense.

After buying a handful of incense, the two of them walked forward for a few minutes, and then they saw a newly built temple of red mansions hidden in the forest, and many workers were busy around the new temple. Lin Junxuan asked one of the migrant workers about the next way, and the migrant worker pointed to the mountain covered by the ancient cypress and pine trees on the opposite side, and told the two that it was Linggui Peak.

Between the two mountains, there is a small pebble forest path, and the edge of the path is covered with moss, which is obviously old. Along the way, there were more and more people, all of whom were vows. Further on, on both sides of a spacious stone road, there is a row of fortune tellers, all of whom are immortal beards, looking like they are masters.

"Miss, look at your red face and blushing cheeks, it is the appearance of the arrival of marriage, come on, let the old Taoist show you, maybe you don't want money!" The two had just approached, and a fortune teller wearing a Taoist uniform with slightly white temples beckoned to Du Ruoyao from a distance.

Du Ruoyao originally followed behind Lin Junxuan, and when she heard what the fortune teller said, her face was happy, so she squatted in front of the fortune teller's stall and stretched out her palm: "Really, then you will calculate it for me!"

The old Taoist priest looked like a fairy wind dao bone, but Lin Junxuan inadvertently took a look, but caught a glimpse of the Taoist priest's open Taoist robes revealing a Nokia mobile phone, and shook his head secretly in his heart. But he didn't break it, and let Du Ruoyao stretch out his palm and talk with the fortune teller with great interest.

The Linggui Temple is overhead, and you can turn the corner along the stone path to the temple entrance. Leaving Du Ruoyao at the fortune-telling booth, Lin Junxuan walked towards the top of the mountain. With the familiar scenes in front of him, Lin Junxuan finally determined that he had been here.

Linggui Peak faces the river, with steep cliffs on one side and reckless mountains and forests on the other, and Linggui Temple stands on the top of the mountain. In the distance, a thick smell of incense came from the air. The curling incense rushed into the sky. An endless stream of pilgrims constantly shuttle through the mountain gate.

In the mountain gate road, Lin Junxuan saw one of the main goals of this trip, the 'Qianlong Ancient Monument'. This is a ruined monument, and the smoke and fire around the monument are burning. There were many pilgrims in the past, but no one paid attention to this ancient monument, and everyone went directly to the great Bodhisattva in the temple.

Standing in front of the remnant stele, Lin Junxuan stretched out his palm to touch the dust on the stele and read the inscription. This is a memorial tablet, the inscription records, this ancient temple was built in the 20th year of Qianlong, because the mountain is quiet, it is very favored by the literati and ink writers, and later there are some monks who see the good scenery here, and the surname Suo is stationed, and it has become a real temple here. In the years that followed, there were three fires here in five years, the temple was rebuilt many times, the monks in the mountains were gone, and the literati and artists no longer came here, so that it gradually declined.

The inscription is written in official script, and the content is also very simple. It is no wonder that the later monks in the temple let this remnant of the monument be covered with dust and did not care about him. This ancient monument does not record any famous people, nor does it record anything special, and in general it is of little value, and it is estimated that even the thief of the monument will not be interested in it.

The temple is full of bodhisattvas, Lin Junxuan walked around the temple for a while, and saw that Du Ruoyao hadn't come up yet, so he wanted to go down to see her. Coming out of the mountain gate and turning a corner, Lin Junxuan saw Du Ruoyao sitting next to the fortune teller talking happily.

"Jun Xuan, come here, the story told by this gentleman is so interesting!" Du Ruoyao's eyes were sharp, even if she was chatting with this fortune teller, she also found Lin Junxuan's figure in time.

"Storytelling?" Lin Junxuan was stunned, how could fortune-telling be linked to storytelling. Walking to the two of them, Lin Junxuan listened to a few words, and couldn't help but feel funny in his heart. This Miss Du is obviously here to tell fortunes, but I don't know how to deal with this fortune teller, but she actually got involved in some strange things that are circulating in these mountain villages.

Lin Junxuan moved a dwarf and sat down beside the two. The old Taoist priest didn't care that there was another person next to him, and continued to talk with great interest.

"Back then, when I went to the mountains and went to the countryside, at that time, I was still a stunned young man, and I followed the flow into a commune in Yushan North Village. Shortly before I went, something strange happened in the commune, and there was a great uproar in the commune. I was there at the time, and I heard the story and wrote it down. ”

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