045 - Stone Lion Asks for Life
As soon as I heard this, everyone became interested, so I continued to ask him what happened, and the monk said, it was about fourteen or fifteen years ago, it was summer, and it rained heavily for several days, and as a result, the mountain flood broke down the temple wall, and the villagers of several villages under the mountain summed up, anyway, the temple was also dilapidated, so they wanted to take the opportunity to renovate the temple entirely.
After all, this temple has been there before the liberation, useful and useless not to mention for the time being, it is good to be here, the people nearby are down-to-earth, and then the remodeling of the temple is also considered to be the base of the Yin De, and then the money is enough, the villagers invited workers to construct, even the temple hall has been demolished and planned to rebuild, it took a few months to renovate the entire temple, the villagers in order to show their sincerity, but also with the money left over from the renovation of the temple, from the field specially invited back a one-person high marble stone lion, placed at the temple gate of the town.
After the monk finished speaking, he confused me, so he asked him, "Is this nothing?" Isn't it nice that the villagers pay to renovate the temple? ”
As soon as I asked, the monk sighed and said, "Originally, it was very good, if you follow this process and walk down peacefully, there may be nothing, but since the workers demolished the main hall, something happened......
Then the monk came back again, and it turned out that the incident was on the day the temple was demolished.
He said that the old abbot in the temple was still alive at that time, and he was just a small novice who swept the floor in the temple.
As a result, as soon as they saw that the statue was covered by cloth, the old abbot hurriedly ran over to stop them, saying that the statue of the temple that had opened the light could not be covered, otherwise the gods could not see anything in the dark, and things would enter the temple, but the workers did not listen to this set at all, and the villagers also laughed and persuaded the old abbot not to worry about it, anyway, it was a small project for a day or two, and it was soon over, so the old abbot was persuaded to go out.
The old abbot didn't have much of a heart at that time, but when he was about to go to bed that night, he suddenly heard a burst of laughter outside, as if there were children playing outside, because there were often children from the village under the mountain to play in the temple, and the old abbot thought that it was a child from a family who came to make trouble in the middle of the night, so he went out to see, but soon after he went out, a scream spread throughout the temple, and the little novice heard the cry and hurriedly ran out to see, and saw his master lying alone in the courtyard, and had passed out.
He dragged the old abbot back to the meditation room, until after dawn the old abbot gradually sobered up, the little novice asked him what happened last night, the old abbot told him that at night when he heard the laughter of the children and went out to see, he saw seven or eight little dolls in yellow robes standing side by side at the temple gate, all with their backs to the courtyard, shrugging their shoulders and jumping in place, he leaned over to see, not far away, those little dolls suddenly turned around, each of them was snow-white and his cheeks were red, his eyes were staring at the boss, the old abbot was startled, As soon as I saw the flowers, I was unconscious.
At that time, when the old abbot said this, Xiao Shami and some villagers thought that he was hallucinating from overwork, after all, this is a pure place of Buddhism, where any dirty things dare to break in, and after this incident, the temple is safe and sound.
The workers also continued to build, and soon renovated the big temple, and after replacing two new doors for the temple, it was roughly completed, and then, the villagers transported the pair of marble lions that were invited up the mountain and placed them on both sides of the temple gate, but they did not expect that the stone lion was placed on the same night, the old abbot suddenly disappeared, and the disappearance was not seen for three days.
Three days later, in the middle of the night, the little novice who was watching the temple happened to hear a low knocking sound from outside the temple wall, so he opened the door to look, and found that it was the old abbot who had been missing for three days, who was holding the neck of one of the stone lions at the door with both hands, and hit the face of the stone lion with his head.
Later, the little novice tried his best to wash off the blood stains on the stone lion's face, but it was useless, and it happened that at that time, a master who traveled to Nanzhaozhuang under the mountain came to help people tell fortunes and see faces in the village, and was invited up the mountain by the villagers.
After seeing the stone lion, the master said that this was the old abbot's unjust spirit, he was killed, and after his death, the ghost did not disperse and attached to the stone lion and refused to leave, so the blood could not be washed away.
This frightened the villagers and the little novice, so they asked him if there was any way to solve the matter. So the master asked the villagers to dig a deep pit behind the temple, and tied up the stone lion with chains and buried it, and then did a ritual and left......
After listening to the monk, I asked again: "This thing is really weird, but what does it have to do with Xiuxiu?" ”
The monk waved his hand and said: "Listen to me, Xiuxiu's matter is behind, didn't I say it just now, in the past, the children of Nanzhaozhuang under the mountain loved to come to the temple to play, and Xiuxiu's matter came out about a month and a half after the old abbot left......
The monk found a saliva to drink, sat down on the steps at the door of the meditation room, and began to talk to us again.
According to him, it was an afternoon, and a group of children under the mountain ran to the mountain to play, running crazy outside the temple, and the monk had long been used to it, and he didn't care much, but then it was about evening, and the monk suddenly found that in this group of children, there was a little girl's performance that was suddenly a little abnormal, and this little girl was Xiuxiu.
"Have you ever seen a teenage child, hunched over his back, patiently walking around the renovated temple like an old man?"
After the monk finished speaking, everyone shook their heads, and then the monk told us that as soon as he realized that something was wrong with Xiuxiu, he began to observe secretly, and saw Xiuxiu walking around with his hands behind his back, sometimes staring at the newly repaired temple roof and smiling with satisfaction, and sometimes looking at the crack in the lower right corner of the courtyard gate during the construction and sighing, that every move reminded the monk of his deceased master.
Later, Xiuxiu turned around and walked out of the temple, actually squatted down outside the courtyard gate, squatted for most of the day, did not move, and then the other children were ready to go down the mountain, but how to call her She just didn't speak, looking up at the front like a stone, and Xiuxiu's squatting position was the position where the blood-stained stone lion was placed before.
Later, the monk also called Xiuxiu and asked her why she hadn't come down the mountain yet, but at this time, Xiuxiu raised her head faintly, smiled very kindly at the monk, and said, "You don't know me anymore?" I'm your master! ”
The monk was so frightened that her head 'buzzed', and she sat on the ground with her ass, because her expression, tone, and even speed of speech were exactly the same as that of the deceased old abbot, which a teenager would never pretend.
The monk was so frightened that he hurriedly ran out of the mountain, and asked the other children to run down the mountain to call someone while it was dawn, and it didn't take long for a group of villagers to follow Xiuxiu's parents (adoptive father and adoptive mother) up the mountain, and Xiuxiu was still squatting on the ground like a stone without moving.
At that time, the master at the foot of the mountain had already left, and the villagers could only have the courage to come over and talk to Xiuxiu, and there were those who kowtowed to Xiuxiu and burned incense, but Xiuxiu didn't say a word, and whoever dragged her struggled like crazy and bitten people, and bit her tongue, so scared that the villagers didn't dare to touch her.
Later, an old man in the village was anxious, so he came up with an idea to let people use chopsticks to pinch her fingers, hurt the things in her body, and scolded it not to harm such a good little girl, but then Xiuxiu raised her head and smiled, and said: "Don't bother, even if you break her hands, it won't work, don't touch me, I won't harm her, I'll just come back and see ......."
Xiuxiu began to cry after speaking, crying and howling and saying, 'You hurt me, you hurt me', and then cried until the middle of the night before she suddenly fainted, and the people in the village carried her into the meditation room to rest, and when she woke up again, she had returned to normal, saying that she had a dream, and dreamed that the old abbot in the temple was playing with herself, and the old abbot was still carrying a man on his back, bald, without clothes, and his body was still gray, and he kept staring at her and laughing when he played.
Later, Xiuxiu was taken down the mountain, and since then has not been to the mountain, and after the news spread, other children in the surrounding villages, and even the villagers who went up the mountain to burn incense did not dare to come......
After the monk finished speaking, he let out a long sigh, turned his head and asked Bai Wei, "Little master, you are a master, tell me what is going on?" ”
Bai Wei snorted and replied in a deep voice: "Monk, monk, you can be regarded as making that bullshit master miserable back then......
As soon as these words came out, the monk was stunned, and quickly asked, "What do you mean by this?" How did he hurt us? ”
At this time, Zhang Xiaoru took over the conversation and said: "That master should use Maoshan's iron lock to bind the demon and demon, it seems that he should be a Taoist priest, but he didn't investigate the reason, and second, he didn't first remove the spirit of the stone lion and drive away resentment, so he directly buried the stone lion, which is a big taboo, it seems that the foundation is still unstable, and he went down the mountain to deceive people after learning a half-hang......
As soon as Zhang Xiaoru finished speaking, Bai Wei snorted coldly and said: "See, everything is half-hung and deceiving people everywhere, it's all you stinky old ......"
"Who are you squeezing with little short legs?"
"As long as your legs are long, you have legs all over your body, you're a spider crawler, right?"
Seeing that the two girls were about to fight again, Yang Zuosheng and I hurriedly coaxed and persuaded me, so I changed the topic and asked, "Don't quarrel first, what should you do now?" ”
Bai Wei glared at Zhang Xiaoru, and said angrily: "What else can I do, it is obvious that something moved in when the main hall was renovated to cover the statue, if you want to investigate this matter, you have to start with the stone lion, dig it out first......"
After speaking, Bai Wei asked the monk to lead us to the position where the lion was buried behind the temple, and asked the fourth child and Yang Zuosheng to start digging with a shovel......
At this moment, Bai Wei and Zhang Xiaoru's faces changed, and they almost exclaimed in unison-
"Stop digging!"