Chapter 53: The Lame Horse God
Ba Qida was taken aback: "Ghost cave?"
I nodded, closing my eyes and taking a closer look.
I heard the howling of ghosts and wolves, faintly, seemingly in the thousands.
I said to Ba Qi and Lin Yuchan, "This place is very evil, I'm afraid there is danger, let's go."
It seems that Ba Qi and Lin Yuchan are very familiar with General Liu's temple, so they don't believe it when they hear me say that this is a ghost cave.
But after all, I was a ghost doctor, and they finally chose to listen to me and got into the car.
Ba Qi turned the head of the car and walked in the direction of the city.
By this time, the sun had set and it was already dark.
There are no street lights in the area, so we have to rely on the headlights.
Soon, a layer of fog rose around, and even the headlights could only illuminate a short distance ahead.
Ba Qi used to drive very fast, but in today's situation, he can only stop and go, cautiously.
After a while, Ba Qi muttered, "It's strange, there are so many bends in this road."
I couldn't help but sigh, "What are you afraid of, we may encounter a ghost hitting the wall."
If I'm fine, I don't have to be afraid.
Now that I have one less life lamp, my yang energy is weak, and I am a little powerless.
Suddenly, Lin Yuchan pointed to the front and said, "There is a figure."
I took a closer look, and sure enough, there was an old man standing on the side of the road.
His hair was gray, his face was wrinkled, and he looked like he had been weathered.
The old man stretched out his hand to the side of the road, looking longing, as if he wanted to get a ride.
I said to Ba Qi, "Stop and see what he wants."
Ba Qi hesitated and said, "That old man, it can't be an evil thing, right?"
I said, "Probably not, there is no evil in him."
When Ba Qi heard the car, the old man opened the window and asked us with concern, "Are you lost? I see you've been around here a few times."
Ba Qi was stunned: "We've been going around in circles?"
The old man said, "Yes. It's easy to get lost here at night, and there are often outsiders who can't find their way home, so you're here to worship General Liu, right?"
"Alas, General Liu is a good man. It's a pity that hundreds of years have passed. General Liu's goodness, everyone doesn't remember. The incense is getting worse and worse."
"I guess only our people in Liujia Village still remember General Liu, and they come to have a few sticks of incense from time to time. I heard from the older generation that we are all descendants of General Liu's subordinates."
"Well, who knows......
The old man's leg seemed to be a little lame, and he pulled the door and got into the car, chattering and showing us the way.
After a long time, a torii appeared in front, and behind the torii was a path, and there were some faint lights behind it.
The old man said, "Just stop here, I'll get off here."
Ba Qi stepped on the brakes, and the old man pulled the car door and went down.
He leaned out of the car window and said to us, "This is Liujia Village, and I will take your car home by the way."
"You follow this path, and after passing the village, you will enter the city."
After the old man finished speaking, he turned around and was about to leave. And I grabbed his arm through the window.
The old man was startled, exclaimed, and asked me, "What are you doing?" Robbery?"
I smiled and said, "Uncle, are you from Liujia Village?"
The old man said confidently, "yes, what's wrong?"
I said, "You are a person from Liujia Village, why is your surname Ma?"
The old man was stunned for a moment and said, "Who said my surname is Ma? My surname is Liu."
I laughed, "I can see that not only is your surname Ma, but you are also a lame horse. Tell me, why did you trick us into entering General Liu's temple?"
When the old man heard this, he was immediately shocked.
He struggled, but didn't.
Then the old man's face changed, and he said angrily, "Why did you trick you in? Because you are the master of Zhuyou."
"The General's Temple has been taken over by evil spirits. It's just that you don't know. Now that you know, you still retreat, should this be? Master Zhuyou, shouldn't you subdue demons and eliminate demons?"
I said helplessly, "Uncle, I'm seriously injured, and I have one less lamp."
The old man was even more angry: "At the beginning, Lingzhou City was besieged by foreigners, and General Liu was also a soldier commander, how many people persuaded him to surrender? But he stubbornly held on."
"How do people do it, how do you do it? How can you be worthy of your ancestors?"
When the old man said this, he suddenly began to cry.
Seeing his sad and disappointed look, I sighed helplessly and let go of my hand.
And the old man wept and wept, and suddenly fell to the ground.
He was gone, replaced by a stone statue of a warhorse.
I don't know how much wind and rain the statue has experienced, its body is covered with dust, and its hind legs are broken.
The surrounding fog gradually receded, and I found that we had never left the temple of General Liu at all, and judging by the traces of ruts, we had been circling the small temple.
And the archway of Liujia Village that I saw just now is actually the gate of General Liu's temple.
I don't know when those two doors opened. If I hadn't seen through the identity of the old man just now, we would have walked in in a daze.
Ba Qi said to me, "This statue has become a spirit?"
I said, "It is normal for it to receive incense in front of the General's Temple day and night, and it is normal for it to generate spiritual wisdom. Alas, even a statue knows that good and evil are not mutually exclusive, and it is indeed inappropriate for me to wish a ghost doctor and walk away."
Lin Yuchan said, "You are already injured, can you get rid of the evil inside?"
I said, "I was a little worried. But now it seems that the evil inside is not strong. It is estimated that they can only affect the inside of the small temple, and there is nothing they can do when they leave the temple gate."
"After all, this horse is standing at the temple gate. And his sanity was not impaired."
Lin Yuchan nodded.
Then I said, "In a moment, the three of us will go in together. You stand behind me, on your right and left."
Speaking of which, I drew two blessings in the palm of their hands: "The three of us, using the bodies of living people, represent the three natal lamps to form a natal lamp array."
"And when you go in, whatever you see or hear, do not move around, but keep your position. As long as the lamp array is not broken, the evil will not be able to help us."
Ba Qi and Lin Yuchan both agreed.
The three of us got out of the car and stepped into the General Temple step by step according to the direction.
Suddenly, a cold air blew in, and we all shivered.
This little temple seems to have not been visited for a long time, and it is overgrown with weeds.
We stepped on the blades of grass and walked into the main hall step by step.
I saw General Liu standing on the altar with his hand on the hilt of his sword.
And even on his body, there are a lot of weeds and vines.
The main god of a temple is downcast to this extent, and it is indeed a bit unusual.
I took the incense from my body, lit it, and inserted it into the censer.
When I do these things, I feel like a lot of eyes are watching me in the dark.
I'm on guard against the evil spirits that will attack us.
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