After Zhang Antai's death, his daughter-in-law Feng and his difficult mother-in-law really didn't get along. Her mother-in-law is the mother of Otomo's grandmother, Zhang Antai. This old lady is a well-known local woman, widowed in her early years, pulling her three sons alone, with a pungent personality, and her eight villages are famous.

The old lady quarreled with Feng's chicken all day long, saying that she was a dead man and a dead star. Feng is also a person with a hard personality, and in a fit of anger, he left Wen'an alone and went to Tianjin Wei to be a mother for a rich family. She wanted to take her nine-year-old friend with her, but the old lady didn't let her say anything, and finally left him in her hometown temporarily.

In the new year, Zhang Antai's eldest son Daguang, who ate, drank, prostituted and gambled, became a deserter, and the deserters in the military camp came to search the house twice, but Daguang was not found. Later, I heard that Daguang died in an opium smokehouse, some people said that Daguang went to Guanwai, and some people said that Daguang was sold to Nanyang.

In July, there was a locust plague in the village, and Otomo's grandmother, even the spicy old lady, also had to die of illness, so Otomo had to go to Tianjin Wei to find his mother Feng Shi with food, hoping to learn a craft in the city and find a bowl of rice to eat.

Otomo had just turned 10 years old that year, and he asked for food all the way, and walked for more than ten days before arriving in Tianjin Wei, but he encountered a strange thing on the road, which made him unforgettable for the rest of his life.

At that time, the society was in turmoil, wars were numerous, and the Tanglin robbery had just occurred in the first few days, and the warlords made a lot of money by stealing treasures, but the poor people lived a miserable life. Along the way, Otomo saw a lot of people fleeing the famine to ask for food, and it was not easy to find something to eat.

Some people find a leeward place on the side of the road when it gets dark, either dead trees or broken walls, and even if they can't find a big stone to lean on, they can deal with it for a night. Relying on the weather in July and August, it is not cold at night, if it is ten winter months, it must become a "road down".

Although Otomo had a few big children in his pocket, he was barren along the way, and he had nowhere to buy food if he had money, and he had eaten all the stickers he brought out. Otomo was hungry all day, thinking that as long as he arrived in Tianjinwei, he would be able to have something to eat if he looked for his wife, so he hurried to his feet.

But people are iron rice and steel, if you don't eat a meal, you are hungry and panicked, the sky is dark, and your heart is already hungry and your legs are weak. At this time, it was also dark, and he was dizzy with hunger, and he didn't know what direction to go.

Under the moonlight, surrounded by a large area of knee-high grass, only two or three dead trees stood in the wilderness. After nightfall, a cool breeze suddenly appeared, and a large dark cloud blew from nowhere, obscuring the moonlight, and it was dark and dark in all directions, and only a little moonlight could penetrate the clouds, illuminating the faint light.

Otomo could only vaguely identify the road by the hazy moonlight, groping his way through the long grass. The plains are deserted, and all around is pitch black and barren, and occasionally one or two foxes and crows can be heard.

Adults will feel hairy in their hearts, let alone a half-grown child. The more he walked, the more panicked he became, and suddenly he looked up and saw a small dilapidated temple in front of him, with ruins and broken walls for more than 100 years.

Dafan built temples and Taoist temples, when selecting the site, most of them were far away from the hustle and bustle, and they paid great attention to the feng shui situation, and they were very particular about the harmony of yin and yang, and the five elements of the mountain.

Temples and Taoist temples are mostly in mountain passes and highlands, or green forests and high hills, or mountain peaks. The ancients said that "if the mountain is not high, there is a fairy, and if the water is not deep, there is a dragon, then there is a spirit," which confirms the relationship between the temple and the landscape.

Very few people would build a temple in the wilderness, or deep in the forest. Therefore, the small temple in front of me is built here, which looks very strange.

Most of the tiles on the roof of the small temple were gone, and they were overgrown with a few feet of artemisia grass. The remnants of the tile reliefs are still there, but it is long since I could see what pattern was depicted.

The adobe on the temple wall cracked, revealing the blue-gray stone bricks inside, and although the wooden doors and windows of the small temple were broken, they looked quite strong, but the paper on the doors and windows had long been torn and broken, as if a gust of wind would turn into fly ash. This small temple is a beast lying in the long grass, which is intimidating.

Otomo stood in front of the temple gate for a long time, and did not dare to reach out to push the temple door, at this time the clouds in the sky gathered, the clouds faintly rumbled thunder, the wind suddenly rose, the long grass swayed, and it seemed that a rainstorm was coming. In desperation, the eldest friend had to reach out and nudge the temple door, but the small temple threshold was very high, he stumbled under his feet, stumbled, and stumbled into the temple.

At this time, when I looked up, a hole was broken in the roof of the small temple hall, and a faint light entered the hall, making the surrounding scenery vaguely recognizable. The hall was full of dust, and there were several pillars standing empty, and there were many tower ashes and cobwebs hanging from the top of the columns. The headless idol fell to the side, and it was impossible to tell which god and Buddha it was.

The offering table had a broken leg and fell to the ground, and the three-legged incense burner was covered with lumps of mud, showing patches of emerald patina scars in the moonlight. The space beyond the reach of the light fades into darkness, as if it is much larger than it looks from the outside.

Otomo hadn't eaten for a day, and he was hungry and tired. Although this small temple is quite scary, it is better than sleeping in the woods, and it can be regarded as having tiles to cover your head.

He found two worn-out straw futons next to the offering table, curled up under a pillar with them on their pillows. But after a day's journey, I felt sleepy and tired, but my stomach was grumbling with hunger, so there was a little ghost playing drums in it. He tossed and turned for a long time, and he couldn't sleep.

At this time, Otomo suddenly smelled a strange fragrance, he rubbed his eyes, and saw that the hall was brightly lit, full of yellow-green firelight. A ball of fire floated in the air, and suddenly the temple door opened, only to see the grass outside the temple, a ball of light flickered and dazzling, and the surrounding grass and dead trees were very clear.

A barefoot fairy in the light, floating in the air! I saw that this fairy had picturesque eyebrows, beautiful posture, skin better than snow, lips and teeth smiling, white clothes and gold belts, cloud buns high pulled, skirts fluttering in the wind, and golden light around the body.

Otomo saw this battle, and his jaw was about to drop, and he thought, this is not seeing a fairy. As soon as his legs were weak, he suddenly knelt on the ground, and he didn't know what to say, but he kept bowing.

At this moment, the fairy raised his hand, and suddenly there was a golden scepter in his hand. He used a golden scepter to land in the void, and a little golden sand landed in the place, and a red gold long case appeared in the long grass, with cups and plates and bowls on the gold case, which was full of color, and there were countless fresh fruits, delicacies, and jade liquid.

Bursts of aroma wafted in, rushed into Otomo's nose, and drilled straight into the human body. Just race has a hand, burrowing into the body and gently scratching the internal organs, which is indescribably comfortable. He was already hungry, smelled the tempting fragrance, saw that the gold case was full of all kinds of delicacies, and suddenly the halazi flowed into a river, pounced on it and grabbed a fairy peach and gnawed it.

The fairy shook the golden scepter in his hand, and suddenly spoke:

"This is the Ten Thousand Spirits Treasure Staff, and those who hold this treasure can make their wishes come true!"

Her voice is far away, like a breeze blowing on her face, like fairy music in her ears, listening to the big friend is refreshed, and her soul travels in the sky.

The golden scepter in the fairy's hand flickered, and the gold case and delicacies in the long grass instantly turned into piles of gold jewelry stones, smooth and dazzling, and brilliant and abnormal.

Otomo's mouth was stuffed with food, and when he saw the gold, silver and jewels all over the ground, his eyes straightened. Although he was only a child, he was also stunned by the strange treasures that his eyes were piled up into a small mountain.

The fairy said:

"If you will exchange the bronze mirror on your body, I will give you the scepter! With this treasure in hand, you will be free from hunger and cold forever! ”

The small bronze mirror that Zhang Antai picked up made Dayou lose to the second dog in the same village when he finished pinball, and he won it back after today.

Before Zhang Antai died, he handed over the bronze mirror and the family heirloom booklet to Dayou and asked him to keep it. Although Otomo is illiterate, he can't see what is written in the booklet, and although the bronze mirror looks rare, it can't be eaten as a meal, and the village doesn't want to collect scrap copper and rotten iron, but after all, both are the relics of his father, so when he came out of the house, he took both things with him.

Otomo hurriedly took out the small bronze mirror on the waistband of his trousers, and without even thinking about it, he held it up with both hands and sent it to the fairy. At this time, even if he asked him to call the fairy his mother directly, he was willing, not to mention that he just used a broken copper piece to change it.

The fairy took the bronze mirror, and as soon as he raised his hand, the Wanling Staff flew into the hands of Otomo, who was holding the scepter and stuffing a lot of food in his mouth, and was happy.

Suddenly, there was a loud "boom" in his ears, and a thunderbolt broke through the clouds and fell from the sky, hitting the bronze mirror in the fairy's hand.

The lightning struck the bronze mirror, and immediately sparks flew everywhere, and the fairy disappeared in an instant, and there was only a big weasel in front of him!

The weasel was originally holding a small bronze mirror handed over by Dayou, but who knew that it was struck by lightning, and in an instant, the weasel's body was wrapped in a flame, falling into the long grass and igniting a large area of wild grass, the flames rose and the flames scurried, and the fire instantly spread to all around.

The lightning shook at the right time, and the big friend shook the spirit, and his eyes were flowering, and he looked at it again, only to see the gold and jewels all over the ground, all of which were gone in an instant, and there was no magic scepter in his hand, which was clearly half a dead branch.

He felt as if something was wriggling in his mouth, and he felt nauseous, and he vomited a lot of mud and hay, and some earthworms in the mud and sand couldn't stop wriggling. Bring dirt and scattered, dirty hands, and dirt between your fingernails.

At this time, the grass and flames are flying all over the ground, and the sparks scattered with the strong wind, and the flames are rushing towards Otomo!

Otomo was so frightened that he got up and ran, suddenly the wind was together, the rainstorm came instantly, the raindrops like soybean grains hit the ground, the raindrops soon changed from points to waterlines, the heavy rain fell to the ground, and immediately extinguished the flames of the wild grass, and the heat on the ground was poured by the rain, and a large white mist also rose, and the entire long grass wilderness seemed to rise a layer of white smoke.

Otomo picked up the small bronze mirror that flew to the ground, turned around and ran into the small temple, trying to escape the wind and rain. But as soon as he entered the small temple, a strong wind rushed towards him, as if something was grabbing the small bronze mirror in his hand. Dayou was stunned, hurriedly retreated and withdrew his hand, tripped over the door of the small temple, and fell towards the outside of the temple.

Who knows, this small temple is in disrepair, and the ruins and tiles can't withstand this sudden rainstorm, and it is staggering and almost collapses. At the same time that Dayou just fell out of the temple, he only heard the sound of "clicking" wood breaking from the beams of the house, followed by a loud "boom", the beams and pillars of the small temple were broken, and the entire small temple collapsed in an instant.

Otomo grabbed the small bronze mirror, turned around and ran in fright, panicked in the rainstorm, and didn't know how far he ran, suddenly his feet slipped, his body fell sharply, fell into a mud pit, and fainted......