After the geese return to their nests, the scratching sounds around them become quieter and quieter, and finally, the sound gradually disappears, and the outside world also falls silent.

Yue Guanchao lifted the cabin and looked at the reflection on the water, the geese had all left, and there seemed to be no tragedy around him, but the fragmented corpses on the river kept reminding him that everything just now was not an illusion, but something that really happened.

The men carefully turned the boat over to make sure that the geese did not continue to attack them, so they returned the cabin to the center and jumped back to the shore one after another.

Sun Tianqi said: "What now? If you want to continue to go down, then you have to solve the problem of these geese, otherwise, I don't think it will be possible to save your life. ”

He looked at Yue Guanchao: "This good believer, since Yanshan is guarded by these geese, has Old Lady Hu ever said how to deal with the mud nest?" ”

This sentence can stop Yue Guanchao, when they left, Mrs. Hu didn't mention this matter, now I think about it, maybe it's because Mrs. Hu doesn't know that these geese have become like this, if not, Mrs. Hu really doesn't need to hide it from them.

"Dao Chief, Mrs. Hu is old, maybe she forgot about this, and we didn't see the old lady mention this when we left, but she said that when Yongming made trouble with the Taiping bandits, her eldest sister, as a concubine, had been here, and if they could send the treasures of King Hong in, most of them knew how to enter the cave."

Yue Guanchao is indeed right, Mrs. Hu did mention her eldest sister's matter, if these geese were also so ferocious back then, then, the Taiping army probably knew how to deal with the geese entering the cave.

"Then, can the old lady tell me how to enter the cave?"

Yue Guanchao shook his head: "Oh, that's not clear, the old lady was not very old at that time, and she was a little vague about these things, plus people have experienced a lot of things, and they have become confused, she only mentioned that her eldest sister said that there are secrets in the Yan Temple." ”

"Wild Goose Temple?"

Sun Tianqi's eyes lit up: "Since there is nothing to do, it is better to go to the Yan Temple to see, maybe there is really something inside." ”

When Yue Guanchao was leaving, he did hear the old lady mention the Yan Temple, but he only heard the old lady mention this talk, and thought that it was the old lady's words to catch the wind and catch the shadows, now think about it, perhaps, it is really related to the concubine entering the tomb palace decades ago.

A few people no longer hesitated, drove the canoe to the Yan Temple, and carefully observed after going ashore, the isolated island where the temple is located is three or four times larger than the temple, it looks extremely regular, Yue Guanchao They stood on the island and shook slightly, only to find that this isolated island is not a naturally formed island at all, but a floating soil made of mud, straw, and driftwood!

The so-called floating soil is actually land on the water, and this kind of driftwood is mostly built between lakes or rivers, specially used to build houses, or used as pontoon bridges.

Speaking of which, they are all the crystallization of the wisdom of the poor people!

In the old society, fishermen did not pay land tax if they did not farm, and some officials would ask them to pay mansion tax on the grounds that they lived on land.

In the Dongting Lake, where they saw in the past, there were also such boat people, and there were mostly floating rafts made of wood, straw, and cow and sheep tripe naan on the shore of the lake, which were either used for fishing, or directly built some tiled houses and straw huts for living.

This kind of floating raft is relatively lightweight, convenient to move, and does not belong to the land, and is mostly favored by the poor people, but all the villages along the river and the lake, often see countless floating rafts spread out on the shore, as if growing new land by the lake, and the shacks and grass huts are gathered on it, spreading to the distance.

It's just that with the advent of the Republic of China, these shacks are rare, and only in poorer places can boat people be seen building shacks.

Not much to say, back to the point, open the temple door, the goose temple furnishings are like ordinary temples, but sitting on the treasure bed, is an old lady with a goose head and wings, the incense table is full of tribute, think about it, often people here to ask for God.

"But what's the secret here?"

Song Siyuan asked, she carefully observed the tributes on the table, as well as the details of the statues, this temple of the wild goose itself is not a main temple, it is very rough, just a small house is built, and the shoddy statues are placed in it, if there are offerings, they are all cheap goods of some mountain and wild people, and everything is extremely simple.

"The god of geese was only set up a temple because of the strange power of the gods, and most of the people who came here to worship were to seek employment or marriage, that is, the treatment of an ordinary land temple, and it would not be like the temple of Emperor Hu to make a golden body, and there was a formal canonization."

Yue Guanchao looked at the surrounding furnishings, and carefully observed along the old lady of the wild goose god, the statue was extremely rough, but it looked very similar to a person, he narrowed his eyes: "Do you think that this statue is a bit like a certain person?" ”

"What do you mean?"

Song Siyuan carefully observed the face of the old lady Yanshen, and her eyes lit up: "You mean, old lady Hu?" ”

Yue Guanchao nodded at her: "Yes, I see, this old lady of the wild goose god has a different face from Mrs. Hu, but it is a little different from her appearance, it looks like she looks like her, but it is not her person." ”

Song Siyuan's tone was slightly excited: "Perhaps, this is not Mrs. Hu at all, but her eldest sister, the concubine who was sunk by the government." ”

"It's possible, this statue will not be a portrait of Mrs. Hu for no reason, back then, the government did not allow the people to treat these concubines well, let alone allow them to be buried beautifully, Mrs. Hu's eldest sister is related by blood after all, perhaps, set up a wild goose temple to worship privately, this is also completely reasonable." Old Yuetou muttered.

"Could it be, what Mrs. Hu said secretly, referring to these statues." Sun Tianqi pondered for a moment and asked.

"Let's see, if this statue really has a secret, it can probably be opened, or there are some mechanisms on it."

With this view, everyone looked at the statue of the wild goose god again, although this statue is very rough, it is extremely strong, even if it is hit with the back of a knife, it is difficult to make a mark, it is estimated that it is to be strong, and the body has been tamped.

Yue Guanchao picked up the back of the knife and kept tapping along the joints of the wild goose god, until he hit the stone platform near the instep, and then he saw a crisp empty drum sound.

"This is it, the place behind the statue is hollow, and there is probably something in it."

He retracted the back of the knife, and used his hand to continuously determine the range along the hollow drum, and after pressing inward, there was a click, and the stone wall suddenly protruded outward, and when he pulled outward, it was a drawer made of wood.

"There's something in here?"

Yue Guanchao pulled out the drawer, which was obviously wrapped in sackcloth, and when he took out something, it could be seen that he was half an arm long and his palm was wide.

As soon as the sackcloth was lifted, what appeared inside startled everyone.

"This is the blood goose marrow?"

When the burlap was opened, there was a red candle inside, which looked as thick as the mouth of a bowl, and smelled of blood.

Sun Tianqi lowered his head and touched these red blood marrows, and explained: "After the blood goose marrow is dried, a layer of oil and water will be deposited, and this layer of oil and water can be made into candles. ”

Yue Guanchao looked down at the strange candle, and said slowly: "I see that this thing has been lit, and it has probably been lit, the old lady means, is it possible that we want to light the candle." ”

"Try it!"

"Maybe it really works."

Yue Guanchao took out the candle, just enough to clip into the wings of the wild goose god, and after the fire fold lit the candle, the wax core turned into a shaking flame with a snort, burning the surrounding flames to golden.

In a few moments, I could see smoke lingering around the candles, and these candles seemed to have something added, and after a while, I could already see snow-white smoke filling the Wild Goose Temple, along the passage of the roof, constantly gushing outward.

A few people walked outside the temple gate, the eaves on both sides thought to be hollow, even with the roof in the house, it can be seen that the snow-white mist sprayed out to both sides, drifting around under the action of the breeze, these rich fog lingered on the roof, contaminated so that the cave near the situation can no longer be seen clearly.

Crash!

Some of the geese already showed signs of coming out, and Yue Guanchao was afraid that they would be attacked by the geese again, so they had to hide in the wild goose temple first, and close the doors and windows tightly.

After about a cup of tea, the wild goose temple around the fluttering and clicking sound, Yue Guanchao looked out through the gap in the window, only to see that the wild geese seemed to have a backbone, constantly circling around the eaves, thousands of wild geese flowed and flew, like a huge black whirlwind, blocking the vicinity of the cave.

"These geese, who don't seem to be aggressive, are busy absorbing the smoke!"

After Yue Guanchao saw the situation clearly, he explained to the people behind him.

"Let's go out and have a look first, if it really doesn't attack us, it means that this candle can really attract geese."

Sun Tianqi couldn't wait any longer, and took the young Taoist to push open the door and walk out, and after waiting for a long time, he didn't see these geese attacking them, so it can be seen that candles can indeed attract geese to the past.

Yue Guanchao saw that the geese no longer attacked people, and walked out to look around, the geese chirped non-stop, and continued to circle along the whirlpool of smoke, covering the sky and the sun, like the whirlpool of ocean waves, and the geese in the mud nest were probably all gathered here.

"Daochang Sun, since these geese are no longer attacking us, it is better for us to take the ashes blankets and tomb robbing objects of the concubines to open the mud nest and take this opportunity to enter the cave."

After Yue Guanchao finished speaking, Sun Tianqi nodded at him, and motioned to the young Taoist to move the ash altar from the carriage and enter the canoe.

This time, they learned wisely, shoveling the unsolidified mud nest out of the gap with a shovel and shovel, and barely managed to steer the canoe through it without making a sound.

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Some people died, but not completely......