After breakfast, Taihao took Shaoling and Juyu to the Cat Temple. In the cat temple, many people come early with offerings to burn incense and pray for blessings. Gu Sheng saw Taihao and them coming, so he hurriedly walked out of the temple and stepped forward to salute Taihao. Tai Hao hurriedly asked Gu Sheng, "Brother Gu Sheng, did you make any abnormal discoveries last night?" ”

Gu Sheng said without hesitation: "Lord Taihao, I am waiting to report to you, it is strange to say, just after the ugly last night, there was a sound of chewing something in this cat god statue. The sound was faint, but I could clearly hear it chewing. ”

Shao Ling on the side asked, "Is it the sound of rats stealing food?" ”

Gu Sheng replied: "It must not be the sound of rats eating, I originally thought that rats were stealing offerings from the cat temple, but I put my ear to the cat god statue and listened carefully, and I dare to conclude that the sound I heard chewing was definitely not the sound of rats, but the sound of cats eating." ”

Taihao thought that just now in the inn, Onishi told him that there were indeed rats in the cat temple, and he had caught them. Even if he hadn't been caught by Onishi, the rat wouldn't have hid in the cat god statue, which was made of solid stone, so how could there be something hidden inside? Tai Hao continued to ask Gu Sheng, "Are you sure that the sound of chewing things came from this cat god statue?" ”

Gu Sheng said categorically: "I am sure that the sound came from this cat god statue, after hearing the sound, I carefully checked the cat god statue, but I still can't find the reason, is the stone statue really making a sound?" ”

Ju Yu smiled: "If this stone statue can make a sound, then this cat god statue is really a god." ”

Tai Hao muttered: "This cat god statue can talk and chew things, there must be something wrong here." ”

Tai Hao took Shaoling, Gu Sheng, and Ju Yu and the three of them approached the cat god statue and looked at it again, but still didn't find anything abnormal. Tai Hao turned around and looked at the offerings on the offering table again, and Tai Hao asked casually, "In addition to the offerings offered by the people early this morning, have the remaining offerings on the offering table decreased last night?" ”

Gu Sheng looked at the offerings on the offering table and said, "I didn't pay attention to this, but after hearing the sound last night, I carefully checked around the cat god statue, and found a chicken bone behind the cat god statue, but the chicken bone was missing when I looked at it just now." ”

Tai Hao asked curiously, "A chicken bone?" Was it cleaned by the mage in the Cat Temple? You go and ask the mage who is in charge of sweeping the floor. ”

At that moment, Gu Sheng called the monk who was in charge of sweeping the floor in the cat temple, and Tai Hao asked him, "I want to ask the mage if he has cleaned the temple today?" ”

The monk said, "I haven't cleaned it today, and in the cat temple, it will only be cleaned once a day at night." ”

Taihao nodded after hearing this, and said, "I know, thank you, mage, you go and get busy, let's take a look." ”

Tai Hao pondered for a long time and continued: "It seems that we can only overturn the cat god statue to see what is inside the cat god statue. As he spoke, he instructed Gu Sheng to move the cat god statue away.

Gu Sheng was just about to move the cat god statue, and Yu Yu hurriedly shouted: "Wait a minute, my lord, at this time, there are many people who come to the cat god temple to burn incense and pay tribute, if the cat god statue is overturned now, I am afraid it will cause a sensation." ”

Taihao thought that Jiayu's words were reasonable, so he smiled and said: "Sister Jiayu is still thoughtful, then we will wait until the people have left after paying tribute before overturning the cat god statue." ”

Because Gu Sheng guarded the cat god statue in the cat temple in the middle of the night, Taihao asked him to go back to the inn to rest first, and asked him to call a few officers and soldiers to the cat temple after he arrived at the inn. After a long time, six officers and soldiers came, but the people who came to the temple to pay tribute were still in an endless stream. They could only continue to wait until sunset.

After all the people in the cat temple who came to pay tribute had left, Tai Hao asked the six officers and soldiers to overturn the cat god statue. However, the six officers and soldiers were unable to move the cat god statue despite all their might. At this time, the abbot of the cat temple ran over and shouted: "Don't do it, don't let it, don't move the cat god statue, the cat god will appear and punish us!" ”

Tai Hao hurriedly stepped forward and explained, "Abbot, there is really something wrong with this statue. We just want to flip over and see what's hidden inside......"

The abbot hurriedly said: "You can't touch the cat god statue no matter what, Lord Taihao, you know that this cat god statue has been here for more than a thousand years, and it has never been moved for more than a thousand years." ”

Tai Hao said earnestly: "These people who have been killed in Fengling City recently are all related to this cat god statue, last night, I asked my subordinates to guard the cat god statue here, and in the second half of the night, I heard the sound of eating inside the cat god statue, therefore, I think there must be something hidden in this cat god statue, and it must be turned over and checked......

The abbot said sharply: "Don't say it again, don't touch the cat god statue anymore no matter what!" ”

On the one hand, Taihao asked Ju Yu to invite Qu Quancheng Lord to come to the Cat God Temple, and on the other hand, he gave the six officers and soldiers a look, and asked them to take the opportunity to overturn the statue with force. However, the six officers and soldiers used their strength, and the cat god statue still did not move.

When he was moving vigorously, he was discovered by the abbot again, and he shouted loudly: "Donor, stop quickly, otherwise the old man will not be polite!" ”

Shaoling, who was standing next to Tai Hao, frowned, thinking about it. He walked up to the abbot and lowered his voice, "Master, can you take a step to speak?" ”

The abbot asked, "I wonder what is the matter with this benefactor?" ”

Tai Hao saw that Shao Ling pulled the abbot aside and didn't know what to say, so he softly ordered the six officers and soldiers to move the idol again. But at this time, a warrior monk suddenly came, and without saying a word, he rushed directly to the six officers and soldiers, and kicked the six officers and soldiers away from the cat god statue. Seeing this, the six officers and soldiers hurriedly returned fire. The warrior monk was very good at kung fu, and he hit the six officers and soldiers with fists and feet. Shaoling and the abbot were talking, but they saw that there was already a fight here. But for some reason there was a fight, and the abbot hurriedly ran over to persuade them to stop. Suddenly, Taihao shouted, "Stop, don't fight anymore!" But the warrior monk wouldn't listen to Taihao's words at all, and beat the six officers and soldiers to the point that their noses were blue and their faces were swollen, and they crawled all over the ground. After the fight, the warrior monk walked towards Tai Hao again, no matter what Tai Hao said, he would not listen, and directly shook his leg and knocked Tai Hao to the ground, Tai Hao just got up, and the warrior monk was going to kick him with his foot. Seeing this, Shao Ling hurriedly stepped forward to stop him, but he also didn't know martial arts, and Shao Ling was directly kicked by the warrior monk to the offering table. Tai Hao shouted: "Mage stop, have something to say!" The warrior monk wouldn't listen to Taihao's words at all, and was about to call him again, but was stopped by the abbot, who shouted loudly: "Senior brother, you stand down, don't fight anymore!" The warrior monk said coldly to Tai Hao: "Move the cat god statue again, and the poor monk will beat you to death in front of the cat god!" With that, he left.

The abbot helped Tai Hao up and said, "The donor is offended, Lao Wei's junior brother also did this to protect the cat god statue, and I hope you Haihan." ”

Taihao stood up and apologized softly: "It's too reckless." Tai Hao asked the six officers and soldiers to stand up with each other.

At this time, Shao Ling shouted under the offering table: "Lord Taihao, come and see this ......"

Taihao hurriedly went under the offering table and saw that there was a short and shallow tunnel under the offering table, which led directly to the base of the Buddha statue. After Taihao saw it, he and Shaoling came out from under the offering table again, and told the abbot next to him about the authenticity under the offering table, and the abbot was puzzled: "How can there be an authenticity?" The abbot also went under the offering table, and when he saw the tunnel, he was immediately shocked.

At this time, Xuan Yu invited the city lord of Qu Quan, and also brought a few followers. Tai Hao hurriedly stepped forward to greet him, and when the city lord of Qu saw the messy clothes on Tai Hao's body, he hurriedly asked, "Lord Tai Hao, what's going on?" Seeing that the six officers and soldiers all had blue noses and swollen faces, he then asked, "Did you fight?" ”

Tai Hao hurriedly explained: "It's all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding ......"

Seeing that Taihao must have been beaten, Jiayu on the side hurriedly stepped forward to help Taihao tidy up his clothes, and asked him, "Lord Taihao, just left for a while, what's going on?" "I just wanted to blame Shaoling, but when I saw that Shaoling also had traces of being beaten, I didn't blame him anymore.

Tai Hao told the city lord of Qu that there was a road under the offering table that led directly to the base of the statue. After hearing this, the city lord of Qu Quan hurriedly went under the offering table to take a look, and when he came out, he sent another attendant to the bottom of the offering table and asked him to climb into the tunnel to see what was on the base of the statue. After a while, the attendant came out and pulled out the body of a man. Qu Quan's city lord found that this man's dress was the same as that of the homeless man who came to Fengling City a month ago. Qu Quancheng said: "How could he die under the statue of the cat god, he was already driven away by the people?" ”

Taihao was about to get closer to see the homeless man's appearance, when suddenly, the homeless man came to life. stared at a pair of big eyes and pounced directly on Taihao. Taihao couldn't dodge and was thrown to the ground. Taihao shouted: "Oops! The next to the homeless Yu, the officers and soldiers, and the entourage all came to help, but the homeless man knocked down the six officers and soldiers with only two palms, and the homeless man pulled out his sword to fight him, but the homeless man was not the opponent of the homeless man, and was beaten and retreated. Seeing this, the abbot immediately summoned all the warrior monks in the cat temple to come and fight the homeless man. The homeless man's kung fu is indeed good, Taihao saw this situation, and thought: "It seems that there must be no chance of winning a fight with this homeless man." Then he shouted, "Stop, the hero has something to say." But the homeless man didn't seem to hear it, and didn't pay any attention to Taihao's words. For a time, the officers and soldiers brought by Taihao, the entourage brought by the lord of Qu Quancheng, the warrior monks in the cat temple, and the homeless man surrounded the homeless man, and the homeless man saw that he had been surrounded, but he still did not stop, and continued to fight, about dozens of rounds, suddenly, two warrior monks hugged the homeless man tightly, and an attendant saw this, picked up a knife and was about to cut the homeless man's head.

At this moment, I only heard an old man shouting in a low and hoarse voice outside the temple gate: "Stop! ”