Chapter 12: The Great Black Sky

After eating his fill, Rocky planned to find a place to rest for the night first, and talk about tomorrow tomorrow. Originally, he was not happy to sleep in a house rendered by Guan Xinyue in a ghostly house, no matter from which point of view, this place was a murderous house, but Du Zhengyi, who had not been baptized by human ghost stories, was too lazy to drive them back. He can't drive, and Guan Xinyue, a little kid, is not old enough to get a driver's license, so as soon as the driver picks them, they are all stranded in the murderous house.

Guan Xinyue doesn't care, her family manages her very loosely, and she can just make up an excuse not to go home. She's been through so much herself, and according to Roach's observations, she seems to be in a broken jar state at the moment, and seems to be happy to have two mages with her in her old mansion. In the end, only Roach did not want to live here, but he had to submit to the democratic decision.

Guan Xinyue assigned them a place to sleep, she slept in her and her sister's room, his grandparents' room junior was naturally not easy to live in, and her aunt and uncle's room seemed to be particularly unlucky, so her father's room was left, in this fierce old mansion, even if she slept with Du Zhengyi, Luo Qi didn't have the heart to complain.

Nothing to say for a night. Luo Qi woke up early the next morning, and he couldn't sleep well in this place, and Du Zhengyi didn't lazy bed this time. The early morning in the countryside is very quiet, I can hear the sound of chickens and dogs barking in the distance, and the smoke curls near the left, but this landscape is actually more suitable for viewing from a distance, and Luo Qi was choked and coughed as soon as he went out.

"What age do you have to burn firewood?" He was indignant. "Why does your grandfather have to live in the country?"

"It's nice to be in the countryside in the summer." Guan Xinyue said. She was following Du Zhengyi's request and taking them around the village slowly.

"Your grandfather likes the countryside so much, does he like farming? Or do you like the simple customs of the countryside? Rogi asked casually.

"He likes to be pure." Guan Xinyue said, kicking away a stone on the dirt road. "Stayed here because the city was too noisy. He doesn't really like to deal with his neighbors, and although he has lived here for many years, he hasn't spoken much to them. ”

"An old mage who has escaped the world." Roach said casually.

Guan Xinyue raised her head and glanced at Du Zhengyi, who didn't seem to hear what the two of them were saying at all, his expression was depressed, and he looked like he couldn't wake up. "That's what your friend said yesterday. He...... Feeling bad right now? ”

Rocky said nonchalantly, "He's working, he's just concentrating." ”

"You don't have to work?" Guan Xinyue asked.

"I'm not a mage." Rocky laughed.

Guan Xinyue looked at him sarcastically, "Why do I think that since you think you are not a mage, you have let yourself go all of a sudden?" ”

Roach is in a good mood today and is not angry. They went to the house of her uncle's mistress, whom Guan Xinyue had accused, and there was a big lock hanging on the door, and a layer of dust fell on the lock, and it looked like no one had returned for a long time.

On the way back in vain, Guan Xinyue still hadn't given up studying the two young mages, "Luo Qi, you said you weren't a mage, but you woke him up when your friend fell into a hallucination yesterday. ”

"You can too." "It's just a predetermined wake-up mechanism." Let's just say that the main role is played by the soul song itself. We were all trained in the same way when we were in school, and the soul song was like a signal that whenever we heard the chanting, the mind would realize for itself that what we saw was illusory, and that it would be freed from the deception we had received. ”

"Then if we humans are hypnotized...... Guan Xinyue said sensitively.

"That's miserable." Roach said vaguely, reluctant to go any further. He looked up and saw the yellow low wall of the temple, which had already circled and returned to the vicinity of Guan's house.

The temple gate had been opened, and an old man was sweeping the courtyard. The temple that I glimpsed yesterday in the twilight is now very clear, with a rough modern retro-style building, painted with a dazzling gold-roofed blue rafter and red walls, and some traditional paintings on the rafters. Several ropes are tied under the eaves and tied to the ground at one end, on which colorful prayer flags are entwined.

Luo Qi's heart moved, and he asked Guan Xinyue, "Isn't it Tibetan Buddhism that uses prayer flags?" ”

Guan Xinyue was very uncomfortable standing at the gate of the temple, and then Luo Qi's words said softly, "And the offering here is not Shakyamuni, it is the Great Black Sky." ”

Roach looked at her in surprise, and she shrugged, "I don't know much either, but my family says it's weird here." ”

"A cult?" Rocky asked.

"Shh Guan Xinyue exhaled in horror and stabbed Luo Qi in the ribs with an elbow, "Standing at the door of someone's house, don't talk nonsense." ”

Luo Qi clutched his ribs and looked at Du Zhengyi like a complaint.

Du Zhengyi shook his head meaninglessly, "Since you think this place is the most suspicious, you have to figure it out sooner or later, take advantage of the fact that there are few people now, let's go in and have a look." ”

Rocky couldn't wait for this, and stepped in excitedly. Guan Xinyue immediately seized the opportunity and proudly turned back to Du Zhengyi to complain, "Look, doesn't he still dare to cross the threshold first?" You shouldn't have pitied him yesterday and froze him to death. ”

"Hurry up and worship the Buddha." Luo Qi pretended not to hear and strode forward, "Guan Xinyue, do you want to ask for a marriage?" ”

"This is not the Moon Old Temple." Guan Xinyue said, but she didn't dare to make too much noise, she glanced around suspiciously.

The three of them walked into the small courtyard of the temple, no one came up to pay attention to them, the door of the main hall was open to them, and two rows of dim lanterns flickered in the depths of the temple.

Luo Qi swallowed a hint of nervousness, the threshold of the temple door was high, and the door frame was hung with half a curtain, with speckled stains. He lifted the curtain to let Guan Xinyue go first, and noticed that she passed sideways in a ten-twisted position, for fear of getting dirty curtains. He didn't forget to laugh at the right time, and then hurriedly followed, anxiously looked around, and when he saw the Buddha offered above, he couldn't help but take a step back, reflexively avoiding his gaze.

Guan Xinyue hurriedly seized the opportunity again and sneered-for-tat, "You're so timid." I told you a long time ago that this is not the Buddha, but the Great Black Heaven. ”

Luo Qi sighed as if he was burned, and was about to open his mouth to salute in return, when he was slapped by the person behind him.

It was Du Zhengyi who finally couldn't stand it anymore. "Are you two each saving up your own points of shame? Accumulate enough points and plan to redeem nail clippers? ”

Luo Qi laughed heartlessly, and was beaten by Du Zhengyi again.

"Be quiet, don't disturb my concentration, or I'll go outside and have a good time." He said in a suppressed voice.

Roach whispered unconvinced, "But it's too strange here, isn't it?" Even if you make any offerings, you have to be a Buddha at least. This mud horse with three heads and six arms is either an evil ghost or a yaksha, right? ”

Du Zhengyi didn't answer, no matter what it was, it was the same for him, a person who entered the temple for the first time, and what he cared about was that there were no residual energy fluctuations here.

Guan Xinyue couldn't help but educate Luo Qi, "It's too uneducated, this is what the great black sky of Tibetan Buddhism looks like." Besides, you can't put the Yaksha and the evil spirits on the same line, right? A ghost is a ghost, and the Yaksha is the protector of the Eight Divisions of the Heavenly Dragon. ”

Roach's expression immediately became very rich, "I only know that the male Yaksha in the Yaksha clan is born like a demon, and the female Yaksha is born very human. ”

"You mean you're calling me a dominatrix, right?" Guan Xinyue looked at Luo Qi, her eyes narrowing dangerously.

Du Zheng couldn't stand it anymore, "Shut up." ”

Luo Qi and Guan Xinyue both closed their mouths in hatred, and Du Zhengyi pushed them from behind, "If you're too idle, you can go to the front together to say goodbye...... World. ”

Luo Qi and Guan Xinyue blew up together. Guan Xinyue scolded vaguely, and Luo Qi muttered, "You don't let us talk, you still flirt."

"I'm sorry," Du Zheng said half-truthfully, "I don't know much about this part of the culture. ”

The three of them fell silent and looked at the main hall of this small country temple together. The size of this room is only about 50 square meters, and there is an offering table with lotus flowers and incense candles in the front, and a few half-used futons on the floor. There are no Dharma protectors in the east and west directions, and there are no arhats behind them, and only the statue of the big black god who has jumped out of posture is enshrined here. Instead, the east and west walls are covered with paper books, some of which resemble ledgers of the past, each with a string of Buddhist beads in the upper left corner, which are hung on the wall from the beads.

Roach suppressed his curiosity and went up to bow a few times in a mess to find peace of mind. Guan Xinyue's expression was clearly a little frightened, she looked up at the god for a moment, she was in a trance, and she didn't know what she was thinking, but she never went to worship.

Du Zhengyi is a complete alien here, without any taboos or awe, first go to the wall to look at the paper.

After Luo Qi finished worshipping the Buddha, he got up from the ground and spoke to Guan Xinyue in a low voice, "I think this is a cult at all, don't you think that everywhere here is different from a serious Buddhist temple?" By the way, you're so young, you can't have been to another temple, right? ”

"I've been to Lingyin Temple when I'm traveling." Guan Xinyue came back to her senses and said, she turned around and walked to Du Zhengyi's side, and asked in a low voice, "Do you see what this is?" ”

Du Zhengyi turned around, looking confused. Luo Qi hurriedly ran over, took the book from his hand, and read it softly - "Big Black Heaven bless my chickens for a good price this year." ”

He snorted, this really can't blame Du Zhengyi for being confused, he is also a little. He stretched out his hand and went to the top to open a notebook, "The big black sky bless the road in front of my house can be rebuilt this year." ”

He shook his head and flipped through a few more books, some of which were written in great detail, and the trivial and trivial words were scribbled, and in the end it could still be boiled down to a wish. Some of the wishes are very indescribable, such as - "Want a signed photo of Luhan? Guan Xinyue, this is not what you wrote, right? ”

Guan Xinyue stood with her arms crossed, squinting at the wishes on the wall, sighed, and ignored him.

Luo Qi continued to search in endless wishes, "My family conditions are too poor, my husband's salary is not high, I have no job, I have two children to raise, and I recently lost my mobile phone...... She wants a phone? She asked for a mobile phone with Da Heitian? ”

"Unbelievable." Guan Xinyue muttered.

Roach was stunned for a moment, then suddenly threw away the paper in his hand, jumped up and ticked the top one. This row of papers is all black, dressed in rosewood Buddhist beads, full of texts, crooked handwriting, describing how a man was betrayed by his wife. Even Roach was always insatiably curious, but he was impatient with this cynical and extraordinarily shallow text. The pages flipped faster and faster in his hand, until the last paragraph, when he stopped and read it several times. The man did not directly propose what he wanted, and the desire to kill did not seem to be easy to write directly, but the meaning was already in the words.

The page almost began to heat in his hand, he hissed again, touched Du Zhengyi, and handed him the paper. Du Zhengyi read it carefully and was very interested. Luo Qi really didn't know if it was because it was rare to see such a spiritual monologue in the mage world, or because Du Zhengyi was actually very gossipy. He looked at Guan Xinyue again, and the little girl didn't touch the papers, as if everything here made her feel disgusted.

As soon as Du Zhengyi closed the paper, he quickly turned his head, "How is it?" ”

"Interesting." Du Zhengyi said, "If you make a wish to the gods and Buddhas, what will you wish?" ”

"Becoming more beautiful?" Roach said.

Guan Xinyue "cut" him, Du Zhengyi seemed to want to endure it, but he still laughed. "Guan Xinyue, if you make a wish, what will you make?"

"World peace." Guan Xinyue straightened her face, and also came out with a sentence that was not very scored.

"This is your ambition!" Roach said, "I thought you would wish the dead to be reborn." ”

"How is that possible?"

"World peace is impossible, isn't it?" "It's only a chance to make me more beautiful." ”

"I've found that sometimes," Guan Xinyue said with a frown, "you're extremely disgusting. Every five minutes or so, I have the idea of beating you to death, which is very detrimental to my practice. ”

Luo Qi smiled innocently, "You can make this wish, it is not easy for the deceased to come back to life, and it is more feasible for the living to breathe." ”

"Stop talking." Du Zhengyi interrupted the two of them, "But Luo Qi, you're not wrong. ”

"What do you mean?" Roach said, "You want to beat me to death too?" It's so sad. ”

"I can do it myself if I beat you to death, and I don't have to make a wish here." Du Zhengyi said, "But you see, if you want a mobile phone, you want a signature, you want money, you want to build roads, and even if you want your ex-wife to be unlucky, these are all very easy wishes to achieve." I thought that if there really was an omnipotent god, it would be more reasonable to make some wishes that I couldn't fulfill no matter how hard I tried. ”

"That's right." Luo Qi thought about it and said, "Promotion, wealth, and immortality are worth it." ”

Guan Xinyue's face became very ugly for a moment, "Someone wants his ex-wife to be unlucky?" ”

Du Zhengyi and Luo Qi glanced at each other.

"Are you alright?" Roach asked in a low voice, looking at her with some concern, "You must not collapse at this time. ”

Guan Xinyue's breathing was a little rapid, she bit her lip tightly, and a look of anger and fear alternated across her face. Roach reached out and grabbed her forearm, and the weight of her body tilted over, relying on Roach's support to keep her balance.

"It's okay," she said with a pale face, "I just want to throw up." ”

Du Zhengyi frowned, "Can't you two hear such a noisy motor vehicle noise?" ”