Chapter 82. Be mindful of yourself

I couldn't help but feel the scene again, recalling that I was arrested and criticized as a feudal element. It's a wonderful time, when people don't recognize something they don't understand, they always choose to overwhelmingly attack each other, and in the meantime, they turn to violence.

I think the strange behavior of the Taoists in this Changchun Temple is probably because they have seen that tragic scene, so that now when a living person appears, they look terrified and bow their heads to sin, which is a conditioned reflex, and when they make such a reflex action, they have never thought that they have actually done anything wrong.

Matsuko didn't seem to know much about my tragic past, but after I finished saying this, she stopped, stunned, but looked at me with emotion. I didn't speak, smiled slightly, and continued walking.

Originally, Changchun Temple occupied a large area, but because there were many destroyed places, there were not many places where we could walk. After posing as a tourist, he didn't find any valuable clues. So I said to the Taoist who had been following us, "Master, we want to donate some incense, but where is the temple where you can still worship?" This year of my birth, I want to worship Tai Sui.

The Taoist shook his head a little helplessly and said, the two of you are merciful, I won't tell you, now Benguan is just leaving people to guard, and there is no door to welcome guests, plus our merit box before has also been taken away, so if the two of you want to donate something now, I am afraid that you will be powerless. Xiaodao thanked the two for their meritful merit, if you really have a heart, a pillar of fragrance is enough to feel the Taoist ancestor.

What he said was a bit miserable, in the era of the end of the Dharma, people in the religious circles were indeed having a very hard time, and these monks who guarded the palace view were not as comfortable as us. And I'm not in my natal year, the purpose of my saying this is just to hope to find the Doumu Palace.

The Taoist took us to the Doumu Palace, but when I opened the door, I was saddened. In addition to the seated statue of Doumu Yuanjun in the center, the remaining dozens of god statues were all knocked out of their heads, leaving an empty body, which looked not only respectable, but also exuding a weirdness. And many of the statues are made of clay, it seems that the original group of people who smashed the temple also overturned and smashed a lot of statues, and the Taoists silently mended their bodies after this group of vicious people left. But the heads of these gods are gone.

Now it seems that the Taoist is right. Even if I am really too old, visiting here at this moment will have no effect, and I even wonder if there is still aura here. Judging from the degree of newness of the statue, the age is not too long, many of the painted paint on the body are still relatively gorgeous, only to learn after inquiring about the Taoist, this batch of statues was actually made in the early days of liberation, the original old statues in the Doumu Hall were all destroyed, and even if it was the batch of destruction, according to the historical records of the Taoist temple, it was also a batch made in the Qing Dynasty.

This has brought our investigation to an impasse, and if the sixty gods were one of the main reasons why we believe this place is the location of the "Dragon", it seems that this path is no longer worth investigating. So Songzi and I offered a stick of incense meaninglessly, and then walked out of the hall, and the Taoist also closed the door of the main hall that was already broken as soon as the two of us came out.

Songzi opened his mouth and asked, this master, both of us are very interested in the history and culture of Daomen, before coming here, I had heard that there is an ancient well here, according to legend, it was dug out by Lao Jun himself, I wonder if this well still exists in the temple today? As soon as the Taoist heard Songzi say this, he immediately realized that the two of us were by no means ordinary pilgrims, at least we had some knowledge of history. So he smiled proudly and said, "This mercy is right, there is indeed such a well in Xiaoguan, but it has long been sealed, and when the well is sealed, it is not even us." After saying that, he pointed in the direction of the main hall and said, The location of the well is not far from the door where you entered, and now the well no longer exists, if you want to see it, the trail can also take you there.

So I rushed to say that of course I would go, and since I came, I naturally wanted to go and see it. Because this matter was a corollary of pine nuts from beginning to end, I did not contribute anything to it except to listen to him. Seeing that the road of the Doumu Hall is no longer passable, if I can find the location of the well, since I know that the predecessor from a thousand years ago is hiding here, then at least I still need to grasp the location, so that when he looks for it in the future, he will not look around.

The Taoist took me and Songzi in the direction of the main hall, at this moment the door of the Changchun Temple has been tightly closed, just like when we came, maybe because we saw outsiders into the Taoist Temple, and the rest of the Taoists who were originally sweeping the floor or cleaning the door were also hiding when we entered the Doumu Hall to worship, so that this way to the main hall, I was not able to see a Taoist.

To the left of the main hall is a small side hall that looks like a chanting hall, and between it and the main hall, there is a small alley less than two meters wide. However, due to the fact that the area of the side hall is not as large as the main hall, the terrain opens up after a few steps. I saw that a wall of loess mud was erected in the open area and the surrounding environment very incompatibly, which was very old, and seemed to be enough to be pushed down with bare hands with a little force. The ground next to the wall looks smoother and stronger than the ground around it, as if people are constantly walking or standing in that place. And on the edge of this place, there is an octagonal fence.

Eight stakes are enclosed with iron chains, and they look like the shape of a gossip. And there is a mouth on the ground that looks like a well, but the mouth of the well has been sealed, not only that, but on the sealed manhole cover, there is also a stone tablet with a height of Qi people, and four big characters are written on it.

Presumably, this is where the "Tiji Well" is located. And the so-called "clear heart" probably refers to the meaning of Lao Jun who used the water surface of the well water as a mirror and repeatedly looked at himself and thought. The Taoist told me that this place has always been used to punish disciples who make mistakes in the Guannai. The Master will ask the Taoist who has done something wrong to stand on the edge of this old earthen wall, face the wall and think about it, and be aware of himself. And this wall is actually a wall of the old side hall, in several renovations, only this wall has been preserved, which means that together with this sealed well, witness the rise and fall of the Daomen.

But it seems to me that the current form is still not good, because if it is only to block the mouth of the well, then I may still have a way, and I may be able to enter the well by digging a hole. But now there is a bluestone stele on it, which makes us have nothing to do.

My mind began to mess up again, and I turned to Matsuko, hoping that he could do something else at the moment. Songzi glanced at me, probably understanding, so he asked, then this well is sealed, and this place is halfway up the mountainside, what should I do if the Taoist in the temple is thirsty? In fact, even I can hear the sentence of pine nuts completely knowingly, because if the scale of a palace view reaches the size of Changchun Temple, there must be more than one well. Even in the yards of many rural villages, there are two or three wells. Sure enough, the Taoist replied that there are other wells in our Taoist temple, and the water from this well is of the same origin, and the Taoists take water to quench their thirst, which is naturally not a problem.

Songzi pretended to be aware and said, "In that case, my partner and I have come from afar, and we also hope to taste the water of the well in this view to be aware of ourselves." After speaking, he didn't wait for the Taoist to agree, so he respectfully bowed to the Taoist.

This kind of behavior of chasing ducks on the shelves, I actually despise it, but I have to say, this is also a good way, everyone is meeting for the first time, and they are polite, but the behavior of Songzi does not give the other party a chance to refuse. So the Taoist said, since this compassion has requested, Xiaodao should try his best to meet it, please come with me.

So the Taoist took us along the road to a big tree behind the main hall, there is a well next to the tree, judging from the color and carving on the edge of the well, it seems that it is only a few hundred years old, and the branches of this big tree on the side are luxuriant, presumably because of the relationship between the proximity to the water source. So the Taoist asked us to stand on the side for a while, and we began to put down our wheels and go to the well to get water. And at this moment, in addition to the muffled sound of the barrel touching the water, I also heard a sigh of "Hey...".

I was taken aback at the moment, because we had not seen anyone else along the way, and even this sigh from the Taoist here, judging from the fear of us just now, it was unlikely that he would have done it in front of us, and what really surprised me was that this sigh came from the direction of this well.

There were already headless flies in the middle of the run, and at this moment we could not tolerate the slightest mistake, so I walked to the well at once, and almost slipped on the moss on the ground, and then I put my hand on the mouth of the well and looked into the well, and then asked the Taoist who was drawing water, I heard who was sighing just now, as if it came from this well, could it be that there is someone under here?

I originally thought that my deliberate and impolite behavior would cause dissatisfaction among the Taoists, but who knew that this Taoist actually smiled and said to me, this compassion, you may have heard it wrong, everyone actually heard the sound you heard just now, but it was not the sound of anyone sighing, but it did come from the bottom of this well.

What kind of well, even sighing by itself?