Chapter 219: Du Kang Ancient Temple

The sleepless sight of the night was firmly attracted by a place called "Dukang Temple" on the map.

Du Kang, originally a skilled craftsman, was the master of ancient winemaking, and later generations gradually became synonymous with "wine".

Cao Cao's poem said: How to solve worries, only Du Kang!

Since then, everyone knows that drinking Du Kang wine can relieve all kinds of worries.

……

In the poems left by the owner of the white crane, there is a hint of the place where he lived in seclusion: the Valley of Forgotten Sorrows.

But near Nanchang City, there is no place called "Forget the Valley of Worries".

A little related, forget the valley of worries, is it Dukang Temple?

How to solve the worries, only Du Kang.

Du Kang can solve worries, Du Kang Temple, maybe you can forget your worries.

Valleys are often hidden in the temple to survive the famine years.

Daming Taizu, when everyone had nothing to eat, joined the Huangjue Temple and ate a mouthful of millet in the temple, which survived the most difficult moment and established the Huanghuang Daming.

Therefore, in this way, this Valley of Forgotten Worries is really likely to be Dukang Temple!

Thinking of this, Sleepless Night's heart was uplifted.

Judging from the map, Dukang Temple is still some distance away from Nanchang City.

It is about fifty miles north of the city.

After a cursory look at the map again, I didn't see any other suspicious place names.

Sleepless took a deep breath.

"Anyway, when I go to Lushan, I also go north, just by the way."

"I'll go to this Dukang Temple first. It would be great if you could find the owner of the crane there. ”

"If you can't, give up!"

Without further ado!

After the rooster crows at dawn, it is still dark.

In the north city of Nanchang, the city gate was wide open, and the soldiers who rubbed their sleepy eyes scolded and scolded, and in the kind words and good words of the pedestrians who were ready to go out of the city, they did not hurry or slow, and pushed open the city gate together and let people out.

Sleepless at night, mingling with the first group of pedestrians to leave the city, went out of the city in a low-key manner.

After leaving the city, pay attention all the way and perceive it everywhere.

But he didn't find that there was a trace of Chu Yan nearby.

"She said yesterday that she would take a half-day off and will be back this morning. But until now, it has not returned. Shall I wait until she leaves? ”

On a small dirt bag outside the city, standing at the highest place without sleep, it was a bit difficult.

From an inner point of view, in recent months, with the company of Chu Yan, this originally difficult and lonely road has added a little warmth.

Regarding Chu Yan's attitude, he has already changed from rejection at the beginning to acceptance now.

However, what is unfortunate is that Chu Yan, who has a very mysterious background, has recently been acting more and more frequently in private.

Unconsciously, it seemed that he was getting farther and farther away from him......

After waiting for a long time, Chu Yan was nowhere to be seen.

In the past, no matter how long he left, no matter where he was sleepless at night, Chu Yan could easily find him.

This is also the reason why Sleepless never asked her where the two should meet after a short separation.

Today, though, things seem a little different.

"Forget it, no matter, seeing that the sky is about to dawn, the hour is not too early, I will go to Dukang Temple first, investigate, and then make plans."

Looking around, I couldn't see Chu Yan's petite and graceful figure, and there was even a faint sense of loss in my sleepless heart.

Fortunately, it is fleeting.

He performed light skills and walked like a meteor.

The sleepless figure looms in the morning mist.

His steps are light and swift, as if he is one with the earth.

Continuing to march north, the hustle and bustle of Nanchang City gradually faded away.

The style of the market slowly disappears, and the rich natural atmosphere and quiet rural scenery come into view.

The heartstrings that tightened overnight were slightly loosened.

As the sky gets brighter, you can see clearly the scenery ahead, which is a patch of verdant bamboo forests and paddy fields.

Occasionally, you can meet a few farmers who wake up early and have already started their busy day.

At this time, it is the season to plant seedlings in the south, and in the paddy fields, the seedlings are high in the palm of their hands, and they are young and immature.

It's rare to appreciate it, but I don't stop at night.

An hour later, at the entrance of a valley where spring was getting worse, I stopped.

The valley mouth is a winding path.

On both sides, there are trees that are green in winter, and the occasional wildflower.

He calmed down and felt the breath of the valley.

With the deepening of the internal force and the increasing sophistication of the skill, the sleepless night has slowly felt the breath of the existence of the strong in the same realm within a certain range.

Unfortunately, this is a very subtle ability.

The mystery is mysterious, and it is not stable.

Sometimes it's accurate, sometimes it's not.

Because of this, he didn't rely too much on this ability, just as a reference.

Feel it with your heart, sleepless nights and fail to notice any useful discoveries.

Be on your guard and walk slowly along the mountain road at Taniguchi.

From time to time, I heard the chirping of birds in early spring. The air is filled with the fresh smell of earth and plants.

The terrain was first high and then low, and finally, at the end of the mountain road, I saw a quaint temple at night.

The plaque on the temple has a three-character chapter grass:

"Dukang Temple".

Three words, obviously shining with golden light, in the morning sun, but flashing a little, gloomy light.

Dukang Temple, the name of this temple, is too improper.

Naming the temple with wine is easy to think of whether the monks in the temple are all wine-meat monks.

Sleepless at night, I saw that the gate of the temple was closed, and the stone steps in front of the door were covered with moss, and occasionally one or two footprints were left behind, and a little rain had accumulated.

Obviously, this temple is off the beaten track.

Walking up the stone steps, the moss is slippery, and the focus point of sleepless night is just right, and there is no worry of slipping.

When he came to the temple gate, he knocked lightly, but the door was not locked, but slowly opened with a "creak" under his push.

Inside the door, there is a dark courtyard, with several ancient trees towering and fallen leaves all over the ground.

Through a long corridor, he came to the main hall.

The door of the main hall is hidden, and through the crack in the door, you can see the Buddha statue enshrined inside, as well as some remnants of incense and candles on the ground.

Just as he was about to push the door in, a faint air flow fluctuated and came unexpectedly.

"Huh?"

He immediately stopped and listened intently, but he could not hear anything.

This fluctuation of air flow is likely to be the breath of a certain strong person, and the other party is trying to hide his existence as much as possible.

He was vigilant in his heart, and his hand pressed on the dragon scale iron sheath sword at his waist, ready to strike at any time.

Looking around, the hall was dim, and only a few rays of morning sunlight were projected through the window lattice, reflecting on the gold body of the Buddha statue.

The sleepless gaze swept through the hall and suddenly froze in a corner.

There, a figure dressed in white lay quietly on the ground, with a few broken bamboo slips scattered around him.

Sleepless at night, he walked briskly and crouched down to check.

But when he saw this person, his face was high and swollen on both sides, like a pig's head, and there was a fatal sword wound on his chest.

It's already out of breath.

"Dead?"

Sleepless night, my heart sank.

Although I didn't know the identity of the deceased, I suddenly saw a dead person lying on the ground, and I still felt a little stuffy in my heart.

"It's not long since he died, the body hasn't swelled yet, the blood stasis hasn't been deposited down, and the murderer may not have gone far......"

Sleepless and calmly analyzed, and looked at the swollen face of the deceased again.

"On the swollen face, the slap marks are obvious, with traces of live blood, presumably, caused by being beaten before death. The slap wound is relatively old, and the fatal sword wound on the chest is relatively new, so it seems that the deceased is very likely to have been stabbed to death with a sword after being slapped madly. ”

Looking at the piles of slap marks on his face, he couldn't sleep at night.

Does the murderer have a special habit of slapping people?

Before killing, he slapped him countless times, and he was addicted to it before killing him.

This is the first time I have seen this method of killing.

Shook his head helplessly.

Suddenly!

Sleepless at night, I feel my hairs stand on end, and my bones are creepy!

A sense of oppression brought by no less than Yue Buying since he stepped into the rivers and lakes swept from behind.

The feeling of oppression, first like a turbulent wave, and then, gathered in a bundle, like the tip of a needle, pierced the back.

"Ah......h

He snorted, and was about to resist, but saw a flash in front of him, a young man with a dogtail in his mouth, I don't know when, had arrived in front of him.

The young man's eyes are narrow and long, not very big, and they are the so-called squinting eyes, but even so, the black eyes in the eyes are really small and pitiful, and the power is still invincible to the whites of the eyes, showing the form of "three white eyes".

The sleepless eyes of the night were tightly locked on the young man who suddenly appeared, and the alarm bell in his heart was great.

In this unaware situation, the person who approaches him is by no means an idle person.

Of course, there is also a possibility that this person has been here all along.

Before he pushed the door, he felt a faint fluctuation of airflow, and that fluctuation may have been caused by this person.

That faint breath and the powerful aura of this person at the moment did have a trace of the same origin.

"Who is Your Excellency? Why here? ”

Sleepless asked in a deep voice, his hand still pressed on the hilt of his sword.

The corners of the young man's mouth curled up with a playful mockery, as if he did not care about the vigilance of the sleepless night.

He gently spit out the dogtail grass in his mouth, and his voice carried a hint of banter:

"Hehe, I have to ask why you are here? In the wilderness, Du Kangpo Temple, almost no one has ever been here, why are you here? ”

As soon as the young man spoke, his sleepless heart sank to the bottom.

This person's skill is unfathomable, surpassing the second realm!

The feeling that the young man gave him, he had only felt similar to Yue Bubuli.

It's all the kind of undisguised attack, straight stab, it's a sharp blade out of the sheath, and it's about to kill when it is wielded, and no one can ignore it!

The third realm, the marrow realm!

The sleepless heart is like this valley, sinking to the bottom.

"I'm here, of course, for my purpose."

Sleepless replied calmly, despite the turbulence in his heart, his voice was as calm as possible, like an ancient well without waves.

He tried to look the young man directly, though his eyes, pierced with pain from the aura that emanated from his body.

"Now, can you tell me why you're here?"

"Hahahaha......"

Seeing the sleepless night and trying to make eye contact with himself, the young man looked up to the sky and laughed a few times.

This voice sounds heroic, but in fact it is hideous.

A long sword turned into a fine light and flew suddenly, cutting off the head of the white-clothed corpse on the ground before the eyes of the sleepless night could be diverted.

The skull spun and flew in, and the young man caught the skull with his left hand and the sword with his right hand.

"Haha, you also saw it, I'm here to kill the old thief of the White Crane!"