Chapter 65: The Old Man
Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Tianchen was at a loss for a while, but he was also happy to be idle, and after thinking about it for a long time, he still couldn't find the answer, and finally he didn't bother to care anymore.
After a long time, Tianchen adjusted his mood and thought that he would finally come back, so he planned to take a look at Foguang Temple first to see what he could do.
After all, according to his plan, he has been following Master Qingwuzi in the future, and it is still unknown when he will be able to come back in the future.
It took him three years when he came out, and although he is now strong and tall, he is no longer the skinny boy he was back then, but the road back is so long, if he wants to come back one day, it will not be easy, maybe he will not come back in this life.
Whether it is to follow Master Qingwuzi around or go back to his hometown first, as long as he leaves, it will be difficult for him to come back, so he plans to take a good look at this place that made him reborn before leaving.
The woods on and below the mountain of Qijian Mountain are dense, the birds and beasts are still the same, even the woods burned during the encirclement and suppression have begun to recover, and the small saplings have broken out of the ground in the gray-black soil, stretching out to the sky vigorously.
The top of the mountain collapsed several zhang, and most of the buildings were destroyed, but there were still some lower buildings that were well preserved.
There are many traces of weapons hitting the walls and floors, some broken like powder, some knife marks into pieces, and there are some dark red patches near these battle marks, and you don't have to think much about it to know that they are large blood stains, which are shocking to see.
Tianchen looked at all this in a daze, his heart was heavy, and when he breathed in, the bottom of his nose seemed to be full of blood, which made him nauseous for a while.
After a while, Tianchen still loosened his fist, breathed a long sigh of relief, and no longer thought about right and wrong.
The shock of the master brought by the government that night was too strong, just like yesterday.Those invincible domineering exercises, even the old monks in Foguang Temple couldn't bear it, so what was the use of him going now?
He wants to live, he Tianchen has to learn a good skill, enough to deter those heroes, and then find his lost sister, find Second Uncle Zhang, and help his family reunite, so that he can repay their family's kindness.
Tianchen took a deep look at the bloodstains a few times, and then planned to turn back to the Buddhist altar to worship, so he went down the mountain and left.
At this moment, Tianchen suddenly discovered a strange phenomenon.
The ruined houses, as well as the hut where I had just lived, were not spotless, but they were quite clean, and at least the uninhabited cobwebs and the like were gone.
Tianchen also found that the air in the house was also quite fresh, and the smell of blood just now was just his own psychological effect, in fact, there was not the slightest trace of blood here, on the contrary, the fragrance of flowers and trees filled the whole house.
He was startled at first, and couldn't help but look around carefully, and sure enough, the blood stains on the ground had traces of scrubbing, and there were piles of ashes in the courtyard, as if someone had deliberately piled them up.
Tianchen was stunned for a moment, and then quickly transformed into a color of surprise, and without showing a smile, he strode out of the Buddha hall.
Tianchen began to search one by one, and after half a pillar of incense, he found his target in a dilapidated wooden house.
A stout man, dressed in tattered gray clothes, fell to the ground and fell asleep for some unknown reason, completely unaware that Tianchen had come to him.
Tianchen looked at this person carefully, and after a long time, he muttered in a low voice: "Xuxian?"
Who knows, although Tianchen's voice is small, it is like a thunderbolt in the ears of this gray-clothed man, and he was awakened by fright.
This person jumped up, just hurriedly swept Tianchen, and suddenly opened his mouth and shouted, and the content also made Tianchen cry and laugh.
"Ahhhhh
Now Tianchen affirmed his judgment, because in addition to the different clothes, this person shaved the black hair at that end, that is the Xuxian is undoubtedly Xuxian.
I think back then, Tianchen had a good relationship with this senior brother in Foguang Temple, seeing that the other party was ugly, he was also playful at the moment, stiffened his body, stretched his face, and moved forward step by step, plus his consciousness was damaged just now, and he had not fully recovered, his face was a little pale, and he dressed up like this, he really looked like a zombie.
When Tianchen was far away from Xuxian, Xuxian could not avoid it, and the dog jumped over the wall in a hurry, then he gritted his teeth, put his hands out, and attacked Tianchen's chest and dantian.
Tianchen was startled, but he also took the attack with great ease, but as soon as Tianchen touched Xuxian's hands, Xuxian shrank as if he was scalded by boiling water, and then stepped on his feet a few times, and the whole person flew from the top of Tianchen's head, the speed was surprisingly fast, Tianchen was not prepared for a while, and really let him escape.
Tianchen consciously made a joke too much, let out a chuckle from his mouth, and shouted at Xuxian, who was about to take the door: "Senior Brother Xuxian, don't run away, it's me, I'm the Void Spirit."
Xuxian Xuxian's figure paused, stopped at the door, and then slowly turned around, carefully looked Tianchen up and down seven or eight times, and then looked weird, his face was gloomy, staring at Tianchen without saying a word, as if as soon as he opened his mouth, he wanted to swallow Tianchen whole before he got angry.
"Xuxian, I haven't seen you for a long time, when did you come back here? By the way, where have you been in the past six months? How are you doing? Tianchen smiled, walked quickly to Xuxian's side, and asked without suspicion.
Seeing that Tianchen was safe and sound, Xuxian also sighed heavily, with a helpless expression.
"I used to live in seclusion nearby, and I saw that it was really safe here, so I came out, and I just came back for four or five days. I have been cleaning the temple up and down for the past few days, and I am tired enough to choke. Xuxian glanced at Tianchen strangely, and then laughed at himself.
"yes, it's been less than two hours since I came back, right, is there anyone else back?" Tianchen casually coped with it and asked.
When Xuxian heard this, he couldn't help but shake his head with a wry smile.
"Don't talk about this, since you're back, let's go and meet your uncle and ancestor, in times of crisis, they are your and my lifesavers." Xuxian seemed to suddenly remember something, grabbed Tianchen at once, walked out of the wooden house quickly, and walked outside.
"Uncle Shi, they are still alive?" Tianchen asked in surprise, but remembered that Xuxian had just denied that there was no one except for the two of them, and suddenly thought of something, and immediately lowered his head and groaned.
Although he didn't see all the changes in Tianchen, he guessed a little bit from the change in tone, and after chuckling, he said it calmly.
You don't know, when I came back, the whole temple was stinking, and there were dead bodies in almost every courtyard, most of these corpses were incomplete, either they were disabled in the previous war, missing arms and legs, or after the temple was abandoned, the corpses decomposed and attracted wild wolves and dogs and the like to eat a lot......!
"I've been cleaning the temple these days, driving away wild wolves and dogs, and those damned crows, and I can't get rid of them no matter how dare I."
Speaking of this, Xuxian casually picked up two small stones and threw them into the sky, and in an instant two crows screamed from the eaves on one side, and then a large number of wings fluttered sounded, and seven or eight crows croaked and flew into another courtyard.
Xuxian glanced twice, then took a step and continued.
"I tried to find as many bodies as I could to identify them, but they were all unrecognizable and decomposed, so I had to pile him together and burn him, and then lay their ashes together...... It's kind of a peace in the ground."
"Senior brother Dade, glorious to my generation, Shizu, Shiuncle, Shishu, and many brothers are all Buddhists, and they have long looked down on death, so how can they care about this stinky skin.
Tianchen looked at Xuxian's figure, the tattered clothes on his body swayed and swayed, often revealing the scars inside, as if he was a beggar who had been taking food from a vicious dog for a long time.
The two of them walked forward one after the other, turned a few corners, and appeared in front of an ancestral hall dedicated to tablet placement.
Tianchen glanced up at the ancestral hall, the yellow door above was engraved with the four big characters of "pure heart and no desire".
Tianchen paused for a moment, and then quickly followed Xuxian into the hall.
I saw that Xuxian was fiddling with something in front of a Buddha statue, and after a while, he only heard the sound of "click", and a piece of the lower half of the Buddha statue was taken down by Xuxian, and then in Tianchen's stunned gaze, Xuxian took out a tablet from the Buddha statue, which said that the spirit of the thousand-year-old temple and ten thousand monks was written, and the back of the tablet was engraved with a law number, and it was estimated that there were more than a hundred.
"This is just everyone's tablet, their ashes, I buried them together in an ordinary pine tree in the back mountain, the grave is not big, and there is no monument, for fear of being found and reported. Xuxian carefully placed the rank in front of the Buddha statue respectfully, lit the candles on both sides of the Bodhisattva, and said to himself.
"Uncle Shi did the right thing, everyone is dead, just want to turn into a cup of loess, there is nothing else to wish."
After Tianchen finished speaking, he took a step forward, lit three sticks of incense, and respectfully knelt in front of the tablet and bowed nine times.
After the two glanced at each other, Xuxian hid the ranking, and immediately went out, Tianchen followed, and after a meal, he came to an ordinary pine tree, and there was an inconspicuous small dirt bag under the tree.
There is no need for Xuxian to say anything, Tianchen knows that this is the tomb of the brothers and sisters of Foguang Temple.
"Plop", Tianchen knelt down in front of the earthen bag, stared for a long time, Xuxian knelt in front of the earthen bag together, crossed his knees and closed his eyes, his hands were folded, his mouth was quickly opened and closed, chanting the scriptures of the past.
This thought is a morning, both of them have practiced the basic exercises, for such a moment of meditation, it is like tickling, after all, people cannot be resurrected from death, and all they can do is to remember in their hearts.
I don't know whether it was intentional or not, neither of them mentioned revenge.
At this time, Tianchen knew why Xuxian was so frightened when he saw him, and if he let himself live in this dilapidated temple full of dead people for a few days, he would be a little nervous.
The shadow of the sun moved east, it was past noon, Tianchen was fine, but Xuxian was a little hungry, the two of them immediately got up, bowed to the earthen bag, and then walked to the mountain.
"Uncle Shi, forgive me for taking the liberty of being presumptuous, how can you know the names of so many people? Although I have not been here for a long time in Foguang Temple, I am very unfamiliar with most of the names in it." Along the way, Tianchen talked about his doubts about the tablet.
"I found the names in the register and engraved them all." Xuxian explained.
"But I remember that my name is not on it, and what about Master Tzu Xiang? Tianchen then asked.
"The corpses are all decomposed, basically unrecognizable, I don't know who is who, I have no choice but to carve everyone indiscriminately. Xuxian spread his hands and expressed helplessness.
After this incident, the two of them seemed to be a lot more relaxed, chatting with some and nothing along the way, to Tianchen's surprise, before he could talk about it, Xuxian actually told most of his things like a few family treasures, especially some of the limelight things in Lanhe City, it was even more fantastical, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.
"How do you know this? Did you run away to Lanhe City after you got out of trouble?" Tianchen is so shrewd, just a little thought, he guessed the most likely scenario.
"Hehe, not only that, but I also participated in the Guangtu Conference, I wanted to compete with you on the same stage, to see how much progress you have made in the past six months. Xuxian seemed to be in a good mood, and even blew up the scandal and laughed at himself.Tianchen knew that he was a very face-saving person, and if he wanted to spit out a little bit in the past, it would really kill him.
"Guangtu Conference? Oh! So you're the man in black! No, I remember that Tongbao Qian Zhuang came out of a man named Sun Shang." Tianchen instantly remembered someone, but he felt that the name was wrong, and he talked to himself with some hesitation, and his voice became lower and lower.
"My surname in the world is Sun, a single name is a Shang character, the third in the family, so it is also called Sanshang, or Sun San. Xuxian explained in a light tone.
"Oh." Tianchen's face was stunned.
"Hehe, you're not only good at kung fu, but you also have a keen sense of smell. Xuxian's face changed suddenly, and he looked at Tianchen with a wicked smile and said, as if there was something in his words.
"What do you mean?" Tianchen was stunned by what he said, and asked a little confused.
"Don't pretend to be stupid, if you didn't know that there would be earth-shattering changes in Lanhe City, how could you suddenly turn the bow of the boat and retreat bravely when the limelight was in the limelight.
"Lanhe has changed dramatically? Tianchen muttered to himself, without saying a word, his heart sank more and more, and a bad premonition rose faintly in his heart.
"You don't know yet?" Seeing Tianchen puzzled and groaned, Xuxian asked in amazement.
Tianchen scratched his head a little embarrassedly, and said half-truthfully: "Since I left Lanhe City, I have been cultivating in seclusion, but I only came out and returned here in the past few days, so I really don't know anything about what happened outside."
Hearing this, Xuxian's eyes narrowed slightly, his left hand on his chin, and circled Tianchen twice, looking like he didn't believe it at all, which made Tianchen a little crying and laughing.
"Although I don't know if what you said is true or not, but the great changes in Lanhe City are well-known, you can just pull a few people and ask within a hundred miles, it will be clear, the matter is like this......"