Chapter 14: Treasure Hunt (1) Reminiscences of the past
The paddy fields are not far from the town, and there is a Niangniang temple in disrepair on the way.
According to the old generation, this Niangniang temple has a very long history, the temple is dilapidated, it seems that it is like this at the beginning, no one knows which god is enshrined in the temple, but according to the remaining stone statues, it should be the body of a woman, so it is called Niangniang Temple.
It's just that no one has ever really come to the temple to pray and make a wish, and strangely enough, the townspeople don't talk about repairing it, just letting it fall into a dilapidated state.
In previous years, there was also a hunchbacked old man who took a broken broom to clean up every once in a while, but in recent years, the hunchbacked old man has disappeared, and the residents of the town can't say why.
However, Bai Chuan detoured here, just to go to this Niangniang Temple to take a look, and I was very impressed by this Niangniang Temple in my memory.
I still remember when I was a child, I liked to come to this dilapidated Niangniang Temple with a group of dead friends to tell some ghost stories.
At that time, Bai Chuan was only about five or six years old, and he was born white and pure like a pink boy when he was a child, and he was called the two golden boys of Crow's Nest Town with Mu Ziyu.
Originally, I was going to scare Guan Er and Shi Yiyi, who were still a few years younger, but I didn't expect to get Shi Yiyi and Guan Er, one was stunned and the other was wild, and the courage was not good, every time after telling a ghost story, Bai Chuan and Mu Ziyu were crying and running out of the Niangniang Temple in a panic, Shi Yiyi and Guan Er were clapping their palms all the way behind and laughing.
At that time, Bai Chuan also had an older brother, five years older than himself, named Bai Mu.
Every time I was scared and cried, I always ran home and hugged my brother and shivered, and at night I was so scared that I didn't dare to sleep alone, and I was always noisy to sleep with my brother.
At that time, Bai Chuan's elder brother Bai Mu was already more than ten years old, born with a tiger head and a tiger brain, born with a divine power, and his temperament was just the opposite of Bai Chuan.
Relying on his strength, he fights everywhere all day long, and his peers and even the younger generation who are a few years older have not been beaten by Bai Mu.
But this little overlord in the real sense of the crow's nest town is very painful to Bai Chuan's younger brother, at that time, Bai Chuan's weak temperament will only cry after being teased by other children, every time Bai Mu takes the little crying worm to beat his brother hard, and afterwards he will always pat Bai Chuan's shoulder and say to Bai Chuan with a serious face of a little adult.
"Chuanzi, a manly husband, hit back with his fists when he was bullied, crying like a girl, and he will be like this when he grows up, don't tell others that you are my brother. ”
Then he was distressed and covered Bai Chuan's little head, looking at Xiao Bai Chuan's smart and talking eyes since he was a child, and said softly: "Chuanzi, with my brother here, no one can bully you, if you can't beat anyone, tell my brother, I will let him lie on the ground and beg you for mercy." ”
At that time, Bai Chuan would always stare at his brother with bright eyes, twitch his little nose and then innocently jump and clap his little palm, shouting: "Xiao Chuan has a brother, no one is afraid." ”
To say that when Bai Chuan grew up, his temperament began to be a little skinny, and he was really influenced by this brother, and admired his brother as a hero, and he made a wish since he was a child to be called a man who stood up to the sky like his brother when he grew up.
It's just that this Bai Mu was taken out of the Crow's Nest Cave by Old Man Bai ten years ago.
At that time, Old Man Bai didn't explain anything, so he left Bai Mu's age was no longer suitable for him to stay in the Cave Heaven, because the rules of the Cave Heaven Secret Realm were not allowed to break through the second realm, and if Bai Mu stayed there, he would miss the golden time for cultivation, so he was sent out of the Cave Heaven, and no news came back for more than ten years.
But Bai Chuan knew that his elder brother was a martial arts wizard who had been talked about by Old Man Bai and Guan Lao, and he was gifted with natural divine powers, and his martial arts talent was even more talked about by Guan Lao once in ten thousand years.
Sometimes drinking a little wine is even more regretful, saying that Bai Mushi is the most outstanding person in martial arts since the beginning of the world, and his strong martial arts are second only to Shi Yiyi's natural martial arts, but his martial arts qualifications are even better, and he regrets that he can't be trained by himself.
Such a martial arts genius with unparalleled qualifications has been famous in the human world for more than ten years, but why there is no news at all really makes Bai Chuan depressed.
Speaking of the Niangniang Temple, Bai Chuan deliberately made a detour not to reminisce about his childhood memories, but he had a feeling of closeness to the broken stone statues in the ruined temple since he was a child.
Although the woman's stone statue has long since withered and is dilapidated, it has long been impossible to see her face, but every time Bai Chuan goes to the temple to play, the closer she gets to the stone statue, the warmer her heart is, and she feels that there is a force that is also very close to herself, but most of the other friends don't have that feeling.
So in the past, when Bai Chuan was sometimes idle or irritable, it was not easy to talk to Guan Er, an ignorant person, and Shi Yiyi, although he was a childhood sweetheart, he couldn't always talk together, even if Shi Yiyi was like a boy, but Bai Chuan always liked to secretly run to Niangniang Temple alone, and moved the stone pier against the stone statue to secretly say something on his mind, as if his mood would slowly calm down after staying for a long time.
The broken stone statue is more like playing a bosom sister, listening to Shirakawa tell those things that belong to the youth.
Shirakawa also tried to find the fragments of the stone statue scattered in the ruined temple and tried to put the stone statue together, but it was useless for many years, the stone statue had existed for too long, and many of the broken parts had long been weathered into gravel, and it was impossible to put it together.
And every time the hunchbacked old man saw someone in the temple, he had a stinky face, and he drove people viciously with a broom.
Once Bai Chuan stayed alone in the broken temple, was bumped into by the hunchbacked old man, and repaired it not lightly, and recuperated for a few days, but after Guan Lao asked about what happened, he just shook his head and did not say anything.
It's just that in the years since that fight, the hunchbacked old man seems to have never appeared again, and this Niangniang temple is even more dilapidated, and I am glad that last night's cave that felt like the sky was falling apart had not caused this Niangniang temple to collapse.
Bai Chuan slowly walked into the Niangniang Temple, because the roof of the temple has fallen into a large area of sunlight, the originally dark dilapidated temple has long lost that sense of mystery, so in recent years, few children have entered the temple to play.
It was already overgrown with weeds, the broken stone walls were unusually depressed, the cobwebs were all over the yin corners, the snakes, insects, rats and ants were chirping, and the voices of people were all drilling towards the yin corners.
Bai Chuan took the trick in his right hand, silently recited a few mantras in his mouth, and lit a small flame on the wall on the side, this little trick was bought after being fooled by a broker when he was traveling in the human world.
Holding a quick stone pier in front of the stone statue, then sitting on it with his back to the stone statue, he laughed self-deprecatingly: "Sister Niangniang, Xiaochuan's hand of the heavenly fire makes it impossible to slip away? ”
"When Xiaochuan cultivates to a high level, he will let this day burn the world and become famous all over the world, ouch, my heart hurts, this is a peerless secret book that I bought at a great price. ”
I didn't forget to tweet on my chest when I said that, because of this, I really suffered a lot.
As if he felt that there was really a confidant sister listening to him, Shirakawa kept talking about the things he had traveled outside this year, of course, he couldn't tell the fact that he had crossed over, but it was quite comfortable to have such a place to relieve his emotions.
After talking and talking, his eyelids began to fight, and a sense of tiredness quietly appeared.
What Bai Chuan didn't notice was that the stone statue he was leaning against at this time actually emitted a layer of fluorescence, quietly surrounding Bai Chuan and gradually began to wrap the whole person in.
"Sister Niangniang, Xiao Chuan is about to leave Crow's Nest Town, and I don't know when I will be able to come back in the future, when Xiao Chuan is high, there must be a way to restore you to your original appearance, I guess you must be very, very beautiful. When the time comes... ”
As Shirakawa's murmuring became lower and lower, the whole person was completely enveloped by the fluorescence emitted by the stone statue behind him, and gradually Shirakawa closed his eyes and fell asleep, stopping the chatter.