Chapter (68): A mysterious ghost fire is found on Guanyin Mountain

We first rode the car directly to the valley in the north of the back mountain, and after parking the car in the management office below, we began to crawl upward, ready to enter the Guanyin Temple, which has been rebuilt one after another for more than ten years and has not been repaired yet.

After slowly going up two or three hundred meters from the entrance of the management office to the depths of the mountain col, everyone arrived at the location of an ancient well, which is said to be unfathomable, and has never dried up since ancient times, and is regarded as a sacred well by the local villagers. It is said that the well also flows water from the slightly sloping well in the summer, and in the winter it often emits bursts of white mist. There is also a stone tablet next to it, which specifically records the natural disasters and droughts since the Ming and Qing dynasties, it is this ancient well that has saved countless people here, but it is a pity that I did not see what age this ancient well was built in. But from the more than a dozen thousand-year-old sandalwood trees around the ancient well, it can be inferred that it should be the first ancient well, and then the Guanyin temple was built in the Ming Dynasty. Or you can guess that maybe it is because of this magical ancient well that this Guanyin temple was built here, of course, this is just everyone's speculation, and there is no clear record of the inscription.

Walking through the ancient well and the thousand-year-old sandalwood tree next to it, everyone turned up to the right and began to officially enter the ruins of the Guanyin Temple. This Guanyin temple is close to the steep cliff in the west, sitting in the north and facing south, with three courtyards in front and back. From south to north, there are temple gates, two gates, shadow walls, Guanyin Temple, Jade Emperor Pavilion, Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, dormitory and other buildings. From the remaining ruins, it can be seen that this Guanyin temple was also quite large-scale back then, and the incense here should have been very prosperous. According to the existing inscriptions of the Republic of China, this Guanyin temple was built in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, and then destroyed in the war of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and was rebuilt during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and finally destroyed in the war during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty.

The mountain gate of Guanyin Temple is a two-storey building, the upper floor is the Kuixing Tower, the windows are open on all sides, the top of the gray tile mountain, there is a bell tower on the east side of the mountain gate, which was built in the Qing Dynasty. The two-door room has a vaulted roof, and there is a kitchen on the east side of the second door. Enter the second gate is the main courtyard of the Guanyin Temple, the front is the wall, the back is the Guanyin Palace, also known as the Bodhisattva Palace. The main hall is three, there are three roll sheds in front, there are several ancient stone tablets in the roll shed, and there are the sitting statues of Goddess of Mercy that have been rebuilt in recent years in the main hall. After the main hall, it is the third courtyard to enter, the courtyard is the Jade Emperor Pavilion just behind it, the Jade Emperor Pavilion is square, it is also the upper and lower two layers, there is the statue of the Jade Emperor in the plastic, it is also the Qing Dynasty rebuilt. On the east side of the Jade Emperor Pavilion, there is a two-story scripture pavilion that is also square, and under the cliff on the west side, there is a row of low dormitories.

Due to the age, several times after the war and damage, most of the main buildings of the Guanyin Temple were completely destroyed, and the entire building complex also basically collapsed and collapsed, leaving only the ruins and broken walls of the approximate appearance. Although it has been renovated several times in the past ten years, it has been progressing very slowly for some reason or other reasons, and it is still being repaired.

But in any case, the U-shaped mountain valley where this Guanyin temple is located is ethereal and quiet, with shady trees, vigorous aquatic plants and scenery

It is beautiful, but it also attracts many tourists every year. It's just that the Guanyin Temple, which has not been renovated for more than ten years, is inevitably a little disturbing scenery, and I can't help but be dissatisfied with the progress of this toothpaste-squeezing repair by the local relevant departments.

After everyone once again visited the dilapidated Guanyin Temple, everyone began to turn back and walk to the front mountain. On the way, Jing Xin involuntarily complained: "I am really blind this time, we have been here five or six times in this Guanyin Palace, and I have roughly calculated how it has been seven or eight years before and after." I don't understand why it still looks so tattered, and why I don't know what these relevant functional departments think. ”

The doll said: "I strangled it, it's not easy to understand, it's not that this repair project should not be a big oil and water, or it would have been done properly." Hmph, just now, these officials and uncles who eat people and don't do personnel, as long as there is no oil and water, even if his father and mother die, I'm afraid they won't really cry. ”

The prodigal son said, "That's not it, fuck, these things should be cut off." Let's not talk about anything else, let's just say I'm Ah Lang, I don't know which tendon was wrong last year, and I jumped from a good home improvement to the government's low-rent housing tooling. Now the fuck is good, the official in charge of engineering above doesn't know that the fucking Buddha didn't worship well and was taken down. Even if this bastard died, it wouldn't have anything to do with me, but this bastard's brother-in-law was the contractor of this project. As soon as his brother-in-law fell, this grandson saw that something was wrong, and directly absconded with a large amount of project money, which put me into the pit. It's been almost half a year, I'm about to double my loan sharks, and I'm about to go bankrupt, and this grandson hasn't caught it yet. ”

The lone wolf said: "Okay, Ah Lang, your things and the repair project here are simply things that are not related to the wind and horses." Let's look at things, don't always look at the dark side of society, but look at the sunny side of society. As for the renovation work, it has not been progressing quickly, and I think there are three main reasons. First, this is located at the intersection of the two counties, and there is a certain unclear place for the place where this Guanyin Mountain belongs for a long time; second, the scenic spot of this Guanyin Temple is too independent and single, and there is no series of nepotism effects around it; third, just like the Lotus Mountain we have been to, the traffic conditions here are poor, and the people in the city are not even aware of the existence of this place. When the lone wolf said this, everyone nodded in approval.

In casual talk and laughter, everyone came to the foot of the west side of the front mountain. Everyone took a short break and asked about the situation of the Mengshan turtle, and after the Mengshan turtle said that there was no problem, everyone began to go straight up from the foot of the mountain on the west side. I was going to go to the mountainside to see the ghost fire at night when I had heard about it not long ago, and then go to the steep slope where the so-called Hades nose was located, and try again to find out the origin of its strange name.

When everyone passed by the ancient tomb of the Warring States period at the foot of the mountain, they stopped to look around, and did not find any other abnormal conditions. Then everyone continued to climb upward, and after a while, when they reached the mountainside, they came to the house of a lone wolf who was familiar with a stupid chicken on the mountain.

An elderly couple living in a village seven or eight miles below Guanyin Mountain built three stone houses on the relatively gentle western slope and built a large yard of almost one acre of land with simple barbed wire fence around them. During the day, these stupid chickens foraged freely under the grass and cypress trees, and the wild grasses on the mountain and the pine nuts all over the trees became their best feed, and at night they automatically went back to the big yard to rest.

Not to mention, these 100 stupid chickens can really easily feed these two old people. Since the area around Guanyin Mountain is far from the village and there are no industrial and mining enterprises nearby, there is almost no pollution. In addition, the old couple generally do not use any drugs and hormone-containing food on these stupid chickens, and even in winter, they only feed some pollution-free food crops that they grow on the side of the mountain. Therefore, the nutritional value of his stupid chickens and stupid eggs is relatively much better, and in the current era of paying attention to nutrition, their products are relatively easy to sell more, and they are often in short supply.

Originally, the two old men just wanted to be clean and entertain themselves here, but they never thought that it would slowly become a profitable industry. Even the sons who were originally not in harmony have become extraordinarily close, and from time to time they come up to the mountain to ask for warmth, in fact, the two old people also know that these frequent drunkards on the mountain do not care about the "old" and the "chickens" on the mountain.

But this time, when we got closer, we saw that there were three stone houses in the original simple barbed wire fence, and a whole circle of high walls was pulled up, and the height of the wall reached more than two meters, and there were two large iron doors locked in the north-facing position.

After reaching the high wall, the lone wolf said suspiciously: "What is the situation, I remember that when I came here last autumn, it was still the same, why did it change the shotgun in less than half a year." ”

The prodigal son said: "This is too much fuss, is it so grand to raise a stupid chicken on the mountain, and if people really want to catch him a few stupid chickens without spending money to eat, who can be rare to live in this kind of high wall in this barren mountain range, hum." ”