Chapter 20: The Secret of the White Clothes Temple
The traverser took the lead, and walked straight towards the main building of the Baiyi Temple after landing, saying that it was the main building, because there were two ear rooms next to it, these two ear rooms had three rooms and eight pillars from the outside, and it was a very good house in the village alone, but it was nothing compared with the main temple in the middle, the two ear rooms added up to less than half of the façade of the main temple, not to mention that the left ear room had collapsed in half, and the right ear room looked fine on the flat ground。 Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Therefore, Zhao Xiaoliu hesitated for a moment, but also gritted his teeth and jumped down, and followed the traverser to the main temple, hoping that there was still something left inside.
When he first landed, his legs and feet were full of sour dates, wild chrysanthemums, and dog tail grass, and there were no cattle and sheep to eat here, and a bush was as tall as one person, Zhao Xiaoliu couldn't see anything, and danced in front of him to remove the grass that blocked the way, walking as if he was walking in the deep mountains, and there were more knotted wild chrysanthemums. Fortunately, he was a little late to keep up, and saw clearly that the traverser was going to the main temple, and the main temple was very tall, and the direction was not so difficult to recognize, so he was not so panicked in his heart.
After walking a few more steps, the grass was still lush, but Zhao Xiaoliu suddenly had a road under his feet, he was not in a hurry, and his eyes glanced at the road under his feet: "Huh?"
Zhao Xiaoliu is an old household in the village and a man, many forbidden areas for Wang Zhaodi are not a secret to him at all, Wang Zhaodi has only heard of the Tian family compound, and he has never heard of the ancestral hall, he has walked through them one by one, and he is quite familiar with them, but he has never seen such an arrangement as the Baiyi Temple. The courtyard is neither like the Zhou family's green brick paving, nor like the Tianjia red brick paving, but like the ancestral hall before it was not repaired, the courtyard is bare soil and stone, and a black pebble paved path goes straight to the main temple.
He also saw a similar arrangement in the backyard of the ancestral hall before it was repaired, but there was a white pebble path, "it turned out that these two places were built by one person", Zhao Xiaoliu could only think of this, Zhou Dashan donated 5,000 green bricks to pave the courtyard of the ancestral hall fifteen years ago, and now if you go again, you can't see the pebble path.
He walked a few steps on the road, and was greatly surprised when he landed, the grass and trees around the path were extremely prosperous, but none of the branches stretched out to the path, "it seems that people often walk", as soon as he thought of this, Zhao Xiaoliu couldn't help but be frightened, who would walk around the Baiyi Temple? The blind old woman who watched the temple was not afraid, but if it was the Tian family...... He turned around three times in the same place, and finally made up his mind, no matter what he encountered, he could run, and if he couldn't, he pushed the matter to Zhao Di's head, and then he had the courage to continue to move forward, not a few steps, and walked to the door of the main temple, and saw Wang Zhaodi's little girl circling around the offering table.
"Where was this table originally placed?" The traverser pointed to the main hall and asked, the doors and windows of the main temple were gone, which saved them from breaking in, Zhao Xiaoliu blinked his eyes and looked into the temple, and was startled: "Ahh
He couldn't help but be surprised, before he arrived at the temple gate, he would never have dreamed that the temple would be like this!
In the center of the main hall, behind the offering table, there should have been a female statue, and the reason why it was said was originally was because it was all Zhao Xiaoliu's speculation- He had seen the offering table of the ancestral hall, and knew that the worship of the god should be not far behind the offering table, and now, a huge female statue fell apart and fell in the main hall, no, he didn't know whether it was a female statue or not, the clay sculpture could vaguely see the phoenix crown and xiaxia, the colorful skirts were colorful, and the painted jewels were full of jewels, and when it was first molded, it should be similar to the fairy queen he had seen on the octagonal painting lamp hanging in Zhou Tian and other big households, magnificent, majestic, but the fairy queen generally followed the emperor of heaven, but there was no trace of the emperor in this hall- This was all wrong with him later remembering.
And the first thing he saw was: a huge white pastel painted clay sculpture was thrown into the ground and cracked into several pieces, revealing the true appearance of the puppet inside.
You can't blame him for not being surprised.
The puppet was also in the shape of a woman, and if it weren't for the eight white arms that scrambled to stretch out from the woman's belly, there really wouldn't be anything to fear......
In spite of what he said, he refused to move a single step in that direction, and he really thought that the puppet was very strange, and when the traverser walked over and turned the puppet over at him for verification, he ran several steps out of the temple with his hands in his hands before stopping—between the eight twisted arms was a large mouth of blood chewing a huge eyeball, and blood was dripping down its teeth!
"It's not really blood. The traverser said.
"Oh, oh. ”
"Real blood, long since dried up, this is a painted mixture of plant juice, oil, and mineral powder," the traverser asked, touching the eyeball, "Is there anything like this in the village?"
"Say...... Say what?"
"Doesn't look like it—is this a Yiren thing?" The traverser speculated, not only because the puppet was wearing a black robe, but also because the painted patterns on the puppet were obviously different from the style of the clay sculpture, if it was not the thing of Jiming Village, it was very likely to be the local aborigines, those things worshipped by the Yi people, in this way, the clay statue outside the puppet is not only to hide, but also to suppress, the religious class of the traverser mentions many actions of breaking down the mountain and destroying the temple, the priests in power destroyed the primitive polytheistic beliefs of the indigenous people, bulldozing the pagan temples and rebuilding the temples of their own religion is a common move in history, sometimes, there are also bulldozing temples and building schools, of course, schools are built for the benefit of the authorities。 It is also possible to disguise the original idol and make it into another god, but ...... It doesn't seem to match the environment of Jiming Village.
He looked around, and there were not many furnishings in the white-clothed temple, and it was also as damaged as this clay statue, and it was full of rocks and rotten trees, and when he was looking, he saw a man in the corner waving to him, and pointed three times at the corner of the wall.
"I don't know this," Zhao Xiaoliu told the truth, his ancestors fought against the Yi people, but that was more than 200 years ago! In his life, his father, his mother, and his grandfather had never seen a single hair of the Yi people, "If you are disobedient, the Yi people will arrest you" and "If you are naughty, you will teach the Yi people to eat you" and other words are familiar to him, but his cognition of the Yi people, except for "not my race" is "our ancestors drove away their ancestors" Otherwise, those people of the Tian family would not have dressed in black clothes and wrapped a black cloth to scare their brothers with a coarse voice, but they really knew almost nothing about the "Yi people", and they were completely ignorant of the Yi people's dressing and painting style in addition to wearing black clothes, he was shaking his head, and suddenly saw the little girl looking at the corner next to her in a daze, her lips and tongue turned as if talking to someone, and a cold air rushed into her brain: "Tian family?" hurriedly looked there, but there was nothing.
There is not even a shadow of a person.