Li Xiuyuan looked at this statue of Guanyin, and felt that something was very wrong in his heart. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The people of Huaxian County live in such a tight situation, and this statue is built so luxuriously, which has the meaning of raising the financial resources of the whole county to support this statue.

It doesn't matter if it is built by the wealthy businessmen in this county, it doesn't matter, others have money, how they want to spend it, it is also someone else's business, and others have no right to interfere, but Li Xiuyuan saw that under this statue of Guanyin, there were huge merit boxes, and each merit box was half a person high.

Moreover, every time the pilgrims who worship Guanyin worship the statue of the god, they will throw money into the merit box, some of them are offering more than ten or twenty wen, and some of them even throw several taels of silver into it.

There are even more well-off pilgrims, who don't even want to throw their entire money bags into it, and don't leave a penny.

The pilgrims who had invested in the money were again chanting and praying for something.

This worship seems a bit too reverent. Li Xiuyuan frowned slightly.

All this money was put into the merit box, which was better than the temple, but it was bitter to itself, no wonder the temple of Guanyin was built in such a luxurious style.

If it weren't for these pilgrims who spared no effort to worship, how could such a luxurious statue of a god be built in this year and the world.

Li Xiuyuan groaned for a while, and walked along the crowd to the offering table, ready to eavesdrop on what these pilgrims were asking for.

He saw a woman under thirty kneeling in front of the futon at this moment, burning incense and worshipping, kowtowing to the statue of Guanyin, chanting words in her mouth: "The Bodhisattva Guanyin with great mercy, please bless me to give birth to a big fat boy this year, and inherit the lineage for my family, so that I will not be extinct, and I beg the Goddess of Mercy and Bodhisattva of great mercy......"

The woman recited it several times, burned incense and prayed, then took out dozens of dollars from her bosom and put it into the merit box, then knelt down again, and recited it several times, and finally left with some distress.

And when the next pilgrim came forward, it was a woman.

This woman had a big belly, and it seemed that she had been pregnant for several months, and she burned incense and prayed like the woman before her, throwing money into the merit box, and repeatedly begging the Bodhisattva to send her son.

After the second woman left, the third pilgrim and the fourth pilgrim.

Without exception, they all knelt in front of the statue of Guanyin, kowtowed, prayed, and asked for the same thing, most of them were for the sake of asking for children.

But I can understand what I said.

After all, this is a statue of Guanyin, not to worship other gods, and it is natural to come to ask for a child.

It's just that after Li Xiuyuan watched it for a while, he felt that something was wrong.

"Why are there so many women who come to burn incense and beg for children early in the morning, the population of this Huaxian County is so much, this begging for a child is inevitably too enthusiastic, and even if it is for a child, it doesn't need to be so extravagant, such a real money is offered, at most it is enough to burn a few incense sticks. ”

He was puzzled, but at the same time slightly thoughtful.

Before he could stop for a long time, a nun dressed in plain clothes came over near the nearby statue with a smile; "This son is very good-looking, he shouldn't be from this county, but he came to worship God and ask for a child? ”

Li Xiuyuan came back to his senses suddenly, and then said: "I'm not here to worship God, I just pass by occasionally, and I see that this place is very lively, so I am curious to come and take a look, and there is no other meaning, if this master doesn't mind, can you allow me to go around and take a look?"

The nun gave a salute and said: "Idle people are not allowed to wander around the temple of Guanyin, but this son is extraordinary, and he should not be an idler, if this son does not dislike it, the old nun is willing to take the son to the temple for a walk." ”

"Oh, if that's the case, then there's a teacher. Li Xiuyuan replied.

The middle-aged nun smiled: "This is a gesture, the son is serious, the son is here, please." ”

After speaking, he gestured, showing great enthusiasm.

Li Xiuyuan nodded, and prepared to follow this nun to this Guanyin Temple for a visit.

If you don't go shopping, how can you find this god hidden in the Guanyin Temple, and if you don't find the god, how can you ask about Qiao Nu.

"Young Master, this nun is not like a monk, if she is a nun, she will definitely call the eldest young master a donor, but she has always called the eldest young master a son, if she has been a monk for a long time, it is impossible not to change the title, and the eldest young master, you look at her shoes. ”

The guard's footsteps were quick, and he whispered in his ear beside Li Xiuyuan.

Li Xiuyuan's eyes moved, and he looked at the nun's feet.

But I saw that the feet under the wide plain clothes were wearing a pair of embroidered shoes, not cloth shoes for monks and nuns.

Looking at it this way, this nun is indeed very suspicious, not like a nun who is a serious monk, but like a woman who temporarily wears plain clothes and dresses up as a nun.

"This son, what are you staring at the poor nun's feet?"

The nun seemed to be quite sensitive, as if she had noticed Li Xiuyuan's gaze, and as soon as her steps stopped, she turned her head and pursed her lips and smiled, not annoyed.

Li Xiuyuan didn't mean to be a thief, but looked at her squarely and said: "Although this master is a monk, she seems to be impure, and since she is in the empty door, why don't you wear plain clothes and cloth shoes, but wear such a pair of fancy embroidered shoes?"

Since he found out, he simply asked directly.

The nun smiled and said: "The monks wear a hundred family clothes, naturally they also have to wear a hundred family shoes, the women in the county give this pair of embroidered shoes to the temple, the poor nuns can not abandon them, in order to avoid waste, they have to wear them on their feet, do you think it is inappropriate? ”

Li Xiuyuan felt a little reasonable when he heard this: "What Mrs. Shi said is, it seems that I am too obsessed. ”

When others use the Dharma to argue, he is powerless to refute it.

I don't even count myself as a cultivator, so I don't know anything about Buddhism.

"It's good that Childe can understand. ”

The nun smiled and said: "Come, Childe here, please, along this corridor, there is the treasure temple in the temple, those over there are the meditation rooms where the monks in the temple rest, as for the front is the Liberation Temple, every year there will be a release ceremony here, but unfortunately the son is unlucky, this year's release ceremony has passed." ”

"The Guanyin Temple is not big, and I went back to the main hall after turning around from there. ”

As she walked, the nun pointed to several buildings in the temple.

This Guanyin temple is indeed not big, only the big hall is splendid, magnificent, but the back is quite simple.

It's just that...... Li Xiuyuan felt that something was wrong.

Because when he rode a dragon horse over the Guanyin Temple last night, he clearly saw that the Guanyin Temple occupied more than that, how could it be that there were only a few simple Zen temples and treasure temples, which were completely unreasonable.

Besides, it is impossible to be wrong with his eyes, and if the extra place is the place where the ghosts and gods live, then it is a different matter, but yesterday he did not see the abode of the ghosts and gods condensed with incense.

But just when he was confused, when he passed by the release pond, he suddenly saw a series of small bubbles rising in the water.

I thought it was just an ordinary blister, after all, it's normal to bubble in the pool.

However, just under the water, Li Xiuyuan saw a miserable little white face.

It was a baby's face.

It was impossible to tell if it was a baby boy or a girl, but the baby raised its little face under the water, pouted, and spat blisters.

After seeing Li Xiuyuan approaching, he seemed to be frightened, and the baby immediately quickly dived into the depths of the pool and disappeared.

Li Xiuyuan's footsteps stopped, and his eyes were a little solemn.

The baby was not a living baby, it was the soul of the infant after death.

"Master, are there any children drowning in this release pool?" asked Li Xiuyuan.

The nun's smile stiffened slightly: "Why did this son ask like this?" ”

Li Xiuyuan said, "It's just a casual question." ”

The nun said: "This is the release pond of the temple, and only some fish and turtles and other creatures will be released, how can there be children drowning in the pool, Gongzi is too worried." ”

"Well, I was abrupt. Li Xiuyuan said.

But his eyes were always in the release pool, searching everywhere.

Suddenly, he saw the souls again next to a railing where the sun did not shine, this time not the infants', but the souls of four or five-year-old children, and there were four of them, and the souls of these four children were attached to the side of the release pool, swaying slightly, their faces were pale without a trace of blood, and their eyes were also very empty, and there was resentment in them.

"There's a pool over there, what's next to it?" asked Li Xiuyuan to the guard.

One of the guards glanced at it and said, "Young Master, there are four small fish attached to the grass by the pool. ”

Li Xiuyuan's heart sank.

It's Taoism.

Someone used Taoist techniques to cover up the true face of the unjust soul.

The little fish in the eyes of the guards has become the soul of a child in his eyes, which is obviously abnormal.

If it is really an ordinary soul, then the guards can't see anything, after all, the guards don't have the ability to see through yin and yang.

The unjust soul turned into a small fish, and if he covered it up like this, Li Xiuyuan immediately decided that there was a big strangeness in this Guanyin Temple.

If this is not the case, why would the souls in the pond be released and transformed into small fish to hide people's eyes and ears?

"Childe, what's so nice about this release pool, let's take Childe to look elsewhere. The nun next to her said.

Li Xiuyuan ignored it, but walked along the corridor with a solemn gaze, circling around the release pool.

When he turned to the shadow of a rockery in the center of the lake, he looked at the pool under the shadow, and immediately his eyes shrank suddenly, and he felt that his scalp was numb, and he was frightened and took several steps backwards.

But I saw that the water in the shadow was densely exposed with small heads, there were three or four months old baby souls, one to five or six years old children's souls, and eighteen or nineteen years old, to more than twenty years old women's souls, these souls leaned together one by one, hugged each other tightly, hiding in the shadows behind the rockery, to avoid being exposed by the sun.

These unjust souls, large and small, add up to at least hundreds, because there are several layers of small heads underwater.

"Damn, this is a release pool or a killing pool. Li Xiuyuan clenched his fists tightly.

With so many babies and children's souls gathered here, how many people have died in this pool?