Chapter 41: The Temple of Greed [Second Update]
An hour ago.
In the pouring rain, the boy in Tsing Yi who was pregnant with Lin Xiuran's yellow rune paper, regardless of the pouring rain, ran out of the dilapidated house where he lived in the rain and broke into the dark night.
Heavy rain and muddy roads engulfed him in an instant.
His grandfather sat in the room with a blue nose and a swollen face, dazed, not noticing that he had run out of the house.
The boy in Tsing Yi is called Lu Wenyan, a double-mouthed Lu, a soft-spoken "Wen Yan".
Although Grandpa has no money and is addicted to gambling, he often makes them hungry, but he is a half-baked reader, knows a lot of poetry and songs, and gives their brothers and sisters a few names, not as ugly as those beggars next door "A cat and a dog".
His name is the same as his sister.
His name is Lu Wenyan, and his sister's name is Lu Xiaoyu, and they are Wenyan in whispering.
But now, his sister is sick, coughing badly, not getting better for a few days, and is dying.
Grandpa lost the silver ingots he had obtained from his book in the gambling house, and that day, they could not eat a single meat dish, and now, the family has no money to treat his sister.
My sister has been lying in bed for three days, coughing more and more, and she is about to die.
And grandpa, just now I went to borrow money, but he came back with a blue nose and a swollen face.
He went to the gambling house to borrow money, and the group generously lent it to him, but when they heard that the money was not for gambling, but for the treatment of people, the group snatched the money back, and beat his grandfather, and beat him to the point that his nose and face were swollen.
Grandpa came back with a blue nose and swollen face, and the last bit of hope for Lu Wenyan, a boy in Tsing Yi, was also dashed.
So, he braved the rain and ran into the wind and rain and mud.
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He was very afraid of thunder and rainy days, or rather, very annoying.
Every time there was thunder and rain, the ring finger of his left hand would hurt his heart, and that pain was ten times more painful than his grandfather pumping the rattan on himself.
At this time, he would curl up on the bed and bite it with his teeth, so that he would feel better.
But now, he couldn't care about that.
His sister was coughing to death, and he couldn't hide in the house and do nothing.
In the wind and rain, there was something that could save his sister's life.
It's a bag of silver, in a ruined temple.
Ten days ago, there was another pouring rain, and he died of pain in bed due to the pain in his fingers, but his grandfather thought he was lazy and beat him.
He ran away from home in a rage, and when he passed by a ruined temple, he happened to see a man sneaking in the ruined temple with something hidden.
At that time, he hid in the shadows for a long time, and was very sure that the bag that the man had hidden was silver.
He was naturally a little moved, but he was also a pure-hearted child, and he knew that he couldn't take anything that wasn't his own, so after lingering at the door for a long time, he finally left, and he didn't go into the temple to get the ill-gotten gains.
But now, everything is different.
If he did not take it, his sister would have fallen ill and died.
Between his sister's life and morality, Lu Wenyan, a boy in Tsing Yi, will undoubtedly choose the former, nothing is more important than his sister's life.
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In the pouring rain, Lu Wenyan, a boy in Tsing Yi, stepped on the muddy road with one foot and one shallow foot, and rushed towards the broken temple.
He was so wet that he couldn't even open his eyes, like a weed on the side of the road, and it was difficult to be blown down by the wind and rain.
Even the pain in the fingers of his left hand couldn't stop him.
He stepped through uninhabited alleys, waded across the rain rapids, and finally arrived at the ruined temple in the middle of the city.
On a rainy day, few people go out, let alone the almost uninhabited temple in the east of the city.
"Quack—quack—"
The surroundings were dark and eerie, and the crows in the rain were like ghosts.
Lu Wenyan swallowed his saliva, drenched all over, and slowly approached the broken temple.
He followed his grandfather and mixed in the market for a few years, but stealing money was the first time he did it!
Somewhat, a little nervous.
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"You don't go in, there's dirt there. ”
When Lu Wenyan was tiptoeing into the room, a voice suddenly sounded.
It was a beautiful female voice, like a oriole.
Lu Wenyan suddenly turned around, but immediately said "wow-wow-" and was scared half to death.
The woman's appearance was terrifying.
She wasn't standing, she was lying on her stomach, lying on a tattered cart, sliding on the ground by the sliding of her arms, and she, in addition to being lame, was missing an arm.
The most important thing is her face.
That look, it's too scary, like someone has slashed many knives, the skin and flesh are turned out, and he shuddes when he sees the old scars, and the eye on her left, I don't know if it's blind, or it's stuck in the sludge, which makes people feel terrible when they see it.
After all, Lu Wenyan was just a seven or eight-year-old child, and when he saw this female beggar who looked like a ghost, he couldn't help but retreat again and again, wanting to hide in the ruined temple.
But the beggar said in her beautiful voice, "I'm not a ghost, don't be afraid of me, I'm ...... I'm just ugly, listen to me, don't go in, there are man-eating monsters in that temple, if you go in, you won't be able to come out, believe me, little doll, go home quickly!"
"You...... You lied to me!"
Lu Wenyan couldn't believe the ugly and scary woman in front of her.
Although her voice is very good, she may have been a gentle and touching woman, but her current appearance is too scary, making it difficult for Lu Wenyan to believe her.
"Little doll, did you see a person hiding silver in the temple outside the temple, or did you see a beautiful woman smiling at you inside? I've been here for more than a year, and I've seen many people who want to go into the temple and get things, but none of them can come out. ”
The ugly female beggar used her only remaining palm to push the tattered cart under her and approached Lu Wenyan.
"You...... You also saw that the man came to hide the money, right, you came to rob me of the money, I ...... I can't give you the money, my sister is sick, very sick, I have to find her a doctor and get her medicine!"
Lu Wenyan shook his head stubbornly.
The black and dark temple of the ruined temple was indeed eerie and terrifying, but he didn't seem to have any other choice.
"Good girl, little doll, give me your hand!"
The woman approached Lu Wenyan little by little, and just as she was about to reach his hand and pull him back from the door, Lu Wenyan dodged and ran into the ruined temple with a ruthless heart.
The woman grabbed Lu Wenyan's hand and grabbed an empty one, only a handful of rain.
"Get out of here, silly boy, the monster will eat you. ”
The broken temple was black and did not respond.
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In the east of the city, it was pouring rain and muddy roads, and there were two people walking.
One tall and one short, one strong and one thin.
Each of them carried an oil-paper umbrella, one of them holding a torch to light the way, and the other carrying a bucket of kerosene.
It was the two of them, Qiu Da and Wei Su.
Qiu Da carried the kerosene barrel and said with some dissatisfaction: "Wei Su, in the middle of the night, and it rains so heavily, what are we carrying this barrel of kerosene for?"
"Go burn a temple. ”
"Fart, such a heavy rain, can you light a fire?"
"Then we'll wait until the rain stops and everything else is dry before setting fires. Wei Sudao.
"Phew, then why don't we pick a sunny day and come over again, and have to come over in the middle of the night?"
"Because I'm afraid that if I'm one step too late, another person will die in that ruined temple. We might as well just stand there and wait, and when the rain stops, we will burn the temple!"
Wei Su held a torch in his hand, illuminating the path ahead, and continued to walk briskly forward.
"Why do we burn down that ruined temple and bury our lives? What's in that ruined temple?"
Qiu Da carried the bucket of kerosene and shouted loudly, startling all the crows on the side of the road.
"It's a 'greedy temple', there, harmful monsters!"
"'Greedy Temple', what is a greedy temple, how do you know that there is a greedy temple in the east of the city?"
"I saw it when I was passing by just now, I was inside, I saw Fairy Lin! She took off her veil and smiled at me, she looked as beautiful as I imagined!"
Wei Su held the torch and said expressionlessly.
He quickened his pace.
"Phew, Fairy Lin can't be a beautiful woman, she must be an ugly monster, and the broken temple must be greedy. Fuck, let's go and burn it!"
When Qiu Da heard this, he scolded loudly.
The walking steps were faster than Wei Su, but the bucket full of kerosene did not spill half a bit!
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