Chapter 6: The Horror of the Temple

Leng Ruoya gulped down the "black sesame paste", and did not forget to make a grimace at Dawn, Dawn's heart fluttered, and suddenly felt a hand on his shoulder, he felt a pang in his heart, and said secretly:

"Why am I so careless, being a stranger in a foreign land, if it is for the enemy, what should I do?"

Dawn clasped the veins of the hand on his shoulder with a claw, and he turned around, only to see Ji Beiming glaring at him as if he had found a third eye in his eyebrows, and asked directly: "What are you stupid about? Your brain is not in the water, are you?

Dawn said: "I am only thirty-three years old this year, just in my youth, how can I be disrespectful to the old." ”

As they spoke, the two heard Leng Ruoya's strange elf-like crisp laughter again.

At this time, the ferry carrying passengers had docked, and a group of guests had crowded onto the boat one after another.

The two white-robed witches, I don't know when they have appeared in the crowd on the boat again, Xiao Xiao's heart moved, and he also wanted to squeeze into the boat, Ji Bei grabbed him, and said: "Aren't we going to the 'Seven Star Hall' and drinking the longevity wine of the old ghost in the sunken man? What are you going to do on the boat?"

Xiao Xiao glared, and said confidently: "Lao Tzu wants to cross the river and go to the 'Tianwu Sect' on the other side to worship God and pray for you Lao Bei to marry a wife and come to the aunt every day!"

Ji Beiming this time, he felt that Dawn not only gave birth to a third eye, but also had two golden and silver horns on his forehead, and he asked directly: "Hey-I said broken shoes...... No, I said Dawn, when did you become devout to the Buddha?"

Breaking Dawn sighed, pulled Ji Bei's life without saying anything, and grabbed the bow of the boat.

At this time, the boatman had already used the oars to prop the ferry away from the ferry and swing away from it.

The ferry crossed the river, everyone went ashore, the stone bank was overgrown with weeds, there was only a smooth path, the path led to hundreds of granite stone steps, and on the stone steps was the misty "Tianwu Sect".

Leng Ruoya followed the flow of pious pilgrims and went to the temple of "Tianwu Sect".

The granite steps, one level, and one level after another, have been slowly upward, as if they can never be climbed, as if they can not be walked endlessly, each stone step, because of the growth of moss, and cloth into different patterns, Leng Ruoya touched it with her little hands, the moss is still soft, wet, the girl said in her heart: "These moss...... I guess I can't eat it......"

An old woman in the crowd, probably because of her physical strength, stopped and gasped for a while after walking a few steps, which was quite difficult. Leng Ruoya was like a little rabbit, jumping up step by step, seeing the old woman staggering, she stopped to support her, and smiled happily: "Old woman, the stone steps are a little slippery, the girl will help you go." ”

The old woman said in a panic: "Arana is going to trouble Miss, Miss, you are really a kind person, when you arrive at the temple, your mother-in-law will make a wish to the great wizard for you, and bless you to marry a wishful husband in the future, full of children and grandchildren, rich and noble......"

Leng Ruoya said with a smile: "It's not uncommon for a girl to have a sorcerer manifestation, wishful thinking...... Oh, really, the girl heard that ...... 'Tianwu Sect''s 'ham and rice' is particularly delicious......" Speaking of "delicious", the three girls smiled shyly, blushed, and ran away chasing a colorful butterfly.

"What a playful child...... the old woman smiled, sat on the stone steps while resting, and looked at Leng Ruoya fluttering butterflies in the distance with a smile and laughing, looking, the old woman's wrinkled face was suddenly covered by two figures, the old man was startled, and struggled to raise his head and look up, it turned out to be two young, white, and beautiful white-robed witches.

"Allah, two wizards, you ......" The old woman was even more surprised and uneasy, owing the body of the old dragon bell.

This is already the realm of the "Heavenly Witch Sect", looking at the service of the two white-robed witches, I know that it is the female disciple of the "Heavenly Witch Sect", and the villagers and people in the vicinity respect the male and female wizards of the "Heavenly Witch Sect" as if they were gods.

However, to the old woman's surprise, the two white-robed witches in front of her both looked blank and indifferent, and they didn't look like wizards at all, and the old lady's heart couldn't help but be a little frightened.

I only heard a witch with a face like a peach blossom say: "Sister, what do you think of the girl in purple?"

I heard another witch with a lotus face say: "Although it is not a virgin, fortunately, the appearance is pleasing and the figure is also good, the owner has not tasted fresh goods for several days, I must like it very much." ”

The old woman was listening inexplicably, when she heard the witch who looked like a peach blossom and asked herself, "The girl in purple who catches butterflies is your granddaughter, right?"

The old woman subconsciously shook her head, and another witch with a lotus face, her eyes were as pale as a knife, she snatched the bamboo basket that the old lady was carrying in the crook of her arm, threw it down the stone steps, and the incense and candle offerings also rolled down.

When the old woman saw this battle, she was so frightened that the peach-faced witch looked around and no one noticed it, and kicked the old lady down with a kick from the side.

The old woman's rickety body rolled down all the way, and with the old lady's wail, she had rolled down hundreds of stone steps, and her forehead was full of blood.

The two young and white beautiful witches glanced at each other, and were about to turn their heads to walk up the stone steps, when they suddenly heard an old woman whispering under the stone steps, and the cold faces of the two witches showed a fierce look together.

The old woman was moaning in a low voice with blood on her face, and the witch who flew over made a cold "snort", raised her knee and stepped on it, stepping on the old woman's shriveled chest, and the old lady vomited a mouthful of blood, and died of exhaustion.

Leng Ruoya chased the colorful butterflies and played for a while, she was very happy and happy, but somehow, she always thought about the lonely, loving and poor old woman on the stone road, so she had no intention of chasing the colorful butterflies, and from the wild grass, jumped back to the stone steps, staring at the towering "Tianwu Sect" temple, and playfully chattered a "dog tail grass" in her small mouth , tiptoeing downward, waited for a while, and didn't see the old woman come up, so he couldn't help jumping down to find the old woman.

Suddenly, Leng Ruoya's bouncing and jumping and jumping and even jumping and jumping stopped-

I saw that on the stone steps, there were scattered incense and candle offerings on the ground, and under the stone steps, there was a large group of pilgrims of good men and women, and the steps and moss were more bloody in the big pool, and on the ground in the distance, the bamboo basket of the old woman was thrown alone under the soil slope.

Leng Ruoya felt that something bad was happening, but in her heart, she kept saying, "No, no...... The old woman is okay...... It must be my eyes...... "When she squeezed into the crowd to see, sure enough, it was the kind and lonely old woman!

Leng Ruoya hugged the old woman's body and cried sadly: "Mother-in-law, mother-in-law, what's wrong with you? Mother-in-law......

The pilgrims and passers-by around all said that Leng Ruoya was the granddaughter of the old woman who died suddenly, and they all made pitiful and sympathetic voices:

"Allah is really pitiful, an old woman, just say it's gone......"

"Allah, that's right, look at this little girl's crying pear blossoms with rain, lonely and pitiful, it's not ...... to see"

"Ala, for some reason, has been happening from the sky lately......"

"Allah, this is not to blame for the sins of the master of Shen Zongtang before, even his own daughter ...... it"

"Ala don't mention it, come to Tang Tianwu and spend one hundred and eighty taels of silver to pray for a 'peace charm' to bless the whole family with peace in and out......"

"Ah, lala, but this little girl, is there any other family? who will take her home and call someone to collect the old lady......

Leng Ruoya, who was sad and crying, heard the voices of the people around her, and was about to get up to explain that she was not the old woman's relatives, when she suddenly heard a calm and somewhat withdrawn female voice say: "This wizard knows this little sister, she and her grandmother depend on each other, and now she is no relatives and no reason, since this old woman unfortunately had an accident in front of our sect, the old man's funeral will be taken care of by my sect, as for this poor little sister, our sect master, Tang Dawu Sect, will take good care of her ......"

Leng Ruoya raised her eyes and saw that it was one of the two young white and beautiful white-robed witches in the crowd who spoke, she couldn't help but feel a little strange, and secretly wondered: "Why is this witch talking nonsense with her eyes open...... and then felt that someone gently stroked her hair, and couldn't help but have tears in her eyes, and when she looked back, she saw another witch, looking at her very kindly and lovingly.

The good men and women around heard and saw the "kind words" and "righteous deeds" of the female disciples of the "Heavenly Witch Sect", and they all said:

"It's great that Allah has the sorceress of the 'Heavenly Witch Sect' to take care of this poor little sister......"

"Allah, the big guy can finally rest assured, these two grandparents and grandchildren are really pitiful......"

"Little sister Ala, don't be too sad, the Tang Great Witch Sect of the 'Heavenly Witch Sect', that's a big immortal ......"

"Allah's 'Heavenly Witch Sect' has done another good deed to accumulate virtue and do good......"

"Arara, the 'Heavenly Witch Sect' that helps the world and saves people, is not much better than the 'Seven Star Hall' that hurts the heavens and harms reason, isn't it much better for us people......"

In the flattery of the big guys, the peach-faced witch with eyes like knives said perfunctorily and politely: "The villagers have won the prize, the prize has been awarded, this is what our sect should do, what should be done, not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning." ”

Another lotus-faced white-robed witch also stroked the back of Leng Ruoya's head with her cold hands, and kept comforting the girl softly.

Leng Ruoya felt that these two witches were a little inexplicable, and she couldn't help but be suspicious in her heart, and the girl's eyes rolled, her round face changed, and she cried out loud and sad -

"Allah, how did my mother-in-law die?" Leng Ruoya "howled" while secretly observing the changes in the expressions of the two white-robed witches between her fingers.

"It should be that there is too much moss on the stone steps, and it is too slippery. The lotus-faced witch sighed and replied, "Your mother-in-law is old, her eyes are not good, her legs and feet are not dexterous, and she accidentally fell to her death." ”

Leng Ruoya cried and said: "You guys are talking nonsense, I don't believe it, those stone moss are green and green, so beautiful and delicious, so cute and fresh, how can they kill my mother-in-law......"

The peach-faced witch couldn't help her, and stepped forward to take her little hand, trying to move her away from the old woman's body.

"Little sister, let's go, let's take you to the 'Zong Temple' to wash and eat fasting, there is a delicious 'ham mixed with rice', your mother-in-law, we will let the believers carry it into the 'Zong Temple' to be buried well, and ask Lord Wu Zong to personally spend the soul of her old man." Another lotus-faced witch also came to pull up Leng Ruoya and said.

Leng Ruoya, who was crying like a tearful person, couldn't help but swallow her saliva secretly when she heard the "ham mixed with rice" in the other party's mouth, and kept asking, "Allah, how did my mother-in-law die?"

The peach-faced witch replied with an iron face, "We have all said that your mother-in-law fell and died. ”

Leng Ruoya still asked reluctantly: "Impossible, you liar! My mother-in-law is so decent, why did she fall?"

"The old man is old, and when he stumbles, that's a common thing, what's so strange?" the peach-faced witch's face began to become a little impatient.

At this time, outside the crowd, someone said: "My friend is dawning, and he is also an elderly man, why didn't I see him fall and die?"

Two white-robed witches, Huo Ran looked back, and saw two people outside the crowd, a tall and tall blood-clothed young swordsman with a hippie smile, and another middle-aged man in a long robe with a tense face, staring at the blood-clothed swordsman beside him viciously.

These two people, of course, are Ji Beiming and Dawn.

Dawn said angrily: "Lao Bei, you don't make fun of Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu forced you here, there is a certain reason." ”

Ji Beiming scolded with a smile: "Reason, your sister, or you are old and old......"

Dawn asked with a straight face: "Shen Zhongxia's old grandson, since the 'Hidden Weapon Competition' of the 'Justice Villa', I have dealt with him for more than ten years (see the volume of "Ming Weapon King"), right?"

Ji Beiming also replied "seriously": "It's enough, after more than ten years of hard work, your wife has been married for three." ”

"Let's get down to business!" Dawn said with a straight face: "Based on my two perceptions of that old grandson, in all fairness, what is Shen Zhongxia like?"

Ji Beiming didn't think about it, so he said: "To tell the truth, there are not enough heroes, there are more than heroes, in the 'Central Plains', the sky and the earth are lawless, and after going south, the martial arts and people in the two places of 'Yungui' can get stability for several years, which can be said to be all the merit of the goods." ”

"This is a fair evaluation!" Xiao Xiao said: "Ge Feng, the 'ghost king' who is also the leader of the 'southwest' martial arts, although he is also a martial arts master, especially using Gu to drive away ghosts, but he often kills and fights, causing the rivers and lakes of the 'southwest' generation to be turbulent. The 'Gu King' Shangguan Waist Dance and the 'Poison King' Tang Shao, whom he controlled, refused to admit defeat to each other and fought endlessly, which greatly reduced their strength; ”

Ji Bei said: "I must also admit that Shen Zhongxia has indeed done a lot of good deeds in recent years, at least so that the heroes and underworld people in the 'Yungui' area have not dared to kill innocents indiscriminately for several years, so as not to disturb the people, and under the banner of the righteousness of the 'Seven Star Hall', there are also many people who have changed their evil and returned to the right, abandoned evil and followed good, and at the same time, the 'Seven Star Hall' has made a lot of good contributions to building water conservancy, cultivating farmland, running schools and teaching, and giving medicine to doctors. ”

"Right!" Dawn high-fived and said, "In terms of Shen Zhongxia's personality, no matter how heinous this person was in the past, it seems that today, it is the prodigal son who has made more contributions than mistakes." ”

Ji Beiming also high-fived and shouted: "That's right." ”

Xiao Xiao's face turned, and he said: "In this case, all kinds of bizarre and absurd ghost things that happened in the area of 'Southern Xinjiang', on the surface, it seems that they are more or less inseparable from the old boy Shen Zhongxia, and the people on a blind date curse him, resent him, insult him, and even want to move out the eighteenth generation of his ancestors to greet him one by one, and seem to have forgotten his previous benefits and merits, you say that these people do not have a long conscience, let alone a long heart......

"That's right!" Ji Beiming said loudly and cooperatively: "Not only does it not have a long conscience, it does not have a long heart, it is simply a wolf's heart and a dog's lungs!"

The voices of the two people were extremely loud and bright, and they deliberately said it to others, and the pilgrims who were still slandering and scolding and squeezing out Shen Zhongxia just now all bowed their heads in shame at this time.

Dawn continued: "Nowadays, people are very snobbish, always regard the winner as the king and the loser as the villain, always forget the good and remember the evil, and judge the hero by success or failure, this kind of atmosphere is not only bad, but also quite hateful! Pitiful! Sad!"

Ji Beiming raised his long neck and said, "I heard that in one day, it will be the fortieth birthday of Master Shen, we have to go to Lord Shen to ask about this matter, so as not to be exploited by some 'villains'......"

When it came to the "villain", Ji Bei's blood-red eyes were like knives, and he stared at the two white-robed witches of the "Heavenly Witch Sect" intentionally or unintentionally, and the two witches each snorted coldly with unhappy faces-

Dawn squeezed her eyes like Leng Ruoya, who was covering her face and making a grimace at herself, and said, "However, before we find the Master of the Shen Hall, we might as well find one or two people who know about it, inquire about the general situation first, and understand the situation in many aspects, which is also excellent." ”

Ji Beiming immediately grasped the point and asked, "Who are the one or two insiders you are referring to when you say the old man with broken shoes?"

Dawn smiled and said, "One of them is naturally Tang Shao, the sect master of the 'Heavenly Witch Sect'!"