magician in town

Chapter 13 Big Black Sky

After eating enough, Roach planned to find a place to rest for the night first, and talk about tomorrow's matter tomorrow.Originally, he didn't want to sleep in the ghostly house rendered by Guan Xinyue. No matter how you look at it, this place is considered a haunted house, but Du Zhengyi, who has not been baptized by human ghost stories, was too lazy to drive them back. .He couldn't drive, and Guan Xinyue, a kid, was not old enough to get a driver's license, so they were all stranded in the haunted house as soon as the driver picked him up.

Guan Xinyue didn't care, her family took care of her loosely, and she didn't have to go home just by making up an excuse.She has experienced so much herself. According to Roach's observation, she seems to be in a state of broken jars, and seems to be happy to have two mages accompanying her to live in her old house.In the end, only Roach was unwilling to live here, but he had to obey the democratic decision.

Guan Xinyue assigned them a place to sleep. She slept in her and her sister's room. His grandparents' room was naturally unlucky for juniors, and her aunt and uncle's room seemed particularly unlucky, so the remaining In this old house full of menacing appearances, even if he slept with Du Zhengyi, Luo Qi didn't have the heart to complain.

There was nothing to say all night.Roach woke up early the next morning, and he couldn't sleep well in this place, and Du Zhengyi didn't sleep on the bed this time.The early morning in the countryside is very quiet, with the sound of chickens and dogs barking in the distance, and the smoke from the cooking nearby, but this landscape and countryside is actually more suitable for viewing from a distance. Luo Qi was choked and coughed as soon as he went out.

"What year is it, do you still have to burn firewood?" He was indignant. "Why does your grandfather insist on living in the country?"

"The countryside is nice in summer." Guan Xinyue said.According to Du Zhengyi's request, she was leading them around the village slowly.

"Your grandfather likes the countryside so much. Does he like farming? Or does he like the simple customs of the countryside?" Luo Qi asked casually.

"He likes to be clean." Guan Xinyue said, kicking away a stone on the dirt road. "He lives here because the city is too noisy. He actually doesn't like to deal with his neighbors. Although he has lived here for many years, he has never talked to his neighbors."

"An old mage who hides from the world." Roach said casually.

Guan Xinyue raised her head and glanced at Du Zhengyi. The latter didn't seem to hear what the two of them were saying at all. He looked gloomy and couldn't wake up. "That's what your friend said yesterday. Is he... in a bad mood now?"

Roach said nonchalantly, "He's working, just concentrating."

"You don't have to work?" Guan Xinyue asked.

"I'm not a mage." Roach laughed.

Guan Xinyue looked at him sarcastically, "Why do I feel that since you think you are not a mage, you let yourself go all of a sudden?"

Roach is in a good mood today and is not angry.They went to the house of her uncle's mistress that Guan Xinyue accused. There was a big lock on the door, and a layer of dust fell on the lock. It seemed that no one came back for a long time.

On the way back without success, Guan Xinyue still didn't give up studying the two young mages, "Roch, you said you were not a mage, but when your friend fell into hallucinations yesterday, you were the one who woke him up."

"You can, too," Roach said. "It's just a predetermined set of awakening mechanisms. Let's just say it's the Requiem itself that plays a major role. We all had the same training in school, Requiem The song is like a signal, as long as we hear the recitation, the mind will realize by itself that what we see is an illusion, and we will be freed from being deceived."

"Then if we humans are hypnotized..." Guan Xinyue said sensitively.

"That would be miserable." Roach said vaguely, unwilling to go further.He raised his head and saw the short yellow wall of the temple. It turned out that he had already circled around and returned to the vicinity of Guan's house.

The gate of the temple has been opened, and an old man is sweeping the yard.The temple glimpsed in the twilight of yesterday is very clear at this moment. It is a rough modern retro building, painted with dazzling golden roofs, blue rafters and red walls, and there are some careless traditional paintings on the rafters.Several ropes are tied under the eaves, one end is tied to the ground, and colorful prayer flags are wrapped around them.

Luo Qi's heart moved, and he asked Guan Xinyue, "Isn't Tibetan Buddhism only using prayer flags?"

Guan Xinyue was very uncomfortable standing at the gate of the temple, and then Luo Qi said softly, "And the offering here is not Sakyamuni, but Mahakala."

Roach glanced at her in surprise, she shrugged, "I don't really understand, but my family says it's weird here."

"A cult?" Roach asked.

"Hush!" Guan Xinyue exhaled in horror, and stabbed Luo Qi's ribs with her elbow, "You're standing at the door of someone's house, don't talk nonsense."

Luo Qi clutched his ribs and looked at Du Zhengyi as if complaining.

Du Zhengyi shook his head inexplicably, "Since I think this place is the most suspicious, I have to figure it out sooner or later. Now that there are few people, let's go in and have a look."

Roach couldn't wait for the sound, so he stepped in excitedly.Guan Xinyue immediately seized the opportunity, triumphantly turned around and complained to Du Zhengyi, "Look, doesn't he still dare to cross the threshold first? You shouldn't have pity him yesterday, just let him freeze to death."

"Hurry up and worship Buddha." Luo Qi pretended not to hear, and strode forward, "Guan Xinyue, do you want to seek a marriage?"

"This is not Yuelao Temple." Guan Xinyue said, but she didn't dare to make too much noise, she glanced around suspiciously.

The three of them walked into the small courtyard of the temple, but no one came up to pay attention to them. The door of the main hall was open to them, and two rows of dim ever-burning lamps swayed in the depths of the temple.

Luo Qi swallowed a little nervousness. The threshold of the temple gate was very high, and there was a half curtain hanging on the door frame, with stains and stains on it.He lifted the curtain to let Guan Xinyue go first, and noticed that she passed sideways in a very awkward posture, for fear of getting dirty on the curtain.He didn't forget to laugh at the right time, and then hurriedly followed, and looked around anxiously. When he saw the Buddha enshrined above him, he couldn't help taking a step back, avoiding his sight reflexively.

Guan Xinyue quickly seized the opportunity again, and sneered tit-for-tat, "I'm so timid. I told you a long time ago, what is worshiped here is not Buddha, but Daheitian."

Luo Qi breathed a "hiss" as if he had been burned, and was about to respond when he was slapped by the person behind him.

It was Du Zhengyi who finally couldn't take it anymore. "Are the two of you accumulating your own shame points? Are you accumulating enough points to exchange for nail clippers?"

Luo Qi laughed heartlessly, and was beaten again by Du Zhengyi.

"Be quiet, don't disturb my concentration, or go outside and have a good fight." He said in a low voice.

Luo Qi whispered dissatisfied, "But this place is too strange, right? Even if there is a big black sky, at least it must be a Buddha. This mud horse with three heads and six arms is black, and it is either a ghost or a Yaksha?"

Du Zhengyi didn't answer. No matter what the offering was, it was the same for him, who entered the temple for the first time. What he cared about was that there were no remaining energy fluctuations here.

Guan Xinyue couldn't help but educate Luo Qi, "It's too uneducated. The Mahakala of Tibetan Buddhism is like this. Besides, you can't put Yasha and evil ghosts on the same line, right? Ghosts are ghosts, but Yasha The god of Dharma protection listed in the eight divisions of Tianlong."

Luo Qi's expression immediately became very rich, "I only know that the male yakshas in the yaksha clan are born like evil spirits, and the female yakshas are very human-like."

"You mean you're calling me a hag, right?" Guan Xinyue looked at Luo Qi, narrowing her eyes dangerously.

Du Zhengyi couldn't take it anymore, "Shut up."

Both Luo Qi and Guan Xinyue closed their mouths resentfully, Du Zhengyi pushed them from behind, "If you have too much time, you can go to the front together to worship... the world."

Luo Qi and Guan Xinyue exploded together.Guan Xinyue cursed vaguely, and Luo Qi muttered, "You don't let us talk, you still flirt".

"I'm sorry," Du Zheng half-truthfully said, "I don't know much about this part of the culture."

The three of them became quiet and looked at the main hall of this small country temple together.The size of this room is only about fifty square meters. There is an altar on the front, offering lotus flowers and joss sticks, and several half-worn futons are spread on the floor.There are no Dharma protectors in the east and west directions, and there are no arhats behind, and only the statue of Mahakala is enshrined here.Instead, the walls on the east and west sides are covered with paper books, a bit like the account books of the past. A string of Buddhist beads is worn on the upper left corner of each book, and these paper books are hung on the wall by Buddhist beads.

Luo Qi suppressed his curiosity, first went up and made a few random obeisances for peace of mind.Guan Xinyue's expression clearly showed some fear, she raised her head and looked at the god for a moment, she was a little dazed, and she didn't know what she was thinking, but she never went to worship.

Du Zhengyi is a complete alien here. He has no taboos or awe. First, he went to the wall to read those papers.

After Luo Qi worshiped the Buddha, he got up from the ground and talked to Guan Xinyue in a low voice, "I think this place is a cult at all. Don't you think that everything here is different from an orthodox Buddhist temple? By the way, you are so old Little, have you been to other temples before?"

"I went to Lingyin Temple when I was traveling." Guan Xinyue came back to her senses and said, she turned around and walked to Du Zhengyi's side, and asked in a low voice, "Did you see what this is?"

As soon as Du Zheng turned around, he looked confused.Luo Qi hurried over, took the book from him, and read it out softly—"Dahetian bless my chickens to sell for a good price this year."

He made a "tsk", it really can't be blamed for Du Zheng being confused, he was also a little bit.He reached out and went to a high place to open a notebook, "Dahetian blesses the road in front of my house to be rebuilt this year."

He shook his head and flipped through a few more notebooks. Some of the notebooks were written in great detail, and the trivial words were scribbled and smeared. In the end, it could still be boiled down to making a wish.Some wishes are difficult to express in words, for example - "Want a signed photo of Lu Han? Guan Xinyue, you wrote this?"

Guan Xinyue stood with her arms folded, squinting at the wishes all over the wall, sighed, and ignored him.

Luo Qi continued to search in endless wishes, "My family's conditions are really poor, my husband's salary is not high, I don't have a job, I have two children to support, and I lost my mobile phone recently... She wants a mobile phone? She and Da Hei Tian wants a mobile phone?"

"Unbelievable." Guan Xinyue murmured.

Luo Qi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly threw away the paper book at hand, jumped up and ticked off the top one.This row of paper books are all black, wearing red sandalwood-colored beads, a book full of words, crooked handwriting, describing how a man was betrayed by his wife.Even though Roach has always had infinite curiosity, he was impatient with this cynical and superficial text.The page turned faster and faster in his hands, until the last paragraph, he stopped and read it several times.The man didn't directly ask what result he wanted, and the desire to kill didn't seem to be easy to write out directly, but the meaning was evident between the lines.

The paper almost started to feel hot in his hand, he hissed again, touched Du Zhengyi, and handed the paper to him.Du Zhengyi read it carefully and with great interest.Luo Qi really didn't know if it was because it was rare to see such a spiritual monologue in the mage world, or because Du Zhengyi was actually very gossip.He looked at Guan Xinyue again, the little girl didn't even touch those paper books, as if everything here made her feel sick.

As soon as Du Zheng closed the paper, he quickly turned his head, "How is it?"

"Interesting." Du Zhengyi said, "If you made a wish with a god or Buddha, what wish would you make?"

"Better?" Roach said.

Guan Xinyue "cut" him, and Du Zhengyi seemed to want to bear it, but he laughed out loud. "Guan Xinyue, if you could make a wish, what would it be?"

"World peace." Guan Xinyue straightened her expression, and said something that didn't make much sense.

"You have a great wish!" Roach said. "I thought you would wish the dead to be reborn."

"How is that possible?"

"It's impossible to achieve world peace?" Roach said, "There is still a chance to make me more beautiful."

"I found that sometimes," Guan Xinyue said with a frown, "you are extremely disgusting. About every five minutes, I would have the idea of ​​beating you to death, which is very detrimental to my practice."

Luo Qi smiled honestly, "You can grant this wish. It is not easy to bring the dead back to life, but it is more feasible for the living to die."

"Stop talking nonsense." Du Zhengyi interrupted the two of them, "But Roach, you are right."

"What do you mean?" Roach said. "You want to beat me to death too? It's so sad."

"I can beat you to death myself, I don't need to come here to make a wish." Du Zhengyi said, "But look, I want a mobile phone, a signature, money, road repairs, and even My ex-wife is unlucky, and these are wishes that are easy to come true. I think if there is an omnipotent god, it would be more reasonable to make some wishes that cannot be fulfilled no matter how hard you try.”

"That's right." Roach said after thinking, "Get promoted and get rich, and live forever, that's worth promising."

Guan Xinyue's expression turned very ugly in an instant, "Is there someone who wants his ex-wife to be unlucky?"

Du Zhengyi and Roach looked at each other.

"Are you okay?" Roach asked in a low voice, looking at her carefully with some concern, "You must not break down at this time."

Guan Xinyue's breathing was a little short, she bit her lips tightly, expressions of anger and fear alternated on her face.Roach reached out and grabbed her forearm, and the weight of her body tilted over, relying on Roach's support to maintain balance.

"It's okay," she said with a pale face, "I just feel a little nauseous."

Du Zhengyi frowned, "Can't both of you hear such a loud motor vehicle noise?"

(End of this chapter)