13 last bus 2

Chapter 264 Sick Tree
This temple is more than a few hundred square meters. There are not many temples of this scale even in the front mountain, but it is really incredible that they are built in the back mountain.

The temple gate was severely deformed by the snow, one of the two wooden doors was rotten, and the other was concealed. The characters on the edge of the plaque had faded, but it was still recognizable: Crooked Neck Laomu Temple, five large characters.

According to legend, the old mother with crooked neck is one of the 32 incarnations of Guanyin Bodhisattva, which is very effective.However, the most famous ones have always been those enshrined in Qingyan Temple in Liaoning. Unexpectedly, there are also on Zhongnan Mountain.

It's quite a distance from Xiaoyan's detention place to here. Chen Chen has been looking for the footprints left by Yu Xuzi when he came to deliver the altar, but even now at the gate of the temple, he still hasn't found anything.

The snow in the back mountain is deep, even if it snows heavily these days, it will not be there. There are no traces near the temple gate. Could it be that this is not the only gate to enter the temple?

Chen Chen put the little wolf cub down, took a short rest, and asked him:

"Boy, what's the matter, do you smell anything?"

The cub turned his head from side to side, as if he was trying to search for the smell in the air, but he shook his head in vain for a long while.

It seems that this little wolf cub's nose is not as sensitive as his mother's. The big sister wolf can smell the six gates hundreds of miles away from Dongkui County. where?
Chen Chen pondered in his heart, wondering whether he was reliable or not, or, the smell of this person and the smell of Hun'er were completely different things!
After resting for a while, after recovering some physical strength, Chen Chen began to clear the snow in front of the temple gate with the short shovel prepared in advance.

The cub was playing the flashlight, and he was honest at first, but later, he didn't know what he found, and he turned around from time to time to look back into the woods.

Chen Chen was full of enthusiasm, glanced at him, and asked:
"Hey, what do you always peek behind?"

The cub stared at him, and made two gestures next to his ear with his left hand.

"there's noise?"

Seeing him nodding, Chen Chen put down his work and glanced behind him.

It's pitch black around here, except for the area illuminated by the flashlight, nothing can be seen outside the aperture.

"Maybe it's the sound of leaves blown by the strong wind, it's okay!"

After comforting him, Chen Chen continued to lower his head to clear the snow.

After being quiet for a while, the little wolf cub seemed to be stimulated by something, and suddenly turned his head away. Seeing that he was so sensitive, Chen Chen finally became concerned, and deliberately scanned the woods with a flashlight, but he really couldn't see anything unusual.

"What happened to you?"

The little wolf cub became cautious, afraid that he would not understand, so he deliberately slowed down to show Chen Chen the same.

"You mean, someone?" Chen Chen understood what he meant and blurted out, then narrowed his eyes and glanced back more carefully.

There are many hundred-year-old trees in this old forest in the back mountain. If someone is hiding behind the thick trunk and does not observe closely, it is really not easy to find. ?

Thinking of this, Chen Chen shivered suddenly, hurriedly speeded up, cleaned up the snow in front of the door, and pushed open the door of the old mother's temple
No one asks questions in the thousand-year-old temple, and ghosts come to search for it in the middle of the night.

Presumably this Old Mother Temple used to be a place where incense was flourishing. Behind the gate was a square courtyard, and in the middle of the courtyard stood a huge copper-colored incense tripod.

Xiang Ding was facing a spacious hall without a door, the hall was empty, there was no golden statue anymore, I don't know what Xiaopingtou said, did the stolen crooked-necked mother seem to have been offered here before!

Immediately on the right side of the temple there is a sick and dead tree, the bark is black, the trunk is full of holes, and there are small holes as thick as a finger everywhere.

There is a deep path leading to the backyard beside the big tree.

Chen Chen looked around and found a very strange thing. Outside the temple gate, there was snow up to his waist, but inside the open-air compound, there was only a thin layer of clear snow. He looked up at the night sky, and sighed When it snows, do they all go around the temple?
For some reason, the little wolf cub suddenly became a little frightened. He grabbed the corner of Chen Chen's clothes and dared not let go. Chen Chen asked him again:

"Well, do you smell anything?"

He tilted his neck and glanced at the sick tree, then raised his hand and pointed behind the tree.

It seems that the more than 200 jars are all in the backyard, and they are aiming at them, and suddenly there is a "bang!" explosion from behind!
The temple gate is closed!

Chen Chen turned his head to look in shock, and saw that the two black doors were tightly fitted together. The most important thing was that there was no wind blowing around!
"Wow. Whoa"

With the sudden closing of the temple gate, a group of sleeping crows were disturbed, and they flew over Chen Chen's head together.

He has heard since he was a child that it is not a good thing for crows to get bigger, and at night, there are still such a large group of crows.
The little wolf cub kept pulling him forward, probably because he wanted to finish his business and get out of here as soon as possible. Chen Chen swallowed hard, pulled him towards the backyard.

There is only one flashlight, and the area that can be illuminated is extremely limited. This old mother temple is like a huge mouth of an abyss.

When the two of them tiptoed past the sick tree beside the path, the little wolf cub suddenly went uncharacteristically and quickly circled from Chen Chen's left to his right. He even covered his ears with both hands, urging him to hurry over!

Chen Chen didn't know the reason. When he strode over, he seemed to hear a faint "rustle" sound coming from the other side, and he couldn't help being surprised. Still alive in winter?

Passing through this path is the backyard. The backyard is not big, paved with blue bricks and covered with red tiles. There are three temples with closed doors.

The one on the north side is slightly larger, and the one on the east and west sides is slightly smaller. It is expected that the two hundred jars for pretending to be ghosts must be stored in these three rooms.

"Can you smell it, where is it?"

I don't know if it's because of the pollution from the jars, but this old mother's temple has completely lost its former glory. Instead, there is an evil spirit everywhere, Chen Chen doesn't want to open the doors one by one to check.

The little wolf cub moved his nose in one direction, first pointed to the big temple in the north, thought for a while, then changed direction to point to the east, and after a while, he pointed to the west in embarrassment.

"There are only three rooms in total, let you point them out."

Chen Chen was quick-witted, took out Grandpa Ke's socks from his pocket, handed them to the little wolf cub and said:

"Have you forgotten what the old man smells like, come on, let's recall memories!"

The little wolf cub didn't know, so he got closer and sniffed, his face turned green immediately, he quickly turned his head away and coughed and vomited!
Chen Chen also felt embarrassed, put away his socks and apologized:
"I'm sorry, but help me this time. When we go down the mountain, I will arrange for you well, so that you can taste the joy of being a child in the world!"

Needless to say, this trick was a bit of a loss, but it really worked. After sniffing the socks, the cub raised his hand without hesitation, and decided to choose the one at the west end.

Chen Chen walked in front, first went to the door and bowed three times, muttering softly:

"Ghosts and gods, I'm bothering you. As a last resort, take your things and leave immediately!" After finishing speaking, he slowly pushed open the wooden door.

"Squeak."

The light beam of the flashlight was full of dust, and Chen Chen bravely took a step inward.

There is still a golden statue on the altar in this temple, but the gold paint has peeled off badly, holding a ritual vessel, like a glaring Vajra.

Looking down, you can see that in front of the altar, there are a lot of jars, large and small.

Chen Chen glanced at them roughly, and shouted at them excitedly:
"Grandpa Ke, are you there? I'm here to pick you up!"

(End of this chapter)