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Chapter 454 Old Monk (22)

The night was dark.

The stone steps in front of the main gate of Zhaoti Temple, "Yuanxingmen", are covered with moss, and the wooden temple gatehouse has been eaten by moths, and the "Yuanxingmen" plaque hanging on the forehead is still in order.

"Call-"

Su Wu and his party reined in their horses and stopped at the main entrance of the temple.

He jumped off the strong horse and led the horse up the stone steps in front of the main entrance.

Behind him, An Gang, Inoue family samurai and others led their horses to follow.

"Yuanxing Gate..."

Su Wu looked at the decayed and tall gatehouse. The soy sauce-colored gatehouse was densely covered with moth-eaten holes, and cracks connected the holes made by the moths, making the gatehouse look extremely unreliable. just collapsed.

There are many legends about the 'Yuanxing Gate' of Zhaoti Temple,

According to legend, this gate is woven by the hair of many monks in Zhaoti Temple.

The monks have been subject to precepts for a long time, and their hearts are extremely depressed. Their thoughts are filled with longing and nostalgia for the world of mortals, so that the threads of troubles on their heads grow wildly. Trim your hair once.

Those cut hairs, the fire is constantly burning, and the water cannot wash away.

It was piled up in the back mountain of Zhaoti Temple.

Finally, on a certain day, a large group of hairs drifted away with the wind, clinging to the original real "Yuanxing Gate", the hair penetrated the real "Yuanxing Gate", hollowed out the wooden structure of the gate, and made it become It became a strange gate made of hair.

Turned into a ghost!
This Li Gui specially picked out the beautiful young women.

Every month, when a young woman passes by the 'Yuanxing Gate', she will see the gate turned into a horror gate with black hair. Those hairs will wrap around the young woman, strip her clothes, Drag her into the hair gate and hair weaves a cocoon around her, making it part of the hair gate!

The six people brought by Su Wu were all men.

There is no young woman.

An Gang looked up at the plaque on Yuanxing Gate, and felt that this gate looked much more eerie than when he worshiped it more than ten years ago.

He said with emotion: "More than ten years ago, when I stayed in Zhaoti Temple, Yuanxingmen still looked majestic and majestic. After more than ten years, time has changed, and Yuanxingmen has become so decayed."

"More than ten years ago,
Has Mr. An Gang met Master Jianzhen in Zhaoti Temple? " Su Wu casually asked An Gang.

Leading the horse up the stone steps, and pushing open the two gates that were on the verge of breaking, the roof of the temple's front hall, left and right side halls, and apse appeared in sight.

An Gang followed Su Wu, and replied after hearing the words: "At that time, the incense of Zhaoti Temple was already getting worse day by day.

Master Jianzhen was nowhere to be seen.

I have never seen Master Jianzhen. "

Su Wu nodded, and looked at both sides of the stone road extending from Yuanxing Gate to the front hall - the stone palace lanterns, some of which had white candles burning.

——The Zhaoti Temple is still guarded by people.

It is also normal for the palace lanterns to shine along the road.

Su Wu tied the horse in the pine forest outside the gravel road, and everyone behind him followed suit.

He looked around and asked, "Where do the monks here live, we still need to inform them in advance, so as not to scare others."

"Yuanxing Gate is damaged like that,
There is no difference whether there is a door or not.

I think coming here is also a place where thieves and drunks often pay attention. The monks here should be used to seeing uninvited guests, so they shouldn’t be frightened by us, right? "An Gang fastened his horse and made a joke with Su Wu.

Su Wu smiled, and was about to speak, when suddenly a gust of dark wind passed by from the right back.

The gust of wind was extremely cold, passing over his neck, like hair brushing his skin!
He turned around suddenly!
The surrounding Inoue family samurai and Yasuna all frowned and turned their heads to look in the direction where the wind passed by——

Yuanxing Gate stood alone in the dark night, motionless, decayed and withered.

Su Wu stared at the portal, and saw that there seemed to be white, wriggling flesh worms in the holes eroded by moths.

He took a closer look,
Where are the meat worms in the holes?

The white flowers are just the natural color of the wood exposed after the paint on the surface of the wooden building is damaged.

"It seems that a gust of wind has just blown past.

Do you feel it? " Su Wu asked the crowd.

Everyone nodded.

"It seems that the reason why Zhaoti Temple's incense is withered may have a lot to do with the fact that the strangeness has really grown here." Su Wu said something, and then told everyone, "Be more vigilant."

"Yes."

The warriors promised,

His expression became more serious.

The group continued to walk into the monastery.

Passing the legend, there is often a front hall of an eminent monk who gushes out fire and beats the wooden fish frantically;

Check out the right side hall where the nude monk is suspected to be hanging on the beam;

Knock on the attic on the second floor of the nave, and it is said that there will be a copper bell with a girl's whisper.

……

After walking around the Zhaoti Temple, except for the first gust of wind that made Su Wu's back feel chilly, he never encountered any strange things in the Zhaoti Temple.

Those solid legends are not credible.

Not a single legend was fulfilled on this night.

Su Wu led the crowd to the backyard of the temple. Compared with the tall and solemn halls and buildings in the front hall and middle hall, the backyard suddenly became simple and crude.

The courtyard is surrounded by several meditation rooms.

In the corner, there is a latrine assembled from four wooden boards and a thatched shed.

Two fields have been reclaimed in the courtyard, and the vegetables grown in the fields have sprouted in this cold spring.

There is also a bucket and a small hoe beside the field that have not been taken away.

——The various decorations here all indicate that this backyard should be the place where the old monks who stayed in Zhaoti Temple lived.

An Gang found a stone pier in the courtyard and sat down, drinking the water from the kettle.

The Inoue family had four samurai scattered in every corner, consciously serving as sentries and guards.

Shan Qianye climbed up the towering gatehouse leading from the nave to the backyard, looking at the scene in the distance.

Seeing this scene, Su Wu didn't greet them.

He saw that there was still a small light in the meditation room next to him, so he held the big red lotus embryo in his hand, walked to the door of the meditation room, and called inside: "Is there anyone in the room?"

Shortly after the voice fell,
A vague voice sounded from inside the door: "Yes. Come in, people outside the door."

Su Wu's expression moved slightly, he opened the door and approached the meditation room.

inside the meditation room,
There was a long table against the wall in front of Su Wu's left side, and an oil lamp was lit on the table.

Behind the oil lamp, a haggard old monk sat cross-legged on a plank bed.

Behind him are two thin quilts stacked neatly at the corners of the bed against the wall. Apart from these, there are no extra decorations in the house.

The old monk flicked the darkness above his head with one hand, and it seemed that there were dense silk threads hidden in the darkness, which was stirred by his withered palm, and as the dense black thin threads flicked, the darkness swayed with it.

He raised his head slightly, and the darkness above his head shook again for a while.

Bright eyes focused on Su Wu.

"There is no place for you to sit in the hall.

if you want,
You can take my seat. "

The old monk smiled kindly at Su Wu, and while talking, he propped up the bed with one hand, his body swayed, and made room for Su Wu on the side of the bed.

How can there be a reason why guests sit on the kang when they come to visit for the first time?
Even though the old monk didn't care, Su Wu couldn't help it.

He shook his head and smiled, "No need.

Zen master, I am here this time because I have a few questions to ask..."

"I know, I know." The old monk nodded again and again, pointing to the seat he gave up, and said, "This seat is reserved for you, if you don't sit, won't it be empty all the time?"

It's just a place at the top of the kang.

Empty is empty, what does it matter?
Thoughts were spinning in Su Wu's mind, but he couldn't hold back the old monk's kind invitation, so he walked over and sat in the seat given by the old monk.

The moment I sat in that position,
He thought about it,
Suddenly realized something——

Su Wu turned his head and looked at the old monk beside him, the old monk was still smiling, and handed the Buddhist beads in his hand to Su Wu: "It's all here, the answers you want to know, the person you want to meet, are all here .

The boundless vows of all beings,
Endless worries and vows to end,
Vow to learn boundless Dharma,
Buddhism and Taoism supreme vows come true...

The boundless vows of all beings,
Endless troubles and vows to end..."

At this time, Su Wu realized that the old monk's head was not bald, but was covered with thick hair, and those hairs merged into the darkness, stirred in the darkness, turned into a black ocean!
As he handed the prayer beads to himself,

That ocean-like 'trouble silk' suddenly disappeared!

The old monk's head became bald.

He turned into golden light and suddenly disappeared from Su Wu's vision!

Su Wu was still sitting by the bed.

But the surrounding environment has undergone earth-shaking changes.

Or that Zen room,

The long table against the wall at the side of the meditation room has collapsed, and there is no oil lamp on the table.

He sat on the hard plank bed, but the thin quilts were missing from the bed.

On the four walls of the dilapidated house, there are some dried and shriveled radishes, some mottled and scrolled calligraphy and paintings whose contents cannot be seen clearly, and there is a big hole in the wall facing Su Wu!
Outside the cave, a samurai from Inoue's family stuck his head in and said respectfully to Su Wu: "My lord, there is no one living in this temple. The old monk from Zhaoti Temple who was originally in charge of guarding should not be able to stand the gloomy environment here. They all moved away.

I see that the vegetable field in the yard has been abandoned for a long time,
The latrine is also quite dry. "

Su Wu nodded, raised his palm, and held the Buddhist beads with a hint of warmth.

He stood up, frowned and walked out the door.

——In fact, the door of the meditation room has already collapsed.

In the backyard of the temple.

Shan Qianye is still guarding on the tallest gate tower,
The samurai stationed in the corner.

An Gang sat on a stone pier in the yard drinking water from the kettle.

Everything was the same as the scene before Su Wu entered the meditation room.

It seemed that the various scenes he experienced in the meditation room only occupied a certain moment in the elapsed time.

At the moment when Su Wu looked at the backyard,

Shan Qianye turned his head back, looked at Su Wu in horror, and opened his mouth to shout——

Around the backyard,

Suddenly ignited a raging fire!

"common people!"

The cold shout took a step ahead, and exploded in the backyard!
"Hand over the supreme sword!

You can leave the whole body! "

(End of this chapter)