Liaozhai Great Sage

Looking at it this way, this nun is indeed very suspicious. She doesn't look like a nun who has become a monk, but a woman who temporarily wears plain clothes to dress up as a nun.

"Young master, why are you staring at the poor nun's feet?"

The nun seemed quite sensitive and seemed to have noticed Li Xiuyuan's gaze, stopped in her footsteps, turned around and smiled, without being annoyed.

Li Xiuyuan didn't mean to be guilty, but looked at her squarely and said: "Although this teacher is a monk, it seems that her six roots are not clean. Since she is in Buddhism, why is she wearing such a pair of fancy embroidered shoes instead of plain clothes and cloth shoes?"

Now that he found out, he simply asked directly.

The nun laughed and said: "The monks wear hundreds of clothes, so naturally they also wear hundreds of shoes. The women and girls in the county donate these embroidered shoes to the temple. The poor nun can't discard them. In order to avoid waste, they have to wear them on their feet." Come on, young master, do you think it’s inappropriate? You should know that there are Buddhist scriptures that say: There is no appearance of a person, no appearance of a self, no appearance of a living being, and no appearance of a lifespan. Now that you have become a monk, why should you pay too much attention to the appearance of your skin and flesh? Naturally, this dress is casual.”

When Li Xiuyuan heard this, he felt that it made some sense: "What the teacher said is that it seems that I am too sensual."

Others argue with Buddhism, but he is powerless to refute.

I don't even count as a cultivator, so I don't know any Buddhist principles.

"It's good that the son can understand."

The nun said with a smile: "Come on, sir, please, along this corridor, there is the treasure temple in the temple, and those are the meditation rooms for the monks in the temple to rest, and in front is the release of life. There will always be a life-release ceremony, but it’s a pity that the young master’s visit is unlucky, and this year’s life-release ceremony has already passed.”

"The Avalokitesvara Temple is not big, so I turned around from there and returned to the main hall."

While walking, the nun pointed at several buildings in the temple.

This Guanyin Temple is indeed not big, only the main hall is resplendent and magnificent, but the back is quite simple.

It's just... Li Xiuyuan felt that something was wrong.

Because when he passed by the Guanyin Temple on a dragon horse last night, he clearly saw that the Guanyin Temple occupies more than that. How could it be possible that there are only a few simple Buddhist temples and treasure temples? It is completely unreasonable.

Besides, with his eyes, it is impossible to make a mistake. If the extra space is the dwelling place of ghosts and gods, that is another matter. However, yesterday he did not see the residence built by ghosts and gods with condensed incense.

But when he was puzzled, when he passed by the release pool, he suddenly saw a series of small bubbles rising from the pool water.

I thought it was just an ordinary blister, after all, bubbling in the pool is normal.

However, under the water, Li Xiuyuan saw a pale little face.

It was a baby's face.

It was impossible to tell whether it was a boy or a girl. The baby raised his face under the water, pouted his mouth, and gurgled blisters.

After seeing Li Xiuyuan approaching, he seemed to be frightened, and the baby quickly dived into the depths of the pool and disappeared.

Li Xiuyuan stopped walking, his eyes were a little dignified.

The baby just now was not a living baby, but a ghost after the baby died.

"Master, are there any children who drowned in this release pool?" Li Xiuyuan asked.

The nun's smile froze slightly: "Why does this young man ask such a question?"

Li Xiuyuan said; "Just asking casually."

The nun said: "This place is the release pool of the temple, and only some creatures like fish and turtles will be released. How could there be children drowning in the pool? You are too worried, my lord."

"Well, I was the one who was abrupt." Li Xiuyuan said.

But his gaze has been searching around in the release pond.

Suddenly, next to a railing where the sun cannot shine, he saw the wronged soul again, this time it was not a baby's, but the wronged soul of a four or five-year-old child, and there were four of them, the four children's wronged soul posted Looking at the side of the release pool, it swayed slightly, his face was pale without a trace of blood, and his eyes were extremely hollow, filled with resentment.

"What's there next to the pool over there?" Li Xiuyuan asked the guard.

A guard glanced at him and said, "Master, there are four small fish clinging to the grass by the pond."

Li Xiuyuan's heart sank.

It is Taoism.

Someone used Taoism to cover up the true colors of the wronged soul.

The little fish in the guard's eyes became the child's wronged soul in his eyes, which is obviously abnormal.

If it is really an ordinary wronged soul, then the guards can't see anything, after all, the guards don't have the ability to see through yin and yang.

The wronged soul turned into a small fish, and Li Xiuyuan immediately believed that there was a big weirdness in the Guanyin Temple after such a cover-up.

If not, why bother to turn the innocent souls in the release pond into small fishes to cover up people's eyes and ears.

"Young master, what's so interesting about this release pool, poor nun, take your son to look elsewhere." The nun next to him said.

Li Xiuyuan ignored it, but walked along the corridor solemnly and circled around the release pool.

When he turned to the shadow of a rockery in the center of the lake and looked at the pool under the shadow, his eyes shrank suddenly, his scalp felt numb, and he took several steps back in fright.

But I saw that the underwater in the shadows was densely packed with small heads, there were three or four months old babies, one to five or six-year-old children, and eighteen, nineteen, to twenty-something girls. , These innocent souls leaned together one by one, hugged each other tightly, and hid in the dark behind the rockery to avoid being exposed to the sun.

There are at least hundreds of these innocent souls, large and small, because there are several layers of small heads under the water.

"Damn it, is this the life-release pool or the life-killing pool?" Li Xiuyuan clenched his fists tightly.

With so many ghosts of babies and children gathered here, how many people died in this pool?

Chapter 192 Musk

Li Xiuyuan looked at the dense swarm of wronged souls in the shadow, and after the shock in his heart faded, an inexplicable anger greeted him.

It is absolutely impossible for so many innocent souls to appear here for no reason, there must be a reason.

As for the reason, no matter what it is, it has nothing to do with the Guanyin Temple.

If it is a normal temple, although there are graves, there are absolutely no ghosts, because the eminent monks in the temple will chant sutras to save the ghosts, so the temple is the place where ghosts least haunt, unless the temple is in decline, the statues are collapsed, and the incense is not there. Now, there is no way for the gods to appear, and it is another matter that the temple is occupied by demons and ghosts.

But with such a prosperous incense in the Guanyin Temple, it is absolutely impossible for wronged souls to appear.

That is, if Avalokitesvara appeared, these souls would definitely be saved.

And if this happens now, there is only one possibility.

There are evil spirits and demons who use the name of Avalokitesvara to deceive the people, hide filth and kill people.

Only in this way can it be explained why there are ghosts everywhere in the Guanyin Temple where the incense is so prosperous.

This is still in broad daylight. If it is at night, Li Xiuyuan feels that there are probably more ghosts here than in the mass graves. This is not a temple, it's like a ghost town.

The thoughts in his mind turned sharply, and he made up his mind at this moment, he must check the situation in this temple today.