The heavens start from Maoshan

Zhang Heng entered Lanruo Temple to look for Yan Chixia.

I searched a few times, but couldn't find it, only found some traces of a fire in a main room.

Pick up the carbon ash.

Zhang Heng reckoned that the fire should have been started a few days ago, because the charcoal was covered with dust.

"Brother Zhang, didn't you find your friend?"

Ning Caichen walked in holding the book basket.

"Not here, maybe I went out to play."

Zhang Heng didn't care too much, because Yan Chixia liked to run around more, and it was normal not to find anyone, just wait a few days later.

As for danger.

Yan Chixia lives in Lanruo Temple, so why can't he live there?

It's fine if Grandma Shu doesn't come, but Zhang Heng won't let her go away with a smile.

Chapter 181: A piece of ice heart in the jade pot

Click! !

A thunder streaked across the night sky.

Outside Lanruo Temple, it was raining heavily.

In the temple, there was a bonfire in the main hall, and Zhang Heng sat cross-legged, drinking wine and roasting pheasants.

aside.

Ning Caichen caught the rainwater with a kettle and made ginger tea.

tata tao...

There were footsteps in the rain, and it sounded like there were a lot of people.

Zhang Heng looked up slightly.

I only heard the sound of footsteps, and there was a noise from outside: "A rich family passed by as promised. All the brothers waited for a whole day, but they didn't even get a hair. Today is a waste of time."

"Who says it's not, Sanmazi's intelligence is real, and I'll settle the score with him later."

"Let me tell you, brothers, Lanruo Temple is said to be haunted. Isn't it safe for us to live here at night?"

"What are you afraid of? We are not even afraid of officers and soldiers, but are we afraid of ghosts?"

Accompanied by discussions.

Seven or eight vicious men with swords pushed open the door of the main hall.

"Someone?"

The bandit headed by him was full of flesh, and there was a scar under the corner of his eye.

As soon as he entered the hall, he looked at Ning Caichen, then at Zhang Heng, and ordered to his subordinates, "Let's go to the back hall."

"Brother, how nice this place is, not only has it been cleaned, but also someone helped to light the fire."

A bandit said puzzledly.

"Stop talking nonsense."

Scarface stopped his subordinates and whispered: "Look at that white-clothed swordsman."

The bandits watched cautiously.

After looking at it for a long time, I didn't see why, so I couldn't help asking: "Boss, he is a little fairer, so what does that matter?"

"Wrapped in white, dressed as a nobleman, and stayed overnight in a deserted temple, with no dust on his body, what do you think?"

Scarface warned: "Look at his shoes, it's raining heavily and muddy outside, and the hall is full of dust, but his shoes are not stained with dust at all. If my expectations are not bad, we might meet an expert."

Upon hearing this, the bandits applauded: "Boss, you observe carefully, you are indeed our eldest brother."

"That's natural. You can live without everything in the rivers and lakes, but you can't live without eyesight."

Scarface warned the younger brothers: "Be nicer later, let's go to the back hall to light a fire and spend the night, no matter whether he is an expert or not, just treat him as one, it's better to be careful."

Whispering.

A group of bandits with fierce faces headed towards the apse nodding and bowing.

Seeing this scene, Ning Caichen was somewhat surprised: "Brother Zhang, that group of people looked extremely rude, but I didn't expect them to be quite polite."

Zhang Heng has sharp eyes and ears.

A group of people stood at the door and murmured for a while, but he heard it clearly.

It's just that he didn't like to show off, so he pretended he didn't hear what he heard.

"I see that you brought steamed buns in the bamboo basket, and I will give you half a chicken. After a while, eat and drink enough to sleep well. Don't come to this place of Lanruo Temple in the future."

Zhang Heng tore apart the roasted pheasant and divided Ning Caichen into half.

Ning Caichen thanked him again and again, and while eating, he asked: "Brother Zhang, why can't you come? I think Lanruo Temple is not bad. It's a big place, and it can also shelter you from the wind and rain. I also want to collect the money from Guobei County and come back to save money." Pay for the hotel and stay here at night."

Zhang Heng shook his head: "A place of right and wrong, don't stay for long, you will know at night."

Tick ​​tock, tick tock...

It's still raining.

Time passed slowly, and soon came the second watch, that is, after nine o'clock.

The rain outside became lighter, and the sound of frogs croaked one after another.

Zhang Heng sat meditating in the main hall, beside the bonfire, Ning Caichen fell asleep holding a straw.

"One crab, eight claws, the one as big as two pointed ends!"

Lanruo Temple is not small.

After passing the mountain gate, you can see the Daxiong Hall, followed by the Arhat Hall, and then a row of monk rooms.

Zhang Heng and the others lived in the Daxiong Palace, while Scarface and his bandit brothers lived in the Arhat Hall.

A little rain.

Accompanied by the sound of frogs, the faint sound of drinking and punching came from the apse.

woohoo woo...

A sudden gust of wind blew open the palace door.

Zhang Heng's eyes slowly opened.

Looking into the eyes, I saw a group of female relatives walking outside the door, including a lady with a veil, a maid supporting the lady, and two maids dressed as attendants.

"Son..."

Three steps and two steps.

The lady wearing a veil came to the Daxiong Palace, as if she had something to say to Zhang Heng.

But before she could continue, Zhang Heng interrupted her with a poem: "In the picture of misty rain in the forest in July, Menglan's guests are full of temples and solitary, no matter where the guests are, a piece of icy heart is in the jade pot."

The misty rain in July is as beautiful as a picture, and now the Menglan Festival is approaching, and even the lonely temple on the barren mountain is full of guests.

I don't ask why the guests come, and you don't ask me either.

I have a heart of ice hidden in the jade pot, which is not stained by dust.

"It's a tall man!"

Upon hearing such an answer, the veiled girl bowed her body, and said in a pleasant manner: "Grandma Shu's maidservant, Xiaoqian, has seen you."

After finishing speaking, he waved back and forth, and said again: "Young master, this Lanruo Temple is my grandma's territory. The son who comes is a guest. We won't disturb you too much, but please don't meddle in your own business, can you?"

Hearing this, Zhang Heng smiled and said, "I've heard of Grandma Shu's name, but the question is, what's an idle business?"

Nie Xiaoqian's voice became colder: "My grandma never killed people for no reason, and she never used force on others. If someone can escape the temptation of our sister's beauty, it means that his life should not be killed, and we will naturally let him go." One of the horses.

On the other hand, if he is obsessed with sex and has a good time with our sisters, as a price, he will save this life, and I hope the young master will not interfere. "

Zhang Heng thought for a while.

It seems to be the case.

In A Chinese Ghost Story 1 and A Chinese Ghost Story 3, there is the villain Grandma Shu.

Although this millennium tree spirit has a superb cultivation base and feeds on human blood as its own nourishment, it is still relatively measured in its actions.

It only kills those who stay overnight in Lanruo Temple and have sex with the female ghost in the temple, and does not go outside to make trouble.

For example, A Chinese Ghost Story 1, at 28 minutes and 30 seconds of this movie, Grandma Shu once said to Yan Chixia: "I killed all the damned people, and I didn't kill anyone who shouldn't be damned. We have been doing it for so long My neighbor, well water does not interfere with river water, why do you want to make trouble with me."

Yan Chixia's answer was: "Those people are greedy. If you kill them, I don't care. But this scholar has nothing to do. If you want to kill him, I don't care."

It can be seen from this that Yan Chixia lived in Lanruo Temple for several months.

Although I know that the tree demon kills people, but it kills the damned people who will be confused by ghosts. If you can resist the temptation, you still have a chance to escape.

This point is particularly conspicuous in A Chinese Ghost Story 3.

Xiaodie could kill the little monk Shifang in one fell swoop, but she couldn't do it, she could only seduce him.

Monk Shifang was unmoved, and she could only walk away in anger. She didn't kill anyone. Obviously, she was ordered by Grandma Shu not to kill anyone who wasn't tempted.

"These days, people don't follow the rules, but there is still a bottom line for being a monster."

Zhang Heng thought for a while, and said something meaningful: "Your grandma is very ambitious."

Liaozhai World.

Belonging to the humane world, human beings are loved by the world, and other ethnic groups are only supporting roles, killing people indiscriminately is easy to be entangled in cause and effect.

Zhang Heng wanted to come.

There is only one reason why Grandma Tree doesn't kill people casually, and that is that she wants to achieve perfection and ascend to the spirit world.

This spiritual world is said to have been opened up by Saint Yuan of Xinsheng Town, and it is the ultimate fantasy land of the grass and tree elves.

For the grass and tree elves, the temptation to ascend to the spirit world is like a Taoist ascending to the heaven, a monk ascending to the Buddha realm, a demon clan ascending to the demon realm, and a ghost ascending to the ghost realm.

But if you want to ascend, apart from the perfection of your own skills, you can't involve too much cause and effect.

Especially the indiscriminate killing of innocents.

There will be disasters before ascension, and only after the disaster can you ascend to the upper realm.

Among them is a calamity called Thunder Fire Calamity.

If your sins are serious, the thunder emissary of the Ministry of Thunder, General Zhao Lei will increase the power of the thunder disaster, if you can't get over it, you will be turned into flying ash under the thunder fire.

Grandma Shu is the spirit of grass and trees, most afraid of thunder and fire.

If it doesn't want to ascend, but only wants to be happy in the world, of course it wants to do whatever it wants.

In the same way, if it has a greater pursuit, such as ascension to the spirit world, then it should be less sinful and not do whatever it wants.

So Zhang Heng knew it as soon as he thought about it.

I'm afraid I have underestimated Grandma Tree, she is very ambitious, not a monster like the Nine-Tailed Demon King who doesn't understand anything.

Chapter 182: Complicated Relationships

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Nie Xiaoqian and his party didn't dare to provoke Zhang Heng, so they bowed and went to the Arhat Hall behind.

In the Hall of Arhats, lived the scar-faced man and his bandit brothers.

Zhang Heng meditated cross-legged, and soon heard the woman's screams and the man's laughter.

The laughter was accompanied by crying, which was very ear-piercing.

Soon, even Ning Caichen, who was sleeping like a dead pig, woke up in a daze, and said hesitantly, "Brother Zhang, there seems to be a woman calling for help!"

"woman?"

Zhang Heng frowned: "Listen again."