Xingyun Liushui

Before Zhao Linting left, he left a note with the address of the small temple on it. Chu Xingyun packed his luggage in a few days, dragged his family and his mouth, and rushed eastward.

Xie Liushui pretended to be Liu Yun, and they pretended to be husband and wife along the way, but things went smoothly, and they arrived at the place two days later.

This place is called Shacheng, and the Zhao Mansion is located in the bustling part of the city.After leaving the city, go straight to the east, and you can see the sea. There are many small fishing villages, one of which is called Wugui Village. According to Zhao Linting's writing, the small temple is here.

The sky was blue and the sea was blue, and the salty wind was blowing. There was an old man lying on a bench, looking at the white waves.

"Hey, master! Let me ask you." Xie Liushui pretended to support his broken leg, pretending to be a poor girl Liu Yun, "Excuse me, is there a temple near here?"

Originally, asking temples to ask for Buddha is a common thing, and it can be regarded as doing good deeds. Others are more or less willing to give advice. Who knows that the old man is lying well, and suddenly jumped up, picked up the wooden crutches, and pretended to thank him, and shouted sharply: " There is no temple! Where did you come from, walk around—"

Chu Xingyun raised his hand to take his wooden stick, and Xiao Xie got into his husband's arms.Chu Xingyun apologized: "I'm afraid we found the wrong place, sorry to bother you."

Chu Xingyun took Xiao Xie and his sister back, sat on the stone on the side of the road, and ate some dry food first.

"Chu Yan, eat more, are you tired? Let's rest for a while with my brother."

Chu Yan raised her head, glanced timidly at her sister-in-law who was lying in her brother's arms and refused to get up, and shook her head.

Chu Xingyun pushed Xie Liushui: "When are you going to wait? Get up and eat."

"You feed me."

"Chu Yan is still watching."

"She's used to seeing it every day, isn't she, sister-in-law?"

Chu Yan was a little shy, lowered her head, and finally nodded.

But Xie Liushui didn't really ask Chu Xingyun to feed him, he broke half of the pancake, looked far away, and stared at the end of the path.

Chu Xingyun asked: "What are you looking at?"

"I'm looking to see if there are any passers-by. Just now, the old man saw that he was from the village. He guessed that there was something shameful in his village, so he hurried away when he saw us outsiders coming. Let's find someone from another village to find out."

When the pancakes were almost finished, a young fisherman appeared on the other side of the road, carrying an empty basket and carrying vegetables and rice, and came back from the town.

"Brother, don't bother me." Chu Xingyun stepped forward and said, "Excuse me, is there a temple nearby? I heard people say that it is very effective in the area of ​​Wugui Village. I want to come and worship..."

"You..." The man turned pale with shock, "Are you going to worship the fox fairy? You can't do it! How did you hear that? Who's talking nonsense!"

Xie Liushui was a little interested: "Oh, what can't be worshiped by this fox fairy?"

Chu Xingyun gave him some small money, and the fisherman couldn't help being moved when he saw the copper coins falling from the sky, and took it over and said: "My lord, I think you must be from the city with your outfit, so don't tell me what you heard. Go to the fox fairy temple and kill people! Foxes are demons, it’s easy to ask gods to send gods away! Then I return to the village, I do it for me, it sounds good that I return to the village, in fact, we call that place Wu in private Return to the village, there is no one, no one returns."

"what happened?"

"It is said that many years ago, the village suddenly became very strange. It was impossible to get anything out of the sea, and there were no small fish and shrimps. After that, it was even more serious. When going out to sea, accidents happened. No one came back, and everyone else went to sea. It was said that the village chief had offended the sea god, so one night, some villagers threw the village chief and his family into the sea, begging for forgiveness from the sea god. The Great Fox Immortal.

"This person said that the people in the village died not because they offended the Sea God Empress, but because they beat too many foxes. The fox fairy got angry and punished them not to come back."

Chu Xingyun was surprised when he heard it: "This place is close to the sea, and the mountains and forests are not too deep. Will there be many foxes?"

"It doesn't exist here, but after going out to sea, there are those islands! When we sail out of this sea, there are a lot of islands! There are large tracts of woods, many small animals, and they are skinned and sold in the city. They are worth a lot of money. It is said that people in this village discovered a fox island. There are many foxes in the woods, and they have never seen anyone before. After a windfall, strange things happened in that village. According to the Great Fox Immortal, the people who went to sea were detained on the Fox Island by the Fox Resentment and could not return. They needed to build a Fox Fairy Temple to worship devoutly. After that, it got worse!"

Chu Xingyun inquired carefully, and heard from the fisherman that the fox fairy is very clever and often comes true, but it is too weird. This fox is different from ordinary gods and Buddhas. It burns incense and worships it.If you want to make a wish, you have to exchange it for something of equivalent value.

"What kind of replacement?"

The fisherman said: "For example, if you want to exchange your missing relatives, you have to sacrifice your life to exchange them. Blood is thicker than water. There are many people who really want to, so they go to make a wish to the fox fairy. Within three days after that, as expected, The person who has been missing for many years is back, and everyone in the village is very happy!"

Chu Xingyun and Xie Liushui's heart trembled, and the people who had been missing for many years all of a sudden came back!This is back...

What is it?

Fisherman: "It's a pity that the good times don't last long. Those who made wishes found that there was an eye growing in the heart of their left hand! Hey, do you think this is a strange thing?"

Chu Xingyun was shocked in his heart, but he slowed down his expression and said strangely: "Is this eye the eye that can really see?"

"No no, it's a blood-red, eye-like mark."

"Cough, I thought it was something, that's it?" Chu Xingyun pretended not to be very interested, and said casually, "Foxes are three-pointed evil, and they asked the fox fairy to do things, and there is an extra mark, so there is nothing to make a fuss about. of."

The fisherman was not happy when he heard this, and said anxiously: "You don't understand! This is just the beginning. Then, one day, those people who made wishes to the fox fairy suddenly had a pain in their left hand, and they fell to the ground with their left hand up. The pain was unbearable. , Rolling all over the beach."

Only then did Chu Xingyun show some interest: "Then what should we do in the end?"

This is what the little fisherman asked: "Finally...these people all disappeared in the end."

"Missing? Why is it so endless, there is always a place to go. Oh, you don't understand?"

"Who says I don't understand! Don't look at me young. I don't know which of these ten miles and eight villages come and go. I didn't lie to you. All these people disappeared overnight. There are fewer boats in their village. A lot, they should have rowed out to sea, and never came back. It is said that when they made a wish, their minds were captured by the fox fairy. When the group of missing people came back, they were exchanged to Fox Island. .”

"Oh, so that's the case. This is indeed a strange thing. Hey, then, my little brother, who is in charge of building the Fox Fairy Temple?"

"Who else could it be? It's that Great Fox Immortal! Find him again when something goes wrong. Hey, this person is as if he has evaporated from the world. He has disappeared! Since then, No Return Village has sealed the Fox Immortal Temple, but... the Fox Immortal Very clever, there are still people who are not afraid of death and go to the temple to worship, no, something happened again a few days ago!"

Chu Xingyun cheered up and led him to continue, listening to the little fisherman say: "At the beginning of the month, the village head of Wugui Village married his daughter to Wei Lao Wu from the next village. This Lao Wu is very good at fishing. It's not bad, he's very popular with girls, but he's a bit..." The fisherman smiled, "A man, it's inevitable. He's engaged to someone, and at the same time he can't figure it out with the widow in the village. He was so infatuated that he decided to marry. This little girl was too stupid. She couldn't control Wei Lao Wu, so she thought of the fox fairy. In the middle of the night, she slipped to the fox fairy temple alone, begging the fox fairy to bless her and her. The lover will be together forever, and will never change his mind."

Xie Liushui said: "Isn't this a good thing?"

"What the hell! Forever, forever, forever, a lifetime is only a hundred years, how can eternity come from! No, on the night of getting married, Wei Lao Wu went crazy for some reason, and suddenly ran to the seaside and took a boat out to sea, without a trace. The bride hanged herself in the bridal chamber...

"Only after death is eternity."

Chu Xingyun frowned slightly. He felt that this matter had little to do with the fox fairy. It might be that Wei Lao Wu killed the bride and fled by boat in the middle of the night. After losing his son, he didn't want to take care of it anymore, so he passed the matter on to the fox fairy, and passed it on to others, and it became like this.

But this Fox Fairy Temple has a lot to say, the Great Fox Fairy back then was not a good person, probably someone in the game, I don’t know which family he belonged to, he used the Fox Fairy as a cover to deceive these ignorant fishermen, and made them a scapegoat .Chu Xingyun said:

"Isn't this Fox Immortal Temple sealed off? Why is the bride still looking for her?"

"Hey! People, it is inevitable that there is something that you want to ask for. I heard that the fox fairy will respond to every request, can you not be tempted? To tell you the truth, the fox fairy temple is sealed. In fact, some people secretly go to worship. Clean it up!"

"Oh? A girl's house, I came here just by running around at night. I think it's very close, um... I think the temple is built in the hill behind this village. According to my years of Feng Shui experience, it should be halfway up the mountain."

"My lord, what kind of geomantic omen do you have! The hill at the back of the temple is only found at the top... Hey, but I advise you, don't care about the gods of this fox fairy, it's too evil. If you want to worship, it's better to go serious The Buddhist Taoist temple, worship the authentic gods, don't come here!"

"Yes, yes, thank you little brother for reminding me."

"Don't be polite, alas——I just feel sorry for that bride, a good girl...hey! You two young ladies, don't imitate her!"

Chu Yan pursed her lips and nodded.

But Xie Liushui was more thoughtful, he bent his legs like a girl with a broken leg, and asked softly: "Then...the couple who worshiped the fox...when did they get married?"

"Oh, Wei Lao Wu, let me think about it, yes! The fifth day of May."

Xie Liushui was stunned, he felt that something was wrong, he invited many fortune tellers, took out Chu Xingyun's birth date, and after countless calculations, he finally settled on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, how could it be so bad luck.After the fisherman left, he quickly tugged on Chu Xingyun's sleeve: "Let's not go to the Fox Fairy Temple, it's too bad luck."

Chu Xingyun smiled: "The world is so big, there are happy and bad things all the time, how can one day the whole world is good? I think this Fox Fairy Temple has a lot to say, let's go—"