[Liao Zhai] I live in Lanruo Temple

March [-], Shangsi Festival.

The spring moon is in the sky, and the sky is full of stars.

Under the stars and the moon, Jinhua City is filled with the fragrance of bluegrass.

On the banks of the Linshui River, men, women, young and old sing and dance, feast and play.

Crowds of people everywhere, very lively.

On the outskirts hundreds of miles away from the town, two middle-aged men acted surreptitiously.Looking at its direction, it seems that it is going to the ancient temple located on the suburban hill.

One of them was carrying a sack on his shoulders, it was not too big, and there were whimpers and weeping sounds from time to time, and the sack could be seen shaking from time to time, as if some small animal was struggling and didn't know what was inside. The ones belonged to cats and dogs, or something.

When the two men walked from the foot of the mountain to the mountainside, there was no sound in the bag, and even the vibration of the bag caused by the kicking of the living creature disappeared, as if the living thing in the bag had lost its vitality.

This kind of "quietness" only existed for a moment, but in the blink of an eye, the movement and sound resumed, so the man carrying the cloth bag did not attract the attention of the man who carried the bag.

"Today's fat sheep has white and tender skin and looks very good. It is the best product I have seen in these years. It really deserves to be raised in a wealthy place in a foreign country."

"Such a superb product, it will definitely sell for a very high price. It is expected that the money obtained from today's business trip will be enough for you and my brothers to enjoy for many years without having to come out and work hard."

Under the reflection of the light of the lantern in one person's hand, the undisguised cruelty, greed and excitement in the eyes of the two can be clearly seen. This kind of face makes people sick for no reason.Having said that, they looked at each other and laughed together.

At this time, a gust of mountain wind came, shattering the laughter, and it sounded particularly pervasive from a distance.

In the burlap bag, Liu Qingyu, whose mouth was gagged and her legs were bound, heard the conversation between the two men, her body trembled instinctively, and her mind suddenly woke up from the drowsiness caused by difficulty breathing.

what's the situation!

Could it be that he has been kidnapped in the legend now!About to be sold as cattle and sheep? ! !

He is a grown man, the kidnappers will definitely not sell him to a remote village to be a wife as a wife, the most likely is to trade him with some illegal organization!

If he was not rescued, wouldn't he be a dead end? !

Thinking about it this way, Liu Qingyu's whole body is not well.

He panicked like a dog in his heart, feeling that his body was limp, and his energy was getting less and less, so he simply stopped wasting energy to struggle.

In order to find a way to save herself, Liu Qingyu's mind turned quickly, and at the same time she was about to cry without tears, thinking that she should not listen to her brother's advice, and visit the ancestral temple of Queen Mother Xi in order to write a thesis. Zhou came to Tianshan for tourism.

If he chooses to travel in the off-season of tourism, then he will not faint due to too many people around and lack of breathing, and then he will not fall into the hands of kidnappers, so that he will be in danger.

Liu Qingyu greeted the eighteenth generation of the kidnapper's ancestors in her heart, but she didn't know that she was no longer in the original world.

The kidnappers who were running on the barren mountain road were also unaware that the "cargo" they had tied up had changed a new core not long ago, and the two walked another section of the mountain road, and soon the figure of the ancient temple came into view.

They stopped talking tacitly and quickened their pace towards the temple.

As they gradually approached the ancient temple, when the two of them didn't realize it, something changed quietly.

The sky above their heads formed two worlds.Behind the piece, the stars and the moon are shining.The sky in front of him was pitch black and dead silent, and he couldn't see the figure of Haoyue, or even a single star.

The two kidnappers who just stared at the ground walking were ignorant, and they were still dreaming of their own dream of getting rich.

After more than a hundred steps, two late-night visitors stood in front of the temple's main entrance.The man carrying the lantern looked up at the three words "Lanruo Temple" on the plaque, grabbed the copper ring of the door panel as good as he could, and knocked on the temple door.

"Open the door, we have delivered the goods to the host master."

There are no less than ten temples inside and outside Jinhua City, and Lanruo Temple is one of them.

Although Lanruo Temple is a centuries-old temple, due to the small size of the temple, its remoteness and the fact that it is next to a random graveyard, it has become increasingly unpopular with the people in Jinhua City in recent decades.Up to now, there are only three or two people who come here to offer incense on weekdays, and they are all villagers from the nearby villages at the foot of the mountain.

Therefore, in recent years, when the number of monks in Lanruo Temple was the most, it was only two slaps.

Although it is said that Lanruo Temple was in a terrible mess in the past, it is still a serious Buddhist temple.It was just that with the replacement of the new host, Lanruo Temple also deteriorated.The pure place of Buddhism in the eyes of outsiders has unknowingly turned into a place where dirt and dirt are hidden during the decades in which the current presiding officer has been in charge.

All because the present host was once a vicious bandit. In order to avoid the government's pursuit, he fled from the north to Jinhua, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and entered Lanruo Temple to become a monk.

He is evil in nature, and after defrauding the trust of the former abbot and taking over Lanruo Temple, he uncontrollably resumes his bloodthirsty nature.When he accidentally got a sorcery that was said to be able to live forever, he practiced it with the flesh and blood of a child as described in the book.

Due to the lack of traffic in Lanruo Temple, he reached a cooperation with the kidnapper in Jinhua City to buy and sell the children abducted by the kidnapper.This action has lasted for more than 60 years, and the number of innocent children who were brutally killed is unknown.

The two middle-aged men who knocked on the gate of Lanruo Temple right now are members of the Kidnap Organization rooted in Jinhua City.I came here late at night, not for anything else, but precisely to send the newly abducted children from other places to Lanruo Temple to preside over.

Usually, when the deliveries came, the kidnapper knocked on the door two or three times, and the accomplice monk who was in charge came out to open the door, but for some reason today, he knocked on the temple door thirty or forty times, and after waiting for almost half a stick of incense, there was still no movement.

The two abductees were suspicious, and were about to talk about it, when suddenly a gust of cold wind blew, and the two lanterns in front of Lanruo Temple went out instantly.

The kidnappers shrank their necks, and couldn't help shivering.

Tired of carrying the bag, the kidnapper dropped the sack on the ground, stomped his feet and rubbed his hands to keep warm.Liu Qingyu grunted in pain as her body fell to the ground, bared her teeth, and then turned over gently to relieve the pain.

Because of this move, Liu Qingyu was pleasantly surprised to find that it might be because the kidnapper felt that his hands and feet had been tied tightly, so the mouth of the burlap bag containing him was only loosely tied with a rope.

The rough throw of the kidnapper just now made the opening of the bag, which was not so tight, loosen even more.A gleam of joy flashed in Liu Qingyu's eyes, and she seemed to be paying attention to the kidnapper's situation, while quietly opening the pocket.

Although it was early spring at this time, the mountain wind at night still made people feel chilly. The man stroked his arms a few times and said, "Half a stick of incense is already gone, and there is still no one who responds. Today is the Shangsi Festival, and the temple The few monks in the village will not sneak down the mountain to join in the fun, right?"

The kidnapper who carried the lantern replied: "The people in Lanruo Temple are not serious monks, so it is not impossible."

"Then when will they come back? Shall we wait?"

The kidnapper with the lantern thought for a while, thinking that he didn't know when the other party came back, and he didn't want to stand on the mountain blowing the cold wind, so he wanted to ask his accomplice to carry Liu Qingyu back and come back tomorrow.

And at this moment, the accomplice wrinkled his nose, endured the nausea from his stomach and said, "What's the smell?"

The moment his voice sounded, the lantern kidnapper also smelled the smell wafting from Lanruo Temple. It was fishy and smelly, like the rotten smell of fish thrown in the jar for more than ten days.

The two endured it, but couldn't hold it back, bent over and retched for a while.

The two were as slow as kidnappers, and at this moment they gradually realized that something was wrong.

After retching, the kidnapper who was carrying the lantern said with a disheveled face, "Don't you think it's too quiet around here? We could hear insects chirping when we went up the mountain, but now there's no wind."

After the accomplice listened, he listened to the surrounding movement for a while, and found that there was no other sound except the conversation between them, and his face changed accordingly.

"The mountain is too weird today, and the temple is surrounded by mass graves. Let's go down the mountain quickly." Swallowing, the kidnapper's body couldn't help trembling slightly.

While speaking, he glanced around quickly, and when his eyes returned to his companion carrying the lamp, his pupils suddenly widened, and he let out a scream full of fear.

"what--!"

"There is a ghost!!"

After two sounds, he turned around without thinking while supporting his frightened body, ignored his companions, and immediately ran away rolling and crawling.

His overreaction frightened the Lantern Kidnapper, and before he had time to think about it, he subconsciously wanted to run after the former and leave this place.

Clinker, as soon as he turned halfway around, he felt a pulling force coming from his arm, and he couldn't take a step away.

In an instant, his body tensed into a rock, and he mechanically turned his head while suppressing the urge to urinate. When he took a closer look, his heartbeat suddenly stopped for a moment, and then it started beating rapidly, as if the heart was about to jump out of his throat.

Because of the previous retching, he had been holding the temple door with one hand, but now he could see from his terrified eyes that a blood-red grimace appeared on the door at some point, and his grinning mouth was biting one of his hands.

It was precisely because of this that the kidnapper was scared to death.

The blood-red grimace smiled at him, and suddenly opened his mouth to chew.

The sharp pain in the arm woke up the kidnapper who was frightened away, but even though he exhausted all his breastfeeding strength, he couldn't pull his arm out of the grimace's mouth. He could only scream and watch his body disappear bit by bit.

The kidnapper, who was the first to notice something was wrong, heard the screams of his companions behind him, and didn't dare to look back to see what had happened to the comrades he had left behind. He ran down the mountain desperately while urinating non-stop.

When he went through a lot of hardships and finally escaped to the foot of the mountain, he thought he had saved his life, and after he breathed a sigh of relief, he couldn't help crying loudly with lingering fear in his heart.

Unexpectedly, the familiar grimace suddenly appeared at this moment.In an instant, the kidnapper's expression of crying and laughing, and weeping with joy was fixed on his face.

In front of the gate of Lanruo Temple, when she heard the terrified and miserable cries that came to her ears one after another, Liu Qingyu immediately thought that the kidnapper was in an accident, and her arched body froze suddenly.

Since he had no idea what was going on outside, in order not to be noticed by the assailant, he immediately held his breath and pretended to be a dead object and remained motionless.

After the intrusive noise that came to the ear completely disappeared, and after waiting for a short while, Liu Qingyu got out from the mouth of the bag that had been broken open with great difficulty.