[Red Mansion + A Chinese Ghost Story] Sister Fox

"Lanruo Temple? This name sounds familiar. I seem to have heard it somewhere?" Among the few scholars, someone suddenly murmured.

Where did I hear the words Lanruo Temple?The scholar frowned and began to think hard, but the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't think of it for a while.

"I said, Brother Ma, what are you talking about? The fire is already imminent, if there is anything to do, let's wait until we find a place to shelter from the rain!"

At the side, a young scholar in a blue long gown that had been washed and a little whitish, shouted anxiously; just interrupted the scholar who was thinking hard about the surname Ma.

Little did they know that it was precisely because of the other party's yell just now that everyone missed an opportunity to discover the truth, which led to the subsequent series of tragedies.

The young scholar surnamed Li reached out and patted the scholar surnamed Ma on the shoulder, and said gently: "Brother Ma, you don't need to think too much, this Lanruo Temple is very famous near Nanguo Town; It’s Brother Ma who overheard someone mentioning it occasionally, and it’s not uncommon.”

"Brother Li said that he was worrying too much."

The scholar surnamed Ma is not the kind of person who likes to be entangled. After being persuaded by the young scholar surnamed Li, he hurriedly bowed to the other party, and at the same time laughed secretly in his heart that he was too careful; What a shame.

"Brother Li, since you know the location of Lanruo Temple, I have to trouble Brother Li to lead the way."

"It's just... we have to hurry up and walk faster, the rain is about to fall."

Now that they had a definite destination, the people who were already impatient; now they became more and more impatient, and everyone urged the young scholar surnamed Li to come.

"Brothers, you don't need to be too anxious. Lanruo Temple is in the grove not far ahead; before this heavy rain comes, I will definitely take you brothers to Lanruo Temple."

The young scholar surnamed Li smiled slightly, and even walked in front of the crowd; a group of people hurried towards the direction of Lanruo Temple.

Although everyone is a scholar, but because the family is not very rich; a group of five or six people are not the kind of playboys who don't do production.

When they are not studying, they will also help their respective families with some farm work; now everyone let go of their feet and run wildly on the official road, and the speed is naturally fast.

Within half a stick of incense, the group arrived near Lanruo Temple.

In the past, passers-by would come to Lanruo Temple to rest their feet from time to time, and the young scholar surnamed Li had also rested in Lanruo Temple; Lanruo Temple was still somewhat popular at that time, and it was not as desolate and dilapidated as it is now; An eerie feeling.

The path leading to Lanruo Temple from the small woods has long been submerged by weeds half the height of a person in front of it; the desolate and dilapidated Lanruo Temple in front of me is like a beast that eats people; quietly towered before the crowd.

Not only the young scholar surnamed Li was dumbfounded, but also several other scholars who followed him; all of them were also dumbfounded.

"Is this the Lanruo Temple that Brother Li said that people often came to rest? Seeing the desolation of the place, no one would come to this dilapidated place to rest. Could it be that Brother Li is lying?"

In the minds of almost all the scholars, this idea popped up at the same time; for a while, everyone looked at me and I looked at you; unexpectedly, they all became dumb, and no one spoke.

'Quack' Suddenly, out of nowhere, a crow chirped and a breeze blew by; all the people shuddered in unison.

"This place seems gloomy, why don't we find another place to shelter from the rain?" A rather timid scholar swallowed and said something.

"Yes, yes, yes... I also think this place seems quite evil. Let's... let's leave here first..."

The young scholar surnamed Li frowned in embarrassment. In fact, he also felt that the Lanruo Temple in front of him seemed to be different from when he came here before.

It's just that, don't mention it around here; apart from the Lanruo Temple in front of him, he really can't think of it; is there any place to shelter from the rain?

The young scholar surnamed Li said with a little embarrassment: "Brothers, as far as I know, apart from the Lanruo Temple in front of us, there is no other place for us to take shelter from the rain."

"Then...what about the swelling?"

What the young scholar surnamed Li said made everyone look at each other in blank dismay; everyone was dumbfounded.

Uh... no way?Is it possible that everyone really wants to stay in the Lanruo Temple in front of you tonight?

"Why don't we continue our journey before the rain falls; maybe we can reach Nanguo Town before it rains?" Someone suggested weakly.

The other party's voice had just finished when there was a bang; a thunderbolt exploded on everyone's heads, and at the same time, pea-sized raindrops fell from the sky; it hurt people's bodies .

Come on!This time it's okay not to stay here, unless someone wants to continue on the road in such heavy rain; but such a person must be a fool.

"Zibuyu is strange and chaotic!" The young scholar surnamed Li suddenly said something, and then ran towards Lanruo Temple first.

Confucius vigorously advocated moral concepts such as 'benevolence' and 'government by propriety'. From the book [The Analects of Confucius]; it is rare to see Confucius talking about weirdness, violence, chaos, ghosts and gods, such as he 'respect ghosts and gods and stay away' and so on.

All the people present were well-versed in poetry and books, and the words of the young scholar surnamed Li awakened everyone; after looking at each other, they followed the young scholar surnamed Li and ran towards Lanruo Temple.

The inside of Lanruo Temple is much better than the outside, at least far cleaner than everyone imagined.

Lanruo Temple, which looks gloomy on the outside, is very spacious inside; except for the collapsed altar and Buddha statue, there is no leak in the main hall.

I just don’t know if it’s because of what everyone said outside Lanruo Temple just now; no one said to go to the back of the main hall to take a look, but chose to stay inside the main hall together.

Because of the long delay outside, everyone's clothes were wet to varying degrees; everyone worked together to pick up some damaged doors and windows, and soon a fire was lit in the center of the hall.

Five or six people sat together, and the warm fire light not only dispelled the chill from everyone's body;

Everyone quietly listened to the clear sound of raindrops above their heads, and the young scholar surnamed Li said leisurely: "It seems that this rain is heavy, and I am afraid it will not stop in a short time; tonight we all seem to be I can't go anymore, I'm going to stay here for one night."

The hall was very quiet, no one spoke.

What's the point of staying for one night?Everyone has dry food in their luggage and bags; there is no need to worry about starvation, it's just...

Everyone felt somewhat uneasy, but what the young scholar surnamed Li said made sense; it was raining so heavily outside, it seemed impossible to continue on the road.

No matter what everyone thinks in their hearts, staying has become everyone's only choice.