Chapter 30 Temple Stele(1/2)
"I'm just waking up. What's your dream talk just now? Red Middle East Wind?"
"Fengzi, did you dream of playing mahjong?"
As the sun rose, I ignored Douyazi after getting up, but asked in a low voice: "Brother Yu, did you have any dreams after we came back from Guanluoyin yesterday?"
"For example...who will meet Xiaoqian or who?"
"That's not. I came back yesterday and slept soundly."
That's me alone?
"Why, I see that your face is not good-looking and you haven't had a good rest?" asked Brother Yu.
"No, nothing."
I told my head about what I asked about Grandma Tang since I was young, so that clues would be connected.
In 1996, the Dao County Cultural Relics Bureau discovered stone sculptures suspected to be Taoist priests.
In 1895, a girl named Chen Meiqing was sent to Guizai Ridge on the coastal Lushan, and the village's Guizai Temple was also established at that time.
The ghost cub behind the big tree is more than one meter high and more than one meter wide. Grandma Xiao Tang said there is a hole under the brick, which aroused our interest.
After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, many people went out to work, and the streets in the village suddenly became much deserted.
I didn't dare to go during the day. When it was late at night, my group of us changed our clothes and walked into Guizai Ridge with big bags.
The mud statues placed in the temple are still there, but there are more cracks than the previous few days, which should be because of the water.
"No one?" asked.
It was late at night, and Douyazi turned his head and looked around, "No one, there was not even a ghost."
There is no door in the Ghost Baby Temple, and there is a neatly laid layer of blue bricks on the ground, which is also from more than a hundred years ago.
"Pry open." said, pointing his head at the brick.
Douyazi took out a short crowbar and aimed it at the gap in the bricks.
I picked up a stone as a hammer and smashed the crowbar down.
"Look at it right, don't hit me in the hand."
I said you can get it.
The crowbar was smashed down the crack of the blue bricks. Douyazi pressed the crowbar hard, and a blue brick was lifted up.
Seeing that there was a layer of soil under the brick, I put my head on and said, "Continue."
It's similar to laying floor tiles. As long as you pick up one piece, it will be more labor-saving when working on the others.
"It's nothing, it's all earth, how can there be holes?" Douyazai pried open all the blue bricks and shook the flashlight and said.
Just as Dou Yezai said, take away all the bricks and reveal them, the soil layer with the same color as the surrounding ones, and there are no holes on the ground.
After a long time, was it because Grandma Xiao Tang remembered it wrong?
Or, she lied to me?
I don't think it's because her biggest secret is in my hands. She is afraid that I will tell Xiao Tang what kind of person her grandmother is, so she shouldn't lie to me.
But... there are flat soil layers in front of you, where is the hole?
At this time, Xiaoxuan said: "Can you move the clay man away? It's a bit cunning."
I looked up.
The Taoist priests in the temple looked straight ahead, and now they were looking at all of us.
The craftsmen who made clay statues used to have good skills. From our perspective, clay statues happened to look at us with a slanted eye.
The clay figure seemed to be angry, so Xiaoxuan said she was afraid. After all, we pried out all the floor tiles in the temple.
Uncle Xue was standing closest to the Ni statue. He smiled and pushed the Ni statue back a little, turning his back to us.
"Huh? Not right..."
I suddenly felt surprised and asked what was wrong.
Point your head to the ground and let us see.
Because it was winter, the trees here in Guizai Ridge had no leaves, and there was a moon that night. Because Mr. Xue just pushed back, the moonlight shone into the small temple and was blocked by mud statues. It happened to be underground in front of us, leaving a square shadow.
This square shadow is not large in area and is square like a window.
The specific reason should be that the square tile crown on the mud statue head blocks the moonlight and leaves a shadow. To put it bluntly, it is a Taoist hat.
He stared at the square shadow on the ground for a few seconds, and suddenly said, "Yunfeng, dig down from here."
I nodded and digged directly.
After digging more than thirty centimeters down, suddenly, the flat-head shovel in my hand hit an obstacle and could not get down.
After cleaning up the soil, everyone saw clearly.
In front of me was a small square bluestone slab, less than twenty centimeters wide.
With the flashlight and rubbed the soil with my sleeves, two vertical rows of knives appeared on the bluestone slab.
After carefully identifying the text, I chanted softly:
"Kun..... Kun's refiner Chen, then searched for the green and fallen yellow springs in Dao County, and finally saw the seven Vajra Gate. However, he knew that the deadline had arrived. Hu and Chen were all from all over the world, and they were all after Shun and Yu. The refiner Chen also imitated Chen Dazhen and built a temple under the head of the Huangquan. It would be worth the visit of the world."
"In the 21st year of Guangxu, at the end of the year Yi, Dong, Kun refining master Chen, and his disciples kept the carvings."
"This...what does this mean?" Douyazai stuttered a little.
I was also surprised that this small bluestone slab may be something like an epitaph.
There is a lot of information, some I don’t understand, but some I know.
Let me tell you what I know first.
Kun refining master Chen, this disassembly should be Kun, refining master Chen.
Refiners are a category among Taoist priests, and they still have them now, referring to Taoist priests who refine alchemy and play with medicinal materials.
There are other names on the Tao, such as Huang Guan, Xian Chang, Dao Gong, Nan Wu Lao, etc., and the refining master is just one of them.
According to the Taoist Book of Changes, Qian is the heaven, the yang, and the male.
Kun is the earth, the yin, and the female.
Kun refiner Chen means that a female Taoist priest who refines alchemy.
Read these two passages written on the slab.
"The refiner Chen Yi followed Chen Dazhen."
Judging from this passage, there are two Taoist priests in Chen surname, and the other one with a very high status and who can be called "Da Zhenren". They are all very powerful Taoist priests. I don't know who this person is for the time being.
I suddenly remembered what Tang Gui’s wife said before she was crazy.
As a local who grew up in Tianguangdong, she said at that time that a Taoist priest died in Guizai Ridge. The Taoist apprentice cut off the Taoist priest's head and took it away. Later, she weaved a human head with straw, sewed it on the headless corpse, and burned it together. Finally, she made a clay statue with the burned ashes, and built a temple with the ghost statue.
The rumor passed down from the village seems to match the words left on the stone slab.
"It's not a waste of time to make a temple under your head."
There are still many things that I don't understand at all.
Where did the head go?
"Suidao County found the blue and fallen yellow springs and finally saw the Seven Vajra Gate."
What is the Biluohuangquan? Is it a hole or a place? Is it the same as the previous generation of dentists?
Is the "Seven Vajra Gate" the kind of Vajra Wall that I know is the kind of Vajra Wall that is prevented from theft in the tomb? But I have never heard of any Seven Vajra.
look in.
"There are all descendants of Chen and Hu in the world, and they are all descendants of Shun and Yu." I can't understand this. What does Chen and Hu mean.
"Have your head?"
I came back to my senses, wondering if I knew something, but a trace of shock flashed in my head and eyes.
He immediately ordered his head, "Take off this stone slab and put it away."
Removed the slab and revealed a very small hole.
The hole has a diameter of about twenty centimeters and looks very deep, like a mouse hole.
Douyazai shone down and turned his head and said, "I'll go, this is a weasel's nest, right? Even the strong light flashlight can't be used to get the bottom."
Xiaoxuan whispered: "I haven't been to school before. If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense. Weasels are from the Northeast. Where can there be weasels in Hunan?"
Douyazai said: "You are just talking nonsense, you have been to school!"
"Who told you that there are only weasels in the northeast? I saw it on the mountain in my hometown when I was a child. The cave is just such a big hole. Yunfeng is from the northeast. Tell me, tell me."
Looking at the hole that was not big in front of me, I frowned and said, "Douya is right. It has yellow skin everywhere, but the evil nature is spread to us. But... I think this hole doesn't look like a weasel's nest.
I asked: "Bet your head, according to what Grandma Xiao Tang said, this hole was discovered by the third tooth woman accidentally. It was raining that day, and Yongzhou was raining all year round. Could this be formed by natural collapse?"
To be continued...