Chapter 182: The Temple of the Cross
Jiang Nanjun looked at the dilapidated small temple and was very disappointed.
Obviously, there was no one in this temple for a long time, let alone to find his benefactor.
However, if he comes, he will not just turn around and leave, at the very least, he has to go in and have a look, and see clearly where the temple is enshrined.
So, he lifted his feelings, stepped over the collapsed mountain gate, and walked in.
Standing in the courtyard, he looked left and right, and felt that this temple was really small. There is only one entrance to the entire area, and there is only one temple room.
However, the courtyard in front of the house is still a bit magnificent, close to the gable on the right, planted with a towering ancient tree, the tree cover is shady, and half of the ancient temple is protected.
In the middle of the courtyard is a small stone monument. He walked over and wanted to peruse the inscription, but the inscription was only engraved with one name in the ancient language: Chiyou. In the lower right corner, it is the signature of the person who erected the monument, and the engraved one is, Xingtian.
"I should have expected that this is the ancient temple of Chiyou!" Jiang Nanjun suddenly realized, thinking about Xingtian's loyalty to Chi You, it was natural to find such a temple for this martial arts god in "Shenwu Secret Chronicles".
He walked around the stele and into the temple building, and saw that one of the two red lacquered wooden doors that should have been in the door was gone. The remaining door shaft had been hollowed out by insects, and he touched it with his hand, and with a "boom", he fell to his feet.
He sighed and was about to walk inside, only to find a few flocculent cobwebs hanging from the doorframe.
He didn't believe his eyes a little and exclaimed, "This ...... If there is no living thing, where do the cobwebs come from? The temple has existed for a long time, could it be that there was once life walking around in the mountains? ”
Confused, he reached out to brush away the cobwebs and stepped over the threshold.
There was an old, musty smell from the temple, and dust had accumulated so thick that it almost covered the true color of all the objects.
However, the old is the old, and there are all kinds of shrines, incense burners, futons, etc. here.
There is a pillar on each side of the statue, and the gold lacquer handwriting is still very clear. Right book: Heaven bestows saints and benevolence. The banners hanging high between the pillars are written with three big characters: God of Martial Arts.
Look at the bronze statue of Chiyou in the shrine, sure enough, as described in the legend, the copper head and iron forehead, eight humerus and eight toes, the human body and cow hooves, four eyes and six hands.
Chi You is Shui Ling'er's previous life, and Xing Tian has such a deep relationship with Chi You, and he is Jiang Nanyan's previous life, so this Chi You has already been enshrined in Jiang Nanjun's mind, and he can no longer be dissociated.
He really couldn't bear to see this temple in such a dilapidated state because no one took care of it, so he decided to tidy it up and clean it up.
The stream passes outside the mountain gate, which is very convenient. He found a rag, fetched water from a copper basin that burned paper, and began to carefully wipe the door and floor, and then removed the dusty yellow curtain, and when he saw that the cloth had rotted into slag, he had to discard it.
After some hard work, looking at the inside of this temple room, it has been neat and refreshing.
The last thing that needs to be wiped is the shrine and the statue.
Jiang Nanjun knelt on the futon, kowtowed to the statue of Chiyou three times, sued him for the crime of disturbing, and got up to wipe the shrine first.
The last place is the bronze statue of Chiyou.
He climbed up to the shrine and wiped the dust of the idol with a respectful and reverent look.
Suddenly, when the corner of his eye swept over Chi You's hand, he found that it seemed to be holding an object in his hand, and the object seemed to be glowing, and a glimmer of light was weakly oozing out of the copper fingers.
He had a hunch that it might have something to do with the cross, so he hurriedly reached out and touched it, and when he touched it was a bead, he took it out and looked at it, and was so shocked that he almost didn't fall off the shrine.
It turned out that what he took out from the idol's hand was actually the water bell of the water bell carved with a phoenix.
"Why is Ling'er's bell here?"
He exclaimed to himself, and then looked at the statue of Chiyou, but he remained silent and motionless, unable to tell him the answer.
He couldn't figure out the meaning of the strange setting, and by this time the fourth bell had already struck, and night had fallen outside the temple, and he was left with the last day of tomorrow.
When the qiē was cleaned up, the temple was completely new from the inside out. He sat upright on the futon and fell into a meditative state again. But this time, he was clutching the water bell in his hand. (To be continued.) )