After overtaking the old lady's ghost, leaving the winding mountain road and Su Ling's gang, Zhou Fengchen and Zhang Shisan lazily went back to the Miao Gong's house in Tietou Town to have a look, and returned directly to Sunflower Town in the right direction.

It was about two o'clock in the morning, and when I arrived at Sunflower Town, it was already dark, and no one had gotten up early at this time, and the streets were depressed, and the mess of broken plastic bags and pieces of paper was drenched in dew and stuck to the ground wet.

The two did not dare to delay and went straight to the "Painted Soul Temple" in the west of the town.

In the morning, there was a faint morning mist in the mountains, and the "Painted Soul Temple" was hidden in a pine tree, and the main hall built of gray bricks and tiles with more than ten side halls was not alive at all, showing a dead silence.

I don't know if it's because they know that the monk Wu Daozhu is a ghost, Zhou Fengchen and the others suddenly felt that this temple was extremely gloomy.

When they arrived at the gate of the temple, they found that the temple door was not closed, and the two looked at each other and walked in, the courtyard was empty, and there were no early monks.

The door of the main hall of the Buddha statue in front of it was not closed, and when I entered, I saw that there was no one inside.

Zhang Shisan looked at the portrait and quietly patted Zhou Fengchen, "Why do I feel that this idol has changed?" ”

"What's changed?" Zhou Fengchen frowned and asked.

Zhang 13 said: "My eyes don't seem to have as much charm as when I saw them yesterday."

Zhou Fengchen took a closer look, and sure enough! When I came in yesterday, it felt as if the god was staring at everyone, but now I was looking dryly.

"It doesn't matter if it changes or not." Zhou Fengchen shook his head and shouted at the apse: "Is there anyone?"

Shouted three times in a row, but no one responded.

Doesn't seem quite right!

The two glanced at each other, and when they reached the curtain of the apse door, they lifted it and looked inside.

Inside was a huge empty room, with only three or five bunks, and nothing else, but the walls were painted with strange pictures of immortals and Buddhas drinking and singing, and they were depicted with heavy colored paint, which looked lifelike and a little enchanting.

Zhang Shisan was stunned, "Feelings Yesterday, Daoist Monk Wu hid here and listened to us?" ”

"It doesn't matter if he listens or not." Zhou Fengchen looked back and forth, and said, "The key is that there is no one, how can there be such a temple?" I don't feel right. ”

"Then let's take a look outside."

The two of them ran out of the yard, shouted a few times, but no one responded, so they went from room to room to push the door.

As a result, I looked at the entire temple room, and even the toilet was searched, and there was not even a monk, and it seemed that this place had become an empty temple.

Both of them had a feeling of being deceived, and when they returned to the door of the main hall and looked around, Zhang Shisan said angrily: "This group of ghost monks deceived us? Ran away? ”

Zhou Fengchen's brows were twisted into Sichuan characters, "Where did the key Yuan Zhi go?" Why is it gone? ”

"Yuan Zhi Monk! Grandson ......"

Zhang Shisan opened his throat and shouted a few times, but when he didn't respond, he took out his anxious fan, slapped it twice and said, "What's wrong?" What happened? ”

Zhou Fengchen thought for a while, "Could it be that these monks are all ghosts and can't go out during the day...... Wrong! When I came yesterday at noon, it was fine! ”

Zhang Shisan was excited, "Could it be that Wang Zhenren of Yin Cao did it?" Killed Wu Daozhu, the horse boy of the Scattered Flower Ghost King? ”

"Then it's impossible to kill the Yuanzhi monk, right?" Zhou Fengchen said.

Zhang Shisan's eyes narrowed, "This is not accurate, they are all bald, maybe the Yin soldiers admit their mistakes." ”

"Don't talk nonsense!" Zhou Fengchen waved his hand, "Let's go and ask the people in the town, there are always people who know." ”

The two took off their robes and put them away, and when they arrived in the town, the townspeople had already gotten up, and the only breakfast shop had also lit a charcoal fire, and the shopkeeper rubbed his eyes and yawned to clean up the oil pot and prepare to fry the fritters.

The two of them entered the store and asked, "How long will it take for the fritters to get better?"

The owner of the shop has a lot of personality, "Just wait for my wife to get up, my wife is going to the toilet." ”

"Okay." Zhou Fengchen nodded, and asked again: "I want to ask you something, the monk in the West Soul Painting Temple...... Do you know where to go? ”

The shopkeeper was stunned, "What are you asking them for?" Those monks were weird. ”

Zhang 13 said: "We wanted to go to Shangzhu Incense, but we found that there was no one inside."

"It's normal." The shopkeeper said: "Sometimes there is no one in their monastery for three or four days in a row, and when there are people, they only come at noon, but not in the morning."

"Why?" Zhou Fengchen asked subconsciously.

The shopkeeper lifted the big oil drum and poured oil into the pot and said: "I don't know, they don't eat incense money, and they rarely deal with the people in the town.

"Ugh! Okay, I'll come over for breakfast later. Zhou Fengchen said and pulled down Zhang Shisan.

The two went out of the breakfast shop, went to the street, and inquired with many people one after another, but the answers they got were very similar to the owners of the breakfast shop.

Zhou Fengchen was worried, took out a cigarette and handed it to Zhang Shisan, and the two of them took two puffs.

Zhou Fengchen looked at the street and said, "What's going on here?" Why is the Yuan Zhi monk gone? ”

Zhang 13 said: "Do you want to use the eight characters of your birthday to track down Yuan Zhi?"

This reminded Zhou Fengchen, took out the cloth talisman from his pocket, found a remote place, wrote the eight characters of the birth date of the Yuan Zhi monk, and then traced the talisman.

Malfunction! It didn't work!

"Damn!" Zhou Fengchen was a little flustered.

"Don't worry! I'll give it a try. Zhang 13 took out his gossip compass and traced it, but the pointer did not move.

Both scenarios suggest that the Yuan Zhi monk is either dead or trapped somewhere.

The two looked at each other, "Let's go to the temple again!" ”

When they came to the "Painted Soul Temple" again, there were still no monks in it, but the two of them looked more carefully this time, and almost turned the entire temple upside down.

Outcome...... Still no one!

Sometimes this feeling of not having an answer and not understanding what's going on can drive people crazy.

The two scratched the head of the chicken nest and scolded back to the town, and when they arrived at the breakfast shop, the fried dough sticks, small five-spice soup, and glutinous rice dumplings were ready.

The two of them ordered a bunch of them, ate a lot, and ate them, Zhang Shisan suddenly said "Huh" and asked, "Do you remember those two strange widows who wanted to be nuns?"

Zhou Fengchen was excited, and hurriedly asked the shopkeeper, "Boss, there are two widows in the town who always want to become nuns, do you know where to live?" ”

The shopkeeper blinked, "A widow who doesn't want to be a nun, what does it look like?" How old are you? ”

Zhou Fengchen said: "Twenty-seven or eighteen years old, he looks good."

"That's not it!" The shopkeeper shook his head bluntly, "There are not many people in the town, and there have been widows over the years, one remarried last year, and two are in their fifties." ”

As soon as Zhou Fengchen and the others heard this, they didn't mention this depression, and after paying the money, they ran back to the "Soul Painting Temple" boredly, and found a place to sleep, not believing that they would not come back.

I didn't wake up until two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and the monk didn't see it, but I saw a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl from the Miao family.

The girl walked in from outside the temple, looked at the two and grinned, "Who is Zhou Fengchen?" ”

(End of chapter)