Chapter 240 Duan Xiaowu, a thief at the end of the Qing Dynasty
"Cheng Feng, I still want to have a small temple on the mountainside in front of me, why don't we deal with it here for a night?" Hu Xiaoci has a keen sense of smell, and he can already smell the musty smell wafting from the abandoned small temple. It's not that she doesn't like the temple, but she is afraid of the Buddha who is worshiped by the temple.
Rehe used to be the capital of Kyoto, the locals believe in Buddhism, there are no less than dozens of large and small temples outside the city, but it has just experienced the cultural catastrophe in the 70s, so there are not many temples that have been preserved completely, even if they are preserved, except for a few large temples, I am afraid that the monks inside have long been vulgar.
The small temple on the mountainside is a land temple, that is, the city god temple that the people say, the city god temple is not dedicated to the Buddha, but the land lord, so although the statue is old, Hu Xiaoci is not afraid.
The four children stumbled up to the small temple halfway up the mountain, which had not been visited for many years, and was full of cobwebs and a mess. The statue of the old man in the front hall is gone.
Outside, a muffled thunder roared down, shaking the whole weird little temple brightly.
As soon as Hu Xiaoxi heard the thunder, he hugged his head and got into Ma Chengfeng's arms, shaking non-stop.
"What's wrong with the little fox? It's just thunder, and you haven't seen it rain before? Ma Chengfeng asked her.
"I'm afraid...... Fear...... I'm just afraid of ......" After all, she is a fox fairy who has cultivated into a 'spirit' in the mountains, and according to legend, these 'spirit' monsters will experience a heavenly thunder catastrophe when their cultivation reaches a bottleneck, referred to as the heavenly tribulation.
There is often a scene in the folk jokes, in the wilderness and lonely mountains, the thunder rolls in the middle of the night, but the thunder does not rain, and the lightning special 'door' clicks into the big ravine, and the old people say that Zhun Bao is what 'spirit' monster in the mountain is going to experience a catastrophe. When the sun came out the next morning, a group of mountain village men, with shotguns and hounds, went into the mountains to look for it, there must have been an old tree that had been cut off. I saw that inside the hole of the tree, there was either a giant python or other creatures, but these creatures who had cultivated to become 'essence' had already been burned into a pile of black charcoal by the thunder fire.
This statement is definitely not an empty 'hole', and the people in the mountains respect it to the extreme, and they are looking for a quasi. Therefore, there are always many demon 'spirits' in our Chinese legends who practice to become immortals, in fact, it is not easy, and it depends on how many good karma you have accumulated after practicing for several years.
"You haven't hurt anyone, what are you afraid of?" Ma Chengfeng comforted her.
"I ...... No...... I'm not going out tonight anyway! God wants to hack me! Hu Xiaoxi got into his arms and said that he would not look up.
Ma Chengfeng thought to himself, you are safe, if you, the little fox fairy, are really going through a catastrophe, it is useless to hide in my arms? Do you want me to be struck by lightning with you?
"Brother, you're a local, do you know what kind of territory this is?" Ma Chengfeng walked around the temple and found that this small temple seemed to have been burned before, and even the brick walls were pitch black. Fortunately, the main body of this small temple is built of ancient bricks, and the four people are sheltered from the wind and rain for the time being.
Na Xiu smiled and patted Bai Su, this orchid 'flower' and 'door' white girl has all her skills, but in front of Na Xiu, she has become a lot more birdy.
He threw out the silkworm silver thread, hooked an old tree outside the temple and flew up, looked around, and looked at the surrounding mountains.
At this time, seeing that a thunderbolt in the dark clouds above his head was split, and the big trees in the mountains were the easiest to attract thunder and split, so he was caught off guard, and saw the 'yin' light flashing in the sky, so that he couldn't open his eyes, and it was too late to think about it. The speed of electricity must be much faster than the speed at which a person can react.
"That brother beware!!" Ma Chengfeng shouted.
At the moment of life and death, Na Xiu suddenly felt that his eyes were dark, and he was 'blinded' by a giant white 'colored' cloth...... After a second, he suddenly smelled a scorched smell in the air, and he said in his heart, it's broken, my quasi-insurance was struck by lightning...... Am I dead? It turns out that being killed by lightning doesn't hurt at all?
"Hey, hey? What should you do? Ma Chengfeng lifted the white veil and stuffed the cigarette in his mouth to him with a smile.
I saw that I was still on a tree about ten meters high, and I fell to the ground in an instant.
The blinking eyes looked at Ma Chengfeng in surprise, and then looked at Bai Su, who was smiling at him, and didn't know what to do.
"It was your beauty who saved you, don't thank me."
"Hey...... Little handsome guy, you don't have to thank you for your kindness, you see, you hurt me just now, and I want to save your 'life' this time, you owe a lot of favor? See how you pay it back? Bai Su deliberately teased him with his arm on his shoulder.
Then what do I think, what does this mean, we have run to Panlong Mountain? This Panlongshan is not lucky.
There is a talk here, but now young people don't know it, in the early years, those who experienced the history of the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China still often recall that period of history.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, there was a famous thief in Rehe, Duan Xiaowu, how powerful is this Xiaowu? Even the Empress Dowager Cixi came to Rehe every year to escape the summer, and she didn't dare to go out of the villa, as long as she took half a step out of the villa, she was allowed to lose things, and all she lost was the treasure on her body. But except for the few 'women' of the palace who were close to the eunuchs, no one approached at all, and she couldn't even tell herself.
Afterwards, these treasures that the Empress Dowager Cixi was close to were resold by Duan Xiaowu to the black market. Let's put it this way, as long as you can set a price, except for the moon and stars in the sky, as long as there are objects in the world, he can steal them for you.
'Yin' Yang Xuandao is the most amazing big man in the rivers and lakes in those years, he has never said that he admires anyone in his life, but even if he mentions Duan Xiaowu now, he will give a straight thumbs up. According to legend, Duan Xiaowu has a set of unique 'door' light skills, which are better than a thousand miles of a night trip, and there are no footprints on the snow walkway. Once, Duan Xiaowu committed an accident in Rehe, not to mention what treasure he stole from. He was originally a thief, even if he didn't commit a crime, he was also carrying a lawsuit, and he was a wanted criminal in the imperial court, and he was running outside all the year round, and no one wanted to catch him.
He met the 'Yin' Yang Xuandao in the middle of the road, there was no Banyou Road in those years, and it was also the official road leading to Liaoxi, next to the official road was the dense forest and deep mountains, and there happened to be a City God Temple on the mountain.
'Yin' Yang Xuandao said Xiao Wu, what trouble are you causing here? Why is it so embarrassing?
"It turned out to be Xuandao, hehe...... I won't tell you that Xiao Wu has made a big deal this time, and you can help me palm my eyes when I go back and stop for a few days, but the officers and soldiers behind me are chasing after me urgently, so I won't talk to you anymore, and I will leave! He clenched his hands into fists and was about to flee into the woods.
'Yin' Yang Xuandao and this big thief Duan Xiaowu have some 'private' and 'friendship', and when they see the old man's 'suffering', they will naturally not ignore it. He said little five, and walked slowly.