Chapter 883: Mysterious Drawings
"Well, it's definitely bigger than the Little Potala Palace, Cheng Feng is right, the key is, what kind of ancient drawings of the building is it? Why did you ask Cui Yaozu about the Cat Immortal Temple, he wanted to show us this drawing? Xiao Man watched it for a long time, but he couldn't think of a reason.
"Cat Immortal Temple? Could it be that this is the engineering drawing of the Cat Immortal Temple? Ma Chengfeng thought about it carefully, and it didn't seem right. I've been to the Cat Fairy Temple myself, and the scale is so big? It's not much bigger than the ordinary small mountain temple. It's just that there are more good men and women.
Moreover, when they came, they also heard from the locals that this cat fairy temple has never been expanded or demolished and rebuilt for thousands of years. More than ten years ago, when there was a red revolution in our country, the red soldiers wanted to smash the cat fairy temple in the name of breaking the four olds, but the cat fairy was expected to return in Lingzhou. In addition, the cat fairy temple is not dedicated to the gods and Buddhas, but cats, cats are not superstitious after all, right? This is the thousand-year-old temple that remains.
Ma Chengfeng said: "No, how do I think that the area of any small lattice here will be as big as the Cat Immortal Temple?" No, there must be something wrong in our analysis. ”
When it came to the Cat Fairy Temple, Xiao Man seemed to suddenly remember something, so he asked Granny Shui: "Mother-in-law, since the Cat Fairy Temple is a temple, there must be a guarded temple, right?" ”
The Shui family and the Cui family used to be the old people in Lingzhou, Granny Shui thought for a moment and said, I remember when she was a child, she once went to worship the cat fairy with her father, and saw Miao Zhu, Miao Zhu is a monk in his sixties, saying that the monk is just the title of his profession, in fact, this monk loves to eat meat and eat meat, should drink and drink, and the hair is quite long. The old monk is kind-hearted, not only does he not take a penny to guard the cat fairy temple here, but also raises thirty or forty wild cats in the backyard of the cat fairy temple, and almost all the incense money in the temple is used to raise cats, and there is no penny left. It seems to be a surname...... Surname Ray!
"Surname Lei? Are you sure you're not mistaken? The surname Lei is rare! Could it be that this old Miao Zhu is also a relative of the Lei family? Something to do with Lei Siye? ”
"There are four brothers in the Lei family, Lei Lao is the youngest, and there is a sister and two brothers above, and the one who is a monk and a cat is Lei Lao." Granny Shui said slowly.
"No wonder the Lei family knows so many secrets of Lingzhou, it turns out that their family is related to the Cat Immortal Temple." Ma Chengfeng said, I think the belief of Lingzhou people to worship cat immortals is the same as the belief of rural people in Northeast China to believe in the five immortals. Worshipping the five immortals is to seek wealth, presumably, their family worshipping the cat immortals must also be to increase their fortune, no wonder the Lei family's business is so big. "But I've also been to the Lei family, why haven't I seen the Lei Fourth Master's ** Fengmao Fairy?"
"This old body is unknown, let's go to the Cat Immortal Temple to have a look, but it's best not to report too much hope, if Boss Lei lives until now, at least he will be 100 years old."
In any place, the locals almost have an innate sense of superiority, maybe the city is very small and poor, but the locals are always locals, and you outsiders will not be able to integrate into the cultural atmosphere of the locals for a while. Faith is the richest cultural embodiment in a region, and with the help of a master like Granny Shui, Ma Chengfeng has saved a lot of trouble.
After lunch, Granny Shui took them to the Cat Fairy Temple, because today is not the fifteenth day of the new year, so there are not many good men and women who come to the Cat Fairy Temple. However, the Cat Fairy Temple is not the same as other temples, it is no matter what day, no matter what time of day, the temple door will be open. Even if people don't worship the cat fairy, they will occasionally bring some food and put it in the corner of the cat fairy temple to give to those cat masters. In addition, the cat fairy temple is also a favorite place for children to play.
No, in the temple, four or five children were playing hide and seek around the statue of the Moon Shadow Black Pupil Beast, and when they saw someone coming in, the children quickly ran out again.
"Cheng Feng, look, there seems to be something missing in the middle of the offering table of this cat god statue, if it is as expected, it should be the jar that was taken away by the old blind man."
"It's not an ordinary altar, it's the ash altar of the flesh of the burying cat fairy. Wait......" Speaking of this, Ma Chengfeng seemed to suddenly realize something, and quickly took out three sticks of incense, first worshiped the cat fairy, and then repeatedly paced around the statue in a circle.
"Didn't you say that it would be better to go back to Rehe and bring some delicious food to the sunspots?" Xiao Man smiled.
"Don't interrupt me, I seem to have thought of it...... Xiao Man, do you repeat what you just said again? ”
I said...... I said that the jar was stolen by the old blind man, and then you murdered me and said that it was not an ordinary jar, but it was used for the corpse of the cat fairy! Xiao Man blinked and looked at Ma Chengfeng in surprise.
"That's right! That's it! The jar is used to bury the body of the cat fairy, when Emperor Huizong was the emperor, the master of Lingzhou was a vassal king, didn't my mother-in-law say it? Only that jar can store the body of the cat fairy, and nothing else can be used! Don't...... Could it be ...... Is the old blind man going to use it to pretend to be the body of a cat fairy? But hasn't the cat fairy body been lost for more than a hundred years? Where did he find it? Ma Chengfeng suddenly realized.
The cat fairy temple is not big, and there is a small courtyard behind the temple, which is often a place where thousands of wild cats in the city haunt. However, cats and dogs have different living habits, cats love to be clean, and there is no smell at the back of the small yard.
There is a small sign hanging on the courtyard gate, and the sign says that idlers are not allowed to enter.
Ma Chengfeng leaned on the crack of the door and looked inside, there were a lot of vegetables and fruits planted in the small courtyard, and there was a small room in his mouth. It seems that this courtyard is not deserted, and there should still be people living in it.
With a squeak, Ma Chengfeng pushed open the door of the small courtyard, and as soon as the door opened, suddenly a black shadow flew underneath. Ma Chengfeng reacted very quickly, and dodged sideways, he pulled out the Seven Star Blade and looked back, daring to be a little black cat with sharp teeth and claws, lying on the ground and yelling at a few of their intruders. This little black cat is estimated to be the Elvis in the yard, and he is also the most courageous, otherwise it is rare to see cats take the initiative to attack people.
Looking further into the yard, the vegetable patches and the trees were full of night cats, estimated to be hundreds, with claws hunched over, big round eyes staring at the three of them, and a whining warning sound in their throats.
"Ouch, these little ones have a lot of tempers." Ma Chengfeng said with a smile.
"Don't underestimate these cats, Lingzhou cats all have aura, but they are much more effective than dogs, and they will take care of the house."
(End of chapter)