A knife in love

Chapter 3077

Master Chengxin showed shame on his face, and said in a trembling voice: "I didn't believe it at first, but the little novice who went to the mountain to collect medicine with Zhengyi also said that he saw a ghost. This little novice grew up in the temple since he was a child. Playing around, I can't help but not believe this matter."

Seeing that Master Chengxin spoke solemnly and did not seem to be fake, Shang Heyang was quite disturbed.He pondered for a moment, and then said: "I don't know what strange things happened to Zen Master Zhengyi?"

At this time, a servant brought fragrant tea.Qin Tieyi personally poured tea for Shang Heyang, Master Chengxin and others before sitting down with the Prime Minister.Master Chengxin drank two sips of tea, his expression was not as panicked as before, and then he told about the strange things that happened in Zhenhai Temple.

It turned out that after Qin Tieyi and others left Zhenhai Temple, Master Chengxin was meditating and chanting sutras in the meditation room, and dusk was approaching before he knew it.At that time, Zhengyi still hadn't returned to Zhenhai Temple, but Master Chengxin wasn't worried either.Because after Zhengyi went to Zhenhai Temple to place orders, he often went to the mountains to collect herbs, and when he came back, he made medicinal soup and pills to treat the diseases of the people around him.Sometimes when I go to the mountains to collect herbs, I usually return to Zhenhai Temple after a day or two.At the beginning, the monks in the temple were worried about Zhengyi, but later they saw the strangeness, even if Zheng didn't go back to Zhenhai Temple to rest all night, the monks would not go out to look for it.

It's just that when it was getting dark, a monk came to report to Master Chengxin, saying that he had heard the chatter of the people passing by Zhenhai Temple, and said that there were wild wolves in Beishan these few days, and several woodcutters had been bitten.Master Chengxin was shocked when he heard this, and he thought to himself that when Zhengyi left Zhenhai Temple, he had said that he would go to Beishan to collect medicine, and it would be terrible if he met wild wolves.Thinking of this, Master Chengxin became anxious, and ordered several monks to go to Beishan to look for Zhengyi.It's just that when it was time to light the lanterns, not only did Zhengyi not come back, even the monks who went to Beishan to look for Zhengyi and the little novice were nowhere to be seen.Then it rained suddenly, and Master Chengxin became more and more anxious. Just as he was about to lead people into the mountain to search for it himself, the little novice who followed Zhengyi to collect medicine in Beishan ran back to the temple. Then he burst into tears, saying that he met an evil spirit in the mountains, and that Zhengyi had been captured by the evil spirit.

After listening to the little novice, Master Chengxin said that he was talking nonsense, naturally he refused to believe it, and reprimanded him a few words.The little novice swears to the Buddha in a hurry, claiming that if he tells a lie, he will be struck to death by lightning immediately, and after death, he will fall into the hell of Avici, and he will never be reborn forever.

Seeing that the little novice did not seem to be lying on purpose, Master Chengxin was startled, and said to the little novice, "Where did you meet the ghost?"

When the little novice heard Master Chengxin's question, his body trembled suddenly, as if he saw some extremely terrifying poisonous snake and beast, the corners of his mouth twitched, and he couldn't speak for a while.Seeing his appearance, Master Chengxin felt a chill in his heart, and said: "You don't have to be afraid, Zhenhai Temple has the protection of Buddha, even if there are evil spirits and heretics who want to harm you, they will never dare to come to Zhenhai Temple to commit murder."

After hearing what Master Cheng Xin said, the little novice was not as terrified as before, stopped crying, and said in a trembling voice, "It was, it was in the imperial tomb... I met an evil spirit in the imperial tomb..."

Master Chengxin couldn't help but turn pale with shock when he heard the word "Huangling".It turns out that the so-called "imperial mausoleum" is the place where the emperors and ministers of the Song Dynasty who died in the battle of Yashan were buried.After the Tartars destroyed the Song Dynasty, the Han people thought of their homeland, collected the remains of the Song Dynasty monarchs, ministers and soldiers, and buried them in a pine forest about two miles behind Zhenhai Temple, secretly calling it the imperial mausoleum.However, some people said that the Tartars had burned the corpses of Emperor Song and his ministers to ashes and thrown them into the sea. The bones buried in the pine forest were not the remains of the emperors and ministers of the Song Dynasty at all.

Since the Han people buried many remains in the pine forest, many strange things have happened there.Some people saw ghosts appearing in the forest during the day, and they often heard people crying in the forest at night.The story of the haunted pine forest spread more and more widely, and the more it spread, the more terrifying it became. Not only business travelers dared not pass by the forest, but even the local people feared the pine forest like snakes and scorpions, and no one dared to take a step closer to the pine forest.

The pine forest was originally gloomy and gloomy, but after people dared not approach, the trees and weeds grew wildly. From a distance, it seemed to be covered by a black cloud, the most eerie place.Before dusk every day, the pine forest is already pitch black, extremely eerie, so the common people call this pine forest the black pine forest.Although Master Chengxin is not afraid of ghosts and gods, he is also quite afraid of the black pine forest. He has practiced Zen in Zhenhai Temple for many years, but he has only been to the imperial mausoleum once.At this time, when he heard that Zhengyi had an accident in the imperial mausoleum, even if he had a good meditation skill, he was also startled, and his body couldn't help shaking a few times.

Although Master Chengxin didn't know if there were any ghosts hidden in the black pine forest, he knew that the forest must be extremely dangerous, as soon as he broke into the black pine forest, it was like stepping into a dragon's pond or a tiger's lair.Thinking of this, Master Chengxin did not dare to neglect, and a dozen strong and strong monks, led by the escaped monk, hurried to the imperial mausoleum to rescue Zhengyi back to Zhenhai Temple.

As Master Chengxin was on his way, he asked the little novice what happened to him and Zhengyi.At this time, the little novice monk was no longer as frightened as before, so he told the story of the ghost encounter.

It turned out that the little novice followed Zhengyi to Beishan to collect herbs early in the morning, and by the afternoon he had already filled the bamboo baskets with herbs.Just rejoicing in his heart, he took the little novice down the mountain.It's just that the two of them had just walked to the mountainside when it suddenly started to rain heavily. Zhengyi had no choice but to take the little monk to hide under a rock to avoid the rain.It was evening when the rain stopped.Zheng wanted to rush back to Zhenhai Temple before dark, so he had to take a small path down the mountain.That path happened to pass through the black pine forest, and no one would dare to walk it on weekdays.If he hadn't hurried back to Zhenhai Temple, Zhengyi would never have walked along the path.

Zhengyi led the little monk to the edge of the black pine forest, suddenly heard the faint sound of silk and bamboo in the forest, which was very melodious in his ears.Zhengyi involuntarily stopped, listened for a moment, and clapped his hands in praise: "The sound of the flute is elegant and not vulgar. It's definitely not vulgar. I can't imagine that there is such a master who is proficient in melody in this far away place."

The little monk didn't know the rhythm, and didn't know what the sound of the flute was, but felt that the surrounding eerie was extremely frightening, and he was terrified in his heart, urging Zheng to leave the black pine forest as soon as possible.Unexpectedly, Zheng Yi was greedy for the sound of the flute, not only did not leave quickly, but instead walked towards the forest, as if he had lost his soul.Although the little novice was terrified in his heart, he only wanted to run away to Zhenhai Temple, but he didn't dare to leave Zhengyi alone, so he could only follow after him.The two walked into the black pine forest one after the other, the sound of the flute twisted and turned, as if the flute player was not far in front, but the two walked for half a stick of incense, but still did not see a single figure.

(End of this chapter)