the last priest

Our village is also in a mountainous area. There is a big temple in the village, which is still made of gray bricks. According to my father, I don’t know which dynasty and generation that temple is from. It is said that when my great-grandfather fled from other places to come here, There was already that temple, but no one managed it at that time, and I don’t know which dynasty it was from. After 100 years, it looks even more dilapidated. ╔y╗

During the Cultural Revolution, a large part of the temple was set on fire by the Red Guards, and the bricks of the entire temple wall were burnt red. Only the main hall remained unburned. Gradually, later, some people built houses and so on, so they went there I picked bricks to build a house, but I didn't know how to do it. The house built with these temple wall bricks was easy to fall down, and a family was killed. Gradually, everyone used the bricks there to build pigsty.

There is also a brick in my house. That brick was broken when I was a child. That brick is very heavy. One side is carved with a unicorn, and the other side is bare. According to my current thinking, it should be a relief. The brick was picked up by my father when he was a child, but it was destroyed in my hands. ,

I heard from the older generation that the temple is called the Temple of Generals. As for the generals who came out of our poor mountain ditch, I really don’t know. There are also hundreds of families in the village, but most of them are from other places. It is said that the original people here were killed during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, so no one knows the origin of the General Temple. Fortunately, standing there is neither in the way nor in the way, and everyone is used to it. exist.

Children in the countryside, when they were young, apart from climbing trees to dig out bird nests, they just went into the water to touch fish and shrimp, or just hide and seek. I am naturally courageous, and I don’t know what it means to be afraid. I have a root and I am a day away. My friend is called Li Yi, because he was thin when he was a child, so we called him the nickname Monkey.

Monkey and I once went to the Temple of the General. The temple always has a smell, I can’t tell, it’s kind of like a moldy smell. If anyone has an old ancestral hall, especially the place with Yizhuang, it’s very empty. But the place where the door is closed can also smell a similar smell, but I was very curious about that smell at that time, and I always wanted to find out where the source was.

That day, I went there with Monkey and Xiao Hongxia, who was one year younger than me. In fact, both of us are little villains, and the three of us played games, just like doctors playing injections. How do we play?

Usually, Monkey and I take turns to be the doctor, and Xiao Hongxia is the patient to check her body. . .At that time, I didn’t understand the relationship between men and women. I only knew that female dolls peed differently from our male dolls, so this kind of game of doctor’s body examination appeared. Examining Xiao Hongxia’s body and giving her an injection was a game. , Second, let us know why the peeing posture is different.

Although we are still very young in this kind of game, we also know that we can't see people. We coaxed Xiao Hongxia to the back of the General Temple, and then reached an agreement with Xiao Hongxia with a glass marble. As a patient and as a doctor, the monkey watched from the sidelines. Just as I was about to take off Xiao Hongxia’s pants, Xiao Hongxia’s mother shouted from outside: “What are you little bastards doing hiding there? ! You bloody little bastards, see if I don't come to clean you up!"

Before I had time to cover Xiao Hongxia's mouth, she agreed, "Mom, they take off my pants and play a game of injection."

With this cry, the three souls of the monkey and I were scared out of two and a half souls, so we turned around and wanted to find a place to hide, and looked around to see where to hide except for the walls and bare stone walls; , I couldn’t hide even if I wanted to, just when Xiao Hongxia’s mother’s footsteps were getting closer, the monkey shouted to me: “Quick, there’s a hole here, get in!”

Turning around, I saw a hole in the bottom brick of the temple wall behind us, just big enough to fit a six-year-old child, and the monkey and I went in separately. . .

By the time we got in, Xiao Hongxia's mother had already arrived in a murderous spirit, and she dragged Xiao Hongxia out while yelling at us as hooligans, and the monkey and I sat on the ground and dared not vent our anger;

For a while, the two of us dare not go out, because if we want to go home, we must pass by the door of Hongxia's house. Where are we going to escape? The monkey suggested to me that we will go back when it gets dark. At that time, it should be around 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Xiao Hongxia's mother actually came to see her for dinner, and dinner is relatively early in rural areas.

When Hongxia's mother left, we both suddenly found ourselves in that ancient temple. At first we only paid attention to the outside when we came in. Now when we look up, we can see that there are many traces of smoke and fire on Miao's walls, but most of the face It is still vaguely discernible. This hall should be the main hall at that time. The ceiling part is made of hollow wood carvings, engraved with Tai Chi gossip, gourds, cranes, etc. The door of the hall is tightly closed, because the door is on the outside. I bought a big copper lock, and I don't know who it was or when it was locked. In short, I have never seen the temple door open, so I have never known what is going on inside the temple.

There are murals all around the wall, among which the murals on two sides can no longer be distinguished, only the person on the mural on the right can still tell the general appearance, the old man on this mural is holding a whisk, it should be Taishang Lao Jun!

After a long time, there are Taoist murals in the so-called General Temple, which shows that this temple should have been a Taoist temple before!

What made the two of us even more horrified was that there was nothing in the entire hall, except for a large vermilion coffin in the middle, on which a layer of ash had already fallen, and the moldy smell in the room The smell is very heavy, but fortunately there is a bright tile on the top of the head, and the outside light can be shot from the bright tile, so we can still distinguish a lot of things, but in this environment, the two of us have the courage to try again. I was too scared, especially the monkey. The monkey turned around and ran, and got out of the small hole. Before I left, I took a look at the wall that was blackened by the smoke. It seemed that the texture of the wall seemed to be a kind of The composition of words or symbols is very strange. I couldn't help but look at it a few more times. At that time, I didn't go to school and couldn't read, but I was attracted by those things that looked like words. Blank.

The urging sound of the monkey outside pulled me into reality. I took another look at the big coffin, and I couldn't help but got out. The monkey asked me why I stayed in it for so long and didn't come out, thinking that I was trapped What about ghosts?

Have I been talking for a long time?The monkey said, look, the sun has gone down, and only then did I realize that the monkey had been out for nearly half an hour, and I had been inside alone for half an hour. . .But there is no impression at all. . .

When the two of us passed by the door of Xiao Hongxia's house, we were inevitably scolded by her mother as a hooligan and shameless, but I didn't care at all, my mind was full of things I saw in the temple, those words that looked like words Things, that mural, and that big coffin.When we were very young, the adults told us not to go to the Temple of the General. When we asked why, the adults always said not to ask, as long as we don’t go there.

The strangest thing to me is that it is obviously a Taoist temple, so why is it called General Temple?I greeted the monkey and told him not to mention that we had gone to the Temple of the General, or we would be beaten. The monkey stuck out his tongue and said he would not say anything.

After returning home, there was nothing unusual. My mother always thought that I had gone wild again, and didn't care. Until dinner, Xiao Hongxia's mother came to my house. . .

At this moment, I knew it was over, and sure enough, her mother started to say with her big mouth, how the monkey and I treated her daughter, and asked my mother to discipline me well. In fact, I really didn’t see Xiao Hongxia’s ass that day. Before she took off her pants, her mother came, but no matter how powerful her mother was, she never expected that after several years, the monkey still took off Xiao Hongxia's pants. . .

While apologizing to others, my mother twisted my ears. I was very afraid of my mother. She had three ways to deal with me: twisting my ears, whipping my ass with a bamboo branch, and kneeling. Look at today's battle, three ways I couldn't even escape. Sure enough, after Xiao Hongxia's mother left, I was lifted up into the air by twisting my ears, and then I knelt down. I knelt obediently, because at this time I wanted to resist, It was like asking Zhuya to beat me, but my mother ignored me and just warned me not to go there again. In the end, it was my grandfather who begged to help me stand up.

My grandpa loves my grandson very much. In that era of material poverty, he would always secretly buy some snacks for me to eat, or make some for me to eat when stewing meat. Grandpa hugged me and rubbed my numb knees , I asked him why it is not allowed to go there?

Grandpa said that there are ghosts over there. When the Red Guards set fire to it, only the hall was not burned down. The person who led the fire was found hanging on the beam of the hall. Since then, the village has been locked. the gate of the temple.

I asked Grandpa who owned that coffin, but when Grandpa heard me mention the coffin, he seemed very taboo and refused to say anything.

Within a few days, I started to have red rashes on my body, and then I had a high fever, vomiting and diarrhea. My mother took me to the hospital. The doctor said it was a viral cold, and I had injections and medicines. Instead, I was getting worse every day. , I was relatively thin at first, but I was only skinny and itchy all over my body, and my skin would break if I scratched it