My master is the coffin

Chapter 138 Invite the Great Sage

From Xi'an to Taiyuan.It takes more than ten hours.We were safe and well along the way.But I really don't like this kind of success.

I hope that something happens, the train is late, the car is out of gas, I can't get a taxi, I get lost, or even meet a ghost and hit the wall.I studied in Taiyuan for four years, and I have never been so afraid of this city as I am today.I hope to go back later.Just like the exam back then, knowing that this question could not be solved, I still thought about giving 5 more minutes, not to solve the question, but to linger on for a while before the death bell rang.

However, all my expectations were in vain.Fate escaped every contingency I could imagine.We arrived in Taiyuan smoothly and arrived at the Dasheng Temple.

Only Wushuang and I have been to this temple.The fat man, the thin man, and Wen Yu followed us like tourists, looking left and right.

It’s been a month since I’ve seen him, and the river in front of the Dasheng Temple is still so smelly.There were five of us, all holding our noses, and walked over slowly.

We crossed the stinky river and were approaching the Dasheng Temple.The fat man suddenly said nervously: "Brother, I'm a little scared."

The thin man asked casually, "What are you afraid of?"

The fat man pointed to the front and said, "There are ghosts."

The thin man was furious, kicked over, and cursed: "We are ghost messengers after all, specializing in catching ghosts and seducing ghosts. Tell me you are afraid of ghosts? How can we do business in the future?"

The fat man looked aggrieved: "Brother, we are both wanted criminals, how can we do business?"

The thin man was furious: "Bullshit, the wanted criminal can't do business?"

The thin man and the fat man were entangled with each other.And I looked in the direction the fat man pointed just now.There was definitely something wrong there.

I saw a lot of small red dots, faintly, and there were black shadows.They gather around the Dasheng Temple.It's moving slowly, it seems, like circling around it.

I was disappointed and a little scared.

I grabbed Wushuang who was still walking forward: "Don't go, you didn't see, is there something wrong in front?"

Wushuang glanced back at me, then pointed to the figures in front of him: "You mean those?"

I nodded: "Those black shadows may be wronged souls. This Great Sage Temple is not peaceful."

Wushuang gave me a strange look, then laughed, "Xu You, are you stupid in school?"

I was a little annoyed.As we all know, it is not easy for us college students to find a job.What I hate the most is that people say that we are stupid in school, and we might as well drop out of school to work.

So I asked viciously, "How do you say that?"

Wushuang didn't care about the change in my tone at all, pointed to the figure in front of him and said, "That's a group of old ladies, real people, there's no wrongdoing."

After hearing this, I looked forward vigorously, but I still couldn't see clearly.I sighed: "Maybe it's because I have been studying for more than ten years, my eyes are a bit bad."

I followed Wushuang warily and walked slowly towards the Dasheng Temple.As the distance approached, I could see clearly that the group of people in front were indeed old ladies.However, the fear in my heart did not disappear, because these old ladies are not normal.

They all wore old-fashioned button-down clothes, the kind of clothes that no one wears anymore.Therefore, these old ladies give people a feeling of jumping out of the coffin board.

Most of them have gray hair, and their faces are sallow when they are illuminated by street lamps from a distance.

Wushuang and I stood at a distance and looked at these old ladies. They stretched out their hands in front of their chests, holding a stick of incense like a minister holding a wat board.Then, with extremely respectful expressions, they slowly circled the Dasheng Temple in a bumpy manner.

Wushuang was also a little confused, and couldn't help asking me: "Xu You, do you know what these people are doing?"

I whispered: "Wu Shuang, you have been lying in the coffin for a long time, and you may not understand the customs of the countryside. I remember watching the excitement when I was a child, and watching people cry after the funeral procession. When the coffin was finally placed on the ground, the grave After getting up, the women have to circle around the grave. It is called a round grave. It is similar to the behavior of these old ladies today."

Wushuang looked at me in surprise: "You mean someone died in Dasheng Temple? Could it be the abbot?"

I shook my head: "I don't know yet, let's be careful. Go in and have a look. There is something wrong with these old ladies, it's best not to alarm them."

Wushuang agreed, but she said, "I don't feel that there is a ghost in these people. At most, they are mentally abnormal, so don't worry."

The two of us were discussing, when we suddenly heard the fat man yell in panic behind us: "Oh, my god, it's terrible, brother, let's run away quickly, the people from the underworld are chasing us."

His voice made my heart skip a beat. I clutched my chest and turned around, saying hurriedly, "Where are they? Have you seen us? Hide quickly."

When I turned around, I happened to see the thin man's face was pale and his hands and feet were shaking. It seemed that he was extremely frightened.

Wushuang drew out the mahogany sword casually, and asked the fat man, "Where are they? Where are they? Wen Yu, how long can you hold on?"

Wen Yu said: "If there is only one ghost messenger, it can hold you back for half an hour. Fatty, how many did you see?"

The fat man said tremblingly, "I didn't see anyone."

I was a little angry: "You didn't see anyone, what are you talking about here?"

The fat man pointed at the wall tremblingly: "But I saw that they warned us. Look, there is a big red letter on the wall, which says "cut". Isn't this going to kill us? God, they have expected us to I'm coming to the Dasheng Temple."

I looked back suspiciously, and sure enough I saw a big red letter circled on the wall of the Dasheng Temple.But I took a second look, turned around suddenly, and kicked the fat man: "Paralyzed, you scared me to death. Is that beheading? That's tearing down."

After beating the fat man, I suddenly realized one thing.The Dasheng Temple is about to be demolished.

The five of us calmed down and walked slowly towards the gate of the temple.

At this time, an old lady suddenly left the circle and said to me in a hoarse voice, "Don't go in."

I was taken aback and asked her, "Why didn't you let us in?"

The old lady's expression became respectful and mysterious: "We are inviting the great sage. If you break the rules, the gods will blame you, and you will suffer."

After saying this, she never talked to me again.He joined the team again and turned round and round.

At this time, these old ladies are getting closer.When they walked by me, I could hear them singing some syllables very fast.

After two or three minutes, the originally neat team suddenly dispersed.Holding the incense sticks, these old ladies walked in all directions.

We looked at them suspiciously.Can't understand these weird behaviors at all.

The old lady who was talking to me just walked halfway, suddenly turned around and waved to me.

I didn't know why I glanced at her twice, and then followed her suspiciously.

This is already a suburb.The old lady walked quickly with her little feet, walked to a yard, walked all the way to the main house, and then inserted the incense into an incense burner.

When all this was done, she turned on the light.The room was full of light.

I took a look and found that there was a clay Buddha statue in front of the incense burner just now.To be honest, the workmanship of this Buddha statue is not very good.After identifying it for a long time, I realized that it was modeled after the great icon in the Dasheng Temple.It's just a few sizes smaller.

After the old lady plugged in the incense, she suddenly became normal. She looked at me kindly and asked, "Is your name Xu You?"

I was very surprised and asked, "You know me?"

The old lady said: "I don't know you, but the master abbot of Dasheng Temple knows you. Before he left, he told me that one day you might come back to him. He also said that you look stupid, but you are with a very beautiful Just now I was inviting the Great Sage, but I didn’t recognize you, after I finished inviting you, I suddenly remembered that you might be Xu You, so I invite you to come to my house for a while.”

Wushuang laughed out loud when he heard this, patted my shoulder and said, "Abbot, haha, he speaks really well."

I ignored Wushuang's joke, and asked the old lady, "You just said, when the abbot was leaving? Has he already left?"

The old lady nodded: "Yes, the Dasheng Temple is going to be demolished. It is said that some kind of community will be built. Hey, we old people have been offering incense in the Dasheng Temple for decades, but we are old and no one listens to our words. Several times, but still did not stop. Master Abbot had no place to stay, so he had to leave."

I asked the old lady, "Do you know where he went?"

The old lady shook her head: "I don't know."

I was a little lost for a while.Then I scratched my head and said, "He told you that one day I would come to him. Did he say anything else?"

The old lady seemed confused: "Others? I seem to have said it, but I can't remember it clearly. Let me think about it... Oh, I remembered. He said that if you want to find him, go to Dasheng Village Wait for him."

I grinned: "Dasheng Temple? Dasheng Village? Why are they called Dasheng? Is there some origin here?"

The old lady smiled triumphantly: "If you ask young people about this, they will definitely not know. You just met me, and I can tell you something."

I hurriedly asked respectfully: "Tell me. What happened to Dasheng Village?"

The old lady said: "Dasheng Village is twenty miles south of our village. This village is not small. It is no different from ordinary villages. But there is one thing that is very special, that is, the abbots of all the Dasheng temples in the world , all came from Dasheng Village."

I was even more surprised: "Why is this?"

The old lady said: "Because the ancestor in this village once followed Tang Seng to the west to learn Buddhist scriptures. He led a horse for the old man. So he is..."

I couldn't help correcting the old lady: "What you said is Journey to the West, right? How can fairy tales be taken seriously?"

The old lady looked displeased: "You think I'm old and confused? Can't tell the story from the truth? Let me tell you, everything I say is true."

(End of this chapter)