Paper Maker

Chapter 25 The Temple of the Earth

The thing is like this, the next day we met at a riverside barbecue in the suburban woods. There was a big mountain forest far away from the county town. There were more than ten or twenty people in a very lively atmosphere. Several male students were in charge of the barbecue and eating. , while the female students had nothing to do, so Xia Ling suddenly suggested, why don't we all go into the forest to pick mushrooms, just as we are almost eating up all the food we brought, just pick some mushrooms to roast, the taste It must be beautiful.

When everyone heard this, they all thought this proposal was very good, so several girls clamored to pick mushrooms.But at this time, some students said that there are many kinds of mushrooms in the forest, and many of them that look similar are poisonous mushrooms. If you go to pick them like this, what should you do if they are poisonous mushrooms?

At this time, one of the girls said that she grew up in the countryside. When she was young, she often went to the mountains with her grandmother to pick mushrooms. For example, she knew those tea mushrooms.While talking, he was guaranteeing that he would never admit his mistake.

I don't doubt that they will pick the wrong mushrooms. After all, there are still a few girls who grew up in the countryside. If they pick the wrong mushrooms, it's me. to the big ones.

However, I am worried that they will get lost or run into something bad, because this place is in the middle of the mountains, and few strangers come in in the past. Dangerous.And the most important thing is that I saw that this place is relatively cloudy, it happens to be in the back of the sun, and it is usually relatively cloudy, which is why they chose this place, because there is no sun here.

So I told these girls who were booing to pick mushrooms, it's better not to run around. It's hard to foresee any unexpected dangers in the depths of the mountains. What if you encounter something?
At this time, not only the girls, but even the boys sneered at my words, saying, God, are you fucking suffering from an occupational disease again? You don’t mean ghosts by the danger, do you?
When everyone heard this, they immediately burst out laughing, obviously they didn't take what I said seriously at all.

Seeing that they don't believe me, I have no choice but to let them.

A group of them, either alone, or in twos and threes, scattered and went into the forest to look for the so-called mushrooms.At this time, Lin Xiaoqi also walked up to me and asked me, do you want to go together?

I sighed, go as soon as I want, anyway, everyone is gone, it's useless to stay here in a daze, let's go in and have a look!
Walking into the forest, there are actually no mushrooms at all. When everyone runs into the forest, most of them do not want to eat mushrooms, but are just bored for fun.

Just when we entered the forest about a few hundred meters away, we suddenly saw a boy rushing out of the forest on the left, and then excitedly shouted to us: "Quick, I heard that Xia Ling and the others found an antique. Let's go and have a look!"

After finishing speaking, the boy didn't stop, and ran straight forward.

Hearing this all of a sudden, Lin Xiaoqi and I were very curious, how could there be antiques in such a barren place?In particular, everyone just went into the forest to pick mushrooms. I only heard that most of the antiques are underground. If you are lucky, you will dig them out when you break the ground, but you have never heard that the antiques will be thrown in the ground. on the ground.

It was strange in my heart, so Lin Xiaoqi and I couldn't help being curious, and hurried forward.

When we drove forward for 200 meters, we saw that a dozen or twenty students in front of us had already gathered together, talking and booing.

From a distance, I could see those students gathered in front of a half-person tall earthen monument. Seeing this, I felt a bad premonition in my heart, wondering what that earthen monument was for?

So Lin Xiaoqi and I ran up quickly, and when we got close, I saw clearly that this was not an earth monument, but a small earth temple.

This earth temple is only half a person tall and one meter wide. It is built with adobe, and the earth temple is covered with a few broken tiles covered with moss.Because of the long time, the entire earth temple was exposed to the wind and rain in this field, and the walls more than one meter high were already covered with grass.Especially in front of the Earth Temple, weeds over half a meter high are covered. If you don't pay attention, it is really not easy to find that there is an Earth Temple here.

A bronze statue of the God of Earth is enshrined in the Earth Temple, and a small fist-sized blue and white censer is placed in front of the statue. Of course, there is only soil in the censer at this time, so there is no possibility of incense.And the bronze god statue is also covered with copper rust, and it has long since changed beyond recognition.

Seeing everyone surrounding this land temple and pointing at the statue of the Lord of the Land, I finally understand what they mean by antiques, isn’t it the statue of the Lord of the Land in front of me?
At that moment, Xia Ling told everyone that although this bronze statue is rusty, I can be sure that this bronze statue has been around for a long time, and it is definitely an antique.Everyone believes her words very much, that's because she majored in archeology when she was in college.

At this time, a classmate asked Xia Ling, Xia Ling, you are studying archaeology, so what year do you think this bronze statue is from? Is it worth money? If it is, then we will get rich today Hurry up and sell this thing tomorrow, and then find a high-end place to have a good time.

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately became crazy. Some clapped their hands and applauded, and some echoed and applauded.In short, today's incident seemed to be a stroke of luck for them.

Xia Ling said, let me have a look, so she went to fetch the bronze statue in the Earth Temple.As soon as I saw this, my heart was so anxious that I jumped out of it. I hurriedly pushed aside the classmates surrounded in front of me, and hurriedly pulled Xia Ling back, telling him not to touch these things. This is an earth temple, and This idol is the Lord of the Land, and this thing cannot be touched.

Seeing me stop her, Xia Ling pouted at me, pointed to the bronze statue in the earth temple and said: "This is an ancient handicraft, why can't you touch it? This is the crystallization of the wisdom of the older generation. What a pity to leave it here like this?"

I said, "Unfortunately, I can't take care of it, but this is the Earth Temple, and the things in the Earth Temple must not be moved, otherwise it will cause serious trouble if you burn yourself."

Indeed, I didn't lie to her. You have to know how there is such an earth temple here in the barren mountains and mountains. It must not be built for people to pray for blessings, so it is not simple, it should be an office for ghost reports.

Maybe everyone finds it strange to hear me say that how the Earth Temple has something to do with ghosts.Yes, there are earth temples in every place. There are two kinds of earth temples, one is used by strangers to pray, and the other is used to manage the local household registration of life and death.Of course, some of the latter is invisible to our naked eyes, but it really exists.

The land temple, which manages the local household registration of life and death, will have a local "household registration book" in the hands of the land master, which records the local mountains, rivers, population, livestock, and number of people.As the saying goes, one side's water and soil support one side's people, and one side's land protects the other side's people. The birth and death of a soul must go through the local earth temple.Although the status of the land is very low, it is a well-known righteous god, and no one dares to collide with it.It is also an important messenger for the communication between all the halls and gods in the world. From the transmission of letters to the incineration of money worship, it is inseparable from the help of the father-in-law.When someone's yang life has expired, the Yin soldiers will take the ghost card and approval ticket to escort the dead soul to the land temple to pass the customs. After verifying that there is no religious belief, the seal of the local land is stamped on the approval ticket, and the passage to the underworld is carried out.In the Earth Temple, there is a direct access to the Huangquan Road leading to the underworld. The pass is extremely dark, and it is dedicated to the Yin soldiers who escort the ghosts and turn them into Yinfeng to step on the Huangquan Road.

And the earth temple in front of us, although we can see it with our naked eyes, is not used for praying, so it is most likely used to lead to the underworld.

But how could the students believe my words, all of them laughed.

Xia Ling said angrily: "Do you know what I major in? Archeology, archaeology, do you understand? What kind of ancient tomb have you never seen? I dare to move hundreds of years of bones out of the coffin. Would such a person be intimidated by your superstition?"

Hearing this, I suddenly felt a sharp pain in my heart. Yes, she really looked down on me, and even regarded my concern as shit.

Even so, I still want to dissuade her, not for anything else, just for the past, just because I am a person who misses old love.But when I opened my mouth to persuade her again, she suddenly became angry and shouted impatiently: "Aren't you annoying? I don't need you to take care of me anymore, and I don't need your concern anymore. Although we We were together before, but now that we are grown up, stop pestering me, it is impossible for me to like you!"

She spoke so loudly that everyone could hear it. When I think about it now, I don’t remember how embarrassed I was, how I blushed, or if there was a hole in the ground, I might burrow into the ground.

I don't know why, but my heart is very, very sad, like a knife cut.Yes, maybe I really meddle too much, maybe in her view, I am just a character who pulls a toad to eat swan meat.It really has changed, time has changed everything.

Just when I was in a daze, Xia Ling stretched out her hand and took out the bronze statue of the Earth Temple...

(End of this chapter)