Celestial Masters Alliance

Founded by a Taoist priest? I was a little shocked and exchanged glances with Mu Mu.

"Well!" Fan Shengnan glanced slightly to the upper left, thinking hard, "When I was a child, I ran to the wall next to the tower with the children in the village to play. The adults in the village saw it and scolded me bloody. Grandma. Later, he told us that people had died there before, and he would get sick wherever he went." Fansheng Nanshen said mysteriously.

"Nonsense!" Zhong Huafang interrupted sternly, "Weird powers and chaotic gods are all feudal superstition and are completely contrary to modern science."

"I just want to tell the two policemen the story my grandma told me!" Fan Shengnan shouted angrily.

"Okay, okay. We understand!" I quickly stopped the two sisters from quarreling and looked at Zhong Huafang with a smile.

"She is the president of the student union!" Fan Shengnan pouted and rolled his eyes with jealousy in his tone.

"Oh... no wonder!" I responded gently, glanced at Mu Mu, and signaled him to bring the topic back to the right track.

"It would be nice to tell you your grandma's story." Mu Mu asked cooperatively.

I quickly answered: "Yes, I like to listen to the stories told by the elderly the most. Many of them are legendary!"

Seeing that we were focusing all our attention on Fan Shengnan, Zhong Huafang was a little unhappy and sat on the side languidly, resting her chin on her palms.

"Actually, it's not a legendary story. My grandma said that no one lived here before. It was a mountain forest with dense trees, abundant wild fruits, and many game animals.

However, as long as someone sets foot in and takes away anything belonging to the forest, his whole body will be on fire. So this is an inviolable place for people, but when natural disasters come and man-made disasters come, when there is no place to be safe and there is no food to eat, people finally decide to fight for their lives and hide in this mountain forest. "Fanshengnan paused, his expression a little gloomy. I noticed that Zhong Huafang also listened very carefully, as if he had never heard this story before.

I added some tea to Fan Shengnan's tea cup and motioned for her to continue.

"But this forest was cursed. Anyone who came in would be on fire even if they picked a wild fruit, and died miserably. Later, people only dared to wander outside the forest, and many people burned to death and starved to death. One day, a group of Taoist priests came Here, I entered the forest after listening to people's stories. A few days later, a young Taoist priest came out of the forest and informed me that I could enter the forest. The group of Taoist priests stayed at the current location of Phoenix Tomb. Many people were injured, but no one said anything. Cause of injury."

I looked at the wood and thought, is it Zhu Shirong's group? Aren't they here to prepare for the construction of the Nine-Gang Tower? Mu Mu's brows furrowed for a moment and then immediately relaxed, as if he was intentionally reminding me to control my expression. I quickly moved my legs, stretching my waist in an inconspicuous way.

Fan Shengnan didn't seem to notice the interaction between me and Mu Mu, but Zhong Huafang glanced at us intentionally or unintentionally.

"People went into the forest and brought food and herbs. They wanted to thank these benefactors who broke down the obstacles, but they didn't accept it. A Taoist priest said that the danger was only temporarily suppressed. If they want to live here peacefully, , a pagoda must be built, and those who built the pagoda must never return. Many men followed the Taoist priest to build the pagoda in order to feed their families."

"Is it the tower that collapsed in the earthquake?" I interjected and asked.

Fan Shengnan nodded: "My grandma said it was that tower."

Mumu glared at me, and I smiled and said to Fanshengnan, "Sorry, please continue."

Fan Shengnan didn't mind, and continued the story just now: "After the tower was built, those who built the tower did not come back. But the Taoist priest had already said it before, and people did not dare to pursue it. The Taoist priest used red rope and copper coins to tie the tower Wrapping around outside, telling people that no one can enter here, as long as someone does, disaster will happen. People cherish the peace that their loved ones have exchanged for their lives, so they naturally obey the Taoist priest's words and only dare to burn incense and worship outside the pagoda. Relatives who have left and never returned because of the construction of the pagoda.”

"I also know what happened later!" Zhong Huafang interjected, "People built villages in the woods and lived very prosperously. When the Japanese came, they didn't make things difficult for the villagers here. They just ran into the tower and slipped around. When they came out, they Gone. The villagers attributed this incident to the tower, and they respected the tower even more."

"Did all the Japanese who entered the tower come out alive?" I asked quickly.

Zhong Huafang thought for a moment before replying: "My grandfather said that there were more than a hundred people who went in, and there were only about twenty people when they came out. My great-grandfather led the hunters in the village in an ambush and killed seventeen people. . My great-grandfather told the whole village to prepare to escape, because the Japanese would definitely fight back if they suffered a loss. However, the villagers hid in the cave for three months, and the Japanese did not come back. It seemed that no one had escaped. Find the main force alive."

"Don't you believe in supporting the sky wood?" I was a little angry when Mu Mu asked this. Isn't this digressing the topic? The story told by Fan Shengnan is full of doubts, and there are loopholes one after another. If you don't take the time to ask, why change the topic?

But Mu Mu completely ignored the look I gave him, and glanced at the two girls, looking like he was humbly asking for advice.

"I heard from my great-grandfather that most of the first people brought into the mountains and forests by Taoist priests were Han Chinese, and our family is all Han Chinese. Later, most of the people who came here to escape the war were ethnic minorities. After life settled down, the Han people and the ethnic minorities There were some conflicts due to religious opposition. Twenty years later, all the conflicts here have calmed down again." Zhong Huafang was extremely serious, as if giving a speech. "However, when people get help during the most difficult times, they will definitely remember it and be grateful to those who gave them a helping hand."

"Oh? Then how do people here appreciate the Taoist priest who prepared the tower?" Mu Mu asked. I suddenly understood the method of peeling off cocoons from wood.

The two sisters looked at each other, and Zhong Huafang shook his head and said: "Actually, the establishment of the Phoenix Mausoleum is legendary. There are many versions. Some people even said in the past that the Taoist priests who led people to the mountains and forests were gods descending to earth to lead the people to escape suffering. No one knows the truth of the story that has been baptized by time. There is only a cursory record in the county annals that Phoenix Tomb is nothing more than a landmark building in the village."

"Didn't you say that the pagoda was built by Taoist priests and monks? Why is there no mention of monks in the whole story?" Is it a slip of the tongue from the little girl? I quickly asked.

"Oh, there are no monks in the story about the construction. The monks organized the renovation in recent years. There is a monk who comes to Phoenix Tomb every once in a while to raise money to renovate the base of the tower and the outside of the tower. However, there has been no one for a long time. I've seen that monk. Yesterday, grandma called and said that the village chief of Phoenix Tomb was raising money to buy cement to build the fallen tower into a big tomb. It can also be considered as a burial for it!" Fan Shengnan continued.

Burial? Is it because the ruins are sealed so that no one can set foot in them to prevent us from getting to the bottom of it?