My Weird Life

Vol 2 Chapter 454: Old Monk (2/2)

Chapter 454 Old Monk (22)

The night is dark.

The stone steps in front of the main gate of Zhaoti Temple 'Yuanxingmen' are covered with moss, and the wooden temple gatehouse has been moth-eaten with holes.

"call-"

Su Wu and his group stopped at the main entrance of the monastery.

He jumped off his strong horse and dragged the horse to the stone steps in front of the main entrance.

An Gang, the Inoue family samurai and others led the horses to follow.

"Yuanxingmen..."

Su Wu looked at the rotten and tall gatehouse. The soy sauce-colored gatehouse was densely covered with moth-eaten holes. Cracks connected the eroded holes, making the gatehouse look extremely unreliable. just collapsed.

There are many legends about the 'Yuanxingmen' of Zhaoti Temple,

According to legend, this portal is woven from the hair of many monks in the temple.

The monks have been under the precepts for a long time, and their hearts are extremely depressed. Their yearning and nostalgia for the mortal world fill their thoughts, so that the troubles on their heads grow wildly. Therefore, in the middle of each month, the main affairs of the temple will focus on the disciples. Trim your hair once.

The hair that was cut off, the fire kept burning, and the water couldn't wash it away.

The was piled up in the back mountain of Shōti Temple.

Finally, one day, the hair of the big group fluttered away in the wind, clinging to the original real 'Yuanxingmen', the hair penetrated the real 'Yuanxingmen', hollowing out the wooden door, making it changeable. It became a spooky door made of woven hair.

turned into a sly!

This sly and slyly girl starts with a beautiful young woman.

In the middle of each month, when a young woman passes through the 'Yuanxingmen', she will see the door turned into a door of horror with black hair knotted. Those hair will wrap around the young woman, strip her clothes, Drag her into the Hair Gate and make a cocoon of hair around her, making it part of the Hair Gate!

The six people Su Wu brought were all men.

There is not a single young woman.

An Gang looked up at the plaque on Yuanxing Gate, and felt that the gate looked much gloomier than when he worshipped more than ten years ago.

He said with emotion: "More than ten years ago, when I stopped at Zhaoti Temple, Yuanxingmen still looked majestic and solemn. More than ten years later, with the passage of time, Yuanxingmen has decayed into this state."

"More than ten years ago,

An Gangjun has seen Master Jianzhen in Zhaoti Temple? "Su Wu asked An Gang casually.

led the horse up the stone steps, pushed open the two gates that were on the verge of being broken, and the roofs of the front hall, the left and right side halls, and the rear hall of the temple showed outlines in sight.

An Gang followed after Su Wu, and when he heard the words, he replied: "At that time, the incense of Zhaoti Temple was not as good as the day.

Master Jianzhen is completely gone.

I have never seen Master Jianzhen before. "

Su Wu nodded and looked at both sides of the stone road that stretched from Yuanxingmen to the front hall—the stone palace lanterns, and some palace lanterns had white candles burning with fire.

- Zhaoti Temple is still being looked after.

It is also normal for the lights in the palace lanterns to shine along the road.

Su Wu tied his horse in the pine forest outside the stone road, and everyone behind him followed suit.

He looked around and asked, "Where do the monks live here, we still need to inform us in advance, lest we startle others."

"Wonxing Gate is broken like that,

There is no difference between having a door and not having a door.

I think this is also a place that thieves and drunkards often care about. The monks here should be used to seeing uninvited guests, so they shouldn’t be frightened by us, right? "An Gang fastened the horse and made a joke with Su Wu.

Su Wu had a smile on his face, and was about to speak when a gust of overcast wind swept past from the right rear.

This gust of wind was extremely cold, brushing across his neck, like hair swept across his skin!

He turned around suddenly!

The surrounding Inoue family samurai and An Tsuna all frowned and turned to look in the direction of the wind—

Yuanxingmen stands alone in the dark night, motionless, rotten and withered.

Su Wu stared at the portal and saw that in the holes devoured by worms, there seemed to be white, wriggling worms.

He took another look,

Where are the worms in the hole?

The things with white flowers are just the original color of the wood exposed after the paint on the surface of the wooden building is damaged.

"It seemed like a gust of wind had just passed by.

Can you feel it? "Su Wu asked the crowd.

Everyone nodded.

"It seems that the reason for the fading of the incense in Zhaoti Temple may have a lot to do with the fact that strange things have grown here." Su Wu said, and then told everyone, "Be alert."

"Yes."

The samurai agreed,

looked more serious.

The group continued to walk towards the temple.

After passing through the front hall of an eminent monk who is often full of fire and madly knocking wooden fish;

Checked the right side hall where a naked female monk is suspected to be hanging on the beam;

knocked on the second floor attic of the nave, and it is said that the bronze bell of a girl whispered.

…

After walking around the Zhaoti Temple, he never encountered any strange things in the Zhaoti Temple, except for the gloomy wind that made Su Wuhou’s back chill at the beginning.

Those well-established legends are not credible.

Not a single legend was fulfilled this night.

Su Wu took the crowd to the backyard of the temple. Compared with the tall and solemn halls and buildings in the front hall and the middle hall, the backyard suddenly became simple.

The courtyard is surrounded by several meditation rooms.

In the corner there is a latrine that was successfully assembled with a thatched shed made of four wooden boards.

Two fields have been reclaimed in the courtyard, and the vegetables grown in the fields have grown sprouts in this cold spring.

There is also a bucket and a small **** that have not been taken away by the field.

—The various decorations here indicate that this backyard should be where the old monks who stayed in Zhaoti Temple lived.

An Gang found a stone pier in the courtyard and sat down, drinking the water from the portable water bottle.

Inoue's house has four samurai scattered in every corner, consciously acting as sentries and guards.

Yamazeno climbed up the towering gate tower from the nave to the backyard, and looked at the distant scene.

Seeing this scene, Su Wu didn't say anything to them.

He saw that there was still a small light on in the meditation room next to him, so he hid the big red lotus womb in his hand, walked to the door of the meditation room, and called inside, "Is there anyone in the room?"

Soon after the voice of landed,

A vague voice sounded from the door: "Yes. Come in, outsider."

Su Wu's expression moved slightly, and he pushed the door and approached the meditation room.

In the meditation room,

Su Wu's left front is a long table against the wall, with an oil lamp lit on the table.

Behind the oil lamp, an old monk described as withered sat cross-legged on a plank.

There are two sheets of thin quilts neatly stacked on the corner of the bed against the wall behind him. Apart from these, there are no extra decorations in the house.

The old monk flicked his hand through the darkness above his head. There seemed to be dense silk threads hidden in the darkness, which were stirred by his withered palms. As the dense black threads flicked, the darkness shook.

He raised his head slightly, and the darkness above his head shook for a while.

Bright eyes focused on Su Wu.

"There is no place for you in the hall.

If you want,

You can take my seat. "

The old monk smiled kindly at Su Wu, and while he was talking, he supported the bed with one hand, and his body swayed, giving Su Wu a place beside the bed.

How can there be a reason why a guest sits on the head of the kang when they come to the door for the first time?

Even if the old monk didn't care, Su Wu couldn't care less.

He shook his head and smiled: "No need.

Master, I came here this time because I have a few questions to ask…”

"I know, I know." The old monk nodded again and again, still pointing to the seat he had given up, and said, "This seat is reserved for you. If you don't sit, won't it be empty all the time?"

is just a position for the head of the kang,

If it’s empty, it’s empty, what’s the point?

Su Wu thought about it in his mind, but he couldn't resist the old monk's warm invitation, so he walked over and sat in the seat that the old monk gave up.

The moment sat in that position,

His thoughts moved,

Suddenly realized something—

Su Wu turned his head to look at the old monk beside him. The old monk was still laughing and handed the bead in his hand to Su Wu: "It's all here, the answers you want to know and the person you want to see are all here. .

The boundless vows of all sentient beings,

Troubled endless vows to end,

The Dharma Door is boundless and vows to learn,

The supreme vow of Buddhahood is fulfilled…

The boundless vows of all sentient beings,

Troubled endless vows to end..."

At this time, Su Wu realized that the top of the old monk's head was not bald, but covered with dense hairs. Those hairs melted into the darkness, stirred in the darkness, and turned into a black ocean!

As he handed the beads to himself,

The ocean-like ‘troubling thread’ disappeared suddenly!

The top of the old monk's head became bare.

He turned into golden light and suddenly disappeared from Su Wu's field of vision!

Su Wu was still sitting beside the bed.

But the surrounding environment has undergone earth-shaking changes.

is still the meditation room,

The long table against the wall on the side of the meditation room has collapsed, and there is no oil lamp on the table.

He sat on the hard bed, but the thin sheets were missing.

On the four walls of the withered house, there are some dried and shriveled radishes, some calligraphy and paintings that are mottled and rolled up and can't be seen clearly. The wall facing Su Wu has even broken a big hole!

Outside the cave, the warrior from the Inoue family put his head in and said respectfully to Su Wu, "Sir, this monastery is no longer inhabited. The old monk of Zhaoti Temple, who was originally in charge of guarding it, should not be able to stand the gloomy environment here. They all moved away.

I see that the vegetable field in the yard has been abandoned for a long time,

The pit is also quite dry. "

Su Wu nodded, raised his palm, and held the Buddha beads with a hint of warmth.

He stood up, frowned and walked out the door.

—Actually, the door of the meditation room had already collapsed.

In the backyard of the temple.

Yamazeno is still guarding the tallest gatehouse,

Samurai are stationed in the corner.

An Gang was sitting on the stone pier in the yard drinking water from the kettle.

Everything was the same as the scene before Su Wu entered the meditation room.

It seems that the various scenes he experienced when he entered the meditation room only took up a certain moment in the elapsed time.

At this moment when Su Wu was looking at the backyard,