Well of Mystery

"what's the situation?"

Bai Xiuqi pointed to the firecrackers on the ground and looked at Jiang Chenglu.

Jiang Chenglu took a step back aggrievedly: "Look at me, I'm not an encyclopedia!"

"I didn't say you were!"

Bai Xiuqi glared at him: "I just think that the firecrackers made such a big noise, even if the villagers of Jiulihuai didn't do it, they must know something. It's not too far from Xuanjing Apartment, why would you know?" Do not know at all?"

When he said this, Jiang Chenglu was also taken aback for a moment.

"It makes sense. This mountain is right under my nose, and I would occasionally hear a few strings of firecrackers in the distance. But I never had the idea of ​​taking a walk or taking a look, and I didn't even ask others Asking carefully... it's like completely ignoring the mountain."

"That's the problem."

Bai Xiuqi nodded, and then raised another doubt.

"You said that you have always ignored the situation of this mountain, but you know that there are steps on this mountain, and you also know that there are shallots growing on this mountain. Isn't this contradictory?"

"It seems, it really is..."

Jiang Chenglu felt that he had been hit again, he frowned and couldn't speak.

Instead, Bai Xiuqi was inspired and continued to chat: "I have a hypothesis, which may not be accurate... I guess you must have been to this mountain before, and you may be familiar with it. It's just that you forgot a lot of things later Including forgetting my relationship with this mountain."

"How is it possible?" Jiang Chenglu disagreed: "Even if I really forgot, I should still be curious, right? I have lived next to this mountain for decades, and I have never gone up to see it. Is it normal?"

"Of course it's not normal, so listen to me first!"

Bai Xiuqi signaled him to shut up first: "There is a thing in human society called 'psychological suggestion', which can be induced without the person's knowledge. People who are caught by psychological suggestion will unconsciously follow other people's wishes and ideas to do things . . . it's kind of like being enchanted."

Jiang Chenglu immediately understood what he meant: "So I was actually 'psychologically suggested', so I turned a blind eye to Fuxi Mountain? Why. Who did it?"

"Look at me, I'm not an encyclopedia!"

Bai Xiuqi glared at him, and retaliated against him in the same way.

Discussions like this alone will not lead to any conclusions.After a short pause, the two continued to walk up the mountain.

Firecrackers and paper money were all over the floor, and some talismans and sacrifices were even mixed in.There are still unburned incense sticks in the gaps of the steps-it is not easy not to cause forest fires for so many years.

And went up 23 ten steps.A bluestone platform appeared in front of it, and on the platform were several porcelain statues of Guanyin Bodhisattva and Vajra Warriors.The light in the forest is not too strong, but the color on the surface of the porcelain statues has faded and mottled, obviously they were all moved up from the foot of the mountain a long time ago.

Of course, incense candles hung around the statue, but Bai Xiuqi felt that they were more like special forces guarding outside the security zone with their hands behind their backs.

Danger ahead—

Anyone who walks here will probably feel a strong sense of uneasiness.However, Jiang Chenglu still looked relaxed.

"There is no great danger ahead, follow me. There is absolutely no problem."

The two bypassed the lined up Bodhisattvas and continued forward.This time, after walking for a short time, the bluestone steps suddenly plunged into the grass and stopped abruptly.

A crooked wooden stake stood up in the grass.They are connected to each other with wire, and there is a wooden sign hanging on the wire. The sign is not a common slogan such as "no smoking and no hunting in the forest area", but only four large characters sprayed with red paint.

"Beware of Ginger Corpse"

Because of this typo, Bai Xiuqi really didn't know whether he was scared or amused for a while.But after calming down a bit, I still feel a little creepy.

"Hold me tight if you're afraid." Jiang Chenglu took the opportunity to touch his waist, "Or you can imagine how that 'Ginger Corpse' will be beaten all over the floor by me later. "

"You are beautiful!"

Bai Xiuqi also has a bone in the back of his head, but he didn't follow Jiang Chenglu's meaning, and he walked forward with a straight face.So mortal.There was a sudden rush of swimming in the grass two steps away, which scared him almost to the point of smoke.

From this point of view, it is still necessary to stay by Jiang Cheng Road for the time being.

Fuxi Mountain was not considered high in the first place, and they were basically standing halfway up the mountain at this time.The terrain here is relatively flat, in fact, it is a flat land full of weeds and sparse woods.

Jiang Chenglu opened the way ahead and led Bai Xiuqi forward for 30 to [-] meters. The woods were at the end, but something strange ran out again.

In the distance is another steep upward slope.But in front of the hillside, there are still five or six "pocket version" pagodas.

It is said to be "pocket", but of course it is not so small that it can be put into a sleeve.The height of each pagoda is about 3 or 4 meters, and the seven-level pagodas are made of white marble.

On the side of the mountain, there are some linseed blood vines, and the thick vines like pythons are winding and climbing on these white towers. It is not difficult to see how many years it took to form such a scale.

"This is the spiritual pagoda." Jiang Chenglu said like a prophet: "A Taoist priest's bone pagoda."

As he spoke, he actively pointed to the bottom of the tower: "There is a stone tablet there, and I can read the words on it clearly."

Bai Xiuqi quickly personally proved Jiang Chenglu's terrible eyesight—they finally walked to the front of the White Pagoda, and saw clearly the stone tablet and the words on it. .

"These Taoist priests all live in the Taoist temple on the top of Fuxi Mountain?"

Bai Xiuqi thought of the handwriting on the stone wall in Longhong Cave, and soon thought that this area should be the cemetery of Taoist priests.

Sure enough, in addition to those eye-catching spiritual bone pagodas, there is a large area of ​​ordinary or even simple graves on the ground, with only some crooked and rotten wooden plaques inserted, and the handwriting cannot be seen clearly.

"Yes, these are the last Taoist priests of that Taoist temple."

This time, although there was no written guidance, Jiang Chenglu still revealed the identities of the dead who were buried under the soil.

He was used to greeting people with a smiling face, but at this moment his face no longer had a trace of ease.He looked at the desolate cemetery quietly for a while.Then he turned his head and gave Bai Xiuqi a wry smile.

"It's over, I must have been here. Although I can't remember too many things for the time being, I suddenly feel very uncomfortable..."

Bai Xiuqi was stunned.Suddenly, he remembered the words Jiang Chenglu whispered while leaning against the bed one night before he and Jiang Chenglu confessed their feelings to each other——

Immortality is certainly something to be envied.But if the people you love are all sick and dead one by one, and you can never see them no matter how much you miss them, then what's the point of such immortality?

yes.Jiang Chenglu hated death, perhaps because he had been forced to witness too many losses.

From a certain point of view, death is far more harmful to the living than to the dead themselves—the world after death has Meng Po Tang, Naihe Bridge, and the Department of Reincarnation; but where should the living find Wangyou? Grass?

But even so.Even when he understood how painful "losing" is, Jiang Chenglu did not hesitate to move forward.

Although it was he, Bai Xiuqi, not Jiang Chenglu who made the first confession, the two of them had reached this point after all... Bai Xiuqi suddenly felt that he needed to be responsible for the man in front of him.

Think here.He walked over and took the initiative to hug Jiang Chenglu's shoulder.

"It's been so long, people have been reincarnated several times, why are you so overwhelmed?"

"..."

Jiang Chenglu was silent for a moment, and finally smiled wryly at Bai Xiuqi: "This happened only 80 or [-] years ago. It would be great if you can reincarnate for a lifetime by cutting off the head and the tail. How many times have you been reincarnated? Are you cursing them to die young?" .”

"Of course I didn't mean that!"

Bai Xiuqi didn't know so much, and hurriedly wanted to explain, but Jiang Chenglu pressed the back of his head, and the two foreheads were pressed against each other.

"All right, all right, I know you're doing it for my own good. I understand the spirit, understand the spirit."

talking.He just closed his eyes.

Bai Xiuqi's lips twitched twice, resisting the desire to say something sarcastic, and reached out to hold Jiang Chenglu's cheek, and then closed his eyes.

The forest in the afternoon is quiet and peaceful, with occasional breeze blowing the bushes and birds chirping.Surrounded by this peaceful atmosphere, it really helps to soothe and calm the mood.

Jiang Chenglu soon returned to his normal state of laughing and unrestrained, and the two continued to walk up the mountain.

From the map, the straight-line distance between the Taoist grave and the Taoist temple is not too far.But in reality, it is a steep and difficult mountain slope.It just so happened that there was a place marked on an old map nearby. Bai Xiuqi suggested that they decided to go there first to find out.

Facts have proved that this decision is very correct-after they found the mark, they discovered that this should be the source of domestic water for Taoist priests in the Taoist temple.

Seven stone wells in the shape of the Big Dipper are lined up on a platform on the hillside. The wellheads are covered with heavy boulders. It has been a long time since no one came to visit.

There were no suspicious signs near the slope, and the focus of the investigation was naturally on the wells themselves.Bai Xiuqi first rolled up his sleeves and tried it himself, but he couldn't move the boulder at the mouth of the well, so he could only use his eyes to indicate Jiang Chenglu to come on stage.

Jiang Chenglu was not ambiguous, as soon as he entered the battle, he began to exert strength, and the stone as big as a millstone was pushed aside rumblingly.

Is there something in the well?Bai Xiuqi, who was standing aside, couldn't hide her curiosity, and couldn't wait to peek into the gap.

According to common sense, the impression of a well is often damp and dark, but this well is completely different.

Inside this well, something is emitting a white-purple light, as bright as lightning.