This temple is also extremely spacious, with several courtyards, and the main hall of each courtyard enshrines different statues of gods.
Wang Xiaozhe took us directly to the backyard of the temple. There are no statues of gods or incense here. The houses are used for people to live in, as well as kitchens and so on.
It seems that this is where the temple staff live.
But what exactly are the staff in this kind of temple called? I don't know, but I guess it's definitely not abbot or priest.
Wang Xiaozhe knocked on the door of one of the rooms. The person who opened the door was a man wrapped in a black robe.
The man was extremely tall and had some wrinkles on his face. He looked obviously old.
"Mr. Luoshu, long time no see."
When Wang Xiaozhe saw the man in black robe, he quickly bowed and said hello.
"Xiao Zhe? Why did you come to Jiuli Village again? Is your master okay?"
When the man in black robe saw Wang Xiaozhe, he was somewhat surprised and asked quickly.
"My master passed away two years ago."
Wang Xiaozhe sighed and said, "I came here this time because two of my friends were poisoned, so they came to Mr. Luoshu specifically to rescue them."
As he said this, Wang Xiaozhe turned and looked at Liu Xiaoxiao and me.
"Unexpectedly, Yunxu actually took the first step."
When the man in black robe heard this, he also sighed, then looked at Liu Xiaoxiao and me, then looked at Wang Xiaozhe and said: "Based on the friendship between me and your master back then, if you come to me for help, of course I will not refuse. , let them in."
After saying that, the man in black robe retreated into the house.
Wang Xiaozhe, Liu Xiaoxiao and I also followed in.
The house is not big, and the facilities inside are also very simple. Apart from a single bed, a wardrobe made of bamboo, and an old wooden table, there is nothing else.
The man in black robe sat directly on the bed, then looked at me and Liu Xiaoxiao and said, "Don't be surprised. I'm not from this village originally. I came here later, so I can speak Mandarin."
"So that's it."
I nodded.
I was wondering just now why the people in the village seemed to only speak the national language, but this man in black robe, despite his age, knew how to speak Mandarin.
It turns out that he came from outside and was not an aborigine of Jiulizhai.
"I am now a priest in the temple. My real name is Cheng Luoshu. You can just call me Mr. Luoshu."
The man in black robe smiled as he spoke, then looked at me and said, "Little friend, please stretch out your hand."
"good."
I quickly stretched out my hand.
Cheng Luoshu put two fingers on my wrist, feeling like feeling the pulse, and touched it for a while with his eyes closed.
Then he opened his eyes and said: "You are poisoned by the golden silkworm Gu. This is the king of poisons. The one who can inflict this kind of poison on you is not an ordinary poison master."
Cheng Luo said and shook his head with a serious expression.
"Can that be solved?"
I asked quickly.
"sure."
Cheng Luoshu smiled and said: "The witchcraft lineage in Southern Xinjiang is best at removing the poison, not the poison, so there is no poison that cannot be solved here."
"Thank you very much, Mr. Luoshu."
I quickly cupped my fists and saluted.
"Easy to say."
Cheng Luoshu smiled, then stood up, patted the bed and said, "Take off your shirt and lie on it. Let me see how far your poison has spread."
"good."
I nodded quickly, then took off my shirt and lay on the bed.
Cheng Luoshu pressed his fingers on several places on my back for a while, and finally touched my spine and said, "The poison is about to spread to the bone marrow. Fortunately, you arrived in time, otherwise it would be difficult to cure once it spreads to the bone marrow." .”
After saying that, he went directly to the bamboo woven wardrobe and took out a pen and ink, and then drew some spells on my back.
Then he went to the kitchen and brought half a bowl of chicken blood, placed it in front of me, and asked me to sit up.
After doing all this, Cheng Luoshu figured out the secret and began to recite the strange spell.
As he chanted, I suddenly felt an unbearable itching on my back, as if something was crawling under my skin.
The feeling moved from my back to my arms. At this time, Cheng Luoshu suddenly raised his kitchen knife and cut my wrist.
Blood seeped out immediately, but along with the blood, a golden bug the size of a soybean also crawled out of the wound.
As soon as I saw that thing, my scalp immediately went numb, but I resisted and didn't move.
After the golden bug crawled out from my arm, it slowly crawled into the half bowl of chicken blood in front of me.
Immediately afterwards, the chicken blood in the bowl began to decrease at an extremely fast speed.
In the blink of an eye, the half bowl of chicken blood disappeared, and the golden bug seemed to have drank up all the chicken blood and became as big as a thumb.
This thing has two heads at the front and back, and there are densely packed legs and feet on both sides of the body, which looks quite scary.
"So the Golden Silkworm Gu looks like this."
I stepped forward, looked at the worm in the bowl, and said with an incredulous look on my face.
Unexpectedly, as soon as I finished speaking, the insect's head suddenly began to change, and in the blink of an eye, it actually grew a very small human face.
And when I looked carefully, the face growing out of the insect's head was exactly the ugly face of the old man.
"I didn't expect that this thing has been refined to perfection."
Cheng Luoshu looked at the worms in the bowl and said with a slight frown.
"What...what's going on?"
I quickly asked, tongue-tied.
"This is the person who raises the poison pouring his consciousness and part of his mind power into the poisonous insect. If the person raising the trick dies, his remaining mind power and consciousness will continue to live on the poisonous insect. It is an alternative kind of Rebirth, or a second soul or something.”
Cheng Luoshu said thoughtfully.
"Then can we destroy this thing directly?"
I asked quickly.
Originally, the old man was already dead and his soul was also destroyed. I didn't expect that he could still live in this natal Gu insect. This really scared me a bit.
"Boy, I am from Twelve Cave in western Hunan. If you let me go now, I can pretend that nothing has happened. But if you dare to destroy my remaining soul, Twelve Cave will definitely not let you go. of."
The insect suddenly spoke human language and said these words, but his voice sounded somewhat hoarse.
At this moment, the expressions of all of us changed. It doesn't matter if a bug grows a human face, but it can still talk?
It seems that the old man is not completely dead, and is now living in this natal golden silkworm Gu.
