Li Zian waited in the backyard for a long time and still didn't see Shen Tianshu coming, so he walked out with the mule to see what was stumbling on her feet.
"What's wrong?"
"It's okay, I met a man begging for money." Shen Tianshu said and laughed, "Don't you look at me as if I have money?"
The two people walked out as they talked, found a stall to have something to eat, and then left the city and continued heading north.
Although we set off a bit late, we would definitely not reach our original planned destination before dark.
But according to what Li Zian knew in advance, he could pass a small village if he walked north for more than two hours.
It shouldn't be a problem to spend some money there and find a fellow villager to stay for one night.
But not long after the two of them left Fucheng, God suddenly changed his face.
Looking at the increasingly dark sky, it seemed as if all the dark clouds within a ten-mile radius had gathered together.
If it only rains lightly, we can barely travel.
But looking at what it means now, this rain is probably not going to be light.
Shen Tianshu opened the car door, looked at the sky outside and said, "Let's find a place to take shelter from the rain as soon as possible. If the rain is too heavy and the mule gets sick, it will be even more troublesome."
Li Zian shook the whip in his hand and urged the mule to speed up.
Dark clouds seemed to be chasing them, and there was already a faint sound of rolling thunder from the horizon.
Fortunately, while the raindrops were falling, Li Zian saw a ruined temple not far away.
He swung his whip and gave the mule a light slap. The mule seemed to know that a heavy rain was about to begin, so it ran as fast as it could.
When we arrived at the gate of the ruined temple, the raindrops were getting heavier and heavier.
Most of the main entrance of the ruined temple had collapsed, so we drove the mule cart in directly.
As soon as they walked into the ruined temple, a heavy downpour fell with a crashing sound.
Fortunately, although the temple is dilapidated and dilapidated, most of the roof of the main hall is intact, which is enough for two people and a mule to shelter from the wind and rain.
Li Zian walked around the main hall, gathered the tattered tables and chairs together, took out the fire stick, and quickly lit a small fire.
"Come here and warm yourself up. There's still half a journey ahead. If you get sick along the way, you'll be in trouble.
The two of them hugged each other and gathered next to the fire. They took out the dry food they bought in the morning and put it next to the fire to warm it up and eat it.
Then Li Zian got some hot water, and the two of them drank it up one sip at a time.
The rain outside had no intention of stopping. Looking around, nothing could be seen clearly except the gray-white rain curtain.
The only sound that could be heard was the loud sound of rain hitting the ground. The two of them had to get very close to hear each other if they wanted to speak.
"I think the rain won't stop for a while." Li Zian looked outside and said, "I might have to stay here tonight."
"It has walls, a roof, and a fire. It's good. It's much better than being outside in the rain without a shop."
The rain continued to fall outside, and it felt a little noisy at first, but then I gradually got used to it.
Shen Tianshu leaned on Li Zian's shoulder and gradually fell asleep.
Looking around at the leaky ruined temple, and then at Shen Tianshu who was already asleep, Li Zian felt that he should stay awake.
Otherwise, even if there are no gangsters in this out-of-the-way place, it would still be very dangerous if some ferocious beast comes in.
Li Zian added firewood to the fire while silently listening to the rain outside the window.
In the second half of the night, everything was fine. Even Li Zian started to feel a little sleepy and started to doze off little by little.
Just when he seemed to be asleep, there was a crisp cracking sound suddenly heard from the door of the ruined temple.
Li Zian immediately woke up alertly.
The tree branch he had placed at the door was broken by someone!
"Who?" he asked in a low voice.
A woman called in panic at the door
Voice: "I, I was passing by with my children and wanted to come in to take shelter from the rain."
After saying that, I saw a woman walking in from outside with a child on her back.
Li Zian didn't say anything. After all, the ruined temple didn't belong to him, so there was no reason not to let others in to take shelter from the rain.
But at this time, his sleepiness had completely disappeared, and he was still relaxed on the outside, but he was already on guard in his heart.
After the woman came in with her child, she felt a little scared when she saw the "birthmark" on Li Zian's face.
She hesitated for a while, then simply carried the child on her back and walked to the inner hall at the back.
Li Zian also discovered that there was an inner hall behind and took a look at the door.
The inner hall room was small and had no windows. Thick dust accumulated in the room and it felt like there was no ventilation at all, so Li Zian did not go in.
"ah--"
Not long after the woman walked into the inner hall with her child on her back, a shrill scream suddenly came out.
I saw her running out of the back hall on a rolling crawl. She didn't even care about being afraid of Li Zi'an. She ran behind him and pointed at the back hall, shaking like sieving chaff.
"There's someone in there!"
Before he finished speaking, dazzling lightning pierced the dark sky.
"Crack——"
Thunder exploded on the roof of the ruined temple, making people's ears numb.
Shen Tianshu was also frightened and woke up with a cold sweat on his forehead. His heart was beating fast and he asked in a trembling voice: "What's wrong? What happened?"
Li Zian stretched out his hand to hold her in his arms, patted her back gently and said comfortingly: "It's okay, someone came in to take shelter from the rain and said there was someone in the back hall."
"Is there someone? Who is it?" Shen Tianshu immediately became alert, "Why is there someone hiding in such a deserted place?"
They had been in the temple for so long, but they hadn't heard any sound from the apse.
Could it be that someone has been hiding in the back hall, waiting for Li Zian to fall asleep in the middle of the night before he has any evil intentions?
"Okay, he seems to be a monk." The woman said tremblingly.
Shen Tianshu heard the sound familiar and glanced back from the corner of his eye.
She discovered that the person who came in to take shelter from the rain was actually the woman who had held her thigh at the door of the inn before begging for money.
The woman was still holding her daughter in her arms.
However, instead of letting down his guard because it was someone he had seen before, Shen Tianshu became more suspicious.
Could such a coincidence happen?
Could this person have been sent by someone else to follow him and Li Zian?
Shen Tianshu leaned into Li Zian's arms, leaned into his ear and briefly explained the previous events.
Li Zian also became alert. Could there be an ambush in the back hall? Could this woman want to lure him and Shen Tianshu in?
"I just looked at the door. There was nothing in the back hall except dust on the floor and a few worn futons."
The woman said with a trembling voice: "After you go in, there is a curtain, and behind it, there are really people. I, I won't lie to you."
Seeing that she didn't look like she was faking it, Shen Tianshu raised his head and asked Li Zian, "Would you like to go over and have a look?"
Li Zian hesitated for a moment and said to the woman, "Take us in and have a look."
The woman was so frightened that she shook her head and refused to go near the back hall.
Li Zi'an put the curtain hat on Shen Tianshu, got up, searched around on the ground, picked up a bamboo pole, and came to the door of the back hall.
He first threw a burning stick on the ground inside, which immediately illuminated the inner hall a lot. Sure enough, he saw the curtain that the woman said.
The curtains are covered with dust accumulated over time, but there are obvious traces of being touched in the middle. A lot of dust has fallen off in some places, which must have been touched by the woman just now.
While Li Zian was on full alert, he used a bamboo pole to open the curtain. With the faint light of the wooden pole, he actually saw a monk wearing cassocks inside.
The monk was sitting cross-legged on a futon, his eyebrows stretched out, and he was concentrating with his eyes closed.
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March
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