Hearing what Xiao Shen said, several people nearby said, "Xiao Shen, are you mistaken? This is not a statue of Skanda at all? But some other Bodhisattva...?"
Xiao Shen shook his head and said: "Impossible! I have told you that my son grew up in the temple. I may admit that I am wrong about other things, but I cannot admit that I am wrong even if I beat the Buddha statue in the temple to death. Moreover, this temple The weird thing is not just this Skanda statue..."
Xiaofeng heard this and immediately asked: "Xiao Shen, what do you mean by this?"
Xiao Shen turned to look at Xiao Feng and said: "Sister Feng... you may not have paid much attention, but I felt very strange as soon as I entered this temple. First of all, the orientation of this temple. Normal temples face north and south. , but he did the opposite, opening the door to the north..."
Chen Yuanyuan was baking clothes and asked, "Is there anything special about this?"
Xiao Shen nodded and said: "Of course there is a point. The temple facing south is to go to the Li hexagram of the sixty-four innate hexagrams. The south is also the place where the Yang Qi is the strongest, which means full of vitality and vitality. But, look at this temple. Its gate does open to the north, which completely goes against the idea of temple architecture.”
Chen Yuanyuan didn't wait for Xiao Shen to finish what she said, and asked, "Is there anything else wrong?"
Xiao Shen said: "There are also the two Buddha statues in the front hall and the middle hall."
Chen Yuanyuan wondered: "What's wrong with those two Buddha statues? Are their shapes also wrong?"
Xiao Shen shook his head and said: "It's not that their shape is wrong..."
Chen Yuanyuan asked: "What's wrong with that?"
Xiao Shen said in a deep voice: "It's because they are in the wrong order!"
"The order is wrong?" As soon as Xiao Shen's words came out, more than a dozen people present said almost in unison: "Xiao Shen, what do you mean by this? What does it mean that the order is wrong?"
Xiao Shen frowned and said: "In a normal temple, as soon as you enter the door, you should see Maitreya Buddha first, and then Sakyamuni Buddha... But here, you see the current Sakyamuni Buddha first, and see the future Maitreya Buddha. Do you think it’s strange?”
"If I really want to hear what you said, then this temple is really weird..." Zhou Ziping had been silent before, and then he slowly said, "You have to be more careful."
Xiaofeng asked from the side: "Master Zhou, do we still want to rest here?"
Zhou Ziping said: "It's raining so hard outside, and we have no other place to go. So we'll stay here for the time being, leaving four people to guard us. The rest of us will seize the time to rest. If you can, just squint for a while. If you can't, just squint." Just think about it..."
After saying these words, Zhou Ziping stopped saying anything, put a clean coat on top of his head, leaned against a red lacquered wooden pillar, closed his eyes and rested.
Xiao Shen originally wanted to say something, but when he was about to open his mouth, seeing Zhou Ziping's reaction, he had to swallow the words that were on his lips.
At this time, Chen Yuanyuan walked slowly to Xiao Shen's side, patted his shoulder lightly with her hand, and said: "Okay! Xiao Shen, don't think so much, maybe this temple is just a matter of different customs. That's all... take a break now! I don't know when the next break will be!"
Xiao Shen sighed and smiled bitterly: "Okay! Sister Yuanyuan, you are right! The next time to take a break may not be when..."
After saying that, the two of them each found a deserted place, and fell asleep with the sky and the ground as their bed. Perhaps they were a little tired from the hard work along the way. Although no one complained, but there was no time for defecation, some people started to urinate. Started snoring.
Chen Yuanyuan leaned against the wall with her eyes closed. She had not planned to sleep originally. Her mind had been thinking about all the details of the meeting between the man in black and Zhou Ziping, "What on earth did that guy say to Grandpa Zhou? That sentence Why are Grandpa Zhou so shocked by these words? It feels like he has changed into a different person all of a sudden..."
Chen Yuanyuan was thinking to herself, and she fell asleep unconsciously.
But there was not much time, and someone suddenly shouted, "Ah...!"
The voice sounded extremely miserable, as if someone had forcibly taken out the intestines and stomach, and sent chills down the backs of those who heard it.
Everyone turned over and got up from the ground. Zhou Ziping also took off the clothes covering his head and asked, "What's wrong? What happened?"
But Zhou Ziping asked four or five times in a row, but no one answered because no one knew what happened just now.
At this time, a black man strode in from outside the door, shouting: "It's bad! Master Zhou... something happened..."
Zhou Ziping saw this and said angrily: "Why are you panicking...? What's going on?"
The dark man walked in such a hurry that he didn't notice his feet. He accidentally stumbled on the threshold and fell to the ground not far in front of Zhou Ziping.
The black man fell so hard that his nose was bloody, but he didn't care at all. He crawled to Zhou Ziping on both hands and feet and said loudly: "It's not good, Mr. Zhou! Something... something happened!" "
Zhou Ziping looked at the black man in front of him and said angrily: "Look at what you look like now? What happened?"
The black man wiped the blood under his nose with his hand and said, "There is... there is a ghost!"
As soon as the black man's words came out, everyone present couldn't help but be shocked. Xiaofeng beside him immediately said: "Old Hei, did you get kicked in the head by a donkey? Although it's cloudy outside, it's still pretty cool. It's not dark...where did the ghost come from in broad daylight?"
Lao Hei said: "Sister Feng...I didn't lie to you! It's true! There is really a ghost!"
Seeing Lao Hei's excitement, Chen Yuanyuan came over, patted Lao Hei's shoulder and comforted him: "Brother Hei, don't get excited yet! What's going on? What happened just now?"
Lao Hei turned his head and glanced at Chen Yuanyuan, took a deep breath, and was about to speak when something suddenly came out of his chest.
The tip of the knife, what came out of Lao Hei's chest turned out to be a bloody knife tip.
The knife was none other than the knife that Lao Hei himself often used.
But why did his knife suddenly stab him in the back?
Who did it?
And why do you do this?
Don't you want Lao Hei to tell you what he saw?
Lao Hei opened his mouth, but he didn't even say a word. As soon as he opened his mouth, blood would gush out from the innermost part, choking him and coughing. In a few breaths, the person who was still alive and kicking began to fall. There is no longer any breathing.
Everyone was shocked and turned their attention to the door, wanting to see who was the initiator of all this.
At this moment, another cold light flashed and flew straight towards Zhou Ziping.
