"This is the main hall."
The girl led Pei Wende straight into the main hall. The girl who said little along the way pointed to the dark Buddha statue in front and warned with an indifferent expression.
"Burn a stick of incense for the Bodhisattva, and then find a place to sleep by yourself..."
"Just remember not to go to those occupied rooms."
After saying this, the girl quietly exited the hall without waiting for Pei Wende to react.
"A room occupied by someone? Bodhisattva?"
Watching the mysterious girl leave, Pei Wende focused his attention on the giant Buddha in the main hall.
Only then did I understand why the other party kept saying and emphasizing that it was "burning incense sticks for Bodhisattva" instead of "burning sticks of incense for Buddha".
"Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva?!"
Looking up, Pei Wende was shocked to find that the one enshrined in the center of the hall was not the Buddha Sakyamuni, but a Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva holding a Zen staff in his left hand and a wish-fulfilling pearl in his right hand, sitting cross-legged on a lotus throne.
"Mountain temples, headless Skanda, and now Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva..."
Pei Wende was unable to complain about what he had experienced along the way.
Judging from the current situation, he will be in trouble with anyone who dares to say that this temple is a normal temple.
"Are you afraid that I don't know there's a problem here?"
However, complaints were complaints, and Pei Wende still followed the girl's instructions and honestly took out a few sticks of incense from the desk, intending to light them for Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.
Although everything here is unspeakably weird, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva is real.
As one of the four major Bodhisattvas often worshiped by Buddhists, although few people specifically worship Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in the main hall, it is not an evil heretic.
"Bodhisattva, don't blame me. I'm just here to look for traces of evil spirits. I don't mean to disturb you."
He bowed respectfully to the statue of Ksitigarbha in the main hall. Pei Wende did not believe in the so-called "gods and Buddhas", but this did not prevent him from respecting this Bodhisattva who had vowed to "never become a Buddha until hell is empty."
"If you really have a spirit, then protect your disciples from finding the traces of the Demon Buddha as soon as possible and prevent him from harming other people in the temple!"
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"Dan Chenzi?"
The lantern like a will-o'-the-wisp swayed in the dark night, and the girl who was walking towards the backyard didn't pay attention to Pei Wende's whisper.
"I think I've heard of this name?"
The girl murmured in a daze, not sure if her feeling was wrong, because this was not the first time a similar situation had occurred to her.
"elder sister?"
Just when the girl walked to a room in the backyard, a childish voice suddenly came from inside the house, and a huge black shadow could be vaguely seen flashing past.
"Zhen Jing? You haven't slept yet?"
Hearing the call from inside the house, the girl instantly came back from her trance, with a majestic look on her face.
"Sister...I'm hungry..."
He was obviously very afraid that the girl would be angry, but after a brief silence, the child's voice in the room actually said with a cry.
"I'm so hungry...Sister, I want to eat!"
Hearing this, the majesty on the girl's face disappeared instantly, replaced by a kind of silent sadness.
"Zhenjing, you are a good boy, just hold on for one night!"
"Sister will go find food for you tomorrow."
Without saying anything more, the girl briefly comforted Zhen Jing in the house and then quickly walked deeper into the courtyard.
Because she knew that Zhenjing's hunger was not an exception, there were other even hungrier children in other rooms.
It was just because Zhen Jing was too young and not as patient as others, so he stopped him in the middle of the night.
"Sister, where have you been?"
Walking towards her house step by step, the girl looked at the silent and dark rooms along the way, feeling a faint sadness in her heart.
You know, in the beginning it was not a girl taking care of these children, but a real adult woman taking care of the children in the temple.
Unfortunately, after the "eldest sister" disappeared inexplicably, the girl who was also one of the "taken care of" had to shoulder the burden of taking care of these children.
This is also the reason why the girl went to check first when she heard someone outside the mountain gate.
Because the children in this temple, except for the girls, do not have the ability to take care of themselves, let alone communicate with outsiders.
"Sister...have you abandoned us?"
When the girl pushed open the room that once belonged to the "eldest sister", the crystal tears could no longer help but fall down from the corners of her eyes.
No one knew how much psychological pressure the slender girl in front of her had to bear before she could comfort the children living in the temple one by one.
The girl only knew that she was close to her limit and could hardly hold on any longer.
"elder sister……"
As if aware of the girl's sadness, childish voices came from the rooms she passed by before.
"Sister, don't leave me!"
"Sister, I'm not hungry anymore!"
"Sister, do you plan to be like the eldest sister?"
"Sister, I will be obedient, don't abandon me!"
"elder sister……"
Although the voices were of different ages and genders, they all begged the girl not to abandon them.
For these children who have been abandoned once, there is nothing more desperate than being abandoned again.
"Shut up! Sister will not abandon us, and the eldest sister certainly has not abandoned us!"
Just when the girl was overwhelmed by the complicated sounds, a slightly younger voice suddenly shouted, suppressing all the pleas for a while.
"Everyone go back to sleep!"
Listening to the boy's voice echoing in the corridor with tears on her face, the girl immediately wiped away her tears and said as if she had received some kind of comfort.
"It's all thanks to Brother Heng. Sister will come back sooner or later. I will wait for her to come back with you."
After hearing the girl's promise, the noisy voices calmed down one by one and stopped talking.
"Girl, thank you for your hard work."
After a long time, the boy's voice came out from a certain room again, his words full of self-blame and pain.
"Brother Jue, I'm not working hard!"
A smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. Listening to the boy's voice, the girl suddenly felt that her persistence was not completely ineffective.
At least the young man can understand his inner pain and be willing to support his persistence.
"Girl, watch your brothers and sisters tonight and tell them not to provoke that guy in the hall..."
Staring silently at the girl outside the house, the boy inside just whispered softly.
"That guy...isn't human."
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