A child was riding a cow and was heading out of the village with his dog. Some older girls and younger wives were washing clothes by the river. Everyone's expressions were so normal, which was very different from the last time in Pi County.
If you look at it from the outside, this village is nothing special.
However, the more normal he behaves, the more abnormal this place becomes in Li Huowang's eyes.
Li Huowang took out the envelope again and took a closer look. It did say that there were signs of Zuowangdao here, but it did not say what the signs were.
Thinking of his previous experience in Pixian County, Li Huowang turned his head and said to the others: "Since it is possible that Zuowangdao is inside, I will sneak in first to check, so as not to alert the snake."
"Senior Brother Li, are you really okay alone?"
Bai Lingmiao hesitated to speak. Li Huowang's changes could not escape the eyes of her, the person beside her. Li Huowang, who had been somewhat normal recently, was now starting to become a little nervous again.
Thinking of those voices, Li Huowang didn't explain anything. In this kind of matter, the more explanations, the more worried she would be.
Li Huowang let his virtual body and physical body dislocate, and followed the path under the willow tree at the end of the village, slowly touching inside.
"Another...people...wind..." The sudden auditory hallucination no longer surprised Li Huowang. He shook his head vigorously and looked towards
A monk stuck in a tree.
"Look what I did? It's not what I said."
"Shh..." Li Huowang put down the finger that was standing beside his mouth, slowed down and walked slowly towards Ganyuan Village.
His mind was completely removed from the auditory hallucinations and all focused on the current crisis.
Soon, Li Huowang could see that the entire Ganyuan Village seemed to be celebrating something. The couplets on the wall and the door gods on the door had been replaced with new ones, and even the clothes on his body had been replaced with new ones.
Li Huowang stood on a big tree covered with red cloth strips, silently watching everything below. So far, he has not noticed anything unusual.
But soon, the situation changed. The villagers, who were neatly dressed and had a hearty lunch, rushed towards the end of the village in groups.
Along the way, the villagers who seemed to be in a good mood were laughing and chatting, and there was nothing unusual.
Li Huowang followed these people to the end of the village and stopped in front of a village temple.
Everyone's voice has become much quieter. Some children who make noise at this time will be dragged over by adults and slapped on the butt.
Everyone stood there expecting something.
Just when Li Huowang was hesitating whether to enter the village temple and take a look, a brown clay sculpture was swayed out of the dark arch.
Judging from the appearance of the vase in the clay sculpture's hand, it is obviously a statue of a Bodhisattva. And it is also a clay Bodhisattva.
However, the Bodhisattva's face does not look kind and kind. This clay Bodhisattva statue seems to have experienced a heavy rainstorm.
All the facial features on the face were melted and elongated into long strips hanging on the face, leaving only two irregular black holes.
"Oh! Oh!!" All the people in Ganyuan Village gathered around, helped the temple assistant lift the Bodhisattva, and began to swing it around the whole village.
"Clay Bodhisattva..." Looking at the two black holes on the Bodhisattva statue, Li Huowang frowned and murmured to himself.
Li Huowang just stood on the top of the tree, watching the villagers swing this weird clay Buddha around and around the entire Ganyuan Village.
With each turn, the Bodhisattva's body will be covered with more red. When the sun is high, the clay Bodhisattva's body is already covered with a thick layer of red gauze.
The red clay Bodhisattva was carried again to the side of the village temple and swayed towards the inside of the temple.
It was just brought in, but it was carried out of the temple again with shouts, and then it was carried into the temple again with everyone's cheers.
After carrying it in and out for three times in total, they put the Clay Bodhisattva down in the temple and began to burn incense and kowtow in worship.
Li Huowang originally wanted to go in and see what the village temple was like.
However, the villagers surrounded the place so tightly that the invisible Li Huowang had no place to stay and could not get in.
As the sun gradually turned westward, they happily walked towards their home.
When it turned completely dark and even the hunchbacked temple priest locked the door and went to sleep in a side door, Li Huowang slowly came down from the tree.
Not long after, with a crisp click sound, the copper lock broke into two sections, and the closed door was opened a crack.
When the moonlight outside shone through the crack of the door into the dark village temple, Li Huowang's hand outside the door had already grasped the hilt of the Zisui Sword.
If Zuowangdao really intends to cause trouble, then no matter what, they may use this to make a fuss.
With a "crunch", the invisible Li Huowang opened the door and walked in.
Because of the incense, the whole room was filled with the rich scent of sandalwood, and the clay Bodhisattva with melted facial features was looming in the darkness.
There is not only one clay Bodhisattva in the temple, but also on both sides of the temple. They are all clay sculptures, but they are not Bodhisattvas, but eighteen Arhats.
Bodhisattvas have no faces, but the Eighteen Arhats have faces. They stand there either angry or hateful, and their looks are very lifelike. Standing in the temple, you feel like you are being stared at.
The clay Bodhisattva that had been carried out before was placed in the middle of the temple on a stone lotus seat.
The incense burner in front of me is full of burned-out wooden poles. All the incense is given as a tribute to the Bodhisattva.
There are two clay sculptures erected on the left and right sides of the Bodhisattva in the center of the temple.
These two clay sculptures have facial features, and judging from their appearance and size, they happen to be a pair of boys and girls under the Bodhisattva Seat.
The temple is not big, so Li Huowang quickly finished the tour. Although he didn't find anything, he finally turned his attention to the red-clad Bodhisattva.
The Clay Bodhisattva is not tall, only about two meters in appearance, but because the platform beneath him is very high, Li Huowang has to look up when he stands there.
In a dim temple with almost no light, there is a red-robed Bodhisattva with melted facial features. This scene is so horrifying, not to mention that Li Huowang had already concluded that there was something wrong with this Bodhisattva.
"How about just slashing over with your sword and taking a look?" Li Huowang had an idea in his mind.
Just when he was seriously thinking about this problem, he suddenly turned his head and looked at the boys and girls on both sides of the Bodhisattva.
"Did they look like this just now? Or did they just move?"
Looking at the two clay sculptures staring at him, Li Huowang felt an inexplicable coldness in his body in the darkness and silence.
"You...come..."
"Who!" The chaotic voice made Li Huowang turn around suddenly, but there was nothing behind him.
"Wait a minute, was that my auditory hallucination just now, or... was it coming from something in this temple?"
When Li Huowang thought about this problem, he was stunned on the spot. He couldn't tell the difference for a while.
This chapter has been completed!