To the west of Heyue Town, there is a small mountain. This mountain occupies a small area and is low in terrain. It looks like a mountain but not a mountain, and looks like a slope but not a slope. It has been an unknown mountain since ancient times.
However, the temple located on that mountain still has the name Liuhe Temple.
Today, it is impossible to verify the specific year of construction of this temple, but the term "thousand years" should still be relatively reliable. Whether it is external records or ancient scriptures preserved in the temple, it can be supported.
The long history of this temple.
As a building that has existed for more than a thousand years and is still in use by people, Liuhe Temple has undoubtedly been renovated many times. On weekdays, monks spontaneously make countless minor repairs, and major repairs alone...
...There are nineteen recorded times. And the most recent one...was forty years ago.
At that time, Heyue Town was in its most stable and prosperous period. After decades of development and accumulation, the third-generation descendants of those refugees had a good time. Although they cannot be said to be the next poorest people in the town
None, but people sleeping on the streets, starving and freezing... it's really impossible to find them.
As the saying goes... A person who lives in a warehouse knows etiquette, and a person who has enough food and clothing knows honor and disgrace. Since the townspeople of Heyue Town are already getting along in terms of material civilization, they naturally have the leisure to engage in the construction of spiritual civilization.
At that time (the situation in the world of this script was basically equivalent to the feudal society in ancient China), it was impossible for the common people to summarize the Eight Honors and Eight Shames. In addition to traditional etiquette, justice, integrity, and shame, they also talked about religious superstition.
Considering that the monks of Liuhe Temple were kind to the ancestors of the townspeople, and that the town has generally had good weather over the years... Therefore, the townspeople planned to do something for the temple, firstly to repay the kindness of the monks in the temple, and secondly.
Thank you God for your blessings over the years.
Therefore, forty years ago, with the negotiation between the then mayor of Heyue Town and the abbot of Liuhe Temple, the townspeople raised a donation. They planned to use the money to completely renovate the temple and provide many services to the temple.
The Buddha statue is reshaped into a golden body.
This was originally a good thing, but the ending of the matter was beyond everyone's expectations...
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Renovating a temple as big as Liuhe Temple is a long-term and large-scale project that requires a lot of craftsmen and laborers. The manpower in Heyue Town alone is obviously not enough. Fortunately... the project funds are still relatively abundant.
Therefore, the foreman in charge of the project recruited a lot of manpower from the villages and towns surrounding Heyue Town.
That year, among the workers who came to repair the temple, there was a middle-aged stonemason from other places. This man's surname was Zhang, and his single name was Ke. Although his parents gave him a very stable name, Zhang Ke's personality seemed to be...
Contrary to his name, he is not only not very cautious, but also extremely frivolous and meddlesome.
One night forty years ago, Zhang Ke had a few more drinks at a wine shop in the town. Under the influence of the wine, he suddenly had a whim and wanted to explore the "Shiyuan Pagoda" in Liuhe Temple.
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Speaking of the stone courtyard pagoda, it is indeed a quite mysterious place. There has been an iron law in Liuhe Temple since ancient times. Except for the abbot himself, no one is allowed to enter the stone courtyard in the temple, let alone step into the pagoda in the stone courtyard.
Before the temple was renovated, the abbot had repeatedly warned the mayor not to let anyone get close to the stone courtyard. And the mayor... also conveyed the abbot's words to all the workers involved in the renovation work.
To be honest... in the eyes of the workers, this matter is actually not a big deal. If it is a nunnery... you said there is a forbidden area or something, people might be interested in snooping; but the forbidden area in the monk temple...
...If you don’t go in, don’t go in. Do you still expect to pick up a cultivation weapon or a peerless secret book by touching it?
But there happens to be that person who is very curious...that is Zhang Ke.
This guy is a typical secondary disease that has not been cured for a long time but becomes terminally ill, and his personality is the kind of person whose IQ drops off the line after just two bowls of yellow soup. He is a daring type. The more you don't let him go, the more he will go.
Go... and then come back and brag about it. It's also great to act like a hero in front of your peers.
But we all know that real heroes...are more or less extraordinary and have "strength".
Some people, after drinking several kilograms of old wine, can still walk on mountain roads in the dark and kill a ferocious national first-level protected animal with their bare hands; while some people can drink several kilograms of old wine, walk on mountain roads in the dark, but end up with a foot.
He slipped and died in a ravine.
Judging from Zhang Ke's performance in the past few decades...he definitely belongs to the latter.
So when he leaves... he will not see anyone alive, nor will he see a dead body.
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What exactly happened that night, only a few people know, and outsiders only know... After that night, no one saw Zhang Ke again.
A few days later, the mayor gave an explanation...Zhang Ke accidentally entered the forest after being drunk and was eaten by wild beasts, leaving no trace of his body.
And this statement... naturally did not satisfy Zhang Ke's family, and they quickly went to the government.
The first formal administrative official of Heyue Town was appointed by an envoy sent by the imperial court in the fifteenth year after the town was established; and the person appointed was the mayor who was in office at the time. Obviously, for this person
The imperial court did not attach much importance to the management of Zhongpianyu Town, and it was nothing more than a formality. The main purpose was to officially include the town in the national establishment and facilitate tax collection.
Later, the town had a more formal yamen, and the laws were replaced from the original "village law" by the customary "village law" to the code promulgated by the imperial court. However, in general, the town was still in a state of "autonomy".
The vast majority of officials are locals.
After Zhang Ke's case was discovered, his family members would certainly not be stupid enough to come to Heyue Town to file a complaint... Therefore, they went directly to the higher-level government office.
And the government... indeed sent people to investigate.
The investigation process of this case can be said to be a mystery to outsiders. Although many rumors have leaked out, the content is controversial and the authenticity is difficult to distinguish.
The only thing that is certain is that the attitude of the official handling the case has been twists and turns. From the beginning, he was "swearing to uphold justice, and he is unyielding", to "the attitude has cooled down, and he is full of doubts", and then to the later stage... When he talked about the case, he had already...
It is a state of being "evasive and silent".
At the same time, the detectives who were handling the case also made some creepy and bizarre remarks to the public intentionally or unintentionally... They probably said, "There are some unclean things in the stone courtyard pagoda, Zhang Ke
This guy is looking for death, I'm afraid his soul is gone."
In short, after a month, the case was finally settled. And the final result was...the government intervened and asked the temple to pay Zhang Ke's family a sum of money, whether it was compensation or hush money...anyway
The matter ends here. Zhang Ke's family members either choose to take the money and accept the statement that "he was eaten by wild beasts and his body was not left"; or... there is no money and no statement.
In this way, the family members of the parties concerned can only choose to settle the matter and make peace with it, and the matter will come to an end.
However... people at the time certainly didn't expect... that this case would pave the way for a disaster forty years later.
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"Hmm...it's really eerie..." When he came to the gate of Liuhe Temple, Wang Tanzhi looked up at the tall bronze door and muttered softly.
He spoke very softly, not because he was worried about being discovered by someone in the distance, but because he felt guilty, so he instinctively lowered his voice.
"I thought there was enough stinking blood in the town, but compared with this place...it pales into insignificance." Xiao Ling, who was standing next to Xiao Tan, covered her nose and muttered.
At this time, about half an hour had passed since the script started. Xiao Tan and Xiao Ling met on the way to Liuhe Temple. Until they arrived here, neither of them found any signs of other players around them.
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Judging from their investigative expertise, the possibility of being secretly followed is extremely low; and if someone had arrived here before them, they would probably have caught their traces. Therefore... it can be basically concluded that they
They are the two players who arrived at Liuhe Temple the fastest.
Of course... we can't rule out the possibility that someone was placed inside the temple as soon as they entered the script...
"How...are we going to get in?" Xiaotan thought for a few seconds in front of the door, then turned around and asked, "Should we knock on the door and try, or break the door directly? Or...just climb in from the wall?
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After hearing this, Xiao Ling thought for a few seconds, then silently took two steps forward and grabbed the copper handle on the door.
squeak
With a little force, the huge door was pushed open.
"Eh?" Xiao Tan was stunned for a moment and asked, "How do you know you can push it away with just one push?"
"I don't know." Xiao Ling shrugged, "I'm just trying..."
She couldn't finish her sentence, because before the last word "has" was uttered, a ball of blood mist rolled out from the door, quickly wrapped Xiaoling's whole body, and dragged him into the door...
A second later, Xiao Tan instinctively rushed forward, trying to hold Xiao Ling's hand, but at this moment... the blood mist had completely dragged the latter into the door.
When a look of astonishment appeared on Xiao Tan's face, the door in front of him... had suddenly... been closed again. (To be continued...) i1292
