The "god statue" in the room of Grandma's Temple also extended its finger and pointed in the direction of the courtyard gate, while the doll in the room with the coffin over there pointed in the direction of the pavilion-like room here.
But the fingers that had turned into bones pointed in the direction of Grandma's Temple.
Qin Nan stood up, touched his nose, and walked to the wall where he came in. He looked at his grandma's temple and the coffin room, thinking:
"What does this mean? This place doesn't feel simple. It seems to be a puzzle. According to the story Zeng Li told, the old woman here should be staying in Lao Lao Temple.
Later, I don’t know when, the inside of my grandma’s temple turned into a one-foot-tall statue, which is the one placed inside now, and the direction that the ‘god statue’ pointed was indeed the courtyard gate.
Or is it referring to the coffin in the yard? The old woman pointed to the 'god statue' in her grandma's temple. Does it mean that the 'god statue' occupied her original position?"
Just as Qin Nan was thinking, a crackling sound came from behind the wall behind him. Qin Nan hurried to the second wall and saw Zeng Li holding the crutch in her right hand.
She was looking at Qin Nan in front of her with an embarrassed look. She smiled and said: "Nan Nan...Brother, I didn't mean it...this pile of skeletons fell apart as soon as I touched it..."
Qin Nan shook his head helplessly, looked at Zeng Li with an awkward smile and asked, "Didn't you say you can't touch things here?"
Zeng Li scratched her head with her other hand, smiled awkwardly and said, "Haha, I just asked my ancestors for blessing..."
"..." Qin Nan was speechless for a while.
He looked at the pile of broken bones and didn't know what to say. At this time, a crisp bird call came from behind the room.
Qin Nan looked over there, and to his surprise, the "back door" of the house was open. It seemed that it had been like this when it was built, and there was no sign of a door being installed at all.
Qin Nan walked out and saw a 156-meter-high hillside in front of him. According to what he had just observed, among the three houses, the lowest one was close to the hillside, and the one behind the house in Lao Lao Temple was
Below the wall is a cliff,
The location where the coffin house was built was relatively smooth, with dense woods behind it. Although he didn't know much about Feng Shui, generally speaking, the "master's" house should have its back against a mountain.
And the house of this grandma's temple is actually backed by a cliff.
Qin Nan looked around and found that the connection points of this house were also very strange. The walls on both sides happened to be connected to the outer walls. From this, it seemed that this was the back door of the courtyard of Lao Lao Lao's temple.
This is no wonder why a wall was built in this "room". It turns out that it is a different kind of "screen".
Qin Nan spread his hands. The distance between the two sides of the back door was only a little more than one meter wide, which was really narrow.
The method of building the courtyard gate is used for the "back door", while the conventional "back door" is built using another method at the main gate of the courtyard. This is really strange, and it feels like putting the cart before the horse.
If there are people living in Lao Lao Temple, no matter who they are, they can enter as long as they know the back door.
At this time, Zeng Li from behind also came over and said to Qin Nan:
"Cousin, I know what you are thinking. Do you know why this place is built like this?"
Qin Nan shook his head and said he didn't know.
"The gate over there is for the dead, and the gate here is for the living. The eight coffins in the yard all have their feet facing the gate of the yard.
These are all tricks of the dead. If you are here to carry the coffin, you can only go through the gate over there. When we first stepped in, there was a threshold at the door that ghosts could not cross.
In other words, all the lonely ghosts in Lao Lao Temple can only enter and exit through the gate over there."
"So that's it..." Qin Nan suddenly realized, but he didn't believe Zeng Li's superstitions. He just understood the key information he wanted to know.
At this time, Zeng Li suddenly saw something that seemed to be in the corner of the wall. She hurriedly walked over there. Qin Nan didn't pay attention. Just when he was about to look back at the bones again,
Suddenly, Zeng Li's cry for help came from the direction she had just left: "Help! Cousin, help me!"
Wu Haotian and Qin Nan looked in that direction, but they did not see her figure. There were only dense weeds over there.
"Where are you? Why can't I see you?" Qin Nan walked towards the direction Zeng Li left just now.
"I'm here! I'm here!" Zeng Li struggled desperately.
At this time, Qin Nan saw some imperceptible water vapor rising from a weed pile, and the two hurriedly walked in that direction.
When Qin Nan just stepped into that area, he missed the target. Fortunately, Wu Haotian was following him closely and pulled him back.
Qin Nan breathed a long sigh of relief, and then he realized that there was a hole under his feet.
"Cousin, help me, it's pitch dark in here, I'm scared!" Zeng Li cried as she patted the water.
Qin Nan hurriedly pulled away the surrounding weeds and discovered a hole less than one meter in diameter.
He passed through the cave entrance and found that the cave entrance was almost full of water vapor, and it seemed to be a hidden hot spring inside.
"Ah! What the hell is this!" Zeng Li shouted in horror.
"Don't get excited. I'll find a way to rescue you. Just wait." Qin Nan looked at the distance from the cave entrance to the horizontal surface below. It was about two meters high.
Zeng Li walked towards Qin Nan. Zeng Li stepped on her feet and stretched out her right hand.
Seeing that there was something going on, Qin Nan stretched out his hand and grabbed her palm. As soon as he started to exert force, Zeng Li cried from below:
"It hurts, it hurts. This stone is between my arm and my waist."
Qin Nan let go of his hand, and Zeng Li fell into the pool inside the cave entrance.
"You're cheating on me! The rock wall is full of pits, and it's all covered with moss and is very slippery. I finally managed to get to that position, wuwu~" Zeng Li burst into tears, feeling a little emotional.
Qin Nan looked inside and saw that there were indeed several protruding rocks in front of her. If she was forced to pull her up, she would definitely be cut.
Qin Nan gritted his teeth and quickly took off his thickened down jacket that cost several thousand yuan. He grabbed one end of the down jacket and covered it on the stone in front of him.
So they spoke to each other, and Zeng Li said:
"Come here quickly. I'll put my down jacket on hold for you and let Brother Haotian pull you. It'll be alright, right?"
Zeng Li wiped her tears and hurried to the entrance of the cave where she came from. Due to Wu Haotian's height advantage, he pulled Zeng Li up.
Zeng Li hugged Wu Haotian and started to cry. Qin Nan also shook his head helplessly.
He carefully pulled away all the surrounding weeds, and the entire cave entrance was clearly displayed in front of the three of them.
Qin Nan carefully lay down at the entrance of the cave and looked at the situation inside through the light.
He vaguely saw a soaked cotton-padded jacket and patched trousers floating on the water. There were also a green military coat, light green trousers, and a military cap floating on the water.
Qin Nan looked at Zeng Li and saw that there was no missing piece of clothing on her body. He couldn't help but think of something, so he asked Zeng Li:
"Did you say that Japanese soldiers chased a girl here before? That girl also disappeared later?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?" Zeng Li said, wiping her tears.
"Okay, now I know where the missing girl is. There are Japanese clothes inside the cave, and there is also a large cotton-padded jacket, which probably belongs to the girl and the Japanese." Qin Nan reasoned.
"Wha, what? Could it be that... they are human bones? Ah!" Zeng Li collapsed and yelled, covering her head.
Wu Haotian also kept comforting him, and Qin Nan couldn't help but sigh.
After a while, Zeng Li gradually recovered. She took off her wet coat and put on Qin Nan's clothes.
Suddenly Qin Nan thought of something, so he said to Zeng Li beside him: "Can you still persist?"
"Hold on, hold on to what? Do you know where the treasure is? If you don't know, let's go home quickly." Zeng Li said sadly.
"Well, I know where they are. I still remember that the answers to the three 'god statues' are hidden in my grandma's temple!" Qin Nan said carefully.
"Grandma's temple? But..."...
(The events of this chapter take place on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year)
