Brother Yu looked around and became more vigilant.
Walking to the northwest corner of the vegetable garden, Grandma Xiao Tang opened the fan cloth and revealed a wooden board.
After she removed the wooden board, I could see clearly that there should be a sweet potato cellar underneath, with a wooden ladder standing beside the hole.
"Come down with me."
After the old lady finished speaking, she climbed down the ladder directly.
Brother Yu and I looked at each other and both saw the doubts in each other's eyes.
What are you doing in the sweet potato cellar?
"Come down quickly." After a while, the old lady's voice came from below.
Brother Yu looked at the entrance of the cave and said, "It's okay. As long as I'm here, this old woman can't do any tricks. I'll go down first, and you can follow."
After going down, I discovered that the sweet potato cellar hidden in the vegetable garden had a special cave. The bottom was completely hollowed out. Even Brother Yu could stand up straight and walk, and the roof of the cellar just touched his head.
"Pata."
Grandma Xiao Tang lit a candle with a lighter and got some light.
Here there is a spring bed and an altar table.
There was a layer of red cloth spread on the offering table, and the incense burner was filled with incense ashes. There were no tributes, only an old-looking wooden sign with two words written on it with a brush.
"Lushan."
The old lady opened the small drawer under the altar table, took out three incense sticks and put them close to the candles. After lighting them, she placed the incense in the incense burner in front of the memorial tablet.
After watching the incense burn for a while, Grandma Xiao Tang turned back and said: "The Taoist priest who came to our village more than a hundred years ago was not a local, but came from the bay island along the coast."
Raise your head over this.
I asked: "That Taoist priest's surname is Chen?"
Nurse Xiao Tang nodded: "Chen Meiqing..."
"Chen Meiqing? Female? Female Taoist priest?" This was beyond my expectation.
The old lady nodded and said, "She is a female Taoist priest. Chen Zhenren worshiped Mrs. Linshui and practiced Master Black Head of Lushan. The Taoism is profound."
Mrs. Linshui is a deity like Mazu. According to the information available now, the name of Mrs. Linshui in history is Chen Jinggu. I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but she also happens to have the surname Chen.
Chen Jinggu is usually worshiped by female practitioners. Zhongyuan Taoism also calls Mrs. Linshui the "Heavenly Mother of Natural Delivery". Her role is to protect pregnant women and children under the age of ten.
Just two years ago, there was a famous story about a giant Buddha reaching out to save people. At that time, an eight-year-old little girl fell from a height and was caught by the outstretched hand of the Buddha statue in the cave. Later, she was not hurt.
They all went to tie red cloth on the Buddha statue to express their thanks.
What many people don't know is that the family of the little girl who was picked up by the giant Buddha went to the coast not long ago before coming here to play. It is said that they happened to visit the Chen Jinggu Temple at that time, and the little girl's mother even donated some change to the temple.
When I came back to my senses, I asked Grandma Xiao Tang: "You said that the female surnamed Chen came to Tianguangdong Village a hundred years ago and that she drew your talisman?"
The old man nodded.
I frowned again and asked, "Then why did she build a temple in Guizailing? Didn't she die? She burned the statue with her own ashes."
The flame of the candle swayed, and the old man looked at the flame and shook his head: "My knowledge is limited. My grandma was still a child at that time. I don't know whether Chen Zhenren is dead. However, when I was young, I once heard that the second visit to the temple
The woman said something."
"She said that the reason why Chen Zhenren came to Guiziling was to find a paradise in the cave."
"Dongtian Paradise? What is that place?"
I know about caves. There are many karst landforms in Daoxian County, and abundant rainfall all year round, resulting in intricate underground rivers. The last time we dived from the pond, the underground was full of caves, natural caves similar to stalactites.
"Brother Yu, have you heard of it?"
Brother Yu shook his head: "This is what the Taoist said. I used to be a monk but not a Taoist. I don't know, but it's probably a lie."
"Fake?"
Grandma Xiao Tang shook her head, she showed a smile, looked at Brother Yu and said: "In troubled times, monks close their doors and don't ask questions, Taoist priests carry swords and go down the mountain to save the common people. Young people should maintain a sense of awe for things they don't know."
"Mr. Chen is originally a black-headed mage. People in the village know that she left us a yellow talisman to look after the temple maiden. What the people in the village don't know is that she also left us something else."
As she spoke, the old lady pointed to the layer of red cloth spread under the altar table.
She slowly pulled out the red cloth and turned it over.
I was shocked when I saw that behind the red cloth, there was densely written in pale golden regular script, just like a scripture.
Grandma Xiao Tang looked at me and said: "Young man, I am willing to dig up graves and harm people for a lucky charm. In your opinion, I am a foolish person, but that is because you don't understand."
"Nothing I say will work. Do you want to try it yourself?"
"try what?"
The old lady pointed at the red cloth, looked at me and said:
