At the main entrance of the classical manor, there is a plaque hanging on the door with the words "Zaojunzhuang" written on it.
Tourists come and go at the gate of the manor.
Among them, many local villagers dressed in simple clothes can be seen, carrying vegetables and grains on their backs, and even carrying a few chickens and ducks to the Zaojun Village.
"What are they doing carrying grain and vegetables to tourist attractions?"
Yun Nishang followed Su Wu and asked curiously.
Su Wu didn’t know the answer either.
He stopped in front of the stone tablet beside the entrance of Zhuangzi.
The stone tablet records the date when the Zaojun Village was first built, the date of its expansion, and the date it was later damaged by war and rebuilt by later people. In the Zaojun Village, the main body of the Zaojun Temple and the temple in front of the temple are
A stone tablet has been preserved from beginning to end.
After seeing the record that "the stone tablet in front of Zaojun Temple still exists to this day", Su Wu breathed a sigh of relief.
A local villager passed by the two of them and happened to hear Yun Nishang's words. He replied with a smile and said: "We carry some vegetables and grains to the village every month.
This is not only a tourist attraction, but also an activity center for the elderly and a canteen for the elderly.
If you pay some grain and vegetables here every month, you can eat here for a month. Young people sometimes don't want to cook, so they can have a few meals here. It tastes good. You can buy tickets to go to the canteen later.
Try it!"
"Thank you." Yun Nishang thanked the villagers who took the initiative to explain.
A smile appeared on Su Wu's face.
He looked at the village in front of him, which was surrounded by blue bricks.
It feels quite strange now.
——After all, many years have passed, and most of the traces of the time when I and my junior brothers and sisters lived here have been erased by time. What we see now were built by later generations.
But the main body of Zaojun Village, the Zaojun Temple, is still there.
Is it still the way you remember it?
In the Zao Lord Temple,
Is Master still here?
Su Wu traveled all the way from Longhu Mountain to Linyang without stopping.
When we arrived in Linyang, it was already midnight.
At that time, he asked Yun Nichang to communicate with the management staff of Zaojun Village. After learning that the village was closed at night, he came here before rushing to open Zaojun Village today, just to get acquainted with the Zaojun Village as soon as possible.
See'.
However,
Now we are approaching Zaojun Village,
You can cross the threshold in just a few steps,
Su Wu hesitated for a moment.
There is actually a bit of "fear of being close to home".
"Let's go, why don't you go?" Yun Nishang couldn't help but feel strange when she saw Su Wu carefully looking at all the details of the Zaojunzhuang gate, standing in front of the door, but hesitating for a long time and never taking a step forward.
One sentence.
Seeing how he was often dazed and unable to move forward, the people around him also cast curious glances.
Several young girls passed by Su Wu, and they didn't know what they said to each other. Several girls started laughing and making noise, and some took the opportunity to turn around and look at Su Wu on the other side of the door.
Su Wu looked back at Yun Nishang,
After calming down all the emotions in his heart, he calmed down the expression on his face, raised his legs and stepped across the threshold.
Entering the manor,
There are traces of commercial tourist attractions everywhere.
The outline of the original Zaozhuang is no longer visible.
As the crowd slowly moved forward, Su Wu saw many places.
After crossing the steps,
He finally saw the 'Zao Wang Temple' built on the top of the hill.
That temple was quite different from the image of the "Zao Wang Temple" in his memory, but overall it had not changed much. Compared with the temple in Su Wu's memory, the current Kitchen God Temple looked much better.
Much 'older'.
Touching the scene with emotion,
for a time,
All kinds of scenes from the past flashed back in Su Wu's mind.
There was a gentle breeze blowing across the hills, and the flower trees planted in the square in front of the temple shook off their snow-colored petals.
Vaguely, Su Wu seemed to hear someone whispering a poem, walking past him: "In the past, the snow was like flowers, now the flowers are like snow."
He turned his head to look for the figure of the poet,
But I saw many tourists passing by me with curious eyes.
There are no poets.
In front of the ‘Zaojun Temple’,
Some police officers patrolled back and forth with guns in hand.
They were obviously temporarily dispatched here. If tourists want to enter Zao God Temple to visit, they will be persuaded to leave.
Except for the main building of Zaojun Temple, other areas of Zaojun Village are not affected and can be visited normally.
Those police officers were obviously mobilized by Su Wu through the platform.
He looked at the Zao God Temple on the stone steps at the end of the square, and walked towards the police officers. As he approached, Yun Nishang showed his ID to those people before him.
The police officers immediately made way for Su Wu.
Watch him walk up the steps,
Enter the Zaojun Temple.
The statue of 'Master' is on the altar, smiling and indescribably open-minded and hearty.
Su Wu looked at the statue of 'Master' in the spacious temple, with many unspeakable emotions overflowing in his chest. He opened his mouth without making a sound, and formed the 'Heart Lamp Seal' with his hands towards the 'Zao Lord'.
"The fire will last forever." Su Wu finally muttered in a low voice.
The manager of Zaojun Village was holding a wooden box and standing on the side of the door. When he saw Su Wu walking in, he wanted to hand the wooden box to Su Wu.
Yun Nishang stopped him at this moment,
Indicate him to wait for a moment.
The manager of Zaojun Village didn't know why, but he still stayed where he was and waited.
He saw Su Wu's hands forming a complicated mudra,
After reciting a low voice,
Suddenly, a blazing white light rose from behind the clay statue—Zao Lord!
When the manager of Zaojun Village was dumbfounded, those lights and fire suddenly spurted out, over the head of the 'Zaojun', and drowned Su Wu who had formed the 'Heart Lamp Seal'!
The moment when blazing fire surrounded Su Wu,
Su Wu immediately understood that these lights and fires were the firewood collected by the Zao Lord over hundreds of years!
for hundreds of years,
The instinct of the 'master' has been silently collecting the fuel accumulated by all living beings, and preserved all these fuels, just to pass them on to Su Wu today!
In brilliant light and fire,
Su Wu stared at the master's cheerful and laughing face.
A ball of emotion was stuck in his throat.
He didn't know how to speak!
In fact, the master was a rather partial person in charge, but Su Wu could not accuse the master of being partial.
It's all because the master's favorite person is Su Wu.
His old man had given Su Wu the bronze seal of the kitchen team and the qualification of the person in charge of the kitchen stove early, and strictly ordered other disciples not to snatch it away. He often taught Su Wu many things alone that other disciples could not learn...
Wisps of fire poured into Su Wu's eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, and wisps of flames as thin as silk swayed from his pores.
Many flames gathered behind Su Wu,
They vaguely gathered into a human shape.
The brilliant flame finally returned to Su Wu's body. Now, except for the residual heat left by the flame, there was no trace of a fire in the Zao Lord Temple.
The person in charge of Zaojun Village saw the raging fire pouring out from the statue of Zaojun and drowning Su Wu.
I thought that the young man would be burned by the fierce fire until nothing was left!
But he didn't expect that the other party's body would absorb the light and fire!
Absorb all the flames, leaving nothing behind!
How is this going?
Is he hallucinating? Or is there something wrong with this young man with a great background?
Countless questions were swirling in the head of the person in charge of Zaojun Village. After receiving Yun Nishang's approval, he walked up to Su Wu holding the wooden box and handed the wooden box to Su Wu. His face was full of inquisitiveness, but he could only hold back.
, talking about other things: "This wooden box contains some records after the establishment of Zaojun Temple.
Because there are many simplified Chinese characters on the booklet, experts believe that the booklet in the wooden box may have been forged by someone later.
But since we took over the ownerless Zaojun Village, we have found this booklet on the roof of the house.
Why……
I couldn’t tell for a while whether it was true or false.
But since you want to see it, I’ll show it to you.”
"Thanks."
Su Wu took the wooden box.
After the person in charge of Zaojun Village handed over the wooden box, he did not leave directly. He looked at Su Wuzhou's body and couldn't help but ask: "Can I ask you a question?"
"Yes." Su Wu nodded and said, "Anyway, after you walk out of the temple, you will forget everything you just saw in the temple."
Why did I forget everything I saw in the temple?
An idea suddenly flashed through the mind of the person in charge of Zaojun Village.
He did not fully believe the second half of Su Wu's words, and turned to Su Wu and asked: "I just want to ask you, there was a fire on the statue of the God of Kitchen God just now, did you see it?
I saw those flames burning all over you,
What, what’s going on, is there something wrong with my brain?”
"There's nothing wrong with your brain.
Those flames do indeed exist.
They were all restrained by me in the end." Su Wu answered the question of the person in charge of Zaojun Village seriously, and while the other person was still looking confused, he continued: "Okay, you can go out first."
"well."
The person in charge of Zaojun Village subconsciously agreed,
At the same time, they stepped out of the temple gate.
The moment he walked out of the temple gate, he had new questions and asked Su Wu to answer them.
However,
When his feet crossed the threshold,
All kinds of questions, even the roots of the questions, were gently erased from his mind.
He looked back at Su Wu who was opening the wooden box in the temple, scratched his head, turned around and walked down the steps in front of the temple.
Su Wu opened the wooden box,
I saw the book that had many stains and seemed to have been burned by the flames.
He opened the first page of the book,
I saw a line of crooked handwriting.
Among the several traditional Chinese characters, there are also some simplified characters that are only available in modern times.
"Twenty-eighth of the twelfth lunar month.
The nineteenth day that senior brother left.
Senior Sister Qingmiao's health finally got better. On the day her senior brother left, she suddenly fell ill after receiving the news...
These days, I have been taking care of Senior Sister Qingmiao and looking after many things built in Zhuangzi. It seems that I never have time to think about Senior Sister.
But now I suddenly remembered,
Why do you still feel so uncomfortable?"
"Twenty-nine of the twelfth lunar month.
The Chinese New Year is about to come, and Zhuangzi distributed some dried meat to every villager who helped. Today at noon, the kitchen team gathered together and had a good meal.
Everyone ate quickly and no one spoke.
Xiuxiu suddenly burst into tears while holding the bowl.
Everyone cried.
Senior brother,
Why are you doing this?
Where are you going? Why can't you tell us in advance?
Senior brother, Senior Sister Qingmiao misses you very much, Junior Brother misses you very much, Xiuxiu misses you very much."
"The 30th of the twelfth lunar month..."
"First grade of junior high school..."
"The sixth day of the lunar month.
The old Taoist priest saw that the senior brother would not come back. He was very angry. He asked us for a bacon chicken for food today and left on his own. I am really sorry for the old Taoist priest. He helped us a lot, and the senior Taoist priest also agreed to ask for it.
I tried to help him, but the senior brother broke his promise in the end.
Calculating the time, it seems that it was only a month before we met and separated from my senior brother.
Only one month...
It seems like a lifetime has passed.
It would be great if I could live in that month forever."