"Can a monk become an immortal?", Fat Wei thought it was funny, "Aren't all the monks mixed with Buddha? Can they still practice and become immortals? If they become immortals, which temple will they belong to?".
"It's true, don't be disrespectful!" Grandma Jiu said with a pious face, "There are Earth Immortals in the mountains around here. That Danchi monk practiced there. After he became an Immortal, everyone in the village
How many lifetimes have people seen him?"
"Really? Is it so evil?" Fat Wei said doubtfully, as if he actually believed it.
While talking, several people walked to Grandma Jiu's house unknowingly. Grandma Jiu's house was slightly larger than ordinary villagers' houses. It was also the same stilted building, but it was old and very dilapidated.
Chen Zhi and Pang Wei were waiting downstairs but did not go up. Grandma Jiu went upstairs to get them the genealogy.
After a while, I saw Granny Jiu walking down the stairs with an old book. She handed the book to Chen Zhi. It was an old and yellow shabby book. The calligraphy on it was crooked and ugly.
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"It's right here." Granny Jiu turned the genealogy to the page of Dan Chi and showed it to Chen Zhi.
It was a line of crooked calligraphy with very frizzy handwriting. The first line said Master Danchi, followed by his date of birth, and the following lines recorded the life of Monk Danchi.
When Monk Danchi was seven years old, he was sent by his parents to the Daming Temple outside the mountain to be ordained and become a monk. When he became an adult, because of his proficiency in Buddhism and his hard work and diligence, he was recommended by the Daming Temple to record scriptures in the Ministry of Rites of the imperial court. After that, he traveled around as an ascetic.
The last part of the record in Tianxia is very vague. It says that he worked as a recording master in Jiyindi, and then he became famous and returned to his hometown in glory. Finally, he achieved righteousness on Fengtou Mountain and honored his ancestors.
The recorder at that time was probably uneducated and did not question the record of "Jiyindi". Now it seems that this work record is probably describing the time when this foolish monk was in the underworld, such as this
The above record is true. The Danchi monk was left in the underworld as a record-keeping master. Then he escaped from the underworld and returned to his hometown carrying a large amount of treasures and a map of the underworld.
After reading the genealogy, Chen Zhi asked Grandma Jiu, "Mother-in-law, do you know where the Fengtou Mountain where the monk Danchi cultivated and became an immortal mentioned above is now?"
"Of course I know," Granny Jiu pointed at Chen Zhi's back and said, "That's the mountain behind you. Master Danchi is a god in our village. Our village even built a small pagoda for him there.
Woolen cloth!"
"Yeah?"
Chen Zhi immediately looked back and saw that what Grandma Jiu was pointing to was the mountain he climbed when he entered the village, so he asked, "Grandma, I walked all the way from that mountain, and that mountain is also
It’s not big, and I didn’t see any ancient pagodas!”.
"Ouch! How can you kids in the city know how to walk on the trails in this mountain?" Grandma Jiu smiled with all the wrinkles on her face. "The mountain is not big, but the trails are dense and confusing. It's hard for you."
If you want to go, I will take you up to Fengtou Mountain tomorrow. With my old arms and legs, I can walk back and forth in one day."
"That's great, Grandma Jiu is really going strong and strong!..." Fat Wei was so happy that he kept flattering her.
After making an appointment with Grandma Jiu to go up the mountain tomorrow, they left Grandma Jiu's home. Chen Zhi and Pang Wei continued to go back to the village mat to eat. After it was getting dark, Chen Zhi and Pang Wei returned to their building.
Because Granny Jiu said there was only one way to go up the mountain, there was no need to bring too many things. They only prepared some dry food and water, and also brought weapons just in case.
At night, Chen Zhi seemed worried. While packing his things, he asked Fat Wei about the situation in the village. Finally, he talked to Fat Wei about his sleep last night, "Fatty, let me ask you something. When you were sleeping here,
Have you ever felt someone watching you?"
"No!" Fat Wei seemed to find Chen Zhi's question funny and said nonchalantly. "Did you feel like someone was looking at you when you were sleeping? Do you suspect that a girl in the village has fallen in love with you? Chengzi, what do you think?
There are too many. There are no girls to talk to a handsome guy like Fatty, so don’t think too much about it.”
"I'm not joking, please be more serious." Chen Zhi looked serious and continued to ask. "This feeling should not be an illusion. I felt it not only last night, but also the night I slept in the mountains. I can basically guarantee that it will definitely happen around here.
Someone is watching me."
Fat Wei became serious when he heard what Chen Zhi said, "You mean someone was following you all the way? When did it start? Did you see anyone?".
"I didn't see anyone, but I started to feel this way after I left the town and went into the mountains." Chen Zhi said and sat down, handed Fat Wei a cigarette, and then lit one himself, "
When I was climbing Fengdou Mountain, I once slept in a cave. At that time, I felt that someone was nearby, but I didn't see the exact figure."
"Are you suspicious of those people in that town?" Fat Wei took Chen Zhi's cigarette and sat down.
"Yeah!" Chen Zhi nodded slightly, "But I'm not sure, and there's one thing I've always found strange. Even I can easily see through the financial world. Those treasure hunters in Chongshan Town have been here for hundreds of years.
, how could they not discover it? They should have discovered that there is gold on this Fengdou Mountain a long time ago, why didn’t they come in to hunt for the treasure? Or is there any special reason that prevents them from accessing the treasure?”.
"Who knows!" said Fat Wei as he put out his cigarette, "but I have long disliked those guys in Chongshan Town. When I hired a car in the town, I found that those guys were extremely selfish.
, regardless of their own affairs, they will never help. We have to be careful about them, maybe they are really causing trouble."
"Yes!", Chen Zhi agreed thoughtfully.
Because we had an appointment with Grandma Jiu the next morning, people in the mountains got up very early, so the two of them went to bed early.
Sure enough, at dawn the next morning, Grandma Jiu stood outside Fat Wei's room door and called them. When Chen Zhi looked at his watch, it was not yet five o'clock.
After the two of them got dressed, Pang Wei put the day's meals into his brother's room. The folk customs in the village were pure and there was no need to lock the door. During the day, Pang Wei had asked the villagers to help take care of his brother.
Just like that, before dawn, the two of them followed Grandma Jiu up the mountain.
Although Granny Jiu is in her 70s, her legs and feet are very strong. As they climbed up the mountain, Chen Zhi and Pang Wei were often left behind by the old lady.
After climbing non-stop for three hours, Chen Zhi couldn't climb anymore, so he discussed with Granny Jiu to stop on the mountainside and rest for a while.
"Grandma, what's the name of that ancient pagoda? Has anyone in the village been up there?" Chen Zhi gasped and asked Grandma Jiu.
"The name! No one knows it for a long time, because it is on top of Fengdou Mountain. We call him Feng'er Pagoda. That Feng'er Pagoda is hundreds of years old, older than my grandfather! We call him Feng'er Pagoda. I often came here to play when I was little, but now I rarely come here.”
Grandma Jiu is very healthy. After climbing the mountain for so long, her face does not change color and her heart does not beat.
"Our village is too poor, and the emperor is far away. There are no yamen or temples. Even if we fight, we can't come here. It is very clean. There are no allusions since ancient times. There is only this simple The crazy monk is a character. There are many legends about this tower in the village.
When I was a child, I heard many people say that they often saw black shadows jumping out of the mountains. Those black shadows had sharp vertical angles. Their skin was dark, their bodies were strong, and their faces were long. Like a cow.
Some people also say that these goblins are transformed from earthly immortals and they come to catch the children in the village to eat. Therefore, people in the village are very afraid of this tower. Very few people go there. Even I haven’t been there in decades. ”.
"Have the villagers found anything valuable in the mountains these years?" Fat Wei was not interested in the legend of the Earth Immortal, and the conversation turned directly to the treasure. But he regretted his words immediately after he said them. Because they saw Grandma Jiu's expression suddenly changed, and then she leaned weakly on the rock, "I'm old and can't climb anymore. Let's take a rest!"
Chen Zhi and Fat Wei did not dare to speak. They looked at Granny Jiu sitting on the rock, drinking water from a bamboo tube, with a look of melancholy on her wrinkled face.
"A few years ago, someone picked up a valuable treasure in the mountains, but that thing was the treasure of the Earthly Immortal and should not be touched. If you touch it, you will kill someone. That's why my son lost it."