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Chapter 2 Which Serious Taoist Temple Raises Ghosts?
"Who are you?"
"I'm a handyman of Tongtian Temple."
"How long have you been here?"
Ah Fu showed a mysterious smile, "Whenever there is Tongtian Temple, I will be here."
That is to say, he knows everything about Tongtian Temple.
Xia Tong hurriedly said, "Quickly tell me, why did you let me leave Tongtian Temple?"
"Simple, if you earn enough merit to continue your life in the Tongtian Temple, you can leave the Tongtian Temple, but you must come back before the merit is exhausted, otherwise you will die outside."
Wang Dawei said to his daughter-in-law, "This method is not bad. The ancestors of your Xia family were very considerate."
Charlene said to her daughter, "Since this is the case, you should stay here first, and wait until you have accumulated enough merit before going home to see me and your dad."
"Ah, no, don't, you just leave me and go away? It's very cold, maybe it will snow soon, so I won't be frozen here by myself?"
"I was going to die just now, and you just leave me alone now? You are too big-hearted to be parents."
Charlene said unhappily, "You know it's cold, but I don't? Your dad and I will go back and bring you two quilts. Let's make do with it and wait until dawn."
Ah Fu said, "Actually, we also have quilts and beds in Tongtian Temple, which are very good for sleeping."
"I don't want it." Xia Tong quickly refused, "I'm going to wait for dawn at the gate."
"Mom, why don't you let my dad go back? You stay with me, I'm afraid." Xia Tong acted like a baby by pulling at the hem of her mother's down jacket.
"You worthless little thing, you only know how to mess around in the nest. To put it bluntly, the Tongtian Temple belongs to our family. What are you afraid of in your own home?"
"It's just fear."
"I'm afraid you will stay by yourself and wait for me and your father to come back."
Wang Dawei felt sorry for his daughter and did not dare to object to his wife. He could only comfort his daughter while walking to the car, "Our house is not far from here. If you play with your mobile phone here for a while, your mother and I will be back in half an hour at most."
"dad!"
"mom!"
"Hurry up and come back!" Xia Tong yelled in a broken voice, looking miserable like a dog in the water that no one wanted.
As soon as his parents left, Xia Tong turned his head and saw Ah Fu hanging in the air, feeling chills all over his body, did he come to his senses at this time?Which serious Taoist temple still raises ghosts?
Ah Fu smiled, "Why don't you go and have a look inside?"
"No, no, I won't go, I'm afraid my parents won't find me if I go in."
"Okay, then I'll wait here with you."
"That's not necessary, how about you do it yourself?"
Ah Fu nodded, turned around and drifted away slowly.
Xia Tong hugged his arms tightly in fright, talking about prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony, freedom...
"You look so pretty when you smile, like a spring flower..."
The phone rang suddenly, Xia Tong jumped up on the spot in shock, took out the phone before looking at it, Ah Fu's face suddenly approached, scared her back suddenly, and slammed her head against the back door,Aw, it hurts like hell, Xia Tong's face wrinkled in pain.
"What is this? Music box?"
"No, the phone."
"What is a mobile phone?" Ah Fu was curious. It has been forty years since the last time the Tongtian Temple was opened, and he had never seen this thing forty years ago.
The phone was connected, and roommate Wang Jieyi called. Hearing Xia Tong's voice and confirming that she was in normal health, Wang Jieyi almost cried.
"My God, sister, are you okay? You really scared us to death when you fainted, you know, you have no conscience, you don't know to tell us that you are safe when you are normal."
Guo Xiaoting and Li Qi were chattering aside, asking why she suddenly recovered, but Xia Tong couldn't explain clearly, and vaguely said that she had been treated with acupuncture and moxibustion by an old Chinese doctor.
Xia Tong had no reason to lie to them, Xia Tong said they would believe it, and also said that he introduced the old Chinese doctor to them.
After hanging up the phone, Ah Fu tentatively asked, "Is this phone a phone?"
"Well, besides making phone calls, there are other things you can do."
"for example?"
After talking for a while, it seemed that he was not so afraid of ghosts, Xia Tong thought for a while, opened a small game, and showed Ah Fu how to play mahjong with his mobile phone.
The quintessence of the country, Tongtianguan was established here, and Ah Fu has met people from all dynasties in the long years. He knew how to play mahjong when it was still called Pai Gow.
"let me try."
Xia Tong was addicted to playing, so he fooled him, "Aren't you a ghost, only humans can play with mobile phones, ghosts can't."
"I don't believe it." Ah Fu stretched out his finger and imitated Xia Tong to poke the phone.
"Look, I said you can't play." Xia Tong glanced at him triumphantly.
Ah Fu: "..." Bully ghost!
Wang Dawei and Xia Lin were worried about their daughter, so they hurried back home to get the good things. Unexpectedly, when they came back, they saw a person and a ghost staring at their mobile phones playing Sichuan mahjong.
You were crying and terrified just now, are you not afraid now?
"Xia Tong!"
There is a danger of calling your mother by your full name!
Without hesitation, Xia Tong tricked his opponent, immediately stuffed the phone into his pocket, and smiled flatteringly at his mother, "What did Mom bring me?"
"snort!"
Charlene threw in two quilts, one on the floor and the other on the bed.
Wang Dawei threw in a bag of snacks, "Eat something to pad your stomach, and when the sun rises, Dad will buy you Kaiyuan rice noodles."
Xia Tong smiled and narrowed his eyes, "Yeah, Dad is so kind."
The gate of Tongtian Temple opened, Xia Tong spread the quilt inside the threshold, and played with the phone while eating snacks under the quilt.
"Well, can you give me a taste?" Ah Fu couldn't help it, and pointed to the spicy strips in Xia Tong's hand.
"Ah, if you want to eat, take it yourself."
"I can't take it. I can only eat what you give me."
"That's right, ghosts don't have physical bodies, do you want me to burn the snacks for you?"
The corner of Ah Fu's mouth twitched, "That's not necessary, just pass it to me. You are the master of Tongtian Temple, and in Tongtian Temple, all goblins and ghosts must obey your orders."
"Hey, the master of Tongtianguan still has a little privilege." Xia Tong handed him a pack of spicy sticks, and said generously, "Eat whatever you want."
Sitting in the car, Wang Dawei and Xia Lin couldn't fall asleep, so they just looked at their daughter.
"Honey, since Tongtong is recognized by Tongtian Temple, can she take us in?"
"able."
Charlene was flipping through the notes left by her grandmother, and she pointed to a passage: The first thing the master of Tongtian Temple has to do when entering Tongtian Temple is the first thing to do, the first thing is to enshrine the sacred paulownia wood, and only after being recognized by Tongtian Temple can he exercise the privilege of the master of Tongtian Temple.
This privilege includes bringing people who have no fate with Tongtian Temple into Tongtian Temple.
"Your daughter is timid. Asking her to worship the god Paulownia in the middle of the night will scare her to death, so let her go in to worship at dawn."
Grandma's notes are very detailed, including several pages introducing Ah Fu.Ah Fu is the son of a fairy and a big demon, he was not liked by his parents, he was homeless since he was a child, he was affected in the war, his body was shattered, and only his remnant soul was left.Tongtian Temple does chores.
Wang Dawei had a complicated expression, "Honey, is this real or fake? Why is it more mysterious than a novel?"
"Really!" Although Charlene didn't want to admit it.
She had seen her grandmother go in and out of Tongtian Temple when she was a child, and she knew that the people in Tongtian Temple were different from ordinary people, but no matter how curious she was, she stood at the door of Tongtian Temple and stretched her neck to look inside.Normal people are fine.
The couple were talking in a low voice, and before they knew it, it was dawn, and Ah Fu, who had been squatting beside Xia Tong playing games, had drifted away.
In the second half of the night, Xia Tong was so sleepy that she couldn't hold on, so she handed the phone to Ah Fu to play, and she fell asleep.
"Wake up, get up and have breakfast."
"Oh." Xia Tong got out of the bed, his head messed up like a chicken coop. The peach blossom makeup that he carefully painted last night for the New Year's Eve with his sisters was too blurred to see.
Xia Tong rubbed his eyes and got up, washed up with the things his parents brought, and snorted the rice noodles. Charlene threw a notebook into the door, "Follow the steps in this notebook to do things first."
Xia Tong looked back at the six-story house. It was broad daylight and the sun was out, so he didn't seem so scared anymore.
"Your dad and I are waiting for you at the door, and when you finish enshrining the sacred paulownia wood in the building, you can pull me and your dad in."
"Okay, I'll go now."
Xia Tongzhuang took the courage to go in, the front yard of Tongtian Temple was bare, there was not a single tree or tree, only three houses on the left and right sides.
The building facing the front yard has a plaque on it called Liuhe Building. Walk up the steps step by step, and you can see the front yard and the back yard when you stand on the steps.
Roughly speaking, Tongtian Temple is in the shape of a sun, and Liuhe Building is the horizontal line in the middle.
"Don't dawdle, go in and make offerings quickly." Charlene urged at the gate.
"knew."
Xia Tong walked inside, and found that the middle of the cuboid Liuhe building was hollowed out, and there was a huge circular patio, in which an unknown ancient tree was planted, and the giant tree's skin was shiny and shiny, with a silvery white halo.Paulownia.
Looking from bottom to top, one can only see that the Shentong tree is surrounded by clumps of emerald green leaves. There seems to be a wooden house looming in the middle of the green leaves. The clumps of green leaves are like the skirt of the wooden house.
Ah Fu came out from nowhere and offered a golden incense stick. Xia Tong took it and bowed three times. After taking it, Ah Fu inserted the incense into the incense burner.
The moment the incense was inserted into the incense burner, Xia Tong had an inexplicable feeling of being out of his body, as if there was something floating in his body.Probably similar to going on a roller coaster, with people flying in front and souls chasing behind?
This feeling is too mysterious to describe. Specifically, Xia Tong turned to look at Ah Fu, covered his mouth in surprise, "There is a golden light on your head!"
"It's all accumulated by the Tongtian Temple."
Xia Tong turned his head to look at his parents outside. There was also a golden light on his parents' heads, but not as bright as that on Ah Fu's head, which was solid.
"You can bring people in now."
Xia Tong ran out to pull his parents. From last night to now, every time they tried to enter Tongtian Temple, the invisible resistance disappeared, and they stepped in easily.
Wang Dawei turned his head to look outside the door, "It's nothing special."
Charlene came in for the first time, but she seemed to be familiar with the way, "I will take you to the backyard."
Charlene said to her daughter as she walked, "Hurry up, Xia Tong, you have to open the gate of the Black Water River."
"Is there a river in the backyard?"
Both father and daughter went to the backyard, and when they arrived in the backyard, the father and daughter were dumbfounded, my God!
On the left side of the backyard is a forest. Except for a few sporadic pines and cypresses, they donβt know other trees. The whole forest is like a rainbow. In winter, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and purple, every color can be found in it.
"What kind of tree is this?"
Ah Fu floated over, "This is a tree from the demon world. This forest is called the Everlasting Forest, and it is used to connect the demon world and Tongtian Temple."
Are there any demons in this world?After the founding of the People's Republic of China, is it allowed to become a master?
"All demons who become fine are in the demon world."
Xia Tong looked back at Ah Fu, "You are a ghost, aren't you afraid of the sun?"
"It turned out that I was afraid. After you worshiped the god Paulownia just now, I don't have to be afraid of the sun anymore."
Tsk, it's really strange that ghosts are not afraid of the sun.
The father and daughter explored the Everlasting Forest curiously. After playing for a while, they quickly followed the pace and trotted for two steps, then followed the path to the left.
This is not a river, this is a lake, and the water in the lake is still black.
"This is really a river, connected to the underworld Styx." Ah Fu seriously corrected Xia Tong's thoughts.
Really?Why don't I believe it.
Charlene beckoned, and Xia Tong ran over, "Mom, call me."
"Get some of your blood and smear it on a tree."
"What?"
Charlene stared, "Hurry up."
Xia Tong was afraid of pain, so he hesitated, "There are no needles here, so I can't bite with my teeth."
"Your dad brought it."
Wang Dawei took out a sewing box from his pocket, Xia Tong had to stretch out a finger, Wang Dawei poked it carefully, and a blood bead appeared from his finger, which was smeared on a bare tree.
Xia Tong was still hurting his fingers, but when he looked up, he saw that the branches sprouted, buds popped up one after another, and they grew up between breaths, green everywhere, just like watching a plant acceleration video.
"amazing!"
"Is this a ginkgo tree?"
"No, it just looks like a ginkgo tree." Ah Fu said, "At night, the leaves on the tree will turn yellow and fall. Falling leaves are a good thing."
While talking, Xia Tong felt someone at the door.
"There are guests!"
There were men and women, old and young, some in suits and ties, Taoist priests and monks. This combination was really strange.