Chapter 896 Blood Mist in the Gate

To the west of Heyue Town, there is a small mountain. This mountain occupies a small area and is low in altitude. It looks like a mountain but not a mountain, and looks like a slope but not a slope. It has been an unknown mountain since ancient times.

However, the temple located on that mountain still has a name - Liuhe Temple.

Today, it is impossible to verify the specific year of construction of this temple, but the term "thousand years" should be relatively reliable. Whether it is external records or ancient scriptures preserved in the temple, they can all prove the long history of this temple.

As a building that has existed for more than a thousand years and is still in use, Liuhe Temple has undoubtedly been renovated many times. On weekdays, monks spontaneously carry out countless minor repairs and repairs. Speaking of major repairs alone... there are recorded nineteen times. And the most recent time... was forty years ago.

At that time, Heyue Town was at its most stable and prosperous period. After decades of development and accumulation, the third generation descendants of those original refugees have experienced a period of good times. Although it cannot be said that there is not a single poor person in the town, but people sleeping on the streets, starving and freezing... it is indeed impossible to find them.

As the saying goes... if you have a solid warehouse, you will know etiquette; if you have enough food and clothing, you will know honor and disgrace. Since the citizens of Heyue Town are already getting along in terms of material civilization, they naturally have the leisure to engage in some spiritual civilization construction ￥4,.

At that time (the situation in the world of this script was basically equivalent to the feudal society in ancient China), it was impossible for the common people to summarize the eight honors and eight shames. In addition to the traditional etiquette, justice, integrity, and shame, they also talked about religious superstition.

Considering that the monks of Liuhe Temple were kind to the ancestors of the townspeople, and that the town has generally had good weather over the years... Therefore, the townspeople planned to do something for the temple, firstly to repay the kindness of the monks in the temple, and secondly. Thank you God for your blessings over the years.

So, forty years ago, with the negotiation between the then mayor of Heyue Town and the abbot of Liuhe Temple, the townspeople raised a donation. It is planned to use the money to completely renovate the temple and reshape the golden bodies of many Buddha statues in the temple.

This was originally a good thing, but the ending of the matter was beyond everyone's expectations...

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Renovating a temple as big as Liuhe Temple is a long-term and large-scale project that requires a lot of craftsmen and labor. The manpower in Heyue Town alone is obviously not enough. Fortunately... the project funds are still relatively abundant, so the foreman in charge of the project recruited a lot of manpower from the villages and towns surrounding Heyue Town.

That year, among the workers who came to repair the temple. There was a middle-aged stonemason from other places. This person's surname is Zhang, and his single name has the character Ke. Although his parents gave him a very stable name, Zhang Ke's personality seems to be the opposite of his name. Not only was he not very prudent, he was also extremely frivolous and nosy.

One night forty years ago, Zhang Ke had a few more drinks at a wine shop in the town. With the help of the wine, he suddenly had a whim and wanted to explore the "Shiyuan Pagoda" in Liuhe Temple. …

Speaking of the Shiyuan Pagoda. It is indeed a quite mysterious place. There has been an iron rule in Liuhe Temple since ancient times - except for the abbot himself, no one is allowed to enter the stone courtyard in the temple, let alone step into the pagoda in the stone courtyard.

Before the temple was renovated, the abbot had repeatedly warned the mayor. Don't let anyone near the stone courtyard. And the mayor... also conveyed the abbot's words effectively to all the workers involved in the repair work.

To be honest... in the eyes of the workers, this matter is actually not a big deal. If it's a nunnery...you said there is a forbidden area or something, people might be a little bit interested in snooping; but the forbidden area in the monk's temple...you can't enter if you don't enter. Do you still expect to pick up the cultivator by touching it? A magic weapon or a secret book?

But there happens to be such a person. Very curious...that's Zhang Ke.

This guy is a typical case of a secondary disease that has not been cured for a long time and turns into a terminal illness, and his personality is the kind of person whose IQ drops off the line after eating two bowls of yellow soup, and he is extremely courageous. The more you don't let him go, the more he will go... and then come back and brag about it. It's also great to act like a hero in front of your peers.

But we all know that real heroes...are more or less extraordinary and have "strength".

Some people, after drinking several kilograms of old wine, can still walk on mountain roads in the dark and kill a ferocious national first-level protected animal with their bare hands; while some people can drink several kilograms of old wine, walk on mountain roads in the dark, but end up with a foot He slipped and died in a ravine.

Judging from Zhang Ke's performance in the past few decades... he definitely belongs to the latter.

So when he left... he would not see anyone alive or dead.

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What exactly happened that night, only a few people know, and outsiders only know... After that night, no one saw Zhang Ke again.

A few days later, the mayor gave an explanation... Zhang Ke strayed into the forest after being drunk and was eaten by wild beasts, leaving no trace of his body.

And this statement... naturally did not satisfy Zhang Ke's family, and they quickly went to the government.

The first official administrative official of Heyue Town was appointed by an envoy sent by the court in the fifteenth year after the town was established; and the person appointed was the mayor who was in office at that time. It was obvious that the imperial court did not attach much importance to the management of this remote town, and it was nothing more than a formality. The main purpose is to officially integrate the town into the national establishment to facilitate tax collection.

Later, there were more formal yamen in the town, and the law was replaced from the original "village law" by the customary "village law" to the code promulgated by the imperial court. However, in general, the town is still in an "autonomous" state, and the vast majority of officials are locals.

After Zhang Ke's case was discovered, his family members would certainly not be stupid enough to come to Heyue Town to file a complaint... Therefore, they went directly to the higher-level government office.

And the government... indeed sent people to investigate.

The investigation process of this case can be said to be a mystery to outsiders. Although many rumors have leaked out, the content is controversial and the authenticity is difficult to distinguish.

The only thing that is certain is that the attitude of the official handling the case has been ups and downs - from the beginning, he was "swearing to uphold justice, and he is indifferent", to "the attitude has cooled down, and he is full of doubts", and then to the later stage...he talks about the case At that time, it was already a state of being "evasive and taciturn".

At the same time, the detectives working on the case also made some creepy and bizarre remarks to the outside world, intentionally or unintentionally... They probably said, "There are some 'unclean things' in the stone courtyard pagoda. Zhang Ke is seeking his own death, and his soul is probably gone."

In short, after a month, the case was finally settled. And the final result was... the government intervened and asked the temple to pay Zhang Ke's family a sum of money, whether it was compensation or hush money... Anyway, that was the end of the matter. Zhang Ke's family members either choose to take the money and accept the claim that he was "eaten by wild beasts and his body is gone"; or... there is no money and no claim.

In this way, the family members of the parties concerned can only choose to settle the matter and make peace with it, and the matter will come to an end.

However... people at the time certainly didn't expect... that this case would pave the way for a disaster forty years later.

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"Hmm...it's really eerie..." When he came to the gate of Liuhe Temple, Wang Tanzhi looked up at the tall bronze door and muttered softly.

He spoke very softly, not because he was worried about being discovered by someone in the distance, but because he felt guilty, so he instinctively lowered his voice.

"I thought there was enough stinky blood in the town, but compared with this place...it pales into insignificance." Xiao Ling, who was standing next to Xiao Tan, covered his nose and muttered.

At this point, about half an hour had passed since the script started. Xiao Tan and Xiao Ling met on the way to Liuhe Temple. Until they arrived here, neither of them found any signs of other players' activities around them.

Judging from their investigative expertise, the possibility of being secretly followed is extremely low; and if someone had arrived here before them, they would most likely have caught their traces. Therefore... it can be basically concluded that they are the two players who came to Liuhe Temple the fastest.

Of course... we can't rule out the possibility that someone was placed inside the temple as soon as they entered the script...

"How...are we going to get in?" Xiaotan thought for a few seconds in front of the door, then turned around and asked, "Should we knock on the door and try, or just break in? Or...just climb in through the wall? "

After hearing this, Xiao Ling thought for a few seconds, then silently took two steps forward and grabbed the copper handle on the door.

Squeak——

With a little force, the huge door was pushed open.

"Eh?" Xiao Tan was stunned for a moment and asked, "How do you know you can push it away with just one push?"

"I don't know." Xiao Ling shrugged, "I'm just trying..."

She couldn't finish her sentence, because before the last word "has" was spoken, a ball of blood mist rolled out from the door, quickly wrapped Xiaoling's whole body and dragged him into the door...

A second later, Xiao Tan instinctively rushed forward, trying to hold Xiao Ling's hand, but at this moment... the blood mist had completely dragged the latter into the door.

Bang——

When a look of astonishment appeared on Xiao Tan's face, the door in front of him... had suddenly... been closed again. (To be continued...)