Three and a half women in four courtyards

Chapter 116

Hou Zhang brought some sticky bean buns and some old clothes to Shunliuhou's house.

"Ang, it's so cold (terribly cold) that people will freeze to death. Take these to see your father-in-law." Hou Zhang said when he saw Shun Liuhou.

"Oh, sister-in-law, look, there is still a big belly at home, who is about to give birth, how can I have time to see him!" Shun Liuhou didn't want to go.

"Diao Yingzi is here, I'm here, you go!"

"Oh, but..." Shunliuhou pouted and secretly pointed at Diao Yingzi, meaning that Diao Yingzi didn't want him to go.

Hou Zhang took a look at Diao Yingzi, and just wanted to persuade him, but Diao Yingzi said: "Ang, look at me, just go!"

"Ang, then shall I go? I'll come back as soon as I go." Shun Liu Hou looked at Diao Yingzi and said cautiously.

"You don't want to go? Then I'll go!" Diao Yingzi was a bit abnormal today, Shun Liuhou hurriedly said: "You have a big belly and your legs and feet are not good. Go to Gaha? I will go."

Saying that, Shunliuhou went out with sticky beanbags and old clothes.

As soon as Shunliuhou arrived at the chagou gate (entrance) of the temple, he saw some beggars surrounding the gate of Saihan Temple from a distance.

Shunliuhou thought to himself, what day is it today, why are there so many people here?

When I got closer, I saw that everyone was forming a circle, as if they were watching something lively.

I saw a naked man sitting on a stone platform in front of the temple, with some stones piled up in front of him, with his hands open, as if he was warming himself by a fire.

Shun Liu Hou glanced at this man's face, his face was flushed and smiling, as if he was enjoying himself.

Take a closer look, huh?Isn't that a trickster?He stripped naked Gaha?Is this crazy?
When the onlookers saw Shun Liu Hou, they did not look at him, but fixed their eyes on the things in his hand.

Shunliu monkey hurriedly pushed through the crowd, came to Diao Gui, and said, "An, you are Gaha, where are your clothes? Put them on quickly."

Upon hearing this, the onlookers burst out laughing, making Shun Liu Monkey laugh.

He stepped forward and pulled Diao Gui, Diao Gui's body was hardened, and he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

Look at Diaogui again, he didn't blink his eyes, his body was motionless, it turned out that he was frozen to death.

Shun Liuhou was so frightened that the things in his hand fell to the ground with a "clack", and the onlookers immediately rushed over to snatch the things he dropped on the ground.

Shunliuhou saw that something was wrong, and quickly grabbed some clothes and some sticky bean buns.

He covered Diaogui with his clothes, and then took the remaining sticky bean buns and said to everyone: "Ang, tell me, why did he freeze to death? Whoever said it all, this sticky bean buns belong to them."

The group of beggars talked in a hurry, and Shunliuhou roughly understood what happened to Diaogui the night before.

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, fewer and fewer people went to the temple to offer incense, so Hongdao took the people in the temple to travel, leaving only one or two people who visited the temple.

In fact, this is the case every year. When winter comes, Saihan Temple will be closed.

It's just that this year is special, with poor harvests and cold weather, the temple has become a refuge for beggars fleeing famine.

There are fewer monks and Taoists in the temple, but there are more and more beggars, so that many people can't get food, so they can only wait for people who come to the temple to offer incense, so that they can grab some offerings to satisfy their hunger.

Diaogui was the first to take refuge in Saihan Temple, and he is quite familiar with the temple.

The Saihan Temple is divided into two parts, the Yin Temple and the Yang Temple.Most of the pilgrims who come to Saihan Temple go to the Yang Temple, and rarely go to the Yin Temple.

Diao Gui wandered around the Yang Temple that day, looking for some offerings to eat, but found that there was really nothing to eat, so he wandered to the gate of the Yin Temple.

The gate of the Yin Temple is locked all day long, and the abbot is not there, so it is no longer open to the public.

Diao Gui stared at the door in a daze for a long time, thinking to himself, why is the door always locked here?There may not be good things in it. If you can get something to eat, you won't be hungry every day.

Thinking of this, he secretly found a hammer, broke the lock of the gate, and sneaked into the Yin Temple by himself.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Diao Gui entered the gate, the gate was automatically locked.

He glanced back at the gate, but before he could figure out what was going on, a little ghost suddenly flashed behind him, holding an iron chain, hanging it around his neck with a "dang", leading him away.

Some of the beggars outside also secretly followed Diao Gui, wanting to take the opportunity to enter the Yin Temple to find something to eat.

When the door opened, before he could get in, he was locked outside.

I could only hear Diao Gui howling like a pig being killed inside, and the frightened look could not be described in words.

After howling for a while, Diaogui suddenly fell silent.

About two hours later, the gate of the Yin Temple was suddenly opened, and the people outside who heard the sound rushed to the side, but the gate was empty and there was nothing.

Everyone bravely moved towards the gate. Before reaching the gate, they heard creaking noises inside, like the sound of a pulley.

After the sound, a ball flew out from the gate, and landed outside the gate with a bang.

Everyone thought they threw out something delicious, so they huffed and gathered around. After a closer look, they realized that it was a trickster.

What Diao Gui experienced in the Yin Temple, he did not say, and no one knows.

But after he came out from there, he was in a daze.

He scrambled and ran to the Yang Temple, rambling on and on, not knowing what to say.

It seems that one moment he saw his wife coming, and the other moment he said he saw his brother coming. His eyes were straightened and his hair was stunned (the eyes were straightened and dazed), which made the people around him feel a little numb.

Diao ghosts scurried around in Yangmiao, and everyone didn't pay much attention to it during the day, but at night, everyone was afraid.

When everyone was sleeping soundly, he suddenly woke everyone up with a loud voice, which made people's hearts jump.

During the day, he said that when he saw this and that, everyone just took it as a joke.

But in the middle of the night, he said that his dead brother had come to strangle him, kowtowed and begged for mercy, panting heavily, as if he was about to die.

After a while, he said that the dead wife had come with a bowl of brine, and asked him to taste it.

This frightened the beggars around him.

Several people discussed quietly, and in the middle of the night, taking advantage of the dead of night, they dragged him out of the Yang Temple and locked the gate.

The north wind was blowing outside the gate, and it was bitingly cold.

Diao Gui strolled back and forth outside the gate with his arms folded. No matter how much he yelled, the people inside would not open the door for him.

He yelled for a while, and he was also tired. It is estimated that everyone inside had fallen asleep, and it was useless to yell any more, so he had to find a place leeward to keep warm.

He squatted at the base of the wall, feeling too cold, and when he ran to the gate, he was also shivering with cold.

Later, he suddenly felt a bright light in front of his eyes, and saw flames on the gate of the Yin Temple.

He thought, there is a fire there, so it should be quite warm, right?It was supposed to go there to be warm, but thinking of his experience inside during the day, he was a little scared and didn't dare to go there.

After a while, he saw that the gate of the Yin Temple opened a crack, and a person came out from the crack.

(End of this chapter)