Tomb Raiders Codex

Chapter 236 Mountain Temple

When Uncle Ge saw that I was telling the truth, he couldn't help but excitedly said: "Then do you know how to deal with that thing in the well? Alas, Mr. Jiang is too miserable."

Although I am not a local, my grandfather took the statement and escaped here, and I also spent my childhood here. For me, this place is not my hometown, but it is better than my hometown. I can leave it alone.After thinking about it, I could only temporarily put aside the matter in the cellar, and told Uncle Ge that I had to meet Mr. Jiang before I could make any plans.

At this time, we had a full stomach and chatted for a long time while drinking tea. After making up our minds, Aunt Ge packed up some food without saying a word, and I took the tofu to the mountain temple in the back mountain.The black dog that was grabbing the chicken wings with Tofu wagged its tail and led the way. To deal with that water ghost?"

I said: "I don't know how to deal with the rest of the ghosts, because they are invisible and have many means, so professionals must come forward. However, I heard from my grandfather that water ghosts, also known as water zongzi, are a kind of corpse transformation. It has form and quality, I don’t know how to deal with ghosts, but are we afraid of dealing with zongzi?”

There are two kinds of water ghosts in folklore, one is that the ghost is trapped in the water after death, and the other is that the corpse changes after death and becomes a water ghost.I can't deal with the former, but when Uncle Ge told me about it, he described a detail, that is, when someone looked down by the well, he saw a furry black shadow in the depths of the well.

It is said that the water ghost formed by the corpse is a fluffy ball with long arms and a big mouth. When someone passes by the well, they will drag them into the water with their hands. The mouth sucks out the person's soul, so that person's soul will become a new water ghost, and the previous water ghost can pass away.

I don't know if there is any truth to these water ghosts looking for substitutes, but I am sure about the tangible and qualitative zongzi, even if they are water zongzi.

However, before that, I have to visit Mr. Jiang first.

There is a mountain temple in our place. Whenever something unusual happens in the village, or if you have any wishes, you will come to the mountain temple.

The mountain temple is a wooden structure that enshrines the mountain god and its spirits. Since the number of people in the village is getting smaller, there are not many people coming to the mountain temple.When Tofu and I entered, half of the temple gate of the mountain temple was gone, and the remaining half was covered with a cloak. On the top of the gate, there was a huge spider web with a colorful green-headed spider crawling on it.

Under the altar's altar, following our arrival, a few frightened mice swished away without a trace.

Tofu was dumbfounded, and said, "Uncle Ge said that Mr. Jiang lives here? Damn, can people live in this place?" I used to play in this mountain temple when I was a child. At that time, the economy was not developed, and the country people did not go to the city. Chung, our village is still very lively.

Speaking of mountain gods, I actually remembered a strange thing.

Since I was a child, I was not afraid of the sky and the earth. I ran around all over the mountains and plains, and the children in the village took me as the leader.Once we ran to this mountain temple, Fatty Jiang was in a hurry to urinate, and pointed to the altar and said, "Let's compare urination and see whose cock urinates farther away."

"Okay, okay, okay..." A group of poor children were naturally happy, so a few girls stomped their feet and covered their faces and ran back, saying, "We will tell the adults that you guys are playing hooligans." Then they ran back.

I said in my heart: I am the boss, so naturally I pee the furthest.At that time, the vanity of children was very strange. In this competition, everyone paid great attention to it.We stood in a row, looked serious, and took off our pants in unison, revealing a row of bare buttocks of different colors. After counting one, two, three, we started to pee, and the entire altar was wet.

I won No.1 that time... I was very proud at the time, but after returning home, I had a high fever that night. I dreamed that a person covered with a red cloth floated on the ground, lifted me up, and squeezed my hands. Feet, throw me like a windmill.Shaking, shaking, shaking made me dizzy, my stomach was churning, and when I opened my eyes, I threw up when I tilted my head.

Grandpa was very anxious. At that time, he was chanting about duo. I didn't know it at the time. Now that I think about it, what grandpa was chanting might be a curse. He probably thought that I would let the curse take my life.Later, I passed out, talking nonsense, burning for several days, and only listening to people when I woke up. Grandpa knew about our pissing competition in the god case, and went to burn incense for the mountain god in the middle of the night , I also made Zhang Xin's magic case overnight to replace it, and my illness was cured without treatment.

At this moment, looking at the dilapidated mountain temple in front of me, I thought of my grandfather again, feeling heavy in my heart, and then I kept my body short, avoiding the cobwebs above my head, and entered the mountain temple with tofu.

Tofu shouted: "Mr. Jiang, we have come to see you and bring you something to eat. Are you there?"

I turned my head and looked around, but I saw the statue of the mountain god, it was still the same clay statue, half of the body was cracked, the strange thing is, other places in this place are filthy, only this statue is still clean.I thought to myself, could it be Mr. Jiang who is cleaning?That's right, his whole family died at the hands of water ghosts. When a normal person encounters such a thing, he will definitely pin everything on the gods.

After Tofu shouted, no one answered. The main hall is not big, so I looked at it all at once.I guessed if the person was not there, so I took the tofu and walked towards the side hall. Who knew that I had just stepped on the door, and a black figure rushed towards me fiercely.Although the figure came suddenly, but the movement was not fast, I immediately dodged and took a closer look, but it was an old man with unkempt hair and wrinkles.

Even though it had been many years, I still recognized it, felt sour in my heart, and shouted: "Master Jiang, I am Chen Xuan, don't you remember?"

The old man who was worse than a beggar on the opposite side had cloudy eyes and murmured in a hoarse voice: "Chen Xuan...Chen Xuan...is my grandson Xiaopang's good friend."

I endured the pain in my heart and said, "It's me, I'm here to see you."

The old man on the opposite side seemed to be a little confused, pointing to a dilapidated wooden bed in the corner of the hall, and said, "Chen Xuan, why didn't your grandpa come? Sit down... Grandpa brought you candy, it was your Uncle Jiang who bought it in the city. Yes, it's sweet." After finishing speaking, he wandered around the dirty side hall looking for candy.

Not to mention me, Tofu is the most soft-hearted, his eyes turned red, and he said: "This old man is in a terrible life, Lao Chen, we have to help him."

I saw that Mr. Jiang was as thin as a stick, and I was afraid that he hadn't eaten enough, so he hurriedly said: "Take out the food and let him eat first."

We brought some dry food to Mr. Jiang, and the remaining half bowl of stewed chicken. Mr. Jiang smelled the meat, so he forgot to find sugar for me. He stared at my bowl and swallowed.

Tofu brought the bowl over and said, "Grandpa, you're welcome, eat it while it's hot."

Mr. Jiang didn't say a word, took the bowl and grabbed it with his hands, and started to gobble it up. Tofu and I couldn't help it, so we had to let him go.After he finished eating, he began to 'gossip' with me.

"Boy from the Chen family, why didn't your grandpa come here? He hasn't played chess with me for a long time."

Tofu smashed his tongue and said to me in a low voice: "It's over, the old man is completely crazy."

I glared at him, motioned him not to speak, and said, "He's still busy outside, I'll see you if he gets a chance." When Mr. Jiang goes west, he will most likely be able to meet my grandfather underground and play chess.

"Oh." He nodded, and said again: "In a blink of an eye, you have grown so big, oh, you came to see Xiaopang, he didn't know where he went, you wait here." In a blink of an eye, he stared at Tofu again, blinked his old eyes, and said, "Oh, this fair-skinned one looks so handsome, isn't she your daughter?"

When Tofu heard the words, he was instantly choked by his own saliva, with a look of grief and indignation.

I thought to myself, it seems that Mr. Jiang is not only insane, but also his eyes are dim, and he said: "I want to have such a girl, and I will be the first to sell her to a trafficker. Mr. Jiang, I am here this time to ask you for a favor." "Although I have heard what happened from Uncle Ge, but if I want to deal with the water ghost, I have to lure it out first.

The weather has been fine these few days, it is impossible for the water ghost to come up by itself, and it is impossible for me to just wait for the rain in the village.According to the old saying, Zongzi harms people based on blood relationship, that is to say, they harm their relatives first, and if they want to lure the water ghost out, they may have to let Mr. Jiang show his face.

In the past ten years, everyone has been hiding from that ghost well. The water ghost in the well must be more fierce, and it is absolutely impossible to catch it in the water, only to lure it out.

But now, looking at Mr. Jiang's situation, I'm really worried.

"Help?" Mr. Jiang said, "Did you spy on Xiao Juanzi taking a bath again and got caught?"

"Cough cough." Seeing Tofu rolling around with laughter, I coughed dryly, changed the subject, and said, "Old man, this happened many years ago, so don't remember it in your heart." After a pause, I tried He asked: "Do you still remember...the well in front of your house?" The word seemed to have opened some mechanism, and Mr. Jiang's pupils dilated instantly, as if he saw something in the void, and his face was slack. The skin trembled, and after a while, he covered his head, leaving only the top of our dirty and unkempt head.

Tofu stopped laughing, got up slowly, looked at Mr. Jiang's trembling shoulders, and said, "Old Chen, Mr. Jiang is crying, let's stop irritating him."

I was silent for a while, and said in my heart that Fatty Jiang and I met once, and that his family should not suffer this kind of pain in vain. If the old man can remember the well, it means that he still has a chance to regain his sanity. In a daze, he died with hatred.Immediately, I shook my head towards Tofu, motioning him not to stop me, and slowly said: "Ten years ago, Xiao Jiang drowned in the well water, then your daughter-in-law, and finally your son, and then you invited a Yin Yang Duan Gong, how did he tell you..."

Mr. Jiang trembled more and more. After a while, he raised his head and said viciously, "Water ghost!"

(End of this chapter)