Chapter 26 In the Temple
The fox's nails are only half as long as a lighter, and are as black as ink and very shiny.
It looks like a curved crescent black jade.
After I got the paw, the old fox nodded with satisfaction.
Squint your eyes and smile at me:
"Young man, what's your name?"
"I, my name is Qin Ze!"
I answered with a little nervousness.
At present, it seems that the old lady fox poses no threat to me, so I am not that scared anymore.
But still be prepared and vigilant.
The old lady fox chuckled a few times:
"Qin Ze, grandma remembers your name.
But you have to find your own life if you lose it.
You can't hold on to what others are looking for.
Grandma couldn't interfere too much.
Whatever you should do now, go ahead!
Grandma won’t delay you anymore…”
After saying that, the old fox lady took a few steps to the side with her walking stick.
Although I don’t quite understand what the phrase “lose your life, find it yourself” means.
It can be seen that the old lady fox gave way and no longer hesitated.
Holding the fox paw she gave me, I smiled slightly:
"Thank you, thank you grandma!"
After saying that, I grabbed the half of the fox paw and the cloth bag and ran towards the City God's Temple.
After running for more than ten meters, I looked back.
I found that the old fox lady had disappeared.
It was pitch black behind him, with only swaying weeds and trees.
I feel quite depressed.
If your luck is low, weird things can happen to you.
In the first twenty years, I didn't encounter anything.
But in the past few days, weird things have happened one after another.
Now in order to survive, I have to go to the temple to trade with dirty things.
I took a few deep breaths, trying to calm myself down and face reality better.
Pick up the pace and speed.
Because there are only a few minutes until ten o'clock in the evening.
Fortunately, the distance was not far, and I quickly arrived in front of the Chenghuang Temple.
This place has been demolished, and the City God's Temple has long been dilapidated.
Weeds grew on the roof, and a few pieces of paint fell off the walls.
The yard is full of weeds and dead leaves.
I quickly came to the temple and opened the old wooden door.
"Creak..."
A harsh sound rang out, and a musty dust stirred up in the room.
I fanned myself with my hands, covered my mouth and nose and coughed twice.
It was cold and dark inside the temple, and the view was very poor.
I took out the lighter, lit it and took a photo.
The firelight danced, and I could barely see my surroundings.
The temple was in a mess, and there were no statues on the shrines.
There was only a stone altar table and an overturned stone incense burner.
In front of the offering table, there was also a torn big yellow cloth covering it.
Apart from these, there are only some broken bowls, hay and plastic bags left in the entire Chenghuang Temple.
According to what Master Guo said, we came to the City God's Temple.
The first thing I did was light incense.
I took out three short incense sticks and quickly lit them.
Then he inserted it into the stone incense burner on the altar table.
The short incense flickered and burned quickly, as if someone was blowing on it.
As soon as the incense was inserted, the rising smoke spread out and swirled around the temple.
I don't pay much attention to the short fragrance.
Instead, he quickly took out two flattened paper bowls.
Open it with your hands and place it neatly on the ground.
Put the rice and eggs bought from Rose Supermarket in separate bowls.
I moved very quickly and finished all these.
I immediately got under the altar table and lay down on my stomach.
I looked at the time and saw that there was still one minute until ten o'clock in the evening.
I breathed a sigh of relief.
After a night of twists and turns, I finally completed what Master Gu told me.
The rest is just waiting.
I lay motionless under the altar table, and could only see two black paper bowls through a small gap under the yellow cloth.
Ten o'clock arrived in a blink of an eye.
It seemed to be getting colder in the temple.
I lay down under the altar table, huddled up, and watched the changes in the temple vigilantly.
After more than half an hour, a cough suddenly sounded in the silent temple.
"cough!"
The sound is not loud, but very clear.
And the sound seemed to come from the altar above my head.
Suddenly hearing this voice made my heart tighten.
He raised his head slightly and looked at the altar table above his head.
The person who felt the cough was sitting on it.
The old people say: There is no temple where ghosts live.
There are no statues of gods in the City God's Temple.
Now apart from me, all that's left is dirt.
Although I was already prepared in my heart.
But when it comes to actually coming into contact with these things, I still can't help but feel scared.
I tensed my neck and even lowered my breathing.
I don’t know how these dirty things will do business with me!
About half an hour later, two more coughs came from above my head.
"Ahem..."
My heart was pounding, I was gritting my teeth nervously, and I didn't dare to move my body.
And after these two coughs.
I feel like the moonlight shining in from outside the house seems to be blocked.
The whole altar was dark.
He lowered his head and looked out through the gap under the yellow cloth.
When I looked around, I saw a pair of black cloth shoes, tiptoeing towards me.
The steps are small and silent.
He came closer step by step, and finally stood motionless in front of two black paper bowls.
I could clearly feel a cold air rushing under the altar table.
The cold feeling made me shiver.
This invisible depression makes me feel like there is a big stone weighing on my heart.
It wasn't until a while later that I found the thing that was looking at its feet and slowly bent down.
He stretched out a hand with very black nails but very white hands, and slowly grabbed the eggs in the black paper bowl.
I saw it in my eyes and didn't dare to make a sound.
Because Master Gu said that after entering the Chenghuang Temple.
Unless someone asks a question, you should never take the initiative to say anything.
And those pale human hands were about to catch the eggs.
But as soon as his hand made contact, he suddenly retracted it.
It seemed that the egg was so hot that he didn't dare to pick it up.
Then, I saw the man standing on tiptoes, pacing back and forth in front of the two paper bowls.
Several minutes passed.
Only then did I hear a complaining and deep old man’s voice:
"What do you mean, you can't just give me food?"
This chapter has been completed!