Hearing their conversation, I couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
After a while, the young man and the old man left the house together. I followed them all the way to my temple. The two of them first weeded my temple and then cleaned away the cobwebs. After the whole temple looked much cleaner, the young man
Only then did he crawl to my statue and start repairing the cracked place he had smashed.
He cultivated very reluctantly.
But I can feel his efforts.
While he was repairing my statue, the old man knelt in front of my statue and prayed devoutly for my forgiveness.
A voice also appeared in my mind at this time.
"They are all hypocritical. Don't you want to be a god? Kill them quickly."
The appearance of this voice made me walk towards the two of them involuntarily.
But as soon as I walked over, there was another sound of footsteps outside, and the next moment I saw a young woman walking over. This young woman was obviously the young man's wife.
Her arrival also surprised the two of them.
As soon as she arrived, she knelt in front of my statue.
"Lord City God, my man was ignorant and did something wrong before. I hope you won't blame me. I am here to apologize to you."
After saying this, she began to kowtow.
One after another.
It wasn't until the young man came to her senses and helped her up that she looked at him reproachfully, "I've figured it out. Let's have another child after a while."
The young man's face was filled with surprise and joy, and tears immediately fell down.
The old man next to me kowtowed heavily to me several times.
The voice that appeared in my head also appeared again at this time, still urging me to kill them.
But I was a little hesitant.
I am God.
I am the City God.
How could I kill them.
"No, you are not a god. You are a fake. They are also hypocritical. Kill them and you will be free. You don't have to worry about their hypocrisy anymore. Wouldn't that be better?"
"Don't you feel lonely?"
"Kill them and you will no longer be a god. You will not be restricted here. You can go wherever you want."
I suddenly felt a pain in my head.
I looked at the three people in front of me and raised my hands involuntarily, but in the end I endured it.
I didn't go to see them, but walked out of the City God's Temple. It wasn't until they left the City God's Temple that I returned to the temple.
My statue has been repaired a lot, but it is not completely restored. There is just another piece of bacon on the altar in front of my statue.
I couldn't help but laugh when I looked at that piece of pork.
Suddenly I seemed to understand.
When that voice appeared in my mind again, I shook my head and said, "I am the god here, how can I kill them."
"They hate me, but they just put their hopes on me. If I let him down, they will naturally hate me."
"I didn't do well enough."
"You see, they figured it out and came back naturally."
"Are you really God?" That voice continued to appear in my mind.
"Yes!" I nodded decisively.
"Then you are God!"
I heard the joking in this last sentence, as if he just wanted to get this decisive answer from me, but I didn't care.
After saying this, the voice also disappeared.
It's like it has completely disappeared from my mind.
I didn't hear that voice again, for one day, two days, until I forgot how many days had passed.
But since that day when that family came to repair the statue for me, no one has come here. I became lonely again, and the Chenghuang Temple became quiet again.
Until maybe half a month.
The young man is here.
He still put a piece of bacon for me.
But this time, he didn't pray for anything from me. He just put the bacon away, cleaned the temple for me, and left in a hurry.
Several times in a row.
Maybe a few months passed.
Maybe it's just a few more days.
I suddenly realized that being a god was meaningless because no one believed in me anymore. Even if the family had restored the statue for me, no one came to me to pray.
This feeling makes me more uncomfortable than loneliness.
It's like I've been abandoned.
I started praying for that voice to appear again, and started praying for him to appear again and ask me if I was still God. I thought that at that time, I would definitely tell him that I was not.
But the voice didn't appear.
I don't know how long it took.
I started to feel tired.
It's like getting old.
Even the temple, even with that young man's cleaning, gradually became dilapidated, and my statue began to lose its original brightness. The whole temple seemed to have suddenly become an empty temple.
Only then did I know.
It turns out that gods are gods.
It's because some people believe in it.
Without people's faith, gods will no longer be gods.
At this time, a figure suddenly appeared in my mind.
I forgot who he was.
I only remember that he seemed to have taught me two words: compassion.
But at that time, he told me that I was wrong.
He also told me.
This is my destiny.
He made me understand that I never live for myself.
"Li Bowen..."
I muttered to myself, I don’t know why I called this name. I just felt that before I became a god, I experienced a lot of things, but those things were forgotten after I became a god here.
.
I couldn't help but laugh again.
Thinking back to the figure that appeared in my mind.
I suddenly remembered that he was Li Bowen.
But……
who I am?
I am the god here!
I answered myself.
I asked myself again in my mind.
So do I have to bear this loneliness?
So, do I have to understand what giving is?
But still no one answered me.
I suddenly felt that my mind was in a mess and I started to become confused.
I was originally worshiped as a god, but suddenly I felt like a lonely ghost, and I could only guard this temple.
I started to doubt.
Is this kind of effort worth it?
I started to think back.
That man named Li Bowen once taught me, right?
I don't know how long I thought about it.
During this period of time, the temple was completely abandoned, and the young man had not been here for a long time. Weeds grew again. Although the statue was repaired, it was finally broken again because of the damage.
The moment the idol broke.
I feel like I really have become a lonely ghost.
I finally answered myself.
Not worth it.
If possible, I would rather not be this god.
The moment I answered myself, it started to rain.
For the first time, I felt some relief.
I tried to walk out of the Chenghuang Temple again.
But when I walked out, I was stunned.
I don’t know how many days have passed, the outside is lush and green, and the rice in the fields has been harvested.
I saw the smile on the old man's face.
I saw the young woman with a big belly and a happy face.