Taoist temple in the mountains

Chapter 495, Survive
At first, the children were not clear about their reluctance to play happily with their friends, but after Li Yun took out the spicy sticks that he was going to feed Hanxiang, he immediately became obedient, with his hands on his hips, as if you don’t care Ask, if I can't answer, it's my lost expression.

"Little friend, I'm Wu Keke with a bald head. I heard that there are wild beasts or something in your village. The adults don't come near this place. Why are you so courageous and dare to approach this place?" Li Yun asked with a smile, it's useless to be haunted such words.

The child opened the spicy sticks and started to eat them. He ate a mouthful of spicy oil and said while eating: "There seems to be something strange about this pool. My parents never mentioned it, but my grandparents seem to have mentioned it. Son, he said don't come near this place, and didn't say anything, just said that the water here is not clean, and told us not to come here, in fact, we came here secretly, adults don't know."

It's the adults who can't stop you from coming. Li Yunke understands what these brats are thinking.

"Did you not explain the reason? Is it because you are worried about frightening the children? Or is it because of other reasons?" Li Yun muttered.

After talking, the children continued to play with the children, and at the same time distributed the remaining spicy strips to other children, but the spicy strips were always not enough for so many children.

Some bold children came directly in front of Li Yun, staring helplessly and pitifully, hoping to get spicy strips.

Li Yun thought for a while, smiled slightly, and as if by magic, he took out a few packs of spicy sticks from his sleeve Qiankun, but he didn't give the spicy sticks to the children immediately, and said.

"Little friends, today uncle cough, brother, let me tell you a truth of life, that is, you can only get something if you work hard, and you can only get something if you give something. This is called [labor], and you get something for nothing. It's the behavior of a loser to live off your parents who prey on you, you can't be like that."

The children seem to understand, but they just nodded ignorantly, all their minds were on the spicy strips, but a seed was planted in their hearts, and they subconsciously believed that it is impossible to get something for nothing
"Very good. It seems that the children have understood. Come one by one. Brother asks a question. As long as you answer, brother will give you spicy strips." Li Yun smiled.

All the children nodded one by one to express that they could ask.

Li Yun pointed to a chubby boy among the crowd and said.

"It's up to you to decide"

The little fat man stood up, looked at Li Yun with burning eyes, and swallowed his saliva at the same time, for fear that he might not be able to answer some difficult questions: "Big brother, just ask."

"Very well, let me ask you, has anyone in your family told you about the pool, such as the presence of water snakes?" Li Yun asked.

The little fat man scratched his head and said.

"Grandpa said, there are wild wolves here, and told me not to come here to play, but where are the wild wolves, why don't we play as usual?"

Li Yun touched the little fat man's head, handed him the spicy strips and said.

"Very good, this pack of spicy strips is yours."

"Thank you uncle!" The little fat man happily took the spicy sticks and gnawed them happily.

The corners of Li Yun's mouth twitched. Before he got the spicy sticks, he called him brother, but when he got the spicy sticks, he called him uncle. Are all the kids so spooky now?

Then the children next to them also had bright faces, looking forward to Li Yun's question.

"Well, the question I asked is the same as the question I asked the little fat man just now. Have your family members told you about the fact that you can't come to this pool?" Li Yun said.

The children are scrambling to talk
"My grandma said that there are water snakes here, and told me not to come here to play..."

"My grandpa said, there are grizzlies here, they can eat people."

"That's right, my grandfather told me that there seems to be some man-eating monster here."

"Yeah? You all said it, and my grandma also said that there are dirty things here, so tell me not to come near them."

"That's right, my grandpa said that there are fox spirits eating people here."

Su Li poked out a small head from Li Yun's arms, with a dazed expression and the feeling of being shot for no reason
Although the answers were messy, Li Yun could still tell the difference. At the same time, he smiled and handed out the spicy sticks. The children happily left with the spicy sticks.

Only Li Yun stood silently by the pool, looking at the calm pool
"As expected of a child, it's the same if you don't listen to the elders." Hanxiang looked at this group of skinny children, and suddenly thought of the children in Xiangtou Mountain Village, who were just as skinny as them. He listens to his parents very much.

"It was like this when I was a child. I think I was too skinny when I was a brother. The old man Xuan Daozi told me not to climb the wall. I still have to climb. If it weren't for the poor and mature thinking and sharp fighting methods back then, I might have fallen." A few big somersaults." Li Yun smiled and recalled the dark history of the year.

At this time, Li Yun also thought of the words of those children. He knew that almost all the children here were reminded to stay away from this pool, but the reasons were different. Yes. Haunted.

"This haunting is just one of the reasons. If there is one thing in common, it is to remind the children to stay away from the pool, or...their grandmothers reminded them, but the parents didn't feel much about it, or they didn't feel it at all. I don’t know. Is this the so-called legend that has been passed down from ancient times to the present? Since it is a legend, there will be different versions? It’s interesting.”

While thinking about it, Li Yun spread out the incense and fire dragon pattern Taoist platform. Ghosts and ghosts are one thing, and ritual rituals are the same thing. When the incense is lit, a little bit of fireworks will be emitted from above, and the surrounding children will also gather. , looking curiously at the burning incense.

"Yin law matter, cross the soul to go to hell."

The Linghai and Tianmu Linghai with the incense and fire dragon pattern daotai are entwined around this small pool, and a little bit of luck emanates from the daotai and seeps into the ground.

According to the process, a wave of rituals was carried out, but the result was no different from what Li Yun expected. This sinister ritual to overcome disasters did not have any effect here.
No souls appeared, and I couldn't feel any obsession here.
At least by the pool, there are no ghosts, unlike what the people in the village said, there are ghosts that have been sealed since ancient times.

However, no ghost is no ghost, but Li Yun can feel that there is a trace of fear lingering on the edge of this pool.
Ye Weiguo stood hesitantly by the side watching Li Yun's actions, and Ye Weiguo's wife next to him also said a little uneasy.

"Old man, do you think the Taoist priest can really suppress the ghosts? Will he come to bother us again? Will we anger the evil spirits in the pool if we invite the Taoist priest?"

"I don't know, I just hope that this ghost can be expelled and don't disturb the people in our village anymore." Ye Weiguo was still fiddling with the rosary in his hand, chanting the scriptures to pray for Buddha and chanting Jesus' blessing for a while.

"All right, please rest in peace. Our village is almost tortured to death by you. Do you really want to kill us? Please, please give us a way to survive," Ye Weiguo said The wife also muttered, praying for herself with a look of fear.

In order to ensure that Li Yun's religious rituals did not deviate, Ye Weiguo also stepped forward, arbitrarily drove those children away from eating candy, and frightened them with the excuse of evil spirits. Although these children could only leave in disappointment , but after Ye Weiguo left, they would still come back, ignoring the warnings of some evil spirits.

The green smoke on the incense fire dragon pattern platform is faint, and the firework gas is directly integrated into the earth. It really looks like that. Hanxiang is on the side to assist. Three sticks of incense are inserted into the ground, and the scriptures circulate. The 'Evil Spirit' or not.

"It seems that the little Taoist priest is really capable. He seems to be able to expel evil spirits. Great, our village will be peaceful now." Ye Weiguo swallowed, a little happy, if the evil spirits can exorcise If it is said, it is simply too much to scream, and I don't have to live in fear in my later years, fearing that I will be killed by evil spirits
After the incense burns, the Dharma is completed. Burning incense is like purple smoke from the earth.

Li Yun put down the last stick of incense, walked towards Ye Weiguo, and said with a smile: "Lady Ye, the ritual of the poor Taoist has been completed, and if there are really evil spirits here, they have already been converted, you can live in peace go down"

Ye Weiguo looked happy, and thanked Li Yun while holding Li Yun's hand.

"Thank you. Thank you. This vicious evil spirit has harmed our village, but there is no peace for a day, and it has caused our children to become like that. Hey, let's not talk about it. It's good that the evil spirit is expelled now. It’s good to be expelled, haha.”

Ye Weiguo's wife didn't speak, but seeing his wife's relieved expression, he felt a lot more relaxed for no reason.

[Perhaps. Maybe the evil spirits were really expelled? 】

"Master Dao, this is your reward, take it away." Ye Weiguo smiled and took out a stack of banknotes that were not too thick from the plastic bag.

Ye Weiguo's wife muttered unhappily when he saw Ye Weiguo take out the stack of banknotes.

"Obviously it's just doing it for a while, it's really good to make money as a Taoist priest."

"Shut up, old woman, this is what people deserve. It is for us to expel the ghosts, which is a matter for Fuzawa's descendants. In the future, don't think about ghosts, and we don't think about them. This ghost has already It's been expelled, it doesn't exist anymore, we just need to live with peace of mind." Ye Weiguo emphasized for a while, then handed the money to Li Yun.

Li Yun didn't refuse either, and accepted the money with a slight smile.
In the evening, the village was a little quiet, except for the barking of dogs, but for the gamblers in the village, the barking of dogs was full of irritability.

Hearing the barking of the dog, the green-haired young man threw the cigarette butt on the ground irritably, stomped on it twice, and looked at the howling dog viciously, as if the cigarette butt was the dog.

However, the green-haired young man dared to step on the cigarette butt, but he did not dare to step on the dog, so he could only let the dog bark.

"It's so annoying, it's really boring. I lost everything today, and the old man has no money. Oh, it's really uncomfortable."

After throwing down the last five yuan on his body, the green-haired young man went home with his hands in his pockets. The cold wind blew his fur all over his body and made him feel cold.

After the green-haired young man left, a yellow-haired man at the village entrance happily counted the ten and five yuan bills he had collected, and taunted the green-haired young man.

"Haha, I've made a lot of money, and I'm going to pay back the Qian family, Qian Kai. This is the poorest family in the village."

"Speaking of which, we are actually quite poor, so don't make fun of yourself."

"Come on, let's continue to gamble and ignore that poor man."

When Qian Kai returned home, he only felt a fit of irritability. The house was completely empty, the bran porridge was so thin that he couldn't eat it, and there was still a little bit of dried pickles and radishes left over from his morning meal.

"Going to gamble up again?" Qian Zanqi looked at Qian Kai helplessly.

Qian Kai didn't pay attention to his father, but came to the dining table on his own, picking up the poor food, while his parents were also picking up the food.

When picking pickles, Qian Kai always felt that something was wrong
"Wait a minute, where is grandma? Why didn't grandma come to eat?"

"Where should she go? Anyway, she won't be able to get out of the village. Let's go find her after dinner." Qian Zanqi said indifferently, continuing to eat, as if it wasn't his mother who disappeared.

The more Qian Kai thought about it, the more he felt something was wrong, he put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hand, just in time to find an excuse for not wanting to eat.

"I'm going to get her back."

Qian Zanqi and his wife didn't care about it, and let Qian Kai look for it.

Along the way, most people in the village went back to eat, and only a few old people and children who ate less would hang out outside. Qian Kai asked all the way, thinking that his grandma was walking towards the entrance of the village. But the more you ask, the worse it gets.
"You said grandma walked towards the small pool in the woods? Go there to fuck your ass in the middle of the night." Qian Kai said impatiently.

"Dementia, that's it. Who knows if you're sober or not." The middle-aged man who was asked for directions didn't say much, and went home to eat after harvesting things.

The more Qian Kai thinks about it, the more something is wrong. His grandma is a bit stupid, she can't tell the good from the bad, and she doesn't know when it started.

Since she was dumb, she couldn't be allowed to get close to the pool.

Thinking that something was wrong, Qian Kai immediately stepped up and walked into the woods.

Dusk gradually fell, and when Qian Kai came to the small pond, he saw that his grandma was going crazy, walking towards the pond, half of her body had already stepped into the pond.

"To survive I want to survive. To survive. It's all about survival"

(End of this chapter)