Chapter 32 An acquaintance in the deserted temple on a rainy day

"The journey of life is like a long dream.

There is wind and frost on the road, and the wind and frost hit my face.

In the world of mortals, dreams can have many directions."

This can be said to be Ji Que's first trip to a distant place.

Dressed as a scholar, he was riding on a yellow gelding, looking at the vast grass and wild forests beside the road, and couldn't help but hum this song.

The sky was gloomy, far away from the county town, and everything you could see was a desolate scene.

On both sides of the road, there are either lush trees or weeds half as tall as a man. From time to time, some strange-looking statues stand on the roadside, with some burnt incense candles stuck in front of them.

Such scenes always give Ji Que the illusion that he has entered the world of "A Ghost Story".

From Sangshui County to Tianren City, there was at least a thousand miles between them, but Ji Que estimated that he had traveled less than forty miles before something happened.

The yellow gelding originally ran well on the road, but as Ji Que's riding skills became more and more proficient, it just started to feel like a man and a horse.

The result was unexpected. The yellow horse stepped into a hidden mud pit. If it hadn't been for his good skills, he would have fallen off the horse like a dog chewing shit.

The most depressing thing is that the horse's leg is sprained and it limped after coming out of the pit.

"No way, so unlucky?" Ji Que couldn't help but sigh.

Sure enough, once they left the Sangshui County area, bad luck struck again.

But unfortunately, it was bad luck. Seeing that the comprehension bar that had not moved for a long time suddenly moved, it gave him some comfort.

He bought this horse for eighty taels of silver. Seeing its limp, Ji Que couldn't help but feel a little sorry for the horse.

If this leg is really useless, even if it is sold again, I'm afraid it won't be worth the price.

Then, after a while, a scholar carrying a horse appeared on the road.

The yellow gelding was carried on his back, with a look of fear and uneasiness on his face.

It has lived for more than ten years and has never been ridden by others. It has never been treated like this.

With the zhenqi flowing in his body, it would not be a problem for Ji Que to carry a horse while walking. However, this thing was the same as the schoolbag he had when he was studying in his previous life. It was still a burden, so he couldn't help complaining: "I originally bought you because I wanted to save trouble and effort, but I didn't expect to buy it."

An ancestor."

While walking, Ji Que stopped for a moment with a click, and suddenly realized that he had stepped on shit.

And he stepped on horse shit!

Then there was a beautiful scene on the road of a scholar carrying a horse scraping horse shit on the side of the road.

Ji Que was walking on the road with his horse on his back. He looked at the increasingly thick lead clouds in the sky and couldn't help but said, "It looks like it's going to rain."

As soon as he finished speaking, a raindrop hit him on the head.

Ji Que couldn't help being even more surprised and said: "This rain will come as soon as it comes, but fortunately, the rain in this season cannot be too heavy."

After about ten breaths, the rain suddenly fell.

"Fuck me!"

Ji Que was immediately hit by the rain, and couldn't help but complain.

Showers in autumn are really painful.

Ji Que and his horse were quickly soaked, and the ground became muddy.

It was okay that this rain was normal rain, but it happened to be freezing rain.

He can still resist with his true energy protecting his body, but this horse may not be able to bear it.

I really bought an ancestor.

Ji Que exhaled a breath of white air and couldn't help but quicken his pace.

There are many shrubs on both sides of the road ahead, which look like shaking ghosts in the rain.

At this time, Ji Que's eyes suddenly lit up.

In the midst of the heavy rain, I saw a sloping upward ramp leading to a higher place, and at the end of the ramp, there was a faint outline of a building.

Finally I found a place to take shelter from the rain.

Ji Que carried the horse all the way up and found a temple on the slope, which seemed to be abandoned.

The red wall is mottled and covered with green moss, making it look like the face of a skin patient in the rain.

Seeing that the yellow horse was trembling, Ji Que didn't think much and carried the horse directly into the temple.

As soon as he entered the temple, he saw a bunch of fire. Someone must have made a fire inside to keep warm.

This rain is really freezing.

Ji Que came to the dilapidated roof and put the horse down.

The yellow horse shook its body and shook off countless rainwater.

Ji Que led the limping dog towards the place where the fire was lit.

He originally didn't want to disturb others, but the temple was in disrepair and severely damaged. Only the two rooms were well preserved.

As soon as Ji Que approached what was supposed to be the main hall, he saw a man and a woman sitting next to a bonfire, and two coffins next to them.

At this time, the man and woman also looked at him.

As a scholar, he was always very polite and said, "It's raining heavily. I would like to take shelter from the rain. Is it convenient?"

At this time, the man by the bonfire stood up and asked doubtfully: "Ji Que, is that you?"

Ji Que didn't expect that someone in this ruined temple in the deserted mountains would know his name, so he couldn't help but get closer.

"Li Sankai?" Ji Que looked at the face beside the bonfire and asked doubtfully.

"It's really you." Li San said with a smile.

Li Sankai was Ji Que's classmate. If Tang Yi and him were like sleeping dragons and phoenixes, this classmate Li was the third person.

However, he should be quite self-aware. After studying for a year and a half, he realized that he was not the material for studying, so he resolutely returned home and inherited his family's coffin shop, unlike Ji Que and Tang Yi who were at odds with each other.

Li San's coffin shop is very famous. It is said to be a century-old shop. When Sangshui County was still a town, his coffin shop was there.

When I met an acquaintance in the wilderness, it must be said that it was fate.

Li Sankai didn't know about Ji Que's unlucky events, but he was close to him, so he quickly invited him to warm himself by the fire.

Ji Que was not polite and sat directly over.

Except for the matter of studying for exams, Ji Que has always been very self-aware.

He concluded that although he was unlucky, he was not a lone star in the traditional sense.

Whether he was stepping on shit, encountering kitchen knives or bricks that suddenly flew towards him, or encountering tigers while outing, he would always hit him accurately and rarely hurt others.

When he was accumulating his understanding, he seemed to have a magnetic field around him that would attract bad luck. Wherever he walked, he would attract bad luck.

To use Xue Baotou's previous words, trouble will happen wherever you go.

This couldn't help but remind him of a certain primary school student in a certain anime in his previous life.

It's just that the primary school students made others suffer, but Ji Que was the one who made it happen.

In short, he will not hurt others easily, and he will bear all the pain. This is why Ji Que dares to get close to Tang Yi with confidence.

He felt that those classmates were obviously making a fuss out of a molehill by avoiding him.

He's not that scary, really.

When he met a tiger while outing, the tiger just stared at him and chased him without looking at anyone else.

It's a pity that except for Tang Yi, other classmates are prejudiced against him.

After the horses were settled, Ji Que sat by the campfire and soon began to communicate with Li Sankai.

It turns out that the Li family's coffins have such a good reputation due to their exquisite craftsmanship and exquisite workmanship and material selection that many wealthy families from other towns come here to order coffins.

No, a rich old woman in Liuhuaicheng was seriously ill, and the doctor made it clear that she would not live for half a year.

The old woman was still conscious and thought that she was about to die, so she told her children that she must order two nanmu coffins from the Li family in Sangshui County. She said she would also use this coffin after the old man left.

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So after the coffin was ready, Li Sankai and his sister Li Mei went out to deliver the coffin. Who would have thought that it suddenly fell with freezing rain, and they had no choice but to run to the temple to take shelter from the rain.

"I didn't expect that I would be so destined to meet you like this," Li San said with a smile.

Next to her, Li Sankai's younger sister Li Mei felt a little embarrassed when she saw Ji Que's handsome appearance. She used to be quite proud when she often walked outside.

After chatting for a while, Ji Que couldn't help but observe the surrounding environment.

This room is not small. It should be the main hall of a temple. There is also a dilapidated Guanyin statue standing on the altar.

The facial features of the Guanyin statue are very blurred, and there are some cobwebs stuck to it. In such weather, it does not look solemn and looks ghostly.

The temple has a front yard and a back yard.

There is a pond in the backyard. The water is turbid and has broken duckweeds floating in it.

The lying pine tree in the center of the pond has long since died, like an old corpse, with some red cloth strips hung on it by pilgrims who used to worship and make wishes.

The deserted temple on a rainy day, this kind of environment is really a bit like "A Chinese Ghost Story".

When Ji Que looked at the Guanyin statue again, he felt even more weird.

The shoulders of this Guanyin statue are too broad. When compared, the head and lower body appear small and somewhat deformed.

The mud tires themselves are quite rough and there are no traces of paint, as if they were left unfinished.

In short, the more you look at it, the more you will feel uncomfortable.

At this time, Ji Que raised his eyebrows and looked outside.

In the rain curtain, some dark figures appeared at the entrance of the deserted temple.

Someone comes again?
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