Chapter 19 Haunting in the Temple
"I don't know why Fei Yan... It's only ten seconds before and after. When I turned around, she had already fallen to the ground." Si Ji Changqing said in pain: "It's all my fault. I asked her to stay in the corridor."
He told Jiang Li and others that he and Feiyan met Wang Jing on the way to the garden. The two greeted each other. In order to make Feiyan happy, he asked to pick a mulan for her in the garden, but when he turned around, Feiyan was already killed.
"Did you hear any strange movements during this period?" Lao Yugan couldn't help asking. Siji Changqing shook her head firmly, indicating that the garden was silent at that time, and even Feiyan himself did not make any sound.
Jiang Li looked at him and had a vague guess in his heart. Because he did not see the scene, he had to ask Lao Dried Fish and Si Ji Changqing: "Can you describe to me what the state of the body was at that time?"
Seeing that he looked serious, Lao Yugan couldn't help but speak, "Her head disappeared, her body was facing up, her feet were facing the corridor, and her neck was facing the steps..."
"Sure enough." After listening to him, Jiang Li and Guan Shanxing said almost in unison: "There is something wrong in the direction of the body falling to the ground."
When something happened, Siji Changqing was picking flowers in the yard, and Wuyan should be watching him. If she was silently killed by the evil ghost from behind, then the body should have fallen straight towards the steps, so how could it be in a state of being upward?
Because of his writing mystery novels, Guan Shanxing pays more attention to some details than ordinary people. What surprised him was that Jiang Li's thoughts were so delicate. Jiang Li is a suspense mystery novel enthusiast, and he himself is also very interested in brain-burning puzzle exploration games. There are many similar games that usually play.
"So, the only reason that can explain the direction of the corpse falling to the ground is that Feiyan turned her body and looked in a certain direction in the corridor. We don't know what she was attracted to, because you said that there was no strange movement around when something happened. This means that Feiyan might have seen something accidentally, and that he was killed by the evil ghost." After Jiang Li finished speaking, Guan Shanxing beside him also nodded.
"What makes me even more concerned is why the evil ghost stopped after killing Feiyan." Guan Shanxing looked at the four-season Changqing and said sincerely: "I don't mean to curse you, I'm just strange..."
"I understand." Siji Changqing calmed down instead. He took a deep breath and then said: "At that time, after I saw Fei Yan die, for a moment, I didn't want to live anymore."
Siji Changqing told them that he sat by the corridor with his fiancee's body in his arms for a long time, until the dried fish appeared, and he was not attacked.
"Luo Suyan is so resentful that she will never let innocent players go." Jiang Li recalled the winding and deep corridor and immediately reacted: "Can it be sunshine?"
"I understand. Changqing was in the garden at that time, so he escaped by chance!" Yu Gan slapped his forehead suddenly: "Mei Xiang and Shopkeeper Zhao who died the night before yesterday, the maids and servants in the Tingyu Pavilion, Luo Suyan on the stage, and Zhen'er in the woodshed... The evil ghost never took action in broad daylight. Like the ghost in people's traditional cognition, she was afraid of the sun!"
"But have you noticed that from Feiyan, Zhen'er, and me and Yugan today's experience, she can already appear during the day." Jiang Li's face darkened, and then said: "I'm afraid that the more people she kills, the stronger the resentment, and finally become an existence like a deterrent in the blue ghost, and can act freely without restrictions."
After Jiang Li finished speaking, the whole house fell into silence. Guan Shanxing's face was not far away. He sighed, his voice full of worry: "So far, we still don't know why the evil ghost suddenly appeared. What's more serious is that she has begun to massacre people related to the incident that year. I'm afraid it will be Liang's turn and Lin Weijin next?"
"Can that guy named Chen Guang be reliable?" Lao Yugan couldn't sit still: "If there is no news about that guy tomorrow, we can only find a way to get into Lin Weijin's house."
"Let's wait tomorrow, let's take action separately. I'll go find Mama Liang, and you go find Chenguang." After Jiang Li said that, Siji Changqing also expressed his opinion: "Then I'll act with you. Without you around, I will only be more dangerous."
After the four of them reached an agreement, they took turns to slept in the house where Guanshan was walking for a night. That night, Jiang Li was not at ease. For some reason, he always felt that there was an important clue that he had ignored. But he could not say what it was.
Jiang Li stared at the dark room beam in a daze, and the scene he saw in Yan Xueni's house this afternoon appeared in his mind again.
"Since ancient times, there are many beautiful women who have little life, and the spring is closed and the flowers fall."
When he closed his eyes and fell asleep in a daze, Jiang Li's ears were always surrounded by the poem that Luo Suyan recited that day.
At the foot of the mountain, inside the Fuyun Temple.
Since Hu Tang told him about the haunted thing in Wangchun Tower during the day, Liang's mother was frightened and immediately took a dozen personal maids and servants to Fuyun Temple.
This is the most famous temple in Kyoto. It is popular on weekdays. Master Kongming is a master of Taoism. He was worshipped by his son today. When he entered Fuyun Temple, his mother Liang looked around and saw a quiet and solemn atmosphere. The ancient trees and towering bamboos were lush. She was affected by this solemn atmosphere, and her originally nervous mood calmed down a lot.
In order to show sincerity, Liang's mother donated a lot of money for incense. Although the monks here do not know Liang's identity, Buddhism is open and open. No matter who you are, those who come in are good men and believers.
A monk named Kong Yuan in the temple met Liang's mother. She claimed that she was plagued by evil spirits and was inconvenient to go home. She begged the master to save her, even if she asked for a treasure to be consecrated. However, Kong Yuan said that she was powerless to do anything about it. If she wanted to find a way to save the ghost, she would probably have to take action by Master Kong Ming.
As for Master Kongming's whereabouts, he told Liang's mother that when the master was out for a trip, no one knew when he would return.
"Then what should I do? Master, you can't refuse to save me! Since Master Kongming cannot come back for the time being, I will stay in this temple for a few days first. I'll leave after the master returns?" When Madam Liang thought of the people who died last night, she also had a little crying voice in her voice.
Seeing that she looked frightened, and with the fact that she donated a lot of incense money today, Kong Yuan happily agreed to let the other party stay in the temple for a while.
Although I haven't seen the master yet, my mother Liang has felt much more at ease when I can live in this temple for a while. Late at night, she tossed and turned on the wooden bed covered with thin quilts, and it was difficult to fall asleep. This place is not as difficult as Wangchun Tower. The conditions in the temple are difficult, and it is simply a torment for my mother Liang who is used to living a life of luxury.
The room is divided into two rooms inside and outside. Mama Liang slept in the inner room, while another maid slept outside. The summer is hot and she is too scared to open the window. The room is extremely stuffy and not very airtight.
Liang's mother was wet on her back, so she simply sat up and called the maid to come over and fan herself.
"Cui'er, Cui'er!" She shouted twice to the door. Soon, a handsome and personal maid rushed over and fanned Liang's mother. With some cool breeze and others' company, although Liang's mother was not sleepy, she felt much more relaxed.
The little maid was smart. Seeing that her mother Liang was sweating all over, she suggested going outside to get a basin of water for her to reduce the heat.
There is a well in the yard where they live, which can be seen through the window, not far away. After thinking about it, Liang's mother felt sticky and she was really uncomfortable in sleeping, so she asked her to go and go back quickly.
The maid named Cui'er responded obediently, then went to the house to carry a wooden basin, and left the house respectfully.
Mother Liang looked out through the paper window and saw the maid walking to the well, she felt a little thirsty. So she put on a coat and got off the floor with her shoes, trying to pour a cup of tea on the table in the living room.
Because of her fear, the candlelight in the house has never been extinguished. Liang's mother was so thirsty that she didn't care about it. She poured a glass of water and drank it all in one gulp, and felt extremely comfortable in her heart. She wiped the corners of her mouth and was about to go back to the house, but at this moment, her gaze fell in another room accidentally.
The candlelight swayed in the room. She saw that there was a person lying on the bed that should have been empty in Cui'er's room.
Judging from that figure, this person is not someone else, but his personal maid Cui'er!
"Who was the one who shook the fan for me just now?" Liang's mother was covered in white sweat. When she looked at the yard again, she found that there was no one by the well. Under the moonlight, the wooden basin was still quietly placed on the ground, reminding her that everything that happened just now was true.
Unexpectedly, she could still hit ghosts in the temple at night! Mama Liang was so scared that she trembled and rushed to Cui'er's room, wanting to wake her up.
What she didn't know was that Buddhism is compassionate and saves all sentient beings. How could Buddhism keep people from outside? Buddhism is very open and does not refuse all sentient beings from the six realms.
And ghosts are also one of the six realms of sentient beings.
Chapter completed!