Chapter 1620 Great Bodhisattva.
Zhang Yuanchao's words made Li Bai's face darken instantly. She shook off Zhang Yuanchao's arm, "Who are you calling a girl?!"
Zhang Yuanchao was not annoyed, and still looked honest. He looked down at Li Bai's ankle and found that it was not injured. His slightly frowned brows relaxed a little.
"How is it? Do you want me to help you walk?" Yao Shunyu stepped forward.
Li Bai first glanced at Zhang Yuanchao vigilantly, then looked at Yao Shunyu and shook his head, "I'm fine, keep going."
They were rushing to the old temple in the village. According to the villagers, this temple has existed for many years, and the specific age is even unknown. It is only known that there is a Buddha statue enshrined in it. The villagers are kind-hearted. Every time the Zhusheng Conference comes, they will go to burn incense for the Buddha statue to prevent the temple from being too deserted.
Of course, these words are just for listening. After all, their most important task tonight is not to burn incense for the Buddha statue, but to use the sickle for cutting pig grass to scrape the gold powder on the face of the Buddha statue. Scraping gold off the Buddha's face, just hearing it means it is disrespectful.
The night in Heishui Village is not completely black, but a strange gray, like a thick fog covering the whole village.
There are two tasks tonight, and they have been assigned. Yao Shunyu will perform the first one, which is to scrape gold off the Buddha's face, and Li Bai and Zhang Yuanchao will perform the second task together, kowtowing before the devil.
Yao Shunyu did not agree with Li Bai's arrangement at first. He was worried about leaving Zhang Yuanchao, whose identity was unknown, with Li Bai, but Li Bai had a good reason. First, Zhang Yuanchao was spying on her. In other words, the target was her, so it would be easier to reveal flaws around her.
As for the second one, Li Bai did not shy away. Tonight's task focused on Feng Shui, and he was much better than Yao Shunyu in this regard.
Soon, the group followed the muddy dirt road and finally came to the gate of a dilapidated temple after many twists and turns.
It was called a temple, but it looked like a large courtyard that had been in disrepair for a long time. Through the collapsed part of the courtyard wall, a wooden building could be seen inside.
The building is very tall, and the overall structure is like a palace, with a majestic momentum. From the remaining red paint and green tiles and thick columns, one can vaguely feel the former glory of this building, but such a building standing in the depths of Heishui Village is strange no matter how you look at it.
What makes Yao Shunyu even more nervous is that at this moment, there is a faint light seeping out of the hall, and it seems that there are incense and candles burning inside.
"Young man, it's so strange in here, you should be careful." Zhang Yuanchao stretched his neck to look inside, and then said to Yao Shunyu.
Yao Shunyu ignored him.
"Be careful, we will wait for you outside." Li Bai was also a little worried for Yao Shunyu.
Taking a deep breath, Yao Shunyu pushed open the gate alone. After stopping for a while, Yao Shunyu was a little surprised. After entering from the gate, what he faced was not the main gate of the building, but a shadow wall.
At this moment, there are large characters of "happiness" on the shadow wall, as well as red couplets that look very festive. There are also two big red lanterns hanging on both sides of the shadow wall.
There is no wind tonight, and the two big red lanterns are like the two eyes of a giant beast, motionless, staring at him lifelessly.
After experiencing what happened last night, Yao Shunyu had a headache when he saw the character of "happiness". Besides, this is a temple, what is the purpose of this arrangement?
Walking around the shadow wall and standing in front of the building, the old and dilapidated building is obvious. With a "creaky" sound, the wooden door was pushed open, and the scene inside the building was also presented in front of Yao Shunyu.
There is a statue on each side of the lobby, sitting cross-legged in a lotus position, more than ten feet tall.
The two statues are different from what Yao Shunyu imagined. These are not Buddha statues at all, but Bodhisattva statues.
This Bodhisattva is not the kind-looking Bodhisattva commonly seen in temples, but is similar to the style of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. It is boldly painted with various bright colors, blood red, navy blue, crimson purple, golden yellow, and several colors mixed together. It is even a bit dazzling after looking at it for a long time.
On the Bodhisattva, there are many colorful flags strung together with threads hanging on the wall behind him. Yao Shunyu has seen similar things before, so he knows that this thing is called a wind horse flag, also known as a prayer flag.
The two Bodhisattva statues bowed their heads slightly, and their eyes were wide open on their golden faces at the same time, and their bloody mouths were opened, as if they would bring the wrath of thunder to the world in the next second.
Yao Shunyu was flustered by the two Bodhisattva statues. If he hadn't told him that this was a temple, he would have thought that evil spirits were enshrined here.
As Yao Shunyu observed more deeply, he gradually discovered some strange things. Logically speaking, there should be a statue facing the main hall door as soon as you enter, which is the main seat in the hall.
There is no reason to place statues in the secondary side positions when the main seat is vacant.
Yao Shunyu walked up in confusion and pulled away the red hanging cloth used for covering. As expected, he found a large stone platform built with bluestone in the main seat opposite the temple gate.
This stone platform is called Xumi Seat, which is used to place Buddha statues and Bodhisattva statues. Yao Shunyu knew that there was also a copper incense burner in front of the Xumi Seat.
Some dirt and debris left on the Xumi Seat attracted Yao Shunyu's attention. Obviously, there was a statue here, but it was moved away for some reason.
Suddenly, Yao Shunyu's eyes paused while thinking, and then he raised his head suddenly, and his sight just collided with the eyes of a Bodhisattva statue.
There was nothing wrong with the Bodhisattva statue, but Yao Shunyu was not feeling well. He overlooked one thing, a very important thing. Today, when the villagers of Heishui Village came to convey the task, they mentioned this sentence, saying that there was only one statue in the temple.
One!
The next second, Yao Shunyu reacted immediately. He calmed his mind and came to the statue of the Bodhisattva on the left, and then walked quickly to the one on the right. Sure enough, there was no Sumeru pedestal under these two Bodhisattva statues. They were placed directly on the ground. The most important thing was that there were still traces of scratches on the stone slabs on the ground, and the traces were very new.
Yao Shunyu took a breath of cold air. It seemed that this was right. One of the two Bodhisattva statues in front of him had been placed on the Sumeru pedestal in the main seat of the hall, and the other one... was fake!
Looking at the two almost identical Bodhisattva statues vigilantly, the familiar feeling in Yao Shunyu's heart became stronger and stronger. Such a huge body could completely hide some other things, such as... the Goddess of Injection who met last night.
Yao Shunyu suspected... no, it was certain. He was almost certain that the Goddess of Injection was hidden in one of the Bodhisattva statues!
After confirming this, Yao Shunyu also knew the ghost's method of killing tonight. His mission here was to worship Buddha and then scrape gold off the Buddha's face. If he worshipped the real Buddha or Bodhisattva, it would be fine, but if he chose the wrong person and worshipped the Goddess of Birth disguised as a Bodhisattva...
When Yao Shunyu thought that he might crawl onto the face of the Goddess of Birth to scrape gold, his right hand holding the sickle could not stop shaking.
"This is trouble..."