Main Text Chapter 52 Miaofa Temple (Part 7)

Another problem occurred when I mounted the horse.

The landlady had a wheat-colored complexion. She looked like a very strong woman, but she looked frail. She kicked her legs several times but couldn't get on the horse.

Miao Yi couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to reach out to help her, but she shrank to the side, bit her lip and said shyly: "Men and women do not accept each other."

"I..." Miao Yi almost fainted. You are about to ride with me, and yet you are doing this.

The landlady held on to the saddle and climbed again and again, but she couldn't get up. Miao Yi almost fainted. How long had it been?

He was so angry that he couldn't hold it back, so Miao Yi slapped her hard and loudly on her straight butt.

The landlady turned around and looked at him with wide eyes, holding her butt as if she was struck by lightning.

The Liba, Confucian scholars, and cooks who were carrying the sedan were all so wide-eyed that their eyeballs almost fell off, and their mouths were opened wide enough to fit an egg in.

Miao Yi didn't think much about it. He was just angry at this troublesome woman. If this group of people hadn't reminded him of the kindness of avoiding a disaster, he would have really wanted to leave them alone.

He didn't seem to realize what he had done, he picked up the stunned landlady and put him on the horse.

Just when he was about to get on his horse...

"Dang-dang-dang...dang-dang..."

A faint sound of pipa suddenly sounded in the empty temple. Miao Yi was shocked and stopped suddenly. He quickly pulled down the proprietress who was staring at him blankly and covered himself behind him. He quickly looked around with a pair of discerning eyes.

He was the only one who was nervous, everyone else was looking at him dumbfounded, still shocked by the scene where he slapped the boss's wife on the butt before.

Under the cold moonlight after the rain, the overgrown temple was empty and no one could be seen. However, the sound of pipa played endlessly and sadly echoed throughout the temple. I don’t know which direction it came from, mixed with the sound of dripping water from the eaves. It sounds good, but who cares whether it sounds good or not in this situation.

Miao Yi didn't know where the sound of the pipa came from. The proprietress and others, who were gradually recovering, glanced at the ancient well in the courtyard subconsciously, and quickly pretended to be frightened and looked around, mainly looking at Miao Yi. How will Yi deal with it.

The sound of "dang-dang" is heard endlessly, and the throat is lingering, as if there is a heart full of worries and no place to complain.

Miao Yi raised the silver gun in his hand, pointed it in all directions and shouted: "Where are you, you evildoer, pretending to be a ghost here!"

A woman's sigh sounded out in the whimpering sound of the pipa, and the sound of plucking the strings continued. The woman's voice echoed softly in the temple: "It's a pleasure to have friends come from far away. Since they are here, why bother to leave in a hurry?" , you might as well stay and listen to me play a song.”

The sound of the pipa paused for a moment, and Miao Yi suddenly stared at the ancient well in the courtyard, quickly pointing the silver gun in his hand to be on guard.

I saw a rustling blood-red mist coming out of the ancient well. In the cold wind, a gray-white bead the size of a quail egg flashed out of the ancient well, floating in the center of the yard with a burst of blood mist.

The blood mist quickly converged and condensed, turning into a quiet and beautiful woman with high-waisted hair.

The woman was wearing a bridal red dress, holding a white skeletal pipa, which floated to the ground in the courtyard. She bent her knees and sat on a mugwort. She held the pipa as if it was nothing and played it to herself. The sound of the pipa was heard again. .

At the same time as the woman appeared, the three horses seemed to feel extreme fear. They neighed uncontrollably, spread their hooves and quickly bypassed the woman in red, and ran out of the yard.

The woman in red who was playing the pipa was indifferent to this, and just sighed quietly: "I am playing the lute to a cow, but I didn't expect that I am playing the lute to a horse. Hey! What's the use of a beast that doesn't know its tune?"

As soon as he finished speaking, when the three horses passed by the two ponds next to the courtyard gate, several pairs of ferocious hands suddenly stretched out from the ponds, grabbed their hooves, and instantly dragged them all into the ponds. .

The horses in the pond rolled over, neighing incessantly, and the pond was stirred up, but they were soon suppressed by many pairs of big hands, and immediately blood began to rise from the depths of the pond.

The look of fear on the faces of the landlady and others remained, and they were all trembling with fear.

Miao Yi glanced at the two ponds. Unexpectedly, there were many helpers on the other side, and he felt that it would be difficult to be kind today.

But because of his temperament and having been trained by Lao Bai for so many years, he was not a person who was afraid of trouble at all. He pointed his gun and shouted angrily: "You are a ghost cultivator! We just come to this deserted temple to hide from the rain. We have no grievances or grudges against you. Why are you Kill my mount."

The woman in red ignored his scolding, but instead raised her head and looked at him with a desolate look in her bright eyes.

The ten slender fingers in his hands kept playing with the strings, matching the plaintive sound of the pipa, and said quietly: "There is a bride in the farmer's house on the road. She prays for a son and worships the Buddha. She doesn't want all Buddhism to be beasts, wronged, humiliated and defiled. A wisp of the soul of the dead is sent to the water house... From then on Under the old locust tree, a pipa string is held in the sleeves, lingering with the lingering fragrance. It is full of sadness and sadness, but I put my thoughts into it for thousands of minutes. Who knows that there are tears in the beauty's song..."

Miao Yi was stunned. Fortunately, he learned some culture from Lao Bai and probably understood some of the meaning.

The female ghost seemed to be pointing out that she was the new daughter-in-law of a peasant family. She came to the temple to pray for a son, but she was defiled by Buddhist disciples and died in the well...

Thinking of this, Miao Yi couldn't help but feel nauseous. He had eaten food cooked in well water.

The faces of the proprietress and others also changed slightly. They had also eaten the rice cooked in the well water, and they also felt a little nauseated.

Everyone was disgusted, but compared to the miserable life experience of this female ghost, everyone reluctantly accepted it.

"Do you want us to help you avenge your grievance?" Miao Yi tried to ask.

Amid the sound of the pipa, the woman in red shook her head and sighed, "I have already avenged my great vengeance. Now I just want to find a soulmate to listen to my confession."

Miao Yi's face lightened up a little, he looked up at the sky, and said calmly, "Okay! We will listen to your confession here tonight, and leave at dawn."

He had not fought with the ghost cultivator yet, so he was ready to wait and see.

The proprietress hid behind him and made a mouth shape to his back. I don't know what she was saying, but it felt like she was greeting Miao Yi's mother.

"Since you are here, you should make the best of it. Why are you in a hurry to leave? I am lonely here, can't you stay with me for a little longer?" The woman in red looked at Miao Yi with a face full of resentment.

Miao Yi raised his eyebrows slightly and asked, "How long do you want us to stay with you?"

The woman in red said resentfully, "Of course I hope you can stay with me for a lifetime and listen to my confession every night."

"For a lifetime?" Miao Yi asked in a deep voice.

"What? Don't you want to?" The woman in red's face was filled with resentment again, and she looked very pitiful with the sound of the pipa.

Miao Yi looked back at the people behind him, stared at the female ghost and smiled, "That's fine, but they have urgent matters to attend to. Why don't you let them leave first? I'll stay here with you. Is that okay?"