It's been a few rounds of repairs.
However, in recent years, Jiang Songshan has more people than before. Because after the First World War at Heishitan more than 30 years ago, Taibu of Taichang Temple knew the significance of Daze Temple to the national teacher. Within a few years, there was a single house on the mountainside of Jiangsong Mountain with a plaque on the door. It is covered with the seal of the imperial court, which is reserved for the guardians of the mountains.
The mountain guards choose experienced mountain husbands, who eat a small salary and simply keep a mountain of peace.
What he has to do is not difficult. It is to patrol the mountain regularly, watch people passing by, and prevent ordinary people from climbing Jiangsong Mountain at will. After all, the same lamp in Daze Temple will occasionally suffer disasters for others. If someone comes up recklessly , there is always the danger of being implicated. If there is a sudden thunder and fire in the mountain, report it to the yamen in time, so as not to burn the mountain again.
Although it is said that there is one more person, in fact, the mountain guards only walk along the mountainside, and they will not recklessly follow the old stone steps to go around the abandoned Daze Temple. Therefore, this guardian of the mountain and Tong Deng are almost the same as the well and the river. After 30 years, Tong Deng has never seen him once, but only knows that there is such a person.
In the early spring of a certain year, before the mist in the mountains was clear in the morning, a young man carried a gray cloth bag and went up the mountain. The coldness left by Mu Dong had not completely disappeared, and the mountains were even more wet, but the young man rolled his sleeves to his forearms, revealing his thin and lean muscles.
His skin is not fair, and it looks like he has worked since he was a child and grew up under the sun. His hair was tied high and meticulous, and there was strength in his muscles and bones, and his whole body exuded the peculiar spirit of a young man.
He is the son of the previous mountain guard, and now he is going up the mountain to take over the position of the mountain guard.
The young man stopped by the mountainside guard house, unpacked his baggage, and entered the door. He put the burden on the bed in the inner room, glanced at the layout of the house, and skillfully cleaned it up, picked up the wooden barrel in the house, closed the door behind his back, and walked towards the depths of the mountain.
He meant to go to the mountain stream to fetch some water, but he stopped when he passed a stone step.
He knew this stone stair. If you walk up it all the way, you will be able to reach the top of the mountain in a short time. The legendary ghost temple is above it. For some unknown reason, every time the young man heard people talk about ghost temples, there would be an inexplicable emotion in his heart.
He always felt that a long time ago, he seemed to have crossed several mountain shadows, looked at the ghost temple from a distance, and even saw the silent lights in the ghost temple.
But this is impossible. After all, where he lives is on the outskirts of the county, not on the top of the mountain, it is impossible to see such a scene. Besides, for some unknown reason, whenever he thinks of the ghost temple, he always has an unexplained emotion.
Now that he was in front of the stone steps, the inexplicable feeling came suddenly.
The young man hesitated for a moment, then simply lifted his feet up the stone steps. It is rumored that this ghost temple has been deserted for hundreds of years, there has never been anyone, it is quiet and lonely. The more he went to the top of the mountain, the quieter it became.
If it were an ordinary person, he would probably feel a little panicked, but he didn't even feel the slightest bit of timidity, and climbed to the top three steps at a time.
Daze Temple is much better than he imagined, but it is also much deserted.
The good thing is that the front hall and pagoda can hardly be seen to have been burned, and even the temple gate is standing well, but it is full of wind and frost. The shortage is because a few days ago, before the winter was over, there was a snowfall. People came and went in the county town. The snow had already been trampled away, but there was still a daze in this mountain temple. Bai, the feeling of loneliness is even deeper.
The temple door was half-open, and the boy looked outside the door a little, but he didn't see everything. He didn't know what he was thinking, and the ghost messenger reached out and pushed open the temple door.
squeak-
The temple door made an old and sour sound, and everything inside the door fell into the boy's eyes without any cover.
Even though the young man was stunned, he looked at a certain place with a slightly stunned expression, and was unable to speak for a long time—
He saw that on the long and empty steps of the ancient temple hall, there was a figure quietly, tall and thin, dressed in a white robe that was spotless, showing a kind of loneliness for a hundred years in the deserted snow.
"You are..." When the young man returned, he found that he had walked into the temple unknowingly and was under the steps. He looked up at the white shadow, frowned slightly, and asked in confusion, "Who are you? How come you are in this ghost temple?"
The monk in the white robe was stunned for a moment, staring at the boy's eyebrows, as if he understood something and seemed hesitant, "Can you see me?"
The boy hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
This year is the year of Guimao, a full seventeen years after the death of the novice, a full thirty-seven years after the first battle of Heishitan, and a distance from Tongdeng.