Everything was as described by Xu Barefoot, except for a few broken bricks and tiles, there was nothing decent in Wuxiu Temple.
The red citrus tree in front of the temple gate was dug up and put aside. The leaves had long since withered, and the branches had dried up.
Looking at the traces on the ground, I know that a large excavator has been here. It's just that the vitality of nature is too strong, and a layer of lush grass has grown on the ground that has been crushed by the crawlers.
Desolate and dilapidated, Xu Yishan looked at the scene in front of him, recalled in his mind the scene of sitting cross-legged and drinking with the old monk Wuxiu, and felt his eyes wet.
The old monk Wuxiu has never been down the mountain in his life, but he knows everything outside.
Not many people have met the old monk Wuxiu, but those who have met him say that the old monk does not look like a man in his 100s at all, but more like a man in his fifties or sixties. There are nine fragrant scars the size of copper coins on the top of his head, arranged neatly. At a glance, people will know that they are real monks who have received precepts.
When Xu Yishan had a drink with him for the first time, the old monk told him that in life, conscience comes first. Wealth and glory are all fleeting. To be a person and do things, we should first take losses first. All living beings are struggling in the pot of heaven and earth.
Some people say that old monks are good at keeping in good health. He lived so many years, he must have taken the elixir of immortality.
As a result, high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen flocked to him, hoping to obtain the elixir of longevity from the old monk.
The red citrus tree in front of Wuxiu Temple was quietly planted by the old monk after endless begging for a meeting. Strange to say, after planting a few clumps of red hovenia, visitors can only see a corner of Wuxiu Temple, but they can no longer enter the gate of Wuxiu Temple.
Now, the red hovenia was dug to death, and the whole Wuxiu Temple showed its true colors.
Stepping on the stone steps in front of the temple gate, Xu Chijiao stopped his son and said, "Forget it, I've checked inside, and there's nothing left. Even the stone Buddha is gone."
Xu Yishan said: "I'd better go in and have a look."
The last time I came, after the old monk Wuxiu chatted with him. It melted into the tank without warning.
Xu Yishan personally moved the vat into the stone wall behind the temple, he had to go and see if the vat was still there.
Passing through the small temple, he went straight to the stone wall.
Sure enough, there were only a few ancient trees in front of him, but the stone walls were still there. And the big tank hidden in the stone wall has long disappeared.
"These people can't even let go of a corpse, right?" Xu Yishan thought, looking around, trying to find a trace in a certain corner.
However, he was disappointed, the ancient trees in front of his eyes were towering, and the wind was bleak in his ears, but he could not see the shadow of his old friend. Feeling sad, he whimpered and said to his father, "These people will be punished."
Xu Barefoot ignored his son's sadness, he was concentrating on searching for something on the stone wall.
Xu Yishan called him a few times, but Xu Barefoot didn't realize it. It wasn't until his son went to pull his clothes that he turned his head and smiled and said, "Go around first, I'm looking for something."
"What?" Xu Yishan asked curiously.
"A kind of medicine." Xu Chijiao didn't want to hide it from his son, and said, "There is a kind of medicine in the old monk's book. I haven't found it anywhere else. It should be here."
"What medicine?" Xu Yishan asked suspiciously.
"You don't understand." Xu Chijiao said: "If you find this medicine, Dad will be able to make an elixir of immortality."
Xu Yishan couldn't help laughing, Xu Bajiao's whole life was devoted to herbal medicine. According to him, all herbs are medicines, as long as they can be prepared, there will be no incurable disease in the world. Humans and nature are born and restrained by each other. Since eating food will make you sick, then taking medicine can cure the disease.
Xu Yishan never thought that there was anything wrong with his father's theory. There is indeed such a relationship between nature and people. However, his statement of immortality has always been a joke. After all, birth, old age, sickness and death are also natural laws. No one can break this law.
"Father, there is no medicine for immortality in this world." Xu Yishan persuaded his father, "Maybe, Master Wuxiu is lying to you."
"Impossible." Xu Chijiao said firmly: "His book has records about this. Yishan, I won't hide it from you, there are 128 kinds of medicines in Changsheng Pill, Dad has found 127 kinds, and this is the only one. "
Seeing that his father spoke so seriously, Xu Yishan felt interested, and asked, "What kind of thing?"
Xu Barefoot sketched for a long time, but he still couldn't draw what the medicinal materials would look like.
Xu Yishan laughed at his father and said, "You don't even know what you look like, how can you find it?"
Xu Chijiao seemed to have come to his senses, sighed and said: "Either the old monk lied to me, there is really no one in the world.something. Either my fate has not yet arrived, and when the fate arrives, this medicine will appear in front of me by itself. "
Xu Yishan comforted his father and said: "It must be that fate has not arrived yet."
He never said that the old monk Wuxiu was lying to his father. After all, old monk Wuxiu was too mysterious, and he didn't want to equate old monk Wuxiu with a liar in his heart.
There is only the term "fate", which is illusory.
Since Xu Barefoot got the book from his son, his whole body fell into the book.
He began to decline visits, almost completely shutting the door.
What he wants to do most now is to create the elixir of immortality recorded in the old monk Wuxiu's book.
Xu Barefoot firmly believes that people can live forever.
After searching for a long time, Xu Chijiao still found nothing, so he sighed and said, "Maybe it's really like what you said, the fate didn't come. Forget it, let's go down the mountain."
The administrator saw their father and son coming back, and warmly invited them to drink at home.
He said that it is hard to say whether he will have the opportunity to drink by the Wuxiu Reservoir in the future.
Xu Yishan smiled and said: "There must be opportunities. It is impossible to abandon the Wuxiu reservoir. You believe me, I will definitely restore the reservoir."
The administrator was overjoyed, and said with a smile: "Xiao Xu, if you can repair the reservoir and bring back the bells and drums, you have done a good deed, and God will protect your long life."
Xu Yishan said: "Don't worry, whoever stole the bell and drum, I will let him kneel and send it back."
The administrator shook his head and said sadly: "The old drum and the old bell probably won't come back. Without the old drum and the old bell, we wouldn't think of a way to get a new drum and a new bell. As long as the reservoir exists, as long as the bell and drum Sound, this area will surely live and work in peace and harmony.¡±
Xu Yishan felt that there was something in his words, so he asked him: "Why do you say that Lao Gu and Lao Zhong can't come back?"
"Because the person who took it is not an ordinary person."
"Who the hell?"
The administrator looked around and found that there was no one else except him and Xu Yishan and his son, then he said in a low voice, "I told you, don't spread the word. If you spread the word, I'm dead."
Xu Yishan comforted him and said: "Don't worry, I promise not to say anything."
The administrator hesitated for a while, and suddenly gritted his teeth and said, "It was a boss surnamed Huang who took it away."
"Huang Daling?" Xu Yishan exclaimed, blurting out his name.
The administrator waved his hands in a panic and said, "I didn't say who it was. I only know his surname is Huang."
Xu Yishan described with gestures: "Is it someone with buck teeth?"
The administrator neither admitted nor denied it. But he gave another valuable clue. The person who accompanied him was actually Hu Biao, director of the County Water Conservancy Bureau. (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com