Chapter 717 The Return of the Gods 1
"Why?"
The proprietress seemed to find the question funny.
"The gods are not worshipped by the common people because they are not effective."
At this point, she lowered her voice.
"Madam, I want to remind you, be very wary of anyone who asks you to come to the temple. This temple isn't just ineffective; it's a bit spooky. The person who asked you to come here definitely didn't have good intentions..."
Quan Jiu and Shen Lang looked at each other, and Shen Lang said in a deep voice:
"Which deity is enshrined in this temple?"
The proprietress shook her head:
"I'm not sure, it's too long ago. Anyway, according to our ancestors, the reason the sky in Jill Town is so strange is because this god abandoned us, making us live in darkness for generations, never to see the light again."
Because of this saying, the town of Jill is also called the "cursed town". The total daylight time in the entire town is only two and a half hours.
Quan Jiu asked about other things, but the information provided by the proprietress was not important. Finally, after finding out the location of the temple, she and Shen Lang went upstairs together.
………
When Quan Jiu woke up, it was already the Si hour, which was nine in the morning in modern time, but it was still pitch black outside the window.
The stove in the room was burning brightly, occasionally emitting a few scarlet sparks. She didn't feel cold. She looked back at the man who was still sleeping, and raised her fingertips to touch the tip of his nose.
The man's narrow black eyes opened, and his voice was low with the sound of waking up early:
"Not sleeping anymore?"
Quan Jiu: "Maybe I slept too much in the carriage."
She glanced at the sleepy Shen Lang and pinched her throat deliberately:
"Your Majesty, you have never been so depraved before."
He goes to court at seven or eight in the morning and has unlimited energy every day. He is definitely a model worker of our time.
Chen Lang dozed off with his eyes closed, then reached out and skillfully took the person into his arms:
"It seems that I have learned bad things from my beloved concubine."
Quan Jiu tapped his chest with his fingertips from time to time:
"I can't say this. If those old men from Meng State heard about it, they would probably file a joint petition, accusing me of being a vixen who's trying to deceive the emperor..."
Chen Lang grabbed her rebellious hand and said, "They are not wrong this time."
She is just a little fox who bewitches him.
Quan Jiu raised his eyebrows: "I don't admit this. How did I deceive His Majesty?"
It was obvious that he lacked concentration.
Shen Lang was half awakened by her, so he simply gave up sleeping:
"You lying here is the greatest temptation to me."
The two of them started to make a fuss in the room again.
When I was so hungry that my stomach was sticking to my back, the dim morning light came from outside the window.
"It's finally daybreak."
The nights in Gill are too long.
Shen Lang had already put on his clothes and was holding a red cloak to tie it on her.
"You can go downstairs to eat now."
After the meal, the group planned to go to the temple. The proprietress tried to persuade them for a long time, but seeing that they were determined to do so, she had to give up. Before leaving, she also gave Quanjiu a talisman.
"Carry it with you to keep you safe."
Quan Jiu thanked them and continued to set off with the team.
After about another hour and a half, the shadow of the temple appeared in front of us.
Shen San looked at the building not far away that was hardly a house, the corners of his mouth twitched, and his tone was full of doubt:
"Sir...it seems to be here."
Within a few miles, this is the only place with buildings other than ice and snow.
As the group approached, they discovered that the wooden sign at the door was engraved with the two large characters "Temple". The characters were mottled and the red paint was peeling, showing a sense of age.
The intact doorplate fell to the ground and blended with the pile of weeds at the door.
Shen San looked at the dilapidated wall: "This is too broken..."
None of the four walls in the yard are in good condition.
Entering the yard, there were bricks and tiles everywhere. The fine soil fell on the tiles, and a clump of grass grew tenaciously.
Quan Jiu looked around vigilantly but couldn't find the passage. Since it wasn't outside, it must be inside.
She took a step forward and prepared to enter the house, but Shen Lang got there first:
"There are a lot of things on the ground. Follow me and don't fall."
The two entered the house one after the other, and Naituanzi followed Shen San.
As soon as he entered the door, Quan Jiu was shocked by the statue in front of him.
The statue was huge, more than ten meters tall, three or four stories high, and occupied half of the entire temple. When they stood in front of the statue, they had to look up, and their bodies looked particularly small.
Shen Lang's eyes were filled with thought: "Such a large temple only enshrines this one statue."
The incense stand in front of the statue is more than ten meters long. Looking around, there are about twenty incense and candle stands. Unfortunately, there is not a single incense or candle in them.
Quan Jiu sighed, "It's not hard to imagine the bustling scene before the temple fell into decline."
Such a remote town still has so many believers. I have to say, this god is really something.
At this moment, Milk Ball suddenly exclaimed:
"Changxi, Alang, look what this is!?"
He pointed at the face of the idol.
Because the statue was too tall, Quan Jiu couldn't see its face clearly until Naituanzi reminded her, and then she stood on the threshold and looked up.
When she saw this, she was stunned, and her tone was slightly surprised.
"The face of this statue...was scratched with a knife?"
There was a moment of silence in the room.
Even if one does not believe in or worship the statue, there is no need to do such a heinous thing, unless the person who scratches the statue has a deep hatred for the statue.
In the main god space.
001 knew that Quan Jiu would go to the temple today, so he waited there early in the morning. When he saw the tall and majestic statue for the first time, his heart trembled, and his first reaction was to want to know what the statue looked like.
Unfortunately, the statue's face was covered with dense knife scars, which perfectly obscured its original facial features.
Only his left eye, located at the lower left corner, escaped the knife attack.
The statue's face was covered with scars and should have looked hideous and ferocious, but from the surviving inch of his left eye, one could read a trace of compassion and peace.
The corners of its mouth were curled up, as if the believers who cruelly scratched it with sharp blades were just ignorant children. It indulged their petty quarrels. Because of its tolerance, its whole body exuded an indescribable divinity.
001 stared at the statue, feeling a sense of loss and a hint of anger at the same time...
Feeling his own emotions, he was stunned.
It's just a Buddha statue, why would he be upset? Why would he be angry?
Perhaps influenced by the atmosphere of the temple, Quan Jiu felt inexplicably sad as he looked at the scarred statue.
The statue always showed tolerance and protection to its believers, but in the end, it became an abandoned god, standing in the icy far north, unknown and unattended.
When Quan Jiu entered the house, she wanted to pick some gold from the Buddha statue, but at the moment, she was too kind to do it.
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