Chapter 31 Chapter 4: The Wind and Rain Bell

The world is full of golden crows and jade rabbits, and the underground has changed throughout the ages. Anyone who has the ability to do so has three ways out: the upper, the middle, and the lower. The high-ranking officials are well paid; the middle ones can rely on their own art to support their families, and although they are tired and hard, they can still settle down; The small scale divides the silver, the same hungry if there is no food, and the same eating if there is meat, the so-called sharing of spoils to gather righteousness. But why do many people with great means live their lives barely, with no clothes and no food all day long, but why are they not as good as those mediocre and incompetent people?Just because they are people in the same life, but their chances and fates are very different.The so-called high talent fate is poor, mediocrity luck, rich and poor, high or low, has always been judged regardless of talent, no matter what kind of talent you have in your chest, if you should not use it in your life, you will have nowhere to use it.

Zhang Xiaozhuan learned how to look at cats from the old ghost in the forest. At first, he thought it was some tricky tricks. The wild cats and domestic cats in Lingzhou City are all lazy and cunning, and they can neither build a tile house nor steam Cooked rice, what use can the third master expect from them when he is starving and freezing?But he didn't expect that when the luck came, something would come out of nothing. Naturally, when he encountered a great opportunity, he actually did many earth-shattering things with the help of Lingzhou wild cats.Exactly: whoever said that cats have no way, there are also ways of cats; more strange, always better than vulgar.

It is said that that night, a bright moon was shining above the head, reflecting the brilliance for thousands of miles, up and down, Zhang Xiaozhuan and Sun Dazi led a large group of wild cats, walked across the streets and alleys, and came to the former site of Tawang Temple.At this time, the city has already had a curfew, every house is closed, and the streets are deserted and empty, except for a few teams of Lingzhou Tuanyong patrolling occasionally, armed with knives and guns. Among the ruins of the collapsed houses, a deep ditch was cracked on the ground, and the fog inside was so thick that it was impossible to tell whether it was deep or shallow from the outside. A sentinel stood guard all around, holding torches and lanterns.Zhang Xiaozhuo asked them for two lanterns, and Sun Dazi each held them in their hands, leading the wild cats into the dense fog.

Hundreds of years ago, this place used to be the base of a high tower buried underground. There are still masonry and rammed earth visible in the ground. There is a deep well hidden in the deepest part. Because the base of the tower is cracked, it is not necessary to drop a rope from the well hole. , the two of them groped the collapsed brick wall and walked down, feeling the cold and damp air getting heavier, and the walls of the well were covered with continuous mist. The mouth of the ancient well in Tawang Temple is narrow and wide, and the bottom of the well is a natural stone cave. The bottom of the well is facing a deep pool with unfathomable depth.It turns out that the abyss of the world is divided into thirty-six veins and seventy-two eyes, all of which are extremely deep and secluded pools, wells, abysses, and springs.This ancient well is one of them. It connects Dongting Lake for 800 miles to the west and the boundless ocean to the east.

In the early years, around the time of the Tang Dynasty, within hundreds of miles of Lingzhou City, there were often famines, either scorching red fields, or floods. Nine out of ten years were disaster years, and even Dou Mi Thousands of money, the people do not have a living.The imperial court believed that there must be an old dragon in the thousand-year-old well in Lingzhou City, so he invited eminent monks to subdue it, and ordered to build a temple, and built a resplendent and magnificent pagoda on the well, offering incense to it. Holding a wind and rain clock, praying for good weather.

The wind and rain clock can predict wind and rain, and it is the treasure of the temple in Tawang Temple.It is said that as early as Dayu's flood control, there were many ghosts and gods to help him. Once when he was dredging the river in the deep mountains, he encountered black fog and could not see his fingers in the daytime.Fortunately, there was a big wild boar with a bright pearl in its mouth as a guide, and it kept sucking the clouds and mist gushing out of the vicinity into its mouth, so that King Yu led everyone to cut through the river in the black mist.In fact, that pearl is a rare fluorescent ore, which can swallow clouds and rain. It is embedded in the wind and rain clock, so it often shows mountains and clouds over Tawang Temple.

There is a saying: the good times in the world are hard to last, and the colorful clouds are easy to disperse and the glass is broken.Later, when the dynasty changed, swords and soldiers broke out everywhere, and Lingzhou City was inevitably devastated by the flames of war.The eminent monks in the Tawang Temple were worried that the wind and rain bell would be destroyed in the war, so they secretly hid it in the ancient well under the Tawang Temple. Fearing that the thieves would steal the treasure, they locked the bronze bell on two (ㄊㄨㄛ) fish. The catfish is not a thing of Middle Earth. It was originally an amphibious species brought from Braganzi by an Indian monk. It can survive longer than the old turtle. They are shaped like golden-scaled carps with hard shells on their backs. Rujia is extremely powerful in the water. If there are thieves who want to steal the wind and rain bell, even if they are not killed in the water by the squid, they will be shocked and drag the bronze bell into the deep water. Appear.

Zhang Xiaozhui and Sun Dazi touched the edge of the pool, held up a lantern to look around, and saw that the water surface was as smooth as a mirror, not very wide, but much larger than ordinary well water, about the size of four Eight Immortals tables, A large cloud of white mist floated up from the water surface, and the more it reached the higher place, there was no mist around the pool at the bottom of the well. There were countless large and small stone Buddhas on the walls of the well and in the caves. The group of wild cats headed by Jin Yunu also followed in behind. They wandered and played in Lingzhou City all day long, from poor streets and back alleys, to wealthy families, and even tortoise shell beams, mandarin duck towers, and painting pavilions. Among them, within Xiuping, and outside the city, there is no place they are familiar with, but they have never been to the ancient well of Tawang Temple. Now seeing the strange rocks and strange water in the Zangzhong Cave at the bottom of the well, I feel very shocked Curious, they gathered in one place and looked around with their eyes wide open.

Zhang Xiaozhuan pointed to the place where the white mist surged in the pool, and said to Sun Dazi: This place in the water is the place where the wind and rain bell is hidden. If there is a way to take it out, why not exchange it for a high-ranking official with a plume on his head? Sun Dazi said in surprise: "I said Zhang San, what a secret thing this is, and how did you know it in such detail?"Besides, the wind and rain clock is a treasure in Lingzhou, and it has always been in charge of the good weather within a hundred miles. How dare we disturb it easily?Could it be that you ran into the old ghost in the golden coffin grave again?Don't forget that we got into trouble in Huaiyuan before, and it all started from this. I advise you not to listen to his demon words again, that guy may not have any kind intentions.

Zhang Xiaozhuo covered it casually: "The golden coffin grave is a barren mound, where is there any old ghost?"Third master, this is the art of holding back the treasured cat handed down from his family, but the real person does not show his face, and the exposed face is not a real person, so it has never been used in Jincoffin Village before. The spiritual phenomenon has disturbed the hearts of the soldiers and civilians in the city. How can we brothers stand by and watch?He also said that the wind and rain clock hidden in the ancient well is just an ancient object that can gather clouds and mist, how can it really care about the good weather?Since ancient times, Lingzhou has had a lot of cats and temples, such as Pagoda King Temple, Golden Coffin Temple, Dragon King Temple, and Cat Fairy Temple. In a year of disaster, isn't it still the drought that should be drought and the flood that should be flooded? How has the wind and rain clock been of any use?If Taoist Tan, the cat fairy, hadn't got rid of the fire silkworm, how could Lingzhou City be as prosperous as it is today?Therefore, things in the world should always be based on virtue rather than danger, and benevolence rather than things. If the world does not do that kind of virtue, even if there are treasures, there will be no soul.

Sun Dazi is a straightforward and solid eye, he was taken aback when he heard this, and hesitated: "Wait?After thinking about it again, I finally felt a little enlightened, then nodded and said: Yes, it makes sense, don't look at my reckless strength, but when it comes to knowledge and wit, the third brother is better According to you, how should we deal with this matter? Zhang Xiaozhuan said: "The pool at the bottom of the well is so deep that it reaches the eye of the sea, and there are mature old fish hiding in it. If you go there rashly, you will probably be dragged by the water monster to the Dragon Palace to act as the son-in-law of the Dragon King. It is said that the Dragon Lady They are definitely not beautiful, but they all look like Yaksha Shura's birds. If this is the case, wouldn't the third master be embarrassed?Fortunately, we lured Jin Yunu, the king of cats in Lingzhou, to the ancient well of Tawang Temple. You and my brothers just hid aside and waited to reap the benefits of the fisherman. Let's see how the wild cats do it. Sun Dazi couldn't think of what a few wild cats could do to help, so he was dubious about it, so he had to be patient, climbed to a Buddhist niche on the wall of the well with his little braid, picked out two lanterns, and looked ahead to illuminate the deep This is exactly what it is in a cold and quiet deep pool: arrange fragrant baits and wait for the golden salamander (ㄋ一) to take the bait. Besides, wild cats in Lingzhou like the smell of fish the most, and they have the habit of watching fish by the water since ancient times. In addition, in recent years, the local natural disasters and military disasters have been linked together, and no one has gone to the cat fairy temple to worship fresh fish. It's rare to see a fish swimming in the bottom of a well at this moment, and it's inevitable that you have to get close to it. Unexpectedly, as soon as the group of cats arrived at the pool, they saw the splash of water suddenly split, and a big fish head gushed out of it. The fish had a strange figure, brilliant scales, and pupils as big as a big bowl. To dodge, one of them was the most clumsy Sloth on the stove. Although it was lucky not to be dragged into the water, it was half a step too slow to dodge. It was hit by the force of the strange fish and flew horizontally, falling straight on the stone Buddha. In the bushes, the lazy cat broke off a cat's leg and screamed incessantly. The catfish usually lives by eating fish, frogs, turtles, and snakes in the pool, and is even better at dragging wild dogs and cats into the water to swallow them. At this time, it missed a hit, and it was somewhat unexpected, so it hid in the bottom of the water and lay still Do not move. The wild cats in Lingzhou have learned a lot, and they never dare to take half a step near the water. The beautiful Jin Yunu is the leader of the wild cats in the city. Lazy on the stove of the leg, the expression is very pity, and he is a little annoyed when he sees that his companion is hurt, and he refuses to let it go. The group of cats muttered and discussed for a while, and the lazy one on the stove dragged its lame leg, and moved to the side of the well step by step, and stuck it against the wall. I jumped against the stone wall a few times, and although I cried out in pain, I actually rejoined the bones. Seeing that there was nothing serious about the lazy leg bones on the stove, the rest of the wild cats ran out of the well separately, and disappeared in an instant. Zhang Xiaozhuan didn't know what tricks this group of wild cats would make. I waited at the bottom of the well for more than an hour, thinking that the wild cats were gone forever, but saw that the group of cats brought back an abnormally fat old cat. The whole body is covered with long hair and sloppy hair, which covers the ears, nose and eyes. This cat is dirty, and it slaps down and jumps down at the slightest touch, and it moves very slowly. Zhang Xiaozhu and Sun Dazi looked secretly curious, and couldn't figure out where the wild cats invited this master, but Zhang Xiaozhu was able to meet cats, knowing that although this old cat was dirty and dirty, it had fur. Both are long, with white and brown hair, golden and black beard, round head and short claws, fat body like a gourd, swallowing rivers and seas, and not sinking in water. The thing about the water hyacinth cat is that this cat is not trivial, and its deeds are unparalleled in the world. If it is told, it is really: unprecedented in all ages, and it is the first time in the world.If you want to know what happened next, please leave a reply.