A light rain in the early morning not only did not dispel the heat in the late summer, but instead made the weather even more stuffy.

Before dawn, Yang Shouwen walked out of the room.

Yang Sixu was packing his bags, and Pei Min was ready.

After the three of them settled the bill, they left the inn and left the village.

"The Taibo Temple is there."

Pei Min pointed to the southwest and said to Yang Shouwen: "Let's ride a horse, and you can see the Taibo Temple in about one stick of incense."

"Then you will lead the way."

Pei Min rode his horse in front, and Yang Shouwen and Yang Sixuxing were behind him.

The three of them soon arrived at the foot of Changmen Ridge. From a distance, Yang Shouwen saw the towering archway of the Taibo Temple, showing a dilapidated atmosphere in the morning light.

The Taibo Temple in Changzhou was built during the Yongxing period of the Eastern Han Dynasty and was supervised by Mi Bao, the governor of Kuaiji County.

People in the Middle Ages believed in ghosts and gods.

As the founder of Wu State, coupled with various folk legends, Wu Taibo named him the god of Wu State. Unfortunately, after the East, West, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhism was introduced to the Central Plains, and Taoism gradually formed a system, greatly compressing the traditional belief in ghosts and gods. As a result, the 480 temples of the Southern Dynasties were all in the mist and rain of towers, and the traditional temples gradually lost their soil for survival and became less and less well-known.

The Taibo Temple has not escaped such a change of faith.

A broken archway and a lonely temple stand under Changmen Ridge.

In the distance, there are green bamboo forests. The wind blowing from Changzhou Garden sways and rusts.

When Yang Shouwen and the other two arrived at the Taibo Temple, the temple had already opened. Speaking of which, the temple looked really broken, without even a scent of incense. As for the Buddhist temple and Taoist temples I saw along the way, this Taibo Temple could only be described as dilapidated.

An old man with gray beard was cleaning the steps of the temple.

The gray Taoist robe on his body turned white because he washed it again and again.

He seemed to be a little inconvenient to move. He limped when sweeping the floor, and was old and could not tell at all.

"Alang, this is the Taibo Temple."

Pei Min strangled the horse, turned over and got off the horse, and looked at Yang Shouwen.

Yang Shouwen also got off the horse, stood under the archway, and looked around.

The book of arrows said, let him come to Taibo Temple.

But after coming to Taibo Temple, who should I find and what to do? He didn't know at all.

Now, he has arrived at the Taibo Temple. What should he do next? Yang Shouwen bit his lip, pondered for a while, and handed the reins to Yang Sixu, and then carried the Nine Crow Swords in his hand and walked towards the Taibo Temple.

"Xiao Pei, come with me."

Pei Min hurriedly threw the reins to Yang Sixu and ran to catch up with Yang Shouwen.

One by one, one behind, the two slowly walked along the stone steps of only twelve steps to the gate of the Taibo Temple. They saw the sweeping old man dragging a broom and limping inside.

"Old man!"

Yang Shouwen shouted loudly.

But the old man was not in the head and was sank into the temple.

"Alang, you forgot. I asked about it yesterday. They said that the temple prayer was deaf and dumb, and he couldn't hear it when you called him."

Yang Shouwen suddenly showed a sudden look and a look of embarrassment appeared on his face.

He did forget about this, and Pei Min told him specifically last night.

"Let's go in and have a look."

As he spoke, he walked towards the temple.

When the two walked into the temple, they saw that the area inside the temple was not large.

It is divided into two rooms in front and back. The front room is the statue of Taibo. There are candlesticks and incense burners on an incense table, and three incense sticks are inserted in the incense burner.

It should be the cheaper fragrance, and the fragrance is not particularly good.

The old man was coming out from the inside. After seeing Yang Shouwen and the others, his turbid eyes flashed. He took the incense candle from the side and walked forward, and handed it to Yang Shouwen and the others. That meant that Yang Shouwen and Pei Min burned incense to Taibo. You said that he was burning incense when he saw the temple. Yang Shouwen was not very resistant to this. He took the incense candle, lit it in front of the oil lamp, and then bowed to the statue three times, inserting the incense into the incense burner. On the other side, Pei Min took out a copper coin from his arms and put it in the hands of Temple Zhu.

The temple smiled and bowed repeatedly to thank him.

Yang Shouwen observed this person, but there was no strange place.

Could it be that the Arrow Book is a joke?

He frowned, stood in front of the statue, and looked up at the statue of Taber.

At this time, Miao Zhu limped to Yang Shouwen and stretched out his hand to pull Yang Shouwen's sleeve.

"Um?"

Yang Shouwen turned his head and looked at him, and Temple Zhu quickly gestured to him.

Fortunately, Yang Shouwen's sign language is not bad, so he understood the meaning of temple blessings.

"The layman comes from Luoyang?"

“That’s right.”

"But is the surname Yang?"

Yang Shouwen's eyes narrowed, he held the Nine Crow Swords in his hand tightly, and nodded slightly.

"Two days ago, a lay Buddhist passed by here and gave me a letter saying that if there was a lay Buddhist Yang from Luoyang who stopped here and asked me to send the letter to him."

As he spoke, Miao Zhu took out a letter from his arms and handed it to Yang Shouwen.

This is a fish talisman, which uses two fish-shaped bamboo slips to hold the letter, and there is a layer of fire paint on the outside.

Yang Shouwen looked at the temple prayer in surprise, reached out to take the fish talisman from his hand, "Two days ago? What does that person look like?"

"High and handsome young man."

After the temple blessings were finished, he reached out his hand.

Is this money?

Yang Shouwen smiled slightly, took out another copper coin and handed it to the temple to Zhu.

He took the fish talisman and walked to the eternal light, melted the fire paint with the light above, and then took out the flesh of the letter inside.

"Does the layman have any other explanation?"

"The layman said, you will naturally understand after reading the faith."

Yang Shouwen nodded and opened the letter.

The handwriting on the letter was very beautiful, exactly the same as the handwriting on the arrow book. The content was also very simple, and only the eight words "Changzhou, Fish Market, Eight Immortals Inn". Like the arrow book, there was no look up, no reading, and no clue. Yang Shouwen held the letter and read it over and over again several times before folding the letter into his pocket.

After looking at the temple blessing again, Yang Shouwen greeted him.

The temple also paid a gift for the temple, and then limped around the inner room.

"Alang, what's the matter?"

"We'll go into the city."

Yang Shouwen smiled at Pei Min and walked out of the Taibo Temple.

The two of them came to the archway and turned over the horse.

"Old Yang, that person left us a message and asked us to go to the Eight Immortals Inn in Fish City, Changzhou County."

"oh?"

Yang Sixu frowned, but did not speak.

Pei Min showed an angry look on the side and said softly: "Alang, who is this person? Why don't you even show your face?"

"A person who knows me very well."

Yang Shouwen's eyes showed confusion.

"He passed by here two days ago, and we arrived at Qua the next night. This shows that the other party calculated that I came over and that I could find this Taibo Temple. However, I don't like this feeling like a marionette. I really want to take a look at the Eight Immortals Inn. What is the mystery in this Eight Immortals Inn."

"Then let's go to the Eight Immortals Inn?"

Yang Shouwen thought about it and looked at Yang Sixu.

After pondering for a while, Yang Sixu shook his head, "Alang, it may not be a good thing for us to be led by the nose like this."

"But if you don't go, what if you miss it?"

Yang Shouwen spoke and urged the horse to walk forward.

Yes, if you don’t go to the Eight Immortals Inn, wouldn’t it be troublesome if you miss the clue?

Along the way, none of the three of them spoke again and thought about solutions to deal with it. Yang Shouwen felt that it was not good, very bad.

This feeling that seemed like a headless fly made him feel very frustrated.

So far, he didn't know who shot the arrow book. He didn't know what the other party did this and what the purpose was.

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To be continued...