After leaving the mountain forest, Zhong Wen thought for a moment, then turned around and walked towards Longquan Temple on his shin, followed by Xiaohua.
"Brother, are we going to the temple?"
Xiaohua knows that this path is the path leading to Longquan Temple. She often follows her brother. Sometimes she has some food in the temple. Moreover, Taoists in the temple take care of the children of tenants.
The relationship between Longquan Temple and its tenants was originally just a rental relationship, but it is not easy to live in this world. Longquan Temple still needs to rely on these tenants to eat, and the tenants also need the land of Longquan Temple to support their families.
"Well, let's go and have a look."
In fact, Zhong Wen wants to visit Longquan Temple. If he lives in this area in the future, he will have to go to the temple and have to deal with Taoists in the temple.
Moreover, in his mind, he always flashes some pictures he saw in the Taoist Temple.
"Brother, go to the temple later. You can't fight the wood. If you hurt yourself again, my parents will be worried."
Xiaohua's small face is hung with nervousness and worry, and Zhong Wen's head is still wrapped with a piece of cloth. Xiaohua just hopes that her brother will stop helping.
"Don't worry, I'm not stupid. I'm injured and still want to fight against wood. I just want to go to the temple to have a look and see if there is anything to eat."
The Taoist Temple sometimes gives some porridge, or some other food. The little children in the village have not eaten less, and the Taoist people in the temple are very kind. The children in the village will not be expelled because of their children when they go to the temple. Of course, this must be based on respecting the rules of the temple.
Although it seems not far, they are a little tired after walking. So is Xiaohua behind them.
Zhong Wen himself was weak, and he lost so much blood when he was injured a few days ago. In addition, he put so many ankle slings in the forest, so he didn't have much energy.
As for Xiaohua, because she is too young, thin and malnourished, she has gone beyond her physical strength to walk so much. Fortunately, she just padded her stomach in the mountains, otherwise she would not be able to walk so far.
"Brother, look, Big Brother is helping in the temple."
Xiaohua's eyes were pretty good. She saw Big Brother from a long distance and was going into the Taoist Temple against a piece of wood.
"Well, I see. Let's have a rest first. I'm tired."
Zhong Wen has seen Big Brother in the direction Xiaohua points out.
"Brother, sit down."
Xiaohua sits on the edge of the path with Zhong Wen on her arm, and then sits down next to her brother to rest. She also looks up at Zhong Wen from time to time.
After sitting down, Zhong Wen bowed his head and counted the ants on the ground. He picked a weed and put it in his mouth.
It seems a little cozy, but there is also some confusion. Although Zhong Wen is familiar with all this, it is also strange.
I don't know how many times I have walked along this path, and I have come to the Taoist Temple not far ahead for many times, but all these things look unreal in my eyes.
On his way here, Zhong Wen has been thinking about some pictures flashed in his mind. Those characters and murals make Zhong Wen very curious, because Zhong Wen knows some of these characters, except for those murals.
There are many murals on many walls in the main hall of the Taoist temple, but Zhong Wen remembers that there are some characters carved on the foundation stone in a remote corner of the remote hall being repaired at this time.
Those characters belong to seal script, and they are big seal script, with a lot of gold characters.
Zhong Wen doesn't know whether Taoist Li or other Taoists in the temple know these characters, but Zhong Wen knows them.
When Zhong Wen was in his previous life, he loved ancient characters, and had much research on large and small seal characters and bronze inscriptions. Although he was not as good as those experts who specialized in ancient characters, at least among ordinary people, he was definitely an expert.
Zhong Wen came to Longquan Temple this time to reconfirm that if he can study it, he can also sell it to Longquan Temple for some money, even for some food.
As for how to explain his knowledge of words as a broken child, he hasn't come up with a good way for the time being. He will think of another good excuse later. Zhong Wen's way of doing this is purely to seek death. As a broken child, it is strange for him to know about words. Maybe he could be burned to death.
"Xiaohua, let's go to the temple."
Having had enough rest, Zhong Wen got up behind him, patted the grass leaves on his body, and pulled the flower up from the ground.
"Brother, have you had a good rest?"
Xiaohua still looks at Zhongwen nervously, worried about her brother.
"Brother, have a good rest. Let's go."
Zhong Wen walked forward with legs, and Xiaohua followed him, looking at the weed in his brother's mouth from time to time.
Fortunately, the little flower knows the weed. She used to eat some roots of this weed. The roots have a sweet taste, which makes the little flower aftertaste.
The weed Zhong Wen is chewing on is actually ordinary grass. The roots of the grass buried in the soil can be eaten after being dug out and washed. It tastes good, at least sweet and cool.
The adults and children in the village have never eaten less of the roots of this kind of grass before. If they were in famine years, these could be lifesaving things.
Zhong Wen takes Xiaohua to the front of the Taoist Temple, stops and looks at the front door of the Taoist Temple.
The gate of the Taoist Temple has three arches, one large and two small. Above the big arch, three mottled characters appear in front of us - Longquan Temple. In front of the gate of the Taoist Temple is a large open space, and nine steps extend from the arch to the flat.
The walls on both sides extend to both sides, neither high nor low, about two meters.
In front of the Taoist Temple is an open space of about 100 square meters. There are some weeds on the open space. This is the front door of the Taoist Temple.
The nine steps, in Zhong Wen's cognition, belong to an unusual number. It seems that this Longquan Temple has an extraordinary history.
In any era, Jiu is the ultimate symbol. Although there are nine steps, the dragon spring in front of us has already fallen down. If no one takes care of it, it will disappear in the long river of history.
Although Zhong Wen is still not clear about his era, he has never heard of the dynasty they talked about when he heard about the conditions at home, the decorations in the Taoist Temple, or even himself.
Zhong Wen only knew that he was in ancient China, but he didn't know which dynasty it was. He could only understand and discover it later.
"Come on, Xiaohua, let's go into the temple and have a look."
Zhong Wen looked at the front door of the Taoist Temple for a while, and then raised his foot to the steps of the outer gate of the Taoist Temple. The nine steps only need a few steps to enter the temple.
After arriving at the Taoist Temple, there is a square half the size of the basketball court in front of us. On both sides of the square, there are small rooms, in which some sundries in the Taoist Temple are stored.
Further through the square, there is the front hall. The front hall is very small. It is only used as a town hall to block out all evils.
After passing through the front hall, there is a larger square. In front of the square is the main hall. In fact, the main hall is not big, only five or six meters high, less than seven or eight meters long, and about ten meters wide.
The eaves of the main hall are carved with many dragons, phoenixes and strange animals. There are three extended cornices on the four sides of the roof of the main hall. Under the cornices is a bird alarm bell, and above the cornices is a yin and yang fish.
At the back of the main hall, there are more than ten rooms for the Taoists of Longquan Temple to rest and sleep in.
On both sides of the square, there are two side halls, the shape of which is not much different from the main hall, but only the size, the description of cornices, and the number of cornices.
At this time, there were many Taoists busy repairing the dilapidated side hall on the right side of the main hall, and some children in the village were also helping to carry it.
The word Jingniao Bell means to prevent birds from flying. In fact, in ancient times, any temple or Taoist temple paid much attention to these things. Jingniao, Jingniao, in fact, was surprised, but not a bird. From the ancient times to the industrial culture period, there were many legends of various demons and ghosts, and the most important role of these Jingniao Bell was to prevent evil invasion, The bell must be sacrificed before it can be used as a bird alarm bell.
The large and small seal script basically appeared a dividing line in the Qin Dynasty. It is said that after the first emperor unified the whole of China, the big seal script was abolished and the small seal script evolved, making the whole country unified the characters. The inscriptions on gold, also called Zhong Dingwen, belong to the characters carved on some bronze tripods in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, The inscriptions on gold and the seal characters were also commonly used in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties.