Chapter 46 The Temple of the Cannon God

I nodded in agreement, anyway, now there is no “time” can be said, sooner or later will have to go to see the “Immortals”, then decided to immediately begin to take action, with the crowd down from the wooden ladder, straight to the door of the hall.

This voodoo true monarch hall of the temple door, in we came in after the hand closed, but at this time a push surprisingly does not move, I added force also did not push the door open, I do not know at what time, the temple door has been hidden by the “machine bracket” pins closed the door.

Fatty see I can’t push the door, come to help, he copied out the “engineer shovel” to pry the door. I feel strange, afraid of this temple in what odd, subconsciously turned back to sweep a glance behind me, the head of the “tactical spotlight” beam with a shake, only to see the original seated in the temple Wusheng Zhenjun suddenly changed face, actually is not that “serpentine eyebrows, danfeng eyes, face as heavy jujube, long beard floating “Guan Er Master, but a body shape solid black short angry eyes evil spirits, arms also holding a section of dead wood like black “Buddha Langji”, clay statue of two eyes bright red like blood, gaze down, staring at the front door of the temple, is falling on the body of the few of us, my heart gave birth to an extremely ominous feeling, although the I have seen many temples and Taoist temples in my life, but I can not recognize this hall is provided in which way “evil gods and goddesses”.

I was shocked, I can’t imagine that the “Earth Immortal” Fengshigu was so blasphemous, even Guandi Temple dared to set up, but I don’t know which way of the evil gods of the “Temple Shrine”, and the previous solemn weather is completely different from that of the positive and the evil, the difference is huge, really! “I am afraid that this is not a good place for me to be.

My mind moved, hastily dragged the fat man who was prying the door with force: “Don’t touch the gate, here for the evil gods and goddesses, surely not the voodoo true monarch hall, be careful of the door wall with a pin weapon ambush.”

Then the crowd stood still, take a flashlight in the temple around a light, found not only the main statue in the shrine, even served on both sides of the saint of the “Zhou Cang, Guan Ping”, do not know when they have changed into the netherworld in the ghosts, full of red robes, the top of the head bundled with a “sky braid “The face is fearful.

We also said it was wrong, rubbed his eyes again when looking closely, it turned out that the previous clay statues are covered with a layer of “cloth tent paint shells”, at this time were hidden in the shrine after the fine rope pulled up, empty hanging in the temple beams at high places, which will be the temple of the evil god revealed the true body.

Our attention, just now were “coffin mountain” in the signs of attraction, but no one has not paid attention to the temple in the movement, in fact, before coming in, has viewed the periphery of this building without “pin machine”, but did not expect the “Guan Di Temple”. “Guan Di Temple” will be a trap, although in advance with a hundred and twenty thousand points of caution, but encountered this completely beyond the common sense outside of the “tricky change” temple, is still not inevitably caught in the way.

The temple in a dead silence, but for the time being there is no longer any mechanical movement, but the atmosphere seems very wrong. I feel more and more bad, must get out as soon as possible, through the “tactical spotlight” beam around, see that the cold, heavy “green dragon crescent knife”, at the moment is still set on top of the platform, I can not help but be inspired by a brain out of a I can’t help but be inspired, a “thought” came to my mind.

In China’s old society, the worship of civil and military saint of the wind since ancient times, if the “Guan Di Temple” scale is relatively large, there will often be a separate “knife temple” in the side room, dedicated to the mouth “Guan Gong knife “; small-scale temple, or by the” Zhou Cang “resistance knife, or flat in the gold cloud bracket.

I see that the “Guan Gong knife” heavy extraordinary, thought the temple door is afraid that there is a “machine bracket” coherent, break out of the door although it is not effortless, but may be “digging their own graves” move, why not use this dozens of kilograms of heavy, heavy, and the “Guan Gong knife”. Why not use this dozens of kilograms of heavy knife as a “broken wall lock”, crashing through the wall out? So immediately greeted the fat man to go forward to carry the knife.

The people have just approached a few steps, but see that the ghost-like evil god behind the clay statue of a wooden plaque, black background with gold characters, the book “Cannon God Temple” three words, the youngest sister seems to know this thing, and even said that bad, not only the doors, windows and walls of the temple, even with the glazed tiles on the roof and beams can not be touched, which must be hidden “! The landing blossom cannon”, once triggered, the whole temple will “jade and stone all burning”, everyone must be blown to pieces.

Fatty originally rely on a rush, intends to immediately sneak into the “Feng family old mansion” in the inverted fighting gold, at this time to see the master is not good, can not help but complain about bad luck, is probably out of the door and forgot to give the “grandmaster” burned incense.

I shook my head hopelessly and said, not we go “back” word, but the landlord class is too cunning, but I have never heard of the world what “cannon temple”, is this temple is a big powder keg? Is this temple a big powder keg? Is it really a “Jedi House” that can’t get in or out?

Shirley Yang also asked the youngest sister said: “What is the Cannon God Temple? And how to conclude that the temple hidden in the ground blossom cannon?”

Listen to the youngest sister said, we understand how it is, the original folk worship “Cannon God” custom, is originated in the Wushan “Green River”, initially because the chiseling of witch salt veins used clay explosives, because the conditions are extremely primitive and rudimentary, often happen to blow up the mine slaves! So the people secretly build “cannon temple”, which is dedicated to the mine in the “Shinto”, initially only similar to the low land temple, usually those who blow up the mountain blasting saltpeter gunpowder, are all stored in such a temple, the role of which is almost the same as the explosives warehouse. The role of this temple is similar to that of an explosives warehouse.

Over time, people found that the temple inside the “cannon God” often show things, whether it is the collapse of the mine tunnel pit, buried alive how many mine slaves; or explosives warehouse has a water situation, but did not detonate a large number of explosives detonators, and so on these things, are down the mine to work the workers said that the “cannon God” is the “Cannon God” grandfather manifestation, just as the sea running boat to worship Mazu, is an ancient industry worship, in China should be from the Ming Dynasty.

Later gradually formed a trend, in addition to the generation of mining, even the firearms battalion of the army, including the expansion of the later from the “Portuguese Red Hair” introduced the red barbarians cannon, wherever gunpowder is involved in the place, all to worship the “Cannon God”. Ming Dynasty firearms began to develop, but the concept is still relatively old-fashioned superstition, the army used the main “red artillery”, will be through to the general’s position, such as “Shenwu, Shenwei, Zhenwei” General and so on. Cannon aging or damaged can not be cast decomposition, but to build graves to bury. These are all from the worship of the “cannon god” custom extends.

Later, because of the Qing Emperor Nurhachi in the “Ningyuan” outside the city was wounded by artillery bombardment, and ultimately died, so the Qing dynasty completely banned the “Cannon God Temple”, all of the “Cannon King Tomb, Cannon Master Temple All “Cannon King’s Tomb, Cannon Master’s Temple” were dismantled and destroyed, only in the place of its origin there are still people who secretly worship “Cannon God”, the temple site is mostly built in the underground cave, it is absolutely difficult for people outside the area to know about these things, the people of the Qingxi area to make a living by shelling medicine and mining, which is known to the young and old alike. Because of the secret worship, so Qingxi “Cannon God Temple” in the Qing Dynasty onwards often disguised as other temples, to “Medicine King Temple” or “Land Temple” mostly, but never seen anyone dare to take the “Guan Di Temple”. “Guan Di Temple” as a front.

In addition, in the “Beehive Hill”, which specializes in manufacturing weapons, there are many traditions of worshipping the “God of Cannon” because they often make some gunpowder devices, such as the “God of Crow Flying Fire, Fire Dragon Out of the Water”, etc. It is rumored that the “God of Cannon” is a god of cannon. It is rumored that the statue of the “Cannon God” has different forms, but the real body must be holding the “Frankie”, with “red-robed and fire-robed children” on both sides.

“Franco” that is the ancient Western artillery pronouns, since the Portuguese artillery in the Ming Zhengde years after the introduction of China, there will be this name, always is the cannon God’s “magic weapon”. Shirley Yang and I do not know “Cannon God” thing, but also know this thing, in Beijing Panjiayuan have seen a lot of old weapons atlas, which has this kind of firearms.

Placed in the clay cannon god statue in the arms of the “firearms” are naturally fake, but here there is a preoccupation, the folk worship of the cannon god held by the “Franco”, are red, red clothes and red medicine meaning; there is a black “Franco “, said the gun god in the temple set up to kill the fire pin things, mostly “five thunder blossom gun”, or “landing blossom gun”.

Because this kind of explosive organs, in the “honeycomb mountain” is called “fire pins”, will be held by the master of the cannon God “Franco” painted black, is the honeycomb mountain box maker used a kind of “code”, the difference, in addition to laying the artisans of the gun pin spring, outsiders never know, although the youngest sister learned these hooks, but never really seen, lack of necessary experience, until seeing the black Francois, as well as clay statues of the ancient plaque, which suddenly remembered the matter.

This “Cannon God Temple”, must be laid countless “fire pin gunpowder”, fortunately just now did not recklessly break down the door to tear down the wall, otherwise touch the gun lead, all the people at this moment have been blown to pieces.

Temple in the “trick mine pin device” is mostly hidden in the door wall beams and pillars, the temple door windows and pavilions can be closed can not be opened, the four walls of the weight of the force, will trigger the explosives, although the buried are a few hundred years ago the earth-made explosives, but in the “Coffin Hill” this hidden wind and gas gathering place, may be So far can still explode, once the fire pin will explode to open, is by no means flesh and blood can resist.

Think that gunpowder is one of the four great inventions in ancient times, in history, to the time of the Ming Dynasty, the application of gunpowder firearms, has tended to mature and perfect, the original clay explosives, although not as powerful as the modern, but the lethality can not be underestimated, “landing blossom cannon” is similar to the “mother bomb”, as the name suggests, the “coffin mountain” this hidden wind qi place may still be able to explode. “, as the name suggests, after the gunpowder is blown up, the hidden nails, iron pieces, will be like the heavenly maiden scattering flowers to cover the surrounding kill, and “five thunder blossom cannon” will be a continuous explosion.

The people heard this, all feel helpless, this temple door once open the whole temple is afraid to blow up to the sky, but do not want to find a way out of the words, is not to be trapped alive in this place? This time all the people have become the cannon temple in the “caged bird”, even if it is difficult to escape, the thought of the surrounding are “cannon pin”, but also make people upset, like a centipede on the hot ground, a moment to stand still.

I can’t hold down the agitation, calm down and think, this time to Qingxi to find “the ancient tomb of the village of the earth fairy”, almost every step is far from what was expected in advance, this is attributed to Professor Sun always refused to tell the truth, so that finally dragged the people into a desperate situation, but now blame anyone is no longer helpful, now the only meaningful only has to The only thing that makes sense now is to do everything we can to cope with the crisis in front of us.

I was about to discuss with Shirley Yang whether it was feasible to take the risk of dismantling the cannon guide, when I heard Mr. Sun Jiuzi suddenly say, “I almost forgot, the Earth Immortal Village is full of yin and yang houses!”

We didn’t understand this and wondered, “What are yin and yang houses? Isn’t Earth Immortal Village an ancient tomb?” Master Sun Jiujiu said, “No no, what happened today was too much, I was so distracted that I overlooked this section, I remember hearing my elder brother say back then that all the houses in the Earth Immortal Village were yin and yang mansions.”

The so-called yang mansion is the living person’s residence, while the yin mansion is the tomb where the dead are buried, the Earth Immortal Fengshigu has an addiction to collecting treasures from ancient tombs, and moreover, there is an eccentricity, not only is the tomb compensated for the burial of rare and exotic Mingqi, but even the coffins and outer coffins, ancient corpses, tomb bricks, murals and other things, also want to keep for themselves, regarded as if they were their own lives.

He built in the coffin mountain when the village of the earth fairy, had the “Guanshan Taibao” stolen tombs are in accordance with the original shape in the ground, the upper for the yang residence, the lower for the yin residence, all the premises of the lower level of the compound, are the real chamber, the chamber of the type of the three generations, down to the Yuan and Ming Dynasty, everything, those chambers underneath the gateway and tomb passageway, such as yang house Those chambers also have their own portals and tomb passages underneath, just like the Yang residence, but no one knows why he did so.

Underneath this “Cannon Temple”, there will be a “cellar”-like chamber, which can lead to the “Feng family’s old mansion”, but I don’t know if there will be a hidden “floor-flowering cannon” underneath the ground as well. “The reason is that …… should not be, because the “Immortal” Feng Shiku will never destroy the mansion easily, but it is said that the hidden weapons in the crypts are all set up according to the old method. If you go from the tomb, you will have to think of ways to deal with the various organs in the ancient tombs of the past generations.

The so-called “use people do not suspect, suspect people do not use”, in the name of Professor Sun’s ancestors in the name of the spirit of heaven sent a poisonous oath, coupled with all the things before and after to confirm that I have temporarily eliminated his suspicions, otherwise it is bound to be difficult to move, immediately agreed to say: “This is a way, better than being trapped in the Here suffering, there is a saying – unique heroes drive tigers and leopards, more no heroes afraid of bears and fighters. The craftsman who touches the gold inverted bucket, what tomb is afraid to enter?”

“Cannon God Temple” in the seemingly silent, but the crisis, in the case of no way in and out, the people immediately decided to throw their lives away, ready to get out of the underground catacombs, but Prof. Sun’s family generations of secret stories, even he himself does not guarantee that it is true, there is no tomb under the temple is still difficult to say.

So five people lined up, carefully with the sapper shovel and steel Emei thorns a piece of pry open the floor tiles, found that the temple near the wall of the ground are gun pins, rows of hidden laying, dense and intermittent, that the “five thunder blossom gun” is not a landmine, there is no way to dismantle the fuses, can only try to avoid, the entire temple in the only gun god master clay statue around the circle, there is no buried fire pins concealed weapons. There were no fire pins or hidden weapons buried.

Fear of touching the fire pins, no one dares to exert too much force, slowly move away from the top few bricks, see the bricks under the layer of clear mud rammed earth, the length of the engineer shovel is too short, digging and chiseling rammed earth can not make the force, and rammed earth may be a mixture of glutinous rice and children’s urine, the soil quality of the dense and fine, we use the shovel to dig up not a few times, the forehead has been sweating.

I had to go with the fat man to carry the “Guan Gong knife” over, according to move the mountain Taoist left “cut” word secret in the cave mausoleum of the ancient recipe, the first in the ground drenched with some of the soju, the rammed earth soaked loosened up a bit, and then inverted the head of the knife, with that three-pronged cast iron “Knife” to the ground to poke, this Guan Gong knife is like a dozens of pounds of heavy brazier, chiseling up the hard layer of mud to be very handy.

Poke a layer of rammed earth broken digging, really is a layer of more than a foot thick mud, mud and a layer of sleepers, digging here, has been able to prove that the temple under the existence of the “chamber”, the wood used is probably from the real “tomb”, square columns of wood have been half-decayed, the smell of bad luck. Already half rotten, bad smell pungent, with Guan Gong knife poked a few times, arranged in a neat rotten wood will be sunken from, revealing a black hole in the ground, inside the outward whooshing ghastly wind.

Fatty happy: “It seems that the militia has been the village tunnels connected to a piece of the ……” his words did not fall, heard the “Cannon God Temple” in the clay statue rumbled and shook a little, the original underground Pillow early in the original site has been flooded by groundwater, rotten unbearable burden, a stake spoiled, but also led to several nearby horizontal wood and broken.

Broken several sleepers fall, just located in the embrace of “Franco” at the bottom of the clay statue of the cannon god, the god shook, heavy clay statue head-on collision planted to the back wall, the cannon god’s head was knocked off on the spot, body and head separated and crashed to the ground, only to listen to the back wall and then issued a “khaki “A strange sound was heard from the back wall.

All of us heart is a heavy sinking, know that this is “landing blossom cannon” pin spring seizure, I hurriedly pushed a hand stay in place Sun Jiuji: “Go ah, still waiting for what?”

At this time, the temple walls and pillars are the sound of the cannon spring action, I greeted him at the same time, but also do not care about what is the situation in the chamber, and even pushed and dragged Professor Sun pushed down, and then the rest of the several people also followed closely jumped into the chamber, the fat man felt that the “Guan Gong Knife” is heavy and sturdy, and used quite smooth, although a person certainly can not swing up, but split a coffin! Can just use it, can’t throw it away, in a hurry, also didn’t forget to drag this big knife.

This by hundreds of pillows stacked into the chamber space is very narrow, people can not stand straight inside, which also has a large ancient wooden coffin, I was the last one to jump in, just landed on the lid of the wooden coffin, not waiting for the force of the landing disappeared, I heard a muffled thunderous roar above my head one after another, the soil and broken wood continue to fall on the body.