Chapter 2 first half monument

In the backyard of Tenmyouji Temple, there is an ancient and dilapidated ancient monument, only half of which remains.There should have been a lot of writing on the surface of the stele, but the age of the stele is too old, and the writing on it is blurred and cannot be seen clearly.Sometimes when you caress the surface of the stele, the slight unevenness makes people wonder about its past life.Where does this monument come from?People in the temple don't know much about it. The half stele erected in the center of the backyard is useless, and even a bit of a hindrance. Only when the clothes are dried, a bamboo pole is tied to it makes it not so useless.

The weeds beside the half monument grew extraordinarily luxuriantly, which was the credit of the warning—every time it passed by, it couldn't help but raise its hind legs. Jie Chen has many friends in Miao Town, and most of them are benefactors who are about the same age as Jie Chen.A benefactor Wu was assigned to work in the town government of Miao Town last year.I remember one day, he came to Jie Chen with a sad face to complain, saying that the county was going to compile the county annals, and he was transferred to work. He said that this kind of thing was boring and trivial, and some senior colleagues rejected him, and he was rejected because he was a newcomer assigned to participate.

After a long time, Jie An accidentally met Wu benefactor in Miao Town, Wu benefactor happily chatted with Jie An on the side of the road, and he didn't look like he was tired and tired, but he was getting fatter.Jie Chen smiled and told Benefactor Wu about the changes in his appearance. Benefactor Wu said with a wry smile that he had been locked up in the room for several months to check various materials, neither seeing sunlight nor exercising, so he naturally developed into an idol. He suddenly happily told Jie An that when he checked the information that day, he saw a record about Maoshan. It turned out that there was a high-ranking official in the history of Miaozhen.One year, the once prominent official returned to Miao Town, intending to build an ancestral hall for his family.Before building the ancestral hall, the officials specially invited Mr. Feng Shui to see Feng Shui. As a result, Mr. Feng Shui took a fancy to a place on Maoshan and said that the Feng Shui there was particularly good.At that time, transportation was not convenient, and it was relatively more difficult to build a ancestral hall on the mountain. Therefore, the officials spent a lot of money to build a particularly magnificent ancestral hall on Maoshan Mountain, which caused a sensation in many surrounding towns.

Jie Chen curiously asked about the whereabouts of the ancestral hall.Benefactor Wu said that after hundreds of years, after many wars and looting by bandits, this gorgeous ancestral hall no longer exists, but according to the records in the book, the location of the ancestral hall at that time should be the same as the current location of Tianming Temple Far. Jie Chen smiled after hearing this, and didn't know the authenticity of the story, but when Jie Chen told the story to other people in the temple, everyone burst into laughter. After a while, one evening, Jie Chen sat in the backyard and looked at the half of the stele in the middle of the yard. He had a feeling in his heart that maybe the stories recorded in that book were true, and the half of the stele might be the gorgeous Relics of the shrine.

Standing in the middle of the backyard of Tenmyoji Temple, I refrained from thinking: Hundreds of years ago, this place might have been luxurious and magnificent, and it might have been worshiped by people coming and going.But what now?All that remains is the humble, dusty half-monument in the old corner. All hustle and bustle will subside.