Chapter 1144 Golden Light in the Cave (12)

Chapter 1144 Golden Light in the Cave (12)

Woo!

A cold wind whistled outside the mountain temple.

The prostitutes were thinly dressed, and they felt a chill as the wind blew over their bodies, and even the remaining warmth in their blood was taken away by the cold wind.

The red lantern fire was still reflecting the situation inside the mountain temple.

A dry, windproof small temple filled with firewood, under the reflection of the fire, gave the people present an indescribable sense of security.

The prostitutes hesitated and remained silent.

After a while, Chuan Baoer shook the lantern that was inserted into the temple gate and said, "Sister Cui, Sister Qiao'er, Sister Sun, Sister Yu... Let's go to the temple, shall we?

There is a cave in the temple... I don't know where it leads to, maybe there is something dangerous hidden.

But no matter how dangerous it is, it is better than staying outside, where we may fall into the ravine and die at any time, be taken away by black bears and leopards running around in the mountains, or be killed by lonely ghosts hiding in the mountains... It is much better than these, right?

There is a lot of firewood in it, and we can warm up before we die...

What do you think?"

Several prostitutes also knew their own situation. In this cold, gloomy and extremely steep mountain, they were afraid that they could not survive for a night. They felt that there was no hope for them.

Being able to warm up and sleep well before dying is also a gift from God.

So after Chuan Baoer first proposed, the remaining prostitutes nodded and said, "Yes, let's hide in the temple..."

"It can be considered that God has mercy on us and has given us a good place to warm up our bodies!"

"I am shivering with cold now. If the wind blows a few more times, my soul will be blown away by the wind. Let's go to the temple quickly..."

As the prostitutes talked, they worked together to push open the two temple doors that were blocked by the stones and debris piled up inside.

Then, Chuan Baoer took the lead and Qiao'er followed closely.

The five prostitutes passed through the gap between the two temple doors one by one.

Chuan Baoer placed the red lantern on a relatively flat stone platform. The lantern light jumped, and also reflected the light and dark inside the mountain temple. After they all went into the temple, they turned back and closed the temple door again until there was only a gap of two fingers wide, so that the outside air could flow in without letting the mountain wind blow into the temple and take away the heat in the temple.

The prostitutes talked quietly while working together to move the debris and stones piled up in the temple, gradually clearing out a piece of open space.

Qiao'er, whose face was covered with marks of chopsticks and skinny, and Sister Cui, whose face was covered with bayberry sores, worked together to move a corner of the stone table, revealing a cloth painting underneath.

The painting was wrapped in a few pieces of rocks and stained with a lot of incense ash.

Yu'er, who was much taller than the other prostitutes, wiped the incense ash off the painting with her sleeve. Chuanbao'er, who was the most beautiful among the prostitutes, even with bayberry pimples on her face, still couldn't hide her beauty. She moved the stone pressing on the painting, and the cloth painting was revealed in front of the prostitutes - the painting was a portrait of a god with a golden crown and white beard, holding a dragon-headed cane in his hand, and wearing a green robe.

As soon as the prostitutes saw the portrait, they knew what god this mountain temple mainly worshipped.

"It's the portrait of the mountain god..."

"Put up the painting, we've taken the place of the mountain god, each of us kowtowed to him three times, and asked him not to blame us."

"That's the reason, that's the reason..."

The prostitutes whispered and hung the mountain god portrait on the wall beside the door.

——This statue should have been hung on the wall facing the door. After all, this small temple only worships the mountain god, and there is no accompanying god. It is somewhat against the rules to hang the main god painting in the position of the accompanying god.

However, there is no temple wall facing the temple door!

Many stones came out of the dark cave and broke down the original temple wall. The prostitutes had to hang the portrait of the mountain god on the side wall first, and kowtowed to the gods in the painting one by one to apologize.

Then they got up and piled some firewood in the middle of the temple and lit it with lanterns.

The prostitutes gathered around the fire and were suffocated by the warm fire. The coldness that penetrated into their bones gradually faded under the smoke of the fire. Several prostitutes finally had some redness on their faces, and they finally seemed to be alive.

"It's so warm. I don't want to die now." Sun Dou'er squinted her eyes and scratched the sores on her face, showing a slightly satisfied smile. The smile on her face full of sores, under the light of the fire, made people feel cold from the bottom of their hearts.

The prostitutes present were in the same situation.

They looked at each other as if they were looking at a mirror, and they were not afraid of each other's ugly faces.

Hearing Sun Dou'er's words, Sister Cui also laughed: "What are you talking about? This mountain temple is a place reserved by the mountain god and God for us poor people. The disaster just now just passed by us. This is God's way of asking us to live...

After surviving this night, we can pick up more firewood during the day.

There are many wild vegetables in the mountains, so we can pick more and cook them into soup.

If we live like this, maybe we will live better than those sisters outside!"

Nowadays, people's lives are difficult. It is not easy to survive with enough food and clothing.

What’s more, these people who wanted to survive were all suffering from syphilis, and they were all terminally ill and dying. The difficulty for them to survive was dozens or hundreds of times higher than that of ordinary people in this era. If they didn’t encounter the gods, it would be basically impossible.

However, it is better to live a miserable life than to die a good death. Even ants try to survive.

They wanted to survive and had expectations for it. What’s wrong with that?

Chuan Baoer, Qiaoer, Yu Jiaren and other prostitutes listened to Sister Cui’s plans for the future, and their eyes flashed. It was obvious that they had heard the other party’s words to their hearts and began to look forward to the future unconsciously.

Sun Douer couldn't help but say, "Let's look for footprints of wild rabbits and deer tomorrow, and learn from the hunters to dig a few traps, catch a few wild rabbits and deer, and stew rabbit meat with wild vegetables...it must be delicious..."

"Then you are just daydreaming...

I used to have a guest who was a hunter.

According to them, the weather is not good now, and you may not be able to hunt any wild animals if you go into the mountains once every three days.

Even if you hunt wild rabbits, they are skinny and there is not much meat to eat."

"Bone stewed with vegetables is also good..."

Chuan Baoer listened to the laughter of several companions, and her thoughts drifted away unconsciously, and she didn't know where she drifted to.

After a long time, she suddenly felt a little cold, and heard the snoring of others in her ears. Then she came to her senses and saw several companions sleeping in a mess, sitting, lying or lying beside the extinguishing campfire.

She smiled and thought to herself, "I'm still thinking about living a good life in the future. I'll talk about it after I can get through the next few days!

Luckily, I came to my senses, otherwise everyone would have no future. Tonight, we would all be frozen to death because the bonfire went out..."

Thinking like this, Chuan Baoer got up and added some firewood to the fire where some fire was still flickering. She watched the flames gradually climb up the firewood, and the warmth lingered in this small temple again. She was relieved and sat back in her seat.

Just as she sat on the stone, she felt as if something golden passed by the corner of her eyes. Out of curiosity, she immediately turned her head to look - as soon as she turned her head, she saw something like flowing water in the dark cave opposite the temple gate, emitting golden light. The light flickered, which made Chuan Baoer feel itchy.

Chuan Baoer looked around, pondered for a few breaths, and then picked up the red lantern in the corner, which was no longer bright. Holding the red lantern, she stepped on the stones that rushed out of the cave and walked deep into the cave.

This cave was inside the mountain temple. The prostitutes saw its existence, but because of their instinctive fear of the unknown, they subconsciously ignored the existence of this cave.

However, no matter how they ignored it, the cave was always inside the mountain temple.

Chuan Baoer's thoughts flew for a long time, and when she came to her senses, she figured out the problem.

She was brave, and coupled with her curiosity about the golden things in the cave, she suppressed her fear of the unknown for a while and walked into the cave with the lantern.