In the days when there were many scholars in Changban County in the previous dynasty, this place was naturally very popular, especially before entering Beijing to take the exam every year, when the incense here was at its best, and there was an endless stream of scholars.

Today is the time when the Autumn Examinations of the Liang Dynasty are about to start, but the Dongzi Temple is deserted right now.

A Dongzi Temple, when Chen Chao walked in, he found that there were only scattered incense burnt out in the incense burner in front of him.

In terms of quantity, it's not much.

There is an old camphor tree on each side. There are some fallen leaves on the ground and no one has cleaned them.

Chen Chao stood on one side for half a day and saw only three groups of people coming. Each group only had two or three people. Two of them were elderly Confucian scholars with gray hair, and the other group was younger.

But they all hurriedly lit a stick of incense here and then left in a hurry.

It seems that I came here just for my own peace of mind, but not necessarily sincerely.

As for why they are not sincere, the reason is simple, simply because they don't believe that Dong Zi can still protect them.

And why do you come here if you don't believe it? It's a blind cat that kills a rat, and it's just a so-called emergency.

After all these groups of people left, Chen Chao entered the main hall of Dongzi Temple.

The main hall is still small and a little dim, because all the candles around it are burned out. In the past, when the incense here was at its peak, some people would voluntarily maintain it here, but times have changed, and the government does not care about these things, so naturally this is the case.

There is a statue of Dong Zi in the center. It is not very tall. The statue is carved from a huge stone. There are no traces of time now. You can clearly see the style of Dong Zi hundreds of years ago.

On both sides of the statue of Dong Zi, there is a row of bookshelves. The traces of time are very obvious. There are some books scattered here and there. I think that at that time, both sides should be full of books, but now most of them are missing.

There was a scholar in a green robe whose clothes were a little white from washing. He was standing in front of a bookshelf on one side, flipping through an old book.

Chen Chao glanced at the scholar over there. The latter seemed to realize that someone was looking at him, raised his head and smiled at Chen Chao.

Chen Chao smiled in return.
Chapter completed!