My master is invincible

Chapter 877
Listening to Han Jingui's words, I followed him into the apse without thinking.

To be honest, the apse is really not very good, about sixty square meters, worse than some slums, and some places are even quite dilapidated, especially the eight statues on the far left, perhaps because of the age, the eight statues It has been completely changed, and the face can barely be seen clearly. If I guessed correctly, the eight gods should be the eight eight immortals including Lu Dongbin.

I asked Han Jingui why he didn't put the statue in the front hall, and he said that it was too old, and it was just a joke to put it out.

Ok!I also quite agree with this statement. After all, the eight god statues are indeed broken and ugly, so they might as well be placed in the back hall. I didn't ask him further, but asked him what the third thing was.

He thought for a while, found two wooden stools in the back hall, handed me another cigarette, lit it, took a deep breath, and sighed: "Palace Master, I have heard people say something about the grievances between you and Wang Muyang. .”

I hummed, the matter between me and Wang Muyang caused quite a stir in Quyang, he knew it was normal, so he signaled him to continue talking.

I thought he would sternly criticize me, but how could I know, he slapped his thigh and said, "Palace Master, this is a beautiful job, that kid Wang Muyang relied on the Metaphysics Association to not put us traditional eight immortals on the table. In his eyes, he even threatened to make our traditional Eight Immortals have no place to live in peace."

I haven't heard of this, but I heard from Lord Jiang that Wang Muyang has great ambitions, and wants to occupy the country's funerals and make crematoriums bloom and bear fruit all over the country.To put it bluntly, Wang Muyang strongly recommends cremation. His goal is that one day in the future, crematoriums will no longer be opened in cities, and even rural areas will have crematoriums. At that time, future generations will hold ashes It's over, we Eight Immortals really have no place to stand.

I thought about it and asked him, "What do you think about cremation?"

He sighed: "New society, new things to do, I am not a pedantic person, this cremation is indeed a good method from the perspective of land resources and environmental pollution. However, we have thousands of years of funerals in China. If the culture is cut off like this, people will inevitably say that they have forgotten their ancestors. Moreover, some places pay special attention to funeral culture. If it is forced to do so, it may cause resentment. So ah! Cremation has advantages and disadvantages, and burial also has advantages and disadvantages Disadvantage."

I nodded. What Han Jingui said was quite satisfactory. He neither favored burial nor despised cremation, but told some truths. Take some cities as an example, every inch of land is worth an inch of gold, even if future generations are willing to buy a piece of land for the elderly to bury , However, that price is enough to stop 95% of people.

For a while, I can’t say anything. After all, the times are advancing, and some things need to be seen earlier and the essence. Whether we want to admit it or not, this society is changing all the time. Maybe this is changing with the times , or maybe this is the inevitable result of social progress, not a certain person can stop it, even I don't have such a big heart.

At the moment, I talked to him about cremation and burial, but I didn't say why, so I stopped talking about this issue and asked directly, the third thing.

He glanced up at me and said, "Palace Master, since you became the Eight Immortals, you first experienced double coffins, living burials, twin flowers, Yang coffins, empty coffins, and nine-son coffins, and then you experienced Yin Qi, harvesting birds, and wind coffins." Burial, corpse feeding, and the Yin coffin some time ago, did you find a problem?"

"What's the problem?" I asked suspiciously.

"You respect the dead too much, and the thinking in your bones is too pedantic. Some things don't need to abide by its rules, you just need to follow the ideas of the new society. You have to know that both the underworld and the underworld are changing all the time, old ancestor It’s true that the rules of the funeral should be passed on, but as contemporary people, we need to innovate and add something of our own to make a funeral come to a perfect end.”

He said these words lightly.

I thought about it for a while, and what he said was not unreasonable. Many times, I was thinking, according to the content of "Liu Ding Liu Jia Burial Sutra", there are indeed some things that are not suitable for today's society, as it said, The funeral needs to be buried with the clothes of the descendants to prove the respect of the descendants to the ancestors.

However, among the descendants of today, who would be willing to be buried with clothes?How unlucky that is!Therefore, I have never mentioned this method of funerals, but have carried out funerals according to a method that is acceptable to people today.

Seeing that I didn't speak, Han Jingui thought I was angry, so he said: "Master, I am not denying your approach, but everything needs to be flexible, I hope you can be more flexible, and you don't want to be evenly matched with Wang Muyang, but I beg you to lead us Eight Immortals to have enough food and clothing, and don’t let people look at us with contempt once they hear that we are Eight Immortals, I... I... We Eight Immortals are not cheap, but our family is not as good as others."

After saying this, Han Jingui took out a cigarette, lit it, took a few deep breaths, and sighed heavily. Perhaps only those at that time knew about the helplessness and bitterness in it!

I clenched my fists and didn't speak. I couldn't help thinking about the scene of celebrating the New Year in my hometown. The young people in the village gathered together, but I didn't have the courage to go. It wasn't because I had fewer arms and legs than others, but because my profession was not The glory is only because of the work I do, which is low in the eyes of others.

I don't know why, but my heart became inexplicably bitter. I followed Han Jingui's example, took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a few deep breaths. Neither of us spoke, just like that, smoking silently.

After one cigarette was gone, Han Jingui took out another one for me, lit it for me, knelt down towards me suddenly, so scared that I quickly pulled him up, and said, "What are you doing all this time? Are you a brat?"

"Palace Master!" His voice was a little heavy, he was unwilling to get up, and said: "I have been an Eight Immortal for 15 years, and I know the difficulties of the Eight Immortals, and I know that it is not easy for us Eight Immortals to live. The third thing I want to do is to beg you, We must let the Eight Immortals raise their heads and be human, really, Palace Master, we Eight Immortals are human beings, they are upright people, we are not lowly, what is lowly is the human heart."

Hearing this, I felt even more bitter. I understood his painstaking efforts more or less, so I nodded and said, "I will definitely follow your old wishes, so that our Eight Immortals can raise our heads and be human, and never let anyone bully us."

After saying this, I hurriedly went to pull Han Jingui, he got up slowly, said hello three times, and said: "Xiao Jiu, if you will be brilliant and prosperous in the future, don't forget what I said today."

"One word from a gentleman is hard to follow." I said in a deep voice.

He nodded in satisfaction, and began to tell me something about the Eight Immortals, and told me the origin of the Fire Dragon Chunyang Sword. According to him, the Fire Dragon Chunyang Sword was the sword used by Lu Dongbin before he became an immortal, and it has a restraining effect on evil things , when encountering a coffin that is difficult to lift, you can hang the Fire Dragon Chunyang Sword on your waist to ward off evil spirits, or you can use the Fire Dragon Chunyang Sword to replace the soul-calling flag on the funeral, and its effect is several times better than the soul-calling flag.

Of course, this Fire Dragon Chunyang Sword must be used in the funerals of evil sects. Generally, the funeral is still dominated by the summoning banners. When carrying the coffin, if there is nothing wrong, you can’t bring the Fire Dragon Chunyang Sword with you. The sword itself has too much yang energy, which will hurt the soul of the deceased, so it can only be worn with you when encountering strange things.

(End of this chapter)