folk legend

Chapter 35
Jiang Liu didn't give Han Gui a chance to speak back. After finishing speaking in one breath, he hurried out of the room without looking back.After finding Han Kui, he followed him to build the spirit shed.

After being robbed, Han Gui trembled in anger, and wanted to scold the little brat, but he slipped away.He intends to chase Jiang Liu out to find Jiang Liu, and talk to him, but on second thought, forget it, at his age, in front of all the villagers, how can he compete with a child, and besides, he is Blind Han after all. As a disciple, if you don't look at the monk's face, you have to look at the Buddha's face.

Shaking his head helplessly in his heart, he said to himself: "Oh, these young people now... Forget it... I should go and do what I should do."

I was thinking about what I should do, but after looking around the room, Han Gui didn't find anything he could do.The violent temper came up again, and he cursed loudly outside.

"I'm busy with your grandma!!!"

Han Gui, who was full of anger, also came to the yard and wandered among the busy villagers, talking about how to do this, and giving pointers on how to fix that.

When I finally saw Han Yucai at the gate, I suddenly thought of something, so I walked up to Han Yucai, and said in a negotiating tone: "Yucai, let me discuss something with you. Look, your younger brother's child is still alive." Xiao, if it doesn’t work, you, the big brother, go report to the temple for your younger brother.”

Reporting to the temple is a custom of paddock funeral, that is, after a person dies, the relatives of the family go to the local earth temple to report the news of the death of the deceased.

To put it simply, it is equivalent to going to the underworld to register an account for the dead.By the way, send some money to the land master, and ask him to help watch the ghosts of the dead, and don't run around like a lonely ghost.

After reporting to the temple, before the dead is buried, the family members of the deceased have to deliver syrup to the ghost on time and at the time of the three meals in the morning, middle and evening (the syrup is the local name of the paddock, which means to give the ghost The recipe is also very simple, that is, soak a few handfuls of millet in a kettle filled with water).

When delivering the syrup, the family members of the deceased carried the kettle and walked around the Earth Temple, pouring the syrup while walking, chanting the name of the deceased, calling him to come back for dinner.

This... this is somewhat similar to that... a little scary...

After drenching the slurry, the family members of the deceased kneel again in front of the Earth Temple, burn a few pieces of paper money, and then they can go back.

Besides, after the old village chief discussed with Han Yucai, Han Yucai didn't refuse, and readily agreed, which made Han Gui happy, and called a young man to come with Han Yucai to report to the temple.

The reason why Han Gui is so happy is because there is a rule in Baomiao, that is, the people who report to the temple must be the younger generation of the deceased, or the person next to the deceased.But Han Youcai's child is only one year old now, so naturally he can't do this.His daughter-in-law was crying like that again, and she needed someone to carry her to walk, and she couldn't go there.

Han Yucai was the elder brother of the deceased, logically speaking, he could not report to the temple at all.But the old village head was also very surprised by his cheerful attitude, so he carefully found someone to accompany him to report to the temple.

But I don't know why, ever since Han Yucai took the villager and left with the water bottle, Han Gui couldn't let it go, as if something was going to happen.

So much so that the old man, who had been the village chief for many years, even silently recited words such as the blessings of the Bodhisattva in his heart when he was directing back and forth in the yard.

Most of the time, things are like this, the more you are afraid, the more trouble will happen.This time was no exception. When Han Gui was upset, Han Yucai, who hadn't been reporting to the temple for a long time, ran back to the yard in a panic.

After entering the courtyard, instead of running directly inside, he stood at the gate and groped for a while, until he saw Han Gui who was talking to others, and then quickly came to him.

Seeing Han Yucai who had gone and returned, the old village chief was startled, and a very bad feeling lingered in his heart.Sure enough, after Han Yucai finished talking to himself about the situation in a low voice, Han Gui's expression immediately became very ugly.

When the matter came to this point, Han Gui also let go of his old face, ignoring the unhappiness with Jiang Liu just now, and walked towards Jiang Liu who was building the coffin.

With a trace of embarrassment, Han Gui called Jiang Liu to stop, then pulled him aside, and said in a low voice: "Liu Zi, don't do this, you follow Yucai to see, something happened when he reported to the temple just now! "

When he first heard that there was an accident in the temple, Jiang Liu was stunned.Because it was the first time he heard of an accident when he reported to the temple since he was studying art with his master, because such a thing was never mentioned by Han Xiazi.

It can be seen that the probability of this kind of thing happening is extremely small.But such an event with such a small probability, unexpectedly let me encounter it, and it was the first time he encountered it when he was out of Hei'er.Furthermore, the failure of arresting ghosts and asking questions just now left more or less shadows in Jiang Liu's heart.

Therefore, when Han Gui said that something had happened to the temple, the young man suddenly felt a little bit of hesitation in his heart.

But before he could make up his mind, Han Yu grabbed his arm and said, "Sir, let's go quickly, there is still one person lying on the other side." go outside.

It turned out that after Han Yucai saw that the old village head found Jiang Liu, and listened to what he said, he realized that this young man was Mr. Chu Hei'er Yin Yang.I was anxious, and I also thought that Jiang Liu was a child, so I did this.

Being dragged like this, Jiang Liu couldn't refuse too much, so he had to bite the bullet and went to the Earth Temple at the south end of the village with Han Yucai.

As a result, on the way, after Jiang Liu listened to Han Yucai's general explanation of the situation, the young man felt a chill in his heart, and even retreated.

In the countryside, there are land temples in every village, but most of them are not very large in scale, and their grades vary widely.The better one is more than one meter high, made of red bricks, has windows and doors, and is covered with cement tiles. It is a miniature version of the house.

The second point is to find a few big stones at random and make it look like a house, and then find a relatively flat stone slab to cover it, and that's all.

Why there is such a gap is also related to the length of the village's history.For example, when Lord Kangxi was shortlisted, the village formed by the Eight Banners stationed in the paddock had to build a land temple with blue bricks and red tiles no matter what.As for the villages formed by the people who escaped from the famine later when they entered the Guandong, the Earth Temple is very simple.They also want to make things tidy, but they have to have that spare money, right?

However, when it comes to the earth temple in Hanjia Wopu, it is considered a rare thing in the local area.

The earth temple of Hanjiawopu is located at the south of the village. It is built with great attention. It is made of big blue bricks. short.

But what is strange is not these, but an elm tree that used to grow next to the Earth Temple.According to the old people in the village, the trunk of the elm tree needs to be embraced by a dozen people to get over it.

It's not surprising if it's just rough.The reason why this tree is strange is that there is a small hole that can flow clear water outside the trunk about one meter above the ground.

It is really strange to talk about this, because normally this hole does not flow a drop of water, once clear water flows out of it, it will rain or snow soon, which is very effective.

Not only that, the water flowing out of this hole can also treat pink eye disease. If anyone has pink eye disease, he only needs to smear a little on it, and it will be ready within three hours.

Such a miraculous tree has such a rare ability, so the villagers naturally worship it as a god.Every year on March [-]rd, June [-]th, and September [-]th, the villagers will beat gongs and drums to decorate the tree in red. Even on ordinary days, the top of the tree is covered with red cloth strips.

In this way, until the time of the Cultural Revolution, when the upper echelon became more energetic, the Red Guards from all over the country rebelled one after another.At that time, it was Han Youcai who came to Han's Wopu to lead the rebellion.

If he is the son of a farmer with three generations of grandparents and grew up in this village, why did he take the lead in rebelling against his own village?

Speaking of this, it is a long story that the child has no mother.To make a long story short, there is some grievance between Han Youcai's father and Han Gui.That's why Han Youcai, who had studied in the county for a few days, gathered a large group of Red Guards at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, and returned to Han's nest shop first to rebel against Han Gui.

Originally, Han Youcai at that time, when he brought a group of Red Guards back to the Han family's womb, he wanted to remove Han Gui, the village chief, and put him in the cowshed for any reason.

But Han Gui is so shrewd, not to mention that there is a female Zhuge at home, so this gang of young Red Guards investigated Han's nest shop for nearly half a month, but they didn't catch anything against him.

However, everyone was unwilling to go back like this, and after going back like this, how to explain to the County Revolutionary Organization Committee, and finally everyone discussed, simply, let's break the four olds by the way, so the idea of ​​​​the Earth Temple came up .

When the Red Guard young generals took their shovels and picks to prepare to demolish the temple, they found that a group of old men and old ladies surrounded the Earth Temple, and even the top of the temple was full of people, all of them with determined expressions on their faces. His facial expressions are likely to coexist and perish with the Earth Temple.

Although these young Red Guards were all high-spirited, they could only stare blankly in front of such a group of old men and old ladies.

But it came with great fanfare, but in the end nothing was done?How embarrassing it is to pass it back.Finally, at Han Youcai's suggestion, the group of young Red Guards fixed their eyes on the old elm tree.

(End of this chapter)