Cultivation little Taoist

Chapter 403 Luban's Art
House monsters are actually a general term for the monsters in the house. This is a very general term, just like animals are divided into wild animals and captive animals. House monsters are actually divided into two situations: self-generated and external ones.

After drinking for three rounds, Ye Feng began to ask tentatively: "Brother, you opened this small shop by yourself? Are you still married at this age?"

The shopkeeper sighed when he heard this, "Don't mention it, I'm married, I married a broom star, and I'm taking care of my dad in the back, so I won't let her serve at the table, my little brother forgive me."

"Your dad? Is your dad sick?" Ye Feng asked with concern.

The shopkeeper looked at Ye Feng and said, since you are also a Taoist priest, there is no point in hiding this matter from you, so let me tell you, but I have no hope for you.

Ye Feng said in his heart, sure enough.

"To tell you the truth, my house has been built for more than a year, and it was at that time that my wife and I got married here.

But after getting married, strange things happened in this new house. First, the inexplicable food was difficult to cook, which made the guests find trouble several times, or the chickens and ducks raised in the yard were either lost or died of illness.

At first it was a small matter, but I didn’t care about it, and then it became even more outrageous, the house was often disturbed at night, my father was originally a cook at the time, and he retired, and he was seriously ill, and he never recovered. His wife has been taking care of him. "

"How do you know it's because of your wife and this new house? Is it related to the house monster you just mentioned?" Ye Feng asked.

"That's right." The shopkeeper nodded, and pointed to a red cloth-covered purse hanging on the beam, "Little brother is well-informed, so he must know what it is?"

Ye Feng just took a look, his face suddenly changed color, then he stood up and walked around the room, and finally walked outside the door to take a closer look at the decoration, thinking that it was true.

"Brother, what's the matter?" Seeing that Ye Feng's expression was wrong, Xia Shihan chased him out, and Pei Yan'er also watched from the side, "It's nothing, isn't it just an ordinary BJ courtyard building?"

"This is not BJ's style, but Zhangzhou's style." Ye Feng looked at the shopkeeper who came out, and explained to the two of them slowly, at the same time, he also showed the shopkeeper that he was not a half-hearted:

"I went to that place in Zhangzhou with my elder brother when I was practicing. Zhangzhou is located in the lower reaches of the Jiulong River, forming a 'Golden Triangle' with Xiamen and Quanzhou. It is an ancient city with a long history, and it is also a world-famous 'land of flowers, fruits, fish and rice' .

The folk customs there are simple, and the people are very nice. The reason why my senior brother and I went there that time was because they encountered an unsolvable evil spirit when they were summoning souls.

The local fishery is well developed. Of course, if fishermen or boat people fall into the water due to other accidents and die, the family members of the deceased will hang a piece of clothing worn by the deceased on the bow of the boat when they are looking for the body on the water, and wail along the river. It is very desolate.

If other boats find the dead body on the water, they will take the initiative to report to the relatives of the dead. question.

At that time, the cultivation level of the evil spirit was very low, and the elder brother and I quickly resolved it. There is nothing to say about this matter. What I want to say is the peculiar local architectural style.

The architecture of the Zhangzhou residence is a bit like BJ’s. The tall main building with two rooms at the front and back and the slightly lower side house protruding from the side plus a courtyard, it has the flavor of a southern courtyard, so it’s not surprising that Yan’er got it wrong.

Just now I went to your backyard to take a look. The design of the house is still very ordinary, a typical Fujian house, but it is slightly more spacious. Entering the main entrance, there is a hall in the middle, a room on each side, a large room on the left, and a room on the right. For the second room.

There are dragon guards on both sides in front of the main building, making the whole building open on one side, with a "cheng" in the middle for drying and raising grain, plus the front wing room used as a facade, it already looks like a rectangular courtyard.

If my guess is correct, you, the shop owner, have also hired a craftsman who is the direct descendant of Lu Banshu, right? "

After Ye Feng finished speaking, the shopkeeper gave a thumbs up: "I didn't expect you to have such experience at such a young age. That's right, this residence was built for me by the Luban craftsmen I specially invited from Zhangzhou.

After all, I’m not familiar with the place where I live in BJ, and I feel a little more at ease when I have a house demon town house, but I didn’t expect..."

The shopkeeper said, shaking his head non-stop.

"Brother, what is the craftsman of Lubanshu?" Xia Shihan asked suspiciously. Although Pei Yan'er really wanted to say "I don't know this", she only knew Lubanshu, so she didn't know if it was really there. demon ability.

"Book of Luban is a wonderful book about civil engineering in ancient China, it is said to be written by the sage Luban.

The first volume is Taoism, and the second volume is solution and medical spells.But except for medical spells, there are no clear practice methods for other spells, but only spells and symbols.

It is said that if you learn Lubanshu, you must "miss one school". Widowed, widowed, lonely, lonely, and handicapped are the same, and you can choose from the time of practice. Therefore, "Book of Luban" won another name-"Missing one school".

In the old days, at the beginning of building a house, a Feng Shui master was asked to select a site and determine the building's orientation and orientation.

When the ground was broken, the folks were used to erecting a wooden sign of "Fude Zhengshen" at the main hall site, commonly known as "Di Gong".

Before breaking the ground, you need to pay a lot of money, and then use a hammer to dig around the house from east to west, which is called "breaking the ground".

After breaking ground, civil engineering can be started.

However, on the second and sixteenth day of the lunar calendar, you have to worship the Lord of the Land.

Until the building of the house is completed, "Xie Tu" burns the god tablet and officially enshrines the God of Earth on the case in the main hall.

During construction, when laying down bricks, placing doors, raising beams, sealing back, closing ridges, and releasing culverts, it is usually necessary to choose an auspicious day and a good day, commonly known as "watching the sun". Among them, the procedure of raising beams is the most mysterious and grand.

First of all, select the auspicious day for the beam. When the auspicious day arrives, all the laborers in the village will come to help.

When the good day arrives, the homeowners and craftsmen wash their hands and faces, and the homeowners burn incense to invite the gods and worship the god of the earth.

The carpenter read Liang Zhuwen, praying for God to bless the smooth construction and the peace of the house, and everyone worked together to raise the beam.

In the end, the carpenter went to the beam to seal the beam and offer wine, and the owner of the house gave red envelopes to the craftsmen on the beam. This custom is still popular today, but now they are building buildings, and this kind of Luban craftsmen are only active in some remote mountain villages.

The most feared thing among the old folk house building customs is that carpenters and masons use witchcraft spells to secretly "restrain things" in building houses, commonly known as "making curses".

In the old days, craftsmen feuded over wages, hospitality, and construction quality. Craftsman's "doing curse" curses were real, so most people respected the craftsmen.

But there is one exception, that is, the master's family, please ask Luban craftsmen to "make a curse", this kind of curse will attract house demons to guard the house and protect the peace of the family
But if they are not very familiar with the Luban craftsman, few people would choose to do this, because if the master had a slight conflict with the Luban craftsman before and made him hold a grudge, then the house monster invited the wolf into the house. "

After listening to Ye Feng's narration, the owner applauded again and again, his eyes gleaming: "Unexpectedly, unexpectedly, Ye Tianshi is so proficient in Luban's technique! It seems that the situation of memorizing characters in my family may really need to improve! "

The shop owner actually didn't want to say it at first, because he was afraid that Ye Feng, a young Taoist priest, had no real skills, and instead made himself worry about it, but he didn't expect that the young man in front of him really had skills!
He wanted to confess Ye Feng now, and even called him Little Brother Ye Tianshi.

"If I'm not mistaken, the things hanging on the beams of your house are town objects, right?" Ye Feng asked.

"That's right, it's the town thing. When the beam is sealed at two o'clock, the Luban carpenter who is in charge usually puts the things that need to be spelled in a small cloth bag and hangs it on the top of the main beam, and once it is hung Just don't take it down and open it, otherwise the house monster may backfire.

As for what to hang, the carpenter showed us before hanging it up, so there should be no problem with the spell he made. "

The shopkeeper said, but Ye Feng frowned. How could the shopkeeper judge that the things inside were not something that would make the house demon retaliate?He understands the behavior of Luban craftsmen so well, is he also half a yin person?
But Ye Feng didn't explain this point, just asked: "Then why do you say your wife is a broom star?"

"How should I put it... This matter is really a long story..." The owner sighed, "Okay, let's stop standing outside, go in and talk while eating."

When Ye Feng and the others entered with the shop owner, they saw a woman wearing a beige coat and a hair pin tied up was cleaning up the leftovers on the table. Her skin was very fair, but she was a little sick, with a delicate face and clear facial features. , but his brows were tightly wrinkled, with a sad look on his face.

"Who asked you to clean it up! We haven't finished eating yet! Why are you out if you don't take good care of my dad!" The shopkeeper yelled at the woman when he saw the woman. Ye Feng thought to himself, these two people are really a little different. Good match.

It's really an impermanence for a strong man to get such a beautiful wife.

Just as Ye Feng was thinking about it, the shopkeeper suddenly rushed over in three steps and slapped the woman in two steps, "Get out of here quickly! Don't embarrass me from here!"

"Brother, sister-in-law is kind enough to help you clean up, we've finished eating too, don't hit anyone!" Ye Feng rushed to grab the owner's arm, the woman bit her lip, put down the plate in her hand, He walked into the backyard without saying a word.

"Broomstar!" The shopkeeper cursed, taking a sip of his white wine.

Ye Feng shook his head, it seemed that he really hated his wife.

"What's going on? Seeing that my sister-in-law is quite honest, and she's so pretty, don't get so angry..."

"I'd die because of her beauty! If I had known, I wouldn't have tried so hard to snatch her from someone else and marry her back! It made my house a mess!"

Ye Feng's heart moved, what is the situation...

(End of this chapter)