The Strongest Exorcist in the Yin and Yang World

Chapter 118 Lotus Lamp

If it wasn't for being curious about the customs of Xu Feng's hometown, Mo Suifeng would not have followed this woman to this deep mountain.The not too rugged mountain road still had some potholes, and the car was bumping badly. Mo Suifeng took a look at Xu Le who was driving. Fortunately, he was not driving his own car.

When they arrived at their destination, it was already five or six o'clock in the evening. As soon as they entered the village, they heard the sound of gongs and drums, which was also mixed with the sound of Taoist priests chanting scriptures. There were yellow paper and set off firecrackers along the way.

"It seems that we didn't come at the right time, and it's very unlucky to encounter a funeral!" Mo Suifeng said as he walked, with a faint smile on his lips.

"No one will treat you as dumb if you don't speak!" Xu Le said nothing and Mo Suifeng took a quick look and strode forward, Mo Suifeng followed with pursed lips.

"The lights are bright over there, what are you doing?" Mo Suifeng suddenly pointed to a place not far from the opposite side and said, the sound of gongs and drums came from there, sometimes mixed with the sound of firecrackers.

"That's the ancestral hall, where the ranks of the ancestors in the village are placed, and funeral ceremonies will be held there, do you want to go and have a look.

"Well, although I am also a Taoist priest, I know all about these things, but people should be humble, right? You should learn more from others. The masters are among the people! Why don't I send you to your home first, and then come and have a look "Although Mo Suifeng was interested to see it, he did not forget his responsibility, that is, he promised Xu Feng to escort his sister home.

"Also, I want you to escort me. Come on, go and see for yourself. I haven't been back here for several years. I have to go back and clean up to see if I can live there." After finishing speaking, Xu Le turned around and left alone.

"Hey, I really don't want me to accompany you!" Mo Suifeng yelled at Xu Le's back, Xu Le didn't turn his head, raised his right hand and waved without saying a word. After turning a corner, the figure disappeared.

"What a strange woman!"

Mo Suifeng touched his nose and then turned around and walked towards the brightly lit ancestral hall. The city is different from the countryside. Although he is an exorcist and has done many rituals like this, but like the one in front of him This is the first time he has seen such a large-scale ceremony. Besides, the customs are different in different places, and the funeral and funeral are also different. It's good to see it, it's an increase of knowledge.

In front of the gate of the ancestral hall, there was a large circle of people standing. Mo Suifeng squeezed in and took a look, and found a Taoist priest wearing a red and black robe with a painting of the Eight Diagrams Dao on the back, holding a small plate in his hand. Filled with white lime powder.The Taoist priest was drawing on the ground with the small saucer at an angle. After watching for a while, Mo Suifeng realized that the Taoist priest painted a lotus flower, a large lotus flower with a diameter of about two meters.At first glance, it looked like a lotus flower, but soon, Mo Suifeng figured out the way to go. The lotus flower was drawn according to the eight trigrams, and the eye of the eight trigrams is in the middle of the lotus flower.

"What is this painting?" Mo Suifeng whispered while touching his chin and looking at the lotus on the ground.

At this time, a low laugh sounded from the side, and then an immature childish voice said, "Idiot, Lianhua can't even tell."

Mo Suifeng looked down and found a little boy standing beside him, 1.3 meters four, with dark skin, but he looked cute.

"Little one, of course uncle can tell it's a lotus? It's just that uncle doesn't understand what is the use of this lotus?" Mo Suifeng looked at the little one beside him and smiled. For Mo Suifeng, who is about 1.8 meters tall, this little guy is not Just a little one!
Li Lin's face suddenly became unhappy, "I'm not called Xiaobudian, I'm Li Lin, listen to you, you are not from our village, but from the city?"

Although this Li Lin is not very old, he is very experienced in speaking and is not afraid of people, otherwise he would not be the king of children in the village.

"Why are you so smart? You can see it. That's right, uncle is from the city!"
"No wonder, you people in the city are surprised by everything you see, and you really haven't seen the world!" Li Lin looked at Mo Suifeng with contempt and shook his head.

"Uh... little one, if you say that, uncle will be very hurt." Mo Suifeng is really a little sad to be so despised by a child.

"So, can you tell Uncle, what is the painting of the lotus lake on the ground used for?"

"Is it used to walk the lotus lantern?"

"Walking the lotus lantern? What is walking the lotus lantern?" Mo Suifeng turned into Mo Baobao at this moment, blinking and asked again.

"Walking the lotus lantern is a group of people holding lotus lanterns in their hands and following the Taoist priest to walk around the coffin over and over again, starting from here and then going in and walking around the coffin in a circle. After walking nine nine 81 circles, this is nine Nine lotus lanterns, don't talk about it, just look, it's about to start!"

After finishing speaking, Li Lin folded the white cloth in his hand diagonally and put it on his head. After fastening the two sides, it looked like a hat. This is what the locals call a filial piety hat.Everyone who participates in funerals wears such a filial hat, but men and women wear it differently, and the shape and size of the white cloth are different, so the shape of the hat is also different. Li Lin's filial hat looks like a man's way of wearing.Women's white cloth is rectangular, so it is folded in half according to their own size.Roll up the extra white cloth behind and put it on your head, like a dustpan turned upside down on your head.

"Why are you going?" Seeing that Li Lin was about to leave, Mo Suifeng asked while holding his arm.

"Walk the lantern. This is my second uncle's funeral. As a family member, I naturally want to participate in the lotus lantern walk!" After finishing speaking, Li Lin entered the ancestral hall. After a while, he saw two Taoist priests, The two-handed dancer came out with two torches, followed by a young man in sackcloth and filial piety, holding the ranks in both hands, and behind them were several men and women in filial piety, one of them was crying very sadly, it should be the wife of the deceased .

A woman next to her was supporting her, and that woman held a lotus lantern in her hand, and some of them held the lantern in both hands.The so-called lotus lantern is to cut flowers out of red paper, dig a hole in the middle and put it on a white candle. This is the lotus lantern.

Soon, Mo Suifeng saw Li Lin's figure among the group of people. He saw him walking out with the lotus lantern in his hands and following the footsteps of the people in front. The group of people followed the footsteps of the Taoist priest in front.

The Taoist priest sang words while waving the torch in his hand, stepping on the lotus petals step by step, and finally walked into the center of the hexagram eyes.

When the Taoist priests in the inner circle waved their torches and started walking, the others also started to walk around. This was the end of one circle, and the second circle started, and a group of people walked in again.

Mo Suifeng looked at the group of people who went in, and remembered what the little guy said just now, and couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic to the little guy, ninety-nine or eighty circles, this will take a while to end.

Mo Suifeng thought that the dead are the greatest, since he came, he had to express it, so he went into the ancestral hall to pay homage to the dead.After entering, Mo Suifeng discovered that the scene here is also very spectacular.

There are three tables in the middle, and a chair on the top. There are portraits of three real kings of the underworld inserted on the chair, and there are portraits of bull heads and horse faces on both sides. Mo Suifeng suddenly has an illusion, feeling like he has entered the palace of the king of hell. like.

A Taoist priest was doing it in front of the table, and some people were kneeling on the ground. An old man occasionally added some short ginger incense to the incense burner.

Further on, there is the mourning hall for the deceased. On the altar in front of the coffin are the portraits of the deceased and various offerings. There are wreaths and elegiac couplets on both sides of the surrounding. Throw yellow paper.

On the benches on both sides of the coffin sat several people, old and young, men and women, all relatives of the deceased.

Mo Suifeng walked to the spiritual tablet, knelt down and kowtowed three times. The people on the side looked at Mo Suifeng full of doubts, and some whispered in their ears.

"Who are you? You don't seem to be from this village, right?" an elderly grandmother asked.

"I came with a friend, she is from this village!"

"Your friend? What's your friend's name?"

"Her name is Xu Le, and she has a younger brother named Xu Feng!"

"Oh, it's Xu Le, from the old Xu's family. You are Xu Le's boyfriend, right? Where's Xu Le?" The old lady nodded and realized that the person in front of her came with Xu Le.

"Xu Le said she wanted to go home and take a look, and told me to come here to worship first."

The old lady nodded again when she heard that, "Well, their family hasn't been back for several years. Is Xu Le alone this time?"

While talking, people walking outside with lotus lanterns came in again. Mo Suifeng stood aside and watched those people go out after circling the coffin. But soon, Mo Suifeng saw Li Lin came in.

"Huh? Why are you here, aren't you going to take the lotus lantern?" Mo Suifeng asked curiously.

"It's okay for me to be lazy for a while. It's okay for me to rest for a while. After Li Lin finished speaking, he walked to a woman and sat down. It should be her mother.

Looking at the time, it was almost an hour, and Xu Le hadn't come back yet, so Mo Suifeng went to a quiet place outside, took out his mobile phone and called Xu Le.

"Where are you? Why don't you come?"

Over there, Xu Le paused for a while, and then smiled and said, "I think you are worried about me when you look like this. Haha, do you like me?"

Mo Suifeng rolled his eyes and said, "Yeah, I like you, they all regard me as your boyfriend, and your girlfriend left me here, are you embarrassed?"

"Yo yo yo, why did I leave you there, I'll be here soon!" Xu Le hung up the phone after finishing speaking.

"Hey, hey!" Mo Suifeng yelled at the phone a few times, seeing that the other party had hung up the phone, he sighed helplessly, turned around and looked at the pond in front of him, but suddenly saw the water not far away. There is a person sitting by the pond.

Although it wasn't very clear, it was indeed a person. Mo Suifeng stared at it with his eyes wide open. The person was wearing a navy blue gown with his back facing him. It could be seen from the appearance that he was a man. With a stooped body slightly, he should be a middle-aged man or above.

"What is this man doing sitting there?" Mo Suifeng was curious and walked towards it. There is a pond next to the dark winter. What if he accidentally stumbles and falls, this man can't think about it. ?
Thinking of this, Mo Suifeng couldn't help but quicken his pace.

(End of this chapter)