"Brother... I'm coming"

A string of crisp children's voices sounded outside the door, and hearing the sound, Zhang Xuan's memory immediately appeared an eight-year-old girl, and a pampering and warmth welled up in his heart.

The little girl is the daughter of a neighbor's paper shop owner, named Liu Haner.

The relationship between the paper shop and the Lingsuju is very close, although they are two, in fact, the relationship is similar to that of one.

Before Zhang Xuan was five or six years old as a child, he was almost pulled by Liu Meng and his wife in the paper tie shop. After all, Zhang Xuan's adoptive father is just a rough old man, and it is really a little embarrassing for you to let such a rough old man take the baby.

After the age of five or six, Zhang Xuan returned to the Lingsu House, but he also spent most of the day in the paper shop.

It is often said that Zhang Xuan practiced wood carving and clay sculpture crafts with his adoptive father in the morning, and practiced paper tie crafts with Liu Meng and his wife in the afternoon, so Zhang Xuan actually has very good paper tie craftsmanship in addition to superb wood carving and clay sculpture skills.

When Zhang Xuan was eleven or twelve years old, Liu Meng and his wife gave birth to a little girl Liu Haner, and since then Zhang Xuan has had another sister.

From the memory of the original owner, Zhang Xuan found that the original owner really regarded the little girl as his own sister, and the adoptive father also treated it like his own daughter, even more spoiled than when he was at the beginning.

With the sound of children, I saw that the door was pushed open with a "crunch..." sound, and a little girl came in with a large bowl in her hand.

Zhang Xuan saw it, and was afraid that she would drop the bowl to the ground.

When she was five years old, the little girl also began to learn the craft of paper tying, and would often come over to learn wood carving and clay sculpture crafts with Zhang Xuan and her adoptive father.

The little girl often came over, both Zhang Xuan's primary apprentice and little assistant.

Liu Han'er came to Zhang Xuan, handed the large bowl in her hand to Zhang Xuan, and said, "Brother, my mother made your favorite cassava balls, you can try it quickly." "

Cassava balls are steamed balls made with cassava flour and are one of the original owners' favorite snacks.

Zhang Xuan took the large bowl, pinched a ball and put it in his mouth, not to mention that the taste was really good, much better than brown rice.

Liu Han'er found a stool by herself, sat next to Zhang Xuan, also picked up a carving knife, and began to carve the statue.

Don't say that although the little girl has little strength and moves much slower than Zhang Xuan, the technique has already begun to appear.

In fact, it was already noon at this time, and Zhang Xuan got up this morning and it was almost noon.

Zhang Xuan didn't care about the little girl, stood up and sorted out the various statues on the counter, and cleaned up.

During this period, people came one after another, most of them bought statues of gods, and it was not much effort, and the twenty or so statues of gods made in the courtyard had basically been sold out; And the ones on the counter also sold seven or eight statues.

Zhang Xuan looked at the sun, it was almost time, and he needed to go to the Wang Family Ancestral Hall as soon as possible.

Zhang Xuan said to the busy little girl: "Han'er, my brother is going out, you are at home and watching the door." Then, without waiting for Liu Han'er to respond, Zhang Xuan turned and went out the door.

Wangjiazhen is a small town with about 300 households and a population of 1,6700.

Zhang Xuan walked on the road, on both sides of the road are low houses, adobe courtyard walls, thatched reed roofs, mixed with several brick houses, in fact, Zhang Xuan's family in the northwest of the town is already considered a rich family, after all, it is not easy to afford a brick house.

The distance is really not far, how big can a small town of about three hundred families be, about ten minutes or so, Zhang Xuan came to the Wang family compound.

The reason why Wangjiazhen is called Wangjiazhen is because the Wang family once produced a man who raised people. The predecessor of Wangjiazhen was just a small village, and later the examination in the village came out of a person named Wang Yun, and after stepping into the officialdom, he has always been a prefect; After resigning from the government and returning to his hometown to retire, after his death, he accepted the villagers' sacrifice, became an ancestral spirit, and blessed his neighbors; The surrounding villagers gradually migrated and eventually formed a small township.

At this time, the side door of the Wang family was wide open, and people came and went, basically to place or take away the statue of the spirit statue.

Zhang Xuan followed the crowd into the courtyard, passing through three courtyards in a row, and came to the ancestral hall in the backyard of the Wang family.

Looking around, the ancestral hall of the Wang family covers an area of about fifty square meters, and there is a high platform in the middle of the ancestral hall, on which are placed the tablets of the ancestors of the Wang family, and the tablet in the middle is the old man who lifts people.

There is a huge incense burner under the high platform, and the incense smoke in the furnace shows that today's incense is flourishing.

On the left and right sides of the incense burner, there are two strips, about one meter four or five meters long, on which are placed more than a dozen statues of spirit statues, most of which are carved from peach or jujube wood, and occasionally two or three porcelain statues; This is the Wang family's own home.

On the left and right sides of the ancestral hall, there are three longer rows of strips, and on each row of cases are placed this dense array of statues of spirit gods, most of which are clay sculptures, and some of which are carved of wood; The statues on both sides are basically owned by ordinary people.

In the ancestral hall, people lined up to serve incense, the queue gradually decreased, and in an instant it was Zhang Xuan's turn to put on incense. After three kowtows, Zhang Xuan inserted the three incense sticks into the incense burner, and then placed the two wooden statues of gods he brought with him on the left side. Then walk to the right strip, find the two statues of your own gods placed last time from the last row of cases, and gently pick up the statues.

Leaving the Wang family, Zhang Xuan quickly returned home, looked up at the sky, it was still early before dark, pulled over a chair and sat down, picked up an unfinished wood carving next to him, and took out a carving knife in his right hand.

Regarding what image of the god statue, in fact, there are no special requirements, at least from the memory of the original owner, not found, so the original owner originally made the god statue has any image, old and young, male and female, beautiful and ugly, and the costumes are also different.

While thinking cranky in his mind, his hand kept stopping, and in a short time, the statue in his hand had already taken shape. This time the carving is a scholarly figure, wearing a scholar's scarf, wearing a robe, holding a folding fan in his hand, the folding fan is half-open, and a long sword is hanging from his waist, indescribably dashing. Zhang Xuan looked at the statue in his hand and found that his carving seemed to be much stronger than the original owner, but looking at this statue, he always felt a little awkward.

After a long pause, Zhang Xuan reacted and said that it was a god statue, but this carving was a scholar. Speaking of gods, Zhang Xuan subconsciously thought of the image of the immortal in his previous life, and in contrast, it was no wonder that it was a little awkward.

A string of numbers was carved on the back of the statue of the scholar, and then placed it on a stone case next to it.

The number behind the statue is a mark, and the person who buys the statue only needs to remember the number behind the purchased statue, and will not take the wrong statue of others, after all, not every statue is different. Just talking about the statues of the gods carved this time, the original owner has carved dozens of them this year.

Reaching out and taking another piece of peach wood from the side, and pondering a little, Zhang Xuan decided to try to carve a statue of a god from a previous life.

This world has not heard of the gods of the earth, the city god, black and white impermanence, the bull head and horse face, the king of Yanluo, etc., nor has it heard of the gods of the heavenly court such as Sanqing, Siyu, Lei Gong, Electric Mother, and Dragon King.

Which immortal is carved? Zhang Xuan's first thought of the God of Wealth, but after thinking about it, no, in this world, people don't know whether they can survive tomorrow every day, and seeking wealth is obviously not people's first need; Obviously, people's first appeal should be to protect safety, and shelter safety, Zhang Xuan's first thought was the door god, but if he thought about it, it couldn't work, the door god in the previous life was basically pasted on the door, and if the door god was carved, it couldn't be hung on the door; Of course, it can also be placed in the courtyard or room like the current god statue, but Zhang Xuan always feels strange; Suddenly, a flash of light, a slap on the thigh, yes, carve a land gong!

The land god is too suitable, the land god is a regular god of merit, sheltering the tranquility of the family's home, the wind and rain, and the abundance of grains... All within the realm of the priesthood of the land.

In the previous life, the land god not only set up a land temple in the village, but also a land shrine was often set up in the family house at that time, and the land god statue was placed.

Of course, although this world has not heard of the existence of Zhou Tian God, and Zhang Xuan is not sure whether he will have a divine effect if he carved out the land god, Zhang Xuan just has an impulse to carve out all the immortals in his previous life.

Just do it when you think of it, hold the peach wood in your left hand, carefully recall the appearance of the statue of the god of the land in your mind, and start carving with a knife in your right hand. At the beginning of carving, Zhang Xuan felt that he had entered a very wonderful state, as if his whole world was left with the carving knife and peach wood in his hand.

"Whew..." Blowing out in one breath, wood chips flew up, and the world's first land god statue gradually revealed its true face.

Zhang Xuan carefully looked at the statue of the land god in his hand, and the more he looked at it, the more satisfied he became.

I saw an elderly man, wearing a staff hat and a staff uniform, holding a dragon head cane in his right hand and a gold ingots in his left hand; The face is kind, and the smile is cute.

Zhang Xuan looked at it for a moment, took out a file, polished the rough part of the statue slightly, and then used the carving knife to engrave the nine big characters of "Fuzhengshen Land Gong God Position" on the back of the statue in Chinese characters from his previous life.

It should be said here that Zhang Xuan engraved traditional Chinese characters, not the words of this world. Comparing the memory of the original owner, he found that the characters in this world are different from the Chinese characters in the previous life, but they also belong to ideograms. Many words, even if you are illiterate, can roughly guess a few points. There is a private school opened by an old Xiucai in Wangjia Town, and the original owner was also sent by his adoptive father to read for two years, so some ordinary words can also be read and written. When engraving on the back of the statue of the land god, Zhang Xuan didn't think much about it, or the Chinese characters from the previous life, I can't say what kind of mentality, I always feel that this is more appropriate.

The nine characters fell, and suddenly "Boom..." A muffled thunder resounded in the sky.

"Huh..." Zhang Xuan looked up at the sky, wondering how could such a clear day suddenly start thundering, is it going to rain?

He looked down at the remaining statues on the stone case next to him and frowned, it seemed that he would have to put these statues away in a while, otherwise it would not be good to get rained.

As the thunder exploded, a huge amount of Xuanhuang Qi suddenly gushed out from the sky, rolling down, enveloping Zhang Xuan and the statue in it.

"Huh? At this moment, Zhang Xuan suddenly felt that there seemed to be a warm current surging from the palm of his left hand holding the statue of the Land God, and then went up his arm, flowing all over his body in an instant, full of warmth, as if soaking in hot water, and the feeling of weakness when he got up in the morning disappeared without a trace.

Zhang Xuan put the statue of the land god on the stone case next to it, stood up, and moved his limbs, feeling surprisingly good, warm and full of strength.

This is exactly what it is: "The right god was born in heaven and earth, and the heavenly master did not understand the heavenly machine." "

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