Chapter 40: The empty shrine is prosperous without people
The convoy set off from the Lianhua Township Cultural Center and headed for Waxi Dam, and at this moment another private car was also driving towards Waxi Dam from the car.
"Mr. Su, my brother-in-law happens to be from Vasiba and he is already waiting for us in the village, just tell him if there is anything to do. ”
In a Buick GL8 business car, it was Yin Leopard who was driving, while Su Chen was sitting in the co-pilot, and behind were Yin Li and Zhang Qian.
The encounter on the mountain yesterday evening obviously made the women have palpitations and didn't sleep well all night, but when they heard that Su Chen was going to Waxiba Village this morning, the three girls were still curious to follow.
After all, the village they went to this time, and there were masters like Mr. Su, so they were not so afraid.
To put it mildly, if there was a choice last night, the third girl would rather stay in the wooden house on the mountain with Su Chen and encounter some gossip, rather than sleep in the same room.
"You guys, you didn't sleep well and slept at home. ”
Yin Leopard saw that the three of his nieces were sleepy and yawning from time to time, and he was also a little distressed, of course, he also knew what happened to the three daughters on the mountain yesterday, after all, Su Chen promised the old ghost to go and burn some paper money for his grave, and this matter was still done by Yin Leopard early in the morning.
Speaking of this, Su Chen, the co-pilot, also glanced at Yin Leopard with some surprise, and the third uncle of Yin Li was also quite bold, when he heard that his granddaughter was frightened by a ghost, he took more than a dozen young people from the Yin family up the mountain early in the morning.
Although he burned paper money in front of the old ghost's grave, he also scolded the old ghost angrily, which probably means that a lonely ghost dares to scare our Yin family, forget it this time, and next time you will dig up your grave.
Su Chen was also at the scene at the time, but he didn't stop Yin Leopard's actions, people are afraid of ghosts, but sometimes ghosts are also afraid of wicked people, that old ghost is just because Zhang Qian took a photo on her grave, and it was unintentional because he was punished like this, and it is indeed not a good ghost.
This time it's because he was discovered by himself, if it is someone else next time, this old ghost has successfully touched the porcelain and comes again, maybe one day he will make a fuss, and it is good that the sound leopard is so intimidated, the evil ghost needs the wicked to grind.
As for the ghost taking revenge?
Su Chen is not worried at all, just as the young juniors of the Yin family go there, this yang qi is not something that the old ghost can bear, and a lonely ghost like this is at most wandering around the mountains, and if he really wants to go down the mountain and harm people, he probably doesn't have the courage to do so.
Ten minutes later, the car stopped at the entrance of a village, if Lianhu Township is leaning on Poyang Lake, then this village in front of you is the closest place to Poyang Lake in Lianhu Township.
Yinbao parked the car at the threshing field at the entrance of the village, which is the flattest and wide square in the village, and not far in front of it is the office of the village committee.
The car stopped, and a young man in his thirties greeted him.
"Brother-in-law, come so early. ”
"Tuozi, let me introduce to you, this is Mr. Su, this is my niece Xiaoli and her two classmates. ”
"Mr. Su, this is my brother-in-law, nicknamed Tuozi. ”
"Hello Mr. Su. ”
Tuozi had already got his brother-in-law's phone number, and his brother-in-law had explained on the phone that he must respect Mr. Su, at first he thought that this Mr. Su was at least forty or fifty years old, but he didn't expect that the real person was younger than himself.
"Hello. ”
Su Chen shook hands with the other party, but his eyes fell on the banners hanging on both sides of the road.
"This is made by our village chief, saying that there is a big boss from other places who came to our village to ask the ancestors to worship their ancestors, this boss should be quite rich, the village chief is ready to give a grand reception, and maybe the other party will donate some money as soon as he is happy. ”
"Warmly welcome Mr. Lin from Hubei to go home to worship his ancestors. ”
is a very straightforward banner, and the sound leopard on the side also explained: "Waxiba is the four major places of immigration, there are many people who come here to find their roots and ask their ancestors, and many successful people will donate some money to the village, and this set of villages can be regarded as familiar with the way to play." ”
Su Chen nodded in understanding, this root-seeking and asking ancestors is the same as returning to their hometown, since they are all rich people, you come to look for your ancestors, do you have to do your part when you see the place where your ancestors live.
The village committee of Waxiba is also absolutely amazing, and a stone tablet has been specially erected at the gate of the village committee, on which are the names of people who come here to find their ancestors, of course, those who can be on the list have donated money.
This stele is engraved on this square, extremely conspicuous, for example, there are 200 names on this first stele, and the first one is engraved: Yao Wentian, the thirty-second generation of the Anhui Lu'an branch of the Yao clan, donated 100,000 pieces.
There is a name, a surname, and a place of origin.
This stele is erected here, so that other families or people of the same family will think when they see it?
People in the same family, everyone is a family, your one is powerful, but our one is not bad, it must not be compared, as for the comparison of different families, there are even more.
The family came back to find their roots and asked their ancestors to donate money, and their own family came here to find their ancestors and did not donate money, doesn't this make others laugh?
"Mr. Su, don't look at Waxiba Village is not very good, but every year just rely on this donation to build an income of 500,000 yuan, plus those descendants will donate more or less money to repair the ancestral hall, the villagers are not so poor. ”
Hearing Yin Leopard's words, Zhang Qian on the side asked curiously: "Third uncle, since the village is not poor, I don't think the houses built by this villager are very good?"
"Hehe, this is called a bun with meat and not on the folds, if the villagers' houses are well built and they are very wealthy at a glance, will there be so many donations?"
The words of the brother-in-law of the sound leopard let everyone understand in seconds, this is the same as some Buddhist tourist attractions, there will be a lot of beggars begging on the road, dressed very ordinary, but if you really think that these people have no money, it is a big mistake, with the light of the gods and Buddhas, these professional beggars earn thousands of yuan every day, this is just a profession for them.
Although most of the people who seek their roots and ask their ancestors have at least achieved a small career, sometimes it is very likely that a family is led by a few elders to find their roots and ask their ancestors to worship their ancestors, and not everyone is very rich, so they may donate three or five hundred or something.
If the villagers of Vasiba Village had lived a good life and built beautiful houses, these people probably would not have donated money.
"Mr. Su, where are we going next?"
After some introduction, Yin Leopard looked at Su Chen, early this morning Mr. Su asked what village was under the mountain, and after learning that it was Waxi Dam, he hoped that he could find a local villager, and he wanted to go over.
And I got my father's advice last night, that is, no matter what Mr. Su wants, everyone in the family must fully cooperate to meet Mr. Su's requirements, and there is no slackness.
For his father's request, Yin Leopard was not at all dissatisfied, on the contrary, he was very happy, Mr. Su was a master, and he couldn't ask for it to be able to make friends with such a master.
"Take me for a walk around the village. ”
Su Chen had a piece of paper in his hand, which was a satellite geographical map of the Vaxi Dam that he had printed out from the Internet, but from this geographical map alone, he could not determine the location of the corona.
"Tuozi, you lead the way. ”
"Hey, okay. ”
Tuozi nodded, although he didn't know what this Mr. Su was going to do, but he still respected his brother-in-law very much, and he was leading the way in front at the moment.
"We are now in the front village, our village is divided into the front village and the back village, the houses in the front village have been built in the past ten years, and the back are all old houses. ”
Tuozi introduced while leading the way, and soon everyone walked around the front village, and along the way also met a lot of villagers, Tuozi and these villagers smiled and greeted, and the sound leopard on the side also knew a lot of villagers from Waxiba, and when they met the familiar ones, they took cigarettes and distributed them.
"Yinli, your third uncle is quite wide-ranging, and everyone in this village knows him. ”
Seeing that Yinbao kept smoking, Zhang Qian whispered in Yinli's ear, and Yinli explained: "The countryside is a wide area and people are familiar with it, and my third uncle is at home, and there are quite a lot of people who know him in the nearby townships." ”
After visiting the front village, I soon came to the back village, compared to the front village are cement roads, this back village is the kind of bluestone road, but because of the trampling for many years, the ground is also very flat.
The bluestone road, the wooden pillar house, compared to the spaciousness of the front village, the entire back village is like a labyrinth, Su Chen and the others have passed through several alleys, and they have also seen several ancestral halls along the way.
"These ancestral halls are built by various families, after all, we are an immigrant place, many people come back to find their ancestors will come to burn incense, there are a total of seventeen surnames in the village, so there are seventeen such ancestral halls. ”
The camel played the role of a tour guide, but when he finally walked to a pool, Su Chen stopped.
It is said that the pond is actually a small pond, and there is an ancestral hall in front of the pond, but compared to the ancestral halls built by various families, this ancestral hall is obviously much more dilapidated.
Seeing Su Chen's footsteps stop and look at this ancestral hall, Tuozi hurriedly introduced: "This is an old ancestral hall, which belongs to our village collective, but with the increase of people looking for ancestors here over the years, each family has built its own ancestral hall, and this old ancestral hall has slowly become deserted." ”
Although Vasiba is a place of immigration, before the 90s, the transportation was not convenient, and there were not many people who came here to seek their roots and ancestors, so there were not so many ancestral halls.
After listening to Tuozi's introduction, Su Chen's mind came up with the sentence in Master Xiao's poem: "The empty shrine is fragrant and prosperous." ”
Isn't this ancestral hall in front of you just an empty shrine?
"When did your old ancestral hall fall into ruin?" asked Su Chen.
"I guess it was in the nineties. ”
Su Chen's eyes lit up, if this is the case, then the time is right, Master Xiao's poem left time, the year of the Lunar New Year, and the most recent Imperial Year is 1993.
"Let's go to the ancestral hall. ”