Back at the farm, there were a few old people chatting, and Lan Xiang's father-in-law was among them. Ask Lan Xiang's father-in-law if the house is still quiet now. He said: "It's much better, the child eats sweetly, and sleeps soundly, I think it may be that the charm posted by Wangcai has played a role, and the evil monster doesn't dare to make trouble." ”

As he spoke, Father-in-law Lan Xiang took out a cigarette pouch and pressed the crushed tobacco foam into a pot. I closed my eyes and took a puff, and I accidentally saw a cigarette holder on the stem of the cigarette pouch that Lan Xiang's father-in-law was smoking, and I wanted to come over and take a closer look, it was jadeite. The cigarette holder is white, and there is a smoke-like green mist from beginning to end, the head of the cigarette holder is thin, and the green mist becomes thicker the lower it goes, and it is all green at the end.

I don't know much about antiques, but I think it's old, it's an old thing. In the sixteenth century, that is, at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, tobacco was introduced into our country, and at that time people with status were still quite particular about smoking, and the long-term use of jade cigarette holders, the color of jadeite will become more and more natural.

If you use the jade cigarette holder in the hot summer, you can not only enjoy the effect of clearing the heart and moistening the throat and preventing heatstroke and cooling brought by the jade cigarette holder, but also have the transparent emerald color of jadeite, which is both nourishing and pleasing to the eye.

I played with it and gave it back to the old man, and asked with some confusion, "This cigarette holder is a good thing, where did you get it in exchange?"

Lan Xiang's father-in-law smiled, shook his head and said: "This cigarette pouch and pot was left to me by my father, and my father used it to smoke since I was a child, and then I used it without him, just for convenience, and I never carefully looked at what this cigarette holder was made of."

Among them, there was an old man in his nineties who took the opportunity to say: "Don't look at Lao Kui (Lan Xiang's father-in-law's name is Lao Kui) is now down, I heard that the elders said that their family used to be a family with a head and a face, and what is this broken cigarette pouch mouth!

"I can't say that I can't eat pearls and spit out silver powder, anyway, since I was older and sensible, I listened to my grandfather say that during the Kangxi period, our elders were also lifted and served as officials in the capital. The whole family moved to the capital, and later it was said that he was involved in a case in the imperial court, so he returned to our village!"

"Well, Ju said that his ancestors sat as a big official in the Kangxi year, and others seem to have said that official, what temple is called what Qing, anyway, I don't understand. The old man replied.

"Dali Siqing, this official should be the fourth or fifth grade in the Kangxi year at that time, and An's current statement is equivalent to the current president of the Supreme Court. Fuck, awesome, that official is quite small, I didn't expect that there was such a big official in our village nearly 100 years ago! I couldn't help but admire.

The old man who answered the stubble hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, it is Dali Siqing, and it is rumored that his old generation does not look at the official to do so much, and he does not miss his hometown very much." Originally, I married a wife and had children outside, but one year my hometown, which is our village, had a ghost. Seven people died inexplicably overnight! Later, every day, no matter the elderly or children, no one died with any symptoms!"

"What's going on, have you come back to find out why?" I asked curiously, and everyone was engrossed.

"Everyone was stupid at the time, and everyone was panicked when they saw that there were fewer and fewer people in the village. Needless to say, I don't have the heart to eat on the street every day, and every family is frightened when they close their doors. In broad daylight, the streets are cloudy and windy, and ghosts are rife. At night, it's even more ghostly and weird, and it makes people's hair look bad!"

"One day, a Taoist came from a foreign country, wearing a Taoist robe and carrying a seven-star copper coin sword, and hanging a cloth bag diagonally. With blazing eyes, a goatee, and a fairy-like demeanor, he knocked from the east end of the village to the west end of the village, knocked on the doors of every household, and asked for a person in charge of the house. When everyone saw that he was a Taoist, they also had three points of trust in him.

At that time, people also had no way out, only to see what he said, the Taoist said, the village has been shrouded by wild ghosts, they are looking for substitutes every day, absorbing people's yang energy to supplement their own cultivation, if not eradicated in time, the whole village of men, women and children will all die. I sensed that something was wrong here from more than 20 miles away, and as soon as I came, I didn't know what to do, everyone listened to my arrangement and rescued, otherwise the whole village would be destroyed!

Everyone felt even more terrified and uneasy when they heard it, and they all expressed their willingness to listen to his arrangement. So the Taoist priest lived in the village for a week, he knew that those wild ghosts came from the mass grave, the Taoist priest led the whole village, used all the spells to disperse the ghosts, and beat back to the underworld, and some of the evil ghosts directly hit the soul scattered, and gradually the village became calm.

At that time, the people in the village were very grateful to this Taoist priest, and felt that they were so busy, so they had to express themselves. But at that time, the whole village was so poor that they couldn't afford to give much money to the Taoist priest anyway. The Taoist priest also saw what everyone meant, and said with a goatee in his hand, everyone doesn't need to be careless, this is also my business.

"I am a Taoist, if you really want to be grateful, if you have strength in the future, donate money and meditate on the Three Qingguan. I've seen it these days, and it's in the back of your village, where the feng shui is excellent. In the future, the incense will be prosperous, so as to bless the whole village from being infested by ghosts. Live a peaceful life. After saying that, the Taoist left without asking for any reward.

Although the village said that it was calm for a while, the memory of the terrible thing is still fresh, and it is terrible to think about, especially the old Taoist priest said that let the whole village raise funds to build a temple, and everyone wants to build it as soon as possible, so that it is safer, and everyone will be more at ease to go out and rest at sunset. But as soon as the whole village discussed, they were dumbfounded.

"What? There's no money. I can't fill my stomach with the money that came, and my heart is half cold. At this time, someone suggested that the family of Da Kui's ancestors said that someone in their family was an official in the capital, and he was not a small official. It shouldn't be a problem for him to donate money to build a temple, and then talk about good things that will benefit the township.

"At that time, Da Kui's ancestors were at home, and his son was a good official outside, so he easily didn't go home, although he went out from this village, but there was no news all year round. The son has married a wife and adopted a son in the capital, and he has no intention of coming back at all. My father and mother wanted to repair a book, and asked someone to take it, most of them were in the big house and couldn't see me, and the letter went in like a mud cow into the sea without any news.

"Occasionally, a reply letter is also perfunctory, busy with official business, difficult to take care of family, and I hope that the second elder will see the cold. Now everyone is talking about asking their son to help the second elder, don't look at the son as an official in Beijing, he also has a big belly and does not give birth to children, he has a false name, and he is afraid that doing things for the old and young masters in the township is also a widow and a dead child, there is no hope!"