Chapter 10 Celebrate the Spring Festival, remember merits, and the gods go down to earth to send congratulatory gifts!
Xiaohui and Hu'er returned from the mountain, and after finishing their own affairs, there were still a few days before the Spring Festival.
This is the first Spring Festival that their family spent in the county seat, and their family's plantation and tea processing factory earned tens of thousands of yuan last year! Therefore, Dongmei's mother wants everyone to have a happy New Year!
On a morning before the Spring Festival, after everyone had breakfast, Dongmei's mother gave Xiaohui and Hu'er two or three hundred yuan, and asked them to take their younger brother Mo Wenlong and sister Mo Xiaoying to play on the street, and by the way, help the two children buy some gadgets, clothes, shoes and hats they like.
After Xiaohui collected the money, she was carried by Ah Long and Wen Hu on Xiaoying's back, and the four of them walked to the street to play.
At this time, the two children were already more than two years old, and they were very good at talking, and on the way, everyone walked and talked.
Ah Long said, "Sister, brother, listen to your parents, you can both fly, is it true?"
Xiaohui said, "Ah Long! It's true! We have practiced a lot of spells! Do you want to learn?"
Ah Long smiled and said, "Sister! I want to learn it in my dreams! However, my father and mother told us! Let me and Xiaoying eat more and be more sensible! I can only learn spells from you when I grow up! In the future, let's be immortals together!"
Xiaoying said: "Mom said! Our grandfather is an immortal and a general of the heavenly kingdom! She also said that in the future, my sister and Brother Huzi will be more powerful than grandpa! In the future, they will at least be able to be the secretary of the military department in the heavenly kingdom! What kind of official is the secretary of the military department?!"
Everyone laughed!
Ah Long said: "The secretary of the military department must be a big official! Xiaoying, in the future, you have to watch TV dramas seriously! In ancient times, when there was a war, the secretary of the military department gave orders instead of the emperor! The general could only listen to the secretary of the military department!"
Xiaoying said: "Alas! Mom said, children can't watch TV all the time! Watching TV will blind their eyes! In the future, if you peek at TV again, I will sue my mother! Let Mom spank your ass!"
Everyone laughed!
After arriving at the department store street in the county seat, they put down their younger brothers and sisters and took their hands, and everyone began to play and shop on the street.
Soon, they walked in front of a ready-to-wear stall that specialized in children's clothes, and Xiaohui and Hu'er found that Lin Qiankun, the vice principal of the county where they studied, was helping his wife sell clothes to customers in a stall.
Principal Lin is a student of the second master Mo Panshen, and later Vice Principal Lin was admitted to the Provincial Normal College, and after graduation, Vice Principal Lin has been a teacher in Xianling County Middle School. He taught Xiaohui's parents mathematics, physics and chemistry. Now, he is about 50 years old, so he is not responsible for specific teaching, he manages the teaching plan in the school, he is humble, and he does not let the students call him the principal, everyone still calls him Teacher Lin.
They wanted to help Mr. Lin's stall, so Mr. Lin successfully sold the clothes, and after the customers left, they pulled their younger siblings into Mr. Lin's stall.
Mr. Lin and his wife, Aunt Li Yanzhen, were very happy to see them!
Teacher Lin asked Aunt Li to help the two children choose clothes, shoes and hats, etc., and Teacher Lin sat next to Xiaohui and Xiaohu to chat.
Teacher Lin smiled and said, "Alas, your two sisters and brothers are good students! You are excellent in character and learning! Now, the school is running a program to train young college students! Both of you have a good memory, and your comprehension and analytical judgment skills are good! Therefore, I want you to join this program! So that you can become talented as soon as possible!"
Xiaohu said: "Teacher Lin! I have only been in junior high school for one year, and I am only over 11 years old this year! My sister is only 15 years old! Can we go to university?"
Teacher Lin smiled and said: "Why can't we? We will write special lesson plans for you students who are applying for the junior college entrance examination! In June this year, you will be able to take the unified high school examination and be promoted to the high school department! Then, our teaching group will give you one year to complete the high school course! In this way, next year and the year after, you will be able to take the national unified entrance examination for colleges and universities!"
Xiaohui smiled and said, "Teacher Lin! This is great! Xiaohu and I also feel that studying at school is too wasteful of time! In this way, we can also finish our studies as soon as possible and help our families work!"
After they didn't talk much, Aunt Li helped the two children choose clothes, shoes and hats, etc., and only charged them 50 yuan for each set.
Xiaohui took out 20 yuan from the more than 200 yuan given by her mother, and gave all the more than 200 yuan to Aunt Li.
Aunt Li smiled and said, "Miss Xiaohui, you give too much!
Xiaohui smiled and said, "Aunt Li! Last year, our family earned a lot of money! If you give more, it should be a New Year's red envelope for you and Teacher Lin! Wait, let's eat a bowl of rice noodles per person, buy some snacks, and go home! Teacher Lin and Aunt Li! Take care of your health! Happy Spring Festival!"
Then, Xiaohui took the packaged clothes, shoes and hats, etc., and walked away with Hu'er with Ah Long and Xiaoying!
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At 8 o'clock in the evening of January 25, 1982, the first day of the Lunar New Year, after dinner, Mo Caide, Han Dongmei, Xiaohui, Hu'er, Long'er and Xiaoying drank tea and chatted in the living room of the middle hall next to the courtyard in front of their home.
Suddenly, lightning and thunder thundered in the eastern sky, and a pair of gods and centaurs floated out of the clouds!
Soon, these immortals wearing all kinds of Song Dynasty official uniforms, carrying gift boxes, beat gongs and drums and floated smoothly in the middle of their courtyard!
Mo Caide knew that these immortals came uninvited, something must have happened, so he immediately led the whole family from the living room to the courtyard, kneeling, kowtowing, and saying hello to the immortals!
An immortal said: "All the young heroes! All the gods! You don't have to salute! We are here to give you gifts on behalf of the Heavenly Court! The Heavenly Court wants to solemnly commend the heroic deeds of the local Mo Wenhu Shaoxia, Mo Xiaohui Shaoxia, Mo Xiaoqing Shaoxia, and others in the Longhu Mountain area to eliminate demons and Anliang! You guys get up quickly and see who we are?"
After their family stood up, they looked at the immortals seriously.
Xiaohu immediately recognized the two leaders as the land god and the Yin official of this county!
Xiaohu smiled and said, "The whole family of the grass people has seen the land gods, the Yin officials, and the gods and immortals!"
Xiao Hui smiled and said, "Yin Commander, are you the Venerable Servant?!"
The Yin magistrate smiled and said, "Alas, Miss Xiaohui is really talented and intelligent!
Everyone laughed!
So, under the guidance of Mo Caide and the other family, the gods and immortals entered the living room.
After arriving in the living room, everyone burned incense and lit candles, and began to do errands and chat.
A little priest handed over the congratulatory letter and gift list to Hu'er to sign on.
The gifts on the gift list are: 20,000 taels of gold (one tael in the Song Dynasty is equivalent to 37.375 grams, or 747.5 kilograms in contemporary times), 40,000 taels of silver (1,495 kilograms), and a total of 50,000 taels (1,868.75 kilograms) of ancient metal coins and metal relics from the Zhou Dynasty to the Song Dynasty.
After Hu'er signed the gift list, the gods and soldiers helped the Mo family report these gifts to the Mo family's underground warehouse for storage.
After the gods and soldiers finished their work, they said goodbye to the Mo family and took off from the courtyard to return to the heavenly court.
The land god and the Venerable Helper sat in the living room chatting with the Mo family to catch up on the old days.
The land god said: "Alas! The two of us have a fate with your Mo family! The past is unbearable, the two of us were from the Northern Song Dynasty, at that time, I was the imperial court's guerrilla general in the south, called Li Hongbo! The Venerable Aiddo's name is Zhuo Tianlong, and he is my military advisor! In the spring of the first year of Taizu Jianlong in the Song Dynasty (i.e., 960 AD), we led more than 5,000 soldiers and horses of the 'Demon Extermination Divine Wind Brigade' to pursue a group of evil demons to the boundary of Xianling County, where the Longhu Mountain area is a 10,000-year-old demon cave! The demons here are highly powerful, and we are here to wage a vicious battle with the demons in a sea of blood, and the 'Demon Extermination Divine Wind Brigade' has been beaten to the point of only more than 100 people! Moreover, the remaining 100 of us are besieged by the demons on the top of the Devil's Gorge! At the critical moment, your Mo family ancestors led more than 200 immortal cultivators to fight into the Devil's Gorge and wanted to relieve the siege for us! Therefore, we used the tactics of 'attacking from both sides and flowering in the center' to fight to the death with the demons! On that day, the battle was dark, and the sky and the earth were stained with blood! However, there are too many demons coming in from all over the world! We and your ancestors were all killed in battle! After our souls arrived at the reincarnation gate, Heavenly Court gave us gods in order to commend me and the Heavenly Dragon Military Master! Your Mo family heroic spirits have also been taken care of, and Heavenly Court has promised that they can be reincarnated in the Mo family forever until they become immortals and become gods! From that time to now, and the past 1022 years! It's really like an arrow!"
Hu'er said: "Thank you two great ancestors! Our Mo family has been thanking you for generations! Now, our Mo family has two grandfathers who have become immortals and gods! We will definitely inherit your will to slay demons and eliminate demons in our future lives to keep one side safe!"
Venerable Zhudu said: "Hu'er! You have very good ambitions! But now, the demons are numerous and arrogant! The demons have almost sealed the gate of reincarnation! In order to increase the number of soldiers, they often intercept the souls who have been reincarnated on the way from the human world to the gate of reincarnation! They put the intercepted souls in the 'demon maker' in the demon cave to ferment, so that these souls can become goblins or devils, and then train these transsexual souls into demon soldiers and demons, and work for the demons! Now, the demons have sent spies to steal the Heavenly Technology, so the mana is even stronger!
Xiao Hui said, "Helping Venerable, why didn't Heavenly Court send Heavenly Soldiers to exterminate these demons in the future?!"
Venerable Fudu said: "Alas, the Heavenly Court is also managed by the people who have been appointed as gods in the world! Now, there is a shortage of manpower in the Heavenly Court! In addition, the immortals who made those weapons and treasures you obtained in Dragon and Tiger Mountain have all left the Heavenly Court, and they have been promoted to the higher heavens to enjoy themselves! The manufacturing technology of these weapons and divine objects has been lost! Even if there are heavenly soldiers and heavenly generals, they can't defeat those demons with their bare hands!"
Lord Di smiled and said, "Alas! You should be a good person and cultivate! Heaven can't control these things! It's not too early, we should go back to Heaven to report! If you still have any questions, just hurry up and mention them!"
Mo Caide said: "Two immortals! You give me gifts that are too valuable! How can we use these treasures?!"
Lord Di said: "Alas! This thing has been piled up in the warehouse of the heavenly court for thousands of years! We immortals, we have no birth, old age, sickness and death! We do not eat, drink, wear, or have seven emotions and six desires! We just do things in a careless way all day long, and enjoy pure happiness! Therefore, this money is a pile of dung to us! You sell them into money, use them to improve your life, and do good deeds to accumulate merits! Now, the requirements for being immortals are becoming stricter and stricter!"
Xiaohui said, "Venerable Ferry, Wen Zhenlan, who drowned in order to save me, where did she reincarnate?!"
Venerable Fudu said: "Xiaohui! This is a heavenly opportunity! She must have been reincarnated as a human being! However, I really don't know where she has settled! The "Reincarnation Roll Call" is in the archives of the Heavenly Court, and it is inconvenient for us to inquire about it! In the Heavenly Court, the immortals who have violated the law will be sent to the world! Therefore, you must not inquire about these things anymore! It is not too early! Let's go back and report on our work first!
Then, the family sent the two immortals to the courtyard, and the two immortals ascended to heaven in the courtyard!
After sending off the immortals, the Mo family returned to the living room to drink tea and chat.
Dongmei's mother said, "Alas, these immortals don't look at what age it is! Give us these treasures! How can we sell them for money!"
Caide's father said: "Yes! Gold and silver are easier to deal with, and one of our old classmates, Ma Xianda, is a manager in the provincial gold company! We can sell gold and silver to them for cash! It's just that those ancient coins and antiques are not easy to deal with! We don't have acquaintances who do this kind of business!"
Dongmei's mother said: "Alas! After the Spring Festival, let's go to the provincial capital! Brother Mo Cailong is anxious to buy 200,000 yuan to buy land in the vegetable garden! If it can be exchanged for money, it will really solve their big problem!"
Caide's father said: "Yes! If we get more money, we can find a place in the county to run a nursing home, or help families in need, help build roads in difficult places, etc., or we can consider building a temple to support the gods!"
Everyone laughed!
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