When he came to the small bridge by the stream, Li Yun unloaded the yellow dragon pattern incense table from the tricycle and put it on the edge of the small bridge by the stream, lit two incense candles, and a row of incense.

Raising a somewhat worn white flag, the wind chimes hanging on it rang Ding Ling, and hung next to the desk.

This is the annual routine of the Zhongyuan Festival, it is the custom of Xiangtou Village since ancient times, it used to be presided over by Xuan Daozi, and now Xuan Daozi has traveled around the world, and the task of the Zhongyuan Festival Law naturally falls on Li Yun.

After arranging the simple dojo, the sky gradually darkened, and the lights of a hundred schools were lit up.

On the contrary, after night, the crowd, especially the children, are full of excitement, and it is happiness for them to be able to hang out with their friends at night, which is usually not so good, and after six o'clock, they are basically not allowed to go out.

More and more people came to the side of the stream, and the fruit bowls, pork dishes, and steamed buns in their hands were all placed on the bank of the stream.

"It's not the old man who is presiding over today, it's unreliable. ”

"Is it different for Daoist Xiaoyun to preside, they are all Taoist priests anyway. ”

"I'm looking forward to it..."

People were talking about it, and Li Yun was also deaf, just looking at the river, and taking out his mobile phone to look at the hour.

"Hmm... It's just a little bit of time. ”

It's not waiting for the time to come, but waiting for the villagers who haven't returned to the village, this is a festival for the whole village, unless they are really in a hurry, generally speaking, most people will be there.

At this time, the old man Liu, who had suffered from the fire before, appeared and came to the side of the creek with a full plate of pig's head meat, carrying a bag of paper money and a small paper boat in his hand.

Through the plastic bag, Li Yun faintly saw that there was a line on the small paper boat with words like "Thank you to Dao Chang Shu Huang".

Li Yun couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth, this thing is obviously used to commemorate the deceased, not himself!

Anyway, why is it Shu millet...

"Fusheng Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, Old Man Liu, have you healed your injuries so quickly?" Li Yun no longer struggled and said.

Old man Liu nodded gratefully.

"Thank you, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid our family would not have been spared... My injuries are almost better, even my daughter-in-law, the injuries are a little serious, but there are not too many major problems, and now the child is with her. Old man Liu took out a big plastic bag from his backpack and said embarrassedly: "This is the rice cake that our family made before, if you don't dislike it..."

"Rice crackers..."Li Yun looked at this plastic bag with some surprise, he loved to eat this kind of small snack when he was a child, and he would bring some when Xuandaozi went down the mountain to turn into a fate in the past.

"I don't dislike it, I like it a lot, when I was a child, I didn't know how much I longed to eat this peanut rice cracker once, thank you. Li Yun smiled and took the rice crackers, this big bag of rice crackers is estimated that you can eat for many days.

Old man Liu was flattered and said: "No thanks, no thanks, these cheap things are just a little bit of my care, worthless." ”

"Money can't measure everything, and in the eyes of poor Dao, this bag of rice crackers is more attractive than a bag of money. Li Yun smiled slightly, took out the rice crackers from the bag and chewed them.

The faint sweetness of peanut candy and the glutinous aroma of the dough cake are even smoother and sweeter when integrated into the mouth, a strange and familiar taste, it is exactly the same as in childhood, since he entered junior high school, Li Yun has rarely eaten these things.

Looking at the satisfied expression on Li Yun's face, Old Man Liu knew that this was not a polite remark, and said with emotion.

"The Taoist is really free and easy, and he regards money as dung, and laypeople like me also admire it. ”

"If you don't get rid of it, how can you be detached?" Li Yun shook his head with a smile, if he could use worldly money, he would still prefer worldly money... But it really doesn't work.

"I'm afraid that this realm of yours will never be able to be touched by ordinary people like us in our lifetime. Old man Liu sighed helplessly, then mentioned his own things, and then said: "I won't disturb the Taoist, after a while, when my daughter-in-law is well, our whole family will go to your Sanqingguan to repay your vows." ”

"Welcome. Li Yun smiled slightly.

Old man Liu walked to his own place and arranged his own worship supplies, and every household here has its own place.

Li Yun was eating peanut rice cakes while looking at Hanxiang who was playing hide and seek with the children, this thousand-year-old girl could be regarded as completely releasing her childish nature.

Li Yun, who was watching from the sidelines, found that Hanxiang would always hide in some particularly upright places, and these children could always catch her at the first time, and then the places where the children hid were particularly unguardable, resulting in Hanxiang always being the one who caught people.

In this regard, Li Yun could only sigh with emotion.

"She's just a kid... Don't let her go. ”

In the midst of the play, the time has come, and the whole village has reached their own position, and even Hanxiang, who does not know why, was pulled by the excited children to the side of the stream.

"Big sister, I'm sure you'll be amazed!" the children said cheerfully.

Seeing that the entire village was already in place, Li Yun also finished eating the rice crackers in his hand by dividing them by two, straightened the crown of righteousness, and picked up the white banner next to him.

The white flags shook and the wind chimes rang.

Light incense and candles, burn incense, take up the pardon, bow to the sky, and say.

"White flags, soul bells, local officials amnesty, lonely souls die, lonely souls and ghosts in the ten directions of Pudu..."

"Worship the ancestors, get up!"

As soon as Li Yun's words fell, everyone lit the candles on the oil-paper boat and put them into the stream.

Hundreds of lights are lit, and oil-paper boats go down the stream, pointing the way for the deceased and conveying the thoughts of the ancestors.

The scene is so spectacular, even Hanxiang was stunned.

"It's beautiful..."

"It is rumored that hundreds of lights will light paper boats, which can guide the way home for deceased relatives on this day. An old woman with a cane next to Hanxiang looked at the small paper boat and smiled faintly: "I don't know if my wife can see it, sixty years ago, he took me to this stream to watch the lights of the day... It was our first meeting. ”

"Perhaps... I think you can see it. "Hanxiang doesn't know how to answer, now it's time to enter the reincarnation division, probably can't see it...

Just when Hanxiang was thinking this, someone next to her suddenly exclaimed.

"Look, what is this?"

Everyone was amazed.

Hanxiang turned to look and was shocked by the scene in front of her.

Hundreds of paper boats, hundreds of candles, fluorescent, starlight lights floating in the sky, covering the entire stream...