—Chinese New Year's Eve, inside the Sanqing Taoist Temple——

Although the weather is cold, it smells festive everywhere.

Li Yunzheng was holding a string of firecrackers, and unlike before, this row of firecrackers was a complete cannon battle, and it was not the same as the small firecrackers that were set off before.

"I know, I know! The Chinese New Year's Eve will set off firecrackers to get rid of the New Year beast, and completely say goodbye to the old and welcome the new year. Hanxiang, who was on the side, also helped to pick up the firecrackers, and then muttered: "It's just that Hanxiang has never seen the New Year's beast, I don't know what it looks like, I heard that it looks like a horse, and then I heard the eldest lady say that it looks like a cow, and then I heard a friend from the mountain god say that I don't know what it looks like at all..."

"Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a kind of evil beast for 'Nian', when the winter came when the ice and snow covered the food shortage, because he couldn't bear the hunger to go to the village to eat people, his temperament was irritable, his body was huge, he was ferocious, like a tiger, a dragon, like a unicorn, afraid of red robes, afraid of couplets, afraid of firecrackers," Li Yun hung up the firecrackers, and then smiled: " Of course, this is not the only legend, there are as you said, the body is like a cow, the shape is like a horse, there are a lot of legends about the year, but there are still a lot of things in common, such as the year beasts are afraid of red clothes, couplets, firecrackers, these things can drive away the year beast, so that the year beast no longer bothers the villagers. ”

"But I always feel that everyone has no fear of the New Year beast, everyone is happy and festive in the New Year, and it has been like this before. Hanxiang felt that the Nian Beast should not be as terrifying as the legend.

Otherwise, why isn't everyone afraid?

"[Nian] may just be a symbol, a symbol of reverence for ghosts and gods, and the Spring Festival itself is a festive event, in my personal opinion, the year beast may or may not exist in the past, but now, it is more of a symbol. Li Yun smiled and hung up the firecrackers.

Lit firecrackers, crackled, strings of firecrackers exploded at the same time, loud, crackling, Hanxiang covered her ears with her hands, opened her mouth, and began to sing some lyrics of unknown meaning.

Li Yun looked at Hanxiang and remembered that when he was a child, when he set off firecrackers in Xuandaozi, he would also cover his ears with his hands, screaming, and the sound that reached his ears would become a buzzing sound, although he didn't know what the principle was, anyway, he thought it was very fun at that time.

After the firecrackers burned out, Hanxiang was still screaming with her mouth open, and without the noise of firecrackers, Li Yun could hear the singing clearly.

"Maybe the beast left satisfied, when it heard Hanxiang's singing?" said Hanxiang Tian shamelessly and laughed.

However, Hanxiang's singing voice is indeed very good, and the cappella singing without any accompaniment gave Li Yun the feeling of calming his mind, ethereal and long, like a kingfisher.

After the firecrackers were burned, everything seemed to return to silence, and the Taoist temple was silent again.

The new year really began, the Chinese New Year's Eve passed, all things were born, and after a wave of returning to their hometowns, people began to leave their hometowns and return to their places of work.

"Whew the wind-" Fingers waved, the fallen leaves and firecracker debris on the ground were squeezed into a ball, thrown into the garbage bag, handed to Ah Er, and said, "Help me throw it in the trash can at the bottom of the mountain." ”

"Wang~"

Ah Erer didn't say anything, holding this bag of firecracker crumbs, running fast, that crazy appearance made Li Yun have the illusion that the bag would be bitten off in the next second.

"Am I a little naïve when I assign huskies to do things..."After Li Yun silently complained about himself, he entered the main hall and took out the incense that had been prepared earlier.

"Festivals and stuff are always short-lived... Let's take the first incense, the first incense of the new year is very auspicious. Li Yun smiled, lit the incense, and handed it to Hanxiang, who also put away his laughter, and began to look at the stone statue of the Three Blessings God and the portrait of Zhong Kui in front of him.

"I've heard that some famous Buddhist temples have incense sticks that are very valuable, don't we have similar regulations?" asked Hanxiang.

"So, do you think someone will come to rob the head pillar incense of our Taoist temple?" Li Yun said with a smile.

With a fragrant word, you have a good point, and there is even a little sadness...

No more words, a pillar of incense rose, green smoke rose, the head pillar incense or the Taoist temple was dissipated, and no one in the outside world would care who took the first stick of incense of this little Sanqingguan.

In this regard, Li Yun also has a little envy of the Taoist temple in Luofu Mountain, the first stick of incense in the Taoist temple of Luofu Mountain is not cheap, and ordinary people can't grab it at all, let alone the major Buddhist temples.

"There's a long way to go... When did my little Taoist temple have such popularity? Li Yun just silently finished the incense, hoping that the new year will be blessed by the gods and good luck, and eat chicken tonight...

Brother Ji, who didn't know why in the backyard, suddenly shuddered...

After the salute, Ah Er also came back from the bottom of the mountain, and the garbage in his mouth was gone, but there was an extra bag of something in his mouth.

"Ah Er, what is this?" Li Yun said curiously.

The husky put the bag on the ground and opened the plastic bag, and inside was a huge insulated lunch box.

Looking at these lunch boxes, Li Yun also smiled knowingly, and opened the big lunch box, which was full of dishes, a plate of exquisite ingredients, with bean sprouts, green peppers, and all kinds of vegetarian dishes.

"Aunt Zhao's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner... But apparently we were confused with the monks, and they were all materials, which was because we were worried that we would not have anything to eat during the New Year. Li Yun is also warm-hearted, with hundreds of lights and hundreds of meals.

The above meal is also served in two servings, apparently one for Hanxiang.

It's just an ordinary home-cooked stir-fry, the color and fragrance are not complete, and the dishes made with fragrant taste are more than a step behind, but it contains a variety of intentions, and it naturally tastes like a lot of fragrance.

This year, that's it.

However, just when Li Yun wanted Ah Er to send the lunch box to the meeting, the eyes of the third day suddenly opened...

It's the future.

Follow the line of this lunch box...

...

"This is the famous Elephant Head Mountain, it looks like that. A middle-aged man who looked a little thin looked at the scene of Elephant Head Mountain and sighed.

"Zhou Yong, let's go, are you here to hunt or to sightsee, beep so much. The fat man next to him said impatiently.

Zhou Yong didn't hesitate much, and went up the mountain with the hunting tools on his shoulder.