Chapter Fifty-Six: The Tablet of the Living
There are two skeletons neatly placed in the earthen cave!
Two skeletons are placed on a table, one in the middle of the table and the other on the right side of the table. There is exactly a third of the table left for another skeleton.
Yu Xing's gaze moved away from the skeleton, and Old Man Zhen was surprised by Xing's lack of reaction. Normal young people screamed in fright, but they were also trembling, but Yu Xing just looked at it.
In Yu Xing's opinion, white bones are not terrible, and demons and monsters are not terrible.
The most terrible thing is the human heart!
Looking further down, there are tablets in front of the skeleton, but the strange thing is that there are only two skeletons here, but there are three tablets! The tablets are covered with a thick layer of dust, and the words on them can no longer be seen.
Old man Zhen saw the doubts in Xing's heart, and stepped forward to wipe the three tablets with his sleeve.
"Oh!"
The tablet has not been cleaned for a long time, the old man Zhen can't wipe it clean by the sleeves alone, and the sleeves are not much cleaner than this tablet except for some reflections, the old man Zhen saw that it was not clean, so he spat on the tablet, and Yu Xing couldn't tell whether it was saliva or phlegm.
"Pity this dead man, in the hands of Old Man Zhen, I can't bury it, hey!" Yu Xing thought to himself.
"Hey, hey. "After the tablet in the center has been 'processed' by Old Man Zhen, the words on it can be seen more or less.
"Si, Ma, Huang," Yu Xing read out word by word.
Old man Zhen immediately turned around and gave Yu Xing a kick, "Presumptuous! How dare you be true to your ancestor's real name! Hurry up and salute with me, my royal beast lineage has the most respect for the ancestors, and you must not do anything to bully the ancestors." ”
After speaking, Old Man Zhen leaned over and bowed three times in a row.
Yu Xing saluted with Old Man Zhen, thinking in his heart that if this master knew about the fact that someone spat on his tablet, he would probably come back to life angrily.
"Didn't Old Man Zhen just say that he only had one master and one ancestor, why are there three tablets here?" Yu Xing wondered in his heart.
After the old man Zhen finished saluting his ancestor, he got up and took another big bite at the smaller tablet to the right of the ancestor's tablet.
"Oh!"
This piece was wiped faster, and Yu Xing thought that this should be mainly because Old Man Zhen had mastered the trick of 'if you want to wipe it, you must first make it wet'.
"Chu, Mu, Wind,"
This time, Yu Xing meditated in his heart, and did not do such a disrespectful thing as calling his ancestors by name.
"This is your master, old man, my master, hurry up and salute, don't be disrespectful. Old man Zhen looked at Yu Xing and was very satisfied, this kid still learned the rules of the royal beast lineage quite quickly.
The two saluted again.
"Who is on the third token, why is there no skeleton in the back?" Yu Xing asked Old Man Zhen.
Old Man Zhen's face sank immediately when he heard this.
"Bang"
Old man Zhen kicked Yu Xing's ass with all his strength, but he was shocked and fell to the ground, smashing up a lot of dust.
"Ahem, ahem. What are you doing? Old man Zhen. Yu Xing choked on the dust and coughed a few times.
"If you want to know who this tablet is, go and wipe it yourself!" Old man Zhen simply sat on the ground and didn't get up, and said to Yu Xing angrily.
Yu Xing walked to the tablet and blew on the tablet, and he coughed from the dust again.
Rubbing his hand, he finally understood Old Man Zhen, this ash had already penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and it couldn't be wiped off at all.
So under the gaze of Old Man Zhen, Yu Xing put his hand into his arms and took out a small leather bag.
Under the cannibalistic gaze of Old Man Zhen, he took out a small rag from his arms, soaked the small rag from the skin bag to the water, and then carefully wiped the tablet that was smaller than the previous two.
"Hey, hey. ”
While wiping, Yu Xing also looked up at Old Man Zhen.
Old man Zhen had already blown his beard angrily and glared: "You, you, why didn't you take out these things earlier, I ...... the old man."
"You didn't want it either!" Yu Xingyi said with a roll of his eyes.
One sentence will an old man to death.
"You rebel!"
Yu Xing scratched his head, looked down at the tablet that he wiped clean, and was so frightened that he threw the tablet out directly.
The tablet thrown out by Yu Xing was impressively written with three big characters - Zhen Zhizhang
"Are you a human or a ghost?" Yu Xing asked as he looked at Old Man Zhen.
"You rebel, hurry up and pick it up for me and put it on! Lao Tzu is a human being!" Old Man Zhen roared.
Yu Xing still didn't believe it, how could there be a living person who set up a tablet for himself, so he walked up and pinched Old Man Zhen's face and pinched his nose.
"Mmmm, it's meat, it's not cold yet, it's not cold yet. Yu Xing said while fiddling with Old Man Zhen.
Under Old Man Zhen's murderous gaze, Yu Xing smiled: "Just kidding, don't be angry, don't be angry." Then he went and picked up the tablet he had thrown far away.
"You're not dead yet, why set up a tablet for yourself, how unlucky. Yu Xing didn't understand this practice very much, if there was an old man on the earth who did this, then his children would be poked in the backbone by the people of the world. Although Yu Xing didn't know if Old Man Zhen had any children.
And when Old Man Zhen was asked about this, he turned out to be proud.
"This is the tradition of our Imperial Beast Lineage! Whenever you worship the Imperial Beast Lineage, you must set up a tablet in your own ancestral hall. ”
"This is the ancestral hall of our Poison Gu Dao? "In Yu Xing's impression, only the powerful clan is qualified to set up an ancestral hall, and the ancestral hall is all richly decorated, why is this ancestral hall a broken hole?
"I think that at the beginning, our Poison Gu Dao alone occupied a big star, and that was a glorious number of epochs! Hey, it's just that now it's lonely. Old man Zhen sighed. But with a sigh, it was back to the way it was.
Old man Zhen no longer spoke, but took out a leather bag from his arms, and took out a tablet from the skin, and the tablet was covered with a red cloth. Holding the tablet, Old Man Zhen thought for a while and asked Yu Xing: "This table can only put three tablets, what do you say?"
Yu Xing had already guessed what Old Man Zhen was asking, and most of the tablets were written with his own name.
Before Xing answered, Old Man Zhen shouted, "There is!"
"Huh, what's the matter?"
"Don't speak. ”
Old man Zhen put the tablet aside, leaned over to make a small earthen bag, and then stood in front of the earthen bag with both hands holding the tablet.
A pull of the red cloth, sure enough, as expected by the star, there are two gilded characters written on the tablet - "Yu Xing"!
"Old man Zhen, this is revenge, absolutely naked revenge!" Yu Xing shouted in his heart.
The tablets of the three generations of masters and apprentices were all placed on the table, only Yu Xing's tablet was placed on the ground, and a dirt bag was set up behind. It looks like a grave bag, although here Yu Xing has never seen a grave bag if someone dies, because it seems that no one cares about the life and death of others except for the earthlings.
Of course, except for those powerful families, to be precise, no one cares about the life and death of people with low strength and ordinary people, and in this nameless star, there are such people everywhere. So they don't even have the qualifications to own a grave bag.
Thinking about it this way, Yu Xing is a lot more open-minded, he had a tomb bag and a tablet when he didn't die, which is stronger than many people.
Then why can't everyone in this universe have their own grave after death, just like the earthlings?
Yu Xing thought so.
Old man Zhen took out three sticks of incense from his leather bag, lit them with a wick fire, and respectfully inserted them in front of the larger tablet in the middle of the table.
Then he took out three sticks of incense and also inserted them in front of the tablet of his master Chu Mufeng.
The two skeletons are even more eerie under the smoke.
"Come here. After the incense on Old Man Zhen's head was finished, he greeted Yu Xing.
Yu Xing walked to Old Man Zhen's side. "Go, first incense your ancestors. Old man Zhen took out three sticks of incense from his skin again and handed them to Yu Xing.
After seeing the incense on Old Man Zhen's head, Yu Xing also knows this process well. lit it on the wick fire, and then inserted it next to the incense that Old Man Zhen had just put on.
After the incense, I have to bow down.
"This is your master's. ”
Three more, on the star to Chu Mufeng.
"Mine. ”
Old man Zhen handed over three more.
"What? I want to give it to you?" Yu Xing felt that the living could not be incense, which was also taboo on the earth, and the dead could not enjoy the incense offering if they did not have great merit or great contributions.
Yu Xing's mother believed in Buddhism, and when she was alive, she took Yu Xing to incense to the Bodhisattvas and Buddhas from all walks of life, praying for blessings.
But Yu Xing is a staunch atheist, and after the death of his parents, he didn't believe it even more, because this burning incense and worshiping Buddha every day did not bring good luck to their family, and they did not escape the catastrophe.
If it weren't for the few Buddha statues at home that allowed Yu Xing to find some shadows of his mother on them, he would have thrown them away.
"This incense is not the incense of sacrifice, but the incense of honor! This incense once represented the supreme glory of the imperial beast, let you get on it quickly!" Old man Zhen saw Yu Xing's hesitation. Also, ordinary children who incense the living!
"Okay. Yu Xing repeated the action just now.
Old man Zhen was satisfied, and said to Xing: "After this pillar of life and death, you will officially become my Zhen Zhizhang's apprentice in the future." We don't usually have so many bad rules, so I don't have to be restrained, and I will teach you all the skills I have. ”
Yu Xing saluted Old Man Zhen, Master, Master, Master is Father. Although you can ridicule on your lips, you must respect it in your heart.
Old man Zhen helped Yu Xing up, looked him up and down, and nodded with a smile, obviously very satisfied with this apprentice.
"Master, why is this incense called the incense of life and death, so unlucky?" asked Yu Xing.
"In the future, I will still call me Old Man Zhen, I am used to hearing it, and it is inconvenient to call me a master in front of outsiders. ”
"Well, I'll be polite. ”
"Hmph, this parting fragrance of life and death is not a nonsense. As soon as Old Man Zhen mentioned this, he became proud again.
"Explain explain. Yu Xing was curious.
"Okay, I'll explain. Old man Zhen looked at the three incense sticks in front of his tablet, and always felt that there was something less than his master and master, yes!
When can I become a skeleton, and the master and master are placed on that table, but it is much more pleasing to the eye. It's a pity, I'm afraid I don't have that opportunity, and even if there is, the nature is different.
However, the nature of these two people is not the same as before, no, it's not that they are different, it's that the whole universe is different!
Man, it's all changed!