There is a unique custom in Li Village, every household with an elderly person will prepare a longevity wood before his death, and this longevity wood is not only of good quality, but also stored in a separate wooden house, commonly known as the ancestral house.

The villagers are not wealthy, and the ancestral houses generally choose old houses that have been abandoned for a long time, often the older generation has lived in them, and then they are idle and unwilling to demolish.

The wooden house is unique to Li Village, and I don't know when it was handed down, so there are no other three villages in Luoshui Village, and everyone who comes to Li Village often feels that the wooden house is very mysterious, and Li Village itself is also in awe.

On the one hand, it is because the wooden houses are dark and damp, closed all the year round, and the coffins are prohibitive, and on the other hand, there are many terrifying ghost stories about the wooden houses, which have been passed down from generation to generation.

Ghost stories are widely circulated among the elderly and children, and most adults actually don't believe in them, but for some tacit purposes, they won't come forward to expose them. This may also be a kind of protection for the most valuable property of the whole family (many elderly people use their life savings to buy a pair of longevity materials), to prevent thieves!

Among the many ghost stories, there is a legend that has been circulated for the longest time and spread the widest, so that most people are unable to distinguish the truth from the false, and slowly, it has become a prophecy with a nose and eyes in Li Village, which is miraculous:

It is said that every 60 years, an ancestor who had opened the eyes of heaven would descend on the wooden house, and he would inspect all the wooden houses in the dead of night, and then check whether these descendants had done great rebellious deeds, and punish them accordingly according to the severity of the crime.

For those who commit minor crimes, they should be given warnings to remind them to correct or make amends in a timely manner; if the crimes are slightly more serious but not to death, some strange things will happen in the house of the owner of the wooden house as punishment; as for the major crimes, they will be cursed, and the owner of the wooden house will be punished by the five kinds of natural punishments, such as gold, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Having said that, it seems that small warnings and small punishments have appeared, but the Five Elements Heavenly Punishment has never heard of it happening, and no one can specifically say it.

It is worth mentioning that this absurd legend was actually recorded in the genealogy of Li Village as it was, and kept as an attachment (I don't know which ancestor was so spoofed), which specifically mentioned a great crime: offending the ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall is the ancestral hall of the Li family, and it does not refer to all ancestral ancestral halls.

It is precisely for this reason that the person in charge of the ancestral hall has naturally become the highest authority in Li Village, and modern society has set up the official post of village party secretary, but it does not affect the pivotal position of Li Qisi, who is in charge of the ancestral hall, in Li Village; first, the post of village party secretary is the village party secretary of the entire Luoshui Village, and Li Village is a natural village, and only a group leader is set up; second, each village party secretary is basically an aboriginal of Luoshui Village, and he knows the special rules of Li Village to some extent, and there is no need to deprive the authority of the Li Village patriarch without affecting the management of the whole village of Luoshui Village; and third, every village party secretary is the younger generation of the Li Village patriarch, and he is orderly in this old ageIn the remote mountain villages with traditional ideas, no one dares to dare to do something that forgets their roots.

In modern times, this legend has long been scoffed at by many young people, but the older generation still believes in it.

The so-called rather believe that it exists, not believe that it is not, in order to avoid disasters and descendants, it is better to accumulate more yin virtue and not to commit Tianwei.