Chapter 15: The Patron Saint of the Village (2)
I have seen incense burning at the land temple at the entrance of the village all year round, and almost every day there are all kinds of people asking for worship, and some of them come to pay their vows. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info As long as you ask the land public land wife to help you do things, after the deed is completed, you will come back to repay your wishes. I heard that if you forget to make a vow, you will be punished accordingly, and the consequences will be quite serious.
I've been through this myself. I remember that every three months I had severe peeling of my hands and feet, and sometimes cracks in my skin. My grandmother thought I was soaking in too much water and wouldn't let me touch the water. But it still can't be avoided. It's almost three months, and the skin of the hands and feet is going to be done once, and for this matter, grandma also went to find Granny Miao, who knows how to prescribe Chinese medicine to cure diseases, and she knows a lot of herbs. But after eating herbs this time, I made another mistake after three intervals. Granny Miao couldn't find out a reason. Once passing by the Land Temple, I suddenly stopped and sincerely prayed to the land princess, hoping that my hands and feet would be cured and that I would not do it again in the future. If it's good, I'll come and thank you. After meditating on this in my heart, I didn't pay much attention to it. The strange thing is that I really haven't had the symptoms of peeling of my hands and feet since then, and Granny Miao also felt strange and asked me if I had taken any medicine or something, and I shook my head. At that time, I was young, I didn't have much memory, and I couldn't remember the wish I had made.
This incident is also a long time later, once I passed by the Land Temple, I developed the habit of worshipping when I passed by the Land Temple, and I don't know when this habit was formed. As is customary, after paying homage to the land princess, I was about to get up when I seemed to see the land princess's eyes blink. I paused on the spot, but I didn't feel scared, and I didn't think much about it at the time, so I left.
The cold wind rustled the bamboo leaves on both sides of the road, and the sand was blown by the wind. I took the bamboo forest road, which was a shortcut home. Since I entered the bamboo forest, I haven't even seen a single shadow, and there are usually two or three people passing by, and the cold road is almost silent except for the sound of the wind and my footsteps. At this time, the clouds in the sky almost covered the moonlight, and it was not very cold weather, but there was an inexplicable cold wind blowing over and it was biting cold. I always had a bad premonition. I grabbed my collar and shrunk my neck to speed up, hoping to get out of this unusual bamboo forest as soon as possible.
The cold air casts an eerie hue over everything around them. I glanced around, intentionally or unintentionally, but I lifted my spirits, lowered my head and continued on my way. This bamboo forest is not very large, and I can usually walk a distance to get out, why do I still not see the end after walking for so long? I was frightened, and I couldn't help muttering in my heart. The more I thought about it, the more I quickened my pace.
After a few steps, I noticed a bloodless face standing on the side of the road, a vacant gaze piercing through my body, two thin, pale hands open like a scarecrow, as if there was a cross nailed to her. Keep your head down, and your long messy hair floats strangely in the wind, like hundreds of ropes, one of which will kill you if you are not careful. The dark lips showed a strange smile, and a sticky black liquid flowed from the mouth.
I took a step back all at once and didn't stand firm. I fell to the ground, and what made people feel even more desperate was that she was approaching little by little, and reason told me that I should run, but I didn't even move my fingers, and could only watch the strange smile of the face float over little by little, almost touching my face, and suddenly stopped just when it was imminent.
My heart sank, my cold hair stood up, my jaw was a little numb from the fright, I felt the blood in my whole body flowing upstream, I could clearly hear my own heartbeat, I couldn't move and stiffened there. Not to be said, I directly pinched my left arm with my fingernails, and the sharp pain made me want to roll, but unfortunately my body was still in a stiff state. Perhaps it was the severe pain that caused some nerves in my body to react, and I almost crawled backwards. The female ghost was even more angry and pounced on me.
I closed my eyes in panic and swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, so I reflexively grabbed the sand on the ground with both hands and threw it at her, and the ghost became even more rampant, and the flick tied me up and lifted me into the air, making a terrible wail, and suddenly the whole bamboo forest trembled, as if afraid of the power of the female ghost.
Won't I be able to get out of this bamboo forest today? At this moment, I am at a loss to look directly at the female ghost, this person is really not afraid to look directly at the ghost at the moment of death.
If I can get out of this bamboo forest alive today, I will definitely thank you. I have nothing to think of at this moment but the prayer of my heart. Suddenly, I seemed to be a little familiar with the vow I just said, and suddenly I remembered the experience of peeling off the skin, and the wish I made in the Land Temple, but I forgot to repay the vow for a long time.
It was too late for me to know all this, and I reluctantly closed my eyes, ready to say goodbye to the world.
At the same time, a golden light extended from the direction of the land temple to the bamboo forest, shooting directly at the female ghost, who let out a sharp roar, and her body quickly curled up, and then turned into a cloud of smoke and disappeared into the bamboo forest. I was originally bound, but because of the disappearance of the female ghost, I also fell from mid-air, but fortunately it was not very high, and there was sand underneath, and my hands and feet broke the flesh and skin, and I bled a little.
I immediately got up and ran forward. I almost fell a few times, and I didn't dare to turn back. Don't run for your life to your home.
When I got to the gate of the courtyard, I almost crashed through the door. My grandmother was feeding the chickens, and when she saw me panicking, she came over to help me in surprise. I gasped for air, my forehead was covered in cold sweat, my clothes and hands were sticking to you, my hands and feet were broken, and even though the blood clots had clotted, I still looked extremely embarrassed.
When I calmed down a bit, I told my grandmother everything I had experienced. Along with the last time I forgot to make a vow, I also talked about it carefully.
After hearing this, Grandma was also anxious. After scolding me a few words, he hurriedly boiled water and killed chickens and prepared everything, and then pulled me straight to the Land Temple......
Today is the birthday of the land princess, I followed my grandmother to the land temple, the crowd of people, the noisy voices, the people who lined up in a neat line to worship, are all under the care of the land princess! I stood behind my grandmother, liberated from the thoughts just now, took a deep breath, and also threw myself into this lively atmosphere......