Chapter 243: Worship the City God
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City God Temple, this is a high-end atmosphere and high-grade place, it sounds like it has an identity.
If seventy or eighty years ago, every city had a temple of the City God, not only in the city, but also in the larger towns and villages.
What does the Lord of the City God enshrined in the City God Temple do? In fact, the so-called Chenghuang is a magistrate set up by the prefecture in the yang world, whose functions and powers are equivalent to that of the mayor or county magistrate, and is the guardian saint of the place.
Chenghuang is also the top boss of the land lord, in a city place, he is the largest, not only in charge of the retribution of good and evil, the cycle of good and evil, but also the life and death of the people in the city, but also to protect the peace of one party.
However, in many cities now, there is no longer the existence of the City God's Temple, among them, some were destroyed in the war, some were destroyed in turmoil, some were gradually deserted and demolished, and some were submerged in the broken streets and alleys of the old city, and no one cared about it.
The city god has no office, so naturally he will no longer manifest his spirit, and this god seat has disappeared in many places today.
However, in the city where the scope is located, there is a City God Temple in the south of the city in the antique market, commonly known as the south market.
The reason why this City God Temple can be preserved in those turbulent times in the past is that there are actually two small stories, but the scope is in a hurry at this time, so I will talk about it slowly later.
Category and Sister Furong took Hua Xiaoxin's car and rushed to the City God Temple. When he was on the road, Hua Xiaoxin was very nervous, one was worried about Xiaoyu, and the other was because he was afraid, he only heard Sister Furong talking to the category, but he couldn't see anyone at all. He knew in his heart that this was a ghost, and he kept looking into the back seat from the rearview mirror, looking cramped. My head was sweating profusely.
Sister Furong looked at Hua Xiaoxin interestingly. Sudden thought. floated to the co-pilot's seat and helped him open his eyes. Hua Xiaoxin felt a flower in front of him, and suddenly saw a big beauty in ancient costume next to him, and he screamed in fright, trembling all over, and the car almost hit the tree.
Sister Furong smiled and leaned back, helpless, and said with a smile: "Sister Rong, don't make trouble"
Hua Xiaoxin was in fear. I finally drove the car to the City God Temple.
After getting out of the car, he went to the gate of the City God Temple and bought two tickets for ten yuan, one for each of him and Hua Xiaoxin, and Sister Furong naturally didn't need it, which was also a privilege for ghosts. Then we walked through the big red archway at the entrance of the temple, went up a few stone steps, and came to the gate of the City God Temple.
Looking up, under the dripping eaves of the main entrance, there is a vertical plaque with a black background and mud gold. There are three golden characters on the book "Xianyoubo", and a couplet on the pillars on both sides. The upper link is "so bold and dare to come to see me", and the lower link is "go back and be a good person".
This couplet looks a little scary, and if someone really does something bad here, he will be frightened, and he will not dare to cross the threshold more than a foot high, go in and burn incense and make a wish.
But the scope didn't react to this, he used to play here with adults when he was a child, although he hadn't been here for almost ten years, but he just glanced at it and stepped in.
This is a very retro large quadrangle, facing the middle is a large hall, there is a large copper incense burner in front of the hall, the east is the drum tower, the west is the bell tower, the drum looks at the size of a large round tabletop, and then look at the bell, but can put the drum in.
On the east and west sides, there is also a large hall, and the one on the left is the Hades Palace, which is dedicated to the ten halls of Hades. On the right is the Yuanchen Hall, also called the Star Hall, which is dedicated to sixty star gods.
However, this Yuanchen Hall has been damaged once a few decades ago, and when it was restored and renovated, it was connected with a commercial street next door, so it opened the door from the other side and became an antique market, and there was no longer the scenery and sculpture of the original Yuanchen Palace.
After thinking about it, he didn't immediately go to the Hades Hall to find someone, but went straight to the City God Hall in the middle first.
When you arrive at the City God Temple, you naturally have to meet the master first, if this was in the past, the category did not have this awareness, but now it is different, there are land lords in the land temple, and this City God Temple, naturally, can not be careless and rude.
Hua Xiaoxin followed behind him without saying a word, and Sister Furong also looked normal, didn't take it seriously, and entered the main hall together.
This is quite a large hall like the ancient county government hall, two statues at the door, the left is the civil judge, the right is the military judge, and there are the day and night gods in the back, and the eight soap-robed ghost officials stand in the hall on both sides. On the throne in the middle, there is a wooden carved seated statue, slightly taller than the real person, wearing a gold-inlaid red robe, a white face and a long beard, holding a paper fan, smiling slightly, quite an elderly demeanor, this is the city god master.
On the top of the head of the statue, there are several plaques with golden characters such as "Welling is prominent", "Respond to requests", and "Sincerity is spiritual". Presumably, they were all sent by pilgrims who had fulfilled their wishes.
On the incense table in front of the statue, there is a large bronze incense burner, which is full of incense. In front of the incense table, there is a large iron candelabra with three rows of heights, and many candles are inserted in each row. On the front table, there are offerings such as fruits and steamed buns.
Standing in front of the idol, he bowed respectfully three times, he didn't buy incense, so he took out five yuan from his pocket, stuffed it into the merit box next to him, and then bowed to the statue of the god of the city god.
Hua Xiaoxin followed him nervously, and also followed his example to worship Chenghuang, but Sister Furong sneered and laughed beside her.
The category glared slightly, and whispered: "Sister Rong, you are strict, this worship of immortals, people are bigger than you." ”
Sister Fleur pouted: "Stupid, what are you doing with a piece of wood?" The old man is not there at all. ”
Category Qi said: "What do you mean, isn't the City God Lord at home?" ”
"Alas, it's also a secret to say it, in fact, Chenghuang has not been at home for nearly a hundred years."
"Huh? You're not kidding, Master Chenghuang is not at home, where is he going? ”
Sister Furong shook her head: "How do I know about this kind of thing, this time you know why the land lord didn't come to ask for help, right?" Because there are no reinforcements to ask for. ”
The category was stunned: "No, last time in Xishan, he obviously brought a lot of Yin soldiers, and he borrowed it from here." ”
"That's right, it's a soldier borrowed here, that's because there are only soldiers left here."
In the surprised gaze of the category, Sister Furong probably talked about the situation, and he knew that the local City God had really disappeared a hundred years ago, but she only knew this, as for where the City God had gone and when he would come back, the Land Lord had never been willing to say, just that he didn't know, but Sister Furong was careful, and had long seen that the Land Lord was unwilling to tell the truth, but she was casual by nature, she liked a free and unrestrained life, and it didn't matter if she was a fairy or not, so she was too lazy to ask more.
No wonder the land lord didn't come here to ask for help, so he held it back, and he only knew the truth this time, but he only frowned, and didn't ask more, the matter of the city god lord didn't seem to have much to do with him as a mortal, and now he came to find Xiaoyu, not to see the city god, it's better not to be at home, and save a lot of money.
Hua Xiaoxin was on the side, watching them talk, and he didn't have the intention of interjecting, just looking around, looking around to see that he was in a hurry, and he was more interested in finding Xiaoyu than the category.
The category stomped his feet at the moment: "Isn't this a waste of effort, go, find Xiaoyu." ”
went out and went straight to the palace of the king of Hades, Guo lame said, Xiaoyu is there.
This Hades Hall is the most terrifying place in this City God Temple, at least when the scope is small, I thought so. There are not only ten halls of Hades inside, but also black and white impermanence, bull heads and horse faces, and the walls are full of paintings of the terrifying scenes of hell, which makes people look creepy, and with the gloomy and dim atmosphere, the timid can't sleep when they go home.
But now he was not afraid, he was the first to rush in, and his eyes were scanned in the Hades Palace, and he looked around from left to right.
Strange, the little fish is not here?
Hua Xiaoxin also ran in later, and was stunned at first glance, except for those scaring statues and murals in the Hades Palace, it was empty, not to mention Xiaoyu, and there were not even a single tourist.
Could it be that Guo is lame talking nonsense? Or is the little fish gone?
The thought in his heart turned sharply, and he turned around and was about to walk out, but at this moment, a hoarse old voice came from behind him.
"You're in a hurry, aren't you looking for someone?" (To be continued!)