"Silly girl, let's see what the flowers on the pot look like?" Lady Lotus urged.

"The leaves are a little yellow, and the flowers don't bloom much, and there are a few of them."

With this sentence, Li Musheng's cough became a little worse.

"Hehe, this flower is pulling, it looks like the head of the big brother!" Li Liannu laughed heartlessly.

"Goo~~" Li Musheng in the audience was blocked by a mouthful of phlegm, as if someone had choked his neck, making a worrying sound.

When Lady Lian heard this, her expression darkened, and she hurriedly instructed her daughter to give all the remaining gifts to her mother-in-law, and told her daughter that she must beg her mother-in-law to take care of this pot of flowers.

Time is limited, and these girls must return to the world before the incense is extinguished. Otherwise, it is said that their souls will not return.

So each of them is allocated only two places, and the time is tight, and everyone will try to hurry up.

In this order, I have seen the flowers of many people in the village. It is never surprising that those who grow luxuriantly correspond to their relatively good health, good families and careers, and basically do not bear the pain and misfortune. Those whose flowers bloom sparsely and whose leaves are in poor condition correspond to their physical illness or hardships in life.

In the crowd, Li Wen's mother and grandmother, while looking at the incense that was burning shorter and shorter, estimated in their hearts that their faces were becoming more and more nervous, and beads of sweat were about to appear on their foreheads.

The number of places spent by this inspector is very precious, and there are only two places for each person who goes down. For a long year, who will not have a sick cold, bad luck and the like, so everyone has expectations and wants to see how they are doing. If you don't take care of your own family, how can you easily help others see it.

In Li Wen's family, there has always been no school-age girl, and there is no uncle or brother to hand in. The folks in this township help you collect money, and they don't collect it, so in general, their own family takes care of their own family. And Li Xing has never been interested in this kind of thing, he always thinks that these are just illusions, and you are very wrong to use it to guide daily life. Because of Li Xing's unsupportive attitude, Li Wen's flowers have not been inspected until now.

Some time ago, because Li Wen was beaten up with a big bag, Li Wen's grandmother was very powerful, and until now, Li Xing still does not dare to resist his mother's wishes. Therefore, under the overall operation of grandma and mother, Li Wen won a place in this year's garden exploration flower, but this place for care will be ranked last.

Therefore, Li Wenniang and her grandmother watched the incense ignite little by little, and they were really anxious. I can't wait for the person in front of the queue to finish it quickly, and I can't wait to make the incense longer and shorter, and the longer the better.

"Caiyu, quickly ask your mother-in-law to take you to see Li Wen's flowers." At this time, Sister-in-law Lin said to her daughter.

Before the incense burned out, when Li Wenniang and her grandmother were anxious, it was finally their turn to see Li Wen's flowers. But the heart stone fell to the ground, and after a while, their hearts were hung again. Because when I want to see other people's flowers, my mother-in-law only takes a little time to bring them. But when I wanted to see Li Wen's flowers this time, there was no information after a while.

"Caiyu hasn't seen Li Wen's flower yet?" Sister-in-law Lin asked.

"Not yet!" Li Caiyu replied: "Mother-in-law walks slowly, maybe mother-in-law is too tired!" ”

"Say more good things to your mother-in-law, time is running out!" Sister-in-law Lin spared no effort to guide.

The meeting passed again, and there was only a small amount of incense left.

"Mother-in-law doesn't want to go!" Li Caiyu has new news.

"Mother-in-law, you can't be tired, my grandson is the last, please help, I'm begging you here." Grandma Li Wen was in a hurry, and in a hurry, she broke the routine, and she wanted to talk to her mother-in-law directly as a bystander. But seeing that the incense was about to run out, and feeling her slightly crying tone, everyone knew that she was dizzy.

"Mother-in-law, I'm Li Wen's grandmother, I beg you, I beg you!" Grandma Li Wen bowed to Li Caiyu who was lying on the table.

At this time, Li Caiyu suddenly trembled, and seemed to be struggling for something.

"Aunt Nian, you ???" Sister-in-law Lin was not satisfied.

"I see Levin's name!" Li Caiyu suddenly screamed.

"How are the flowers growing?" Li Wenniang, her grandmother and sister-in-law Lin spoke at the same time.

"Like the flower next to it, it looks pretty good."

Li Caiyu's trembling amplitude returned to normal, and her tone was also normal:

"Like Li Wen, the flowers are naughty and cute!"

Li Caiyu said something that made Li Wen's mother and grandmother really put their minds at ease.

"The incense is almost finished, wake them up!" didn't wait for Li Caiyu to have the following, and the leading aunt reminded loudly.

After hearing the reminder, the adults in charge of guiding did not dare to hesitate at all, and patted these girls on the shoulder. With such a beat, the girls suddenly stopped trembling and woke up in a few moments. It was as if they were in a dream, but they all looked tired, exhausted as if they were in prostration, and there were tears in the corners of their eyes.

But Li Caiyu, who got down the fastest, did not react to this shot from her mother.

"The dirt in Levin's pot seems to be ??? Huh???" Li Caiyu didn't wake up, she seemed to suddenly find something else, but she stopped before she finished speaking, she seemed to see something strange and forgot to speak.

"Caiyu don't pay attention, come back quickly!" Sister-in-law Lin patted her daughter on the shoulder again and urged.

Li Caiyu still didn't react, and her trembling began to get worse and worse. Sister-in-law Lin's continuous filming of this urgent urging did not have any effect, but Li Caiyu sobbed lowly!

The incense burned smaller and smaller, and two incense sticks were extinguished. The only incense stick left with a scarlet scent, the scarlet spark burned smaller and smaller.

"It's broken! Caiyu's soul can't come back! Everyone poured out this thought, and the villagers all hung their hearts to their throats for this unexpected event that had not happened in previous years, and they did not dare to breathe. Grandma Li Wen's face turned even paler.

Li Wen, who was also nervous and anxious, and also did not dare to make a different sound, suddenly jumped in front of the incense case, and blew his cheeks on the burning incense. It turned out that the fuel of this last incense stick had burned to the bamboo stick, and the fire point could be annihilated at any time. Under Li Wen's encouragement, the fire on the bamboo sticks burned tenaciously from time to time. Reminded by Li Wen's action, Li Yuan and Li Jiansheng also joined the action of blowing incense, and then several village children spontaneously joined the ranks of blowing incense.

"Daughter! Wake up quickly! Li Lin in the crowd roared, and at this point he couldn't care about the so-called rules.

"Sister Caiyu, I want you to wake up!" Seeing that someone had broken the rules, Li Wen had no scruples, and the blue tendons on his forehead burst out and he drank violently.

"Wow~" With a loud cry, Li Caiyu really woke up. The big stones in the hearts of the villagers can finally land, and the aunts, sisters-in-law, and sisters have come to ask questions.

"What did you see last?" This sentence has always been blocked in Li Wen's grandmother's mouth and not asked, but she also figured it out, Li Caiyu will definitely take the initiative to say it if she still knows something, and if she doesn't say it, it means that she doesn't know it now. Grandma's heart that she just let go of is hanging for such a little thing again.

This annual ceremony does not take much time, not counting the previous preparations for moving chairs and tables and discussing lists, in fact, it takes about 20 minutes for the incense to be extinguished in the official process.

Such a lively and mysterious ceremony is the most joyful as a child, but a small number of adults do not take it seriously. Li Wen jumped to the house and saw the bright candlelight in the study, and knew that his father was still reading!

"Daddy, Daddy, why don't you go and see the garden? That's a lot of fun. As soon as Li Wen entered the study, he shouted at his father, who was reading at night.

"Huh! I loved it when I was your age. But that's the case every time, and now I'm not very interested, so it's better to read a book at home! Li Xing put down the book in his hand and said to his baby son with a smile.

Li Wen chattered excitedly, and after describing what he had seen and heard tonight to his father, as expected, he threw out a lot of questions.

"Daddy, Daddy! You say, Sister Caiyu, did they really go to the underworld? ”

"Are there really many flowers there? Is it really beautiful there? ”

"Why is it not good for a sick person to correspond to his pot of flowers?"

"If Sister Caiyu brings some fertilizer on her body and quietly sprinkles it in her family's flower pots, won't her family be healthy?"

???

Li Wen poured beans like a bamboo tube, and asked more than a dozen questions in a row.

Li Xinghe explained to his son softly:

"The father is not strong enough to fully affirm or completely deny those things. But the Father personally thinks that most of those are illusions. Even if there is a netherworld, most of what the girls describe is just an illusion of them. How is it actually? Then I really can't tell! ”

"And I've never heard of giving some gifts, begging the mother-in-law to take care of them and cure the disease. Those flowers are by no means an extension of reality, but an allusion to reality, it is just a shadow of reality. ”

"Have you ever heard that when a shadow is transformed, the body will also change? How can shadows affect the ontology? The health of this body has always been in our own hands. ”

Looking at the disappointed look on his son's face, Li Xing said patiently:

"We don't have to be too attached to its presence or absence, and it doesn't have the slightest effect on us at the moment. There is a saying in the Analects: 'The son does not speak, and the strange power is chaotic', which is exactly the truth. ”

"Can it only be when it doesn't exist? But it actually exists! Li Wen was a little anxious.

"It's not entirely inappropriate for it to exist, it's just that it can't influence, it can't change, it can't guide our lives, and it's so mysterious that we can't grasp it, and we can ignore those mysterious things as if they didn't exist."

"If we don't exist anymore, who will unravel these mysteries? I think those mysterious things are so powerful, it's a shame to give up. "Levine does have a lot of problems.

"Awesome? If this is the case, this world has long been the world of ghosts and gods. Those things, because we are not able to touch them, are the illusions of wonder and power that arise from ignorance. ”

"I have always said that the world is far more magical than we can imagine, and our understanding of this world has always been superficial. The simplest, like a grass, how does it grow? Why do you bask in the sun and breathe in the earth to grow, but people and animals cannot? Why are some grasses highly poisonous, while others can cure diseases and save lives? If you really dig deeper, there are too many mysteries in what you step on and what you see, and there are many things that you can't see or touch? ”

"There are so many mysteries in the world, you are at a loss and stare at one of them, and easily fall into the mystery, but it is really unbelievable, maybe your whole life will be ruined here."

"According to what my father said, for some problems, it is more correct to give up than to cling?"

"To truly understand a thing, we must work the basis of many experiences accumulated by our predecessors to have the possibility of success. For something mysterious and unexplainable, we should believe and not be deluded! Save it or not! ”

Note: The story of the garden is adapted from the hometown story written by a Fujian website many years ago. When we were young, we called it the 15th of August, and the situation was somewhat similar, and the participants were unmarried men and women of seventeen or eighteen years old.

But no one will speak during the whole process, and the body of the person who can go will not tremble, but their feet will unconsciously rub back and forth on the ground, and they will grind out two small pits on the ground. At that time, when I was a preschooler, I thought, "This is too difficult to walk", and I had a small wish to do the same. It is a pity that since the whole country has paid attention to the building of spiritual civilization in the rural areas, such activities have never been held again, and this has also become a regrettable event in life.

When I wrote this story now, when I asked my mother why our village was so different from others, she said that it was because she didn't learn it comprehensively. She said that there is a more strange "please flower basket girl", saying that she uses a small pig cage as the body, grapefruit as the head, and a wooden stick as the four bodies, and then puts on a flower dress. Such a simple villain, after reciting the lyrics of the previous paragraph during a certain ceremony, this villain can jump onto the bench. I have never seen this kind of magic, and now even if the old mother says it herself, I only believe it in my heart!

"Mengxi Writings" records a lot of facts, and one of them, "Please Zigu", seems to be somewhat similar to this.

I won't write a summary of my feelings, but those who believe will believe it, and those who don't believe it will read more stories!