With his father's words constantly echoing in his mind, Li Wen walked into Li Jiansheng's house. The two friends greeted each other and began to whisper while lying on the bed.

"Did you get some sleep in the afternoon?"

Without waiting for Jiansheng to speak, Li Wen asked again: "Why isn't your father at home?" We're going out, will he be in a hurry when he comes back? ”

"My father always comes back late, not to patrol the fields and release water, but also to catch snakes, frogs, fish and shrimp to sell tomorrow morning. He was so busy that he rarely asked me what I was doing. Li Jiansheng replied.

"My father used to say that poor children should be in charge of their families early. As long as I am self-disciplined, I usually don't care where I go, but every once in a while, he calls me to ask me what I have been doing lately, and warns me not to do anything that is a traitor. ”

"I'm sometimes in a bad mood, and I often come home late at night, so I don't have to pay attention to him."

"Where's your grandfather?"

"Shh??????h

"Look, this soft purr is my grandfather's sound. My grandfather went to bed early and woke up early, and he kept weaving bamboo baskets and straw hats every day to help the family. At the end of the day, he was tired enough, and he was almost blind, so he would go to bed as soon as it got dark. ”

"As for my mother, she is most afraid of the dark, and she doesn't dare to walk around when it gets dark. Sometimes when she walked far away, and when it was too dark to get home, she did not dare to walk, so she found a bush in the field and slept all night. She is also asleep now. Li Jiansheng talked about his mother quietly.

"It's almost time, let's go!" aroused the bad thoughts of his friends, Li Wen didn't know how to comfort each other, so he could only divert each other's topics.

Under the night when the voices were weakening, Li Wen and Li Jiansheng quietly walked out of the village. Tonight is nearly fifteen, most of the bright moon hangs high in the starry sky, and the road is quite open.

When passing by the big banyan tree at the entrance of the village, Li Jiansheng stopped with a wrinkled nose, his eyes lit up and said "Wait a minute" and went straight to the bottom of the tree.

In the villages in the south, a big banyan tree is generally planted at the entrance of the village, and the villagers send plague gods, worship the land, and worship ghosts and gods under this banyan tree.

I often wonder why this kind of activity is being done under this tree? Why is it called a banyan tree? Probably this "banyan" means that in the world, this kind of tree can "allow" those ethereal things to have a place to stay, and the banyan tree, like the locust tree, is given another special meaning by people.

"You're not going to eat these pastries, are you?"

Li Wen followed, and when he saw the offerings under the tree, he guessed what he meant.

"Is there a problem with that? I often come here to solve the cravings in my belly. Luck is good today, and if you are later, you will be cheaper than those wild cats, wild dogs, and wild mice. ”

Li Jiansheng watched the incense under the curling green smoke burn for a short time, and inferred from experience that these pastries should have just been placed for a long time. If the moonlight was brighter, you should be able to see wisps of heat wafting up from the pastries.

As soon as Jiansheng's words fell, he bent down to pick up the pastries. This banyan tree is a place for the villagers to worship the land and send off the plague god, but such a place cannot make Li Jiansheng feel the slightest pressure psychologically.

"Wait a minute!" Li Wen pulled back the monkey anxious Jiansheng.

Li Wen ignored the other party's surprised gaze, but with a solemn face, put his palms together in front of the incense, and muttered: "All the gods are above, I know that the gods disdain to let the worldly things into the spiritual belly, so as not to turbid the spiritual body. Food is a gift from God to the world, and we can enjoy it in accordance with God's will, and we can avoid the shame of waste. Offended, offended, offended! ”

"Why don't you come and help clean up?" After Li Wen finished muttering, he leaned over to clean up the pastries, and when he saw that his friend was still standing still, he reminded him dissatisfiedly.

"You guy, when did you become so eloquent? To tell you this, even if I am an immortal, I am embarrassed to enjoy this offering, and I will give it all to you, this boy. ”

"It's a waste of facts, and it's worth taking. But we also have to have respect for the gods, how can we be as arrogant as if we were taking our own things. Be respectful, respectful know? ”

After only a short delay, the two children took the pastries in their hands, chatted while walking, and marched in the direction of the village market.

"My dad once said that you should have respect for everything and everyone, and if you want to be respected by others, you must first respect others."

"Especially for those things that are unknown, we should have a respect, we can't always be so superficial because of ignorance, but don't let ourselves be tied to it." Li Wen said as he walked.

"It's right to say a few kind words, after all, those foods don't belong to us. In the future, when I take it again, I will also say a few words that I have heard, plus a few good words of praying to the gods on behalf of the people who send the offerings. Li Jiansheng agreed with the other party's statement and approach.

"It turns out that you often go there to find food, so most of the time Li Yuan peed his pants last time was a ghost, right?" Li Wen's mind flashed, and he suddenly asked.

Li Jiansheng readily admitted the matter after a few words.

It was a few months ago, a wealthy family in the outer village had a big happy event, and in the evening, an opera troupe was invited to perform a big play, and many adults and children in the village went to watch the excitement. Just like in the seventies and eighties, when a movie was shown in a certain village, many people from neighboring villages would go to watch the open-air movie in pairs.

It is said that after the end of the performance that night, Kensheng had already returned home, but after a long time of activity, he was hungry, so he hid under the banyan tree, hoping that someone would come to worship the gods.

Not long ago, before waiting for food, I saw Li Yuan's sisters and brothers and Li Shifu's group returning belatedly. Li Yuan talked and laughed with that group of nasty guys, which was nothing. Suddenly heard Li Yuan praise, the heroic fat general in Li Shifu's play, majestic.

As soon as such a numb remark entered his ears, Li Jiansheng was extremely unhappy at that time. In a fit of anger, Jiansheng grabbed a handful of coarse sand and threw it high to the top of the banyan tree, and the sand slid down the branches and leaves of the banyan tree, making a "rustling" sound.

In the dark night, the sudden sound of the big banyan tree dedicated to the ghosts and gods was scary, and Li Jiansheng also used it to scare the group of people to dissipate his anger. But that Li Yuan was too useless, and he was so scared that he peed his pants. This incident was passed on by Li Shifu and his gang, and as a result, everyone in the village knew about it, so that Li Yuan could only walk with his head down for a while.

"If it's really your ghost, if I tell Sister Caiyu, you won't want to eat the snacks she made from now on." Li Wen said to his friend with a wicked smile on his face.

"Don't! Other! Other! Please don't tell anyone. ”

Although Li Jiansheng knew that the other party was mostly joking, he still couldn't help but be anxious. He was not only worried about Li Yuan's resentment, but also reluctant to make those rich and delicious snacks made by Sister Caiyu. Like Li Wen, he respects the hard-working, virtuous, ingenious and compassionate eldest sister of the Li Yuan family, and he never wants his stubborn side to be known to the other party.

"Didn't I learn from you how to pretend to be a ghost? That time, I went with you to Li Shifu's house and put that thing on the roof, which made his house unpeaceful all night. ”

"That's all you know, don't leak it, let's keep it a secret, okay?" Li Wen said nervously.

"Of course, I will never tell others to know, that time Li Xianqiang bullied the orphans and widows in Aunt Xiang's family, and everyone was very angry. But even the patriarch of the old uncle didn't squeak, and he lost Uncle Xing's mouth, and he was speechless and gave up. ”

"Levin, you know what? I worship your father to death, and my father would be fine if he had half of his ability. At that time, I thought that if I had the skills, I would teach that family a good lesson. Look, how can I say that leaking my mouth is causing trouble for you and Uncle Xing? ”

It was an old incident last year, and Li Xian, the father of Li Shifu, insisted that Aunt Xiang's rice field was growing well, and that he was taking advantage of his family. Li Xian's dozens of acres of land are full of fertilizer, and the fertilizer water will naturally flow into Aunt Xiang's fields downstream. Li Xian set two conditions, either to give his family the corresponding fertilizer money every year, or to sell the field to him, otherwise the water would be cut off or the court would be seen.

"Winning can only be the motivation of diligence, not an excuse for unscrupulous means!" Li Xing said this sentence that made the villagers praise for a long time, and Li Xian repeatedly confessed his mistake.

Recalling that his father was righteous and awe-inspiring to refute Li Xian, Li Wen is still full of pride.

In the future, as an adult, Li Wen recalled all kinds of childhood and had a great understanding of what a father's love is. When he was a child, his father played this role well.

Li Xing not only gave him shelter from the wind and rain, but also let him stand high, so that the wonderful world outside was presented in front of his eyes, and the most valuable thing was to let him breathe the fresh air that was different from the turbidity of the world, which is the real meaning of "father's love is like a mountain".

And that night, Li Wen, who was also angry, stole the incense stick of his grandmother's offering to the Buddha, made an ingenious timing device, and teamed up with Li Jiansheng to secretly throw the device on the roof of Li Xian's house. The device would periodically roll out a stone and rattle on the roof of the head of Li Xian's house, causing Li Xian's family to be restless all night.

At first, Li Xian thought that someone was mischievous and threw stones on the roof, and sent people to guard the surroundings of the house to no avail, and the seeping gurgling and rolling sound of the roof still sounded as scheduled after a while. As soon as Li Xian was bluffed the next day, he hurriedly went to the temple with thick dark circles to pray to God and Buddha.

"My father is strong, so I played tricks on his family that night, but don't leak the slightest bit of it!" Li Wen solemnly admonished that he had thought about it a step more and thought of a more serious consequence.

"Li Xian's way of doing things is greatly restrained now, for the good of the villagers, of course I will keep it a secret, and I haven't even talked about my father."

Li Wen remembered something again, he turned around and bowed to the bottom of the banyan tree with his hands together and said, "Although I am going to frighten people, I am also in the name of ghosts and gods, I am so sorry, I am so sorry." ”

"My mother, you have to be blamed for this?" Li Jiansheng scoffed at Li Wen's approach this time.

"Sometimes after you let out a loud fart, then don't you have to kowtow and confess your guilt, but you have to confess your guilt and say: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, if any god or ghost passes by, if you hit my fart in the face, please forgive me, forgive me!"

"In this case, who would dare to fart, so don't suffocate everyone?"

"Ha, ha, ha! That's right, I'm too clichéd! Li Wen listened to Jiansheng's strange voice and strange tones, and he smiled and admitted his mistake.

"You kid often fart, didn't you hit Li Shifu's fat pig in the face last time. If you have to confess to the ghosts and gods every time, you will be really tired to death. ”

"Being able to eat the master's fart is also a blessing that the fat pig cultivated in his previous life!"

"No wonder he's getting fatter and fatter lately, it's your sweet potato fart that has enough nutrients!"

"Ha, ha, ha! That's it! ”

The two of them laughed and blended into the night outside the village, and the mysterious night did not leave a trace of fear in the hearts of these two bold boys.