Chapter 40: The Birthday of the Land Father
In the Eastern Xuan Kingdom, the Spring Society Day in February is also known as the Spring Society Day, the day of the spring sacrifice to the land god, commonly known as the "birthday of the land father".
On this day, the people will go to the land temple to pray for the blessing of the shrine god and the abundant harvest.
On the day of the society, there are customs such as drinking, dividing meat, competitions, women stopping needlework, and stepping on spring.
In order to go to the land temple and worship the land god, when the sky was not bright, Gu Jinxiu's family got up early to get busy.
Ho is preparing to worship the things of the land today.
Gao was preparing breakfast.
Gu Jinxiu set up the ox cart and moved the mugwort baba to be sold today with Gao Ling'er to the ox cart.
After breakfast, the sky had just brightened, except for the pregnant Liu, all of them took an ox cart to the land temple five miles outside the city.
At this time, there were only three or three people carrying burdens on the road, Gu Jinxiu felt that this time was just right, and no one would come to rub the ox cart and inquire about her family's affairs.
Under the cool spring breeze, Gu Jinxiu and the others came to the Land Temple.
There are already scattered vendors around the front of the land temple, some selling kites, some selling food, and some selling jewelry...... It constitutes a picture of the early spring morning market.
Gu Jinxiu glanced around, and finally decided to set up a stall under a big tree in front of the right side of the Land Temple.
This is the closest to the Land Temple, and worshippers pass through here.
Gu Jinxiu was just about to set up a stall, and a woman behind her right said: "Son, you can't be in that place, that place is not suitable." ”
Gu Jinxiu put the basket on the ground, looked for prestige, visually measured the distance between her stall and the woman's stall, and explained: "Don't worry, auntie, we won't block your stall." ”
Seeing that Gu Jinxiu had misunderstood, the woman stopped placing the wooden headdress, raised her eyes and looked at her and said, "Childe, you misunderstood, I saw that it was the first time for you to set up a stall, let me tell you, your position looks good, but it is actually the worst." After the people of the Huang family and the Gao family come, your things will suffer. ”
The distance between Sanjia Village and Huangjia Village is not far, and he has not heard of the two families bullying the township, He Shi said suspiciously: "Will they rob things?" ”
The woman shook her head, "Two years ago, after the former county commander ordered people to build a land temple in the city, the county order and the nobles in the city did not come to worship the land god. Most people would come back after the two families had come and take the opportunity to take home a small piece of meat. ”
Gu Jinxiu searched for the memory of the original owner, Gu Qingyun was seriously ill in recent years, and the He family wanted to take care of him, Gu Jinhao was studying in Qingshan Academy, and the He family was not worried that the original owner would go to the land temple alone, so in the past few years, only Gu Jinhao, who was in the academy, went to the academy and his classmates to pay homage by the way.
Gu Jinxiu thought about it and decided to move the stall back, side by side with the woman's stall.
At about the end of the day, a commotion rang out:
"Flash away, flash away, don't be my master to grab the head pillar incense ......"
"Cut, this year's head pillar incense must be my master's, you quickly dodge ......"
At this time, the two families of the little guy in front of each other pushing each other to open the way, Huang Lao Ye sat in the car with a huge stick of incense, and ran forward by the two lower cars, a car behind him pulled a little fat pig and a large jar of wine, and a car pulled the sacrificial things, surrounded by small houses.
And on the other side of him is Master Gao, who is in a similar situation to him.
The two families confronted each other, and the two masters did not care about their old image at all, arguing like shrews.
The little guy who surrounded them chased me and ran, you pushed me, and made people turn over on their backs!
Seeing this scene, Gu Jinxiu asked the He family to move the stall back, and drove the ox cart back a meter or two.
This can't make a mess and make a shocking scene again, she feels that it is enough to experience it once in her life!
As soon as Gu Jinxiu's stall was moved, the people of the Gao and Huang families came to the gate of the Land Temple.
The round old man Huang quickly jumped out of the carriage with incense, which was taller than him and had two arms thick, and quickly ran to the gate of the temple, occupying a favorable position at the same time as the tall and thin old man.
Seeing this scene, Master Huang was really a very happy "Maitreya Buddha", which made people laugh, and Gu Jinxiu couldn't help but laugh "poof".
The temple bell rang, and the time came.
"Squeak", the temple door slowly opened, Gu Jinxiu looked at the people of the two families, you stop me, I stop you, each of them will not give in, Master Gao and Master Huang pushed and shoved to enter the temple gate.
Gu Jinxiu thought that now she should grab the first incense, this time she should have grabbed it, shook her head slightly, and continued to watch the excitement.
Just as Master Gao and Master Huang squeezed into the gate of the temple, the sound of gongs and drums sounded, and a sound of "The county order has arrived", breaking the dispute between the two families.
The people present looked ahead, the officials opened the way, and a low-key and luxurious carriage appeared in the eyes of everyone, followed by people of rank in the yamen, and then the rich merchants and gentry or ordinary people in the city.
After confirming that the county order came, everyone knelt down one after another.
Miao Zhu took his apprentice out of the land temple and greeted the county order in person.
Gu Jinxiu secretly cursed in her heart for the evil feudal society, and under the pull of the He family, she was about to kneel, but suddenly remembered her identity and stood still.
At this time, Gu Jinxiu felt that Gu Jinhao's hard-working fame was still a little useful!
He nervously dragged Gu Jinxiu to make her kneel, Gu Jinxiu said in a low voice: "Mother, I am a lifter now." ”
He Shi looked at Gu Jinxiu blankly for a long time, and slowly lowered his hand.
Gu Jinxiu felt He's depressed mood, knowing that she remembered Gu Jinhao, who had lost her husband and two children in a row, and felt that she was a little pitiful, so she raised her hand and wanted to pat her shoulder to comfort her, but suddenly thought that this was inappropriate, sighed slightly, and took back her hand that was frozen in mid-air.
Gu Jinxiu turned to face forward, and saw that Li Mojin had already gotten out of the carriage, and hurriedly bowed to him.
Li Mojin saw Gu Jinxiu standing abruptly on the periphery of the official guards, the corners of his mouth rose slightly, and they met again.
He was originally worshipped at the temple of the land in the city.
Since he learned that Shang Sandai had come to Qingshan County, he sent a secret guard to secretly guard Gu Jinxiu, and while guarding her, he reported her situation to him for a day.
Early this morning, I received a message from the secret guard, saying that Gu Jinxiu had come to the Land Temple outside the city.
So, he came here to worship on the grounds of being aware of the people's feelings.
Gu Jinxiu noticed that someone was looking at her, raised her head slightly and looked towards her gaze, and found that it was Li Mojin.
Looking at her, Gu Jinxiu saw Li Mojin smiling at her, she was very shocked in her heart, and quickly lowered her head, she used to look like she was underwhelmed, what the hell is this today?
Shaking his head slightly, when Gu Jinxiu looked up again, Li Mojin had already turned to face everyone and ordered everyone to get up.
She felt that she hadn't slept enough and was dazzled, otherwise, how could she see Li Mojin like a spring breeze.
"Jinhao, what's wrong with you?"
Gu Jinxiu came back to her senses and looked at He Shi's concerned gaze, "Mother, I'm fine." ”
At this time, under the leadership of Miao Zhu, Li Mojin walked to the gate of the temple, met Master Gao and Master Huang, and walked into the Land Temple after greeting them.
Seeing this, Gu Jinxiu couldn't help but sigh that these two families were fighting for the head pillar incense, not to mention being robbed, they had to face the person who grabbed the head pillar incense with a smile, this is really good!
Because of the arrival of Li Mojin and his party, the two families converged a lot, and the chaotic scene became orderly.
Gu Jinxiu has been to some ancient temples, has been incense, and has also seen the priests of the ancients on TV, and now there is a live version, of course, he has to join in the fun.
However, there were too many people in front, so she had to take Gao Ling'er to stand on her ox cart and watch the situation in the temple.