Abstract: After the temple was repaired, Zhang Yu and his family came to the temple to watch the consecration ceremony and prepare to peek into the secrets.

The statue was finally sculpted, and the consecration ceremony was soon to take place, and the news had already spread in the village, and many villagers planned to go to see the ceremony.

"Sister, tomorrow is the consecration ceremony of the statue, let's go and see it when we arrive." Zhang Jian suggested that he was very interested in the temple in his village, and recently, he could always hear the legend of this temple.

"Okay, tomorrow, let's go together." Zhang Yu replied calmly. Even if Zhang Jian didn't say it, she planned to go over.

"Really, sister, are you really going to go tomorrow?" He remembered that Zhang Yu was not very interested in this kind of thing before, and last time, he asked Zhang Yu to go over there with him to have a look, and she refused.

"Yes, I'll go." Zhang Yu replied, his tone still calm.

"The consecration ceremony of the statue of the god is quite novel, I'll go see it tomorrow." Long Xiang had never seen anything like this before, and decided to go over tomorrow to take a look.

"Okay, it's so crowded." Zhang Jian was very happy when he heard that Long Xiang was also going.

"The ritual is passed down from the ancestors, it is very solemn, when you get there, don't do anything disrespectful, you know?" Zhang's mother said, she is not worried about Zhang Yu and Long Xiang, but she is worried about Zhang Jian, what is frizzy about this child.

"Okay, I got it, Mom." Zhang Jian felt that his mother regarded him as a child again, and he still understood these things.

"Actually, there's nothing to see, you can only watch the beginning, watch the excitement or something, the ceremony, the important part, are all closed, and you can't see it." Mother Zhang said again. She had seen this kind of ritual before, but she had not seen anything about how the statue was consecrated.

"I've heard from others. However, I heard that this time, the person who donated a lot of money can go in and watch it. Zhang Jian was very unhappy, just because he donated a lot of money, can he be special than others?

The family surnamed Gong lives in a simple place all day long, Zhang Jian has not seen what their family looks like so far, this time, in the past, he also wanted to see what those rich people in the big city are different from them in the countryside.

"Hey, people now, it's really not like the past, with money, any rules can be broken, it's all bad problems that I ran around outside before and brought back." Zhang's mother is a more traditional person, in her heart, rules are rules, since they are passed down from their ancestors, there must be reason in it. These rules cannot be easily broken unless they are a last resort.

Now, many people go to work outside, and now they are back, but after running around, their hearts have changed, and they feel that they have insight, and they begin to feel that there is not right here or there in the village, and now they are beginning to violate the teachings of their ancestors.

Zhang's mother believes that if those old people are still alive, they will preside over the current ceremony, and such a thing will definitely not happen now.

"People now, it's really not as good as in the past, it's getting more and more unruly." Zhang's father also agreed with Zhang's mother's words. Nowadays, many people have been affected by the outside world and have become more selfish than before, and they will be cautious. He is very disappointed in these people, which is also the reason why he doesn't want to meddle with things, these people are really not worth taking care of.

Seeing that Zhang's father had spoken, and his words were unhappy, the family began to eat carefully and stopped talking.

The next day, Zhang Yu and the others came to the temple in the east of the village to watch the consecration ceremony.

When they arrived at the place, Zhang Yu and the others were really startled. I saw that there were a lot of people here, and there were really a lot of people coming. There were already few people in the village, and everyone was often busy with their own work, and recently they stayed at home all day, so they hadn't seen so many people for a long time.

This time it was not only people from Zhang Yu's own village who came, but also a lot of people from other villages, these people did not come empty-handed, and brought a lot of tribute with them. They prepare, and after the consecration, they immediately worship in order to get an auspicious color head.

Recently, because of the previous bloodshed, everyone has been at home, and they haven't come out for a long time, and Zhang Yu's village hasn't been so lively for a long time. Now that everyone has gathered together, it feels like there is endless talk, and it seems to be very lively.

Many people are wearing more formal and new clothes, feeling like the New Year in previous years, at that time, it was also so lively, but last year, everyone was trapped at home by heavy snow, and life was very hard, so the New Year was only hastily passed, and there was no New Year's atmosphere at all.

Soon, the ceremony will be held, first of all, a lot of firecrackers, are tens of thousands of sounds, around the courtyard of the temple, the firecrackers around several circles, for a while, the sound of thunder, it is said that this is called to filth, meaning to drive out all the unlucky things, so that the temple becomes a clean place.

The second step is to apply incense, also known as inviting divine incense. Directly opposite the entrance of the temple, there is a huge stone incense burner, led by the person who presides over the ceremony, praying for the incense, and when people put the incense, they should pray sincerely and ask the gods to come. At this time, many villagers will go to offer incense, and it is said that if at this time, those who pray sincerely will be inspired by the gods when the gods come, and then, blessings will be brought down.

The third step is to kowtow and donate merit. After the incense at the door, people enter the temple to kowtow and donate money in the merit box, at this time, the money required to donate must be coins, and the money must be loud in the box, the moral of this move is that the incense of this temple is very prosperous, and there are many pilgrims who come to donate merit, if the gods choose to live here, they will be well worshipped, and they are not afraid of no tribute.

The first three steps are all to ask the gods and tell the gods that this is a good place to live in peace, and hope that the gods can come down here and keep this place safe.

Zhang Yu felt that these actions were more like tempting the gods to come here to be coolies and protectors for the villagers here. Of course, she just dared to think about these in her heart.

The fourth, most important, and most mysterious step is to ask God to possess the body. This step has always been carried out in secret, there are very few people in the village who will take this step, they are all passed down by word of mouth from generation to generation, and it is a secret that is not passed on, and only a few families in Zhang Yu's village will know how to do it.

The first few steps, ordinary people can do it, only, the last step is the most important, the gods are invited, but if they can't be attached to the gods, then, these gods can't live here, and those gods are just clay puppets, they don't have divinity, and they can't keep the peace of one party.

Zhang Yu was full of curiosity about the step of asking the gods to possess the body, and she wanted to know how people asked the gods to possess the body.

After the third step was completed, soon the idle people inside were invited out, and only a few people who presided over the ceremony were left inside, and of course, the one surnamed Gong.

It wasn't until this time that Zhang Yu didn't know what the rich man surnamed Gong looked like. I saw that this person was about forty years old, his facial features looked very easy-going, smiling, at first glance, he gave people a feeling of being amiable all the time, and it was easy to make people feel good. However, Zhang Yu saw the occasional flash of wisdom in his eyes, and knew that this was not as simple as it appeared.

How could a character with such eyes come to settle in this small village without any purpose, if it is said that he came to the countryside to farm or something, at this time, seeing him himself, Zhang Yu felt that the reason was so pale and powerless.

Soon the temple door was closed, and the face of the middle-aged man surnamed Gong quickly disappeared in Zhang Yu's eyes. Zhang Yu hurriedly took her attention back, she planned to use her spiritual power with all her strength next, and peeked into the ritual of inviting the gods to possess her body.

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