Chapter 41: The Banquet
"Don't say that, go to the hospital!" Yu Xu's father helped Zhang Jianguo up.
The evil ghost turned out to be a human pretend, and the villagers of Zhangjia Village were very indignant.
Zhang Pengyuan originally brought those classmates who watched Shen Jiangtao's jokes, but at this time, they all looked at him with admiration.
"Let's go!" Zhang Pengyuan said in annoyance, and left on his own, gritting his teeth, very unwilling in his eyes.
Zhang Min chased after him with a smile and said, "Backing Rock, thank you!" ”
After exposing the truth of the "evil ghost", Zhangjia Village got rid of the fear that lasted for several years, and the villagers were especially grateful to Shen Jiangtao.
In the evening of the same day, the villagers spontaneously went to the grain drying field to set up a table banquet to celebrate.
Zhangjia Village's table feast, under normal circumstances, is held in the second week after the whole village has finished harvesting the millet, which is a tradition that has lasted for many years.
Each family has a table, four stools, and four dishes.
The tables are arranged in a circle along the threshing floor, and the stools are placed inside and out, leaving eight openings for the inside and outside circles to enter and exit, and then the villagers gather in two circles inside and outside to eat.
In the center of the whole circle of tables, a separate table is placed for the most important people in the village to sit, and the people sitting here do not need to go around the circle to pick up the dishes, if the villagers who eat the table in the circle eat that dish well, they can clip it to the people at the central table to eat, which not only shows the villagers' respect for you, but also shows a simple beauty.
In the habit of Zhangjia Village, it is called to offer food, which contains the good fortune of offering wealth.
But that night, the rice flowers did not bloom, just to celebrate that Zhangjiacun would no longer have to be troubled by evil spirits, and even two tables were placed in the middle of the table banquet.
At a table sat the village chief, the oldest elder, and some highly respected people; At the other table, Yu Xu's family of three, as well as Shen Jiangtao's party of three, sat at the other table.
Yu Xu's family, as a non-Zhang surname in the village, has always been treated indifferently and even bullied by most people surnamed Zhang, that is, Yu Xu was admitted to Qing'an University, and many people surnamed Zhang in the village also looked down on his family.
Unexpectedly, his family was able to sit in the middle of the table banquet today, Yu Xu's parents were so happy that they kept wiping their tears, especially when those villagers in the village came to their table to offer food, and some people who were usually worse in his family drank to make amends, Yu Xu's parents were simply excited to the peak.
"Shen Jiangtao, I really didn't expect that my Yu Yuanchao would have such a day when I would be able to sit in this place for dinner." Yu Xu's father looked at Shen Jiangtao gratefully.
The vegetable plate in front of Shen Jiangtao and Miao Li was already full of all kinds of dishes brought by other people in the village, all piled up like Xiaoshan, but people kept coming.
It can be seen that these people are really grateful.
Yu Xu was also very excited: "President, I really didn't expect that the people in the village would set up a table banquet and let us sit here!" Today's scene is even grander than the banquet I held when I was admitted to university. ”
"What's more, this is even more lively than when your father married me!" Yu Xu's mother on the side was also emotional.
Yu Xu's father had already drunk a little too much, and said with a smile on his face: "Yu Xu, you must learn more from you, Shen Jiangtao, in the future, you are really a capable person." ”
The village chief and others sitting at the other table, the villagers generally had opinions about him preventing Zhang Jianguo from sending his daughter-in-law to the hospital today, and only a few people took vegetables over, which was also dedicated to the other people at that table.
The village chief Zhang Erfu couldn't hold back on his face, and he couldn't stop drinking wine, and a few respected people even came to Shen Jiangtao's table and asked him some feng shui questions.
The atmosphere of the whole table banquet was very lively, which made the table where the village chief was even more deserted.
It is easy to get drunk when he is bored, and later, Zhang Erfu looked at Shen Jiangtao and others who were constantly surrounded by the villagers, and he was very uncomfortable, so he poured a glass of wine and staggered over.
"Hey, this classmate, I am Zhang Erfu, the village head of Zhangjia Village, thank you very much for today's incident." Zhang Erfu stood in front of Shen Jiangtao: "On behalf of Zhangjiacun, I will toast you." ”
"Yes, the village chief is welcome." Shen Jiangtao replied politely.
After Zhang Erfu drank it all, he said with a drunken smile: "Hey, I have also heard about the backing stone, it is very mysterious, do you think this feng shui is a lie?" ”
The usual cronies of several village chiefs next to him, who were also villagers who helped the village chief stop Zhang Jianguo in Zhang Jianguo before, also helped at this time: "Yes, I have heard that it is feudal superstition, something that fools people." ”
"Do you still remember that Wang Laosai in Shangtun Village? It's that Mr. Yin and Yang, Wang Laosai, who also helps people look at the grave or something, and it seems that he broke his leg for deceiving people some time ago. ”
Feng Shui is what Shen Jiangtao values the most; The reason why he clashed with Zhang Pengyuan was also because he slandered Feng Shui. Feng Shui is Shen Jiangtao's bottom limit, and it is also his counter-scale.
Looking at the village chief and the villagers who were stirring up trouble, Shen Jiangtao calmly drank a glass of rice wine in his hand, and said to them coldly: "You ask me if Feng Shui is a lie, if I say that it is not a lie, then you will definitely think that I am a god, but if you ask me to donate money to the dead to keep peace and Feng Shui, it is a lie, I will definitely choose the former." ”
"What are these words?" Zhang Erfu was stunned for a moment.
In the years when Zhangjia Village was shrouded in the horror of "evil ghosts", every day at 11 o'clock in these days, the village asked the villagers to go to the grain drying field to donate money to the ancestors of the Zhang family to ensure safety.
But judging from the current situation, since the evil ghost is fake, the previous practice of donating money is also nonsense.
As soon as Shen Jiangtao said this, the villagers immediately talked about it.
Zhang Erfu couldn't help but panic, he hurriedly explained: "We didn't know at the beginning that it was a demon pretending to be a person, and the money donated to the Zhang family's ancestral card was all invited by the royal Taoist of the Crystal View to do things, and everyone can see it." ”
"I won't talk about the previous ones." Shen Jiangtao looked at Zhang Erfu: "The money donated this year, since the evil ghosts already know that it is a human pretend, there is no need to ask someone to do things, should the money be returned to the villagers?" ”
Zhang Erfu was sweating, and half of the wine was sober, and the people around him looked a little panicked.
In fact, only a small part of the donations are spent every year, and the remaining large part is divided by them; The reason why the village chief has been intentionally or unintentionally letting the evil ghost exist, is also to see this as an opportunity to make money.
"This ......" Zhang Erfu rolled his eyes, raised his hand and said: "Hey, hey, listen to me, although those people were arrested today, but if you think about it, it doesn't prove that our village is not haunted by evil ghosts?" ”
"It's very likely that the people who were arrested were just a few people who did bad things, and they happened to be bumped into at this time." Zhang Erfu said in a solemn tone: "That evil ghost may still exist, and it is still necessary to ask a Taoist priest to do things." ”
"There's no need." Shen Jiangtao looked at the Zhang family ancestor card on the side, increased the volume, and said word by word: "Then let the Zhang family ancestor tell you that the evil ghost no longer exists." ”