Chapter 20: Excess

The old couple heard the little fox Maomao, and then got up, the little fox Maomao, turned around, his eyes looked naughty and happy, his tail moved from the ground, jumped on my body, I hugged the little fox and said: "Come, I will also look at the fox fairy, and touch the fairy spirit of the fox fairy." ”

The little fox listened, squeaked at me twice, and then jumped to Luo Xihan's side at once, Luo Xihan hugged the little fox Maomao, the little fox Maomao was in Luo Xihan's arms, stretched out his little tongue towards me, and then made a grimace at me, I smiled and said, "Maomao, you guy, see how I clean you up in the future." ”

We made such a fuss, and directly stunned Zhao Sihai's family, Zhao Sihai said: "My grandma, just now the fox fairy said that a few are brothers, could it be that a few are also fox immortals?" ”

Zhong Dabiao said: "Uncle, we are not fox fairies, you quickly let the aunt see if the bud rice cakes in the pot are cooked, I can smell the fragrance of the bud rice cakes." ”

The old lady quickly opened the pot when she heard this, this boiled pot, and suddenly the fragrance in the house spread, the fragrance could not tell what the specific fragrance was, there was a mushroom flavor, chicken flavor and bud rice cake flavor, looking at the pot, it was very good-looking, the golden corn tortillas circled, pieces of red chicken and hazel mushrooms, tumbling in the broth, the old lady tried it, and when she saw it, she dipped it in cold water with one hand, and held a shovel in the other hand, and took the whole bud rice cake down, cut it into small pieces with a knife, and served it to us, and then put the chicken out, Place in a small basin and bring it to the table.

I picked up a small bowl from the table and said to Zhao Sihai: "Uncle, I'll give my friend a little food to eat, your old man won't mind, right?" ”

The old man said: "This gentleman is really out of sight, these meals are for you to eat, there are no rules in our country, you eat quickly, we are two of us, and then we will make pork stewed vermicelli." ”

I said, "Uncle, I'm not talking about a few of us, but about invisible friends."

After Zhao Sihai heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then said: "These meals, a few gentlemen, please." ”

After I listened, I picked up a few pieces of chicken, then sandwiched a piece of corn tortillas, and then said to Tianning: "Tianning, let Brother Hai lean against the wall, let's be at sea this time, thanks to Brother Hai's rescue, we let Brother Hai eat first today, and then find a place for Brother Hai to settle down, so as to satisfy Brother Hai's wish." ”

After hearing this, Tian Ning opened the umbrella, and I put the chicken under the umbrella, only to see that the heat of the plate of chicken was all sucked away by the umbrella. I said to the umbrella: "Brother Hai, you eat more, there is no inn on Huangquan Road, you can go on the road when you are full of food and drink." ”

I saw the heat running towards the umbrella, and knew that it was a ghost in the sea who was eating there, and the ghost ate the things in the yang world, not directly, but absorbed the essence of the meal, such as the wine and food that had been served, and there was no taste, which meant that the ghost had already eaten, and usually such a meal was not good, and people would get sick if they ate it.

In the past, there were sparsely populated, and there were many dead people, so there were lonely souls and wild ghosts, creditors and wronged families, and these wandered between the villages and fields all day long, because many of them were people who died horizontally, and their yang life was not over, and they could not go down to the underworld to reincarnate, and could only wander in the sun. Originally, it was not the same as the river water, and the two roads of yin and yang were different. But sometimes, the yin and yang paths inadvertently coincide, and at this time, those unjust ghosts, the resentment in their hearts will not disperse, and they will be attached to people's bodies, and we have a lot of these things at that time. We call these things evil spirits.

If a person comes into contact with something like the so-called evil spirit, and gets some kind of inexplicable and incurable strange disease, then find some people to take a look, and you can determine whether it is a ghost possessed, if it is a ghost possession, the family often has to send a ghost for him, and this kind of person is called Mr. Two Fingers in the countryside. In addition to the inevitable burning of some paper money, you also have to prepare several bowls of rice, fish and meat when sending ghosts. But these meals are sent out with the ghosts. When sending ghosts, it must be in the middle of the night, and several people carry them to the cross street, and they can't turn back, put down the food and leave.

None of these things can be brought back; In fact, at that time, I was very poor, and the wine and meat on the street naturally could not be wasted, and the next day the food on the street would disappear without a trace. At that time, when you couldn't eat a full meal for a month, it was a very good pay.

But even so, ordinary people still won't accept this beauty difference; The ghost givers are generally people who are from low families and are not very healthy physically and mentally. It can be seen that the common people also know that it is not good to eat ghosts. In fact, the "Treatise on Great Wisdom" also says: "After people eat the food that the spirits have eaten, they will get all kinds of diseases." (Original: Something eaten by demons and gods, eaten by man, and afflicted with all kinds of diseases.) So if you have offered food to the spirits, it is better not to eat it, but to pour it on a secluded and clean grass or on a low rock, and then pray there for a few words, and then there will be nothing to do.

When the undead are exceeded, the food offered to the deceased is generally thrown out and not eaten. After all, it is not a common thing to make offerings to ghosts like offerings to Buddhas, and under normal circumstances, there are not many items to be offered to ghosts, and they are not as delicate as offerings to Buddhas, so the handling of such offerings is not too difficult. I muttered there to make Hailihong eat a little fuller, and then a few of us began to eat together, and by this time we were already hungry, and no one drank alcohol, so we picked up the bud rice cake and took a bite, no need to eat chicken, it was all full of sweetness.

But as soon as I ate the chicken again, another rich fragrance suddenly spread in my mouth, full of fresh fragrance, and I fell in love with the delicious chicken stew with mushrooms at the first bite. After a while, the pork and potato stewed vermicelli were also done, Zhao Sihai brought his own water wine, at this time we were already full, and drank some water and wine similar to beer, just to quench our thirst, and the water and wine were poured into the bowl, which was a little muddy.

Mao Qinglian picked up the water and wine and said: "Don't laugh at the farmer's wine, and the guests will be full of chickens and dolphins in the harvest year." There is no way out of the mountains and rivers, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village. Come, a few brothers and brothers, let's raise the wine in the bowl and celebrate, let's escape from death in the sea, this situation is exactly what the poem says, the mountains and rivers are full of doubts, and the willows and flowers are bright and another village. ”

Zhong Dabiao also picked up the wine, and suddenly Mao Mao said, "I want to taste this wine too." ”

Luo Xihan said: "You little thing, you want to taste everything, I'll give you this bowl, and I'll get the wine myself." ”

Talking the bowl of wine to the little fox, he poured another bowl of wine, we dried the water and wine in one go, the little fox Mao Mao also drank clean, drank wine and ate food, we discussed the matter, and finally decided to buy a coffin for the benefactor Hai Lihong, bury Haili Hong, find Zhao Sihai, Zhong Dabiao said: "Uncle Zhao, we first came to your land, we are not familiar with the place, I don't know the people in the village, there are twelve oceans here, your old man is tired, go buy a coffin, and then find some young and strong people, we find a piece of feng shui to bury my eldest brother." As for the money, if it's not enough, you can ask me again. ”

Zhao Sihai hurriedly said: "I don't need so much, I have a longevity coffin at home, and it is worth five or six oceans at most." As for the money, I'll count you five oceans. ”

After finishing speaking, he counted out five oceans, and then returned the oceans to his eldest brother Zhong Dabiao, Zhong Dabiao said that he didn't want anything, and asked Zhao Sihai to find some villagers to help, and the money for cooking and working was all out of these money. Zhao Sihai was very happy when he heard it, and said let's wait for a while, and then he went out to find someone, and found a group of young men, everyone was in all hands, and carried the coffin out and put it on the rolling wood. After the coffin was placed, I put up a shaded pergola, I took out the red clothes from the umbrella, asked my junior brother to carry the umbrella for me, and put the planks neatly in the coffin, and recited while tidying up me: "Leave the old house and live in the new house, and the dead will go to the West." There are jade pillars in the sky and beams in the ground, and life and death are stable and prosperous. Ascend to the Bliss Correction Fruit early, and bury the descendants of great auspiciousness. Brother Hai has moved to a new house. ”