Section 43 Banquets
I bought some food in front of a few stalls, and it looked like the food in the sun, and it smelled very good, there was a pig's head, a chicken, a duck, and a fish, all of which were half-cooked. Six kinds of vegetarian dishes, four bowls of dumplings, then I took two bottles of wine, two pieces of each of the four dim sum, two of each of the four fruits, and four dried fruits, one small bag of each.
I don't know if you have noticed that these things I bought, are they familiar? If you have followed your family to prepare or pay attention to your family's tribute to the deceased, you will find that the things I bought are actually tributes for the dead.
The offerings to the ghosts and gods and their relatives are different, and it is forbidden to use a single bowl to worship the gods. People have a heavy and taboo psychology for murderous funerals, which is just the opposite of a double taboo for festive events. Since worshipping the gods is a festive event, it is reasonable to do things with a double taboo, so when worshipping the gods, you can use six, eight, ten, twelve, and fourteen bowls, but avoid using seven, nine, eleven, and thirteen bowls.
There is a saying about what kind of tribute and how much it is on. If you come to worship your relatives in the yang world, when your relatives have finished eating, the living relatives will take down the food on the offering table and distribute it to the children in the family, saying that in this way the children will be bold and will not be frightened.
There's a lot of stuff, but I can still hold it myself. These things I bought are used to entertain two ghosts, and ghosts can also be said to belong to a kind of "god", after all, there is an official position, not an ordinary ghost, so although these things I prepared are not very standardized, but they are also reasonable.
Carrying my things, I turned around and went home, and when I was at the door, I happened to meet two ghosts who came to me.
When I saw them, they were pushing each other, which made me think something was going on between them, and when I walked over and asked, it turned out that they were arguing over whether or not to enter my house.
I held up the things I was carrying in my hands and said to them, "Come on, two big brothers, I have bought all my things, if you don't come, these things will be wasted, I can't eat so many things myself!" Besides, they've all arrived at the doorstep, so where is the reason not to come in?! ”
Under my persuasion, and the temptation of the smell of the food I bought, a previously hesitant ghost finally relented and decided to come to my house together.
I don't actually have any purpose in inviting them, the most important thing is that I've been coming to Yin Si for a long time, but I don't know any other ghosts except for the bull head and horse face Bai Wei Shuiyu, so I'm also a ghost now, I didn't think of pulling a relationship before, but now I think about it, how can I not do something?
These two ghosts are what I need to win over this time, and I don't expect anything else, just be able to have a little good impression of me, if you need their help in the future, it would be nice to be able to give me a little help.
After leading the two oni to the living room and sitting down, I first put the four dried fruits and four fruits I bought on the table and made a pot of tea before returning to the back room to prepare food.
After I had put the food I had bought on the table, I lit a stick of incense on the side, and then I came out and called the two ghosts to come in for dinner.
Regarding the incense burning, when people go to the temple to worship the Buddha in the yang world, they usually light three incense sticks, which means that there is no leakage of the three learnings of "precepts, concentration, and wisdom", and it also means that the Buddha, the Dharma, and the monks live in the Three Treasures. For example, it is simply not right for some people to worship around with a large handful of incense.
There is also a kind of incense burned when sweeping the tomb and worshiping the ancestors, which is also three, but at this time, these three incense sticks represent one to respect the sky, two to worship the earth, and three to worship the ancestors.
At this time, I was in the Yin Division, and I only lit a stick of incense, and I worshiped the biggest ghost and god in the Yin Division, the King of Hades. It is said that there are ten halls of Hades in the Yin Division, and I only worship the Hades of my hall.
The two ghosts entered the dining room under my leadership, and when they saw the rich food on the table, they both showed surprised looks.
I estimate that the salary paid to them by the Yin Law Division should not be very much, and if the money is not much, it means that they cannot eat and drink enough. This led them to the temptation to eat a whole table of rich meals that they could not refuse.
I gave way, and they started to eat with chopsticks, maybe they hadn't eaten enough for a long time, and the chopsticks in the hands of the two ghosts flew up and down, which was so dazzling that they didn't care to talk to me.
I was stunned for a moment, and I didn't speak, but persuaded them to eat more, eat more, and then opened the two bottles of wine and filled them for him, but I didn't pour them for myself.
When the food on the table went down seven or eight times out of ten, the movements of the two ghosts slowed down, and they could listen to what I told them, but they were a little drunk because of the wine.
I already knew their previous names during the meal and drink, and the two ghosts were brothers, and the names were quite easy to remember, the eldest was called Jia Yi, and the second was called Jia Qi, but the ghosts who were familiar with them all called them Jia Yi Jia Er.
I feel very funny after listening to it, the surname "Jia" is the most difficult name, no matter how good your name is, add a "Jia", it won't sound good, but through conversation, I found that the two brothers are still good in addition to some love to take advantage of small advantages.
The meal took a long time, and I learned many things from the two brothers that I wanted to know, but there were some things I wanted to know the most, and I didn't get the answers I wanted from them. I originally wanted to know about ghost cultivation, but unfortunately the two ghosts didn't know much about it.
After I learned about ghost cultivation from Boss Xie, I was very interested in the cultivation mentioned in the novel before I was alive, but I knew that it was all fake, and it was made up by the author, but I didn't expect that after I died, I was exposed to the way of cultivation.
Now that I know the way to cultivate, I am not allowed to enter, that feeling, it's like a pervert in front of a beautiful woman scratching her head and posing, but you can't touch it, it's itchy and helpless.
No matter what method I use, the two Jia ghosts didn't say anything about the cultivation method, but they said that only some ghost world bosses knew the mantra of ghost cultivation, which was a secret for ordinary ghosts.
I know all this from the conversation with Boss Xie, and Boss Xie seems to have the intention of soliciting me, but I don't even know who he is, and I don't know which force is behind him, how can I just join him?!
Since this can't be done, I don't care about it anymore, I just talk to them about some topics between ghosts, who is secretly drinking while on duty and is discovered, who loves to go to gambling stalls to gamble for money, who loves beautiful women and ghosts, and so on.
Just talking about these has made me know a lot of bad hobbies, maybe not much yet, but who knows if it will be useful in the future.