When Grandpa heard this, he couldn't help but look at me, and then said to the village chief in a serious tone, "We will help deal with this matter, but where is the land temple in your village?" ”

The village chief smiled, "Just behind my house, there is a shrine dedicated to the Lord of the Land. ”

The shrine, in the old days, the Chinese folk placed the statues of Taoist gods and the small pavilion of the ancestral spirit card. The size of the shrine varies, depending on the width of the temple hall and the number of gods.

The large shrines have a pedestal, and the upper niche is open. The ancestral shrine has no drape, and there is a niche door. Basically, every village will dig a small pit and worship the shrine, which is also a respect for the lord of the land.

There is a saying that don't treat the land lord as a god, the main reason is that the status of the land lord is weak, but he still has the ability to protect the safety of one party, but because of his humble status in the Yin Division, he relies on the people in the yang world to worship the shrine and live.

If some villages do not worship the land lord, the local land lord will go to the city god temple to ask for a small place to live, but in this way, the land lord has grievances against the people in the village, and he will definitely slack off on many things.

The village chief thought that my grandfather was going to worship the land, so he came back to the house and brought us a few stacks of yellow table paper and told us to burn the paper money.

Grandpa glanced at his yellow table paper and smiled, "You have always used this to burn?" ”

The village chief smiled and said, "You're welcome, just use it." ”

I fixed my eyes and couldn't help but stretch out my hand and point to the yellow table paper and say, "This kind of yin and yang money can't be circulated below, it must be printed with money!" ”

Village Chief Zhou Ze frowned, "We've always burned like this." ”

I quickly explained, "If you want to buy yellow straw paper, spread it out and take a piece of real money of 100 yuan and press it on the paper, so that you can feel that this 100 yuan is a stamp, or use a coin, from right to left, from top to bottom, row by row, until the whole paper is covered." Such burnt paper is hard currency underneath. Money is real, and only in your pocket can you have face. ”

These are all taught to me by my grandfather on weekdays, and now I am a little proud of my knowledge, and I feel very good.

The village chief looked at me in surprise, "I didn't expect the little road chief to be so powerful, there used to be Duangong Shenwu in our village, but then they all left, and there is no one who knows how to walk in Hutou Village, you don't say, I really don't know the doorway in this paper money." ”

I smiled, thinking that we were mainly going to the local land lord to ask about the Xicheng cave, and it was inconvenient to delay the time, so the village chief took us and walked towards the open space behind the house, and there was a shrine in front of us.

After the village chief left, the grandfather looked at the shrine with a serious face, but this time the grandfather did not plan to go to the yin, but took out the incense he had brought from home before, and inserted a pillar of incense in front of the shrine.

White smoke rose in clouds, and within two minutes, a man's voice was heard from inside the shrine, "Oops! It smells so good! ”

But in a few seconds, this shrine suddenly slipped out of a wisp of white smoke, and instantly moved in front of us, it turned out to be a gray-haired old man, who looked older than my grandfather, his clothes were extremely strange, at first glance it was not the clothes of the current era, it looked like the Qing Dynasty people were painted in the villain's book, wearing a flower feather and a golden top.

The top is the hat worn by officials.

In terms of color, the first and second grades are red, the third and fourth grades are blue, the fifth and sixth grades are white, and the seventh and lower grades are golden. In the same color, the top of each product is different: the first and second grades are divided into pure red and miscellaneous red, and the third and fourth grades are divided into bright blue and dark blue. Jinshi, Juren, and Gongsheng all wear gold tops, while students and prisoners wear silver tops.

Grandpa said that what people look like when they die, they will remain like this when they go to the underworld, which has something to do with the three souls and six spirits, and the soul energy does not disperse.

It seems that this land lord should be a person from the Qing Dynasty.

His face was wrinkled and his eyes were closed, and he sucked the scent of incense and candles with great enjoyment, and it took about a minute before he slowly opened his eyes and looked curiously at my grandfather and me's original intentions.

He glared and raised his legs and jumped back, his body was extremely sensitive, he looked at me and my grandfather vigilantly, and then looked at Zhang Yao behind us, and couldn't help but speak, "Judge Yang? Female land? This...... This is the grandfather of the little judge! What are you doing here! I don't know anything! ”

My grandfather and I didn't say a word, he actually found out our identities first, and he didn't confess himself.

Grandpa smiled, "I met a guiding boy on the road today, and when I saw that it was young, I lied a lot, so I sent it to the Yin Division, the land of the tiger's head, and I asked you a word, what is going on in the Xicheng Cave?" Ugly words ahead, Lao Tzu's temper is not good, and he has no patience. ”

Although Grandpa said this with a smile, his words were full of threats, and I thought it was quite scary to hear.

Hutou Village's face was gloomy, "I can't say it, I can't say it even if you kill me!" ”

Grandpa looked at him coldly, "Since you know who I am, then you should know that the city god in our county has been destroyed by Lao Tzu, and there is also the judge of the yang world standing in front of you, if you don't tell the truth, then follow the standards of the Yin Division." ”

I naturally know that Yin Si has extremely strict requirements for his superiors and subordinates, and the official level is already crushing people, not to mention that I am three positions higher than the identity of this land lord.

The face of the land lord was very pale, and his eyes swayed from side to side, "Three big guys, I know that you are very capable, but if I say it, I will be arrested and eaten with wine, this matter, you are really useless to find me!" ”

Grandpa smiled secretly, "He told you to do this?" ”

Lord Di nodded, "I haven't been to the Xicheng Cave, and I definitely don't know, but there have been cave guards in this cave for generations, most of whom live in nearby villages, as long as you get this cave keeper, you will definitely know where the specific location is." ”

I listened to it in the clouds, and the land lord didn't say who it was, why did the grandfather guess it immediately.

Grandpa smiled, "Have you seen it?" ”

The land lord said, "This person has a preference, he likes to wear clothes upside down." ”

Grandpa said before that the living should see ghosts, wear a robe upside down, wear a hat on their heads, and sit cross-legged in the ravine.

When Grandpa heard this, he said in a serious tone, "Only he knows?" ”

"Only he knows." Lord Di nodded.

As soon as the words fell, the Lord of the Earth turned around and walked towards the shrine, and soon disappeared.

I was stunned, looking at my grandfather with curiosity, my grandfather knew what I wanted to ask, so he said directly, "Zhong Kui likes to catch ghosts to drink and eat, he is a living ghost who is worried, this land lord is also a ghost after death, naturally he is also afraid, he is telling me that the things that let him guide the way are done by Zhong Kui." ”

Zhong Kui?

I've met him a few times before, and although he didn't target me, I feel like he's in the same league as Judge Cui.

But why did Zhong Kui get involved in this matter? I really don't understand, isn't this a matter of Taoism?

Grandpa continued, "This girl has a glimmer of life in her body, whether it is Yin Si or Daomen, it is reasonable to want to meddle, who doesn't want to dominate the world?" ”

I asked curiously, "Then Zhong Kui also wants to take this thing?" ”

Grandpa smiled, "Although this line of vitality is very important, it is not so miraculous, and it is up to man." ”

We knew from the mouth of the land lord that there was still Yin Si interfering in this matter, and we knew that as long as we found the person wearing the robe, we could also know the specific location of the Xicheng cave, and seeing that it was dark, we hurried back to the village chief's house to rest.

The village chief was very enthusiastic, when we went back, he also steamed a basket of steamed buns for us, boiled bone broth to drink, grandpa did not eat during the valley, Zhang Yao is a ghost can not eat, only I eat alone, I felt that the whole person was very happy, after eating and drinking, he hurriedly climbed to the bed to rest.

At night, before I fell asleep, I heard the sound of ghosts crying and wolf howling outside, and the wind was whistling, hitting the window, and listening to strange people.

"Knock-knock-", suddenly there was a knock on the door.

Zhang Yao and I looked at each other, it was really scary to knock on the door at this time, I hurriedly went over and opened the door, and there were a bunch of people standing in front of me, men and women, old and young, their faces were pale, they were wearing toad shoes on their feet, and there was no shadow on the ground.

I was stunned at the time, because the ghost knocked on the door at night, either harming people or avenging grievances.

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