Chapter 3: Burning Paper Money
There are not many things for children to play in the countryside, and going out into the wild is the best way, and I don't have cattle at home, so at that time, I often went out with other people in the village, saying that I was helping to herd cattle together, but in fact, I just went to play together.
Although the blind family hated my grandfather very much, but they didn't hate me before, the blind woman took me out a few times before, it was a bit of a friendship, I saw her kneeling in front of me kowtow and admit her mistakes, and crying so much that she couldn't bear it, so she said to her grandfather, "Grandpa, or let her son go." ”
Actually, I didn't understand, her son didn't come to my house, how could I think that her son was taken away by his grandfather, if I really want to say it, it's only the two paper figures at night.
When I opened my mouth, my grandfather gave me a tiger's eye, but he didn't let go, and the blind woman turned her head to her grandfather and pleaded, "Mr. Chen, you raise your noble hand, the two of them have studied in your hands before, and they are both your students." ”
The blind woman's plea is very set, and she has been talking about the previous relationship. My grandfather used to teach, and in several nearby villages, most of the characters of my father's generation were my grandfather's students, and the two sons of the old blind man also studied in my grandfather's hands for a few years. At that time, the village thought that only by studying could there be a way out, so grandpa had a relatively high status in several nearby villages, and most people would call him Mr. when they saw him, but since grandpa was criticized, few people called him Mr.
Grandpa finally relented this time, took out the book I read yesterday, took out a piece of paper inside, and handed it to the blind woman, she was overjoyed, and when she reached out to pick it up, grandpa retracted his hand and said, "You remember it for me, I only gave it back to you for Chen Tian's sake, you owe Chen Tian a life, do you recognize it?" ”
"Admit it, I admit it!" The blind woman hurriedly said.
Grandpa gave her the paper figure, but he didn't take the second paper figure out, and the blind woman was surprised and said, "Mr. Chen, where is my second child?" ”
Grandpa raised his eyebrows and said, "The blind man has done something wrong, he has to admit his mistake himself, let you settle the matter?" If you want to save your second child, let the old blind man come to me in person to kowtow and admit his mistakes, otherwise this matter will not be finished with him! ”
Grandpa's tone of voice was firm and resolute, I could see it, grandpa can return a paper figure back, it is already his maximum limit, if you want to take another paper figure back, only the old blind man can come to the door and kowtow to admit his mistake.
Even I can see the things, the blind woman can naturally see it, put away the paper man and said yes, saying that he would go back and persuade the old blind man to come to the door to admit his mistake.
The blind woman then left my house, and when she was gone, I went up to my grandfather and asked, "Are those two paper figures her sons?" ”
Grandpa said, "There are so many things you haven't seen before, and you don't understand what I told you." "I sighed, I have lived with my grandfather since I was a child, I know his temperament very well, basically he says the same, if he wants to say something to me, he will say it directly, so I don't ask much, grandpa also saw the vomit on my body at this time, and said, "You pulled the on your body?" ”
I shook my head and said, "No, I had a dream last night that someone beat me up until I threw up, and I really threw up in the morning." ”
When my grandfather heard this, his face immediately changed, and he hurriedly asked me, "What kind of dream is it?" ”
I told my grandfather everything about the situation in the dream, and he didn't say anything after listening to it, so he asked me to wash my body and change my clothes. When I came out of my busy work, I saw my grandfather preparing yellow table paper and incense candles in the hall.
In the past, I only prepared these dead ancestors for the New Year's Festival, but now it's not the New Year's Festival, and I don't know what grandpa is doing with these things, but before I can ask, grandpa first said, "You didn't dream last night, someone really beat you." When a living person beats someone, he breaks his muscles and bones, and when a dead person beats someone, he will vomit and have a headache, whether you have been beaten by a dead person, or by several dead people. ”
"Why did they beat me?" I asked curiously.
Grandpa took off the cigarette gun in his mouth, sorted out the yellow paper, and then said, "That woman was under your heel last night, and I beat her, she must have gone back to her dead ancestor to complain, and brought her grandparents to clean up for you." I let that girl go, and I dare to come to the door to find trouble, then don't blame me for being rude, the living man's affairs are solved by the living, and the dead man's matter is solved by the dead, please your grandma come forward. Grandpa said as he got up and pulled me, "Come with me to burn paper for your grandmother." ”
When I got to my grandmother's grave, my grandfather asked me to kneel down and burn paper for my grandmother, and when I burned the paper, he taught me a few words, and asked me to tell my grandmother while burning paper, I wrote it down carefully, and when I burned the paper, I said to my grandmother's weedy grave, "Grandma, I was beaten, and my grandfather said that the dead man's matter must be solved by the dead, and we have only you below in our family, and you have to come forward to solve it." ”
Grandma is a well-known thug in several nearby villages, don't look at grandpa is very strong outside, but as long as grandma's face is not right, he has to become obedient, but grandma died when I was very young, and the grave is buried behind my house.
Grandpa meant to ask grandma to come forward and help me get back on the field. In fact, there are so many ancestors of the Chen family, it is completely possible to ask the ancestors to come forward, but grandpa said that more than three generations are not so close, and it is not necessary to recognize me or not, if my father and mother are also below, this matter will be solved.
After I said these words, my grandfather muttered a few words in front of the grave, and since then, I have been waiting for the incense and candle paper money to burn out, during which my grandfather told me a lot of rules for burning incense and burning paper.
For example, the burned yin and yang paper must have money to print, and the face value of tens of thousands of dollars bought outside now cannot be used below.
When burning paper, score into several piles, because there are all kinds of imps below, and if you want them to bring yin and yang money, you have to burn some for them too.
When the incense is inserted, there are three sticks of incense, which are worshiped by people, ghosts and gods, and the three incense sticks cannot be directly inserted together, but they have to be inserted one by one in parallel, indicating that the status of people, ghosts and gods is the same.
After burning the incense candles and paper money, I returned to the house, and when I got home, the blind man was already standing at the door of my house, and when he heard the footsteps of our grandfather coming back, he immediately held the incense in his hand above his head, but he didn't kneel, and said with a smile at his grandfather, "Master Chen, I know it's wrong, please let my cub go." ”
Grandpa only glanced at him, ignored him, took me straight back to the house, put a chair in the center of the hall, faced the door, sat down with a big move, lit a cigarette and smoked a few puffs before saying, "If you know that you are wrong, you will kneel and talk, and kneel down for me for these things you have done, and it will not be wronged by you." ”
The old blind man gritted his teeth with hatred, and could see that he was very reluctant to kneel, but his second son was still with his grandfather, so he had to kneel, so he knelt down and said, "Kneel and kneel, admit your mistakes, Master Chen should let him go, right?" ”
Grandpa waved his hand and asked the old blind man as if he were educating his juniors, "Tell me what you did wrong first?" ”
The old blind man was stunned for a moment before he said, "I shouldn't be all right, I'm just joking with him." ”
"What else?" Grandpa asked with a glare.
The old blind man said, "Don't blaspheme me and let my two sons pretend to be ghosts." ”
"And!" Grandpa was not satisfied and continued to ask.
The old blind man also came to the fire, and stood up directly and said, "Chen Huaiying, you are not too much, if you hadn't been against me before, and you didn't have these things today, if you really want to investigate it, you have to blame it all, I count my life, what do you mean by targeting me everywhere?" I bought you cigarettes and alcohol before, but you didn't appreciate it, my family has to rely on me to feed, and I can't live anymore? ”
Speaking of this, grandpa's face changed, he stood up directly, picked up the rolling pin next to him that was written 'Marshal Zhu Zhu who fought evil spirits and destroyed witches' and walked towards the old blind man, went to him and shook the stick in his hand, as if he wanted to eat people, and said, "Lao Tzu is talking to you, you are fortune-telling, which one made you blind?" With a life span of 70 years, you have to say that a person can live 110 years. ”
The old blind man also lost his temper and argued with his grandfather, "I can't tell all the fortune telling, I want to say that he can only live to be seventy years old, if he knows that he has only one year left, can he live with peace of mind?" ”
As soon as I heard it, I thought what he said was interesting, the countryside is like this, an old man in the village had cancer, and after the family went to check it, they told the old man that there was no serious illness, so the old man lived comfortably until he died, and if he knew that he had cancer, he would definitely be depressed.
Grandpa said, "That's also a score, he's an old widower, no children and no daughters, you say he can live for 110 years, he must not even be prepared for the coffin cemetery, what will he bury when he dies?" If something doesn't work out, you're responsible?! ”