Grandpa explained to me that there are also many rules in Taoism, such as Taoism, regardless of men and women, they are all commensurate with brothers, women are Kun Dao, and men are the main way, if it is not a teacher of the Dharma lineage, regardless of the seniority, it is generally enough to meet and call the senior brother or Taoist friend, a certain master, and the same Dharma lineage with a teacher-inheritance relationship must be in accordance with the rules, calling the uncle, uncle, master, etc.

When Taoists meet and greet each other, when blessing or saying goodbye or praying, there will be "Blessed Life Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable", "Merit Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable", "Saving People Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable" and so on.

So Grandpa and Lord Land tacitly told each other that they were both from the Daomen.

Only then did I react, such a land lord surnamed Zhang is also a Taoist priest?

Lord Di waited for me to finish talking to my grandfather before he spoke, "I didn't expect that it was a heavenly master who taught Chen Fuyang, and I didn't know Mount Tai before." But I have only come to you because I want to explain that I will not do the location of this city god, I will only be in charge of the land. As for the Chenghuang, you took it up with your own hands, and I heard that the magic seals and magic swords of the Longmen faction have all arrived in your hands, and the Chenghuang has been overthrown by you, so it is up to you to do it. ”

I was stunned, is this land lord a fool?

People go to high places, water flows to low places, the position of the city god is bigger than the land lord, why is he unwilling to do this position?

I asked curiously, "Don't you want to be a city god?" ”

The land lord surnamed Zhang looked back at me and said in a serious tone, "Or you will be the one!" You kid is young, but you can overthrow the City God Temple and marry the daughter of the shogunate, no one is more suitable for this position than you. ”

I couldn't help but laugh when I heard it, the land lord is really joking, I am an eight-year-old baby, where do I have the ability to be a city god, and besides, this yin errand is only qualified to be done by the dead, I don't want to die yet.

Grandpa suddenly narrowed his eyes slightly, smiled and said, "Okay, our grandfather and grandson are watching the city gods in this area." ”

Lord Di spoke again, "But your matter has alarmed the Judge's Mansion, although you are Chen Fuyang, but Yin Si has the rules of Yin Si, and if you meddle in this matter, the people of Yin Si will not just forget it." As for what happens after you, I will only do my duty within the land, but if there is the slightest lawless thing, I will never let you go. ”

When the words fell, the land lord saluted again, and without saying much to us, he turned to leave.

Grandpa is not wrong at all, this land is not bad-hearted, but it is too upper-line, a brainless, and the law is not flexible.

I don't understand why my grandfather agreed to let us take care of the City God's Temple, but my grandfather told me that since there is no suitable person, the Yin Si is now a miasma, if no one is in charge, it is not good for the people of the underworld to run to the yang world to make trouble, after all, the first harm is our township.

Be a man with principles, and since we overthrew the city god, we can't abandon it.

Grandpa didn't say a word, pulled me to the city god temple at the entrance of the village, grandpa went to the side to pick up the discarded wooden board, found a cinnabar pen, waved both hands, and directly wrote the original city god temple on the couplet, "tears, sour, blood, salty, spicy and sweet, Mo Dao has no bitter sea in the world." "Xialian" is golden, silver, white, red, and black, and you must know that there is a blue sky on your head. The couplet is lifted.

Grandpa picked up the pen on the discarded wooden board and wrote a new couplet, the upper couplet "Lao Tzu is invincible in the world", and the lower couplet "Sun Tzu is unparalleled in the world." ”

I stared blankly at the couplet written by my grandfather, thinking to myself, so rampant, and asked weakly, "Grandpa, won't we be beaten like this?" ”

Grandpa looked at me with contempt on his face, disgusted to the extreme, stretched out his hand and poked my head and scolded, "Stupid donkey eggs, no ink in the stomach will only be laughed at, I have said it a few times, I cherish the words and paper, the words created by the ancestors must have deep meaning." Lao Tzu is not Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism is called Lao Tzu, and later generations are called Taishang Laojun, so do you say he is invincible in the world? ”

Grandpa said that, and it makes sense.

I asked, "What about the grandson who is unparalleled in the world?" ”

Grandpa smiled, "You can't afford this grandson, "The Art of War" is regarded as a classic of soldiers." Li Shimin said that looking at the books of soldiers, there is no Sun Wu. The art of war is strategy, and strategy is not a small trick, but a grand strategy and great wisdom. I wrote this couplet to warn the people of the Yin and Yang worlds, our City God Temple, not only reasoning, but also rules. But if someone who has no goods in his stomach has to treat it as us, that is, to put a hat on us, and this can't blame us, then we are both powerful. ”

It turned out that this was the kind of pun, and I suddenly felt that although my grandfather looked crude and savage, he was a very wise man.

I gave my grandfather a hand and helped him hang the written wooden couplets on both ends of the temple.

When I got home, my grandfather did something that made me feel weird.

Rural people don't spend much money to build a house, and there are many rooms, but one room said that the carpenter had a conflict with his grandfather when he was working, so he deliberately rested the beams of the room for sleeping.

The old people often say, "There are living people living under the beam, and ghosts and gods live on the beam." ”

That is, people can't sleep under the beam, otherwise they will be crushed by the beam's luck, if the life is not hard enough, maybe one day they will become an old blind man, and they will hang the beam.

Since then, that small room has been unoccupied, at most it is used to put some unused things, as a warehouse.

But after grandpa came back from the City God Temple today, he went directly to this house to sleep, and he deliberately slept under the beam.

I thought about it later, and I thought it was very strange, so I ran to the house where my grandfather was sleeping, and when I saw my grandfather lying on the bed and couldn't move, I walked up and asked, "Grandpa, didn't you say that you can't sleep in this place, why did you come here?" ”

The voice fell, and after a long time, grandpa didn't pay attention to me.

Grandpa on weekdays, when he falls asleep, must be grinding his teeth and snoring like thunder.

If it weren't for these sounds, you wouldn't have fallen asleep.

"Grandpa, why are you ignoring me?" I'm confused.

After saying this, Grandpa still ignored me.

"Your grandfather's soul doesn't seem to be in it." Zhang Yao walked from behind me at some point and said in a gentle tone.

I was stunned, I didn't understand what was going on, I stepped forward and pushed my grandfather who was lying on the bed, his body shook, cold and no temperature, and he never woke up.

This freaks me out, grandpa is acting weirdly today, what the hell is going on.

"Chen Tian, your grandfather doesn't seem to be here." Zhang Yao continued.

I looked at Zhang Yao suspiciously, "How do you know?" ”

Zhang Yao said to me in a gentle tone, "I know who is a human and who is a ghost. When a person's soul separates after death, the smell is different from that of a living person, so I can tell which ones are me and the same person, and your grandfather's current smell is similar to mine, and it must be because of the lack of souls. ”

I cried right then, I must have died without a soul, and my grandfather must have had an accident.

Although I don't know what happened, one second grandpa was fine, but the next second suddenly became like this, and I felt very sad.

Thinking that my grandfather had prepared a coffin for him before his death, I asked Zhang Yao to help me carry my grandfather out of the house and put it into the coffin he had prepared before.

Now I'm the only one left at home, and when the people in the village are doing funerals, I know some of the procedures.

I put on a shroud for my grandfather, then took a copper coin and put it in his mouth, and put a gold ingot in his left hand and a silver ingot in his right hand.

The copper coin in my grandfather's mouth is called 'Hankou' and 'Hanhan', which is a funeral custom in our village.

After a person dies, his relatives should wipe his body, that is, he helps wipe his grandfather's body clean and wipe his face with a wet rag.

After a series of things, I wiped my tears, felt very uncomfortable, and sounded three more cannons to tell the villagers the news of my grandfather's death.

At that time, I didn't feel good in my heart, obviously I was still writing couplets with my grandfather in the City God Temple with my front heel, and I died when I returned home with the last foot.

I cried so much that my eyes were swollen, because the people in the village wanted to come to mourn, and Zhang Yao hid in the backyard and didn't dare to come out.

The three cannons were released, and within a few minutes, everyone in the village came to my house and saw my grandfather lying in the coffin.

Even the blind woman and her son came to my house, and the blind man had not been seven years old, and they were all dressed in linen and filial piety.

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