Chapter 7: Worship
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In the morning, my dad chattered that he would go to the music tomorrow, and I was happy to hear it, and I was good at it, after all, I was a stylish person. Ma Chengcheng was also curious, and asked what score to pose, and his father said, "You don't need to go to worship the music girl." ”
As soon as I heard it, I pondered, this is not right, you don't need a woman to play the score, isn't this just a group of big men playing music together? I'm a little unconfident when I think about it, although I can play the score, but if others don't eat this set, then what can I do? It's not a dry stare, maybe I'm going to get beaten in case I get beaten up, I think about it, and my heart is a little drumming when I think about it.
Ma Chengcheng was a little unhappy, "Why are there still men and women?" It's a big one. ”
My dad couldn't cry or laugh, "This is a worship score, not a score, worship, worship God's worship, worship is the Ma family tree, let the old ancestors take a look at our house and Chenlong, and introduce it to recognize it." ”
Ma Chengcheng's face was not very good-looking, "Then I am not a member of the Ma family?" I don't have to worship? ”
Dad explained to her, "Women don't need to worship music." ”
Ma Chengcheng don't turn his head and stop talking, they have been playing together for 20 years, I understand her like this, that is, she is angry. In fact, I listened to my father's words and probably knew why Ma Chengcheng was angry, the countryside is indeed a bit patriarchal, and we can't help it. Many times if she wins an award or something, her parents will congratulate her on the circle of friends, and the people below will praise me. It's funny to say, because those relatives are too patriarchal, and they always think that I am the one who can make a difference, so a lot of Ma Chengcheng's aura fell on my head.
As soon as my mother explained, my relatives and friends couldn't stop it.
At the beginning, Ma Chengcheng also laughed, and I felt helpless for her after coming and going many times.
Speaking of patriarchy, in fact, I also know through my own experience that it is not men who really prefer sons, but women. This kind of thinking is very deep-rooted, almost every family of the old people say that they must have a son, in fact, if you want me to say, this is now the 21st century, just like seeing the joke on the Internet: every family says that they still want a son, is there any ancestral kung fu secret book in the family that is passed on to men and women? I have a copy of the Sunflower Book Heroes to pick up.
In the evening, Ma Chengcheng told us ghost stories as usual, and it looked the same as usual, but I could still feel that she was a little lost.
The next morning, my father took me to the place where my family had placed my family tree.
I was a little reluctant to get up, and after a morning of driving, I realized that I was still a little late.
The car drove for a while and couldn't go up, we could only take the small road, although I was also a child who grew up in the countryside, but after all, I went to the county to study, and I didn't exercise much, and it was still very difficult for me to go up the mountain, and I complained a little.
I finally made my way out of the woods, and looking at the scene in front of me, I realized that it was indeed too early to complain at the beginning.
The next road is completely crooked by the shape of the stone wall through the side of the cliff, there is a section of the path directly carved from the mountain, the road is very narrow, the left side is completely cliff, it is not deep and bottomless, but if you fall, it is absolutely lifeless.
Watching the person who led the way talk and laugh and walk calmly, I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat. When it was my turn to go, I swallowed my saliva and realized that people really want to go to the toilet all the time when they are scared. I tried not to look at what was on the outside of the path, and I moved over the rock wall little by little, but fortunately there were not many such paths. By the time we got there, the sun had risen in the center.
When we went, because we couldn't delay a good hour, we had to finish the music before eating.
The crackling sound of firecrackers rang out, and the firecracker debris and flickering firelight and gunsmoke scattered in all directions, and the sound of the cannons was mixed with the hoarse and shrill shouts of an old man.
Welcome box!
I heard him say that the Eagle Puxia was really shocked at the time, and I thought it was wrong, how could this be the Eagle Puxia, and then I asked to know that people were shouting to welcome the spectrum box, and the crowded crowd spread out a road, and the eldest grandson of our Chenzi generation, that is, my eldest cousin, came out with the spectrum box.
The music box is very large, he can only hold it with his hands closed, I don't know what kind of wood this is, it looks dark red, but it reflects some earthy yellow background color under the light, and the center is engraved with four traditional characters 'Ma's genealogy', and the box is engraved with hollow dragons and phoenixes around it. Looking at the music box, I remembered that when our family just moved, my parents bought some hollow wooden dragons and phoenixes to stick on the wooden furniture, and now I saw the dragons and phoenixes on the music box, I really think that those dragons and phoenixes at home are really the same as four-legged snake turkeys.
The top of the box is covered with a red cloth, which is lifted from both sides, revealing the shape of the box, which looks like the beaded curtain that the bride lifts up and hangs in her ears.
Before I could take a closer look, my eldest cousin had already carried the music box into the room.
It wasn't long before the owner of the house came out of the room where the box was kept, holding a book that looked a little old. The book was huge, about the size of two A4 sheets of paper side by side, and the old man placed the book on a black lacquered square table in the ashram, and a crowd of people immediately gathered around him.
I stood not too far and tiptoed to see that the pages inside the book were pale yellow and looked a little older. The old man picked up the brush and dipped it in ink, and began to write his name. On the left side of the book is my father's name, on the top right side there is a small word '妣', and at the bottom is my mother's name.
I was wondering what it meant, when the crowd became more and more crowded, and I didn't have the heart to look any further, so I squeezed out of the crowd and stood aside rubbing my arms. I squatted on the sidelines and waited boredly until this wave of signatures was over, and then I began to read the score in earnest.
All the Ma family members entered the house where the music box was stored together, because the room was small, and if they couldn't stand it, they would wait outside the door for a while.
I looked at the room.
There are several squares of red paper pasted above the earthen wall facing the door of the house, and in the center is a vertical column of brush characters dragon flying phoenix dance, which is: Heaven and Earth Jun Teacher. On both sides is written in small letters, 'Ma clan' and 'eternal history'. On either side are two columns of couplets. Under these squares of red paper are wooden tables fixed to the wall, and two long candles are symmetrically lit on the narrow wooden tables. Below the wooden case is a shrine, which is covered with yellow cloth, and on top of it is the Ma clan box that the eldest cousin brought in. There are offerings and incense sticks in front of the family box. There is a cloth futon under the shrine.
The incense should be based on the seniority, starting from the highest.
I watched others put on incense and make incense, and listened to them talk about the rules of worshipping three kneels and nine knocks, so I hurriedly learned the scriptures. Fortunately, when it was my turn, no one said that something was wrong with me.
After worshipping the family tree, a flowing water mat was also placed outside.
The adults chatted and talked about wine, and I listened to it until I yawned, and the only thing that interested me was the food on the table. We pay attention to eight major pieces of food, four cold dishes and four hot dishes, pork knuckle and duck soup, sweet glutinous rice belly soup meatballs, egg skin wrapped in meat sausage slices, sweet and sour fish and garlic sauce, these tastes can not be restored even by the big hotel. A table of adults was drinking, and I was so uncomfortable eating alone.
Suddenly I felt something rubbing against my leg, and I caught a glimpse of a furry shadow in the back of my eye, and my heart tightened.
Weasel chasing here?
I looked down and saw that my hanging heart was back in my stomach.
It turned out to be a local dog raised by the owner.
I fed it the bones, thinking to myself that being messed with by that weasel right now, it was really a bit of a snake.
After eating, we took turns to worship again, and then went down the mountain along the same road.
By the time I got back to my grandmother's house, it was already afternoon, and I yawned and was a little sleepy.
Ma Chengcheng went out after eating, and I didn't know where she went, I heard Chuan Chuan say that she went up the back mountain, I went back to the room to bake the charcoal fire, and slowly fell asleep against the wall.
In this sleep-like moment, I woke up in a trance.
I looked around and found myself back in the earthen house where the candle was lit and the family tree was placed!
There seemed to be a lot of people in the room, and there seemed to be no one.
I was kneeling on that cloth futon.
Looking at the dim earthen house, I was in a trance for a while, and I was about to stand up subconsciously, but I didn't expect that my legs couldn't move at all as if they were filled with lead, so I panicked a little and quickly looked around. The door behind me was closed, and the whole room seemed dim, and the atmosphere in the room seemed a little turbulent with the curling candlelight. I turned around again, and the empty room was only the shrine platform in front of me, and the upper part of the clan box on it was hidden in the shadows, and the few large black ink characters on the music box were becoming more and more scorching.
Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher.
Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher.
Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher.
I couldn't help but breathe hard.
The dragons and phoenixes on the genealogy box suddenly opened their eyes.
A sharp voice with some strange tones came from the crested head, "Heaven and Earth Monarch Prince! Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher! ”
The dragon body twisted the dragon's head towards me, and a dull voice came out, "Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher!" Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher! ”
The two voices mixed together, and they exploded in my ears like thunder, "Heaven and Earth Monarch Prince! ”
The sound of the explosion made my scalp numb for a while, and the god platform trembled loudly, and I was so anxious that I was sweating profusely, and my legs couldn't move even if they died.
The dragon and phoenix both came out of the box, soaring in front of me, and the sound rushed straight to my head in waves.
"Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher!"
"Heaven and Earth Monarch!!"
"Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher!!"
I snapped my eyes open.
In front of me is still my grandmother's house, and a pot of charcoal is burning.
I gasped for breath in shock, and suddenly I felt a warm breath coming from my ears, and I only felt that my left shoulder was heavy as if I was lying on my stomach, and my neck was numb, and the hairs on my back were rising. I stiffened my head back and looked at the thing on my shoulder.
"Heaven-Earth-King-Family-Teacher-"
The weasel gave me a weird smile and said word for word.
I fell out of my chair in fright, and the weasel jumped off my shoulder. I gasped and tried to sit up, but my legs were numb and unconscious, my head was dizzy, my brain was like a pulp, and my heart was beating like a drum.
The half-opened window creaked, and the weasel leaped out.
The cold wind made my whole body tremble, and I immediately woke up, but I still couldn't stand up.
Squeak.
The door was pushed open, and Ma Chengcheng looked at me sitting on the ground with a stunned expression, "What's wrong with you?" ”
I tried to speak, but a mouthful of saliva ran down the corners of my mouth.
Ma Chengcheng coughed, "The smell of charcoal fire in this room...... How did you spit bubbles? Seeing me drooling, she was startled, and hurriedly ran over to help me up, I knew very well in my heart, but my legs just couldn't work, and I suddenly forgot what had just happened.
I am taller than Ma Chengcheng and fatter than her, Ma Chengcheng can't help her, she is about to cry, "You get up!" ”
I couldn't get my saliva out at all.
Ma Chengcheng gave up the idea of helping me up, she moved the charcoal basin away, dragged my feet and dragged me out the door, my head hit the threshold, and I whimpered mugly.
Ma Chengcheng dragged me all the way to the dojo.
My head clicked all the way to the ground, and my legs slowly stopped being numb when the cold wind blew on the dojo, and I sat up, and Ma Chengcheng sat on the ground next to me panting, "...... Did You Know...... You just had carbon monoxide poisoning......"
I wiped my saliva with trembling hands, "Even...... Handful...... System...... Set ......" (I don't know)
Ma Chengcheng took out her mobile phone and called her parents, she sat next to me with a red mouth, "How old are you, why are you so careless about baking a fire?" ”
I remembered that the weasel was talking in my ear, swallowed hard, cleared my throat and said, "That vixen spoke to me?" ”
"Vixen?" Ma Chengcheng was taken aback, "What are you talking about?" ”
I snorted, "Wrong, it's a weasel spirit, I heard it!" ”
Ma Chengcheng looked surprised, "You know what? I didn't come back so early, I was playing, and then the weasel suddenly came and pulled my trouser leg, and I followed it, and then I found out that you were gas poisoned, and you said how smart this weasel was, if it weren't for it...... I really can't think about it......"
I was stunned.
It took a long time to tell Ma Chengcheng that I had a nightmare, and when I woke up, I saw the weasel smiling at me, and it was still talking.
Ma Chengcheng nodded, "You think, you are poisoned by charcoal fire, it's normal to have a little hallucination, isn't it?" ”
Hearing her say this, I'm also a little unsure, maybe this is really my hallucination, after all, someone has been saying that sentence in the dream, so it's not impossible to wake up and graft onto a weasel.
I rested for a while, and Ma Chengcheng accompanied me to the health center two miles away, and went in to talk about my symptoms. The doctor saw our fellow villagers and did a check-up and found that I was not a big deal because of Ma Chengcheng's return, so he did not prescribe medicine, but only told me to pay attention to safety in the future.
When I returned to my grandmother's house, I was a little scared when I looked at the dotted charcoal fire, and I endured the cold and stopped approaching. Just leaning against the gate to blow the wind.
It was dark outside the door, and I still didn't understand the words I heard repeatedly in my dreams.
What does it mean to be a master of heaven and earth?
Ma Chengcheng moved a chair and sat next to me, "If you don't die in a big disaster, there will be a blessing in the future, I think you are going to be developed." ”
I smiled, "I'll borrow your good words." By the way, I would like to ask you something? ”
"Say."
"Next to a female character, a ratio, what kind of word is this?"
"And the comparison of the same sound, this word is the meaning of mother, there is an idiom called such as mourning Kaoyan, that is, people are as sad as their parents died...... How do you ask this? ”
"I saw it written on the right side of the family tree, and I never understood which word it was."
"There's this on the family tree."
“…… Right...... Then tell me, what does the Heaven and Earth Monarch mean by the Prince? "I looked at Ma Chengcheng a little apprehensively.
"Heaven and earth are the five most important relationships between people, respect for heaven and earth, respect for the king, relatives are parents and relatives, teachers are masters and apprentices, respect for parents, respect for teachers. What's wrong? Ma Chengcheng was a little puzzled.
I snorted, "Nothing, nothing......"
There was a gust of wind outside the door, and the bamboo forest looked very gloomy, and my heart became heavier and heavier as I watched the bright moon.
Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher?
Heaven and Earth Monarch Teacher.