Fifteen days have passed, and today is the Lantern Festival, looking at my grandfather who was making lanterns, I looked at the white dumpling-shaped stone in my hand and asked, "Grandpa." Why do boiling dumplings make stones? ”

Hearing my question, my grandfather put down his work, took out a cigarette and lit it and smoked a few puffs, and then said with a displeased face: "This stone, if you don't speak when cooking dumplings, will become a gold ingot!" ”

As soon as I heard this, I couldn't help but stick out my tongue, and looked at the white stone dumpling in my hand with some disappointment on my face.

Just after my grandfather pasted the paper lamp in his hand, he looked at me in a daze, came to my side, pushed me and said, "Gao Tian, what do you want?" It's all distracted! ”

"Oh, didn't think anything? Grandpa, your lanterns are pasted, when are we going to deliver the lanterns! ”

"Gao Tian, you don't have to go with me to deliver the lamp this year, I will draw candle talismans on your hands in a while, and you will use the candles in front of other people's houses to bake the runes on your hands from door to door, and you must go to more than sixty-four households!"

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, we have the custom of giving lamps to the deceased and lighting candles at the door.

"The lamp rune, is that the rune you used to shock Xiao Lizi that time?" As soon as I heard my grandfather's words, I asked with a smile on my face.

Hearing my words, Grandpa nodded and said, "Yes, it is the rune I drew on my hand that day, this kind of rune is more powerful and more demanding, and the yellow paper can't withstand the roasting of the candle, so I have to draw it on my hand!" ”

"Then grandpa, don't you be afraid to wash off the lantern talisman on your hand?" I asked, confused.

As soon as he heard my question, Grandpa smiled, stretched out his left palm and said: "The candlestick will disappear in your hand by the candlelight of the sixty-four candles you have baked, and when you use it, you just bite your finger and smear the blood on the palm of the candle note, and the candlestick will appear again!" As he spoke, my grandfather bit off the middle finger of his right hand and smeared it on the palm of his left hand.

As the blood on the middle finger of his right hand smeared, a red rune as red as blood quickly appeared in the palm of his left hand.

Seeing the appearance of the rune in my grandfather's hand, I curiously reached out and touched the rune in my grandfather's hand, but found that the rune originally drawn in the palm of my hand would have a convex feeling when I touched it, and the rune exuded a faint fiery atmosphere.

Seeing that I reached out and touched the rune in my hand, my grandfather said: "This candle talisman is the life-saving rune of our Dharma protector, and it is also the same lineage, and it is also an important link for the Dharma protector to take over!" ”

"Grandpa, is this candlestick powerful? Why do we use it to save our lives, I remember that there are several powerful charms in the runes I draw! Touching the slightly hot rune, I asked puzzled.

"The power of the candle talisman is quite passable, but it is the nemesis of corpse poison and ghostly energy, and more importantly, the candle talisman is an indispensable rune for opening the yin and the Tao!"

"Yin, Dao? What's that? ”

Hearing my question, Grandpa glanced at the dark sky and said again: "It's a bit early for you to tell you, Gao Tian, you go to the kitchen to wash your left hand, I'll draw the candlestick for you, and when I go to deliver the lamp, you can go out and bake the candlestick!" ”

Seeing that my grandfather didn't want to say more, I didn't ask any more, but walked quickly into the kitchen to wash my hands.

When I returned to the house after washing my hands, I saw that my grandfather didn't know where to take out a golden box, and when I walked into the house, my grandfather opened the box and took out a delicate brush and a small bottle of red liquid and said to me: "Gao Tian, it will be a little painful when I draw runes on your hand for a while, you have to hold back!" ”

I didn't speak, just nodded, and reached out to my grandfather with my washed left hand, allowing him to draw the runes on his hand.

As the rune strokes continued to draw, a hot breath slowly came from the palm of my left hand, and as the runes were completed, I felt the palm of my left hand getting hotter and hotter.

Seeing that my left hand was trembling slightly, my grandfather grabbed my left wrist tightly, for fear that I would not be able to help but withdraw my hand for a while.

"Whew!" After finishing the last stroke of the candle talisman, Grandpa exhaled lightly, wiped the beads of sweat from his face, looked at my face full of pain and asked, "How does Gao Tian feel?" ”

Just after my grandfather had finished drawing the last stroke of the candlestick, I felt like a burning coal-fired piece in the palm of my left hand, and I couldn't speak.

Seeing that I didn't speak, my grandfather laughed and said, "It hurts, Gao Tian, I think I jumped on the ground when I was hurting when I finished drawing candlesticks, and you were stronger than I was then!" ”

"I said grandpa, this also hurts too much, this candlestick won't hurt forever!" Looking at the bright red candlestick in my hand, I asked in a dry voice.

Grandpa listened to my words, shook his head and said: "Don't worry, Gao Tian, as long as this candle is baked by the candlelight at the door of someone else's house, the pain will be reduced a lot, and every time you bake the candle flame, the candlestick will disappear at the same time, until the candlelight of the sixty-four houses is baked, the candlestick in your hand is not completed." High heaven, you must remember not to bake less than sixty-four candles, otherwise this candlestick will be invalid, and you will lose your qualification to become the successor of the Dharma Protector! At the end, Grandpa's face was full of solemnity.

After listening to my grandfather's words, my face was straight, and I said seriously: "Grandpa, don't worry, I will let the candlelight on my left hand only be a lot more!" ”

Looking at the completely dark sky outside, my grandfather nodded and said, "Gao Tian, go and light the candles in front of our house, the first one to start at our house!" ”

After my grandfather finished speaking, he took out a few candles and handed them to me, and I resisted the burning pain in my hand and strode out with the candles handed by my grandfather.

After coming to the door, I put the candle in my hand into the snow pit that had been dug long ago, and after lighting the candle, I counted the candlesticks in the palm of my left hand, no more, no less, exactly sixty-four paintings, looking at the candle in my hand, I did not hesitate at all, and stretched out towards the candle that emitted a faint fire.

When my left hand approached the candlelight, I suddenly felt a chill coming from the candlestick in the palm of my left hand, which puzzled me greatly, my left hand was obviously baking the fire but did not feel the slightest heat.

Curiously retracting my left hand, I looked into the palm of my left hand, and under this look, I suddenly found that the candlestick of the original sixty-four paintings, the first stroke disappeared, and with the disappearance of the first stroke, I felt a slight coolness from the position where the drawing had just been drawn!

I didn't believe my grandfather's words just now, but the candlestick did disappear, so I had a lot of expectations for the candlestick in the palm of my left hand, I glanced at the faint candlelight in front of the house on the road, and ran towards my neighbor with excitement on my face.

"Whew! Fortieth! And twenty-four candlesticks in their hands are complete! I glanced at the candlestick that had disappeared most of the time in my hand, and the excitement on my face was even stronger! However, just as I was walking towards the candlelight of the next house with excitement on my face, a shout suddenly came from behind me.

"Gao Tian, what are you doing?"

I heard someone calling me, looked back, and found that the person who came was none other than Erfei, so I hurriedly said: "Something, what's wrong Erfei?" ”

When I finished speaking, Er Fei came to my side, looked at me a few times, and then said, "Just now I thought that a child came to my door to steal wax!" As soon as I went out, I saw you sneakily squatting at the door, and said, what did you just do? ”

When I heard Erfei's words, I pursed my lips and said disdainfully: "Erfei, just the two small candle heads inserted in front of your house, are you still afraid that others will steal them?" ”

Erfei was poked at the pain point by my words, and said with a sneer on his face: "Gao Tian, don't divert the topic, saying that what are you doing sneakily at the gate of my house just now?" Don't you think my candles are small and don't start! ”

"Roll the calf, is there a shortage of wax at home? I'm doing the task my grandpa gave me! As he spoke, I glanced at the palm of my left hand to Er Fei.