Chapter Twenty-Six: The Little Porcelain Vase and the Little Green Snake

When I eat, I am at my grandmother's house, and I watch the Spring Festival Gala and New Year's Eve at my uncle's house. We sat together in the living room of my uncle's house, eating melon seeds, and watching the Spring Festival Gala. At that time, the Chinese New Year was the happiest, because the usual days were average, and the children had a beautiful yearning for the New Year, they could eat big fish and meat, they could wear new clothes, relatives and sisters could get together, and there was joy and peace everywhere.

Now the taste of the New Year is getting less and less, on the one hand, the standard of living has improved, and there is no such expectation for the New Year, usually the fish and meat are tired of eating, and the fresh vegetables are very yearning, and the New Year, the table is full of chicken, duck and fish, especially greasy; On the other hand, life is now fast-paced and stressful. I remember that in the past, shops could only open on the third day of the Lunar New Year, and people with cars would go out to do business, but now we start visiting the shops on the first day of the Lunar New Year, why? What should you do after the door is finished, the work of the work, the far away, the door to bring gifts, the store will naturally not miss the opportunity to make money, the door more or less to take the car, how can the car not do business? This is not wrong, society needs to develop, job competition must be on the rise, and you can get more wages if you delay a day off, or you can get money if you go to work a day earlier, and you can keep your job when you go to work, of course, this is only a small part of the reason.

When I was a child, no matter what the Chinese New Year's Eve family was doing outside, they must have arrived, but now, when I Chinese New Year's Eve out shopping, many people have just gotten off the car and are rushing home, and even many Chinese New Year's Eve can't come back, and they only return on the first day of the new year, but they have to go on the third day of the new year. Of course, social progress is necessary, which shows that the modern system is always running, even if the New Year will not stop, this is good, we can only silently pray that the government pays more attention to traditional festivals, so that everyone can rest assured that the New Year reunion has no worries, and do not let our good memories only become good memories.

When the New Year's bell rang, the firecrackers outside roared again, and I almost fell asleep in my chair, and the thick ink went into the house at twelve o'clock, and the grandmother told me to go to sleep, and I didn't want to. The grandmother and uncle are going to the land temple to burn incense, after twelve o'clock is the first day of the new year, you have to set off firecrackers to open the door, the uncle took out the firecrackers, open the door. The firecrackers that open the gate on the first day of the new year must be strong, and they will be fired to the end, and there can be no mistakes in the middle, otherwise it will be a bad omen. There was a family in the village, and the firecrackers that opened the gate were damp and extinguished when they were fired, and the family was so frightened that they prayed to God and Buddha and were anxious to resolve their bad luck. Fortunately, when my uncle set off firecrackers, it was very smooth, and there were still skills here, and if they were stacked together, the possibility of extinguishing them would be smaller.

The sound of firecrackers outside is so lively, my uncle and my grandmother are ready to go out with incense and firecrackers, and I will go with them. I really haven't been to the temple except for being frightened, and I really want to go and see it, but my grandmother disagrees, saying that I am standing alone outside and lonely. I'm so good that I said that I want to bring thick ink and stand together.

I happily went into the house to pull thick ink, thick ink seemed to have just fallen asleep, he always didn't like me, I was not sure if he wanted to.

He rubbed his eyes and asked, "Why, didn't you go back to the house to sleep?" ”

"Thick ink, they are going to burn incense and pray for blessings, and I want to go too."

He wondered, "You can go if you want, ask me what am you doing?" ”

I was embarrassed to say, "I can't go into the temple, I can only watch from the outside, but it's good to see, can you wait outside with me, otherwise my grandmother won't let me go." ”

"That's what you want to go? You are a basilisk. ”

He said this about me again, I was really bored with myself, people didn't like me in the first place, "No matter what I am, I can't stop my heart from yearning for the light, I'll go by myself!" With that, he was leaving.

"I'm afraid my grandmother will be worried." He got up and put on his clothes, and I looked at him in disbelief, although he had a stinky face, he actually took the initiative to go out, and I thought that I could finally gaze at the holy land with peace of mind.

For the first time, I felt that the night after twelve o'clock was not terrible, with lights on in every house, many people outside, the sound of firecrackers one after another, and fireworks all over the sky. The land temple is built near the water, that water area is shared by several of our villages, called Yanshui Lake, the land temple is backed by Yanshui Lake, and the surrounding trees of the temple are overgrown. The temple is not big, it is just a room, with red walls and black tiles, and there are land lords and land women in it, but I have never had a chance to see them.

Along the way, many people were running in that direction, and my grandmother and uncle went to line up first. Nong Mo and I stood ten meters away from the Land Temple, and the line had already reached the village.

I tugged at the sleeve of my dark coat, "I seem to know this place well." ”

Nong Mo said, "Isn't your grandmother washing clothes here?" How could you not be familiar? "But isn't this feeling, it's a very familiar feeling, I often come to the house to wash clothes, but I've never been close there, but there is an inexplicable sense of familiarity, is it that I fell asleep and came to play?

"Where do you want to go?" He grabbed my arm.

I didn't want to go anywhere, "What's wrong?" "He looked at my feet, and I followed his line of sight, what happened to my feet? I continued to look at the Land Temple, it was really familiar, especially the big tree, such an old tree......

"Lin Xuan!" Ah, my arm hurts, I look at the thick ink, what the hell is wrong? "Lin Xuan, don't you know that you were walking by yourself just now?" What the? How could I not feel?

"Thick ink, I'm not leaving." He dragged me back a few steps.

"This is where we just stood! You've been gone several times! "I really don't feel it, what's wrong? It's not my memory! It's scary! "Thick ink, if this is not mine, it is the memory of the snake." Did the snake ever come here? Isn't it that she also yearns for a beautiful light, and the so-called demonic things can't get close to the sacred area, and she is also sad?

"Don't talk about it, you can't get close to the temple with snake energy, let alone the real body, let's go back first, see it, feel it." He was impatient to go back.

I looked at the tree and felt strange, "Why are you crying?" Or you can watch it for a while. The thick ink voice panicked for the first time, I touched the corners of my eyes, wet, why was my heart more sad.

"Don't look at it, go back, thick ink." I don't have that mind anymore, I just feel weird and uncomfortable, and sure enough, I can't come here, and it's uncomfortable to commit a taboo.

The next morning, I was awakened from a dream by the sound of firecrackers.

"Grandma, grandma!" Every year on the first day of the Lunar New Year, my grandmother brings me new clothes, and I am looking forward to it.

"Xuanzi, what's wrong?" My aunt hurriedly ran in with a fruit plate, ah, I forgot, I slept at my uncle's house last night, and I don't know if I brought my clothes.

"Where's the milk? Auntie, my clothes are not here? ”

My aunt said with a smile: "Your child's eyes are really big, your grandmother was sent over early in the morning, by the bedside." "As soon as I saw it, the new clothes were neatly placed on the edge of the bed, and there was a new pair of cloth shoes and new socks on the floor.

I put on new clothes, new shoes, and a new headband, and said to the mirror: New Year, New Weather! Come on, Xuanzi! Waved one hand to the corner of the table, ah, it hurts, covers his hand and screams, sits on the bed, "Bang-" What is broken?

Getting carried away describes me now, there is obviously nothing in bed just now, under the quilt...... No, under the sheets...... No, ah! Could it be that my pants are torn? I quickly looked in the mirror, and there was none! "Bang-" again, huh? It seems to be under the bed! I squatted down to look inside, only to see a small porcelain bottle standing underneath, a small green snake was sticking its head out of it, it found that I was looking at myself, so it shook its body like a convulsion, and the small porcelain bottle also rang with "bang-bang-bang-" non-stop, it was ...... It's stuck, right...... It's you!

The small porcelain vase has a big belly and a small neck, and it is very slender, I admire how it gets in, and I admire even more how it sticks its head out...... Strange, how could there be a porcelain vase under this bed? It's also white with a little pink, it looks so good, it's a waste to put it here! I climbed in, and when the little green snake saw that I was in, he convulsed even more, "Oh, don't move, I'm here to let you out." "It's still pumping hard, if it's the dirt of the grandmother's house, it won't be so loud.

"Don't be afraid, I'm your ancestor." This is what the old man said, I borrowed it for use, and it wasn't true anyway. But then ...... Its neck stretched to the maximum, its mouth opened to the maximum, and its tongue was stuck out to the limit, and I don't know why, but I actually understood and knew about this action...... It's laughing, and I'm angry, "Dare to laugh at your ancestors!" "Grabbed the porcelain vase with one hand, poured it out, rolled it to the ground, and quickly fled the scene, trying to escape? No way! I grabbed it by the tail, and suddenly the snake pendant glowed blindly......