Chapter 1 Bao Jia Xian
My name is Liu Gen, the name is very earthy, right, my family is a man to me, my grandmother said that I am the root of the old Liu family, I have to call me Liu Gen, my mother does not agree, but my grandmother is very superstitious, so she took this name. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info actually nothing, but after a classic world without thieves, people around me began to call me stupid, which is something I am very helpless about. But fortunately, the name is just a code name.
Okay, my next story may seem like nothing, but it actually changed my life.
Many years ago, when my grandfather's generation was young, he just broke into the eastern part of the country to Hailar District, Hulunbuir City, that is, the area of Manchuria, which is very close to Lao Maozi (Russia), which is a very desolate place, and the temperature can reach minus 40 degrees in winter, which is said to be colder in the past. But this is no way, because in that era everyone could not eat, had to go away, maybe there is a glimmer of life, according to my grandmother, in the 60s, even the outside of the big bark was picked off and eaten, one by one all swollen, it is said that the stool pulled out is blown by the wind and gone, do you know how miserable people were at that time, to say that I did not eat when I was a child, my grandmother said to me, "I starved you to death in the 60s" Of course, this is what our generation does not understand.
Therefore, many northerners are actually from the Central Plains. And it was there that my grandfather met my grandmother, who also went to Kanto, and the two of them took root here. At that time, it was freezing cold, and everyone couldn't even eat steamed buns for the New Year, so in order to have a good meal for the New Year, they often had to start hoarding food from months ago. But even at this time, there were thieves.
It is said that it was the first day of the Lunar New Year, it should be in the evening, my grandfather went outside the house to relieve his hands, just saw a thin man picking at the window of my house, at a glance I knew that it was a thief, my grandfather was stunned, a handful of grabbed his legs, the man saw that it was exposed, and immediately squatted on the ground with his hands on his head and shouted, to say that in fact, thieves are the most hateful, although they are poor monks will not do things absolutely, but now is the New Year, the winter is minus forty or fifty degrees, Even if you leave a bite to eat, you will not go hungry for a few months. So at that time, when a thief was encountered, it was often a person who shouted, and then a village came out to denounce the thief, and at the worst he was whipped. Because everyone didn't want their homes to be stolen, not to mention that the people at that time were inhumane, the people at that time were like this, they were all starved and afraid.
But my grandfather was a good man by nature, and in those days everyone had nothing to eat, so my grandfather didn't make a noise, just led him into the house, gave him a big cake, and hoped that he would leave early after eating. At that time, it was already a great favor to give you a cake to eat, but that person didn't care about anything, he devoured it and ate it, and when he raised his head, my grandfather saw that this man had a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks, and a pair of big thin eyes were rolling around, and he didn't say anything when he asked.
My grandmother happened to come back and saw this man and asked my grandfather what was going on, and my grandfather told him what happened. My grandmother didn't say anything. It is said that it is a kind of running on all fours like an animal, with a big cake in his mouth, and he turned around and made a record of it like a monkey for my grandparents, and it was as funny as it looked. At that time, I thought it was nothing, after all, it was a problem to survive in that era, and to be able to save a person was to do good deeds.
Later, the days were much better, at least don't worry about eating, with my dad it was already the seventies, but there was a strange thing, every New Year's holiday, there will be more dead chickens at the door of the house or something, all of them were bitten to death, this kind of thing once or twice is fine, more will make people suspicious, my grandfather was a famous cultural person at that time, it is said that his pen and pen writing at that time and the publishing house found him to publish a copy.
Although he is a cultural person, he knows that most of this is not something that culture can solve. My grandfather found a black gentleman in ten miles and eight towns at that time (out of the horse, debut, out of the black, and the others will be introduced in detail later) This person is named Wu Minggui, as his name suggests, he has been a bachelor all his life, but his ability is not small, he opened a coffin shop, and he made coffins and tied paper people when he had nothing to do, which can be described as a dead man's business.
It is said that whoever has something to find him is right, and he is extremely righteous, at that time, many rich people admired him to do things, but he trained a pair of hopeful eyes, as long as you are guilty of this matter, you don't do how much money you give him, and you have a clear conscience He will only symbolically collect money from you. And because my grandfather is a well-known good person, plus they have indeed dealt with each other, he knows what my grandfather is like, so he will definitely help my grandfather.
This person lives on the other side of the river, it is said that he also came from Guanli, (the older generation takes Shanhaiguan as the boundary, the south is called Guanli, and the north is called Guanwai) that day my grandfather carried two bags of bud rice noodles and a bag of white noodles to find him, and before he entered the house, this person came out, this person's face is marked, but he has a big beard, a pair of big eyes like copper bells, like a green forest hero, dressed like a green forest hero, and he knows that he is a person who acts freely at a glance.
This looked up at my grandfather, and before my grandfather could speak, he asked in a nervous tone, "Brother, I have long smelled a fishy smell, thinking that something evil is coming, and when I look up, I see that you are wrapped in black gas, is there something wrong?" When my grandfather heard this, he hurriedly told him what had happened. He frowned and said, "I'm afraid it's not a bad thing." This kind of thing should be something to repay the favor, I will help you open the altar tonight and find out the root cause."
The two of them greeted for a while and then returned to my house and began to decorate, the yellow chicken is the thing that attracts the spirit, the black dog blood is the thing to avoid evil, all are indispensable, and then add three pillars of sandalwood, and start to open the altar after worshipping the heaven and earth. This practice of opening the altar is actually a Taoist method, and its purpose is to attract demons or invite gods to come.
After everything was finished, I saw that Wu Minggui shouted "open", the atmosphere was suddenly weird and scary, this is the original words of my grandparents, I don't know where a gust of wind came, and then the temperature began to drop, the smoke from the incense began to swing left and right, and finally it blew to a place, that Wu Minggui opened his eyes with willow leaves and saw a white gas there, and finally condensed into a human form.
Huang Wuye saw this scene and knew it in his heart, so he asked, "Which way did the immortal family visit?" I don't know what's going on, my brother probably can't stand your blessings. The man spoke, "I am a five-row disciple of the Huang family, others call me Huang Wuye, I have not been enlightened in cultivation in the past few years, and I have been favored by your elder brother, but after becoming enlightened in recent years, I am just paying off my debts" Then Wu Minggui heard it and hurriedly said, "The immortal family knows that the mortal body can't withstand your grace, and there will be disasters after a long time, unless ..... unless you are willing to be an immortal of this family."
The so-called Baojia Immortal is a common means of worship in the Northeast, and it is commonly said that the person worships the immortal family, and the immortal family can be sheltered. As the saying goes, there is justice in heaven, and not having a certain means to get favor is often counterproductive.
When Huang Wuye heard it, "I have not long been enlightened, and I don't know much about this kind of thing, so you want to find a way to make me a Baojia immortal." "Then Wu Minggui was overjoyed and immediately wrote a talisman and put incense on it, and the matter was done." If there is something in this family in the future, I hope that the immortal family will bless me" That Huang Wuye showed a disdainful look when he heard it, "You think we are the same as you humans, my generation is the same, I don't need you to teach" It turns out that this Huang Wuye is a weasel who has cultivated the Tao. There are five kinds of animals in the world that are the most evil, namely fox (fox) yellow (weasel) white (hedgehog) willow (snake) gray (mouse), listen to my mother, I have a distant uncle, one day to play on the grassland, saw a fox, and wanted to kill it to sell fox skin, but who knew that just raised the earthen gun at the fox, more than 80 meters old, he actually felt sad for a moment, and heard that he went home and cried for several days. Of course, there is also a saying that these five animals are the easiest animals to cultivate.
To say that the biggest difference between this animal and a person is that the animal is honest, not like a person with two faces, so what he said Wu Minggui also believed, after sending Huang Wuye away, the temperature rose, my grandfather heard their conversation, but he couldn't see the Huang Wuye, and waited for a while before nervously asking "How is it?" "This thing is done, brother, you do good deeds and accumulate virtue, you find a carpenter to make a shrine tomorrow, he is your family's protector, you must remember to come to worship incense during the New Year and festivals, and eat and drink in the future." ”
As an aside, some people may want to ask me if I really have a Baojia Immortal, in fact, this is a kind of folk custom in the north, and there are still people who worship Huang Daxian and Fox Daxian at home. It's not bad if you want to say that he is superstitious, but if you don't believe in it, you don't have to dig too deep.
After Wu Minggui finished speaking, he gave the two bags of bud rice noodles and one bag of rice to my grandfather. "No one is having a good time now, so you can keep it for yourself, and I will waste it for me alone." After saying that, no matter what my grandfather said, I didn't want it, my grandfather knew that it was because of my father, and he knew that my family was in difficulty. Until I had me, my grandfather was also telling me to be a man, to be as frank and unrestrained as Wu Minggui. Be a good person.
Later, until my generation, every night I couldn't sleep pestering my grandparents to tell me stories, they told me this story, although I was young at the time, but I had great materialist thoughts, where do I believe in these crooked ways, I just think that my grandparents are eloquent and have good thinking, you really want to have this What kind of family protection is my family is still so poor? Why don't you give me a lottery ticket worth tens of millions? Unqualified Baojia Immortal! No, it's a lie at all. What a family fairy, quiet blind Hu can me, tease me!
It wasn't until I was eleven years old that my grandfather died, and everyone around me said that my grandfather was killed by a weasel.