Chapter 1313: The Road to Revenge (3)
Paco's narration made me know that in fact, there are many strange things happening abroad, and ghosts are also a terrifying existence for ordinary people here.
In fact, in the Vietnamese generation, the problem of faith has always been very problematic, some people believe in Buddhism, and many people believe in ghosts and gods!
It's that after some ghosts have a certain ability, they will harass ordinary people and make them worship their beliefs.
This is somewhat similar to the Horse Immortal, but unlike the Horse Immortal, these ghosts are real ghosts, and they don't know how to go up.
The purpose of the Horse Immortal is that many mountain spirits and wild monsters use their disciples to preach in order to better continue, inherit and cultivate after they have attained the Tao, which is a good performance from the starting point.
The ghosts here exist entirely for their own selfish interests, and they make people worship them, but in many cases they do harm to others.
However, when people are poor, they often think of relying on certain things and believing in certain things, which can be regarded as a kind of spiritual dependence, and this situation is especially serious for a small country like Vietnam, because of backward thinking and poverty, which is still related to the national fortune of a country.
Therefore, ghosts are very prevalent here, and when it comes to ghosts, the Vietnamese people also have an attitude of reverence and fear.
Since the attitude of the Vietnamese people is here, it is natural that this is an indispensable place to worship ghosts.
What is the place where ghosts are worshipped? Naturally, it is the temple.
Temples can be seen almost everywhere in the land of Vietnam.
As big as the Hongdu Temple in Hongdu, as small as the sacrificial point built by a few bricks in the field, you will see a copper tripod or broken bowl or the like in many places, and there are more or less sacrificial offerings in front, the good ones will be placed with pig heads, sheep heads, and the bad ones will also be placed with two or three steamed buns and two taels of liquor.
This is due to the cultural differences of this place, and the smoke of several pillars of incense can be seen everywhere, giving people a strong superstitious atmosphere.
This phenomenon is also a common phenomenon in the small town of Swapa, where the people are poor, but the fields are full of brick sacrifice sites, and a small temple located outside the town is full of people coming and going.
In this remote place, people will pin their hopes on these gods with some superpowers, even if it is to send them a little good luck and pick up a hoe on the road.
This strange thing that Paco was talking about happened in this small temple outside the town.
This temple is called Sluk in the mouth of the locals, and I transliterate it, which is said to mean magical gods.
In fact, their beliefs are extremely mixed, and there is no specific belief in which Buddha, which way, or which religion.
Therefore, the existence of these temples was extremely short-lived, and many temples were built casually and then abandoned after a few years.
Because these so-called believers have a habit that makes the gods very painful, that is, when someone says that the temple is magical, then many people will flock to it, and then the temple will be full of incense.
And when some people say that another temple is a special god, the previous temple will gradually wither, the population will be scarce, and the believers will no longer blindly worship the gods in this temple, and gradually turn to the arms of other temples.
It's a hilarious phenomenon, and it hurts to think about the gods who enjoy the offerings in the temple.
Well, when people have egg pain, the gods naturally have it.
Legend has it that a few years ago, this small temple called Sluk had not yet been completed, and the people around it did not have much of a major belief, and most of them still insisted on the practice of building a house with three bricks and bricks to worship a god.
At that time, the few smokers in the town of Swapa had to travel far away to exchange drugs for smoking, and the wooden house at the entrance of the town only sold some groceries for daily life.
At that time, the town of Swapaa was still a very wealthy town, and it was very famous in the neighborhood.
In this case, a man suddenly came from outside the town, who called himself Slu, and said that he was a messenger sent by Sluk, and that he had given the owner of the general store a large sum of money to buy the cabin.
Then, he began to sell drugs here, and the end result was that most of the people in the town were infected with drugs, and they went to him to buy drugs.
Later, people gradually became poorer, and many addicted smokers began to hit Sru with their ideas.
At one point, they wondered where Slu's drugs came from, so several people kept an eye on Slu all day long, wondering where he could buy them.
After a period of observation, the men discovered that Sru went out once a week on Sunday night.
A few men followed Sru one Sunday night.
It turned out that not far from the town of Swapa, a small temple had been built at some point.
Slu's destination was this small temple.
Strangely, no one found out who Sru had traded with, only that he had gone in, then came out, and when he returned to the town, he continued to sell powder.
Those who followed him also entered the temple after Sru left, hoping to find the cause of the whole thing.
Unfortunately, they had turned almost the entire temple upside down, and they still couldn't find anyone to trade with Sru.
And in the entire small temple, except for a statue of a god, there is no mechanism or anything like that.
The men were terrified and believed that Sru was a messenger sent by the gods.
Later, someone simply hid in the temple, waiting for Slu, wanting to sneak a peek at what Slu was doing in the temple.
But in the middle of the night, he only saw Sru come in, knelt in front of the idol for ten minutes, and then left.
And when the man was learning to kneel there, he fell asleep.
When he awoke, he said that he had received instructions from the gods in his sleep, who called himself Sluk, that Sluk was his spokesman, that the land was full of sin, and that only by believing in him could he attain eternal life.
Since then, this legend has spread all over the world, and the small temple has also attracted countless people.
At first, some believers went to the temple every night to worship, and many believers said that they had received instructions from God.
Of course, those who had to give instructions were elated and preached everywhere, thinking that they had made good luck.
Silu will also give certain discounts to those who have been instructed, such as giving a little more powder, or giving an extra packet of salt.
Those who were not instructed thought that they had been abandoned by God, and in order to atone for their sins, they naturally obeyed Sru.
Over time, the Sluk Temple became a symbol of the faith of this generation.
In fact, I heard it with a sneer, and it seemed to me that it was clearly a trap played by the Sru himself, fooling the villagers.
But there was one thing Paco said next that really caught my attention.