Tan Jian is a person who is not smiling but very strict, and the incense has the particularity of the incense, I didn't know it originally, but he didn't allow me to worship the incense indiscriminately, so before the incense, he also told me a rule. This call is the most communication we have ever had, and after listening to it, I deeply felt why China is called the country of etiquette.

There is too much attention to this incense.

For example, first of all, follow the rules of the gods, and the rules of incense to the dead and incense to the gods are completely different. Secondly, we should pay attention to the left and right, and we can't stick to it. When burning incense, if there is a flame that does not go out, you can only fan it with your hands, not brush it, and you can't blow it with your mouth.

Blowing the incense of the dead is called 'crossing the sun', and blowing the incense of the gods is a great disrespect.

When applying incense, the method of taking incense is also highly emphasized, and it is really not easy to finish a stick of incense according to the method that Tan Jian said.

As for ghosts and gods, I, like most people, can't say I believe it, I can't say I don't believe it, I belong to a state of half-belief. Therefore, after the incense, I couldn't help but ask, "Which ancestor are we worshipping?" ”

Tan Jian didn't answer me, his eyes quietly looked at the incense I had just inserted, and looking at it, his brows furrowed, and a Sichuan character was deeply formed between his eyebrows. Looking at his gaze, the incense burned very well, and it was not extinguished, and I couldn't think of how he suddenly changed his face.

However, I was not interested in studying the mind of a big man, and when I saw that Tan Jian ignored me, I looked around by myself.

At this time, I found that the black cat was actually hiding in the corner, and now it was curled up in a ball, with its eyes closed, and it was quite a posture of not paying attention to people.

In addition, at the other end of the shrine, there was a long table, and then I saw that there were some strange things on the long table.

A bowl of water, two paper figurines, a red string, and an incense burner.

At this moment, the two paper figures are immersed in the water bowl, one end of the red rope is in the water bowl, and the other end is in the incense burner, buried by the ashes. Such a scene is very reminiscent of the plot of those paper-binding people in the movie, coupled with Tan Jianshen's chattering behavior, I couldn't help but ask: "You were in the room ...... before" After holding back for a long time, I held back a more subtle word: "Practice?" ”

Tan Jian was asked by me, his eyes were taken back from the incense, he glanced at the things on the table, and then walked over, took the two paper figures out of the water bowl, tore off the wet part of the lower part, and then crumpled the paper in that part and threw it to the black cat in the corner.

The black cat was also strange, swallowed the paper ball in one bite, stretched out after swallowing, and continued to sleep.

In this way, the two paper figures were only left with their upper bodies, and Tan Jian inserted them into the ashes of the incense burner, and lit a candle next to them, as if he was roasting them with fire, and then stopped.

I was curious and asked what he was doing, Tan Jian showed a rather strange smile, glanced at me, and said, "You'll know when the time comes." He didn't extinguish the candle either, let it burn, and motioned for me to leave.

Before leaving this room, he looked at the pillar of incense I offered to my grandfather, and suddenly said, "Don't go out in the near future." ”

I subconsciously asked, "Why?" "Even if you are a boss, you can't restrict the personal freedom of your employees, right?

He pointed to the pillar of incense and said, "See for yourself." ”

I looked in the direction of his finger and my heart chuckled.

Tan Jian told me about some of the particulars of offering incense not long ago.

You may ask, why do you get incense for the gods or for the dead? In traditional culture, incense is a medium, through which people and gods can communicate. Of course, another theory is that incense is ghost food, something that can be eaten by ghosts, and when the folk go to the grave of the deceased, there is a custom of lighting incense with candles and setting off firecrackers.

In recent years, some people have gone to the grave, and the procedure has become more and more rudimentary, and the firecrackers are not incense, which is actually a practice of putting the cart before the horse.

In traditional folklore, firecrackers are actually set off for the living, which is intended to remind the surrounding villagers that the descendants of a certain family are filial and come back to the grave of their ancestors. Now some people go to the grave, the face of the picture is good-looking, the firecrackers shook the sky, and the faces of the living were done enough, but in fact, the purpose of sacrificing the dead was not achieved at all.

Of course, these are all what Tan Jian told me just now, in addition to these exquisiteness, the ancients also had the method of 'occupying incense'.

Occupy incense, also called please incense, that is, through a specific ritual to the gods incense to predict good luck, I just put on the incense, Tan Jian taught me the set of methods, in fact, is the method of 'occupying incense', I didn't pay much attention at the time, now take a closer look at the pillar of incense I lit, but suddenly found that the three incense burned into a strange shape

It stands to reason that these three incense sticks are lit at the same time, so the burning progress should be the same, but now, among the three incense sticks, the middle incense has been extinguished, almost not burning, and the two incense sticks on the left and right are also extinguished when they are burned to nearly half, which is called 'three long and two short' in the term of 'occupying incense', which is a very unlucky symbol.

I didn't believe in these things, but I didn't expect that as soon as I heard Tan Jian finish talking about these reasons, I really invited the incense of the pillar 'three long and two short'. Suddenly, I felt that my mouth was a little dry, and I subconsciously said: "Coincidentally...... "Divination should not be taken seriously, right?"

Tan Jian glanced at me coldly, re-entered the door, pulled out the three long and two short incense, and offered a stick again, and then closed the door, and the black cat was still locked in the house. Coming out early in the morning, anyone will feel uncomfortable, although I said it was a coincidence, but in my heart I wondered, it is better to go out less recently.

Thinking about it like this, I was even more curious about the identity of Tan Jian's gang.

I didn't go out much that day, and in the afternoon, Tan Jian broke a small black bag and mysteriously went out, and didn't come back until eight o'clock in the evening.

I took a look and saw that the bag was a DV and it hadn't been turned off.

I thought strangely, could it be that this surnamed Tan ran out to take pictures in the afternoon? While he was taking a shower, I was a little curious and pressed the DV open to see what he was shooting, but I found that the DV was empty and there was only one video in it.

The length of the video is more than 40 minutes, and it shows that the shooting time was around half past five this afternoon.

Curious, I pressed the play button, so as not to be heard by Tan Jian, so I turned off the volume and began to watch 'pantomime'.

The background of the shot is in a chaotic residential area, the surrounding houses are low, it looks like some places outside the gate, from the perspective of the shot, Tan Jian should be standing on the top of a residential building facing down, the camera is facing a flat house.

At this moment, several people appeared from the flat room, and their figures were relatively blurred.

Along with these people, they were followed by a few children, some crawling on the ground, some limping to take a closer look, and there was a wooden cart under their buttocks.

When I saw this, I was shocked for a moment, could it be that the criminal gang filmed in this DV?

Immediately afterwards, the figure of Tan Jian appeared in front of the camera, he was half-leaning on the railing in front of the DV, obviously observing those people, looking at it, he turned his head and smiled at the camera. Tan Jian rarely laughs, and once in a while, it also gives people a feeling that something is wrong.

Sure enough, after laughing, Tan Jian went back to the back of the DV, not knowing what he was doing. The camera is empty again, and the focus of the DV is zoomed in, so the image of the guy is clearer. A van was parked in front of their house and was cramming disabled begging children into the van one by one, apparently with the intention of sending them to 'work', that is, to send them to the begging site.

Soon, several children got into the car, and there were six people next to the car, all of them adult men, these six people seemed to be discussing something, and while they were talking, two more people came in the distance.

I took a closer look, and although the camera was too far away to see the appearance of the two of them, wasn't this figure the thug we were following last night?

How did Tan Jian find this place?

What are these two thugs here for?

I thought of the powder that shook out of the gourd last night, and thought of the paper figures that Tan Jian made in the morning, and knew that there must be some connection between them, and my curiosity was extremely inflated for a while, so I looked down and forgot the time.

When I finished reading, I found that Tan Jian was sitting on the boss's chair drinking coffee, crossing Erlang's legs, and asked me, "Finished reading?" Is it good-looking? ”

My head was covered with cold sweat at this moment, and even my legs were a little trembling, looking at Tan Jian's calm expression, I only felt that my scalp was numb.

Because, in the second half of this DV, an extremely terrifying picture was recorded.

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