There is a thousand-year-old temple in our town, called Jinghui Temple, the king of Wuyue in the fifth generation, Qian Mu, believed in Buddhism and built a temple...... In the third year of Shijin Kaiyun (945), he built a meditation temple in the northwest of Zhejiang, which means the righteousness of pure and wisdom.

Before the unanimous arrival of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the temple had many properties and a large scale, and there were many famous masters who left handwritten stone tablets to stand in the temple.

During the Taiping Rebellion, this place once became a transit place for the Taiping army, the temple was destroyed, the Buddha statue was overturned, and the law was not suspended.

Xianfeng was later rebuilt.

It was completely destroyed by the Cultural Revolution.

The ancient temple in the jungle is silent, the temple site is barren, and there are no tiles.

However, there is a family next to this temple, which is one of the few locals in the town, surnamed Liu, who is said to have escaped from the north with the emperor in the Southern Song Dynasty, and was able to inherit the good skills of the ancestors to make incense.

Later, the surname Liu came to the northwest of Zhejiang, because there is this temple, the incense is vigorous, and the Liu family's incense-making kung fu is first-class.

The special taste, the long time of the fragrance, and the continuous burning of ash are the three major characteristics of willow incense.

The Liu family has relied on this temple for generations, and this craft has been passed down from thousands of years ago to the present, and it is no exaggeration to say that the incense he made is already of the top level.

It's a pity, because the Cultural Revolution destroyed the last bit of the temple, so Liu Xiang was no longer produced at that time, and Ma Sufeng used to mess with an old man of the Liu family, often holding wine and meat to climb, the purpose was also to steal some craft, but unfortunately he didn't learn any fur until he died.

In the evening, it was already dark, and the temple was originally in a pine forest, and the only way to enter the forest was a small dirt slope.

There is a courtyard on the dirt slope, the blue bricks and black tiles occupy a large area, and people feel that the air is full of confusion and a faint fragrance before they get close, and they feel refreshed when they smell it.

Before Ye Qiu approached, he said, "This place is not clean. ”

Cha Wenbin said: "That's natural, his incense can be addicted to the smell of a living person, let alone a dead person, but it doesn't matter, this kind of person's dirty things will only shelter him but will not harm him, this is their food and clothing." So you see, although the Liu family is a single family, they have a lot of property, even if the Taiping Army made trouble that year, their family was safe and sound, which has to be said to be something protecting in the dark. ”

While walking, Cha Wenbin said again: "It stands to reason that his properties were to be confiscated when they were liberated, and the composition of their family was classified as bourgeoisie at that time, because it was a business, and guess what?" ”

In the year of liberation, the state engaged in public-private partnerships, and there were no enterprises in the remote mountainous areas of western Zhejiang, and the Liu family was at best a handicraft workshop, but Liu Xiang was famous, and customers who came to ask for incense every day had to queue up.

The Liu family has a rule that only one hundred and thirty-three bunches of incense are sold every day, and one more is not sold.

The first "scalpers" in our town

Most of them are merchants who queue up to buy incense in Liu's house, they often live here for half a month, and after buying enough incense, they will transport it to other places to sell at a high price, and it is said that the price can be increased tenfold and the supply is still in short supply.

At that time, the cadre in charge of the integration of the enterprise heard that Liu Xiang was famous, so he planned to open an incense factory, but the old lady Liu refused to hand over the formula.

The worker the cadre found produced incense that was no different from ordinary incense, but it was branded with willow incense, which quickly spurned the market, and the counterfeit willow incense had no market at all, so the factory disappeared after a year of operation.

However, they also fell in love with the Liu family's house, which had been making incense for more than a thousand years, and some people said that the furniture and wood in their house, and even the bricks, were worth more than gold, and the house that had been impregnated with spices was full of charming fragrances.

So they found another reason to confiscate the Liu family's house.

At that time, this mansion could be called luxurious, with seven large rooms on the left and right, and countless spices were piled up inside, some of which were still the base materials left over from thousands of years ago, and those people rushed into the mansion to rob the guns and steal them, probably because of this, the Liu family no longer made incense.

It is said that because the old materials were destroyed, the incense made did not smell like the one in front of them, and some people said that it was because the temple next to it was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, and the Liu family completely broke off their thoughts and was disheartened.

After the confiscation of the house, it was naturally redistributed, and everyone knew that the house was good, but at that time, it was neither the middle and lower poor peasants nor the cadres at that time who grabbed the house, but the head of the town and the famous rebels, the director of the Revolutionary Committee.

This guy is called Huang Chenggong, and he said that he can succeed in anything, and he took his family to forcibly occupy the house in the name of the headquarters of the Revolutionary Committee, but he ran away after living in less than three days.

It is said that from the first night of his stay, his son was gnawed off half of his toe by a rat, and then his mother-in-law fell at the door and knocked out two front teeth.

That night, someone pressed on him and couldn't breathe, and when he woke up the next day, he found that there was an inexplicable wreath in the yard.

On the first day, this Huang Chenggong could still grit his teeth and insist, he firmly believed that as the head of the Red Guards, he could sweep away all the bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods, and he suspected that everything last night was deliberately framed by the Liu family.

The next day, I found someone to arrest the Liu family and parade the streets to criticize and fight until late, that night, Huang Chenggong just lay down and found that his hands and feet couldn't move, and then there was a headless person standing at the head of the bed, and an old lady took a rattan to whip him, and he was in pain but couldn't scream.

In the middle of the night, his daughter-in-law was choked and grabbed by the hair, and his son cried until dawn and never woke up.

I tossed until dawn, and my brother sent someone to bring a letter saying that I dreamed of my dead father last night, saying that he was about to be killed, and a bunch of unjust spirits bit him and beat him, and there was no good skin and flesh on his body, so he said that it was because he occupied someone's house and asked him to move home quickly.

After this Huang Chenggong walked away, he still came one after another, but as long as the people who went didn't stay for three days, they ran away, and over time, this Liu family became a ghost house that everyone said.

People say that the Liu family has been making incense for generations, and there are more ghosts in the house than there are people on the street outside, why?

It's all good for his mouth!

So the Liu family was able to move back again, and it is precisely because of this that the Liu family has rarely been in contact with each other over the years, and others are afraid, and they don't know how the family survived with ghosts all day long.

Cha Wenbin said that those ghosts are to protect the Liu family, and these ghosts and lonely ghosts can only absorb incense in this Liu family without worship, and they will remember his kindness for a long time, which is the yin retribution.

It is precisely because of this that the Liu family has never suffered any calamities, on the contrary, their family members have a long lifespan and have never heard of any strange diseases, without exception, they all die of old age, so it is also beneficial to do this thing of accumulating yin virtue.

Outside the door, the gate is painted with thirteen lacquer cinnabar color, red and shiny, there is a pair of couplets on each side, the upper couplet is: Dou Zhuan Xing moves auspicious Rui descends; The next link is: The wind and water are purple!

Horizontal batch: The fragrance is floating thousands of miles!

Cha Wenbin looked at the sonorous and powerful words and nodded secretly: "It's worthy of the name!" ”

Gently buckled the copper ring on the door, and after a while, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl poked her head out and said, "Who?" ”

Cha Wenbin stepped forward and said: "Dare to ask if Old Lady Liu is at home, and the report will say that Ma Sufeng's apprentice Cha Wenbin came to visit." ”

The girl smiled and said, "You are really interesting, how can you come to visit when it is dark, don't you know the rules?" ”

After that, she turned around and said, "Wait here, my grandfather is rarely willing to see guests." ”

After a while, the girl turned back and stretched out her hand to Cha Wenbin and said, "Where is the red envelope?" If you give a red envelope, open the door, and if you don't give it, please go back. ”

Now it's Cha Wenbin's turn to be embarrassed, where did he bring any red envelopes when he came out in a hurry, if you want to say that today is still the first day of the first lunar month, it stands to reason that people can't be empty-handed.

He had thought about it, but it was a rule that visitors were not allowed to bring anything at night, because that was the only thing to do when visiting the dying.

In the northwest of Zhejiang, the New Year's greeting has to be early, and it is necessary to be scolded for going to the New Year's greeting after lunch, and it is not easy to take things to visit others at night.

Just when he was a little at a loss, the girl smiled again: "Just kidding you, my grandfather told you to go in." ”

When he entered the house, Cha Wenbin found that there was something else in it, and he began to understand why everyone slandered this mansion back then.

Not to mention how exquisite the hollow carvings on the door beams are, just the various bonsai with strange shapes in the courtyard dazzled him, and there are many strange stones that are even more magical, and there is a pool of water in the courtyard, in which a few fat carp are swimming around.

However, he is a Taoist person, and he can see at a glance that this house has undergone a special feng shui layout, and he said casually: "There is water in the east of the house, and the purple qi comes from the east......"

There was a hearty laugh in the room: "Sure enough, it is Ma Sufeng's apprentice, and even what he said when he came to the door for the first time was exactly the same." ”

With that voice, an old man with white hair walked out of the room, and beside the old man was the ghostly girl.

The old man's face was ruddy, his gait was steady, and he was full of energy, thinking that Ma Sufeng called him Liu Ye back then, and now he is afraid that he is about to be 100 years old.

Cha Wenbin hurriedly saluted and said: "I've seen Old Lady Liu, but it's really better to see it, dare to ask about this year's birthday?" ”

The old man stroked his beard and smiled: "I will be ninety-nine after the New Year, young man, why did you think of coming to me?" Is your master okay? ”

Cha Wenbin said sadly: "The family teacher has passed away for some years. ”

"Oh, that's old and decayed, isn't it, now I don't leave home, but I've been asking the truth for a long time, and it stands to reason that if I knew the news, I should have sent it in person,"

He walked down the steps and took Cha Wenbin's hand and said, "Back then, he got a lot of good wine for me to drink, anyway, there must be something wrong with you coming, let's get straight to the point." ”

Seeing that he was so straightforward, Cha Wenbin was no longer formal, took out the crushed ice slag that had turned into water, put it in a small bottle and handed it over: "Old man, what kind of fragrance do you smell here?" ”

Old Man Liu took the bottle with a smile and put it under his nose with a smile, and in less than a few seconds, Old Lady Liu's face slowly began to darken, and when he returned the bottle to Cha Wenbin, there was a hostility in his eyes, and he said, "Where did you get this thing from?" ”