"Summoning" means "being a holy calling", also known as "attracting the soul". This kind of thing is also found in the northwest of Zhejiang, and it is a sacrificial activity held before the funeral, aiming to prevent the soul of the deceased from wandering around and becoming a "wandering spirit"

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In the early days, there was usually a plaque in the home, and there was a piece of furniture called a desk, which was placed in the innermost position against the wall of the hall, and placed against the wall.

In the early days, it was mostly the shape of the Eight Immortals table, but now it has gradually been simplified into a cabinet combination.

What is this thing for?

In fact, it is used to visit the spiritual seat or worship the gods in the hall hanging on the wall, some areas need to make a sound during the New Year's Festival, generally there will be an incense burner on this desk, and there are some dried fruits on both sides of the left, and it is important to put six kinds of non-duplicate.

Later, most of the newly built houses did not have such elaborate desks, and second, the customs were gradually diluted, and few people put the tablets of their ancestors in their own halls.

This is because the function of the hall has been simplified from the past to the current living room, so in recent years, there have been fewer and fewer ceremonies to attract souls before the funeral in northwest Zhejiang, such as Cha Wenbin's generation, and the older ones will have some impressions.

The thirty-six bamboo gates in the courtyard have all been cut down, and only a lone bamboo is still standing there.

The door of Kong's house is now open, there is no light in the house, and a few red candles are flickering there, which makes people feel uncomfortable looking at it from a distance.

This trick was to pay attention to extinguishing the lights, and before acting, he repeatedly asked the guests in the courtyard to be as silent as possible, so as not to disturb the souls of the ancestors.

The road from the gate to the gate of the courtyard is about twenty meters, and a layer of lime is sprinkled all the way, like a red carpet.

There is also a white lantern on the gate of the courtyard, which is called a ghost lantern, which is used to guide the souls outside, and the name and birthday of the ancestor of this family are pasted on the door, which means to tell those lonely souls and wild ghosts that this place has an owner, don't wander around.

There is a square table in the hall, on which there are whole half-cooked pig's heads, half-cooked duck and fish meat, and rice cakes and rice cakes, all of which are tributes.

The rice cake is very big, how big is it, like a human face, stacked one on top of the other.

The size of the zongzi is not small, and it is absolutely not seen in the large market, and the whole family can eat a zongzi for two days.

When these things are finished, they are to be taken out and scattered, to whom?

To the guests who came to participate, this is called a return gift, and in the past they all said to take it home to the children to eat, and eat it to eliminate illness and avoid disasters, which can be regarded as a good luck.

In front of the table was an oil lamp, which was not placed under the table, but was placed on top of each other with two benches, which was completely different from the one used by Cha Wenbin.

There are also two candles on both sides of the bench, and in front of it is a brazier, which is naturally used to burn paper money.

On the innermost table of the Eight Immortals, there are also a lot of tributes, mainly fruits and dried fruits, there are tablets of the two elders of the Kong family placed there, and there is a pair of elegiac couplets on both sides, which was written by the old teacher in the village himself.

On both sides of the hall sat a row of old men, all of whom were familiar faces in the village, holding bowls, gongs, and suona in their hands, and kept beating with the tune and rhythm of the hundreds of miles of mouth and singing, not to mention, the singing was not bad, and the fat man could beat the melon seeds here, shaking his head and humming from time to time.

"Cha Ye, what tune is this singing?"

Cha Wenbin smiled bitterly: "I don't understand it either, it should be Hokkien."

He was right, these hundred miles are indeed sung in Hokkien, telling the story of Lushan Jiulangjun, the content is probably that Jiulangjun invited the ancestors back, there is delicious food and drink here, and there is a circle of filial sons and grandsons to put on a grand scene for you.

The hundred thousand miles jumped and jumped in it, turning left and right around the table of eight immortals, it was estimated that it took half an hour to toss, and finally suddenly threw a broken gourd scoop in his hand into the brazier, and then a burst of fire ash rose into the air, he just flicked his sleeves, and the two candles were extinguished.

There were a lot of people in the courtyard at that time, and after it was dark, it suddenly exploded.

Half of these old men came to see the excitement, so they didn't care if you were behaving or not, the man had matches in his bag.

Coincidentally, at this time, the wind rose impartially, the wind was not small, the match was extinguished if you wiped it, and it was extinguished when you wiped it, so a few tosses over, and the bold one became calmer, not to mention the timid one, the hairs on the back stood up one by one.

The whole scene was suddenly quiet, of course, except for the heartless man like the fat man, Cha Wenbin noticed that the white lantern at the door also shook twice, and there was also a candle in the lantern, and the flame was not small, but there was a tendency to get bigger and bigger.

Dangling and shaking, the flame "poof"

Just pull it up, and in less than a few moments, the lantern was lit, and in the exclamation of everyone, it suddenly turned into a flame.

"Boom"

All of a sudden, the lantern was extinguished, and the fire fell to the ground and rolled a few times before it was extinguished.

At this time, the atmosphere of the scene was at the top, and everyone tried their best to control their breathing, and they really didn't even dare to pant loudly.

Experienced people have buried Lian Bei between their legs, it is said that this will not come to you for trouble, Cha Wenbin, the compass has been opened in his hand at this time, and the needle of the compass is shaking violently, it seems that something is really coming...... Ye Qiu pressed the fat man's face on the table in real time, the fat man only felt that Ye Qiu's strength was really great, and when he pressed it like this, he couldn't move his two fingers, and the melon seeds in his mouth were full of pain, and he couldn't scream if he wanted to.

The courtyard is full of people, and it is estimated that these two brothers dare to stand up, so you can really feel that the atmosphere around you has dropped to freezing point in an instant.

So many people, if you want to say that this yang energy is strong enough, there is an invisible pressure surging towards you from all directions.

There are many times when this kind of thing is like this, just like seeing a Buddha statue in a temple, you have to automatically put away your usual hanging, even if you don't kneel, you will never dare to be presumptuous.

Cha Wenbin kept looking at the compass in his hand, the pointer of the compass had begun to slow down, and now the direction should be facing the door.

His eyes are stronger than ordinary people at night, and he can also see some things that ordinary people can't see, and in a trance, he really saw a black thing entering the courtyard gate, Cha Wenbin's immediate reaction was: This can never be the soul of the second elder of the Kong family!

His interpretation is based on evidence: first, the two elders of the Kong family are ordinary farmers, and now there are dozens of people in the courtyard who are mainly young and middle-aged, and the aura of these people gathering together is very strong.

The yang energy on these people alone is enough to suppress the ordinary yin spirit things, where do they dare to take a leisurely walk and come to visit the door?

The second is that the general yin spirits are mostly green or white, and those who do what they do know know that if they encounter a red yin object, they must be careful, it is not a master to be messed with, and the black one is even rarer, and in his impression it seems that only those yin soldiers who are said to be from the yin division are like this.

Therefore, his reaction was that this thing was probably not a mortal thing, and the so-called attraction method might go wrong tonight.

But that Baili looked like some Taoist people, and he didn't have the motive to harm the Kong family, didn't he know what the hell he had provoked?

The black shadow walked slowly along the lime road in the middle, and it was estimated that no one could see it except for him and Ye Qiu, just when Cha Wenbin was still standing, Ye Qiu gently tugged at his clothes, Cha Wenbin looked up and saw that Ye Qiu had already sat down and lowered his head to look at him.

This guy has always been ruthless in Cha Wenbin's eyes, why did he soften today, he couldn't ask about this stall, so he had to do it, he just wanted to wait for a while to end and ask the black-headed mage to inquire.

A "master" who was invited by Boss Kong

, Cha Wenbin has opened his eyes today, he knows what it means to have mountains outside the mountains, and there are people outside the people, there are really a lot of masters in this world, a thing that can make Ye Qiu bow his head, Cha Wenbin himself was suddenly out of control.

The hall is also unusually quiet at the moment, the children and grandchildren of the Kong family are lined up in several rows, kneeling on the ground according to their seniority, sticking their heads to the ground respectfully, but the hundred thousand miles are also kneeling at the moment, raising their hands to the sky and chanting words in their mouths as if they are welcoming a sacred moment.

Suddenly, his voice instantly amplified several times, and there was a series of "woo-la-la"

After receiving the curse, I saw others rushing into the courtyard as if they were crazy.

There is a bamboo in the yard, and Bao Qianli is like a monkey who has to climb up in three steps and two times, and there are many people who dare to look up at this time.

In the dark night, Bao Qianli held a one-inch long knife in his mouth, and it didn't take long for his hands and feet to reach the top and open the cage.

The rooster in the cage was pinched by him, and suddenly fluttered, carrying the chicken upside down with his feet on the bamboo, and his body hung upside down, and there was a monkey fishing for the moon, which was not fake.

Cha Wenbin was wondering what he was going to do?

Baili suddenly pinched the rooster and got the cockscomb, and the chicken was in pain, and immediately "whoa"

I had to scream out of my voice.

At this moment, Cha Wenbin saw the black shadow in the house rushing out, but Bai Qianli pulled a few red threads tied to the bamboo, and suddenly all the threads buried in the lime were pulled up, and a red grid in the shape of a fishing net appeared in the courtyard.

This series of actions was all done in one go, Cha Wenbin saw that the black shadow was firmly trapped in the grid, even Ye Qiu was very surprised, what was this stranger going to do?

There are copper coins hanging upside down on the grid, which is similar to the Maoshan faction's heaven and earth net, watching Bai Qianli slowly pick up the knife, Cha Wenbin's heart suddenly began to shudder, he seemed to understand a little, he never imagined that the style of this Lushan faction would be so strong......