In front of the Daoxiang Temple, a few spring birds fluttered their wings and frightened away.

Ping'an turned around and solemnly told Ah Huang: "You must obediently look for food nearby, don't run away like last time, otherwise you will cut the hair on your tail when you go back." ”

The hair on Ah Huang's tail was cut once before winter and used to make a pen. However, after a long winter, it has grown well again.

Therefore, for Ping'an, spring is coming, it is a busy season for sowing and farming, but it is also a season for harvesting.

Seeing Ah Huang nodding, Ping An happily patted its neck and said, "Okay, let's go, I'll come back in the evening." ”

Ah Huang chewed the grass stalks and walked away, while Ping'an carried a thing to herd cattle and shrank into the temple.

Daoxiang Temple is also called Gu Niang Temple, enshrined is Gu Niang, the main wind and rain are smooth, the five grains are abundant, the six animals are prosperous, and the family house is safe.

Of course, like most temples, Gu Niang Temple is also a multi-functional temple, and good men and women sometimes ask for marriage and fame and fortune.

However, it may be that the scale is too small after all, only one temple building, the image of the god is not very distinct, and there is not even a temple wish, so the incense is not at its peak, that is, the fifteenth day of the first month, and several villages near and far have surplus grain, and they will come up the mountain to worship.

Recently, it was the busy time of spring farming, and the fields were too busy, so the incense on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month was less than that during the slack time.

When I entered the temple safely, I felt that the temple was very deserted, not too comfortable.

The cups and pots on the incense table are in a mess, and the three sticks of incense in the incense burner may not be very pure in texture, and they are extinguished after only a little burning, and they are cold there.

Heian, who often eavesdropped outside the private school, once heard the gentleman in the private school explain the "Analects", and said that he would respect ghosts and gods and stay away.

Ping'an straightened his face, walked to the statue, imitated the way of the gentleman in the private school, bent down and bowed, and bowed very respectfully: "Gu Niang, peace and courtesy." There is a lot of disturbance, you are a fairy, magnanimous, please don't be surprised. ”

After bowing and saying to himself, he secretly glanced at the idol and felt that Gu Niang was acquiescing to him staying here for a while.

In exchange for staying for a while, Ping An thought that he should do Gu Niang a favor.

Since he was helping, he couldn't sit still, he thought about it, turned his head and walked out of the temple, and when he came back, he had a few more pine branches in his hand.

Tie the pine branches with grass and vines to make them look like a broom, and then start cleaning.

Gu Niang Temple is not taken care of by the temple, and it will not be very clean if it is simply cleaned up by the nearby villagers on the fifteenth day of the new year.

It took half an hour for Ping An to remove the dust on the incense table and the ground, the cobwebs on the beams and pillars, and the weeds that sprouted in the corners. After cleaning, she washed the teacup on the incense table and offered three cups of spring water.

The clear spring is cold and sweet, and Ping An feels that it is better than the village brew.

He has seen the village brew drunk by the elders in the village, which looks very similar to the water in the water, and it is so turbid that it smells even more pungent, where can it be compared to the rice fragrance spring.

Finally, the candlestick was straightened, and Ping An was too tired to straighten up.

In a basket in the corner of the wall was some charcoal, probably left by a passer-by, who used dried wormwood as a primer to make a fire.

It's just that when he sat down, he always felt that something was missing, and when he looked left and right, his eyes finally fell on the cold incense that had been extinguished.

"It turned out that there was a lack of incense."

Ping An had a thought, got up from the ground, bowed three times before going to the desk, then pulled out the cold incense, lit it again, bowed three more times, and inserted it back into the incense burner.

Looking at the three wisps of green smoke, curling up, smelling the faint smell of incense, relying on the warm hot charcoal breath, relaxing down and retaining the peace of the body, I felt as if I was soaking in a hot spring, and I was so comfortable that I closed my eyes unconsciously.

The drizzle stopped, the clouds opened and the sun rose, and the sun shone at night.

"Peace damn you, where are you going in this hurry?"

"The cattle haven't come back yet."

"So you are looking for peace."

"Huzi, are you safe?"

"I didn't see the people, but the cow did, on the side of the Gu Niang Temple, you should go quickly."

But it was Ping'an's mother Liang who saw that it was getting late, and Ping'an was still nowhere to be seen, so she was a little flustered. Now I heard that the old scalper in the family is on the side of Gu Niang Temple, and a hanging heart is a little lowered.

When she hurried to the hillside of the Gu Niang Temple, she saw Ah Huang lying at the door of the temple with a mouthful of rumination, she took three steps and made two steps, rushed into the temple and saw that she was lying on the edge of the charcoal fire, sleeping peacefully, and she was relieved in one breath.

Compared to Ping'an, who once fell asleep next to the grave while herding cattle, this time he slept in the temple, Liang was not too surprised, but sighed slightly: "This child, his heart is wide, and he can sleep anywhere." ”

Liang stroked Ping's head with pity and called, "Peace, wake up, peace, wake up?" ”

After calling like this for a while, Ping An woke up like a dream and opened his eyes: "Mother, why are you here?" ”

Liang patted Ping'an's shoulder and said, "You kid, where is it not easy to sleep, you actually ran to Gu Niang's temple." Fortunately, Gu Niang has a large number of gods, and he doesn't care about children like you. ”

Liang muttered a word of peace, turned his head to the statue of Gu Niang, and said a few words about the child's ignorance, please Gu Niang is not strange, and so on.

In Liang's eyes, she doesn't understand the great truth of respecting ghosts and gods and staying away, and she would rather believe in ghosts and gods than believe in them.

Awakened Ping'an, she was afraid that something would happen, so she pulled Ping'an together, kowtowed and bowed, said all the good things, and picked up everything before she went out of Gu Niang Temple.

Ping'an followed his mother out of the Gu Niang Temple, and when he was blown by the wind outside, he got up, hesitated, and said to his mother: "Mother, I had a dream just now. ”

This is not a good thing to dream in the temple, Liang frowned: "What dream?" ”

Ping An scratched his head because he had just slept and turned into a chicken coop, and said, "I seem to have seen the fairy sister in my dream." ”

Liang said strangely: "What fairy sister?" ”

Ping An thought of something, and there was a smile on the corner of his mouth: "It's the fairy sister who helped me find Ah Huang and gave me a bag of silver." ”

Liang's heart trembled, but he was afraid that he would scare his son if he responded too fiercely, so he forced himself to calm his mind and tried his best to speak in the usual tone: "Don't mention the matter of Sister Ping'an Fairy to others, do you know?" Also, there is a Gu Niang Temple, so you can't talk nonsense. ”

Ping'an sniffled and said, "But I see, Gu Niang is very much like a fairy sister." ”

Liang replied: "It was a dream, and I can't do it accurately." ”

Although she is also very grateful to the fairy sister that Ping An said, after all, she is the one who once saved her son, but no matter how grateful she is, she can't say that gods are like people. Liang now just hopes that Tong Yan will be unscrupulous and the wind will blow away.

"Is that really the case?" Ping An was visibly confused.

"You sleep in Gu Niang's temple, Gu Niang helps you shelter from the wind and rain and keep out the cold, you are blessed by Gu Niang. Tomorrow is the market, let's catch the market together, the day after tomorrow Niang will do a pair of three animals, go to the temple to thank Gu Niang, and pray that Gu Niang bless your fairy sister. ”