Chapter 35 Fortune and Righteousness

Seeing that it was a dilapidated small temple, Feng Tisi was quite puzzled, and couldn't help asking: "Such a dilapidated temple, why is it related to my family?" ”。 Zhou Xing stretched out his hand and tore off the yellow talisman on the temple door, leaned over to the temple door and sniffed it with his nose: "This lacquer is fresh, and it has just been painted not long ago." Feng Tisi was a little unhappy when he saw that he didn't answer the question, and said: "It's just a broken temple, isn't the Taoist chief playing tricks?" ”

Zhou Xing was also a little unhappy, and said secretly, knowing that I was playing tricks and still asking this? What an ignorant person, if you don't make a fool of yourself, you are willing to pay for money? Thinking so in his heart, his face didn't show it at all, but he smiled and said: "Feng Tisimo wants to underestimate this land temple, do you know that although the land lord is a small god, he is the only god who communicates the two worlds of yin and yang." ”

"Oh, what do you say?"

"Although the land priesthood is small, he is a righteous god, protecting the peace and tranquility of the township, but he is also subordinate to the city god and is in charge of the household registration of the deceased in the township. Everyone who was born was registered as a "temple king land", and after death, they had to go to the land temple to which they belonged to make sacrifices. The family of the newly deceased should go to the Land Temple to announce the name and birthday of the deceased, and ask the land god to guide the deceased. For example, in my hometown, if someone in the family dies, I must go to the Land Temple to report the funeral. The elders of the village hold white lanterns and lead the descendants of the deceased to wear filial piety clothes and kowtow to the temple on the ground. After going to the temple, the elder took out the Nian Geng post after offering incense, and reported to the land: "Life comes from the ground, death goes to the ground, and the hour is read to the master." "Only when the dead report to the land lord can they enter the underworld and be reincarnated."

Feng Tisi really hadn't heard of this, so he said with a sigh: "It turns out that there are so many things to say, but what does this have to do with my family?" ”

Zhou Xing smiled and said, "Just go in and take a look." "Pushing open the temple door, it will be nearly dusk, and when I look inside, I see that the cobwebs are all over the inside of this small temple, and the statue of the earth god in the middle is gone, and it looks more like a dirt pile of mud and sand, and there is not even an offering table, and there is a room of mildew.

Zhou Xing and Lin Qi didn't feel anything, but Feng Tisi couldn't help but shiver, feeling a little scared in his heart, and followed closely behind Zhou Xing, Zhou Xing walked around and instructed Lin Qi: "You can also help find it, see if there are any yellow charms or something." ”

Lin Qi answered, lowered his head and looked around, and after looking for a while, he found three yellow talismans behind the statue, which were pressed under a green brick. Lin Qi shouted: "Master, I found it here." After shouting twice, he reached out to grab the green brick, where he thought, the green brick was not like words, and he didn't move, Lin Qi sighed, it was incredible, this green brick is an ordinary green brick, although it is not small, but it is the appearance of three or four catties, I used my strength, why didn't I move?

Lin Qi was very unconvinced, grabbed the green brick with both hands, shouted hey, raised his hands upward, the green brick did not move at all, but flashed Lin Qi fell to the ground, Zhou Xing strode over, saw the green brick, smiled, as if he had already known what was going on, squatted down to look, and saw three yellow talismans full of dust pressed under the green bricks, and blew with his mouth, and the handwriting was revealed on the rune paper.

Zhou Xing smiled and beckoned to Feng Tisi: "Come and see, are these three runes on them the eight characters of your family's birthday?" ”

Feng Tisi squatted down against Zhou Xing, and looked carefully, although the rune paper was half pressed by the green bricks, and he couldn't see it completely, but the words on the other half were indeed clearly visible, and sure enough, the time of the day on it was the birthday of his family of three, and his face suddenly became ugly, and he asked Zhou Xing: "Dao Chief, are you saying that our family can't go out, is it because the demon woman took our birthday and pressed it in the local land temple?" ”

Zhou Xing nodded: "That's it, otherwise why wouldn't your family be able to go out of this Jiyin County, the land lord is looking at you, it's strange to go out." ”

"My wife and I are not from this county, local, local people, how can the land here manage us?"

"It wasn't before, but your birthday is pressed under the body of the land lord, isn't it."

Feng Tisi's cold sweat flowed down, he didn't expect that the thief would actually take the birthday of their family of three to do such an evil thing, and he couldn't help but regret it in his heart, if he didn't make much of a fanfare when he was born, the thief would not know the birthday of his family of three. But in the officialdom, this is the case, the annual birth of a family of three is when they are all cashiers, how can they be reluctant to do it?

"Demon woman, demon woman, hurt me ......" Feng Tisi scolded while reaching out to grab the green brick, wanting to retrieve the three yellow talismans, but no matter how hard he tried, the green bricks were not moving, Zhou Xing saw it in his eyes, laughed in his heart, and said to him: "The land lord promised the mother-in-law to tie up your family of three, how can you be a mortal man who can move?" ”

When Feng Tisi heard this, he sat down on the ground in despair, and said with annoyance: "Although the land priesthood is small, it is also a righteous god, how can you help the demon do such an evil thing?" Zhou Xing heard him complain, was startled, and hurriedly said to him: "Don't talk nonsense, the land lord is here." Feng Tisi also knew that he was speechless, so he hurriedly covered his mouth, and only after a while did he ask, "What should I do now?" ”

Zhou Xing said: "Don't worry, I'm here." After speaking, he came to the statue, squatted down and looked at the dust on the ground, touched the temple door again, sighed and said, "This is poor and crazy." Feng Tisi and Lin Qi both followed him, and when they heard this, Feng Tisi asked, "How do you say this?" ”

Zhou Xing clapped his hands and said: "The temple has been deserted for almost twenty or thirty years, otherwise it would not be like this, and the incense has long been extinct, just now I squatted on the ground and looked carefully, there are a few piles of incense ashes are still there, presumably the Guan Pozi came to worship, and the temple door is also new, it seems that it has just been installed, which means that Guan Pozi went to this land temple, worshiped the land lord, offered incense, and made a new door, so that it can block some wind and rain, and the land will help your family of three to bolt your family of three in Jiyin County can not go out, Now don't say it's you, no one can take away the birthday of your family of three. ”

Feng Tisi thought that his family of three would not be able to get out of Jiyin County in his life, so he grabbed Zhou Xing's arm in a panic and begged: "The Taoist chief wants to save the life of my family." ”

"With me, with me, don't panic." Zhou Xing persuaded two sentences, and said in a deep voice: "The land here is also pitiful, protecting the territory and the people, but it ended up in a bad end, there is no incense to worship, the temple is broken like this, and I don't know how much wind and rain it has suffered, so Guan Pozi can succeed, and now, Feng Tisi will not show some sincerity, I am afraid that this paper talisman will not be able to get it back." ”

A few words reminded Feng Tisi, patted his head and said: "Yes, Guan Pozi can offer incense and make a new door, and I can naturally do it, you tell the land lord, as long as we let our family go, we will rebuild the temple and reshape the golden body in the future!" ”

Zhou Xing shook his head: "If there is a wish, there will be restoration, how do you know what wish Guan Pozi made?" If it is also to rebuild the temple and reshape the golden body, why should the land lord bother to do that twice, as long as he waits for Guan Pozi to succeed, he will naturally enjoy it. ”

"So what to do?" Feng Tisi asked anxiously.

"How is your relationship with the county lord of Jiyin?"

Feng Tisi was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't understand what Zhou Xing meant, so he replied honestly: "Naturally, it is not bad, Zhang Xianling has a younger brother of his own family who is not angry, or I arranged him to be a servant in the waterway yamen, and he can talk about something." ”

"Okay, with this relationship, you can naturally take out the rune paper pressed by the green bricks, so that after you go back, you will ask the county commander to add an official to the land lord, and then promise to rebuild the golden body of the temple, and the land lord will naturally return the eight-character paper of your family of three to you."

Feng Tisi was a little confused when he heard this, so he asked, "Can the Taoist master explain more clearly?" ”

Zhou Xingdao: "Since Mrs. Guan has made a wish, she will come to repay the wish, but none of us know what wish he made, but I think it is nothing more than rebuilding the golden body of the temple or something, but there is one thing he can never promise, you must know that if the county order crowns the prince of this land, it represents the crowning and awarding of ranks, and after wearing the official hat, he will be promoted to the rank of the county god." Think about it, how can the Guan Pozi make this wish? Only if you, Feng Tisi, are friendly with the county lord, can you do this, so that the land lord will naturally help you with things. ”

Feng Tisi suddenly realized that this official matter, that Guan Pozi could not do it no matter what, and suddenly came to his senses and asked Zhou Xing: "What should I do?" ”

"Kneel in front of the Lord of the Land and make a wish, swear, but you have to remember that you made a wish, and you must come to restore it in the future, although the God of the Land Lord is small, but he deceived him, and the retribution can be great."

Feng Tisi hurriedly said that he didn't dare, knelt down in front of the land god statue, Zhou Xing asked Lin Qi to go to the car to fetch his baggage, took out three long incense sticks, handed them to Feng Tisi, and sighed: "Incense is a good tribute incense, but there are not many." ”

Feng Tisi didn't understand what he meant, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, Dao Chief, these are all mine." ”

Zhou Xing nodded, pointed to Feng Tisi lit the incense, inserted it in the crack of the ground, Feng Tisi kowtowed three heads, and made a wish: "Little Feng Youcai, is the Tisi of the waterway yamen of Jiyin County, pray that the master knows that as long as the master releases my family of three, he will definitely rebuild the temple and reshape the golden body, and he will invite the Jiyin County Order to add officials to the lord and enter the knighthood, and he will never dare to have half a lie, otherwise the villain's house will be uneasy, and the disaster will enter the door, and the villain will not die well......."

The oath is also vicious, after the babbling is finished, he kowtows three more times, and a small whirlwind rises on the ground of the small temple, and he can hear the back of the statue "Bang!" There was a crisp sound, and Lin Qi ran over to take a look, and the green brick actually bounced to the side, revealing three paper talismans.

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