When I followed the godfather back home, it was already late at night, and I had done so much exercise (walking for an hour with more than ten pounds of things back and forth, and burying things with a shovel of more than ten pounds), I couldn't wait to fall asleep, but the godfather didn't think so.

As soon as the godfather came back, he began to shout everywhere, waking up Luo Dai and Erhei, Luo Tai said fiercely to the godmaster: "Old man, the (pig) meat I gave you the day before yesterday, did it make you have swine fever and make trouble here in the middle of the night." ”

The godfather said very confidently: "I have already laid down the fetal charm, so we have to start burning the tire now." So Erhei went to the hotel for me to call Lin Dong's family over. ”

Erhei stretched out in a daze, "mmmm" twice and went out to find someone, at this time Luo Tai stopped Erhei, and said to the godfather: "So wake people up in the middle of the night, is it like words?" ”

The godfather frowned, and the whole person complained with a sad face: "Do you think that labor and management want to work in the middle of the night?" It's not that the annoying old man Zhao is entangled in a foot, that guy is particularly suspicious. So I deliberately waited until midnight tonight, and I guess it will be exposed early tomorrow morning. ”

Luo Tai looked embarrassed, decided the priorities between things, and finally agreed with the godmaster's point of view, and asked Erhei to call Lin Dongjia over.

Erhei didn't act directly, but stood in place, scratched his head, glanced at the two old men again, and said slowly: "The two of you have really decided? Don't change your mind halfway, it's too late. ”

Luo Tao waved his hand and urged him to say, "It's really decided, I definitely won't change it, go out." ”

Erhei continued to ask a few more questions, and after getting a positive answer, he almost scolded impatiently when he asked Luo Dai. Erhei went out to invite Lin Dong's family over.

Erhei went out, Luo Tai and Gan Ye began to prepare props, they moved out of a table to the door, and then turned over a pair of incense candles, a stack of gold paper, two pieces of peach wood, a pinch of thatch, four eggs, four blue and white threads, and then Luo Tai went to an unknown tree nearby and picked four leaves.

The godmaster began to wear the outfit, this time it was different from last time, even the tag and the five old crowns were brought, and Luo Tai also put on the outfit, but it was not the same as the godfather's, he did not wear the five old crowns on his head, and he did not have a tag on his waist, but a dark black robe with a French robe.

The godfather said to me, "You also dress me up." I replied at a loss: "I was brought directly by the godfather, and I didn't bring the two sets of clothes." ”

The godfather smiled and said: "I was ready, in fact, I customized three sets of outfits for you at the beginning, and I just brought them to you, go to the back room to change." ”

And just like that, for the first time, I put on my outfit and walked with incense. I don't know what the godmaster will explain to me? Hey, hey, hey, I'm looking forward to it.

The godfather took one of the pieces of peach wood and decorated it with a carving knife at will, so that he could stand up and put it, and wrote the name of the god with cinnabar on it, which was used as a simple division card, and the godmaster looked very wild.

When the godmaster saw me coming, he asked me to stand in front of the altar, looked left and right, nodded and said, "Yes, it looks quite like that." Then out of nowhere, he took out a horn and said, "This one is called a dragon's horn in us, and it is used when we invite the saints, so you can blow it and try it." "I picked it up and blew it, not to mention that it really needed lung capacity.

The godfather nodded again and said, "Just blow it loudly, I'll tell you what you're going to do later." He began to explain to me what I needed to do later.

It turned out that I was asked to blow the dragon's horn, not to train me, but because this ritual was not done by one person, and it originally required at least two Taoist priests to play music, but I couldn't find it in the middle of the night. So I need to replace a few key rhythms a little, such as blowing horns and banging on cymbals at key places

I asked a little uneasily: "I haven't learned a musical instrument, godmaster, can this kind of thing still catch ducks on the shelves?" ”

The godfather responded: "That's not what I said, there are two things I want you to do this, one is to show Lin Dongjia, it's not good to play without a little music, and the other is that this doesn't need to be too complicated, for example, ask you to brag three times, as long as you blow three times, the key place Erhei will cooperate with you." ”

Even if the godfather said it as if it was quite simple, my heart was still uneasy. The godfather ignored my fears, and according to him, sometimes children have to be forced to succeed.

The godfather continued to make his preparations, only to see him pick up four eggs, draw his facial features in turn, and then say to me, "Look! Do you feel like that little girl who has been born in the baby? ”

I was dumbfounded as I looked at the facial features that looked like a three-year-old child's stick figures, and the style of painting was probably "mindless" and "unhappy". No matter who looks at it, you can only roughly see that it is painted with human facial features, and if you want to ask me if I look like a beautiful little girl? What a sudden conundrum.

If this was my former classmate asking this kind of question, I would have laughed at him a long time ago, but this person is not my classmate but my godfather. I began to meditate on how I could organize my language to express my feelings tactfully.

But I only thought about the language, but I never thought that my sad face had been seen by the godfather, the godfather looked at me and smiled awkwardly twice and said: "If it's not like it, just say it's not like it, how can you make it like eating a pound of dung." After saying this, he added a few eyelashes to the four stick figure eyes, and then asked me, "Is it more like it is now?" ”

I echoed the awkward chuckle and said against my will: "It's more like it was before." The godfather put down the poor egg with satisfaction, picked up the four leaves, picked up the cinnabar pen, drew four different orders on the four leaves, and then tied the four leaves separately and tied them on the four eggs with blue and white threads, not knowing what to do later.

Then the godfather took out the peach wood card again, and drew a very strange charm with cinnabar on it, which looked like a pregnant woman in stick figure style? Then he tied one of the eggs to the brand. After that, he waited for Erhei to bring Lin Dongjia over.

The godfather nodded again and said, "Just blow it loudly, I'll tell you what you're going to do later." He began to explain to me what I needed to do later.

It turned out that I was asked to blow the dragon's horn, not to train me, but because this ritual was not done by one person, and it originally required at least two Taoist priests to play music, but I couldn't find it in the middle of the night. So I need to replace a few key rhythms a little, such as blowing horns and banging on cymbals at key places

I asked a little uneasily: "I haven't learned a musical instrument, godmaster, can this kind of thing still catch ducks on the shelves?" ”

The godfather responded: "That's not what I said, there are two things I want you to do this, one is to show Lin Dongjia, it's not good to play without a little music, and the other is that this doesn't need to be too complicated, for example, ask you to brag three times, as long as you blow three times, the key place Erhei will cooperate with you." ”

Even if the godfather said it as if it was quite simple, my heart was still uneasy. The godfather ignored my fears, and according to him, sometimes children have to be forced to succeed.

The godfather continued to make his preparations, only to see him pick up four eggs, draw his facial features in turn, and then say to me, "Look! Do you feel like that little girl who has been born in the baby? ”

I was dumbfounded as I looked at the facial features that looked like a three-year-old child's stick figures, and the style of painting was probably "mindless" and "unhappy". No matter who looks at it, you can only roughly see that it is painted with human facial features, and if you want to ask me if I look like a beautiful little girl? What a sudden conundrum.

If this was my former classmate asking this kind of question, I would have laughed at him a long time ago, but this person is not my classmate but my godfather. I began to meditate on how I could organize my language to express my feelings tactfully.

But I only thought about the language, but I never thought that my sad face had been seen by the godfather, the godfather looked at me and smiled awkwardly twice and said: "If it's not like it, just say it's not like it, how can you make it like eating a pound of dung." After saying this, he added a few eyelashes to the four stick figure eyes, and then asked me, "Is it more like it is now?" ”

I echoed the awkward chuckle and said against my will: "It's more like it was before." The godfather put down the poor egg with satisfaction, picked up the four leaves, picked up the cinnabar pen, drew four different orders on the four leaves, and then tied the four leaves separately and tied them on the four eggs with blue and white threads, not knowing what to do later.

Then the godfather took out the peach wood card again, and drew a very strange charm with cinnabar on it, which looked like a pregnant woman in stick figure style? Then he tied one of the eggs to the brand. After that, he waited for Erhei to bring Lin Dongjia over.

After a while, Lin Dongjia and the little girl were brought over, and the godfather took four eggs and asked the little girl to blow a breath, and the little girl did not make any moves. After a while, the little girl blew slowly, and after a while she blew again. The godfather took four eggs like this, bent over and stood in front of the little girl who was sitting, waiting for her to slowly blow all the eggs in one breath.

The godfather returned to the altar, took a match and lit the incense candle, lit the incense again, pinched it in his hand, bowed three times and inserted it into the incense burner. The godmaster turned his head and looked at me... and Erhei beside him, Erhei didn't know when to change his outfit, and he also prepared gongs, drums and cymbals.

I took a deep breath and blew the horns, and after blowing three times in a row, Erhei struck a gong and drum, and Luo Tai blew the suona.