My father's words shook me at once, and my emotions of curiosity and disbelief came to me.

Instead of refuting my father, I stared at him and wanted him to continue. Seeing this, my father knew that I was interested, and proudly began to tell his story

He said: "Actually, I have personally experienced many supernatural events, and the reason why I believe your cousin is because I have seen him deal with events with my own eyes. When you were young, your mother and I took you back together, and I happened to run into a daughter-in-law of a family who was making trouble. The trouble was particularly fierce, and several adult men couldn't hold it down. After that, it's up to your cousin to deal with it. When your cousin arrived at the door of his house, he drew a picture of the door, and then patted it, and the people in the room stopped and did not dare to continue the trouble, but began to run into the room, trying to hide. I saw your cousin draw a few strokes with his fingers on the ground, then step on it with his left foot, draw a few strokes with his left hand, and wave it at the woman, and the woman will not be noisy, and will become very sluggish and immobile.

Then your cousin took out a small incense burner, recited a mantra and put incense on it, and asked the master for an unwanted wine bottle, and asked the master to wash it, and poured some warm water into it. He recited a mantra on the bottle, and asked for three hairs of the evil woman, lit it, stuffed it into the bottle, and began to let the woman blow into the bottle, and he pinched a strange hand on the side and chanted the incantation, and suddenly there was a knock in the bottle, and he immediately took the bottle back and plugged the mouth of the bottle with a red cloth. He drew something over the woman's head, and the woman fell asleep and woke up. ”

This passage sounded amazing, but it felt like the details were too carefully described, and I couldn't help but ask, "Dad, how do you remember it so clearly?" ”

The father scratched his head embarrassedly and smiled embarrassedly: "Actually, I am very interested in these, and the first time I saw this, I inevitably rushed over to join in the fun, stared carefully at every step, and wrote it down." "This was the first time I knew about my father's interests or beliefs. The father paused and then continued: "It took me a lot of effort to get along with your cousin, and I spent a lot of money to buy wine and meat to send over, so that your cousin could touch the wine bottle for me. ”

I was speechless for a moment, thinking that my father's actions were so childish, but he was happy and didn't want to discourage him. I continued to follow my father's words, "What's the difference between that bottle and other bottles?" As soon as my father heard this, he immediately became excited: "That bottle is not the same as an ordinary wine bottle, and when it is full, it is not as heavy as the bottle that seems to hold only a third of the content." And I watched with my own eyes that some warm water had been poured in beforehand, but I held the bottle and shook it without a sound. I asked curiously, "No sound?" The father nodded excitedly and said, "Yes, yes, yes, there is no sound, the reason is that it is stuffed with ghosts......"

After that, I was caught by my excited father and talked for a long time, all of which were strange and incomprehensible things, and before I knew it, I fell asleep.

When we woke up again, it was already time to transfer to the bus, and we would be able to get to the county seat by car for about three hours, and my cousin would come to pick us up.

After several hours of train rides and three or four hours of car rides, my feet finally set foot on the ground, but I was so sick that I felt like I was walking on cotton, with each step undulating and the ground jolting.

When my father saw me like this, he walked out of the bus station with my luggage in one hand and the other in his hand.

As soon as I got out of the bus station, I saw a middle-aged man in his thirties and forties, with a small beer belly on his head. has a relatively fresh short haircut, which barely saves his middle-aged and fat image.

He held up an old piece of cardboard with three large characters written on it with an oil-based pen, "Old Tangerine Peel". My father carried me to the man, who seemed to be my cousin, who I was only five or six years old when I last saw him, and who I had no impression of, and who I could no longer recognize.

The old tangerine peel on the cardboard should be pointed? I turned my head to look at my father. I heard the other side shouting and waving to my father: "Old Chenpi, this way!"

As soon as they met, they used this nickname to call their father, and it seems that the relationship between the two is indeed as good as their father said.

My cousin greeted me with a smile, his eyes shifted from my father to me, and he stretched out his hand to knead my face: "It's been a long time, little tangerine peel, tsk, it is worthy of being a child who grew up in the city, at such an age, his face is still so beautiful." ”

His hands are very rough, and he has some calluses, and I feel so uncomfortable when I pinch him, and what's going on with this person, he calls me by a nickname as soon as we meet

My father may have seen that I was dissatisfied, so he said loudly: "Yu Zai saw that his relatives and elders should call someone first, and then call his cousin." ”

I was helped by my father to stand still, and just opened my mouth: "Table... Uncle... "The food I ate rushed from my stomach to my throat in an instant. My father and cousin scrambled to find the bag and made me vomit. My cousin saw me vomiting and said, "This baby hasn't gotten good for so many years, so let's go back." My father thought about it and said, "It will take half an hour to go back even if you take a car, and if you walk, it will take six or seven hours." It's afternoon now, and it's dark when I get home. After listening to it, I also said: "Long pain is better than short pain, anyway, my motion sickness symptoms are not good, walking is the same as stepping on cotton, it is better to take the car back." ”

My cousin shrugged his shoulders and pulled out a few more bags with them, stuffed them into my arms and instructed: "If you want to vomit, Xiao Chenpi will vomit in the bag for me, don't vomit in my car, it's hard to clean." "After taking the bag, I couldn't help but think to myself, I just said that I wanted to go back, and I was afraid that I would vomit in his car. No, no, why do you think so badly about people, I rubbed my head and expelled negative emotions and thoughts, as long as my body is uncomfortable, people love to think about these things and what they don't.

For half an hour in the car, my father and cousin kept talking, talking about the changes in the county, which was none of my business, and the symptoms of motion sickness were very serious, so I emptied my brain and sat without saying a word along the way.

Half an hour later, the car stopped in front of a small three-story western-style building, which was in stark contrast to the small one- and two-story mud houses nearby. In the nineties, there were not many people in the countryside who could afford to build this kind of western-style building, I followed them out of the car, and as soon as I entered the house, there was a huge central hall, and I couldn't help but sigh in my heart that the countryside was big.

The wall of the central hall, at a height of one meter and four meters above the ground, opened a rectangular wall hole with a recess, the wall hole is about one meter five high, about eighty centimeters wide, and a framed red paper is placed inside.

In the middle of the upper part of the red paper, there is a circle with a hook, and the bottom is written in large characters: Heaven and Earth Kingdom Teacher God Throne.

A small sun and a small moon are drawn on the top corners of the left and right sides, respectively, and the words sun and moon are written on them.

Under the sun and moon, there is a row of small characters on the left and right, with the names of various gods and goddesses written.

On the left are Nanyue Holy Emperor, Taishan Mansion Jun, Guanyin Dashi, Luban Immortal Master, while on the right are Guan Sheng Emperor, Zhao Hou Immortal Master, Si Ming Lang Jun and Zao Wang Fu Jun. There are also some combinations of words on the left and right under the name of the god, the top is the prefix of rain, and the bottom is the kind of combination words, and there are couplets written on both sides that I don't know what to say.

Because it's the first time I've seen such a big god table, or maybe it's called an altar, right? I couldn't help but look around closely.

Under the plaque is a table made of mahogany, and there is a colored clay statue on the table, which I have not seen, I don't know which god it is, and then there is a tablet next to it, which reads: Thousands of ancestors and thousands of soldiers and horses

But these are not the points that attract me the most, the point that attracts me the most is the place on the table where there should be a candle and incense lamp for the gods, what is the matter with two electric lamps like oil lamps? It's still the kind of rechargeable electric light. Ancient feudalism and modern technology are perfectly combined here, without a trace of abruptness, and I don't know how to express this serious and weird feeling in my heart.

At this time, my father, who was packing his luggage with my cousin, noticed that I was staring at the altar, and came over with a smile and asked, "What, are you interested?" I looked seriously into my father's eyes and said, "Of course I care about such a big altar here." But that's not the point, it's about what those two lights are all about? Where did such a high-tech thing come from?! My father scratched his head and smiled, "I bought it at the temple in the city and delivered it by mail." ”

It turned out that you did the ghost, and the temples in the developed coastal cities are so modern? Without using oil lamps to use electric lamps, has feudal superstition caught up with the trend of the times?

I walked around again, and I found a touch of intimacy on the altar.

The intimacy comes from the fact that under the table of this altar, there is a red paper pasted on it, on which is written the position of the local land god, although there are also many strange things underneath, such as upside-down statues, various miniature weapons, bamboo tubes and altars.

But as long as you see the words "land", you can have a sense of intimacy, after all, every family in the coastal city where I live has a father-in-law who worships the land. Although my mom was a staunch atheist, she was also a local person. As long as everyone worships her, she will worship her, so I can say that I am a person who grew up worshipping the land.

In a completely unfamiliar and unknown place, seeing something that you have known since childhood will naturally feel familiar. At the same time, there is also a sense of uncertainty about the future. Just when I was thinking nonsense here because I wasn't feeling well. My cousin came out with a pot of bacon porridge and shouted: "Two tangerine peels are coming, I asked my wife to cook porridge before going to bed, especially Xiao Chenpi, because of motion sickness, I definitely don't dare to eat well, hurry up and drink some porridge to fill my stomach." ”

I didn't have much appetite, and my father pulled me and insisted that I eat it, saying that it would not be good for my health. The feeling of eating the first bite is that the bacon flavor is strong enough! So can I spit it out? Turning his head to look at his father, who was eating happily, it seemed that he would not be able to do it. However, after eating, I do feel a lot better, probably because it is salty enough, as the saying goes, it is not good to eat salt

After eating, the water was boiled and it was time to take a shower, and I stood in front of a large steaming wooden barrel and looked at a large bucket of hot water. There was a deep sorrow in my heart - there was no water heater in this place, so I could only pour water on my body and bathe it one by one. After taking a shower, I lay on the hardwood bed, as if I was back in a bumpy car, and the whole person felt that the world would shake from time to time, and there was no way to fall asleep, and I kept tossing and turning before I could barely fall asleep.

When I woke up the next morning, my head hurt sharply, so I stretched out my feet and put on slippers, and stumbled first. My cousin knew that I was suffering from severe motion sickness this time, so he didn't ask me to do anything. I was just allowed to recuperate and talk about it later, while my father took the return car home in the morning, leaving me alone in an unfamiliar place.