My family does not have a land temple in the village, everyone in the village knows, the grandfather listened to Wang Duangong's words, immediately walked to the corner of the house and picked up a hoe and handed it to me, "Before the land lord has found you, you hurry up and dig a land temple, and then burn incense and paper and kowtow." ”

Wang Duangong also nodded one after another, "It's just right for you to dig the land temple, maybe the land lord will spare you when he sees your piety." ”

I've seen death twice, so naturally I'm afraid of death. The mountains in the countryside are high and the emperor is far away, and the people here are not afraid of the emperor Lao Tzu, they are afraid of demons and monsters, and the demons and monsters are all managed by the land lord, so you can imagine how much ability this land lord has.

I answered the words of my grandfather and Wang Duangong, went out with a hoe, went straight to the side of my house, and dug up one after another.

Grandpa and Wang Duangong didn't come out with them, after all, my family offended the land lord, and the people in the village couldn't let the people in the village know about it, and now they can ignore my family, but once they know that we have offended the land lord, I'm afraid that my family will become the target of public criticism.

The land temple is not difficult to dig, just dig a small square hole, and it only took me about fifteen minutes to finish, and then I went into the house and said to my grandfather, "I dug it." ”

The grandfather said, "Take some incense paper and burn it to the land lord, and ask the land lord to bless your family." ”

Rural people will ask for the land lord when they are sick or in the house, and it is not against me to ask the land lord at this time, and the people in the village can understand it, and I don't think about us offending the land lord at all.

I said yes, took the incense and yin and yang money and went to the land temple alone, lit the incense, and then knelt down and burned the yin and yang paper, and kowtowed to the land temple at the same time, and when I kowtowed, I said the words that the grandfather told me, I said, "The land lord, my grandfather and I don't have the heart to go against you, I don't dare in the future, these incense and paper money are filial piety to you, you have a lot of adults, don't blame us." ”

I kowtowed, while talking to myself to this land temple, after saying a dozen or so, I suddenly felt a chill behind my back, looked back, but saw that it was the man who told my grandfather to crawl out of the grave that night, he was the same as last time, wearing a strange long robe, standing behind me with his hands behind his back and looking at me inexplicably smiling, seeing that I was burning incense and kowtowing to the land lord, and said with a smile, "The incense and paper money are burned wrong, you burn incense and paper like this, the land lord can't hear it." ”

I saw him for the second time, because what he said to me last time had been fulfilled, and I was sure that he really came to thank me, so when I saw him again, I was not as scared as before, and asked him, "How do you burn it?" ”

He walked to the Land Temple, bent down next to me and took out two of the three incense sticks in the Land Temple, and then divided the yin and yang paper that had not been burned next to me into several small piles, and said, "A stick of incense is divided into three branches, which worship people, ghosts, and gods respectively, and the Lord of the Land is not a god or a person, so you can't burn three sticks, just burn the incense stick that worships ghosts, your incense is too miscellaneous, and people, ghosts and gods can't hear it." ”

He said it very mysteriously, I blinked my eyes and stared at him, only to feel a chill on my body, not because I was afraid, but because he was too cold, just like holding an ice cube in winter, it was getting colder and colder, and I couldn't help but shudder and ask again, "What about the yin and yang money?" Why do you have to divide them into several piles? ”

He still said with a smile on his face, "Ghosts are changed by people, people will be greedy, ghosts are also greedy, as the saying goes, the king of Hades is good to see that little ghosts are difficult to deal with, this yin and yang money is burned, you must first go to the 'offering pavilion' below, so you have to burn a bunch of the little ghosts guarding the offering pavilion, and then there are all kinds of little ghosts on Huangquan Road, Santu River, and Land Temple, if you want them to help you bring the yin and yang money, you have to give benefits, so you score several piles." ”

As he spoke, he helped me light the piles of paper money he had already divided, and only after lighting them did he say, "Now you can talk to the land lord, and the little ghost will help you bring the words." ”

I could say those words begging for mercy and help when no one was there before, but with him watching, I was too embarrassed to say it, and I always felt a little embarrassed, so I looked up at him a few times.

This man knows so much, he even knows that my grandfather will come to ask me, and he knows how to burn incense, how to burn paper, and even knows that there is an offering pavilion below, maybe he knows how to save me and my grandfather. After living in the countryside for so long, I have also learned some skills in being tactful, and immediately turned around and kowtowed to him, "Please save me and grandpa." ”

I didn't kowtow to the land lord, but kowtowed to him, which made him a little surprised, stared at me several times, and then laughed and said, "You don't ask the land lord, but come to beg me, do you think I am more capable than the land lord?" ”

I shook my head, "No, it's because you know a lot." ”

I sighed with relief, "That's it, but I'm not related to you, I have already repaid the kindness you gave me to burn paper and incense before, and now I have nothing to do with you, you can only get the result by planting the cause, you don't plant the cause now, why should I save you?" ”

I didn't know what to answer for a while, and I thought for a while before I tentatively said, "Then I'll burn paper and incense for you tomorrow?" ”

He stared at me with his hands behind his back and his lips, as if he was disgusted that I said that I was going to burn incense and paper for him, and I was about to change my mouth and say other benefits to him, when he said, "I'll tell you a way to save your life temporarily, you can save your life first, and after you think about what benefits to give me, I'll tell you how to let the land master spare you and your grandfather." ”

I quickly nodded and said eagerly, "Okay, good." ”

He then said, "There is a bell around the neck of the big ox in your grandfather's house, you go and take the bell down, remove the copper core from it, hang it at the door, and then cook a pot of rice, and if you hear the bell ringing, sit down and eat quickly, and then you can save your life." ”

I was confused and puzzled.

The old scalper of the grandfather's house does have a bell hanging around his neck, but after dropping the copper core inside, how can the bell ring? I asked him, "The bell doesn't even have a copper core, how can it ring?" ”

He smiled and said, "There are many things in this world that you have never seen, people can still live without souls, and of course the bell can ring without a core." Speaking of this, he paused slightly, and immediately said, "The ploughing cow is blessed by God, the bell on the cow's neck can pass through the yin, if there are demons and monsters close to the hollow core copper bell, the copper bell will whine, no matter how powerful the land lord is, he is also a ghost, as long as you hear the copper bell ringing, you can know that he is coming." ”

"Then why can eating save your life?" I asked again.

He said, "Lei Gong doesn't beat the eaters, even if he commits the crime of thunder and thunder in the sky, Lei Gong will have to wait for people to finish eating before he can split again, no matter how powerful the land lord is, can he be more powerful than Lei Gong?" As long as you are eating, even if the land lord wants to come to you to settle accounts, you have to wait until you finish eating, so when he comes, you will eat, and then he will have no choice. ”

I'd never heard of these things before, and I just thought it was very new, and I was full of gratitude to this person, but there was one more question, and I immediately asked, "What if we can't eat it?" ”

"So you have to think about how to repay me, and if I'm satisfied, I'll think of a new way for you." He looked at me with a smile and said, and my heart was cold when I heard it, and after saying that, he walked to the tomb with his hands behind his back, and after walking out for a while, he turned to me and said, "By the way, my name is Liu Cheng." ”

After saying that, he disappeared into the night not long after, and after he left, I hurriedly went back to the house, pulled the grandfather aside, and told the grandfather what Liu Cheng had just told me in front of the Land Temple.

Grandpa paused for a long time after hearing this, and then dialed me, "Hurry up, don't let the people in the village know." ”

I said yes, took the flashlight and quietly went out of the door, and went straight to the grandfather's cattle pen, when I went the big yellow cow was lying in the corner of the cowpen, I took my hands and feet to get the brass bell around its neck, although extremely careful, but still woke it up.

It's just that it opened its eyes and stared at me, closed its eyes again, and I successfully removed the copper bell from its neck, and couldn't wait to pull out the copper core inside when I took the copper bell out of the bullpen.

Just as soon as the copper core was unplugged, the hollow copper bell whined.