The temple keeper of the Land Temple is surnamed Sun, who is called Xiao Sun when he is young, and Lao Sun when he is older.

He entered the Liu family when he was in his thirties, and when his hometown was in a famine, he followed the victims all the way to beg for a living, and when he arrived in Liuzhen, there were only a few people left around him.

It happened that the Liu family was short of people, and when he saw that he was okay, he took him in, signed a deed of sale, and became a domestic slave of the Liu family, and since then he has lived a good life with enough to eat.

Of course, hard work is hard work.

But hard work can be exchanged for three meals a day, and it is much happier than those who work hard but can't even fill their stomachs.

- That's the way this is, for most people, it's a great thing to survive.

Of course, he also has his regrets, that is, he didn't marry a daughter-in-law, he was a bachelor for a lifetime, and he couldn't leave his own blood in this world.

Thinking that I will be old and lie in a hospital bed with no one to take care of me in the future, I am still a little scared in my heart.

He is now fifty or sixty years old, an old man, and now he can take care of himself, and no one knows what it will be like in a few years.

Life is rare for seventy years, and he feels that he only has a few years left to live.

A few years ago, he prepared a rat medicine for himself, that is, when he was bedridden and had no one to take care of him, he could end his life quickly to avoid that sin.

He knew very well how sinful it was to have no one to take care of him when he was old and sick.

The Liu family took in people like them to ask them to work, but they didn't have the business of providing them for the elderly.

If you die, you will use a cool mat to roll it and dig a pit and bury it.

Now when I come to the Land Temple to be a temple keeper, I guard such a big temple alone, I feel quite idle during the day, but I still have a little loneliness at night, it is easy to think crankily, thinking of the problem of life and death of old sickness, the more I think about it, the more sad I feel.

But after believing in the land god, I feel much better.

This land god is the true god.

Although he is still alone at night, there is still a land god in the temple, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

Old illness was what he was most afraid of before.

Now he feels that with the blessing of the land lord, his body will not collapse so quickly, and even if it collapses, the land lord will not sit idly by, and will arrange someone to take care of him.

Maybe it can directly make him recover, and finally come to a hundred years of life without illness.

Even if he dies, maybe he can be a little ghost next to the land lord and exist in this world in another way.

He now gives incense to the land lord every morning, noon and evening, and every time he goes to the incense and kneels for a long time, he hopes that the land lord can give him a good future.

The Lord of the Land responded to his prayer with only three words: "You can rest assured".

These simple three words can make Lao Sun very happy.

The land lord reassured him, and it would definitely make an arrangement for his future, so he would have nothing to worry about.

With such a commitment, I am more optimistic about life, more motivated to do things, and even feel much better in my body.

That's the benefit of having faith.

He would get up early in the morning, first put a stick of incense on the land, kneel and pray for a while, and then start to clean the fallen leaves in the yard.

During the day, I will often go to the temple to see that the incense I am is gone, and then I will light another one.

When the pilgrims came, they followed them in the temple, for fear that there would be those dishonest people who would do things.

When there are no pilgrims, clean up.

It's winter, and the yard has fallen leaves drifting in from time to time, and it has to be cleaned seven or eight times a day.

In the past, he would not be so diligent, but after having faith, he became so diligent.

This is not working for the Liu family, this is working for the land lord.

The Liu family will not bless him, but the land lord can bless him, this is the difference.

He lived in the temple, and he had to offer incense four or five times a day, and at night he had to light a lamp to put on the last incense, so that he could fall asleep peacefully.

Whether it is inside the temple or the courtyard outside the temple, it is cleaned every day.

The area outside the yard is also cleaned every day so that no weeds spread.

Liu Jide and Liu Xingshan also often came to this temple to inspect, and when they saw that the temple was cleaned up by Lao Sun, they also praised him several times, and once rewarded him with a penny, and made him two sets of new cotton clothes.

Lao Sun also remembered such a gift on the land lord.

On this day, he was sweeping the fallen leaves under a big tree in the yard, when he suddenly heard a strange voice calling him overhead:

"Old Sun, I'm hungry, give me some meat to eat."

Lao Sun was startled, looked up, and saw a bird standing on a branch in front of him, and the bird was talking to him with its mouth open.

At first, I thought I had seen a monster, but after a closer look, it turned out to be a black starling.

This kind of bird is well trained and can talk, but it is not as good-looking as a parrot, and not many people are willing to bother with that kind of training.

This is probably the starling who has been trained by the family to fly out, can't find the way home, and loses the ability to survive in the wild, and is hungry, so he begs for food.

As for why he called him Lao Sun, he probably stayed here for a while and heard others call him like that, so he also called him that.

After thinking about it, Lao Sun was no longer afraid, but he was a little angry:

"You stupid bird, I went to the mountains to catch insects when I was hungry, and I didn't have any meat to eat, where did I give it to you?"

"You have to be polite," the black starling cried out in a strange voice, "I'm the lord of the land that you bow down to every day—"

When Lao Sun heard the black starling say this, he was even more angry, and when he couldn't reach the starling, he threw the broom in his hand, and scolded angrily: "A stupid bird dares to call himself a god, are you blaspheming?" ”

That black starling, in a sense, is indeed Liu Qing.

Now it is Liu Qing who has controlled this black starling with a séance, so that he can use his mouth to speak, but the voice is a little strange.

Seeing that Lao Sun threw the broom over angrily, he hurriedly flapped his wings to dodge, and shouted:

"You old man listen to me after speaking, I am the divine bird that you kneel down to worship every day, and I will be his messenger in the future, you have to be polite to me."

"I believe you're a ghost!" Lao Sun said angrily.

Pick up a small rock on the ground and throw it again.

The black starling flapped his wings and dodged, shouting:

"You old man is so rude, if you do this again, the land lord will retract the promise he made to you at the beginning, 'you can rest assured'."

When Lao Sun heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned.

He didn't tell anyone about this promise that the land lord made to him, and naturally the black starling couldn't hear it.

It's kind of amazing to say it now.

He did not drive the bird any longer, and asked suspiciously:

"You...... Are you really the emissary of the Lord of the Land? ”

"Of course it's true, it's not true, you fried me up!" The black starling flew and shouted, "I don't believe you will go and incense the land lord now, and ask the land lord if it is true." ”