Chapter 2: God is not alive
After a full meal, the land lord was about to go back to sleep for a while, when he heard Lu Gong's angry drink, he frowned: "What's wrong?" ”
Lu Gong saw that he was taken for granted, and he was angry, and said angrily: "As a piece of land, you took the offerings of the villagers, and you knew the difficulties of the villagers, but you were so indifferent, what kind of land god should you be?" ”
In the face of Lu Gong's angry rebuke, the land sneered disapprenously, sat directly on the altar, and raised Erlang's legs. "What? Can't get past it? Do you think that these three melons and two dates want to send me away and let me be a coolie for them? ”
"As the land, isn't it your duty to enjoy the incense of the villagers and relieve the suffering of the villagers?" Lu Gong retorted.
The man's outfit just now, especially the expression on his face when he finally took out the copper coin, Lu Gong knew very well that this might be the greatest sincerity that he had saved for a long time before he could take it out.
What kind of world is it for such a believer to pray for good weather in the coming year with his rations and the only money he has, and this god who receives incense not only eats and drinks in vain, but even curses the poor and sour in his mouth?
"Come on. What duty? It's good to be able to survive these years. Don't show off the teachings of the saints in front of me, do you know that I have only received a few incense sticks in the past six months? With this little income, it's good enough to keep me alive. Do you think that the merit money you just received is all mine? Something you don't understand......" The land scolded for a while, and if it weren't for the fact that today's harvest was good, he couldn't help but want to pick up another branch and hit this ignorant box.
You don't have to eat and drink, you can only wait for death, how can you understand that as a declining god who survives on incense?
Maybe one day, a good person or something will come out of the village, and his own land will be removed at any time, and even the most basic fragments of Shinto will be uprooted.
Seeing that the land had finished eating the steamed buns, he turned around and sank into the mud statue, and when Lu Gong came to his mouth, he swallowed it back raw.
I first came to this world, and now I am even precarious, what qualifications do I have to criticize others, if I don't have this land temple, I don't even have a place to shelter from the wind and rain, where is the qualification to say such cool words?
After eating, the land never reappeared.
Lu Gong felt the increasingly cold wind, and stayed up for more than half a month before finally waiting for a second voice.
A young man, with long white hair and a half-man-high cloth bag in his hand, emerged from the ground.
Compared with the original land, in addition to his white hair, the villain in front of him was white and fat, and he was full of energy.
As soon as he appeared, Lu Gong could clearly feel that even the aura around him had changed, and it seemed that even the withered vegetation had become full of vitality, and he almost wanted to rejuvenate and bud.
And in the land temple, the original land lord hurriedly trotted out to greet him, his eyes were full of flattery, he presented eight copper coins with both hands, and his face smiled. "Greetings to the Divine Envoy."
"Why is there only that?" The villain was a little dissatisfied.
Lord Di's body trembled slightly, lowered his head, and muttered: "There are only less than 100 households in this Xiaokan Village, and this year's harvest is ......."
Before he could finish his sentence, the divine envoy kicked him to the ground: "Excuses, all excuses. ”
"My lord, this year is really too difficult." Lord Di cried with a sad face, but he fell to the ground and didn't dare to get up, "There is a big drought in the south this year, and it is difficult for Xiaokan Village to even maintain drinking water, and the small one has reported to the Lord Chenghuang many times, and it has ...... so far."
"You mean it's all a matter of Lord Chenghuang?" The divine envoy raised his eyebrows, and a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes.
The land lord was so frightened that he trembled, lying on the ground and kowtowing repeatedly: "The little god doesn't dare, the little god doesn't dare!" ”
The divine envoy's raised hand was gently lowered, and he glanced at him contemptuously, leaving behind a cold word.
"After the third day of the Lunar New Year, I will come again, if you can't scrape together enough fifty pieces of worship money, you will wait to be removed." After receiving the eight merit coins, God caused the body to disappear into the ground in a flash.
After a long time, the land lord got up from the ground tremblingly and returned to the temple with a disgraced face.
At this time, he was already dead and lifeless.
Lu Gong remained silent. Since he convinced himself last time, he has already figured out that his meaningless life can pass quickly, and don't toss.
As for the voice in the shadows, he also selectively ignored it.
According to his own estimates, it won't take a few rains and snows to return to the earth.
"If you want to say something cool, just say it." The land lord suddenly stared at Lu Gong and said angrily.
Lu Gong was silent.
"Do you feel like you're a god and you're living a bad life?" The land lord didn't get a response from Lu Gong, but he said it to himself. "It is said that harsh government is fiercer than a tiger, and the injustice in the world can still be revealed, and the way of God is purely a dead end. People in the world always think that as immortals, they are free and free, and the sky is wide, but who really understands our suffering? Humane rules, at least there is something to rely on, Shinto is truly naked, even life and death are in the hands of others, if you want to live, if you want to die, you will die......"
The land lord chattered for a long time, and finally his mouth was dry, and he saw that Lu Gong had completely fallen into a dead silence, and looked up at the banyan tree that was also dying, and his body did not fall back into the mud.
This year's autumn grain harvest is poor, not to mention coming to worship the gods, many villagers are hungry and have begun to peel the bark, and even some young and strong people have already made plans to escape the famine.
There are less than two months left before the third day of the Lunar New Year, let alone fifty copper coins, even if it is ten, it will be difficult for him to take it out.
In the past two months, the number of people who come to burn incense has decreased significantly.
"Are you just waiting to die?" Lu Gong was silent for a long time, and when he found that the land lord was about to fall into a deep sleep again, he couldn't help but speak.
The same is the end of the world.
The land lord no longer has the arrogance he had before, he turned over when he heard the words, sat up, and laughed at himself: "Is it possible that I can still rob it?" That dies faster. ”
Lu Gong had never seen such a god who was eating and waiting for death, and he couldn't even see the courage to resist.
"As a god, don't you even have the means to do so?"
"Hehe, as long as my little bit of nonsense is concerned, it's useless." The land laughed at himself.
"I'm curious, what would you do? Could it be that you can only eat steamed buns? Lu Gong said deliberately.
The land no longer had the heart to pay attention to Lu Gong's cynicism, and said, "As the lowest god, I have only practiced three basic Dao methods, that is, the Rainfall Technique in a small area, the Divine Power Technique to help the villagers drive away some wild beasts, and the Rejuvenation Technique of the Half-Hanged Son. ”