"Soybeans, you say?" Liu Siya was a little puzzled: "What can soybeans do?"

"Don't underestimate soybeans," I said frankly, "soybeans can actually exorcise ghosts......

I talked about my doubts right now, don't look at Zhang Wanxue's ghost is asking for it.

But if it goes wrong, I'm afraid I won't be able to restrain her.

Of course, this is also the first time I have really... Run errands for ghosts. So it is inevitable that there will be no bottom in my heart.

What's more, Granny Bai has repeatedly told me before that you must be cautious when dealing with yin and evil ghosts.

Because if you are not careful, you will take your own nickname.

So, it's always good to be careful, and it's always good to be on guard.

"That's right," Liu Siya completely agreed, and immediately said, "It's not difficult to find soybeans!"

She didn't even have to go to the vegetable market in person, she immediately talked about it, and she had a colleague in the town hospital... The family sells dry goods, and soybeans should also have them.

As she spoke, she took out her phone and called her colleague.

Don't really say it, don't mention whether the acquaintance's things are good or not, but the efficiency of the acquaintance is really high.

In less than half an hour, Liu Siya's colleague asked for leave to go home and personally drove a van to deliver a bag of soybeans... Fifty pounds, my whole body was numb at that time.

"This," I whispered to Liu Siya, "why do you use so much!"

"It's okay," Liu Siya said, "just take care of my colleague's business... If you have more, you will stay, and maybe you will be able to use it later."

"Later?" I really don't have the consciousness to say, fifty catties, it is estimated that I will not be able to use up these fifty catties of soybeans in my life.

Liu Siya's colleague was also polite, looked at me and said, "This is Siya's boyfriend, right?"

"Boy, boyfriend?" My face turned red all at once!

"Don't get me wrong," Liu Siya explained even more busily, "We... We don't have that yet!"

"Hey, what are you shy about with Sister Zhao!?" Liu Siyan's colleague sighed: "Listen to your tone, if you don't have those things, doesn't it mean that it will happen sooner or later?"

I also admire Liu Siya, a colleague named Sister Zhao, who may have said that mouth and horn.

I heard Liu Siya say just now that this is the head nurse of their town hospital, and she is very good to her on weekdays.

also said that it was this Sister Zhao, who was busy asking for leave to go back and personally brought the soybeans.

But this busy... I really didn't dare to compliment, so I chatted with Liu Siya for a long time in the inquiry hall.

After chatting for almost half an hour, until Liu Siya paid the money, Sister Zhao left in a huff.

After she left, I said to Liu Siya apologetically, "When Granny Bai comes back, I will give you soybean money."

"No," Liu Siya said, "If you buy too much, you should stay here, and you and Granny Bai will make soup and drink!"

"Well," I twitched the corner of my mouth awkwardly, "I didn't hear that soybeans can drink more... Fifty pounds, funny?"

What I hate the most is the soy products.

If you scatter the floor, it's the most troublesome to clean... It's more annoying than rice grains, and if you're not careful, it's easy to slip when you step on this soybean.

Then I carefully opened the bag of soybeans.

Pick the bag of soybeans, which are harder and have large grains, and put them together separately.

"Jiang Cheng," Liu Siya helped choose soybeans, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Can this thing really cure ghosts?" ..... Or, is it true that all five grains can drive away ghosts?"

"What should I say!?" I was embarrassed.

After thinking about it, let's say something that Liu Siya can understand, I will use my understanding of the book to briefly talk about cereals and grains have been regarded as a gift from nature since ancient times.

There are also people who regard it as a reward from the gods and give people food and clothing... And ghosts, after all, are people of the past.

They turned into ghosts, and they also owed the cause and effect of the gods, and they also received the grace of the five grains.

So from ancient times to the present, there are

The folk saying of five grains to drive away evil spirits...... Picking soybeans is too tedious.

I simply made a fuss, and because of this, I mentioned: "In foreign countries, there is a saying about sprinkling beans to drive away evil spirits, do you know?"

"Yes," Liu Siya said, "Especially in the country of cherry blossoms... I've seen it in anime that every year on the third day of February, it seems that during the Spring Festival in our country, there will be a custom of sprinkling beans."

"It's not their cherry blossom country," I explained, "Actually, that custom came from us!"

Liu Siya was stunned for a moment... The stunned expression was unbelievable.

After all, there are indeed a lot of exquisiteness in the Spring Festival in China, and many customs have been handed down.

Alone in the world, few people still scatter beans,

I immediately told her reasonably: "The tradition of sprinkling beans to exorcise ghosts is actually linked to us, and it really has a deep cultural origin... A long time ago, the scholars of the Sakura Kingdom learned from our customs to their court, and then passed them on to the people.

Ironically, we have forgotten about this custom, and they have remained to this day.

In order to confirm what I said, I also specifically mentioned several ancient books I saw earlier, among which there is a record in "Zhou Li Xia Guan": "Fang Xiang's family, the palm is covered with bear skin, the golden eyes are four, the Xuanyi and the red clothes, the holding of the Ge Yang shield, the handsome hundred subordinates and the time of the servant, with the suo room to drive away the epidemic. The funeral pioneer and the tomb, enter the circle to hit the four corners, and drive Fang Liang."

And Fang Xiang's exorcism ritual does have the process of sprinkling beans, and then he said "Continuation of the Han Book and Etiquette": "Fang Xiangshuai Baili and the boy, with a peach bow and thorns, shoot it, and sow (sprinkle) it with red pills and grains."

"Also," I mentioned, "there is a custom of Wu Yue written in the Book of Etiquette of the Later Han Dynasty, and the year is divided into mutual strikes, and fried beans are paid."

"And then it is recorded in the Tang Dynasty's "Yuefu Miscellaneous Records" that the names of each fierce god are called, and the nephew is a hundred beans, and the child is for it."

I finally confessed, "In these ancient books... It is clearly recorded that before the Tang Dynasty, our country had the custom of throwing beans to drive away ghosts. And the process of sprinkling beans in the exorcism ceremony is also the same as that in the cherry blossom country... The bean scattering ritual in the cherry blossom country has the saying of "sprinkling beans with four horns", which is actually consistent with the "striking the four corners with Ge" in the process of Fang Xiang's exorcism."

"I really didn't expect it," Liu Siya's eyes widened in disbelief in amazement: "Jiang Cheng, you, have you really never read?" What books have you read, such as "The Records of the Later Han Dynasty" and "The Book of Etiquette of the Continuation of the Han Dynasty?"

"Of course I did," I said, pointing to Granny Bai's living room, "and it's like a big library, and you should have noticed it the last time you went in." During this time, I had nothing to do, and I almost read all those books, and I knew many of them by heart."

"I can see that," Liu Siya twitched the corners of her mouth in embarrassment, after all, from the dictionary I just quoted, it is not difficult to confirm this.

It's just that Liu Siya is really curious: "Such a small soybean can actually drive away ghosts?"

She couldn't believe it until now!

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