"Then please, I think it's time too."

Yue Guanchao listened to the words of this Yu Gu, and said in his heart, probably referring to the fact that the Yu Po chose Hua Yuxiu, and several people followed the old lady through the corridor to the backyard.

When they walked into the courtyard, it could be seen that the courtyard was quite clean, with several gray tile houses surrounding the square courtyard, and there was a huge old locust tree in the middle, with rough and knotted branches, and a crooked neck trunk forming a strange arc.

At this time, it is the turn of spring and summer, the crown of the tree is as large as a canopy, and the branches are luxuriant, and you can see the fragrance of acacia!

It's just that, in addition to the aroma of acacia flowers, there is a faint smell of medicine that is covered, and it is easy to smell the smell.

The old lady asked them to sit under the locust tree, and after waiting for the herb tea, she looked at Yue Guanchao and them: "You must be very curious, why did the fish woman choose her, right?" Yu Gu sat beside her and asked in a mysterious tone.

"Actually, it wasn't the fish woman who chose her, but she chose the fish woman."

The old lady's words made several of them curious, and Sun Daqiao also felt a little foggy, and continued to ask: "Old lady, it is obvious that Boss Hua was selected by the fish woman, where did she choose the fish woman?" ”

"You must think that in the clouds, Aunt Yu, I won't talk nonsense, this matter has to do with Boss Hua's life experience."

"My background?" Hua Yuxiu's eyes spread with a hint of doubt.

"Am I not an orphan? I remember that for as long as I can remember, I grew up eating hundreds of meals. ”

Hua Yuxiu is particularly convinced of this, after she can remember, she has always been a beggar woman taking herself, and when she was eight or nine years old, the beggar woman disappeared, and she had to be an apprentice under the stage, and at the same time she ate a meal, so as not to starve her to death.

Now, when he suddenly heard that Aunt Yu knew her background, he was surprised and angry, surprised because he finally knew where he came from, and angry because he was almost forty years old before Aunt Yu was willing to show up, which was a little too late.

"And where are my parents now?"

In the first twenty-five years of Hua Yuxiu's life, she always belonged to her grandmother who didn't love her uncle and didn't love her, and her parents died and her relatives didn't kiss, she wanted to know who her parents were.

"These things have to start from 40 years ago, and they have a lot to do with the construction of the fish temple."

On Yugu's withered face, there was a rare trace of warmth, explaining her life and fate: "This fish temple is the largest fish temple by the river after the merger of the three towns of Jianghan and Han, and it is also higher in rank than any fish temple. ”

"No, Boss Hua said that after the Yumiao pile was driven down, the tidal flat stabilized whether the water rose or fell."

Hearing this, Yu Po sighed and shook her head: "Do you believe this? Nowadays, it is rumored that the water will no longer rise and fall when laying a pile, and these nonsense words are blessed by the fish god, but they are just used to say a scene, trying to be auspicious, at the beginning, when building the fish temple, the strange things encountered are not ordinary......"

The tidal flat in the center of the river is made of sediment accumulation, and there are few trees on it, which also causes soil erosion is extremely serious, and even, just after repairing the river bank in the morning, it was washed away by the river in the afternoon, and I don't know how much effort was spent.

Sometimes, the materials moved to the island have disappeared completely, either the tiles have disappeared, or the beams have disappeared, and the stakes that had been laid the day before, even if they were four or five meters into the sediment, were still lifted out and floated on the water the next day.

Some craftsmen thought that there was some kind of misery, stole these materials to exchange money, and squatted all night at night, and did not see anyone sneaking up on the island, and when they woke up the next day, the things were indeed gone again.

In this case, it is as if there is something in the mud and sand, and no one is allowed to drive piles into it to build the temple, and there are many such things, and the craftsman who built the fish temple has realized that something is wrong and suspects that something strange is wrong.

In the past, these situations did occur, especially in the forests and mountains, where if someone wanted to build a house, in addition to the craftsmen, they also had to take care of the nearby wild gods.

Some mountains and forests seem to be silent, but in the places where people can't see, there are also many things that live, and even some wild gods who don't sit in temples live, they are originally the masters of the mountains and forests, if people rush in, it belongs to fighting with these wild gods.

When the wild god is angry, it is easy to cause trouble!

For example, when the earth is broken and the pile is driven, it is deliberately so that people can't drive it in, even if it is driven in, it has to be crooked, and for example, when the beam is deliberately broken, the rope is broken halfway, or the wall collapses, or the house will catch fire inexplicably after it is completed.

Although such a bad trick is murderous, it can make people sick to death, and even torture to the point of misery.

There is a way to be a courtesy, many people are not to blame, the master who knows the way does not wait for the wild gods to make it bad, so he first set up a banquet and six animals, and put them in the open place in the forest before starting construction, and then, let the craftsmen who know the spell to say a few good words, so that the surrounding wild gods know that they come here to build a house and have a lot of trouble, if there is an offense, the banquet is laughing, and in the future, please protect the family and protect the hospital, and the incense is definitely a lot.

After such good words, the craftsman can leave after lighting the incense sticks on the stove, and if the incense sticks are burned the next day, it means that the surrounding wild gods have smiled and accepted the tribute and incense, and have agreed that people will settle down here, and in the future, they can no longer spoil it.

At this time, the master family will let the craftsman break the earth to drive foundation piles and build a house in the same place.

If the incense sticks in the furnace are not burned, or they are not burned at all, it means that the surrounding wild gods are not very satisfied, and many craftsmen will ask the master to choose another address to worship the gods again, so as to avoid accidents.

From ancient times to the present, such a custom is not only to sacrifice to the wild gods, but also equivalent to using cooked braised meat for the banquet before the start of work, and entertaining the craftsmen and masters.

Whether it is really for worship or peace of mind, such a ritual can be regarded as a tacit understanding between people and the surrounding creatures when they intervene in the primitive natural environment.

Ordinary houses only need a banquet, six animals, and even a few chickens and ducks, if it involves more advanced palaces and temples, the things to be sacrificed are much more serious, sometimes, even to use human life to sacrifice, this custom of using human life to fill the building, is called driving piles!

What is a pile!

According to legend, when Qin Shi Huang repaired the Great Wall, the officials who ordered the responsible officials were afraid of being punished, and in order to pursue quality, the construction of the Great Wall has been refined to the construction of the levies, that is, a brick, must be marked with the casting master and the wall servant, as long as these things have problems in the future, you can find the party according to the map.

They were faced with the wrong conscription, cutting off their hands and feet, or burying them alive in the wall, that is, burying a person alive in the wall.

This is where the piling of history began!

In the following years, the piling was misunderstood and spread by craftsmen, from the meaning of punishment to the blessing of God, they believed that huge buildings need some spirits to guard, if there is no spirit to guard, the building is very easy to collapse, without a few people can not be stable, at the same time, in the process of building, there will be many wild gods to make trouble.

There are more and more craftsmen who think like this, and it has become a common practice to drive piles, but for all major projects such as temples and temples, there must be the master to find some poor people who are poor or seriously ill, and pour them alive under the ground, so as to ensure that after the piles are laid, the construction will be smooth sailing.

At that time, the craftsman noticed that something strange was going on, so he immediately notified the Jianghan official office, and euphemistically said the strange thing about Jiangxin Island, which meant that he wanted the official office to find someone to drive a stake.

In the face of these requirements of the craftsmen, the Jianghan government was reluctant at first, although the piling ceremony has existed since ancient times, but it is only to see the six animals being piled, and it is inevitable that there will be some cruelty when it comes to living people.

Behind the scenes, the official had already found the construction firm that undertook the construction of the fish temple, and asked them to find someone to drive the piles so that they could continue to repair the fish temple.

As mentioned earlier, forty or fifty years ago, the chaos in the north was like a pot of porridge, and the people could not survive for a long time, and they were lucky enough to escape.

The construction firm found the refugees and only told them that they had jobs for them to do, and these people did not know what they were doing.

No matter how stupid these refugees are, they also know that to drive a stake is to send them to death, of course they don't want to die, if they really want to die, just stay in the north and starve to death, escape is to have a way to live, why run to an unfamiliar place to be beaten to the stake.

Among these refugees, the one who is really willing to be stumped is a middle-aged couple.

They were terminally ill on the way to escape, even if they wanted to work, no one wanted to use such sick seedlings, since they could not escape, the two of them could only beg for a living, they saw that they could no longer take care of the child, so they wanted to find the last way for the child.

According to the words of these construction firms, as long as they are willing to drive raw piles, their families can get a hundred taels of silver, and with these silver taels, they will no longer have to wander and beg in the future, and they can even buy houses for farmers outside the city and live a peaceful life.

In this way, the couple voluntarily signed a life and death contract, sold their bodies to a construction firm, and when their bodies were sent to the mud and sand, the Jiangxin Oasis settled down and successfully laid foundation piles to build a temple.

After the completion of the fish temple, the surrounding area was planted with trees by the people in the temple, and Jiangxin Island became more stable, and there was no sediment loss.

It's just that the couple planned a good future for their only daughter, but after that, the builder did not want to recognize this life and death deed, and soon after the couple drove the birth pile, their daughter was driven into the street and soon became a little beggar.