Chapter 1 Wax Moon
It's the New Year again, the streets and alleys in Linfu City are full of lights, and the people in the city are shopping for New Year's goods.
To say that the most lively has to be Jin'an Street, in addition to the gathering of merchants here, there is also a sacred tree shrine at the end of this street, on weekdays, it is only the fifteenth day of the first month that someone incense, but as soon as you enter this wax moon, the popularity has doubled.
Since ancient times, the people of Linfu have the tradition of praying in the shrine of the sacred tree, and since the beginning of the lunar month, there are people who move offerings to the shrine, not limited to eating, and taking whatever they have at home, and even some scholars will copy the books in the house.
And these offerings will be distributed to the poor families in the city, so that everyone can have a good New Year. It is that the rich people will pay more tribute, and the poorer families really can't make decent offerings, so they will come to the shrine to sprinkle and sweep, and do their best.
The most active and hard-working person in sprinkling and sweeping the Sacred Tree Temple is the little girl of the Jiang family, who is very diligent on weekdays, and is even more every day in the wax moon.
The ancestors of the Jiang family are also a big local family, and it is said that this sacred tree temple was originally built by the Jiang family. It's just that no matter how big the family is, it has gradually declined after thousands of years, and now, only this little Jiang girl is left with her father Jiang Fan.
The little Jiang girl has a single name, because her mother gave birth to her and left soon after, Jiang Fan pinned her guilt and thoughts on Jiang Nian, so she got this name.
I think that although the Jiang family declined back then, Jiang Fan still inherited the ancestral property of the Jiang family - a box of books after becoming a parent. Also found a scripture book in the mezzanine of the bookcase, the cover of the book is so yellow that you can't see the words, the content inside can be seen intermittently is vaguely the technique of cultivating flowers and grass, Jiang Fan made flowers and plants in his yard according to what was written in the book, and the little couple and Meimei lived a happy life for two years, and also started a flower and tree business.
But Jiang Nian's mother has been pregnant since she was pregnant, and her body has deteriorated, and later she learned that she was close to the flowers and plants that hindered her during pregnancy, and the mother did her best to protect the child.
Jiang Nian has also been weak since he was a child, and he will be sick twice in three days. Xu is drinking too much medicine, Jiang Nian has been a little unremembered since he was a child, most things are forgotten in a blink of an eye, and he is even more tendoned when he starts to do things, and he is stunned. Fortunately, she is introverted and doesn't like to talk much, and she hasn't had any trouble in the past thirteen years. There is only one thing that I remember every day, and that is to go to the shrine of the sacred tree to sprinkle and sweep.
Today is the twenty-third year of the year, Jiang Fan went to Zhang Yuanwai's house outside the city to take care of the flowers and trees, and he will not go home until tomorrow.
Jiang Nian worked in the Sacred Tree Temple for a day, and only at dusk did he relax when it was dark. A small stool was moved from the back room of the Divine Tree Shrine, and Jiang Nian sat under the Divine Tree in a daze.
"Divine tree, we have known each other for seven years, seven years ago I was only six years old, and the first time my father took me out was to come to the shrine of the sacred tree to offer incense. Jiang Nian said softly, "I have a muddy life every day, I can't remember most things clearly, only in the Divine Tree Shrine, I have a trace of clarity." So, in my heart, the sacred tree is as important as my father, more than myself. Sacred tree, I will come to sprinkle and sweep every day in my lifetime, but my body, the problem of forgetting things recently is serious again, even here, I feel that my heart is blocked by cotton, and I can't breathe, I always feel that I am missing something, but I can't always find it and can't remember. In this way, I don't know how long I can last, I can't let go of my father, it's not easy for my father these years, if the sacred tree has a spirit, please help take care of my father. Saying that, Jiang Nian knelt down and kowtowed to the Divine Tree three times.
The sacred tree shook, the canopy rustled, and a few leaves shook on Jiang Nian's body, telling her that she had agreed.
In fact, there has already been a tree spirit in this sacred tree, and this tree spirit is also very familiar with Jiang Nian, for no other reason, Jiang Nian always has to sit under the tree and talk to himself, although it can't talk to Jiang Nian, but it also thinks that it is the tree that understands Jiang Nian best in the world, and has always regarded itself as Jiang Nian's friend, but Jiang Nian is as heavy as today but it is the first time.
This tree spirit likes Jiang Nian very much, and always looks forward to the day when he can cultivate the Tao and turn into a human form like in Wang Xiucai's book the year before last, so that he can sit in the shrine of the sacred tree and eat offerings with Jiang Nian.
But how do you cultivate? It doesn't know.
This sacred tree shrine is not only thousands of years long, but it will only take more than ten years to transform into a soul in a daze. It didn't know what this divine tree had done before, but he really hadn't had the opportunity to benefit one party as written in the book, so he ate so much incense for nothing, and his heart was a little empty.
Besides, although he is a god tree incarnate spirit, no matter how he looks at it, he looks like a tree demon in the book, this god tree temple is famous far and wide, this god tree tree is very popular, what if it is collected by a Taoist priest?
Thinking of this, the tree spirit only felt a gust of wind blowing, it was so cold that it shivered, the leaves were scattered on the ground, and then Jiang Nian, who was kneeling under his feet, had fallen to the ground, unconscious.
Thinking of Jiang Nian's words just now, the tree spirit was anxious, but it was useless, it couldn't bend down, it could only use the branches to reach down, and secretly hated that it was not a willow tree.
It was too late to say that it was too late, and it was a thousand-year-old god tree, the trunk of which was held by several people, and the branches of the whole body were all moving, and the huge crown of the tree shook more than once, making a loud noise to attract the surrounding people.
The first one to come was Wang Xiucai, he ran to see Jiang Nian under the tree, trembling and didn't dare to come, the tree spirit was so angry that he shook the leaves of the tree, who knew that he knelt down and kowtowed directly, and shouted in his mouth, "The divine tree has appeared!
Seeing his appearance, the tree spirit knew that this Wang Xiucai would definitely not be able to help, so he had to continue to shake the branches to pull Jiang Nian up.
At this time, a few more people ran in, among them was a young man dressed as a Taoist priest, who immediately rushed up to try Jiang Nian's snort, and shouted: "There is still help! It's windy here, come and carry this girl into the house!" Hearing this, Shu Linggang breathed a sigh of relief, raised his eyes and saw that it was a Taoist priest, and suddenly flew into the sky full of leaves.
The heart is over this time, there have been Taoist priests in the past, it is careful not to be angry, I can't wait to stop photosynthesis, this time I tossed for so long a day to attract so many people, and it is still shouting that the divine tree is manifesting, it is so angry that it can't grab a handful of leaves and stuff it in Wang Xiucai's mouth to block him.
Thinking about it like this, she felt that she was definitely going to be accepted today, and just now Jiang Nian asked her to take care of her father, but she didn't expect that she would have to take the first step. It promised Jiang Nian but wanted to break its promise, Jiang Nian's life and death were uncertain, and he was going to be accepted again, and suddenly the whole tree was bitter, and he just wanted to say goodbye to Jiang Nian and give her a leaf.
At this moment, Jiang Nian was being carried up to the house, and the tree spirit hurriedly shook the branch and wanted to lean over, not wanting to shake it too hard, the lowest branch was directly broken and fell down and smashed on Jiang Nian.
Then, people found that Jiang Nian opened his eyes, looked at the sky in confusion, and closed his eyes after a few breaths, but his face turned back and his breath became even.
At this time, Wang Xiucai squeezed over, and muttered in his mouth: "If it is really the Divine Tree that has appeared, isn't it the Divine Tree that saved this little ginger girl just now." Little Jiang girl comes to the shrine of the sacred tree every day to sprinkle and sweep, and today the sacred tree in distress also broke its branches to save her, what a good story! My next volume of the book has material hahahaha! The inspiration is here, I want to go back and write it down quickly!"