Chapter Twenty-Six: Visiting the Temple Fair (Part I)

Now that humanity is flourishing, they all talk about science and the like, and even the gods and ghosts don't believe much anymore.

Although those gods and ghosts don't need them to believe it.

However, in order to conform to the trend of the times, their group of non-scientific creatures have also hidden themselves.

The gods in the sky don't care about anything, and the monsters on the ground can't figure out their whereabouts, so they are left with a group of underworld yin gods who are still struggling on the front line of work because they have to deal with ghosts.

Moreover, according to the generally accepted rules of the Three Realms, they are not allowed to interact with people at will, and even if there are ghosts and dreams, it is necessary to get the approval of the local governor of the underworld.

And a ...... with an identity like Xu Zhong

You don't see that there are often stories of dead people giving dreams to their living relatives, but there are basically no gods and the like to give people dreams......

The Heavenly Court of Hades can be very strict in controlling the cross-border activities of its own employees!

Therefore, Xu Chong could only be silent in front of a large number of people who "begged him for a wife, children, and money" every day.

And more people make wishes to him, and it is just a lively one, there is nothing sincere, and there are all kinds of messy wishes.

Looking at those strange things, it barely added a little fun to Xu Chong's days......

While drinking tea, Fang Guiyuan watched the group of people below change and change, and the wishes were almost the same.

In addition to being for themselves, there are also some wishes for the safety and health of their families, which are quite a lot......

After about two hours, the wish-making event was suspended and the next event of the temple fair began.

The people inside the temple began to walk out of the temple in waves, and when they arrived at the open space in front of the door, they formed a circle with a gap, leaving a large blank area in the middle.

Then a few young Taoist priests dressed in dark blue robes and with buns on their heads walked in with a large square table full of sacrificial supplies, and placed the table in the middle.

They stood on either side of the table, waiting for a middle-aged Taoist priest wearing a glaive crown to step in.

The Taoist priest shook a bell in one hand and a small banner in the other, and began to sing and dance around the table.

The singing is very vague, and I can't hear it clearly.

Fang Guiyuan: What should I do if I am a little ashamed inexplicably?

"This is the year-end ritual of this year, when the person is done tossing, any lion dance and stilts will come out, and that is the most lively at that time. Xu Zhong said with a smile, "Fortunately, there are not many things to do this year, I have already sorted out this year's work and sent it to the following, and I can finally have a good rest in the remaining days!"

"So busy?" Fang Guiyuan was a little incredulous. At the end of the year, Xu Zhong can't just have such a little time to rest!

Xu Zhong poured himself a sip of tea, held the quilt and said: "Don't think that I am a good city, you must know that there are more than 3 million people in this Linqing City, and I don't know how many people die in a year! If there are still some outsiders who accidentally die in Linqing, I still have to deal with the Chenghuang in other places and extradite their ghosts back." โ€

Then Xu Zhong counted Fang Guiyuan with his fingers and said: "And in the middle of every month, I also have to be inspected everywhere by my subordinates, and during the Midyear Festival, I have to send people to keep an eye on those ghosts who are not allowed to return to the sun to visit relatives......"

"You say I'm not busy!"

Fang Guiyuan: Fortunately, I rejected Emperor Dongyue's suggestion, otherwise I would have died of exhaustion at work sooner or later.

"But now it's okay, there are more benefits, from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, I can still become a human body and join in the fun, as long as I am careful not to let people know my identity. Xu Zhong laughed again.

Fang Guiyuan: "Hearing you say this, I suddenly had a bold idea......

Xu Zhong smiled evilly and said meaningfully: "Go out and play?"

Fang Guiyuan slapped it heavily on the table, "Go out and play!"

The temple fair is so lively, how can you do without the protagonist!

The temple fair activities in Linqing City are as lively as usual, and it is just the Chinese New Year, and many people who work outside have also returned, and some have brought back their daughters-in-law and husbands...... The family had a reunion dinner, kept Chinese New Year's Eve, and on the second day of junior high school, they all went to the side of the City God Temple to watch the performance.

Old man Li is such a representative.

Not only did he have a little grandson this year, but his youngest son, who had been single for 30 years, also came back with his girlfriend, but old man Li let go of his heart-

Although his youngest son is handsome, good-tempered, and has a good job, if he drags it out any longer, no one really wants it!

Originally, Old Man Li was still worried before the Chinese New Year, but he didn't expect to give him such a big surprise as soon as he went home.

So he came here this time not only to visit the temple fair, but also to repay his vows.

He asked for a marriage sign for his youngest son two months ago!

However, there were a lot of people at the temple fair, and Old Man Li squeezed around for a long time before squeezing into the City God Temple.

Paid a hundred yuan to buy a handful of incense, Old Man Li lit it all in one breath, inserted it into the incense burner, and then knelt on the futon, closed his hands and closed his eyes, and began to sing praises to the old man Chenghuang.

At this time, the number of people who burned incense and bowed to worship was the most, especially the cigarettes, so many that even the huge city god temple was filled with it.

After Old Man Li finished talking, he began to take out money and stuff it into the merit box again.

Next to the merit box stood a very handsome young man, dressed quite thickly.

"Uncle, this incense has just been burned, one at a time!" the young man accosted Old Man Li.

"Well, as long as Master Chenghuang likes it. Old man Li smiled.

Xu Chong: No, Lord Chenghuang doesn't like it!

"Then why are you donating so much money all at once?" Xu Zhong asked him.

He didn't remember what contribution he had made to Old Man Li, and it was worth asking him to donate so much money.

These words suddenly asked Old Man Li's heart.

"Isn't this the city god who found a daughter-in-law for my son, I specially came to donate money to repay my wishes!" Old man Li looked at Xu Zhong and said, "I see that your age is also time, do you have a daughter-in-law?"

Xu Chong: "...... No. โ€

"Why not? Couldn't you find it? Why don't you go to the city god and ask for it?"

Xu Zhong: ...... Working conditions do not allow.

"Why are you still here? Let's go, let's watch people dance lions!" Fang Guiyuan walked over and saw that Xu Chong was still in place and didn't move, so he patted him and took someone outside.

Old Man Li: Alas, it's the same as my youngest son, and in the end, I still have to ask the elders in the family to ask for marriage?

As soon as I got outside, it was really noisy with gongs and drums, a sea of people, and firecrackers...... This passage seems familiar......

A man on stilts and wearing a big-headed doll mask was spinning around with a flower hydrangea, and several lion dance teams surrounded him and kept trying to grab the flower hydrangea.

Fang Guiyuan: "The level of this lion team is not good, jumping around and not playing any tricks." โ€

Xu Chong: "So?"

"So let's go up and try it?"

"No, this team is all prescribed......"

"Wouldn't it be enough to give them some hints?"

So the group of onlookers soon after, looking at a colorful lion team, suddenly came out of nowhere, dancing in a variety of styles, and from time to time jumped out of a stack of arhats, and in a few strokes the front of the few crushed into slag, and the hydrangea easily fell into its hands.

Onlookers: ฮฃ(?ะด?lll),, Huang Feihong is here? No, we are not Foshan here?

The mysterious lion team came and went in a hurry, and ran away with the hydrangea that had just arrived, leaving only a colorful back for the group of people.

Onlookers: ...... Wait, that hydrangea is a public item and can't be taken away!

It's a pity that even if they were wearing a "lion skin", no one could catch up with those two, so they had to stretch out Erkang's hand to look at the "lion" and sigh in the back.

From beginning to end, even the organizers of the event did not expect that the Lions team would not be on the event list at all......