Night Twenty-Eight: There are people on the roof
An original little story every night to accompany you through those sleepless nights...... I'm a ghostly maniac, are you ready?
When I was a child in my hometown in the countryside, when you went to someone's house, you would often see that they would enshrine a tablet at home, and some would not even have a tablet, just place an incense burner there, pour two glasses of wine around, and put some tributes such as fruit and meat.
Children are curious about everything, plus the old song I was not like now, I was old and beautiful at that time, I was a cute little boy who saw it, and there was nothing to eat at home in the countryside, and I was staring at those tributes and was hungry to death, so I would take down some fruit snacks and something for me to eat, I think I am so healthy now, it may have something to do with eating these things when I was a child.
I asked them what this worship thing was, and they would answer that it was "Baojiaxian", and I asked them what Baojiaxian looked like, but no one could say why, at that time, I saw that I also enshrined such a Baojiaxian in my family, so I prayed all day to be able to meet his old man.
As for whether there is a Baojiaxian or not, I don't dare to talk nonsense about the old song, so the hero of today's story is still the familiar classmate Zhang Xiaokai.
At that time, Zhang Xiaokai was also the same as Lao Qu, full of curiosity about this Baojia immortal, and worshiped the immortal family of his own family with a stick of incense every day, which was particularly pious, and the only purpose was to be able to see his old man with his own eyes, and see what this immortal who was so powerful and could bless his family looked like.
We are mortals, people are immortals, naturally we are not able to see when we meet, to make an inappropriate analogy, just like we want to see ghosts, if ghosts can be encountered when we go out like us, and can be seen everywhere on the streets, will we still be afraid of ghosts? In the same way, it is so easy to see immortals, will we still be so devout and reverent in fear of them?
But I don't know if Xiao Kai's sincerity touched that Baojiaxian, or because it was just an accident, Xiaokai really met with that Baojiaxian!
It was one night, Xiao Kai was washing his feet in the middle room. In the past, the pattern of building houses in rural areas was the kind of three-room large tiled house, the left and right rooms were the east and west houses, which were used as bedrooms for living and some furniture, and the middle room in the center was generally used as a living room corridor, and the kitchen stove was also built in the middle house.
At that time, in order to facilitate cooking, the big water tank was placed in the middle room, Xiao Kai took half a basin of water from it, found a small bench to sit on it and wash his feet, and suddenly looked down and saw that the water in the basin was just shining on the roof, and on the roof there was a little old man with a white beard, the little old man was like a tumbler, sitting there and shaking, looking not very big, but he had a very long white beard, and his eyes were slightly closed, as if he was asleep.
Seeing such a strange old man on the roof, Xiao Kai hurriedly beckoned his parents to come out to see, but when the couple came out, they didn't see anything, and warned Xiao Kai not to be naughty and deceive, and quickly washed his feet and went back to the room to sleep.
Mom and Dad went back to the house after speaking, Xiao Kai looked at the water basin, and then looked at the roof illuminated in the water basin, at this time the white-bearded old man miraculously appeared again, and showed a kind smile to Xiao Kai, and then disappeared from the spot in a flash!
This question has plagued Xiao Kai for more than ten years, until Xiao Kai was in his twenties, and his family moved into the city, and they wanted to demolish the house in their hometown, and before the demolition, they would move all the things that could be used in their hometown to their new home in the city.
It is said that the broken family is worth ten thousand, and it has accumulated a lot of belongings after living for so many years, although a large part of it has been discarded, but it has not been moved all day, and the small open family lives in the old house at night, so that it is convenient to get up early the next morning and continue to move.
There is no bathing equipment in the old house, and Zhang Xiaokai, who is used to taking a shower before going to bed every day, feels uncomfortable all over his body, so he boils some hot water and prepares to wash his feet to eliminate the fatigue on his body.
The big water tank in the middle room was still there, Xiao Kai took some cold water from it, and mixed the hot water with a suitable water temperature, at this time, the scene that happened when he was a child appeared again, the old man with a white beard appeared in the basin in front of Xiao Kai again, Xiao Kai looked up at the position of the roof, and sure enough, the old man sat on the roof again, but this time he was not closing his eyes like he saw when he was a child, but he was crying constantly.
"Why do you have to cry when you talk about something, old man?" Hearing Xiao Kai's voice, Xiao Kai's wife walked in and asked who he was talking to, that is, at the same time that Xiao Kai's wife came in, the white-bearded old man on the roof also disappeared!
When he went to bed at night, Xiao Kai dreamed that the old man was crying to himself, saying that he had guarded Xiao Kai's family here for decades, and he didn't take him with him this time, which made him feel very sad and sad, so Xiao Kai hurriedly comforted him and said that there were too many things at home, so he didn't take his old man with him for the time being, and when they finished moving all their things tomorrow morning, they would definitely take the old man into the city together! The old man stopped crying after hearing this, and his face showed a happy expression.
The next morning, when I had breakfast, Xiao Kai told his parents about the dream he had last night at the dining table, and Xiao Kai's parents also suddenly realized and said: "It's all strange that I have been busy moving and decorating a new home recently, why did I forget the most important member of our family, and I will remember it for a while, first send this family fairy to our new home!" The others nodded hurriedly when they heard this.
Things have been moved, the house of the hometown has been demolished, and the tablet of the Baojiaxian is enshrined in the new house, and everything is done, the family finally gathered at the dining table to prepare a good dinner, who knows that everyone just picked up the dishes and chopsticks, and heard the window glass being knocked, everyone looked for the sound, and saw a fox with white hair all over the body!
The fox knocked on the window a few times and left, and when Xiao Kai's mother saw it, she said to Xiao Kai's father, "Haven't we given incense to the Baojia Immortal?"
"It's not like that, I forgot about this stubble when I was too busy just now, hurry up, don't make people angry!" Xiao Kai's father hurriedly urged.
At this time, Xiao Kai knew that the Baojia Immortal enshrined in his family turned out to be a fox fairy!
In fact, in addition to foxes, there are several common Baojia immortals, namely weasels, hedgehogs, mice, snakes, these things are either stealing chickens and dogs, or they look scary, but they also vary from person to person.