Xie Lingya was hesitant to say anything, because he found that instead of explaining to the old man what Erbaoshen was and why he called Erbaoshen cute, it would be better to let others live. It was not easy at such an old age.
"...Yes." Xie Lingya gave the flashlight to the old man, and turned on the flashlight function of his mobile phone.
The old man thought about it and said, "I'm going to stay at my brother's house in the back, and you can call me if you have anything."
Xie Lingya nodded.
After the old man left, Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan walked into the ancestral hall and turned on the lights by the bright light. The lamps in the ancestral hall are a bit old-fashioned, with the bulb hanging down and the yellow light on.
However, the ancestral hall is too big, and the light cannot illuminate every place. The corners are still deep, but it looks more mysterious and mysterious.
Xie Lingya passed between the patios. The shallow patio was covered with moss, breathing a deep breath in the darkness.
Xie Lingya walked slowly to the table, where tablets and clay statues of several generations of ancestors were enshrined. He took three incense sticks and planned to put one incense first to say hello and show his respect.
Seeing the situation in the furnace at this time, Xie Lingya turned around and greeted Shi Changxuan, asking him to take a look.
Shi Changxuan was originally looking at the caisson, but he also came over to take a look. In addition to the incense ashes, there was some black charred ashes in the incense burner. An experienced person would know at a glance, "The furnace is fired."
Xie Lingya nodded. Burning the furnace means that the incense feet in the furnace burn by themselves, and it is not because the incense is too dense and too large that the incense ash ignites the incense feet, but it burns from the bottom to the top.
The furnace in the temple symbolizes the gods' fulfillment, and the believers will regard it as one of the miracles.
And if you worship your ancestors yourself, and the furnace is fired, then the ancestors have something to tell, whether it is good or bad, you need to ask professionals to ask for divination, such as the teacher here.
No one told them about the opening of the Shang's ancestral hall. It should not have been noticed that there are both masters and elderly people here. Xie Lingya thought that there should be other warnings, they have already concluded that the ancestors were angry, so it is unnecessary to say. Compared with those movements, this is indeed a small thing.
"If it is true that the ancestors are unfair, why can't the masters come to find an answer? Is it possible that the mana is not enough?" Xie Lingya muttered to himself.
Shi Changxuan said: "In that case, please come and talk."
Exactly, if this matter really fell on the ancestors of the Shang family, they would have to be invited over after all.
Fortunately, everything was readily available, so Xie Lingya prepared it, burned incense and prayed, worshipped Taiyi Tianzun, and tried to invite the ancestors of the Shang family.
-Since Xie Lingya started his career, no matter if he invites God to summon his soul, he has basically tried a hundred spirits, unless the soul was restrained by Hong Yangdao last time.
Therefore, when Xie Lingya found out that he could not invite any of the ancestors of the Shang family, it was self-evident how surprised he and Shi Changxuan were.
It is impossible for all the ancestors of the Shang family to be reincarnated. If they did, what happened to the furnace. Could it be that he was detained? No matter who will detain the ancestors of the merchants? What deep hatred
"...There won't be any evil mage, right?" Xie Lingya was puzzled, "But, there is still a scorpion close to the wool? It took away the soul of the family."
This is very unreasonable, as the saying goes, old ghosts are not as good as new ghosts. The descendants of ordinary people make offerings, and the closer they are, the more offerings they make, and the ancestors who are far away gradually stop offering offerings. By that time, if the ancestors have not finished their yin life and are still in the underworld, without food or clothing, their mental state and strength will of course be inferior. New ghost.
There are ordinary ghosts who are born, old, sick, and die, and their power is not as strong as Li ghosts. If they really want to be detained, normal mages also have a choice, how can they ignore them and accept them all.
At this moment, Xie Lingya heard a "click" and looked back, but saw nothing. Immediately afterwards, the sound of pattering was incessant, and he realized that it was raining.
Raindrops the size of beans fell on the patio, making a dense noise, and there was a faint sound of thunder from the horizon.
Xie Lingya walked to the patio, stretched out his hand to feel it, and his palm immediately became wet, "What a heavy rain."
"The weather forecast says there will be thunderstorms tonight, and it should stop in a while." Shi Changxuan said.
Xie Lingya calmed down and walked back.
As soon as I walked to the beam and column, a white flash flashed on the patio, and then the rumbling thunder sounded, it hit the roof, and a thunderbolt hit the eaves on the patio!
Xie Lingya was caught off guard, but Shi Changxuan stretched out his hand and pulled him to his side, protecting him and taking a few steps back.
Behind him, there were several tiles where Xie Lingya was standing.
The roof on the patio was missing a big hole, and most of the broken wood tiles fell into the patio, smashed to pieces, with scorch marks.
"What the hell?" Xie Lingya was stunned. Just now, the distance between him and the thunderbolt should be only a few meters. He was the only one who used the thunderbolt to scare others.
Xie Lingya lost his voice for a while, before he remembered it for a long time, and howled: "Is there a mistake, my ancestor's master is Sa Zhenjun of Yushu Leifu! Would you like to talk about human feelings?"
Shi Changxuan: "..."
This thunder was really amazing. The whole Xiaoba Village was awakened, the lights came on one after another, and some people came out to see it. The news spread from the ancestral hall to the end of the village.
The shrine was struck by lightning.
This is a major event in Subaru County, where ancestor worship is prevalent. Many villagers come to the ancestral hall in pajamas and slippers.
Not to mention the old man guarding the ancestral hall. As soon as he came in and saw this, he was not in the mood to ask Xie Lingya how they were watching. He couldn't get up when he knelt in front of the clay statue and kept talking in dialect.
The villagers rushed to the ancestral hall one after another, and the thunderstorms came and went quickly. When they went out, only the wet ground could prove that it had rained just now.
The direct descendants of the big room also came. They were particularly conspicuous in the crowd. Everyone stayed away from them, talking in a low voice, and checking their direction from time to time.
The content of the whispers was nothing more than: "Look, the ancestors have been struck by thunder and lightning, and they lack great virtue."
Others say that since the Fengshui pond was filled, many unfortunate things have happened in the village, and now there are accidents in the ancestral hall, which is simply a sin.
The faces of the descendants of the big room turned blue and white for a while.
The person who advocated filling the pond couldn't stand it anymore. He ranked fifth, and everyone called him Shang Wu. He pulled the old man who was looking at the ancestral hall: "Three uncles, I have stopped work a long time ago, didn't you invite the master to come? The master is not optimistic yet?"
The old man wiped his tears, "The master only arrived today. He came to see things at night, but there was a thunderstorm here."
Following the old man's guidance, Shang Wu saw Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan, and he said in a panic, "You, can you do it? Haven't you communicated with the ancestors yet? Why don't you ask the teacher's class."
"We have invited two of the most famous teachers and public classes in Subaru County. What's the use?" the old man said angrily, "You're really serious, why don't you invite them yourself? Master Guan, last time in Fengping Village in front of so many people, he helped their master to see good things!"
Shang Wu fainted again.
For the time being, Xie Lingya didn't say anything that the ancestors of the Shang clan didn't know about. Tonight's events and the thunder were too strange. Xie Lingya felt that he must have overlooked some details, and he had to sort out his thoughts again.
"Elder Shang, please go to rest tonight, we have to think about this matter again." Xie Lingya said while pressing the old man's hand.
The other party looked at Xie Lingya's firm eyes, and always felt that it was reliable. Let everyone go back to rest, and call in a few men to make an appointment to repair the roof tomorrow.
"Then we have to find a bricklayer. Our bricks are all old bricks..."
A group of people whispered and left the ancestral hall.
Xie Lingya finally glanced back at the entire old ancestral hall, and went to Pang Yuan's house to rest with Shi Changxuan.
…
Said to be resting, in fact, Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan both held their mobile phones all night looking for clues, trying to find out if there were any similar cases in ancient books and Baoyang's notes.
There are too many examples of ancestors making troubles at ancestral halls, too many to count, and there are various reasons, but none of them are the ancestors who made trouble and refused to see the master to solve the problem. Instead, Xie Lingya copied down a few ancestors who were in danger of disaster and warned their descendants in advance that they hoped for help.
Moreover, Xie Lingya remembered that Shang Lao once mentioned that a cow was chopped to death by the Fengshui Pond. There were two thunderstorms, not far apart, and they both fell. He felt a little strange. In addition, Patriarch is related to thunder and fire. Although I don't know if it is related, in short, I paid attention to accidents involving thunder strikes when I was looking for it.
The two of them read at night with the lights on, their eyes reddened. It wasn't until after eight o'clock the next morning that Pang Yuan's daughter came to ask them to have dinner, and Xie Lingya clapped the table: "Damn it, I found it! It must be this!"
Shi Changxuan was also refreshed, "What?"
Xie Lingya gave him his mobile phone. This is the travel of a certain master in Baoyang's notes.
This was two hundred years ago, when this master holding Yangguan went out to ask questions. He passed through a wilderness on the way, and suddenly the situation changed, it started to rain, and there were faint thunderclouds in the distance.
When the master saw it, he knew that there was going to be a thunderstorm.
At this time, he saw a small ornament hanging from a small tree. The body was brightly colored, red, black and yellow, interwoven like a brocade. , now that the thunder cloud is approaching, and the surrounding is empty, the little tree may not be able to save his life."
After all, the master took out a bull horn from the burden, which he had saved for a long time and bought it to make bull horn trigrams. The master held out the horn, and the little snake had spirituality, and immediately got in.
The horn of the master was tied to the tree, and he rested in the distance with an umbrella. After a while, the thundercloud came, and sure enough, a thunderbolt came down and smashed the horn to pieces, but the snake was safe and sound.
When it was over, the little snake took the initiative to follow the master and became his next pet.
"Good dragon?" Shi Changxuan's eyes flickered, although the specific events were different, but from the core content, it was indeed very similar.
Xie Lingya used the word "good dragon" to search the notes again, and found more content, including the knowledge and supplements of the ancestors from generation to generation, which can be said to be very detailed.
There is a quote from "Tai Ping Guang Ji", "It is said that the obedient dragon suffers from the rain, so he hides a lot, and is caught by the thunder god. It is either hidden between the ancient trees and the couplets, or between the wilderness, and there is nowhere to hide, as in The horns of a bull or the body of a shepherd boy. Often, they are swayed to death by this."
It is also said that the good dragon hides in the mouth of the person, or in the middle knuckle.
The ancients believed that obedient dragons were a kind of dragons, and they were unwilling to hide in the rain and be captured by the god of thunder.
In Taoism, in Baoyang Temple, it is more detailed. Snakes are little dragons. The so-called good dragons are actually snakes with spirituality by chance, and this kind of snake is probably of "water attribute", so it has some abilities in this regard.
And "dragon" is of course not something that can be done casually. A well-behaved dragon is easily killed by lightning, just like a lightning rod. Therefore, they have also practiced the ability to hide, and can hide quietly, almost without revealing a breath.
— but, but! It’s true that the good dragon is afraid of thunder. Baoyang’s notes say that if the Taoist who cultivates the thunder talisman raises it, the spell will improve a lot. After all, thunderstorms always appear together.
What happened in Xiaoba Village is basically right, and this can also explain why Xie Lingya can't invite the ancestors of the Shang family.
The ancestors of the Shang family made trouble not because of Fengshui Pond at all. They made trouble on the day the cow was chopped to death. It is very likely that the good dragon lost his horn as a place to live and turned to...
Xie Lingya said to himself: "Shang's ancestral hall has a history of hundreds of years."
He thought of the large and thick beams and pillars of the Shang's ancestral hall. If the good dragon was hiding in it, the ancestors of the Shang family would naturally be dissatisfied and began to warn their children and grandchildren. Unfortunately, they couldn't understand it, and the most feared thing happened to the ancestors of the Shang family.
The thunder struck, and the thunder struck their ancestral hall.
Ghosts are afraid of thunder and fire, so it would be strange for them to invite the ancestors of the Shang family.
And fortunately, it was only a thunderstorm last night. If there were more thunderstorms, wouldn't the eaves of other people's ancestral halls not only rot away
Xie Lingya sorted it out in his mind, and he was basically certain.
Why did the ancestor suggest that he came to Xiaoba Village, because there is a good dragon here, and he can buff him after raising it! !
"Our grandfather still hurts people. I know something good is thinking of me." Xie Lingya pretended to wipe away her tears, and then couldn't wait to say, "Senior brother, go catch the snake!"
Shi Changxuan gave him a funny look, "Let's go to sleep first."
Although Xie Lingya stayed up all night, she was in high spirits at the moment, and she was a little afraid of long nights and dreams, "I don't feel particularly sleepy."
Shi Changxuan said calmly, "I checked and there have been no thunderstorms in the past two days."
"Okay." Xie Lingya then lay down reluctantly, Shi Changxuan also lay on the bed and covered his eyes.
Xie Lingya was plunged into darkness in front of him, only the sound of cocks crowing in the countryside was in his ears. After a while, tiredness came up and he fell asleep.
It wasn't until the afternoon that the two woke up. Xie Lingya was extremely hungry. He crawled to the main room at his last breath and devoured a few biscuits before he survived. Then he immediately asked the old businessman to discuss something.
When talking about the matter, Shang Lao was supervising the villagers to repair the roof in the ancestral hall. Xie Lingya said to him: "We have already determined what is causing trouble."
The old man cheered, "What?"
"It can't be said," Xie Lingya pointed to the inside, "otherwise it will be heard."
The old man nodded clearly, "Then what should I do? You should rectify it quickly."
Xie Lingya whispered: "This needs to be discussed between you and the villagers. There is a cost issue..."
After more than an hour, the sky gradually darkened, and the old man had finished consulting the villagers.
So, Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan entered the ancestral hall, Shi Changxuan carefully looked at the orientation, took the thatch as the occupation, and patted a beam.
Xie Lingya looked at it and showed a strange smile. Last night, he was standing beside this place, and was almost hit by a tile struck by lightning. Now he suddenly thought of it, he said why the thunder and lightning did not give Sazu face, if he hadn't stood beside him last night, I'm afraid it should have been this beam and pillar, right
The villagers who repaired the roof brought in wood and slate from elsewhere, and stacked them up to cover the roof of the ancestral hall.
Shang Wu also followed, and he got all these things. Just because of the ancestral hall, he received a lot of scorn. He bought some wood and slate.
Xie Lingya melted the realgar powder into the varnish, and then painted three layers on the beams and columns. At this time, the villagers cut the beams and columns directly from the top, and several people held the beams and columns flat on the ground. This beam and column is one of the main load-bearing columns. After it collapsed, the weight of the roof naturally fell on the wood they used to temporarily replace—they had to find an ancient wood of the same size as the beam and column.
Besides, after the beam and pillar were laid flat, everyone was shocked when they saw it.
When the ancestral hall was built, high-quality wood was used, and it was specially treated. It is reasonable to say that it will not rot for hundreds of years and is difficult to be eaten by insects. However, when I cut it down, I found that there was a hole as large as the mouth of a teacup in the middle of the beam and column. ! It's so dark, I don't know how deep it is!
Although only the old man at the scene clearly knew why the beams and pillars were cut, the others were not stupid, and vaguely guessed something, and looked at Xie Lingya and the two in awe.
Shang Wu was even more excited, it seemed that there was something in this pillar. If so, wouldn't it have nothing to do with him? The ancestors were angry because the ancestral hall was bored!
Xie Lingya saw that there was no response in the cave. Old Shang asked him if he wanted to split it. He shook his head and took a horn that Pang Yuan got, and placed it by the cave.
But there was still no response. Xie Lingya took another handful of dried wormwood, lit it and placed it by the hole, and carefully fanned the smoke into it with a small fan.
Everyone stared nervously at this scene, especially Shang Wu's eyes.
After about a minute or so, they saw that there was actually a round snake head at the entrance of the hole. It was tiny, only a finger thick from an adult man, and its body was colorful.
I was probably making up for it in various brains before. When I saw it, I was afraid of three points and took a step back.
Although they don't know what a good dragon is, they know that the most evil animals in the people, except for weasels, foxes, mice, and hedgehogs, are not snakes! It's easy to cheat!
The little snake came out of the hole, swayed its head twice, and got into the horns and squatted!
Xie Lingya held the bull's horn and said, "It's because of it these days. After the beams and pillars are replaced, I'll ask the master to do the trick and appease the ancestors, and it'll be fine."
The dozen or so villagers present breathed a sigh of relief, and Shang Wu said excitedly: "Master, you said, is it because of it? That has nothing to do with me filling the pond?"
Xie Lingya smiled, "It doesn't matter, Feng Shui Pond is indeed good for Feng Shui, but the cave in your land is actually in the ancestral hall, here is the dragon head, and the Xizi Pagoda outside is the dragon horn. This is why some villagers feel that the Feng Shui Pond is After filling, the village has bad luck, in fact, the iconic event is not filling the pond, but the thunder splitting the cow, and the snake was hiding in the horns that day."
Shang Wu almost didn't shout to the sky, I finally got snow.
The other villagers also apologized embarrassingly to him, "Fifth, it really has nothing to do with you."
Shang Wu was about to burst into tears, and decided to give the master a red envelope privately.
"Master, what should I do with this?" Shang Lao pointed to the horn in his hand and asked.
Xie Lingya said: "It's okay, I'll take this with you, you don't have to worry about it."
For a while, everyone looked at them with more complicated eyes. As expected of masters, they dared to raise even such a monster.
Xie Lingya was about to put away the horns when he heard Liu Lingtong crying: "Can you put it away, I'm afraid—"
Is Liu Lingtong still afraid of snakes? So timid, it stands to reason that wood is not afraid of snakes, it may be a habit of living souls. Xie Lingya changed his hand and comforted him in a low voice.
…
Xie Lingya was determined to rush back tonight because he was in a hurry to resettle the good dragon.
The old man hurriedly went to seal two bags for them, and before leaving, he sincerely said: "I wish the two masters a smoother future, and the days will become more and more prosperous."
Xie Lingya: "..."
Xie Lingya: "…Thank you."
After accepting the simple blessing of Shang Lao, and under the volunteering of Shang Wu, he took his car from the village to the station.
Xie Lingya took the horn in his hand and looked in, the good dragon was only as long as a baby's arm, thin and coiled in the horn, Xie Lingya looked in, and it also raised its head and spat out a snake letter.
At this time, the good dragon also swam out, and his body swayed slightly.
For some reason, Xie Lingya was not afraid that it would bite, so he reached out and touched it. I saw that the good dragon wrapped around Xie Lingya's wrist, his tail hooked a circle on his middle finger, and rubbed against his wrist.
The obedient of the obedient dragon originally meant eccentric and surly, but in Xie Lingya's hands, it seemed to mean obedient.
Shang Wu saw in the rearview mirror that his sweat was about to come down.
Xie Lingya put his hand close to the horn, but the obedient dragon didn't go down. It seemed that Xie Lingya's hand was more attractive than the horn.
Shi Changxuan also smiled and whispered: "It's safer to stay in your hands."
Xie Lingya remembered what was said in the book, "Isn't it true, you have to hack first..." He paused in the middle of the sentence, understood, and laughed, "Damn it, who would hack me!"
No wonder the good dragon didn't resist at all, Xie Lingya raised his hand and said, "Concentrate on following Mr. Xie to add buffs, Mr. Xie will cover you!"