Chapter 05: The Cause of What Once Was (II)
So, the white fox spirit to this scourge a day or two, go to that scourge a day or two, so that the village pandemonium, panic, take this opportunity, the white fox spirit to find a few special beliefs in superstition of the elderly, confuse their minds, so that they are in the village to publicize, said that the village is now inviting a lot of filth, and the original gods living in the temples to get too few offerings, the temple has been demolished, so very angry, unwilling to do, so the village is very angry, not to do. So they were very angry and unwilling to expel those filthy things, which required the villagers to repair the temples and make offerings to the temples if they had any uneasiness in their homes, and to burn incense and worship them day after day and night after night. Whose family offerings more, sincere enough, after moving the gods, the gods will naturally go for which family to drive away evil spirits.
This can be good, that era of people originally superstitious full, and then heard these propaganda, and occasionally people occasionally see some of the street at night in the indefinable things, naturally, is to add fuel to the wind spread out, a rumor of ten ten, the more the more God, just half a month's time, the villagers finally could not help it, have begun to secretly go to the various temples original address on the base of the bricks, burn incense on the offerings for blessings, and that really is called the sick and anxious, and the gods, and the gods will naturally go for which family to drive away evil spirits. And that's really called is sick and desperate, regardless of which temple, regardless of the size of the temple, regardless of the temple is still not in, regardless of who is inside, regardless of being reported will be criticized, that is one by one to go to the offerings and burn incense, worship. They are afraid!
Some readers may want to ask, the village is in such a mess, that Hu Laoshi did what to go?
Alas, Hu Laoshi certainly will not stand idly by, from the time that the white fox spirit into the village, Hu Laoshi stared at it, and make every effort, want to get rid of that white fox quickly.
Unfortunately, at that time, Hu Laoshi was often pulled away from the criticism of the struggle, it is not enough to have the heart, and Hu Laoshi is not a good learner, the two brushes on hand really can not. Will draw paper is useful, but the white fox is soft and sly, cunning, not only did not let Hu Laoshi to rectify, but also often teased Hu Laoshi. Of course, people Hu Laoshi that two brushes can not, that is also called brush, white fox want to Hu Laoshi whole death, is also difficult to do.
Speaking of which, it can't help but remind me of certain images from my childhood memories. Yes, that time was the era of red flags everywhere, that time the brigade loudspeaker will be sung every day loud songs, usually "Cultural Revolution fire, temper us into steel ……" "Chairman Mao is the golden sun. Golden Sun ……" and other such songs; the walls and trees on both sides of the streets and alleys were plastered with large-character posters, as well as some "Revisionist Line" "Revolutionary Criticism "…… and other such slogans.
Under the great leader Chairman Mao's call, not only to criticize everything, down with everything, more rare, but also correctly made the move to sweep away all the cow ghosts, snakes and gods, that generation of young people waving their fists and sticks, a red heart to the party, the kind of almost crazy spirituality, seems to be beyond the thousands of years of people for the worship of God's faith.
However, remote villages, after all, are backward, and most people are in a state of blindly following the trend.
Saying a sweep of the bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods, so everyone shouted to beat everything, and regarded the gods enshrined in the temples as bullshit, and the campaign to break up the Four Olds was a great success.
Suddenly gusts of wind on the ground, the village of evil things happen, someone shouted out the so-called dirty things scourge of the villagers, the gods are furious villagers rarely worship, even dared to the gods are disrespectful, demolition of temples, so do not bless the village peace and quiet. So the villagers are stupid to start a crazy sacrifice offerings more movement, and even then the guiding ideology of the above are thrown aside, even those in the village so-called Chairman Mao's loyal warriors, but also began to privately and secretly on the offerings burn incense kowtow atonement …… do a bad thing, always afraid of ghosts knocking on the door.
There was a period of time, the village people are crazy, those in addition to the four old movement was all pushed down in the temple to re-cover up, and in a hurry, even a good modification has not had, just simply get some broken bricks and tiles into a small house as a temple, or even in a tree chained to the root of the red silk, a few bricks under the tree a base to make a small heap of sand used to insert incense, which is the temple, for the The first thing you need to do is to get a good deal of money to pay for it.
The gods are living in the branches of their mother's tree?
It seems that the decision of whether or not the gods are well off is still in the hands of the people. If the people are poor, the gods will not be able to have a good life and live in a good house. This is quite helpless. After all, people in those days were so poor that they couldn't even stand up straight!
Dare to commit the whole world, burning incense and superstition, has been considered to play life faith you, not enough to give you Ya face?
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It seems that in my memory are many things, and Guo old man told out the story of some slightly left, but think also right, this is probably that white fox spirit why to go to the scourge of people to get their own rations – human beliefs, the human essence of the child.
Never mind, let's not mention that heartbreaking era.
Let's continue with our story.
Hu Laoshi and the white fox spirit of the two sides fought a drums and drums, not to distinguish between the two sides, but in the end is the white fox won a chip, after all, its purpose has been achieved, the villagers began to worship.
However, Hu Laoshi and the white fox spirit who did not think of is, in the snipe and mussel fight, want to benefit from the fisherman but there are a lot of. Just this fisherman …… is also a variety of evil things.
Oh, some helpless, had to talk about that era again ah!
At that time the whole country everywhere in the bombardment of the Cultural Revolution, where there is evil based on a place? Besides, who dares to believe in you ah?
Give you worship? Not to smash your temple is enough to give you face, said at that time our village also smashed a lot of temples.
It is also our village bad luck, so coincidentally, so that the fleeing around looking for the revolutionary base of the white fox spirit to run into, so it decided: "to rely on your village, in your village fox as a scourge of people …… how it? Come to make offerings and burn incense, pay homage to me White Fox Zi, let me consume your essence."
The white fox son of the feminine and treacherous, cunning and poisonous, is to create their own great interests, but the problem is that this way, the other no place of evil also followed, in other places there is no faith, everywhere are some waving a spade swinging his fist to revolution, to get rid of the bull ghosts and snakes of the proletarian warriors, but also go to expect them to give you to the offering to burn incense to worship you? Isn't that crazy? Just run away to save your life!
Well, that's how many evil creatures have come to our village, wanting a piece of the action.
That's just unkind! So the white fox sub essence was furious, and Hu Laoshi was furious and big …… Well, the head was also big. Originally, a white fox sub-spirit is enough for him to drink a pot of Hu Lao Si, do not know if you can handle it, now good, came a whole lot, what turtle king eight beetle are here to think of wreaking havoc on the individual, eat some offerings to enjoy a little faith.
What is more annoying is that you come even if you are united to respond to the nation's rebel movement to seize power, revolution to the head of the White Fox, to seize the rights that it has not yet fully owned, that is also good ah. But the problem is, the evil is most selfish, also more vicious and poisonous, they not only and the white fox son of the power struggle, between each other that is also a big fight.
So in many a hand in the night, the village that the streets and alleys, outbreak of countless times little-known brawl, the reason why unknown, naturally, because the protagonists of the fights, the whole fucking non-human.
Now, they are like gangsters fighting over territory. The problem is, you fire fight on the fire fight, divided into a winner and loser, see a high and low, you and I live and die out of a result, and then one of the remaining to occupy our village, the other either hung up, or run away, and then the winner then start to woe people, forcing the villagers to worship you, so not good?
Don't fucking fight you fight to the death, but also a moment not forget their old profession to scourge people ah!
But they are very conscientious not forgetting their roots, but also really did so, not to say that the animal is a sinful animal, sinning ah!
What? What kind of sins? Anyway, they're all animals. I don't know if he doesn't tell me.
The village is chaotic, chaotic, almost more than half of the family was harassed by the evil to the scourge of the chickens and dogs jumping not peace, not two quarrels between the two families, or the family is sick and disaster, four neighbors neighborhood disharmony, the frequent occurrence of inter-neighborhood brawls, and even more so, even people were killed in the time of the criticism of the living, well, the inevitable result of personal vendetta, so thing.
Hu Laoshi anxious on fire ah, but he simply did not have enough time to think of ways to try to deal with the evil, he is the focus of the object of the struggle, the promotion of superstitious ideas, the four old standard-bearer, openly with the people against the typical. Whenever he thought of it, he found his home and dragged him out to be paraded, criticized, judged, and educated!
The more so, Hu Laoshi more feel time is not enough ah, let people give enough criticism, education, back home to hurry to draw a spell, looking for evil things, the middle of the night do not sleep in the streets and alleys casting spells to drive away evil spirits, burned spells.
The result was a vicious circle, and Hu was labeled as an unrepentant, counter-revolutionary who had been heavily indoctrinated with counter-revolutionary ideas, and had reached the point of no return.
Really, at that time, if not for my grandfather, Hu Laoshi might have been beaten to death.
My grandfather just called my second uncle to his side and said, "Consider Hu Laoshi a psychopath, don't toss him."
"Uh, I know dad!" My second uncle didn't say a single word of rebuttal, nodded his head in agreement, twisted his head and walked out.
On that day, Hu Laoshi let himself out of the stables at the brigade headquarters.