Chapter 03: Deliberation
Brothers in recent days really have been feeling stifled, not only Chen Jin and I two people this morning when occasionally heard the copper locks mother them in the grandmother's temple to say bad things about us, the other buddies walking in the village, can occasionally hear the village people pointing out that we are not a gang of people.
Originally, the culprit of this situation, we should blame on the old Wang Bajing, should hate it to the bone, but also like the other day that, hate to catch the old Wang Bajing bones to ashes, stewed it alive, eat its meat and drink its soup. But now we don't think so, anyway, he did a good thing not good, well, then we don't care about the old bastard spirit, love who who go, it harms a few count a few, we go to fight with the old bastard spirit why? What's the point?
It's a waste of effort. Why bother?
Let those who have prejudice against us suffer!
We were really young, fire, narrow-minded, and even in the heart of the old bastard spirit can not wait for the death of a few children, as long as there is no direct relationship with a few of us, just woe to go.
Let the village old lady old woman small daughter-in-law again in the back to say bad things about us!
They deserve it.
If possible, I would like to get to know that old wangbaoshen, make friends, and then discuss, who say bad things about us, let the old wangbaoshen pop out of the river, go to plague whose family to go.
Of course, this is impossible, we will never be with the evil things.
So we have that stifled energy in our hearts, want to vent it out, then we have to smash the temple, hard to smash!
And Hu Laoshi's arrival, as well as he came after the said situation, more firmly we want to smash the determination of the temple, not to smash the temple can not seem.
This village absolutely can no longer have the existence of so many small temples.
……
Hu Laoshi came, his face is full of anxious color, a look know something happened.
I said: "Hey hey, Grandpa Hu, look at you with the wind and fire, what happened?"
Brothers to Hu Laoshi gave a seat, let him sit down, Liu Bin is to go to Hu Laoshi scooped a bowl of cool water, let him drink first to understand the heat.
Hu Laoshi gulped down a bowl of cool water before saying, "I just slept at home, the result of a few columns of incense erected in front of the statue of the ancestor, folded, I went to look for you, you are not at home, this is not, rushed to the Chen Jin family."
"Incense folded? How can a good broken ah?" I said in a puzzled manner.
The brothers were also a bit puzzled and looked at Hu Laoshi.
Chen Jin said, "Get to the point, don't talk nonsense."
Hu Laoshi sighed, said: "This is the case, these days, I have been at home to do the array, in front of the ancestor statue inserted incense, cast the law, if there is an evil into our village, or close to our village, no matter which direction it is in the which direction, inserted in which direction of the incense will be folded, this is also to determine that the turtle spirit hidden where, but this time! …… the incense all folded at once!"
"All broken?" I sucked in a breath, wide-eyed, said: "Then this, is not that …… came a lot of evil things?"
"Well, it should be so." Hu Laoshi nodded cautiously.
"Fuck!" Chen Jin skimmed his mouth and said, "Come on, there's really no fucking end to it, we're considered to have stabbed the nest of evil things, and the evil things are coming in droves."
Chang Yunliang said, "What can we do? An old bastard spirit hasn't been cleaned up yet, and if so many come down, we won't be able to take care of them!"
I frowned and didn't say anything, my mind suddenly thought of the past events that Hu Laoshi and Old Taiyang said, that time when the evil things in the village gathered and plagued the villagers …… I suddenly realized that this time, will it be, just like that time once, that there are many, many evil things that appear, and that cause us to not be able to cope with them at all.
If this is really the case, then it is bad, we do not have and the old age of the general ability, if just one evil thing, we a few buddies can fight side by side with Hu Laoshi, we can fight with that evil thing desperately, or have a chance to win.
But if there are more, with me having a belt, Hu Laoshi's little bit of Taoist skill? Obviously not.
What kind of situation would be created by the sudden appearance of a large number of evil creatures in the village? How much would the villagers suffer? I can't imagine.
I asked, "Grandpa Hu, how many have …… come this time?"
"Don't know." Hu Laoshi shook his head, "At least three or four."
Liu Bin suddenly said, "To put it this way, it's not that many ……"
"Huh?" Several of us looked at Liu Bin, and Chen Jin said, "That's not much? You go and set it up yourself!"
"I don't mean that." Liu Bin waved his hands and explained, "Think about it, three or four, let's just go by four, there's a wangbajing in the downer cow river, counting one, raising the river on the south riverbank, in the dragon king's temple, and that old jiao if it's just passing by? Counts as another one, so by that math, there are only two newcomers, right?"
A few of us looked at each other in dismay, thinking that Liu Bin had a point, this kid can really think ah, how come we just didn't think that in the Dragon King's Temple on the South River Embankment, there could still be that scaly scaly scaly scaly scaly scaly scaly scaly scaly scaly scaly scaly scaly? After all, this is all promised in advance, that auger can always go to the Dragon King Temple small rest ah.
Hu Laoshi nodded and said, "If those two evil creatures are just monsters, it would be good to deal with them."
"What if it's an essence?" Yao Jing said.
"It shouldn't be an essence." Hu Laoshi shook his head, frowned and said, "Nowadays, in this world, this kind of thing is really too little, especially the essence, very little, our village is only because of the earth's spiritual qi has been worn away by those evil souls and severe ghosts of that year, coupled with the old woman's absorption, there is no earth's spiritual qi, so the essence and monsters will only run towards our village, alas… …"
Chen Jin grunted and said, "Even if it's a monster, I know it's easy to deal with, just grab it and kill it, but what about that old bastard? Can you deal with it?"
"This …… will figure it out again." Hu Lao Si said ambiguously.
"Hehehe, think of another way, good ah, keep thinking, it's not a long time to think, one person has died." Chen Jin twisted his head away and sneered.
Hu Laoshi sighed, not knowing what to say.
I hurriedly said, "Cut the crap, what should we do now? In case there's another group of evil creatures tomorrow, won't that be even harder to deal with?"
"Exactly." Xue Zhigang said, "Anyway, that old bastard spirit, didn't we agree not to deal with it? Let it live, and if the others come back, let's clean them up."
Brothers nodded their heads, that is, we do not care about the old bastard spirit, Chang Hanqiang simply said: "If I say, we simply do not care about which monster, anyway, do not fall good! What's the point?"
Hu Laoshi asked suspiciously, "What's wrong with you guys? What's not good?"
I smiled bitterly and told Hu Lao Si what we had just discussed, Hu Lao Si was silent for a while after listening and said, "Kids, Comrade Lei Feng never leaves his name when he does something good!"
"Puff!" Chen Jin laughed and said, "You want us to learn from Lei Feng? That's no problem, our brothers and sisters can be a good Lei Feng ah, the courage to save children in the water hero, haha, but now, the village people say that drowning that child is a few of us killed, hey I said Hu Laozi, Comrade Lei Feng did good things never leave his name, but he was, is not also said that he did those good things, are doing bad things ah?"
"This ……" Hu Lao Si was dumbfounded.
Brothers laughed, originally, we do these things although from the beginning is to buddy righteousness, is to vent anger, and later is for the money, and then again is nothing to eat, looking for excitement.
But no matter what, we are doing a good thing, right? We didn't intend for everyone in the village to praise us in the first place.
But now we have to take the blame for killing people and let people point fingers all day long, that's a bit unreasonable.
Hu Laoshi thought for a while, his eyes lit up and said, "Hey didn't you guys say you wanted to smash the temple?"
"Yeah, don't even think about trying to dissuade us, it's already settled! It's useless for anyone to say anything!" Chen Jin said with his head held high, with a look of love.
Hu Laoshi shook his head and said with a smile, "Yes, we have to ruthlessly smash the temples, all of them, and see where those evil creatures live when they come, huh! Also save me to go from one temple to another in the head of the formation spell burning talisman paper, and no one to give me a penny."
A few of us froze, fuck, Hu Lao Si this guy turned out to be anxious for us to do this thing.
I said: "After the evil thing came, no temple to live, they will not live in anyone's home? As usual, they will harm people."
"That's even better!" Hu Laoshi said with a smile, his old face unexpectedly showing smugness and cunning.
"Fuck, evil things living in people's homes to scourge people, what kind of good thing is that?" Chang Yunliang said angrily.
Hu Laoshi spread his hands and said, "Whoever's home is bad unclean things, they are not comfortable, quasi have to look for me, looking for me to go, they have to give me money, I do not have to fight for my life, to drive the evil things out of the house can earn money, what a good thing ah."
I heard this on the angry, staring almost roar like said: "Hu Lao Si, you say this with fart like, that evil thing was you drive out, not still go to someone else's house?"
"Then I don't care." Hu Lao Si sneered and said, "I just need to collect the money, and then go to another house to drive out the evil creature, anyway, it's still making money."
Chen Jin stood up, pointing at Hu Laoshi's nose and scolded, "You old immortal thing, so your mind is even worse than ours, you just know money money money, what if that evil thing kills people? Why don't you have any conscience at all? You and the old lady are also considered to have been friends for many years, you think about the old lady, do not you feel red? Don't you feel ashamed of yourself? You ……"
Chen Jin suddenly stopped not to say, sat down, he felt a little wrong, this is to say who? How come the more scolding, Hu Laoshi more happy ah? Look at that old face smiling, like a bubble of cow dung.
Our brothers and sisters also froze in the side, thinking, just now we listened to people Hu Laoshi those words, the heart to gas, the heart is anxious, and then said that people like that said that people, the heart also slandered people.
But what about us?
After all the talk, how seems to be talking about ourselves?
Looking at Hu Laoshi's smile more and more gentle, more and more kind, a few of us are ashamed to lower our heads, Chen Jin face reddened, cursed: "Hu Laoshi, you dog days Yin us."
Even if Chen Jin full of swear words, but Hu Laoshi does not with his general understanding, also do not care, smiled and said: "Listen to you guys scold me these, I really feel ashamed, alas, this old face of mine is really in vain for so many years, shame ah, good children, you have a good heart, high awareness, I have to learn from you ah, alas, it seems that the old saying 'live to learn old', I have to learn from you. Live to learn old' is really right ah ……"
Fuck, this old thing really in the Yin us, I secretly cursed in my heart, but on the mouth but bitterly smiled and said: "Come on, come on, Grandpa Hu, I'll accompany you a not, you old don't with my general understanding."
The other buddies heard me admit my fault to Hu Laoshi, they all looked at Chen Jin, after all, just now this kid scolded others Hu Laoshi the most fierce.
Chen Jin glared at his brothers for a while, stretched his neck and thought about it, deflated and reluctantly said, "Alright Elder Hu, I shouldn't talk to you like that either, don't mind if you do."
"Hehe, it's fine it's fine." Elder Hu was really nonchalant, immediately waving his hand and accepting our apology, exasperated Chen Jin and I both glared cross-eyed.
Chang Yunliang said, "Forget it, don't talk nonsense, our matter tonight, how is it? Do it or don't do it?"
"Do it, of course!" Chen Jin glared and said, "Didn't you hear Hu Laoshi, oh, Master Hu just said it too? That temple needs to be smashed, so that evil things have no place to live when they come!"
"Well, with no place to live, Grandpa Hu will have money to make, and it's endless." I said sarcastically with sarcasm.
Hu Laoshi didn't think so and said with a smile, "The temple naturally needs to be smashed, but not all of it, just leave that newly built River God Temple and the Dragon King's Temple on the south riverbank."
"Why?" Several of us are puzzled, either we do not smash, or we smash a clean, as for the Dragon King Temple, that is an exception, can not smash, then why not smash the River God Temple ah? Why don't we smash the River God Temple? Is it possible that Hu Laoshi is thinking the same thing as we did earlier? Is it just to let the old bastard live? Oh yes, Hu Laoshi said earlier, after the repair of the River God Temple, as long as the old wangbaoshen dares to live in, he has a way to trap the old wangbaoshen.
We thought and nodded our heads, and Hu said, "Do you understand?"
A few of us shook our heads, understand the ah, are their own heart, who knows what Hu Laoshi thought in his heart, this old thing ghost ideas a lot of it.
Hu Lao Si said with a smile: "In fact, it is simple, the evil into the village for what? Is not to let the village people believe it worship it to worship it? It will certainly pick up the ready-made temple to live in, and the more which temple incense flourishing, it is more willing to enter which temple, now the river god temple just new, the village people are to that inside the offerings on the incense, the evil creature is naturally willing to go to the …… but several evil creature are willing to go in, that a temple, it is a little crowded, as the saying goes, a mountain can not be two tigers! ……"
"High!" I immediately thought of Hu Laoshi's meaning and couldn't help but give a thumbs up.
"Mean enough!" Chen Jin also gave a thumbs up, "The feeling is that you want to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight!"
Hu Lao Si smiled smugly, his eyes squinting so much that he couldn't see.
Guo Chao said, "But back then, the village evil creatures also fought because of this kind of thing, but they still plagued people."
"How can we compare now with back then?" Hu Laoshi said disdainfully, "How many evil things were there in the village back then? There were a lot of evil things in the village back then. Where can we find so many evil things nowadays? Do you think evil things are like sows giving birth to piglets, a whole bunch of them in a lifetime?"
Several of us laughed, Hu Laoshi then said: "While they are fighting fiercely, when they are both defeated, let's take action, we will kill them cleanly, it is not good, we do not need to work hard, the old wangbajing will have to get rid of the evil things that have just come in, it is obvious that the village to build this river temple is for its old wangbajing built, it can tolerate the other evil things into it? "
"What about the Dragon King Temple?" Yao Jing said, "That auger does not often go ah, will live in other evil things?"
Several of us immediately raised our middle fingers at Yao Jing, and Chen Jin said, "Fuck, do you think all evil creatures are as stupid as you are? So stupid as to pull the whiskers from under the Dragon King's nose? Don't you want to die?"
"That's right! The whole thing is a dragonfly head, head turning and eyes not turning." Chang Yunliang teased.
The brothers laughed and fooled around for a while, and I said, "Okay, okay, let's smash the temple at night, smash it hard, smash it cleanly, and demolish it without leaving a single piece of armor."
"Right!" The brothers nodded in unison.
However, Yao Jing added: "In that case, the village people can …… alas, that group of old ladies, will definitely make a mess with us endlessly."
"Yeah yeah yeah, my father and my mother, will definitely beat me up." Guo Chao also nodded and said.
So a few other buddies are also silent down, at the beginning is a fire, the impulse to smash the temple, but once you think about it, this thing really can not, after all, these temples in the village, can be the village of several generations of people down, is the spiritual beliefs of most of the villagers, we if the demolition of the temple, that is and many villagers as an enemy, when I and Chen Jin and I burned the grandmother's temple, but also not with the village The first time I burned down the grandmother's temple, not with the village before the two of us had a violent clash with so many people? ……
Brothers are silent, Chen Jin and I also frowned, in fact, we are not afraid of these, the big thing is to quarrel with those old ladies in the village a few more times, really can not, and then with their families to do a fight, so what? Anyway, the parents of the family do not believe in those temple things, nature is not a violation of them, the big deal is to get a beating only.
But the other buddies are not good, they are against their parents, waiting for the demolition of their parents' beliefs.
And only I and Chen Jin two people, this thing is really difficult to do, demolition of the temple is not a joke, and then there is the old master temple and the grandmother temple is so big, the front street of the Guan Di Temple is not small, demolition up to how much effort? Moreover, the old master's temple is newly established, the old grandmother's temple newly repaired, really if the demolition smashed ……
That is like creating a big earthquake in the hearts of our village villagers.
So everyone turned their attention to Hu Laoshi, he is old, there should be other ideas, right?
"Hey what are you all looking at me for? I can't do this kind of thing at my age." Hu Laoshi quickly waved his hand and said with a smile, "Alright, I understand, aren't you afraid that the village people and your parents will scold you and beat you up for not being satisfied with you?"
"I didn't say I was afraid." Chen Jin glared and said, "I'm afraid of a ball ah."
"I also do not matter." I said with a smile.
A few other buddies are bitterly smiling and do not speak, Chen Jin scolded: "Fuck, you guys ah …… I do not know how to say you, just now are still so bullish, said how how to how, now all stupid? Not bragging about it?"
Hu Lao Si said: "Hey, I say ah, you have to be good with others Chen Jin and silver music to learn, look at the parents of the family, how sensible ah, this temple originally enshrined inside is not a good thing, after all, the scourge of people, but also let people spend money to waste feelings, waste of energy, that is in the consumption of life essence to the evil devouring ah, is that is to reduce the life it, understand? "
"Ah? So serious?" Yao Jing said in surprise.
Several other buddies were also dumbfounded, feeling a bit unbelievable.
"That's not true." Hu Laoshi nodded firmly and said, "This, when you go to the temple to worship those evil creatures, the evil creatures will secretly eat people's anger, understand? Anger, is the breath of life ah ……"
I smiled and waved my hand, Hu Laoshi said these, brother and sister listen to the suspense, it is not as good as I said, I said, "Brother and sister, you believe that our family's "Book of the Other Place"?"
Brothers nodded, this matter is known.
I then said, "Our family's Book of the Otherworldly Places, you know what is written at the beginning of the Book of the Otherworldly Places?"
Brothers shook their heads, this matter all do not know.
I thought about it, read: "But all the village temples, mostly for the evil evil things live, eat people's faith, take people's spirit, to survive; by the name of the gods and immortals hope, for the harm and people, so that the local aura, so that all the things are difficult; although there are occasional good, but also not much. However, the gods and spirits in heaven are long, and there are few controls, are they gods? The immortal? No leisure also ……"
"What does that mean?" Yao Jing asked.
Chang Yunliang slapped Yao Jing on the back of his head and said, "Idiot, this don't understand, eating is eating, taking is also eating, that is to say that the evil things eat people's beliefs, eat people's spirit, and then they can live a long life, oh no, is always alive, they do this kind of thing, how can they always live? That's relying on human lives to add to theirs."
"Right, right, it's still Yunliang who understands, alas, when I was in junior high school, I counted people Yunliang's good grades, it's just not the same." I clapped my hands and praised, in my heart, I also really admire this kid, after listening to it once, I can say pretty much the same thing, when I first read this passage, I read it many times before I figured out what it meant.
Brothers and sisters all listened to have nodded their heads, so it is so ah!
Since this matter involves the lives of parents and even grandparents, live a long life, that is a big deal, then we must make a few brothers and sisters to pay extra attention, who do not think of their own parents and grandparents to live a long life to live a large number of years? Who would want to let their parents and grandparents' lives be eaten by evil things?
The more you think about it, the more anxious you are, the more you think about it, the more you hate that evil thing.
The more I think about it, the more I hate the evil creature!
It's settled, grandma, demolish the temple, smash the temple, kill the evil, and the evil is irreconcilable, have it without me.
As for the other villagers, whoever they like, big deal, come on, fight, what's the matter? You don't like it? Who do not serve who have the courage to come to mess with us so many people, and there is a Chen lock column and a Zhao Erniu, who have the courage to let the horse over!
After things finalized, Hu Lao Si on the side smiling, apparently very satisfied with the performance of a few of us.
I pondered in my heart, a little wrong ah, Hu Lao Si came to the nervous look, as if the sky is going to collapse like, is it based on a few of us so that a big, bold, dare to resist things, Hu Lao Si can be completely relaxed down?
I asked suspiciously, "Grandpa Hu, you this …… nothing else?"
"No ah, what else can there be?"
"Not right ah, you came to the time but enough panic, as if the sky has collapsed like, this is nothing?" I was full of doubts, a few other buddies also looked at Hu Laoshi, think it is a bit wrong.
"In fact, hey, it's no big deal, only, only ……" Hu Laoshi said with some embarrassment: "Money, a little bit not enough, I'm embarrassed to talk to you guys, don't seem to be panicked a little bit, right? "
"Then you directly say not on the line!" I said in tears and laughter.
"Not enough money? Give you so much." Chen Jin said with a glare.
Hu Laoshi spread his hands and said helplessly, "That's not enough for me to buy a coffin."
"Huh?" The brothers were stunned, what does that mean? Buy a coffin?
I said, "Your body is still strong."
Hu Laoshi shook his head, and did not see how worried he was, said easily, "Who knows and evil things after the conflict, can still survive, you know, that old turtle spirit, is really not easy to deal with ah, alas ……"
A few of us were speechless, staring blankly at Hu Laoshi, could it be that Hu Laoshi has already held the determination of certain death, to die with the old bastard spirit?
Boy, is that thing that powerful?