Chapter 05: Gathering blessings gourd sucking blessings
The harm caused by the tornado, really let the village into an extreme panic, after all, dead, injured, the villagers in the afternoon after a tense busy, began to fall into a deep thought.
That afternoon after I went back from Hu Laoshi's house, I hurriedly ate a few mouthfuls of rice, rushed out and participated in the rescue operation of the whole village.
It was a completely spontaneous behavior, earlier from the south river embankment back, first went to Hu Laoshi's house, at that time the inner heart is still in a state of guilt and shock and fear. At that time, Hu Laoshi and the old woman drilled in the house are pondering the cause of the tornado and the harm, and what will be more serious consequences after …….
On that snowy afternoon, as long as there was labor, all the villagers came out from their homes to help the affected villagers, digging out furniture and valuable things from the rubble, sending the injured to the hospital, and bringing the neighbors back to their own homes who were temporarily without a place to live……. In short, all the people were united in their efforts to survive the disaster.
After dinner that day, Chen Jin came to me, and the two of us went to Hu Laoshi's house together.
The heavy snow stopped for a while in the evening, and now it started to fall again, flurrying, and the roads in the streets and alleys were covered with thick snow.
The cold wind wailed in mid-air, through the streets and alleys, whimpering, so that people could not help but feel a trace of desolation in their hearts.
This is going to be the New Year, the village out of such a big thing, any who heart is not comfortable ah!
So, all the way, can see some women and old ladies carrying baskets, carrying incense and paper and other offerings, to the village of various sizes of temples to offer incense. They are inwardly fearful and worried, mistakenly thinking that it may be other villagers or themselves, in some places a careless, angered the gods, descended a great sin to punish us in this village …… or, they have a guilty conscience, have done what is unseemly and unethical, so the heart is uneasy, worrying about the disaster to come again The first thing I want to say is that I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do it again.
The majority of those who burn incense and offerings are also in these mindsets.
Passed by a few small temples, the temple is a candle flame flickering, smoke, offerings placed full, there are always a few in the snow in front of the temple kneeling and kowtowing, and then muttered a few pious prayers, and then get up to leave, to the next temple to go.
When we walked to the door of Hu Laoshi's house, Chen Jin and I once again saw the eight trigrams on the fence gate that glowed with a faint yellow color. The two of us smiled at each other and walked toward the courtyard.
Inside the house, Hu Laoshi was picking up the talisman paper that had been drawn during the day, and on the offering table opposite the front door, two thick candles were lit, incense was burned, copper coins were pressed against the stack of talisman paper, and the mahogany sword was placed smoothly on the offering table. On the wall, the hanging picture of Hu Laoshi's ancestor, this night also looks extraordinarily clean and bright, in the candlelight, vivid.
Seeing the two of us coming, Hu Laoshi stopped the work in his hands and greeted, "Sit down, I was just thinking of finishing cleaning up and going to look for the two of you."
Chen Jin and I walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, I said, "Grandpa Hu, where is the old woman?"
"Uh, out running errands." Hu Laoshi casually replied, then said, "It's a blessing in disguise, but the village has suffered such a great disaster today, but it's also a blessing!"
"What do you mean by that?" I frowned and asked, originally thought of asking where the old Taiyang went to do his work, it was not supposed to recuperate from his injuries? Has it recovered from its injuries? But when I heard Hu Laoshi say that it was a blessing in disguise, I immediately threw the old taiyang to the back of my mind.
Chen Jin took out his cigarettes and handed one to me, hesitated for a moment, and then handed one to Hu Laoshi.
Hu Laoshi was stunned for a moment, the result of Chen Jin's hands of cigarettes, took out a match, while lighting the cigarette, while saying: "Originally, I thought that you two planed to chop the snake monument, which is equal to the opening of our village's south gate of the cave mouth, the moisture of the Bushey River flows into the village, to be able to dilute some of the evil spirit, slightly alleviate the situation in the village, did not want to think that the two of you to hit the right spot, the time of a momentary negligence, just in time to catch the Black Dragon Cave in the western mountain. It happens to catch up with the time when the old auger in the black dragon cave in the west mountain absorbs the water, so the dampness is larger and suddenly surges into the village, which only clashes with the cold wind that hangs from the north sky, and a tornado is started, which is powerful, and washes away half of the evil qi in the village in a raw manner ……"
"That dare good!" My heart was happy, it was really a mistake, got a cheap ah, "Grandpa Hu, in that case, the evil qi in the village went half of it, then we pick up that evil qi again, is it much easier?"
"In theory it is." Hu Laoshi said.
Chen Jin frowned with a cigarette in his mouth and said, "Hey, if that's the case, why don't we just let the people in the village be more careful, and we'll come back some other day to plow down the Snake Beheading Monument again and create a tornado, and this time, since half of it has been washed away, if we come back again, won't we get rid of all of it? How much more economical!"
"Huh, makes sense!" I immediately nodded my head in agreement, it did sound like that.
"No way!" Hu Laosi immediately rejected Chen Jin's method and said, "Disturbing the Old Jiao of the Black Dragon Cave in the West Mountain is not a good thing, we dipped into the Old Jiao's favor once this time, the Old Taiyang has already gone to the West Mountain to find the Old Jiao to make peace with it, that thing is an iron rooster, it doesn't give up a single dime and it has a stinky temper, so we can't do that again."
Hearing Hu Laoshi say this, Chen Jin and I were confused and somewhat shocked. Boy, again is the black dragon cave in the west mountain old auger, also have to old age to talk to it and talk and talk, we dip it what advantage ah? Oh, the feelings of this water gas, or people old jiao's private property?
Chen Jin asked: "So, the whole Busan River is the private property of the old scaly dragon in the Black Dragon Cave? It turns out that our village this chopped snake monument, is simply the old jiao own things, in order to block the water gas does not enter the village, and then let it eat its own ……"
"Not so." Hu Lao Si shook his head and said.
"Then what's going on?" I asked.
"This ……" Hu Laoshi hesitated for a while, and then seriously thought about it, before saying, "Our village south embankment that piece, you can all see, the Busan River curved a few bends, forming the shape of a gourd right? "
Chen Jin and I nodded, indeed, the Busan River in our village south turned a few bends, standing on the house of the pumping station, you can see that the few bends formed a gourd, and the pumping station, which happens to be the mouth of the gourd.
Hu Laoshi then said: "Our village road straight to the water pump station, the water pump station happens to be the mouth of the gourd, which formed an extremely rare feng shui place, this terrain, known as the gathering of blessings water gourd, if the bottom of the gourd just to our village, then it's good, our village people do business quasi-money, go out and pick up money! …… This is a bit of an exaggeration, huh, in fact, that is what it means, gathering blessings."
Unfortunately, our village is facing a gourd mouth, which is not good, the blessing will be gourd to suck away.
And the bottom of the gourd is facing, really a fertile field, no one can dip into the blessing of the cheap. It can't be said that it can't, at least, that field has always been a good harvest for planting anything, and …… there are large swaths of graveyard there.