Chapter 10: Temporary Place of Consecration
From Hu Laoshi's house out of the time, already is the night about eleven o'clock.
On the street at the edge of the canal, the villagers who had been cooling off at the edge of the canal in groups of three to five, only a few people remained. Perhaps it was because there were fewer people, they were worried that if they were to criticize us again at this moment, we would be provoked into taking action against them immediately, while they didn't have too many helpers, so the rest of the villagers were silent, and even when they looked at us, they all kept their heads down and skimmed at us from the corner of their eyes.
Chen Jin glared at them angrily, scanning them one by one as he looked for anyone who dared to make the slightest provocation with their eyes, only, no one did.
After sitting in Hu Laoshi s house for so long, the pain and swelling on my right leg have been reduced a lot, and my walking is much smoother.
Chang Hanqiang and Chang Yunliang, Yao Jing, Xue Zhigang and the rest of them, parted ways with us and headed south to go home. Guo Chao, Chen Jin, Liu Bin and I went north until we reached the second street corner, and when we were about to separate and go home, Chen Jin said, "Yinle, should we go to the copper-locked woman's side to take a look?"
"See what?" I asked in confusion.
Chen Jin came up to me and said with a sneer, "Didn't they invite a deity? Let's go see what the deity that lives in their house is."
"Jinzi, don't be impulsive." I frowned and said, "We must listen to Old Hu this time, that evil thing whatever it is, let's not move it, let the old bastard spirit deal with it, let's sit back and watch the tigers fight."
"I didn't say I'm going to move it, we're just looking at what the hell it is, it's not a good idea to be bored in the heart." Chen Jin said indifferently, he glared at the east side of the canal is looking at us a few villagers, so that a few villagers immediately turned their heads to the side, no longer look at us, Chen Jin said: "You say that this evil thing, come to the village it ate the offerings to enjoy the worship of others even if it is, why do you have to confuse the villagers abetting the villagers with us to cross the line? "
I grunted, said: "This is needless to say, must be the copper lock mother of the gang of old ladies ghost, they can bring the evil thing to invite, then naturally can also kneel down and beg the evil thing to help their favor, with us against."
"All the more reason for us to go over and take a look, isn't it?" Chen Jin said.
"Huh?" I was stunned for a moment, and thought to myself, "It's true… Copper Lock Lady and the others, could they be talking to the evil creature every day, discussing how to work against us?
Liu Bin and Guo Chao were interested, Guo Chao said: "Yes, let's go and take a look at it, the copper lock lady is probably in her small house with a table for the evil things, the wall is not high, we can see it when we get down on the wall."
"Just be careful, they won't find us." Liu Bin also nodded and said to me, "Yinle, let's go over and take a look, especially you and Chen Jin, you two have yin and yang eyes, you can see it."
I thought about it and nodded my head, "Then it's done, let's go over and take a look, but Jinzi, you have to promise me that you can't be impulsive."
"Aiya know know, holy shit when did you become so motherly." Chen Jin impatiently laughed and pushed me.
Four people will follow the second street toward the cross street direction, so that if we go, we to the copper locks mother's home will be more a detour, but also in order to avoid letting the east side of the canal cool people suspect, after all, a few of us to the south if they will think: so late, a few of them to go to do what?
At this time the moon in the sky, exceptionally bright, shining the streets and alleys in a silver, some small insects hiding in the corner of the grass chirping, sounds quite good.
Walked to the cross street to the south turn, the four of us very tacit understanding at the same time to turn their heads to look north.
The old granny temple at the north end of the cross street has turned into a pile of ruins, from a distance, in the moonlight, dark and blurred, like a huge grave mound.
From that day when the granny temple was burned to now, five or six days had passed, this pile of ruins became a pile of garbage that no one had cleaned up, not only the granny temple, but also the other demolished temples, all of them were in a state of disarray that no one had cleaned up. As for the reason, it is still because of the conflict between the villagers and us, the villagers think that we burned down the granny temple and smashed the other temples, so naturally they have the responsibility to clean up the garbage, in addition to rebuild the temple on the original site.
And we, seriously implement my grandfather s ideological approach, are promised, only …… don t rush, wait.
Wide cross street, because of that pile of black like a grave mound child-like ruins exist, looks a little bleak, moonlight will cross street next to the houses, courtyard walls, are covered with a layer of silver-white veil, so this layer of transparent veil through the greenish-black, hazy, let a person feel that all the houses, are dead, and more added a strong bleak atmosphere.
"Meow!" A cat's cry suddenly rang out, breaking the peace on the cross street, and with a whoosh it jumped down from a low wall on the east side, scampering like a dark shadow to the middle of the cross street, then stopping and gazing fixedly at the several of us.
By the light of the moon, we finally got a good look at it, not pure black, but a flower cat with yellow and white spots.
Liu Bin moved closer to me, and said with some sensitivity, "Yinle, this cat, could it be some kind of spirit, right?"
Before I could answer, the cat seemed to think that we weren't anything to look at, and turned its head away with disdain, then exerted itself with its legs and feet, and flew as if it were running against the ground to the base of the western wall, and with a whoosh leaped up a short tree, then jumped onto the wall, then jumped into the yard of that house and disappeared from our sight.
Chen Jin said, "What a fucking elf, just an ordinary cat."
After saying that, he turned his head and walked south, and several of us followed him. Liu Bin reached out to help me, I do not know whether it is concerned about me, or some of their own fear, with me in close contact, able to strengthen the courage?
I thought in my heart, alas, nowadays, we are really grass and trees, skeptical, I do not know when, these evil things, can be driven away clean, completely let the village calm down ah ……
According to Hu Laoshi and the old woman said, the village ground aura child scarcity, but also to wait for the village ground aura child recovery, slowly the evil will not come back then, that has to be a few hundred years, right? I cursed "Fuck!" Does this mean that in the future, there will be two evil creatures coming to the village every three days, having a little friction with us and getting into a fight or something?
Hu Laoshi in this era, the evil will become less and less, we will not have so good luck has always hit the evil, but …… how these two evil? The old bastard spirit is earlier, and and Hu Laoshi and the old age have a grudge, but that big spider? And this other do not know what is the evil thing of the dog day thing?
If the evil thing keeps coming, can we still do anything else? Suddenly, I had a feeling of frustration in my heart, aren't we too nosy? If the evil creature comes to the village, it's just to enjoy the offerings, right? As long as they don't harm us, why do we have to fight against them? Besides, it's not worth the effort. What do we want?
The village people are willing to believe, willing to worship, willing to spend the money, and even more willing to put their own lives into it a little bit, why do we care about this kind of thing?
In fact …… simply kill that old bastard actuarial, another evil thing, let the village people to worship it.
Only now seems to be a little late, because, the whole thing has been related to our safety, that evil thing is probably now to fulfill the copper lock mother their gang of old ladies will, think of ways to compel the villagers with us as the enemy it.
Alas, at first if, if ……
I think of here suddenly have a big head, these things one after another, from last winter to the grandmother temple to steal meat, every thing is closely related to us, each and every and us against us to get rid of the evil, and we have a difficult to resolve the grudge …… and as if, not much hatred? And as if, it is we have nothing to do?
"Here we are, be careful." Chen Jin's voice interrupted my chaotic thoughts.
I looked up and saw that I had indeed arrived outside the wall of Zheng Copperlock's side yard on the front street. The four of us turned the corner and walked down the alley along the wall, until we reached the shortest section of the wall next to Zheng Copperlock's side yard, and on our tiptoes, we could see the candlelight coming out of the windows of the house inside.
Copper lock mother and son Zheng copper lock, and did not live in a yard, in fact, the original is living in a yard, but since Zheng copper lock married daughter-in-law, Zheng copper lock's wife and mother-in-law can not, so, originally a family, in the middle of the yard built a wall, hard to separate into two walls.
As the saying goes, it is difficult for a clear official to resolve family affairs, the neighbors are lazy to care about these things, but also can not manage, you do not know, the copper locks mother that temperament, well, who cared about that is to speak to the daughter-in-law, who cared about who will mess with the copper locks mother, you said that …… such an old woman, who dares to mess with it? The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of a conversation with a man who had been in the middle of a conversation with a woman.
The good thing is that the copper locks mother does not mind the separation of the yard to be how big, as long as the two broken house, in addition to her yard is very small, in fact, originally their family yard is not big, divided into two that is even smaller, uh-huh, than the son of the yard is small, the yard wall to the door of the house, it is about more than two meters away.
Here you brother also understand, this kind of thing, the root of the responsibility is not in Zheng Tonglock's wife, purely copper lock mother of this old lady is really not a thing.
Over the years, especially last winter to now, all her behavior, more let us a few young people sure – she is absolutely not a good thing ……
At that time, most of the courtyard walls in the village are similar, less than two meters in height, and between the bricks and bricks are yellow mud, after a long time, the mud off, so the wall on top of a lot of gaps, through the gaps can see a lot of things in the yard.
Because the courtyard wall is only two meters away from the house of the copper lock mother, so standing outside the courtyard wall, as long as the people in the house are not talking quietly, we can hear clearly.
Of course, we came here, not just to listen to the sound, or through the cracks in the wall to see on the line, we have to lie down on the wall, carefully look at the house in the end in addition to the copper-locked mother of this old monster, there is something else?
Liu Bin and Guo Chao two people cat carefully walked forward some more, and then from the root of the wall to pick up some bricks, built in the copper locks mother's home courtyard wall and inside the corner of the courtyard wall of the corner of the block inside the corner of the wall planted a large elm tree, the moonlight sprinkled in the elm tree, there is a large part of the place underneath the shaded area, this section of the wall naturally also in the middle of it.
We lie in the shadows, not easy to be found by the people in the house, and here the perspective is good, you can see the house every move, well, of course, there is another reason to make us look at the house a little more clear, that is because of the summer, so the windows are open, just cover a layer of screen, so so close to the distance, plus the house has a light high brightness, the outside of the dim, then look to the house, it's It's more clear.
Guo Chao and Liu Bin moved to the bricks, that is for me and Chen Jin two people, we two feet stepped on a few bricks, the arm will be able to with the wall, lying on the top of the serious look inside, and the two of them, on the bottom, come to the wall cracks in front of the face of the inside to see it.
It seems that we came at a very good time, for the gang of old ladies, this is the most active moment, because they are …… inviting God.
Copper lock mother lived in the house is not high, the house from the ground to the beams, probably is two meters a little more so a little bit it? The house is built with a large bed, so the room is even smaller, directly opposite the door, there is another table of offerings, oh no, it is two, together. Probably because the village temple was torn down by us, and they had to invite the gods to their home, the family's offering table was small, so they made two tables together. There are two candlesticks on the table, above the two thick red candles, the bowl size of the small incense burner, inserted a large fine incense, above the red head of the incense constantly rising curls of smoke to the room was covered by smoke a little light haze.
On both sides of the table, even put two master chairs, which makes the space in the room is even more narrow, rough calculation, the remaining place is definitely less than four square meters.
This is such a small room, even gathered seven or eight old ladies, I think this should be the backbone, because if you add the village gang of old ladies and a few other old ladies, all into the house, I bet the house must be squeezed.
"That's pretty damn loyal, alas, with such a small place and the old ladies filling it up, will the evil hide still be able to accommodate it?" I sighed softly with emotion.
"Che, if it's just a stinky insect spirit, hiding tens of thousands of them is no problem." Chen Jin laughed in a low voice, and came to my ear and said, "I say Yin Le, this copper lock mother is not particularly loyal ah, if I were to do so, I would definitely open up both rooms, wouldn't the place be spacious?"
I nodded my head, and was just about to say something, when the voice of the Copper Lock Lady came from the room, and her words immediately explained why she didn't open the two rooms.
Copper lock mother said in the house: "we this home house is too small, the place is not big enough, XuanMu Maiden dislike, alas, a moment of the temple can not be built up, some days ago I discussed with the mother, let the mother to go to GuanDi Temple to live for some time, back when we built the temple, and then let the mother to move over …… "
The two of us listened to the happy, feelings that the Empress also really smack this house is small ah, but I do not know what is replacing the once that black snake spirit, the treatment is really good, just the old ladies silly still take the dirty thing as a deity worship it. The two covered their mouths and laughed, Chen Jin came to me and whispered, "Yin Le, I now regret a little bit not tearing down the Guan Di Temple, Grandma, I should have known to tear down the Guan Di Temple as well, so that they can't find a place to look for them, this is bad, there is a habitat for the time being."
"Regret pipe shit." I pressed my voice and said, "Isn't it still inhabited? Let's take a shortcut and dismantle it in a while, oh no, not enough manpower, light a fire and burn it."
"Center." Chen Jin nodded vigorously.
The two of them stopped talking and looked at the house with their heads down and their ears perked up to listen to them.
Old Mrs. Li said, "Has the Empress agreed? The Guandi Temple has not been cleaned for years, and when it was repaired a few days ago, it was not seriously picked up, it can be messy inside."
"Yes, yes, don't aggravate the empress." The other old ladies all nodded and said.
The copper lock lady proudly circled the palm-sized ground in the house twice and said, "Don't worry, there is me to discuss with the mother, the mother will always give some face, alas, at first the mother was quite unhappy, but I said some good words and persuaded a few sentences, and the mother agreed to it."
So the old ladies in the room cast admiring glances at the Copper Lock Niang, worshipping her as if she were a god.
Chen Jin said quietly, "Yinle, has this Copper Lock Niang learned a foreign language?"
"Huh?" I looked at Chen Jin in confusion, why did he say such a sentence without a clue?
"This old immortal is really a man of old age, to be able to talk to evil things, marvelous." Chen Jin lamented.
I just wanted to nod yes, the result of the house Li family old lady words immediately answered Chen Jin's questions, I wondered, those old ladies are not all people old into the essence, even can understand what we have questions, and then one by one to answer it?
I only heard old lady Li say, "Ouch, there is me, the Queen is using my mouth to say the words."
"Right right." Copper Lock Niang nodded her head cheerfully, as if she had just remembered that there was such a big contributor, and that she couldn't be mean enough to put all the credit on her own head, she said, "That day, when I asked the Niang Niang to get into my body, I was the one who got into the body of Li's younger sister, and came to discuss it with me."
So the old ladies in the room immediately cast admiring glances at the Li family's old lady, and also contained envious and jealous glances, as if secretly thinking in their hearts, "When will the Empress be able to get into my body, that's really an infinite honor.
Copper lock mother and old lady Li proudly walked to the offering table, so the other two old ladies hurriedly got up to make way for the two of them to sit on the eunuch's chair, the two old ladies looked around, but there was no place to sit, even the head of the kang was full of people, they were a little embarrassed, or perhaps they were getting old, standing was really tiring, so they threw a look of help to the old ladies sitting by the side of the kang.
The old ladies kindly made a gap and greeted the two of them, took off their shoes, climbed onto the kang, and sat inside.
I thought to myself that this group of old ladies was really strange, what were they doing squeezing into such a small room so late at night? They didn't go back to bed, where did they get so much energy?
My question immediately got the copper locks of the mother's turn back, so far, I really admire the old ladies, too powerful, actually able to telepathic communication.
The copper-locked lady said, "Tonight it seems that a few old sisters can't leave without seeing the spirits, well, in a moment I'll ask the spirits to come up and talk to you, but now is not the time, the spirits will only come to take a look at twelve o'clock in the night."
Her words immediately made the old ladies sitting on the kang happy, with a red face and glowing eyes, like a hungry old wolf, looking forward to the appearance of the deity, and then chewed it up and swallowed it …….
An old lady said, "That would be great, when the deity comes, I have to talk to the deity, so that the deity can severely punish the Chen Lockzhu family's child and that little brat named Yinle from the Zhao family."
"That's right!" The old woman sitting on the inside of the kang gritted her teeth and said, "Didn't the spirits tell the village to hate them? But the village people just smashed the glass of Hu Laoshi's house, and no one dared to mess with those young people ……"
"They are fierce all day long, Chen Lockzhu, and that Erniu of the Zhao family, because they are fierce and everyone is afraid of them, they feel great, and the children in their families are like earth emperors all day long, and the village people are afraid of their family ……"
Tongliao Niang interjected, "What about the other young men's families? What about the Liu family's, and the Xue family's?"
"Aigoo old sister, you don't know, those young people have a good relationship, if there is a problem with any child's home, it is certain that the Zhao family that Yinle and Chen Lockzhu have to go to help, this is not, the village people are jealous of it."
Old lady Li nodded her head and said, "Yes yes yes, the village people are afraid of Chen Lockzhu and Zhao Erniu, so I think ah, in order to clean them up, we have to ask Mother Xuanmu herself to do it, and punish them severely!"
Hearing this, Chen Jin's hands forcefully, looks like wanting to climb over the wall to rush over, I hastily pressed him, and said with a suppressed voice: "Jinzi, you kid crazy? Hold back, besides, you can't go in and beat them up."
"Fuck!" Chen Jin cursed in a low voice, huffed and puffed out two breaths, no longer moving, staring with fire-breathing eyes towards the inside.
Inside the house, a few old ladies were cursing us and saying bad things about us, anyway, a few of us, especially Chen Jin and I, were really not allowed to die to the extreme.
The Copper Lock Niang was very decent and waited for the old sisters to finish their words before she dryly coughed twice, and the other several old ladies immediately all stopped talking and quietly waited for the Copper Lock Niang to speak.
"Wouldn't the Empress share the general knowledge of mortals? Aren't they just a few mortals? Do you still need to do it yourself?" Niang Copperlock said gravely.
Several old ladies immediately nodded their heads and mouthed yes.
Empress Copperlock was very satisfied with the performance of the old sisters, and smiled kindly and easily, raising her hand in a distinctive manner to signal the crowd to be quiet, so the crowd quieted down. Copper lock mother then said: "The mother will cast a spell in the village, let the villagers work together, and the Zhao family, and Chen Lockzhu, make a mess, anyway, won't let them have good fruit to eat, as for the other families, it will also be punished, the village people …… will always have trouble with them. ……"
Several old ladies were very quiet listening to the words of the copper lock mother, like a group of elementary school students quietly listening to the teacher, but also did not dare to speak did not dare to make small movements.
Liu Bin whispered under the wall, "Hey, it's really the ghost of evil things, these two days is Hu Laoshi suffer, change tomorrow, it's our turn."
"Hu Lao Si said that we have to endure." Guo Chao reminded, "The evil creature will only be rampant for a couple of days, it's a grasshopper after the fall, it doesn't have a few days to jump around."
I lowered my head and reprimanded with my voice: "Bullshit, what nonsense, don't talk, listen to their nonsense, we're going to invoke the gods later, be quiet, don't scare the evil away, it's not good to scare the snakes."
"You also say less." Chen Jin reminded me.
So we all stopped talking, quietly and seriously looking inside.
At this moment, the old-fashioned desk clock in the house dangled, the hands already pointing to twelve o'clock sharp.
Chen Jin and I looked at each other and both understood that the time had come to invite the gods, oh no, invite the evil things to come ……