Chapter 3: Temple with meat offerings
I was nineteen years old that year, the countryside has just implemented the land contract responsibility system. Speaking of the village at that time can be really happy not, years of production team life, so that the village have no energy, life is not interesting, all day will be like a donkey pulling a mill in general, boring, and year after year busy down, is still hungry, full of a meal.
And now the reform and opening up, rural farmland to the household, which is tantamount to their own family work planting, a good dry season, the ground Zhuangjia long good, good harvest, after the payment of rations, they will be able to leave a lot of food and drink not to mention looking at the family's granary piled up a large pile of food, that the heart is also comfortable, is not it? Moreover, in your spare time, you can do something else to increase your income, such as raising pigs and chickens and fish, or doing business to run a business to do business, the reform and opening up, everyone is trying to make money. I heard that some people open up early, there have been a lot of million-dollar households, our village people naturally coveted not, and all together energetic, and aspire to run a well-off as soon as possible.
I was young, as for say go out to make money, even think about it, unlike the young people now, that full of thought about how to do business, how to innovate and invent to make a lot of money, the times are different, know less ah. Previously in the production team, we are a group of young people will often mischievous, think of ways to play lazy, now the land is divided into their own family, in addition to the busy time really busy on a few days, the rest of the time, it will be idle to be out of order, so we have a few young people from childhood to play to the big lads will be thinking of ways to pass the time of leisure.
In the summer, a group of us touched crabs, fishing shrimp and eels, and can sell a few pocket money, and occasionally you can buy some meat, playing two pounds of wine, corruption of the time, the day is also considered to be tasty.
After cutting rice in the fall, the farm work is over, the weather is getting cooler every day, and then want to catch the river that something for money has been impossible, we are a group of people and idle panic. Stealing a few chickens, touching the dog a few times, every family in the village also pay attention to the attention, no chicken coop to get a chicken fence, running outside the dog is also tethered to the home.
We young people were totally confused, what should we do? We smoked cigarettes, ate and drank, and spent money, didn't we? We knew that in those days, every family was not rich, so how could they afford to give us half-boys pocket money?
That year, when the first snow fell in winter, a few of us gathered at Yao Jing's old house for dinner. Yao Jing his parents live in the new house there, this old house yard raised a few pigs, Yao Jing night will sleep in the old house this side of the door, which also allows us to have a group of young people can be free to enjoy the place, there is no adult tube ah, the night want to toss to the point of time to toss to the point of time.
Not a big room lit a white candle, the fireplace burns more than half a foot high, warm. As the saying goes, a bunch of young men are young and vigorous, although they do not dare how to think of lust, seducing a few little girls to come here to spend the night with us, of course, people do not come to the girl's family, that era of people are still special feudal traditions. But we are sitting around also bored, so naturally thought of drinking.
Speaking of drinking, a few people will look at the eyes of all together to Chang Yunliang, his father is the village secretary, the family conditions are good, usually there is a pocket money on him, and now brothers each pocket than the face of the clean, of course, to let Chang Yunliang take the wine.
I said: "Yunliang, this brother a few inside your family has money, you kid is a landlord, ideas to get two bottles of wine, into it?"
A few people were coaxing and urging Chang Yunliang to agree.
Chang Yunliang can not stand everyone's urge, but there is really no money on hand, but also embarrassed to refuse, said: "I can carry out the wine from home, but we drink not have food and meat? We have nothing here, dry drinking is not a flavor, I think even if it?"
When everyone thought about it, they were all sad. I pondered beside me for half a day, patted his thigh and said: "Yunliang, if you can really carry two bottles of wine out of the house, I will get two pounds of pork, let Liu Bin go home to get a cabbage, Chen Jin get chili and salt, we stew him a pot, how about it?"
Chang Yunliang froze and said, "I say Yinle, where are you going to get two pounds of pork from?"
"Yes, yes, yes. Did your family slaughter that pig today? Or are you planning to secretly slaughter a pig from Yao Jing's family tonight? That pig is over a hundred pounds and two hundred pounds." Chen Jin also beside the doubt said a sentence, smashed a bit of lips, said: "This is also a method, slaughter a head, enough for our brothers and sisters to eat until the end of the year."
"Fuck you, why don't you slaughter your family's big black and eat it?" Yao Jing immediately scolded, "Although it's said that dog meat doesn't go on the table, but we brothers don't care, we can eat it together."
Several people laughed, I smiled and waved my hand and said, "Don't bullshit, don't worry, I won't slaughter Yao Jing's pig, and I won't eat Da Hei's meat, anyway, I can get two pounds of meat, how is it? Yunliang, it's up to you."
Although Chang Yunliang did not believe that I can get two pounds of meat, but look at my chest, the look of confidence, the heart also has no bottom, some hesitation. Chen Jin in the side of the excitement said: "Look, Yunliang this kid even bragging, he also dare to ask his father for two bottles of wine? His father would still break his legs."
Several people understood Chen Jin's meaning and laughed alongside him. Chang Yunliang also understands that Chen Jin this is to provoke it, but the words out of the water, big words said, have to do it is not? Then gritted his teeth and said: "Nonsense, I told my father, I can carry out the wine. I'm not bragging, if Yinle really gets two pounds of meat, I'll carry three bottles of wine."
"Hey, you have to keep your word!" I was happy to hear that, and hurriedly said with a glare, "Let's do this, let's all go with me to get some meat first, and if you can't get any meat, you don't have to carry any wine, so I'll count it as a meal I owe everyone."
"Success!" Chang Yunliang agreed.
Chen Jin said, "Yinle, I say you don't sell yourself short, where are you going to get two pounds of meat from?"
Everyone also looked at me curiously, I smiled cheerfully and said, "This has to be kept secret for the time being, everyone follow me, we'll understand when we get to the front, let's go."
Yao Jing stood up and excitedly said in a loud voice: "Blow out the lights and pull out the wax, toward the two catty meat position charge ah!"
A group of people ran out in a chaotic manner, Yao Jing blew out the lights and wax in the back, locked the door, and hurriedly followed up.
It was nine o'clock in the night, the power supply in the countryside was not enough in those days, and there was always a blackout at night, and then again it was cold in winter, and most of the people slept early. The village streets and alleys are dark and peaceful, only rustling snow is not tired of falling.
I took the lead, and six or seven people walked to the cross street in the center of the village in an uproar. The intersection of the crossroads to the north was the basketball court of the village middle school, so it was much more spacious. At the north end of the basketball court, there is a small temple, which is dedicated to a goddess called Granny, in the village is considered to be the most fragrant temple. In fact, I've always wondered, this is called the grandmother of what a fairy?
We stopped at the crossroads, I pointed out that through the window reflecting the dim candlelight of the old grandmother temple, smug sneer said: "See? Inside the temple, there is definitely a meat offering this day, hehehe."
Brothers a few time are dumbfounded, how they will not think, I actually played the temple meat supply attention. Today is the so-called grandmother temple birthday, the village those superstitious old ladies women young daughter-in-law, naturally will come to, offer incense. Although most people come just to burn a few incense, kowtow, but there are still some devout believers in the grandmother temple, will get fruits and pork and other good things to offer.
After being bored for a while, Chen Jin touched the back of his head and said with a playful smile, "Why didn't I think of this?"
"Not too good, right?" Liu Bin said with some hesitation next to him, "The temple's meat offering, if we eat it the gods will condemn us."
"That's right, this meat can't be eaten." Chang Yunliang couldn't let go of his three bottles of wine in his heart and also chimed in.
I gave a disdainful cut and said, "What the hell, how long can this meat sit here? No one's going to throw it away in the end, so maybe someone will eat it."
"Yes, I saw Quanzhu's mother take away the meat she used to make offerings in the backstreet last time, and it's likely that she went back to stew and eat it." Yao Jing said with certainty, as if he had watched people stew the meat and eat it in their mouths.
I took a look at the temple that a few night watchman old lady, said: "all less fucking eat mouth does not show head, I can tell you, after this night, tomorrow this meat is sure to be taken away and eaten, after this village, and then there is no this store."
Liu Bin hesitated, stammered, "That …… I go back to get salt and pepper, to Yao Jing home waiting for you." After saying this, he ran away in a huff.
"I'll go back to prepare pots and bowls and chopsticks to go and wait for you guys, don't be too late." Yao Jing took a look at Liu Bin's withdrawal and also hemmed and hawed, wiping his feet.
Chang Yunliang said, "Then I have to go back and pester my father for a while, trying to carry out the wine earlier."
Guo Chao said: "I go with Chang Yunliang, a playmate in a piece, his father is not good to scold him is not?" The two went together.
This time and again, a few buddies have slipped away, leaving Chen Jin and I two people. The snow is getting bigger and bigger, we are freezing our hands into our sleeves, pacing in the street to drive away the cold. I was in the heart of the group of buddies, what they think I know exactly, although it is said that on weekdays are blowing the sky does not believe in ghosts and gods, do not fear evil things, but they still have a deep-seated fear of these unseen and unknowable things in their hearts.