Chapter 21: The Strange Thing of the Old Maniac's House
After a while, Wang Lai's wife Bichun brought in a sumptuous meal, and Master and I were not polite, so we began to eat after washing and shabu, and the Pingyang Taoist was stunned aside, he looked down at the rotten egg soup all over his body, smacked his lips, and turned his head out to take a bath in a huff. After a while, Pingyang Daoist changed into clean clothes and walked in, and approached the master: "Brother Yang Dao, don't you want to say something?" Why don't you speak? ”
"Daoist Pingyang, my master has always followed the rules of Taoism, the so-called can't afford to eat, let's wait for my master to finish eating, hehe!" I responded with a grin to the people of Pingyang Dao.
"Hey! Give me back three greats! Pingyang Daoist suddenly crossed his waist, a shelf who owed him two hundred taels of silver.
The so-called Taoist Santi is indeed said that when Taoist practitioners fast, chant sutras and meditate, others are not allowed to disturb these three things, and as a Taoist priest, they are not allowed to rise up.
Eating fasting, that is, fasting, that is, eating or eating. There are two sayings, one is "eating is like an official"; The second is that "Lei Gong does not beat the eaters". It shows that others should not disturb others when they are eating. There are three rules for fasting: one is the hall, the second is the hall, and the third is the hall. The cultivator eats in the dining hall, and the name is "the hall of the fasting". The hall is also one of the rituals of the Taoist temple. When eating, there is a big difference from eating with secular people.
For example, a cultivator must make offerings first for every meal, for the sake of thinking: Offerings from the ten directions are not easy to come by, and they are not able to enjoy them, but they are afraid of sin. Therefore, each meal is first offered to eat, and the gods, people, and ghosts are offered together. It is a move to tie the "three edges". There is a couplet next to the door of the Guanzhai Hall of the Forbidden City: "A thought of innocence and gold can be transformed; Three hearts are not clear, and water is difficult to dissipate. Therefore, practitioners also cultivate their minds in the process of fasting. Therefore, no one else should be disturbed, and no one who eats fast should get up.
After the master finished eating, he motioned for the Pingyang Taoist to sit down together, and said with a smile: "As the saying goes, Buddhism talks about cause and effect, and Taoism talks about bearing. ”
"Uh, what do you mean by Brother Yang Dao?" Pingyang Daoren was stunned.
The master took a sip of tea before continuing: "This is the karmic fate between the villagers and the Wang family, and we have changed the grievances and grievances between the Wang family and the villagers. ”
"Alas!" Pingyang Daoren sighed deeply, and then nodded: "After Brother Yang Dao's rhetoric, after thinking about it carefully, it is also the truth, to borrow a Buddhist saying, if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell...... It's okay, detaining Wang Shanren's soul without authorization is already against the way of heaven, and the smell of rotten eggs in this body can be regarded as retribution, but the punishment has already been punished, and we always have to settle things in this mess, right?! ”
"Naturally, it is to be settled!" The master frowned, and then said: "Otherwise, it will be in vain to let Brother Pingyang Dao be beaten like this, it is my duty to eliminate demons and defend the Dao, how innocent the villagers are, they are just being fooled, what we have to deal with is the person behind the scenes who manipulated the villagers to snatch the ancestral grave of the Wang family!" ”
"Brother Yang Dao refers to that ghost ......"
Before the Pingyang Daoist finished speaking, the master suddenly made a silent gesture, signaling that the Pingyang Daoist didn't need to go on, and immediately said, "Tonight will know!" ”
I and Pingyang Dao people can hear it in a fog, and I don't know what the master is thinking, it is already a big deal for Wang Shanren to escape with his soul, but the master is not in a hurry or impatient, and let us wait for the dark to say, it is really unpredictable.
One afternoon, I was helping Wang to clean up the yard of Nuoda, the whole yard was covered with rotten eggs from the villagers, everywhere was stinking and coaxing, finally cleaned up almost, I sat on the stone steps at the gate and didn't want to move, this day gave me tired, just when I complained, I suddenly felt something approaching beside me, I turned my head suddenly, but I was startled, it was an unkempt person, ragged, looking left and right, finally recognized, Isn't this the old madman I just met outside the village last night?
Seeing him at night is not so ugly, who knows that he can see more clearly in broad daylight, it is indeed sloppy enough, who knows that before I can react, the old madman patted me on the shoulder and grinned: "Ergou, Wang Shan's white buns are delicious?" Hey! ”
"Uh, how do you know...... By the way, you said that Wang Shansheng took very good care of you before his death, well, the food of the Wang family is good, have you eaten? "It's rare to have someone to talk to, I immediately laughed and accosted, in fact, according to my inner feeling, the old madman doesn't want to be so crazy, and sometimes he always thinks that he is a normal person.
"......" The old madman was speechless and shook his head desperately.
I immediately understood, and without saying a word, I got up and ran to the courtyard to find Wang Lai, asked for a few white-flour steamed buns, took them out, handed them to the old madman, and said, "I gave them to you for Wang Shanren, hehe!" ”
When the old madman heard this, he looked at me blankly for a long time, and then grabbed the white-flour bun in my hand, and devoured it, five steamed buns, this guy ate it in one go, choked and stared, stunned and didn't stop, and didn't leave a leftover bun, looking at it, I couldn't help but rise with a touch of pity, this old madman is about fifty or sixty years old, and my grandfather's age is similar to that of my grandfather.
"I ate your white bun, Ergou, you are a good person, I invite you to look at my family's big ingots, let's go!" The old madman immediately stood up, grabbed me and left, and was grabbed by his big dirty hand, and a few black handprints suddenly appeared on my light blue shirt, and I was so distressed that I went crazy.
Although I didn't believe the old madman's crazy words at all, I couldn't resist him, and I was dragged away by him.
In a dilapidated small courtyard in the west of the village, it is said to be a small courtyard, in fact, it is a small courtyard formed by piles of firewood stacks in a circle, and the houses in it are also two thatched houses that are extremely low, and the yard is even more messy, and you can smell a smell of feces from afar, I just covered my nose when I entered the yard, such a scene, I am afraid that the old madman's house really has a big ingot, and it will not attract people to come in and take a look.
The door of the thatched hut was closed, and the door was already in tatters, and there was a rotten hole in it, through which I could see that it was dark inside, and there seemed to be no light. The old madman kicked open the door, and immediately saw that it was gray inside, and he didn't know how many years this house had not been cleaned, and it was so dirty.
But strangely, I didn't smell any dung in the house, not even the musty smell that should have been, and it stands to reason that this dilapidated house, no matter how clean it is, should have a smell of rotten thatch and wooden beams, but the old madman's house seems to have no peculiar smell at all, and it looks dirty, but it feels extremely clean, which is really strange!
Just stepped into the door with one foot, I inexplicably had a layer of goosebumps, there seemed to be a cold breath rushing to my face, I was stunned, subconsciously alerted, and swept away in a hurry, except for a dim piece, there was no other abnormal phenomenon, so what was the goosebumps I just got up?
It's not eerie, but it has an eerie effect, and I feel even more weird!
It seems that there is something in this room, is it dirty?!
"Ergou Ergou, come and see! Come and see my family's big ingots, the golden big ingots! At this moment, the old madman pulled me to the middle hall with an excited face, and on the broken table, the old madman pointed to the table and smiled.