Chapter 18: Corpse Fire
"Peachwood branches! Go collect some peach branches and come back! Hearing the master's words, Zhang Zhishu hurriedly greeted: "Today, all the villagers who come to help, one is counted as one, and all of them will be recorded as ten points, and you will not be able to get seven points of work in a day in the fields, but if you do so much work today, I will dare to record ten points for each of you, go and get busy!" Hearing Zhang Zhishu's words, the villagers suddenly felt like they had been beaten again, and they ran out to get busy.
The villagers who were standing outside and watching from afar, after hearing Zhang Zhishu's words, they were all trembling with anger, as if they were regretting that they didn't come to help before, but now they regret it and it's useless. However, those villagers who were willing to come to help have received a lot of benefits, and they exchanged food and recorded their work, which was simply a bumper harvest. This also reflects the sentence, those who do good deeds will have good rewards, and those villagers who are willing to come to help may not have thought so much at first, but it is precisely because they do not want to benefit from it, but they have received great benefits.
Those villagers who are lazy and refuse to come to help can only see the benefits of other people's harvests in the end, and they will get nothing. The Tao Te Ching has clouds, which is based on the saint's body and body, and the body outside the body. Not with its selflessness? Therefore, it can become its own selfishness. Youyun, the way of heaven has no relatives, and he is always with good people. This means that this is exactly what it means.
The time of the day passed like this, but the cloudy void also dispersed in the evening, and a ray of sunset slanted down, shining on the earth, and everywhere was a golden color. However, this Niuwa Village did not feel the tranquility between heaven and earth at all, but was deeply caught in this series of disasters and urgently needed to be rescued!
It wasn't until the sky gradually darkened that the lime in the coffin slowly cooled, but the corpse in it had turned into a pile of scum and spread it inside. As for the corpse water inside, it has long dried up, and at this moment, the peach branches are ready, and when the master saw this, he hurriedly ordered everyone to fill all the peach branches into it, and said, "Wine!" Liquor! It takes a strong liquor to melt it completely! ”
"There's spirits!" One of the villagers rushed back and hugged a jar of spirits, and Zhang Zhishu gave him an extra five points of work approvingly, which made the villager smile from ear to ear. However, what they get is all exchanged for another way, or labor, or kindness, or other things, so the rewards received by each villager do not make others blush.
After the peach branch was filled, the master took the wine jar, forcefully opened the seal on the door, and bent down to pour the liquor inside into the peach branch and the coffin. Immediately after that, I took out the fire fold, lit the fire, and threw it in!
There was a muffled sound of "boom", and with a wave of fire rising into the sky, it appeared in front of us, and everyone slowly retreated, all looking at the feat in front of them with excitement. After a hard day, the matter of the willow sinking corpse was finally completely resolved, so that the villagers were finally relieved, at least, there was finally one thing that made everyone feel comforted, and the disasters that had occurred repeatedly in Niuwa Village in the past three months seemed to have made the villagers dare not breathe.
The fire was still burning, but the master turned around and walked away, and said to everyone: "Now that the problem of this house has been completely resolved, the tree pit can be filled when the fire is burned out, Zhang Zhishu will go with me, and the other villagers will stay for a while, and leave after the follow-up is over." As he spoke, the master gave a fist salute to the villagers, and the villagers immediately nodded in response.
Zhang Zhishu cleared his throat and hurriedly said, "This ...... Yes, Mr. Yang has already explained to everyone, we must deal with the matter here, and after the fire is extinguished later, you will fill in the soil and then go home, well, then I will leave with Mr. Yang first, we have other important things to do! After setting up the official shelf of the village party secretary, Zhang Zhishu followed the master out of the courtyard with his head held high.
When he came outside, the master hurriedly asked, "Zhang Zhishu, where is Widow Liu now?" By the way, is Liu Zhong's birthday coming? ”
Zhang Zhishu smiled and said: "This matter is actually difficult to say and difficult to do, Liu Zhong's mother never looked down on her daughter-in-law before, if you want to say that Widow Liu is pregnant this time, and say that it is Liu Zhong's child, then Liu Zhong's mother will not be angry after hearing it?" How many years have people been dead, and they can still conceive the bones of the Liu family, isn't this idle nonsense! For this reason, I want Liu Zhong's birthday eight characters, I'm afraid Liu Zhong's mother will not give it, but after all, I am the village party secretary, and I still know some ways to deal with the villagers. ”
Seeing Zhang Zhishu hand over a note to the master, my eyes lit up, and I immediately asked with admiration, "Zhang Zhishu, how did you come down?" How did Liu Zhong's mother give it to you? Under my admiring gaze, Zhang Zhishu straightened his chest again, with a smug face, and seemed to be very satisfied with his work efficiency.
Zhang Zhishu then turned his head and glanced at me, before grinning: "You don't know, in fact, people, it is a heart, as long as you can impress this heart, our villagers here are still very simple and kind, I just said that Widow Liu wants to worship Liu Zhong, but I am afraid that the sacrifice will not be sent over there, I want to come to Liu Zhong's birthday and said, no, Liu Zhong's mother heard it, and knew that Widow Liu was also thinking about his son, so she immediately told me Liu Zhong's birthday, do you say it is simple? ”
"Huh!" I couldn't help but smile and said: "Zhang Zhishu really has a way, he can actually think of this reason, I'm afraid that the sacrifice won't be sent to the underworld, hahaha......"
"Go, go!"
Zhang Zhishu was laughed at by me, thinking that he was playing a big knife in front of the old man's door, after all, the master and I are the people who know this way, and the reason he made up can only fool the villagers who don't know anything, but he can't deceive us, how can the sacrifice be sent to the underworld, it is just a way to remember the dead. Unless the paper money may be burned below, but the paper money is not ordinary paper money, it must be approved by the prefecture, and it must be stamped with real money to reach the underworld. The most effective thing is to burn ingots and silver dollars and so on, that is, gold foil and silver foil, after all, it is hard currency.
Smacking his lips, Zhang Zhishu said helplessly: "Actually, I don't understand this, but if I don't say so, she won't be so willing to give me Liu Zhong's birthday, right?" ”
"Ergou, don't tease Zhang Zhishu anymore!" The master glared at me, and then turned to Zhang Zhishu and said politely: "As long as there are eight characters of birthday, Zhang Zhishu is already immeasurably meritorious this time!" As he spoke, the master took the opportunity to put away Liu Zhong's birthday, and then smiled and saluted Zhang Zhishu.
Zhang Zhishu smiled and asked instead, "Mr. Yang, you, you won't really be able to detain Liu Zhong's ghost from the underworld, right?" ”
I immediately said disdainfully: "Zhang Zhishu, this kind of technique is not rare, what is this, for my master, it is simply easy to capture, isn't it just to detain a ghost, or to detain a Yin soldier and Yin general, it is not a problem." Don't forget, my master is a famous ......."
"Two dogs!" Before I could finish speaking, Master scolded me angrily, then glared at me and said, "Don't talk nonsense! Otherwise, the teacher will not be spared! I don't have the slightest idea when I encounter serious things on weekdays, but there are few people who can compare to you, you, you, I'll clean you up when I go back! Now you give me the honest one, one more word of nonsense, and I'll break your dog's legs! ”
"Uh......" I immediately shut my mouth and didn't dare to talk nonsense anymore, it seems that Master is telling the truth, but it is really not difficult for Master to detain a ghost...... I'm not wrong, why does Master say I'm talking nonsense? But seeing that the master was writing the words non-negotiable, I had to swallow the words into my stomach. Zhang Zhishu on the side smiled bitterly and shook me.
At the west end of the village, Zhang Zhishu stopped in front of a dilapidated courtyard, but saw that this courtyard was simply dilapidated, and the house inside was a small thatched house, and I am afraid that there was only one person who had lived there. Sure enough, Zhang Zhishu opened his mouth and said: "This was once a lonely widow in our village, but she passed away two years ago, and there are no children and no daughters under her knees. ”
The master glanced at the small house and nodded slightly, but when he saw that Zhang Zhishu was about to push open the courtyard door and enter, he hurriedly called Zhang Zhishu to stop: "Zhang Zhishu, let's go in first, you ...... I still need you to prepare some materials......" As he spoke, the master muttered a few words in Zhang Zhishu's ear, but saw Zhang Zhishu turn his head and walk back.
I was stunned and asked, "Master, what materials did you ask Zhang Zhishu to prepare?" ”
"Naturally, it's the material for setting up the altar later." Master said casually: "This small house is so simple, we need the materials to arrange the altar, I'm afraid we don't have anything, but when the time comes, we must detain Liu Zhong's ghost to come up and get together with Widow Liu, if we don't prepare in advance, it will be a big deal!" ”
I thought about it for a while, and then said, "But Master, why are you whispering in Zhang Zhishu's ear?" I can know that, too! ”
Master glared at me and said, "What so much nonsense! This is called entrusting a heavy responsibility, otherwise Zhang Zhishu, as the party secretary of a village, how can he be arranged by the teacher at will! In order to solve the disaster in Niuwa Village as soon as possible, the teacher had to rely on Zhang Zhishu! After speaking, the master pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, but I was still hesitating at the door, why didn't I understand what the master said just now?