Part-Time Taoist Priest

Xie Lingya hesitated to speak, because he found that instead of explaining to the old man what the God of Ear Bao is and why he called the God of Ear Bao cute, it is better to let him live. It is not easy at such an age.

"...Yes." Xie Lingya gave the flashlight to the old man, and turned on the flashlight function of the phone himself.

The old man thought about it and said, "I'll stay at my brother's house in the back, and if you have anything to do, call me."

Xie Lingya nodded.

After the old man left, Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan walked into the ancestral hall and turned on the lights by the light.The lights in the ancestral hall are kind of old-fashioned, with the bulbs hanging down and the yellow lights on.

However, the ancestral hall is too big, the light cannot illuminate every place, and the corner is still deep, which looks more unknown and mysterious.

Xie Lingya walked through the courtyard, the shallow courtyard was covered with moss, breathing a deep breath in the darkness.

Xie Lingya walked slowly to the table, where several generations of ancestors' tablets and statues were enshrined. He took three sticks of incense, and planned to use the incense first to say hello and show his respect.

Seeing the situation in the furnace at this time, Xie Lingya turned around and called Shi Changxuan to let him take a look.

Shi Changxuan was looking at the algae well, but he also came over to take a look at this time, and saw that besides the incense ash, there were some black burnt ash in the incense burner, experienced people would know at a glance, "The burner is fired."

Xie Lingya nodded.Furnace means that the incense feet in the furnace burn by themselves, and it is not because the incense is too dense or too large that the incense ash ignites the incense feet, but it burns itself from the bottom up.

Furnaces in temples symbolize the success of the gods, and believers will regard them as one of the miracles.

And if you are enshrining the ancestors yourself, and the fire is fired, it is the ancestors who have something to tell, whether it is good or bad, you need to ask a professional to ask, such as the teacher here.

No one told them about the explosion in the Shang's ancestral hall. It's not like they didn't notice that there are both masters and elderly people here.Xie Lingya thought, there should be other warnings, they have already concluded that the ancestor was angry, so there is no need to say anything.Compared with those movements, this is indeed a trivial matter.

"If the ancestors are really wronged, why can't the masters come to find an answer? Could it be that mana is not enough?" Xie Lingya muttered to himself.

Shi Changxuan said: "In that case, please come and talk about it."

Exactly, if this matter really fell on the ancestors of the Shang family, they would still have to be invited over.

Fortunately, everything is available, Xie Lingya made some preparations, burned incense and prayed, worshiped Taiyi Tianzun, and tried to invite the ancestors of the Shang family.

——Since Xie Lingya's career, no matter whether he invites the gods to summon the soul, he basically tries everything, unless the soul is detained like Hongyang Dao last time.

Therefore, it is self-evident how surprised Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan were when they found out that none of the ancestors of the Shang family would be invited.

It's impossible for all the ancestors of the Shang family to reincarnate. If they really did, what would happen to them?Could it be that he was arrested?It's okay, who would arrest the souls of the ancestors of the merchants?What kind of hatred?

"...There won't be any evil mages, right?" Xie Lingya was puzzled, "But there is still one who pulls wool? It snatches away the souls of people's families."

This is very unreasonable. As the saying goes, old ghosts are not as good as new ones.The descendants of ordinary people always enshrine, the closer they are, the more enshrined, and the distant ancestors gradually stop enshrining. At that time, if the ancestors are still in the underworld without food or clothing, their mental state and strength will certainly not be as good as new ghost.

In addition, the ghosts of ordinary birth, old age, sickness and death are not as powerful as ghosts. If they really want to be detained, normal mages also have a choice, how can they ignore them all.

At this moment, Xie Lingya heard a "click", looked back, but saw nothing.Immediately afterwards, the sound of patter continued, and he realized that it was raining.

Bean-sized raindrops fell on the patio, making a dense sound, and the sound of thunder was faintly heard from the sky.

Xie Lingya walked to the patio, stretched out his hand to feel it, and his palm was immediately wet, "It's raining heavily."

"The weather forecast says there will be thunderstorms tonight, and it should stop after a while." Shi Changxuan said.

Xie Lingya felt relieved and walked back.

As soon as he walked to the side of the beams and columns, there was a flash of white on the patio, and then there was a rumbling thunder, which hit the roof directly, and a thunderbolt hit the eaves of the patio!

Xie Lingya was caught off guard, so Shi Changxuan stretched out his hand and pulled him to his side, protecting him and taking a few steps back.

Behind him, there were several tiles where Xie Lingya was originally standing.

There was a big gap missing in the eaves on the patio, and most of the broken wooden tiles fell into the patio, smashed to pieces with scorched marks.

"Damn it?" Xie Lingya was stunned, the straight-line distance between him and the thunderbolt just now should have been only a few meters, and he was the only one who used the thunder talisman to scare others.

Xie Lingya lost his voice for a while, and he remembered it after a while, howling: "Is there any mistake, my ancestor's master is Sa Zhenjun of Yushu Lei Mansion! Can you talk about favors?"

Shi Changxuan: "..."

This thunderstorm was really shocking. The whole Xiaoba village was woken up. The lights came on one after another, and some people came out to watch. The news spread from the ancestral hall to the end of the village.

The ancestral hall was struck by lightning.

This is a big event in Subaru County, where ancestor worship is prevalent. Many villagers came to the ancestral hall in their pajamas and slippers.

Not to mention the old guards of the ancestral hall, once they came in and saw this, they were not in the mood to ask Xie Lingya how they were doing, they knelt in front of the statue and couldn't get up, they kept chanting in dialect.

The villagers rushed to the ancestral hall one after another. The thunderstorm came and went quickly. When they went out, only the wet ground could prove that it had rained just now.

Dafang's direct descendants also came, they were particularly conspicuous in the crowd, everyone stayed away from them, talking in low voices, and looked in their direction from time to time.

The content of the whispering is nothing more than: "Look, the sky will strike the ancestors with thunder, and you must be lacking in great virtue."

Some people also said that since the Fengshui Pond was filled, many unlucky things happened in the village, and now even the ancestral hall has accidents, which is simply a crime.

The faces of the descendants of Dafang turned green and pale.

The person who advocated filling the pond couldn’t stand it any longer. He ranked fifth, and everyone usually called him Shang Wu. He pulled the old man who was looking at the ancestral hall: “Third Uncle, I’ve stopped working a long time ago. Didn’t you invite the master to come?” ? The master is not optimistic yet?"

The old man wiped away his tears, "Master just arrived today, and he came to see things at night, but there was thunder here."

Following the old man's guidance, Shang Wu saw Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan, and he said in a panic, "You, are you okay? Haven't you communicated with your ancestors yet? Why don't you invite the master class?"

"We have invited two of the most famous master classes in Subaru County. What's the use?" Master Guan, last time in front of so many people in Fengping Village, he helped their teacher look after things!"

Shang Wu froze again.

Xie Lingya didn't mention all the things that the ancestors of the Shang family didn't feel for the time being. Tonight's incident and that Dao Lei were too strange. Xie Lingya felt that he must have overlooked some details, and he needed to organize his thoughts again.

"Mr. Shang, please everyone go to rest tonight, we have to think about this matter again." Xie Lingya pressed the old man's hand.

Looking at Xie Lingya's firm eyes, the other party felt that it was reliable, so he asked everyone to go back to rest, and called a few men to make an appointment to mend the roof tomorrow.

"Then we have to find a bricklayer, our tiles are old tiles..."

A group of people whispered and left the ancestral hall.

Xie Lingya took one last look back at the entire old ancestral hall, and together with Shi Changxuan, went to Pang Yuan's house to rest.

……

It was said to be a rest, but in fact Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan held their mobile phones to search for clues all night, trying to find similar cases from ancient books and Baoyang's notes.

There are too many examples of ancestors making disturbances in the ancestral hall, and the reasons are also varied, but there is no one where the ancestors made troubles while refusing to see the mage to solve the problem.Instead, Xie Lingya found a few ancestors who were about to suffer disasters and warned future generations in advance that they hoped to get help. Xie Lingya transcribed them one by one.

And Xie Lingya recalled that Mr. Shang once mentioned that a cow was killed by Fengshui Pond, and there were two thunderstorms, not far apart, and they both fell. He felt a little weird.In addition, the patriarch is related to Lei Huo, although I don't know if it is related, but when I was looking for it, I also paid attention to accidents involving lightning strikes.

The two of them turned on the lamp to read at night, and their eyes were red.It wasn't until after eight o'clock the next morning that Pang Yuan's daughter came to ask them to eat, and Xie Lingya patted the table: "Damn, I found it! It must be this!"

Shi Changxuan also lifted his spirits, "What?"

Xie Lingya gave him the mobile phone, which is the travel history of a certain master in Baoyang's notes.

This was 200 years ago. The ancestor of Baoyang Temple went to other places to ask questions. On the way, he passed through a wilderness.

When Master saw it, he knew it was going to thunder.

At this time, he saw a small decoration hanging on a small tree. The body was brightly colored, red, black and yellow, intertwined like a brocade. , Now the thundercloud is approaching, and the surrounding area is empty, the little tree may not be able to save its life."

After all, the master took out an ox horn from the burden, which he bought with money saved for a long time, and was going to make the ox horn hexagram.Master held the horn and stretched it out, and the little snake got into it immediately because of its spirituality.

The ancestor's horn was tied to a tree, and he was resting in the distance with an umbrella. After a while, a thunder cloud came, and a thunderbolt came down, smashing the horn to pieces, but the little snake was safe and sound.

After the matter was over, the little snake took the initiative to follow the master and be his next favorite pet.

"A good dragon?" Shi Changxuan's eyes flickered. Although the specific events were different, judging from the core content, they were indeed very similar.

Xie Lingya searched the notes again with the word "good dragon", and found more content, including the knowledge and supplements of generations of masters, which can be described as very detailed.

There is a quote from "Tai Ping Guang Ji", "It is said in the world that obedient dragons suffer from rain, and often hide, and are caught by the god of thunder. Or hide between ancient trees and pillars, or in the wilderness, with nowhere to hide, that is, The horns of a cow or the body of a shepherd boy. They are often exhausted by this thing and shaken to death."

There are also those who say that the dragon hides in people's mouths, or in the middle knuckles.

The ancients believed that the obedient dragon was a kind of dragon, unwilling to hide in the rain and be caught by the god of thunder.

But in Taoism, in Baoyang Temple, it is considered in more detail.The snake is a small dragon. The so-called obedient dragon is actually a snake with spirituality by chance, and this kind of snake is probably of the "water attribute", so it has some abilities in this area.

And "dragon" is of course not something that can be done casually. A good dragon can easily be struck to death by lightning, just like a lightning rod.So they have also developed the ability to hide, they can hide quietly, almost without leaking a trace of breath.

- But, but!It is true that the good dragon is afraid of thunder. Baoyang's notes say that if a Taoist who cultivates thunder talismans raises it, his spells will improve greatly. After all, thunderstorms always appear together.

What happened in Xiaoba Village is basically the same, and this can also explain why Xie Lingya couldn't invite the ancestors of the Shang family.

The ancestors of the Shang family didn't make trouble because of Fengshui Pond at all. They made trouble on the day when the cow was chopped to death. It is very likely that after the good dragon lost the shelter of the horn, he moved to...

Xie Lingya murmured to himself, "Shang's ancestral hall has a history of hundreds of years."

He thought of the big and thick beams and pillars of the Shang's ancestral hall. If the obedient dragon hid in it, the ancestors of the Shang's family would naturally be dissatisfied and began to warn their children and grandchildren.It's a pity that they didn't understand, and the thing that the ancestors of the Shang family feared most happened.

There was thunder, and the lightning struck their ancestral hall.

Ghosts are afraid of thunder and fire, so it's strange that they can invite the ancestors of the Shang family.

And fortunately, it was only a thunderstorm last night. If there were more thunderstorms, wouldn't the eaves of the family's ancestral hall not only rot?

Xie Lingya sorted it out in his mind, and he was basically sure.

Why did the patriarch hint that he came to Xiaoba Village, because there is a good dragon here, and he can buff him after raising it! !

"Our patriarch still loves people. He knows he has something good to think about me." Xie Lingya pretended to wipe away his tears, and then said impatiently, "Brother, go catch the snake!"

Shi Changxuan gave him a funny look, "Go to sleep first."

Although Xie Lingya stayed up all night, he was excited at the moment, and he was a little afraid of long nights and dreams, "I don't feel particularly sleepy."

Shi Changxuan said calmly: "I checked, there has been no thunderstorm in the past two days."

"Okay." Xie Lingya then reluctantly lay down, and Shi Changxuan also lay down on the bed, covering his eyes.

Xie Lingya was plunged into darkness, only the crowing of cocks in the countryside could be heard, tiredness welled up after a while, and he fell asleep.

It was not until the afternoon that the two of them woke up.Xie Lingya was so hungry that he crawled to the main room and devoured a few biscuits before he came back to life. Then he immediately discussed something with Mr. Shang.

When talking about the matter, Shang Lao was supervising the villagers repairing the roof at the ancestral hall. Xie Lingya told him: "We have determined what is causing the trouble."

The old man cheered up, "What?"

"You can't say it," Xie Lingya pointed inside, "otherwise you will be heard."

The old man nodded knowingly, "Then what should we do? You should rectify it quickly."

Xie Lingya whispered: "This needs to be discussed between you and the villagers. There is a cost issue..."

After more than an hour, the sky gradually darkened, and the old man had already consulted the villagers for their opinions.

So, Xie Lingya and Shi Changxuan entered the ancestral hall, Shi Changxuan looked carefully at the location, took the thatch as an occupation, and patted a beam.

Xie Lingya looked at it and showed a weird smile. Last night, he was standing next to this place, and he was almost hit by the tiles that fell from the lightning.Now he suddenly thought of it, and he said why the thunder and lightning didn't give Sazu face, if he hadn't been standing next to him last night, I'm afraid it should have been this beam and pillar, right?

The villagers who repaired the roof moved wood and stone slabs from other places and stacked them up to support the roof of the ancestral hall.

Shang Wu also came along, and he got all of these. Just because of the ancestral hall, how many eyes did he receive, and he bought some wood and stone slabs.

Xie Lingya melted the realgar powder into the varnish, and then painted three layers on the beams and columns.At this time, the villagers cut off the beam and column directly from the top, and several people together helped the beam and column to lay flat on the ground.This beam is one of the main load-bearing columns. After it fell down, the weight of the roof naturally fell on the wood they used as a temporary replacement—the waiters had to find an ancient wood of about the same size as the beam.

Besides, after the beams and pillars were leveled, everyone was shocked when they saw it.

When the ancestral hall was built, high-quality wood was used, and it was specially treated. It is reasonable to say that it will not rot for hundreds of years and is difficult to be eaten by insects. But after cutting it down, I found that there is a hole the size of a teacup in the middle of the beam. !It's so dark, I don't know how deep it is!

Although only Mr. Shang clearly knew the purpose of cutting the beams and pillars, the others were not stupid, and vaguely guessed something, and looked at Xie Lingya and Xie Lingya in awe.

Shang Wu was even more excited, it seemed that there was something in the pillar.If so, wouldn't it have nothing to do with him?The ancestors were angry because the ancestral hall was mothed!

Xie Lingya looked inside the cave and there was no response. Old Shang asked him if he wanted to split it. He shook his head, took a horn that Pang Yuan got, and put it beside the cave.

But there was still no response, Xie Lingya took another handful of dried wormwood, lit it and placed it by the hole, carefully fanning the smoke in with a small cattail fan.

Everyone stared nervously at this scene, especially Shang Wu who couldn't take his eyes off it.

After about a minute or so, they saw with their own eyes that a round snake's head really appeared at the entrance of the cave. It was so thin and small that it was only as thick as a finger of an adult man, and its body was colorful.

I probably made up all kinds of brains before, and when I saw it, I was afraid of nothing, and took a step back.

Although they don't know what an obedient dragon is, they do know that besides weasels, foxes, mice, and hedgehogs, the most evil animals among the people are snakes!It's easy to be a demon!

The little snake poked out of the hole, swung its head twice, and slid into the horns of the bull to occupy itself!

Xie Lingya held the bull's horn and said, "It's because of it these days. After the beams and pillars are replaced, I will invite Master to do it to appease the ancestors, and everything will be fine."

The dozen or so villagers present breathed a sigh of relief, and Shang Wu said excitedly, "Master, do you think it's because of it? Doesn't that have anything to do with my pond filling?"

Xie Lingya smiled, "It doesn't matter, Fengshui pond is indeed good for Fengshui, but the cave in your land is actually in the ancestral hall, here is the dragon's head, and the Xizi pagoda outside is the dragon's horn. This is why some villagers think that Fengshui pond After it was filled, the village was out of luck. In fact, the symbolic event was not the filling of the pond, but the lightning strike of the ox, and the snake was hidden in the horn of the ox that day."

Shang Wu almost yelled up to the sky, I'm finally rehabilitated.

The other villagers also apologized to him awkwardly, "Old Wu, this matter really has nothing to do with you."

Shang Wu was about to burst into tears, and decided to give the master another red envelope in private.

"Master, what should we do with this?" Old Shang asked, pointing to the horn in his hand.

Xie Lingya said: "It's okay, I will take this away and raise it, you don't have to worry about it."

For a moment, everyone looked at them with more complicated eyes. As expected of a master, he dared to raise even this kind of evildoer.

Xie Lingya was about to put away the horns when he heard Liu Lingtong crying: "Can you put it away, I'm afraid—"

Liu Lingtong is still afraid of snakes?Such a timid person, it stands to reason that Wood would not be afraid of snakes, it may be the habit of living souls.Xie Lingya changed his hand to hold it, and whispered a few words of comfort.

……

Because he was in a hurry to settle this obedient dragon, Xie Lingya was determined to rush back tonight.

Mr. Shang hurriedly sealed two bags for them, and before leaving, he said sincerely: "I wish the two masters a smooth future, and the days will be more and more prosperous."

Xie Lingya: "..."

Xie Lingya: "...Thank you."

Accepting Shang Lao's honest blessing, and with Shang Wu's volunteering, he took his car from the village to the station.

Xie Lingya held the horn in his hand and looked inside, the good dragon was only as long and thin as a baby's arm, coiled in the horn, Xie Lingya looked inside, it also raised its head and spit snake letters.

At this time, Guailong also swam out, his body swaying slightly.

For some reason, Xie Lingya was not afraid that it would bite, so he reached out and touched it.Guailong wrapped it around Xie Lingya's wrist smoothly, and wrapped his tail around his middle finger, rubbing against his wrist.

Guailong's obedience originally meant to be eccentric and surly, but in Xie Lingya's hands, it seemed to mean obedient.

Shang Wu saw from the rearview mirror that sweat was about to come down.

Xie Lingya approached the bull's horn with his hand, but Guailong didn't go down. It seemed that Xie Lingya's hand was more attractive to it than the bull's horn.

Shi Changxuan also smiled and said in a low voice: "It's safer to stay in your hands."

Xie Lingya remembered what was said in the book, "That's right, if you want to chop, you must first..." He paused in the middle of the sentence, understood, and laughed, "Damn it, who the hell would hack me!"

No wonder the obedient dragon didn't resist at all, Xie Lingya raised his hand and said, "Concentrate on adding buffs to Mr. Xie, Mr. Xie will protect you!"