door god biography

The lively afternoon passed quickly. At around 4:[-] in the afternoon, Chen Ze got up and said goodbye to his parents and brother-in-law. Since Shi Gong was enshrined at home, unless it was unavoidable, Chen Ze rarely Choose to live out.

When we arrived at the station, it was 4:20, just in time to catch the last bus to Nanyuan Town, buy a ticket and get on the bus, within half an hour, Chen Ze could see the sign of Nanyuan Station through the window up.

After getting off the car, Chen Ze actually saw his Erhei again at the station. It still had that calm and majestic look, making Chen Ze, a human being, feel ashamed when he saw it.

Following Erhei all the way home, after a simple dinner, Chen Ze looked through the almanac at home, and found that today is the fourteenth day of the lunar calendar, so tomorrow will be the fifteenth day, and it's time for paper offerings.

The so-called offering paper is the yellow paper that people have to burn for a long time when offering sacrifices. This thing is very common in the two immortals. When his grandfather invited the door god, he had promised that if there was a door god, he would accept them. They are willing to offer three pillars of fragrance every day, a plate of offerings, burning paper offerings on the first and fifteenth day of the new year, and offering sacrifices to livestock during festivals.

Chen Ze didn't know how many years he had invited Mr. Shi to their home, but since he could remember, this agreement has been faithfully fulfilled in their home without interruption.

Even when Chen Ze was admitted to university and had to live on campus for a few years, he left the key to the door for Aunt An across the door and asked her to help take care of the shrine in his home.

Chen Ze came to the cabinet where the joss paper offerings were usually stored, and opened the sliding door to see that there were only a few thin sheets of paper offerings left.

Seeing this, Chen Ze had no choice but to find out those things that he hadn't used for a long time, and prepared to make some paper supplies again.

The paper used by their family has never been the yellow paper that can be bought anywhere on the street. Chen Ze has always kept his grandfather's warning in mind, and went to the wholesale market in the city to buy the best bamboo rice paper. , and then collect the rainwater that falls at the dawn of spring, the dew that condenses at a certain time in summer, the frost that falls at Shenshi in autumn, and the snowflakes that fall at Haishi in winter.

Combine these kinds of water from the sky, add the branches and leaves of the century-old peach tree in your yard, seal them together in clay pots, soak them for 81 days, and wait until the pots are opened , only a light yellow, slightly viscous liquid can be seen in the jar, which is the peach pulp they use to make paper offerings.

Apply the light yellow liquid evenly on the fine rice paper with a brush, and the liquid will quickly seep into the rice paper, and the whole paper will turn a light apricot yellow. This kind of paper is their old age. Paper offerings for household offerings.

It turned out that although Chen Ze did the same thing, he didn't understand why he did it. It wasn't until he was able to communicate with Shi Gong that Shi Gong answered his doubts.

Shi Gong said that their gods enjoy the paper offerings, but they don’t use those papers. What they want to enjoy is the spiritual power in the paper offerings and the sincerity of the people who make the offerings. The things that he burnt a lot are all in vain, because those who have a fairy position can't feel his offerings at all. This is what the world often says.

And the reason why Chen Ze's grandfather asked him to do this was to integrate the energy of the four seasons and attract the surrounding aura to gather. He used peach branches and leaves as a carrier to let the aura attach to it, so that what mortals desire The things about him will be transmitted to the gods he enshrines along with the aura, and will be perceived by the gods.

Chen Ze was very surprised when he heard the words. He was just a young man, and he thought of improving these paper offerings, such as changing bamboo rice paper to grass, and peach branches and leaves to other trees.

If it weren't for the fact that the water of the four seasons is really difficult to collect and cannot withstand his whimsical ideas, maybe the new version of the paper supply can really be improved by him.

Shi Gong has no opinion on his inventions and creations. What he wants to enjoy is the spiritual power and power of faith in the paper offering. The other branches and leaves are just things that some immortals will care about. For the immortals who have reached his level, there is really no big difference between them, but the speed of absorption is different.

When Chen Ze's grandfather was making paper offerings, the reason why he chose peach trees was because of two reasons.

The first is that it is convenient to use materials. There is an old peach tree in the yard of their house. The peach tree belongs to yang.

The second is because of where he came from. Since he was enlightened, he has lived on the peach tree for a long time, and the breath of the peach tree is the closest, so it is the most suitable.

The rice paper had already been cut, and the brush had been washed long ago. Chen Ze carefully opened the stored peach syrup, and brushed it on the rice paper bit by bit with the brush.

In order to save time and less trouble, Chen Ze has to make a lot of paper offerings every time, or use up the peach juice he saved, or use up the rice paper he bought, in short He won't stop without a head.

As soon as a person has something to do, the time will pass very quickly. By the time Chen Ze finishes painting the thick stack of rice paper, it will be almost 11 o'clock in the evening.

Chen Ze looked at the quartz clock hanging on the wall, washed the writing brush that had been used for several hours, dropped it into the pen container beside him, straightened up, moved his hands and feet and said, "It has been such a long time , no wonder I feel sore and tired.”

He put the newly prepared paper offerings and the jar of peach pulp into the cabinet dedicated to storing offerings, got up and went back to the bedroom to rest.

The next day, when Chen Ze made an offering to his family's door god, he seemed to hear Shi Gong's comfortable sigh in a vague way. He pursed his lips and smiled in satisfaction, knowing that this time the paper offering was very successful.

Satisfied, Chen Ze went back to the house, took out his big iron bucket and shovel that had not been used for a long time, and came to the small river in the town.

By the side of the small river, Chen Ze picked fine sand and stones and shoveled them into the bucket. After a while, the bucket was half full. When he saw that there was no usable sand and stones around, Chen Ze stopped the shovel and picked up the bucket. Returned to his home with the half bucket of fine sand.

When I got home, I found the ladder, carried the half-bucket of sand to the roof of the main house, and evenly threw it on the roof.

Afterwards, he sent the empty bucket back to the ground, but he returned to the roof and began to push a stone wheel roller on the roof, walking back and forth on the roof non-stop.

The reason why Chen Ze wanted to do this was to compact the roof and prevent rain from leaking inside the house. To be honest, this was a very helpless choice.

The courtyard where Chen Ze lives now has a front and a wing, two rooms in total and four rooms in total. It is said that the two rooms in the main room were built by his great-grandfather, which may have a history of 80 or 90 years. The house was built by his grandfather when his father got married, and it has a history of more than 30 years.

The two rooms in the wing room are okay to say, they are built with bricks and cement, and the roof is also covered with prefabricated boards and then plastered with cement, so the waterproof effect is still good.

What is even more frustrating is that the two main houses are all built of adobe sandstone, and even the roof is the same, without a single tile.

Therefore, all the rainproof and leakproof works of the old house have to be done manually. Every spring and autumn, Chen Ze has to go to the roof when the weather is good, and push the stone roller on the roof to go back and forth. It is to compact the roof to prevent it from growing grass. The more compact the roof is, the better the waterproof effect will be.

Chen Ze couldn't explain the reason for this. Anyway, the old house of their family has been maintained in this way for decades, and the effect is good. After so many years, it has never been missed.

As for the fine sand, it is used to thicken the roof. Long-term wind and rain and the rolling of stone rollers will make the roof thinner and thinner, so the people living inside have to Add some fine sand to the roof from time to time.

This kind of work is often done by Chen Ze, and he is already familiar with it. He finished all the work before the sun was hot. surface abnormality.

Chen Ze's home is in a high place in the town, and now he is standing on the roof, his natural perspective is even wider, he can now clearly see that the health center in the west of the town is glowing with a strange red light.

Chen Ze didn't know if other people could see the strange light like him, but he could hear the noise in the health center, even half a town away, Chen Ze could hear the noise. It can be seen that something special should have happened.

Thinking of this, Chen Ze quickly climbed down from the roof, pushed open the courtyard door and walked towards the hospital. Behind him, Erhei flicked his tail and followed lightly.