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At the first stone bridge to be overhauled, several disciples of Master Ji were already waiting there. They came one step ahead and checked the bridge according to the example of previous years.

"Fortunately, the stone is not very good, otherwise, the stone lion's head might fall off."

These days, bridge builders are not a single type of work. They need to do a lot, including carpentry, brick burning, and glue boiling. In addition, there is carving. Of course, this kind of carving Compared with Ji Mo's professional level when he was a sculptor, but also higher than the middle level.

Since ancient times, rivers and rivers have been turbulent, and they always bring some troubles to both sides of the river during the wet season. This makes people feel awe of this natural phenomenon. They think of water gods and river gods, and they have to worship and sacrifice. If you want incense, there will naturally be some corresponding folk customs, such as town water beasts and the like.

Water-suppressing beast is a general term. The common water-suppressing beasts include iron ox, stone rhinoceros, stone lion, etc. They are used in different ways. They can be directly submerged into the water as a substitute for bridge piers to support the shelf when the bridge is built. The shelf is removed, and the sinking water town beast is only used as a sacrifice. Its specific function may also have the effect of filling an underwater vortex and artificially flattening the river bed.

It can also be used as a decoration at the bridge head, which has the meaning of praying. For example, the modeling and setting on many stone bridges, after walking a distance, you can see a small stone lion squatting on the raised part of the railing, which looks quite cute.

No matter what it is, the town water beast usually adopts a squatting posture, and occasionally stands, but it is also as immobile as a mountain, to show the meaning of "sitting in town".

If the town water beasts are submerged, they are big, heavy, and inconvenient to carry, that’s fine. No one will steal and it’s not easy to do tricks, but those stone lions squatting on the railing are not so Good luck, there are always some, trying to steal the stone lion.

Cutting open the junction of the stone railings, if you can’t remove it from the base, take a complete one, just steal a lion’s head, I don’t know what they used for stealing these. There are many customs in ancient times, which are very annoying. It is difficult to understand the specific reason, if we say it, it is related to superstition.

For example, there is a superstition like this. It is said that the stone lions on the stone bridge have the effect of suppressing nightmares. If you take it home and put it in a fixed position, such as the head of the pillow, it can calm the nerves or improve Feng Shui. It is Feng Shui Inevitability in the game.

With function, there is value, and even such seemingly ordinary things are sought after.

Of course, people's basic aesthetics are still there. If such things are beautifully carved, exquisitely carved, and the material of the stone is good, with fine textures, etc., then they will all be stolen overnight.

Even the ordinary ones, there are also those who can't afford the expensive ones and want to buy cheap alternatives. Therefore, this time, I came to see that the stone lion's head is missing two more, which is also reasonable. Fortunately, there are only two shorts. As long as the stone bridge is stable and does not change, there will be no more troubles.Everyone took it for granted, and when they saw it, they just pretended not to see it.

"If the material of this stone is good, I'm afraid it won't be able to stand today."

There was a bit of bitter irony in this statement.

Ji Mo commented like this, but what he thought of was the fall of the Leifeng Pagoda. Each person smoked a brick. It seemed that everyone didn't get much. What happened?

He also thought of a real example that his grandma once told him. The old community where they lived used to have no greening at all. It was adjacent to the street, and only the trees on both sides of the road were still green.

Later, reforms and changes were made with each passing day, so some leaders placed stone tables and benches in a relatively spacious place beside the road. The stone tables and benches with some antique meanings are made of a kind of white stone that looks a little bit broken in the sun. The feeling is quite advanced.

As a result, I only saw them neatly for one day, and when I looked again the next day, half of them had disappeared. After that, there were fewer and fewer of them day by day. disappeared without a trace.

The originally planned activity place in the community disappeared because of this. Later, I planned some fitness equipment. My grandma went there to check the heels and found that they were fixed on the ground. I was relieved. It is said that this time it will not be moved away.

That sounded funny, and Ji Mo laughed at that time, thinking that grandma was a model of unreasonable worry, who would move that kind of thing, but the slap in the face came too fast, and one of the small equipment seemed to be somewhat interesting, It disappeared within two days, and grandma said that she didn't know who moved to the house.

This kind of thing that takes advantage of the public is really commonplace in the era of incomplete monitoring and material scarcity.

There are times like this in modern times, not to mention ancient times. A bridge is placed here. Everyone says that the bridge is useful, but there are those who look at the bricks and stones on the bridge and think that it is more useful to move them to their own homes. Regardless of the interests of the public, they directly pried the bricks and took them away.

This kind of special destruction is really impossible to prevent. It is inspected every year, and it is just to report the situation seen. If it is not worse (the bridge collapsed), it is already very good.

"Okay, the structure is still there, don't worry about it."

Master Ji personally took a look around and looked at a few key points, and found that there was nothing wrong with it, so he ignored it.

These trivial matters cannot be pursued, and it is not something they can pursue.

After leaving, some disciples did not follow, and some disciples waited at the second bridge. The same inspection was carried out, and everyone was checked to make sure that there was no problem. When leaving again, some people followed, and some did not follow.

It took Ji Mo a while to understand that this is a bit like a free choice of topics in college. With so many bridges, is it possible that he is not good at each bridge?There is always something you are good at, and you don’t need to read if you are good at it. If you are not good at it, follow along, check for omissions and fill in the gaps, and then listen to what the master said to see where the specific key is. Everyone’s progress is different, according to your actual situation Just come.

Master Ji does not make any demands on this. The master leads the door to practice according to the individual. It is their business whether the disciples pay attention or not. , there is nothing wrong with that.

Going back and forth like this, walking in circles, Master Ji is always accompanied by some people. These disciples come from different places, and the news is also varied, as small as trivial, those things that women think men will not pay attention to, but they actually care about it. , When it comes to the change of officials, whether it is good or bad, they can say a few words, and there are a few gossips, which widow's front door is not clean, which old man is messing around, and the parents are short-sighted, they can also say a thing or two. Thirdly, there are occasional fantasies about the lover of his dreams, man, sex, wealth and wealth, if you want to be a holy monk, you must first improve your cultural level!

These rough guys spend less time at home and more time outside. They say they are well-informed, but they are somewhat uneducated. The good color and delicious food in the surroundings are always the same.

Among them, the imagination of the future is as pale as water, but it is nothing more than building a bridge by oneself after completing studies, prestige, ability, how much money can be earned in it, and how to deal with people, few of them can explain clearly.

Looking at them, Ji Mo thought of one word - "simple". Rather than saying that many people have the spirit of craftsmanship and know how to focus on one skill all their lives, it is better to say that what they see is superficial, and they only have the skill in front of them. The way, if you focus, you can eat and drink safely.

It is precisely such a group of rough men who are able to do the same job for more than ten years, without looking forward to things that they can't understand.

The mind is full of this skill, this matter, how good you want, is limited by your personal ability, I am afraid that you are limited by your talent, you may not be able to, if you want to be bad, unless you are inattentive, the degree of badness is also limited.

After being cultivated in this way, they are generally at the middle level, neither too high nor too low. If someone is willing to study, they may not be able to go higher in the future, but that is not the skill of the Ji family.

Master Ji is very open about this. He focuses on cultivating Ji Mo, so he takes Ji Mo with him. The other disciples come and go with him. Just like this, as the route changes, they gradually go to the deep mountains. In places that are inaccessible, bridges and roads have been built, and there is little contact with the outside world, so the folk customs show a bit of isolation and a sense of xenophobia.

When they arrived, it was the sacrificial ceremony before the flood season. There was a wizard in this village. Before coming, Master Ji told Ji Mo not to run around, and told Wang Shizhu to take good care of Ji Mo, " This is not a place to play around, if you are not careful, you will be caught by the tiger that eats children."

Master Ji scares Ji Mo, he seldom says such a thing, even his pretended sternness can't scare Ji Mo, but since he said that, there must be a reason.

Ji Mo responded honestly, guessing that there might be some tigers, leopards and wolves in this mountain, perhaps because he was afraid that he would be caught by these wild beasts. The mouths of wild beasts are also tricky, old people are dry, young are strong, only children , easy to hunt and easy to eat, there are always some beasts willing to attack human children.

As a result, when they got there, they happened to meet the priest, so they didn't move forward. Master Ji led the people, and stopped very cautiously at a distance, without going forward.

Ji Mo looked at the sorcerer in black robes and colorful feathers on the bank over there directing people to throw "sacrifices" into the river. The "sacrifices" on the tray were clearly children, four or five years old, with mouth Wrapped in a red cloth, she couldn't cry, she just whimpered, tied a red rope around her body, and was thrown into the river like a stone.

The turbulent river submerged the child's head almost instantly, making the child never meet again in the waves.

There seemed to be someone crying on the shore, or praying. The long singing, accompanied by the lingering cigarettes, just beside the bridge, clearly performed a ghost break.

Ji Mo opened his eyes wide in shock. When a certain scene in the textbook appeared in front of his eyes, but no wise official came to stop it, all they could do was watch.