After everyone entered the temple, the old man stood up and limped to the side.
In fact, he really didn't understand what to do with temple blessings.
He is a fortune teller. Although he is considered a Taoist priest, a Taoist priest and a temple priest are two different things.
Taoist priests have the responsibilities of Taoist priests, but to be honest, the temple Zhu is just a part-time worker responsible for the incense. In fact, anyone can be a priest.
But in the eyes of the uninformed, they are all spiritual people anyway, so it is better to do temple blessings with "knowledge", which will be more effective.
The uncle couldn't shirk it, and since he could earn more by doing temple blessings, he reluctantly agreed.
So, when he arrived here, he directly regarded it as his old Taoist temple.
Sweep the floor and recite sutras.
But his appearance made him even more mysterious in the eyes of the ignorant villagers.
After he got up, he came to a small table next to him. On the table, there was a pair of cards, and there was also a piece of something like a marriage sign hanging on the back.
This is what he uses to eat.
There is a fortune teller in the temple. Is this reasonable?
This is very reasonable.
Is it reasonable that fortune telling is also a temple blessing?
This is also very reasonable.
As for this being a Locust Temple and not a Guanyin Temple, is anyone paying attention to this?
Not really~
That's how the people here are.
I was afraid of the locust plague, so I built the temple in three days;
Afraid that the clay statues will break into pieces, they will condemn each one like a child under the throne of the gods;
In order to seek peace, everyone burns incense and prays to God, just to protect their own peace;
But although they seem to be worshiping gods, they unabashedly reveal their selfishness to the gods, and pray to the gods for their desires and greed without hesitation.
Just like they know that the gods are fake, they will express some of their inappropriate wishes in prayer.
God knows about this and the earth knows that I know that you don't know, so it's very safe.
Although a temple blessing was invited, a stall was set up next to it when it was supposed to be a prayer that disaster would not come, but it happened to be a sign of marriage.
He seems to be worshiping God, but he has no God in his heart.
Some of them may be truly pious, but these people cannot separate themselves from others. Once you stand with them, whether their piety is firm or not is also a question mark.
There are not many steps to invite gods into the temple.
After the statue of the god is placed on the high seat, the temple blessing begins to sing congratulations.
Fang Yu listened to the uncle reciting a long passage of Taoism in a serious manner. He simply did not forget the words, which made the whole ceremony full of sense. Even he felt as if something mysterious and mysterious was lingering in the temple.
Of course, this is just an illusion caused by the environment.
After reading the congratulatory message, it's time for the confession.
At this time, the village chief stood up.
At this time, there was a dense crowd of people standing outside the temple.
After the village chief came out, he began to read his proclamation aloud to the Locust God who was sitting there.
The so-called confession is actually a letter written to God.
The letter was filled with information about which village we were in, how many people there were, how many acres of land we had, what the current situation was like, the situation was urgent, and we asked the Locust God to bless us.
Anyway, after listening to it all, Fang Yu followed the village chief and finally threw the notice into the brazier, burned it as a memorial to the gods, and then knelt down and worshiped again.
There was a roar, and everyone inside and outside the temple knelt down.
Fang Yu is no exception.
But after he knelt down, he found that no matter how the people behind him were in a daze or deserted before, when they knelt down now, everyone was actually very sincere!
After three prostrations, it was eerily quiet inside and outside the temple, with only the sound of prostrations.
After kneeling down and worshiping, they stood up again, and everyone's faces were still solemn.
But in Fang Yu's opinion, these villagers seemed to take this ceremony seriously.
It's like saying, I knelt down, I prayed, and my prayers are considered to be told to you.
Then, you will answer my prayer next.
This feeling is very obvious, and Fang Yu's spiritual cultivation can directly perceive this situation.
He had a hunch that if there really was no locust plague in Taguchi Village next, then many of the people present might actually become sincere believers and truly worship the Locust God as a god.
But if there is a locust plague, these people will instantly think that the gods have not responded to their prayers. At that time, these people will not be afraid of any gods under extreme emotions and rush to the Locust Temple.
That's all possible.
This feeling made Fang Yu feel inexplicably terrible.
Although the so-called policy of obscuring the people in ancient times did prevent the people at the bottom from learning too much and unable to shake the status of the top leaders.
But no matter how stupid they are, at most they don't have enough knowledge, but their thinking still exists. The lack of knowledge makes their thinking more direct and explosive.
As the saying goes, when a man is angry, his blood will be splashed ten steps.
Here, if someone says he wants to kill your whole family, he will probably kill your whole family.
Everyone here is pretty.
Why is the status of businessmen so low here? Because when it comes to trading, whoever is smart makes money. Those who lose money think that the money maker is cheating on them. In this way, businessmen are not trustworthy.
Not being trustworthy is the most despised thing in this era.
Over time, businessmen have become synonymous with fraud. In addition, businessmen pursue profit, and the poor and the rich are naturally at odds with each other, so they despise business.
But for this reason, once a businessman accepts his identity, their resistance to fraud and extortion will be very low. After all, this is what the world says, and he has to accept it even if he doesn't accept it.
The more money he makes, the less psychological burden he feels.
After praying to the gods, the next step is for everyone to burn incense.
It was obviously night, but there was still an endless stream of people in the temple. The fortune tellers nearby had already begun to nod, and there were still people coming in.
There is no way, although it is night, but this is the time for everyone to finish praying to the gods. For them, they have come, and they will not be able to go back to sleep at night without burning some incense.
After everyone had finished burning, the incense burner was already filled with incense sticks, each one spread out like a ball.
After the uncle closed the temple gate, the entire Taguchi Village fell into silence again.
The sounds of insects chirping and frogs chirping in the fields slowly sounded, and everything returned to its former peace.
In the next few days, it seemed as if the Locust Temple really worked.
The information about the locust plague in the neighboring county will soon be settled, and everything seems to be calm. The Locust Temple was very popular at the beginning, and there was an endless stream of people coming and going every day.
But gradually no one went in to pay homage anymore.
Only about a week has passed, and when I go to Miaoli later, I basically go to the temple to have my fortune told, and to burn incense sticks to bless my family's health.
Because the Tutu Temple here is still relatively far away from Taguchi Village.
Now the villagers of Taguchi Village actually regard this locust god as the land.
But this seemingly calm situation failed to affect Fang Yu.
Judging from the main mission, this locust is bound to come.
It was not that Fang Yu didn't think of escaping during this period of time.
But if you think about it carefully, at the flying speed of locusts, if they travel for a month, they may not be able to fly as far as they can in a day.
Moreover, after running away, they have to re-establish a shelter, so the gain outweighs the loss.
Therefore, Fang Yu stayed silently.
Then he chopped firewood and hunted every day.
With the hatchet, Fang Yu used it to cut several wooden spears and hunted several animals in the forest with the wooden spears.
Two rabbits, a pheasant, and even Fang Yu discovered traces of a wild boar during the process. By increasing his force value through traps, he successfully killed the wild boar, which weighed about a hundred pounds.
In the past few days, he brought these animals home in a basket on his back, usually when it was dark, so no one noticed that he was hunting.
Fang Sanduo felt even more at ease with so much meat in his house. He hung up all the meat and marinated it to make dried meat.
Silently, few people knew that Fang Yu had so much food hidden in his house.
After so many days, Fang Sanduo thought that the locust plague might have passed, so he wanted to persuade Fang Yu not to work so hard. However, Fang Yu's words made him fall into deep thought.
"Even if there is no locust plague, is it wrong for us to get more food?"
Yes... Even if there is no locust plague, is it wrong to get more food?
Fang Yu's words directly woke up Fang Sanduo, who was a little dizzy because of having these supplies.
Yes, they are all hungry tree bark eaters.
When he was eating tree bark, he thought that if he could survive, he would buy a lot of food, so much that it could support them to death.
As a result, after only a few days of peace and quiet, these lessons were forgotten?
Fang Sanduo reached out and slapped himself on the face.
What does this little food count for?
Not enough for a year!
Enough shit!
As a result, Fang Sanduo never mentioned stopping hunting again.
His original intention was actually to save Fang Yu from having to work so hard, chopping wood and hunting.
But now I believe that only by being tired can I have a good life. Anyway, my nephew is very strong, so this is considered as exercise.
So during the following period, Fang Sanduo was not idle. During this time, he was learning skills from an old carpenter in the village.
In fact, it doesn’t count as studying. I just go there every day to chat and take a few glances.
At his age, even if he wanted to learn, this old carpenter wouldn't accept him.
Too old.
If it weren't for the hidden danger of the locust plague, he would have planned to farm two fields and continue to do the agricultural work he was good at.
As time continues to pass, Fang Yu's house has been built more than half. In order to stack firewood, a shed was built on half of it, and the earthen house was temporarily used as a firewood house.
The locust plague should be coming soon.
Because Fang Yu has noticed that the forest where wood is cut has lost a lot of activity recently, as if all the animals here are dead.
The cows, chickens, ducks, dogs and other animals in the village have also become extremely restless in the past few days, barking continuously.
Such signs are very obvious, and the people in the village are not stupid. In the past two days, the Locust Temple, which had been sparsely visited, once again ushered in a peak of incense. Every day, the incense burner in the Daye Temple was half-empty.
But under such circumstances, the locust plague finally came...
In the room, Fang Yu was opening the map and looking at the surrounding terrain, wondering which direction to run if something happened.
As a result, just as he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard shouting and screaming coming from outside.
"Locusts!!! The locusts are coming!!!"
"Everyone, go home quickly! The locust plague is coming!!"
"Locust God! We have the Locust God! The Locust God appears quickly and lets your divine insects leave!!!"
………
Fang Sanduo and Huang Mei in the room also heard the shouting, and the three of them ran out of the room quickly. Then, they saw a scene that made their jaws drop.
Covering the sky and blocking out the sun.
The locusts that cover the sky and the sun are attacking Taguchi Village in the distance like a dark cloud.
"Buzz buzz..."
The sound of millions or even tens of millions of locusts flapping their wings together makes people feel like they have an irregular heartbeat.
The sound came from far to near. One second the locusts were far away in the horizon, and the next second they were close to the village!
Fang Yu and Fang Sanduo didn't even have time to take a closer look. Amidst the annoying and slightly nauseating buzzing sound, they lifted up the chicken coop outside. The chickens inside were still screaming "Yo yo yo".
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After carrying the chicken coop into the room, Fang Yu quickly went to the woodshed next door to pick up two bundles of firewood, and immediately entered the door. As soon as he closed the door, it looked like a big snake was swimming outside the door, and a black shadow flashed across the window.
Originally, the windows were made of screens, but these windows were covered with paper. Under the impact of the locusts, they almost broke immediately.
Fortunately, Fang Sanduo learned some carpentry skills a few days ago. Under Fang Yu's suggestion, they covered the doors, windows and even the chimney.
Just like the window, Fang Yu and the others made a solid wood hinged window inside. After closing the two wooden boards, the entire window was blocked.
The locusts outside kept attacking the wooden boards, leaving behind a sound similar to a woodpecker pecking wood.
There were so many locusts that the moment they rushed over, all the light outside disappeared in an instant.
After the room fell into darkness for several minutes, the light gradually returned again.
At this time, locusts were flying around in the room, and they had a very unpleasant and pungent smell!
"ah!!"
Although farmers of this era, both men and women, were much more tolerant of flying insects and beasts than modern people.
But this scene of a room full of giant grasshoppers flying everywhere is still very nerve-wracking.
Not to mention Huang Mei, even Fang Sanduo had a bit of a stress reaction at this time.
Just like when northerners came to the south for the first time, they encountered enthusiastic giant cockroaches, also commonly known as southern cockroaches.
Fang Sanduo rushed into the kitchen, picked up the lid of the wooden pot, and shot the flying locusts in a fatal sequence.
Huang Mei next to her also kept swatting the locusts in the room with her clothes.
But there seemed to be more and more locusts in the room.
Fang Yu's eyes are the sharpest, and his skills are also more vigorous.
Instead of using a weapon like a hatchet, which could easily cause accidental damage, he grabbed a chopstick and smashed it at the locusts flying in the air.
The locusts and the chopsticks often split into two as soon as they touched each other, as if the chopsticks were like a knife.
Neither Fang Sanduo nor Huang Mei noticed this.
In Fang Yu's eyes, a layer of invisible Gang Qi had already popped up from the edge of the chopsticks. All the locusts that touched the edge of the Gang Qi had their heads removed and fell to the ground without exception.
While Fang Yu was cleaning up the locusts, she paid attention to the doors, windows and the location of the chimney.
Sure enough, the wooden hinged window that was originally closed was now knocked out by the locusts, and locusts entered the room one after another like rain.
Fang Yu hurriedly stepped forward, used brute force to reset the hinged window, and then pushed back hard. The locusts still in the crack were immediately squeezed into pulp, and the entrance was completely blocked by Fang Yu.
After checking again, there was a hole in a corner near the threshold, and locusts were crawling in. Fang Yu picked a piece of firewood and poked it in, blocking it as well.
After preventing the locusts from invading the room again, Fang Yu and Huang Mei killed the remaining locusts that were still flying in the room one by one.
In the room, only a little light shines through the gaps between the doors and windows that are not completely closed. Locusts cannot get in through this gap, but they can transmit light, making the house dimly lit.
After all the locusts were killed by the three men, the ground was almost covered with locust corpses. Huang Mei and Fang Sanduo sat on wooden stools, breathing heavily.
The whole room was filled with a strange smell.
Panting, Fang Sanduo and Huang Mei's faces suddenly became paler and paler, then their throats moved, and then they bent down...
"Ugh..."*2
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