Chapter three hundred and eighty first: see the land public
The Tutu Temple is on the hillside behind the village, not very far away, and it is now brightly lit with people offering incense and candles.
Although it is the Earth Temple, no one dares to come up at night because the mud sculptures inside are quite eerie at night, but to Xiao Yu, they have no feeling at all.
In the middle of the Earth Temple is the Earth God, with civil servants and generals on both sides, and bull-headed and horse-faced faces. They all look very powerful, but they have no effect, because the bull-headed and horse-faced noodles will only appear where the city god is. As for the civil servants and generals, they are all collected from the land.
There are Yinde souls, but now it seems that those things do not exist.
"Lord Tutu, long time no see," Xiao Yu stood there and said, cupping his hands towards the earth.
A black light flew out from the earth sculpture, and the figures on the ground gathered together to form the appearance of an old man. This old man was not tall, had a dark face, small eyes, and rosacea. He was not very good-looking, but he was indeed a good-looking earth official conferred by the city god.
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"Taoist Master, you are finally back."
Lao Tutu had a look of surprise on his face, as if he had seen his long-lost relative.
"Why, the landlord is in trouble?"
As Xiao Yu spoke, he took out the food and wine from the bamboo basket and placed them on the offering table.
"Hey...it's not a matter of evil spirits. Recently, a group of evil ghosts came from nowhere. I am too weak to care about it."
"What do you mean?" Xiao Yu made a gesture of invitation.
"What I mean is..." Digong said halfway, then he looked at Xiao Yu, frowned and said, "What happened to the little Taoist Master's loss of life? I think your life span is only one Jiazi."
Xiao Yu smiled and didn't say anything. Instead, he poured himself a glass of wine and said, "Come on, it's the New Year. Let's have a drink first. It's hard work for you, old man, to take care of us."
"Haha...it's still the little Taoist priest who understands the ways of the world."
The landowner waved his hand with a smile, and the wine glass on the table flew up, and he took a sip.
Xiao Yu also drank the white wine in his glass with a slurp, then picked up his chopsticks and said, "Today when I was worshiping the souls, I found that many evil spirits came to the village. I thought that the landowner didn't know about it, but I didn't expect that you already knew about it."
"Well, even if you don't come to me, I will entrust you with a dream and let you come."
The landowner picked up a piece of pig head meat with his chopsticks and smelled it gently, with a look of enjoyment on his face.
"For some reason, the Yin Division opened the communication channel, and some evil spirits took the opportunity to run out. The evil ghosts near Shimo Village came here that time. Last time, an evil ghost wanted to seize my land and official position, and I beat him up.
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"And I heard that these evil ghosts are the weakest, and there are some powerful guys who are about to break through the ghost king. If I encounter those things, I will definitely die."
The Lord of the Land told Xiao Yu about the evil ghost and what he had already reported to the City God! Of course, Xiao Yu also told him the reason why he had lost his life.
"The City God bets on sushi, and he is responsible for the Yangshou to reward the good and punish the evil. Now that the evil ghosts are in power, why don't the Taoist kill the evil ghosts? As long as the retribution is enough, the sushi will definitely increase the Yangshou of the Taoist. It can be regarded as a merit, isn't it?
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After Tu Tu Gong heard about Xiao Yu's story, he immediately paid Xiao Yu's attention.
"The Lord of the Land is right, but I don't know where the ghosts are now. How can I hunt them down in exchange for longevity?"
Killing evil ghosts is indeed a way. Even if the City God does not record it, the Yin Department will record it. At that time, Yangshou will automatically be added to the life and death book.
Two hours later, Xiao Yu left the Earth Temple. Now he only needs to wait for the Earth God to find out where the ghosts are from the city god, and then he can hunt the evil spirits in exchange for longevity. Now it seems that this should be the fastest way.
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On the first day of the new year, Xiao Yu went to the Taoist temple at the entrance of the village to tell fortunes as usual.
It's just that this year, there are so many people here. Most of them come here to visit the temple fair, and also to see if Xiao Yu is really dead.
When Xiao Yu appeared in the Taoist temple again, the people who knew Xiao Yu in the Taoist temple were completely excited. Some old people immediately knelt down in front of Xiao Yu, saying that Xiao Yu was resurrected from the dead and was the reincarnation of a god, which made Xiao Yu dumbfounded.
"Everyone, I am not the reincarnation of a god. I just left for a while and my family doesn't know about it. If you want to have your fortune told, you should still line up and follow the same rules."
Xiao Yu was still sitting in his usual place, while Bai Zimo and others sat behind to watch the fun.
It started with one person and ended with the last person, and it was not until eight or nine o'clock in the evening that everyone dispersed, and the news of Xiao Yu's resurrection spread like a gust of wind throughout the surrounding villages.
"Little fairy, I think this name suits you very well. This reputation is almost surpassing that of my Mr. Bai."
In the evening, standing at the door of the Taoist temple, Bai Zimo joked.
"Brother Bai, I can't compare to you in society. I can only fool people from the countryside. I can't compare to you, a young man from the city."
Xiao Yu smiled, stretched and looked around, then stared at a corner in front of the Taoist temple.
On the first day of the new year, because there are too many people, all kinds of incense cannot be brought into the temple for burning. Therefore, there is an incense burning place set up at odd hours next to the Taoist temple. The incense that pilgrims come to can only be burned outside the door.
If there is too much burning, someone will be needed to take care of this place. The person who manages this place is an old man from the village, and the management fee is one hundred yuan a day.
The old man was using a shovel when he saw ashes of thank you paper piled up. Behind the old man, there was a male ghost floating in the air.
The male ghost was dressed in coarse linen clothes, as if he had lived a long time ago, and this ghost was still an evil ghost, because the ghost's soul was solid, like a real person, and the light yellow will-o'-the-wisps gathered in his eyes, like the flames of two candles.
The ghost stood behind the old man, with one hand wrapped around his chest and the other hand rubbing his chin, as if thinking about something.
"Let's go...".
Xiao Yu greeted a few people and walked towards the old man first, planning to meet the evil ghost on the way to see what the other person was paying attention to.
"Grandpa Sun, you're still busy. It's time to get off work," Xiao Yu greeted from a distance.
Hearing this, the old man raised his head and looked up. When he saw it was Xiao Yu, he couldn't help but smile and said, "Little fairy, have you finished your work? I still have some work to do, and I haven't finished it yet. I'll leave when I'm done. You've been busy all day, so go back first."
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This old man is the son-in-law of Murakami, and he is considered an outsider. The children in the village call him Grandpa Sun. Xiao Yu has also been called him like this since he was a child, but he has little contact with him.
The male ghost behind heard the old man calling Xiao Yu a little fairy and couldn't help but sneer.
"The little fairy that Lao Wang mentioned? What kind of skills can he have at such a young age? Let me try him."
The male ghost stood there and said something to himself, then moved his body and floated towards Xiao Yu, but Xiao Yu stood there and pretended not to see it.
