If trouble comes to find you, no matter how tightly you shut your mouth and no matter how silent you are, you won't be able to escape. What should come will eventually come, and what should be faced must be faced.
Just when we were about to reach the foot of Mengquan Mountain, a man appeared in front of us. The guy was sitting on a small bench, holding a bamboo strip in his hand, making a lantern there.
Beside his feet, there were several ready-made white lanterns. The white lanterns hanging at the entrances of the merchants on Guquan Old Street seem to be exactly the same as the ones at this guy’s feet!
"Who is that man?" I asked Yue Furong.
“I don’t know the real name of a lantern maker, but everyone calls him the lamplighter.” Yue Furong said.
"The lamplighter?" I looked at Yue Furong with doubtful eyes and asked, "Did he hang those white lanterns on both sides of Guquan Old Street?"
"You have to ask him about this." Yue Furong Fleur said.
I walked over and said to the lamplighter with a smile.
“The lantern you made looks pretty good!”
“Do you need to hang one at the door of your shop?” the lamplighter asked me.
"Although it looks good, my store is not suitable." I smiled and asked, "You hang all the white lanterns in front of the merchants on the street?"
"I only do Lanterns, don’t hang lanterns,” said the lamplighter.
"Who took it to hang it?" I asked.
"Whoever wants to open a store there will come to me to buy and hang it." said the lamplighter.
I wanted to get something out of the lamplighter, but after chatting with him for a few words, I found that I couldn’t get anything out of him, so I didn’t continue chatting with him. of nature.
"Are you going up the mountain?" When I turned around and was about to leave, the lamplighter stopped me.
“We have already reached the foot of the mountain, so of course we have to go up the mountain!” I replied to the lamplighter with a smile.
“It’s easy to get lost when going up the mountain with empty hands, so you’d better buy a lantern to carry!” said the lamplighter.
Buying a lantern? At first glance, the lantern of the lamplighter is no ordinary lantern. It gives me the feeling that it has a bit of evil nature. There are already many ghosts on Mengquan Mountain, so I always felt that it would seem a little inappropriate to carry a lantern with such evil nature up the mountain.
"Do you need a lantern?" I looked at Yi Ba, wanting to hear his opinion.
Yi Ba did not answer my question directly, but looked at Yue Furong.
“You brought us here, tell me if we need a lantern!”
“The lantern of the lamplighter can be used to illuminate the shade path. Bring one. Be prepared," Yue Furong said.
"Then let's take one away." Yi Ba chose one among the white lanterns, and then asked the lanternlighter: "How do you sell this lantern?"
"Not in exchange for gold or silver, just a small favor." The lamplighter paused and said, "Today I gave you a lantern. If you ask for anything in the future, you have to reciprocate."
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This lamplighter is really interesting.
"Okay!" Yi Ba nodded and said, "As long as you can help and can do it, as long as you ask, I will definitely help."
Pick up After getting the lanterns, we headed towards Mengquan Mountain.
“I still don’t quite understand, what’s the trouble with the lamplighter?” I asked Yue Furong when we were halfway up the mountain.
"He is like this. No matter he is a good guy or a bad guy, he will send lanterns. It can be said that everyone who has walked that road just now, whether human or ghost, owes him a favor. ." Yue Furong said.
"I owe him a favor, why did he save so many favors?" I asked Yue Furong with some confusion.
"Favors are like books. When you need to use them, Fang Henshao!" Yue Furong paused and said: "The lamplighter is very smart. As for the lanterns he put up, he can sell them. It only costs a few dollars, but if you exchange it for favors, it will be of much greater use."
Yue Furong took Yi Ba and me over the top of Mengquan Mountain and walked to the mountainside on the back. When I was walking, I noticed a building appeared in front of me. Judging from the appearance of the building, it looks like an ancestral hall.
"Are you going to take us there?" I asked Yue Furong, pointing to the building.
"Yes!" Yue Furong nodded and said: "That is the ancestral hall of hundreds of families. The ancestors of any family can be worshiped there. But now, that place has completely changed."
"Why?" I asked.
"The ancestral hall is a place prone to evil things. It enshrines the ancestors of hundreds of families. How can it not be tainted by overt and covert fighting?" Yi Ba took the words and said: "The one who set up this ancestral hall of hundreds of families That one doesn’t have good intentions!”
That’s right! Logically speaking, ancestral halls are generally run by families. Setting up hundreds of ancestral halls and worshiping ancestors no matter what their surnames are is not only unreasonable, but also unreasonable when it comes to ranking. It’s easy to get into disputes!
In the ancestral hall, it is very important to respect the elder and the younger. The ancestors of each family are there, which family is the eldest? Which one is the youngest? Which one is the most respected? Which one is the humble one?
This is not only the first time I have seen the Baijia Temple, it is also the first time I have heard of it.
We have already reached the gate of Baijia Temple. The door of the ancestral hall is wide open. On the lintel are three large gilded characters - Baijia Temple.
"What are you taking us in to see?" Before walking in, I asked Yue Furong just to be on the safe side.
“You’ll find out when you go in.” At this point, Yue Furong still refuses to tell us directly and is still trying to keep it secret.
Yue Furong stepped in. I glanced at Yi Ba. He spread his hands towards me and said, "We've already reached the door. Let's go in and take a look! If there's something, The worst case scenario is that we just run away. "
With Yi Ba's and my abilities, even if we encounter an evil thing, we won't be able to deal with it, but if we run away, it shouldn't be a big problem.
We followed Yue Furong into the ancestral hall.
The ancestral hall was dark. If Yi Ba hadn't held a white lantern in his hand, which gave us a little light, we wouldn't have been able to see anything.
“What on earth are you going to do?”
We have been following Yue Furong around the ancestral hall for a while, and we didn’t find anything else except darkness, so I He asked her a little curiously.
"We have been here for so long and have gone around so many times. Have you noticed anything unusual?" Yue Furong asked.
"Abnormal? What's abnormal?" I really didn't see it. What's abnormal?
"Have you two been to other ancestral halls?" Yue Furong asked.
"Isn't this nonsense?" I glanced at Yue Furong speechlessly and said, "I must have been there!"
"No matter which ancestral hall it is, ancestors are worshiped. His spiritual position, right?”
After Yue Furong reminded me, I seemed to have discovered something. The three of us have been wandering around the Baijia Temple for so long, but we haven't found even a single spiritual tablet.
"Why is there not a single spiritual place here?" I asked Yue Furong with some confusion.
"I don't know either." Yue Furong looked at Yi Ba and said: "Whether it is the construction of the ancestral hall or the placement of the spiritual tablet, it requires the guidance of a Taoist master. There is no such thing in the Baijia Ancestral Hall. I’m afraid Taoist Master Yi has to explain the reason for the spiritual position.”
Yue Furong is right, Yi Ba is indeed the most professional among the three of us in this matter. So after she said this, I immediately looked towards Yi Ba with expectant eyes.
"I have seen a lot of ordinary ancestral halls, but this is the first time I have heard of this hundred ancestral halls." General Yi Ba glanced around and said, "From the Feng Shui pattern of this ancestral hall, It seems that although it is a little weird, it is not What a big problem. As for the lack of spiritual tablets, I don’t know if it’s because the ancestors of each family are enshrined here, and the order of the souls is not easy to arrange.”
Yi Balgei. The explanation that came out is as good as unsaid.
"I thought you could tell me something?" Yue Furong gave Yi Ba an extremely disappointed look and said, "I've been talking for so long, but I haven't said a single useful word. I don't know if it's because you're not good at studying or because Your master has no ability." "You can say whatever you want, but you can't slander my master." Yi Ba glared at Yue Furong angrily.