the last priest

In China, there are basically houses facing south. The room with the door facing south is called "main room", which is used for receiving guests, similar to the living room in modern commercial houses.In the past, in rural areas, a piece of furniture was generally set up in the main room called: "Tiaoji". What is it?It is against the innermost wall facing the gate that this long table is placed, and the two ends are usually attached to the east and west walls.Because the location of this thing is generally in the core of the whole room, the general owner will put the spirit cards or shrines that need to be worshiped here, so it is also called "offering table".

In front of this "offering table" is an Eight Immortals table and four long-legged benches, which were necessary hardware in rural furniture in the past, and anyone with a little condition can use it.

On the table of the Eight Immortals are all tributes and incense paper, and the things are almost the same, chicken, duck, fish, four meat dishes and three vegetarian dishes.Anyway, it is enough to put an odd number of dishes for the dead, a pair of bowls and chopsticks, a wine cup, rice and eggs are indispensable.The rice has to be raw, and the eggs have to be half-boiled.

Yu Da's mother-in-law lit incense in this place. After three or four matches were not lit, the mother-in-law simply took out a small handful at a time and put them together, and struck again vigorously.Hey, it's on now, and I lit the incense tremblingly.

Anyone who has lit incense knows that if the open flame is too big, the incense will burn like a small torch, and it will burn out in a while.However, there are incenses with open flames that cannot be blown out with the mouth. The ancestors in the underworld will not be happy to smell them if they get popular.

The woman's back was facing the altar, so she turned around after lighting the incense, and was about to insert it into the incense burner on the altar.There is a portrait of Lao Yu on the altar. No photo of Lao Yu has been taken before him. This is an enlarged black and white photo from his ID card.She doesn't want to let this thing go, but Lao Yu has not been dead for a hundred days, and this thing is here to show relatives and friends. After a while, she will definitely throw it into the toilet Here, in the words she scolded her man, when she saw the photo, she felt that Lao Yu was staring at her, as if she had abused him a lot before she was alive.

Turning around, I saw that it was Lao Yu in the portrait who was grinning at him. You must know that Lao Yu had a hard life all his life, and even when he took this ID card, he had a stern face.What reason could he find to laugh?He couldn't find it.

"Ah!" There was a scream, which shocked the two siblings outside the house. The cry was really loud and loud, it was the fear from the heart.When you were alive, you treated the elderly badly. If you want to say that you feel guilty, you may not be guilty, but if you have done something wrong, you will not have the confidence to face the dead!

"Sister-in-law, sister-in-law!" Two women outside the house rushed in, and the eldest wife was also running out, and the three of them bumped into each other in the yard.

The panicked woman trembled and shouted to her sister-in-law in panic: "Father is here, he is here to take his life!"

The three women almost ran towards the man's place at a flying speed, which was the only place they felt safe.

The women rushed to their husbands, shouting in trembling words: "It's haunted, it's haunted!" !"

The men either comforted the women or looked at Cha Wenbin, but unexpectedly, Cha Wenbin just said coldly: "Where did you come from, go back to where you are now, if you don't want the old man to stay with you all his life .”

Yu Da's mother-in-law almost knelt down to kowtow to Cha Wenbin, that house, even if it was tomorrow, she would not dare to go back: "There are really ghosts, Taoist Cha, I believe it now, there are really ghosts, I dare not go back !"

Yu Da also looked at Cha Wenbin pitifully. He really wanted this expert in his village to give some advice. The fear of his father comes from death, and ghosts are scary in people's subconscious.

"Go back and stay until dawn." Cha Wenbin took out another talisman from his pocket and handed it to the woman: "Take it, put it in your pocket."

The three women looked at Zha Wenbin pitifully, it seemed that they were unwilling to go even if they were beaten to death, Zha Wenbin took back the talisman paper and turned to the men and said: "If they don't go, then you go, men and women change places .”

"Do you have to go?" Whoever has guts is made of meat. Hearing that there are ghosts in the house, the men don't want to. They almost turn into sauced pork liver with a little soy sauce on their faces.

Cha Wenbin put away the stuff on the ground, put his hands behind his back and said: "If you don't go, don't come to me if there is any disturbance at home tomorrow night."

There were still some villagers around, and if it spread, his father would be afraid, and he would not be able to gain a foothold in the village in the future.There is always someone who wants to go, Yu Da put his mind to it, thinking that it is his own father after all, even if he becomes a ghost, he will not kill his own son.

The three brothers got up, took the talisman from Cha Wenbin and started walking back with the flashlight.Walking to the door of his own house, seeing the pale lanterns hanging on the familiar gate, Yu Da's legs started to tremble. He wanted to run back, but unexpectedly, his two younger brothers pushed him inside desperately.Just like that, Yu Da staggered back to the house, turned on the light switches in the house, and turned on all the lights that could be on, making the room brightly lit.

Yu Da turned around, and the portrait in the main room was still the same as that on the ID card, and there was no change; the incense that had been extinguished halfway through the fire was scattered on the ground, the paper money prepared was still tied with plastic ropes, and only one bench was upside down. It should have been knocked over when the mother-in-law ran out.

Could it be that the mother-in-law was dazzled?Yu Da comforted himself like this, and his courage grew up a little bit.Zha Wenbin explained that the lights cannot be turned on when entering the house. He can't control these things. Who would dare to stay here without turning on the lights?

It was the middle of the night, and Yu Da was usually a good drinker, and he would get drunk every time he got drunk, but his wife strictly controlled him and didn't let him eat.I have been busy all day today, and knelt all night, my stomach is already empty.Looking at the table full of tributes, the main thing is the wine, which is the best Xinghua Village Fen wine. He helped someone else drink it once a few years ago, and his mother-in-law planned to take this bottle of wine to the store tomorrow. retreat.

When the alcoholic sees the wine, it will arouse his greediness. After thinking about it for a while, he came up with a good idea: make a drink secretly, and if his wife asks why the wine is running out, then Let's just say it's what Dad drank.If you have the ability, go to the old man in the photo and check it out. Seeing how frightened she was at night, that's all she said. I guess she wouldn't dare to have any doubts.

Once a good drinker opens his mouth, how can it be so easy to let go?Taking a sip of Xinghua Village, that is a beauty, Yu Da forgot everything, took a sip happily, and Yu Da raised his glass to his father's portrait and said: "I entrust you to grow old today." Fu, let's go together." He has a pair of bowls and chopsticks and a wine cup beside him. There is food in the bowl, but the wine cup is filled with water. Is it for the dead? real wine.

How can it be enjoyable after a cup?After you've drank it all, just have another glass. Yu Da poured himself another glass. Looking at the whole steamed chicken on the table, he tore off a piece of chicken leg and gnawed on it. How will my wife explain when she comes back tomorrow?Regardless of her, it's all on the old man's body, so it's over.

While drinking, Yu Da even hummed a ditty. All these years of being cowardly from that woman, he let it out in this wine tonight.When he took the wine cup to touch the glass next to him again, he saw that the glass was already empty. Yu Da, who was a little drunk, picked up the bottle and was about to pour the wine, and said in a daze, "Don't drink." Hurry up, drink slowly!"

The dripping wine was poured into the glass, the sound was particularly hollow at night, Yu Da looked up at the portrait, the old man in the photo was grinning at him, it seemed that he was quite satisfied with the taste of the wine .In an instant, Yu Da was dumbfounded, he shook his head vigorously, blinked his eyes a few times and looked again, the portrait returned to normal.

He didn't know that the wine in the wine cup was full, and it started to overflow until it dripped onto his pants before he realized: the wine in the wine cup was full just now, no one had drunk it, how could it be empty?

With a sound of "bang dang", the wine bottle was knocked over by him in a panic, and Yu Da turned around in fear and ran outside. When he crossed the threshold, the electric light suddenly tripped, and the surroundings were suddenly dark.Yu Da lost his way, stumbled, fell forward and fell like a dog eating shit, only felt a sweetness in his mouth, it turned out that his two front teeth were knocked out.

The movement in the old man's house also alarmed the two brothers outside. They broke in one after another. The old-fashioned flashlight in their hands could only emit a dim yellow light, and only a figure was rushing out with blood on his face and mouth. I don't know what to yell.Looking again, it turned out to be his elder brother. The two supported him, and the panicked Yu Dalian gestured and shouted: "Ghost, there is a ghost!"

At the same time, Zha Wenbin was guarding the foundation of the old house when a strong wind suddenly blew up, sending those paper money and incense ash flying everywhere, hitting the girls in the face.The daughter-in-law who was blinded by her eyes got up in a panic. A spark seemed to jump into her eyelids just now. With a "boom", her head just hit the altar table, and the old spirit card on the table in between shook Just fell straight back.

Cha Wenbin decisively took out an ink fountain from his pocket, quickly wrapped the black thread around the spirit tablet and pulled it on a bamboo pole next to it, and hung the spirit tablet on top of it.

There were several other children present, all of whom were Lao Yu's grandchildren. Cha Wenbin pulled the oldest boy, and for no reason, he stuck an embroidery needle into his middle finger.The child who didn't understand what happened immediately burst into tears, and Zha Wenbin took his finger and pressed down on the top of the spirit card, this is the fixation of the soul!