Chapter 1912 Worshiping the Sea God
"Let's go, follow me..." Xiao Jian raised his head and shouted angrily, but before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the sound of drums.
The sound of the drums was not very loud, but it was clear in Xiao Jian's ears. In particular, the sound of the drums became louder and louder, and there were some messy sounds.
"Hahaha... someone is coming!" Xiao Jian laughed and threw the bamboo pole away. He just scolded Yuan Ya for being petty, and now he rushed to the door of the Taoist temple in a few steps. However, Xiao Jian did not jump out directly. Instead, he secretly poked out half of his head, just like Yuan Ya hiding in the banyan tree to peek at Xiao Hua practicing boxing, and looked outside the Taoist temple...
"Don't look!" Xiao Hua's faint voice sounded from above Xiao Jian's head, "You can't see anything hiding in the Taoist temple! They just walked to the foot of the mountain!"
"Hehe..." Xiao Jian straightened up awkwardly, looked at Xiao Hua who was standing next to the Taoist temple door, and smiled embarrassedly, "I'm here to see if the group of people from Jiangjunling yesterday are here again! They turned our Jiangchao Temple upside down. Oh my god!”
"Well, it shouldn't be the group of people in Jiangjun Ridge!" Xiao Hua glanced at the distance and said, "These seem to be fishermen. Some of them are holding fishing nets in their hands, and some of them are holding paddles! In addition, there are some Wearing white mourning clothes, he should be coming to the Taoist temple to worship!"
"Worship?" Xiao Jian seemed a little disappointed. He coughed twice and was about to walk out of the Taoist temple. At this time, Yuan Ya's cheers rang out, "Master, there is a pig's head! A big, fat pig's head; There are cow heads and sheep heads... suck~"
Speaking of this, Yuan Ya's saliva couldn't help but flow out.
Xiao Jian listened. He swallowed naturally and walked to the front of the Taoist temple in a few steps. Look down along the mountain path!
Sure enough, just as Xiao Hua and Yuan Ya said, there were dozens of people under the mountain road. In front of these people's heads were three bare-chested muscular men. Each of these three men had a There are red lacquered trays, and on each tray is placed the head of an animal, namely a cow, a pig, and a sheep. Behind the heads of the three animals are two young children, divided into male and female. Each of them held a fist-sized incense burner in their hands. At this time, each of the incense burners had three incense sticks inserted in them. The incense had just been lit, and the incense sticks floated up slowly, and were then blown away by the mountain wind!
Behind the boy and girl were a dozen people. Among these dozen people, two carried a red drum several feet in size, and another man several feet tall held a drumstick bigger than his fist. Beating the drums with all his might! The big beads of sweat dripped down the man's forehead, and the blue veins jumped as the man beat the drums! Next to the three people beating the drums, there were four people holding gongs in their hands, beating them vigorously with a "clang". As for the two people dancing with the sound of gongs and drums, they were two people dressed as lions! In front of the two lions, there was actually a thin boy holding a colorful ball in his hand, showing off his skills like a lion dance. While he pounced on the boy's colorful ball, the boy jumped and dodged in front of the lions with extraordinary flexibility, leading the two lions up the mountain road step by step.
After these, there were dozens of fishermen in tattered clothes, each holding a fishing net and a paddle in their hands. They followed the lion dance respectfully, with solemn and pious faces. As for the people in mourning clothes mentioned by Xiao Hua, they walked at the end. There were about a dozen people, including women, children, the elderly and the weak.
"What... what's going on?" Xiao Jian was stunned. This was something he had never encountered in the years he had been in Jiangchao Temple.
"What are they going to worship? Are they going to do a water and land Taoist ceremony?" Xiao Jian said to himself, "Then... should we go to Xiaojin Temple?"
"Master..." Yuan Ya's figure appeared strangely on the branches of the banyan tree that stretched out outside the Taoist temple, and he shouted, "I'm afraid your reputation has spread last night, and these people come to worship you!"
"Oh, not bad, not bad!" Xiao Jian suddenly realized, and hurriedly looked down at his Taoist robe, and immediately felt extremely dissatisfied. He turned around and ran into the Taoist temple, not knowing whether he was going to lock the door of the wing room or change his Taoist robe.
Anyway, when the sound of gongs and drums reached the Taoist temple, Xiao Hua watched quietly beside him. Xiao Jian, wearing a brand new Taoist robe, walked out of the Taoist temple with Yuan Ya.
Yuan Ya was also wearing new clothes at this time, but seeing Yuan Ya twisting his head and back, he must be extremely uncomfortable. However, this did not affect Xiao Jian's smile and kindness. Xiao Jian walked in front of the three big men with trays on their heads and bowed and said, "I am Xiao Jian, the master of Jiangchao Temple. I wonder what you are here for?"
However, the respect and answer that Xiao Jian expected did not appear. The three big men ignored Xiao Jian at all. They walked past where Xiao Jian bowed in the order of sheep, pigs and cows, and went straight into the Taoist temple. Even the two boys and girls holding incense burners in the back ignored Xiao Jian.
"Ahem..." Xiao Jian was extremely embarrassed. He coughed twice and was about to speak. Yuan Ya next to him suddenly whispered, "Oh, Master, I forgot! When I was in Changsheng Town before, I seemed to have heard someone say that this Jiangchao Temple used to worship the Sea God! Are they...are they here to worship the Sea God? Not to find Master?"
"Damn it..." Xiao Jian raised his foot and kicked Yuan Ya's knee, "Why didn't you say it earlier?"
"Disciple, I just remembered it!" Yuan Ya felt very wronged, but he still dodged Xiao Jian's kick very quickly and whispered to defend himself.
"Go in first! No matter who they are worshipping, you are the abbot of this Taoist temple now!" Xiao Hua said unhappily.
"Yes, yes, what Taoist fellow Taoist Xiao said is true!" Xiao Jian felt it was reasonable after hearing this. He was no longer embarrassed and did not care to be more serious with Yuan Ya. He took advantage of the lion dance to show off at the entrance of the Taoist temple and entered the Taoist temple first.
Sure enough, as Xiao Jian and others entered, dozens of people after the lion dance also came in, and the small Taoist temple was once again completely crowded.
"You..." Xiao Jian had just walked to the middle of the Taoist temple when he saw the three strong men who had entered before entering the main hall. One of the three big men waved his hand, and all the incense candles on the confession were swept to the ground! Xiao Jian was very anxious when he saw this. He was not here to pay homage, he was clearly here to cause trouble! Buddhism and Taoism are so at odds with each other, and the monks from Xiaojin Temple have never come to Jiang Chaoguan to make mischief like this. Are these fishermen prepared to be bold? Xiao Jian shouted.
However, before he could shout out, the three strong men turned their heads in unison and said angrily: "Where are these wild Taoist priests from! This Jiangchao Temple is where I worship the God of the Sea in Changsheng Town. You have occupied the Taoist temple without permission?" Are you still pretending to be a ghost? If you dare to say another word, I will drive you out of Jiangchaoling!"
When Xiao Jian heard this, he immediately closed his mouth and did not dare to say a word more, lest he would be driven out of Changsheng Town by these fishermen before he could compete with the monks from Xiaojin Temple.
"Lord Poseidon..." A series of sad shouts came from behind Xiao Jian, and more than a dozen old, weak, women and children in mourning clothes entered Jiangchao Temple, crying and rushing towards the main hall! Xiao Jian ducked aside knowingly, his skills were half as strong as Yuan Ya's.
As the fishermen cried out, the three big men placed the three animal offerings on top of the confession. The two boys and girls also respectfully presented the incense burners, and then withdrew to the side of the confession with low eyebrows. Above the main hall, the folds of the offerings of the three animals are shining, the two boys and girls are beautiful and charming, and the incense burner is filled with smoke. Although the statue is still in tatters, coupled with the cries and devout kneeling of the fishermen above the main hall, it is compared to The sacrifices hosted by Xiao Jian and Yuan Ya were many times stronger!
Xiao Hua was standing not far behind Yuan Ya. His eyes flickered and he could see everything clearly. After half an hour, fishermen in mourning clothes paid homage, and other fishermen also paid homage. Xiao Hua could already understand. I know that there was a disaster in Liaojiang River last night. Ten fishermen lost their lives in the river. These fishermen came to worship this statue that they had not worshiped for who knows how many years for their own safety and future livelihood.
Even at the end of the worship ceremony, several craftsmen came forward to worship respectfully, then took out strange rulers and threads to carefully measure the statue, and then took out pen and ink to mark an image. Carefully mark some numbers on it! Xiao Hua could also see clearly that above the image was the appearance of a statue. The statue was a man's body. The two strands of mustache on the lips were particularly obvious. Except for this beard, the statue was full in the sky and round in the pavilion, with two ears. His earlobes reached past his shoulders, and his eyes were more ferocious than compassionate.
"Oh? Is this the so-called Poseidon? It looks like this, but it's still far behind Master Xiao!" Xiao Hua smiled faintly and looked away again.
Different from Xiao Hua's indifference, Xiao Jian couldn't help but smile. He promised the villagers of Jiangjun Ridge to reshape the statue into a golden body, but in fact he had no idea what the statue looked like! Moreover, he still has to find craftsmen and discuss how to repair it. Especially, although there were many copper coins last night, it was not enough to repair the statue. Now the fisherman is worshiping the sea god and reshaping the statue into gold. Don't you want to save yourself some trouble? How could Xiao Jian be unhappy?
"When the villagers of Jiangjunling come and ask, I will say that I repaired it myself!" Xiao Jian has already decided, and he also believes that the villagers of Jiangjunling will never ask more questions.
The craftsman wrote down some numbers and hurried out of the Taoist temple. Obviously, they wanted to build the golden body of the statue in the shortest possible time. The fishermen in the Taoist temple paid homage emotionally several times. Seeing that a ritual ceremony that had nothing to do with Taoist Xiao Jian was about to end, at this time, more than ten people came in from outside the Taoist temple.
These people looked different from the fishermen at first glance. However, when these people looked at the fishermen in the Taoist temple, there was no surprise in their eyes. The fishermen naturally ignored them and even nodded to each other in a friendly manner. However, when these dozen people bowed down, the first sentence successfully aroused the emotions of both groups! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to Qidian.com () to vote for recommendations and monthly votes. Your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please read it.)