Chapter 1416 Red Lotus

In the past two years, Baijia Village has been getting better and better.

Because now the country is strong and the people are rich. The life of Baijia Village, a large breeding village, is getting better and better.

Baijia Village is not too far from Zhongnanshan City, only 20 kilometers by car. Pigs, cattle, and chickens are raised in this village, and all kinds of livestock are sold to the city.

The pigs, cattle and chickens raised in the village are of good quality. Because they are all promoting ecological breeding, each family does not raise many, but it is even more surprising that they can take care of them.

Although the quantity is not much, but because of the good quality, it can be sold at a good price. After all, urbanites are now pursuing a healthy diet. The prices of native chickens and pigs are not cheap, and it is normal for a native chicken to sell for around 100 yuan.

The number of villagers in Baijia Village is not large, but because every household is engaged in breeding, the whole village is quite rich.

But although the village is rich, the spirit of the villagers is a little empty.

Because the village can't keep young people, farming can make money. But how many young people want to deal with smelly pigs, cows and chickens at home every day?

Country life is not all idyllic, more often sweat and tears.

Young people are more yearning for a decent life in the city. Even though they don't make as much money as raising pigs and chickens, they still prefer the city to the countryside.

The hollowing out of Baijia Village is also very serious. Young people in their twenties to forties are hardly in the village anymore. Most of the people left in the village are underage children and middle-aged people over forty years old.

I have a little money, but because of the emptiness and the slack time in the countryside. People in Baijia Village have always had a tradition of religious belief. It's just that I used to believe in Quanzhen, but there are too many precepts in Quanzhen.

Later, I began to believe in the Ten Religions.

At least a few months ago, Bai Hou was still a believer in the Ten Religions.

but now……

"The supreme red lotus purifies the world. Kills evil spirits and protects the house."

Baihou specially set up a small room in his home as a shrine for worship. Decades ago, Taishang Laojun was enshrined here, and a few years ago, Yehe Hua of the Ten Sects was enshrined here.

And now there is a lotus flower enshrined here. A lotus flower made of metal and then painted with paint.

Bai Hou held up the three incense sticks and kowtowed three times to the lotus, then respectfully inserted the three sticks of incense into the incense burner in front of the lotus.

The smoke filled the air, and the iron lotus seemed real through the smoke. The red paint on the tip of the petals seems to have become more rosy.

After respectfully offering the incense, Baihou walked out of the shrine room backwards. It wasn't until the door was closed that Bai Hou turned around and walked normally.

His forehead was slightly cold, and Bai Hou wiped it all with sweat.

But he didn't care about these anymore, he packed up, took a flashlight and walked out of the house.

The countryside at night is very dark, with only a few street lights. It was past ten o'clock in the evening, and the surrounding villagers went to bed early. Bai Hou walked on the concrete road of the village road in his slippers, making a pattering sound.

In the midst of the silence, the pattering sound was particularly ear-piercing.

Bai Hou shrank his neck and walked a few steps quickly. It didn't stop until it reached a large courtyard on the west side of the village.

This is the home of Bai Jingren, the richest man in the village.

Knock on the door.

The interval time is three long and five short.

The iron door opened silently, and Bai Hou ducked in with his head shrunk.

"Why did you come here?" the person at the door asked.

"I'm busy today, I almost forgot to do my homework. I'll come right after I finish my homework." Bai Hou said eagerly in a low voice.

"You dare to forget your homework? Are you going to kill yourself?!" The person inside the door cursed in a low voice, but there was concern in his tone: "Have you finished?"

"It's done, it's done." Bai Hou wiped the white sweat from his forehead.

"Remember to finish it, you have killed too much. If you don't have the protection of the world-cleaning lotus, how can your life be saved!" The people inside the door led Baihou all the way to the inside.

Walking through the large yard without entering the house, instead going around the house towards the basement built in the backyard.

This is the habit left by some big families in the village when they built houses in the past. Because the vicinity of Baijia Village in Zhongnan Mountain is very dry, the average annual rainfall is less than 400 millimeters, and the land is dry, so digging a basement to store grain is a common practice for many farmers here. choose.

It's just that few people have a large basement of more than 100 square meters like Bai Jingren.

This basement has an average area piled with corn. The other half was cleaned out, with low tables and low stools. In the middle is a lifelike iron lotus.

Around the lotus are tributes such as melons, fruits, pears and peaches.

Now the low stool was already full of people, leaving only two empty seats. Seeing this situation, Baihou and the man who led him apologized and explained the situation.

The people present nodded and understood the situation.

And in the direction where the iron lotus was facing, there was a man wrapped in a black cloth. When he saw that everyone was there, he said, "Now that everyone is here, let's start today's evening class."

After speaking, he muttered something in his mouth.

Bai Hou and the person who brought him here immediately found a seat and started chanting along with them.

What they read is called the "Fire Lotus Sutra", which praises the fire lotus that purifies the world, protects all living beings, kills evil spirits, and saves all things.

Everyone worked very seriously in this evening class, and no one deserted.

The twenty or so people in the basement did not make any other abnormal noises, only the sound of chanting sutras.

Everyone was bowing their heads and chanting, and no one noticed that something was wrong with a middle-aged village woman sitting on the northwest corner while chanting.

First his hands and feet started to twitch, and then he started to foam at the mouth. When she stopped chanting and made strange noises, everyone noticed the abnormality.

"Master... the chief envoy! Something happened to Bai Guihua!"

Bai Hou pointed at Bai Guihua with trembling hands, she had already started to shed tears from both eyes, it was not ordinary tears but tears that were as black as ink and looked like ink.

Bai Guihua's eyes turned white, tears were like splashed ink, his whole body was twitching and trembling. The villagers of the Bai family who were chanting scriptures huddled together in fright.

"God bless, God bless!"

"Goddess of Mercy, bless you!"

"True Martial Demon Lord, Taishang Haotian Great Emperor, bless the believers!"

"What the hell are you talking about?!" The man who was covered in black cloth and known as the envoy stood up: "When will you ask those things to protect you?"

"Baijia Village is too murderous. You have slaughtered pigs, cattle, and chickens for decades, and no one has blood on their hands. Now those pigs, cattle, and chickens you killed have come to take revenge. The only thing you can trust now is Jing Shi Guren, do you know?!"

As soon as the chief envoy finished speaking, the villagers who had just prayed to various gods and Buddhas chanted: "The red lotus is rolling, destroying demons and eliminating evil. The fire of karma is raging, purifying the world."

Just after reading this scripture, Bai Guihua stood up abruptly, but his hands and feet were in a reversed posture, like a marionette on a string.