Taoist temple in the mountains

Chapter 172, Sacrifice to the Kitchen God
In the early morning of the next day, light snow was still falling in the sky. Although it was only light snow, it was indeed snowing, and the snow was fluttering.

Touching the snowflakes falling on the palm of his hand, Li Yun was shocked.

"Shocked, such a thing happened to us. It actually snowed."

"Wow! It's really snowing." Hanxiang said excitedly, holding the falling snowflakes in both hands, feeling the feeling of the moist snowflakes melting in the palms of her hands.

"Hanxiang, have you really not seen snow for so many years?" Li Yun was a little surprised. Although it is rare to see snow here, it is not a rare event in a thousand years. At least it will come once in a few decades. Life may be long enough, but it may be just a snap of the fingers for Hanxiang.

"No, in the past, apart from waiting for people, staying in the tree hole, or wandering in the mountains, exchanging ideas with other mountain gods, there is nothing more. Maybe Hanxiang has seen it before, but I forgot it, after all. Time claims to be able to erase all traces." Han Xiang held her chin and looked at the snow falling in the sky.

A thin layer of snowflakes covered the branches. Maybe the snow would stop in the early morning of the next day, but now, the snow is not stopping.

"Perhaps, but the snow has fallen, which means that Xiaonian is coming. It's the coldest time of the day here. New year and new weather, this time it's really new weather."

The snowflakes are falling all over the sky——

On February 23 of the new calendar, the twelfth lunar month is a small year, and the snow does not stop, nor does it mean to expand. It still has the feeling of covering the trees with light gauze, which not only maintains the beauty, but also makes people not feel too cold.

Snow is definitely a new thing for the people here, especially for the children in the village. Snow in the sky is even rarer than New Year's money. Of course, if you choose one of the two, the children will definitely Choose lucky money.

The children collected the snow covered on the ground bit by bit and threw it on the faces of the children opposite. It was not efficient, but it also felt like a snowball fight.

"Come on! Come to my face!"

"Hey hey look at my invincible cannon!"

"Haha, you hit it wrong, you hit it. Damn it! You hit the big black dog next door, run away!"

"Wang Wang Wang~~~"

Li Yun knew through his heart, that the big black dog was playing with children, and immediately after catching up with a child, his belly rolled, and he begged for a snowball.
"Xiao Li? Are you going down the mountain? Come, come, come, Aunt Zhao has some glutinous rice cakes at home, you can take some up to the mountain." Aunt Zhao, who was washing clothes by the river, said enthusiastically after seeing Li Yun.

"Enough is enough, we haven't finished eating what you sent that day." Li Yun smiled wryly, there are still a lot of flour and sesame stuffing on this mountain, and we can eat it for a long time.

"No, no, no, this is done by Aunt Zhao. I don't need your little sister Hanxiang to be busy. I have already made the things for the Kitchen God to clean up, but we will do it every once in a while. I hope the Kitchen God can do it." Be happy, be happy." Zhao Dashen said with a smile on his face, and a young man with a thick head and a thick head poked his head out beside him.

This young man is Xiao Hei, the one who was carried to the hospital by Li Yun when he was a child. After seeing Li Yun, his face was so happy.

"Big Brother Yun!"

"Xiao Hei, he has grown a lot taller." Li Yun smiled, looking at the tall and straight Xiao Hei in front of him, feeling a burst of emotion, Xiao Hei was still a kid at that time.

"Hey, I'm a junior high school student now. I'm no longer a primary school student. Of course I have grown taller." Xiao Hei raised his head and chest, with a proud face, and then complained: "It's so annoying recently, every family is preparing for something. There is no one to accompany me out to play with the Kitchen God."

Xiao Hei's face was a bit gloomy. After finally having the winter vacation, everyone was busy with family affairs.

"Sacrificing the Kitchen God is our traditional program. For every family, this is a time for the whole family to have activities together, which is convenient for deepening family ties. Cherish it well. Everyone will be happy during the Chinese New Year." Li Yun smiled and said: "Pindao is also preparing to sacrifice to the Kitchen God, which is a serious ritual activity for us.

"Brother Yun, is your Taoist temple worshiping the Kitchen God the same as us?" Xiao Hei asked curiously. He never knew how the Taoist temple worships the Kitchen God.

"Baijia stove ashes, distiller's grains, desserts, cleaning Taoist temples, especially on the beams, no dust can be left, because the Stove Lord likes to write down small reports on the beams, and we wipe them to make the stove The prince will return to the sky without those small reports." Li Yun explained with a smile.

"Wow! The Stove Lord can still make small reports! Isn't he a chef?" Xiao Hei complained. The process at his own house is similar, except that there is no Baijia incense ashes, but he still needs to use wine lees and desserts to send the Stove Lord.

I didn't know the reason before, but it turned out that he likes to make small reports!
"Stove Lord is not only the god of the kitchen, but also the god in charge of good and evil. The actions of the family will be recorded on two jars called [good jar] and [evil jar], and report to the Jade Emperor at the end of the year. Your good deeds and evil deeds in the world determine your fortune for the next year, and apart from good and evil, it is a small report, and a small report is something other than good and evil."

"What is something other than good and evil?" Xiao Hei asked curiously.

"Gods are not aloof beings who do not eat human fireworks. Some of them are transformed from humans, such as the Kitchen God. Since they are humans, they have their own outlook on life and values. Under the urging of this concept, they will have preferences. , there is dislike, these likes and dislikes are things other than good and evil." Li Yun said.

Now Xiao Hei finally understands the true meaning of giving away the Kitchen God.

"Well, since the Kitchen God is so narrow-minded, we have to use sugar and distiller's grains to stop him from making small reports."

"That's the truth." Li Yun said with a smile.

Li Yun and Xiao Hei also reunited after a long absence. They chatted for a long time, and then went to Xiao Hei's house to collect his family's stove ashes. By the way, they also saw Xiao Hei's mountain of winter homework.

Li Yun mourned for Xiao Hei, no one dared to mess around without doing homework during the winter vacation
After returning to the Taoist temple, Han Xiang also prepared the incense burner and other utensils for the sacrifice, and the table for worship was filled with glutinous rice cakes, candies, and distiller's grains.

There is also an old kitchen god statue on it.

"Senior Brother Yun, you're back." Hanxiang smiled.

"Well, let's start, offering sacrifices to the Kitchen God."

After Li Yun sprinkled the incense ash into the incense burner, he came to the Daotai.

The incense burns——

(End of this chapter)