Taoist temple in the mountains

Chapter 173, Send the Kitchen God

A portrait of a kind and bearded middle-aged man, with a golden light on his head, and a pair of boys and girls beside him, with pretty faces, flushed cheeks, and smiling eyebrows,
Li Yun looked at the statue of the Stove Lord solemnly, and said.

"The whole family is safe, good luck, and peace every year."

"I would like to offer sacrifices to this Taoist temple with the ritual of incense candles and dark tea."

A stick of incense is lit, and the sweets are put before the incense, and the lees and sesame paste are smeared on the mouth of the Kitchen God.

"Hanxiang, paper, ink, brush and inkstone."

"Here we come." Han Xiang brought over the ground ink and brush, as well as two blank red papers for writing couplets.

Li Yun picked up the brush, dipped it in ink, and wrote big characters on it.

[Heaven says good things, and the lower realms keep you safe] were pasted on both sides of the Kitchen God statue.

Take out a box of lentils and dried grass leaves, and put them in front of the Kitchen God.

"Congratulations to the Kitchen God."

Li Yun took out the tied paper horse and put it in the incense burner together with the paper money.

Light smoke rose from the incense burner enshrining the Kitchen God, crooked, and slowly ascended to heaven, as if the Kitchen God was really knocked down by candy and wine lees, and left the Taoist temple crookedly on a horse to report to the heaven.

After the sacrifice, Li Yun packed up these things.

"Senior Brother Yun, the Stove God is obviously not here, why did you send him away?" Han Xiang puffed his lips, looked at the desserts on the stove, and said, "Not only we don't have them, but every family doesn't have them either. There are so many sweets He can't eat it, envy, why doesn't anyone give me candy every year."

"Giving the Kitchen God is not so much a offering of worship to the God, but rather a ritual of praying." Li Yun smiled slightly: "The ceremony of sending the Kitchen God is actually some sustenance and expectation for people's life in the New Year. They have found the sustenance to pray for good weather in the coming year." , Pray for peace and hope in the coming year, and it means that the New Year is coming. The first of the hundred festivals, the 30th year of the New Year, the students have a holiday, and the adults return to their hometowns to spend this joyous year with their long-lost family members. "

Li Yun took out a string of small firecrackers and lit the fuses of the small firecrackers.

Throw it outside the Taoist temple.

clap clap-

The firecrackers were very short and burned out quickly, leaving only strands of burnt ashes.

After the firecrackers were completely burned out, a group of people entered the Taoist temple, Yi Shuwen, Wang Lei, Sun Yaoshan, Lin Kai, Wang Xiaoling and her passerby A boyfriend.

These people seemed to have an appointment together, and they came to the Taoist temple one by one with big bags and small bags of New Year's greetings. The first one to enter was Wang Lei.

"Master Dao, Happy New Year! It's been a long time since I haven't seen you yet... eh? This... this person is..." Wang Lei saw Hanxiang after entering the door, and even his voice stammered a bit.

"Stupid fat man, you're so amazed that you can't speak, tsk tsk. By the way, this little girl is really not ordinary beautiful." Yi Shuwen joked, but she also looked surprised when she looked at Hanxiang.

Stunning, this is the only thought in the minds of Yi Shuwen and his party.

"This is Pindao's junior junior sister. She has lived away from home since she was a child, and was taken back to the Taoist temple by Pindao this year." Li Yun introduced with a calm smile.

Hanxiang also smiled sweetly, and this moment was like a peach blossom in full bloom.

But everyone is an adult, and they will not stare at the girl so impolitely, and they all come back after being absent-minded for a moment.

"We came to worship the mountain today. We were visiting relatives before, so we didn't take the time to come. Finally, everyone took the time to visit the Taoist priest today." Yi Shuwen smiled and shivered after speaking. .

"Go in, the temperature outside is no joke." Li Yun said.

The enchantment of the Taoist temple can isolate the cold wind, but it cannot completely isolate the temperature. The cold air is so strong, and there is light snow. Although the snow scene is beautiful, this kind of temperature is a nightmare for southerners.

After entering the main hall, Lin Lei, Wang Kai and the others also put down the things they brought, which were all their own dry goods, as well as gift snow cakes bought in the mall.

In short, mostly dried fruit snacks.

"It's not something expensive, presumably Daoist Yun won't refuse it." Lin Lei laughed.

"Thank you very much." Li Yun thanked him, took out candies, put them on the small table and said with a smile, "You guys can eat too."

Cheap fruit candies, one dollar can grab a lot of hard fruit candies.

Seeing the festive decoration of the table, they were all taken aback for a moment, with surprise on their faces.

"There's nothing to be surprised about." Li Yun was a little puzzled, isn't it just an ordinary candy?
"Uh, originally, we thought" Wang Xiaoling hesitated for a moment, and said with some surprise: "I thought the Taoist priest would be more out of the world, more...high-cold, and wouldn't make these festive things."

Everyone nodded approvingly. At first, they thought the Taoist temple had the same austere style of painting, but they didn't expect to be slapped in the face by this big brown sugar after they came in.

"Yes, yes, I was thinking, the words of the gods should be even more unearthly." Wang Xiaoling's boyfriend A, a passer-by, also added.

Wang Kai thinks.

The white-robed immortal should sit alone on the side of the mountain, with the white crane as a companion, play chess with the air every day, chant poems against each other, look at the clouds in the sky, and the red dust at the foot of the mountain, that is the fairy.

Just as soon as I came in, I was shocked by the cute little junior sister, and I also vaguely heard the barking of a dog. According to Wang Kai's years of experience in raising dogs, the barking of this dog is 90.00% ninety percent From husky. And one percent is husky skewers.

Wang Kai only felt that the god in front of him was more human-like.

At this time, Li Yun smiled slightly and said.

"The poor are human beings who have entered the world of mortals. Even immortals have the seven emotions and six desires, as well as emotional obsessions. This is the instinct of living beings." Li Yun peeled off the wrapping paper of one of the candies, and then ate it stably, saying : "It's a festive Chinese New Year, don't you just want to have fun?"

Have fun.

Be happy and celebrate the new year.

"Yeah, the New Year's picture is a happy one." Wang Kai said with emotion, in his heart, Li Yun's image became more three-dimensional again.

Not a fairy who does not eat the fireworks of the world, but a living person.

"Come on, come on, I bought a set of firecrackers. It shouldn't be a problem to set off firecrackers here." Lin Lei on the side said with some embarrassment. Only then did I realize that Taoist temples may prohibit setting off firecrackers.

it's on the mountain after all
"Let's let it go, poor Taoist temples are not afraid of being burned." Li Yun smiled.

Lin Lei nodded excitedly. What he likes most is the crackling sound when setting off firecrackers. It's very refreshing to hear, just like a DJ.

Firecrackers lit, longer than the ball of firecrackers prepared by Li Yun——

clap clap-

The firecrackers rang out.

(End of this chapter)