344, Kitchen God (1/2)
in the dark,
Qingmiao's worried voice sounded: "Senior brother? You can go and rest for a while. Xiuxiu and I can just stay here and guard the master..."
Hearing this voice, Su Wu's eyelids moved slightly and he opened his eyes gently.
Seeing a fat, grinning clay sculpture in front of him, the altar at the foot of this clay sculpture seemed extremely huge - there was a coffin that had been sealed by deep-fried oil.
He looked sideways slightly,
Seeing Qingmiao and Xiuxiu beside them with worried eyes.
Seeing that he had woken up, Qingmiao spoke much softer: "Brother, from frying fish to gathering surrounding villagers, opening a temple and pretending to be dirty, you have never slept a wink. Now you have almost done everything.
You should also go and have a rest. "
"It doesn't matter." Su Wu shook his head and looked around.
The newly renovated temple seemed empty.
Only the smell of burning incense accumulated here, finally making this place not seem too lonely.
Su Wu stood up leaning on the incense burner next to him, bowed to the fat clay doll in the temple, whose features were vaguely similar to his master's, added a stick of incense, and turned to Qingmiao and asked: " Has Pearl not come back yet?
If we can't find a good stone engraver, it's the same as quarrying the stone ourselves. "
"Back." Qingmiao followed Su Wu and walked out of the temple located in the gentle area of Zhijin Mountain.
Within a few days, Su Wu summoned the surrounding villagers to repair the temple that had been destroyed by the rebels. Then he reopened the temple, decorated it with dirt, and put a plaque on the temple.
This temple was named ‘Zaojun Temple’.
The coffin that the master lay in to put it into a state of silence, because it was connected to the dragon veins of the mountains and rivers of Zhijin Mountain, had a destiny of eight taels and nine qian.
After that, Lao Dao assisted and Su Wu acted as the chief envoy.
The soldiers who were sent out with the "Mule Colt" finally isolated the connection between the dragon veins of Zhijin Mountain and the strange coffin that was transformed by ghost Ganoderma lucidum. As a result, the strange coffin's life dropped to six taels and nine coins.
Only the Zao team can open a temple and pretend to be dirty.
The ‘life stakes’, together with the little passing ghosts fried by Su Wu in the previous few nights, were filled into the five internal organs of the gods.
The destiny of this ‘Zao Lord’ god has reached ‘nine taels and seven coins’.
Su Wu took Qingmiao and Xiuxiu down the steps in front of the temple. On the square platform in front, they saw the old Taoist who was arranging the offering table and setting up the altar.
After the incident of ‘Brilliant Brocade Mountain’,
The old Taoist's hair became more gray,
In this battle, Li Gui, Xue Gui, who was sealed in his most useful peach wood sword, became part of Gui Gui's coffin.
The coffin itself is a coffin,
If divided according to the system of ‘secret realm’,
This Li Gui is an extremely rare 'non-life' Li Gui.
‘Not life’ means right and wrong belonging to living things.
At the same time, no one has yet figured out the origin and purpose of the longevity quilt in the coffin. They only know that the "Feasting Picture of the Queen Mother of the West" embroidered on the quilt can attract Li Gui into it. Become the 'immortal' among them.
What Su Wu fried and sealed was only the whole coffin.
As for the longevity quilt among them,
What is the condition of the master lying inside?
Whether it was also imprisoned, he could not determine.
With his current strength and sophisticated methods, he couldn't even think of opening that coffin!
The coffin is sealed, separating the Yin and Yang from the Master and the Zao Class disciples.
But at the same time, I also kept a thought for all the disciples.
——Perhaps as the master said, this coffin is a coffin that can make people become immortals. Who knows when the master will come out of it and become an immortal?
"How is the stone tablet prepared?
After erecting the monument,
The old Taoist can then ask Heaven to officially establish the title of Zao Lord for your master. "The old Taoist was playing with the things on the altar. When he saw Su Wu coming, he said a few words.
Su Wu said: "It's already fine.
I'll help Zhu'er move the stone tablet up. "
"Okay." The old Taoist nodded and said no more.
The matter of "asking for help from heaven" that he mentioned was something Su Wu had discussed carefully with Lao Dao before.
After the old Taoist asked Heaven for help,
Not only among the people,
Among the Taoist sects, the name "Zao Lord Li Yueshan" will also be officially determined. Such a god is not a wild god among the people, but a well-documented and truly "ranked among the immortals".
Such a spirit,
Maybe it can stand in history for a longer time,
Even after thousands of years, the incense will not be extinguished.
The Zaojun Temple stands on a gentle slope. After descending the gentle slope, there is a large piece of flat land.
This piece of flat land has been cleared of weeds and felled trees and piled aside.
Young adults might build a small kiln on the spot, burn bricks and make tiles;
Or carry flat stones and pile them in a fixed position;
The old people, women and children lined up together, digging for wild vegetables in the mountains, and making the porridge and soup for lunch;
There were also several carriages that seemed to belong to the local grain store parked in a corner of the ground. Workers at the grain store unloaded bags of rice grains in the open space. Gou Sheng stood by with a pen and paper to count. After calculating the amount of grain, he took out the money. Checkout.
Zhijin Mountain, which was originally almost extinct and rarely inhabited, gradually became lively and had some vitality because Yin Ximai wanted to set up a kitchen and build a house here.
Su Wu saw Zhu'er leading the horse and mule.
A stone tablet was tightly fixed with ropes on a cart pulled by horses and mules.
"Jewel!"
Qingmiao walked out from behind Su Wu and waved to Zhuer.
Zhu'er saw Su Wu and his party and hurriedly led the horses and mules to come closer.
"Move the stone tablet to the mountain. The Taoist priest is about to open the altar and ask for help." Su Wu took the reins from Zhu'er. He was leading the horse and mule in front, and several junior sisters were pushing the cart behind.
Pulled the stone tablet to the side and front of the temple,
The rocks here have been dug up, revealing a deep pit.
Everyone helped to untie the ropes on the stone tablet. Su Wu asked them to move away and went to the deep hole where the stone tablet was to be filled to check.
He found a blind spot where everyone could see him, and turned his back to the disciples.
He threw a copper ring into the pit.
Then he grabbed some soil, threw it into the pit, and buried the copper ring.
Then he returned to the mule cart, hugged both sides of the stone monument with both hands, and suddenly exerted all his strength to lift the stone monument, which weighed no less than a thousand kilograms, and plunged its roots heavily into the deep pit!
Boom!
The stone tablet fell into the deep pit,
The ground seemed to tremble three times!
Su Wu held the stone tablet with both hands and stabilized it. Several junior sisters hurriedly approached, squatted around the stone tablet, filled a handful of soil into the gap between the stone tablet and the pit, compacted it, and placed it under the stone tablet. Stack several squares of stones that have been prepared long ago.
The stele was completely fixed.
Everyone stood in front of the stone tablet,
Looking at the inscription,
Zhu Er struggled to recite the words on it: "The great merits and virtues, the vast... Da Luo,
There is this god standing on top of it.
The name of a god is actually given to humans..."
This inscription tells the origin of ‘Zao Lord’ and ‘Zao Lord Temple’.
Tell others that in fact, most of the gods in the world were given names and divinity by mortals, so they became gods.
And why can they be given names by mortals?
Why can he be praised as a god by all mortals?
In fact, the achievements they made cannot be ignored by the people.
The people were grateful for their kindness and hoped that their character would be remembered forever, so they spread their names in the world. Later, in the praise of many people, they were molded into gods...
Zhu'er, Qingmiao and others didn't know much about the handwriting on the stone tablet.
But several junior sisters read the inscription,
I shed tears while reading.
"I miss Master so much..." Pearl murmured to herself with red eyes.
Su Wu was silent for a moment,
He turned to the old Taoist who was halfway up the slope and shouted: "Taoist Master, the stone tablet has been erected. It's time to set up an altar to invite guests!"
"good!"
The old Taoist replied,
Then he picked up a Qing Ci poem that had been written long ago with his mahogany sword, lit it on the incense candle, and made it burn toward the sky, while he began to mutter the words.
"Qingmiao, go and call Gou Sheng over." Su Wu talked to Qingmiao.
Sister-in-law Zhaodi wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, agreed softly, and trotted down the gentle slope with her head lowered.
Before long,
Gou Sheng and Qing Miao climbed up the gentle slope hand in hand.
Follow behind Senior Brother,
Slowly walked into the temple of ‘Zao Lord’.
"Is the oil pot ready?" Su Wu knelt in front of the brazier of the clay idol and asked softly to the junior brothers and sisters behind him.
Gou Sheng replied: "Everything is ready."
Seeing that familiar face turned into a clay doll, the disciples inevitably felt depressed.
Gou Sheng moved the oil can in front of Su Wu.
Su Wu opened the lid of the pot.
Mentally recalling every bit of what his master taught him, and making sure that nothing was missed, he placed his palm on the palm print carved out of the stone brazier.
The moment the palm is pressed down,
The last trace of connection between his destiny and the clay idol in front of him disappeared.
In Su Wu's heart, he was feeling lost,
A large amount of dark oil poured out of the brazier.
He had no time to pay attention to his inner feelings, so he picked up a spoon, scooped up spoonfuls of fried oil, and poured them all into the oil pot.
This pottery pot is newly made.
The several oil pots left behind by the master before were all filled.
In the empty oil can,
As the grease poured in, the sound of water dripped.
The echo of the water's sound becomes weaker and weaker,
Gradually to nothing.
——This oil pot is also full.
At the same time, the stone brazier became dry, and no more fried oil was flowing out: "In the future, mixing this pot of fried oil with other fried oils can improve the quality of other fried oils."
Su Wu asked all the junior brothers and sisters, stood up,
Facing the statue of Kitchen Lord,
Take three consecutive shots with your palm,
He opened his mouth and said: "The fire will last forever!"
The moment the words fell to the ground, golden-red flames suddenly burst into flames from the stone brazier!
The flames burned to a height of three feet, and some illusory tablets seemed to be flashing inside.
Looking at the familiar or unfamiliar god tablets, Su Wu's heart trembled slightly. He stepped away and said to Qingmiao behind him: "Qingmiao, you are the first to come and take a breath into the fire in the brazier. "
Speech and demeanor,
Just like the master.
It was as if the master's shadow came to life on Su Wu.