Patriarch enjoys meal

The progress of Guo Jie's case was not slow. After the body was fished out, the suspected murder weapon was fished out of the river.Guo Jie ran to the scene every day, afraid of missing any clues, and was very worried about his case.

After Zhou Ziran gave him the dream talisman, he didn't care about it anymore. He always felt that there was a specialization in art, and he had already intervened in issues involving ghosts and gods, and the rest should be manpower.

It's rare to relax and live a happy and leisurely life.

Compared with him, Tao Jiang is much more serious. He not only has to feed one person and one fox regularly every day, but also takes time to go to the study to read ancient books. He works very hard.

Li Wu, who took on the heavy responsibility of preschool education, now sincerely despises Zhou Weiran, who spends his time doing nothing every day.

"Can you learn from Tao Jiang! Don't be so salty!"

Li Wu is also worried today that the unlicensed studio with the boss and only three employees will close down.

Zhou Jiran took a sip of Tao Jiang's homemade pure natural iced fruit tea without additives, looked up at Li Wu, and said leisurely, "Do you know what is important in practicing Taoism?"

Li Wu said angrily: "What?"

"Let it be."

......

Li Wu, who has a strong sense of responsibility as a teacher at the beginning, does not agree with this statement. Zhou already understands that girls will always be extra irritable for a few days every month, and the female ghost is no exception.Of course, a considerate boy can't further irritate a girl at this time.

Zhou Ziran chose to go into the study with fruit tea to hide in peace.

Seeing Zhou already came in, Tao Jiang put down the book in his hand, and wanted to tell him something.

Zhou Jiran didn't know what he was looking for these days, so he just shook his head when he asked, but now he was willing to say that he must have found something: "Did you find something?"

Tao Jiang nodded, and picked up a dilapidated ancient book that was placed beside him and felt that he could no longer bear to turn the pages.

After returning from Wencang Middle School, he had mixed feelings about the diligent ancestral hall he used to go to.Thinking of the speculation that the predecessor of Tao's house might be the Qingyun temple that was destroyed in the late Qing Dynasty, he began to investigate.

I couldn't find a single word about Qingyun Temple on the Internet, so Tao Jiang sent his idea to the study room full of ancient books.After working hard for a few days, I really found something for him.

"This is the personnel list of Qingyunguan?" Zhou already took it and took a look, a little strange, "What does this mean?"

"The names on the list and the tablets in the ancestral hall are all correct, except for this lineage." Tao Jiang clicked on a name above.

"Qu Ziyin?" Zhou already followed the list, and found that this person's status in Qingyun Temple was not low at that time.

Tao Jiang nodded: "The survivors of the fire, except for some ordinary laymen who were dismissed in advance, are only from Qu Ziyin's lineage."

"It's a little strange..." Zhou Jiran rolled his eyes, "However, the formation under Tao Zhai has been in operation for many years, and it still needs maintenance. Maybe this is the backhand left behind."

The mural in the ancestral hall expresses very clearly that the Qingyun Temple used the power of the whole view to subdue the nine-tailed fox.Now Tao Zhai's formation and Tao Jiang's state have proved that they are successful, but if they are only suppressed by the formation, the Nine-Tailed Fox will break through the formation and reappear one day. After all, life is longer than life, who Survive the ancient mythical beast?Did Qingyunguan not think of this?

Tao Jiang didn't think so: "Look here." He pointed to a crossed name at the end of the roster.

Zhou already struggled to make out the name half-covered in ink: "Tao... Zijue? Is this expulsion?"

Tao Jiang nodded and said: "This should be the real backer of Qingyun Temple. The Tao family has indeed guarded Tao's house conscientiously for so many years."

Although it seems that they have been removed from the list, there are quite a few tablets with the surname Tao who have entered the ancestral hall intermittently over the years.They sacrificed a lot for this formation.

"Conscientious?" Zhou Jiran raised his eyebrows and looked at Tao Jiang and smiled.

Tao Jiang knew what he meant, since he was given the surname of Tao and raised in Tao's house, it would be considered the Tao family's dereliction of duty, so why not work hard.

Zhou already restrained his smile quickly, and said seriously: "Well, now we at least know that there are still two remaining forces in Qingyun Temple...you don't have any memory of that time?"

Tao Jiang shook his head and remained silent.

"Then who do you think they don't want you to recover?"

Tao Jiang's current situation was like looking through the fog, and he didn't know how to answer this question, but seeing the interest in Zhou Jiran's eyes, he had to think about it seriously.

"At least, Grandpa doesn't want it."

Raising him as an ordinary person, but trying every means to prevent him from leaving the Tao house, trying to maintain the seal of the big formation...

Zhou Ji didn't know how Grandpa Tao treated Tao Jiang, and he didn't want to judge, but he inevitably had a little worry in his heart.

In their eyes, Tao Jiang can only live as an ordinary person?As a nine-tailed fox, he can only be suppressed?

This sounded really frustrating, Zhou Ji did not intend to say it out, and after adjusting his mood secretly, he said: "Anyway, they don't know that you have recovered a little, so let's hide it for now. I will study Tao Maybe the formation in the house can find a way to speed up your recovery."

......

Xianyu Zhou, who originally went into the study to hide himself, has found a job for himself.

What a joy.

After wandering around Tao's house for countless times, Zhou Ji still couldn't find any trace of the formation, only in the collapsed room could he feel a little bit of unusual 'Qi'.

Zhou already squatted on the edge of the ruins and felt for a long time, but his breath became weaker and weaker, and he tried all kinds of methods to no avail.When he was falling into self-doubt, Guo Jie, who usually went out to 'supervise work', came back.

Guo Jie is now leaving early and returning late, and he is almost on the same schedule as the police handling the case.

It's still early today, the genius has just darkened.

As soon as Guo Jie came in, he got into his exclusive cooking wine bottle. He stayed in it for the past few days and nights.

The cooking wine bottle is already like his home, which can bring him a sense of security.

"There are so many ghosts outside today! I'm scared to death!" Guo Jie cried and trembled.

Li Wu saw him slumped in the cooking wine bottle, and was speechless: "Aren't you a ghost? What's so scary? Are you afraid of yourself?"

Guo Jie was caught by a doll rabbit and educated with a bottle. He was so wronged that he shook the cooking wine bottle to justify himself: "You didn't see, all kinds of ghosts in different shapes are really scary! Some of them are given back. Let me say hello! How can I, a new ghost who has never seen the world, be able to resist! You are a rabbit spirit, of course you have seen a lot."

"???" Li Wu couldn't help but raised his inseparable claws, and scratched the rabbit's head, "God tm rabbit spirit!"

Guo Jie said weakly: "...you don't have to scold yourself."

Zhou, who was squatting on the side, took out his mobile phone and looked through the calendar, and he understood today's date at a glance.

"Today is the first day of July, no wonder."

"What happened to the first day of July? It's not a special day." Li Wu was puzzled.

Zhou already explained to them: "The seventh month of the lunar calendar is also known as the 'ghost month'. The first day of the seventh month is when the 'Gate of Ghosts' opens. During this month, ghosts from the underworld will flock to the world to look for food or receive incense offerings. , that’s why you see so many of the same kind today.”

Guo Jie, who doesn't want to meet the same kind at all, thinks that he will see the same kind of "foraging" as long as he goes out in the next month, and his heart is half cold.

"One month is too long!"

It was also the first time Li Wu heard this kind of statement, and he was a little curious: "I eat out once a year, and eat for a month at a time? This time arrangement is too unscientific."

"What science are you talking about here?" Zhou Weiran said, "Hungry Ghost Festival in the middle of July, have you all heard of this?"

One rabbit and one bottle nodded silently.

"The Hungry Ghost Festival is a Taoist saying. There are three grand gatherings in a year in Taoism, which are collectively called 'Sanyuan'. The fifteenth day of the first month is called 'Shangyuan', and the blessing ceremony is mainly held. The fifteenth day of July is 'Zhongyuan' , The festival held on the Hungry Ghost Festival is mainly to forgive sins for the souls of the dead. October [-]th is the "Xiayuan", which relieves bad luck for those who are at fault." Seeing that they listened seriously, Zhou said a few more words, "July Half of the sayings are widely circulated, but to be honest, Ghost Festival actually starts from the first day of July.”

"However, those who will come out to have a big meal in July are basically lonely souls who have no one to sacrifice. Just pointing to this month to eat enough to survive the next year. Therefore, various Taoist temples and some in this People who are particular about aspects will 'sacrifice orphans' at this time."

Li Wu understood: "That is to say, the ghosts that someone cares about can receive sacrifices from relatives throughout the year?"

"Naturally, although most families will worship their ancestors during the Hungry Ghost Festival, ghosts who don't have to worry about incense don't have to squeeze out." Zhou Jiran pointed to the gate, "I will burn paper to worship ancestors outside this month, and there may be a few people around me. A lonely ghost, just wait for the priests to say the names of their ancestors less often, and it is better for the ghosts who accept the sacrifices to have been reincarnated, so that they can grab a few bites of food."

Guo Jie felt sorry for him: "Is it so miserable... how hungry you are."

He suddenly thought: "I've been a ghost for so many days, why don't I feel hungry?"

"A few days ago you were full of resentment, not to mention hungry, you didn't even know your last name, then..." Zhou Jiran sighed, "Of course you are not hungry because your family has sacrificed to you .”

Thinking of the grief of his parents when they received the news of his death and went to the police station to identify the body, Guo Jie shrank back into the cooking wine bottle sadly.

Li Wu stretched out his rabbit paw and patted the cooking wine bottle lightly, comfortingly said: "You still have incense and sacrifices, I am in a much worse situation, if it is not for friends feeding, I am afraid I will have to go out with other lonely souls in July The wild ghosts have gone to snatch food."

Guo Jie's voice was muffled: "So you are also a ghost...not a rabbit spirit..."

There was actually a bit of regret in his tone.

Li Wu: If you don't care about you, I'll be a stick!

Zhou already ignored the two ghosts and ran into the kitchen.

"Tao Jiang, cook more food today, let's sacrifice it to the orphan!"

Tao Jiang has already taken out two bowls that are not commonly used, and filled a bowl of rice and a bowl of water.

Zhou Jiran looked at it and smiled: "You understand it quite well!"

Tao Jiang shook his head: "Grandpa used to set up a small altar at the gate of Tao's house in July to chant scriptures and forgive sins for lonely souls and wild ghosts. I can only prepare some simple things when he's not here."

"It's not easy anymore, now there are no people offering sacrifices to orphans except Taoist temples." Zhou already took out a bottle of soda from the refrigerator, "Let's go, let's go feed."

The moment he pushed open the gate of Tao's house, Zhou Jiran truly understood what Tao Jiang meant when he said that his grandfather had set up a small Buddhist altar at the gate of Tao's house.

As soon as the door opened, there was a crowd of ghosts outside. They gathered silently in front of the gate of Tao's house. When they heard the sound of the door opening, they turned their heads in unison.