80s Taoism

There is only one Eight Immortals table at home, and Zhang Jiaohua put an old newspaper on it, which Zhang Youping brought from Zhang Dechun's house. Zhang Dechun was the village party secretary, and the only newspaper in the village, Zijiang Daily, basically became Zhang Dechun's own newspaper. In this era, many things are packaged, mainly with paper. Newspaper paper is much better than straw paper. Therefore, everyone likes to use old newspapers to wrap things. Liu Qiaoye also asked Zhang Youping to go to Zhang Dechun's house to get a few newspapers, and put them at home to wrap things.

The Eight Immortals table is very high, with four benches. Zhang Jiaohua was considered to be of medium height in the first grade, but in front of the Eight Immortals table, he could barely show his head, and wanted to draw symbols on the table, so naturally he was not tall enough. Zhang Jiaohua could only climb onto the stool, kneel on the bench, and lie on the table with her buttocks up.

Zhang Youping and his wife came back from the outside, seeing Zhang Jiaohua's funny appearance, they couldn't help giggling.

Zhang Jiaohua heard his parents' laughter and looked back.

"Zai Zai, what are you doing?" Zhang Youping put down the agricultural tools in his hand and walked over. Liu Qiaoye was busy with housework.

"I drew an Anzhai Talisman at school today and sold it to Mr. Gong. Here, he gave me five yuan." Zhang Jiaohua took out a crumpled banknote from his pocket.

"You child, how can you ask the teacher for money. If he wants your talisman, you can give it to him." Zhang Youping smiled wryly, and patted Zai Zai on the head.

"Didn't you say that these things are so expensive?" Zhang Jiaohua scratched his head.

"It's so expensive. But you can't ask the teacher for money." Zhang Youping said.

"But the old Taoist said that we Master Mei Shanshui should not work for others for no reason. Otherwise, others will look down on us Master Mei Shanshui. The master also said that we should honor our parents and teachers and support our families. We should pay attention to saving money." Zhang Jiaohua had experienced a lot with the old Taoist priest in his dream.

Zhang Youping couldn't help laughing when he heard the phrase "supporting a family". Liu Qiaoye, who was busy in another room, also giggled. She has also been listening carefully to Zai Zai.

Zhang Jiaohua doesn't care if his parents laugh at him, he draws the talisman carefully, the figure of the Anzhai talisman is very complicated, if you are careless, you will draw the rune wrongly, in the dream, when Zhang Jiaohua drew the talisman, he suffered a lot of beatings. The harder the beating, the more severe the pain, the deeper the memory. Zhang Jiaohua also didn't understand why he could still remember his dream of being beaten so hard.

"Zaizai, return the five yuan to the teacher tomorrow. How can we ask for the teacher's money? By the way, I don't know what happened today. Everyone said that they saw snakes everywhere. Be careful when you go outside. Be careful of snakes." Zhang Youping warned.

Originally, at this time of year, snake activities have become less and less, and it is difficult to encounter snakes in the wild. But there was something unusual today, the snake that should have been hiding came out.

Zhang Jiaohua heard his father's words, and he thought cleverly, "Isn't it caused by what happened this morning?"

Zhang Youping stood by the table of the Eight Immortals and watched Zai Zai seriously prepare the cinnabar and other raw materials into talisman ink, and then draw a very complicated and extremely mysterious rune on the yellow paper.

It took Zhang Jiao 40 to 50 minutes to draw an Anzhai Talisman. After the painting was finished, he had to recite a mantra to activate the Anzhai Talisman. It is then folded into a triangle and pressed under the censer on the altar.

At first, Zhang Youping was skeptical about the usefulness of the Anzhai Talisman drawn by Zai Zai. After all, Zai Zai is so young, although he does know a little bit of naval magic, his skills should not be much higher. But after Zai Zai placed the Anzhai Talisman, he suddenly felt a very reassuring feeling in his heart. Zhang Youping didn't know if this was his illusion.

In this era, although there are electric lights, most people in Meiziao still follow the law of life at sunrise and rest at sunset. At eight or nine o'clock, it was completely dark. In the village, except for the homes with TVs, the lights were still on. Other farmers were either watching TV at other people's homes, or turned off the lights and were going to sleep. Because Zai Zai is not welcomed by the villagers, Zhang Youping and his wife never take Zai Zai to other people's homes to watch TV. The family has saved up some money and is planning to buy a TV during the Chinese New Year.

Zhang Jiaohua didn't attend much class at school, and didn't even know that there was homework after class. So it's okay to go home. After drawing a talisman, I felt a little tired, took a hot bath, climbed into bed and fell asleep.

For Gong Ziyuan this evening, he was really nervous. Seeing snakes densely packed under the corner of the school wall in the afternoon, Gong Ziyuan was in a bad mood. It was a night of trepidation. Some regretted not following Zhang Shunlin's suggestion in the afternoon and staying at their house for one night.

But it's strange to say that since entering the room, my heart has become much quieter. I checked the room carefully to see if there were any snakes in the room, then leaned on the bed frame with a book and read it. I don't know if it's because I haven't slept well recently. Gong Ziyuan felt a little sleepy after reading a book for a while. Lie down on the bed and soon fell asleep.

Early in the morning, the roosters in every household in Meiziao began to crow, which announced the beginning of a new day in Meiziao. But on this day, the atmosphere in Meiziao was a little different from usual.

Because the house was burned, the dumb family has been huddled with their grandparents in the old house. Early in the morning, Ma Jinxiu got up to do housework. But as soon as he entered the pigsty in the backyard, Ma Jinxiu let out a high-pitched scream.

"snake!"

When Ma Jinxiu stepped into the pigsty, he found several snakes hanging on the rafters of the pigsty. Ma Jinxiu almost didn't meet the nearest snake. I just glanced around the pigsty and found several snakes. Ma Jinxiu quickly retreated from the pigsty. But he found that his legs were weak, and he sat down on the ground.

Zhang Benrui hurried out, "What's the matter? What's the matter? Mother-in-law, what happened?"

Ma Jinxiu's face was ashen, unable to utter a word, she pointed to the pigsty with her hand.

Zhang Benrui was about to walk into the pigsty, but Ma Jinxiu hugged his legs, "Don't go, don't go, snakes, there are a lot of snakes!"

Zhang Benrui stopped quickly and looked through the crack of the door, ah! Sure enough, there was a snake hanging in the pigsty, and it was spitting out letters at the door.

When Zhang Shunlin was in the school's vegetable field in the afternoon, he was also terribly frightened. He didn't fall asleep much all night. In the early morning, he closed his eyes a little. Who knows, when the rooster crowed in the morning, he heard a squeaky sound coming from under the bed. I hurriedly got up and found a flashlight and took a photo under the bed, which almost scared me out of my wits. A black-stalked snake with the thickness of a thumb was found under the bed!