Chapter 52: Burning Paper to Worship God
Xie Heng sat above the security booth, watching the cars passing by and people coming and going.

My eyes caught a glimpse of the corridor on the fourth floor, and a familiar idiot walked out of the department slowly.

He glanced around with dull eyes, saw Xie Heng downstairs from a distance, and then waved his hand.

As a result, just as he was about to turn around and run downstairs, he bumped into someone else. Xie Heng was speechless.

"Hey, I...c?"

"Chaoyang? Why are you here?"

Xie Xiaozhang was beaten to pieces, but fortunately he was still strong. He stood firm and rubbed his forehead to look.

The girl who collided with her had a very stable lower body and did not move her feet.

Moreover, this face was particularly familiar to Xie Xiaozhang, and he recognized it at a glance. It was actually a classmate in her class named Chen Chaoyang.

"Little Zombie?"

Chen Chaoyang supported Xie Xiaozhang, his expression a little surprised.

"I came to play with Tingting. She said that the wandering god of their village is here. I will play with her for two days, and then we can go to school together."

"I didn't feel very well on the road, so I rushed to the hospital for a checkup."

"What about you? Why are you here?"

Xie Xiaozhang replied.

Chen Chaoyang smiled and said: "My family is from Chenjia Village, the village next to Lu Tingting. I may have had a cold recently, so I came to the town to see a doctor."

"So it is!"

Xie Xiaozhang suddenly realized that she had no idea about it before, because she saw that Chen Chaoyang and Lu Tingting didn't know each other very well at school, and she didn't expect that the two of them were in the same place.

"I still have something to do, and I may have to go back to the village later. Tomorrow You Shen will be with us in the village, and I will go and play with you guys."

Chen Chaoyang looked at the time on his watch and said.

Xie Xiaozhang nodded and responded. The elevator door just opened, so he entered the elevator first.

After going downstairs, he needed to go to the pharmacy window on the first floor to pick up medicine. Xie Xiaozhang lay in front of the window and put his ID card on the reader.

Soon, the pharmacy doctor prepared the medicine and brought it over: "Take this three times a day, two pills at a time, and this two pills at a time."

Then he looked at the list on the computer, walked back to the medicine cabinet and asked the other doctor on duty: "Do you still have the clozapine tablets? They are rarely used, and they don't seem to have been taken in. Yes? Just have them."

Then he took a small bottle of pills and placed them in front of the window with other pills: "This is for two times a day, one tablet at a time. If you take one today, take one before going to bed."

Xie Xiaozhang picked up the medicines one by one and put them into a small bag.

At the entrance of the hospital, Xie Heng had already gotten off the security booth and was waiting for Xie Xiaozhang from a distance.

It took a long time before I saw this girl running towards me with her short legs.

"I'm sorry, Grandpa Zeng, I just met a classmate, so I was delayed for a while."

Xie Xiaozhang explained.

"What did the doctor say? What's the disease?" Xie Heng asked.

"It's nothing. Maybe I was frightened by ghosts during this period. I'm a little mentally weak. It's not a big problem."

Xie Xiaozhang pinched two fingers and gestured.

Since it was not a big deal, Xie Heng was relieved.

When they arrived at the bus station, they happened to catch the No. 7 bus and headed towards Luzhai Village.

After more than half an hour, the car drove into the mountain road, twisting and turning, and finally arrived at the entrance of the village.

Xie Heng looked around and saw that the atmosphere in this village was much more friendly to him.

The village is divided into several areas. Some areas are made up of square tiles, and most of them are elderly people.

Other areas look relatively new and are newly built self-built houses. Most of the residents are younger, middle-aged people and children.

Although this place is also under the jurisdiction of Xudu, it is a completely different scene from the city.The village road surrounding the village is filled with colorful flags.

Fires were lit in every house, and white smoke spread and rose. There were piles of red firecracker paper ashes on the ground, and the strong smell of gunpowder spread with the wind.

The children each had a lighter, and they searched among the piles of firecracker paper and ashes, looking for the firecrackers that had not exploded and took them out to light. They had a great time.

"Hey! Grandpa Zeng, look at these incense sticks, they are bigger than me!"

Xie Xiaozhang pointed to a newly renovated ancestral hall, with an iron shed set up at the door and a wooden altar and incense burner underneath.

Outside the iron boron, there is a large iron frame, and eight large incense pillars are fixed on the iron frame, which are two meters high.

On the incense sticks, some are carved with golden dragons circling and grabbing pearls, and some are decorated with paper figures and eight immortals crossing the sea, which are lifelike.

The incense ash from the top of the incense stick falls from time to time, obviously it is burning all the time.

"Being a god here means the treatment is really not low."

Xie Heng couldn't help but sigh.

Not to mention other things, just these incense sticks... I can't finish them, I can't finish them at all.

Not to mention, the large and small animals on the altar were dazzled by the various fruit tributes.

"The villages here seem to be really sincere about worshiping gods! They do it in such a grand way!"

"Tingting actually dares to joke that she is a god in the village. If the villagers find out, they must not put her in a pig cage!"

Xie Xiaozhang said angrily.

"You should contact your friend first to come over here to pick you up."

Xie Heng said.

Although Lu Tingting had already told Xie Xiaozhang which house she was in and how she left.

But Xie Heng didn't trust his great-granddaughter's sense of direction too much, so he just stayed here and waited.

After Xie Xiaozhang sent the message to his classmates, he followed Grandpa Zeng to watch it in the ancestral hall. This was allowed.

According to Lu Tingting, usually during these days, they would bring the statues of gods from the temple to the ancestral hall for worship.

During this period, the ancestral hall will also be well decorated to show sincerity and for people to appreciate.

Each village will also compare with each other. The village whose ancestral hall is beautifully decorated and elegant will have more dignity.

Entering the ancestral hall, clusters of lights of various colors flash non-stop, and hand-folded gold coins, flower baskets, and gold lotus flowers are all wrapped with light strips.

The landscape ornaments are plugged in and emitting smoke, the walls are projected with operas, and even the mikoshi is decorated as fancy as a ghost train.

Under the mahogany mikoshi is a specially made four-wheel cart, not only for the convenience of walking, but also for the installation of speakers on it.

"If you stray into the tide area, you will be offended." Xie Heng turned around and left. This was clearly a cyber wonderland.

Xie Xiaozhang didn't stay still, and followed Xie Heng out of the ancestral hall. As the times progressed, the gods also kept pace with the times.

"Didn't you say that the statues of gods will be invited to the ancestral hall? There is a lot of incense outside, but there are only portable sedans and no statues of gods."

Xie Heng asked curiously.

Xie Xiaozhang shook her head like a rattle. She, a stranger, didn't know why the village worshiped gods but didn't invite statues.

"Little girl, give way."

A rickety old lady stood up from the futon in front of the altar, holding a wad of various paper money in her hand.

The paper money was burning with flames, and the road was blocked by Xie Xiaozhang and her luggage.

Xie Xiaozhang quickly turned aside to get out of the way, and then the old lady walked to the gourd-shaped paper burning stove on the side and burned the paper money one by one.

"Do you need to burn paper to worship gods? Is it the kind of paper that is meant to be worshiped by gods? Or is there another way to say it?"

Xie Heng was puzzled, this was the first time he saw him.

(End of this chapter)

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