Chapter 4 Chapter 4
As soon as the paper man touched the child's soul, he saw the growth in the wind. The two were combined into one, and soon there was a young man with a white face in the house.
When the boy was curiously touching his body, Sanniang came back, and she still lowered her eyebrows and looked at her, "Your surname is Fu?"
There is nothing to hide from the woman's name, "Well, the single name is Yao. If you are unhappy in the future and don't want to call me the master or the master, you can also call me Fu Yao."
"How dare you."
"You won't dare," the woman said meaningfully, and then yawned again, "I'll go to rest, and I'll leave this child to you."
After she finished speaking, a patch of ink spread around her. When she recovered, the Sanqing statue was empty.
The boy was shocked by this scene and widened his eyes. Before he could come back to his senses, he heard the person next to him ask him, "What's your name?"
The boy replied timidly: "My mother called me Dalang."
At this time, a mutter came from the void: "Luckily, your family is not surnamed Wu."
Sanniang: “…”
"Well, I'm really going to rest this time."
After the sounds were completely gone around, Sanniang continued, "We are made of paper, ghosts, we cannot see light or water. You must remember."
"Okay..." Dalang responded and looked at Sanniang hesitantly, "What should I call you?"
"My name is Sanniang."
"Sister Sanniang, are you dead like me?"
Responding to him was a long silence.
As if he noticed that he had said the wrong thing, Dalang changed the topic uneasyly, "Sister Sanniang, where will we sleep at night?"
This time Sanniang paid attention to him, "The Three Clear Images are empty. During the day, in the image; at night, it is casual, but not too far."
"Okay, thank you sister Sanniang."
No words all night.
The next day, no one visited the Taoist temple except Fang Er and his wife who came to deliver food and the medicinal farmers who passed by to pray for blessings.
Another day passed, and Dalang couldn't help but squat secretly on the dark beam during the day. After a day, he still couldn't wait for the person he was about to meet.
"It seems that I really want multiple little slaves." Fu Yao was also very sorry, "I thought I could live in a clean house as soon as possible, but now I'm in a waste of time."
"I can't hurry up like this." Sanniang said beside her.
"Urgent?" Fu Yao smiled, "No, I'm not in a hurry. You should be anxious. I am a living person now, and I can live with grains and cereals, but you are different. If you haven't offered incense for a long time, it's a matter of time before you disappear. Once you disappear, it will be meaningless whether you take revenge or anything else."
After hearing this, Dalang next to him understood something, "Will we die again?"
"You think beautifully. Only living people are called death. If you are a dead person, you can only disappear and disappear forever." Fu Yao said as she stretched, "I'll continue to sleep, don't bother me if you're fine."
Just as she was about to leave, she suddenly said "Huh", and Sanniang and Dalang couldn't help but look at her at the same time.
"Young man is lucky. Our Taoist temple is coming soon."
After she finished saying this, about two quarters of an hour, Carpenter He and his wife appeared at the entrance of the Taoist temple. They were carrying loads, and they each had blue bricks in the baskets in front and back.
As soon as he saw his parents, Dalang excitedly shouted "Dad" and was about to run out. But Fu Yao grabbed his collar and pulled him back, "You want to die Wu Dalang."
The sunset outside has not yet set completely, and there is a red light remaining at the top of the mountain.
Dalang reacted, and felt a little weak in his energy for a moment, and said timidly: "I didn't mean it. And... my surname is He."
After such skill, Carpenter He and his wife had already walked into the Taoist temple and knelt in front of the Sanqing statue and said piously: "Master of the Temple, we have already decided on the transaction you mentioned. We are willing to repair the Taoist temple for you. I have been buying materials these two days and will be able to go up the mountain to practice the Taoist temple tomorrow. However, we need money to ask for work. Our husband and wife don't have much wealth, so we may have to practice it slowly. Please forgive me."
After he finished speaking, he waited but didn't hear a response. Thinking of what Fang Er said, he saw that the main person had just appeared in darkness, so he simply stood up and continued to go down the mountain to pick up bricks.
After the sun was completely set, the sky was not completely dark. Carpenter He and his wife were carrying bricks one after another, and Fang Er also helped twice.
It was not until the sky was completely dark and there was no fingers. Carpenter He sat at the door of the Taoist temple and rested. The couple ate a few steamed buns in cold water and continued to do their work.
This time, Dalang did not rush to find them, but instead hid in the corner and cried silently.
Carpenter He and his wife were busy for almost an hour before they went down the mountain and returned home.
When they left, Dalang stood up from the secret and sent them down the mountain not far or near.
"Why, don't you see them?" Sanniang came with her at some point.
"I have no shame to see them." Dalang found the place where bricks were placed at the foot of the mountain. In the yard of Fang Er's family, he moved about seven or eight pieces in his hand and walked back slowly. "I shouldn't have jumped into the river just to make them regret it. If they weren't for saving me, there was no need to work so hard."
The road up the mountain was a bit long. After he had a paper body, the bricks were still breathless. Sanniang followed him without interfering in helping, just watching like this.
The night was long, and Dalang kept repeating this matter.
Fang Er, who had woken up in the middle of the night, accidentally saw two figures in his yard, and was so scared that his soul almost flew out of his body to accompany the two of them.
But the two of them ignored him, moved the bricks and walked up the mountain again.
"Are you tired?" Sanniang asked on the way.
"I'm tired, but I don't know why, but I feel very happy." Dalang said panting, "As long as I think that my parents will be less tired tomorrow, I feel that I'm not tired at all."
"Your parents are very lucky." Sanniang said, "No, you are all lucky."
Seeing that the Taoist temple had appeared at the end of the path, Sanniang stopped, "Dalang, don't trade with the master. Remember to refuse."
Dalang didn't understand why she said that, but he could feel her kindness, so he hesitated and responded, "Okay."
The next day, when Carpenter He and his wife came over, they saw that the bricks were less than half, and they thought they had been stolen. They were so anxious that they asked Fang Er for help, wanting to retrieve the bricks.
After Fang Er found out, he hurriedly told him what he saw last night and asked him to go to the mountain to see it.
According to what he said, when he went up the mountain, he saw that there were few bricks at the foot of the mountain piled up on the mountain.
He just thought the master was pity for the hard work of the couple, and he was busy kowtowing in front of the Sanqing statue a few times, and then started to pick bricks again.
What Carpenter He did was seen by the villagers of Fangjia Village, Shanxia. They felt that the Taoist temple belonged to their village, and there was no need to let outsiders work all the time.
So when passersby, they would help carry some bricks up the mountain.
It's all right for you, and the piles of blue bricks piled in Fang Er's yard disappeared quickly.
Of course, it’s not that no one wants to take a few pieces home with a greedy price, but these bricks can always fall out in front of others for no reason, and those who steal bricks will get a minor illness; those who sincerely help go to the mountains to collect herbs, and they will get more harvests than usual.
Because of this, more people are willing to help.
With the secret help of the villagers of Fangjia Village and Dalang, Carpenter He did not need to spend time carrying materials up the mountain, but he focused on preparing wood such as beams. At the same time, he went to the viewing from time to time to see which pillars and wood inside could be used.
After almost half a month of hard work, he finally prepared almost all the wood.
At the end of July, he chose a sunny day. He called some acquaintances to come to the Taoist temple to help him dig up the original Taoist temple and build the main body again.
There were many people, and the work was done quickly. In addition, at noon, Carpenter He specially asked his wife and Zhang Liuniang to make a table of good dishes to entertain them. Everyone was even more motivated when they were treated so well.
By the evening, the main frame of the Taoist temple was almost built, and the rest was to build walls and tiles.
After dark, everyone went down the mountain, and only Carpenter He and his wife were still lighting lanterns to build the wall.
"How much money did you spend to prepare wine and food today?" asked Carpenter He. He invited thirteen people to help today, and he made more than twenty dishes, not to mention that there were three jars of daughters, and the expense was not small.
"Half a tael of broken silver, and the dozens of copper plates left before you." He said, "There is not much money left in the family, and the bricks are still in owed. When you go back to the yard, you have to pay for doors and windows, and the money is definitely not enough."
"Oh," Carpenter He sighed, "I will continue to work when I finish the tiles here tomorrow."
"Why don't we borrow some more money?" said He's wife.
"I have borrowed a lot of this, and I have to live a life. It's okay. From now on, I work during the day and come to Taoist temples at night. It's not far away anyway, so I just sleep less." He said, "Fortunately, I still have some skills to make money. If I only farm, it would be useless to sell the fields."
After the couple built half of the wall at night, they packed up their things and went down the mountain.
Because of the bricks and materials at the foot of the mountain, no one dared to touch on the materials on the mountain. Even if someone wants to steal while the dark, the elusive Sanniang and Dalang can scare them to walk around here from now on.
As Carpenter He said, after covering the tiles on the Taoist temple, he stopped going up the mountain during the day, and basically worked with lanterns at night.
Sanlang was embarrassed to see them at first, but later he saw that they were so tired that they were sweating, so he took the initiative to bring them water. Of course, the pots and bowls of water were all "borrowed" from Fang Er's family.
Carpenter He and his wife were inevitably afraid of this strange young man who suddenly appeared.
"Drink some water." Dalang felt sad when he saw their fear. He didn't keep getting close. He put down the water and returned to the house.
But the next night, he continued to deliver water.
"Thank you." This time, Carpenter He thanked him respectfully, with less fear in his eyes.
Seeing that his father was talking to him, Dalang felt much better, and he waved his hand and said, "Don't use respectful titles. If you need any help, just let me do it."
"No, no, we can do it ourselves." Carpenter He dared not to call him.
But even so, Dalang still followed him and helped him hand over a brick or something from time to time.
However, Carpenter He didn't come every day. After using up the bricks he picked up the mountain in front, he had no money in his hand, so he had to find a way to make money. When the money was enough, he would continue to repair the Taoist temple.
Because of their hard work, the couple was very thin and even fell asleep while taking a nap in the Taoist temple.
"I was so tired that I could fall asleep even when I leaned against the pillar. It seemed really hard." At some point, Fu Yao appeared beside Dalang, "As a son, I must be uncomfortable seeing this scene. After all, they are like this because of you."
Dalang lowered his head, looking ashamed.
Chapter completed!