What? Let me sell the cubs to eat the soil and eat the bark, and the ashes will be taken away by you Chapter 25 The offerings were really eaten by ghosts and gods
Chapter 25 The offerings were really eaten by ghosts and gods
"Stupid Lou! Why are you ruining things?"
Lu Shitou shouted sharply.
After saying that, he lifted the person up, took off his pants, and prepared to spank Stinky Dou.
Stinky Dou was so frightened that he quickly begged for mercy: "Dad, this candied date soup is bitter, it's really bitter!"
But no one at the table believed what the stinky beans said. How could the candied date soup be bitter?
This kid must be talking nonsense, he deserves to be beaten!
"Pah! Pah!"
Lu Shitou's two bright red slap marks landed on Stinky Dou's buttocks, which made Stinky Dou scream in pain.
At this moment, Erniu took a sip of candied date soup, and she looked embarrassed.
The moment she raised her head, she met Stinky Eyes: Is the candied date soup really bitter?
The same was true after Yaya and Wangcai finished drinking. Although the adults didn't believe it, it was impossible for five children to lie together.
Lu Shitou picked up the bowl of jujube soup with stinky beans and drank it. Everyone looked at him and saw Lu Shitou frowning.
"How is Stinky Dou's father?" asked Xia.
"bitter."
Everyone was in an uproar and picked up the candied date soup in the children's bowls, and found that it was really bitter.
Stinky Dou was so wronged that he said it was bitter, but everyone didn't believe him...
Chen Xiuhua wondered, how could it be bitter?
"Sister, is it possible that the candied dates I bought today are fake?" Chen Tiezhu asked.
Chen Xiuhua gritted her teeth and cursed: "A black-hearted shop, I will go find him this afternoon!"
The eldest son Lu Shengyun and the second son Lu Shitou immediately agreed: "Mom, let's go with you!"
"Let's eat first, everyone is hungry," Village Chief Lu said.
In addition to candied dates, there were also meat, potato powder, tofu and other vegetables. As for the bowl of rice, everyone shared a chopstick to try it.
Although the Lu family belongs to the village chief, they only eat brown rice on weekdays. Today they have a rare taste of rice, and everyone is very happy.
However, immediately afterwards, everyone looked embarrassed, and the rice felt like chewing wax in their mouths.
The meat, potato starch, and tofu were all unpalatable.
"Bah, bah, bah!"
Stinky Dou quickly spat out the meat in his mouth, almost crying.
It’s rare to have a good meal at home, so why does it taste so bad?
"Grandma, did you buy fake meat too?" Stinky Dou asked.
Chen Xiuhua was confused, how could the meat be fake?
Chen Xiuhua wondered: Could it be that her cooking skills have deteriorated?
At this moment, Chen Wangcai took a chopstick and stir-fried cowpeas and found that they were delicious!
Everyone also went to pick up the cowpeas one after another, and they tasted amazing.
In the end, everyone found that only the meat, candied dates, potato powder, tofu, and rice were bitter and unpalatable, while the others were delicious.
"???"
Everyone looked at each other, what happened?
Suddenly, Chen Xiuhua slapped her forehead and said excitedly: "Have you been eaten by Lord Insect God?
I heard that even if the food eaten by ghosts and gods remains unchanged on the surface, it will taste the same to humans after eating it!"
"Isn't this the taste of what we just ate?" Xia said.
Lu Shugen's eyes trembled when he heard this. It's true that his family had never eaten food after sacrifices before, but it never tasted the same, just this time!
In other words, Lord Insect God is about to appear?
Lu Shugen stood up suddenly and said, "I thought of a way to save the crops!"
At the entrance of the village, people were standing in front of the persimmon tree, including Qiao Ruyue and Qiao Xiaoxi.
At this moment, everyone had just finished lunch. On a hot day, they should have been lying at home to take a midday break, but now they were standing at the entrance of the village to bask in the sun.
Some people whispered about what the village chief asked everyone to do.
Some people are guessing whether something big happened?
"Village chief, why did you summon everyone here? Is there anything you can't talk about until the weather gets cooler?"
Li Sha shouted to Village Chief Lu.
"This matter cannot be delayed and cannot wait for a moment."
After hearing this, everyone calmed down a lot, but Li Shada remained stubborn.
"Then you'd say it's so hot!"
Village Chief Lu glanced at Li Shada: "This matter concerns everyone in the village. We must wait until everyone comes to deal with it."
Village Chief Lu looked at the crowd to confirm whether all 120 households were here.
Although Li Shada was usually a rogue, he quickly shut up when he heard that it concerned him.
After everyone arrived, Village Chief Lu began to explain the whole story.
When everyone heard that there was a locust plague in Jingfang County, everyone looked frightened and knelt down with their hands clasped together to pray:
"Lord God of Insects, please calm down and bless my Quanyin Village with a good harvest. Don't send locusts to Quanyin Village."
After saying that, he even kowtowed.
In the village, apart from the children who were too young to remember the locust plague three years ago, Qiao Ruyue was the only one who did not kneel down.
The villagers regarded the locusts as gods, and even built a temple for the locusts, enshrining a stone statue with a human body and a locust head, naming it the Insect God.
They believed that the locust plague was caused by the anger of the insect god, so they knelt down and begged one by one.
What they don't know is that in the 21st century, locusts are used as food, especially at barbecue stalls, where they are eaten on skewers.
Except for Qiao Ruyue, everyone in the village owns fields, and everyone is frightened.
The locust plague three years ago is still vivid in everyone's mind.
The locusts are like a black tornado. After sweeping through, there is no harvest in the fields!
"Jingfang County is right next door to our Qing'an County. Doesn't that mean that the locust plague is coming to our village soon?"
"Then cut the wheat quickly. When the locusts come, there will be nothing left!"
At this time, Li Sha said: "Qing'an County is so big, what if the locust plague doesn't pass through our Quanyin Village? Wouldn't the wheat be harvested in vain?"
After hearing this, many people felt that what Li Shada said was reasonable.
Now is the critical period for wheat. It will reach maturity in ten days. If it is harvested, at least half of the harvest will be lost!
"Li Shada, if you don't cut it now, you won't even have time to cry when the locust plague really comes!" Mrs. Ding retorted.
"Dear fellow villagers, there are already locusts in the wheat fields, but the number is not large, only a few. I think it is the insect god who appears and is protecting my Quanyin Village.
Today, my mother-in-law went to worship at the Insect Temple and found that the Insect God actually ate the food.
When I brought the dish back, even though it didn’t look like much on the outside, it was like chewing wax in my mouth!”
Qiao Ruyue frowned: It's just the same thing?
The more he talked, the more excited Village Chief Lu became. Everyone also heard the hope that the insect god had appeared!!
"Village Chief, I'm going to buy some food to worship at the Insect Temple!"
"I am coming too!"
"Although I can't afford to buy food, I can go and offer incense to the Insect God and ask him to bless our Quanyin Village!"
Soon, everyone dispersed. Some went directly to the town to buy food, while others went home to get money.
Qiao Ruyue's eyebrows were so furrowed that they were twisted into a knot. Village Chief Lu saw that she was still standing where she was, so he advised:
"Mother Xiaoxi, take Xiaoxi to offer incense to the Insect God and kowtow!
Although you don’t have a field, if locusts come, I’m afraid the entire crops in Jianjin Town will be eaten up. By then, food prices will rise, and it will be expensive for you to buy food.”
Qiao Ruyue did not answer, but asked: "Village chief, today my aunt went to the Insect Temple to worship and the food she brought back was really tasteless?"
Village Chief Lu thought Qiao Ruyue didn't believe what he said, so he patted his chest and said, "Our family of nine and Tiezhu's family of three can all testify!"
Qiao Ruyue's pupils shrank sharply, the offerings had really been eaten by ghosts and gods!!!