"Heaven listens, this is Zhang family's meritorious deeds of the Nine Dynasties and Eight Dynasties. He has unblocked Taiyue and made it clear to the heaven and earth. It shines on the sun and the moon. He has saved his merits and deeds and bestowed them on me. I will have a golden body and will not fall into hell from now on."
Entering reincarnation...please pray for heaven's grace!"
After the ceremony...
With anxiety and expectation, I raised the merit book high above my head to express my gratitude to my ancestors and to fear heaven and earth.
After doing this, I no longer had any hesitation in my mind. I pressed the scroll with both hands, pulled it gently, and slowly opened the merit book.
In the merit book, countless words are densely recorded. These are the merit events accumulated by our Zhang family over the years. Although I have heard my grandfather talk about it countless times before, this is the first time that I have truly opened up the merits in my hands.
book.
Each of these words is a story and a piece of merit. There are also different handprints or seals on them. These words should have been left behind willingly by the people who had inherited the great kindness of our Zhang family. The purpose is to
It is to tell heaven and earth about the deeds of our Zhang family, and heaven and earth will bear witness and cannot be false.
This merit book does not look very big, but after unfolding it, it is more than two meters long. At a glance, there are no less than ten thousand words written on it. I made a visual inspection and found that the events recorded on it were at least a hundred years old.
above the items.
And at the front of the merit book, there is a blood-red mark. According to what grandpa said, this should be the merit mark left by the first generation coffin bearer of our Zhang family.
There is a same mark, a total of 8 marks from beginning to end, representing the 8 generations of our Zhang family ancestors.
These eight marks are vaguely connected into an arc, which coincides with the laws of nature.
According to the rules, every incident recorded above must be read out by me personally to show that God is listening.
"call…"
I took a deep breath and looked solemn, because once I started praising virtue, I couldn't stop midway.
But I have waited too long for this moment.
I quickly put aside my distracting thoughts and read aloud.
"In the eleventh year of Zhizheng, there was a red star in Lanyang County as big as a bucket. It fell from the southeast to the northwest, and its sound was like thunder. In an instant, the red scarf caused disaster, killing civilians, burning cottages, driving away big snakes, and raining heavily. The people were in dire straits and their lives were ruined.
There were countless casualties among my generation. The poor Taoist Zhang Xuanling could not bear the suffering of the common people. The city god was ordered to pick up the sword and kill the big snake and Luolin Poqian, saving 304 people..."
This is the first merit recorded in the merit book. After reading it, I couldn't help but be secretly shocked.
My ancestor is awesome!
In the 11th year of Zhizheng, if I remember correctly, it should be 1351 AD, which was the time when the Red Turban Army revolted at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.
So, the first generation ancestor of my family was actually from the late Yuan Dynasty. That time was already six or seven hundred years ago, right?
In the twelfth year of Hongwu, the demons of the previous dynasty came back to cause chaos, expelled poisonous insects, and raised the God of War in an attempt to rebel. Southern Xinjiang was in chaos, and the God of War came. The plague raged, and within ten miles, all living people would perish. The poor Taoist brought thirty-six of his fellow sects with him.
People, Bu Tiangang's Beidou Formation will last for nine days, and they will all be destroyed. Twenty-nine of our people died and seven were injured...
In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, there was civil strife in the court. Zhu Biao died, the Lan family was massacred, the major general escaped from Erlang Mountain and died in the battle. The immortal spirit disturbed the dragon veins, and natural disasters continued. Emperor Taizu sent the national counselor to treat the disease.
During the chaos, Zhang Xuanling was invited by the Liu family in Qingtian to assist, using stone sculptures to suppress the undead and pacify one party...
After reading this, it seems that everything has been understood. It turns out that the Black Lion is like this. This feudal dynasty has done a lot of harm to people. Zhu Biao was the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty and died alone. As a result, everyone in the Lan family was implicated. Only then
With the black lion incident, I didn’t expect that my great-grandfather would be involved in it.
At this time, I suddenly thought of another question: Will the big snake under the Nine-Aperture Exquisite Monument also be recorded in this merit book?
The twenty-sixth year of Hongwu Year......
The twenty-eighth year of Hongwu...
As I read, I suddenly discovered a shocking question, that is, the age of my great-grandfather. His name lasted until the late Yuan Dynasty.
I was shocked in my heart. After a rough calculation, I found that it was over 200 years old.
No wonder our Zhang family has only experienced nine generations in almost 700 years from the end of the Yuan Dynasty to the present. I never understood it before, because in terms of time, under normal circumstances, there are dozens of people.
It is only now that it suddenly became clear that our ancestors had lived for such a long time. It is not surprising that when Laolongshan was flooded during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, they were the fourth generation ancestors of our Zhang family.
.And judging from the information revealed between the lines in this merit book, our Zhang family was not coffin bearers at the beginning, but a true Taoist background. No wonder so many Taoist methods have been passed down to my family!
Who is this grandpa of mine?
Read on…
Every section and every paragraph is incredible. Rather than reading a merit book, it is better to say that I am reading a series of touching metaphysical stories. Every time I read it, I was fascinated and proud...
Soon, I read about the second generation ancestor of our Zhang family, Zhang Xuanling, who had a son at an old age. The life span of the second generation ancestor did not seem to be as long as that of the first generation Zhang Xuanling, but he was still nearly two hundred years old.
Calculating this, these two ancestors alone are more than 400 years old...
When it came to the third generation, the lifespan was shortened compared to the second generation.
It can be seen that at this time, the five disadvantages and three shortcomings have begun to appear.
Soon, the fourth generation of coffin bearers from our Zhang family arrived.
I am more concerned about this fourth-generation ancestor, because I really really want to know whether the events in Laolong Mountain will also be recorded in this merit book.
It’s just that there aren’t many records about my fourth-generation ancestor’s meritorious deeds in this workbook. There are only six or seven of them in one piece. The strange thing is that there is no record about Laolongshan among these six or seven things.
However, one section of the record was artificially erased.
Just when I was wondering, I heard a whooshing sound, and a white figure suddenly rushed to the altar in front of me. It was the little white snake,
The little white snake was hesitant, and then its eyes fell on the smeared area. The original black eyes suddenly turned blood red, and a violent aura emitted from all over the body.
After seeing this scene, I would be really stupid if I didn't understand what was going on.
It seems that my fourth-generation grandfather originally recorded this incident in his merit book, but for some reason it was erased by him in the end. I venture to guess that either this was not a meritorious deed.
Or there's some secret hidden in it that I don't know about.
But no matter what the specific circumstances were at the beginning, since the record has been obliterated, it is enough to explain the problem.
Thinking of this, I sighed softly, bit my index finger, drew the merit mark of my fourth-generation ancestor with blood, and then touched the head of the little white snake.
This merit is given to it!
If our ancestors of the Zhang family really did something wrong, let this be considered as compensation for it. I once promised it, otherwise I would not have tailor-made a Yin-Yang mansion for him. At this moment, it is my fulfillment.
When you commit.
The little white snake turned its head and looked at me in surprise with its little eyes. The bloodshot eyes gradually faded away, revealing a touch of unbelievable surprise.
Seeing the little white snake gradually calm down, I breathed a sigh of relief and continued...
Soon, I arrived at my grandfather's place.
It's just that my grandfather didn't have many meritorious deeds in his life. There were only a few strokes, but all those recorded were major events. Perhaps this was related to the current situation of that era!
Compared to my grandfather, my eyes quickly stopped at the back of the merit book. What was recorded here could only be my dad’s merits.
But I don’t know why when I got to my dad’s place, starting from the first word, everything was covered with red stuff, not even a word was left.
how so?
I couldn't help but think of the scroll I got from my grandma before. The content in it was also erased by someone using the same method.
When I got to myself, there was a two-meter-long merit book with one foot of blank space. In this blank space, my name suddenly appeared.