Linjiang Township.

"Place all the tables, not a single table should be missing." The square in front of the temple was full of tables, and someone shouted.

"How's it going? Are all the village elders and household heads from each township here?" A strong man wearing a green round collar robe looked towards the road and urged the villagers around him.

"Why don't you hurry up and invite me before you arrive?"

As soon as a few villagers ran out, they saw a large group of people approaching on the road at the entrance of the village, led by a few old men supported by young people.

"I'm coming!"

"People from other villages are here."

The strong man in round collar and green robe immediately stepped forward to greet him.

"It's getting more and more prosperous!" The old man looked at the busy scene with satisfaction, looked at the three animal sacrifices in the temple, and kept nodding.

"Okay! I'm getting better and better." Several other old men also said again and again.

After the ceremony, everyone took their seats. It can be said that there were people everywhere in front of and behind the temple.

The strong man Sun Tieshan, who used to take the lead in the fight against the Five Poison Sect's River Temple, has now been elected as the common leader of several villages in Linjiang Township.

However, Sun De Sheng, the old man from Linjiang Township, died of a fever this summer.

It was turned into a tablet and placed in the side hall of the temple.

Because the Kongchen Daojun Temple in Linjiang Township is special, it is the place where the former Daojun truly showed his holiness. Therefore, villages from all over the country rushed to move the spiritual tablets of their famous ancestors to the side hall.

Therefore, on the day of the Ghost Festival, people from all over the country came.

The villages in Shili and Baxiang have been booming this year, and it can be said that everything is going well.

Everyone said that they relied on Kongchen Daojun's blessing and entrusted Daojun's blessings.

Today is the Hungry Ghost Festival, and everyone here is even more happy. They hope that by using this festival to worship ancestors and fulfill their wishes, the next year will be like this year.

The sky is getting dark, and the candle lanterns in Daojun Temple are hung and lit, and the lights are bright.

A fire was also lit in the big cauldron in front of the temple, illuminating the front and back of the temple.

"The time has come."

"It's almost time to start."

"Get up!"

Sun Tieshan took the leading figures from Shili Baxiang and knelt in front of Daojun Temple, prayed to Daojun Kongchen about the situation of Shili Baxiang last year, and thanked Daojun Kongchen for his blessing.

Finally said.

"Zhengsun Tieshan of Linjiang Township begs Kongchen Dao Lord to bless me in all my villages and towns, so that in the coming year the weather will continue to be good and we will have more people."

Everyone shouted together, and everyone shouted along with Sun Tieshan, with pious expressions on their faces.

But the children kneeling on the ground are different. Although they are worshiping in front, their eyes are constantly looking at the table behind, waiting for them to eat and drink after the worship is over.

In the eyes of the villagers kneeling on the ground, they could only see the flickering candlelight, and the statues of gods in the temple looked extremely mysterious in the light, shadow and smell of incense.

But no one saw Daojun Kongchen and General Donkey looking at them from the altar.

The donkey general's face was filled with a smile, and his head swayed from side to side.

Because in this temple, the only ones enshrined are General Donkey and Dao Lord Kongchen. There is no Lord Yun, and even the boy Qinglong only has a sword exposed.

General Donkey boasted to the other two protectors: "Did you see it? Did you see it?"

"Why the world is so stable and why the people here are living so well now is all due to my General Donkey."

The Qinglong boy said coldly: "I killed the demon, so you ended up killing it, burning a ruined temple and arresting a few mortals."

General Donkey raised his hoof and pointed at himself on the altar: "Did you see that my position on the altar is so prominent?"

"What does this mean? What does it mean?"

"It means that the eyes of the common people are sharp and they can see that General Donkey is their benefactor in the midst of fire and water."

In fact, the statue of Donkey General looks ferocious and ferocious, even the eyes are red.

It can be seen how vicious and evil he is in the eyes of people from all over the country.

Everyone said that this was a big demon that was surrendered by Lord Kongchen!

Daojun Kongchen glanced around and saw the prosperous scene of eight villages in ten miles and eighty miles, and raised the corner of his mouth.

Looking at the entire Linjiang Township, I saw no trace of ghosts in the township. It seemed that the ghosts and gods in Jiangzhou were doing a pretty good job.

After worshiping, people from all over the country followed the custom of the Zhou Dynasty, and no matter what kind of celebration it was, it was inseparable from eating and drinking.

You need to eat when you have a baby, you need to eat when you are dead, you need to eat when you are getting married, and of course you need to eat when you sacrifice the souls of your ancestors on the Hungry Ghost Festival.

Kongchenzi sat on the altar and drank several cups of sacrificial wine offered to him by the villagers.

The Taoist closed his eyes, as if feeling the flavor of the wine: "Yes, it has the taste of new grains."

The wine made by the locals is not a good wine, but it has the smell of new grain and the rhythm of life.

General Donkey was not polite and gnawed cleanly from the plate of pig head meat that was offered to him. When he finished, he thought the meat was too greasy and swept away all the fruits under the altar.

One immortal and three gods, just sitting on the altar, watching outside the temple, beating gongs and drums, playing instruments and singing.

While eating and drinking, the moon slowly climbed up the treetops.

Linjiang Township Earth Temple.

The door automatically opens to the outside when there is no wind.

A god wearing earthy gray clothes walked out of the temple. He was the landowner of Linjiang Township.

The Earth God held a lantern and headed towards the river as if he had been summoned.

When you come to the river, you can see sparse lotus lanterns floating down the river. They are lanterns put down from Jiangting City upstream.

You can imagine how lively and prosperous the scene is in Jiangting City at this moment.

The landowner of Linjiang Township looked at the lanterns flowing down the river, held the lantern and stepped onto the river, heading upstream.

As we get closer and closer to Jiangting City, we can see the shadows of ghosts and gods appearing one after another.

The city gods, mountain gods, land gods, and wandering gods from all over the counties gathered here, walking on the river towards Jiangting City.

And each god holds a lantern in his hand.

Mortals cannot see these ghosts and gods, but these ghosts and gods can also not see the immortal saints on the shore.

On the bank, Kong Chenzi carried a porcelain pot of new wine offered to him by the people of Linjiang Township, and rode a donkey along the river bank.

The Taoist took a sip of wine and looked towards the river.

The mighty ghosts and spirits holding lanterns illuminate the river and move upstream.

Underfoot are lotus lanterns flowing one after another, flowing down the river.

Strange and mysterious.

The walls of Jiangting City were looming in the distance. Yun Jun looked at the lanterns held by the ghosts and gods and saw something unusual in them.

"Master, in this lantern..."

"It seems like they are all ghosts?"

The fluorescent light flickers in the lantern, as if it contains countless fireflies.

But every bit of firefly is a wandering ghost that has converged locally and is in chaos.

Although Mr. Yun knew that the gates of ghosts were opened during the Ghost Festival, he did not know how the underworld sent ghosts to reincarnation.

Kong Chenzi nodded.

"All living beings in the world are old, sick and die, and it is impossible to send a ghost or god to greet each person and open the gate of hell."

"Therefore, the underworld has decided that on the Ghost Festival of the Ghost Festival every year, all the gates of ghosts in all parts of the world will be opened."

"Ghosts and gods from all over the world use this soul-inducing lamp to collect those lonely and wandering ghosts. During the Ghost Festival, when the gate of ghosts opens, they gather in the city and send them to the underworld."

"Today is the first time that the ghost gate opens during the Ghost Ghost Festival, which is related to the operation of the entire underworld and the reincarnation."

"Let's go and see what the Ghost Festival is like."

Kong Chenzi rode a donkey, just as he had once entered Jiangzhou City.

Jumping tens of feet up, overlooking the night view of Jiangzhou from the height of the sky.
Chapter completed!