This night was speechless.
We were also exhausted. After eating chicken stewed with mushrooms, we built a trench full of trenches, and after a while we all went to sleep.
Xiaoshanzi's house is very big, with five large tile-roofed rooms, and it is not a problem to sleep more than a dozen people.
I slept very soundly and peacefully that night, with almost no dreams.
But early the next morning, around five o'clock, everyone got up one by one. I heard it vaguely and didn't think about it, so I simply hid myself under the quilt.
After squinting like this for a while, Uncle Ma lifted the quilt from me and said that you are still lying on the quilt, because everyone has been working outside for a long time.
I opened my eyes and saw that it was just over six o'clock.
Hey, that's the bad thing about being in the village. I can't sleep even if I want to. People are very hardworking, so I can't embarrass Uncle Ma.
So I got up and saw cooking in the kitchen, and several people outside the house were working on the lightning strike wood.
When I got outside, I found Huang Tianyou and asked them with a smile what they were doing. Huang Tianyou said that this was not the case. They were pruning the lightning strike wood and cutting it into small pieces for easy carrying.
I saw that everyone looked very happy, so I asked him if lightning strikes were so rare. I saw a lot of them online.
Huang Tianyou said that there were indeed piles of them, but not many of them had spiritual power. They were basically all produced in batches in factories.
As for the raw materials, it would be better if it was artificially induced, but if it was electric shock, it would be hard to say.
It was the first time I heard about this. I said that lightning strikes trees by artificially triggering the lightning. I understand, but why is there an electric shock?
Huang Tianyou, that's normal. Otherwise, do you think there would be so much lightning-strike wood in the world? Would those factories go all over the world looking for lightning-strike wood?
Those with conscience will artificially induce lightning for you, just like the dragon pine we broke back. It actually artificially induces lightning, using metal wires as conductors to induce lightning to strike.
But this is at least natural lightning, so it is indeed lightning striking wood, so there is no problem.
But those who are unscrupulous will directly connect high-voltage electricity to the wood, and a charred texture similar to that of lightning-strike wood will appear on the wood. Anyway, they all look the same and it is difficult to distinguish them.
If I say this, will it still be useful?
Huang Tianyou said that it is impossible for Taoist magic weapons to use this kind of electric shock to wood, because it has no spiritual power and it cannot be struck by lightning at all.
However, if ordinary people wear this, it will indeed have some effect, because at least the electric shock wood used for you is jujube and peach wood. After all, the wood itself is not valuable.
I asked him again, since it is electric shock wood, why does it work for ordinary people wearing it?
Huang Tianyou said, first of all, even if it is not an electric shock, giving you a piece of peach wood to wear on your body will have the effect of warding off evil spirits.
Furthermore, most of them will have some Taoist symbols engraved on them, such as Leizu taboo, Ziwei taboo, Jinguanglu, and mountain ghost spending money.
Peach wood itself can ward off evil spirits, and when coupled with Taoist symbols, its power will naturally increase.
It dawned on me.
At this time, Uncle Ma also came out and told me that although peach wood and Taoist symbols are important, the psychological effects of the people who buy these things are also very important.
I do understand this. After all, after everyone buys it, they feel that it is a lightning-struck wood, which will create a sense of trust, and it will naturally have an effect.
But if the wood is really struck by lightning, it will contain thunder energy and spiritual power, and the effect will naturally be different.
Master Ren was also working beside him. Hearing this, he smiled and said, "Actually, these are the basics. The effect of lightning strike wood is most obvious after it has been blessed. The unblessed ones can only be factory goods, and the blessed ones can be called magic weapons."
I heard it interestingly, shook my head and sighed: "People nowadays will do anything to make money, and they even energize wood with high voltage. What a fool."
Huang Tianyou said: "There is nothing we can do about it, because the demand is too great. If you point to the lightning-struck wood in nature, where is enough? Besides, it is not unusual to apply high-voltage electricity to wood. I have two Taoist friends. , they are from the Shenxiao sect, they even steal high-voltage electricity in order to practice thunder, this is called awesome."
My curiosity was piqued again. Why is there someone stealing high-voltage electricity to practice thunder?
Huang Tianyou also became interested, so he told us that the Shenxiao sect mainly practiced thunder method, but his two Taoist friends were not good at it, so they tried to take advantage of it.
In order to speed up the practice of lightning, one day the two brothers went to steal high-voltage electricity.
As for how he stole it, he just used a transformer to connect it to his own equipment privately and converted it into low-voltage electricity.
But the specific cultivation method is unknown.
Anyway, the two brothers had been stealing high-voltage electricity for a while, and they didn't seem to have mastered the thunder method. They were discovered, and they were arrested together. Not only did they pay a fine, but they were also detained for a period of time.
Uncle Ma chuckled and said, "Don't say it was someone from the Shenxiao sect who did it. If people find out about this, they will scold you later for spreading rumors."
Huang Tianyou also smiled and said: "There is nothing shameful about this. There are also people who use stones as inner elixirs to practice. This world is full of wonders and wonders."
At this point, breakfast was ready and Xiao Shanzi invited everyone to eat, so we put down what we were doing and rushed into the kitchen together.
The breakfast is a large pot of white rice porridge, paired with freshly baked steamed buns, stewed beans and potatoes, plus a pot of boiled corn, stewed eggs, steamed eggplant, and rural miso with green onions.
This meal was so delicious that I will never forget it, especially the potato stewed with green beans, which was made with meat oil. The stew was oily and bright, and every green bean was covered with oil beads. It was in your mouth. Li Xiang's big teeth almost fell out.
To this day, when I think about the meal I had at that time, I am always reminiscing about it, and my mouth is watering involuntarily.
It's a pity that after so many years, although I often eat similar meals, I can no longer find the feeling of that meal.
After breakfast, we have to pack up and go back home, because this mission has been successfully completed.
When leaving, everyone left in batches. Professor Zhang and his people stayed at the end, probably because he still had some things to explain to the village.
After all, I've been living here for a long time, so I have to pay for it.
Uncle Ma, Mr. Ren and I were the first to leave, including Huang Tianyou. We took the same commercial vehicle and left the small village in a leisurely manner.
To make a long story short, our first stop was to return to the countryside, buy some supplies, fill up the gas, and then Uncle Ma and I said goodbye to them. After all, I came here by car.
Mr. Ren also waved goodbye to us and invited us to sit in his temple when we have free time.
Since it involves real people and real events, I won’t say where the specific Taoist temple is. Even the name is fictitious, so you don’t need to identify it.
But I didn't expect at the time that just a year later, I would actually have the opportunity to go to Master Ren's Taoist temple and experience it for myself, and I would also have some adventures and opportunities.
This is something for later, let’s not talk about it for now.
What I have to do now is to drive this shabby taxi back to Harbin with Uncle Ma.
But now I feel confident, because Uncle Ma said before that this mission can earn more than 100,000 yuan, and we will change cars when we get back!
