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Chapter 1213 The Meaningless Truth

"Half a month later, Master Wu really came here again.

This time, he didn't come alone!

According to my grandfather, Master Wu came here with an army of tens of thousands.

Then all the people from all the villages in the nearby ten miles and eight townships were gathered here!
Finally, under the command of Master Wu, the current town was built.

It is said that the name of this town was bestowed by the Holy Dragon.

After the establishment of this town, all the people from the ten miles and eight villages near Shenshan were moved to live here!
According to my grandfather, since the establishment of this town, there has been no such thing as someone disappearing after encountering a god!
The stone tablet in the center of our town still records what happened back then!

It's just that the stele has been worn down so badly now that it can't be seen clearly! "

When the old man said this, he couldn't help sighing, expressing his regret.

Indeed, according to what he said, the feng shui master surnamed Wu was a great blessing to the ancestors of the people living in this town!
After all, in such a place, to build such an ancient town, at that time, the cost of financial and material resources was not 01:30!

After all, in that era, there were no modern machines, and basically they could only rely on manpower.

Unexpectedly, this ancient town in the deep mountains, which doesn't look very majestic, has a history of almost 200 years!

After more than 200 years of wind and rain, it still does not fall!
Even Zhao Han had to sigh, the construction technology at that time was indeed amazing!
"Father, after the establishment of this town, the gods of the mountain haven't appeared, so why do they have to sacrifice every ten years?"

At this time, the old man's son suddenly asked.

And sacrifices?Zhao Han was surprised.

"This town has a name bestowed by Shenglong himself, and the gods who guard the mountain will naturally not offend it again.

But when Master Wu finally left, he once told the people in the town that every ten years, during the autumn and white period, he asked everyone to prepare some familiar three animals and five animals, and go to the west of the town ten miles to worship. .

Sacrificing to the gods who guard the sacred mountain can keep you safe even if you are not polite in the town!
Several generations of ancestors have come here.

But now... hey! "

Having said this, the old man sighed again.

Different from the regret before, this time, the old man's tone was full of helplessness.

"What's the matter now?" Zhao Han asked curiously.

"I know about this!"

This is what the old man's son said!

"According to the usual practice, today should be the ten-year sacrifice period!
Some time ago, the town originally planned to go to the west of the town to sacrifice as it did in the past!
However, last year, our town sent a few young people here to help the poor and support education.

They said that we are feudal superstitions and outdated thinking, and we do not allow the town to hold sacrifices and worship gods.

Under their persuasion, many young people in the town also resisted together.

In the end, the sacrificial matter was finally forced to give up! "

After hearing this, Zhao Han nodded slightly in his heart.

This is also understandable.

However, obviously things should not be that simple, otherwise, the town would not have the same situation as before, where there was a little movement outside and every family closed their doors!
Sure enough, the old man's son went on to say:

"The period of autumn and white has passed, so I couldn't sacrifice in the end.

There was nothing wrong at the beginning, but about half a month ago, livestock in the town began to disappear at night one after another!
Counting it down, it has happened four times!

Every time someone heard the movement at night, and then the next morning, the closed animals disappeared!
Everyone in the town saw it, and the fence was knocked open by something.

Under the organization of several young people sent from the city to the town to help the poor, the young people in the town followed the clues to find it!
However, in the end it all failed.

Since then, the town has said that it was because our town did not offer sacrifices to the gods on the mountain for ten years, which made the gods angry and swept away the livestock. "

Seeing what the man said so seriously, Zhao Han really didn't know what to say, so he asked casually:

"Didn't it mean that the gods who guard the mountain won't approach the town? How could they take away the animals in the town?"

"Our town, with the golden name bestowed by the holy dragon, is naturally able to subdue the gods on the holy mountain, plus we sacrifice on time every time, so the gods will naturally not come to the town!

However, how many years have passed, the original holy dragon has long since disappeared, and the golden name he bestowed naturally gradually lost its dragon prestige. "The old man interjected and explained.

The so-called holy dragon in the old population was the emperor at that time!
If it is around 300 years, it is indeed that era.

Zhao Han knew that the truth of the matter was definitely not what the old man said, but at this moment, he really didn't know how to refute it!
After all, these people have thought this way for generations, and there is no need for Zhao Han to forcefully change their minds!
There is no need for that!

What kind of holy dragon, what imperial bestowed gold name, the power of the dragon to deter the guardian gods of the holy mountain, etc., most of them were deliberately made to make the ancestors of these people think that way!

After all, the easiest thing for those who write about the power of the emperor is to deify themselves!
Zhao Han probably already knew the ins and outs of the matter!
He didn't waste energy trying to correct anything, though.

It doesn't make much sense.

For the people in the town, the so-called truth is actually not that important!

Regardless of the existence of the so-called sacred mountains and the gods guarding the dragon's veins, they have already become a kind of belief and spiritual sustenance in the hearts of these people!
In fact, some things really don’t need to be too serious!
Take the once-in-ten-year sacrifice in this ancient town as an example!

In fact, there is absolutely no need to stop those young people sent here from outside to help the poor and support education!

Perhaps, when they thought about it, when they got here, they should change the feudal superstition behavior of these people in the town!
However, some things, why not think about it from a different angle?

Many ethnic minorities have their own special festivals!

In fact, if the origin of these festivals is really to be investigated seriously, why not some so-called superstitious remarks?

However, with the development of the times, some special behaviors during these festivals have developed into a traditional activity instead!
More broadly speaking, how much is the essence of people's actions of offering sacrifices to mountain gods, burning incense and worshiping Buddha, and paying homage to ancestors different from the sacrificial activities in this ancient town?

(End of this chapter)