Neon Clothes and Iron Clothes

Just as Sha Zhaxiangru was thinking about how to refute the words of Ji Jian Chijian, two witches came out from the bushes beside the longhouse. They bowed slightly to the visitors, and the older one asked: "What are you?" people?"

"I see Chi Chung next, I am the head of the family!" Chi Jian bowed and said, pointing to Cao Sengnu and Sha Zha Xiangru behind him: "One of these two is from the Tang Dynasty, and the other is The people of Baekje all come here to beg God of Great Country to answer the questions in their hearts!"

"People from Tang Dynasty, people from Baekje?" The older witch looked at Sha Zhaxiangru and Cao Sengnu in surprise, and the two smiled back. Their appearance and clothing were indeed quite different from those of the Japanese.The witch looked up and down for a while, and nodded: "Guests from afar, the God of the Great Country enshrined here is famous for its efficacy. As long as you offer suitable sacrifices, the God of the Great Country will give you a satisfactory answer!"

"Thank you! I have heard of the great power of God in Baekje!" Sha Zha Xiangru led his horse over: "There are five pieces of silk on the horse's back, all of which are sacrifices to the gods. Please accept it!"

"This, this—" The older witch's eyes were attracted by the horse and the silk on her back, and the younger one was even more unbearable, and she stretched out her hand to caress the silk. Fortunately, the elder stopped her arm and looked at the sand. Zha Xiangru smiled and said: "You are so generous, the gods will definitely hear your prayers!"

Under the guidance of the elder witch, I saw that the three of them walked into the long house. The room was darker than they imagined. Cao Sengnu had to keep an eye on the torch held by the elder witch so as not to trip Suddenly, he felt as if he was going down, and he couldn't help muttering: "Why is this road getting lower and lower, is it going to dig a hole?"

"There is a legend in Izumo that after abdicating the throne, the main god of the Great Country went to Huangquan Kingdom and became a god there! So the statues here are all underground!" Chi Jian said in a low voice.

"Going to Huangquan Country? This is the only one of those nonsense words that is true!" Sha Zha Xiangru sneered: "If a person is never seen again, the greatest possibility is that he is dead. I guess this The unlucky guy was killed after handing over the throne, otherwise how could there be such contradictory legends?"

Cao Sengnu carefully paid attention to his feet so as not to fall. The torch in the witch's hand gave off a faint light. He could vaguely see the murals on the surrounding walls. Under the dim light, the characters on the murals were particularly eerie. I can't help but regret coming in.

"We're here!" The witch general lit several torches placed on the brackets on the wall. At this moment, Cao Sengnu finally saw that he was in a big pit about seven or eight meters deep. Low, it turned out to be the case.

"This is the Lord God of the Great Country!" The witch pointed to a stone statue facing west: "You can start prostrating, and then you can ask your questions!"

"Thank you very much!" Chi Jian expressed his gratitude to the witch, then knelt down to the stone statue, Cao Sengnu and Sha Zha Xiangru also knelt down.The witch walked to the shrine in front of the stone statue, took out a small bag from her waist, sprinkled the powder in it into a stone basin next to the shrine, and then sat on a stone bench next to the shrine.

"What's wrong with this woman? Why is she sitting next to the god she serves?" Cao Sengnu raised his head curiously, and peeped at the witch, only to see that the witch waved her hand, and a puff of smoke rose from the stone basin, and the witch closed her eyes. His eyes, buried in the smoke column, showed an intoxicated expression, and after a while, he said in an inhuman voice: "Say it! What do you want to ask?"

"What's going on?" Sha Zha Xiangru asked in surprise, "Aren't you that woman? Who are you?"

"Who am I?" The voice let out a loud laugh, which caused an echo in the longhouse: "Didn't you come to ask me questions with gifts? Why are you asking who I am?"

"I'm asking you a question with a gift?" Sha Zha stood up in horror, subconsciously held down the handle of the knife at his waist, and saw that Chi Jian grabbed his hand, and said, "Great Lord of the Kingdom! The ancestor of the Izumo country! Please forgive my friend for being rude, he was just too surprised!"

"No problem!" the voice laughed: "I like brave people, speak up and ask your questions!"

"I'm asking a question for our master!" Cao Sengnu pointed to Sha Zha Xiangru and then to himself: "He is a great general who has just won a brilliant victory. His question is: now Should he go home with the honor and the spoils and enjoy it all, or should he go further and win more?"

The voice fell silent, as if the great gods needed time to think about the answer, Cao Sengnu held his breath, and after a few minutes, the voice spoke again: "Since one of you is from Baekje and the other is from Tang, then your The master should also come from afar, right?"

"Yes!" Cao Sengnu pretended to be surprised: "How do you know?"

"Hehehe!" The voice laughed: "It's nothing, I'm a god after all! There's always more than you know!"

"Please forgive my rudeness!" Cao Sengnu hurriedly lowered his head again: "Then can you answer my question?"

"Of course!" The voice became louder and louder, and it seemed that even the roof was shaking: "If he returns to his hometown with honor and spoils, it will end badly, because countless people who are jealous of him It will frame him from behind; and if he goes further, he will create unprecedented achievements, his reputation will be extolled by later generations, his children will wear the crown, and the land surrounded by the sea will be under his rule!"

"I remember, the great God of the Great Country, thank you for your answer, I will definitely take your answer back!" Cao Sengnu hurriedly knelt down on the ground, at this time he stretched out his right hand, and secretly pulled Sha Zha At the corner of Xiangru's clothes, the understanding Sha Zha Xiangru raised his head, and suddenly exclaimed: "Ah! My lord, why is there your image here!"

"What's wrong with you!" Cao Sengnu hurriedly pretended to reprimand: "This is in front of the gods, how can you be so rude!" He kowtowed to the statue again: "Also please forgive me, my friend has never seen any market, please You have to forgive him for his rudeness! I will offer a new sacrifice later!"

"Yes, but the Lord God of this great country really looks like the Lord, he looks exactly the same! No, this image is made just like the Lord!" Sha Zha Xiangru said loudly, Cao Sengnu scolded twice , looked up at the statue, and suddenly sat down on the ground in fright: "How could this be, it really looks exactly like the Lord!"

"What are you two doing?" Chi Jian pretended to be surprised: "This is the temple of the Great God, if we offend the Great God, we will all die!"

"You see the red pole, you don't know!" Cao Sengnu said: "This stone statue is exactly the same as our master's, it was born from the same mold, you teach us how not to panic!"

"Really?" Seeing the traces, Chi Yan asked suspiciously: "The Zuofu Palace is obviously from the Tang Dynasty. This is the first time I have come to the Wa Kingdom. How could it be exactly like this stone statue?"

"I don't know either! That's why I feel scared!" Sha Zha Xiangru smiled wryly, "If it gets out, the Lord probably thinks we are lying to him!"

"If this is really the case, at most, please invite Zuo Fudian to come over and have a look with your own eyes. Don't worry about him thinking you guys are lying to him!" Seeing Chi Yan laughing, he frowned immediately: "But if this is true Yes, that's too strange, is it a coincidence?"

"How can there be such a coincidence in the world!" Cao Sengnu said: "One was born in the Tang Dynasty thousands of miles away, and the other is a stone statue hundreds of years ago, but they look exactly the same. Isn't this ridiculous?"

The three of them were arguing endlessly, when the witch suddenly had a violent convulsion, and immediately woke up, she saw the appearance of the three of them, and asked, "How is it? Has the Great Country Lord ever answered your questions?"

"Reporting to the witch!" Jijian Chiyu smiled wryly and said, "The God of Great Country did answer the questions of my two friends, but there was a more troublesome question!"

"A more troublesome question?" the witch asked.

"That's right!" Seeing Chi Yan, he recounted what Cao Sengnu and Sha Zha Xiangru discovered just now: "Witch, do you think this is strange?"

"Your lord looks exactly the same as the statue of the great country lord?" The witch frowned: "Is this true?"

"Not bad!"

"That's true!" Cao Sengnu asked, "Could it be a coincidence?"

"Coincidentally?" The witch shook her head: "I don't know, I have to ask the gods to find out. By the way, who is your master? What question did you come here to ask?"

"Didn't you hear our question just now?" Sha Zha Xiangru asked, "Why are you asking me again?"

"Hehe!" The witch laughed: "That's what happened! Just now, the Lord God of the Great Country descended on me and used my body to talk to you, so I don't know anything about what you said just now!"

"So that's what happened!" Cao Sengnu laughed and said, "Returning to the witch, our lord is the consolation ambassador of the Wa Kingdom under the Emperor of Tang Dynasty, who was ordered by Your Majesty the Queen of the Zuofu Palace, who just defeated Brother Zhong's rebels. Wang Wenzuo, Lord of the Wangfu!"

"It turned out to be him!" The witch showed a look of astonishment: "That is a general who even fears ghosts and gods!"

"Hehe!" Cao Sengnu laughed and said, "Unexpectedly, you have heard of the prestige of my Patriarch in Izumo Kingdom!"

"Even a blind man will hear about such a big event from other people! No matter how ignorant I am, I will still hear a thing or two from the guests who come to worship!" Subordinates, come with me and treat me well!"

"Then my master has a similar appearance to the statue—" Cao Sengnu asked.

"This matter has a lot to do with it, and I can't give you an answer right now!" The witch Su Rong replied: "But one thing is for sure, everything the gods do must have a deep meaning, but our knowledge is shallow and we can't understand it for a while. It's all true!"

The three of them followed the witch out of the longhouse. The witch called a companion, whispered a few words in her ear, and then led the three of them out of the forest. They stayed in a nearby manor and invited them to take a bath first.After the three of them bathed in the hot spring, they went to the house and sat down. Seeing no one around, Sha Zha asked, "Brother Ji Jian, what do you think the witch is planning?"

"I don't know yet!" Chi Jian replied, "But there should be no malicious intentions, Mr. Cao, what do you think?"

"I think so too!" Cao Sengnu said, "The witch should have reported our matter to the superior and discussed it together."

"Since they are discussing together, why do you think they have no malicious intentions?" Sha Zha asked.

"Hehe!" Cao Sengnu smiled: "Brother Shazha, do you remember that we took out a horse and five pieces of silk earlier, saying it was a sacrifice to the gods, how did the two witches react?"

"What's the reaction?" Sha Zha Xiangru recalled: "The two witches seem to be very happy. By the way, the young one reached out to touch the silk, but was stopped by the older one!"

"That's right!" Cao Sengnu laughed and said, "I'm not going to lie to you two, I grew up in the Zoroastrian Temple since I was a child. All the temples in the world are similar, whether it's for the Bodhisattvas of the Samanas or the gods of Taoism. , or the God of Light in the Zoroastrian Temple. The gods enshrined in the temple here, no matter whether they are clay sculptures and wood sculptures, or wrapped in gold and silver, cannot eat, wear clothes, or move.

The food, copper coins, cloth, silk, gold and silver sent by the believers all went into the pockets of the people in the temple, so how could they have anything to do with the gods?The Great God of the Wa Kingdom is no exception.The gods don't need to ride horses, and they can't wear silk. Whether it's horses or silk, it all belongs to those witches who claim to serve the gods in the end! "

"That's true, but it has nothing to do with whether they are malicious!" Sha Zha asked.

"It's not easy? The God of the Great Country can't speak by himself. It's these witches who really talk. They like money, and they know the prestige and strength of the Lord. If they have the opportunity to build a relationship with the Lord, what do you think they will do? ? Have you forgotten how that witch who pretended to be a ghost answered our questions when we were in that underground cave?"

"Hahahaha!" Sha Zha Xiangru couldn't help laughing when he heard this: "Yes, these witches are like mice smelling sesame oil after hearing the Lord's reputation, and they can't be driven away. Mr. Cao, this time You have made a great contribution, and the Lord will definitely reward you heavily after you return!"

"General Sha Zha, what you said is wrong!" Cao Sengnu laughed and said, "In terms of credit, the biggest of the three of us must be counted as a brother, after all, he was the one who thought up this matter from the beginning to the end. Yes, the two of us are just acting out a play!"

"That's right!" Sha Zha Xiangru patted Jijian Chiyu on the shoulder: "Brother Jijian, after this incident, your position in the Lord must be improving by leaps and bounds, and we will have to rely on you a lot in the future." You!"

Today is Valentine's Day, and Weber wishes all men to have girls, and women to have brothers, to be in pairs.