Hard work

Chapter 267 Sacrifice
Although the matter of Zhao Mumian made people feel a little concerned, Lan Hua'er still didn't take it too seriously.Zang Lang, on the other hand, now suddenly realizes that the existence of Zhao Mumian is a bad thing, so he can avoid contact with Zhao Mumian.

Lan Hua'er watched him go out from behind, and found that he was already deliberately dodging Zhao Mumian's stalking - if you say stalking, it seemed wrong, after all, what he did was fair and aboveboard, the only thing he didn't go forward to talk to was.Since there was no conversation, it stands to reason that there should be no need to dodge.Lan Hua'er didn't mean to let Zang Lang hide.

But since Zang Lang has made his own decision, Lan Hua'er will naturally not talk around.

I don't know if Zhao Mumian can feel the change of Zang Lang. Anyway, every time Zang Lang goes to the back mountain, she still walks out of the thatched shed on time and follows Zang Lang far away.Although since Zang Lang began to pay attention to her, she was often thrown away by Zang Lang within a short time.

She was calm, and this time she didn't intend to go up to talk to Zang Lang at all, and gradually people felt that Zang Lang seemed to have gone too far.Fortunately, no one else noticed Zhao Mumian's existence.

After this summer is over, it seems that it will be the time of Mid-Autumn Festival.In the past, this festival was the focus of celebrations in the village.After all, this is a festival that represents a good harvest. In the current dynasty, apart from the New Year, this is the festival that people pay the most attention to.

It's a pity that this year's Aozi Village is destined to not be able to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival happily.After all, with the situation in the village, there is no harvest at all this year, so there is no way to celebrate.The only thing worth celebrating is that the victims of the disaster around the village have almost dispersed, leaving some space for the villagers to move around.

At this time in previous years, almost all the people in the village were busy going to the fields to grab grain, and even Zang Lang was busy walking around with him.If there are not many things to do to change the flowers, I will bring Goudan's family who is on farm leave to help.Every year's hard work will always yield a good harvest at this time.

Even though he knew that part of the recovered food had to be handed over, seeing so much food recovered, he was still happy in his heart, and he didn't even feel tired.At that time, Lan Hua'er always thought that it would be great if she didn't have to pay land taxes, since the house would be full of food.

Now by accident, it is true that there is no need to pay land taxes anymore, but unexpectedly it will be a year of no harvest.

In the past, I even felt that the celebrations in the village were a bit outdated and too crude.Lan Hua'er felt nostalgic until now that she couldn't even do that simple celebration.

According to the past rules, the village chief started to organize the Mid-Autumn Festival celebrations in the village.In a year like this year, the village chief has no intention of mentioning the celebration at all. Lan Hua'er even suspects that the village chief has forgotten to count the time, and he doesn't even know when the Mid-Autumn Festival is.After all, if this festival is really counting eagerly, it would be too sad under the current circumstances.

However, Changwu was excitedly thinking of holding a sacrificial ceremony.

"It's been like this all these years, what are you going to bother about?" When Lan Hua'er was free, she heard Changwu talking to herself about this matter by herself, and after being dazed for a while, she hurried out He persuaded him to give up this idea, "Big fellows are holding back their discomfort at the moment. No one wants to think about it. When you mention it like this, it will make everyone unhappy."

"What's wrong with this year, it's not because of this year that you need to make troubles." Changwu was not in a hurry, he looked like he had finally found someone to talk about the matter, and he explained to Lan Hua'er slowly, "The year is not the same. Well, only those who can’t have a good harvest need sacrifices. Do you know what sacrifices are and what sacrifices are to gods? It’s just praying for good weather in the coming year.”

"...is this useful?" Lan Hua'er stared at Chang Wu with a very suspicious look.

It's no wonder that Lanhua'er doesn't respect Mantian gods and Buddhas.In fact, every time she watched Changwu do things, she felt more and more that this gentleman was incompetent.The other gentlemen are so naughty that people can't figure out the depth, but Changwu is good, and he directly explained the deep-level principles to you, which made Lan Hua'er feel like "this man is not a gentleman, he is simply a scientist".

"Why is it useless? Sincerity is effective. Have you ever heard of it? If you are not sincere in your heart, it will definitely not work. You have to reverse your concept." Changwu said this very seriously , as if what he was saying was the truth.

For a moment, Lan Hua'er even felt that what Changwu said was right, that kind of thing was really like what he said, and that people's beliefs would have different effects.

In the end, Lan Huaer didn't believe it for long, when she saw a different smile suddenly appeared on Chang Wu's face.

"That's the way it is said, whether you believe it or not is up to you. Now that the village is suffering from natural disasters and illnesses one after another, won't it make you feel more bored and sicker if you stay at home all the time. Why don't you take this opportunity to be a doctor?" Sacrificial priests, everyone come out for a walk to dissipate the sickness." What Chang Wu said next, he really got out of the range of gods and monsters, and got back to the truth again.

The truth is indeed true, but when this gentleman said it, Lan Hua'er always felt that something was wrong, and couldn't help asking, "So this sacrifice is done, but it still depends on whether the harvest is good or not next year. God? If this sacrifice is useless, is it because some people in the village are dishonest?"

Immediately, Changwu smiled with his eyes into a thin curved slit, "You can teach a child. Do you want to learn art from me? You can't be a husband anymore, how about being a witch? For a fairy, she is not old enough. That's enough, but I'm afraid you're not good at learning."

"Forget it, I'm not in the mood to learn this from you." Lan Hua'er was silent for a while, and refused decisively.

She really regretted that she had thought for a moment that Changwu really had spiritual powers just now.She really couldn't understand why this person Changwu would actually tear down his own platform.Of course, he didn't look like this when he was outside.As long as he can keep silent, he doesn't speak, and he looks superior, just smiling and looking at others.

Probably it was because the moment he opened his mouth, he couldn't help revealing all his details.Lan Hua'er couldn't help talking like this.

No matter what Lan Huaer thinks about the idea of ​​offering sacrifices, Changwu has no intention of giving up.He really went to the village head's house and told the village head about it.

The village head was already very convinced of Changwu, but now he listened to Changwu's words - naturally it was about sacrifices.Going out of the house to dispel sickness, Changwu talked about it in Zhao's house, but he didn't dare to talk like this outside - the village chief naturally agreed with 12 points to hold a sacrifice.

However, after the decision was made, new troubles began to arise.

This priest can't just talk about it with his mouth, he has to show some practical benefits.That is to say, some tribute must be given before the gods will happily accept the request for a good harvest in the coming year.

Whether or not the gods think so is beyond the question, but from a human point of view, it is true that something has to be offered as a sacrifice, so that this is a sacrificial ceremony.

Generally, such sacrifices must kill pigs and sheep, and use boiled animal heads to worship.Formal and large-scale offerings even require a cow, a sheep, and a pig, and the heads of these three animals are used to worship the sky.

If you change to a small place like Aozi Village, you can save as much as you can.According to Changwu's thoughts, he didn't really want to be a god, but he just felt that the atmosphere in the village is not good. After doing this, he might become more comfortable.

But he can't just tell others about his thoughts like this.Having said that, the villagers should have become suspicious of him.After all, there is no such thing as a gentleman.

It's not a big deal in the village, so you have to offer something at will.After all, the gods and Buddhas are there, and if they really don't offer anything, the people in the village themselves won't believe it.

Because of this matter, the village chief also made a special trip to Zhao's house, saying that he hoped that Zang Lang would go to the back mountain to see if he could hunt anything big.If you can hunt another wild boar or something, you can use it directly.Now there are no pig heads in the village.There will be some bacon, after all, it is still not as good as ready-made fresh meat.

The village head also promised that if Zanglang could hunt some meat, it would not need to be pork—the meat would be harvested in the village, and every family would have some grain to exchange for meat with the Zhao family.Anyway, the meat was not thrown away after the sacrifice, but was divided among families to eat.

To be able to share such sacrificial meat is said to be good luck to be blessed.After eating this meat, everything will go smoothly in the coming year.

This is still a new thing for orchids.Although Aozi Village was capable of holding such sacrificial activities in the past, they never had any kind of witches, so they couldn't find anyone to preside over such things.Moreover, although Aozi Village could not be said to have smooth weather every year in the past, there have been no major natural disasters, so it has not been thought about in this regard.

"This can't be done," Changwu fooled the village chief with a very serious tone, "Because I have been negligent in offering sacrifices, it will cause natural disasters."

The village head followed closely to express his approval, then turned his head and told Lan Huaer about hunting wild boars - Zang Lang had already gone out to work, and he was not at home at the moment - just now he was talking about whether The village chief, who can eat any kind of meat, also became persistent after hearing Changwu's words.

"Wild pork, or mutton and venison." In the end, Changwu came to a conclusion, "I can't find it, and pheasant meat is also available."

(End of this chapter)