Yue Ji

Chapter 226 New Year Festival

Say weakly, ask for a pink ticket.

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In a blink of an eye, the Spring Festival is here.

This day is New Year's Eve. Since the beginning of history, this Spring Festival has been the most important festival among all festivals.

Wei Luo was awakened by Yin Yun when the mist had just risen and the morning light had just appeared.

She was wearing a newly made lavender robe and combed her hair in a fashionable hairstyle.This hairstyle is a bit similar to that of later generations, with long hair hanging down and only a tie on the forehead.But other Vietnamese women like to paint ocher and graphite on the left and right cheeks.With these two colors painted on the face, coupled with the rouge on the lips, the whole person has a kind of witchcraft.

And witchcraft is popular in Chu, and I like it.

Wei Luo just went out, thought for a while, went back to the room, dressed himself up a bit more ordinary, and then walked out.

When she came out, Jian Jiu and Yin Yun were both wearing new clothes, kneeling outside the gate near the street.In front of the two of them, there was a large table made up of three pieces.On the table, there are fresh, hot rice. There are four bowls of this rice.Next to the rice, there is a whole roasted sheep's head, cow's head, and horse's head!These three animals were called Tailao at that time.In addition, there are some preserved deer, rabbit meat, millet soup, Liang rice, dates, hazelnuts, chestnuts, and white cakes.

Wei Luo looked at the bull's head and horse's head suspiciously, especially when she looked at the horse's head, she could recognize that it was a two-year-old red horse with black mane and black tail.

As far as she knew, ordinary families couldn't afford such sacrifices, and at most they offered a sheep's head.A cow is nothing more than a horse's head, which is an extremely expensive and noble item.

According to people's understanding, this is already a very honorable sacrifice.

Wei Luo came behind the two of them.She turned slightly to her side and knelt down under Yin Yun.

This morning, there was a little mist, and the sky was very cold, but there was no snow.

About a quarter of an hour later, a drumbeat came from the main street.The sound of the drum was getting closer and closer, accompanied by the sounds of qin and zither.

After another quarter of an hour or so, a group of middle-aged men wearing straw sandals, wearing bamboo crowns on their heads, and drawing strange patterns with ocher and ink on their foreheads and cheeks, came over under the leadership of an old man.

On both sides of this group of people, there is a group of musicians. These instruments include bells, chime, qin, se, phoenix flute, dragon flute, sheng, and xun. The music played is neutral and peaceful, with a touch of joy. Luo has heard that it is called "Zhaoping".

What made Wei Luo curious was that there were drums in the music.

Wei Luo knows that drums are noble in this era, and they are only musical instruments enjoyed by emperors and princes.Even if Chu Xiong wins the championship, the rites and music are no longer as noble as before, but the sound of the drum is still difficult to hear among the people.

Come to think of it, today is the New Year festival, everything is different.

There were three drumbeats, and the old man who was walking in the front waved his hand. After making everyone stop, he strode up to the three of them.

He came in front of Yin Yun, took three steps back, knelt down, facing the three animals on the table, stretched out his hands flatly forward, lowered flatly, and touched his forehead to the ground.

After saluting three times, the old man did not stand up.He just straightened up.

The old man straightened up, and Yin Yun and the two also sat up straight.

The old man stared at Yin Yun, who was kneeling in the middle, at the forefront, and asked seriously: "Who is the ancestor of the emperor, who actually sacrificed with a horse's head?"

Yin Yun looked at him seriously, and replied loudly: "My ancestor's business contract!"

As soon as he said this, everyone came and went in unison.Together with those musicians who were drumming and blowing xun, they all bowed to Yin Yun in unison!
Shang Qi is the founding emperor of Shang.Unexpectedly, this Yin Yun was actually the orthodox Yin Shang.

After the old man got Yin Yun's answer, he stretched out his hands and bowed flatly to the ground again.

This salute, the old man was directed at Yin Yun himself, and Yin Yun sat upright at this moment, accepting the old man's salute.

Wei Luo didn't know that this old man was a distant relative of the Zhou family, with a very noble status, and only a few emperors in ancient times and the orthodox heirs of Xia Shang could make him perform such a grand ceremony.

After the old man made a great salute, he sat up straight and asked again in "Zhaoping" Qingyue: "Can you have a son?"

As soon as he said this, Yin Yun showed shame.

He took two steps back, lowered his head, and said, "Nothing!"

"How can you be childless? Where is your wife?"

After the old man asked a few words aggressively, Yin Yun nodded his head, and he was so ashamed that he didn't look up again.

The old man didn't ask anymore, he turned his head to look at Jian Jiu, and asked, "Who is your ancestor?"

Jian Jiu moved back, took two steps back, stretched his hands forward, saluted the old man flatly, and said solemnly: "I'm an orphan, I don't know who is the ancestor and who is the father!"

The old man let out a long sigh and said nothing more.

He backed away slowly, stood up, took a glass of sacrificial wine on the table, and sang long and loudly.

The songs sung by the old man were very monotonous and strange, all composed of monosyllables. Wei Luo listened to it, as if it was, "Auspicious day is for Chen Liang, Mu Jiang is for the joy of the emperor, stroke the long sword for Yu'er, slamming for clang and ringing for Lin Lang. Yao Xi Yuzhen at the banquet, Xi Qiongfang will be Xi Qiongfang. Hui delicacies steamed Xilan borrowed, osmanthus wine served with pepper paste.'

This song is monotonous and weird, and it has the flavor of Chufeng Wuyin.It was very different from the tune Wei Luo heard in Qi and Jin.

After a long song, the old man turned around and left.

As the old man turned around, everyone turned around too, and the music sounded farther and farther away.

As soon as their figures were out of sight, Yin Yun and Jian Jiu stood up, carrying the table with the sacrificial offerings, and strode back towards the courtyard.

Wei Luo followed behind them with his hands in his sleeves, but didn't step forward to help.Because she is a woman, she is not qualified to touch these sacrifices.

This sacrifice can be enjoyed as soon as it is carried back.Three big animals, plus the rest of the wine and meat, are enough for the three of them to eat for a while.

That night, the city was brightly lit, and the whole night was full of fireworks.Yue people wore thin drums around their waists and beat them all night.Amidst the sound of the drums, many witches were lifted up by the crowd with bamboo chairs and paraded above their heads.

The witch sitting on top of the crowd sang long and loudly, and the ranger swordsmen below drew out their long swords one by one in the midst of the witch's singing, patted the sword surface with their hands, stepped on the dance beat, and sang along with the witch.

The next day, Wei Luo woke up before dawn as usual.

This day is New Year's Day.The sound of the drums last night was to expel evil words and filth, but early this morning, the people will welcome the new year and enjoy the blessings.

It was just dawn, Wei Luo was freshly washed, still disguised, concealing her beauty, and led by Yin Yun and Jian Jiu, she walked towards the Xu River in the south of the city.

When they arrived, the banks of the Xu River were already full of people kneeling.

Yin Yun's status was noble, he brought the two of them straight to the front and knelt down.

As soon as they knelt down, a burst of drumming came from afar.

Wei Luo looked up and saw a long river made up of rowboats appearing in the river.The row of boats was divided into two teams, one on the other side of the river and the other on this side of the river.Each team has 49 rowboats.

In each boat row, there are nine big men standing.Two of them are holding the boat, two in front, two in the back, and the three in the middle are standing around a bamboo locust.Among the bamboo scallops, there are big fish that are alive and kicking.

The sound of drums and music came from both sides of the bank.

The boat row came from the front of Wei Luo and the others.As soon as they came in front of the three of Wei Luo, they saw a big man catch a fish and flicked his right hand.

With a "snap", the fish landed in front of Yin Yun's body.Then, there was another "pop" sound of light objects falling to the ground, but it was Jian Jiu who was also thrown in front of him.

But without Wei Luo's share, not only her, all women have no share.

Jian Jiu and Yin Yun picked up the fish on the ground at the same time, and stood up.Turn around and walk back.

Wei Luo was startled, could it be possible that he got such a fish after getting up so early?

She didn't want to expose her ignorance, so she followed the two of them and walked towards home.

As soon as he walked into the street, Wei Luo saw in front of him a big man with bare arms, wearing a grass skirt around his waist and holding a kitchen knife, dancing around a strong and strong cow.The cow was strange, it was not tied or tied up.It was standing in the street, but it was motionless, its eyes were bright, and it was alive, but it was motionless and very quiet.

Around this big man, there are dozens of women.Gradually, more and more women surrounded her. Wei Luo couldn't help but startled when he saw that the women around her were all surrounding the big man.

She turned around, just in time Jian Jiu took out a pottery basin and handed it to her, said with a smile: "I have a wife this year, so I'm not afraid of welcoming the spring."

Wei Luo took the pottery bowl in a daze, followed behind the women, and came to the side of the big man with bare arms.

She glanced quietly, and found that Jian Jiu and Yin Yun, like other men, retreated far away.

At this moment, the big man dancing around the cow suddenly raised his head and shouted loudly!
At the same time as he shouted, all the women fell to their knees in unison.

Wei Luo quickly followed and knelt down.

She had just knelt down when the big man moved.

The kitchen knife in his hand fluttered, pierced into the heart of the cow with a whoosh, and pulled it out again with a whoosh. In the blink of an eye, a very thin and very small wound appeared on the chest and abdomen of the motionless fine cow.

Although the wound was only a line, a line of blood still gushed out.A luxuriously dressed woman stepped forward and took a dozen drops of blood from the cow's wound with a pottery basin in her hand.

As soon as the woman stepped back, Wei Luo noticed that several pairs of eyes were fixed on her.

Could it be her turn?Yes, this is ranked by status.Her clothes are obviously higher-end than other women.

Wei Luo stepped forward and put the clay basin under the cow's wound. After receiving a little more than a dozen drops of blood, he retreated.

When she took the clay pot and retreated to Yin Yun and Jian Jiu's side.Yin Yun reached out to take it, raised his head, and took a sip of the fresh cow's blood.

Then, he gave the pot to Jian Jiu.Jian Jiu then raised his head and drank all the cow's blood raw.

After drinking the cow's blood, Jian Jiu and the two did not leave immediately.

Just when Wei Luo was a little confused, those women took the cow's blood one by one and backed away one by one.

The big man with bare arms walked to the side of the cow again.

With a whoosh, his kitchen knife flew and pierced the cow's wound again.

This time, Wei Luo only saw the big man surrounding the cow, walking forward and backward.With her eyesight, it could be seen that the big man's knife had been cutting through the cow's body.Among them, the bull's vision became weaker and weaker, and finally lost its light at all.But from the beginning to the end, it didn't move or chirp.

Just when the last knife fell, there was only a "beep", and all the meat of the whole cow fell one after another, as if being torn apart by the wind at the same time.

That big man was obviously a master, as soon as the beef was scattered, he swished his kitchen knife flying, and during the flying, pieces of beef shot in all directions, and a large piece of beef flew towards Yin Yun's pottery bowl like lightning. fall on it.

Just in the blink of an eye, the cow that was still alive just now, now there is only a skeleton that is still standing and intact!

This kind of ability to untangle cattle is really extraordinary.

While Wei Luo was thinking to himself, Yin Yun and her husband all bowed to the bare-armed burly man in salute.

After a salute, the crowd began to disperse.And the big man untying the cow proudly walked home with the complete skeleton of the cow on his shoulders.

There wasn't just one big guy like this on the street. After walking a few streets, Wei Luo saw a few of these men who were undressing cattle.However, among these people, some of them accidentally spilled the beef on the ground, some got it covered with mud, and even after dissolving the cow, the bones were messed up and fell to the ground.Wei Luo saw that such people often lowered their heads with a look of disappointment on their faces.And the people who were surrounded by them did not bow to thank such failed people.

When the three of them walked back to the mansion, Jian Jiu turned to look at Wei Luo with a smile on his face, and said, "Ma'am, the New Year ceremony is over, why don't you ask my senior brother to go to the street together?"

(End of this chapter)