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Chapter 81 The Immortal Herbs, A Total Product, Hao Shouxuan ([-])

midsummer moon.The day is in Dongjing, its emperor Yandi, its god Zhurong, its worship of the stove, and its worship of the first lung.Food beans and chicken.

At this time in May, it is called Gaoyue or Ruibin. It is the month of offering sacrifices to the kitchen god and fire god Yandi. The custom of eating rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival has not yet appeared, and the sacrifice to the fire god is the main activity at this time of the month.

From this point of view, Shi felt that those witches should be difficult to deal with.

It is in accordance with the order of the month not to choose another month to worship the god of fire.

Originally, there was no separation of witches, historians and doctors, and these witchcrafts had a lot of historical background and cultural level.

According to the legend, Chong Li was the first Zhu Rong. When he was an official of Zhu Rong, he was ordered by Emperor Ku to do a great thing—Jedi Tiantong.From then on, only kings and leaders of tribal alliances can sacrifice to heaven and earth and communicate with ghosts and gods through Zhurong official.Zhu Rong is the only officially recognized person who communicates with ghosts and gods, so these people worship Zhu Rong.

Combining these legends and semi-historical facts, the sacrificial objects and sacrificial months selected by these witches are impeccable.If you want culture, you need history rhyme, you need rituals, you need allusions, and these people are really overkill to make money.

A literate witch is a qualified witch.

Women are witches and men are ghosts. When it comes to the traditional cultural heritage at this time, these men and women do not know how much higher than suitable people are.

As the saying goes, there will be no China after Mingtiao, and there will be no China after Muye, in the eyes of these people, it is absolutely true.From the point of view of sacrificial offerings alone, in ancient times, the head was used for sacrifices, but the Yin and Shang used the liver, and the Zhou used the lungs, which is simply destroying the tradition.

Fortunately, Mo Zhe still has a group of people who are full of literary and historical background, who can fight with them.

On the fourth day of May, Mohist, who had been dormant in Peidi for more than a month, finally started to move.

The arrival of these Mohists brought a lot of shock to the rich and noble families in Peidi at first, but after they came, they did nothing but do some shit like "plucking hair and benefiting the world" selling salt at a low price in the village. Do it, and the nobles of the big families will feel at ease.

Among the Mohists gathered this time, there were only more than 60 people in Peidi who did not go to the village.

He was wearing a red silk men's gown bought from Taoyi by Tianmo Zhe a few days ago, a witch Zhu crown from Dongyi Huaiyi, and a red lacquer leather glove on his right hand, making him feel uncomfortable all over.

At this time, the quality of the silk fabrics was already good, but the sleeve robes were too wide, and he was wearing short brown clothes after crossing, which really didn't suit him.

Seeing his appearance as if he had thorns all over his body, Gong Zaoye laughed and said, "Why do you wear the best silk clothes as if there are wheat awns in them? You can't do this tomorrow."

Mozi also smiled and said, "You are responsible for using Wu Zhu's methods to deal with Wu Zhu. If there is a debate, let others go. If there is a fight, you don't have to do it."

Shi Shi shrugged his shoulders and asked: "Tomorrow, if those people jump over the wall in a hurry and do it in public, we should be careful."

Gong Zaoye laughed and said, "Don't worry about that. You are the last one to fight among the sixty Mohists here. I can kill twenty or thirty of you with a single sword. Sir, the art of defending the city, It has its own method of military formation. Mohists are good at fighting with each other at city gates and meeting in narrow tunnels. If there is a real fight, 60 ordinary soldiers will be scattered by [-] of us. Don't worry, just do your job well. it is good."

Just as he wanted to feel relieved, he saw that Qin Huali was thinking about something, and his face seemed worried.

My heart tightened, and I thought, did Qin Huali think of something wrong?
Asked hurriedly, Qin Huali said blankly: "I didn't even think about such a trivial matter in case of a fight. I was thinking that the village in Shangqiu should harvest wheat now? Once they leave, I don't know that those righteous things can still be done." It cannot be circulated in nearby villages..."

Shi Shi looked at this group of Mohists who didn't take life and death seriously, and patted his head with his hand to show admiration.He hasn't killed anyone yet, but apart from him, all of these Mohists have a lot of blood on their hands.

A group of Mohists laughed one after another, telling Shi to learn swordsmanship from others as soon as this matter was over, even if he didn't want to be an enemy of ten people, at least he had to argue with others and he could defend himself when the other party became angry with embarrassment.

After everyone had laughed, Mozi told all the Mozi to stop joking, sharpen their daggers and prepare crossbow arrows, just in case.

"Tomorrow it would be the best if we can really resolve it. If there is a conflict, we will use the 'Beicheng Gate Counterattack Formation'. Each will form a team and form an formation to fight."

This is just a precautionary preparation in advance. Mozi himself is the chief of the Mozhe Beicheng Department, and he must be responsible for the battle.

I don't know what the counterattack formation at Beicheng Gate looks like, but it seems that these Mohists are all proficient.

There are formations and formations without formations, organized fights against unorganized ones, and it is not difficult to count one as ten, so he no longer worries.

All kinds of prepared twine, linen, spirits, and white phosphorus are all for him to use.

Mohists who are familiar with the "Welcome to the Enemy Temple" and "Sacrifice to Ghosts and Gods" also prepared altars prepared by Mozi and several carpenters with mortise and tenon. Five feet wooden platform.

The specific methods have already been practiced many times, and this time they made a final inspection to confirm that everything is ready, then loaded these utensils on the carriage and headed to the sacrificial place in Qishili, Peinan.

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To the south of Peidi, there is a deserted swamp, which is not the big swamp on the east and west sides, which has its own characteristics.

There is a lot of silt in the barren marshes, birds and animals are flourishing, and there are many dead bodies.

There are often bubbles in the mud, and occasionally there is no thunder and no one ignites, and a big fire will ignite.There will be a cold fire at night, like a ghost.

Near the barren lake, there is a dirt mountain with many black stones on it.In a certain fire, the black rocks on the mountain burned for several days, accompanied by sour smoke and dust.

Originally, the locals just thought it was magical and quite puzzled.

Why did the bubbles in the silt swamp burn?

Why would there be a ghostly blue fire in the silt swamp?
There is no vegetation on the earth mountain, only black stones, why does it burn for several days?
Therefore, there are many rumors in Peidi that seventy miles to the south, there is a miracle of Zhurong.Night is fire, day and day are smoke.

After it was spread to Peidi, the shamans said that this place is a miracle of Zhurong and needs to be sacrificed.Zhu Rong is no longer just Da Sima, but has been deified into a godhead, managing the light, the sun and the flames.

He also said that if there is no sacrifice, it may cause drought.

It was alarmist at first, plus the burning black stone on the earth mountain, plus the habit of offering sacrifices to Zhu Rong, and they are all descendants of the legendary Zhu Rong who sealed off the country. There is a big market for such myths.

Uncle Ma said that the vast majority of myths use imagination and use imagination to conquer, dominate and visualize natural forces.

With the drought and famine last year, the sacrifice here has increasingly become one of the most important things in the area.

People want to conquer nature, but they have nothing to do about the drought, so they have to place their hope in the myth and pray that the sacrifices will bring a good harvest, and believe that the myth is true because it seems to be the only possible way to resist the drought.

It is not close to the Yellow River, and there is a Daze depression next to it. Before the Yellow River seized the Huaihe River and entered the sea, there were no floods but droughts here.Therefore, there is no market for offering sacrifices to the god of water, but tens of thousands of dollars can be earned every year by offering sacrifices to the god of fire and the god of light.

The shamans have contacts with big clans and village elders. Although the clan society in the Spring and Autumn Period began to disintegrate, the leftover habits are still there.

Many nobles from small extinct countries moved here with their clansmen, and they still have some connections. They have their own agreement with Wu Zhu, and they also need to set an example for the common people.

Those who don't believe it naturally don't believe it, and those who believe it will pay a part of the money to make a show, so as to attract more people to donate money for sacrifices.

After getting the money, return the money from the village elders and the big family, and the remaining money will be divided according to the proportion after deducting the sacrifice expenses.Get a lot of money every year.

If you want to sacrifice, you must show yourself.

Not only in the matter of taking money, the elders of the village should set an example, but also the maids and concubines who sacrificed to Zhu Rong also need to set an example.

The big clans have their own slaves, or they can buy them with money, donating three or two slaves every year.

The rest are picked from civilian homes.

If it is beautiful, it will be trained by men first, and after the training is completed, it will be poisoned with weeds, and it will be unconscious for a few days but it will not die or rot. When it is time for sacrifice, it will be burned with fire to increase the sense of ritual.

Many ritual and sacrificial utensils from old small countries have also been handed down, many of which are hard to see by ordinary people, so every sacrificial offering will fascinate people, and they feel very grand, and believe that only in this way can the Nine Days of Drought be avoided .

In the past few years, it has already formed a scale and become a local practice, attracting many people from the countryside.Most of these people in the countryside have escaped from their households. They are the kind of people Confucius lamented over Mount Tai that the tyranny was more fierce than a tiger: they do not need to perform military obligations and labor obligations, but their living conditions are harsh and their resistance to natural disasters is extremely weak. , and therefore the most convincing.

This is the intersection of rice and millet culture. In May, the millet planters are not busy, and the rice planters are not busy. It is a suitable day for worship.

As early as a few days ago, many farmers, old and young, brought some money they had saved with great difficulty, and corn or rice for food on the road, and they came all the way from a hundred miles away to worship the This earth mountain has been burning for several days, so that there will be no drought this year.

Before dawn, more than a thousand people had already gathered there.Some village communities even prepared their own sacrifices.

In the custom of the Zhou Dynasty, the lungs were the top grade for sacrifices, and the lungs of sacrifices were needed.

In addition, it is customary to use cherries as sacrifices in this month. At this time, the name of cherries is Hantao, which means that the oriole eats while containing.

Cherries adorn the lungs of animals, or the sound of slaughtering livestock.The unconscious girls were lying in the pile of firewood, dressed up and motionless.

By noon, there were more and more people, and the sacrifice was ready to start.The original burning earth mountain is no longer burning, and the occasional phenomenon of silt bubbles burning is also rare.

Witches and men dressed in various costumes, chanting some strange words, making the final preparations before the sacrifice.

Thousands of people knelt on the ground, silently praying for a good year this year, no more severe drought, and no anger to Zhu Rong Vulcan...

Just as everyone bowed down piously and waited for the sacrifice to begin, several carriages and a group of people in black costumes came from afar.

Some people in Peiyi recognized these people as Mozhe at a glance, because their carriages had two horses and one horse, which was very special.

People in some remote villages also recognized these people as Mozhe at a glance, wearing short brown clothes with swords on their backs, and those who helped them build houses in the villages, sold salt at a low price, taught them to dig toilets and pile manure, and kind of weird things. The crop people are dressed exactly the same.

But there are some differences.

The leader was very young, wearing a vermilion uniform and wearing a leather glove on his right hand on a hot day.

Followed by seven people, also in red costumes, carrying various jars, and a dog behind them.

People are surprised by this strange dress, or think that these people are also here to participate in the sacrifice and prayer.

But he didn't want the young man in red uniform and leather gloves to walk up to those witches unexpectedly.

With his left hand, he gently took off the glove of his right hand, dipped his hand in the jar held by the person behind him, and then touched his right hand in the brazier beside him.

Nearly a hundred people in front exclaimed, and the right hand of this person actually ignited a light blue flame, as if this person was not afraid of fire at all, but there was a strong smell of alcohol.

Then the young man flicked his hand, and those burning flames flew out and landed on the firewood beside him. The firewood was ignited immediately, and the smoke and dust billowed.

The young man put leather gloves on his hands that were still burning, and he couldn't see any painful expression on his face. On the contrary, he showed a look of arrogance, and asked with a wild laugh: "I have the blood of Zhu Rong in my body, and my hands are like the feet of a golden crow! In the past, Zhu Rong was a Jedi who could not reach the sky without his descendants, how can you sorcerers He De be able to communicate with the heavens and the earth?"

"This sacrifice should be celebrated by me, how can you be qualified?"

"Who is the officiant? Come out and talk!"

He pointed at the stupefied witches beside him with disdain on his face.

Everyone was shocked, and the witches have never seen a priest come to smash the scene in the middle of the sacrifice. If you want to split the money, you can talk about it in advance. How can this happen?

　In ancient times, sacrifices were performed with the head.Xia carefully.commercial liver.Weekly lungs.I reckon it might be because the lungs are not tasty, but beef face, pork head, meat, heart and liver are delicious, so I use the most unpalatable lungs to fool ghosts and gods... The above is purely guesswork, since we are fooling ghosts and gods Tradition, and the fact that lung slices are really bad.In addition, moderate alcohol can be burned on the hands for a short time without burning the hands. The outer flame is hot and the inner flame has water evaporation and heat absorption for a short time without burning people. For details, see the movements of old people who are cupping and rubbing sprains with burning medicinal wine. Wear gloves It can be regarded as a standard action to cover the alcohol lamp to extinguish the flame.

　　
　
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