The champion is my son

Chapter 19 Sacrifice to the Silkworm God
"It's time to do something."

For some reason, Li Qing felt that Jiang's expression was a little dazed.Could it be that something happened to Mrs. Jiang when she was young?
After all, it has been decades, Li Qing will never ask like a fool.

In order not to disturb the Wang family, the Wang family was not informed of this incident.It took them a lot of effort to get the thorn back and stick it on the fence.

This is only a way to treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Now that the enemy is in the dark and we are in the light, we have to find a way to lead people to the bright side.Perhaps tomorrow's Silkworm God sacrifice will be an opportunity.

In fact, Li Qing was a little excited. Ye Shiza said that she had read a lot, and the ancient people loved to play those routines.She has been on guard for a long time, and she guesses that Jiang Shi is also, she is a person with a past, and she is not much more wary than Li Qing.

Li Qing watched Guan Hanqing's "The Injustice of Dou E" several times, but she did not expect that it would be staged on her one day.

After all, "The Injustice of Dou E" has some idealistic color in it. Jiang has no habit of lending usury, and she is also married to an open matchmaker. There is no place for the gangsters to start, so I am afraid that they are doing crooked ways.

Early the next morning, the three members of the Jiang family packed up their faces, carried a basket of incense candles, and headed towards the Silkworm Temple.

There is a silkworm temple in Shilitang, and there is a statue of the silkworm goddess inside. Every spring on March 23, the village chief sets up an altar to worship.This is the rule of Tianqi Dynasty, and the emperor is no exception.So at this time, as long as they have the ability, all places in Tianqi will open altars to offer sacrifices.

The silkworm temple is located at the intersection of five sources and three rivers, which can be described as a great achievement of geomantic omen.

Li Qing admired secretly, the folk customs here are very rich, the ancients were very particular about heaven and man, very comfortable.Li Qing took Yunji's little hand and went to offer incense with Jiang Shi.All kinds of fruit offerings have been placed, and three animals have been placed in the place where the altar was opened.

Everyone in the village is a leader in the entertainment industry, secretly speaking ill of the family's [-] generations of ancestors, but on the surface they greet each other with a smile and are extremely polite.

"Did the lady of the Jiang family come out to worship the Silkworm God?" The one who met Li Shi on the boat that day came to meet her. Her smile was piled up on her face, and the laugh lines at the corners of her eyes were like the ravines on the loess.His face drooped, as if wearing a low-quality personal leather mask.

Weird!The look on the boat that day was like a different person today.This Mrs. Li is really amazing.

Jiang Shi was slightly taken aback, and casually said, "Yes, you also come to pay respects?"

Grooving, Li Shi asked this question, it is simply inexplicable, worshiping the Silkworm God is an annual event, and even infants are taken out by adults to participate.What Li Shi said is really not an ordinary idiot.

Mrs. Li didn't expect Mrs. Jiang to throw the question back to her, and she couldn't find the words to answer for a while, so she could only smile awkwardly and said, "Me too."

Immediately, the topic ended.

People come and go, everyone in a village knows each other.There is a lot to say when you get together, but on the important occasion of sacrifice, you have to save what you have to say later.At most, it was just to meet and say hello, so I went to burn incense.

There are two plates of sandalwood hanging on the eaves of the Silkworm God Empress Temple. The smoke and dust linger in the air, so the aroma of sandalwood is everywhere.

There is not only a statue of Silkworm God in the temple, but also a statue of Sang God, but it is slightly smaller.Silkworm God is a rather charming woman, with the overall appearance of sitting on a stone, the corners of her eyes are slender and long, there is a cinnabar mole between her eyebrows, her lips are as red as blood, and her cheeks are slightly bulging.From Li Qing's point of view, he felt quite contemptuous.

Compared with the silkworm god, the mulberry god is much simpler. Although the facial features are clearly carved, they are not as plump as the silkworm god. The whole body is thin and small, holding mulberry leaves and mulberries in his hands, standing next to the silkworm god.

Jiang Kui stood on a stone platform with a height of half a person. Besides him, there was also an altar on which was placed an incense burner and three animals.There are two huge incense sticks inserted in the incense burners on both sides of the altar, and there is a light smoke floating.Jiang Kui saw that the crowd was almost here, so he waved his hand to everyone to signal to be quiet, and everyone seemed to be well-trained, standing in rows automatically.

Although Shilitang Village is only one village, it has a total of 64 households. There are two big families alone. One big family with the surname Sun accounts for almost half of the population of Shilitang Village.There is another family with the surname Jiang, but the elders of the Jiang family moved to Dayebai Village next door more than ten years ago, and opened up another home, leaving Jiang Kui and Jiang Tangchen in Shilitang. The prestige is still there. The big family is not too much.

Even so, there are quite a few other clans in this village, including the Li family, Wang family, Liu family... and more than [-] families.These were all migrated after the establishment of this dynasty.

Reputable people from all families stood under the altar, and some were too old to stand for a long time, so they were supported by others.

"Shilitang has been passed down to the present. I am the No. 30 second-generation village head. On March 23, the Silkworm Goddess and the Mulberry Goddess will go down to save all living beings, so I will open an altar here to offer sacrifices. Now I announce that the sacrifice will begin."

Since the Jiang clan moved away, the Sun clan has become the head of Shilitang, and Jiang Kui is in charge of the sacrificial ceremony, but the actual sacrificial steps still need to be led by the patriarch of the Sun clan.

The patriarch of the Sun clan is an old man in his eighties, with a kind face, his hair is neatly tied with a black crown, and a wooden hairpin is inserted, and he is dressed in a neat gray wide-sleeved robe.It can be seen that the dress is very formal.

He stepped onto the altar step by step.At this time, a white cloud like cotton candy floated in the sky, covering the sun.

"The Taishang respects my village for his ability to pay his respects to the body, and he does not forget his righteousness in the sericulture and weaving industry. The spring flower is born, and all things have spirits. Today, the silkworm god cooperates with the mulberry god and the empress. A special altar is set up to welcome each other. Three animals are sacrificed. Compassionate, bringing blessings to our village, Shilitang is not very grateful, sincerely."

Jiang Kui bent down and presented him three sticks of incense with both hands, he also bent down and took them with both hands, then lit it on the oil lamp, respectfully inserted it into the incense burner, took two steps back, swept his wide sleeves, and knelt down in front of him slowly on the futon.

"Bye!" Jiang Kui shouted loudly.

When everyone listened, they knelt down immediately, and they naturally didn't have futon treatment.

Everyone is very devout, fold their hands in front of their foreheads, kneel down, and put their foreheads on the ground, and their hands and feet on the ground, which is a five-body throw.

"Goodbye!"

This cycle was repeated three times, and everyone did not get up until the elders of the Sun clan on the altar got up.

Patriarch Sun looked at the sky, only to see the sun shining from behind the clouds, illuminating the land.

He laughed and shouted: "The blessing of the silkworm god has come, take the silkworm flower."

Someone offered silkworm flowers immediately, but men were not involved in this matter, and silkworm flowers are women's head flowers.

As soon as the silkworm flowers are scattered, whether it is a little girl or a married woman in the village, they all go to grab them to win a good fortune.

　Regarding offering sacrifices to the silkworm god, this is a custom in Shu.As for the god Sang, I may have invented it.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)