Chapter 228: Shamans

After having Wucai, Yu Nianniang was much more relieved to go in and out, and Mrs. Wei didn't say much about it, but said to Yu Nianniang: "Since she is grateful and willing to follow you, let's keep it." Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info”

Behind his back, the Li family whispered to Mrs. Wei: "...... Look at this idea, even the old lady hid it, and went outside to buy someone by herself, as if our general's mansion was thanks to her. Fortunately, she has nothing to do with our Qiyu now, otherwise you will have to worry about your sister-in-law in the future! ”

Mrs. Wei was most annoyed that the Li family was talking about the marriage contract between Wei Qiyu and Yu Nianniang, and she looked at the Li family with a tense face: "Brother and sister, this is wrong, Miss Yu's two subordinates are the monthly money given by herself, and now she wants to buy one more girl, and the General's Mansion can't control it." Moreover, she has nothing to do with our General's Mansion, and the previous marriage contract was a misunderstanding, which she also admitted. So, don't mention this in the future. ”

Li Shi smiled secretly in his heart, and said apologetically: "Ouch, I don't know that my sister-in-law doesn't like to hear this, since my sister-in-law doesn't like it, then I won't say it in the future." ”

A few days later, Mrs. Tong handed over the sticker and came to visit Mrs. Wei in person, accompanied by Mrs. Wei and Li, as well as Wei Qixue and Wei Qijiao.

Two days later, news came out in the house that Wei Qixue had appointed the grandson of Lord Wei and the nephew of Concubine Tong Guifei, Wei Qian, and the two had exchanged Geng stickers with each other.

Wei Hongfeng and Li were very happy.

Although the Wei Mansion is not prosperous, with Concubine Tong Guifei, they can be regarded as high.

Considering that Wei Hongfeng was about to go to Sichuan to take office, Mrs. Wei proposed that before Wei Hongfeng left, the relationship between the two would be settled.

The Wei Mansion had no objection to this, and the General's Mansion invited a few acquaintances to the Mansion to eat and drink that day, and the old lady Wei sent someone to send a set of rare jade head noodles to Wei Qixue's face.

Wei Qixue's marriage is decided, and only Wei Qijiao's lifelong event has not yet been settled, and without Wei Hongfeng's help, the Li family also feels a little more relaxed.

On the second day after Wei Qixue's small decision, Wei Hongfeng hurriedly went to Sichuan.

Li took Wei Qixue and the two sisters to stand outside the general's mansion and looked at the carriage that was getting farther and farther away, and their eyes were red.

For two or three days in a row, Li's mood was very low, when Mrs. Wei went out to fight that year, Mrs. Wei was also alone to take care of the entire Wei Mansion, and a few orphans and widows stayed at home, she also tasted the taste of loneliness and loneliness, Li has been following since marrying Wei Hongfeng, so suddenly separated, I don't know what year and month we can see each other again, I feel sad, and I don't fit for sure.

In this way, Mrs. Wei also sympathized with the Li family, so she comforted her: "Throughout the ages, if the male protagonist is outside the female protagonist, if a man wants to lay a ground, there must be a woman behind him to support him silently, now is just the beginning, everything will be fine in the future." ”

Li understood in his heart, picked up the handkerchief, wiped his tears, and curtsied to Mrs. Wei: "Yes, my daughter-in-law knows." ”

Mrs. Wei disagreed.

Wei Hongshan, as a general, every time she goes out to kill the enemy, she is not at home for half a year, and at most she is away from home for several years, she not only has to stand up to the feeling of loneliness and loneliness, take care of all the things in the general's mansion, but also often run around to inquire, for fear that there will be a trace of news on the battlefield, and she does not know it. Those days of fear and fear were ten times worse than Lee's now.

As soon as Wei Hongfeng left, the General's Mansion was quiet for a while and became lively again, because the Duanyang Festival had arrived.

In order to restore the normal life of the border people as soon as possible, the imperial court ordered officials across the country to cut back on food and clothing, reduce unnecessary expenses, and allocate excess money to the border to help build the city defense and restore the people's lives.

But today's emperor doesn't like to be dull, so the emperor attaches great importance to every folk festival. I hope that the Celestial Empire is full of joy. Therefore, it was once dictated that folk festivals were held as usual, and the imperial court had to support them without increasing expenses and burdens.

The Duanyang Festival, also known as the Zongzi Festival, is not only a very important festival for the people, but also very important in the palace.

Every Duanyang Festival, the emperor will ask the imperial dining room to make some zongzi and enjoy them with his courtiers.

In addition to eating zongzi, there are also dragon boat races.

There is a dragon boat race in the Duanyang Festival in the capital every year, and in other parts of the country, it is determined by the local officials according to their own conditions and customs.

The dragon boat race is held in Daming Lake, and the annual dragon boat race scene is very spoiled and crowded.

For the people, dragon boat racing is a sacred activity, and the "dragon head sacrifice" should be carried out before the competition.

What is the Dragon's Head Festival?

The dragon head sacrifice is that each competition team carries the dragon head of their team to the Qu Zi Temple, and the crew members are the head of the dragon, that is, the headband. The celebrant then reads the prayer.

The chief priest of the dragon boat race in the capital is Shuntianfu Yin, after reading the sacrificial text, and then open the light for the dragon's head, light the sun. After everyone has bowed, the dragon head can be lifted into the lake for a race.

In previous years, the "Dragon Head Festival" was held in Qu Yuan Temple. But this year, someone proposed to move to the Temple of the Heavenly Master.

“…… The Heavenly Master Temple is subordinate to the Heavenly Dao Academy, and the Heavenly Dao Academy has already been under the Qin Heavenly Prison, which can not only speculate on the star officials and divinate the future. Moreover, the subtlety and mystery of the mystical Heavenly Dao have long surpassed the Great Xiangguo Temple...... Let the Heavenly Master Temple replace Qu Yuan's Temple, this is in line with the ...... of the heavens," the Heavenly Master of the Heavenly Dao Academy talked eloquently.

And some people are against it, such as Lord Zheng Wei, the supervisor of Qintian.

“…… The Heavenly Dao Academy only knows some arithmetic divination, if the 'dragon head sacrifice' is changed to the Heavenly Master Temple, wouldn't it violate the true meaning of dragon boat racing? ”

Dragon boat racing was originally because of Qu Yuan.

Qu Yuan was a native of Chu during the Warring States Period, and after he threw himself into the river, in order to save him, he organized a boat to camp quickly, and the scene was comparable to crossing the river in a dragon boat. In order to commemorate Qu Yuan, later generations held dragon boat races on that day.

"That was already the Warring States period, a thousand years ago." Huang Tianshi disagreed, insisting on his opinion: "The current dragon boat race has long been a kind of entertainment for the people of the Duanyang Festival. ”

"Hmph, okay, even if Qu Zi Temple is dilapidated and no longer suitable for the 'Dragon Head Festival', but it will not be the turn of the Heavenly Master Temple to change places, and there is also the Great Xiangguo Temple!"

Lord Zheng Wei, the Eunuch of Qintian, had long been dissatisfied because the Heavenly Dao Academy had annexed the Celestial Eunuch. In the past few years, as long as it is about the Heavenly Dao Academy, Lord Wei will always stand up and oppose it.

Like the location of the "Dragon Head Festival" of the Duanyang Festival, Lord Wei has been arguing with the people of the Heavenly Dao Academy for a morning.

Of course, he was not the only one who had the same opinion as Lord Wei, and there were more than one or two people standing on the side of the Heavenly Dao Academy.

The two sides had their own opinions, and the emperor hesitated, so he simply let the hundred officials choose to take sides, and finally came down to see that the number of people on both sides was the same.

The emperor was suddenly in a dilemma.

The Heavenly Dao Academy is mysterious and unpredictable, and it occupies the sky and contemplates the future. The Great Xiangguo Temple is a traditional religion, which uses Buddhism to save people, promote people's souls, moral progress, and inspire people in the world to have a heart of loyalty and righteousness, and the courage to defend the country. Buddhism has a deep origin, it is a traditional religion, and its followers are all over the world.

Because of this, the Heavenly Dao Academy strives to hope that this "dragon head sacrifice" will be in the Heavenly Master Temple, so as to improve the status of the Heavenly Master Temple in the minds of the people. It was a foundation for the gradual replacement of Buddhism in the future.

In a dynasty, there can only be one state religion.

The Emperor was well aware of this.

On the one hand, he reused the Heavenly Dao Academy, and on the other hand, Buddhism was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and it was not easy to replace it easily.

No matter which of these two is a kind of faith, and it is so difficult to replace the faith in a person's heart unless he is willing!

Both the Temple of the Heavenly Master and Buddhism have their own advantages and disadvantages.

For a while, this matter caused a stir in the court!

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A mountain road that stretches and winds deeply, and there are few pilgrims. Standing in the middle of the mountain road, you can see the deep mountain top, the magnificent and antique temple.

The temple is surrounded by a piece of lush woods, the temple is quiet, solemn atmosphere, the ancient trees are towering to the sky, the pines and cypresses stand upright, and then look at the glazed tiles of the golden and brilliant meal, the vermilion Pei towering temple gate, the four red gold characters of "Daxiangguo Temple", eye-catching and conspicuous.

Several large halls in the temple, countless small halls, each Buddha hall door is in the middle of the high hanging gold plaque, the door is carved with exquisite floral patterns, it seems that the whole Daxiangguo Temple is rich and solemn.

Looking at the incense burner outside the main hall, you can imagine how prosperous the incense of the Great Xiangguo Temple was before the Tiandao Temple.

Yu Nianniang followed Chi Langyi all the way, and was led by a small novice to the wing room presided over by Daxiangguo Temple.

The little novice clasped his hands together and recited the words of Amitabha: "Donor, please." "I opened the door.

The interior of the room is simply furnished, in contrast to the splendor of the main hall outside.

There was an old monk sitting on the futon in the house, Yu Nianniang followed Chi Langyi into the wing, and Xiao Mimi gently closed the door of the wing.

The old monk opened his eyes.

"Presiding." Chi Langyi saluted the old monk.

"It turned out to be the prince of the world!" The old monk said, raised his hand and made a gesture of invitation: "Please sit down." ”

glanced at Yu Nianniang, and said, "I don't know what happened to the prince today's visit?" "I didn't plan to ask Yu Nianniang's origin.

"I want to borrow a book from the host to see ......" Chi Langyi didn't even say a polite word, and directly explained his intentions, which also shows that he is familiar with the host of Daxiangguo Temple.

The old monk clasped his hands together: "To be convenient with others is to be convenient with yourself." If the prince wants to see it, he will go to see it. However, it was only half an hour. ”

Yu Nianniang didn't expect this old monk to be so easy to speak, although it was only half an hour, it was not bad.

The old monk had a distinguished guest later, so he called a little novice to lead Yu Nianniang and the two to the scripture building.

There is only one monk sweeping the floor outside the scripture building, and the little novice will explain that the sweeping monk only glanced at Yu Nianniang and Chi Lang's family and then concentrated on sweeping the ground.

Xiao Shami took Yu Nianniang and the two into the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, and roughly told the two of them where the scriptures were placed and left, and finally told the two: "The host said that the two donors only have half an hour, don't delay the time!" ”

"Yes, thank you, little master." Yu Nianniang followed the example of the little novice, and folded her hands to thank her.

The scripture building of the Great Xiangguo Temple is indeed extraordinary, and it is not too much to say that there are twenty Kunyuan study buildings.

The whole building is full of scriptures, the bookshelves are neatly arranged together, the books on it are densely packed, if no one tells which books are in which place, I am afraid that I will not be able to find this book for ten days and half a month if I want to find a book here.

According to the little novice, all kinds of exotic miscellaneous notes are on the shelves here, and the two of them start to search for them one by one. There are so many books that you can't read them all, so let's start with the name.

"Since it's the Fire Dragon of the Western Regions, then look for a book related to the Western Regions or the Fire Dragon." Chi Langyi said as he quickly found it.

Yu Nianniang nodded.

The two of them, one left and one right, next to each shelf, just looked at the name, and if they felt that it was possible to record what they needed, they would pull it out and look through it quickly.

It is also the scriptures of this Great Xiangguo Temple that are well classified and arranged, and finally, Yu Nianniang finally found a miscellaneous book on the top layer that talks about the humanities of the Western Regions.

In addition to talking about the topography and tribal races of the Western Regions, it also talks about a shaman.

This shaman ethos is shamanic, they belong to the northern nomads, and they live on nomadic, hunting.

The cause was that a woman was getting up in the morning to bake a fire, and she was punished by the god of fire for offending the god of fire by pulling out the fire. No matter where she moved, she couldn't make a fire, so she pleaded guilty to the goddess and asked the fire god for forgiveness, and only after receiving forgiveness could she light the fire again.

Since then, the tribe has worshipped the god of fire as the patron deity of their race. In the shamans, it is forbidden to offend the god of fire, such as stepping on fire, riding on fire, crossing fire, saying bad things about fire, and scolding fire.

They built temples of the god of fire, put on portraits of the emblems of fire in their homes, and even tattooed the emblems of the god of fire directly on themselves.

This shaman belongs to the northern nomads, there are many nomads in the north, they are constantly fighting, the infighting has never stopped, fighting for territory is commonplace, so many nomads have to constantly relocate.

When the Northwest War broke out ten years ago, the Turks and the Celestial Empire were in a war, and the border tribes were also affected. It was on that occasion that the shamans were annexed by other tribes, and according to the book, most of the shamans were killed, leaving only a few women.

Basically, the shamans have disappeared.

And the so-called symbol of the god of fire is actually a symbol of fire, which is exactly the same as the symbol that Yu Nianniang saw.

Therefore, the person with the fire pattern on the arm that Yu Nianniang saw through Yuan Xin was a shaman.

Yu Daosheng's handbook also recorded this thing, could it be that Yu Daosheng's death is also related to the person with the fire god pattern? Or did Yu Daosheng know a secret related to the person with the Vulcan pattern?

But anyway, there is finally a goal.

“…… This way, you only need to look for the person with the fire icon on the arm. Chi Langyi said.

Yu Nianniang nodded.

I didn't tell him about Yu Daosheng.

The two of them came out of the Scripture Pavilion, and they finally had clues, and they didn't come in vain.

was about to say goodbye to the host, and thanked him by the way, but who knew that the little novice said that the host had a distinguished guest.

So, Yu Nianniang and Chi Langyi went to the front hall.

In the past, Yu Nianniang did not believe in Buddhism, but since she came to this place with her soul, she has a kind of respect for the gods.

A pillar of incense was placed in the front hall, and when Yu Nianniang came out, she saw Chi Langyi standing under a tree and talking to people.

Two middle-aged men, because of carrying her, Yu Nianniang couldn't see her appearance clearly, so they stood outside the hall, Yu Nianniang called a little novice and gave him some reward, and asked him to tell Chi Langyi for a while, and he took the first step.

I don't know if I sensed it, but Chi Langyi, who was standing under the tree, looked at her. Seeing his movements, the other two men who were talking to him also turned to look.

Yu Nianniang saw the other party's face clearly.

It turned out to be the emperor and Yu Taifu.

The two of them had apparently seen her too, and she couldn't pretend she hadn't seen it now.

Yu Nianniang had no choice but to take Mother Sun and Linglong over.