Unlike Jing'an, no one has set up an ancestral hall in their own home. They believed that after death, all souls would return to heaven, and those who did not violate their faith could become servants of the gods, while the pagans who betrayed the gods would be beaten to pieces by the gods. Therefore, the rituals of worshipping and praying to the ancestors of the Limeng people are all included in the ritual of worshiping the heavens, and they only recognize the ancestors who are qualified to be servants of the gods.

During festivals and important events at home, commoners would find an open space near their tents to set up altars, and tribal leaders and princes and nobles would have special land in their homes. The Limeng people live in tribal groups, and the tribal leader is equivalent to the patriarch of the Jing'an family. Therefore, when Minyi followed the cremu to the altar in the middle of the palace, it was empty except for the servants who were waiting on the side. As the leader of the seven tribes, Crimea's daughter recognized her ancestors, and no one other than the emperor could serve as a witness.

After making up for the evil along the way, Minyi only roughly learned some common-sense etiquette, and didn't know anything about the sacrifice. She looked around with some novelty, and saw a huge blue brick floor in front of her, depicting many mysterious runes in gold dust that she could not understand, and in the middle of this rune was placed a long square table, on which were placed bloody sheep's heads, horses' heads, and ox heads, and in front of each head was a jasper wine glass, which was filled with amber wine, mixed with a hint of red, which should be the blood of a sacrifice. On each side of the table stood a man-high wooden shelf, on which stood a round iron basin, in which there was no food but a crackling pile of wood.

An old man dressed in a white robe and holding a half-human high mahogany cane followed behind their father and daughter at some point, and Min Yi remembered that when she was learning Li Meng's costumes, she had heard that the people who dressed in this way were the priests who had been worshiped by the nobles for generations. There are only two kinds of people in the kingdom of Limeng who can communicate with the gods, the witch doctor is responsible for conveying the will of the gods, and the priests are responsible for praying to the gods and the mortal believers are in charge of supplication. She had already seen the witch doctor and this time she saw the priest again, and she couldn't help but look back at each other with some curiosity.

A qualified priest must be free from distractions, especially when the ritual is held, and cannot bring his personal feelings into prayer, so the old man seems to be unable to feel her gaze, his face is expressionless, and a pair of cloudy old eyes look straight ahead, and there are no waves in the ancient well.

After a few glances, Minyi pouted rather boredly, left him behind, and quickly followed Krim on. Soon, the three of them walked to the long table where the offerings were placed.

When I walked into Minyi, I found that there were two thin golden futons on the ground not far from the table. She thought that Krimu would take her to kneel on it, but when the other party came here, he actually stood with his hands behind his back, staring ahead, and there was no movement.

Not long ago, he was told by Krimu not to speak at will on the altar, and Minyi wondered in her heart that she couldn't ask questions, so she could only stare boredly at the incomprehensible runes on the ground.

After a cup of tea, the people who had been waiting for the Krimu finally came late.

"The Divine Decree has arrived!"

It turned out that they were facing the direction of the main entrance of the palace at the moment, and Min Yi looked up in this high-pitched voice, just in time to see a vague figure appear in front of her.

His voice could be heard clearly from such a distance, and the eunuch's voice was quite loud, and Min Yi muttered boredly in her heart.

The eunuch who was slandered by her belly not only had a loud voice, but also had a very fast foot. The distance was far away, but after a while, he came closer, and his breath was not chaotic at all.

"The holy decree has arrived, and Prince Gong has received the decree—"

Minyi knelt down with Krimu, listened to the eunuch take out the holy decree, and recited a long paragraph with a long mouth, except for the word "holy decree", everything was in the clouds, until he kowtowed to thank him, he didn't understand what title the holy decree gave him.

Neither did he rush to explain to her, and after respectfully receiving the decree from the eunuch, he walked to the table and spread it out in front of the sacrifice.

When the eunuch had completed his mission, he bowed to the Krimu and stepped back from behind them.

When he walked out of the altar, Krimu knelt down again, and the ceremony officially began.

The priest walked slowly from behind them to the burning brazier on the left, and with the staff in his hand inserted into it, and he didn't know how he did it, but with a flick of the staff, a piece of red-hot charcoal leaped out and landed impartially in front of the cremu.

As soon as the charcoal hit the ground, it was stained with gold dust on the ground, and the fire was immediately extinguished, and when the priest finished chanting it, the charcoal was completely cooled, and the lines on it were clearly visible. At the same time, a faint fragrance emanated from it, which made people feel shocked, because the chill caused by kneeling on the ground disappeared so strangely, and I only felt comfortable all over.

Minyi had become sensitive to everything that could alter the senses of the human body since she had studied poison, and the idea of getting a few pieces of this wood to study after the ritual had come to her in an instant.

She lowered her little head and was thinking nonsense, so naturally she didn't listen much to what Krim said next, but she couldn't understand it when she did.

However, she was soon pulled back to her mind by one of the most hated terms to hear at the moment - Gegentana. At the mention of her name, Krimu bit his fingertips and dripped his own blood onto the charcoal in front of him.

The white-robed priest took out a parchment from his bosom and laid it out on the table by the decree, and Krimu took the blood-dripping charcoal in both hands, got up and walked over and solemnly wrote the next sentence on the parchment.

When he had finished, he put down his charcoal, rolled the sheepskin up again with both hands, raised it above his head, and slowly brought it to the priest.

The white-robed priest took the parchment with both hands, likewise held it high, went to the brazier on the right, and threw it in.

The flames soon consumed the parchment, and the Krimu returned to its place, where he prostrated himself for a long time. Minyi hurriedly followed him and made the same move.

It wasn't until another piece of charcoal was picked up by the priest from the brazier that had been burned with sheepskin, and when it had cooled down on the ground, the priest stepped forward to examine the lines on it for a while, and spit out a word: "Do it again." After speaking, his old eyes as calm as an ancient well stared directly at Minyi, and the meaning was unknown.

Kerim hurriedly turned his head and made a face at Min Yi for the first time: "Gegentana, didn't I tell you just now, you must concentrate during the heavenly sacrifice ceremony, and if your heart is not sincere, the gods will not accept our prayers. Now, if you don't succeed three times, you will be recognized by the world as impersonating my daughter, and you will be punished for the crime of bullying. ”

How did Minyi know that the consequences of distraction would be so serious? The four words of the crime of bullying the king made her neck cold, her cold hair stood up, and she quietly stuck out her tongue, and she didn't dare to have any contempt.

After training her daughter, Krimu led her to stand up and kneel down again, repeating the previous process again.

This time, Minyi didn't dare to think about it anymore, she looked at her nose and nose, and honestly knelt behind Krimu, listening to his solemn and pious prayers, although she still couldn't understand the content, but she was strangely infected, and an unprecedented awe of the gods rose in her heart.

I don't know if it's a coincidence or not, after she straightened her attitude, the parchment roll was burned again, and the lines on the charcoal were completely different from before. The old priest did not ask for a new call, but raised his voice and drank: "The gods know, sacrifice wine!" ”

Krimu stepped forward, starting from the left, holding the jasper glass in both hands and raising it above his head, bowing straight forward and spilling it on the ground, and then sacrificing three cups of wine in turn.

Strange to say, after Krim had finished spilling the third glass of wine, a muffled thunder suddenly exploded in the clear sky, and it flashed away like a sneeze, so short that one wondered if there was a delusion.

The old priest's eyes flashed, and he excitedly raised the staff in his hand, and shouted in his mouth: "The gods have appeared, congratulations to the prince for recovering the pearl!" ”

Krimu immediately prostrated on the ground in surprise, if the first failure just now would have aroused doubts for his daughter, the rare appearance of the god in the heavenly sacrifice at this moment is the most powerful proof of her life experience, and the identity of his concubine who has just been written on the parchment scroll cannot be changed even by the emperor in the future.

Minyi, who didn't understand a word from beginning to end, only knew that she would follow Krim and worship the gods until the end of the ceremony, and if she could predict what kind of trouble this muffled thunder would bring her in the future, she would probably jump up and scold the sky angrily. (To be continued.) )