Chapter 21: Worship
After Zhang Weixin's proposal for worship was agreed by Xu and Li, a plenary meeting was convened. However, to the surprise of Wang, Zhang and others, the discussion about the worship was very intense and lasted for a long time. Of course, all the team members had no opinions on the "bow proposal" itself, and all expressed support and understanding, and there was no objection to Wang Kunjun's proposal to include Yu Xuzi, and everyone's disagreement was outside their suggestion, and the focus was on Liu Wanbao.
It turned out that after the "prayer proposal" was put to the general assembly for discussion, everyone had no opinion at first, thinking that it was a good thing and should be supported. Several committee members were also very confident in the adoption of the proposal, but just as Wang Kunjun was about to announce a show of hands to vote, Tang Chao suddenly put forward the same proposal, hoping to include Liu Wanbao, but the result caused heated discussions and even arguments among all the participants.
Supporters believe that Liu Wanbao has been working hard since he joined the crossing team, and has contributed a lot to the training work of Feilongzhai, considering his status in the minds of the minions, he should be included in the scope of worship, so as to be able to more effectively control and command the minions of Feilongzhai.
Opponents believe that although Liu Wanbao has done a lot of work for the team, he is an outsider after all, and he used to be the second leader of Feilongzhai with a lot of power. Perhaps now he has to surrender to the crossing team due to the situation, but no one can guarantee that he will not fight back when the time is right in the future. For the team, if he is just an outsider, the team can openly restrict and restrain his behavior through various means, so that he does not dare to act. If everyone swears with him, these controls lose their reason to be used, and if he has a different heart, it will cause great trouble for the team.
Proponents have refuted the arguments of the opponents, arguing that the arguments of the opponents are all speculation and have no actual evidence. And when it comes to outsiders, Yu Xuzi is also an outsider, since everyone can accept Yu Xuzi, Weishenme can't accept Liu Wanbao?
Opponents say that Liu Wanbao and Yuxuzi cannot be compared. Liu Wanbao is halfway to obedience, while Yu Xuzi has been in contact with the team since he crossed the team to this era, and he has reached out to the team when they need help the most, which is regarded as the benefactor of the team, and it is by no means comparable to Liu Wanbao.
Watching the two different opinions be arguing with each other, the four members of the committee neither participated nor stepped forward to stop it, because there was a clear factional line between the supporters and opponents, which made it difficult for the four of them to intervene directly. The supporters on both sides of the argument were mainly members of the Nishigu faction's infantry battalion, while the opponents were largely from the Higashiyama faction, while most of the members of the tank company and repair battalion of the Nishigu faction remained neutral. If it is an ordinary disagreement, it is only necessary to directly vote on the whole vote, and there is no need to fight so fiercely. However, now that the issue of factions is involved, we cannot simply rely on this method to resolve it, because there may be a situation of serious factional antagonism, which is not something that several members present here are willing to see. Even if it is a master like Zhang Weixin who deliberately makes the factions clear, what he wants to see is only factional differences, not factional antagonism. Therefore, the four committee members all chose to wait and see what happened, waiting for the pros and cons to get tired of the argument before coming forward to mediate.
Because the opposition was much larger than the supporters, and there were quite a few eloquent opponents among the opponents, the opposition gradually gained the upper hand over time. It was only at this time that Zhang Weixin spoke, he first signaled everyone to calm down, calm down their emotions, and then said: "Everyone calm down first and listen to me." Judging from what you just said, everyone is in favor of the team members' bowing, which should be no doubt, right? ”
Everyone had no objection to Zhang Weixin's assertion, so they nodded in agreement.
Subsequently, Zhang Weixin said: "Okay, in that case, I think we can put aside the dispute for the time being, and first vote on the part of the proposal that everyone has no opinion on, and follow it." As for the part of everyone's dispute, let's put it first. Before the meeting, I consulted with Brother Yuxuzi about some rules for worshipping in this era. According to him, prayer can be supplemented when needed. That is to say, even if Liu Dangjia is unable to become brothers with us because of disagreement this time, as long as we can reach an agreement on this issue in the future, we can still absorb him into our brother team. What do you think of my approach, and are you willing to accept this step-by-step approach? ”
Zhang Weixin's suggestion pointed out a third way, giving both sides of the argument hope of victory, and thus was endorsed by both sides. Seeing that everyone accepted their compromise plan, Zhang Weixin immediately announced that he would now start voting on the "sworn worship proposal" while the iron was hot, so that the proposal was successfully approved by unanimous vote.
After the "Prayer Proposal" was adopted and the resolution of the plenary meeting was formed, it entered the stage of implementing it at the right time. Considering that Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin and others will soon return to Feilong Village, and there is not much time to stay in the "Qingyuan", Senior Brother Yuxuzi has already returned to Yuxu Palace, and it will take a little time to invite him, so the time for the worship ceremony to be held is set two days later, that is, on the morning of the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar.
After the discussion was over, the people went back to their work, and the four members of the committee went to Fuyaozi's residence together and reported the decision to Master Tai. Fuyaozi agreed with their decision, and was very supportive of their idea of wanting to worship with Yuxuzi, saying that he would let Qingchen go to Yuxuzi Palace to send a message to Yuxuzi and ask him to come down the mountain to participate in the worship ceremony. Subsequently, Fuyaozi taught the four of them again, hoping that they could help and support each other like brothers after they got married, and they must not take the worship as child's play. For Master Tai's teachings, the four of them naturally agreed to it. They chatted with Fuyaozi for a while before exiting the room.
After Yu Xuzi returned to the "Qing Garden" with Qingchen on the afternoon of the seventh day of the fourth lunar month, he was pulled into a small conference room by the four members of the committee and asked him about some details about the swearing.
Although the ancients attached great importance to the matter of worship, there were not too many rigid rules on the requirements for specific rituals, and they could be flexibly grasped according to the actual situation. If the conditions are good, it can be more complicated, such as setting up incense cases, cutting off chicken heads, burning yellow paper, drinking blood wine, vows, and so on. If the conditions are not good, or the environment does not allow it, you can also pile up soil for furnaces and plant grass for incense, and the most important thing is on the worshippers. ,
Although the form of worship is not very important, since the "Qingyuan" has this condition, the committee decided to prepare some supplies as much as possible. So, in the afternoon of the same day, the housekeeper Deng An took the list listed by Yuxuzi and prepared a dry application, just waiting for the ceremony to be held the next day.
Early in the morning of the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar of the fourth year of the calendar, thirty-five traversers and a total of thirty-six people from Yuxuzi dressed neatly, came to the courtyard and stood in six rows under the steps of the main house, waiting for the ceremony with a serious expression.
On the steps, Deng An had already sent someone to set up the table, and the incense burner, candles, three animal sacrifices and other things had also been stacked neatly, and Fu Yaozi, Han Qingwen and Zhong Ziqi also came to the scene and watched from the side.
At nine o'clock in the morning, Li Junwu and Li Gaogong, the oldest of the thirty-six people, lit three sticks of incense and respectfully inserted them into the incense burner. Subsequently, Deng An led people to bring a jar of good wine, and all 36 people pierced their fingers with knives, dripping their own blood into the wine, and then each poured a bowl of wine, knelt on the ground together, and Li Junwu took the lead, and jointly read the oath according to the content of the previous day's order:
"Thirty-six of us, although they have different surnames, they are brothers and sisters, so they trust each other in life and death, save each other from good fortune and evil, rely on each other for good and evil, help each other in adversity, and work together to create brilliance. I don't want to be born on the same day and month of the same year, but I want to die on the same day and month of the same year. The emperor and the queen of heaven, learn from this heart, betray righteousness and ingratitude, and kill heaven and man together! ”
After reading the vows, the thirty-six men drank all the wine in their bowls and bowed eight times to the north before they got up and arranged their age in order. The oldest, fifty-two-year-old Li Junwu, is naturally the eldest brother. Zhou Lei, Yu Wende, and Zhang Feiyun (Yuxuzi's common name) are all forty-eight years old, ranking second to fourth according to the morning and evening of their birth month.
The order of the other brothers is: Wang Kunjun, You Yuan, Zhang Weixin, Xu Shaoan, Liu Wendong, Zhao Dawei, Qian Yuanshan, Huang Hai, Xie Tian, Fan Wucheng, Fu Guangsheng, Yuan Aiguo, Hong Yan, Lin Xiaoyu, Sun Yangyang, He Qiang, Huang Shan, Song Feiyang, Zhu Xiaoyuan, Tang Chao, Yang Xin, Zeng Zhilin, Wang Feng, Liang Ziyue, Cheng Fei, Lu Yue, Wu Peng, Fang Guoqiang, Hu Xueying, Zhong Tao, Muter, and Gao Jun.
The elders and youngsters were decided, and everyone began to call their brothers and brothers while saluting each other. Because the people who are in the back of the line have to salute the brother who is in front of them, except for Li Junwu Shi Ran who stood there and returned the salute one by one, and the movements were relatively relaxed, everyone else had to salute and return the salute, and they couldn't remember the order wrongly, and the courtyard was very lively for a while.
Among all the thirty-six people, the hardest one was Gao Jun. The little fellow was the youngest, and only he had the right to bow to his brothers, not to stand up straight and return the salute to others. As a result, after a round of salutes, I was dizzy, and my waist was almost straight.
After the ceremony, it was almost noon, and everyone was a little hungry after a busy morning, You Yuan, who was in charge of the daily life of the team, hurriedly instructed the housekeeper Deng An to prepare a banquet, and asked him to gather all the servants and family members in the "Qing Garden" together, and Wang Kunjun conveyed the matter of the lords' worship to all the subordinates, and asked them to remember the ranking of the masters, so that there would be no mistakes in the future. Naturally, the servants responded with a bang, and did their best to memorize the order of their masters. Moreover, I don't know which subordinate it started from, from then on, all the housekeepers, servants, shopkeepers, guys, etc., all the big and small leaders and minions in the Flying Dragon Village, the title of the crossing team is no longer called the master or the leader or anything, all of them have become such as the uncle, the fifth master, the seventeenth grandmother and the like. Men are not uncomfortable with such a name, and they feel that it doesn't matter what they are called. The ladies were a little dissatisfied with this, and had a lot of opinions about being called grandma, thinking that calling them old would call them old, so they spent a lot of energy correcting their subordinates and asking them to call themselves girls or Mrs., but with little success, and in the end they could only give up resistance and accept the reality of their own generation.
After the worship was completed, the brothers were lively in the "Qing Garden" for a few days, and on April 12, Yuxuzi came to say goodbye to everyone, saying that he had to go back to Yuxu Palace. Although the brothers were reluctant, they also knew that the fourth brother (fourth brother) needed to preside over all the big and small affairs in the Yuxu Palace, so they didn't insist on keeping it, but just hoped that he could come over often. Yu Xuzi to the brothers' request is naturally full of promise, he said, Yuxu Palace and Liangxiang City is only half a day away, as long as the time in the future, will come to get together with the brothers, and hope that the brothers will often go to the Yuxu Palace when they are fine, and they will also say that they will definitely go.
Early the next morning after Yu Xuzi left, members of the Feilong Village Left-behind Group and Liu Wanbao also came to resign to the committee. Although Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin and others all hope to stay more time so that they can learn Tai Chi Gong with Master Tai. However, firstly, there are only a few deputy squadron leaders such as Liu Xiaoliu in Feilong Village who are in charge, and it is always inappropriate to control them without a leader-level figure. Moreover, after Wang Kunjun got married, he also occupied a cross-courtyard alone, which made the originally relatively spacious housing seem somewhat crowded, and Jihua, who lived scattered across the team, has been put on the agenda, and the need for new security Liliang will become more and more urgent. Therefore, whether the Flying Dragon Village left-behind group is willing or not, they must return to the Flying Dragon Village as soon as possible.
Among these people, Liu Wanbao is the most reluctant. When he came, he came with his wife and daughter, but when he left, he was the only one. Looking at the retention in his wife's eyes and the reluctance in his daughter's eyes, Liu Wanbao felt very uncomfortable. However, for the sake of his family's future, he had to give up this family affection and ruthlessly leave them behind.
Naturally, the Committee granted their request and encouraged them to continue their efforts to complete the training of the pro-soldier team as soon as possible, so that the other functional groups of the team could devote themselves to their work. Subsequently, Wang Kunjun reminded the members of the left-behind group that it will soon be the anniversary of the first anniversary of the team, and all team members will go to the Yuxu Palace to hold relevant commemorative ceremonies.
Qian Yuanshan, Zeng Zhilin and others wrote down these one by one, and said that they would definitely make reasonable arrangements and would never miss the activities of crossing the anniversary. Subsequently, the left-behind team and Liu Wanbao left the "Qingyuan" and returned to Feilong Village. The rest of the crossing group waited until they were sent to the gate of the "Qing Garden" before waving goodbye.