Chapter 179: Greasy

"Lord Long, ouch - above, Xiaodao Luo Song brought all the villagers of Taohua Village to pay tribute, asking Lord Long to bless Taohua Village with smooth weather and good health of the people! Worship the Dragon King - Goodbye - Three Worships! Cannon - send the dragon son and dragon girl into the Dragon Palace! Luo Song's little triangular eyes endured the pain to preside over the ceremony of sacrificing the Dragon King, he didn't dare to pick at this time, he was surrounded by officers and soldiers who were sharpening knives, and the beating just now was sent to the door by himself carelessly to let people fight, so that when the other party beat him, he was merciful, and his eight apprentices were still lying on the ground, and they all fainted in pain. Now he just wants to finish his work quickly and leave here, there will always be a time to meet when the mountains are high and the road is far away, the damn Yangzhou Prefecture Mu should not fall into his hands, he must let him live as well as die, thinking of this, he will have a killing opportunity in his eyes!

"Luo Dao Chang - wait! The official also has to personally serve three incense sticks, three glasses of wine, and three heavenly watches to the dragon lord, and then send the dragon son and dragon girl into the palace after the official worships! Zhou Yu suddenly interrupted Luo Song, it wasn't that Zhou Yu really believed in any dragon lord, it was just that he wanted to say something he wanted to say.

"Your Excellency, please! Poor Dao has something ready-made here - "For Zhou Yu's request, Luo Song doesn't dare to disobey at all, unless he still wants to be beaten, this is not the time to be a hero, and a hero will not suffer a loss in front of him!" He hurriedly lit the three pillars of incense himself and was about to hand it to Zhou Yu's hand.

Generally, incense should not exceed three branches at most, in Buddhism, this also represents three levels, the first is the Buddha, the second is the law, and the last one is the monk, that is, many people say the three treasures of Buddhism, the three branches can be used to represent the precepts, concentration, and wisdom. The saying in Taoism is that these three incense sticks represent heaven, earth and man, and there is such a sentence in the Tao Te Ching, man is the law of the earth, the earth is the law of the sky, the heaven is the law of the Tao, and the Tao is the law of nature. The first one is to respect the sky, hoping that God can bless the people with good weather and good weather; The second root is to respect the earth, hoping to bless the people with a good harvest; The third root is to pay homage to our ancestors, expressing our deep respect and gratitude for them. When the incense is offered, it is necessary to wash the hands in advance or to wash off the dust on the body by bathing and changing clothes, and then light the incense and then hold the incense stick between the middle and index fingers of both hands, and put the incense on the tail of the incense with the thumb against the tail of the incense, and place the incense on the chest, the incense head is flat on the Bodhisattva icon, and then the incense is raised and the eyebrows are lowered, and so on and so on three times. During these three processes, you need to keep your wishes or prayers in your heart. Remember that you can't blow it out with your mouth during the process of lighting incense, you can only shake it up and down in your hand to extinguish it. In Buddhism, it is said that blowing out incense is considered a blasphemy and disrespect to God.

The next step is to insert incense into the incense burner in front of the offering table, generally the left hand first takes a stick of incense and inserts it in the center of the incense burner to respect the heavens, the right hand to take an incense stick and insert it on the right side is considered to respect people, and the left hand is to insert the remaining one on the left side as respectful to the ground. This is an ordinary incense arrangement, and there are also insertions such as incense sticks and sandalwood incense that are relatively simple and casual, and you only need to put the lit head flat on the statue and then put it down. Finally, after the incense is applied, you should put your hands together and spread your knees, kneel on the left leg first, then kneel on the right leg on the futon, press the left palm on the left side before the futon, and move the right palm from the center to the right side before the futon, and the two palms are about six inches apart; Press your head on the futon between your palms and flip your palms outward. Reverse the fingers with both hands, still pressing on the original position of the futon; The head rises from the futon; Move your right palm to the center of the futon; Leave the futon with the left palm and place it on the chest like a gassho; Hold it up with the right palm and close it on the left palm as the chest, this is one bow, at least three bows, and more are added with three numbers, such as six bows, nine bows, twelve bows, etc. Remember that when kneeling on the futon, you can't kneel down on both knees at the same time, which is a folk method called kneeling to the dead.

Seeing Luo Song's movements, Zhou Yu gave Luo Song a kick without saying a word, kicked down the stinky Taoist priest who was restless, stepped on Luo Song's body and said loudly: "Miscellaneous Taoist priest - this official gives you a shame, isn't it?" Have you ever seen someone else help light the incense when they put incense on someone's house, and only those who help others light incense will do it for the dead! Why is this official sacrificing to the Dragon King? Or will you give the Dragon Lord a funeral? How vicious the intentions are, are you bullying your own officials or what? ”

"Ahh Luo Song originally wanted to please Zhou Yu and pat Zhou Yu's ass, so that Zhou Yu could happily let himself go as a fart, who knew that he forgot about this stubble in a hurry, he was Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror inside and out, and the villagers of Peach Blossom Village also looked at Luo Song angrily when they heard Zhou Yu's explanation. At the beginning, they still felt that Zhou Yu was a little domineering, but now they feel that this Luo Dao Chang is really hateful, originally they worshiped the Dragon Lord in order to seek good weather and rain, and the Zhou Mu Lord personally offered incense in order to deepen the blessings of Peach Blossom Village, if according to Luo Song's trouble, sacrificing the Dragon Lord is a great joy and has become a funeral for the Dragon King, won't it cause disaster to their Peach Blossom Village? If it weren't for the knives and guns in the hands of Zhou Yu's soldiers, they would have pounced on him and beat him severely.

"Hmph—the official will be cleaning you up later!" Zhou Yu is also afraid that the time will cause dissatisfaction among the villagers, and generally people choose to worship the gods before noon, because whether it is a god or a ghost, the yin energy is relatively heavy, and the heaviest yang energy after noon is generally not suitable for worshipping the gods, which Zhou Yu is still very clear. As soon as he left Luo Song, Luo Song was just about to struggle to get up, how did he know that Gan Ning looked left and right and felt that this stinky Taoist priest was not pleasing to the eye, and dared to Yin Zhou Yu, it was really Lao Tzu who was not powerful and really regarded them as fools, and then went up with a few kicks, and kicked Luo Song is three souls and seven spirits out of his body.

"The Yangtze River Dragon King is on the throne again - this official is Yangzhou Prefecture Mu Zhou Yu, and it just so happens that he will come here, and he has come to visit the Yangtze River Dragon King! As the saying goes, one side of the water and soil nourishes one side of the people, one side of the gods bless the people, the official respects three pillars of incense, three cups of wine, and three copies of the heavenly table, one is to pray to the Yangtze River Dragon King to bless the villagers of Taohua Village, so that they can catch fish all the time to live a good life; The second is to implore the Yangtze River Dragon Lord to exempt the dragon son and dragon girl from the annual offerings, and let the villagers of Taohua Village sacrifice with three animals and six animals as offerings; The third is that the official is subject to today's shepherd, and the dragon king of the Yangtze River is a god and a god under me. Today is the last time to send you a dragon son and a dragon girl, if you dare to bully the people of Peach Blossom Village in the future, it will be like this case! Heaven and earth will be destroyed-" The more Zhou Yu spoke, the more fierce his words became, and he took out his sword and cut off a corner of the offering table, and suddenly the waves on the Yangtze River burst out, as if he understood Zhou Yu's words.

"Send the dragon son and the dragon girl-" Luo Song has now been beaten into an inhuman shape, there is no way to preside over the sacrifice, the village chief Li Jin can only send the two pairs of dragon sons and grandsons into the river on his behalf, the children on the bamboo raft don't know what will happen next, they don't know what to be afraid of now, they only know that they are sent to the Dragon Palace to enjoy happiness.

The farther and farther away, there was only one black spot left, and the villagers of Peach Blossom Village got up and went home, and the village chief Li Jin saw that the people of Qingyunguan had become like this, and the state pastor did not mean to embarrass them anymore, he immediately sent a few villagers to find an ox cart to send them back to Taoxi County, at least the future sacrifices will have to rely on these Taoist priests.

"My lord, sure enough, not far away, our people found a suspicious boat waiting, and it didn't look like it was fishing or sailing! I'll be secretly staring at them first, and there will be news back in a moment!" Gan Ning sent more than a dozen water ghosts to follow the bamboo raft all the way, and just now one of them came back to report the situation.

"Humph—good! We're going to meet these pretending guys for a while! Zhou Yu seemed to have guessed something, and couldn't help but sneer. There are superstitious tricks in the books I have learned before, although I come from later generations, but these feudal superstitions must be broken!