Chapter 178: The Conjuring
The temple of the goddess was built by the emperor's decree, and announced that the world had sealed the wine fairy as the goddess of the Yongjin River, and ordered the prince to come in person, so the Ministry of Rites formulated a set of cumbersome worship procedures to show the grandeur and sacredness of the event.
When Li Siqi came out with the maids, Qi Huan was taking all the show girls to kneel and bow three times in front of the offering table to pray for blessings.
Taking advantage of everyone's inattention, Li Siqi walked to the back of the show girl queue.
After some worship, Qi Huan took everyone to the South Gate Ferry to welcome the goddess of Yongjin River to ascend the tower.
The Ministry of Rites has never experienced such a thing, but Li Wenbo feels that the Goddess Building is built for the Goddess of Yongjin River, so he naturally wants to do a ritual to invite the Goddess to stay. The Duke of Ender personally led all the blessing girls to greet the more pious.
In order to be able to accurately greet the goddess, the Ministry of Rites also set up a huge boat with wood chips and papier-mΓ’chΓ© in advance, and there was also a dummy wearing white gauze resembling a golden feather face with a white veil.
When Qi Huan led everyone out of the south gate, the craftsman guarding the river put the huge paper boat into the river.
The temple of the goddess and the ferry at the south gate were lit with bright white wind lanterns, and a large ship with a long length was hung with white wind lanterns, and a woman with a white veil stood on the deck and sailed towards the wind.
Although the boat is fake, it is also made by the craftsman Zhuge Gang himself, the deck is made of thin wood chips, and the top is made of white paper and white silk, and the whole ship looks no different from the real ship, especially the dummy on the deck, which is full of one person high.
Li Siqi, who was standing at the end of the show girl queue, opened her eyes wide, the dummy on the boat was the same as Jin Ling who appeared during the Dragon Boat Festival, wearing a white dress, a white veil, and a silver hairpin on the sideburns of the flying fairy. The silver hairpin-white pearl pendant swayed slightly, shining brightly. The dummy's headdress is real. The whole person is also like a real person.
To be exact, they came to summon spirits.
On a big night, the river in the distance was pitch black, and only the boat was bright and white.
The boat was getting closer and closer, and the musicians on both sides played cheerful music.
Even so, the timid among the show girls have already hung their heads and squinted.
White lights, white boats, white people, at first glance it was really scary.
According to the previous plan, the paper boat will slowly sink after Qi Huan stepped forward to lead the goddess in front of the ferry, and Qi Huan will burn the dummy in public, and then put the ashes of the goddess into the jade box, and take the box to light up the lights of the goddess building layer by layer, and send the goddess to the top floor of the goddess building. The etiquette is complete.
The paper boat got closer and closer, stopping at the place of the ferry.
Qi Huan stepped forward and moved the paper figure down.
It was placed on a pre-set altar.
With Li Shilang's voice: "Please goddess!" β
The paper figure is ignited, and the music changes from cheerful to mournful.
The dummy was made of paper and satin, stuffed with cotton wool, all of which were flammable, and the wind was strong by the river, and soon the paper figure was reduced to a pile of ashes.
Seeing the lifelike dummy burned to a pile of ashes, most of the timid maids did not dare to look up.
Li Siqi saw it from beginning to end.
What a hate!
Jin Ling fell into the water and died, and now she is watching her doll being burned, which is really a torture of drowning and burning.
Whoever came up with this idea is simply too relieving.
According to the previous plan, the fire was exhausted and the ship sank.
Just after the dummy was burned, the paper boat did not sink in the black smoke.
I heard a pop of water, and out of the cabin of the paper boat came a wine fairy who looked like a dummy.
It's just that unlike the dummy, this time the wine fairy is moving.
In the bright white lights and curling black smoke, the wine fairy walked from the cabin to the deck, stood on the deck and said leisurely to everyone: "Who invited me!" β
The first to be scared was Li Shilang.
It was he who shouted to the goddess!
The dummies were burned, and another wine fairy came out of the paper boat, dressed up in the same headdress as the paper man. He also spoke.
Li Shilang only felt that his heart was pounding, his eyes were spent, and his ears were buzzing.
I just watched the woman in white jump off the paper boat and walk slowly towards him.
The nepotism is fluttering like a fairy.
All the show girls immediately knelt down.
What the hell did they really see?
Only Li Siqi stood in a daze, she couldn't believe her eyes.
"You invited me?" Jin Ling walked quickly to Li Shilang and asked with a leisurely smile.
Li Shilang was already in a cold sweat with fright, he stood beside Qi Huan, saw the woman in white coming over, grabbed Qi Huan's arm and hid behind him: "Duke Ende is here, he will take you up......"
Li Shilang gasped, he didn't care about the image anymore, and only pushed Qi Huan out.
Seeing Li Shilang like this, Qi Huan's guards immediately rushed over to block Jin Ling.
"What are you afraid of?" Jin Ling raised her hand and took off her veil, Ruyu's face smiled slightly in the bright white light, "I'm Jin Ling, the wine fairy!" β
"Mother....... "One of the show girls cried timidly, "Save me......"
"Hell, ......," someone screamed in horror and fainted to the ground.
Jin Ling took off the veil, Li Siqi's eyes suddenly widened, and more than a dozen show girls in Liang Guo widened their eyes.
The person in front of him is really Jin Ling.
"You're not!" Li Siqi suddenly shouted loudly, "Don't be afraid! She is not a wine fairy, I am the first beauty in Jinling, Li Siqi, I testify, she is not a wine fairy! β
"How am I not!" Jin Ling looked at Li Siqi, "Miss Li doesn't bring such ruthlessness, I am obviously alive and well, how can you say that I am a ghost!" I'm alive! β
"She's a wine fairy!" Mrs. Liu suddenly said loudly, "She's a wine fairy!" Have you forgotten that the wine fairy was blessed by the goddess, and he came back from the dead before, so this time he must also be blessed by the goddess! The wine fairy returns, and the world is forever! β
Most of the show girls who were already scared half to death knelt on the ground and didn't dare to raise their heads.
The officials of the Ministry of Rites saw Li Shilang grabbing Duke Ende's arm and hiding behind him, and they all made a mess of you pushing me and pushing you.
Hearing Mrs. Liu say that the wine fairy was blessed by a goddess, he poked his head out and looked at Jin Ling.
"That's right!" Jin Ling said loudly to everyone, "I'm all a fairy, how can I die!" The goddess took me to cultivate immortals! I happened to hear someone shouting something to invite the goddess, and the goddess was noisy, so she sent me to take a look! β
"Hah!" Qi Huan, who had been tightly grasping Li Shilang's arm, smiled helplessly, "Do you dare to ask the goddess if she still summons you back?" We're still paying tribute to you, and you've seen it, so let's go back early. β
Jin Ling looked at Qi Huan at this time.
Seeing his face full of ridicule and laughter, he couldn't help but shake his head and said, "Naturally, it's not good to go back." The goddess said that as long as my life was in danger, she would come to her rescue. If I'm well, she'll bless the world's balances! Because I fell into the river and caused chaos, even Your Majesty suffered. The goddess said, if I don't come out again, I'm afraid that the world will be in chaos. The goddess has a few important words for me to explain to the most honorable of you, and I hope he will convey them to the new king. β