Sacrifice to the heavens

I slept so groggily until the night, and I suddenly felt that something was wrong. Because Shui Yu's performance today is really a bit surprising, if it is usually done in a normal way. Then she definitely cares about me, but today she answered my question very calmly.

This anomaly surprised me a little, and I was even more uneasy. Suddenly remembering my sudden uneasy intuition and performance when I was reading this afternoon, I suddenly felt that Shui Yu must have known some news, but she was still reluctant to tell me.

Looking at the lights on this night, it suddenly dawned on me that something seemed to be starting, and I had been completely excluded. I felt a little flustered inexplicably, and immediately grabbed a maid and asked, "What day is it?" How did it become so brightly lit? Could it be that the festival has begun in the palace? "I seriously thought about all of these possibilities, but none of them met.

Although it is said that it is now autumn, it is not yet the time to enter the festival. But looking at this brightly lit and grand performance, I really couldn't figure it out. The young maid didn't seem to know what was going on, and he shook his head at me in horror.

"The minion is also a maid who has just arrived now, and she doesn't know what's going on here. However, according to common sense, after doing a liking for beauty, it must be which concubine has been named a concubine again, or has been promoted again......" Looking at his trembling appearance, I also knew that she really couldn't say something, so I let her leave here, but the uneasiness in my heart became more and more intense.

I put on a thick coat and immediately left the palace, and immediately went outside. Although the maid didn't know it, there were old people in the palace, so I was sure I could know what was going on.

Seeing that all the people in this palace are busy, I really have some doubts that if it is just the king of Xuan who has sealed a concubine, then everyone in this palace will not be busy. At most, it's just that the maid of the palace concubine is busy, how can everyone be busy?

I have a crush on an older maid. I went over and asked him, but when she saw me coming, she immediately ran away. I knew that there must be something wrong with this matter, so I immediately took a step, chasing her and not wanting to let go.

The footsteps of the palace maids in this palace are really not unusual, they are almost flying. Finally, with great effort, I was able to catch up with her, and my right hand immediately grabbed her clothes. With a knife in his left hand, he immediately threatened.

"I'm not a man-eating beast, so why do you want to hide from me when you see me? If you don't explain this matter to me clearly, I will tell the king about this matter, and ask him if I am a man-eating monster, so that these palace maids will run away when they see me, and you will know that even if I am not a man-eating monster, the life of your slave will definitely not be guaranteed. ”

Even though I know it's ungentlemanly, I can't wait for this person now, this person is really the one I have to catch with great effort, and I have no other chance to ask anyone, this guy keeps running to crowded places. So the whole court already knows I'm chasing this guy.

If I hadn't asked him anything today, I'd run away in vain and wasted the opportunity to ask others. I'm so glad that my mother left me a dagger when I entered the palace, otherwise I really wouldn't have been able to do such a thing. After all, I don't have the tools. There is simply no way to threaten anyone.

"But the queen has already said this, and wants us to hide it from you, if I tell you, then they will definitely not let me go, and look at yourself engraved on your dagger, I know that you must be the one who can't know about this matter."

"Maybe you can indeed kill me, master, but there are so many people in this harem who can kill slaves, and the slaves still want to live a little longer, and I hope that your subordinates will show mercy." The palace maid trembled and spared my life. But what he said made me a little confused, and I couldn't help but slow down my movements.

You saw the opportunity and kicked me right away. Escaped, I was a little stunned, but I couldn't catch him anymore, and I looked at her departing back with some regret, and my physical strength no longer allowed me to chase her. But he's got enough news for me, and I think I can figure out what it is.

After all, there were definitely not many such heavy rituals in ancient times. And in addition to the festival, it is not a ceremony to accept concubines, if you want to accept concubines, then this level is only afraid that it is also a queen. But the queen is obviously still alive, so she is definitely not the queen. Then the only thing left is the Heaven Sacrifice Ceremony.

Forget it, the counting day has now reached autumn, and if the calculation is indeed correct, then it should be a good season for autumn harvest. At this time, the ancients would hold a very grand ceremonial dance party like their own worshiped gods. Offer your own precious offerings to give back to the gods you worship.

I just quietly watched the bright world, and inexplicably thought of a Mid-Autumn Festival in modern life. I remember that at that time, we and our parents in that parallel world were eating mooncakes and watching the party, and it was also so brightly lit.

The brightly lit appearance made me awaken more warmth and feelings, and I stopped in the corridor. I didn't care if there was dust left underground, so I just sat down. The guards and palace maids who walked by saw me like this and silently had some heart sutras, but they didn't dare to disturb me. He bowed to me and left.

However, in the midst of this, I suddenly saw a team of people pressing down on a man. That person seemed to me to be somewhat familiar with, and I also seemed to know a little. I don't know how to put it into words, anyway. Alas, it would be nice if the telescope was hopeful. Maybe I can see his face.

I shook my head silently and was about to turn my head to look at the other scenery, but suddenly I saw one of the subordinates of the leader of the Praetorian Guard, who was so conspicuous and had said so much to me, that I remembered his few characteristics.

Didn't this guy come to tell me the truth of the facts? Why is this guy also in this, is he also a Praetorian Guard, if it is the Praetorian Guard, then everything he has done will be understood. If he was a Praetorian Guard, it would be more normal to be here. After all, if this is really a festival to the sky, then you must ensure safety. After all, people in ancient times were so willing to believe in gods.

But if this is really a ceremony to worship the heavens, shouldn't they be outside the palace? Why did he still suppress a person, could this person be an assassin? But had the Assassin been interrogated like this? It's a bit too miserable, but if it's an assassin, it's normal.

But the human sacrifice was quite unexpected, wasn't it some animal or something? Why did a human sacrifice suddenly come?

But I thought they would be able to answer my questions, so I just stood here and didn't go any further. After all, I also want to see how this human sacrifice differs from animal sacrifice. It is rare to come to ancient times, with such a grand and serious ceremony. Wouldn't it be a shame not to watch it once.

So I waited quietly. His eyes looked at the distant scenery without blinking, as if he wanted to focus all his eyes on this huge festival.

"Anyway, this assassin is really unlucky, okay, why do you have to come to this festival to sneak attack? Knowing that people are just short of sacrifices, the current Shang Dynasty, I'm afraid it's a problem to take out how many sacrifices, alas, why do you want to assassinate them? It's really a loss of his wife and a soldier, the people of the Shang Dynasty never care how perverted they are, and living sacrifice may have become the norm, right? ”

Although I still have some rejection of human sacrifice, I don't have so much pity for the thought that this guy is an assassin who came to attack at the festival, and if he is not caught, what can I do if I am injured? For this kind of person, I think it's better to kill it.

Although I also do not agree that there is such a precedent for human sacrifice to be born. But at other people's sacrifice ceremonies, I think it's normal to be an assassin in such a grand way and be treated as a sacrifice.

"It seems that my sister is very happy to watch here, aren't you curious about the identity of that person at this heavenly sacrifice ceremony?" The queen mother walked behind me at some point, which surprised me a little, do the people in this palace walk without sound? Or I was so focused that I forgot the sound of them walking.

I looked at the queen mother with some puzzlement, but the queen mother smiled and said, "Do you want to know the identity of the person on the altar?" This is the second time that the queen has mentioned the identity of this person. It seems that this person is indeed very special.

Perhaps it was really seeing the doubt in my eyes, and the queen mother suddenly laughed. With a very compassionate look, he told me, "I'm sure that the king really likes you tonight, and if you compete with me for favor, then you really can like you." Then I mentioned to you your engagement with him. He was very angry, I couldn't stop it, and even started the ceremony of sacrificing the heavens tonight. ”

As soon as the queen mother finished speaking, she moved my head and made me look in the direction of the sacrifice of the heavenly sacrifice ceremony, and said in my ear: "So the king decided to make him the sacrifice of this heavenly sacrifice ceremony, how about it?" Isn't that a surprise? ”

At that moment, my world collapsed. It was also at that moment that I really hated the queen, and I couldn't understand her hatred with a thousand knives.

I watched as the sacrifice was burned to death by the fire, and the heat of the fire seemed to burn my eyes, and I burst into tears, but there was nothing I could do to relieve the heat of the burns. That night I lost sleep again.