Chapter 177: High Priest
Han stood up and turned around to leave, but found that Xiao Wuhua did not follow, but cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks at the stone table.
He looked back at Xiao Wuhua.
Xiao Wuhua saw him stop, and bombarded him very doggedly: "You go quickly, didn't you see that the divine doctor was going to send off guests?" ”
"......" This guy really doesn't treat himself as an outsider. Han asked him, "What are you staying here for?" ”
"Of course I'm staying to help the doctor." Xiao Wuhua returned to the table and continued to clean up the dishes and chopsticks.
Luo Heng picked up the dishes and chopsticks again, and said angrily: "What are you cleaning up?" I haven't finished it yet! ”
Xiao Wuhua sat down: "Okay, okay, you eat slowly." I'm with you. ”
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I was pressing my legs in the dance studio, and Han came back from outside.
He went out today to ask for the details of Luo Heng's edict. But looking at his face, it seems that the trip is not going well. If it was still early today, he had already changed into a dark blue robe, and he didn't think he would go out again.
At this time, there was no one in the dance room, so he came into the room, sat down next to me, and whispered some strange questions to me.
I wondered: "The faith of the Luan family?" ”
Han asked in a low voice, "Have you ever heard Your Majesty mention priests?" ”
I thought for a moment and said, "Every year, we have to worship the heavens and ancestors, and the one who presides over the altar during the New Year's festival is the high priest of Miaohong." The mother queen occasionally mentions it, that is, she is talking about sacrifices. ”
"What kind of person is High Priest Miao Hong?"
"The enlightened high priest seemed to be amiable, but he did not dare to talk to him much. Every time, he went to the Temple of Heaven with the Mother Emperor, and everyone else could only wait below. I only remember once when I was a child, I was curious about what it looked like, and before dawn, I secretly climbed up to the Temple of Heaven alone, and Miao Hong was on the Temple of Heaven at that time. ”
He asked, "He drove you away?" ”
I said, "No, when he found me, he took me to him and sat still." I couldn't help but ask questions about the things on the altar, and he answered patiently. After that, the palace people came to duty and found us. I didn't want to arouse the idea of the mother queen, so I followed the palace people. ”
Han sighed: "You are so bold. ”
I changed my position with difficulty, rubbing my numb legs: "At that time, I was young and ignorant. In recent years, he occasionally said a few words to the imperial sister, but he was only polite and did not speak to me for several years. Speaking of which...... Recently, Protestantism has flourished among the people, and the status of the old religion is in jeopardy. When you ascended the throne two months ago, could the priest you ask for was Miao Hong? ”
Han rubbed his forehead, as if regretting not talking to the priest in detail: "This is handled by the officials of the Ministry of Rites, and I can't say a few words to Miao Hong." ”
"For such a big thing as the change of dynasty, he didn't even say a few more words to the new emperor?"
Han sighed: "I have said that I am a puppet emperor......"
What does the edict have to do with the priesthood?
Luan Dynasty believes in the nature of heaven and earth, and every year he has to bow to God to thank him for such a model of divine authority of kingship. But the mother once mentioned that she didn't rely on God either. Droughts, floods, hysteria, these things happen every year, and it is also because the Luan Dynasty lasted for nearly a thousand years, and these materials have never been interrupted, so that we can find the pattern.
Therefore, the sacrifice to the heavens is for the people to see, and controlling these disasters is what we really have to do. Since the mother was not very superstitious, she did not mention priesthood to me very often.
I searched the memories in my head, and I couldn't find that the priest and the edict could have a relationship of half a copper coin, which made me suspicious of Han's source again.