Chapter 38: The Grand Welcoming Festival (1)
After the battle in the old people's home, the sixth woman and Ah Tai were sent to the northern Celestial Realm Stronghold No. 2 to recuperate. Stronghold 2 is ostensibly a hospital, and it has an ordinary name - "Wenxin Hospital". Inside are the Heavenly Soldiers, Heavenly Generals, and Heavenly Realm Medical Officers.
Under the care of the medical officer, the old grandfathers, the six women, and Ah Tai quickly recovered.
Pian Pian lobbied the six women by asking for sleep, and requisitioned those tiger masters as soldiers and horses. The six women, who have been doing temple prayers all their lives and have devout beliefs, where do they still need to lobby, they are obliged to agree to Pianpian's request in their dreams, and they also shouted that they would also join the volunteer army to fight against the evil demons and monsters together.
Considering the old age of the sixth mother-in-law, Pian Pian arranged for her to work as a volunteer at Wenxin Hospital, taking care of some logistics work. Ah Tai naturally became a volunteer, and those old grandfathers fought against the ghost pawns sent by the Shunde evil god in the first battle of the old people's home, and they were afraid that once they went outside, they would become the sniper targets of the ghosts, so they also volunteered to stay in the hospital as volunteers.
However, they are nominally volunteers, but the Celestial Medic will still pay them privately, which is a higher salary than ordinary work, and of course it is another incentive for Ah Tai and the old man to shirk it.
As a result, there was an additional "Special Affairs Department" in Wenxin Hospital, and the sixth woman naturally became the head of the Special Affairs Department.
Under the pressure of the sixth woman, Ah Tai admitted that he was not actually selling stinky tofu, claiming that the money was borrowed from Ah Guan. In addition to being beaten by the six women, he was also forced to practice writing symbols every day.
Atai was already good at writing, and under the strict supervision of the six women, he also practiced several talisman writing methods to a good degree. So one of his jobs was to provide a steady stream of white flame talismans for Ah Guan.
In the past two days, Ah Guan and Pian Pian rode the stone fire wheel around to recruit troops during the day, and at night, they returned to Wenxin Hospital to conduct sand table deduction with the heavenly soldiers and spirits, discussing the plan of dividing the soldiers into two ways on the day of the festival, attacking the Shunde Emperor all the way, and rescuing Ah Guan's mother all the way.
Pian Pian counted the troops, there were a total of forty-six tiger masters, and eighty-seven spirits; Pian Pian also transferred six heavenly soldiers and generals from Wenxin Hospital, which was all the troops they had in this operation.
On the other hand, under the secret visit of Lao Tudou, the process of the Shunde Emperor's ritual was roughly pieced together - on the day of the festival, believers will participate in Shunde temples all over the country, with about 1,000 people, and the believers will each advance from different routes, and finally form a team on the road leading to the temple on the mountain, and go up the mountain mightily. This is followed by a three-day prayer ceremony, and every day after nightfall, it is the time when the Shunde evil god absorbs the essence of the believers.
"We must defeat Shunde before tonight, if we let him absorb the essence of a thousand people, it will be very difficult to take him in again!" Pian Pian said to Ah Guan.
In the afternoon, the two disguised themselves as believers according to the plan, found a Shunde temple that seemed to be easier to blend into, and exchanged a few words with the believers in the temple, asking for two flags of the Shunde Emperor to be planted on the stone fire wheel. The people in this Shunde temple did not know Ah Guan, and the two followed the convoy of this temple to the mountain, sitting in the back seat of the stone fire wheel, and reluctantly waving the banner of the Shunde Emperor.
From the city to the suburbs, believers from all over the world gathered more and more. Many boy-like teenagers stood on the trucks, naked in the cold wind, beating drums vigorously, and their momentum was heroic. There are also groups of women with their families and dependents, carrying large bags and small bags of offerings, mixed with the crowd of people and cars.
Ah Guan followed a large number of believers up the mountain, came to the halfway up the mountain, and finally saw the Shunde Temple. The big temple building is four floors high, arranged magnificently, there is a large square outside, and there are already a number of offering tables on the square, in addition to flowers and fruits, there are jars of black rune water on the table.
After a commotion, the believers on the mountain road retreated in joy to make way in both directions.
Several maids carried a golden sedan chair, and waiters dressed in special costumes were gathered around the front and back, and they walked majestically. There is a statue of a god in the sedan chair, which is the Emperor Shunde.
And Ah Guan and Pian Pian knew that what was sitting in the sedan chair was just a cold statue.
They saw the real Shunde Emperor sitting on another gorgeous golden palanquin, guarded by a large group of evil gods and demons, following the statue dozens of meters in the air.
Emperor Shunde was dressed in a yellow robe, wearing a golden crown, his dark brown face was full of wrinkles, and his hands exposed outside the yellow robe were dry and thin, and they were also dark brown. Of course, the believers below naturally couldn't see the true body of the Shunde Emperor in the air.
Ah Guan and Pian Pian also got off the stone fire wheel, kneeling on the side of the road like the other believers, and from time to time peeking at the real body of the Shunde Emperor who was passing over. Ah Guan vaguely felt that Emperor Shunde seemed to glance at him when he passed over his head, and his expression seemed to be smiling.
Then the sedan chair procession entered the square in front of the temple, which was extremely lively, and everyone helped to stack the offerings on the offering table.
Guan parked the stone fire wheel in the parking lot in front of the square, followed him into the square, and wandered around.
As he walked, he came to a table of offerings, on which was a small tower, and when he looked closely, he saw square cakes, which were black and black, and filled with a strange smell similar to that of pitch-black runic water; On another table next to the small tower of pastries, there were bottles and jars of black runes.
"The spirit cake of the Emperor of Shunde is not invaded by all diseases after eating; The talisman water of the Emperor of Shunde has been drunk to prolong life! A group of believers gathered around the table, each holding a glass of talisman water and a piece of cake. I saw them take a sip of water and a bite of cakes, as if they were tasting high-end black tea and delicious cakes.
"It's really sick..." Ah Guan forced a laugh and scolded in a low voice.
Several believers came over and raised their glasses to Ah Guan, who also raised the cup in his hand and tasted it with a smile.
"Hmph, you guy..."
"Well, it tastes good, after drinking the rune water, the divine power protects the body, and it is invulnerable!" Ah Guan imitated the believer's example, and tasted the dark drink in his cup in admiration.
The difference was that the pitch-black drink in his cup was the Coke he had prepared earlier.
Pian Pian also took an empty cup, snatched the kettle from Ah Guan's backpack, and poured out some Coke, so as not to make people find out that she was the only one who didn't drink the water.
"You're clever enough to think of this trick." Pian Pian took a sip of Coke and smiled at Ah Guan.
"I've drunk that water, it stinks better than..." Ah Guan whispered to Pianpian, took out his mobile phone again, and dialed the phone.
The alley was silent, save for a few wild cats roaming the road.
The Shunde temple where Yue'e was imprisoned had its doors closed, and the only team had already set off in a majestic manner, leaving two or three elderly believers to stay and guard.
Ah Tai waited at the corner of the alley for a long time, and there was no movement, when the mobile phone rang, it was Ah Guan calling.
"Have you arrived? The idiot believers on my side have already set off, and now it's deserted, and there's no one...," Ah Tai and Ah Guan said a few more words, hung up the phone, and gestured to the van parked on the side of the road behind them.
The car door opened, and the sixth woman jumped out of the car, and the old potato, the green-eyed fox, and the two bird spirits also got out of the car, and there was a medical officer on standby in the car.
Everyone rushed forward and came to the gate of the Shunde Temple, the old potato led the spirit to sneak into the temple to explore the way, and Atai knocked on the door with "bumper pounds", and it took a long time for an old believer to open the temple door.
"What do you do?" The Old Believer asked.
"Let's make incense." Atai replied unceremoniously.
"We won't be open today, you can come back another day..."
"Ahh Atai vigorously pushed to the temple gate, trying to break in.
The old believer was taken aback, and was about to shout, but suddenly his eyes went black and he fainted. It turned out that the green-eyed fox had cast ecstasy on the old believer from behind.
"You monkey grandson, you know how to mess up!" The sixth woman recited Atai's sentence, and the two grandparents walked into the temple and carefully closed the temple door.
In front of the offering table in the temple, there were also two believers lying down, both of whom were fascinated by the green-eyed fox's magic.
"Demons and monsters, evil spirits!" The sixth woman looked at the black runes on the walls around her, and the strange black runes on the table, and couldn't help cursing.