Chapter 561: Fire Day (I)
In the next few days, Jalali still did not relax his tracking and monitoring of Chen Ao. Although this kid may not be able to do bad things for him, Jalali knows the truth of ancient China that he is careful to sail a ship of ten thousand years.
However, the news of the return made Jalari a little helpless. Chen Ao didn't do anything serious at all, and took Holkoz into the city all day long, wandering around. Either they chatted in the various Han shops, or they invited the group to eat, drink and have fun in the tavern brothels. This is not the key, the key thing is that Chen Ao invited guests to eat, eat, drink, prostitute and gamble, and spent all the money from the head teacher! This made Jalali feel very sad. Although Zoroastrianism has countless wealth, he is not willing to let such a kid squander it.
Moreover, Chen Ao boasted that he was already a figure at the level of the deputy head of the Zoroastrian religion. The two spies came back and said that Chen Ao did this mainly to develop those merchants into his disciples.
Jalali laughed in his heart: This Chen Ao is simply a fool. Those Chinese only believe in gold and silver, and do not believe in gods at all. These people have been doing business here for so many years, just relying on Chen Ao's little Taoism, it's like attracting them to join the church?
After learning so much information, Jalali became more and more disdainful of Chen Ao, and his vigilance was gone. Although the two people in charge of tracking followed Chen Ao as usual, they also began to be careless. Every day when I entered the city, I found a tavern to drink for a day, and when the sun set, I followed Chen Ao back to the mountain.
There are three days left, and it is the day of the fire. The temples of the Archchurch have begun to be sprinkled and arranged, and huge wooden frames have been erected in the open space in front of the mountain, and the image of the god of light has been erected on the wooden frame. When that day came, the fire was lit. This bonfire is big enough to reach the sky, even if it is hundreds of miles away, you can see it.
Believers from all over the world also rushed to the temple. These people may not come to the ceremony every month, but they do come three or five times a year. Especially this time, when it was related to the Holy Maiden, there were even more people coming.
Holkoz looked at the believers who lived in the city every day, and his heart became more and more worried. Lan Yuyan has been trapped in the Holy Maiden Palace for almost ten days, and there is no news at all. It's just that Chen Ao only knows how to eat, drink and have fun with his fellow villagers all day long, and doesn't do anything serious at all.
Seeing that Chen Ao was about to take him into the tavern again, Holkoz glared at him and said angrily: "Chen Ao, do you still want to save the Holy Maiden? Could it be that Jalali gave you a small profit, and you are loyal to him?"
He spoke Chinese, so he didn't have to worry about believers around him. Chen Ao smiled and said, "I, Chen Ao, am a loyal and unyielding revolutionary soldier, how could I betray the revolution? Don't worry, I will definitely save Miss Lan! Let's go and drink first......
Holkoz angrily shook off his hand and said, "You only know how to drink wine and eat meat all day long, so can you save people?"
Chen Ao was not annoyed, and said with a smile: "You don't understand." We Chinese, serious things are done at the wine table!"
Holkoz didn't believe Chen Ao's words at all, turned around and walked away in a huff. Chen Ao shook his head, ignored him, and entered the tavern by himself. There were already more than a dozen people waiting in the tavern, and when they saw Chen Aoxi, they greeted him with a smile: "The sect leader is here, hahaha......"
Holkoz didn't go far before he regretted it. He doesn't have a helper now, who else can he rely on if he doesn't rely on Chen Ao? But Chen Ao doesn't look like he wants to save people at all. He turned his heart sideways and thought to himself, it really can't be done, and that's the only way to do it that day......
The two of them prepared according to their own ideas. In the blink of an eye, it is the day of the fire festival, and the foot of the shrine mountain is bustling. Hundreds of worshippers gathered around the square to witness the event at nightfall.
Elders from all over the country have already arrived and organized believers to worship in the crowd. It wasn't until late evening that Sect Leader Jalali appeared with a group of elders from the House of Elders. The appearance of these high-level leaders naturally caused a burst of cheers from the believers.
Chief Elder Smale searched left and right for Chen Ao's traces. He thought that his words to Chen Ao that day were very clear, but ten days had passed, and Chen Ao had not come to him at all. Was it because Chen Ao's brain was not flexible enough, or did Chen Ao not care about Lan Yuyan's life or death at all? Smale didn't believe that Chen Ao and Lan Yuyan had no relationship at all. Lonely men and widows spend the night together in the forest, and that is not a dry fire, just a little bit? Anyway, Smael himself will definitely not be able to control it.
There was no Chen Ao in the crowd, and Smale was a little strange. He secretly wondered, did Chen Ao know that today's matter was only afraid that it would involve him. Ran ahead of schedule?
Smale also began to despise Chen Ao, and he couldn't imagine that the so-called duke and general of the Great Song Empire was actually such a shrunken turtle. No wonder Jalali dared to send a thousand men to carry out the so-called doomsday plan and provoke the huge Eastern Empire. If the people in that country were all cowards like Chen Ao, then a thousand warriors would be too much.
Jalali also searched Chen Ao with his eyes for a while, but found no trace of him either. He immediately whispered an order to an entourage behind him, asking him to go and find Chen Ao. He didn't want to expose the adulterer's activities tonight, and there was one less important party.
As night fell, Jalali stood on a high platform and delivered an impassioned speech in front of the tens of thousands of believers. Then he led the believers to worship and pray to the God of Light, and he was busy for an hour. At this time, Elder Mira, who was presiding over the ceremony, shouted: "Holy Maiden, please start the fire-raising ceremony!"
The next step should be for the saint to come out, carry the torch, and walk up to the high platform to light the wooden frame of the god of light. Two maids held flower baskets and led the way. Lan Yuyan was dressed in a light purple gauze skirt and walked slowly to the front of the person. Her appearance is already extremely beautiful, and under such an atmosphere, it looks even more mysterious and distant.
Lan Yuyan's eyebrows swept through the crowd, and he didn't find Chen Ao, and he was a little disappointed. For the past ten days, she has been trapped in the Holy Maiden's Palace, not allowed to leave a step, and naturally she doesn't know what is happening outside. Lan Yuyan thought that Chen Ao would find a way to meet her and discuss how to get through this hurdle.
But Chen Ao did not show up. Lan Yuyan slowly became disappointed from the initial apprehension, and now she is a little desperate. She also knew that Chen Ao came to this unfamiliar environment and was unfamiliar with life, so of course there was no way to fight with Jalali. Perhaps he had left Persia and returned to the Central Plains. He may even have taken refuge in Jalali and really become the leader of the Ming Sect.
Lan Yuyan felt a little bitter in her heart, sighed lightly, and stood on the high platform. The breeze was slightly blowing, and the blue jade smoke was also quite dusty. The believers under the high platform looked up and felt that this holy woman was sacrosanct.
At this time, Jalali finally spoke: "Because five years ago, the holy woman left the holy palace for no reason, and her whereabouts are unknown. In order to prevent the God of Light from being defiled, the House of Elders decided to examine the Holy Maiden first. If the saint is still chaste, she can preside over the fire-raising ceremony!"