Unexpectedly, Rasu Rong stayed up all night in the temple. While directing the kitchen to place all kinds of cooked beef and mutton, offering cakes, and offerings of wine on the wide wooden board in order, he also supervised the sacrifices that started in the middle of the night.
The wizards tied musical instruments for singing and dancing on the western wall of the temple.
The sacrificial wizards are all adult men. They wear wide black clothes with various decorative feathers. The collars are turned up to cover most of their faces. They wear black hats that cover their foreheads. Only their eyes and hands are exposed.
It looks both mysterious and majestic.
Mei Liangchen thought again of the shamans who appeared in the royal sacrifices of the Qing Dynasty, and wondered if they were similar to these people.
When Lasu Rong saw Mei Liangchen, his old face turned green immediately, and he rushed over anxiously and asked: "Why did the girl run out alone without guarding the general?" What a troublesome girl...
Mei Liangchen replied confidently: "I just came out to find the general!"
When he learned that the general was not at Shanhe Zhai, Rasu Rong panicked. He dropped what he was doing and hurried to look for him. Before leaving, he told Mei Liangchen to return to Shanhe Zhai quickly and not stay here.
Mei Liangchen agreed on the surface, but actually played hide and seek with the old housekeeper.
After La Su Rong left, Mei Liangchen took Su Guna to see the various musical instruments hung and arranged by the sacrificial wizards around the altar. She recognized the birch bells, clappers, tambourines, waist bells, sanxian, pipa, and drums among them, as well as
The precious guzheng and yueqin were carefully held out by the wizards.
"Boom!" Suddenly, there was a crisp sound, and a Yueqin that looked like an antique fell to the ground and broke into two pieces.
The temple suddenly became silent.
Mei Liangchen and Su Guna looked back in astonishment, and saw an elderly wizard stepping forward angrily, kicking the troublemaker in the heart and angrily yelling, "Are you looking for death? You can't do anything! I'm going to punish you by not eating for a day!"
The wizard who caused the trouble lay on the ground for a long time and couldn't get up. "Cough cough...cough cough cough." A violent cough caused him to breathe quickly. The cloth hat covering his head fell off, and a stream of blood arrows spewed out from his head.
"Ah!" Mei Liangchen exclaimed, ignoring Su Guna's stop and ran forward.
"How do you feel? Do you want me to help you find a medical doctor?" She half-knelt on the ground, trying to help him up from the ground. The man was shaking all over, and there was no expression on his dull face. He was hanging on for dear life.
He shook his head and did not dare to look directly at the person who was helping him.
The elder wizard had never seen Mei Liangchen, but looking at her ordinary attire, she did not look like someone in charge of the palace, so her attitude became bad again. "Come here, drag Orb into the woodshed. Before the festival starts,
, don’t let him out!”
Several wizards wanted to carry out the elder's order, and Mei Liangchen shouted angrily: "He is injured and should see a medical officer!"
The elder snorted coldly and frowned: "His life is not worth the broken holy harp. I am just punishing him for his mistakes on behalf of the gods! Someone, take Orb away!"
Mei Liangchen stood up and asked with an angry expression: "How can you, old man, be so unforgiving? Didn't you just break a piano? It was unconscious, is it more important than human life?!
"
The elder never expected that this unruly young man would actually confront him, making him unable to hold his head up in front of the young wizards. He raised his hand and rolled off his black hat, revealing a cold and terrifying face. "Where did the savage come from?
, you are actually rude to this elder! Someone, put them in the woodshed together!"
Seven or eight wizards, like ghosts in the dark night, gathered towards them.
Su Guna stood in front of Mei Liangchen, raised her hands and shouted: "If you dare to move, try it!"
"Even the current emperor must respect me as an elder. You rats are so arrogant that you need to be punished! Come on, please escort me down!" As soon as the ferocious-faced elder finished speaking, a tiger's shout suddenly sounded outside the hall door:
"stop"
Hearing the sound, Mei Liangchen's face lit up with joy, he pushed away the wizard who was in the way and ran towards the visitor.
"Yelu...Sir...you are here!" The handsome man who was illuminated by the glass lamp hanging high in the temple, like a god, was not the same Yelu Qingge who left her missing late at night.
I saw his stern eyebrows softening instantly.
"I'll settle the score with you later!" She was really just as Rasu Rong said, she was not a fuel saver!
She stuck out the tip of her tongue and defended in a low voice: "This old man is too cruel!"
Old man?!
He couldn't help but laugh.
Does she know who she offended? This wizard elder is a supreme wizard who was lobbied by La Su Rong from Qi Mountain with great efforts. He once personally presided over the sacrificial ceremony of his uncle and was named the
The worship god of Min Liao Kingdom. Only in recent years, the elder has grown old, so he left Beijing to live in seclusion in Qishan Mountain until his old age.
"Alas..." He sighed slightly, and in front of nearly a hundred guards and temple officials, he held her hand very naturally and accepted the wizards' visit.
Although the elder was a sacrificial god granted by Emperor Tianyun, he still had to kneel down when he saw the general who was famous in the Hongwu Continent.
This time I knelt down reluctantly because of that reckless young man.
"Get up!" Yelu Qingge waved his iron palm lightly, and the crowd of dark sacrificial wizards dared to get up.
The elder had a gloomy face, slowly pulled up the black hat to cover his face, and asked in a hoarse voice: "General, do you want to defend the blasphemous sinners?" He had never heard that Yelu Qingge was as good as Longyang, but
The current situation is clearly like this.
Yelu Qingge smiled lightly and said: "Elder, you are serious! She is just my favorite, and she has become arrogant because of my influence. Please, for my sake, please don't argue with her!"
Those who knew Mei Liangchen's true identity would naturally not be surprised. However, few people present knew that she was originally a pretty little girl. For a moment, even the accompanying guards showed expressions of surprise.
No matter how arrogant the elder was, he would not dare to be rude to Yelu Qingge, who was in a high position. He weighed the situation and said with no emotion or anger: "It all depends on the general!"