Chapter 17 Demons, ghosts and monsters, come together
The time of spring is just like the bamboo shoots in spring. A lot of them can slip away accidentally.
Five or six days passed without leaving any trace, just like a spring dream, which disappeared without trace.
On the seventh day after returning to the city from the Yin family's manor, drums and trumpets sounded outside the main entrance of the Yin family's mansion in the city, and the "Great Sacrifice Music" was played. The tune was majestic and dignified. In the words of some heretics who were executed by the whole family, it was
Extremely eerie and depressing.
The seventh-grade family, according to the law, used a large square tripod with three four-legged and two-eared pythons and dragon patterns outside the gate. The flames were blazing inside the tripod. The good powder and spices on the dustpan were poured into the square tripod by the servants as if they were free of charge, and burned.
Cigarettes rolled out and scattered in all directions.
A dustpan of incense powder and spices costs five hundred taels of silver. In Weinan County, there are only two or three families that can burn spices in this way.
According to the law, the spices burned by the Yin family also have a certain number.
The spices are collected from deep mountain snake grain agarwood, or Osawa wisteria frankincense wood. The growth period of the wood is 300 to 500 years. If the age is lower, it is not worthy of the status of a seventh-grade family, and the price will drop; if the age is higher, it will be more than 100 years old.
System and severe punishment.
The Law is so strict that there are detailed regulations on the weight of each dustpan of fragrant powder and spices, as well as the general shape of the particles.
The rolling cigarettes were scattered in all directions. It had drizzled again last night, and the morning breeze was still a little damp. The rolled cigarettes were scattered in all directions.
Most of the ancient city of Weinan, especially the Beicheng District where the Yin family's mansion is located, is enveloped in the fragrant aroma.
Early in the morning, before dawn, the servants of the Yin family washed the street in front of the door with clean water. After a night of spring rain, the bluestone street was clean and spotless, but the servants of the Yin family still followed the "Law" and carefully washed the street three times.
, the bluestone is so washed that it can reflect a human face.
The front door opened, and scarlet red wool felt, an inch and a half thick, was spread thirty-six feet from the front door into the house.
The red wool felt goes all the way through the main hall, through the nave, through the atrium garden, and directly to the temple between the atrium and the back courtyard.
Holy temple. All families and tribes in the world can only build a holy temple at the core of their family. They can worship at the four seasons and have incense, candles and fruits all year round. In this world, the holy temple symbolizes the righteous way of heaven and earth, and is the basis of all laws.
source.
The crowds of people are neatly arranged in a square of dozens of acres.
Purified water was sprinkled on the ground, cigarettes were billowing, and music was solemn. Everyone looked solemnly and looked at the people waiting in front of the steps of the temple without blinking.
The Yin Family Spring Hunting Festival has become a grand event in the two counties of Weinan and Weibei over the past hundred years. It is an act of fratricide between the same origin. It has been praised by countless people, and it has become the best channel for the wealthy families in the two counties to resolve their personal grudges.
Those who have blood enemies will assign young members of their clans to join the two Yin families in Weinan and Weibei, and engage in a bloody fight in Sijue Mountains.
Those with grievances identified one camp and placed huge bets on them under the notarization of the prefects of the two counties. The winner was clear with the heads rolling.
For the two Yin families in the north and south of the Wei River, the first ten spring hunting festivals even wiped out several ninth-grade families in the two counties and cut off their inheritance. There are also several eighth-grade and ninth-grade families who were originally just ordinary grudges, but because of their clan
The death of the talented young man completely ended the blood feud.
Things in the world are entangled with grudges and grudges. This is how it is.
The "Law" can govern all things in the world, but the hatred of the human heart cannot be reconciled or restrained.
Yin Xuuge looked at the familiar and unfamiliar people around him.
In addition to the one hundred descendants of the Yin family in Weinan and the ninety-eight descendants of the Yin family in Weibei, the eighteenth-rank and ninth-rank families in Weinan and Weibei sent their children under the age of eighteen to participate, ranging from as many as ten to as few as three to five.
Spring hunting.
Spring hunting. What you hunt is not wild animals, but humans.
In the crowd, hundreds of teenagers have dagger-like eyes and fierce murderous intent. They have identified their respective goals, and when they enter the Four Jue Mountains, they will decide the outcome and determine the fate of life and death.
Hua Qingxi, the prefect of Weibei County, stood solemnly in front of the crowd, wearing an official uniform identical to Lin Jingfeng's, with a serious face and looking at everyone sternly.
The two major Yin families in Weinan and Weibei are fighting each other. This is a major event between the two counties. Hua Qingsi came to Weinan County overnight yesterday to cheer for the Yin family in Weibei.
With him here, at least the Weibei Yin family will not encounter official resistance in Weinan City. The Weibei Yin family is a seventh-rank family in Weibei County. Just like the interest entanglement between the Weinan Yin family and Lin Jingfeng, the Weibei Yin family
There are also many ties between him and Hua Qingsi.
If he hadn't come, if Lin Jingfeng had done anything, he would have had his share of the losses to the Yin family in Weibei.
In addition to him, Yin Baji, the current head of the Yin family in Weibei, also gathered here with a large number of clan members, as well as representatives of many aristocratic families in Weibei County.
After practicing "The Art of Raging Flames", Yin Baji's body became as tall and powerful as a dragon and tiger, and his expression was extremely bad.
Seven days ago, more than a hundred members of the Yin family in Weibei arrived without warning, intending to catch the Yin family in Weinan off guard. They first killed and injured several young members of the Yin family in Weinan, giving the Yin family in Weinan a disincentive and boosting their own morale.
Yin Baji never dreamed that his foolproof plan would fail Yin Xue Singer.
Standing next to Hua Qingxi at this moment, Yin Baji's gaze was as sharp as a knife and as blazing as fire. He was patrolling among the crowd, looking for Yin Xuege, who had embarrassed him and greatly frustrated the morale of the Yin family in Weibei.
Yin Jiuyou stood next to Yin Baji, raising his head slightly and placing his hands behind his back.
In front of the temple, no one dared to smile, but everyone could see Yin Jiuyou's proud face.
The prefects of the two counties stood in front of the crowd and spoke some official words that were neither cold nor hot, neither salty nor bland, neither painful nor itchy. A bell rang in the Yin family's holy temple, and two three-foot-six-foot stone puppets slowed down.
He walked slowly to the door, slowly stretched out his hand, and carefully opened the main door of the temple.
Everyone straightened their expressions and helped each other carefully examine their clothes and appearance to make sure there were no flaws in their bodies. Then, according to their status, they entered the vast temple one after another.
The most important step of the Spring Hunting Festival must be performed in the holy temple.
The prefects of the two counties serve as witnesses, and the saints enshrined in the holy temple serve as secret witnesses. The wealthy families who intend to participate in the Spring Hunting Festival, whether they are sending their own clansmen to participate in the fight, or just betting on the wind, must explain the cause and effect of the matter in the holy temple.
Push down a corresponding chip.
The main hall of the holy temple is tall and magnificent, with excellent light.
In the middle of the main hall, the three most holy saints of ancient times are enshrined.
According to legend, in ancient times, demons roamed the world, ghosts and monsters mingled among the people, natural and man-made disasters were frequent, the world was shaken, and the people were in dire straits.
The Three Holy Saints were born. They killed demons, destroyed ghosts, eradicated all monsters and monsters, and proposed the supreme way of heaven that "human nature is inherently evil and should be restrained by laws." The three Holy Saints traveled to hundreds of millions of countries and dynasties in the world and formulated
The general outline of "Law" is considered to be the foundation of heaven, earth and human beings.
After the Three Holy Saints, there have been saints in the past generations in the ‘Holy Dharma Door’ established by them.
The ancient saints, based on the general outline of "Laws", deduced the way of heaven, respected heaven, law and earth, and governed people. They formulated and supplemented many "Laws" for everything in the world. Such as "Civil Laws", "Criminal Laws", and "Clan Laws"
”, “Law of Learning”, “Law of Scholars”, etc.
Between heaven and earth, the laws are gradually perfected, and all people live according to the laws. No one dares to go beyond the rules, and they will find peace, tranquility, and boundless pure happiness.
Therefore, people from all over the world built holy temples to worship the three sages and the 800 saints recognized by the sect over the years.
In the huge holy temple, 803 statues of saints carved from beautiful jade and decorated with gold, silver, ivory, rhinoceros horn, pearls, gems and other gorgeous objects stand majestically. Each statue is overflowing with brilliance, and immeasurable light is released from it.
.
In the world, only those from high-ranking families are qualified to build holy temples and enshrine images of saints.
From Yin Xuege's point of view, only a high-ranking family could have the financial and material resources to build a holy temple and statue of a saint like this.
Taking the Yin family alone, the Yin family has been rooted in Weinan County for tens of thousands of years. It took more than 12,000 years to complete the 803 saint statues in the temple alone. It became the center of Weinan and Weibei counties.
, the only two family temples with complete statues of saints.
The Yin family in Weibei is very powerful and is in tit-for-tat confrontation with the Yin family in Weinan.
However, every ten years for the Spring Hunting Festival, the descendants of the Yin family in Weibei must come to Weinan to worship at the holy temple and participate in the spring hunting at the Sijue Mountains selected by the Yin family in Weinan. The reason is very simple. Among the Yin family's holy temples in Weibei, there are only three major ones.
They simply do not have the financial resources to enshrine the Holy Icon and many other saints and icons.
How many saints and icons there are in a family's holy temple depends not only on your family's current strength and power, but also on the family's historical heritage and long-lasting foundation.
Ordinary wealthy families below the third rank, without spending tens of millions of years, who has the financial resources to worship 803 saint statues at one time?
Each saint statue is three tall figures of ordinary people. They stand, sit or lie down, read, or splash ink. They have different shapes and different expressions.
All saints and holy statues have strict specifications. Each saint and holy statue is made by a certain family who has enough money to worship, and then petitions the government. The country will apply to the Holy Saint Dharma Sect. After being carefully carved and completed by the Holy Sage Dharma Sect, a special person will be sent to deliver it.
Come to the holy temple to lay it down.
Those secular people who dare to privately make statues of saints and saints are the Yi tribe.
These holy statues, even if there is a slight mistake in the pattern of a hair, according to the "Holy Law", it will be the result of being copied and executed. Who dares to make it privately?
Although the cost of each holy statue is too expensive, with the holy statue enshrined in the holy temple, family members will feel more confident when going out to talk to people. Especially families with more saint statues in the holy temple,
The confidence becomes more abundant.
Just like Yin Jiuyou standing in front of Yin Baji, standing in his own holy temple, although Yin Jiuyou is slender and tall, he seems to be more than twice as tall and burly as the majestic dragon-like Yin Baji.
In front of the sacred, majestic and inviolable saint statues, in front of the 803 saint statues enshrined by the Yin family in Weinan, Yin Baji's tall and burly body subconsciously stooped down, and his voice subconsciously lowered several pitches when he spoke.
Yin Xuuge stood in the crowd, standing in the first row of all the children of the Weinan Yin family participating in the Spring Hunting Festival.
Following the two great eunuchs and two great masters in front, everyone knelt down, stood up, and paid homage to many saints with great salutes.
The musicians invited by Lin Jingfeng's house were enthusiastic and played the "Grand Ceremony Music", and the music was so intense that it reached the sky.
Following the strict obeisance etiquette that cannot tolerate any mistakes, after the obeisance to the three holy saints and the eight hundred saints was completed, the temple sacrificial ceremony that started early in the morning has now reached noon.
In full view of everyone, Yin Jiuyou and Yin Baji walked to the incense table at the feet of the three holy saints and took out the bets of the two Yin families this year.
The Yin family in Weibei took out two medicine mountains that were developed for 500 years. The medicinal materials produced by each medicine mountain every year, and the sales of raw materials alone have a profit of more than a thousand taels of gold. In addition, the Yin family in Weibei also took
With the right to operate water transportation on a small tributary of the Wei River, there are twenty shops in Weibei City.
For a seventh-grade family, this is already a big bargaining chip that affects their vitality.
What Yin Jiuyou took out was also an equal bet.
However, as the Weinan Yin family with a stronger foundation, Yin Jiuyou added 100,000 taels of gold in addition to various real estate properties, showing his strong confidence.
Yin Baji hesitated, and everyone could see a trace of embarrassment in his heart.
Although the Yin family in Weibei is also a seventh-grade family, they have only been in the family for a thousand years, so they can seize real estate and other things by force.
Only this real gold and silver requires long-term savings. Moreover, the Yin family in Weibei can have a military force comparable to that of the Yin family in Weinan within a thousand years. You can imagine the cultivation resources consumed by the clan members every year. That is all in exchange for real gold and silver.
Come.
One hundred thousand taels of gold is undoubtedly a huge sum of money.
The Weinan Yin family, which had accumulated tens of thousands of years of savings, lost one hundred thousand taels of gold, which was heartbreaking at most.
However, the Yin family in Weibei lost an additional 100,000 taels of gold, and maybe all their work in the next few years would be in vain.
The main hall of the holy temple was silent, and the prefects of the two counties remained motionless, their faces as sinking as water.
The heads of many aristocratic families are like statues of saints. They are also motionless.
After hesitating for three to five breaths, Yin Baji smiled "haha", slowly took out a storage leather bag, and carefully placed it on the incense table.
"The Yin family in Weibei has never been afraid of anyone."
Yin Baji's eyes became crazy and sinister, like a tiger about to eat people.
"The Yin family in Weinan. After all, the less you lose, the more you win."
Yin Jiuyou smiled gracefully. He looked at Yin Baji. In the past ten spring hunting festivals, the Weinan Yin family had six wins and four losses. Losing less and winning more gave him great confidence. Especially this year, Yin Jiu
You looked back at the members of your family who were participating in the competition.
Yin Xuuge raised his eyebrows, and his two thick eyebrows were raised like swords, about to be chopped off.
Yin Jiuyou didn't look at him. Instead, he looked at the young men behind him who Yin Xuuge had never seen before.
"The secret son of the Yin family in Weinan?"
Yin Xuuge's heart moved, and he subconsciously thought of Hebo Bobo, and subconsciously thought of the bet between himself and Hebo Bobo.
He even thought about what he and Yin Jiuyou said a few days ago. If the Hebo family wanted to do something with Hebo Bobo, then the Weinan Yin family would definitely do something with Hebo Bobo.
What could be more convenient than killing Hebo Bobo in the Four Jue Mountains?
No wonder there were seven or eight more young people from the Yin family who participated in the Spring Hunting Festival, whom Yin Xuege had never seen in his sect.
"The Heb family can produce a genius like Heb Bobo. The Yin family is still better than the Heb family. Is it possible that they don't have some secret tricks?"
While thinking about it, the heads of families from Weinan County and Weibei County came to the incense table one after another.
Weinan and Weibei are two counties too close to each other. Moreover, everyone depends on the Wei River for food.
Common people have a saying that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors; but for aristocratic families, if all their neighbors die and only their own family is left alone, this is the best thing in the world.
In the two counties of Weinan and Weibei, many aristocratic families work together in the same business. The members of each family, especially the young ones, are young and energetic, and often conflict with each other.
For countless years, big aristocratic families have been feuding with big wealthy families, and small aristocratic families also have enemies of similar status.
Families in Weinan and Weibei married each other, got married to each other, stabbed each other, and poisoned each other. Their grievances and grudges had been entangled for countless years, and even the saints could not figure out the messy clues.
It happened that a hundred years ago, the two Yin families organized such a joyous event as the Spring Hunting Festival, and the wealthy families of the two counties took the opportunity to resolve their personal grudges.
Everything was signed in front of the saint's statue. The saint was a secret witness, and two great prefects were witnesses. The "Law" was strict, but it did not stop people's joys, anger, sorrows and joys. As long as there is a legitimate excuse,
"The Law of Gratitude and Revenge" will protect all rightful revenge and revenge.
Dozens of family heads have made contract bets, accumulating astronomical amounts of wealth.
Every Spring Hunting Festival is a mass carnival. The strength of the two counties in Weinan and Weibei will increase and decrease with each other.
In the past hundred years, the Yin family in Weinan has won six times, and the strength of Weinan County has also been improved six times. The Yin family in Weibei has won four times, but lost six times, which has caused dissatisfaction among many aristocratic families in Weibei County.
This time, the Weibei Family's chips were very heavy, and it was obvious that they wanted to make a comeback.
Yin Xuege stroked the leather storage bag on her waist, her thick eyebrows dancing continuously.
In the holy temple, he did not dare to laugh out loud, so he could only use such actions to hide his feelings.
Because Hebobobo walked to the incense table behind many family heads.
He was holding a huge birdcage in his hand, with a jade-colored dragon and carp surrounded by water clouds. He was snoring in the birdcage, with bubbles spraying out of his nostrils.
Hebobobo was dressed in black attire, with a sword on his waist, and a square black jade pendant inlaid in his bun. He looked heroic and majestic.
With a glance, he found Yin Xuuge, who was standing in the first row of the Yin family's children. He pointed at Yin Xuuge and sneered silently.
Yin Xuuge took a few steps forward and strode to the incense table. He put his hand on the incense table and spoke in a very calm voice.
"Weinan, the Yin family, Yin Xuege, fight to the death with Hebo Bobo. With my life, I will fight this dragon and carp in a bet."
"If I die in Sijueling, I won't mention anything."
"If I come out alive, this dragon carp will be mine."
Many family heads in the holy temple looked sideways, and strong winds came, blowing all over Yin Xuege and Hebo's bulging body.
Their cultivation level is naturally obvious.
Yin Xuuge's acupoints all over his body were motionless, and his body probably had a little more than a tripod of strength.
Hebo Bobo has opened at least fifty acupoints and a maximum of fifty-eight acupoints, and the vitality in his body is above six tripods.
The strength of a serious qi practitioner and a warrior who has just successfully tempered his body cannot be compared.
The head of a small aristocratic family in Weibei immediately walked out of the crowd, took out a storage bag and placed it on the incense table.
"With three thousand taels of gold, I bet that Yin Xuege will definitely die. Old man, do you dare to accept the bet?"
He looked provocatively at the ugly-looking head of the Weinan County family in the crowd.
Both families run inns and restaurants, both make wine and vinegar, and both families sell wine and vinegar to the upper and lower reaches of the Wei River.
The fight between them has been going on for many, many years.
The crowd was roaring, and all the family heads in Weibei were excited. They raised their bets one after another and provoked their opponents.
The heads of the families in Weinan frowned and looked at Yin Jiuyou angrily.