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Chapter 321 Hehe 11 ┃ God statue.
"Sister Cen, if the cat and tiger god, one of the eight waxes, appeared last night with that cat cry, why is the granary still empty?" Ke Xun really couldn't understand the truth.
Yue Cen was also lost in thought for a while: "I always feel that this empty Eight Wax Temple seems to be waiting for us to invite the eight gods back... As for the cat and tiger god last night, where did he go after he appeared on the shadow puppet stage? Is it?"
The gods come and go without a trace, but the temple is also empty. There is no reason. At least there should be statues of gods enshrined in the temple, whether they are golden or mud statues, the people must always be able to see what they enshrine. God statue.
"Even if we invite the gods back, do we have to worship to show the spirits?" Ke Xun leaned forward to the entrance of the temple. "The incense in the temple, as well as fire folds, etc., are used to worship gods ?"
"Xiang? Huozhezi?" Yue Cen hadn't noticed this at all in the temple just now.
"Just under the altar for sacrifice, there are these items." Ke Xun was affirmative, "There is also a pan for sacrifice in the corner."
Yue Cen admired Ke Xun's observation ability unconsciously. At first, he thought he was just an ample and helpful young man, but he was as careful as he did.
"Xiao Ke, you just said that there are pans for sacrifices?"
"Yes, there is such a high pile," Ke Xun said, returning to the temple and looking at it before coming out and saying, "I counted forty pans. Forty, what would you say? ?"
"Eight gods, forty panzhan, that is to say, on average, each god needs five panzhan tributes to sacrifice." Yue Cen settled the calculations. "It seems that we need to find five tributes."
When it comes to the word tribute, Ke Xun can't avoid thinking of the tributes in "Faith" that are difficult to describe. Now these tributes are divided into categories: "That, Sister Cen, generally speaking...what are the tributes? Cows and sheep?"
"I don't think it is." Yue Cen said negatively, "There are different opinions on the time of the Bawa sacrifice, some say it is the October sacrifice in the lunar calendar, and some say it is the twelfth lunar month. There is no clear record in the history books about the specific tribute of the Bawa sacrifice. However, during the Yin and Shang dynasties, the wax festival was called the "Qing Sa", and the Yan Emperor Shennong was in charge of farming. I always think these tributes should be mainly crops."
This statement is very reasonable. Ke Xun looked at the green farmland in the distance: "If it is five crops, will it be ‘five grains’?"
Yue Cen took a different look at Ke Xun again: "In ancient times, there was a saying of "Shen Nong Chuan Wu Gu". I think it is very likely that the sacrifice will be "Wu Gu"!"
"Then let's go look for grains first?" Ke Xun thought about it, "But, what is the use of those moss hints?"
"Well, let's go to the field now. In addition to looking for grains, we must also pay attention to the moss. Looking for it while walking?" Yue Cen had no better way.
This seems to be the only way at present.
Ke Xun pushed Yue Cen towards the field far away. There was a small piece of wood between the ancient temple and the field. The two of them walked into the woods and found that the woods were densely shaded and shady.
The woods have the sounds of birds and insects, and there is a gust of wind, leaves and treetops ringing like wind.
You can see moss everywhere here.
There are green moss on the rocks under the trees, emerald green moss on the wet ground under the feet, and dark green moss on the trunks of the trees.
Perhaps it was because Yue Cen's calf had similar moss. At this time, the two of them saw the moss everywhere in the woods, and they were a little unexplainable.
"There are too many moss here. If the moss is a clue, then there are clues everywhere in this forest." Ke Xun pushed Yue Cen forward slowly. The wet moss under his feet was slippery. slip.
Yue Cen secretly touched his still unconscious calf, resisting the inner discomfort, and scraped some moss on the ankle with his hand.
"Xiao Ke, I think my moss resembles the moss on the trunk, at least the color is the same." Yue Cen said.
Speaking of the changes in Yue Cen's legs, Ke Xun felt very uncomfortable and didn't know how to comfort her, but now it seems that this person does not need the comfort of others at all. She can digest and handle these things properly.
"Sister Cen, you mean, the moss we are looking for comes from the trunk? The clue is also on the trunk?"
"I think it is," Yue Cen looked up at the trees. "You can see light above the trees, so there is no moss. What we need to find is the lower half of these trees, which are shrouded in thick shade."
Ke Xun looked at this small piece of wood: "Fortunately, this piece of wood is not too big. Although it is very dense, there are only more than 100 trees. We can completely observe every tree. And the moss is distributed in the trees. In the lower part, there is no need to climb trees or anything, we just need to observe what is unusual about these trees."
"It's a waste of time for you to push me," Yue Cen observes the forest, which belongs to a horizontal forest belt, and the vertical distance is not long. "Let's go to the border of the forest and farmland, not far in front. You Looking in the woods, I looked at the fields. I think there are still huts over there, and there must be wells too. Maybe it might be related to the god of the'post table nawate'."
"Yes, then let's split up. You can do what you can. In some places, wait until I come." Ke Xun said.
"Don't worry." Yue Cen's voice is still very steady, "You too, do what you can."
Although it is the first time that the other party has entered the painting, Ke Xun has only just met each other for only one or two hours, but he always feels like an old friend who has been working with him for many years.
As a result, the two moved separately. Yue Cen shook the wheel of the wheelchair and came to the field, while Ke Xun observed every tree covered with moss in the dense forest.
When Ke Xun was running and searching in the dense forest, he suddenly remembered the painting "Restart" that he had just experienced. He was exhausted looking for the kapok tree in the forest...
In the end, Ke Xun found a tree that was not very impressive. The trunk of this tree was also covered with dark green moss, but within the moss, there was a huge tree hole one person high. The tree hole seemed What is standing upright is also covered with moss.
At first glance, it looks like a small tree is hidden in the sky.
Ke Xun lightly touched the "little tree" covered with moss. It had a familiar texture, the same as Yue Cen's calf, it was a stone.
Ke Xun scraped off part of the moss on the stone, revealing the original appearance of the stone sculpture. It was actually a pair of half-human stone wings, not bird wings, but a pair of insect wings similar to cicada wings.
Ke Xun did not continue to act rashly, thinking that this discovery should be shared with Yue Cen first.
The location of this tree is easy to remember, but Ke Xun still made some marks before running towards the field.
Yue Cen had reached the side of the ridge in the field in his wheelchair, and beckoned Ke Xun vigorously.
Ke Xun didn't expect that Yue Cen had already "walked" so many times with the help of a wheelchair. He passed the thatched hut and the well and didn't forget to take a closer look, but he didn't find anything special.
"Xiao Ke, I found a phenomenon," Yue Cen said of his discovery for the first time. "The huts and wells in these farmlands are arranged regularly, to be precise, they are arranged at a fixed distance."
"Are there any particulars about these arrangements?" Ke Xun really didn't notice this.
"Before we mentioned the supervisors of Yumianawate. In addition to supervising farming, they are responsible for measuring and dividing farmland. I think these huts and wells should be signs of measuring and dividing farmland." Yue Cen said.
Ke Xun felt a little excited: "Then is it possible for us to find the God of Postmanawate in one of the huts or a well?"
"I think that this farmland must have a center, and we should be able to find this center based on the measured signs." Yue Cen said his thoughts.
The center, based on the measurement of the center of this farmland, it is very possible to find something.
"Okay, then we can just look for this center while looking for grains." Ke Xun said and saw the wheat ears in Yue Cen's hands. The farmland they were in was a field of wheat, and the wheat had just been extracted. Turquoise wheat ears.
Yue Cen said: "Mai is one of the five grains, we have already found the same thing," he said and looked at Ke Xun again, "Xiao Ke, did you find anything in a hurry?"
"Yes..." Ke Xun patronized the analysis of the mailing list, and hurriedly said the findings in the tree hole.
"A pair of insect wings?" Yue Cen asked.
"Yes, it's the kind of wings that you know. Is it an insect god?" Ke Xun scratched his head and said his own inference, "Anyway, it's the kind of insect wings with texture, but it's a stone. Look There is no color, I think it should belong to Lepidoptera or something."
"Lepidopteran insects are represented by butterflies or moths," Yue Cen had already shaken the wheelchair device to see what happened. "If it's the kind of cicada wings, it should belong to the order Hemiptera."
Ke Xun didn't expect that insects are so particular about: "Sister Cen, what are you studying? How come you know so much? These are all biological knowledge, right?"
Yue Cen: "This... should be the biological knowledge of middle school."
Ke Xun: "Oh, ah..."
The two have walked into the woods again, Yue Cen continued to ask: "I suspect that the pair of wings you saw may belong to Orthoptera."
"Does the insect god have a special appearance? What orthoptera belong to?"
"Yes, the insect god is the locust god."
"God of locust? Is it a locust?" Ke Xun was surprised that he had guessed ‘locust’ from the word ‘locust god’ all at once.
"Yes, it's the locusts." Yue Cen's expression gradually became serious. "For farmers, locust plagues are no less than floods and droughts. The damage to crops is fatal. That's why the migratory locusts cover the sky and become colorless. "Ye Lao Tanaka weeping and blood' said. The government and the people were helpless in the face of the locust plague. They simply respected him as the "King of Insects" and included him in the eight wax gods, offering religious sacrifices for peace."
Hearing this, Ke Xun felt uncomfortable: "It is the nature of locusts to eat crops, and asking for it is like asking mosquitoes not to suck their own blood. How can it work!"
Yue Cen: "So, in the Qing Dynasty, some places changed the locust temple to the'General Liu Meng's Temple.' This General Liu Meng was a locust control hero in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty."
Ke Xun listened very seriously: "According to this, one of the eight wax gods should be General Liu Meng."
Yue Cen: "This is something in the Qing Dynasty. What we are looking for should be the more primitive Eight Wax Gods. The "Song of Jiao Miao" on the stone tablet belonged to the Tang Dynasty. There was no General Liu Meng at that time."
When the two said this, they already came to the tree with the huge tree hole.
There is still a stone statue covered with moss standing in the tree hole. The moss on the huge worm wings has been wiped clean by Ke Xun just now. The ancient stone carving texture is actually magnificent and majestic in this old forest tree.
Yue Cen looked at the stone statue with his back facing the two, and said nothing.
Ke Xun stepped into the tree hole with one foot and turned the stone statue around. The front was still covered with green moss.
Yue Cen stood up with his wheelchair and wiped the face of the stone statue with his cloth towel. The exposed features were impressive and not irritable.
This is a tall stone statue of a person. It is carved of a man in armor with a pair of huge locust wings on the back. It looks like a large cloak of prestige hunting from the front.
Yue Cen: "This should be the idol of the locust god. We have to find a way to send the idol back to the ancient temple of Bawa, so that the insect god can return to his place."
Ke Xun looked at the locust god and was silent for a moment.
Yue Cen thought for a while, and said to Ke Xun: "It doesn't matter whether the people worship locusts or not. The sacrifice itself is actually a simple hope and hope. The people want nothing more than insects and no disasters, and a good harvest. A healthy family."
Ke Xun turned his head and pointed to a field far away: "Hemp is planted there. I saw it when I was passing by. I couldn't tell whether it was ramie or flax. There were a few large bundles of hemp on the edge of the field. I’ll get the rope, we can use the hemp rope to send the idol back."
Yue Cen looked at Ke Xun and seemed to understand now, why this young man was able to pass through so many dangerous levels, and he still stands here calmly.