Daqin: I was heard by Zulong at the beginning

Chapter 162 Su Chen's Inexplicable Heart Trembling
With an order, no one remembered the lieutenant's wine or the fortune teller's hexagrams, so they all threw it away and ate it. Su Chen also picked up a piece of sauced keel, picked the meat with chopsticks, and ate it.Only Fusu and the others eat like a fight, and the meal will not be over until the cups and plates are messed up.

It was already late at night after a meal, and the soldiers also ate sauce keel, elbows, etc. to support the wall.Su Chen stood outside the yard, and it will be the fifteenth day of August soon. Although the moon is not yet full, it is extraordinarily bright.I don’t know how the later generations arrange the Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. At this time, Daqin has no mooncakes to eat. It’s really lonely.

The fortune teller stood beside him and sighed leisurely, "The autumnal equinox is coming soon." There was a hint of sadness in his tone, as well as an inexplicable expectation and a sense of calculation.

Su Chen had just finished a big meal, and was still a little tired, so she didn't understand the truth in the fortune teller's tone, so she just replied, "Yes."

The fortune teller glanced sideways at Su Chen and said, "I'm talking about the Autumnal Equinox." He also deliberately emphasized the word "Autumnal Equinox".

Su Chen was puzzled, and casually said, "The autumnal equinox is good."

The fortune teller gave him a strange look, "Do you really think the autumnal equinox is good?"

Su Chen thought, I don't think the autumnal equinox is good, nor do I think the autumnal equinox is bad, do you have any opinions?

The fortune teller approached Su Chen, "You should know, right? The autumnal equinox is a festival for the moon."

Su Chen's heart trembled inexplicably, his hands trembled, and his legs were weak, "So?"

The fortune teller smiled, "I guess whether it's Fusu or the lieutenant soldier, they all like to make more food to worship the moon."

As soon as Su Chen fell, the fortune teller quickly helped him up. When he sacrificed to the moon, he sacrificed to the moon. Why should he eat something delicious?He felt that it was necessary to clarify with the fortune-teller and Fusu that the moon is noble and elegant, and cooking those greasy food is a defilement and a blasphemy to the moon god!

Thinking so, he also called Fusu and the others, and said so righteously, Fusu and the others remained silent for a while.

After being silent for a long time, Fusu hesitated and said, "So, what can we do to eat and sacrifice to the moon?"

Su Chen was silent, he was thinking, what did he do wrong to make them feel that they have to eat every festival?Create a holiday without a holiday—such as pre-celebrating, come and eat.

And why is this operation so familiar?

Su Chen didn't bother to think deeply, but faced with the deep anticipation in his eyes, he still relented, so let's make mooncakes if it doesn't work.

The next day the fortune teller went to the river again, and confirmed that the work could start tomorrow. Everyone was a little excited, and it was good if they could start work.Although the mountains are high and the emperor is far away here, you can do whatever you want, but being far away from your homeland makes you uncomfortable. Of course, the most important thing is that no matter how you clean up the camp, it is not as comfortable as your own house, isn't it?

Waiting quietly for the day, Su Chen went to see the refugees' fields and grow potatoes.The potatoes here are planted late, so the potato seedlings are still growing, and it will take about a month for the potatoes to form knots.After explaining the precautions to the refugees, he went to the camp to see his precious chickens, no, now they are precious chickens.

The chickens have already been spread out. There are two or three dwarf trees here, where they sleep at night, and the barren grass is where they lay their eggs.Since the hens started laying eggs, Su Chen and the others quickly developed a new game mode, looking for eggs in the grass nest, and never tired of it, even the mature and brave lieutenants joined in.

The soldiers often looked sideways. After all, they looked like they were bending over and smiling. They really didn't look like good people.

Although Fusu had made good preparations, when the sacrifice began the next day, he was still so heavy that he could not straighten his waist under the pressure of the heavy crown and clothes.Different from Su Chen's sacrifice, Fusu's sacrifice belongs to respecting the water god, and the grade standard of the prince's sacrifice is also different. The kneeling ceremony before the sacrifice is much heavier, which made Su Chen feel sorry for Fusu's knee more than once .

Fusu could bear it, and he kowtowed one head after another, knelt down, and finally arrived at the sacrificial altar.Long ago, a special person took a pot filled with holy water and handed it to the fortune-teller. Fusu knelt down in front of the stage, and the fortune-teller fell down slowly. Fusu soaked the holy water with his hands to wash his hands.

The water used for sacrificial rituals is very shallow, and the water that can be filled is about the amount of a wine bottle.So instead of washing your hands, it's more like just slapping your hands wet with holy water.

Su Chen also thought about why not fill a big basin with holy water, and soon he figured it out. Holy water must be very rare to reflect its preciousness. If a big basin is full of holy water, it is not holy water for washing hands. It's the bath water for washing your body.For sacrifices, no need.

After the Tang Dynasty, with the influence of Buddhism from Tianzhu, when later generations sprinkled holy water, they used wicker or other meaningful substitutes to dip a little holy water, and stood aside with willow branches to give water. This person swung his whole body up and down a few times to make sure that the holy water was evenly applied to his body, which was considered a complete wash.

Sometimes the great monks would sprinkle holy water on the people who came to listen to the lectures. The great monk stood aside, and the people stood in a pile, all lowering their noble heads, waiting for the great monk to sprinkle the holy water on their heads. Another demonstration of "enlightenment".In this way, the hearts of the people will be washed with holy water.

Su Chen lost his mind for a while, and then looked at the table. Fusu's hands had been washed, and the vulgarity and filth on his body was only cleaned up at this time, so that he could burn incense and communicate with the water god.

When the incense is lit and the smoke rises, the Water God receives the news that he is coming.Fusu began to say a long and not short congratulatory speech, which is called communicating with the water god.After the communication, lead all the people present to kneel down to worship the water god before sending the water god away.

In this way, the sacrificial process entered the second half, and everyone's expressions relaxed a little.Fusu expressed gratitude and sincere greetings to all the soldiers and refugees who participated in repairing the embankment with paid gratitude as the main idea.

In order to show his closeness to the people, he himself will move the soil as a traction.Su Chen felt that if it was Ying Zheng or Hu Hai, this step would be unnecessary.

At this time, Daqin was already extremely hierarchical. In their eyes, coolies themselves were something only slaves or low-level peasants would do. If they didn’t do it, they could maintain their image of a noble slave owner, but if they did it, it would make people feel nondescript.

But Fusu was originally a person who was willing to let go of his figure, so it was considered in line with his own personality.

After Fusu started construction, the deputy general led the soldiers to arrange in an orderly manner, transport materials, mix and glue, etc. As for the soil that Fusu moved, it is not important, it will be trampled by passing wheelbarrows and footprints in a short while nowhere to be seen.

As for Fusu, as soon as the sacrifice was over, he immediately got into the carriage and forbade anyone from entering, and told the carriage to drive back to the camp quickly. He really didn't miss the construction site.

(End of this chapter)