In my days as a farmer

So, why did things become like this...

Xia Dongli lit the incense seal with a stick of incense with a dull expression, then closed the lid of the incense burner, and slowly pushed it to the middle of the table.

The foreign young man directly opposite him was full of curiosity. He looked at the censer with the same eyes as every tourist when he saw exotic features, expecting and fearing, and a little eager to try.

Nezha and Mr. Judge sat beside him, and their attitudes were much calmer. Although they were also staring at the incense burner in front of him, there was a bit of... er, solemn treasure face?

Xia Dongli looked at the two of them as if they were two living people, but he somehow felt like seeing a Buddha statue in a temple.

He was about to gently insert the incense stick used to light the fire into the ashes beside him to extinguish it, when he turned his head and saw that Xun Ao, who was sitting next to him, also squinted his eyes, with an expression of anticipation and intoxication.

Xia Dongli was silent, and tried to sniff quietly.The incense has just been lit, and they are in a spacious outdoor environment, and he still hasn't smelled anything. Why do these people's attitudes have already been inhaled? Could it be that he has a wooden nose?

"Huh—" Just as Xia Dongli was about to take a few more breaths, he heard the sound of heavy breathing first. Hypnos was taking a deep breath, and then he exhaled slowly, with an expression on his face. Some inexplicable.

He glanced at the people who were obviously disturbed by him, and said apologetically: "Sorry, I was just trying to feel the incense of your Huaguo, but I can't seem to feel anything."

Of course you can’t feel it, it’s not incense in the first place, it’s just ordinary fireworks without the bonus of faith, I told you this before lighting the incense!

Xia Dongli put the incense stick back into the incense box, with ten thousand complaints in his heart.

The cause of the incident stemmed from Hypnos' curiosity about the incense of China.Due to climate and regional differences, there were very few woody spice plants in ancient Greece, and they were mainly influenced by the spice culture of ancient Egypt, which also led to the fact that the finished products of their incense culture were basically in liquid form such as essence and sesame oil. Extract-based.

Since no incense culture based on powder has been developed, naturally there is no incense stick.In ancient Greek sacrificial ceremonies, everyone sprinkled perfume soaked with flower petals and essential oils in the surrounding environment to express the expulsion of unclean things, and then slaughtered a livestock, and then there were girls and children presenting singing and dancing performances and the like.

"We don't have such a ceremony in China to burn incense to communicate with God." Hypnos touched his chin after listening to Mr. Judge's introduction to the culture of incense burning in China, "It may be that the culture is different, our gods are in charge The sky, the sea, and the ground are three, and the postures of the priests are different when offering sacrifices to gods in different fields. For example, offering sacrifices to Zeus means facing the sky, and offering sacrifices to Lord Hades means touching the earth. So, if according to your It is said that if all the smoke is floating towards the sky, then it is impossible to sacrifice to God Poseidon and Lord Hades."

As he said that, he asked the judge very curiously: "My friends, you are also living underground, so how do you enjoy this kind of smoke that is only provided to the sky?"

Judge Cui, the second-in-command in the underworld, put down his teacup upon hearing this. He looked at this foreign friend with a very calm expression, even with some indifference. He slowly opened his lips: "We have gods and movable statues."

I don't know if it's an illusion, but when he said the word "movable", he added the accent.

Xia Dongli, who knew something inside, couldn't help holding the cup to his lips.Indeed, the existence of mobility and gods is really important, especially in a country like Hua with many gods.

As soon as the gods are released and the statues are released, the incense can be delivered directly to the other party. Even if the beliefs of each family are different, there will be no mistake. This greatly facilitates the spread of religion and belief.

However, ancient Greece was a little different. There were so many gods in Greece, so many that there were so many gods worshiped every day that it would not last a year.

And the Greek gods are very "envious". You can sacrifice more, but you can't miss anyone, otherwise you will be put on little shoes.Therefore, the ancient Greeks responded by offering sacrifices to the gods and their subordinate gods in units of city-states.

For example, the city of Athens mainly worships the goddess Athena, and the main god of Delphi is Apollo.At that time, there was no freedom of belief, and one had to believe in this god wherever one was born.

People in Athens, if you believe in other gods, it is heresy, and secretly worshiping other gods at home will lead to disasters.

So strictly speaking, the sacrifices accepted by the Greek gods are based on the city. If they want to eat more sacrifices, the gods must either go to the mortal world to grab territory, or build their own city-states.

This led to all kinds of hostility and confrontation among the gods in the Greek pantheon, and there was a huge gap between the rich and the poor among the gods.

In comparison, Huaguo's world of gods is much more harmonious and free, and the right to belief is still in the hands of believers.

"It's so amazing?" Hypnos was a little surprised when he heard this, "Then what if the name of the god is the same?"

"Our gods are written with titles and titles. There have been special organizations in the Hua Kingdom to manage this. It is impossible to have the same name." Judge Cui said calmly.

Then the two sides had some exchanges on the official institutions in history. Xia Dongli listened with great interest and wanted to take notes.These bigwigs have lived for a long time, and every sentence is a secret of personal experience, which is very capable of satisfying the desire of human beings to gossip.

Because of the gossip, when Hypnos turned the topic back and said that he wanted to try the offerings from the Chinese people, he couldn't refuse.

"I'm just offering incense here, not incense for worship." Xia Dongli struggled hard, but Hypnos waved his hand to indicate that it didn't matter at all, he was just trying to play anyway.

The guests said so, Xia Dongli naturally had to move out of his small incense burner.After opening the things, Hypnos pointed to the incense seal and asked what it was.After Xia Dongli explained a few fragrances to others, Hypnos showed great enthusiasm for Xiangzhuan, and strongly demanded to replace it with Xiangzhuan, because he had never seen the craft of Xiangzhuan.

As a result, the incident of lighting incense seals to worship the gods face to face, which made people feel outrageous, happened at the strong request of the person concerned.

Judge Cui slightly opened his eyes, glanced at Hypnos who was obviously a bit disappointed, turned his hand and took out a wooden board, and handed it to Hypnos to sign him for a divine seal.

Hypnos' eyes lit up, and he took it immediately: "Oh! Is this the magical throne of your Hua Kingdom?"

As soon as his hand touched the wooden board, the originally shiny black board peeled off inch by inch, as if an invisible craftsman was carving this piece of wood, but within a few breaths, a pattern appeared on the wooden board.

Hypnos, as a person who faced this scene directly, watched the rapid prototyping with his own eyes, and the smile on his face did not change at all. He gently placed the wooden board on the table.After getting permission, Xia Dongli leaned over to take a look, and was a little surprised.

Unlike Huaguo's tablet, which is only written in Chinese characters, Hypnos' tablet is a single-sided sculpture with a standing figure of a tall male in a cloak.The man lowered his head, and Xia Dongli could only see the corners of his lips slightly raised.

But following the movement of his body, Xia Dongli found that there was another person on the wood carving, but that person was obviously a supporting role.At this moment, he was lying on the bed, his eyes were gently covered by Hypnos' hand, and he was obviously falling into a peaceful sleep.

This picture is full of expressive power. Even if you don't know Hypnos's godhead, you can see two or three things from this carving.

Xia Dongli couldn't help admiring. Hypnos was obviously very satisfied with his image. With a little finger, he stood up the tablet and put it on the table. At this moment, the smoke from the incense burner was already rising. I saw with my own eyes that the slowly rising smoke floated into the air and suddenly divided into five strands, floating towards the five people on the table.

etc!Why do I still have my share? !

Xia Dongli was startled. Before he could open his mind, he heard Mr. Judge say: "Sit down, it's also good for your human body."

What are the benefits?

Xia Dongli expressed his vigilance. A's honey, B's poison, if you don't make it clear, you really can't take what the gods give, otherwise Tang Seng will be a lesson from the past.

"It's also calming and calming for you." Nezha immediately knew what he was thinking when he saw his expression, so he urged impatiently before Judge Cui could speak, "Just eat ,fine."

As soon as Nezha, an upright boy, opened his mouth, Xia Dongli sat down with peace of mind and enjoyed the fireworks he lit... Although these words are really strange.

He felt it, and felt it again... It seemed that he didn't feel anything.The only feeling is that the Jiangzhenxiang I ordered this time has a strong smell, but to be honest, it is not as good as the last time I ordered it.

He took a few more puffs, then looked at Hypnos's face with a bit of intoxication this time, and then looked at Xun Yao... Uh, Xun Yao just closed his eyes and looked in sedation, without any expression.

I don't know if he was infected by his calmness, Xia Dongli also closed his eyes, and when he closed his eyes, he felt his body getting softer and lighter, like a dandelion floating in mid-air, a gust of wind can was taken away.

I don't know how long it took, but just when he was a little intoxicated, he suddenly heard a righteous shout: "What are you doing!"

Xia Dongli felt as if he was pulled from the clouds to the ground all of a sudden. When he opened his eyes and looked over, there was still a little daze and inexplicable in his eyes, and the focus of his sight was a little blurred.

Before Xia Dongli could react, he saw the person on the opposite side rushing towards him, picked up the incense burner and shook it vigorously. The incense seal in the incense burner itself was powder on the incense ash, so it was natural for him to shake it like this. was shaken apart.

After making sure that the incense burner was no longer smoking, the young man threw the incense burner aside and pulled Xia Dongli back.Seeing that the young man's expression was still a bit dazed, the young man clicked his tongue, raised his hand and splashed the undisturbed vegetable washing water in Xia Dongli's yard on his face, and he splashed the rest of the water on the same face. Xiao Ying who reacted.

"Ah!" Xia Dongli exclaimed. He wiped his face and threw off a few vegetable leaves. Assistant, what's wrong with you?"

Assistant Xiao Li took two steps back, and while pressing his cell phone, he guarded the courtyard gate of Xia Dongli's house. He skillfully put the bolt on the door of Xia Dongli's house, and then made a gesture of swearing to die His posture was even resolute and desolate, "Xiao Xia, stand there and don't move, don't talk to me yet!"

what! ?

Xia Dongli, who was inexplicably splashed with water and silenced, was even more inexplicable.

Then, he heard Xiao Li's assistant yelling into the phone: "Small earth slope brick house, send someone here! There are villagers here who are suspected of gathering people to take earth drugs! Bring drug detection dogs!"

Xia Dongli: Wait! ? !