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, the drums and trumpets sounded outside the main entrance of the Yin family's mansion in the city. 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 It was terribly eerie and dull.
According to the law, the seventh-grade family uses a large square tripod with three mouths, four legs and two ears, python and dragon pattern outside the gate, and the inside of the tripod is blazing with flames. 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 billowing cigarettes were 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 agarwood, or Osawa wisteria frankincense. The wood has a growth period of 300 to 500 years. If the vintage is lower, it is not worthy of the status of a seventh-grade aristocratic family, and the price will drop; if the vintage is higher, it is over the limit and will be severely punished.
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 rained 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 streets were clean and spotless, but the servants of the Yin family still followed the "Law" and carefully washed the streets three times. The bluestones were washed so well that they could reflect people's faces.
The front door opened, and scarlet 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 temples, all families and tribes in the world, only a high-ranking family can build a holy temple at the core of the family, worship at all seasons, and have incense, candles, melons and fruits all year round. In this world, the holy temple symbolizes the righteous way of heaven and earth and is the source of all laws.
There are bustling crowds of people, neatly arranged in squares of dozens of acres.
Purified water was sprinkled on the ground, cigarettes were rolling, and the 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 Weinan and Weibei counties over the past century. The act of fratricide between brothers from the same origin has won praises from countless people, and has become the best channel for wealthy families in the two counties to resolve their personal grudges.
If there are blood enemies, the young men of the clan will be assigned to join the camps of the two Yin families in Weinan and Weibei, and fight in bloody battles 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 outcome was clear with 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 originally had ordinary grudges, but due to the death of a talented young man in the family, they completely became blood feuds.
Things in the world, entangled with grudges, are just like this.
The "Law" can govern all things in the world, but the hatred and resentment 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 children of the Yin family in Weinan and the ninety-eight members of the Yin family in Weibei, the eighteenth- and ninth-grade 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.
In spring hunting, what is hunted is not wild animals, but humans.
In the crowd, there were hundreds of teenagers with dagger-like eyes and fierce murderous intent. They had identified their respective goals. As soon as they entered the Four Jue Mountains, they would decide who would win and who would decide whether to live or die.
Hua Qingxi, the governor 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 Yin family in Weibei will not encounter official resistance in Weinan City. The Yin family in Weibei is a seventh-rank family in Weibei County. Just like the interests of the Yin family in Weinan and Lin Jingfeng, there are also many ties between the Yin family in Weibei and Hua Qingxi.
If he didn't come, if Lin Jingfeng did something, he would have his share of the losses to the Yin family in Weibei.
Apart from him, Yin Baji, the current head of the Weibei Yin family, also gathered here with a large number of clan members, as well as representatives of many aristocratic families in Weibei County.
After practicing the "Raging Flame Technique", 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 wounded 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 eyes were as sharp as a knife and as blazing as fire, and he was patrolling among the crowd, looking for Yin Xuuge, who had embarrassed him and greatly frustrated the morale of the Yin family in Weibei.
Yin Jiuyou stood beside 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 the joyful expression on Yin Jiuyou's face.
The prefects of the two counties stood in front of the crowd and spoke official language that was neither cold nor hot, neither salty nor bland, nor painful nor itchy. A bell rang in the Yin family's holy temple, and two three-foot-six-foot tall stone puppets slowly walked to the door, slowly stretched out their hands, and carefully pushed open the main door of the holy 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 were rampant in the world, ghosts and monsters mingled among the people, natural and man-made disasters were frequent, and the world was shaken and the people were in dire straits.
The three sages came out of nowhere to slay demons, destroy ghosts, eradicate all monsters, and put forward the supreme way of heaven that "human nature is inherently evil and should be restrained by law." The three sages traveled to hundreds of millions of kingdoms and dynasties in the world and formulated the general outline of the "Law", which was regarded as the foundation of the world and the people's hearts.
After the three sages, there have been saints in the past dynasties in the "supreme sect" established by them.
The ancient saints, based on the general outline of the "Law", deduced the way of heaven, respecting heaven, law, earth, and regulating 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” and so on.
Between heaven and earth, the laws are gradually perfected, and all people live according to the laws. No one dares to take a step beyond the rules, and they will find peace, peace, 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 to enshrine saints and icons.
In Yin Xuege's 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.
As far as the Yin family is concerned, 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 holy temple alone, and 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 children of the Yin family in Weibei must come to Weinan to worship at the holy temple and participate in the spring hunting in the Sijue Mountains selected by the Yin family in Weinan. The reason is extremely simple. There are only three holy statues in the Yin Family Holy Temple in Weibei. They simply don't have the financial resources to enshrine many other holy statues.
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 foundation.
Ordinary wealthy families below the third rank can worship 803 saint statues at once without spending tens of millions of years
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 it, and then petitions the government to apply to the Supreme Saint Dharma Sect. 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 only have a slight error 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 temple, the family members feel more confident when they go out to talk to people. Especially families with more saint statues in the temple will have more confidence.
Just like Yin Jiuyou standing in front of Yin Baji, standing in his own 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 of them, everyone knelt down and stood up to pay homage to many saints with great ceremony.
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 completion of the obeisance to the three holy saints and the eight hundred saints, 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 has two medicinal mountains that have been developed for 500 years. Each medicinal mountain produces medicinal materials every year. From the sale of raw materials alone, there is a profit of more than a thousand taels of gold. In addition, the Weibei Yin family also took out the water transportation management rights of a small tributary of the Wei River and 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 the 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 money 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. It is conceivable that the cultivation resources consumed by the clan members every year are all obtained in exchange for real money.
One hundred thousand taels of gold was undoubtedly a huge sum of money.
The Yin family in Weinan, which had accumulated tens of thousands of years of savings, lost one hundred thousand taels of gold, which was heartbreaking at best.
However, the Yin family in Weibei lost an additional one hundred thousand taels of gold, and maybe all their hard 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 were like statues of saints, equally motionless.
After hesitating for three to five breaths, Yin Baji smiled, slowly took out a storage 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.
"Weinan Yin family, after all, lose less and win more."
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 Jiuyou looked back at the members of his family who were competing.
Yin Xuuge raised his eyebrows, and his two thick eyebrows were raised like swords, about to be chopped off.
Yin Jiuyou did not look at him, but 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, and the Yin family is even better than the Heb family. Is it possible that there are some secret tricks?"
While they were thinking, one after another family heads from Weinan County and Weibei County came to the incense table.
Weinan and Weibei are two counties too close together, and everyone relies 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 were working together in the same business. The members of each family, especially the young ones, were young and energetic and often clashed 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 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.
All contracts were made 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 joy, anger, sorrow, and joy. As long as there is a legitimate excuse, the "Law of Grudges" will protect all legitimate pursuits of revenge.
Dozens of family heads have made contract bets, betting astronomical amounts of wealth.
Every spring hunting festival is a group carnival. The strength of the two counties in Weinan and Weibei has increased and decreased with each other.
In the past hundred years, the Weinan Yin family has won six times, and the strength of Weinan County has also been improved six times. The Yin family in Weibei won four times but lost six times. This 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 Xuuge 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.
"Weinan, Hebo's family, Hebo Bobo, fight, Weinan, Yin's family, Yin Xuege."
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 his voice was very calm.
"Weinan, the Yin family, Yin Xuege, fight Hebo Bobo to the death. With my life, I will fight this dragon and carp in a bet."
"If I die in Sijue Ridge, 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, strong winds came, blowing all over Yin Xuege and Hebo's bulging body.
Their cultivation level is naturally obvious.
Yin Xuuge's acupoints 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 the Six Cauldrons.
The strength of a serious qi practitioner and a warrior who has just successfully tempered his body is incomparable.
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 die. Old man, do you dare to accept the bet?"
He looked provocatively at the Weinan County family head with an ugly face in the crowd.
Both families ran inns and restaurants, both made wine and vinegar, and both families sold their wine and vinegar along the Wei River to the upper and lower reaches of the prefectures and counties.
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.
(End of chapter)