Chapter 2381 Sacrifice

Mr. Xiao and the three heroes of the Chao family, no matter how shocked others were, they happily sent posts to colleagues, family friends, relatives and friends. They sent out a batch of posts at noon and stopped by after get off work in the evening. I sent out some more, and naturally I was busy sending out invitations during the weekend.

Mr. Chao and Mrs. Chao also sent invitations to some old colleagues in their personal circle in addition to their family friends and family. Young Master Xiao and Miss Chao also sent invitations to their close friends. They sent the post.

Mr. Li Shao, Luo Shao, Wang Yuzhe and others were also surprised when they found out that Miss Chao Er was going to marry Mr. Xiao, and they called each other to ask if it was true that Brother Chao was real.

The beautiful young man answered the phone so much that he almost wanted to invite his friends to ask Xiaotuanzi to check their eyes, but none of his friends could see the difference between his second sister and Brother Xiao. It's a waste of all the years they spent together.

Mei’s brother was bombarded with phone calls, and Le Xiao’s classmates happily watched the excitement. However, extreme joy led to sadness. When Monday came, she was also bombarded with phone calls—Xuan Shao, Hua Shao, and others called her one after another, saying that her family The second sister didn't send them a message when she got married. It's so uninteresting.

Le Xiaololi was bombarded with phone calls and only had a look of embarrassment on her face. Finally, she discussed it with the beauty brother and silently bought the wedding invitation and gave it to Young Master Xuan in Beijing in her own name. Hua Shaoji, Zhou Shao, Jiang Shaoxin, Fifth Young Master Chen, and the Lu family’s young master sent a message inviting them to Sister Fu’s wedding banquet.

He also gave a note to each of Wu Shao, Ren Shao, Duan Shaofeng, Shao Tantai, and Bada Jingang, and sent them to their homes respectively. Whether they and their families would come or not was another matter, and they could not favor one over the other.

After Xuan Shao and others received the post, they finally let the little Loli go and stopped bombarding her with phone calls.

The Xiao family and the Chao family sent out all the invitations and happily waited for the National Day to arrive.

The families who received the invitations also made arrangements in advance as to who would represent them at the wedding banquet of the Chao family and the Xiao family. Needless to say, each family had powerful figures going to the paradise. If If there are wedding banquets held by other families, people of corresponding levels should attend.

Originally, several companies in your circle also planned to hold National Day banquets. Because the post from the Chao family and the Xiao family arrived more than a month in advance, those who could reschedule quietly changed the date to avoid having to deal with Chao Xiao. Family wedding banquet coincides with the sun.

After sending the invitation, Mr. Le stopped caring about other things and focused on teaching while preparing for the upcoming Hungry Ghost Festival.

The Ghost Festival is the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, also called the Ghost Festival.

The Hungry Ghost Festival in 2023 is August 30.

On the afternoon of the 29th, a classmate from Le Xiao taught Brother Meiren how to box for two bells. Then he went back to the east courtyard to clean the Langhuan Hall, using a vacuum cleaner to vacuum up the furniture and corners in the middle hall., then wiped the furniture and porcelain with satin, mopped the floor, and swept it clean.

Several ornaments were also changed. The vases on the long desk in front of the Taishi wall were also replaced by a pair of hanging gallbladder and suet jade vases, with a blue and red flower on the mouth of one bottle. Lotus, a golden amber sunflower with blue crystal as the calyx is placed on the mouth of the bottle.

In the evening, we moved a large stove and placed it in the yard facing the central hall. We put a large wide-mouthed pot on it and started a fire to boil the medicinal soup. We also prepared cold water and several large buckets of medicinal liquid.

When the night was quiet and the crowd was deep, Little Le’s classmate quietly took out the gems used as eyes of the dragon and phoenix in the caisson in the central hall, replaced them with another one, and also took out several accessories from all directions of the caisson. The inlaid floral ornaments were replaced with accessories with talismans engraved on them.

A pair of talons were also quietly replaced. The new pair of talons were exactly the same in shape and size as the original ones. Only the talisman hidden in the base was different. The previous talisman was the original one. version, the most advanced formation talismans are hidden inside the newly replaced Luduan base.

The eyes of the dragon and phoenix embossed on the center column have also been replaced. The newly replaced accessories in each place are made of special adhesive glue. They cannot be pulled out after being installed. If it is necessary to replace the talisman, The previous glue must be soaked with special potion before it can be removed again.

The talismans that were previously hidden in order to seal off the aura in the upper room of the east courtyard and prevent it from leaking out and affecting the surrounding aura were also taken out one by one. The new talismans were all used to form a large formation to protect the paradise. .

After replacing all the accessories that needed to be replaced, Mr. Le waited until three o'clock to heat up a pig's head, a whole chicken, a whole duck, and a leg of beef, alpaca, and animal leg meat in the kitchen.

When it is almost dawn, three Eight Immortals tables are placed in the passage under the steps of the central hall, and offerings are placed on them. The boxes with Chinese characters written on them are also placed on the table, and the auspicious clothes are put on. At the break of dawn, light incense and offer sacrifices.

The beautiful boy woke up early because Xiaotuanzi had told her that she would offer sacrifices on the morning of the Ghost Festival, and asked him and Leshan Luke not to get up early until she called out.

Let Brother Meiren and Leshan avoid it. No one was watching. Leyun worshiped the gods of heaven and earth according to ancient rituals. After completing the sacrificial ceremony, she opened the box and took out the scroll. She unfolded it, holding the wooden shaft of the scroll in her hand. The silk with national characters written on it is soaked in a large pot of medicinal soup and stewed.

Boil for a few minutes, take it out, let it dry, put it back in to cook, boil it for a few minutes, take it out to dry again, repeat this nine times, take out the scroll and pass it through several potions that you have prepared. Then cook in a large pot.

After boiling for a few minutes, take it out, dry it again, dry it and boil it again, repeat it nine times, then immerse it in cold potion and boil it again.

Repeated it three times, soaked it in cold potion, soaked it in boiling water again, applied a layer of ointment on both sides of the silk cloth, baked it on fire until it was half dry, and then threw it into the pot. Cook inside.

After waiting for a few minutes watching the fire, Le Yun closed the stove door halfway to let the fire weaken. She went back to collect the offerings and moved the sacrifices back to the kitchen. The table was wiped clean and moved back to the "Cangzhu Xuan" for collection.

He also put away the box containing the paintings, tidied up the place, and called the beautiful brother and younger brother to get up. Then he went to open the flower door and the main door, called Luke to get up, and went back to the kitchen to make breakfast.

Luke also got up early and practiced boxing in his room until the hostess called him, and he left the room to brush his teeth and wash his face.

When Leshan wakes up, he sits in his room and meditates in the morning. When his sister wakes him up, he brushes his teeth and washes his face, then goes to the backyard to practice Qing Kung Fu.

About half an hour after the little Loli opened the door, Brother Fu, Brother Qian, and Brother Jie came into the music center to report. The three brothers went straight to the cabinet to help the little Loli and do odd jobs. .

Because there was a sacrifice to be held during the Ghost Festival, Le Yun simply asked Brother Fu, Brother Jie, and Brother Qian to have breakfast together. They had chicken for breakfast, and also cut a large piece of camel animal face meat, served with a pickled cabbage and smoked meat. Fish, plus porridge.

After breakfast, classmate Le brought a leg of lamb and beef to Brother Fu, Brother Qian, Brother Jie, and carried them to the big kitchen so that they could eat in different ways.

Brother Fu, Brother Qian, and Brother Jie carried the medicated lamb and beef shank made by Little Loli. He was so happy that he returned to the big kitchen. He divided the meat into fresh-keeping food bags and stored it in the refrigerator to eat slowly.

The three brothers did not forget about the dogs. They brought the collected bones and meat from the little lolita to the dogs to the workshop building to give Heilong and Xueying Qingying extra meals.

It is not advisable to exercise strenuously just after eating. Le classmate carried a few plaques out of the east courtyard and hung plaques on several places in the south facing building of the outer courtyard.

The name of the large kitchen in the reverse house is "Wuwei Cabinet", which is only one word different from Wuweilou. It is unmistakable that it is the center of the kitchen.

The living room to the west of the guard room where Brother Fu lives is called "Jiahe Zhai". Immediately to the west from the east gate is a row of guard rooms. On the lintel of one of the middle rooms is a plaque with the name "Qinghe Hall" hanging on it. Plaque.

There are also signs hanging on the doors of the control room and copy room. The five-room independent house to the east of the east gate and against the south wall is named "Ningcuixuan". That house It was prepared by Le Xiaololi for her first knight. If Luke remained loyal, he would get married and have children in the future, allowing their family to live alone in one place and share the happiness of a family.

Mr. Le Xiao walked back to the east courtyard with his short legs, and carried a few more signs to the workshop. He hung a "studio" sign in the hall used for offices and the bathroom. Signs were put up, and a sign was hung on the door leading to the yard where livestock was kept, indicating that the yard on the other side was the "Liu Animal Yard."

There is also a monitoring room in the northeast corner, which also has plaques, a room for rice beaters and other machines, andThe utility room where farm equipment is stored and the large machinery spare room are all hung with plaques.

Plaques are hung everywhere, which means there are direction signs. If you want to find something or arrange a place for people to live, just tell them where to go and you will be able to find the place quickly.

After finishing the work of hanging the plaque, Le Xiaoluoli returned to the east courtyard, taught her younger brother how to learn swordsmanship in the courtyard, taught a clock of swordsmanship, and turned off the door of the stove where the scrolls were cooked.

After I finished teaching my younger brother the swordsmanship, the water in the pot stopped blooming because the stove door was closed. I took the scroll out of the pot, dipped it in the potion, drained the water, and spread it out evenly. Smoke with hot steam over the cauldron.

After smoking it with hot steam for more than ten minutes, and then baking it half dry with the heat of the stove, the little Loli hung the silk scroll in the middle of the wall of the Imperial Master in the middle hall.

When the scroll with the word "国" written on it was hung up, the nave became a little brighter invisibly, and there was an awe-inspiring righteousness lingering in the nave.

After hanging the scroll, Le Yun put on a stick of incense and walked towards the door.

The beautiful boy stood at the door with Leshan and Luke. He always felt that the atmosphere in the hall had changed, but he couldn't tell where it had changed.

When his little dumpling came out, the beautiful boy rubbed the back of her head: "Xiao dumpling, you are so busy cooking and drying the paintings. What's the secret?"
< br /> "I am doing moisture-proof, anti-fading and anti-fading treatment. The pot of medicinal soup I made is a special anti-fading medicine. No matter what kind of material the painting is made of, put it in the pot and cook it for two hours, as long as it does not smudge during cooking. It has not faded. Even if the painting gets damp, it will not fade or become moldy, and the canvas will not fade."

The beautiful boy came up with an idea and asked directly: "In that case, throw the clothes in and boil them. , it won’t fade?”

“Yes, as long as the cloth and paper can withstand high-temperature cooking and stew, it will not fade if it is not exposed to highly corrosive things like sulfuric acid after cooking. ."

Xiaotuanzi had countless fantastic ideas in her mind. The beautiful boy admired her and couldn't help teasing her: "Then throw our little dumplings in and cook them. Will Xiaotuanzi be the same? Will it always be this white?"

"Brother Chao, throw me in and cook, add some pepper and salt, and it's ready to serve."

The little dumplings were not cooked Confused, the beautiful young man touched her head and said: "Brother is reluctant to cook dumplings. Xiao dumplings, hurry up and get to work. After cleaning up, go to learn martial arts."

"Okay." Le Yun agreed with a smile and went to work quickly.