Chapter 1717

As a family member of the new disciple of Guanyin Hall and an observer of the ceremony, Mr. Lexiao was like a crowd throughout the whole process. When the most important part of the apprenticeship ceremony was over, he was invited to the ancestral hall of Guanyin Hall to observe the ceremony. , go happily.

The ancestral hall of Guanyin Hall is on the west side. Go out from the ninth main hall, then go out through the small west door of the eighth main hall. Walk along the corridor between the buildings and make several turns in total. After passing through several alleys and alleys, we arrived at the ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall is a large courtyard with two main rooms and two side rooms. The first main room after entering the road gate is the main ancestral hall, which worships the ancestors of Guanyin Hall.

The main hall is a five-room hall with no partitions in the middle. It is a full-passage style. In the center of the ancestral hall, there are tablets of the heads of past dynasties. Next to the east side of the tablets of the heads, there are statues made for the sect. There are tablets for the elders who have made significant contributions. To the west of the head are the tablets for the direct disciples, and on both sides are the tablets for the inner sect disciples and the Ji sect disciples.

The table where the tablets are placed in the Guanyin Hall ancestral hall is in the shape of steps, arranged in the direction of the highest level toward the ground according to the generation level. The tablets of the originator of Kaipai are almost at the same height as the beam.

If you are not familiar with the name of Guanyin Hall, you may think that it is a sect that believes in the Buddhist Guanyin Bodhisattva. In fact, it is not, it is an orthodox Taoist sect.

The sect began in the late Han Dynasty. The founder was a woman who believed in Taoism. According to legend, her nickname was Guanyin. She did not establish a sect during her lifetime, but only taught some disciples. , whose ideas and inheritance were inherited and carried forward by believers. Later, believers formed their own sect and regarded him as their ancestor.

The original name of Guanyin Hall was not Guanyin Hall. Later, in a certain imperial era, the ruler promoted Buddhism and suppressed Taoism, and the sect was suppressed, so the name was changed and the sect was named after the founder's nickname. Thus blurring the eyes of the world.

The Guanyin Hall has been passed down for more than a thousand years. The total number of disciples in the past dynasties is tens of thousands. The memorial tablets of so many people cannot be accommodated in one ancestral hall. In order to save space, it was around the middle and late period of the Zhao and Song dynasties. At the beginning, the direct disciples, outer disciples and registered disciples of each generation of disciples each built a memorial tablet, while the disciples who made special contributions had their own memorial tablets.

That is to say, all the direct disciples are engraved on one tablet, all the outer disciples are engraved on one tablet, and the named disciples are engraved on one tablet.

Also because of the methods that the descendants of Guanyin Hall were forced to come up with, a lot of space was saved, and one-third of the place in the ancestral hall is still empty.

On the desk, the tablets of the disciples of the Guanyin Hall are lined up like a forest, and they are so densely packed that it is enough to make people with trypophobia or timid people look creepy.

Li Zhang and the elders led the disciples into the ancestral hall. The disciples lined up from the courtyard to the entrance of the ancestral hall. The main door of the ancestral hall was large.Open, there is a magic desk inside.

The disciples carrying pigs, cattle, sheep and offerings placed the offerings on the table. Head Li and the elders took the direct disciples into the ancestral hall, burned incense, and offered sacrifices to the ancestors. In a certain year, I accepted someone as my disciple, and now I am taking my disciple back to the sect to worship the ancestor, and so on.

Leader Li and the elders first paid a grand tribute to the ancestors' tablets. Elder Yi placed the genealogy with the names of his disciples on the altar table for worship, and then asked Xiao Leshan to offer incense and salute.

After that, all the disciples of the sect bowed to their ancestors, and the ceremony ended.

After the sacrifice, a group of disciples collected the offerings and returned them to the kitchen of the main hall, and then carried other offerings to the bay to worship the Goddess of the Sea and the God of Earth.

Head Li and the elders led other disciples straight to Hulu Bay.

Mr. Quan, a classmate from Le Xiao, thought that she was a robot with no emotions. She walked with the disciples of Guanyin Hall and never said much. It was not that she was cold and cold, but that Mr. Yi once said that after the sacrifice ceremony was over, Beforehand, I need to be careful.

The more you say, the more likely you are to make mistakes. It is safest not to speak.

So, in order not to inadvertently violate taboos, Le Xiaoxiao made up her mind to be mute and did not say a word the whole time. When the disciples of Guanyin Hall said to please move, she followed her with high heels. Come on, she will stand wherever they ask her to stand.

Leader Li and others left the Guanyin Hall complex and met up with the disciples who had gone to carry the offerings. A group of people walked towards the bay without riding in cars.

The team’s speed was neither fast nor slow, and they arrived at the bay facing the sea in about half an hour.

While heading to the bay, several disciples from the Guanyin Hall rushed back after a long journey. Before entering the sect building complex, they dropped their luggage and caught up with the team.

The group of Guanyin Hall first worshiped the Goddess of Poseidon, and the headmaster and Mr. Yi made sacrifices. They made it clear that they had accepted a certain disciple and brought him to worship the Goddess, praying that the Goddess would protect his disciples on both land and water. The land is safe and free from the worries of floods.

After that, Leshan paid homage to the Goddess of Poseidon with a great ceremony, and then paid homage together with all the members of his clan.

After the ceremony is completed, go to the Temple of Wealth to worship the God of Wealth and the God of Earth.

The worship of the God of Wealth Temple also represents the end of all the rituals of the apprenticeship ceremony. What is left is just a link of identifying with the sect. That link is not a formal link in the apprenticeship ceremony, but is an internal rule of the sect. , therefore, also represents the successful completion of the apprenticeship ceremony.

In order to ensure that the ceremony is completed within an auspicious time, a certain amount of time is scheduled for each step. Therefore, after worshiping the God of Wealth and the God of Earth, it is only ten minutes before nine o'clock.

There is no sacrifice anymore, so the ceremony must be completed before nine o'clock.

The ceremony was completed at an auspicious time, and Li Zhang andThe elders were in a happy mood. When they walked out of the Temple of Wealth, the disciples of the Guanyin Temple changed their serious expressions and became lively in an instant.

The master’s nephew snatched away his good disciple. Mr. Yi floated to the little girl of the Le family. He couldn’t control his hand and poked the little girl’s head with his finger: “Little girl, you have such a hairstyle. , Tsk tsk, there are twelve rings in total. Are your hands tired when you comb your hair?"

Head Li and the disciples laughed as they watched Elder Yi messing with the little girl.

"I'm not tired. I can comb more. It's no problem to comb more than thirty rings." Le Yun put her hands in her big sleeves and answered solemnly.

When she was in an imperial palace in Dongchen, the embroiderers helped her comb her hair. The most brutal embroidery was when they tied sixty-six rings on top of each other on her head. , all surrounding her, so that if the height of her hair is also counted, she is more than 1.9 meters tall.

That kind of hairstyle has too many rings, and the density is so dense that it can drive someone with trypophobia to death.

It is said that that is not the limit. The embroiderer said that there was once an imperial concubine who was famous for her beautiful hair. She wore a bun with hundreds of rings and was extremely beautiful.

I don’t know how beautiful the hundred-ring bun is. Anyway, Le Xiao’s classmates don’t dare to care about it.

Mr. Yi laughed wildly, "Hey, hey, hey, hey," and poked at the little girl's phoenix hairpin headdress: "Little girl, do you think it's heavy when you wear so many things? What's the reason for this phoenix hairpin? It's quite beautiful."

"To answer the first question, it's not too heavy. The total weight of the headdress is about seven pounds and six taels. To answer the second question, Feng Chai is a Wen Jia shell." Le Yunrang He remained calm and didn't care about the old man's more and more aggressive movements in the head.

Wenjia is another name for tortoiseshell.

"No wonder, I always feel that it is different, so sparkling, it must be Lao Gu who understands." Mr. Yi studied the little girl's phoenix hairpin with great interest, but almost didn't pick it off to play with.

Le Yun rolled her eyes and ignored him. After a few seconds, she shouted to her younger brother, who was two people away and was being held by Head Li but looking at her: "Le Shan."

The little girl opened her mouth to shout for kindness, and the old man took back his big hands and rubbed his hands together: "Little girl, complaining is only a child's behavior. You are no longer a child."< br />
The disciples who watched Elder Yi trying to die were all overjoyed. Elder Yi knew that the little girl didn’t like having her head touched because of her size, and Elder Yi knowingly went to mess with her. They simply didn’t know what to say about him.

"You always call me little girl, it shows that I am still very young." Le Yun replied with a smile. She saw her younger brother reaching out to her, running forward quickly, and starting from the head of Li. He held his soft and cute little brother in his arms.

Leader Li originally wanted to take his junior brother back to the sect, but he watched the junior brother go through a series of apprenticeship ceremonies.Afterwards, his forehead was red and swollen, and he looked depressed, so when the younger brother opened his hands towards his sister, he quickly let the little girl take him away.

After taking over her younger brother, Le Yun didn’t care about anything else. She took out a handkerchief from her sleeve and wiped her younger brother’s forehead. Then she took out a medicine bottle as big as the size of a fingertip and applied some medicine on it. Red and swollen areas.

During the ceremony, he kowtowed more than a hundred times and moved from here to there. Even though Leshan had a higher IQ and better physical fitness than children of the same age, he was only three years old after all, and he was still dizzy.

He was sensible and was hugged by his senior brother. He worked hard to keep his spirits up. When he returned to his sister's fragrant arms, he no longer pretended to be strong and lay softly in her arms. He put his face into the crook of his sister's neck and shouted feebly: "Sister~"

"Leshan is awesome. He insisted on completing the ceremony. He is a strong little man, handsome and smart. Man, let your sister have a good time!" Holding her baby brother who was almost exhausted, Le Yun turned her head to her brother's face and kissed him twice.

I am also very glad that I have only chosen a master like Mr. Yi for my younger brother. If I had helped my younger brother choose several schools or families, my younger brother would have to go to become a master one by one, and he would have to kowtow.

Therefore, she decided that she would not find another master for her younger brother if it was not necessary, unless the younger brother liked it or wanted to learn someone else's kung fu.

Classmate Le Xiao, who felt sorry for her younger brother, held her younger brother with her left hand, reached into her left sleeve with her right hand and took out a glutinous rice and osmanthus cake wrapped in a handkerchief and oiled paper for her baby brother to eat.

The apprenticeship ceremony started after six o'clock and ended at nearly nine o'clock. It lasted for more than two minutes. The little food Leshan had eaten in the morning had long been digested, and his belly was full of hunger. La.

Smelling the familiar scent of sweet-scented osmanthus cake, Leshan perked up, raised his head, and took small bites of the cake as his sister fed him.

He ate very elegantly, and because his stomach was so hungry, he ate very quickly.

When the elders of Guanyin Hall and Head Li smelled the fragrance, and then saw little Leshan eating in his sister’s arms, they finally realized that Leshan was hungry!

They are adults, so it’s okay not to eat for a whole day. Little Leshan is still a baby. She didn’t have breakfast in the morning and worked hard for so long. How can she not be hungry?

They haven’t taken care of the baby for so long that they have forgotten how to take care of a child!

Mr. Yi: "..." He really didn't expect that his little disciple would be so hungry!