Chapter 2388 Sacrifice
No matter how shocked others were, Mr. Xiao and the three young men of the Chao family happily sent messages to their colleagues, family friends, relatives and friends. They sent out a batch of messages at noon, and sent some more in the evening after get off work. Naturally, they were busy sending invitations on weekends. post.
Mr. Chao and Mrs. Chao also sent invitations to some old colleagues in their personal circles in addition to family friends and family. Young Master Xiao and Miss Chao also sent invitations to their close friends.
Young Master Li, Young Master Luo, Young Master Wang Yuzhe and others were also surprised when they found out that Miss Chao Er was going to marry Young Master Xiao, and they called each other to ask if Brother Chao was true.
The handsome young man answered the phone so fast that he almost wanted to invite his friends to ask Xiaotuanzi to look at their eyes. None of his friends could see the difference between his second sister and Brother Xiao. It was a waste of time for them to get along with each other for so many years.
Mei's brother was bombarded with phone calls, and Le Xiao's classmates happily watched the excitement. However, when Monday came, she was also bombarded with phone calls - Xuan Shao, Hua Shao and others called one after another, saying that her second sister did not give them any money when she got married. This post is so uninteresting.
Le Xiaololi was so bombarded with phone calls that she only had a look of embarrassment on her face. Finally, she discussed it with her beauty brother and silently went to buy wedding invitations and give them to Xuan Shaohua, Shaoji Shao, Zhou Shaojiang Shaoxin and Wu Shao in Beijing in her own name. Young Master Chen and Young Master of the Lu family sent a post inviting them to attend Sister Fu’s wedding banquet.
I also gave a note to each of Wu Shao, Ren Shao, Duan Shaofeng, Tan Tai, and Bada Jingang, and sent them to their homes respectively. Whether they and their families would come or not was another matter. We 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 on who would represent them at the wedding banquet of the Chao family and the Xiao family.
Anyway, it goes without saying that the most powerful people from each family go to the paradise. If there is a wedding banquet for other families, people of the corresponding level will attend.
Originally, several people in your circle had planned to hold a National Day banquet, but because the Chao family and the Xiao family's post arrived more than a month in advance, Qing Mimi changed the date to avoid having to coincide with the Chao and Xiao family's wedding banquet.
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 falls on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, also known as the Ghost Festival.
The Hungry Ghost Festival in 2023 is on August 30.
On the afternoon of the 29th, classmate Le Xiao taught Brother Meiren how to do boxing for two seconds. Then he went back to the east courtyard to clean the Langhuan Hall. He used a vacuum cleaner to vacuum the furniture and corners of the central hall, and then wiped the furniture and porcelain with silk and satin. Mop the floor and clean it.
Several ornaments were also changed. The vases on the long table in front of the Grand Master's wall were also replaced with a pair of hanging gallbladder suet jade vases. A blue and red lotus flower was placed on the mouth of one bottle, and an inlaid lotus flower was placed on the mouth of the other bottle. The blue crystal is the calyx of a golden amber sunflower.
In the evening, I moved a large stove and placed it in the yard facing the central hall, put a large wide-mouthed pot on it, lit a fire to boil the medicinal soup, and prepared cold water and several large buckets of medicinal liquid.
When the night was quiet and the crowd was deep, Mr. Le Xiao quietly took out the gems used as eyes of dragons and phoenixes in the caisson in the nave and replaced them with new ones. He also took out a few floral ornaments inlaid on accessories from all directions of the caisson and replaced them with those with hidden talismans. Accessories.
They also quietly replaced a pair of talons. The new pair of talons are exactly the same in shape and size as the original ones. Only the talismans hidden in the base are different. The previous talismans were the original version. The inside of the new talisman base is the same. Hidden is the most advanced formation talisman.
The eyes of the dragon and phoenix embossed on the central column have also been replaced. The newly replaced parts in each place are made with special glue. Once installed, they cannot be pulled out. If it is necessary to replace the talisman, the previous glue must be soaked with special potion. Only then can it be taken down again.
The talismans that had been hidden in the past to seal off the aura in the upper room of the east courtyard were also taken out one by one. The newly replaced talismans were all used to form a large array to protect the paradise.
After replacing all the accessories that needed to be replaced, Mr. Le waited until three o'clock to heat up pig heads, whole chickens and ducks in the kitchen, and also heated up a leg of beef and alpaca leg meat.
When dawn is about to break, 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 auspicious clothes are put on, and incense is burned at dawn to offer sacrifices.
The beautiful boy had woken up early because Xiao Tuanzi 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 the beautiful brother and Leshan avoid it, no one is watching, Leyun worships the gods of heaven and earth according to ancient rituals, completes the sacrificial ceremony, opens the box, takes out the scroll, unfolds it, holds the wooden shaft of the scroll, and puts the silk with the Chinese characters written on it into the cauldron. Soak in medicinal soup and stew.
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, run it through several prepared potions, and then boil it in a large pot.
After boiling for a few minutes, take it out, dry it again, dry it and boil it again, repeat this nine times, then immerse it in cold potion and boil it again.
Repeat three times, soak the cold potion, then soak it in boiling water, apply a layer of ointment on both sides of the silk cloth, bake it on fire until it is semi-dry, and then throw it into a pot to cook.
After watching the fire and waiting for a few minutes, Le Yun closed the stove door halfway to let the fire weaken a little, then went back to collect the offerings, moved the sacrifices back to the kitchen, wiped the table and moved it back to the "Cangzhu Xuan" for collection.
The box containing the paintings was also put away, the place was tidied up, and the beauty's brother and younger brother were called to get up. Then they opened 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 then 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 theater to report. The three brothers went straight to the kitchen 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 and Brother Qian to have breakfast together. They had chicken for breakfast, and cut a large piece of camel face meat, served with a pickled cabbage, smoked fish, and clear porridge.
After breakfast, classmate Le took a leg of lamb and beef to Brother Fu, Brother Qian, Brother Jie, and took 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. They were so happy that they returned to the big kitchen. They 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 either. 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 in the outer courtyard.
The name of the large kitchen in the inverted building 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". To the west of the east gate is a row of guard rooms. There is a plaque in the middle of the middle room with the name "Qinghe Hall" hanging on the lintel.
There are also signs hanging on the doors of the monitoring 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 was prepared by Le Xiaololi for her first knight. If Luke remained loyal, he would get married and have children in the future, allowing them to live alone in one place and share family happiness.
Student Le Xiao walked back to the east courtyard with short legs, and carried a few signs to the workshop. He hung a "studio" sign in the hall used for office work, and also hung a sign in the bathroom, leading to the yard where livestock is raised. There is also a sign on the door, indicating that the yard on the other side is the "Liu Animal Yard".
There is also a monitoring room in the northeast corner, which also has plaques hanging on it. Plaques are also hung on the rooms with rice grinders and other machines, as well as the utility rooms where farm equipment is stored, and the large machine spare rooms.
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 right place quickly.
After finishing the work of hanging the plaque, Le Xiaoluoli returned to the east courtyard, taught her younger brother swordsmanship in the courtyard, taught the swordsmanship of a bell, and turned off the door of the stove where the scrolls were cooked.
After teaching his brother the swordsmanship, the water in the pot stopped blooming because the stove door was closed. He took the scroll out of the pot, passed it through the potion, drained the water, spread it flat on top of the big pot and fumigated it with hot steam.
After smoking it with hot steam for 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, 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 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?"
"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 or fade during cooking. In the future, even if the painting gets wet, it will not fade or become moldy, and the canvas will not fade.”
The beautiful boy had an idea and asked directly: "So, if you throw the clothes in and boil them, they won't fade?"
"Yes, as long as the cloth and paper can withstand high-temperature cooking, they will not fade if they are not exposed to highly corrosive things like sulfuric acid after cooking."
Xiaotuanzi has countless fantastic ideas in her mind. The beautiful boy admires her and can't help teasing her: "Then throw our little dumpling in and cook it. Will Xiaotuanzi always be this white?"
"Brother Chao, throw me in and cook it, add some pepper and salt, and it's ready to serve."
Xiaotuanzi was not led astray. The beautiful young man touched her head and said, "Brother is reluctant to cook Xiaotuanzi. Xiaotuanzi, hurry up and get to work. After cleaning up, go to learn martial arts."
"Okay." Le Yun responded with a smile and went to work quickly.
(End of chapter)