I am the Tai Sui Xian in the world

Chapter 218 Faith
In the Great Sui Empire, a town on the border of Xilong.

A square in front of a magnificent temple.

Pillars of incense were burning, and the streets were deserted.

A group of officers and soldiers were around to maintain order.

Thousands of people knelt down in front of the temple, with genuine or fake piety and fanaticism in their eyes.

Bow to the gods enshrined in the temple.

The voices of thousands of people gathered into one, almost shaking the sky and overwhelming the sea.

Even the birds in the sky in the distance panicked and fled with flapping wings.

The sound of prayer echoed in my ears, without even carefully identifying it.

Then you can know that what they are worshiping is a god with supreme power——

"Praise be to the merciful Lord of all heavens, the Primordial Chaos Tai Sui Star God!"

Mixed in the crowd, Wu Chi was as enthusiastic as many of the people around him, shouting the title of Tai Sui God.

However, if you look closely at his eyes, you can see the enthusiasm in his eyes, which is half true and half fake——

After about half an hour, the large-scale prayer finally ended.

Then, I heard a gong, and someone shouted, "We have received the food!"

"Get the food! Get the food!"

The crowd roared and swarmed towards the place where they received food.

Ten distribution points were lined up, and each grain officer distributed grain while shouting at the top of his lungs.

"Remember it all. The food you receive is a gift from Tai Sui God! When you go back, you must remember to recite the name of Tai Sui God at all times! Do you understand?"

"I understand! I understand! Thank you Tai Sui God! Thank you Tai Sui God for giving us food!"

The faces of the common people showed tears of gratitude, and they took out grain bags or baskets to fill the rice.

The portions are the same for each person, about half a catty.

Looking at the enthusiastic crowd, Wu Chi had no expression on his face.

Since the new policy of "worshiping gods" was issued in the Sui Dynasty.

A scene like this happens every half month.

It has been three years now, and with the continuous publicity of the Great Sui court.

It's like something is said and heard too much, and finally it seems to become true.

In three years, the belief in Tai Sui God has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

And he, Wu Chi, is actually no different from other common people.

He was the son of a farmer who dug in the fields. At most, he was lucky enough to know a few words. He listened to the teacher in the school read a few more books, but he couldn't understand the meaning of the poems and books.

If there were no accidents, he should have offered his faith to this inexplicable Tai Sui God just like these ordinary people, and then he would be brainwashed bit by bit to become a loyal believer of the other party——

But he couldn't do it——

Whenever he wanted to convince himself to bow his head to the Tai Sui God.

He would recall that three years ago, when Tai Sui God's faith was first promoted, he accidentally saw a group of officers and soldiers rushing into the home of the teacher.

The old gentleman who was tortured and covered in blood was dragged out, muttering——

"Food grows in the ground and is grown by farmers with hard work. What does it have to do with the Tai Sui God?"

"The achievements of our ancestors, who pioneered the wilderness and overcame all obstacles, were rejected by a divine gift——"

"Heaven and earth can learn from this. You are unwilling to bow your head to see the common people, but you want all the people to worship the ghosts and gods. You are putting the cart before the horse and ignoring human relations, and you will be punished by God——"

For three years, these words have been echoing in his mind, like nails that cannot be pulled out.

He is the son of a farmer, and he doesn't know any other big principles.

But food grew from the ground, he saw it with his own eyes, and nothing could be more real than this.

And those in the government kept saying that these grains were given by the Tai Sui God, from His Majesty the Emperor, and a gift from the government - they were created out of thin air by the Tai Sui God with his divine power!

However, every year, the government tax collector would come with a group of people to collect grain.

They have to hand over [-]% or even [-]% of their annual harvest.

If Tai Sui God can really create food out of thin air, what are the people in the government doing collecting it?
This is obviously a trick to take their things and give them alms!

At the beginning, he was still young and couldn't figure it out.

But after thinking about it for three years, I should understand now.

Just when Wu Chi was lost in his thoughts, a rough hand suddenly grabbed his palm.

"Ah Chi, what are you still doing in a daze, if you don't hurry up and come over with us, the weight of going late will be less."

An old woman hated the fact that iron could not become steel, so she grabbed hold of it and squeezed towards the food distribution point.

After finally queuing up and arriving in front of the grain officer, Wu Chi lowered his head, took out his identity tag and linen bag, pretended to be respectful, and was about to receive the grain.

The grain officer glanced at the sign in his hand, scooped up a spoonful of rice and poured it into the bag, chattering incessantly.

Wu Chi nodded, responded vaguely, and was about to leave with the rice bag.

Suddenly, his vision was dazzled, and a figure in green flashed past and grabbed his hand.

"Wait a minute."

When he looked up, he saw a young man with a pair of sharp eagle eyes that made his heart beat wildly.

It's him!It was Lin Qi, the son of Yuanwai Lin, the richest man in the town.

I heard that some time ago, I was appreciated by an immortal master in the imperial court and became his disciple. It was a step to the sky, even the county magistrate had to show courtesy.

Of course, even if the other party is not a disciple of the Immortal Master, he is not someone he can offend.

"Lin... Mr. Lin, you..."

He didn't know where he had offended the other party.

Lynch squinted his eyes and said, "I have been watching you for the last few conferences, and found that you don't seem to be very devout in your belief in the Tai Sui God?"

"Mr. Lin, you misunderstood. I have the most devout faith in the God of Tai Sui!" Wu Chi said in fear.

The imperial court took the belief in Tai Sui God very seriously, and those who dared to disobey would be punished with death.

And the other party is the disciple of the immortal master who is in charge of the sacrifices to the gods. Whether he is pious or not is completely a matter of the other party's words.

What the other party said was a complete sentence of death for him!
The old mother standing behind Wu Chi was even more frightened. She fell to her knees and cried.

"Sir, you must be mistaken. My Achi is the most honest. He has to kneel in front of the Tai Sui statue for a long time every day. How could he be ungrateful? You must have noticed clearly!"

As he said that, he pulled Wu Chi to kneel on the ground.

Pressing his head, he clicked on the ground.

"Pious?" Lin Qi sneered, playing with a jade token in his hand.

The spiritual light flowing above allowed him to see the colors marked by colors, which represented the degree of faith of mortals.

Among the seven colors, the color on Wu Chi's head is not even the lowest white, and there is even a trace of black air.

On the contrary, Wu Chi's mother has the second-grade green color.

Seeing Wu Chi's old mother kowtow repeatedly, Lin Qi waved his hand and said, "Forget it, for the sake of your old mother, I will spare you for now."

"However, you must remember that the good life we ​​have today is all a gift from Tai Sui God! We must be grateful and don't be that unkind, unfaithful and unfilial thief!"

"Otherwise, that's what will happen -"

Lin Qi pointed towards the distance.

There stood a scaffold.

Dozens of dried corpses that had been tortured during their lifetimes were hung there.

"Okay, get lost. If you let me see you being disrespectful to Tai Sui God again, it won't be as simple as today."

(End of this chapter)