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"Miss Mei En, the living animals for sacrifices and cooked snacks are all ready, please go and check the girl and this old slave!" La Surong, who was dressed in a blue steward's robe, was waiting outside the gate of the second hall of the palace with an expression on his face. strict. .

Here, the front porch and the back building, bright red pillars, colorful paintings, carved beams and painted buildings, dragon heads and swallow tails, and wooden carved pier are very magnificent.

Mei Liangchen followed his serious manner and nodded, "Okay! Manager, please lead the way!"

Go through the gate.Facing two thick vermilion gates, the gates are inlaid with gold nails, rolled iron corners, and hanging beads. The four seasons flowers are carved on the top of the beads, and the wooden bats are carved in the middle, holding money in their mouths, which means "blessing is in front of us".The three stars of "Fu, Lu and Shou" are painted on the bright part of the door, which complements the money. The workmanship is exquisite and delicate, and the patterns are embossed and vivid. It is a rare art. .

Mei Liangchen looked around curiously, it was the first time for her to visit the Siheyuan, the inner residence of the palace.

"Girl, the temple is here!" Not far to the right of the inner courtyard, on the middle road of the mansion, there is a large-scale and magnificent hall, with a plaque of "Fuyou Hall" hanging on the front door of the hall.Fuyou Hall is composed of a temple, east and west wing rooms, and a wide courtyard. The temple faces south, and the hard mountain-style roof is covered with green glazed tiles. A brick platform supports the entire hall from the ground, and the six steps in front of the central gate show the majesty of the palace.

"Boss, what is that? Is it used to hang flags?" A thing shaped like a shaman flagpole was erected high in front of the temple.

"Returning to the girl, it is the god pole used to hang tribute in the sacrifice!" According to the long-standing tradition of Min Liao, offerings for crows are hung on the top of the flag pole of the gods.

The stone seat of the god pole is a cuboid, 78 cm high and 51 cm wide, with rounded corners on the top four sides and a circle of grooves around the upper part of the four sides, which are used as decorative grooves. There is a square deep hole in the middle of the top.

Mei Liangchen was very interested in these mysterious sacrificial decorations.She once followed her mentor to do academic research on sacrificial rituals in Beijing's Forbidden City and Prince Gong's Mansion for a year. Seeing familiar scenes, she couldn't help but feel close.

"What are they hanging on?" She fiddled with the slender and slippery pole, trying to figure out what material it was made of.She remembered that the god pole in Kunning Palace was made of nanmu.

"And this one, what kind of wood is it made of?"

Since La Surong was promoted to the head of the Northland Palace, he has been busy with various chores in the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven every year. He is a careful person. Although the servants in the mansion will do well according to his wishes, he is still worried. , Everything is done by himself, including the magic pole that is replaced every year, which is also made by him personally going to the mountains to collect the best pine wood and meat oil.

"The god pole is made of pine wood and meat oil, and pig throat bones are hung on it." La Surong memorized every sacrificial procedure and dared not forget it.

"Oh, pig throat!" Pig throat, so that means that the royal priests of Min Liao and the royal priests of the Qing Dynasty also had pigs?Mei Liangchen's eyes lit up suddenly, and he asked pleasantly: "There will be pigs in tomorrow's festival, right?" She had never eaten pork since she came to the grassland, let alone watched pigs run away.

La Surong bowed and said: "Yes, Miss Mei En, besides seven rams and bulls, there will also be Hei Ye carefully selected by the old slave from Jiang Song Kingdom." According to the custom, pure black boars are regarded as god pigs and respectfully called Hei Ye.

Mei Liangchen bit his lip and held back for a long time, but still couldn't hold back. "Pfft" Master Hei.

It uncle!

Thinking of the delicious sauce-red roasted pork, Dongpo pork, and all kinds of shredded pork and sliced ​​meat in her memory, all her cravings were aroused. .

Next, she dragged La Surong to the sacrificial altar in the temple to worship in a hurry, and couldn't wait to drag the butler to the west wing where the livestock were kept.

heh. .

Even Su Guna was surprised by the seven or eight majestic black boars kept in the wing room.

La Surong was very strict in the selection of the black pigs used in the sacrificial ceremony, not only requiring them to be pure-colored black pigs without disease, sores, and white hair, even if they were a little mutilated or uncoordinated, they would not be used.The difference between Min Liao Kingdom and Qing Dynasty royal sacrificial offerings is that they will not use chickens, geese, ducks and other items offered in shaman sacrifices, but only use large livestock, such as cattle, sheep and Heiye.

Therefore, the animals raised in the east and west wing rooms outside the temple are not necessarily limited to black pigs.

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"Girl, this place is dirty, let's go." He still has a lot of sacrifice details to tell her. Tomorrow will be a major event in the palace. ceremony.

Mei Liangchen waved her hands and said, "It's okay, it's okay!" She looked at the fat and strong black pig, then turned to ask Ra Surong, "Boss, will all the pigs be sacrificed tomorrow?" After offering sacrifices, wouldn't she not even be able to eat a piece of minced meat?

La Surong was taken aback for a moment, not quite understanding what she meant.Seeing that she was focusing on Lord Hei, she could only answer honestly: "Keep two for spare. The remaining six will be bled and cut off, slaughtered and sacrificed to heaven!"

"Oh..." The obviously turning tone caught Rasurong's heart startled, he looked towards her, and found Mayne's pair of black pupils shining brightly under his beautiful eyebrows, like a pair of thorns in the bushes He built a fire, which made his heart beat. .

"Girl...you..." Based on his many years of experience in serving generals, he couldn't figure out what kind of plans this young man's exquisite mind was having.

"Haha... It's all right! Steward, please continue to explain the order of sacrifice tomorrow."

La Surong bowed his head and said: "The old slave said it, the girl must take it seriously!"

She nodded and gave Rasurong an encouraging smile.