latelenovela Chapter 339 Winter Solstice Heavenly Sacrifice
Chapter 339 Winter Solstice Heavenly Sacrifice
Ye Jintang and Xiao Mo sat together to discuss for a long time, and finally decided to take people to Hua's house at night on the day of the winter solstice.
Many sacrificial activities will be held on the day of the winter solstice, and blessing lanterns will be released at night. One of the largest blessing lanterns needs to be lit by Xiao Mo himself.
According to the plan, during the Winter Solstice Banquet, Ye Jintang and Xiao Mo left together and had someone disguise themselves as them to attend the Winter Solstice Banquet.
After the matter was accomplished, the two returned to the banquet as quickly as possible and lit the blessing lanterns.
"Can you leave the backyard banquet to Liuli?"
"No problem. Only Madam Yang and her people would do something weird. Liuli can definitely handle it."
Liuli has been with Ye Jintang for so many years, and she knows her very well. She would not be afraid even if Imperial Noble Consort Dehui came, let alone a few wives of minor officials.
The matter was finalized, and Ye Jintang and Xiao Mo were both quite excited.
Hua Cailiang will definitely be thrown into disarray when he finds out that the basement has been emptied. As long as he reveals a flaw, they will be able to pin him to death.
Xiao Mo and Ye Jintang were thinking about Hua Cailiang's basement, while Hua Cailiang and Madam Yang were waiting to see them make a fool of themselves.
"Master, Madam, our informant just reported that Duan Linghui was taken back by her brother to marry, and the Prince of Qin moved back to the Princess of Qin's room."
"What? Duan Linghui was kicked out after just a few days? She is really useless."
Madam Yang raised her voice in disbelief.
"If I had known, I would have let the concubine of the Ke family go. At least the girl of the Ke family is prettier than that bumpkin Duan Linghui. Maybe Xiao Mo would take her in as his room after seeing her."
Hua Cailiang also frowned and looked a little unhappy.
"But tomorrow is the day of the winter solstice. Even if the King of Qin coaxes the Princess back, it will be useless. We should buy all the things we need. It's too late to buy now."
This was the only way Mrs. Yang could comfort Hua Cailiang.
"Well, I have been asking people to keep an eye on the purchases for the palace. A few days ago, they only ordered six pigs and six sheep. The King of Qin should not have much money."
"Master, we have to make plans early. Shi Bin brought his men to destroy all our gambling houses. We can't bear this loss for nothing."
Madam Yang couldn't help but remind Hua Cailiang that Xiao Mo had been in Ningchuan City for some time. Although he seemed to have done nothing, he had done a lot of small things secretly.
They stared at Xiao Mo's every move, and Xiao Mo was also staring at them.
When talking about the gambling house, Hua Cailiang was full of anger.
"Shi Bin is not a man who plays by the rules. Once I kill Xiao Mo, none of them will be able to escape."
"Does the master have any idea?"
"Well, based on what happened in the past few days, Xiao Mo must die. He has already started investigating the tax and silver issue. I guess he doesn't want me to be the city lord and wants to use the tax and silver issue to bring me down."
"There can't be two tigers on one mountain. Only one of us can survive until New Year's Eve."
Hua Cailiang saw clearly that Xiao Mo still had some abilities, and if he didn't kill him, it would only bring him endless troubles.
The winter solstice represents the true arrival of winter, and the weather will become colder and colder after the winter solstice.
Xiao Mo got up early in the morning to prepare for the winter solstice worship, while Ye Jintang was still lying in the warm bed and didn't want to get up.
Today during the day she was just a puppet and only needed to follow Xiao Mo and go through the motions. As for most of the activities of the heaven sacrifice, they were completed by Xiao Mo, the King of Qin.
Just after the hour of Chen, the offerings for the sacrifice were carried out from the Qin Palace one after another and headed towards the altar.
Twelve pigs, twelve cows, twelve sheep, twelve chickens, twelve ducks, and twelve big carps were lined up in a row. The team was a spectacular sight.
Many people who heard the news took to the streets.
"Oh my god, there are twelve cows, and each one is very big."
"This year's winter solstice sacrifice to heaven was presided over by the King of Qin, otherwise it would not be possible to have the number twelve."
“It’s King Qin. City Lord Hua is just not a city lord of high rank. He could only use the number six before.”
"Alas, I don't know if we ordinary people can live a good life after the King of Qin comes."
Someone standing in the crowd sighed heavily.
"There will definitely be changes. There are so many more offerings to the heavens. God will surely open his eyes. Even if people are not good enough, the harvest next year will not be bad."
Some people couldn't help but comfort themselves.
The people living at the bottom of society have never met a good official and can only pin their hopes on God. Hopefully, they will have a better harvest so that at least their lives won't be so tight.
Hua Cailiang, who had been keeping an eye on the movements in Prince Qin's Mansion, received the news first.
"How is this possible? The Prince of Qin's Mansion clearly only bought six sheep, how come it became twelve? And what about the cows? Didn't you say that the King of Qin didn't buy any cows?"
Hua Cailiang, furious, picked up the inkstone at hand and threw it at the servant. The servant didn't dare to dodge and was hit on the head and bleeding.
"Master, I have been keeping an eye on the Prince Qin's Palace, and I have indeed not seen the palace buying so many cattle and sheep."
The servant felt very aggrieved. In the middle of winter, he and his men had to watch the Prince of Qin's Mansion for twelve hours a day. Many of them had frostbite and their hands and feet were almost crippled. As a result, Hua Cailiang's inkstone just now almost took half his life.
"I really don't know what the point of having you bunch of useless people is. You can't even handle such a small matter for me."
Hua Cailiang was very depressed and was walking around in the study room. Even though he was unhappy, he had to endure it because the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the sky was about to begin and he couldn't stop it even if he wanted to.
In the end, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and attend the winter solstice ceremony to worship the sky.
As soon as Hua Cailiang arrived at the altar and hadn't even stood firmly, Ke Wenhai hurried over.
"Brother, what's going on? Look at the offerings on the altar and the surrounding decorations. Why are they so much higher than last year?"
On the bluestone road leading to the altar, there were only 12 colorful flags last year, but this year there were 24 flags, some even tied with bright silk to the big trees and stone piles on the road.
Seen from afar, the deserted altar in winter suddenly becomes full of flowers, which is very beautiful.
Moreover, no one knows when the bronze tripod on the altar was replaced with a large bronze tripod.
Hua Cailiang looked at it from afar and recognized it at a glance as the Four Dragon Bronze Tripod. Only the prince and the king with fiefdom could use the Four Dragon Bronze Tripod during sacrifices.
Moreover, around the bronze tripod, there are many other copper products for sacrifice, which have never appeared in the winter solstice sacrifices before.
It’s not that he doesn’t want to use it, but his rank is not high enough and he is simply unable to use such high-standard sacrificial supplies.
Hua Cailiang, who was already unhappy, almost exploded on the spot when he saw such a high-level winter solstice sacrifice.
Xiao Mo was slapping Hua Cailiang in the face in front of the entire Ningchuan City.
Both are winter solstice sacrifices to heaven, and the difference between the two is immediately apparent. Hua Cailiang felt a surge of anger rushing to his forehead, and he wished he could smash everything in front of him to pieces.
But at this moment, there were countless pairs of eyes staring at him, so even if he felt unhappy, he had to endure it.
"After the banquet today, come to my place and we'll discuss the future."
Hua Cailiang kept staring at the bronze tripod on the altar and didn't even look at Ke Wenhai.
"it is good."
Ke Wenhai was also shocked by the scale of today's sacrifice. He always thought that Xiao Mo had no money and the winter solstice sacrifice must be very shabby. He didn't expect Xiao Mo to give him such a big surprise.