Chen Tongmin took the memorial and left.
Liang Qu believed that Chen Zhaoan would not refuse his request.
It seems harmless at first. In countless folklore legends, the Jianghuai River God is the incarnation of the Jianghuai River. To fishermen, the two are one.
Secondly, there is a very slight change from worshiping the river god to worshiping the Jianghuai River. For most villagers who have never read a book and are even less illiterate, they may not notice the change after hearing it once under the altar.
Everyone just wants good weather and a good harvest. They don't care about the minutiae. It's enough to get the idea.
I wonder if the feedback we get after skipping the "middleman" in this reference and on June 6th, a special date in the legend when rivers return to their original course and hundreds of rivers flow into the sea, can be strengthened.
Liang Qu was looking forward to this.
In this way, the normal sacrificial process, the main sacrifice, and the scale of the sacrificial ceremony are all enhanced, except for the final sacrifice.
Liang Qu had been prepared for a long time. He had asked the fat catfish and the others to go to the water to look for the corresponding spirits. They would not kill them, but just keep an eye on them, and then they would be captured alive and bled.
The sacrifice cannot be dealt with randomly by the three-headed monster. It is as important as playing mahjong to make a pair.
Or three major categories: birds, animals, and scales.
Usually it is said to be the phoenix, unicorn, dragon, and the three divine beasts; more often it is said to be the chicken, duck, fish, and the three poultry.
Either it has three meanings: diligence, peace, and abundance.
The common three symbolic symbols are cow, sheep and pig.
It is said that Dashun sacrifices to heaven every year, using the three major categories of the Great Demon level, and is operated by Wu Sheng.
On the day when the beast is killed, the sky is full of boiling gas, and the evil gas is so strong that ordinary people will die suddenly if they get close to it. Even those with a hard life will be seriously ill for three days and lose half of their lives.
The courtiers with weaker cultivation can only stand in the distant pavilion and watch.
After the Yi Sacrifice, the land where the corpses of the three demons have been carved up will be filled with flowers in an instant.
It is difficult to gather three major categories in the water. They are mainly birds. Animals are difficult to deal with and are not the home field of Liang Qu and the water beasts.
But it is easy to find one that matches the three meanings in appearance, which is nothing more than strong, cute and fat.
Last time, I didn’t know that offering sacrifices could increase favors. I became the officiant just to increase my prestige in Yixing City, and I didn’t make much preparation from beginning to end.
This time Liang Qu is fully prepared and vows to drastically increase Jianghuaihe's favorability!
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In the morning, the sky is bright.
The mason cut a square hole in the ground, dug out the soil under the stone slab, checked the depth, dragged the bolt horse stone to align it little by little, inserted it into the square hole, and compacted it again.
"Ah Quan's skills are getting better and better, just like a real monkey."
Liu Quanfu came from the street, touched the stone monkey crouching on the pile head, and sighed in admiration.
The horse-tying stone is naturally used for visitors to tie their horses. Horses belong to fire, and wooden houses are most afraid of fire. Monkeys belong to water, so most of the stone pillars where horses are tied will be carved with a stone monkey to suppress the fire.
It is rare to see such vivid stone monkeys.
Stonemason Ah Quan raised his head when he heard the sound.
"Oh, it's Uncle Liu! It's all craftsmanship passed down from our ancestors. Whether it's my father who carves monkeys on the stone better, what is Uncle Liu doing here so early in the morning?"
"Master Liang asked me to find an object earlier. I have been busy for a while and finally finished it. Come and ask when I want it."
"What kind of thing can make you, a clever carpenter, so hard to work on for so long?"
"You kid, go ahead and put your horse in stone. Are you able to inquire about important people's affairs?"
"You're curious, aren't you?"
Have you finished building the ship model for Big Toad?
In the courtyard, Liang Qu was naked, holding Fubo in his hand, breathing heavily.
The warrior has sharp ears and eyes, so he naturally heard the conversation between the two at the door. He inserted Fubo into the pool with his backhand, put on his coat and opened the door.
"Master Liang!*2"
"Uncle Fu, come in and talk about something. Ah Quan, thank you for your hard work. Come and ask me for wages after you have installed the tethering stone."
"Okay, Mr. Liang."
Liang Qu smiled, turned around and led Liu Quanfu into the house.
"Uncle Fu, I heard you in the yard saying that the building ship has been built?"
Liu Quanfu said with joy on his face: "Fortunately, I just applied tung oil this morning. I probably won't be able to launch it into the water. I don't know how to caulk. But according to what you said, from the looks of it, it looks similar to the two flat boats docked at the pier in Pingyang County." Exactly the same.
It sounds a bit boastful, but I personally think that because it is not so big, it is more beautiful than the two boats at the port. "
Liang Qu was overjoyed. The first transaction with Big Toad was finally going to be completed?
He couldn't wait to see the new ship: "Come on, take me to see it."
"Okay! Master Liang, follow me."
Liu Quanfu took the lead.
He was exhausted from building such a big ship, so he and his seven or eight apprentices worked day and night to complete it today.
Fortunately, the reward given by Liang Qu is generous enough. If everything goes well, you can get the money today!
"Ah Quan, Uncle Liu and I are going out. I'll give you the money first. Don't let me know when you're done pretending. If there's any problem, I'll send someone to look for you."
"Don't worry, Mr. Liang. Even though I'm young, I followed my father to carry stones when I was nine years old. I've been doing this job for more than ten years. I've kept it for you and done it perfectly. There's no fault at all."
"Okay, Uncle Liu, let's go."
"Go this way."
Liang Qu, led by Liu Quanfu, passed through a street and two alleys, and arrived at a large courtyard.
There were many people standing in the courtyard, all of them Liu Quanfu's apprentices. The whole place was very wide, and the corners were filled with piles of shaved wood chips.
But these are not what Liang Qu wants to pay attention to. Right in the middle of the yard, an eight-meter-long "miniature ship" with a hull of more than two meters high without counting the mast, is quietly docked on a wooden frame.
The strong smell of tung oil filled the air.
The ship's frame, keel, ribs, ribs, beams, bow and stern posts, hull, side plates, bottom plate, deck, and masts are all there, and there is no shortage of anything.
The overall structure of the building boat is not much more complicated than that of Liangqu's boat.
In the middle of the hull is a "building" layered one after another, with four layers stacked on top of each other. They are not flat at all, which is why it is called a building ship.
Liangqu is attached to the hull and viewed from the side, the ship's planks are dense.
The entire hull is made of teak. The most distinctive feature of this wood is its very fine grain, which can be highlighted even more with a layer of tung oil.
The ink lines extend out like waves, matching the golden tone of the teak itself, like a warm fire in winter.
Liu Quanfu was right. Thanks to the exquisite carvings, the entire "miniature building ship" is more beautiful in appearance than the two large building ships that are over 100 meters tall on the pier.
"My lord, come and take a look at this."
A cleverer apprentice stepped forward, took the initiative to guide Liang Qu up the stairs, and opened the carved windows on both sides of the ship.
Looking in through the head-sized window, the small room has tables, chairs, cabinets, beds, rudders, utensils, everything you need, and there are even bird patterns on the cabinets.
There is one window in every two similar rooms, and each one is different.
There is a clever person named Wang Shuyuan who can use wood of an inch in diameter to create palaces, utensils, people, and even birds, beasts, wood and rocks, regardless of the situation, and each has its own mood.
Liang Qu suddenly thought of this sentence.
"Your Excellency, you don't know. My master put a lot of effort into building this small building boat. He would go to the dock every day before dawn to look at the boat and draw pictures to make sure that every detail was perfect.
We don’t know the structure inside the ship and don’t dare to go in to see it, but my master has seen it in other merchant ships and typed out everything according to his imagination.
You see, if you are satisfied or not, can you please the big shot? Whether we carpenters make money or not is secondary. If the big shot blames you and harms Mr. Liang, it will be more than the gain is worth the loss. "
